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Fire Chief Kenneth B. Ellerbe, along with other members of the fire department, stand at attention for the raising of the flags and the Pledge of Allegiance during the ribbon-cutting ceremony held for Fire Rescue Station No. 1.
Peyton Snyder, 20 months, tries to place her sunglasses onto her father's, Lt. Glenn Snyder, face after the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Fire Rescue Station No. 1.
GHANA. Longboat Key resident and global marathoner John Wallace reads The Longboat Observer while visiting the Kwame Nkrumah memorial in Accra, Ghana. Wallace was in Ghana for his 335th marathon in his 105th country, a new world record.
ANNA MARIA ISLAND. Betsy Smith says that although she may not travel to exotic locales, she enjoys The Longboat Observer's trek each week up to Anna Maria Island.
