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Article: Leaderless Palm Beach Red Cross chapter insists it's ready.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2006
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Byline: Ivette M. Yee
Jun. 18--If a hurricane hits Palm Beach County this season, it again will be the busiest time of the year for the local Red Cross chapter.
But the agency known for coming to the rescue in disasters is without a local leader. Former Executive Director Dean Dimke left in April after four years to become communications manager for a South Carolina electronics company, and the Red Cross has yet to fill his job. For much of the community and the media, the self-assured, and sometimes brash, Dimke was the voice of relief before, during and after the storm. He had spent 19 years working his way up with the Red Cross in several ...