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OK how about an airstrip on the west side along the RR tracks...
and as they say in NY A Red Loubsta !!!!

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While driving thru Ontario last year, being slow pokes on the road, many folks passed us by. But, as they had to stop at each new town, to get their 'Timmy's' fix of coffee, we saw the same vehicles pass us time after time in a couple of hours. One yellow sports job passed us three times.

A friend from Ont. is coming next week with a few pounds of Timmy's for us to enjoy. Maybe I'll call in security to guard the front door while we sip. ;D

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A Katy Bell's type TV residents only restaurant on the South side of 466 some where.

BTK

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People have a hard time understanding the 'timmie's mania"..Actually just came back for there 10 minutes ago. Maybe the three of us could open a Tim Horton's in TV with a drive through just for golf carts. I am visiting the Villages for the first time in Feb. and should bring down some Tim Horton's coffee just to spread around and cause panic in the streets.

Who knows...maybe we will have a timmies happy hour..
doug

Re: I wish the Villages had a ........REAL Italian Deli
 

;A real Italian store with the smell of olives.

AND did someone say the daily Sun/Republican newsletter is Democratically slanted??
Wow, what paper were they reading? ::)

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MMC24's list sounds good to me!!! :agree:

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and now I'll add one of my own. I wish TV had a "real" park area. Part of the land west of the new hotel in Lake Sumter would be nice. With a walking path on softer ground (marked for distance and seats for catching your breath), seating near the water area, tables, washroom facilities, trees. Just a place to sit, watch the water, catch a breeze, talk with folks, maybe play a game of chess. No noise, no busy things going on like in the business area.

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We have a 'Timmies' next to me in RI and it gets swamped by Dunkin Donuts.

I think the 'Timmies' thing might be akin to the Krispy Kreme hysteria that engulfed us 5 years ago. Everyone in the northeast jumped at the chance to buy Krispy Kreme franchises and they thought they would be printing money.

What happened you ask? Well EVERY one of them in Maine, New Hampshire, MA, RI and Vermont went out of business within 5 years. All of them done in by the devotion to Dunkin Donuts. Is Dunkin Donuts that good? Is Krispy Kreme that bad? NO but it goes to show that regional donut and coffee tastes are strong. In Canada and some northern states it's Tim Hortons. In NE and mid-atlantic it is Dunkin. In the northwest it is Starbucks. In the south it is Krispy Kreme.

Florida seems to have them all so let the wars begin!

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Marianne, :agree:
When I asked the Village agent why there were no real parks in TV, he said they don't need them, they have golf courses instead. However for those of us who don't golf, it would be lovely to have a park.

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I love parks - and don't golf

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I would like a KFC........ I mean one with clean floors and tables , you know, someplace where you don't feel like you have to bring your own plates ....
Also I would like a park with trees and flowers and water fountains where NO animals are allowed , It doesn't have to be large , maybe something on the order of 4 miles by 5 miles......I like cozy, You know what I mean.......
Serenity now , fumar

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Fumar..
If you are going to imitate the New York accent, please do it right..
It is a http://www.millan.net/minimations/toolminis/krefta2.gifRed Lopsta!http://www.millan.net/minimations/toolminis/krefta2.gif

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...links from the Sumter and Marion County library systems to the FL Victim Services Directory. http://myfloridalegal.com/directory

Got one after a few requests over less than a week I believe at Lake County Library System in 2006. http://lakeline.lib.fl.us/internet_d...oryCategory=24

Some FL public libraries have taken going on eight years and more to get a link to this resource.

It is very frustrating to say the least when you are trying to get links like this at the Lake County Library System http://lakeline.lib.fl.us/internet_d...oryCategory=24 from libraries all over the US to their respective victims services directories-- if that state even has one that is-- and your home town library systems (the Villages) do not have a link that works to the FL Victim Services Directory.

Fought for 4 years or so for working links from Palm Harbor's 2 public libraries-- and finally got them in mid 2004 http://www.eastlakelibrary.org/ELCL/links.htm http://www.palmharborlibrary.org/links/florida.htm-- to this Victim Service Directory, but it kind of hurts my credibility when I e-mail from the Villages suggesting librarians get a link to their states' versions of a resource list for victims and two of the three library systems in TV do not even have these links.

