CLEAR has learned of the passing of Charlie Barner, one of the co-founders of CLEAR and the inaugural recipient of the CLEAR Regulator of the Year award in 1987. Charlie is the former Chief of Bureau of Records, Deputy Secretary, then Acting Secretary of the Florida Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. He was CLEAR's president in 1982-83. The memorial service for Charlie will be held on Saturday, November 6 at 1:00 p.m. at Culley's Meadow Wood Funeral Home and Memorial Park, 700 Timberlane Road, Tallahassee, FL 32312.