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February 21, 2008


Raffield Teacher of the Year


By Despina Williams
Star Staff Writer

Jo Ann Raffield almost missed her
own party.
As her Port St. Joe Elementary School
colleagues gathered at a faculty meeting
called to announce her selection as district
Teacher of the Year, Raffield remained in
her room, playing with a new computer
program.
With her guest of honor a no-show,
principal Melissa Ramsey summoned
Raffield to the library
Raffield was sitting with her fellow first
grade teachers when her husband, Danny,
carrying a bouquet of flowers, crashed the
meeting, trailed by district staff.
Raffield rose in slow motion to greet
her husband, who beamed with pride at
his wife of 23 years.
"You've got to be dedicated to do this,"
said Danny Raffield as Jo Ann received
congratulatory hugs from her peers.
"Every one of these educators are unique
people."
Ramsey had teased Raffield about
a potential victory the previous day, and
was thrilled that her prediction had come
true.
"She wasn't confident, but in my heart
I knew that if anyone had a chance she
did because of her dedication and love for
children," said Ramsey.
Raffield earned her bachelor's degree
from Western Kentucky University and
a master's degree in education. from the
University of Louisville.
After beginning her teaching career at
Port St. Joe Elementary School in 1979,
she pursued work' at elementary schools
in Apalachicola and Louisville, Ky.
She rejoined the Port St. Joe
Elementary faculty in August 1993, and
was the school's Teacher of the Year in
2001.
Accepting her first district Teacher
of the Year honor, Raffield said she was
shocked that she'd been singled out of a
field of talented nominees.
A panel of administrators from outside
the district selected Raffield for the honor
after reviewing her resume and observing


a Jan. 30 classroom lesson on the five
senses.
"It was not an award-winning
performance, I assure you," laughed
Raffield.
With over two decades in the classroom,
Raffield remains passionate about her
work.
"I just love it. It's just what I do," she
said.
Raffield has taught two generations


of students and continues to mentor new
teachers like colleague Judy Owens.
"She's been extremely helpful to all of
us new first grade teachers," said Owens.
"She's been willing to do anything. Lots
and lots of advice, points us in the right
direction."
Colleague Julie Hodges applauded
Raffield's creative and innovative methods
of teaching lower-level students.
(See RAFFIELD on Page 12A)


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Jo Ann Raffield was named the Gulf School District's Teacher of the Year during a surprise
ceremony last Wednesday. Raffield teaches first grade at Port St. Joe Elementary School.


Beach Project



to Begin

By Marie Logan
Star Staff Writer

They may not know all the details, but
they're set to go.
Even though specifics of dates, times
and places are not nailed down yet, beach
restoration on St. Joseph Peninsula is set to
begin the first of March, according to a Feb.
13 e-mail blast from the St. Joseph Peninsula
Beach Advisory Committee (SJPBAC).
The communique outlined the most
current plan of action pertaining to the
beach re-nourishment project set to pump
sand back onto the Gulf side beaches of the
peninsula this summer.
The biggest change to the original plan
is that work will now be allowed to continue
uninterrupted.
The original plan for the beach project
had scheduled work from October 2007 to
July 1, 2008, then a cessation of work until
Nov. 1, 2008, which would have required
dismantling and remobilization of dredging
and pumping equipment.
The continuous construction schedule
will allow the project to be completed in less
time and will also save the costs of re-staging
the equipment, according to SJPBAC.
Dredging will begin at the northernmost
point of the project, which is inside the St.
Joseph Peninsula State Park at the north end
of the peninsula.
Equipment and pipe is already in place
and SJPBAC said it anticipated sand actually
being pumped onto the beach during the first
week of March.
The project within the state park
boundaries is estimated to take 20 days,
according to the SJPBAC.
The project will then continue south
from the state park to the southernmost
termination point at the Stump Hole.
Information from SJPBAC stated that the
anticipated time for completion of the project
was 240 days or less, subject to delays for
weather, equipment and problems with
endangered species, like sea turtles.
SJPBAC also said that it currently had
(See BEACH on Page 7A)


Students Rediscover Washington High


By Despina Williams
Star Staff Writer

Ashley Robinson searched diligently for
her grandmother.
She inspected photos of young African-
American schoolchildren, teachers and
principals displayed on the walls of the new
George Washington Elementary/High School
Museum.
On the Wall of Honor, Robinson found
what she was looking for.
Vivian Patten appeared in a photograph
taken during the museum's Jan. 21 ribbon
cutting ceremony.


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Ashley Robinson, whose grandmother taught at V
out a familiar Port St. Joe landmark to student Sam T


She had been a teacher during the
segregation era, educating young African-
American students at Port St. Joe's
segregated George Washington Elementary/
High School.
The ribbon cutting ceremony had been
a joyous affair, with former students and
teachers returning to share fond memories
of their alma mater.
Though the crowds of alumni many of
whom journeyed from distant cities packed
the David W. Jones gymnasium, few young
people attended:
Most of Robinson's classmates had
never even heard of the school when they
embarked on a field
trip last Thursday,
-- organized by Port St.
0 Joe Middle School
guidance counselor
Andria Dixon.
Museum founder
and president
Nathan Peters, Jr.
greeted the students
members of the
district's College
for Every Student
S(CFES) program at
the entrance.
The original
school was
sg demolished shortly
after Port St. Joe's
.. public schools
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and the museum
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Washington High, points the school's satellite
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John Wilson, joined by his classmates, takes a seat at George Washington Elementary/
High School principal Emile Twine's desk inside the museum. Twine, 87, served as principal from
1947-1964.


Peters, a Washington High alumnus, told
the students he had a personal reason for
founding the museum.
"One day it dawned on me that my four
boys didn't know anything about Washington
High School," he said.
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students inside.
The 17 students wandered through the
rooms, observing memorabilia and hundreds
of historic photographs.
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Roberts and Horton Announce


Retirements from PSJ Commission


By Marie Logan
Star Staff Writer

He made what had been
rumored official.
After this year's May
elections in Port St. Joe,
the familiar red jacket and
shock of white hair will no
longer be on the podium at
city commission meetings.
Port St. Joe city com-
missioner Benny Roberts
announced at Tuesday's
City Commission meeting
that he will not run for re-
'election this year. He has
served, by his reckoning,
about 31 years as a com-
missioner.
"There are some places
and things I need to do
at my age and I think I'll
do them," Roberts told the
board and small audience
at the end of the Feb. 19
meeting. "I won't be like
James Bond, 007, I'll never
say never I'm just saying I
won't run again this year."
Roberts thanked the


general public for their
years of support, saying he
had "always been well sup-
ported, even when I've been
wrong. I sincerely appreci-
ate all you people all these
years."
Commissioner David
Horton followed Roberts by
also announcing his retire-
ment from the commission
at the end of this year's
term.
Horton said he had
served with three different
mayors, three police chiefs,
and two city managers in
his decade as city commis-
sioner.
"It's time," he said. "I
want to spend more time
with my parents and there's
some fish that haven't been
caught yet."
Horton also thanked
and the people of Port St.
Joe and everyone with
whom he had served.
Election Day in Port St.
Joe is Tuesday, May 13.
Qualifying for the municipal


elections begins Wednesday,
March 26 at noon and ends
at noon on Wednesday,
April 2..
Registration books are
open, but will close Monday,
April 14 at 5 p.m. E.T.
In other business con-
ducted at the meeting:
After handling a vari-
ance request that was con-
tinued from the last city
commission meeting, Ann
White, chair of the city's
variance committee, sub-
mitted letters of resignation
for herself and the other
five variance committee
members.
She told the board that
she had served as chair ofthe
committee since its incep-
tion in January of 2000,
had handled 56 variances,
and "had no problems until
November of 2007 with the
ice machine."
She was referring to a
variance issue regarding a
large ice machine a busi-
ness owner wanted to place


on a lot on U.S.98 last fall.
White recommend-
ed that Port St. Joe city
attorney Russell Scholz be
appointed the new variance *
committee chair, with the
four city commissioners
serving as the other vari-
ance committee members.
Port St. Joe mayor Mel
Magidson accepted all the
resignations and said, "I
apologize if we've stepped
on any toes, but we're going
to follow the rules."
White replied, "We don't
know what the rules are.
They change every week,"
and suggested the commis-
sion "get their rules togeth-
er" and appoint another
variance committee.
Port St. Joe city man-
ager Charlie Weston set
a special workshop for
Monday, Feb. 25 at 5 p.m.
E.T., followed immediately
by a special meeting to vote
on the outcome of the work-
shop.
The workshop will cover


The St. Joe Company's
WindMark Beach develop-
ment's offsite utilities and
how the company will pay
for them.
The commission
passed a resolution (5-0)
to prohibit the sale of cem-
etery lots in either Forest
Hill or Holly Hill Cemeteries
to non-city residents. The
resolution allows only resi-
dents of the city to purchase
lots in the two city-owned
cemeteries.
Richie Burkett, Port
St. Joe's code enforcement
officer, announced his office
and the city will immedi-
ately launch a public rela-


tions campaign to educate
the public on existing city
codes and ordinances.
Literature about city
codes will be inserted in all
city water bills, and code
issues will be discussed in
the newspaper and on local
cable television, according
to Burkett.
About March 17, after
a month-long PR campaign,
the city will begin a crack-
down on code enforcement
violations, he said.
Weston said it was more
of a beautification effort for
the city than code enforce-
ment.


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wonder at a photograph
of young men in football
helmets in the museum's
athletics exhibit.
"Their helmets look
different from what we
have," observed Taylor.
"You'd get killed in
those helmets," noted
North.
In an exhibit of
Washington students,
North found his relative,
Willie Mae Farmer.
Others spotted their
fathers, aunts and uncles.
Martin Adkison, 'a
middle school teacher who
attended the trip as princi-
pal designee, observed the
students' reactions.
"They've got fam-
ily members in this school
and they probably didn't
even realize it," he said.
Adkison graduated
from Port St. Joe High
School in 1974, four years
after the schools integrat-
ed.
Several Washington
teachers joined the Port


St. Joe High School faculty
during the integration peri-
od, and Adkison remem-
bered them fondly.
Standing at a display
honoring Washington's fac-
ulty, Adkison pointed out
Clarence Monette, Port St.
Joe High School's retired
media specialist, the late
Edwin Williams, his former
teacher and principal, and
Charlie Osburn, "a small,
soft-spoken, good man,"
who taught him high. school
physics.
As Adkison reminisced
about his high school days,
his students observed the
museum with fresh eyes.
"I like it," said Robinson
of the museum. "I think
it's helping the kids.know
more about the school."
In organizing the trip,
Dixon had hoped to teach
her CFES students the
importance of setting goals,
reaching objectives and
overcoming obstacles.
Many of the CFES
students come from low-


income or single-family
homes, and most of their
parents did not go to col-
lege.
Dixon meets with
the students at least one
Thursday a month at lunch
time, and the students are
assigned high school men-
tors who meet with them
weekly to discuss their
school work, home life and
any personal problems.
After hearing about the
museum from Gulf School
District Superintendent
Tim Wilder, Dixon seized
the opportunity to teach
her CFES students a valu-
able lesson.
"I wanted to show
them that the people here
came from not so good cir-
cumstances, and they over-
came that and succeeded
and made something out of
themselves," she said.
Peters shared Dixon's
mission.
He told the students
stories about Washington's
principal Emile Twine, who
helmed the school from
1947-1964.
"He was a very likeable
person and a very smart
person. He expected you to
behave and be respectful.
He would definitely paddle
you. I got one or two from
him."
Peters let the students
sit at Twine's desk and
helped them identify the
faces of Miss Washington
High.
At the close of the
field trip, Peters led them
through the Wall- of Honor,
noting that all those fea-
tured had earned a mas-
ter's degree or higher.
He pointed out four
honorees from the same
family Pearl, Leola, George
and Clarence Davis.
Emphasizing the
importance of study-
ing hard, Peters shared
his personal motto:
"Determination is the key
to unlimited success."
"I encourage each and
every one of you to graduate
with high honors," Peters
told the students. "Become
great leaders for this com-
munity, or wherever you
go, be a great leader."


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Real World Gulf County


Staff Writer MVarie Logan's report of Feb. 7
concerning the county's ongoing budgeting pro-
cess should be required reading for all taxpay-
ers in the county.
Apparently, it was a real eye-opener for
one commissioner, who mentioned last week
that reading the story only highlighted the need
for consolidation of some resources and man-
power.
Consolidation was one of the main topics
of the meeting as commissioners discussed
putting the Road Department, Public Works,
Solid Waste, Maintenance and Mosquito Control
under one department with one department
head.
As county administrator Don Butler noted,
the 60 employees in those five departments
include four superintendents/directors, three
assistant directors/superintendents, two office
-managers and two shop foremen.
Tally that up to find just a taste of some of
the fat in the county budget.
But two statements made by Butler, as
reported by Logan, particularly stick out.
One was Butler's reference to consolidation
providing a template for streamlining manpower
and equipment use in order to curb fixed costs
"because they are rising faster than assessed
values."
In other words, commissioners will finally
be forced to come to grips with the reality that
all those back-door tax increases they absorbed
and spent freely while the real estate market
was white hot are definitely in the past.
Maybe that roaring market will return -
prognosticators are all over the map on that one
but the statement highlights that too much of
what passed for budgeting earlier in the decade
was little more than figuring out how to spend
the annual windfalls created by the real estate
market.
And that, it is worth noting, does not take
into account all the grant dollars just another
pipeline for taxpayer-funded mischief by elected
officials accrued to create the roughly two-doz-
en parks in the county parks needing mainte-
nance, upkeep, etc., at taxpayer expense that
commissioners continually refer to as genuine
services and protect as if newborns.
In any case, Butler detailed the manifest
ways in which consolidation would assist the
county in not duplicating services and lead
to more efficient use of county personnel and
equipment.
Taxpayers take note: what is sitting between
the lines is the fact that the county, benefiting
from property tax collections 'that exploded by
150 percent over a five-year period earlier in
the decade, has become a bloated behemoth of
-the patronage system, not the lean government
appropriate for a county that has seen popula-


tion actually decline in the past 10 years.
Nor the lean enterprise which much of the
business owners in the county, large and small,
have had to become as the economy teeters.
But Butler put a finer point on the issue
when he mentioned that many of the employees
in those five departments considered for con-
solidation were not in favor of pooling together
and that "many times, political forces involved
are not in favor for various reasons."
Why? Because in a county in which govern-
ing has centered on ensuring that each district
gets its fair share of pork be it vans or parks
or work crews and on and on the long view of
what is best for the county has been too often
lost.
Spiking property values and the back-door
tax increases they brought allowed commis-
sioners to pad the personnel rolls, to create an
unwieldy, patronage-centric workforce and, in
education-speak, cost-centers that served as re-
election platforms.
Consider a recent discussion about cutting
Mosquito Control and the quizzing about what
employees in those departments did when not
actually in spraying season.
A contrast was made to the Road Department
and its employees' messy, dirty work after hur-
ricanes but never was it broached exactly what
Road Department employees are tasked with
when hurricanes don't arrive, as in, like, the
past two years.
The discussion was pure protection of
favored departments, not benefits to the entire
county.
If nothing else, consolidation would at least
be a step in the direction of the kind of work
order policy and ability to trace each dollar
spent that Commissioner Bill Williams has been
pushing, unsuccessfully, for almost four years.
There will certainly be pain for those employ-
ees for whom consolidation could mean the loss
.of a job, fewer hours, doing more with less. In
that sense, welcome to the real world of the pri-
vate sector.
But also, dare we broach it, maybe con-
solidation of departments will serve as a step
toward a new Board of County Commissioners:
to a consolidation of viewpoints, an understand-
ing of the value of a consolidated vision along
with a consolidation of voters to whom commis-
sioners are answerable, from the current one-
fifth to the whole county.
And if nothing else comes from these weekly
exercises on the budget and it is worth con-
sidering how much these Monday meetings are
costing taxpayers in employee time and expense
away from their workday tasks and commis-
sioner travel that kind of consolidation of pur-
pose could prove the most valuable.


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Established 1937 Serving Gulf county and surrounding areas for 70 years


KEYBOARD KLRbLERING



Ills for the 111


I no longer wish to hear
about universal health care
as "socialized" medicine
that will wreak havoc on
our health care system and
lead to long lines and waits


Tim Croft
Star News
Editor


come too soon.
Those were


for care.
And
count
m e
among
those
w h o
believe
t h e
arrival
of a
Sacred
Heart
Hospital
in the
county
could
n o t

my pri-


mary thoughts recently as
my wife experienced medi-
cal issues that required
her to be transported by
ambulance to Bay Medical
Center.
Or should I say the
Bay Medical Center waiting
room because the entire
hospital is one of those
hurry-up-and-wait places.
Bay Medical Center
highlights a salient point
for anybody with remain-
ing questions about our
health care system: it is
overwhelmed.
My wife, who entered
the hospital as a car-
diac patient, was quickly
deemed to be a patient in
need of admittance for fur-
ther observation and test-
ing to determine the exact
nature of the problem and
extent of any damage.
The problem is that
a patient who is admitted
does tend to need a room
and there were no rooms
at the inn.
Maybe there were some
available at the Value Inn
down the road, but not at
Bay Medical Center, at least
not for the day. And I mean
the day and much of the
next.
My wife ended up
remaining in the emergency


department for more than
24 hours, 27 hours to be
exact.
We arrived at the hos-
pital at 3:30 p.m. CT -
or should I say, I arrived,
the ambulance had to wait
for one from Washington
County to off-load its
patient and my wife did
not end up in a room until
nearly 7:30 p.m. CT the fol-
lowing day.
How much longer
could the waiting have been
under any kind of universal
health care system?
While still laying on
what amounted to a only
slightly better-padded
ambulance stretcher, my
wife was poked and prod-
ded, taken away for tests
and returned, all the time
remaining in the emergency
room area, though moved
to what they called the
Observation Area.
The Observation Area
was a step up only in that
there was a working televi-
sion and a degree of privacy
- there were eight patients
in a large room separated
by a thin curtain.
And if there was some-
body actually doing any
observing, it was by stealth
as requests for assistance
or medicines were half-
heartedly answered by
employees dressed as if
working at home shirts
hanging loose out of pants,
a stethoscope around the
neck the only indication
they were in medicine.
The emergency room
itself was a nightmare.
Unless you are bleed-
ing out, a cardiac patient or
wheezing your last breath,
there is plenty of time to
read War and Peace while
you wait to see a doctor or
any kind of caregiver.
On the first day my
wife was there, I noticed a
couple sitting nearby as I
waited for the ambulance
to come to the dock with
the wife. That couple was
still there when I walked
out for some fresh air close

(See KLATTERING on Page 5A)


Nancy Carol Didn't Look Like Roy!


We have a guy running for
President named Ron Paul. Two
first names! I know John Earl Carl
must be pleased. John Earl took a
lot of heat from us back in junior
high for not having a last name.
We called him Johnson, and some-
times Williams, and Jones...since
he was sans a proper surname, we
"gave" him one...
I don't think it is politically
correct to do that anymore. Sadly,
nicknames have gone the way of
the dinosaur. I blame that on t.v.,
fast food restaurants and com-
puter games. We've just sped up
too much! Nobody wants to pause
for the time it takes to "come up
with" the perfect moniker for a fel-
low conspirator. It has not always
been thus...
Larry Ridinger's voice' would
go up an octave, or three, when he
was excited, frightened or trying
to tell us Mr. Warren was coming
around the corner and we'd better
stick those milk soaked pieces of
rolls in our mouths! We had been
gently tossing them in the general
direction of Wanda Black and Nola
Purcell.
We named Larry, "Squeaky".
There was nothing derogatory
about it. We were not making fun
of him. As a matter of fact, he was
one of our best friends. He had
"come by" his name honestly. And


listen, we just didn't call him
Squeaky, he was Squeaky!
In lieu of the aforemen-
tioned devices that now
occupy most of our thinking
time we had eons of dead
space to ponder, discuss
and formulate an epithet
that would befit the hon-
oree. A lot of our nicknames
came forth over a malted
shake and some fries from
the back booth at Frank's
Dairy Bar. We studied on it. The
name had to fit. And be unique to
the individual. It was too important
to be rushed or chosen flippantly.
Some came easy. Bobby Brewer
was our catcher in little league.
Yogi Berra caught for the peren-
nial world champion New York
Yankees. Bobby became "Yogi". We
all loved the St. Louis Cardinals
but their catcher was named Hal
Smith. This wasn't rocket scientist
type stuff.
Some were a little harder.
Nancy Carol Jackson would come
down from Michigan every summer
and stay with her grandparents. She
was very nice looking and friendly.
And, after eyeing Jane Hill and Ruth
Ann Wiley for a whole year, we were
ready for a change. We couldn't
call her "Yank" or "Buckeye", that
was way too obvious. We were
on our third round of chocolate


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HUNKER DOU


WITH KES

Kesley Colberi
Contributing Wri


shakes and had gone through "Hot
lips"(Buddy-whbse real name was
James Edward Wiggleton-vetoed
that one because we had no definite
proof), "Buffy", "High Chin"(she tilt-
ed her head upward a mite), "Dial
O"(she came from long distance),
"N. C.", '"Jacks"..when Ricky men-
tioned "Pretty Woman". It was, of
course, a hot record at the time by
Roy Orbison.
We ordered another round and
figured to call a pretty girl Pretty
Woman would be a bit much. She
was too short for "Legs". And she
had no real distinguishing marks
or scares. We settled on "Roy".
Nancy Carol seemed to really like
it. And it stuck. She was Roy for
the rest of her summers with us. I
* went out with her a couple of times
but it didn't work out. I couldn't
hold hands with anybody named
Roy!