Maybe some other TOTV users could e-mail the Sumter and Marion County librarians to get links to the FL Victim Services Directory. I doubt if this would cost much money or time on the web master's time.

Thought Mr. Gary Corsair's May 28, 2007 article in the Villages Daily Sun on me and my efforts in this area of links for victims/survivors from the TV would prompt some movement in this area on the part of Sumter and Marion County librarians, but from their websites nothing much has happened.

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Donna
Sorry about that. Red laubsta doe sound a little more like Mass. & Conn. doesn't it.........
slip of the tongue fumar... :redface: :redface: :redface: :redface: :#1:

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A Miniature Golf Course!

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sorry chuckinca

I can't get it past the windmill and don't even think about getting by the clown........

no talent fumar

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Fumar .. Would your park be staffed with Squirrel Police to make sure no animals get in? :cop:

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There is a minature golf course next to the Tree Tops Driving range on Rolling Acres Road. Take 466 to Rolling Acres and turn right. It's fun and challenging.

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A casino. THE VILLAGES CASINO. So I wouldn't have to drive so far to get my blackjack and video poker fix.

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We could organize our own tribe and cash in.

There has to be bunches of TV folk with at least partial Indian heritage

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a clothes optional pool... :edit: :redface:

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Notan,

Do you mean we could jump in the pool with our clothes on? Im all for that!

Need to cover up as much a I can these days! ::)

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No Tan Lines....Great name!!http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/hi5.gif

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notanlines, I'll be the clothes optional pool photographer! ;)

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Something tells me you'll have to fight Handie for that job.

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We could call it just NTL rec center to keep the establishement off our :edit:

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I would love a place to go horseback riding with Barefoot...http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/brunhest1.gif...http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/vithest1.gif

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:hot: :hot: OPS lost my message

How about an old fashion candy store Where you can play the lotto buy a newspaper
have a soda and of course buy some candy IT was also a hang out back in BROOKLYN
NY 040 040 040

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Pizza King and indoor basketball/volleyball courts.

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DONNA: :agree: lovehorse crap crap

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Weekly "Farmer's Market" -- monthly "Flea Market" -- Natural/Organic/Healthfood Supermarket/Restaurant -- Does it have any Thrift Shops? If not......... I want some of those ;D

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Sounds like the lotto you're talkin bout may not be exactly authorized by the state. Did your candy store have a back room too?

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Chuck, We had those back rooms in Cleveland too. In fact Don King from the boxing world got his start in what they used to call the lottery, the numbers game.

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Totally agree we diabetics need to eat less but more often to keep sugar levels in control.
Especially with the current temps the last few days.

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As we get older, more and more of us qualify for the Fukawi tribe. lovehorse

Somebody mentioned Chesapeake food. I'd love to see a Chesapeake Bay Seafood House here. Most of them close to my Northern VA home have closed, but I think some still exist. A great all-you-can-eat seafood joint.

Still want a Bojangles fast food place. Good chicken and fixin's and great ham biscuit sandwiches and biscuits and gravy.

Like to see a Panera's in Sumter Landing.

Would like to have an old-fashioned newpaper place where you can find copies of Washington Times and Post, Chicago, Philly, Cleveland, St. Louis, KC, Detroit, and even Boston papers, Daily Racing Form, etc. etc.

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A nice romatic quiet restuarant with good atmosphere. Like the Copper Pot used to be

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:agree: We find most restaurants a little noisy and brightly lit. We would LOVE to find a romantic restaurant, if anyone knows one, please post!! lovehorse

The best we've been able to come up with so far ... sitting on the veranda overlooking the water at one of the three waterfront restaurants at LSL. But you need warm weather for that.

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Handiman,

I agree TV could use a excellent deli -- my recommendation is Jason's Deli. The sandwiches are like those you remember from being a kid. There is a Jason's adjacent to Baer's Furniture in Altamonte Springs.

Prizmz

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Barefoot, You mentioned noisy restaurants. We have found this too. Will go out for a nice meal--often at one of the country clubs and we can not hear each other talk. I love the quiet restaurants.

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I wish TV had the need for a Helicopter flight school, so my hubby could move his there, and I can get OUT of Pa...http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/aeroplane.gif

Wishful thinking????http://www.millan.net/minimations/sm...tasysmiley.gif