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By VALERIE GARMAN747-5076| @valeriegarman
PANAMA CITY — The city of Blount-stown, located in Northeast Calhoun County, operates on a $3 million per year budget and is struggling to keep up with infrastructure needs.
“It’s no cheaper to fi x things here than it is in a big city,” said City Man-ager Emory Pierce. “But in big cities with multi-million dollar budgets, a couple of thousand dollars to fi x something is nothing.”
The story is similar for rural communities across the Panhandle region, and U.S. Rep. Steve Souther-land, R-Panama City, is hoping a new bill might help those areas he said “form the backbone of North and Northwest Florida.”
Southerland recently introduced the Building Rural Communities Act, a bill aimed at giving rural govern-ment offi cials the necessary tools to plan large-scale improvement proj-ects in a more cost-effective manner.
Co-sponsored by Rep. Mike Mc-Intyre, D- N.C., the legislation would channel between 3 and 5 percent of funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural De-velopment Essential Communities Facilities loan and grant program to-ward technical assistance and fi nan-cial planning for rural communities.
By RANDAL SEYLER638-0212 | @WCN_HCT
CHIPLEY — A Washington County resident questioned a county commissioner’s request for a job description during Thursday’s Board of County Commissioners meeting in Chipley.
Skyla Carter of Chipley told the commissioners she had concerns about county interviewing policies that were raised when she re-
quested emails of county offi cials through the Florida Sunshine Law.
In the emails, Commis-sioner Lynn Gothard asked Heather Finch, former hu-man resources director for the county, to send her a copy of the public safety di-rector job description to a different email account.
The county does not have a public safety director since the retirement of Roger Hagan in December.
“I was concerned about
the email being sent to a dif-ferent address,” Carter said. “I had made a request for all emails about the public safe-ty director position, and I was wondering if there were any emails I didn’t receive.
Gothard said she knew what Carter was talking about.
“I sent Heather an email asking her to send a copy of the job description to me,” Gothard said.
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County Commissioner Lynn Gothard, left, takes notes during the April board meeting, alongside Commissioners Todd Abbott and Alan Bush.
Commissioner’s email request questionedGothard sought public safety director job description
Bill aims to help rural communities
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CHIPLEY — Trawick Construction of Chipley presented United Way of Northwest Florida a check for $5,868 on Friday.
The donation was raised during the company’s fi fth annual Bring Your Old Buddy golf tournament at Dogwood Lakes in Bonifay.
“We are thrilled to present this
check to the United Way of North-west Florida,” said Phillip Metcalf of Trawick Construction. “They make such a huge impact in our community and we are proud of our partnership with them.”
Trawick Construction is a lead-ing provider of outside plant ser-vices to telecom and long line com-panies throughout the U.S.
“I can’t thank you guys enough for holding the golf tournament,” said Mary Smith of the Washington
County Council on Aging, a United Way agency. “Our goal is to provide for the founders of Washington County, to meet their needs and to keep them in their homes for as long as possible.”
Smith said the Council on Ag-ing has suffered a 15 percent bud-get decrease in the last two years, and because of budget constraints, the Meals on Wheels program is
RANDAL SEYLER | The News
Trawick Construction presented United Way of Northwest Florida a check for $5,868 on Friday at the Trawick offi ce in Chipley. The company held a golf tournament to raise the money for United Way, and representatives from United Way and the Washington County Council on Aging were on hand to accept the gift.
Trawick Construction donates $5,868 to United Way
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Corbin appointed ‘point of contact’By RANDAL SEYLER
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CHIPLEY — After only an hour’s debate, the Washing-ton County Board of County Commissioners appointed Public Services Director David Corbin to serve as a point of contact in lieu of ap-
pointing an interim county administrator.
However, Corbin wasn’t the commissioners’ fi rst nomination of the morning when the board met in spe-cial session Tuesday to dis-cuss seeking a replacement for County Administrator Steve Joyner, who resigned his position with the county
on Thursday.Commissioner Todd
Abbott proposed former commissioner Hulan Cart-er to serve as an interim county administrator, but his motion was defeated 3-2 with Commissioners Lynn Gothard, Alan Bush and Charles Brock voting against appointing Carter.
Abbott also suggested the county’s interim Human Resources Director Albert Davis as a possible choice, but that suggestion had been voted down on Thursday af-ter Joyner’s announcement and did not come to a vote again on Tuesday.
Brock said he questioned whether or not the county
needed a county administra-tor and suggested appoint-ing Corbin as a point of con-tact person to whom county department heads could turn if they had problems.
Corbin also would be given signature authority for day-to-day expenditures
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VERNON — There will be an AWF/NHW professional wrestling event on Saturday at the old high school gym in Vernon. The event is a fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and will feature professional wrestlers Waylon Barley, Dandy Jack, Lane Smart, Mark Justice, Shane Gibson, Nelson Izee, Chris Tighe, Cali Kid and a special apperance by Chic Donovan. The card is subject to change. Doors will open at 7 p.m., and bell time is 8 p.m. Tickets are $6, and children 5 and younger get in free. For more information, call Dora at 326-8004 or Garry at 904-235-7244.
‘Heart of the USA Pageant’ Sunday
CHIPLEY — The 2013 North Florida’s Miss Heart of the USA State Pageant Preliminary to benefi t The Washington County Council on Aging is at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Panhandle Shrine Club, 1425 Brickyard Road in Chipley. Queens will advance to the 2013 North Florida State Pageant in September, and winners of the preliminary will be riding the offi cial Miss Heart of the USA fl oat in the Bonifay rodeo parade in October. For more information, visit missheartoftheusa.com/washingtoncounty.
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above what department heads are allowed.
“The board has the au-thority to define what David would do in this position,” County Attorney Jeff Good-man said. “The county has the ability to deal with con-tracts on a month-to-month basis, and those are ap-proved by the board.”
Goodman said the board should grant Corbin some flexibility in dealing with day-to-day running of the county.
Commissioner Joel Pate noted the county budgets soon would be due and said it was necessary to have a county administrator in place to oversee the creation of the budgets.
County Clerk Linda Cook disagreed, however, saying the department heads and the county finance office were capable of creating a budget without the oversight of a county manager.
“Every time we hire someone to run the county, we don’t let him do his job,” Pate said. “This board gets involved and won’t leave him alone.”
“We owe it to the employ-ees to have a point of con-tact,” Abbott said at the open-ing of the meeting. “We have invoices that need signed, the budgets are coming up and there are the day-to-day operations to oversee.”
Pate said advertising the position properly will take 60-90 days, and there will be the
interviewing process. “We want to advertise all
over the state of Florida,” Abbott said. “We want to have as qualified a candidate as possible to interview.” He noted some nearby coun-ties have been undergoing county manager searches as well.
“I hate to say it, but the only way we are going to bring this county into the 21st century is to hire some-one from the outside,” Pate said.
Brock said the board should take time to consider the situation and not rush into anything.
Chairman Bush asked interim HR Director Davis if he would be interested in ap-plying for the county admin-istrator position, and Davis said he would. Bush asked if the county attorney could oversee the creation of the job description for the coun-ty administrator, so Davis would not have to write the description for a position for which he would be applying.
Brock said Corbin had the most experience of any em-ployee with the county and would be a good choice for a go-between for the employ-ees and the board.
Corbin told the board he would not accept an interim county manager position but would be happy to serve as a contact person to fill in until a county administrator can be hired.
Gothard asked Corbin why he didn’t want to serve as an interim county admin-istrator. “What part of the county administrator du-ties are you uncomfortable with?”
“I didn’t think it was going that way. I thought I was go-ing to be a point of contact,” Corbin said.
“Would you be comfort-able with the duties of county administrator?” Gothard asked.
“David’s abilities go way beyond being a county ad-ministrator,” Abbott said to Gothard. “I can’t believe the pressure you are putting this man under. In fact, maybe I shouldn’t say this, but you have applied so much pres-sure to him that he has filed a complaint against you.”
“More important than the title is that you tell this per-son what it is you expect him to do,” Goodman said. “He needs to have clear direction from the board in what his duties will be.”
The board voted 4-1 to ap-point Corbin as the point of contact person, with Abbott voting against.
The board requested a county administrator job de-scription be prepared in time for the May workshop, and Bush asked the board to de-cide at the next meeting how Corbin would be compensat-ed for his additional duties. The compensation can be made retroactive to April 30.
limited, and there is a waiting list of seniors requesting hot meals.
“We’ll do anything we can to help promote the golf tour-nament,” Smith said. “Just let us know, and we’ll do what we can to help.”
“This golf tournament is so important because there is a real need for these ser-vices,” said Nicole Barefield, publisher of the Washington
County News and the Holm-es County Times-Advertiser. “We see it every day.”
“For every dollar you do-nate, the Council on Aging gets $9 in matching funds. I don’t know anywhere else you can get a nine-to-one return on your money,” said Ron Sharpe, director of resource development for United Way of Northwest Florida.
“The money raised by the
local golf tournament stays in Northwest Florida and helps our United Way agencies and our neighbors,” Sharpe said.
“You know how important it is what you guys are do-ing. I hope you can hear the sincerity when we say ‘thank you,’” Sharpe told Trawick employees. “You didn’t have to do this tournament, but you got involved and did it. That is so awesome.”
