Business owners and visitors in downtown Venice have mixed feelings over wearing masks Mixed reaction over mask wearing policies in Suncoast businesses. (Source: WWSB) By Rick Adams | March 5, 2021 at 7:55 PM EST - Updated March 5 at 7:57 PM
VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - The mask wearing debate is heating up following the arrest of 51-year-old Nancy Simpson. Simpson refused to wear a mask in the lobby of the Days Inn in Port Charlotte and leave the property. She would then get into an altercation with deputies.
“I have a problem with that because I think it’s part of our responsibility, part of being in this community or whatever community she was from,” said Robert Gartrell, a Venice resident.