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Memorial Day Everyone Needs to Remember Why We are Not Enslaved-Commentary!!

AmericanPressTravelNews–May 25th, Commentary–By Bob Epstein, Publisher—-Memorial Day is coming up on Monday. We have too many horrible Memorial Days! No I won’t list them here. All smart and decent people older than far too many college age youth, increasingly being taught by some incredibly poor and foolish teachers- even those that call themselves “Professors” (liberal all and socialist leaning, heavily leaning) know what I mean, and have the list burned into their memories. Lest anyone think that all those that have come before and confronted life and death as soldiers for “the Good” not the evil, paid dearly in blood, limb, mental disarray for life, and unfortunately death as well. So, having just been to a children’s science museum in Oak Ridge (home of the nuclear bomb development) TN, and noticing a sculpture created out of steel taken from the Twin Towers horrors, I felt everyone always needs to remember and say never again!
Barb stands at the Memorial Monument and we asked a few of the children that entered the museum what it was, and none of them bothered to read the plaque. They just wanted to play games at the museum. So I asked their teachers why did they dismiss the opportunity to teach their charges about this. Answer: “not very appropriate for their students” by most of them. I should have been stunned. But, I was not! We all live in a nation that has had a dollar become close to worthless, and an educational system amongst many systems, that have become devalued to disastrous depths.

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The Annual Clinch River Spring Antique Fair- May 6th-Something for Every Collector

AmericanPressTravelNews-May 12th-Downtown Clinton–Bob & Barb “On The Road Again” & “Stopping to View the Antiques.”  Over 100- antique dealers descended to Clinton’s historic downtown representing over 5-different states. There was also an antique car show during the Saturday fair. There were numerous local food vendors and the ambiance of the whole event had thousands of folks smiling all the way besides them bargaining and buying as well. Even with the rain showers, everyone we talked to had a great time as we did as well. On October 13-14, 2017 Clinton will have their fall antique show. Clinton is located off of I-75 exit 122 15-minutes north of Knoxville, TN. for information contact the Anderson, County Chamber of Commerce. Telephone no. (865) 457-2559 website is www.andersoncountychamber.org

Redbone Tarpon Tournament to “Catch a Cure” for C.F.

AmericanPressTravelNews-4/23/17 Bob and Barb fishing for a cure for Cystic Fibrosis at Redbone Invitational Tarpon Tournament in Islamorada, FL. Keys. Tarpon are the toughest inshore saltwater fish in the world. We caught a big one during the Catch a Cure fishing event in the keys. I fished with Perry Blythe from N.Carolina and together with Wade Boggs of NY Yankee fame, as well as 34 other anglers a bunch of dollars was raised for research into the deadly genetic disease; Cystic Fibrosis! Everyone who fished this event WON!  Great strides have been made in extending the lives of thousands of CF sufferers through the millions of dollars raised by the Bonefish/Redfish ( Redbone) invitational tournaments over the past 34-years! All events are totally catch and release!

4 Florida counties open April 1 to gag grouper recreational harvest

Forwarded on by AmericanPressTravelNews-March 27th, On April 1st Gag Grouper can be caught in 4-Florida Counties waters!
News Release:

State waters off the coast of Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson and Taylor counties will open to recreational harvest of gag grouper starting April 1. This regional season will remain open through June 30. The season also includes all waters of Apalachicola Bay and Indian Pass, including those in Gulf County, and all waters of the Steinhatchee River, including those in Dixie County.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) staff have received stakeholder requests for a longer season in this area, and are gathering public input on potential changes. At the April 19-20 Commission meeting in Tallahassee, staff plan to present a draft proposal keeping the April through June season in this area, and adding a September through December season. If this proposal is approved, it will need to come back before the Commission in June for final approval, but could be in place in time for anglers to participate in a fall season later this year. Visit MyFWC.com/SaltwaterComments to learn more or to submit written input. For your comments to be considered at the April meeting, submit input no later than April 12.

The gag grouper season in the remainder of Gulf of Mexico state waters is open June 1 through Dec. 31. State waters off Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson and Taylor counties are not currently scheduled to open for gag fishing July through December. Monroe County state waters follow Atlantic grouper rules.

Gag grouper caught in state Gulf waters (from shore to 9 nautical miles out) April 1 to June 30 off the four-county open region can be landed on the Gulf County side of Indian Pass and the Dixie County side of the Steinhatchee River, but may not be taken ashore in other areas if those areas are closed to harvest. For example, a gag grouper caught April 1 in state waters off Jefferson County cannot be taken ashore in Levy County or parts of Dixie County outside of the Steinhatchee River. To see maps of these areas, go to MyFWC.com/Fishing and select “Saltwater Fishing,” “Recreational Regulations” and “Groupers.”

The minimum size limit is 24 inches total length. The bag limit is two gag grouper per person. Recreational anglers targeting groupers in the Gulf may harvest no more than four grouper per person per day (within this four-fish limit, anglers may keep only two gag grouper).

If you plan to fish for gag grouper in Gulf state or federal waters from a private recreational vessel, make sure you are currently signed up as a Gulf Reef Fish Angler (annual renewal is required). To learn more, visit MyFWC.com/Fishing and click on “Saltwater Fishing,” “Recreational Regulations” and “Gulf Reef Fish Survey” under “Reef Fish.” Sign up today at GoOutdoorsFlorida.com.

To learn more, visit MyFWC.com/Fishing and click on “Saltwater Fishing,” “Recreational Regulations” and “Groupers.”