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Updated: 03/20/2013 09:06:00AM
Hard feelings surface over bid to rename park
SUN PHOTO BY GREG GILES
Entertainer Stephen Hayward and John R. DeAcutis seranade park-goers Tuesday afternoon at the pavillion in Maxine Barritt Park.
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A proposal to rename Maxine Barritt Park on the Gulf of Mexico in Venice was rebuffed this week by the city parks board.
The park was named three years ago for a local conservationist at a time when slow-growth advocates were in power under then-mayor Ed Martin.
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