Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 19

Including local news of Belleair, Dunedin, Largo, Palm Harbor, Tarpon Springs, Safety Harbor, Oldsmar and all Upper Pinellas. CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1980 ST PETERSBURG TIMES I Hatchett's vote brings downzoning By VALERIA M. RUSS Clirwatr Tfmw Staff Writer Hatchett sworn in as a city official Paul Hatchett (right) is sworn in as a Clearwater city commissioner Thursday night, replacing William Nunamaker who resigned to seek a County Commission seat. Hatchett's new job means that three members of that longtime Clearwater family are now involved in public service at three levels of government. Posing for a "family portrait" at the City Hall proceedings were (from left in bottom photo) Joseph W.

Hatchett, a federal appeals court judge in New Orleans and younger brother of Paul; Paulette Hatchett Sims, interim director of the State Human Relations Commission and Paul Hatchett's daughter; and the new city commissioner. THE AUDIENCE groaned and one man called out: "The question was called a half-hour ago, mayor. It's time to take a vote." "We vote when we get ready to," LeCher barked to the man. "Not when you tell us to." If the rezoning iB again approved on a second reading Sept. 18, new developments in the mid-beach area will be limited in density and height.

But even with the positive vote, some pro-rezoning beach residents were not shouting for joy. "I think in two weeks the vote won't be upheld," said Paul Jackson, a dentist who has been lining up petitioners for the downzoning. "SO WE WILL have to begin work tomorrow (Friday) toward getting a city referendum to pass the downzoning in case it fails at the next meeting." Jackson, who is a member of the Clearwater Beach Association, also said he believes the beach community should secede from the City of Clearwater. "We're one of only a few beach areas that are not independent from the mainland," he said. "We need to break away so that we can control our own destiny." THE COMMISSION heard from speakers for and against the rezoning and debated for more than two hours before the vote.

Said Harvey Kerstein: "We were lulled into thinking the march of the high-rises was stopped at Highway 60." But Don Winter asked the commission not to "sacrifice the rights of 100 property owners." CLEARWATER There wag almost agony on the face of the new Clearwater city commissioner as he wondered aloud about the consequences of voting to re-zone the mid-Clearwater Beach area Thursday. Before he finally agreed to vote yes making him the deciding factor in a required 4-1 vote to "downzone," or lower density on the beach Hatchett asked the city attorney about his legal posture regarding his vote. "I want to do what's right," said Hatchett. "I need input from the staff. Can this ordinance be amended?" HATCHETT, sworn into office only hours earlier, kept a packed crowd in the commission chamber on edge after the rest of the commission had voted 3-1 for the rezoning.

Hatchett kept asking Planning Director David Healey about options. First it was Clearwater Mayor Charles LeCher, who voted against the rezoning, who wanted to delay a vote Thursday night by asking Healey to give the commission more alternatives to the rezoning plan. "We have worked and reworked this proposal to the point where I think it's time to be acted upon," Healey said. "I don't think I can support any other proposal." "I'm somewhat dismayed," said LeCher, "that you say you're not willing to support any other options or even look at anything else." I Ctoarwatar Tim STIVI HASEL A businessman finds God and joy EDITOR'S NOTE Tarpon commissioner finds Scientology 'ethical': Page 3 nnncnT clearuuater times DIGEST UUUklll M- HEIIDERSOn 1 More news of religion, Page 6. By SHARON KIRBY Claarwatar Timaa Staff Writar A salute for PACT'S choice Program about storms scheduled on Monday Claarwatar Ttmaa Staff Wrttar i' CLEARWATER A civil defense program about tornadoes and hurricanes, scheduled at 2 p.m.

Monday in the Channel Markers for the Blind Center at 1610 Myrtle is open free to the public. weather Youth Orchestra to start rehearsals largo-Saminola Timaa Staff Wrttar LARGO The Upper Pinellas Youth Orchestra, which is composed of elementary and middle school pupils, will begin rehearsals Sept. 17 at Largo Middle School, 155 Eighth Ave. SE. Elementary students will practice from 6 to 7 p.m.

and middle school students from 7 to 8:30. Practices are every other week. There is no charge for participating, and any pupil who plays an instrument is eligible. The schools that are actively participating in the orchestra include Skycrest, Plumb, Belcher, Fuguitt, Seminole, Oakhurst and Largo elementaries, and Seminole, Largo and Oak Grove middle schools. More information may be obtained at CLEARWATER Five years ago Max Quinn became a born-again Christian and his whole life changed.

"What a difference it made in my life," he said recently. "I had lived here most of my life, but being born again was a new experience. My whole life changed." Quinn believes that because of his Christianity he has become a better businessman, a better husband and a better father. He has also discovered a hidden talent singing and now sings and speaks to groups all over the Southeast. ABOUT a year after his conversion, Quinn Baid, he felt a desire to sing, and believes that somehow God gave him that talent.

