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Month: May 2014

One of our heroes, Laurie Codding

Laurie Codding proudly says that she was Florida’s first female plumbing contractor in the 1980s.

The 53-year-old former Bradenton resident — she lived off Cortez Road in the 1990s and now lives in Venice — says being a plumber with all its bending, lifting and stretching made her so strong and healthy that people would ask her what gymnasium she worked out in.

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