75. Norman Church wins 2013 Lipton Cup Regatta in New Smyrna Beach
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Photo for Headline Surfer® / Skipper Norman Church had history on his side and perhaps a little faith Sunday as he repeated as champion in the 2013 Lipton Cup Regatta.NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Norman Church was obsessed with winning the Lipton Cup Regatta off the Atlantic waters of New Smyrna Beach. So much so that he skippered "Obsession" into victory April 14 in the Spinnaker Class.
The regatta was held during that weekend with the first day much rougher going in the choppy waters.
Church's Lipton Cup victory comes in at No. 75 in the Headline Surfer® countdown of the top 100 stories of 2013.
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Headline Surfer® interviewed Dr. L. Ronald Durham (shown here), the senior pastor of the Greater Friendship Baptist Church of Daytona Beach, on the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday and the non-violence espoused by the civil rights leader back then with the message carried forward today in a 21st-century world.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Rev. Lorenzo Laws of the Allen Chapel AME Church and others in the predominantly-African-American Westside community and other parts of this coastal community marched across the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Bridge and into the Old Fort Park downtown for the MLK holiday vigil.