“Unfortunately, across America, many of these bedrock communities are fading away because they can’t match the ac-cess to infrastructure and services that larger cities provide,” Southerland said. “Our legislation will make it easier for rural communities to thrive by provid-ing the technical assistance and project planning they need to strengthen public safety, public health, and public access to upgraded services — all at no additional cost to taxpayers.”
Pierce said funding issues have halted a project to run a force main sewer line from Altha, a small town to the north-west, to the Blountstown wastewater treatment plant. Currently, all of Altha’s buildings run off of septic tanks.
“Without real community sewer lines, they are severely limited in Altha and along that entire corridor toward Blountstown,” Pierce said.
He said the Calhoun County School District is exploring options for a new high school in Altha, but the current in-frastructure cannot support a structure that size.
Overall, Pierce said he would support any bill that could help rural areas like Blountstown.
“We have the normal aging infrastruc-ture that all cities big and small have, and we are searching for funding to help with our internally generated funds,” said Pierce, who noted the city cannot raise utility rates for fear of losing cus-tomers. “All people and businesses here are strapped. If we raise rates, I would estimate we would lose several custom-ers, and the community just can’t stand that.”
Southerland’s bill was referred to the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture for further consideration.
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trawick from page A1 gothard from page A1Gothard’s husband, Washington Coun-
ty Fire Chief Al Gothard, has many pro-fessional contacts, and he would be able to spread the word that the county was looking for a public safety director. “He knows several qualified professionals, and he could pass on the information to them,” Gothard said.
The job description and advertisement of the job opening already had been pub-lished, Gothard said. “We were wanting to get as broad a selection of candidates as possible. There was nothing underhand-ed about the email.”
Gothard said at the meeting on Thurs-day she “in no way got involved in the hir-ing process during the search for a public safety director.”
However, according to a March 22 let-ter written by Emergency Management employee Connie Welch to Lynne Abel, emergency management coordinator, Go-thard had plans to create a public safety director position, and she had a person in mind to hire for that job.
“Soon after the election, Washington County Fire Chief Gothard was in my of-fice and advised me of his and his wife’s plan for a public safety division director, and he and his wife had the perfect person for the position in mind,” Welch wrote.
According to a March 27 letter to the board from Grant Coordinator Stacy Webb, Gothard had approached Carol Park and Webb on March 12 wanting to see the applications for the public safety position.
“She was very demanding and came
across as being forceful,” Webb wrote. “Carol and I looked at each other for a couple of seconds, and after a brief hesi-tation, we reluctantly acknowledged her request, and Carol escorted her into her office where the applications were kept in a safe, and I proceeded to my office.”
According to the county attorney, ap-plications for county jobs are public re-cords and, minus social security numbers and health-related information, they are open to public inspection.
Also at Thursday’s meeting, the com-missioners voted to rescind an earlier vote and move the Emergency Medical Services department out from under the purview of the public safety director.
At the Jan. 24 board meeting, Commis-sioner Gothard made the motion to move the Emergency Medical Services back under the public safety director’s control per the county’s Proposed Progressive Governmental Structure chart, approved in 2008. After discussion, the commission-ers voted at the January meeting to make the move, with Commissioner Joel Pate voting against the change.
On the organizational chart, in 2008 the EMS is listed under the Public Safety di-rector, but in 2009, the chart was revised, and EMS was moved out to be a depart-ment on its own.
The public safety director’s job de-scription for the director’s position was to revert back to the old description, and the job was to be re-advertised per the com-missioners’ decision, the board decided on Thursday.
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By MATTHEW BEATON 522-5114 | @matthewbeaton
BONIFAY — Liquor laws could get looser in several rural Panhandle counties.
The Florida Legislature passed a bill last week (HB 347) that could help all res-taurants sell liquor, wine and beer in counties where that is not currently allowed, including Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty and Wash-ington counties.
The bill would affect sales of “by the drink” al-cohol, which are beverages consumed where they’re purchased, such as restau-rants and bars.
But, even if the bill is signed by the governor, which appears likely — it cleared the House 111-4 and the Senate 36-0 — it doesn’t automatically legalize “by the drink” sales throughout the counties.
The measure would fall back into the hands of local voters, who would have an easier time getting it on the ballot.
Calhoun, Holmes, Jack-son, Liberty and Washing-ton currently do not sell liquor by the drink.
State Rep. Marti Coley, a Marianna Republican, said twice in recent years there has been an effort to get the issue on the ballot, but it failed.
The Legislature’s re-sponse was to water down the process. Under current state law, to get an initial election on the sale of alco-hol in a county, an applica-tion must be presented to the county commission with 25 percent of registered vot-ers’ signatures.
If that initial election al-lows alcohol to be sold only in package stores, then the county residents must again round up 25 percent of voters’ signatures to put it back on the ballot for “by
the drink” sales in restau-rants. That’s the issue in Jackson County.
The recently passed bill would require only one-tenth of voters’ signatures, or a majority vote by the county commission.
That would put the is-sue on the ballot to legalize “by the drink” sales of beer, wine and liquor containing more than 6.243 percent al-cohol by volume.
Present situationJackson County Com-
missioner Willie Spires said about five of the 11 munici-palities allow restaurants to serve beer. He said some businesses just outside the city limits feel it’s unfair be-cause their competition can serve alcohol while they can’t.
“People are optimistic that now they can get it on the ballot and get it passed,” he said.
Spires can be counted among those who wouldn’t mind seeing alcohol served in restaurants throughout the county.
“I see it as a good thing,” he said. “I think living in a small rural area such as Jackson County that we miss out on a lot of tax [revenue] that could be generated; a lot of people in our area go to Panama City or Dothan (Ala.) or Tallahassee.”
Spires said allowing al-cohol to be served in res-taurants countywide could translate into economic de-velopment, ushering more restaurants like Red Lob-ster or Applebee’s.
Spires said he thought Jackson County residents would like to see the law changed, too. The county has 28,773 registered voters and would need 2,878 signa-tures to get the measure on the ballot.
Calhoun County has 8,276 registered voters and would need 827 signatures
to get the measure on the ballot.
Holmes County has 11,375 registered vot-ers and would need 1,138 signatures.
Liberty County has 4,403 registered voters and would need 441 signatures.
Washington County has 14,665 voters so would need 1,467 signatures.
Or the county commis-sions, through a majority vote, could put the measure in the voters’ hands.
Legislative processColey said she wasn’t
necessarily opposed to the policy, but she voted against it because it was tacked onto the bill late in the pro-cess as an amendment.
“The substance of the amendment was never heard in committee and only affects three counties,” she said in a statement. “Since it was added on the House floor, there was not time to contact the communities that will be impacted.”
Coley said the legislation should have been a stand-alone bill, so it would have had adequate time to be de-bated and those impacted could offer input.
She concluded, “How-ever, in the end, the citi-zens still have the final decision.”
Coley was able to round up two of her Panhandle colleagues — state Reps. Halsey Beshears, R-Mon-ticello, and Jimmy Patro-nis, R-Panama City — to vote against the bill, which passed by a landslide. State Rep. Charles Van Zant, R-Keystone Heights, also voted against it.
Patronis took the same view as Coley.
“Hey, I like live and let live, and I think all that’s fine,” he said of liquor laws, “but there’s a process in place and those people in Jackson County, if they wanted it, they would have
asked their legislator to file a bill and go through the normal vetting process.”
Patronis is co-owner of Capt. Anderson’s, which serves beer, wine and mixed
drinks. His problem with the amendment was that it was filed on the House floor 24 hours before it was voted on.
Rep. Ronald “Doc” Ren-
uart, R-Ponte Vedra Beach, who sponsored the bill, also filed the amendment.
“A lot of people didn’t know about it,” Patronis said.
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The 1944 Vernon High School graduating class held its scheduled reunion at Bailey’s Surf and Turf Restaurant in Chipley on Saturday evening, April 20. We were celebrating 69 years since our graduation on Thursday, April 20, 1944.
Our high school years were shrouded with the reality of war. History was made when principal, Mr. Mercer Cox, arranged for the largest radio he could locate in Vernon to be brought into the auditorium for the entire student body to hear an important announcement. It was on Monday, December 8, 1941, the day following the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. The whole assembly heard President Franklin D. Roosevelt, offi cially declare war on Japan, and later Germany.
The atmosphere of war affected the lives of every one, with Vernon being no exception. Dozens of young men in the school, who were approaching draft age, chose to enlist in the military service thus being able to choose their branch of service.
Some select students remember being called on to perform a duty, possibility under the umbrella of Civil Air Patrol. Student observers positioned themselves in the old courthouse in Vernon for the purpose of looking for any aircraft fl ying in the area, and report all sightings.
My brother, Jim, vividly recalls performing that service as does Frederick Kolmetz and Odell Ward. Jim reports: “We were on the ground fl oor of the almost abandoned old courthouse in a small room with windows which allowed us to look for the fl ying activity.”
He continued: “Our telephone was an extension from the old Parrish General Store, and one of the very few phones in the town.” He remembers this as strictly a volunteer service, and never recalls any real signifi cance coming from the efforts,
such as spotting an enemy, or unauthorized airplane.
Brothers, Carl and Oakley Hightower, members of the ‘44 class left school prior to graduation to join the military. Carl entered the Army Air Corps and Oakley joined the U. S. Army. A third classmate, Allee Whidden, chose the U. S. Marine Corps. Classmates, William T. McFatter, Jr. and Thomas H. Knight, spent their senior year of high school in a Military Academy, with Bill entering the Army and Thomas choosing the Navy.
