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Building Your Own Field of Dreams A runway in your backyard offers perhaps the ultimate in privacy and convenience. Here’s what you have to consider, do, and spend to make it a reality. February 2021 Arthur Jones, the founder of fitness companies Nautilus and MedX, was an animal lover who kept elephants, rhinos, and a gorilla on his estate, Jumbolair, near Ocala, Florida. An accomplished pilot, he’d fly the animals in on a Boeing 707 and later on his 747 jumbo jet because the 707 “wasn’t big enough for the elephants.” Jones bought the original 80-acre estate in 1980, added hundreds of surrounding acres, and built its centerpiece: a 7,550-foot-long runway large enough for the 747 and its pachyderm passengers. Before he died in 2007, he lost control of a large part of the estate to an ex-wife who had begun to develop it into an uber-affluent fly-in community with residents including the actor-pilot John Travolta. ....
Bob Dunning: She’s a natural at it A STAR IS BORN … Not that she needs another job, but I suspect that Davis Mayor Gloria Partida will soon be in demand as a voiceover specialist for a variety of concerns and perhaps even commercial products. The mayor’s often-played public service announcement urging Davis citizens to take advantage of free COVID testing through the Healthy Davis Together initiative shows what a competent announcer she is. Her voice is clear and comforting and she speaks with a clarity generally seen only in seasoned professionals. Now, I don’t imagine her joining Cal Worthington and selling used cars on late-night television, but if another worthy cause needs a voice, Gloria might be just the one to effectively get their message across to the general public. ....