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Harry Johnston, a lifelong West Palm Beach resident who spent two decades shaping public policy as a congressman and state senator and helped form and lead some of the area’s most prominent civic institutions, died Monday at 89.
During a political career that spanned a period of explosive South Florida growth, Johnston oversaw the creation of the state’s Growth Management Act and passage of legislation to form the Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County and kick-start efforts to build the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
A fifth-generation Floridian, Johnston rose to key political roles at the state, federal and international level, serving as state Senate President in the 1980s, as chairman of the U.S. House’s African affairs subcommittee in the 1990s and eventually as President Bill Clinton’s special envoy to Sudan.
H. Charles Anderson of Kodak, Tennessee, passed from this life to the life eternal on April 19, 2021. He was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he later met the love of his life, Gale, at âThe Hutâ in August of 1958. They married on May 7, 1960 at First Baptist White Pine.
He began his career as a sheet metal worker and, after years of hard work, he started a small single-family home construction business in south Florida with David Kimmel. While he loved the ocean, diving for Florida lobster, and the sand between his toes, the mountains also called to him and that brought the Anderson family to east Tennessee over the course of the 1980s. He built Tree Tops Resort of Gatlinburg, which preserved the beauty of Roaring Fork with vacation homes that nestled in the landscape among the trees. He went on to build Oakmont Resort and Sunrise Ridge, bringing jobs to the community and joy to many families. He came out of a very active retirement to rebuild Tree Tops after the 2