Sometimes the nick-
name stated the obvious
I I whether we liked it or not.
James "Birddog" Reed had
several dogs when he was
growing up and he liked
to hunt.
It was a lot more fun
t to go the opposite way.
iter Biff Hooker was so proud
of his G. I. haircut. We
named him "Shag". Mary
E. Pendleton had a ten-
dency to hover a little on the large
size. For our junior class float we
tied red and gray streamers to her
arms and legs and stuck her in
the parade between the eight grade
homecoming queen and the FFA
wagon: We affectionately called her
"Olive Oyl".
Graham Reynolds could be a
little wild at times. He attacked life
head oh with all engines wide open.
I hated to tackle him in football.
He would run all over you. And
laugh as he helped you upl He was
so full of sheer joy. He had more
tales about people and places, love
and fortune than you could shake
a stick at. He was truly brilliant
in an unbridled sort of way. His
nickname was 'Jungle Him". If you
knew Graham for five minutes it
would make perfect sense.
Often times an event, unique
situation or catastrophic happen-


ing could evoke a lasting nom de
plume. Charles Venifort mashed
the gas pedal instead of the brakes
and leaped his dad's brand new
Buick though the plate glass win-
dow at Frank's. The gang in the
back booth dove under the table
as crystal shards, splintered two
by fours and metal napkin holders
filled the air! As quick as the dust
settled Pam, with pad in hand,
roller skated over, tapped on the
window and said, "What'll it be,
Crash?"
Sometimes a nickname would
be superfluous. I grew up with
LaRenda Bradfield and Graylene
Lemmonds. You couldn't top those
names if you stayed up all night! I
played baseball with Sput Garnett.
I figured there's no way that could
be real until I found out his father's
name was Rut!
We didn't give Bob Cassidy a
nickname because he was the big-
gest guy on the block. And no one
was going to accept responsibility
in case he didn't like it. We avoided
calling "Tank" Hinson Tank to his
face for much the same reason. No
nickname was worth getting beat
up over. Well, maybe Ronnie "Fritz
Fry" Hamilton would be an excep-
tion. As would Brenda "Puddin'
Head" Johnsonious.
This world would be a better
place if we turned off those con-
founded Internets and Ipods and
got in the back booth and tried
to "work up" a nickname for Ron
Paul. Surely we could find a suit-
able last name for him. And that
gets me back to John Earl Carl.
Maybe I didn't get that right. It
could have been Carl John Earl...
or was it Earl Carl John...his mom
called him "Trey"..

Respectfully,

Kes


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Established 1 937 Serving Gulf County and surrounding areas for 70 years The Star, Port St. Joe, FL Thursday, February 21, 2008 5A


FDLE Responds


Dear Editor:
Mr. Jody Gorran's let-
ter alleging that the Flor-
ida Department of Law
Enforcement (FDLE) is
"hoarding" a $27 million
surplus is inaccurate and
misguided.
FDLE assesses a statu-
torily required fee of $23
for criminal history checks.
These checks are used by
employers, licensing au-


thorities, school person-
nel, the public, and others
to make important safety
decisions. The funds are
deposited into the Crimi-
nal Justice Information
Program's Operating Trust
Fund, which is used to sup-
port the daily operation of
the criminal history system.
This ensures the thousands
of arrests that occur each
day in Florida, and their
associated court disposi-
tions, are entered quickly


and accurately, keeping the
state's massive criminal
history system (the fourth
largest in the country), con-
stantly updated and avail-
able to citizens and crimi-
nal justice customers.
Mr. Gorran falsely as-
serts that FDLE doesn't
"ever have to really justify
this division's yearly bud-
get request from the Leg-
islature." On the contrary,
FDLE must annually pro-
vide detailed information on


revenue, expenditures and
cash balances of all trust
funds to the Department of
Financial Services and the
Legislature. Balances are
carefully reviewed and ad-
P ditional appropriations are
made by the Florida Legis-
lature.
FDLE is currently up-
grading its criminal history
system to ensure the sys-
tem's rapid growth is sup-
ported. We are also add-
ing new capabilities that
will solve crimes, such as
the ability to store palm
prints. The revenue gener-
ated from criminal history
records checks is about.
$52 million each year. At
June 30, 2007 the Operat-
ing Trust Fund held a cash
balance of approximately
$25 million. To fund the


system improvements, the
Legislature has awarded
funds from the Operating
Trust Fund balance. Over
the course of the next 18
months, in accordance
with our project plan and
the approval of the Legis-
lature, FDLE will utilize
these funds for several ma-
jor contracts associated
with the system upgrade.
We expect a balance of less
than $1 million at June 30,
2009.
In these difficult finan-
cial times, we believe that
funding necessary system
improvements via user fees
associated with the system,
rather than seeking new
General Revenue from the
pockets of taxpayers, is
prudent and responsible.
And we think the public


agrees.
Sincerely,
Gerald M. Bailey
Commissioner

Thanks for the Hand

Dear Editor:
I want to say thank you
to the people who donated
a stove to my family.
It came at a real hard
time for us. My son lost
his job and went offshore
and left me with his two-
year-old daughter. The
stove blew up and I'd been
cooking off a hot plate for
a month.
The stove was a bless-
ing from above and greatly
appreciated.

Vickie Layfleld,
Jones Homestead


-SR News

By & G i Asoboo


Enhancing the Gateway
to Our City

The US 98 corridor,
as it runs through Port St.
Joe, is the Gateway to our
Historic District. However,
this section of road has long
been a source of concern
(comments from various
groups appears below) and
has historically detracted
from the beauty, econom-
ics and public safety of Port
St. Joe. FDOT is currently
planning improvements for
[US 981 from south of Ninth
Street to the south end of
the Intercoastal Waterway
Bridge in Gulf County to
"resurface the roadway, re-
pair selected areas of side-
walk, modify curb ramps
and improve drainage."
With the support of local
and regional government
and agencies, the PSJRA
is working with FDOT to
ensure the modifications
are made to functionally
and aesthetically improve
the road to enhance rather
than detract from our city,
our history, our business
district, and our culture.
The 1989 Redevelop-
ment Plan: "US 98, the ma-
jor north-south corridor, is
dangerous to pedestrians
attempting to cross or to
walk along the edge of the
road. Redevelopment can
improve the situation for
pedestrians and motorists.
Appropriate planning, ac-
cess control, and signage
should be planned in con-
junction with the redevel-
opment of the area. Special
attention is to be directed
toward the safety of moving
pedestrian and bicycle traf-
fic adjacent to and across
US 98 and SR 71."
1996 Port St. Joe City
Wide Vision Plan: "The main
gateway to the City of Port
St. Joe is US 98. The visual
impression one receives
when passing through the
City is that of a depressed
economy and shabby con-
struction not to mention a
total lack of aesthetic qual-
ity. The City needs to pre-
pare landscape plans for
this stretch of the road as
well as require appropri-
ate landscaping guidelines
for adjacent uses. ..A coor-


dinated effort is needed to
upgrade this front door to
the community. The [2nd)
highest accident location is
US 98 and 5th Street. The
most amount of accidents
occur at the intersection of
side streets and major arte-
rial roads. Highest among
these are the intersections
with Highway 98."
Citizens' Advisory Task
Force: "Designate Highway
98 as a scenic corridor to
ensure it 'develops at the
highest quality level...The
result will be an attractive
environment which appeals
to both residents and visi-
tors, who in turn, will find
this a more desirable area
in which to live, work, shop,
and visit.'"
Gulf County Strategic
Economic Development
Plan 2006-2008: "Without
infrastructure enhance-
ment, tourism will be stag-
nant."
Small-City Expert Rob-
ert Gibbs: "The existing
signage and features at the
edges of the business dis-
trict to not act as a beacon
for shoppers or sight-seers.
..Port St. Joe currently has
neither a distinctive iden-
tity nor a visual impact to
create a particular interest
in entering the business
district."
PSJRA Redevelopment
Plan 2008: "The location
of US Highway 98...pres-
ents a physical barrier be-
tween the downtown and the
bay. This barrier presents
an elevated physical risk to
pedestrians and bicyclists
seeking to cross the road to
access the waterfront, park
and marina facilities. This
barrier effect will become
more significant, and po-
tentially dangerous."
It is important to our
community and to our fu-
ture to enhance this section
of road. We will continue to
address these issues with
FDOT and rely on a broad
support base of our agen-
cies, municipalities, resi-
dents and businesses. Next
week, we will begin the dis-
cussion of specific improve-
ments that will enhance our
city and encourage visitors
to explore and shop in our
Historic District.


It's the Heart That Matters


By Edward G. McAteer

Sitting in the musky
smelling living room, I
looked around at the aging
duct tape and hardened
carpenter's glue that I used
over the years to hold to-
gether this fragile, cement-
block, 1930-something
house. It's a small two
bedroom 600-square feet
abode that my grandmoth-
er, having lived there since
1939, insists that she will
remain in until she dies.
At 92 years young, her
brownish black hair has
only about 25 percent of
it turning gray. She has a
beautiful smile with her
store bought teeth, is as
spunky as she was at 18
years old, and just as hard-
headed as she ever was
about many family mat-
ters.
Granny is amazingly


Klatterinj

to midnight.
About the only thing
that happened quickly was
the handing over of my
insurance card and credit'
card for payment of my
co-pay. My wife wasn't in
the hospital an hour before
that transaction occurred,
or 26 hours before she
would actually be placed in
a real patient room.
I shudder to think
about those without insur-
ance or lacking adequate
insurance.
Now, I don't blame
BMC at all. By the looks on
the faces on the health care
personnel in the emergen-
cy room and throughout
the emergency department,
these folks were over-
whelmed, bent over like
a dog that's been beat too
much.
Puffy bags outlined by
dark circles under eyes,
looks of exasperated res-
ignation, these were folks
doing their best in a bru-
tal situation that by all
accounts from the few days
my wife spent there repeats
itself every day, 24 hours
each day.
Not one time, no mat-


charming in her special way.
With a soft-spoken voice
always aimed to please, I
never knew her to hurt any-
one. She is generous with
her love and compassion
towards others. I often
wondered, "Does Granny
ever get mad at anyone?"
I never observed that type
behavior coming from her
even to this day.
When I was 14 years
old, I started working at
the local Western Auto
store after school. I got off
the school bus uptown and
walked home each day after
work. My family was poor
and I needed the money to
get through school. I did
not have a choice-I had to
work. Granny loathed see-
ing me walk everywhere I
went. Occasionally, I would
catch a ride if someone
were traveling my way. I
did not mind walking and


ter the hour, did I ven-
ture through the emergency
room area without seeing
a line of folks at the front
counter and many people
sacked out as if at an air-
port terminal after a flight
has been cancelled.
' The problems mani-
fested at Bay Medical Center
are complex and manifold,
but two stuck out.
First, as the regional
hospital of last resort, BMC
is, for Bay, Gulf and sur-
rounding counties, the doc-
tor's office for those who
either lack insurance or
who are underinsured.
'In that setting, howev-
er, the line between insured
and uninsured is a fine one
at best.
Secondly, considering
its status, BMC receives
patients from around the
region the experiences of
a Gulf County ambulance
sound similar to those
of a Delta airliner wait-
ing for clearance to land
at Hartsfield Airport in
Atlanta.
I kept thinking of a
story I did several years
ago about the "Golden
Hour," those 60 minutes


told Granny I was young
and it was good exercise.
She looked at me and with
that big bright smile, gave
me a loving hug, then sat
down on the chair beside
me, and cried like a new-
born baby.
Granny's father was a
hard-core southern Bap-
tist preacher who made her
stop school and start work-
ing in the local cotton mill
at age 12. Papa was old
fashioned and believed a
woman should be working
and tending house. If you
were not married by age
15, you were considered an
old maid. Granny worked
hard in that sweat factory,
and by the age of 29, she
was medically retired from
"brown lung" disease. I
never heard her complain,
not even once, although
every thing in her life from
then on came very hard.


that divide life and death in
too many critical cases.
In Gulf County. they
carry additional equip-
ment and medicines on
the ambulances, not only
because they are an hour
or more away from the hos-
pital when picking up a
patient, but because also
because once they arrive
they may be in a holding
pattern, waiting for other
ambulances from other
counties to drop off their
patients.


At age 16, I read in the
paper about a 1962 Volk-
swagen Beetle that was
only four hundred dollars.
I wanted that car badly but
did not have money for
such a large purchase. My
passbook savings account
reflected a grand total of
$73.50. Granny asked me
to come see her. I did. She
encouraged me to continue
with school and always
work hard. Go make some-
thing of yourself, she stated
as she handed me four one
hundred dollar bills from
her life savings of one thou-
sand dollars and told me
to go get that Volkswagen.
She gave me the money
gladly and with all her love.
I learned a valuable lesson
that day-it's the heart that
really matters.


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Thankfully, my wife is
doing well and is on the
road back to a full recov-
ery. But after the experi-
ences of a week ago, the
thoughts permanently
seared in my mind concern
just how soon that Sacred
Heart facility wotild open
its doors.
It couldn't happen soon
enough, and I'm betting
there are plenty of county
residents of similar mind
after similar experiences.


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Community Input Needed on Cultural Center Location


The Port St. Joe Waterfront Partnership encourages all residents
to complete the following survey.
Answers to the survey will give the partnership a better sense
of how to proceed with its plans to create a community/cultural
center in Port St. Joe.
Surveys can be delivered or mailed to Jim Garth at Decorative
Flooring, 305 Third Street, Port ST. Joe, FL 32456 or IBI Group,
1519 Main Street, Sarasota, FL 34236, ATTN: Sue Thompson.
Those with questions can e-mail Thompson at Suzanne.
Thompson@ibigroup.com.
All surveys must be returned by Feb. 28.


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Port St. Joe Community Cultural Center
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Note: Please fill out the survey form and return the completed surveys in person to Jim Garth at the
Waterfront Partnership, Decorative Flooring, 305 Third Street, Port St Joe, FL 32456 or mail your
completed surveys to: IBI Group, 1519 Main Street, Sarasota, Florida 34236, Attn.: Sue Thompson, e-mail:
Suzanne.Thompson@ibigroup.com. Please feel free to make copies and encourage family and friends to
fill out this survey. We need YOUR input!!
The City of Port St. Joe is considering the development of a Community Cultural Center and has asked for
help in determining if this is feasible investment for the community based on the wants and needs of its
citizens. In response, the Department of Community Affairs' Waterfronts Florida Program has granted the
Port St. Joe Waterfronts Partnership technical assistance to conduct a feasibility study for a Community
Cultural Center through a contract with IBI Group. As part of this feasibility study, this survey has been
produced to gather input about community wants and needs. Therefore, we would like to survey as many
citizens as possible in order to determine what activities and/or features should be considered when
designing a possible facility and where such a facility would best be located.
Please complete the following survey questions:
1. Do you think that the City of Port St. Joe should have a Community Cultural Center?


2. What do you think of when you hear the term "community cultural center"? Please list some words
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House Transportation Committee Schedules March 11 Hearing on ACF Issue, Drought


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succeeded today In his his colleagues in the
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Sharks Down Franklin County in Regionals


By David Adlerstein
Florida Freedom
Newspapers

No buzzer beaters
required this time around.
After two closely
contested games late in the
regular season, the Port St.
Joe Tiger Sharks broke
open a close game in the
second half to beat Franklin
County and advance to
th Class 2A semifinals on
Tuesday (see game story on
11A).
The 71-51 home
victory on Feb. 14 means a
match-up with Tallahassee
Maclay, which nipped West
Gadsden 49-48 last week
to advance.


"I think we get shell-
shocked ih big games that
have a Idt on the line,"
said Seahawks Coach Fred
Drake. "It's kind of like we
just can't win the big ones
right now. Maybe that's a
lack of experience."
Early on the game
appeared headed to the
kind of finishes seen in the
regular season when these
two teams played, with the
Tiger Sharks winning in
overtime in Port St. Joe
and losing on free throws
in the final seconds in
Apalachicola.
After a nip-and-tuck
battle over the first eight
minutes Port St. Joe clung
to a three point lead, 14-11


David Adlerstein/Florida Freedom Ne
Chaz Byrd had 14 points in the final quarter.


to open the second quarter,
but a trey from Ricardo
Clemmons widened that to
19-11.
"Even though they got
close a couple of times, I
don't think they ever had
the lead," said Port St. Joe
coach Derek Kurnitsky. "We
were pretty much'in control
the whole game."
With 5:00 left in the
half, Seahawk junior guard
Arron Prince hit two free
throws to slice the margin
to 19-17, and Franklin
County stayed within a
point or two the rest of the
way, until Raheem Clemons
hit a three-pointer at the
buzzer to give Port St. Joe
a 36-30 lead going into
intermission.
"They have
Sacoupleseniors
and they've
been there
before and that
shows," said
Drake. "They
know how to
win the big
one, and we
don't know to
win in the big
ones yet.".
PortSt. Joe
and Franklin
County
resumed where
they left off as
the second half
got underway,
and the game
stayed close
until Clemons
nailed a lay-up
with 3:11 left in

a 42-34 lead,
prompting a
Drake timeout.
Clemmons
was fouled
when he
hit a lay-up
u nd erneath
with 49
seconds to play
S in the third
quarter, and
newspapers when he hit the
free throw Port


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Calvin Pryor drives to the rim.


St. Joe had a 50-35 lead-
and the momentum.
"Our team did a good
job on defense and that got
our transition game going,"
Kurnitsky said. "And we
rebounded really well. They
got a lot of just one shot and
done. When we rebound we
are tough to beat. This was
one of our better all-around
performances."
An Alvin Wilson trey
from the corner sliced St.
Joe's lead at the end of
three stanzas to 50-38.
but the Seahawks seemed
to lack the steam to come
back in the fourth quarter,
With 7:19 left on the


clock, sophomore Austin
O'Neal stole the inbound,
laid it up and hit the foul
shot, to cut the margin to
51-41.
But 10 points would
be as close as it got, as
the Sharks outscored the
Seahawks 21-13 in the
final quarter. led by six
buckets, all underneath.
plus two free throws from
the Sharks' Chaz Byrd.
"Chaz Byrd had
an unbelievable fourth
quarter," Kurnitsky said.
Clemmons led all
scorers with 17 points,
followed by Byrd's 16,
and Ramone Beard's 14.


Clemons added eight, Fonda
Davis six, Willie Quinn five
and Roman Quinn two.
For the Seahawks,
O'Neal led the team with 14
points and 10 rebounds,
followed by 10 points and
five rebounds for eighth-
grader Carlos Morris,
nine points for Prince,
eight points each for
juniors Deshaun Winfield
and Jeremy James, and
freshman Adam Joseph
with two points.

Star News Editor Tim
Croft contributed to this
story


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Both the boys and girls
golf teams of Port St. Joe High
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from Coast2Coast Printing and
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two programs have recently been
growing under the direction of
Coach Jim Belin (boys) and. Derik
Kurnitsky (girls). t
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school," said Steve Kerigan, owner
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Public Notice


The City of Port St. Joe City Commission will hold a public hearing prior to
consideration for adoption of a resolution approving an amendment to the Port St.
Joe Redevelopment Agency Redevelopment Plan at the regular city commission
meeting at 6 PM on Tuesday, March 4,2008, at 305 Cecil G. Costin, Sr. Boulevard,
Port St. Joe, Florida. All persons are invited to attend and participate.
Anyone wanting to appeal an official decision made on any subject at the meet-
ing must have a verbatim record of the meeting that includes the testimony and
evidence on which the appeal is based. Individuals with disabilities wishing to at-
tend, who will need special accommodations, should contact Pauline Pendarvis at
850-229-8261.