After graduations, 1944 Vernon High School Class found their way into the military to fulfi ll their patriotic duty. Veston Neswsom and Frederick Kolmetz chose the Navy. Archie L. Cook, Hurdis A. Brock and Perry E. Wells became soldiers in the Army
Bill McFatter suffered combat wounds to the legs while serving in the European Theater of the war. Archie Cook was captured by the Germans and spent time as a POW.
Our fi rst class reunion was in 1964 — 20 years after fi nishing school. Mr. Jack Perkins, a retired military Mess Sergeant, was the lunchroom manager at Vernon High School at the time. He agreed to open the school lunchroom, prepare the meal, serve us and provide all the clean up with the total cost assessed at $1.25 per person! I hope we gave him a generous tip.
The second reunion in 1989, was held at the Chipley Motel Restaurant, then the top eatery in town. We also met there in the years, 1992, 1994 and 1997.
The year 2000 was the mammoth one, held at the Northwest Florida Campground and Music Park. VHS Graduating classes from 1940-41 through 1950-51 were included.
Music was provided by Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, as Doyle was born on April 20, 1944. Others performing were Sand Hills City Limits, headed by W. T. Miller and son, Jimmy Miller and Sheriff Buddy Smith, and
Being able to see the Doolittle Raiders at their last reunion caused me to research the World War II event that changed the course of the war with Japan and reminds us of the spirit that carried so many of our military men through that historical time.
In my article last week I said that the 3 surviving Raiders were at their fi nal reunion. According to an associated press release from Eglin Air Force Base, there is one additional surviving member of the original 80 men, Robert Hite, 93, who was unable to make the trip. Staff Sgt. David Thatcher, 91, Lt. Col Edward Saylor, 97, and Lt. Col. Richard Cole. 97, made several public appearances.
I also want to correct a glaring error from last week’s article. John
McCain was the prisoner of war incarcerated with Bud Day.
Cole actually fl ew a B-25 that he fl ew in the 1942 raid over Japan during their appearance at Destin Airport. Larry Kelly who grew up in Enterprise and is the fi rst cousin of local resident Mrs. Jake Jacobs
(Alice), owns the vintage plane. A member of the Raiders Foundation, Kelly took Cole up for a spin. The 97 year old waved to the crowd on take-off and then took the controls, fl ying the plane and landing it perfectly. Larry Kelly who is a WWII and aviation enthusiast owns an air museum in Georgetown, Delaware (ragwingsandradials.com). A retired pharmacist and pharmaceutical consultant, he participates in air shows and WWII historical events,
often accompanying the Raiders.Because of several movies, many
who are too young to remember the secret mission that boosted American morale four months after the “day that will go down in infamy” have an idea of the events that occurred. Sixteen B-25 planes were launched for the fi rst time from an aircraft carrier to carry out a surprise raid on the Japanese mainland. Most of the B25’s crews came down in China and 69 eventually made their way to safety with help from the Chinese.
Staff Sgt. William J Dieter and Sgt. Donald E Fitzmaurice drowned when their B-25s crashed into the sea. Eight were captured by the Japanese: Lt. Donald Halmark, Lt. Robert J. Meder, Lt. Chase Nelson, Lt. William G. Farrow, Lt. Robert L.
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This shows our one and only Guest Register. Maybe it will ultimately end up in the Vernon Historical Museum as a piece of Vernon History.
HAPPY CORNERHazel Wells Tison
United We StandDear Editor,Americans are united today in condemning
terrorism and in the conviction that those responsible for the terrorist attacks in Boston must face justice. This cowardly attack resulted in the murders of an 8-year-old boy and two women, and the wounding of many others. As God tells us in the Quran, “if you murder one person, it as if you murdered all of humanity.”
While we are outraged at the terrorists, we have been inspired by the unity of Americans of all backgrounds. We are a resilient people. Now that we know the identity of the perpetrators, this unity is ever more important.
We will show the terrorists that their plan to sow division and distrust has failed. People of goodwill are not afraid. America will stay united.
American Muslims thank law enforcement for their diligent efforts to protect all our nation’s citizens. We send our sincere condolences to the loved ones of the MIT police offi cer killed overnight and our prayers are with the law enforcement offi cial who was wounded.
We reiterate the American Muslim community’s consistent condemnation of terrorism in all its forms.
Sincerely,Dr. Mohammad Yunus
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Dear Editor, This year’s Earth Day
served as an outstanding reminder that everyone can make an important difference for the environment through the simple act of donating gently used clothing or household items to Goodwill.
Each year, donors help Goodwill prevent more than two billion pounds of usable goods from ending up in landfi lls. But the impact to the environment is only part of the story. Revenue raised from the sale of donated items at Goodwill stores funds job training programs, employment placement services and other vital programs in the community. People, as well as the planet, benefi t.
To show individuals how their donations truly impact their communities, Goodwill
developed a Donation Impact Calculator (http://donate.goodwill.org). The calculator shows how your donation can help a person receiving services from Goodwill. For example, a donation of one working computer translates into 5.8 hours of a job search class that can help a person right in our community who may be unemployed and struggling to support his or her family.
Goodwill encourages everyone to making one small green change in your life. Individual actions add up to global impact. Not only will you be helping those in your community who face challenges in fi nding employment, but you will also reduce waste in our landfi lls.
To fi nd your nearest Goodwill donation site, go to www.goodwillbigbend.com.
Brooke LochoreVice President of Public Relations
Letters to the EDITOR
Doolittle Raiders: Preserving the Legacy
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
VHS Class of 1944 celebrates graduation shrouded in war
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PERRY’S PRATTLEPerry Wells
Local Washington County News | A5Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Hite, Lt. George Barr, and Cpls Harold A. Spatz, and Jacvob DeShzer. Halmark, DeShazer and Spatz were executed by firing squad. Meder was left in solitary confinement where he died. The remaining four men eventually began to receive better treatment and were given a copy of the Bible and a few books that helped them to be able to survive until they were freed by American troops in 1945.
Of those who survived, most went on to other bombing missions in both the Pacific and European theaters. All Raiders received the Flying Cross. Those killed or wounded received the Purple Heart. All received decoration from the Chinese Government. Although Doolittle himself feared that he might be court masrhaled because of the loss of the planes, he received the Presidential Medal of Honor.
Even though the raid
did insignificant damage to mainland Japan, it gave our country a great morale boost following Pearl Harbor and Japan’s dominance there. It also caused the Japanese to focus on protecting their own Island nation and helped to bring American victory in the defense of Midway Islands. Though the Japanese suffered light casualties in the Tokyo raid, they extracted a
heavy toll on the Chinese who aided the Americans. 250,000 were slaughtered as a result.
Speaking about the crew’s attitude concerning the attack, Cole, Doolittle’s co-pilot said, “We were pretty upbeat about what was going to happen. We just did what we had to do.” This is typical of the veterans of that war. Most of them were young and had the attitude that we
have a job to do, let’s get it done. They kept their faith and their sense of humor. Lt. Col Saylor joked with young airmen in the audience concerning his reaction about the bombing, “ ….it was too far to swim back home so we might as well go ahead with it.” We need to continue to tell their story and celebrate their bravery as we keep their legacy alive.
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The 1944 class has met annually, and at a variety of places since 2000. In 2002, our meeting place was the Wells homestead, with food catered by Angie Morris and daughter Jill.
Only three class members, Frances Shores Fussell, Fredrick Kolmetz and Perry E. Wells, attended this year’s event. Two of Hurdis Brock’s son, Steve and Stan, along with wife, Kay, came. His two brothers, Drexel, along with son, Doug, and Bill, accompanied by wife, Betty, and their son, Gordon, added to the numbers.
Frances Fussell, husband, Julius,, grandson, Clint, daughter Mary, and her husband, Terry Driggers, and their three year old grand daughter, Zoe attended. James Earl Guy and wife, Naomi, came again this year although his mother, Myrtle Haddock Guy, was unable to come.
Nadine Kolmetz accompanied her husband, and Hester was with me, along with two of our sons, Gordon and Tim and wife, Debbie.
Emma Lou Chesser Tew and Thomas H. Knight had to cancel
when medical issues thwarted their plans just days before the event. Indirectly, word was received that Estelle Hewett Scott, Bessie Lee Milton Davenport and Carl Hightower would be unable to attend.
Louvern Chestnut Mizell called from Virginia, reported her inability to attend. Bill McFatter wrote a letter, stating he could not be with us and expressed doubt that his sister, and our classmate, Carol McFatter Hudson, would be able to come.
Myrtle Morris Wolfe wrote a note stating she could not attend this year. Trudell Brock Worthington held high hopes of being at the event, but obviously did not feel up to the task.
The group comprising the Vernon High School class of 1944 recognizes that we may have set a record of keeping in touch following graduation 69 years ago. We also recognize the time has come when attendance is becoming difficult for some, and impossible for others.
We will probably look closely at all circumstances prior to planning further reunions.
See you all next week.
Vernon from page A4
Bonifay man arrested on charges of possession of listed chemicalsFrom Staff Reports
BONIFAY — A Holmes County Sheriff ’s deputy arrested a Bon-ifay man on charges of possess-ing chemicals needed to make meth after being stopped for a
tag violation on April 18, accord-ing to a sheriff ’s office news release.
Arrested was Jerry Hiram Johnson, 43, of Bonifay, on charges of (or in connection with charges of) possession of
listed chemicals used in the manufacturing of methamphet-amine (pseudoephedrine) and attaching a tag not assigned, according to the release.
