Street, back to Highway 50, to Park Avenue, to Plant Street, to Hennis Road, to the Klondike Center and the Center Street. This ended the route, and then the bus looped back to Plant Street and back through the cycle.

The community exhibits of Ocoee and Winter Garden each earned the top trophies of the Central Florida Fair. Ocoee took home the Manager’s Trophy and Winter Garden won the Presi - dent’s Trophy. Marine Lance Cpl. John Bennett returned from a deployment to Mogadishu, where he was stationed for two months to help fight hunger, death and disease in the impoverished Somalian town in East Africa.

Plans were being made for the Possum Queen Pageant, part of Winter Garden’s Florida Cracker Festival. Crystal Tucker, the previous year’s Possum Queen, was prepared to give up her crown to

THROWBACK THURSDAY

MARCH 1, 1979

Winn-Dixie filled many kitchen cabinets with exquisite fine china in 1979 when it introduced its Ekco International shopping rewards program.

An advertisement in the March 1 issue of The Winter Garden Times promoted pieces in four patterns: Floral Generation, Winsford, Spring Bouquet and Golden Autumn.

For every $3 shoppers spent, they could purchase a certificate for 88 cents that could be used for a 20-piece set that included four dinner plates, four soup bowls, four cups, four saucers and four salad plates.

The set could be rounded out with the purchase of a platter, casserole dish, vegetable bowl, fruit bowls, salt and pepper shakers, sugar and creamer, and gravy boat.

one lucky woman (or man). On the Possum Queen Committee were Janis Murphy, “mother” of marsupial Phoebe; Lynn Walker Wright; and Mary Van Deventer, who were waiting for the applications to come rolling in. The Possum Queen Parade would head down Plant Street with all Possum Queen candidates riding atop a possum vehicle.

By Luis Campos

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