Public Notice


The Community Development
Corporation will hold an election
of new board members at noon on
March 7 at the CDC offices off Indus-
trial Road, adjacent to the Sherwin
Williams store. The public is encour-
aged to come out and vote. All county
residents over the age of 18 are eli-
gible to vote.


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Lady Tiger Sharks Win Riseball


By Tim Croft
Star News Editor
Junior Kayla Minger
won her third-straight Most
Valuable Player award in
the annual Riseball Classic
at Port St. Joe High School,
but she got plenty of help
as the Lady Tiger Sharks
remained unbeaten.
Minger was 3 for 3, in-
cluding a soaring double,
in the run-rule victory over
Laurel Hill in the opening
game and pitched a com-
plete game, shutout to beat
Sneads in the champion-
ship game.
It was the third con-
secutive year for the Rise-
ball Classic and Minger has
earned MVP honors each
year.
The Lady Tiger Sharks


are now 4-0.
In a key development
for Port St. Joe, freshman
Kristi Davis pitched a shut-
out over five innings to beat
Laurel Hill.
Davis allowed four hits
and walked two while strik-
ing out three, providing
Port St. Joe with the kind
of performance it hopes to
get this season from Davis
to ensure that Minger does
not tire by the end of the
season.
As the season wound
down last year, Minger
complained of a tired arm
as Port St. Joe entered the
playoffs.
The Lady Tiger Sharks
got plenty of offense to back
Davis, including an RBI
single in the first inning
from Angela Canington


and a two-run single from
Heather Brinkmeier, who
went 3 for 4, which helped
break the game open.
Evan Brumbaugh, a
freshman making her first
high school at-bat, blasted
a two-run home run.
Sneads beat Tallahas-
see Maclay 12-1 to earn a
spot in the championship
game.
There the Lady Pirates
were stymied by Minger
who allowed just two hits
and no walks while striking
out eight.
Torie Greer, batting
leadoff, ignited the attack,
going 3 for 4 with two RBIs
and catcher Jo Williams
was 2 for 3 in the 6-0 white-
wash.
Greer, Brinkmeier and
Williams joined Minger on


PTA 4.


Tim Croft/The Star


Angela Canington drives in a run in the first inning.


the all-tournament team.
After a trip to Cotton-
dale on Tuesday, the Lady
Tiger Sharks return home
for games against Marian-
na on Monday and Liberty
County on Tuesday. Start-
ing time for both games is
7 p.m. ET.

Heather Brinkmeier
went 3 for 4 in the champi-
onship game and made sev-
eral big plays in the outfield
to earn all-tournament team
honors. Photo by Tim Croft/
The Star


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IPort St. Joe Routs Marauders




Port' St. Joe Routs Marauders


By Tim Croft
Star News Editor

Thirty-two minutes
from Lakeland.
That's what the Port
St. Joe Tiger Sharks were
located after a second-
half barrage of 3-pointers
turned a close game in. a
trip to the Region 1-2A final
with a 58-38 victory over
visiting Tallahassee Maclay
on Tuesday.
The Tiger Sharks
(19-10) travel to Pensacola
Christian, a victor over
Sneads, at 8 p.m. ET on
Saturday with a trip to
Lakeland on the line.
"I am so proud of our
kids," said Port St. Joe
coach Derek Kurnitsky
said. "We were 5-7 at one
point and here we are 32
minutes from Lakeland.
"I knew we could beat
them if we shot the ball
well and we shot the ball
lights out there, particularly


Raheem and Ricardo."
That would be senior
Ricardo Clemmons (a game-
high 18 points) and sopho-
more Raheem Clemons (14
points), a pair of guards who
transformed a tight match
of wills into a runaway from
behind the 3-point arc.
The teams emerged
from halftime tied at 21-21
but Clemmons hit two early
3-pointers from nearly the
same spot behind the right
arc and the Marauders
(18-11) began a catch-up
game they would play the
rest of the night.
Maclay fought back
to 31-31 but Willie Quinn,
who asserted himself on
the boards in the second
half, put back an offensive
rebound and Clemons hit
two long treys, one from the
top of the arc, the other a
bit to the right of that spot.
Drew Gentry put back
a Maclay miss at the buzzer
to bring the Marauders to


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Port St. Joe's Ricardo Clemmons, right, powers past a
Tallahassee Maclay defender during the first half of the
Tigers Sharks' 58-38 regional semi-final win Tuesday in Port
St. Joe. Clemmons scored a game-high 18 points while lead-
ing his team to the regional final Saturday.


34-31 at the end of the
third period, but they would
never again be a factor.
The Tiger Sharks
dropped the next 10 points,
including a pair of 3-point-
ers from Clemons to open
the quarter that gave him
12-staight points on four
consecutive shots, to open
a 47-34 lead.
"Port St. Joe just
rained those 3's and we
couldn't get anything on the
boards in the second half,"
said Maclay coach Mike
McGrotha.
"Both teams played
good defense, but they are a
very sound team. After the
tempo was what we like in
the first half, it was not the
kind of tempo we like in the
second half."
Port St. Joe, which also
got 13 points from Calvin
Pryor, four each from Quinn
and Byrd and two from
Darrell Smith, reverted to a
zone defense- and a motion
offense to draw Maclay out
of zone and melted away
the clock while finishing the
game on an 11-2 run, the
final points coming from
Maclay during the final
mop-up seconds.
"The kids really have
paid attention to the details
in our scouting report,"
Kurnitsky said: "We went
right to a zone when we
got the lead and they real-
ly boxed out and went to
the boards" (in the second
half)."
Maclay was the team
in the zone through most
of the night, a 2-3 designed
to offset the smaller Tiger
Sharks' speed.
Even though the
Marauders turned the ball
over 13 times in the first
half, including eight of Port
St. Joe's 11 steals for the
game, Maclay kept the play
their way through the first
16 minutes.
After a back-and-forth
first quarter that ended
13-13, the Marauders
scored the first five points in
the second quarter, includ-
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of the arc by Landon Lee.
But within minutes
Clemmons hit a pair of
free throws and nailed a
3-pointer from the corner
and the Tiger Sharks edged
in front before tossing the
ball away to Maclay's A.J.
Roberts, the Marauders
only player in double digits
with 10 points, who drove
and dropped in a lay-up
that sent the teams into the
locker room even.


Baseball Pairs Wins and Losses


By Jonathan Davidson
Star Staff Writer

Port St. Joe baseball
looked to have a wonderful
start, earning two wins at a
preseason tournament in
Williston on February 8 and
9, but early regular season
losses last Thursday and
Friday predict a rockier
road ahead.

Williston Tournament
Getting off the bus
Friday evening, February
8, Port St. Joe immediately
took on the tournament
host, Williston. By the
second inning Jacob Gentry
secured an early lead off an
error hit by Hays Philyaw.
More runs during the
third and fourth innings
allowed Port St. Joe to
retain its lead, although
Williston almost managed
to match runs over the next
three innings.
Levi Richter, leadoff
batter for the Shark roster,
started the third inning
with a base hit. Tyrone
Dawson scored Richter
and made it to first on an
error by Stegall, Williston's
thirdbaseman. Jamie
followed with a walk, and
Gentry carried both home


on a strong base knock.
The fourth inning
saw Corbin Vickery and
Richter both score, leaving
the Sharks with their final
score of 6.
,Saturday afternoon,
Port St. Joe regained the
field and beat PK. Yonge,
winning 6-1.
Although Port St. Joe
only mounted an offensive
push a fraction of the
innings, once on a roll the
team scored six times to
make it hurt.
During the second
inning, Brandon Strickland
ran in two earned runs with
a double. Jacob Gentry and
Chris Cochran had both
reached base on singles.
Strickland went two-for-
three with another double
during the fourth, which
helped push Cochran to
third base.
Kris Thomas and
Richter scored the other
two runs during the fourth
inning with some help by
Dawson.

Rutherford
Last Thursday, an early
lead worked against Port
St. Joe, when Rutherford
scored four in the first
inning.


The Sharks held its
opponents without score
toward the middle of
the game but lost their
fortitude.
Vickery was the
Shark's only earned run.
After he got on with a
base hit, Richter and Bird
loaded the bases, and Matt
Gannon grounded out to
Rutherford's shortstop for
an RBI.
The final score was
10-1.

Mosley
Eager to show more
intensity than exhibited
during Rutherford's game,,
Port St. Joe lost a harder-
fought 5-1 game to Mosley.
Although periodically
giving up runs to Mosley,
Port St. Joe never allowed
more than two runs in the
same inning. The Sharks'
own run came late in the
fifth from Mosley's error
fielding Vickery's hit, which
brought Cochran home.
An embarrassing in-
the-park homerun from
Taye Larry, Mosley's leadoff
batter, during the sixth
inning prompted Port St.
Joe to make quick work of
the last six outs.


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Peak District's School-Related Employee of the Year


By Despina Williams
Star Staff Writer
If Carolyn Peak hadn't
been selected as the
county's School-Related
Employee of the Year, she
might have resigned.
At least, that's what
she planned to do when she
heard that Gulf
School District .'
Superintendent
Tim Wilder
was planning
some mid-year
"restructuring."
P e a k .
a district
employee for
28 years and
transportation
secretary for
eight, was
troubled by
a pervasive
rumor Wilder
planned to put
her in charge of Supe


custodians.
To make


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matters worse,
Assistant Superintendent
for Business Services Bill
Carr was acting strangely.
After being summoned
to a special Tuesday
afternoon meeting with
Wilder and the schoolboard,
Peak carried her umbrella
into the boardroom just in
case she needed to take a
swing at someone.
Fortunately, Peak was
greeted not with a flurry of
orders and mandates, but
with a lovely bouquet and,
heartfelt congratulations.
Peak had indeed been
given a new title, one with a
far more pleasant ring than
custodial supervisor.
Upon being named the
district's School-Related
Employee of the .Year, Peak
managed a flustered thank-
you.
"Thank you all so
much. They told me they
were going to put me over
the custodians."
Peak's family joined in
the brief celebration, having
learned of the.' surprise 'a
week earlier.'"
Wilder told Peak she
had been selected by a panel
from outside the school
district, who reviewed her
resume and interviewed
her supervisor.
'"Although we love
you. we didn't pick you,"
quipped Wilder. "For people


to conic from outside and
see what you've done, that's
awesome. It's a testament
to the work you do."
As transportation
secretary. Peak performs a
variety of tasks.
She handles payroll,
purchase orders and
student data records, drives


Despina Williams
rintendent Tim Wilder greets Pea
at last Tuesday's ceremony.

the ESE van, rides the bus
with ESE students and
gets substitutes for drivers
when they are absent.'
Noting that Peak's job
description has expanded
numerous times in the last
eight years, transportation
director Don Rich said she


has handled her varied
assignments like a pro.
"She has her hand in a
little bit of this and a little
bit of that, and it comes
out to be a lot," said Rich,
who admired Peak's can-do
altitude.
School board
chairperson Linda Wood
described Peak
as someone who
never loafs on
the job.
"I've never
found her not
working. She's
running a lot
from here to
there to there,
but she's always
on a mission,"
said Wood.
iFresh from
watching a video
on educational
change presented
s/The Star by a Florida
ak with a School Board
Association
representative,
school board
member Billy Quinn
identified Peak as "in the
20 percent that adapts to
change really well."
"We applaud her for
her efforts," said Quinn.
"And we thank her family
for loaning her to us."


Despina Williams/The Star
Transportation secretary Carolyn Peak (center) was named the district's School-Related
Employee of the Year during a surprise ceremony last Tuesday. She is joined by her family,
(left to right) son-in-law Bobby Plair, daughter Joni White, son-in-law David White, husband
Jerry Peak and daughter Tonya Plair. Petals By the Bay donated the flowers for both the
School-Related and Teacher of the Year ceremonies.


Raffield-
From Page 1A
"She has very
challenging students and
she has a way to be like a
mother figure and a teacher
figure," said Hodges.
"She demands a lot
from them and they seem
to turn out more respectful
wheii they leave her class."
Ton a Plair, Raffleld's
colleague of 13 years,
described Raffield as "one
of the most humble people
you'll ever meet."
She seconded Raffield's
selec non .as district Teacher
of the YC-atr
S-"She's got the heart'to
teach any child," said Plair.
"If anyone deserves it, she
does."
(At left) Jo Ann Raffield's
husband, Danny, surprised
her at the faculty meeting
with a bouquet of flowers.


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Local Eagle Now at Dollywood


By Marie Logan
Star Staff Writer

It's hard to let loved ones
go, even though it may be for the
best.
Local wildlife rehabilitator
Barbara Eells knows that
firsthand, many times over.
Recently, after almost two
years of caring and connection,
Eells relinquished her part in one
:of her charges' lives, allowing the
story of Brave Spirit to open a
hew chapter.
Brave Spirit is an American
bald eagle found on March 30,
2006 in Gulf County. -
He was discovered, by
accident, by two Florida wildlife
biologists who were surveying an
area off C.R. 386 near Wetappo
Creek.
The adult eagle obviously
was injured, so the biologists
called in Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission
(FWCC) officers, who took the
eagle to Eells.
Eells then transported the,
eagle to the Apalachicola Animal
Clinic in Eastpoint, where
veterinarian Dr. Hobson Fulmer
determined that the bird had a


compound fracture of both bones
above the elbow of the left wing.
Because of extensive bone
injury, Fulmer had to amputate
the wing at the elbow joint. He also
discovered bird shot in the wing,
which launched an investigation
by FWCC and U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (USFWS) to try to
find the persons) responsible for
shooting the eagle.
After the amputation the eagle
returned home with Eells for
rehabilitation, which really took
no time, she said.
But something else was
noticeably wrong.
"Spiritually, there was
something that kept him
depressed," Eells recounted.
A decades-long licensed
wildlife rehabilitator, Eells said
depression was common in birds
of prey after surgery or illness.
"But this was a different kind
of depression, like something
was unfinished in his life," she
said. "He kept looking north as if
he needed. to be somewhere. He
kept 'talking' in his soft 'eh-eh-eh'
voice," she said, mimicking one of
the eagle's gutteral sounds.
By that time, Brave Spirit,
as Eells had christened him, had


stopped eating altogether, so Eells
carried him inside her house in
a kennel to try to coax him into
eating again.
She carried the bird back
to Fulmer, but everything was
physically fine the vet reported.
During the long quiet hours
of close proximity while trying
to coax the eagle to eat, Eells
continued to talk to Brave Spirit
and developed what she termed a
spiritual bond with the bird.
Two days later, Eells said, she
looked at him and told him that
his baby was fine and his mate
was taking good care of him.
"I just told Brave Spirit that
his baby was okay, and that
seemed to be all he needed," Eells
recalled. "He listened to me and
seemed to take what I said to
heart. His demeanor immediately
perked up and he started eating
the fresh mullet in his kennel."
From then on, Eells, said, the
eagle's recovery was complete.
While Brave Spirit lived in his
outdoor facility at Eells' house, he
had a female visitor during mating
season for the past two years,
which Eells believed was probably
his original mate.
Bald eagles are monogamous


and mate for life, only selecting
another mate if the first one dies
or disappears.
At least one other eagle that
was rehabilitated in the facility


and released in February 2007
returned to visit.
"She brought a dead fish to

(See EAGLE on Page 14B)


Marie Logan/The Star
Barbara Eells says a final goodbye to Brave Spirit as he leaves her
house for Dollywood.


The $5,000 Challenge


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By Tim Croft
Star News Editor

Larry Broome took one look
at the check he was handed and a
gasp escaped his lips.
Broome, the director of the
Senior Citizens Center, was hoping
for some assistance in purchasing
a van, but, good heavens, he never
expected what Carol Dixon of
Coastal Community Bank was
placing in his hand.
A check. for $5,00Q
earmarked toward a new van for
the center.
"You better believe we
like that," Broome said, the
astonishment evident in his eyes
and smile. "We are in desperate
need for a van, to deliver meals,
to take the folks at the center on
field trips which are so important
because they need fun-things to
do."
The van, Dixon explained,
"hit me" as she was perusing
a list of needs for the Center
which is being badly buffeted by
budget cutbacks from Tallahassee
on down.'
The center, as part of a fund-
raising effort, had distributed
a list to businesses and civic
organizations detailing the many
needs that only dollars could
address.
As Dixon was reviewing the
list, and discussing the matter


with Terry Dubose, president and
CEO of Coastal Community Bank,
the van leaped from the list.
"They really needed a new
van," Dixon said. "They need
transportation, they need reliable
transportation.
"I wanted this money to be
earmarked for a van and Terry
agreed wholeheartedly."
Dixon envisioned the $5,000
on another level.
She said she hoped the check
would serve as a gauntlet for others
in the community, a challenge
of sorts to other businesses and
organizations to get' onboard the
effort to assist the seniors of the
community,
"We thought about all the
ways we could volunteer, but we
also wanted to offer a challenge
to others to provide money the
Senior Citizens Center badly
needs," Dixon said. "We hope this
check provides that challenge."
Broome was only too happy
to accept the donation and the
spirit in which it was given.
"This is overwhelming,'"
Broome said while gazing at the
numbers on the check. "This will
be so helpful to us.
"This will be a great jump-
start toward a van. We've been
dealing so often lately with what
we didn't have. This is a different
sort of view."


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Congratulations
Shayleigh
Miss Shayleigh Dawson
won 11' runner up in the
Valentine Day Pageant
on Saturday 9. 2008 in
Wewahitchka, FL. We are so
proud of her!
Shayleigh is the daugh-
ter of Autumn Cloud and
sister of Malaki.
Happy Birthday
Happy 16th Birthday
to Anthony Daniels on
February 20th.
We love you very much!
Mama, Andy, Nanny
and Pawpaw

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Nick and Maggie
Hutchison of Carrabelle
Beach, Florida, announce
the Valentine's Day engage-
ment of their daughter,
Lena' Hutchison, to Michael
Allen, the son of Bob and
Edda Allen of Eastpoint,
Florida. The bride is a
graduate of Wheeling
Jesuit University and is a
teacher at the Apalachicola
Bay Charter School. The
groom is a graduate of The
University of the South in
Sewanee, Tennessee, and is
the News Director at Oyster
Radio. An August wedding
is planned.


Hafpfpe 3O &Btetdaq,

Jonathan Brown!
Love, your babies: Cameron, Carson,
Ally & Cleo


Miss Shayleigh Dawson


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Neighborhood Watch
Gulf County Sheriff Joe Nugent will hold a meeting
on March 4 focused on creating a Neighborhood Watch
program in the Highland View area.
The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday,
March 4 at the Highland View Fire Station.
The public is encouraged to attend this free meeting
and find out more information regarding Neighborhood
Watch.


Community Needs
An elderly woman with
grandchild lives on fixed
income needs small refrig-
erator (14-18 cubic feet.)
Disabled woman needs
Depends diapers.
Community food pani-
try also is need of dona-
tions. Contact Jerry Stoko ,
899-1036, if anyone has any
questions.


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Port St.

Joe Garden

Club News
Our monthly meeting
was held Thursday, February
14, 2008, at the Garden
Center with a delightful
lunch of soups, crackers,
fruit kabobs and desserts.
Guest speakers for the day
were Mrs. Frenchie Ramsey
and Mrs. Jean McClamma.
They presented a program
on birds and their habi-
tats as well as birds of the
Bible, how birds fly and
bird houses. Wonderful
information and brochures
to take home were given to
all present. Before spring
arrives we can prepare for
our native birds as well as
those passing through by
feeding the many varieties
of bird feed and suet as
shown during our program.
Thank you Mrs. Ramsey
and Mrs, McClamma for the
informative program and to
our guests that came for the
program.
The Port St. Joe Garden
Club has set the date of
Saturday, March 29, 2008
for our annual Plant and
Bake Sale. We hope you can
stop by and see the variety
of plants for sale at very
affordable prices, as well as
treat yourself to some very
fine baked goods.
If you are interested
in attending a program or
becoming a member of.the
Port St. Joe Garden Club,
please come to our next
meeting which will be held
the second Thursday of the
month, March 13, 2008 at
12:00 noon. After serving
lunch the program will be
presented by Dena Frost,
a Master Gardener from
Frost's Pottery Garden. We
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Big River Rider 4-H-ers Place High at


2008 4-H Equine Clinic and Judging Event


On January 5, 2008,
Big River Rider 4-H Horse
Club participated in the
2008 4-H Equine Clinic
& Judging Event compe-
tition at Gadsden County
Extension in Quincy,
Florida.
Participants participat-
ed in clinics for different
type judging events and then
* did hands on judging of the
different type events. Events


consisted of: Halter Mares,
Halter Gelding, Appaloosa
Halter, Hunter in Hand, and
Western Pleasure.
Approximately 50 par-
ticipants from 5 counties
within the 7 county dis-
trict participated in this day
event. Participants scored
in team levels as well as
individual levels.
Participants are in
divisions as follow: Junior
Division age 8 to
J 10, Intermediate
Division age
11-13, and Senior
Division 14 to
18.