A Holmes County deputy stopped Johnson’s vehicle in
the Pittman community for a tag violation.
During a search of Johnson’s person, the deputy found a box of pseudoephedrine hidden in Johnson boot, according to the release.
Authorities say Johnson said he bought the pseudo-ephedrine to use for making methamphetamines.
Johnson remains in the Hol-mes County Jail on a $10,000 bond.
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April 15 – April 22, 2013Barbara Barnes, 42, Vernon,
aggravated battery with a deadly weapon
Stephanie Brown, 50, Chipley, misuse of 911
Wade Brown, 60, Chipley, battery, bond revoked on failure to appear for petit theft
Jason Carroll, 34, Bonifay, driving while license suspended or revoked, possession of listed chemicals, Holmes County warrant for violation of state probation on possession a controlled substance
Ricky Clark, 50, Ebro, battery, criminal mischief
Donavan Cox, Southport, driving while license suspended or revoked, possession of paraphernalia
Scott Davis, Southport, producing marijuana, aggravated battery
Anton Dixon, 20, Jacksonville, violation of state probation on robbery
Terry Gentry, 35, Ponce de Leon, possession of synthetic narcotic, alter vehicle registration, carrying
a concealed weapon, violation of injunction
John Grantham, 52, Vernon, produce meth, produce marijuana, possession of controlled substance, possession of marijuana less than 20 grams
Anthony Harris, 19, Bonifay, contempt of court on making false report
Frances Harris, 29, Bonifay, possession of listed chemicals
John Holley, 29, Caryville, child abuse, deliver meth
Kevin Houck Jr., 25, Ozark, Ala., possession of paraphernalia, possession of marijuana less than 20 grams, possession of controlled substance
Stacey Huckaby, 23, Bonifay, Holmes County warrant for violation of county probation on possession of marijuana less than 20 grams
Luis Juarez, 25, Fort Pierce, driving while license suspended or revoked
Ryan Kirby, 35, Chipley, burglary, larceny, criminal mischief
Stephanie Kirksey, 33,
Tallahassee, driving while license suspended or revoked
Dan Marshall, 48, Freeport, possession of cocaine, possession of paraphernalia
Alvin McGinty, 57, Chipley, violation of state probation on arson
Jessica Newsome, 33, Chipley, larceny
Robert Paige, 54, Wausau, violation of state probation on possession of listed chemical
Leonard Pouncey, 33, Chipley, possession of controlled substance two counts, produce meth two counts, possession of marijuana less than 20 grams two counts, possession of paraphernalia two counts, child abuse
Dallas Walters, 46, Chipley, battery
Cheryl Williams, 47, Chipley, driving while license suspended or revoked, possession of cocaine, introduction of contraband into county facility
James Williams, 47, Pensacola, failure to appear on operating motor vehicle without a license
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I’ve plowed this ground before, but I’m going to dig in and plow it again which is the temperature of the Gulf along the beaches, or better yet where the readings originate. What the temperature is 10 miles offshore is of no concern to pompano and ling fi shermen. No one can tell me with any accuracy just where these Gulf temperatures are coming from.
It is possible to pull up a buoy offshore on your computer and get a reading, or you can
listen to the news and get another, but to get one that is important to fi shermen a mile offshore is impossible to verify. The only way I can come up with a temperature
that is close to accurate is to ask a fi sherman with a temperature gauge on his boat.
The last time I tracked down where the Gulf temperature was being recorded here turned out to be at the city marina. The water temperature at the city marina is 5 degrees warmer than the Gulf. People do not fi sh for pompano or ling at the city marina. Last week one station was reporting 70 degrees in the Gulf and who knows where that came from. A friend fi shing the same day told me his bottom machine was reporting 65 degrees in 20 feet of water. That was more realistic than a reading from who knows where of 70 degrees.
Sixty-fi ve degrees is a long way from 70. The boats in Destin were reporting temperatures in the 70s and they were catching ling. That was not the case here. Eight or 10, or event 10-20 ling being caught here in a week is not a lot of ling when some years back we were catching that many a day.
For some reason we just aren’t getting the warm water we have in the past. The Mexico Beach Ling Ding tournament up until this weekend had three ling brought to the dock. Organizers want this tournament to rival the event it was 15 years ago, but nature has dealt them a bad hand. Who knows, a thermal of warm water may swing their way. I hope so.
Pompano are showing up little by little. Cussing Cousin, my eyes and ears fi shing from one of our piers, tells me he is seeing some schools of pompano passing by the pier where he is fi shing heading west to points unknown. But not enough to write home about.
Some fi shermen are catching pompano from their boats, some tipping jigs with sand fl eas and some not. I have bombed out in two days fi shing, but in my defense the wind was blowing a hurricane both days.
I suppose talking temperatures this late in the game is a moot conversation. In about three weeks the majority of the ling will have passed on west, so it won’t make much difference.
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SHARK CHALLENGE
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White sharks are rare creatures pretty much anywhere in the world’s oceans these days, but they’re particularly unusual in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. About the only white shark seen in the Panhandle is a plastic replica hanging upside down outside a restaurant.
In fact, Captain Sam Maisano and his son, Captain Joe Maisano, who run Go Fast Charters out of Treasure Island near St. Petersburg, never had seen one in a lifetime of fi shing these waters up to 125 miles offshore — or roughly due south of Apalach.
Until March 15. Then they saw — and hooked — a shark that went way beyond any of their wildest imaginings.
“We were fi shing some wrecks in about 90 feet of water 30 miles west of Johns Pass,” Maisano said. “We were on a good bite, pulling up a lot of big gag grouper, some amberjacks, and we had caught and released several Goliath groupers over 300 pounds, so there was a lot of underwater ‘noise’ going on, and I’d guess that’s what attracted the shark.”
Maisano said he saw a fi n come up about 100 yards back of the boat and could tell immediately it was a large shark. But he had no idea how large until it came cruising by the boat a few minutes later.
“That shark was every bit of 18 feet long,” Maisano said. “I could tell because it was over half as long as our 32-foot Donzi.”
He said that not only the incredible length but the girth of the monster shocked him.
“It was just enormous, maybe 4 feet across the head,” Maisano said. “I could tell from the body shape, almost stubby like at the tail, that it had to be a great white, and after we saw it a few more times I was certain.” He guessed the weight of the beast at between 2,500 and 3,000 pounds. Not to be daunted, the Maisanos and their charter for the day, Fab Marchese of Ancaster, Ontario, decided to take on the giant.
“I fi lleted a fi ve pound slab of bonito, which is a very bloody fi sh, and rigged it up on one of the Goliath grouper rods, which are set up to handle really big
fi sh,” Maisano said. The line was 150-pound-test Power Pro braid, leading to a length of 200 pound test mono and then to a strand of heavy wire bite leader. The hook was an 18/0. The bait was fl oated out under a balloon.
“It didn’t take right away,” Maisano said. “It swam around downtide for about 15 minutes, and then it fi nally smelled it and we were hooked up.”
Fortunately, the 45-year-old Marchese was in good shape because of his occupation, running a construction company in Ontario. He would need to be; for the next four hours and 30 minutes, he sat in the fi ghting chair at the bow of the Donzi while the Maisano’s followed the giant fi sh. “It would go down to bottom for 30 minutes, and I couldn’t move it up, and then it would come up for a few minutes, sometimes come by the boat, and then down for another 30 minutes,” Marchese said. “It swam along down at about 70 feet when it was down — Joe told me he could see it on the sonar.”
They followed the shark over 4 miles from where they had hooked it, sometimes gaining line, sometimes losing. It never displayed any aggression toward them, Maisano said.
“I’ve had bull sharks come up and really attack the outdrives when they’re hooked, but this shark never did — I don’t think it ever really got to the point where it was panicking or mad — I think we were probably a good eight or 10 hours from beating it, if we ever could have.”
In any case, after a quick confi rmation that great whites are a protected species that can’t be boated or possessed, the anglers decided to bring the fi sh close enough for a leader touch—the universal coup in catch and release fi shing — and then to cut it free. They brought the shark close for a few last photos, then snipped the wire and the giant swam off into the depths, leaving Fab Marchese with a fi shing tale to end all fi shing tales when he gets back home.
Fab and the Maisano’s have been fi elding media interviews ever since they posted a YouTube video of their epic battle. When I spoke to them Tuesday, they were
waiting on the docks for a crew from “Good Morning America” to arrive for taping.
To see the video and learn more about the Maisano’s, visit their website www.gofastfi shing.com. (There’s a good bit of adult language on the video when the shark fi rst comes up at boatside, as you might expect—anybody who can look a shark of that size in the eye at close range and not utter an expletive is much man indeed.)
Are there great whites off the Panhandle?
Scientists say there could be. The species prefers water temperatures in the 60s, which are common in Panhandle waters from December through March. And the large pelagic species like yellowfi ns, bluefi ns and swordfi sh are common in offshore waters here — all are on the menu for great whites.
Where mammal prey is abundant, whites seem to prefer the high energy fl esh; seals, whales and porpoises are all part of their diet. Researchers say that white sharks historically might have prowled the Gulf in search of the Caribbean monk seal, which was common here until it went extinct in the 1940s.
However, as far as white sharks ever threatening Panhandle beaches, the odds are slim. Swimmers don’t show up on area beaches until water temperatures are already too warm for comfort of carcharodon carcharias, and the gentle shelf in most areas is not conducive to long visits from this species—though as was made notorious through the fi lm “Jaws”, they do sometimes prowl near shore in New England waters.
