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Terri Collins -Lister <br />From: Randy Old [rbold@rbold.com] <br />Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 6:16 PM <br />,,, To: Peter D. O'Bryan <br />Subject: RE: Request for a support letter for OVIASC's Historic Preservation Grant application. <br />May 26, 2014 <br />Dear Commissioner O'Bryan, <br />The Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee (OVIACS) would like to request a support letter to accompany our <br />application for a 2016 Small Matching Historic Preservation Grant. <br />As you recall, OVIASC is the committee that has organized the excavation at the Vero Man Site in Vero <br />Beach. The funds we are seeking will be used to analyze, date, and publish the findings of this first year of <br />excavation and the state's funds will be matched with $50,000.00 donated by our supporters. <br />As was expected, this year's excavation is on track in demonstrating that this site is one of the most important <br />early man sites in the country. It has attracted over 575 volunteers with 260 working to sift the overburden <br />from the excavation. <br />This project and this excavation will undoubtedly become an important asset for Vero Beach, and Indian River <br />County. It is proving that the Dr. Sellards, the State Geologist who initially investigated the site in 1915, was <br />correct in his assumptions when he dated the site at over 13,000 years old. Funding will assist the <br />archaeologists in scientifically backing up publications that are produced by the site. <br />Please address your letter to: <br />Mr. Robert Bendus, Director <br />Division of Historical Resources <br />Bureau of Historical Preservation <br />Grants and Education Center <br />500 South Bronough Street <br />Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 <br />And please send your letter to: <br />OVIASC <br />PO Box 351 <br />Vero Beach, Florida 32961-0351_ <br />We would appreciate receiving your letter - at our address - by the 6th of June 2014 and we will assemble them <br />and forward to Tallahassee with our grant. Thank you very much. <br />Randy Old, Chairman <br />Old Vero Ice Age Sites Committee <br />1 <br />120 <br />