Outlaw
Gulf's Intermediate
Judging Teams placed as
follows: 1' Place Gulf #1
- Jaclyn Kerigan, Trisha
Davidson, and Megan
McMillian. 211d Place Gulf
#2 Calvin Cuchens,
Tucker Smith, and Madie
Williams.
In the Intermediate
Individual Places 1t Place
- Madie Williams.
Gulf's Senior Judging
Team placed 2nd Place -


Allison.
In the Senior Individual
Places 3"' Place Alicia
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and Development
(PDRB) on Tuesday,


February 19, 2008 at 8:45 a.m.
ET and the Board of County Com-
missioners (BOCC) on Tuesday,
February 26 at 6:00 p.m. ET. The
public hearings will be held in the
BOCC Meeting Room at the Robert
M. Moore Administration Building,
1000 Cecil G. Costin Sr. Blvd., Port
St. Joe, Florida. The public hear-
ings will be to discuss and act on
the following:

Transmittal for ORC the proposed
Water Supply Planning amend-
ments to the Gulf County Compre-
hensive Plan per the requirements
of F.S. 156.31 77(6)(a) by amend-
ing the Sewer, Solid Waste, Drain-
age, Potable Water and Natural
Groundwater Aquifer Recharge
Element; Conservation Element
and Intergovernmental Coordina-
tion Element.

Documentation can be reviewed
at the Clerks Office, Planning De-
partment and on the County web
site.


Web address:


www.gulfcounty-


government.com

The public is encouraged to attend
and be heard on these matters.


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Port St. Joe, Florida. The public hearings
will be to discuss and act on the follow-
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1. Ovation Variance and Bayside Plat
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The public is encouraged to attend and
be heard on these matters. Information
prior to the meeting can be viewed at
the Planning and Building Department
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In Remembrance of


Carolyn Clyburn


Lou Adams
Lou Adams, age 80 of Mexico Beach, FL passed away
Monday night February 11, 2008 at her home surround-
ed by her family. She was under the care of Covenant
Hospice. Lou was born in Columbus, Ohio on March 5,
1927. While having spent the last 23 years in a wheelchair
she was the most positive, compassionate, kind and lov-
ing person with an unbelievable amount of determination
and love for life.
She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Robert
Adams; her daughter Sally Childs and Bill Fauth of St.
Joe Beach; 2 sons Tom Adams and wife Betty Adams of
Beacon Hill and Jim Adams and wife Doreen Adams of
Hartly, Delaware; 7 grandchildren and 2.5 great grand-
children.
All services were under the direction of the Comforter
Funeral Home.


Steven Ashley Bass
Steven Ashley Bass passed away at his home in
Wewahitchka, Florida on February 12, 2008, at the age
of 53. He was born May 14, 1954, in Port St. Joe where
he graduated from Port St. Joe High before attending
Livingston University. A life-long resident of Gulf County,
Steve worked in the construction industry, as a pipe fitter
at the St. Joe Company and as a sawyer.
We was preceded in death by his father, Paul D. Bass,
and infant sister Esther Anita.
He is survived by his mother, Mary Esther Bass
of Wewahitchka; daughter Ashlea Scarabin of Panama
City; step-daughter, Brooke Scarabin of Panama city; two
grandsons, Joseph Rizzo and Ayden Walker of Panama
City; two sisters, Paula Brewer of Gulf Breeze and Sandra
Joines (Fred) of Lakewood, Colorado. He is also survived
by two nieces, Lita Scariff of Pensacola and Kelly Joines
of Denver, Colorado; three nephews, Jerry Brewer of
Corydon, Indiana, Slade Joines of Evans, Colorado and
Shane Joines of Littleton, Colorado; two great nieces
Ashley Bowers of Pensacola and Sierra Joines of Evans,
Colorado; five great nephews, Josh Bowers of Gulf Breeze,
Stephen Bowers of Tallahassee, Brendan Joines, Hunter
Joines and Lucas Joines of Colorado.
A memorial service will be held Sunday February
24, 2008, at the First Methodist Church in Wewahitchka
at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers the family respectfully
requests that donations be made in Steven's name to the
Alzheimer's American Association, 225 North Michigan
Avenue, Suite 1700, Chicago, IL 60601, in honor of his
mother, Mary Esther Bass.
All services are under the direction of the Comforter
Funeral Home.





W] First Presbyterian Church
S of Port St. Joe
E f 508 Sixteenth Street 227-1756
Reverend Reid Cameron
Worship Service 10:00 a.m.
Sunday School 11:00 a.m.



OAK GROVE
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Pastor: James wikl
A place to celebrate, serve, evangelize, and equip disciples for
the increase of God's kingdom.
Sunday Worship Service: 10:45
Sunday School: 9:45 am
613 Madison Street Port St.Joe, FL
850-227-1837


pFSB "i{ 4 ,"A Reformed Voice
S .' l,, in the Community"



Sunday School ............... ....................... 9:30 a.m .
Sunday Fellowship.................................. 10:30 a.m.
Sunday Morning Service ...................... 11:00 a.m.
Sunday Evening Service.......................... 6:00 p.m.
Thursday Firehouse Fellowship................. 6:00 p.m.
801 20th Street Port St. Joe 229-6707
Home of Faith Chrisian School


St. Peter's Anglican Church
(Traditional Episcopal Service 1928 BCP)

Morning Prayer & Holy Communion
Sunday.................8:00 a.m.
The Rev. David Mans, Priest
Services being held at the United Pentecostal Church
309 6th Street Port St Joe, FL
"An Unchanging Faith In A Changing World"


S[First Baptist Church.
."j -"" 102 THIRD STREET PORT ST. JOE

nBrent Vickery, Pastor
-^" ~ Buddy Caswell, Minister of Music & Education
Bobby Alexander, Minister to Students

New Service Schedule for First Baptist Church
Sunday School & Worship Service .................. 9:00 am
Sunday School & Worship Service ................. 10:30 am
Sunday Evening Adult Bible Study ................. 6:00 pm


Wednesday Night Supper.......................... 5:30 pm
Wednesday Night Adult Prayer Meeting ............. 6:30 pm
Wednesday Night Children's Ministry activities ....... 6:30 pm
Wednesday Night Youth Ministry activities ........... 6:30 pm
www.fbcpsj.org 2


Ave M. Kemp
Mrs. Ave M. Kemp, 63, of Wewahitchka, passed away
Saturday morning, February 16, 2008, at her home fol-
lowing an extended illness. Mrs. Kemp was a lifelong resi-
dent of Wewahitchka and was also a member of the First
Baptist Church of Wewahitchka.
Survivors include her husband, Larry Kemp of
Wewahitchka; her children, Eddie Kemp of Lynn Haven,
Debbie Setterich and husband Kellen, Teddy Kemp and
wife Brandie, and Adam Kemp, all of Wewahitchka; eight
grandchildren, one brother, Irey Weeks of Wewahitchka;
two sisters, Ruth Rice and Jencie Wilder; and a number
of nieces and nephews.
The funeral service were held at 2:00 p.m. CST
Monday, February 18, 2008, at the First Baptist Church
of Wewahitchka, conducted by the Rev. Mike Stroud and
the Rev. Derrick Gerber. Interment followed in the family
plot in Kemp Cemetery. She lay in state at the First Baptist
Church from 2:00 until 4:00 p..m. CST Sunday, and for
an hour prior to the service on Monday.
All services were under the direction of the Comforter
Funeral Home, Wewahitchka Branch Chapel.

Thomas McKnight
Thomas McKnight, 60, of Wewahitchka, Florida,
passed away Sunday, February 10, 2008. Mr. McKnight
was born in Panama City and had lived in Wewahitchka
for the past 29 years. Survivors include his wife, Linda
of Wewahitchka; a son, Rusty McKnight of Wewahitchka;
two brothers, Scotty McKnight of Marathon, Florida and
Dennis McKnight of Wewahitchka; a sister, Elaine Raffield
of Panama City; and one grandson, Chase McKnight.
Funeral services were held 2:00 p.m. CT, Friday,
February 15 from the Lake Mystic Cemetery in Bristol
with Reverend Robert Miller officiating. Interment will
followed with full military honors. The family received
friends 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, February 14, at Adams
Funeral Home in Blountstown. Adams Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements. 674-5449 adamsfh.com

Cozy Onita Forehand
Cozy Onita Forehand, 77, died Wednesday February
13, 2008 at Bay Memorial Hospital in Panama City, Fl.
She was born on November 2, 1930 in Kinard, FL. She
has lived in Wewahitchka 52 years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Falmer
Forehand and daughter, Debbie Sue Hanna.
Survivors include one son, Earl Forehand and wife
Priscilla; one daughter, Evelyn Youngs and husband
Clayton; one brother, Charles Price; four grandsons,
Shane Semmes, Michael (Cindy) Youngs, Jason (Martha)
Ward, and Kelly Forehand all of Wewahitchka; three great-
grandsons, Rhett Youngs, Logan Crosby and Lucas Ward.
Graveside services were held Friday, February 15, 2008
at 10:00 a.m. CST at Roberts Cemetery in Wewahitchka
with the Rev. Dallas Presley officiating.
All services were under the direction of the Comforter
Funeral Home, Wewahitchka Branch Chapel.


Join us at


Because kids

matter to God
Approved workmen are not ashamed
-2 Timothy 2:15


Cubbies 3 and 4 yrs old (3 by Sept. 1)
Sparks K thru 2nd grade
T&T 3rd thru 5th grade

Our AWANA Schedule
Time Sundays 5:00 pm 7:00 pm
August 24th thru May 18th
Starting Date: March 2nd
Registration is at the Church Office


We thought of you with
Love today, but that is noth-
ing new. We thought about
you yesterday and the day
before that, too. We think
of you in silence and
often call your name.
All we have are memo-
ries and pictures in a
frame, your memory
is our keepsake with
which we will never
part, God has you in
his safe keeping and
we have you in our
hearts. You are dear-
ly loved and greatly
missed.
Love, Always,
Your brothers and
sisters,
Shirley Jesse, Mary
Shelia, Patricia, and Larry
Dawson.


Note of Appreciation
The family of the late Sarah Hopps Wagner express
their sincere thanks to each and everyone, perhaps you
sang a lovely song, or sent a dish of food, perhaps you
sent a potted plant, or said a silent prayer, perhaps you
spoke the kindest words as any friend could, perhaps yoii
were not there at all, just thought of us that day. Whatever
you did to console our hearts, we thank you so mucl,
whatever the part...
The Hopps and Wagner Family



fnptiration Point

The Dreaded O
a ten &#


There it was. The
dreaded message on the
computer screen: "You
have just destroyed this
computer; prepare to
spend $1000 for a new
computer."
Well not exactly.
But you know how
the something-dreaded-
happened part of our


First Baptist Church
of Port St. Joe

First Baptist is a member of
the AWANA clubs international.
AWANA is a nondenominational
ministry that assists churches in
reaching children with the Gospel
of Jesus Christ and training them
to serve him. We're here to serve
with a ministry to win and grow kids
for Christ!

Awana blends Bible teaching,
Scripture memorization and tons of
fun. With clubs for ages 3 thru 5th
grade we provide a clear, consis-
tent presentation of the gospel.
With Bible memory, circle games,
competition, and missionary studies
developed with the help from the
SBC and NAMB. We have a fun ap-
proach to learning God's Word and
leadership training that is second
to none. The church leaders of
tomorrow trained to serve today.

Game Time Boys and girls, play
games to exercise their bodies and
promote healthy competition and
teamwork.

Handbook Time Children work
through age appropriate handbooks
memorizing Bible verses and doing
activities ranging from patriotism
to community service.

Council Time Consists of sing-
ing, puppets, Bible stories and les-
sons based on Christian principles.

For Further Information
Please contact
our Church office
at 227-1552

Or our AWANA
Commander Buddy Caswell
at 229-6370


brain can work. A little
problem can twinge
anxiety as the situation
mind-wise explodes into
a catastrophe.
Ann was working on a
friend's laptop computer;
actually trying to help out
with software installation.
The process was near
completion. All that was
left to do was to turn off
the computer and then
restart it.
Then the dreaded
happened. The message
came on the screen:
"Non-system disk or disk
error. Replace and press
key when ready." Abn
pressed key after kdy.
"Error!" She tried some
more of her computer
tricks. "Error!"
"I was really, really
worried," Ann said. "I
actually prayed."
The Bible says,
"But do not be anxiou's
about anything, but in
everything, by prayer and
petition, with thanksgiving
present your requests to
God."


Now, Ann knows how
to pray. Yet even for her,
like most of us, when 'The
dreaded" hits; our brain
can read: "error." Instead
of prayer we think of
how we can solve the
problem.
Ann said, "I knew
God knew how to fix the
computer."
With hands touching
the edges of the laptop
computer, Ann bowed her
head. "Oh God, please
let this work." Unfamiliar
with her friend's laptop
computer, her left hand
hit a rectangle button on
the side of the computer
as she prayed. This
caused a floppy disk to
immediately eject from
the computer.
Instantly the problem
was solved.
Need some dreaded
problems ejected from
your life?
Pray. "God in heaven,
you've asked us to pray
about everything. God I
desperately need Your
help ... Oh God please
let this work."


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first Church of the lazarene
2420 Long Avenue Port St. Joe, florida 32456
(850) 229-9596

Give unto the Lord the glory due His naMe, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Psafm 29:2


Sunday School 10 a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship ...........11 a.m.


Sunday Evening Worship .....,.........6 p.m.
Wednesday Evening Service ...... 7 p.m.


FIRST UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
Constitution and Monument Port St. Joe
(850) 227-1724


Contemporary Service 9:00 a.m.
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Methodist Youth Fellowship: 6:00 p.m.
Evening Worship: 7:30 p.m.
K All Times are EST


Rev. Mac Fulcher
PASTOR
JeffWhitty
Assistant Pastor/Music
Deborah Loyless
Director of Children Ministries&


I7' The friendly place to worship!

First Baptist Church
MEXICO BEACH
Located at 823 N. 15th St., Mexico Beach
Corner of l5th & California 648-5776
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Worship Sundays at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Bible Study Sundays at 9:00 a.m. (all ages)
Wednesday Prayer and Bible Study at 6:30 p.m.
Please note, all times central!
SReverend Eddie LaFountain


BEACH BAPTIST CHAPEL
A 311 Columbus St. St. Joe Beach, FL 32456
A LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE LORD
SUNDAY: General Assembly 9:45 a.m. ET- Bible Study all ages 10 a.m. ET
Morning Worship 11 a.m. ET Evening Worship 6 p.m. ET
Tuesday: Choir Practice 7 p.m.
Wednesday: Kids for Christ 6 p.m. /Prayer Meeting & Youth Group 7 p.m.
"0 taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the nman that trusteth in Him,".
Please accept this invitation to join us in worship. cod bless you.!
Please caill us for your s/iritoul needs.
www.beachchapel.org
Pastor David Nichols
Church 647-3950 Home 769-8725
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Why are so many
Christians in captivity?
Reading in Isaiah, the thir-
teenth verse,-and fifth chap-
ter there is a wide, clear view
of our church and Christian
picture today. "Therefore
my people are gone into
captivity, because they
have no' knowledge:
and their honourable
men are famished, and
their multitude dried up
with thirst". Now I am
not saying that every place
is this way or those who
attend that are Christians
fit this category. But we
must admit that we can see
if we will, many struggle
and some have fallen in this
plane.
I asked the ques-
tion "Why are so many
Christians in captivity?"
and I pray that you will give
an ear to my thoughts. First,
we, the Christian should
never be in captivity after
we have been made free by
the Blood of the Lamb"
that is, "Christ Jesus


our Savior". But many
still remain in some kind
of prison because they do
not have a full understand-
ing of the work of Christ.
When Jesus said in His
final words on the cross, "it
is finished", He completed
the divine work to restore
mankind's fall and when
the resurrection took place,
to put it plain that was the
period at the end of the
sentence. A sovereign God,
by the way the only true
God, sent His only begotten
Son to save a lost creation
that was near to His heart,
you and I, mankind. And
when Christ said "it is fin-
ished" everything needed
for cleansing our sins was
complete. It doesn't stop
there! In every part of His
suffering He paid the price
for every infirmity, habit,
addiction, perversion and
the list goes on to set us
free.
In today's gospel we
find that it is not the same'
as when Jesus taught it nor


Beach Baptist Chapel

Announces Web Site
Beach Baptist Chapel is now on the world wide web
with a site where visitors can view the previous Sunday's
sermon; see a calendar of events; view a message from the
Pastor, check out the children's & youth ministries, the
WMU, and most importantly, post prayer requests. Beach
Baptist believes in the power of prayer and invites anyone
who has a prayer request to post it on the site.
There is also a link to the church's own band, Forgiven
Five, and other biblical links. Beach Baptist Church is a
small, friendly church with a lot of activities for all ages.
Spread the word that Beach Baptist Chapel can now be
seen at www.beachchapel.org



Family Day

Family Life Church invites everyone to Frank Pate
Park for Family Day on Saturday, February 23, from
1.- 5 pm. Everything is absolutely free food, games,
prizes, good family entertainment with the award win-
ning Christian Entertainer, Barry McGee, and the band,
Providence, that recently performed at PSJ Middle
School, and PSJ High School. This event is free to all
and is solely to benefit and bless our community. Hope
to see you there, Pastors Andrew and Cathy Rutherford.


I I To KNOW CHRISTAND TO MAKE HIM KNOWN


ST. JAMES'

EPISCOPAL CHURCH

800 22nd STREET, PORT ST. JOE
8:00 and 11:00 a.m. (EST) Sunday School 9:45
Child Care Provided for at 11:00
vwww.stjamesepiscopalchurch.org 850-227-1845

Church of Christ
at the Beaches
Established 33 AD) in Jerusalem


We meet at 350 Firehouse Road
Overstreet ~ 850.647.1622


Sunday Bible Study
Sunday Worship
Wednesday Bible Study


10:00 a.m. EST
11:00 a.m. EST
7:30 p.m. EST


"We are about our Father's business"


Jesus is Lord and He is waiting
FOR YOU AT:
Siglanb View aptist COjurl)
382 Ling Street Highland View
Port St. Joe, Florida 32456
(850)227-1306
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Evening Service 7:00 p.m.
Mike Westbrook, Discipleship Training 6:00 p.m.
Pastor Wednesday Prayer 7:00 p.m.




CHURCH OF CHRIST
MEETS


Singing:
Worship:


9 a.m. Sunday
9:30 a.m. Sunday


Call 229-8310
WRITE FOR FREE EIGHT LESSON BIBLE STUDY
P. 0. Box 758 Port St. Joe, FL 32457
Corner of 20th Street & Marvin Avenue


Unction


is it the same as the apos-
tles taught. It is watered
down, well the word said it
like this, "their honour-
able men are famished".
In other words they stopped.
living what they preached
and did not tell the com-
plete story of who God was,
is and forevermore shall
remain. We can see some
of the same things today
and the results "multitude
dried up with thirst".
Many are just going
through the motions and
never experience the ben-
efits of a Holy God. When
the Psalmist David said in
Psalms 16:1, "Preserve
me, 0 God: for in thee
do I put my trust", he
understood what benefits
came with that commit-
ment. David also was not
looking for reasons not to
go to church. We know this
because of his statement in
Psalms 122 when he said,
"I was glad when they
said unto me, let us go
into the house of the


Lord". We can understand
that when we read what
he wrote in Psalms 103
as he listed 30 benefits
of the Lord, to those who
would truly serve and wor-
ship God.
I wonder in closing
this week if we, the leader-
ship and the body of believ-
ers as well began to truly
seek the fullness of God if
we might find that many
doctors, counselors, bars,
crack houses, sex barns
and many other perverted
places and things that are
done would just go away.
Well I believe at the least
that we would see more in
church and truly living the
"New Life in Christ" than
we do.
God bless you and I
will see you next week.
Pastor Tim
LightHouse Pentecostal
Ministries
pastortim@fairpoint.


Annual Yard/Bake Sale
Beach Baptist Chapel will hold its annual yard/bake
sale to benefit North American missions on Saturday,
March 1st. The sale will begin at 8 am ET at the church
located at 311 Columbus Street, St. Joe Beach. All pro-
ceeds go towards the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.