Whites elsewhere in FloridaThe East Coast gets more
frequent visits from this giant predator. According to Neil Hammerschlag, an assistant professor at the University of Miami’s Marine Science department who has studied great whites for over a decade, he gets a call almost every year about a fi sherman or boater seeing one.
In 2011, commercial spearfi shermen off Deerfi eld Beach had one take an amberjack
off one of their spears as they fl oated the fi sh to the surface. They were also commercial sharkers who knew shark species well, and saw the shark come by their boat after the remains of the AJ at a distance of only a few feet — they identifi ed it as a white 14 to 15 feet long — not the look-alike mako. George Burgess, director of shark research at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, checked the bites on the remains of the AJ and judged them to likely have come from a white — the mako has teeth more designed for puncturing than shearing.
Great whites, which Burgess said may be following and feeding on whales and their calves during winter migrations into Florida, do occasionally get caught here. Notable catches include a 16-footer estimated at more than 1,000 pounds, caught off Key Largo in 1997 and a 2,300-pounder caught off Key West in 1956. A white shark estimated at 2,000 pounds was caught, tagged and released by a conservation research group off Jacksonville early this month.
White shark life historyLike many sharks, whites are
born alive rather than hatching from eggs dropped by the mother, and reportedly one embryo often eats the others while still inside the womb, defi nitely not helping this endangered species in the survival department. They take about 15 years to reach sexual maturity; they remain “juveniles” until they’re 12 to 14 feet long.
Lifespan is thought to be about 30 years, maximum size up to 7,000 pounds and over 20 feet long. They have been protected by international treaty from harvest since 2004 under the CITES agreement which prohibits trade in endangered species.
Biologists say white sharks do not “hunt” humans, but they take pretty much any large prey that presents itself, so swimming where they’re fairly common — as along some parts of the California coast as well as southern Australia beaches — can be somewhat risky. Here on the sugar sand of the Panhandle, not so much. Bull sharks are of course another matter, for another story.
Great whites rare but a few show up here every winter
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Even though it was 30 years in the making, the dis-trict title won by the softball team at Poplar Springs was a logical progression of sorts.
That might be the only thing approaching logic that ensues.
The Atomics, who are en-deared to this corner by their nickname alone, bounced Milton Central 11-1 last week for the District 1-1A championship. It was the fi rst district title won by the school, which has an address in Graceville but is located across the Jackson County line, since the 1983 girls basketball team.
That ain’t exactly the Curse of the Bambino, but clearly the nuclear age has seemed to bypass this sparsely populated northeast section of Hol-mes County within a ground-rule double of the Alabama border.
Perhaps the biggest upset of all is that Graceville, with 2,402 residents according to a recent population sur-vey, has two public high schools lo-cated 5 miles apart using it as a mail-ing address. Or that a school such as Poplar Springs that offers only four sports at the varsity level — boys and girls basketball, softball and baseball — and boasts 85 students in grades 9-
12 still is alive in the regional playoffs.
But that doesn’t defi ne this group of athletes coached by Brad Hall, who have been building toward this moment — last night’s region semifi -nal game against visiting Chi-pley— during the past three seasons. (Note: the game was played after press time Tues-day — visit chipleypaper.com or
bonifaynow.com to see the results).Poplar Springs was 9-1 in the dis-
trict three years ago, Hall said, but lost in extra innings to Laurel Hill in the tournament semifi nals. Last year was 8-2, and again the Atomics were denied by Laurel Hill, this time 1-0 in the championship game.
They have compiled a 19-2 record thus far, one of the losses by one run to Chipley, behind freshmen pitch-ers Ashlyn Golden and Paige Smith. There only is one senior on the ros-ter, so clearly this program appears poised to add a new page to the school’s athletic history book, which at this point is more of a pamphlet.
Poplar Springs won back-to-back state Class C titles in boys basketball under Herman Dodson in 1966 and 1967. Forgive the current enrollment of the school, totaling 330 students
grades K-12, for not having that pedi-gree engrained into memory. Suffi ce to say that for a group of teenagers 30 years between district titles is a very long dearth of success, twice a life-time for some of these players.
Junior catcher Savannah Ryken clearly is one of the team leaders, as is sophomore second baseman Joley Dixon. The difference between these athletes and those in higher classifi -cations is that many of Hall’s players have been on the varsity since their seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade years.
Not surprisingly, what they’ve already accomplished has created quite a buzz in the community. Hall said that the paid gate for the district championship was 212 spectators, and speculated that might double on Tuesday with Chipley located about 18 miles away.
Bay County would have a diffi cult time matching that. But then again, nothing about this Poplar Springs team is easily replicated.
Hall said that some members of the community are getting a banner made to commemorate what has thus far been achieved. It is a fi tting tribute. And quite possibly, the start of something altogether even more lasting.
District 2-1A
Holmes County 4, Baker 0BAKER — Holmes County junior left-hander Ty Russ
saved his best for the playoffs. Russ (6-2) pitched his third no-hitter of the season Tuesday night, but this time he was perfect. The Blue Devil struck out 10 of the 21 batters he faced in the seven-inning District 2-1A semifi nal. Holmes County’s Junior Miles was 1 for 2 with two runs scored, Russ 2-3 with a triple and two RBIs, Kodi Russ 1-3 with an RBI double and Jordan Worthing 1-3 with an RBI double.
District 2-6A
Crestview 3, Mosley 2CRESTVIEW — Davis Champion went the distance on the
mound for Crestview and Mosley couldn’t fi nd the big hit against him in the district fi nal. Dakota Dean had a pair of hits and scored a run for the Bulldogs (21-5). Champion earned the win the hard way, scattering 11 Dolphin hits to go along with just four strikeouts. But Champion made the Mosley batters work to reach base as he didn’t allow a walk. The Dolphins (24-3), the No. 1 Class 6A team in the state, looked as if they were going to make short work of things with four-consecutive one-out hits in the fi rst inning. But Mosley only got one run out of the threat as the inning ended on the fi rst double play. The Bulldogs tied things up in the third inning as Dean tripled and scored on a passed ball. Mosley strung together three more hits good for an-other run in the bottom of the fourth inning, but another double play snuffed out the threat. Crestview got back-to-back doubles from Tate Sweatt and Roman Donofro to lead off the fi fth inning and tie the game up. A two-out single by Corey Armstrong scored Donofro with the game winning run. Mosley had a runner in scoring position in both the sixth and seventh innings, but Champion and the Bulldogs wouldn’t be denied as they kept the Dolphins off the score-board to claim the win. Larry was 3 for 4, Clay Causey 2 for 3 and Brady Bell 2 for 4, while Joey Hair pitched fi ve innings for the loss. Andrew Deramo fi nished up for the Dolphins.
District 4-1A
LibertyCounty 4, Bozeman 0BRISTOL — Bozeman faced Liberty County in the District
4-1A fi nal for the second straight year. And just like in 2012, the Bucks were the victims of a no-hitter. It was Hayden Swier’s turn this year, as he had two strikeouts and three walks. Bozeman also had a batter reach on an error. The Bucks (17-9) had baserunners on second and third in the fi rst inning and another on third in the fourth, but were un-able to make a dent in the outcome.
Liberty County scored two runs in each of the fi rst and sixth innings, each charged to starter and loser Reed Rud-dick. He had three strikeouts and gave up fi ve hits. Bran-don Suttles pitched to three batters without recording an out and Michael Cullen fi nished up for Bozeman.
The Bucks will travel to the winner of Sneads-Vernon in the regional semifi nal May 7. Bozeman also started on the road last season and advanced to the state semifi nals before falling to Holmes County. “We’ve been on this side of it so hopefully we can draw on our experience,” Bozeman coach Jeff Patton said. “We need to fi nd some toughness with the bats, but we’ll have a say. We’ll do better.”
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To the victor goes the spoils. And talent helps, too.
The Gulf Coast softball team secured its fi rst Panhandle Conference softball ti-tle since 2006 this season and the success was noted on the league’s year-end teams released this week.
Ollivia McLemore earned the confer-ence’s best pitcher honor, Emily Sanders is the player of the year and Susan Painter was named the top coach.
Five Lady Commodores earned fi rst-team nods and four were on the second team. No GC player was named honorable mention.
“It’s a tough conference and we had our share of talented players to compete against the other teams,” Painter said. “Any time you can get recognition for your players it’s a positive for the program.”
Second-place Chipola had six fi rst-teamers and three players on each of the second- and honorable-mention teams.
Third-place Northwest Florida State had 10 players on the three teams, includ-ing four fi rst-teamers.
Fifth-place Pensacola had 11 players recognized and fourth-place Tallahassee only four, with two on the second team.
McLemore and Sanders joined infi elder Amanda Grimaldo, at-large utility player
Anna Martin and pitcher Paige Caraway on the fi rst team. Outfi elders Katie White and Sian Colee, third baseman Brittany Wylie and catcher Mackenzie Arlt were second-teamers.
Sanders, an Indian River transfer, sur-passed the other four fi rst-team outfi eld-ers in nearly every statistical category. She led all infi elders in batting average (.432), hits (83), doubles (16), home runs (14) and RBIs (44) and was second only to Grimaldo in runs (46).
Sanders anchored second base and fi lled in at shortstop for Grimaldo, who missed a few games with a fi nger injury.
