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01/01/10 90 W, 1 I - + 16 - 6 Winter Park Public Hearing Notice, 1985

Here's a random artifact from the classified section of the Wilmington Star-News on May 19, 1985. The Winter Park Fire Department asking all county taxpayers to attending a public hearing relating to fire tax allocations. WPPD served areas outside Wilmington from 1951 to 2005. Their station-- or last station location-- was at 4601 Park Avenue. They had a 6,000 gallon tractor-drawn tanker that was hard to miss, when passing through town. Still researching that area's former fire departments. More later.
 

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One other interesting bit about Winter Park. After closing, the department donated their remaining funds ($114,527!) to Cape Fear Community College, to purchase firefighting equipment for the college’s new Public Safety Training Center that was built in 2007.
Legeros - 01/01/10 - 16:28

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