Attention: North Port St.

Joe Community Churches
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ
Greetings to all in the name of the Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit. Zion Fair Missionary Baptist Church will be
observing an Appreciation Service for Pastor, Rev. Robert
L. Pierson, on the 4th Sunday, February 24, at 4:00 p.m.
We extend an invitation to all to come out and support
this special Occasion withi-us. !
Our guest speaker is the Bishop Russell A. Wright,
Senior, Pastor of the Providence Full Gospel Methodist
Church of Panama City, along with his Congregation.
We are looking forward to a blessed and anointed
time in the Lord, and we would be honored by your
presence.
For additional information, please see Deacon
Earnest Gant or Sis. Gloria Q. Gant.




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111 North 22nd Street Mexico Beach, FL 32410
Sunday Worship Services:
8:30 a.m. Traditional Worship
9:45 a.m CST Bible Study
11:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship
Open Hearts. Open minds, Open doors.
The people of Mexico Beach United Methodist churchh
NUnss PROVIDED
Rev. Ted Lovelace, Pastor Church/Office: 648-8820


?S Worship with us at
Long Avenue Baptist Church
SWhere Faith, Family &Friendship are found
Bible Study Sunday: 9:15am
Worship: 10:30am and 7:00pmr
Wednesday
A variety of ministries for all ages beginning at 6:30 pm'

1601 Long Avenue Port St. Joe, FL For More
Information Call 229-8691




482 Pompano Street 229-6235
Sunday School .............. 9:45 a.m.
Sunday Morning Service .......11:00 a.m.
Sunday Evening Service........ 6:00 p.m.
Monday Night Youth Service ..... 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday Night ............ 7:00 p.m.

Pastor Howard Riley Welcomes Everyone



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Oak Grove Via Dolorosa


To celebrate Easter and
raise money for two min-
istries. the young people
of Oak Grove Assembly of
God Church will conduct
their annual "Via Dolorosa"
walk March 21-23.
According to a church
spokesperson, the youth of
the church will walk 35
miles across the area while
supporting large wooden
crosses, raising support
and money for Covenant
House and the Fish and
Loaves Ministries in the
community.
The Fish and Loaves
Ministry provides a hot


Contributors of.
$100 or More:

Company Donations
Amigos LLS
Bay Wash of Port St. Joe
Beach to Bay Interiors,
Inc.
Carpet Country
Costin Insurance Agency
CVS
Daly's Dock & Dive Center
Driftwood Lodge
Duren Trading Co
Expressions Florist
Fat Boy Cleaning LLC
Fishermans Choice Inc.
John Howard Tax Service
LuLu's Sweet Expectations
Mize Plumbing
NAPA St. Joe Auto Parts
Petals by the Bay
Ph'l Collier Construction
Philly's Finest LLC
Portside Trading Co
Raffields Fisheries
Reeves Furniture &
Refinishing
Sassy Nails
St. Joe Furniture
St. Joe Hardware
Subway
The Miller Charitable
Foundation
Tom's Auto Repair of Gulf
County, Inc.
VanLierop Ins Services
Vincent M. Ivers, MD
Willis Hardware
World Revivals, Inc

Individual Donations
Jeff and Nancy Burgess
Chris and Karen Butts
Robert and Kelli Combs
Jim and Bunnie Gainnie
Grace Hare
Gene and Margaret
Harper
Gregg and Linda Johnson
Eddie and Gretchen
Martin
Brenda Peek
Bill and Luanne Quaranta
Elijah Quaranta
Chuck and Sissy Worley


meal to 50 or 60 people
each day. Pledges of sup-
port for the walk can be
made either by a total dol-
lar amount or by a per mile
pledge. Donations are tax
deductible.
Church members will
begin the walk March 21 at
41st Street in Mexico Beach,
following U.S. 98 back to
Oak Grove Assembly of
God at the eastern side of
.Port St. Joe.
After spending the
night at the church, they
will travel to Gulf Coast
Community College Gulf/
Franklin Center at the cor-


ner of Garrison Avenue
and U.S. 98, and walk from
there back to the church.
The walk will end
March 23, Easter Sunday,
as the participants com-
plete the last four miles
and arrive at the church
at 10:30 a.m. for Easter
service.
To make donations
for the Via Dolorosa min-
istries, contact Oak Grove
Assembly of God Church at
229-8995, or make a dona-
tion to the participants
during the walk.


In Christ's Service


There was a recent
study done by Vicki
Medvec, a professor at
Northwestern University.
She studied Olympic med-
allists and she discovered
that Bronze medallists
were happier than Silver
medallists. Here's why.
Silver medallists tended to
focus on how close they
came to winning gold so
they weren't satisfied with
silver. Bronze medallists
tended to focus on how
close they came to not win-
ning a medal at all so they
were just happy to be on
the medal stand at all.
How we feel is not
determined by our objec-
tive circumstances. How
we feel is determined
by our subjective focus.
What's important? Here's
another way of saying it:
your internal attitudes are
more important than your
external circumstances.
It's been said that:
"The mind is its own place,
and in itself, can make a
Heaven out of Hell, a Hell
of Heaven." That's so true
isn't it? All of us know peo-
ple who can find something
good to focus on even in
the worst of circumstances.
And all of us know someone
who can find something
bad to focus on even in the
best of circumstances.
We tend to see what
we're looking for. I think
there are two basic types
of people in the church:
non-worshippers and wor-
shippers. Non-worshippers
can always find some-
thing to complain about.
Worshippers can always
find something to praise
God about. True worship-
pers know that if they have
everything or nothing at
all...they still must worship
the Lord.
In Acts 16, Paul and
Silas are in a prison cell in
Philippi. Here Paul casts a
demon out of someone. Acts
16:22 says, "A mob quickly
formed against Paul and
Silas, and the city officials
ordered them stripped and
beaten with wooden rods.
They were severely beaten.
and then they were thrown
into prison. The jailer was


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ordered to make sure they
didn't escape. So he took
no chances but put them
into the inner dungeon
and clamped their feet in
the stocks." I've had bad
days before, but nothing
like this. If I'm Paul or
Silas I'm emotionally and
physically and spiritually
spent. I'm drained to the
last drop. I've got nothing
left to give. Their backs are
bleeding. from their beat-
ing. They are black and
blue all over. I've never had
a mob form against me,
but I'm guessing that'll set
you off emotionally. And to
top it off they land in the
maximum-security cell in
stocks! It just doesn't get
much worse than that. And
that's why this next verse
is so amazing to me. Acts
16:25 says, "Around mid-
night, Paul and Silas were
complaining about their
circumstances." That's
not what it says. It says,
'Around midnight, Paul
and Silas were praying and
singing hymns to God, and
the other prisoners were
listening."
No matter what... we
need to look at what's
important. Let me give you
a one-word answer to all
life's struggles: worship.
Worshipping is taking our
eyes off of our external
circumstances and focus-
ing on God. He is what's
important!!!
Paul and Silas could
have sat and complained
about their circumstances.
God, we cast out a demon
and this is what we get?
We're on a missionary jour-
ney and we get beaten and
thrown in jail? Instead of
"watching our back" our
backs are bleeding from a
beating! They could have
complained till they were
blue in the face. But they
made a choice to worship
God in spite of their cir-
cumstances.
Here's what worship
does. It restores spiritual
equilibrium. It helps you
regain your perspective. It
enables you to find some-
thing right to praise God
about even when everything
seems to be going wrong.


We need to look at what's
important.
It's refocusing on the
fact that two thousand
years ago, Jesus died on
the cross to pay the penalty
for my sin. It's refocusing
on the fact that God loves
me when I least expect it
and least deserve it. It's
refocusing on- the fact that
God is going to get me
where God wants me to
go. It's refocusing on the
fact that I have eternity
with God to look forward.
to a place where there is'
no mourning or sorrow or
pain.
I don't think Paul could
have planned this miracu-
lous jailbreak. To make a
long story short, there is
an earthquake. The pris--
oners are set free, but they
don't leave The jailer who-
is about to kill himself gets
saved and his entire family
is baptized in the middle of
the night.
You can't script that
kind of thing. You can't'
plan miracles. But when
you worship God in the
worst of Circumstances
you never know what is
going to happen. Worship
sets the stage for mira-
cles! Worship causes spiri-
tual earthquakes that can
change the landscape of
your life. Worship is a shift-
ing of the tectonic plates in,
your life. It,may not change
your circumstances. But it,
will change your life.
Worship is the way we,
stay positive in negative cir-
cumstances. And it's not
a placebo! It's reality. No
matter how bad things get,,
as a follower of Christ, I
have eternity in heaven to
look forward to! My pain is:
real. But so is heaven. The,
good news is that this real-
ity on Earth is temporary.,
The reality in heaven lasts
forever!
The key is focusing orm
the right reality! What's'
important. ...worshipping-
God!

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The Star, Port St. Joe, FL Thursday, February 21, 2008 7B


Shark Talk
By Eric Brumbaugh


What am I going to do
after high school? What col-
lege am I going to go to?
What am I going to do for
the rest of my life? These
are the questions flooding
the heads of all seniors like
myself as we are approach
the halfway mark of our
last semester. This spring
semester is loaded with
activities and events for
students, parents, and the
normal Port St. Joe High
School fans. We have bas-
ketball, baseball, softball,
and track all going on. We
also have the normal club
activities going on. Here's
the break down:
Project Graduation: It
is having a yard sale on
Saturday. March 8. It is
raising money to give the
seniors a fun, yet safe grad-
uation night. They need
donations to sale in the yard
sale. Anything from old fur-
niture to small toys would
be well appreciated. They
are also having a Seniors
vs. Teachers volleyball game
during school on March 27.
Last but not least, they are
still selling raffle tickets for
a weekend getaway for two.
Buy your raffle tickets from
either Deborah Brumbaugh
or Linda Wright.
Sports: Basketball
playoffs are here and St.
Joe has a good chance at
going all the way. The Tiger
Sharks beat the Seahawks
of Franklin County seven-
ty-one to forty-nine in the
Regional Quarterfinal. The
Sharks move on to play
Maclay in the Regional
Semifinal in The Dome on
Tuesday, 19 at seven o'clock
eastern time. The winner
will then go on to play
the winner of Pensacola
Christian and Sneads in
the Regional Final next
Saturday. Everyone come
out and support your Tiger
Sharks!
Baseball has finally
kicked off. The Sharks
played games Thursday
and Friday. They played
Rutherford on Thursday
with Jamie Bird on the
mound. They had a disap-
pointing ten to one loss. But
the Sharks redeemed them-
selves the next night with a
five to one victory of Mosely
started by Matt Gannon.
They play on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday of



Gulf County

Children Get

Pre-K Screening

Gulf County School
Board and FDLRS/PAEC
will cosponsor free Pre-K
screenings for children
potentially in need of spe-
cial education services.
Children ages 3-4 years
and not already enrolled
in a Gulf County school are
eligible for participation.
Children will be screened
in the areas of school readi-
ness skills, speaking/listen-
ing, motor and social skills,
vision and hearing.
The screening is sched-
uled for: Wewahitchka
Elementary on March 19
from 8:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
Parent or guardian must
accompany the child to 'the
screening. Appointments
are scheduled by calling
639-3610.


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this week against Arnold,
Bay High, and Florida
High. Come support Shark
Baseball.
Girls softball hosted
the 3rd Annual Rise Ball
Classic this past weekend.
St. Joe hosted with Maclay,
Sneads, and Laural Hill
all visiting. St. Joe played
Laural Hill first winning
ten to zero. Freshman Evan
Brumbaugh hit a home run
late in the game to give
St. Joe a good outlook on
the upcoming season. St.
Joe then played Sneads and
won six to zero. This is the
third year in a row that the
Lady Sharks have won the
tournament. Go Sharks!
I have the great chance
to interview Evan on her
home-run. With her being
my sister, my mom made
her say yes to the interview.
After asking her how she
felt when she hit the homer,
she said, "I was very sur-
prised and excited all at the
same time." She said her
team was also very excit-
ed; it was the. team's first
home run of the season and
her first in her high school
career. She also added that
she thinks the team will do
very well this season. She
said the team is young, but
very talented.
So we are slowly work-
ing our way towards the
end of the school year, and
we are studying hard as we
finish out the remainder of
it. But remember school is
not the only place to learn.
"Education is an admira-
ble thing, but it is well to
remember from time to time
that. nothing that is worth
knowing can be taught," as
says Oscar Wilde. You can
be told something, but it is
up to you to learn it and do
something with it. But come
out and support your Tiger
Sharks, and God bless.



Attention Junior

Class Parents

Looking for parents
and volunteers to help raise
money for the junior class.
The students need our help
in making their junior and
senior years great. This will
not be a school function. It
will be parents helping our
kids raise the money they
need, so that they can have
a great prom and .senior
year.
All proceeds will go to
benefit the junior class of
Port St. Joe High School.
Wanting to plan a fund-
raiser rummage sale in 2-4
weeks, but need your help.
We will need help in dona-
tions, preparing, setting up,
selling, and cleaning up. All
students are invited to help.
Let's get together ,and help
make wonderful memo-
ries for our kids. For more
information contact Sandra
Harris at 653-2610 or email
sandersonpsj@yahoo.com
with contact information.


Cheerleading Tryouts Have Arrived!

Cheerleading tryouts for anyone who will be enrolled
in PSJ High School (9 -12 grade) or PSJ Middle School
(6- 8 grade) during the 2008-2009 school year will be
held during the week of March 24 March 28 2008. A
MANDATORY parent meeting will be held on March 3,
2008 at 5:30 pm in the High/Middle School cafeteria. All
interested in trying out must be there along with a parent
or guardian in order to tryout. Informational packets are
available at PSJ High/ Middle/Elementary School offices,
as well as Faith Christian School.


Port St. Joe Elementary
School would like to
thank the Gulf County
Sheriffs Department,
Chris Buchanan, and Mike
Harrison for sharing their
time with our school. They
presented an Internet
Safety Course that all stu-
dents need to know about.
Thanks again for making us
aware of the dangers associ-
ated with the Internet.
Florida Writes is over
and we want to thank all the
4th grade students for their
hard work and extra efforts
they put forth to reach their
goals and do their best on
the test.
FCAT and Stanford 10
are just around the corner
so we need to get ready for
this portion, of the assess-
ments. Please remember
the dates and plan your
schedule accordingly. If you
know that you will be check-
ing your 'child out during
a test day please let the
school know ahead of time.
Also, please make sure that
your child eats a healthy


breakfast on the mornings
of test days. Please make
every effort to be on time. If
you are late to school your
child will have to take the
test at another time and not
with their regular group.
Your child can go online to
and practice FCAT skills in
reading and math. Please
take advantage of this valu-
able resource. The Florida
Department of Education
also has valuable FCAT
resources and you can
access those resources by
visiting their website at
. The FACT and Stanford
10 test dates .are March
11llth-24th, 2008.


Important Dates:
February 18th-Holiday-
No School
February 23rd-Regional
OM Competition
March 4th-Spring
Pictures
March 5th 1/2 day for
students
March 1 1th-24th-FCAT
and Stanford 10 testing


ARE YOU SMARTER

THAN A PSJE DOLPHIN?

Week #17 answers are:

1. If there are two potatoes in one bag then how many will
there be in 500 bags? 1,000
2. About how many hairs are they're on an adult's head?
5,000,000,000
3. If two ducks are walking and another one follows, what is
the third duck called? Duckling
4. What is a ceremony where people gather in love?
Wedding

Congratulations to: McKayla Woodham, Mrs. Linda Wood, Gina,
Billy, and Lilly Meizner. These people submitted the winning
entries.

Week #18-Questions are:
1. What is the strongest muscle in the human body?
2. Why is there no air on the moon?
3. What is the largest volcano in the world?
4. True or False-There is a company in South America that
uses snail slime to make cough syrup?

Questions submitted by: Gina, Billy, and Lilly Meizner

Please email your responses to: cwillis@gulf.k12.fl.us


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At Faith Christian
School, our students are
allowed to "dress down"
on Friday instead of wear-
ing their school shirts. The
donation for this privelege is
$1.00, which is designated
for missions. The students
in Mrs. Jeannie Davis's third
grade class chose to sponsor
a child through the World
Vision organization.
The class was really
interested in learning about
the child they were sponsor-
ing. Having sent several let-
ters with photographs, they
have received, translated
replies from her. Her name
is Akua and she is from
Ghana. When the class first
began sending her their sup-
port, Akua was unable to
attend school. They recently
learned that she is now in
school and doing well.
The following are some
of the third graders' com-
ments about this "Good
Samaritan" adventure in
Christ-like compassion.
Morgan Peiffer said, "I
am so glad that we have a
sponsor child. Her name is
Akua and she loves us. We
send her little stuff like hair
clips, paper dolls, and little
fun toys."
"It is very fun to know
about her," said Joseph
Kerigan, "and fun to send
her things and help our
sponsored child's hard life."
Elijah Sarmiento says
he is excited to have a spon-
sor child. "I am excited when
we get a letter from her," he
writes.
"When Akua went to
school," commented Dell


Pickett, "it was truly awe-
some. I'm glad she's oursl
And I'm glad that she is
going to Bible meetings. It's
the best thing that's ever
happened to me. I can't wait
till we get another letter!",
James Durham writes,
"It's very interesting to hear
about another country's cul-
ture... Akua will be 10 on
July 16th."
-Cecelia Ivester com-
ments, "We sent her stuffed
animals, toys, pencils, mark-
ers, crayon, and hair clips."
"I am so excited," writes
Kerigan Pickett, "that we
have a sponsor child. I feel
so loved... Our class was
so excited when we found
out she was attending school
and Sunday School... I love
Akua and her family. Thy
Word is a lamp unto my feet,
and a light unto my path."
"I am David," writes
David Davis. "I like how
Akua gives us letters... [and]
is the same age as me. I am
glad that Akua has friends."
Alison Gay said, C'What
I like about Akua is that she
is going to Sunday School
and learning about God. We
are so excited that she is our
sponsor child."
Kaitlyn Baker was also
thrilled that Akua is now
going to school and Sunday
School. She says, "I like
to have a sponsored child
because we get to help a part
of a child's life."
In a time when so many
focus on themselves, it is a
joy and pleasure to see these
young ones so excited about
giving to someone else.


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with Drug Trafficking


GULF COURlY SHERIFF'S REPORt Annual


The Gulf County
Sheriff's Office will be
conducting vehicle safety
checkpoints and DUI check
points during the month
of February 2008. The
check points will be held
throughout the county to
include Highway 98 near
St. Joe Beach, Highway 98
and Garrison Ave, C-30
Simmons Bayou, Highway
71 North of White City,
Highway 22 and Highway
22A, Highway 71 and
Westarm Creek, Highway 71
Dalkieth Area and Highway
71 near the Calhoun County
Line.
On 02/10 Oscar David
Redd Jr., 37, was arrested
for DUI.
On 02/10 deputies
responded to a disturbance
at a local bar. Scotty Harrell,
36, was arrested for battery
and aggravated assault.
On 02/10 a vehicle
operated by Sean M Kerr,
35, was stopped for a traffic
violation. It was determined
that his license was sus-
pended and he was arrested


for DWLSR.
On 02/11 a vehicle
operated by Cleiaesther
Dominguez was stopped
for a traffic violation. The
deputy who stopped her
found her to be impaired,
and she was arrested for
DUI. During a search of her
vehicle several controlled
substances were found and
she was additional charged
with possession of a con-
trolled substance x 2.
On 02/11 Christopher
Dwayne Parmele, 41, was
arrested for failure to pay
child support and violation
of probation.,
On 02/11 Anthony
Maurice Spanks, 35, was
arrested for violation of
probation.
On 02/12 deputies went
to Bay County and arrested
Michael C Garner, 34, and
James Oscar McCall, 41,
for violation of probation.
On 02/12 Bradley Allen
Blackman, 22, was arrested
on two warrants for viola-
tion of probation.
On 02/13 Daniel Alan
Stepp, 40, was arrested for


violation of probation.
On 02/1.4 Jacob Edward
Lambert, 29, was arrested
on a warrant for violation of
probation.
On 02/15 Rashawne
Kenyatta Thomas, 19, was
arrested for violation of
probation.
On 02/15 deputies
responded to a call in St
Joe Beach of a man shoot-
ing at his roommate and
threatening to kill him-
self. Shortly after deputies
arrived they were able to
talk James William Hunter,
49, out of his home. Hunter
was arrested for aggravated
battery with a firearm and
possession of a short-bar-
reled shotgun.