McLemore established herself as one of the conference’s top pitchers as a fresh-man with 21 wins and 165 strikeouts.
She improved on those numbers this season with a 26-10 record and 219 strike-outs in 218 1/3 innings pitched while also lowering her ERA to 1.38 after posting a 1.74 mark in 2012.
She rebounded from a rough start in conference play, giving up 10 runs in 5 2/3 innings of two appearances against NWF State.
She started 1-2 in Panhandle outings, but she won fi ve in a row, including earn-ing the victorious decision in both games of doubleheaders against Tallahassee and NWF State to help the Lady Commo-dores build a fi rst-place lead they wouldn’t relinquish.
Caraway provided a complement to
McLemore and grew stronger as the sea-son progressed. She had 103 strikeouts to only 14 walks in 93 innings while posting a 9-3 record.
Chipola’s Eva Voortman and Sneads product Karissa Childs rounded out the fi rst-team pitchers. Voortman was 17-2 and fi nished 6-1 in conference starts and Childs was 10-6.
Chipola’s Hayley Parker, Kristen Allen, Stephanie Garrells and Mya Anderson also made the fi rst team.
GC and Chipola will compete in the NJCAA Gulf District/FCSAA state tourna-ment in Pensacola May 3-5. The winner of the Gulf District earns a berth in the na-tional tournament.
“We’re excited about the awards,” Painter said. “But we have to get back to work.”
The 2013 All-Panhandle Conference
softball lists:
First teamInfi elders: Emily Sanders, GC; Jai-
me Phillips, NWF State; Hayley Parker, Chipola; Brenda Santana, TCC; Amanda Grimaldo, GC
Outfi elders: Leticia Matsuoka, NWF State; Ashley Heath-Smith, TCC; Kris-ten Allen, Chipola; Jenna Firestein, NWF State
Catchers: Stephanie Garrels, Chipola; Hannah Day, NWF State
At-large: Mya Anderson, Chipola; Anna Martin, GC
Pitchers: Ollivia McLemore, GC; Eva Voortman, Chipola; Paige Caraway, GC; Karissa Childs, Chipola
Pitcher of the Year:Ollivia McLemorePlayer of the Year:Emily SandersCoach of the Year:Susan Painter, GC
Second teamInfi elders: Shawna Montgomery, PSC;
Michelle Phelps, NWF State; Jasmine Tanksley, Chipola; Brittany Wylie, GC; Ka-tie Harrison, Chipola
Outfi elders: Katie White, GC; Chandler Seay, Chipola; Brook Richardson, Pensac-ola; SianColee, GC
Catchers: Mackenzie Arlt, GC; Dee Ro-driguez, PSC
At-large: Lena Land, NWF State; Becca Calloway, PSC
Pitchers: Haley Goodson, NWF State; Jessica Colliver, NWF State; Maude Mc-Courry, NWF State; Greta Longagnani, PSC
Honorable mentionInfi elders: Krista Garcia, TCC; Jenni-
fer Phillips, NWF State; Kelly Hayes, PSC; Alyssa Hathcoat, Chipola
Outfi elders: Megan Borak, Chipola; Ma-rina Cobbs, TCC; Emily Pettigrew, PSC
Catchers: NoneAt-large: Ashley Peters, PSCPitcher: Rose de Vries, Chipola
By JASON SHOOT747-5069 | @PCNHJasonShoot
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Rutherford needed produc-tion from its bats to seize the lead away from Gulf Breeze on Thursday night.
It was the Rams’ de-fense and some coura-geous pitching that helped them put their opponent away.
Nick Nelson was 2 for 4 with a home run and three runs batted in, Cody Roby overcame a rocky start on the mound, and the Rams collected an 8-5 win in the District 1-5A tournament championship game at the Mike Gavlak Sports Complex.
Rutherford (19-7) will host either Wakulla or Su-wannee at the Vera Sham-plain Sports Complex next Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Region 1-5A quarterfi nals.
Those two teams also played Thursday night, but the result was unavailable before press time.
Rutherford took the lead for good with a fi ve-run third inning. Nelson’s two-run homer deep to left fi eld lifted the Rams to a 5-
4 lead. Tyler Chatman and
Zach Davis both scored fol-lowing singles, and Kendall Herron provided the Rams’ eighth run on Dondrayas Harris’ run-scoring single with two outs.
Andy Creech provided a two-run single as Gulf Breeze scored two runs in the top of the fi rst inning to snatch an early lead.
The Rams answered with three runs in the bottom half of the inning, however.
Dallas Davis hit an RBI single, Nelson added a run-scoring groundout, and Zach Davis drove in a run with a fi elder’s choice groundball to take a one-run edge.
The Dolphins scored two more runs against Roby in the second to re-gain the lead at 4-3 and had the Ram hurler reeling. Roby said he went to the bullpen in the third inning to work on his delivery, particularly his curve ball, and that session seemed to settle him down.
“Cody Roby showed more guts tonight to come back after the start he had and continue to pitch with
confi dence,” Rutherford coach Jon Hudson said.
Roby, who allowed only two hits after surrendering seven through the fi rst two innings, posted fi ve of his six strikeouts between the third and fi fth innings.
He allowed an unearned run in the fi fth, but the Rams’ defense provided two monumental plays that helped Rutherford pre-serve its lead.
Harris saved a run with an inning-ending catch in the sixth, a dive out of a full sprint in center fi eld in which he snared the ball just before it touched the turf.
With Dolphin runners on fi rst and second with two outs in the seventh, Rams third baseman An-drew Mask made a dive to his left to stab the ball and fi red across the diamond to retire Mason Baker with the game’s fi nal out.
Nelson, a junior who missed his entire sopho-more year with a hamstring injury, now has 49 runs bat-ted in through 26 games this season.
To put that number in perspective, if a player were to carry that pace through
an entire 162-game Major League Baseball schedule, he would fi nish the season with 305 RBIs.
Hudson, in his 15th year as head coach at Ruth-erford, gave a dismissive “no” when asked if he has ever had a player drive in as many runs as Nelson in one season.
“Nick gets a lot of guys on base with Dondrayas Harris, Dondrell Harris and Dallas Baker in front of him,” Hudson said.
“He hits the breaking pitch real well. He hits the ball well. He’s just a talent-ed hitter.”
Connor Crooke was 3 for 3 with an RBI, and Da-vis Wood added two hits for Gulf Breeze.
The Rams return home next week for the regional quarterfi nals, and Hudson said, “I expect it to be a great atmosphere for us. The kids deserve it, and we’re looking forward to it.”
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TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott showed his appre-ciation for Florida’s teach-ers and applauded their commitment to improv-ing Florida’s education system by presenting the Governor’s Shine Award to six 2013-14 District Teachers of the Year last week.
“Florida teach-ers are the hardest working teachers in the world — and our students’ re-sults demonstrate their success,” said Scott. “Thanks to Florida’s great teachers, Florida students are com-peting and succeeding, both nationally and inter-nationally, and that’s why it’s so important we reward classroom teachers with a $2,500 pay raise.”
The six 2013-14 Dis-trict Teachers of the Year winners invited to today’s meeting come from Es-cambia, Jefferson, Okaloo-sa, Santa Rosa, Taylor and Walton counties.
“Every day you help Florida’s students real-ize their potential, fulfill their dreams and embark on challenging journeys toward college and suc-cessful careers,” said Gov-ernor Scott to the teachers in attendance. “Florida’s strong, effective teachers give students an advan-tage in today’s competitive environment. I am proud to present the Governor’s Shine Award to teachers who go above and beyond to make a difference in education.”
The participating 2013-14 District Teachers of the Year included:
• Susan Rigby, Escam-bia County, Pine Forest
High School: Rigby has been teaching for 13 years and currently teaches ninth-grade mathemat-ics at Pine Forest High School. Rigby attributes her passion for teaching to her student’s success in the classroom. “My stu-dents see my passion for
teaching every day. I believe in them. I care about them. This has changed their attitude about math and learn-ing. They believe in themselves,” Rigby said.
• Nicole Rod-denberry, Jefferson
County, Jefferson Elemen-tary School: “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn,” is a saying first-grade teacher Roddenberry holds close to her heart. “My teaching style is one that is engag-ing, interactive and chal-lenging. I implement dif-ferentiated instruction so that each student is chal-lenged at their own level,” Roddenberry said.
• Heather Erickson-Vaughn, Okaloosa County, Elliott Point Elementary School; Erickson-Vaughn has been teaching for eight years and is cur-rently a kindergarten teacher at Elliot Point El-ementary School, where she fosters an environ-ment of love and respect in her classroom. “In my classroom we love and respect each other and we never hold each other back. The encourage-ment and support that we all have for each other is what inspires my students to want to learn,” said Erickson-Vaughn.
• Elizabeth “Ann” Thompson, Santa Rosa
County, West Navarre In-termediate School: “My students and I create a classroom family,” said Thompson, who teaches third grade at Navarre Intermediate School. “We respect differences and celebrate the successes of each individual in our family. We learn with each other and most important-ly from each other. As my students learn to respect and support one another, they gain respect for them-selves,” Thompson said.
• Meridith Upshaw, Tay-lor County, Taylor County Elementary School: Up-shaw has been teaching for eight years and currently teaches third grade at Taylor County Elementary School. She brings joy and laughter to her classroom and believes this environ-ment encourages her stu-dents. “I feel that through laughter bonds can be built that enables me to reach all learners. We learn to laugh at our mistakes and try again,” Upshaw said. “We offer support and en-couragement to each other. We truly build a family and unique support system.”
