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The annual fundraiser will be held at the Oak Harbor clubhouse on Wednesday, January 25

Mark S. Hanks, a long-time executive formerly with DNE World Fruit, died surrounded by his loving family on Wednesday, June 29, just shy of his 72nd birthday. Mr. Hanks was born on July 2, 1950 in Kilgore, TX, and grew up in Southern California.  He attended UC-Santa Barbara before pursuing his acting and dance career in New York City and Los Angeles. His love for the performing arts took him from being a high school gymnast to dancing with the Joffrey Ballet and acting and performing in the theatre.

Florida citrus packinghouse sold Indian River Exchange Packers (IREP) on Jan. 8 sold its Vero Beach, Florida, packinghouse to Diamond Drinks, a Pennsylvania drink manufacturing firm. The sales price was $4.5 million. “Diamond Drinks will convert the packinghouse into a private drink mixing and bottling company,” said IREP President George Hamner. “They will also extrude and sell plastic bottles.” IREP plans to continue packing fruit at the packinghouse until early March, “then move people and fruit to Egan Fruit Packing out in Fellsmere to finish the season,” Hamner said. “I wil...