The Gulf County
Sheriff's Office will be host-
ing a Neighborhood Watch
Organizational Meeting
at the Highland View Fire
Station on March 2, 2008
at 7 pm. All Highland View
residents are invited to
attend.


Lasagna



Dinner

The Mexico Beach
Volunteer Fire Department's
Annual Lasagna Dinner will
be Tuesday, February 26th
from 4-8PM (CST). This
fund raiser is sponsored by
the Fish House Restaurant
on Hwy 98 in Mexico Beach.
The menu will be the same
as last year, Lasagna, Salad,
Bread and a Dessert for
$10 Please come by and
enjoy a hone cooked meal
served by the Volunteers
of the Mexico Beach Fire
Division. We look forward
to seeing you. For tickets
please call 648-4790; or
stop by the Mexico Beach
Police Department at 118 N.
14th Street. For your con-
venience our volunteers will
also be selling tickets.


On 02/18 deputies
slopped a vehicle operated
by Charles Lamar Goodwin,
25, of Wewahitchka for a
traffic violation. Goodwin
was arrested for drivers
license restrictions viola-
tion. During a search of his
vehicle a pill bottle contain-
ifg 79 ecstasy pills and
$450 was found. Goodwin
was charged with drivers
license restrictions and
trafficking in ecstasy. He
is currently in the Gulf
County Jail awaiting first
appearance.


Man It'FWC Law El2nforcement Report
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Murder in Gulf County


State Attorney Steve
Meadows announced the
sentencing, in Gulf County
Circuit Court, of Bennie
Rebledo, on two counts each
of Attempted 2nd degree


Murder and Aggravated
Battery.
Robledo, aged 70, of
Tallahassee, was sentenced
to a total of 30 years in
prison for the offenses and


ordered to make restitution
to the victims. He was con-
victed, at trial, on January
11, 2008, for the October
13, 2006, attacks on a man
and his grandson.


Sheriff's Office Serves Warrant


On 02/14 Gulf County
Sheriff's Office, Florida
Department of Law enforce-
ment and the Florida
Department of Corrections,
served a search warrant
at 138 Sober Lane. The
sheriff's office was provided
information from the Martin
County Sheriff's Office ear-
lier in the week, the infor-
mation provide stated that
child pornography was
being sent from a computer
at this address. Daren B.
Angelino, 26, was arrested


and charged with five counts
of possession of child com-
puter pornography and one
count of transmission of
child pornography. Over
100 other images will be
examined to determine if
they are child pornogra-
phy. Each image is pun-
ishable by five years in the
Department of Corrections.
The Florida Department of
Corrections Immediately
terminated Angelino when
he was arrested.


TRANSPORTATION PLANNING MEETINGS
(THE PUBLIC IS INVITED)

Bay County Transportation Planning Organization (TPO)
Wednesday February 27, 2008 at 3:30 p.m.
Panama City City Hall Commission Chambers

The agenda will include the following topics:
1. Consideration of Proposed Fare Increase for Bay Town Trolley- Public Hearing
2. Public Forum. This is an opportunity for the public to address the TPO
regarding transportation issues.
The TPO's Advisory Committees will meet as shown below on
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 in the Panama City City Hall:
* Technical Coordinating Committee (TCC) 10:30 a.m.
* Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) 12:00 p.m.
Agendas are available on the TPO's website at www.wfrpc.org/bctpo. Direct questions
or comments to Ms. Sharon Burnett at 850-392-1104, or sharon.burnett@wfrpc.org.
The TPO will make reasonable accommodations for access to the meetings in accor-
dance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and for language requirements other
than English. Please notify Ms. Ellie Roberts of access or language requirements at
1-800-226-8914, ext 218, at least 48 hours in advance.



TRANSPORTATION ENHANCEMENT (TE) GRANT
APPLICATION WORKSHOP

Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Panama City City Hall (meeting room behind Commission Chambers)
9 Harrison Avenue, Panama City, FL 32401
The Bay County TPO will be sponsoring a Transportation Enhancement (TE) Program Work-
shop to educate potential and existing applicants about this grant opportunity, available through
the Florida Department of Transportation. Qualifying projects include, but are not limited to,
sidewalks and bicycle facilities, landscaping, and preservation of historic transportation build-
ings. Application can be made by municipal, county, state, or federal agencies or by Indian Tribal
Councils and must have a local government sponsor.
For further information please contact Gina Watson at 800-226-8914 extension 239, or by email
at gina.watson@wfrpc.org
The Bay County TPO adheres to the Americans with Disabilities Act and will make reason-
able modifications for access to this meeting upon request. Please call Ms. Ellie Roberts at
(800)226-8914 ext. 218 to make a request. Requests must be received at least 48 hours in
advance of the meeting in order to allow the TPO time to provide requested service.


This report repre-
sents some events the
Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission
(FWC) handled over the
past week; however, it does
not include all actions
taken by the Division of
Law Enforcement.

NORTHWEST REGION

BAY COUNTY
Lt. Jay Chesser and
Officer Mike Nobles con-
ducted surveillance over a
three-day period on an area


of marine fish. One group
of subjects was observed
harvesting fish and smok-
ing what appeared to be
cannabis. When the sub-
jects were inspected, they
were in possession of 15
grey snapper, three speck-
led trout, and one floun-
der and two packages of
cannabis. Citations for
illegal harvest, undersized
grey snapper, undersized
speckled trout, and pos-
session of less than 20
grams of cannabis were
issued.
Officer Dennis Palmer


up the decoy deer in
the Cat Creek section
of the Econfina Wildlife
Management Area to com-
bat road hunting and ille-
gal harvest of deer during
the closed season. They
observed one vehicle stop
and a subject discard sev-
eral bags of garbage into
the woods. The subject
was stopped and a citation
was issued. When asked
why they dumped the gar-
bage they said they were
having a Super Bowl party
and that their garbage can
was full.


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Representing the County on the Way to College


By Tim Croft
Star News Editor

When she was just a
toddler, Krista Parker
dreamed of having her day
on the stage.
Her time has arrived.
Parker was named Gulf
County's Junior Miss late
last year and will spend
next week in Perry as she
prepares to represent the
county in the Florida Junior
Miss competition.
As Parker notes, this is
not a pageant. There are no
crowns, no sashes. This is
about achievement and col-
lege opportunities.
"They focus on that this
is a scholarship program,
not a pageant," Parker said.
"I didn't receive a crown or
a sash, I received a gold


medallion (for winning the
county competition).
"This is all about earn-
ing scholarships and money
for college."
Parker, a senior at Port
St. Joe High School, won
$1,000 as Gulf County's
Junior Miss, plus an addi-
tional $250 for winning the
fitness portion of the com-
petition, one of five areas
of focus.
She will use that money
- and with a GPA of 4.0 other
scholarship money is sure
to follow to attend Troy
State (Ala.) University next
fall, majoring in business
with a minor in dance.
"Maybe with those two I
will have the ability to open
my own dance studio one
day," Parker noted.
In Perry, Parker will


The contestants for the Gulf County Junior Miss included (I-r) Jasmine Fennell, Molly Matty, Samantha 5pivey, Krista
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join eight other girls in the
state competition. They will
rehearse fitness routines,
visit a local elementary
school and hang out with
the students and visit the
state Capitol in Tallahassee,
among other activities.
"I do feel like I am
going there to represent
Gulf County the best I can,"
Parker said. "I hope people
will come out and support
me in that effort."
The Gulf County Junior
Miss competition, spon-
sored by the Junior Service
League, focuses on five
main areas of achievement
and growth in the young
ladies who compete.
The event was a culmi-
nation of sorts for Parker.
She had watched her sis-
ter Nikki Williams compete
when Parker was just a


small tot and had observed
other young ladies as they
blossomed into contestants
for such competitions.
"It was exciting to win,"
Parker said. "Growing up
in Port St. Joe, you see all
the girls and the events and
you can't wait for it to be
your turn.
"Now it's my turn."
In addition to scholas-
tics, which Parker clearly
has down pat, the girls were
judged on interviews with
judges "I was very ner-
vous, but I was the first
contestant so I think they
took it a little easy on me,"
Parker said talent, physi-
cal fitness and self-expres-
sion.
The talent competition
was a breeze as Parker has
been tap-dancing most of
her life, first under Pam


Nobles and later on her
own.
She tapped to "Boogie
Woogie Bugle Boy."
The physical fitness
routine was the same for
all the young ladies and
choreographed by Dana
Black of UpTempo Sports
in Port St. Joe and a per-
sonal trainer.
Self- expression involved
wearing the evening wear
familiar in many such com-
petitions while answering
a question posed earlier
by the judges, though the
young ladies did not know
what question.
Parker, who has been
involved with the Student
Government Association
and is captain of the cheer-
leading squad, was asked
about leadership.
"The biggest struggle is


getting down to business,
leaving aside what some of
your friends might be doing
or want you to do, and
just getting down to work,"
Parker said.
It was during the inter-
view process, Parker said,
that she was able to express
her feelings about growing
up in a small community
and representing that com-
munity on a larger stage,
such as the one in Perry on
March 1.
"Living in a small com-
munity is the best because
it does take a village to
raise a child," Parker said.
"You always have people
looking out for you whether
they know you or not. It's
great to walk into the Piggly-
Wiggly and see so many
people that you know."


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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR
GULF COUNTY FLORIDA

CASE NO.: 2007-308-CA

CIVIL DIVISION

COUNTRYWIDE HOME
LOANS, INC F/K/A COUN-
TRYWIDE FUNDING
CORR D/B/A AMERICA'S
WHOLESALE LENDERS,
Plaintiff,
vs.
BERNARD L. KELLER, et
al,
Defendants.

NOTICE OF FORECLO-
SURE SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN pursuant to a Final
Judgement of Foreclo-
sure dated the 17 day of
January, 2008, and en-
tered in Case No.
2007-308-CA, of the Cir-
cuit Court of the 14TH
COUNTRYWIDE FUND-
ING CORR D/B/A
AMERICA'S WHOLESALE
LENDERS is the Plaintiff
and BERNARD L. KEL-
LER; MORTGAGE ELEC-
TRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INCORPO-
RATED, AS NOMINEE
FOR FIDELITY MORT-
GAGE, INC.; STATE OF
FLORIDA, DEPARTMENT
OF REVENUE; ELIZA-
BETH J. KELLER; JOHN
DOE; JANE DOE AS UN-
KNOWN TENANT (S) IN
POSSESSION OF THE
SUBJECT PROPERTY are
defendants. I will sell to
the highest and best bid-
der for cash at the FRONT
LOBBY OF COURT-
HOUSE at the Gulf County
Courthouse, in Port St.
Joe, Florida, at 11:00 a.m.
on the 28th day of Febru-
ary, 2008, the following
described property as set
forth in said Final Judge-
ment, to wit:

Lot One (1) of Block "Q, of
the unrecorded addition-to
TWIN LAKES Subdivision,
more particularly de-
scribed as follows: Begin-
ning at the Southeast cor-
ner of Lot 1, Block 15,
Corrective Replat of Twin
Lakes Subdivison, Unit
One, as per plat thereof
recorded in Plat Book 2,
page 39, public records of
Gulf County, Florida;
thence South 36 degrees
36'00" East along the
Southerly R/W line of Lake
View Drive, as per Twin
Lakes Subdivision, Unit
Two, recorded in Plat
Book 2, Page 44 for 99.62
ft.; thence South 51 de-
grees 07'00" West for
162.67 ft.; thence North 46
degrees 39' 45" West for
118.63 ft. to the South-
westerly corner of said Lot
1, Block 15; thence South
89 degrees 48' East along
said Lot 1 for 28.57 ft.;
thence North 51 degrees
07-00" East along said Lot
1 for 160.51 ft. to the POB.

ANY PERSON CLAIMING
AN INTEREST IN THE
SURPLUS FROM THE
SALE, IF ANY, OTHER
THAN THE PROPERTY
OWNER AS OF THE
DATE OF THE LIS PEND-
ENS MUST FILE A CLAIM
WITHIN 60 DAYS AFTER
THE SALE.

In accordance with the
Americans with Disabilities
Act of 1990 (ADA),
disabled persons who,
because of their
disabilities, need special
accommodation to
participate in this
proceeding should
contact the ADA
Coordinator at 1000 5th
Street, Port St. Joe, FL
32456 or Telephone (850)
229-6113 prior to such
proceeding.

Dated this 29th day of
January, 2008.

Rebecca Norris
Clerk of the Circuit Court

/s/Jasmine Hysmith
Deputy Clerk

Publish February 14 & 21;
2008

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
OF THE FOURTEENTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND
FOR GULF COUNTY,
FLORIDA
PROBATE DIVISION

CASE NO: 2006-52PR

IN RE: THE ESTATE
EMMA NOBLES
Deceased.

NOTICE OF ADMINIS-
TRATION

The administration of the
estate of EMMA NOBLES,
deceased, File Number
2006-52PR, is pending in
the Circuit Court of Gulf


County, Florida, Probate
Division, the address of


which is 1000 Cecil G.
Costin, Sr. Boulevard,
Room 148, Port St. Joe,
Florida 32456. The names
and addresses of the per-
sonal representative and
the personal
representative's attorney
are set forth below.
ALL INTERESTED PER-
SONS ARE NOTIFIED
THAT;
All persons on whom this
Notice is served who have
objections that challenge
the validity of the will, the
qualifications of the per-
sonal representative,
venue, or jurisdiction of
this Court are required to
file their objections with
the Court WITHIN THE
LATER OF THREE (3)
MONTHS AFTER THE
DATE OF THE FIRST
PUBLICATION OF THIS
NOTICE OF THIRTY (30)
DAYS AFTER THE DATE
OF SERVICE OF A COPY
OF THIS NOTICE ON
THEM.
All other creditors of the
decedent and other per-
sons, having claims or de-
mands against decedent's
estate on whom a copy of
this Notice is served within
three (3) months after the
date of the first publication
of this Notice must file their
claims with this Court.
WITHIN THE LATER OF
THREE (3) MONTHS AF-
TER THE DATE OF THE
FIRST PUBLICATION OF
THIS NOTICE OR THIRTY
(30) DAYS AFTER THE
DATE OF SERVICE OF A
COPY OF THIS NOTICE
ON THEM.
All other creditors of the
decedent and persons
having claims or demands
against the decedent's es-
tate must file their claims
with this Court WITHIN
THREE (3) MONTHS AF-
TER THE DATE OF THE
FIRST PUBLICATION OF
THIS NOTICE. ALL
CLAIMS, DEMANDS,
AND OBJECTIONS NOT
SO FILED WILL BE FOR-
EVER BARRED.
The date of the first publi-
cation of this Notice is
February 4, 2008.

Attorney For Personal Rep-
resentative:
H. Richard Bisbee, PA.
1882 Capital Circle, N.E.
Suite 206
Tallahassee, Florida 32308

Personal Representative:
SHENEKA NOBLES
1882 Capital Circle, N.E.
Suite 206
Tallahassee, Florida 32308

February 14 & 21, 2008

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
OF THE FOURTEENTH
JUDICIAL COURT
OF THE STATE OF FLOR-
IDA, IN AND FOR GULF
COUNTY

CASE NO.: 08-12PR

IN RE: The Estate of
HERMAN R.
ARD,
Decedent.


NOTICE OF ADMINIS-
TRATION

The administration of the
Estate of HERMAN R.
ARD, File No. 08-12PR, is
pending in the Circuit
Court of Gulf County, Flor-
ida, Probate Division, the
address of which is 1000
Fifth Street, Port St. Joe,
FL 32456. The name and
address of the Personal
Representative and the
Personal Representative's
attorney are as set forth
below.

ALL INTERESTED PER-
SONS ARE NOTIFIED
THAT:

All persons on whom this
Notice is served who have
objections that challenge
the qualifications of the
Personal Representative,
venue, or jurisdiction of
this Court, are required to
file their objections with
this Court within the latter
of three (3) months after
the date of the first publi-
cation of this Notice or
thirty (30) days after the
date of service of a copy of
the Notice on them.

All creditors of the Dece-
dent and other persons
having claims or demands
against Decedent's Estate
on whom a copy of this
Notice is served, within
three (3) months after the
date of the first publication
of this Notice must file their
claims with this Court
within the latter of three (3)
months after the date of
the first publication of this
Notice or thirty (30) days
after the date of service of
a copy of this Notice on
them.

All creditors of the Dece-
dent and persons having
claims or demands against
Decedent's Estate must file
their claims with this Court
within three (3) months af-
ter the date of the first pub-
lication of this Notice.

ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS,
AND OBJECTIONS NOT
SO FILED WILL BE FOR-


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EVER BARRED.

The date of the first publi-
cation of this Notice is
February 21, 2008.

Margaret I. Stutzman
Personal Representative
Port St. Joe, FL 32456

/s/Timothy J. McFarland,
Esquire
P.O. Box 202
326 Reid Avenue
Port St. Joe, FL 32456
FL Bar No.: 0984868
(850) 227-3113
Attorney for Personal
Representative

Publish February 21, 28,
March 6, & 13, 2008

Advertisement for
Bids

City of Port St. Joe
P.O. Box 278
Port St. Joe, FL 32457

Separate sealed Bids for
the construction of (briefly
describe nature, scope,
and major elements of the
Work)

Install approximately 716
L.F. of concrete side-
walk, brick paver road
crossings, re-stripe
existing parking areas,
and storm water up-
grades.

will be received by City of
Port St. Joe at the office of
City Hall, 305 Cecil G.
Costin Sr. Blvd, Port St.
Joe FL 32456 until 5:00
PM, (Eastern Time)
March 4th, 2008, and then
at said office publicly
opened and read aloud on
March 4th, 2008. at 5:30
PM (Eastern Time).

The Contract Documents
may be examined at the
following locations:
Preble-Rish, Inc., 324 Ma-
rina Drive, Port St. Joe, FL
32456

Copies of the Contract
Documents may be ob-
tained at the Issuing Of-
fice, Preble-Rish, Inc., lo-
cated at 324 Marina Drive,
Port St. Joe, FL 32456
upon payment of $200.00
for each set.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT,
FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT OF THE STATE
OF FLORIDA, IN AND
FOR GULF COUNTY.

CASE NO. 08-07 PR

IN PROBATE

IN RE: The Estate of
JOHN ANDERSON
DILLARD,
deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

TO ALL PERSONS HAV-
ING CLAIMS OR DE-
MANDS AGAINST THE
ABOVE ESTATE:

The administration of the
estate of JOHN ANDER-
SON DILLARD, deceased,
File Number 08-07 PR is
pending in the Circuit
Court for Gulf County,
Florida, Probate Division,
the address of which is
Gulf County Courthouse,
Probate Division, 1000
Cecil G. Costin, Sr. Boule-
vard, Port St. Joe, FL
32456. The name and ad-
dress of the personal rep-
resentative and that per-
sonal representative's at-
torney are set forth below.

ALL INTERESTED PER-
SONS ARE NOTIFIED
THAT:

All creditors of the dece-
dent and other persons
having claims or demands
against decedent's estate
on whom a copy of this
notice is served within
three months after the
date of the first publication
of this notice must file
their claims with this Court
WITHIN THE LATER OF
THREE MONTHS AFTER
THE DATE OF THE FIRST
PUBLICATION OF THIS
NOTICE OR THIRTY
DAYS AFTER THE DATE
OF SERVICE OF A COPY
OF THIS NOTICE ON
THEM.

All other 'creditors of the
decedent and persons
having claims or demands
against the estate of the
decedent must file their
claims with this Court
WITHIN THREE MONTHS
AFTER THE DATE OF
THE FIRST PUBLICATION
OF THIS NOTICE.

ALL CLAIMS AND DE-
MANDS NOT SO FILED
WILL BE FOREVER
BARRED.


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4534 S. Frisco Trails
Springfield, MO 65410
Co-Personal Representa-
tive

Jay Theron Teague
PRO. Box 528
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465
Co-Personal Representa-
tive
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
OF THE FOURTEENTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN
AND FOR GULF COUNTY,
FLORIDA

Case No.: 07-339-CA

PATRICIA C. HOLMES
and DOROTHY J. EDGE,
Plaintiffs,
vs.
JERRY SOWELL and
BARBARA MCKINNEY
SOWELL,
Defendants.
/NOTICE OF ACTION
NOTICE OF ACTION


1100
116 Sailor's Cove Drive
RO. Box 39
Port St. Joe, FL 32457
(850) 229-8211
FL BAR NO. 0350583
Attorney for Ancillary
Co-Personal Representa-
tives

Publish February 14 & 21,
2008

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT,
FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT OF THE STATE
OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR
GULF COUNTY.