• Melissa DiCesare, Walton County, South Wal-ton High School: DiCesare has been teaching for 15 years and is currently teaching AP English lan-guage arts to 11th and 12th grade students at South Walton High School. “My students become intrinsi-cally motivated because I consistently project my passion for literature and language each day, each
class period,” said DiC-esare. “Purposeful in-struction combined with rigor in a highly efficient, welcoming environment is powerful. Rules and regu-lations are simultaneously followed because students are on task, motivated and confident, anticipating with zeal what is to come next,” said DiCesare.
Each of Florida’s 67
school districts selects a Teacher of the Year, who is then considered for statewide recognition. The Florida Teacher of the Year is chosen from more than 180,000 public school teachers throughout the state by a selection com-mittee representing teach-ers, principals, parents and the business community. Florida’s top educator is
selected on the basis of the superior ability to teach and communicate knowl-edge of the subject taught, professional development, philosophy of teaching, and outstanding school and community service. The most important quali-fication is the teacher’s ability to inspire a love of learning in students of all backgrounds and abilities.
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Dr. Melanie Joyce Blackburn andDr.WymanWilliam Cabaniss wereunited in marriage on October 13,2012, in the Hampstead Town Squarenear Montgomery, AL. Dr. DaveRampersad officiated.
The bride is the daughter ofCharlotte and Tony Gilmore ofClayhatchee and the late L.W.Blackburn, Jr., of Millbrook, AL. Thebride’s grandparents are Joyce andMerle Caylor of Chipley, FL and thelate L.W. Blackburn, Sr., and the lateThera Blackburn, of Montgomery, AL.
The groom is the son of Lori andWyman Cabaniss of Montgomery.The groom’s grandparents areWilliam Miller and the late MarjorieMiller of Decatur, AL, and the lateEdith andWyman Cabaniss ofTuscaloosa, AL.
The bride, given in marriage by herstepfather, wore a strapless, ivory,A-line dress designed by Reem Acra.TheW Brothers presented stringmusic. Mary Sanders directed theceremony.
Natalie Dauchy was matron ofhonor. Bridesmaids were CarrieCabaniss, Rachel McGinnis, NicolePatten,Whitney Thomas andKimberly Tidwell. Junior attendantswere Sophia and Genevieve Timm;the bride’s cousins. Maredith LayneSconyers, the bride’s niece, wasflower girl.
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Members of the Knights of Columbus Council 10513 Infant of Prague made a donation of $5,000 to ARC of Washington-Holmes Counties on Monday in Chipley. ARC is the largest national community-based organization advocating for and serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. Grand Knight Mike DeRuntz said the donation came from the State Council of the Knights of Columbus. The Knights will begin their Tootsie Roll drive on June 1, collecting donations at Wal-Mart. KoC Council 10513 represents the parishes of St. Theresa in Sunny Hills, St. Joseph the Worker in Chipley and Blessed Trinity in Bonifay.
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Florida Panhandle Team volunteers are sorting supplies and bags of items to give to the children of the families that they will minister to with the Water and Feeding Ministry. The team gives out beans and rice to the families in the poorer sections of Guaimaca, Honduras.
Volunteers mix the concrete for the 11 fl oors they poured in eight houses. Before the missionaries arrived, the fl oors in the houses were dirt, and when it rained, it was very muddy.
By CECILIA SPEARS547-9414 | @WCN_HCT
BONIFAY — For almost 12 years David Lauen, associate pastor and minister of music of the First Bap-tist Church of Bonifay, has been leading mission trips to Honduras, but this year will be the biggest trip by far.
“Since 2001, we’ve been making trips to Honduras, and we’ve aver-age between six to 30 volunteers. This time we’re taking 60,” Lauen said. “With a group from Marian-na, we’ve got enough people to be known as the Florida Panhandle Team.”
One project they are in the pro-cess of completing is building a hospital, which is 10 years in the making.
“When we fi rst got started, it was a 50-foot by 100-foot hospital, then we added another 50-foot by 100-foot wing, and then Samaritan’s Purse donated thousands for four state of the art operating rooms, and it just keeps growing,” Lauen said. “We’ve got over 26 surgical teams to donate their time and ser-vices. As the facility grows wonder-ful equipment is donated to fi ll it.”
Last year, they mixed and poured 11 concrete fl oors for eight houses.
“They were living on dirt fl oors and every time it rained they would have water running through the house,” Lauen said. “Now they can have dry fl oors.”
An ongoing mission is to bring clean water to the resident’s homes.
“Their water system is pathetic, like most third-world countries,” he said. “We’re trying to lay out PVC pipes to put faucets at these hous-es. Last time, we were able to bring them a 10,000 gallon water tank to help supply clean water.”
He said even though it has been quite a bit of hard work, it was worth it.
“It is exciting,” Lauen said. “We take a lot for granted in this country and have a lot to be thankful for. This is a life changing trip for some.”
Lauen said the group will hold a fundraiser starting at 10:30 a.m. on May 10 on the Cook’s Corner at the intersection of Highway 79 and Highway 90, where they will be sell-ing rib-eye steak dinners for $10, which will include green beans, new potatoes, bread and cake. All pro-ceeds will go to purchasing medical supplies for the Honduran hospital.
The group will be leaving for Honduras on June 15. For more in-formation, visit BMDMI.org.
As mission grows, number of missionaries increases
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This brick enclosure is a pillar where the Hondurans catch and store water for cooking and washing. It’s about 6 feet long, 40 inches wide and 36 inches deep and is a vital component to the Hondurans’ everyday life.
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“Trivia Fun” with Wilson Casey, Guinness World Record Holder from Woodruff, S.C., is published in more than 500 newspapers across the country and is now a weekly feature in The Washington County News and The Holmes-County Times-Advertiser.
1) Besides money what’s the most common reward employers give their workers?
Weekend getaway, Discounts, Lunch, Afternoon off
2) Statistics say 73 percent of women are more apt to marry a man who has what?
Driver’s license, Tattoo, Home, Pet
3) What’s the a.k.a. of Donald Duck’s sister, Della Thelma Duck?
Ductella, Dumbella, Thelmaletta, Thelmor
4) Where is America’s No. 1 bus destination?
Branson, Las Vegas, Hollywood, Area 51
5) The average guy will lie how many times on the fi rst date?
1, 3, 6, 9
6) “Surete Nationale” is the French equivalent of our?
NASA, FBI, NRA, Library of Congress
7) From a classic “Brady Bunch,” what game did Alice trip over, spraining her ankle?
Chinese Checkers, Scrabble, Monopoly, Life
8) Who entered the country music charts for the fi rst time with “Cry Cry Cry”?
Johnny Cash, Kenny Chesney, Willie Nelson, George Strait
9) Who was the original choice to play Lamont on TV’s “Sanford and Son”?
Cleavon Little, Richard Pryor, Flip Wilson, Bill Cosby
10) Until rubber erasers were invented, what did writers commonly use?
Flour, Bread crumbs, Saliva, Lemon juice
11) What product was introduced in the colors of steel blue and chrome?
Tupperware, Velcro, Frisbee, Duct tape
12) “Kelly’s Eye” is sometimes referred to as what number on a dartboard?
1, 3, 7, 9
13) What’s the term for the playing surface of a soccer fi eld?
Kite, Pitch, Lume, Masa
14) Studies say that if you have a desk job, you do what twice as much as one who does manual labor?
Pray, Eat, Loaf, Bathroom trips
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CHIPLEY — On May 11 the Washington-Holmes Technical Center will host Battle of the Bands from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the old Chipley High School auditorium.
Sixteen bands will
compete for the title, and bands are still being sought to participate in the event.
This event is a fundraiser for the SkillsUSA program.
The cost to compete is $50 per band, and the winner will receive a professional recording
session in the technical center’s digital studio.
Admission will be $5 for adults, $2 for children under 13.
For more information, contact Stephanie Halley at 638-1180 ext. 303 or email [email protected].
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BONIFAY — Holmes County High School JROTC had its 28th annual awards banquet on April 19.
There were over 200 people that were present the banquet to honor the achievements of the battalion’s cadets.
The following cadets received a national award: Michael Murphy with the Sons of the American Revolution Award; Amber Hayden with the Daughters of the American Revolution Award; Mason Carnley with the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Award; Laurel Murley with the Association of the U.S. Army Award; Becky Padgett with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Award; Eric Bolenbaugh with the U.S. Army Recruiting
Command Award; Anthony McCorvey got the American Legion Military Award; Bree Owens with the American Legion Scholastic Award; DJ Rock with the Military Order of World Wars Award; Jonce Palmer with the Non Commissioned Officers Association JROTC Award; Crystal Tolley with the Reserve Officers Association Award; Blake Mancill with the National Sojourners Award; Destiny Martinez with Military Order of the Purple Heart Award; Ashley Eberhardt with AM VETS Award; Hunter Paterson with Embry Riddle JROTC Award; Karis Murley with Order of Daedalians Award; Bethany Jones with National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America Award; Christian Grimes with Military Officers
Association of America Award.
The following cadets receive the National Superior Cadet Award from each LET level. Karis Murley LET level 1, Ashley Eberhardt LET 2, Christian Grimes LET level 3, and Crystal Tolley LET 4.