"Sometimes when I'm singing before thousands of people I have to pinch myself," he said. "I used to hum, but I never sang. I never had a reason to sing. "The songs I sing now have a message. I tell people Jesus is everything.

I express my feelings through songs, and never sing a song without a message. MAX QUINN 'what a "Christ works through me. I've had a wonderful five years here. On weekends God uses me. I thank him so much.

When God uses you to touch lives it's the greatest feeling in the world." QUINN SAID he sings mainly contemporary songs with a good message, and uses a studio background tape for backup. Sea QUINN, Page 3 Today' forecast Partly cloudy. High near 90. Low in 70a. East to southeast winds 10-15 mph.

Rain chance 30 percent. FRIDAY Prec. Clearwater 76 92 Largo 76 94 .01 Tarpon Spgs 74 93 't 4 111 make PACT an integral, flourishing part of our community. I got to hear Buddy Verdi's big-band group last June. You'll have the same opportunity Sept.

27, again Oct. 2 and then again later in the month during the Clearwater Jazz Holiday. The 18-member band features present and past professional musicians, including some who have played with Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Tommy and Jimmy Dor-sey, Ray McKinley and Charlie Spivak. The band will be at Countryside Mall from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

27. Then it will put on a three-hour concert Thursday night, Oct. 2, at the Capitol Theater in downtown Clearwater. TickeU will be $3.50, Verdi said. Any proceeds after the band and other expenses are paid will be given to the Performing Arts Center and Theater (PACT).

I'll pass on ticket information when it becomes available. Here's a chance to use some of your spare time, if you've got any, and to be a really good neighbor. The Literacy Council needs tutors who can help our new foreign-born citizens learn how to speak and read English. You'll be well-trained before you get into it. Three workshops are scheduled at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Clearwater, and attendance at all three will be required 9 a.m.

to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18; 7 to 10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23; and 9 to 4:30 on Saturday, Oct.

25. There will be a $15 fee, with $3 of it due at the time of enrollment. The enrollment deadline is Oct. 8. To get more information about the program and about how to enroll, call either 784-9702 or 796-5269.

I Pete Axthelm report in the current issue of Newsweek magazine on the 1980 National Football League season starting Sunday. His prediction for the Super Bowl next January: "Tampa Bay against Houston, a match made in Hollywood." Don't laugh. The sport writers over at the Tampa Tribune pooled their knowledge of the NFL and came up with exactly the same A Saturday morning potpourri: Ted Clark of Seminole was born in Elmira, N.Y. and lived there a good part of his life and he thinks the Clearwater area hag scored a major coup by getting Arnold Bremen to be the first executive director of the Performing Arts Center and Theater (PACT). PACT announced last month that fireman, now executive director of the Samuel L.

Clemens Performing Arts Center in Elmira, will be coming to Clearwater this fall. Clark and his wife moved to Seminole a year ago from Elmira, where he had been executive secretary of the Chemung County Medical Society for 18 years. He said Elmira never gets excited about much, including the fact that Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) wrote several books there and is buried there. But he said Elmira has gotten excited about its arts center, which reman has run since its inception in 1977. In a letter to PACT president Al Hoffman, Clark said: "I would like to compliment you on the selection of Arnold Breman We are familiar with the outstanding job that Mr.

Breman did in making the Samuel L. Clemens Performing Arts Center the success that it has been and is. I am sure that few others could have made it so successful." Clark stressed in a phone conversation with me Bremen's great job of directly involving many members of the community members of all the local arts groups and volunteers who serve as ushers and in other "hospitality jobs." The Clarkg were in Elmira this past summer when Breman staged two free, open-air concerts right outside the theater. Clark said 10,000 to 15,000 persona attended each event Oh, one other thing. Clark takes exception to those who good-naturedly have said that Bremen doesn't look like the executive director of a performing arts center.

He acknowledged that Breman is "sort of heavy-set, with a drooping mustache," but declared, "You don't have to look like an executive director to be one with great ability." Based on everything we've heard to date, Arnold Breman hag the "great ability" that will be needed to Vi V- a in lit v) .57 tn if I hi ni yr I '-jay(Birt ti Football is off and running That's a Countryside Cougar chasing a Clearwater Tornado, the beginning of a new cross-town rivalry in high school football. The teams met Thursday night in a preseason football jamboree also featuring Largo, Dunedin and Tarpon Springs. Here, Clearwater's Hassan Jones breaks loose from a Countryside defender for a touchdown. Stories and more photos on Pages 4 and 5. Claarwatar Ttmaa jm DAMASK! a i WiTf nr -iTTr mill "T- '-w iM i it i it iii nr hurnw 1 1 ii i i "ti i "fj raj -Hi if.

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