CASE NO. 08-09 PR
IN PROBATE

IN RE: The Estate of
MARGARET ANNETTE
MOODY
deceased.


NOTICE TO CREDITORS


TO ALL PERSONS HAV-
TO: Jerry Sowell, and all ING CLAIMS OR DE-
others whom it may con- MANDS AGAINST THE
cern: ABOVE ESTATE:


YOU ARE NOTIFIED of the
institution of this action by
the Plaintiff seeking to
quiet title to the following
described real property in
Gulf County, Florida, to
wit:

Lot 1, Block 4, Idlewoodl
Subdivision

has been filed against you
and you are required to
serve a copy of your writ-
ten defenses, if any, to it
on BRIAN D. LEEBRICK,
the Plaintiff's attorney,
whose address is PRO.
Box 2457, Panama City,
Florida 32401, on or be-
fore the 3rd day of March,
2008, and file the original
with the clerk of this Court
before service on the
Plaintiff's attorney or im-
mediately thereafter; oth-
erwise a default will be en-
tered against you for the
relief demanded in the
complaint.

DATED this 22nd day of
January, 2008.

REBECCA L NORRIS
As Clerk of Court

/s/Jasmine Hysmith
Deputy Clerk

Publish February 14 & 21,
2008
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT,
FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT OF THE STATE
OF FLORIDA, IN AND
FOR GULF COUNTY.

CASE NO. 08-08 PR
IN PROBATE

IN RE: The Estate of
WAYNE F. WILSON,
Deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

TO ALL PERSONS HAV-
ING CLAIMS OR DE-
MANDS AGAINST THE
ESTATE:

The ancillary administra-
tion of the estate of
WAYNE F WILSON, de-
ceased, Case Number
08-08 PR, is pending in
the Circuit Court for Gulf
County, Florida, Probate
Division, the address of
which is Gulf County
Courthouse, Probate Divi-
sion, 1000 Cecil G. Costin,
Sr., Boulevard, Port St.
Joe, FL 32456. The name
and address of the ancil-
lary co-personal repre-
sentatives and the
co-personal representa-
tives' attorney are set forth
below.

ALL INTERESTED PER-
SONS ARE NOTIFIED
THAT:

All creditors of the dece-
dent and other persons
having claims or demands
against decedent's estate
on whom a copy of this
notice is served within
three months after the
date of the first publication
of this notice must file
their claims with this Court
WITHIN THE LATER OF
THREE MONTHS AFTER
THE DATE OF THE FIRST
PUBLICATION OF THIS
NOTICE OR THIRTY
DAYS AFTER THE DATE
OF SERVICE OF A COPY
OF THE NOTICE ON
THEM.

All other creditors of the
decedent and persons
having claims or demands
against the estate of the
decedent must file their
claims with this Court
WITHIN THREE MONTHS
AFTER THE DATE OF
THE FIRST PUBLICATION
OF THIS NOTICE.

ALL CLAIMS AND DE-
MANDS NOT SO FILED
WILL BE FOREVER
BARRED.

The date of the first publi-
cation of this Notice is
February 14, 2008.


/s/David E. Wilson
The date of the first publi- 27 Shoal Creek Falls
cation of this Notice is Signal Mountain,
February 14, 2008. 37377


/s/Thomas S. Gibsion
Rish, Gibson, Scholz &
Groom, PA,
116 Sailor's Cove Drive
RO. Box 39
Port St. Joe, Florida 32457
(850) 229-8211
Attorney for Personal
Representative
FL BAR NO. 0350583

/s/James Earl Dillard


/s/Scott A. Wilson
11 Pinecreek Drive
Columbus, GA 31904

Ancillary Co-Personal
Representatives of the Es-
tate of Wayne F. Wilson

/s/Thomas S. Gibson
Rish, Gibson, Scholz &
Groom, RA.


The administration of the
estate of MARGARET AN-
NETTE MOODY, de-
ceased, File Number 08-09
PR is pending in the Cir-
cuit Court for Gulf County,
Florida, Probate Division,
the address of which is
Gulf County Courthouse,
Probate Division, 1000
Cecil G. Costin, Sr. Boule-
vard, Port St. Joe, FL
32456. The name and ad-
dress of the personal rep-
resentative and that per-
sonal representative's at-
torney are set forth below.

ALL INTERESTED PER-
SONS ARE NOTIFIED
THAT:

All creditors of the dece-
dent and other persons
having claims or demands
against decedent's estate
on whom a copy of this
notice is served within
three months after the date
of the first publication of
this notice must file their
claimswiththis Court WITH-
IN THE LATER OF
THREE MONTHS AFTER
THE DATE OF THE FIRST
PUBLICATION OF THIS
NOTICE OR THIRTY DAYS
AFTER THE DATE OF
SERVICE OF A COPY OF
THIS NOTICE ON THEM.

All other creditors of the
decedent and persons
having claims or demands
against the estate of the
decedent must file their
claims with this Court
WITHIN THREE MONTHS
AFTER THE DATE OF THE
FIRST PUBLICATION OF
THIS NOTICE.

ALL CLAIMS AND DE-
MANDS NOT SO FILED
WILL BE FOREVER
BARRED.

The date of the first publi-
cation of this Notice is
February 21, 2008.

/s/Thomas S. Gibson
Rish, Gibson, Scholz, &
Groom, PA.
116 Sailor's Cove Drive
RO. Box 39
Port St. Joe, Florida 32457
(850) 229-8211
ATTORNEY FOR PER-
SONAL REPRESENTA-
TIVE
FL BAR NO. 0350583

/s/Eugene Edward Moody,
Jr.
8113 Alabama Avenue
St. Joe Beach, FL 32456
PERSONAL REPRESENT-
ATIVE

Publish February 21 & 28,
2008

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT,
FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT OF THE STATE
OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR
GULF COUNTY

CASE NO. 08-10 PR
IN PROBATE

IN RE: The Estate of
ROSA LEE ANTHONY,
deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

TO ALL PERSONS HAV-
ING CLAIMS OR DE-
MANDS AGAINST THE
ABOVE ESTATE:

The administration of the
estate of ROSA LEE AN-
THONY, deceased, File
Number 08-10 PR is pend-
ing in the Circuit Court for
Gulf County, Florida, Pro-
bate Division, the address
of which is Gulf County
Courthouse, Probate Divi-
sion, 1000 Cecil G. Costin,
Sr. Boulevard, Port St.
Joe, FL 32546. The name
and address of the per-
sonal representative and
that personal
representative's attorney
are set forth below.

ALL INTERESTED PER-
SONS ARE NOTIFIED
THAT:
All creditors of the dece-
dent and other persons
having claims or demands
against decedent's estate
on whom a copy of this
notice is served within
three months after the date
of the first publication of
this notice must file their
claims with this Court
WITHIN THE LATER OF
THREE MONTHS AFTER
THE DATE OF THE FIRST
PUBLICATION OF THIS
NOTICE OR THIRTY DAYS
AFTER THE DATE OF
SERVICE OF A COPY OF
THIS NOTICE ON THEM.


1100

All other creditors of the
decedent and persons
having claims or demands
against the estate of the
decedent must file their
claims with this Court
WITHIN THREE MONTHS
AFTER THE DATE OF THE
FIRST PUBLICATION OF
THIS NOTICE.


ALL CLAIMS
MANDS NOT
WILL BE.
BARRED.


AND DE-
SO FILED
FOREVER


The date of the first publi-
cation of this Notice is
February 21, 2008,

/s/Thomas S. Gibson
Rish, Gibson, Scholz &
Groom, RA.
116 Sailor's Cove Drive
RP.O. Box 39
Port St. Joe, Florida 32457
(850) 229-8211
Attorney for Personal Rep-
resentative
FL BAR NO. 0350583

/s/Sonia E. Farmer ,
107 Harbor Street
Port St. Joe, FL 32456
Personal Representative

IN THE FOURTEENTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN
AND FOR GULF COUNTY,
FLORIDA

CASE NO.: 07-122CA

DONALD J. MINCHEW,
Plaintiff,
vs.
GLEN E. RICKS AND ANY
AND ALL HEIRS CLAIM-
ING THROUGH GLEN E.
RICKS
Defendants
/
NOTICE OF ACTION
TO: GLEN E. RICKS AND
ANY AND ALL HEIRS
CLAIMING THROUGH
GLEN E. RICKS

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that
an action by the Plaintiff
seeking to reinstate the
warranty deed to the fol-
lowing described real
property in Gulf County,
Florida, to wit: "A portion
of Lots 4 and 5, Cockran
Landing, an unrecorded
subdivision in Fractional
Section 30. T4S, R9W.
Gulf County, Florida," has
been filed against you and
you are required to serve
a copy of you written de-
fenses, if any, to it on Tim-
othy C. Campbell, Attor-
ney at Law, Plaintiffs attor-
ney, whose address is 228
E. 4th Street, Panama
City, FL 32401 on or be-
fore March 10, 2008 and
file the original with the
Clerk of this Court, either
before service on the
Plaintiffs attorney or im-
mediately thereafter; oth-
erwise a default will be en-
tered against you for the
relief demanded in the
Complaint.
WITNESS my hand and
official seal of this Court
on this 25th day of Janu-
ary, 2008.
Clerk of Court for Gulf
County
/s/Jasmine Hysmith
Deputy Clerk

Publish January 31, Feb-
ruary 7, 14, 21, 2008
NOTICE TO RECEIVE
SEALED BIDS

The City of Port St. Joe will
receive sealed bids from
any qualified person, com-
pany or corporation inter-
ested in constructing the
following projects:

CITY OF PORT ST. JOE
WHITE CITY SEWER
LIFTSTATION & TRANS-
MISSION FORCEMAIN

The project includes con-
struction of a liftstation and
force main to serve the
White City community, the
project begins in the White
City park continues south
along State Road 71, turns
West and continues along
County Road 382, and
ends near the existing City
of Port St. Joe Wastewater
Treatment Plant. The
forcemain includes ap-
proximately 31, 125 LF of
8" PVC forcemain, 2,900
LF of 10" HDPE directional
bore, and all associated
valves and fittings, and
other appurtenances. The
contractor shall provide all
materials, equipment, and
labor to complete the proj-
ect.

Plans and specifications
can be obtained at
Preble-Rish, Inc., 324 Ma-
rina Drive, Port St. Joe,
Florida 32456, (850)
227-7200. The bid must
conform to Section
287.133(3) Florida Stat-
utes, on public entity
crimes.

The completion dates for
this project are 120 days
from the Notice to Proceed
date.

Liquidated damages for
failure to complete the
project on the specified
date will be set at $500.00
per day.

Cost for Plans and Specifi-
cations will be $100.00 per
set and is non-refundable.
Checks should be made
payable to PREBLE-RISH,
INC.

Bids will be received until
5:00 p.m. Eastern Stand-
ard Time, on March 18,
2008, at the City of Port St.
Joe, RO. Box 278, Port St.
Joe, FL 32456 and will be
opened and read aloud on


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March 18, 2008 at 5:30
p.m. Eastern Standard
Time at the same location.
A Bid Bond in the amount
of 5% of Bid shall accom-
pany Bid. The City of Port
St. Joe reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
All Bids shall be firm for a
period of 60 days after
opening. This includes ma-
terial prices.

Point of Contact will be
Philip Jones, RE. or Gena
Johnson, EJ. Preble-Rish,
Inc. Consulting Engineers
at (850) 227-7200 or Fax
227-7215.

Publish February 21, 2008
NOTICE TO RECEIVE
SEALED BIDS

The City of Port St. Joe will
receive sealed bids from
any qualified person, com-
pany or corporation inter-
ested in constructing the
following projects:

CITY OF PORT ST. JOE
CENTENNIAL BUILDING
LANDSCAPING

The project includes the
following: the contractor
shall kill all of the grass on
the grounds of the Centen-
nial Building with the ex-
ception of the grass
around the building itself.
The site will be tilled and
regraded followed by irri-
gation and grassing. Pe-
rimeter plantings are also
part of the scope. A man-
datory pre-bid will be held
on site on Thursday, Feb-
ruary 28th at 1:00 pm ET.

Plans and specifications
can be obtained at
Preble-Rish, Inc., 324 Ma-
rina Drive, Port St. Joe,
Florida 32456, (850)
227-7200. The bid must
conform to Section
287.133(3) Florida Stat-
utes, on public entity
crimes.

The completion dates for
this project are 60 days
from the Notice to Proceed
date.

Liquidated damages for
failure to complete the
project on the specified
date will be set at $200.00
per day.

Cost for Plans and Specifi-
cations will be $50.00 per
set and is non-refundable.
Checks should be made
payable to PREBLE-RISH,
INC.

Bids will be received until
5:00 p.m. Eastern Stand-
ard Time, on March 4,
2008, at the City of Port St.
Joe, P.O. Box 278, Port St.
Joe, FL 32456 and will be
opened and read aloud on
March 4, 2008, at 6:15
p.m. Eastern Standard
Time at the same location.
The City of Port St. Joe re-
serves the right to reject
any and all bids. The bid
includes material prices.

Point of Contact will be Bill
Kennedy, Project Man-
ager, Preble-Rish. Inc.
Co'hsulting Engineers at
(850) 227-7200 or Fax
227-7215.

Publish February 21,
2008
NOTICE TO RECEIVE
SEALED BIDS

The City of Port St. Joe will
receive sealed bids from
any qualified person, com-
pany or corporation inter-
ested in constructing the
following projects:

CITY OF PORT ST. JOE
BALTZELL POND IRRI-
GATION AND FOUN-
TAIN

The project includes the
following: irrigation of the
perimeter of Baltzell Pond.
Water will be removed
from the pond with a pump
for the purposes of irriga-
tion. Also included in this
project will be a 1-1/2 hp
water fountain in the center
of the pond.

Plans and specifications
can be obtained at
Preble-Rish, Inc., 324 Ma-
rina Drive, Port St. Joe,
Florida 32456, (850)
227-7200. The bid must
conform to Section
287.133(3) Florida Stat-
utes, on public entity
crimes.

The completion dates for
this project are 60 days
from the Notice to Proceed
date.

Liquidated damages for
failure to complete the
project on the specified
date will be set at $200.00
per day.

Cost for Plans and Specifi-
cations will be $50.00 per
set and is non-refundable.
Checks should be made
payable to PREBLE-RISH,
INC.

Bids will be received until


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5:00 p.m. Eastern Stand-
ard Time, on March 4,
2008, at the City of Port St.
Joe, P.O. Box 278, Port St.
Joe, FL 32456 and will be
opened and read aloud on
March 4, 2008, at 6:15
p.m. Eastern Standard
Time at the same location.
The City of Port St. Joe re-
serves the right to reject
any and all bids. The bid
includes material prices.

Point of Contact will be Bill
Kennedy, Project Man-
ager, Preble-Rish, Inc.
Consulting Engineers at
(850) 227-7200 or Fax
227-7215.

Publish February 21,
2008

NOTICE TO RECEIVE
SEALED BIDS
BID #0708-17

The Gulf County Board of
County Commissioners
will receive sealed bids
from any qualified person,
company, or corporation
interested in:

FOR PROVIDE-INSTALL
SERVICES
RELATED TO THE EX-
TENSION OF WATER
LINES FROM THE CITY
OF PORT ST. JOE TO
THE OVERSTREET COM-
MUNITY TO INCLUDE
HOOKING UP RESI-
DENTS OF THE OVER-
STREET COMMUNITY TO
THE EXTENDED POTA-
BLE WATER SYSTEM
Project No. C.D.B.G.
#06DB-89-02-33-01-N35

The Provide-Install firm se-
lected is to perform and/or
provide the necessary re-
sources to extend water
lines from the nearest
existing water mains oper-
ated by the City of Port St.
Joe to the Overstreet Com-
munity and hook-up the
residents in the Overstreet
Community to the ex-
tended potable water sys-
tem.

Bids will be received until
4:30 p.m., E.T., on March
7, 2008, at the Gulf County
Clerk's Office, Gulf County
Courthouse, 1000 Cecil G.
Costin Sr., Blvd., Room
148, Port St. Joe, Florida,
32456. Bids shall be des-
ignated as "Sealed Bid
#0708-17" Gulf County
Community Development
Block Grant Project for Fis-
cal Year 2006 to be fi-
nanced by the State of
Florida Department of
Community Affairs, Grant
#06DB-89-02-33-01-N35,
Overstreet Community Dis-
tribution System.

All bids must be submitted
in triplicate. Any bids re-
ceived after the specified
time and date will not be
considered. The sealed
bids will be publicly
opened and read aloud at
10:00 a.m., E.T., on March
10, 2008 in the Gulf
County Clerk's Office, Gulf
County Courthouse, Room
148, 1000 Cecil G. Costin
Sr., Blvd., Port St Joe, Fl.,
32456.

The information for Bid-
ders, Forms of Proposal,
Form of Contract, Plans,
Specifications, and Forms
of Bid Bond, Performance
and Payment Bond, and
other contract documents
may be examined at the
office of Bailey Bishop
and Lane, Inc., located at
407 Reid Ave., Port St.
Joe, FL 32456, (850)
227-9449. Copies may be
obtained at this office
upon payment of $50.00
which amount constitutes
the cost of reproduction
and handling. This pay-
ment will not be refund-
ed.
Gulf County reserves the
right to waive any infor-
malities in any bid, or to
reject any or all bids. Each
Bidder must deposit with
his/her bid, security in the
amount, form and subject
to the conditions provided
in the Information for Bid-
ders. Sureties used for
obtaining bonds must ap-
pear as acceptable ac-
cording to the Department
of Treasury Circular 570.

The contractor shall begin
mobilization and procure-
ment of materials within
ten working days of the re-
ceipt of the "Notice to Pro-
ceed." The successful
bidder must fully complete
the project within 90 con-
secutive calendar days.
Fifty percent (50%) of the
contracted amount will be
paid when the project is
substantially completed.
The remainder of the con-
tracted amount will be
paid provided the project
is completed and online
within the 90 day comple-
tion deadline.

Attention of Bidders is par-
ticularly called to the re-
quirements as to condi-
tions of employment to be


observed and minimum
wage-rates to be paid un-
der the Contract, Section
3, Segregated Facilities,
Section 109 Executive Or-
der 11246, and all applica-
ble laws and regulations of
the Federal government
and State of Florida, and
bonding and insurance re-
quirements.

Gulf County is an Equal
Opportunity Employer.

BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
GULF COUNTY, FLORI-
DA
BY: BILLY E. TRAYLOR,.
CHAIRMAN
ATTEST:
REBECCA L. NORRIS,
CLERK

Publish: February 21 & 28,
2008

Ad #2008-25

NOTICE TO RECEIVE
SEALED BIDS
BID NO. 0708-15

The Gulf County Board of
County Commissioners
will receive bids from any
person, company or cor-
poration interested in pro-
viding the following:

Option 1 Commercial
Chassis Pumper/Tanker
Fire Apparatus (2,500 Gal-
lon Tank)

Option 2 Commercial
Chassis Pumper/Tanker
Fire Apparatus (3,000 Gal-
lon Tank)

Specifications can be ob-
tained from the Office of
the Clerk of Circuit Court,
1000 Cecil G. Costin, Sr.
Blvd., Room 148, Port St.
Joe, FL 32456 / (850)
229-6112. Questions
should be directed to
Howard Creek Fire Chief
Billy Moore at (850)
827-2257.

Delivery Date must be
specified, and liquidated
damages for failure to de-
liver on specified date will
be set at $100.00 per day.

The original bid plus four
(4) copies should be sub-
mitted. Please indicate on
the envelope YOUR COM-
PANY NAME, that this a
SEALED BID and include
the BID NUMBER..

Bids will be received until
Friday, March 7, 2008 at
4:30 p.m., E.T at the Of-
fice of'the Clerk of Court,
1000 Cecil G. Costin, Sr.
Blvd., Room 148, Port St.
Joe, Florida 32456. Bids
will be opened at this loca-
tion on Monday, March 10,
2008 at 10:00 a.m. E.T
The Public has a right to
attend.

The Board reserves the
right to reject any and all
bids.

BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
Gulf County, Florida ,

/s/ Billy E. Traylor, Chairp
man

Attest:
Rebecca L. Norris, Clerk

Publish: February 21 & 28,
2008

Ad #2008-21
NOTICE TO RECEIVE
SEALED BIDS
BID NO. 0708-16

The Board of Commission-
ers of Gulf County is re-
leasing this Request for
Proposal /Bids to solicit a
turnkey proposal to de-,
sign, furnish and install a
Multimedia AudioN/isual
Presentation System fo(
the Gulf County Emer-
gency Operations Center
(EOC) located at 1000
Cecil G Costin, Sr. Blvd.,
Bldg. 500, Port St. Joe, FL
32456, in accordance with
the requirements of the at-
tached instructions, con-
ditions, and specifica-
tions.

As optional equipment, the
Board is soliciting a turn-
key proposal to design,
furnish and install, (Option
#1) an Audio/Visual Con-
ferencing System for the
Gulf County Emergency
Operations Center (EOC)
located at 1000 Cecil G
Costin, Sr. Blvd., Bldg.
500, Port St. Joe, FL 32456
and (Option #2) an
Audio/Visual Presentation
System for the Alternate
Emergency Operations
Center (EOC) locate at 240
Honeyville Park Drive,
Wewahitchka, FL 32465, in
accordance with the re-
quirements of the attached
instructions, conditions,
and specifications.

Specifications can be ob-
tained from the Clerk's Of-
fice at the Gulf County
Courthouse, Room 148,
1000 Cecil G. Costin, Sr,
Blvd., Port St. Joe, Florida,
32456, (850) 229-6112.
Bidders wishing to sched-
ule a tour or have ques-
tions should contact Mar-
shall Nelson, Project Man-
ager at (850) 229-9110.


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.March 31, 2008 at 10:00 8paid vacation, major media $1200 mo., 850-227-7234. 61 501
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The Board reserves the ent, weekl 6100 M/F $380mo. Utilities in-
The Board reserves the programs. To apply call eluded. to share 4 br Must Sell!
right to reject any and all 850-819-5535 btwn 8-5p o home. Call 227-1711 7100 ] Comm'l Bldg in WeWa.
,bids. WeblD#339751 8 FOR RENT Port st. Joe, 4 br, 2 be, on For Rent or For Sell
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MAN 4130 Employment Personal Aide $400/m including tax. fruit trees & plants. Stor
&Information Eage shed & outside
Publish: February 21 & Elderly man seeking full or shower, fireplace, W&D, all 13 br, 1 ba home on 7- S
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Ad #2008-23 3100Antiqus $800 m.+ dep. Call 850- fenced in backyard, $500/ $65K obo Funtain Area
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Case No.:91565-07-AG 3140 Bay Item s Real Estate/MortgageBeacon Hill ( Mexico 1-941-778-7980/7565
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LLC an 3170- Collectibles -Agent 4 AA ico Bch, halt block fporn decking, 12x24 shed, & irrigation well. 2 years tom price. Nice 2nd tier,
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,and appointment has been 3250 Good Things to Eat TRIM Rish 850-227-5569 1 1R ENT large Doublewide Mobile 75x180, at deadendstreet,
filed against you. You have 3260 Health & Fitness
the right to request a hear 3270- Jewelry/Clothing CARPENTERS WeblD#33978403Storage led, Newentldoors,tile, Make Offered229-6859.with trees,
i-g pursuant to Sections 3280 Machinery/ NEEDED ...... furnished & unfurnished, paint, CH&A, all appli- Gulfaire, 5 br 3 ba, private
120.569 and 120.57(1) and 3290- Medical Equipment F orPort St. Joe & [850 i. B 1,2 & 3 bedroom homes dances, view of river, 1 achoo tennis Best
(2), Florida Statutes, by 3300 Miscellaneous Mexico Beach area 18501 in PSJ. Caloil after 7:00 PM block to public boat ramp, Value in area. $369,900 .
mailing a request for same 3310- Musicalnstruments Applicants must provide 4130 229-8014 850 22o pets, Re-777 s reqd,s Pelican Walk Real Estate
to the Department of Fi- 3320 Plants & Shrubs/ own transportation, must (850)229-6777 sec ($650 mo. Avaiebe
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of Legal Services, 200 E. 3330 Restaurant/Hotel dependable and provide INFO FOR SALE? Climate and
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protection agency. from the beach. 8230 Sailboats
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,of a resolution approving 504 Monument Avenue message from the FTC l 8340- Motorhomes
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Place Your Classified Ad communication proficiency; 850-766-4601 D m igaglp ome Bud3t 2005
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By Phone: (850) 747-5020 Send resume to 535 John K 850-340-1216 P property 1 2: "Oce an M ot ion"

By Fax: (850) 747-5044 Road Tallahassee, FL. 32303 or Fax 1 4 2,4 E a. G ul f Beach Drive
Office Hours: 8-5 Mon.-Fri New Construction Luxu- J. B. i 41r Baf ch JIh
Offfice Closed Sat. & Sun. ries Townhomes in Mexico Fuky

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P.O. Box 1940 3 & 4 br starting at $895. 3 Be
Panama City, FL 32402 Limited availability. Call ft

Please Check Your Ad. ,ti ',":n r.r ,,r,,
on the FIRST day 00-323-8388
of publication. sourthcrn (:,asit M.nanagrcn,, Inc. .
"Adjustments" Bar0tolo Cstages -Brandi ew 2br/2.5 ba 1200 sqi cotlges. Screnedin porches, hardwood sSiiciil Piri J e Sia'iday Feb. 24 fromrn I p m. ir ltM 4 p nm'.
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Check your ad for errors the FIRST day of insertion.
We will be responsible for the first incorrect insertion Walerside Village ---Phenomlenal 3br/3ba 1600 sq ft condo AND 3br/2.5 ba 1900 sq ft home in Jb*Al J. A ,
only The publisher assumes no financial responsibil- gated community in Mexico Beach. Gulf views, washer & dryer, comriunity ptoo and hot tub.
ity for errors or omissions of copy. Position of any ad $1400 ts $1700 per moith. O1 I 1 4,
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House For Rent, in St. Pt. St Joe 3 br, 2ba, laun- Howard Creek
Joe Beach, 3 br, 2 ba, diy rm, Irg rec room eat (Gulf County)
large yard, Call Gene at in dining rm, CH/A, nice 2 br 1 ba home at 172
850-830-9342. yard $650 mo + $400 2 br 1N Dee Ave. New carpet
depNopes 2276216N Deer Ave. New carpet
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE appliances, & Linoloum
S... in kitchen & Ba, $125K
7100 Homes 850-265-3950
7110 Beach Home/
Property
Port St. Joe large His- 712- Commercial
toric 3 br, 2.5 ba home, St. Joe Beach, Nice 2 br, 7130 Condor/ownhouse
overlooking Bay. Elegant near TAFB, all appliances, 7140 Farms & Ranches
rnnms includes foyer with beach access, $750 mo. 7150 Lots and Acreage ... .- ..


Please submit the original NOTICE OF SELL
'and (3) copies of the bid
and indicate on the enve- Notice is hereby given that
lope YOUR COMPANY Bayou Storage, pursuant.
NAME, that this is a to FS83.806, will dispose
*SEALED BID and include of or offer for sell after
:the BID NUMBER. February 25, 2008, the
.the BID NUMBER. miscellaneous items be-
longing to the following
Proposals must be turned tenants: Hugh Belcher
in to the Gulf County #403, #101, and Jeff
.Clerk's Office at 1000 Cecil Fletcher #315, #317.


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How to Receive your IRS Tax Rebate


By Ralph C. Roberson,
CPA
The Internal Revenue
Service issued IR-208-18
giving details on how the eco-
nomic stimulus payments
(Tax Rebates) will be made
to taxpayers in the coming
months. Basically, if you are
eligible for a tax rebate all
you have to do is file a 2007
tax return, and the IRS will
take care of the rest. The
IRS will use information
on your 2007 tax return.
to determine eligibility and
to calculate the amount.
They expect to begin mail-
ing checks in early May,
and will announce a pay-
ment schedule in the near
future. These stimulus pay-
ments will be direct depos-
ited for taxpayers selecting
that option when filing their
2007 tax return; others will
receive a check in the mail.
You should read carefully
the eligibility requirements,
exclusions and limitations
to determine if you will


receive a tax rebate pay-
ment.
The basic eligibility
requirements:
Your 2007 tax return
must reflect $3,000 or
more of qualifying income
to be eligible. Qualifying
income consists of earned
income such as wages, net
self-employment income,
as well as Social Security,
veteran's disability compen-
sation, pension or survi-
.,vor's benefits. Generally the
payment will equal the tax
liability on the return with
a maximum rebate amount
of $600 for individuals and
$1,200 for taxpayers that
file a joint return.
Low income taxpayers
that had at least $3,000
in qualifying income, but
did not owe any tax will be
eligible to receive the mini-
mum payment of $300 for
individuals and $600 for
joint filers.
Parents that are eligible
to receive a payment will
also receive an additional


$300 for each qualifying
child. An eligible child is
one that qualifies for the
Child Tax Credit.
Those who were not
required to file a return
for 2007 and have qualified
income of $3,000 or more
including social security,
veterans' compensation, etc.
must file a return to receive
the tax rebate payment.
Some Exclusions
Apply:
College students, chil-
dren or individuals that
have income of $3,000
or more and file a return
are not eligible to receive
a tax rebate if they can be
claimed as dependents on
another tax return.
Investment income
such as interest, dividends
and capital gains Income is
not included in qualifying
income. If you owe the IRS
back taxes, they will offset
any rebate amount, against
these taxes as they do any
other refund.
There Are Limitations:


There are maximum
income limits that will
reduce or phase out eligibil-
ity to receive tax payments.
For individual taxpayers
the payment amounts will
be reduced by 5 % of the
amount of adjusted gross
income exceeding $75,000
and for joint filers the reduc-
tion will apply to income in


excess of $150,000.
Individuals that pay no
tax and who have less than
$3,000 of qualifying income
will not be eligible for a tax
rebate payment.
Summary:
You should be alert for
tax rebate scams through
false telephone calls, e-mails
or other mail. The IRS will


mail two informational
notices to taxpayers advis-
ing them of the tax rebate
program. Remember, you
must file a 2007 tax return
before the IRS can deter-
mine if you are eligible to
receive a tax rebate pay-
ment. You should consult
with your tax professional if
you have any questions.


Pristine Properties Vacation


Rental Snowbird Party a Success


Pristine Properties
Vacation Rentals hosted its
4th Annual Snowbird Party
on Sunday, February 17 with
great success. This party
has become an event that
everyone looks forward to.
It is hosted as a thank you to
the many guests who come
and make our area home
during the winter months.
There were nearly 100 peo-
ple in attendance and the
guests enjoyed meeting one
another, an abundance of


good food and free door
prizes that were donated by
local businesses. Pristine
Properties would like to
thank the following busi-
nesses for donating prizes.
From Port St. Joe: Portside
Trading, Cooper's Cut &
Style, Petals by the Bay, The
Port Liquor, Radio Shack,
The Nail Place, Sassy Nails,
Movie Gallery, Provision's,
Pepper's, Hungry Howles
and Donamella Day Spa.
From Mexico Beach:


Sharon's Cafe, Scoop's Up,
The Grove, Two Gulls, El
Governor Motel, Mango.
Marley's, Shoreline Styles
and Amanda's Bistro.
And from Cape San Blas:
Scallop Cove BP Pristine
Properties Vacation Rentals
looks forward to making
this an annual .event for
many years to come and
they appreciate all of the
support from their fellow
businessmen and women.


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Masonry: Brick, Block, and Stone
Walls, Stoops & Flat Work
Tile & Marble: Floors & Backsplashes
Landscape design:
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BKilgore's
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Driveways, Patios, Pool Decks,
Retaining Walls, Stonework &
Water Features
Pressure Washing & Sealing of
Pavers & Concrete Surfaces
Office: (850) 229-1980
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er satisfaction meet!
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Established 1937 Serving Gulf County and surrounding areas for 70 years






Established 1 937 Servinq Gulf County and surrounding areas for 70 years The Star, Port St. Joe, FL Thursday, February 21, 2008 13B


On Saturday, Feb.
9, the Friends of St. Joe
Bay Buffer and Aquatic
Preserves held a low coun-
try boil fund raiser at the
Preserve Office on Hwy
C-30.
"The event was a huge
success," said Neil Jones,
park services specialist at
the Preserve. "There were
28 new memberships and
260 people had lunch with
us.
In addition to food,
the Friends arranged door
prizes and offered both
walking and riding tours
on topics including bird-
ing, butterflies and wild-
flowers.
There were visitors
present from all over the
U.S. and Canada as well as
many locals.
"We've been holding
the boil for several years,"
said Jones. "I think people
have come to look forward
to it."
Buffalo Rock provided
free soft drinks for event.
Loco Catering of St.
*George Island volunteered
their time and equipment
:to prepare the meal.
The Friends of St.
'Joseph Bay Preserves,
4nc. is a non-profit group
that has been established
.to protect the St. Joseph
*Bay Buffer Preserve and
4the St. Joseph Bay Aquatic
:Preserve. The Friends raise
,unds and provide volun-
teer services to help man-
'age the preserves and to
.increase understanding,
,appreciation and enjoy-
-ment of the Preserves and
St. Joseph Bay.


Lois Swoboda/The Times Lois Swoboda/The Times
Clancy Grasman of Ontario, Canada dis- Bey Brown of Port St. Joe was laden
played the free tee shirt he received when he with boxes in search of a trash can. "It was
joined the Friends of the St. Joe Bay Buffer and very good!" said Brown.
Aquatic Reserve.


Lois Swoboda/The Times
Charla Bogg of Port St. Joe, past president of the Friends,
displays a boar's skull she found in the woods and brought
along to donate to the Preserve.


Lois Swoboda/The Times
Brianna Harris of Port St. Joe enjoys corn on the cob at
the Friends low country boil.


Lois Swoboda/The Times
Ann Marie Daly, Sandra Chafin and Sandra Shaw, all of Port St. Joe, manned the mem-
bership desk. Twenty eight new members signed up at the boil.


10th Annual Mexico Beach



Gumbo Cookoff Winners


Restaurant division:
1st place: The Lazy Grouper, Mexico Beach
2nd place: Two Crabs, Mexico Beach
3rd place: The Fish House

Amateur division:
1st place: Port St. Joe Realty
2nd place: Mike and Dana
3rd place: Voodoo 2 and Mark Herring


Photos Courtesy of Sandie Yarbrough


United Way

Volunteer

&

Information

Center


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EQUAL HOUSM
OPPORTUNE ITY

FAIR HOUSING / EQUAL HOUSING
OPPORTUNITY

It is illegal to discriminate based on race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, age,
disability, or familial status when renting, .
selling or financing a home or property.

You Have Rights!! If you feel you have been
discriminated against when buying or renting a home
please contact Ms. Cathy Simmons, City of Wewahitchka
(850) 639-2605.

The City of Wewahitchka is a Fair Housing Advocate
as explained in the City of Wewahitchka Fair Housing
Ordinance which outlines steps that can be taken locally
to report housing discrimination.

A copy of this ordinance can be obtained at the City
of Wewahitchka City Hall in addition information on
Fair Housing and Fair Housing Law can be obtained
by contacting the Housing Discrimination Hotline at,
1-800-669-9777 (Voice) 1-800-927-9275 (TTY) or on
the world wide web at http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/
index.cfm


REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
NO. 0708-14

The Gulf County Board of County Commissioners is requesting proposals from individuals,
corporations or institutions for modeling non-ad-valorem assessments and all supporting
data that should address at a minimum of the following:
* A feasibility study to evaluate and justify what non ad-valorem assessments are appli-
cable for the following services:
o EMS
* LANDFILL
* MOSQUITO CONTROL
* GARBAGE COLLECTION
* Evaluate the positive and negative economic and physical impacts for both the short
term and long term planning periods.
* Establish a level of service concurrency.
* Evaluate the degree of legal considerations that will be faced by the County.
* Develop an minpl.n'.- ii.trili n policy that will be easily understood by all parties affected.
" The overall intent is to have an administrative policy that will govern the assessments
from cradle to grave.
o piti.:.o to consider cost reduction in services provided by county staff for data collection.
'.. .-.1-,i-..'J be submitted by 4:30 p.m,, E.T. on Friday, February 29, 2008 to the Office
of the Gulf County Clerk of Court, 1000 Cecil G. Costin, Sr., Blvd., Room 148, Port St. Joe,
Florida 32456. .Proposals will be opened on Monday, March 3, 2008 at 10:00 a.m., E.T, at
the Office of the Gulf County Clerk of Court.
/s/Billy E. Traylor, Chairman
Attest: /s/ Rebecca L. Norris, Clerk


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Low Country Boil Brings New



Members to the Friends of St. Joe Bay


The Star, Pori St. Joe, FL Thursday, February 21, 2008 1313


Established 1937 Serving Gulf County and surrounding areas for 70 years


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14B Thursday, February 21, 2008 The Star, Port St. Joe, FL Established 1937 Serving Gulf County and surrounding areas for 70 years


Eagle


share with him a few days
after her release and then
was seen at least four more
times." Eells said.
Much to Eells' delight,
even a pair of bald eagles
flying over the gulf stopped
in her yard to visit with
Brave Spirit.
In the peace and quiet
of Eells' refuge, the eagle
even had a favorite animal
that stayed near his pen
much of the time.
Fawn, a blind seven-
year old deer that Eells
raised from a weeks-old
fawn, made her bed just to
the side of the eagle pen.
"He will be missed by all
who loved him," Eells said.
"I'll miss the cackling when


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the other eagles visited.
and when the great horned
owl pair nested in the trees
over the pen the other day.
"The people who came
by just to look at him,
and our FWC officers who
visited him, the people who
brought him fresh mullet -
they will all miss him," she
added.
Eells always knew
that Brave Spirit would
eventually be removed
from her facility because of
the recently changed eagle
protection laws.
Eells was sub-
permitted under another
permit to care for and hold
American bald eagles for
educational purposes when


eagles were on the federal
endangered list under the
Endangered Species Act of
1972 (ESA).
But since the law
changed, she is no longer
permitted.
The eagle was down-
listed from "endangered"
to "threatened" under the
ESA in 1995.
In June 2007 the
eagle's primary protection
was changed from the ESA
to the "Bald and Golden
Eagle Protection Act."
"My facility would have
to be a large zoological
garden or big nature refuge
open to the public for me
to be able to keep eagles
now under the new law,
Eells explained.
"Wildlife departments
are working to change that
but it will take about .two


years, so in the meantime,
Brave Spirit has to go to a
licensed facility."
On Feb. 8, Brave
Spirit was crated and
driven to the 'American
Eagle Foundation (AEF), at
Dollywood, Dolly Parton's
entertainment park in east
Tennessee.
Eells said she is
already planning to visit.
him some day soon at his
new home with other non-
releasable eagles.
"In the meantime,"
Eells said, "his legacy will
be carried on by his eaglet.
His name also honors the
bravery' of all the men and
women who have served
and continue to serve in
our military today, so that
we as Americans can have
the freedom to live as free
spirits ourselves."


Brave Spirit's New Home

The American Eagle Foundation (AEF), founded
in 1985, is a not-for-profit organization of citizens
and professionals dedicated to developing and
conducting bald eagle and environmental recovery
programs in the United States.
Their goal is to fully restore the bald eagle to the
American landscape, and to provide for their future
care and protection through the "Build a Nest-Egg."
The foundation also is dedicated to caring for
eagles that are injured and orphaned, and is heavily
involved in environmental education of the general
public.
The Pigeon Forge\ center staff -members are
federally-licensed care-givers to over 60 birds of prey
on a daily basis.
These birds are non-releasable because of
permanent physical disabilitiesoraccidental imprinting
on humans. Many of them reside on the forested
hillside ,within the Eagle Mountain Sanctuary aviary
in Dollywood Park, the largest aviary presentation of
nlon-releasable bald eagles in the world.
Many of the non-releasable eagles at the facility
are also part of the successful breeding program at
the center, which operates the largest bald eagle
breeding,facility in the world. "
The AEF was formerly called the National,
Foundation to Protect America's Eagles.
Dollywood provides funding for AEF, which is
located, on the DollyWood property in Pigeon Ford,
Tennessee in the Great Smokey Mountains.
For more information, visit www eagles org.


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"At the Beauty Shop"
by Despina Williams



Entry must be displayed in a box or shoebox .'
All characters must be marshmallow Peeps
All scenes must depict some aspect of Panhandle living
Business entries must depict place of business and employees
Entries must be in good taste
.. You can work in pairs, teams, or by yourself


f" ") Star/Times
,-"' Panhandle Peep Show Diorama Contest

Official Entry Form I
Name(s):
Telephone Numnber:
Category (check one):
Ages 7-13 I
Ages 14-18
Ages 19 and up
Business
Diorama Title: I
Brief description:
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Tape the entry form to the back of the diorama and submit the finished
work by March 13 to: I
The Slar The Tinies
135 W Hwy. 98 129 Commerce Street
Port City Shopping Center Apalachicola, FL 32320
Port St. Joe, FL 32457

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