Ashley Vallejos and Mason Carnley receive the Principal’s/Assistant Principal’s ROTC Plaque for achieving the highest GPA. Bree Owens received the Kennedy Award for demonstrating her outstanding leadership abilities. Principal Mickey Husdon was inducted into the program as an honorary Colonel. Stephanie Pippin and Brett Jones were inducted as Honorary Caption for all their support throughout the school year, which allowed
the ROTC to have a successful year.
Mrs. Darlene Harris, Mrs. Janis Marshall, Mrs.
Cindy White was awarding a plaque of appreciation for all the delicious food they prepare for the
banquet. Congratulations to the cadets on a successful year and all their hard work!
More than 200 attend 28th annual JROTC Awards Banquet
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Holmes County High School JROTC had its awards banquet on April 19.
Tierra Belser of Caryville, a 2012 graduate of Vernon High School, received Troy University’s Most Outstanding Woman 2013 award on April 3. She is a member of several different organizations on campus and holds several leadership positions.
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The gospel quartet Four Calvary will sing at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 5, in Bonifay at Singing in the Park, sponsored by Gully Springs Baptist Church. Singing in the Park will be at the Florida Springs RV Resort & Campgrounds on Son In Law Road. Everyone is invited to bring a lawn chair and come out and listen to Four Calvary.
Special to Extra
On Feb. 28, families from Washington and Holmes counties gathered to learn the importance of healthy father/child relationships presented by Healthy Families of North Florida.
Healthy Families of North Florida sponsored the event that allowed parents the opportunity to complete an activity with their child and hear from guest speaker, Napoleon Cotton on the impact of being an involved father in a child’s life.
Healthy Families of North Florida is a volunteer, parent education program that promotes bonding with children, positive discipline techniques, and provides activities that can be completed and made at home to stimulate children’s brain development.
“Having activities with Healthy Families has been a wonderful opportunity. Healthy Families and our Family Support Worker have brought our family closer together,” said Vince Wilson.
WHTC plans ‘Battle of the Bands’
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BONIFAY — Holmes County High School Drama will present the musical “Happy Days, A New Musical” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, Saturday, May 11, Monday, May 13, Tuesday May 14 and Friday May 17 at the high school auditorium.
Goodbye gray skies, hello blue! Happy days are here again with Richie, Potsie, Ralph Malph and the unforgettable “king of cool” Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli. Based on the hit Paramount Pictures television series, Happy Days, A New Musical
reintroduces one of America’s best-loved families, the Cunninghams — yes, Howard, Marion and Joanie are here too — to a whole new generation of kids and parents.
The famed drive-in malt shop and number one hangout, Arnold’s, is in danger of demolition. So the gang teams up to save it with a dance contest and a TV-worthy wrestling match. Even Pinky Tuscadero, Fonzie’s childhood sweetheart, returns to help and — lo and behold — they rekindle their old flame.
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CHIPLEY — The Panhandle Watermelon Festival has played host to legendary musicians for the last five decades, and this season will be no different.
Heading the bill during the Panhandle Watermelon Festival is country music legend and Grammy award winner, Joe Diffie.
Fans can also look forward to country music singer, Andy Griggs whose first three singles were all Top Ten Billboard hits and will kick off Friday night’s show. “We work extremely hard to present Watermelon fans with an event geared for the enjoyment of every member of the family,” states Chairman Colby Peel, “Panhandle Watermelon Festival is thrilled with the high quality our two day festival represents.”
The festival will be held on June 28-29.
In addition to an award winning musical lineup, visitors will enjoy several kid centered activities including a bounce house and slide sponsored by Community South Credit Union and watermelon contests hosted by Northwest Florida Community Hospital.
Come hungry and feast on fare that goes hand in hand with Friday night Watermelon including hamburgers and hotdogs prepared by the Chipley Fire Department.
A family-oriented festival celebrating its 57th season, the Panhandle Watermelon Festival offers free entertainment and activities for all ages and has drawn generations of families to Washington County time and time again.
Honor roll is for third nine weeks.
A Honor RollSecond Grade: Seth Abbott,
Brendan Andrews, Morgan Ashcraft, Tristan Brett, Hailee Brown, Jadyn Brown, Matthew Bush, Angel Canipe, Kaden Creamer, Emma Jeffries, Austin Kopinski, Javan Leffler, Hannah Mask, Juan Morado Diaz, Parker Morgan, Jordan Paradise, Jaycee Pettis, Roary Reis, Carolyn Vanderbrink, Mason Weeks, Zane Woodward, and Phoenix Wright.
Third Grade: Nathanael Banta, Bradley Barnes, Nikiyah Brown Abigail Chomos, Jaiden Clenney, Tristan Clark, Meredith Deal, Kaitlyn Hildebrand, Audrey Holley, Brianna Johnson, Levi McKinnie, Ashtyn Miller, Porter Moore, Isaac Noss, Konner Odom, Landen Pettis, Jay Register, Emma Shiver, Raelynn Simpson, Genna Stewart, Will Taylor, Trace Weaver, Adriyanna White and Keygan Wilson.
Fourth Grade: Ethan Adkison, Maggie Bau, Lily
Bratcher, Hailey Durrance, Mari Fields, Lara Fleener, Malik Franklin, Carlee Harris, Caroline Hatcher, Hannah Hilty Gabe Jimenez, Malachi Leffler, Caleb Meredith, Logan Pumphrey, Natalie Spencer, Keegan Welch and Ashlyn Williams.
A/B Honor RollSecond Grade: Raine
Anderson, Gable Bailey, Braden Banta, Carter Bennett, Bryar Berry, Colin Bolton, Daniel Bruner, Krista Cannon, Emery Carter, Amara Chambers, Angelina Chavez, Daniella Chavez, Anthony Chitty, Kelcy Cooper, Addie Cope, Halie Dampier, Carly Daniels, Olivia DeBout, Shelby Fuston-Dean, Cass Dillard, Kelsey Elkins, Jasmine Gawronski, Blake Gedeon, Leah Hilty, Keith Kenly, Mackenzie Kent, Kaylyn Kirkland, Mackenna Koch, Jamie Kopinski, Bailey Lambright, Kayleen Lent, Ada Ludyjan-Ybarra, Chris McCloskey, Antonio Monages, Damari Moore, Riley Nelson, Tiare’ O’Neal, Farron Pearson, Elaina Perkins, Christina Pina,
Jeremy Prather, Jesse Register, Kyra Rix, Madison Ross, Audrey Shiver, Parker Smelcer, Emily Smith, Tanner Story, Savanna Swaney, Seth Thomas, Jackson Wall, Jakiriyana Washington, Jett White, Aaron Wilkerson, Erin Williams, and Jamal Wilson.
Third Grade: Aryanna Baxter, Layne Brock, Cami Brown, Indiah Brown, Joseph Brown, Drake Campbell, Grayson Carter, Gabriel Clark, Jena Collins, James Thomas Cook, Davis Corbin, Mason Cranford, JaQuavious Daniels, Jenny Davenport, Ben Davidson, Travis Drummond, Elizabeth Duncan, Travis Egan, Trent Futch, Mia Guadiana, Clinton Holmes, Dallas Jackson, Cooper Johns, Micah Johnson, James Kenley, Gavin Kindig, Bruce Martinez, Christyn McLeroy, Montana Maggard, Javier Mercado, Morgan Mincey, Hannah Newcomb, Chloe Odom, Fredrick Patton, Harley Peel, Brayden Price, Hannah Prindle, Odessa Reis, Kiley Rich, Luke Richardson, Elizabeth Richter, Adrian Robinson, Avery Sapp, Hadid Sapp,
Brena Shelley, Carson Shores, Allister Slick, Jasper Smith, Julie Smith, Sydney Spencer, Gracie Stanland, Blaine Suggs, Kaden Tharp, Samuel Voorhees, Aneesiah Watford and Holden Wilson.
Fourth Grade: Trenton Adams, Liam Anderson, Ty’niyah Andrews, Migel Barajas, Tara Baxley, Alexia Bell, Isaac Berry, QuaMauri Boston, Noah Burdeshaw, Kendarrius Claborne, Cole Dillard, Ella Duncan, Makayla Edenfield, Lane Gainey, Nathaniel Goodwin, Austin Granger, Waylon Guyer, Ann Helton, Kevon Hinds, Tristina Hosmer, Nautika Jefferson, Nadia Kent, Maggie Largacci, Darian Leonberger, Aracely Maldonado, Jeremias Mata-Luna, Dahlia Moore, Maddie Munroe, Jenna Nedeau, Landon Paige, Sarah Grace Pippin, Connor Prescott, Zoe Pezanowski, Alyssia Rhodes, Brooke Smith, Maryellen Smith, Trevor Smith, Zachary Syfrett, Hunter Thurman, Sara White, Matthew Whitehead, Isaiah Williams, Jaidon Wilson, and Sydney Woodward.
A Honor RollFifth Grade: Gabriel Cooke,
Madison Henderson, Hannah Lamarre, Hannah Walters and James Weber
Sixth Grade: Kayla Brock, Lana Bush, and Shanaray Sheffield
Seventh Grade: Payton Poppell and Kayleb Shaw
Eighth Grade: Marquez Brown and Amber White
A/B Honor RollFifth Grade: Haley
Aldrman, Victoria Anderson-Coatney, Alayna Brown, Jaron Bush, Aaron Callahan, Jamie Campbell,
Mikayla Cotton, Ridge Faison, