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FLORIDA TODAY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2010 3A Avera officials revamping name Gates family service dates back to 1888 AVERA, from 1A v. 1 ately priced, high-performance, energy-efficient car. The 27-year-old Brevard County native has a Ph.D. in automotive engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and financial backing from Space Florida and private investors. Hyundai introduced the Azera in 2006 as a replacement to its XG350 model.

With a suggested retail price of $25,495, it is the third-most expensive of the 1 1 vehicles the company sells in the U.S. Just 2,600 of the approximately 350,000 Hyun-dais sold this year in the U.S. were Azeras, according to Automotive News. Avera Motors plans to unveil its as-yet unnamed prototype in 2011 and begin selling to the public in either late 2012 or early 2013. While the company hasn't selected a final manufacturing site, Scaringe has said his preference is to build the cars in Brevard.

"Within the next few years, the company plans to hire more than 1,100 workers including displaced shuttle workers," Scaringe said Wednesday. Contact McCarthy at 321-752-5018 or Jmccarthyefloridatoday.com. September to change its name, according to the suit. Avera officials confirmed on Wednesday that they had agreed to change the company name but had asked for six months to choose a new name and do the necessary trademark research. Hyundai demanded that the company immediately stop using the name, Kempf said.

Avera founder and CEO R.J. Scaringe said in a news release that he was confident that the company could have prevailed in court but that as a start-up company he couldn't justify the cost of fighting the suit. "Although we dispute the claim we agreed to change the name prior to Hyundai's filing of the lawsuit," Scaringe said. "We have delayed our marketing plans and have turned down a Xer of significant PR opportunities." The company has not yet decided on a new name, Kempf said. Avera is a combination of the words "America," "verde" (the Spanish word forgreen) and "terra." Scaringe started Avera Motors Inc.

last year with the goal of building a moder Tim Shortt, FLORIDA TODAY Treasure. This vase was a gift to Herb Gates' grandfather, Herbert Grenville Gates, by the Chinese government in the early 1900s, when he was In the "Great White Fleet" sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt. The histoiy Veterans Day originated as "Armistice Day" on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov.

11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. In 1954, the name became Veterans Day. academy grounds, Herbert Grenville Gates' three sons, Grenville, Nelles, and Gates' father, Herbert K. Gates, would all follow his career path into the academy. All graduated from the academy between 1912 and 1924.

Gates' father graduated in 1924 and ended his career with the rank of captain. "I guess he was just following in his brothers' footsteps," Gates said. After four members of the family in two previous generations served, for Gates there was little doubt he too would serve his country, though his sights were initially set on a different branch of the service. "I said I was going to join the Marines," he said. "They suggested the Naval Academy.

It was sort of expected that I would go." Having grown up in a military family, Gates had enrolled in as many as five different schools in a single year. But, at the end of high school, he was living with his parents across the street from the entrance gates to the Naval Academy. The academy had always been so close to the family in many ways. Gates' father was born on the academy grounds. Herbert K.

Gates raised his family near the academy. Their world seemed to revolve around it. "When (World War II) VETERANS, from 1A an academy graduate. Veterans Day ceremonies in Brevard County as well as those across the country and at bases around the world are intended to honor and pay tribute to families like the Gateses and all veterans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces.

As a family of veterans, Gates proudly acknowledges peoples' recognition of the service of veterans, which he says has become more vocal in recentyears. "I think, almost weekly, somebody says, You were in the service? Thank you for your he said. "In past years nothing was said. People seem to have much more to say about how thankful they are." In Brevard, 21 percent of the population over age 18 is militaryveterans. The Gates family, whose lives are closely connected to the Naval Academy and service in the U.S.

Navy, saw military service as an honor and something they were expected to do. More than a century ago, Gates' grandfather became one of the early graduates of the Naval Academy and went on to serve into the 20th century at the rank of commander. He served as part of what became known as the Great White Fleet, 16 new battle ships, painted white, that President Theodore Roosevelt sent around the world from Dec. 16, 1907, to Feb. 22, 1909.

The ships, with crews numbering 14,000 sailors, were seen as a grand show of American sea power that covered 43,000 miles and stopped at 20 ports of call on six continents. As an instructor living on Smart rejects defenses used by her kidnapper broke out, my father was commander of a destroyer tender," Gates said. "I got to see my father only twice during the war." When Gates entered the academy, World War II was raging. He served of the USS Rochester in the Pacific Ocean during the Korean War and took part in the bombardment of Inchon. Soon after his service in the Korean War, he began pilot training.

When Gates graduated from the academy in 1948, there were four Gates family members, he and three uncles, who served in the Navy for a period at the same time. Still, Gates said it came as a surprise when his granddaughter, Margot Gates-George, whose hometown is Pleasanton, decided to follow up on her childhood dream of becoming a Naval officer. "She started talking about this at 12 and we thought it would pass," Gates said. "But she stuck with it." Gates-George, who is expected to graduate in June, is on an exchange program in Hamburg, Germany, for one semester with the German Naval Academy. "We're all very excited about Margot's graduation next summer," her grandmother and Gates' wife, Carolyn Gates said.

"It's a wonderful education." Anne Gates, Gates-George's mother, said her daughter was actually interested in the academy since elementary school. She also wants to go into aviation, like her grandfather. "An astronaut came to speak at her school in Pleasanton," Anne Gates said. "She decided then and there that she was going to the academy like her Contact Moody at 242-3651 or nmoodyflorldatoday.com. Mitchell's defense contention that he suffers from an escalating mental illness and holds extreme religious beliefs that lead him to think he is directed by God.

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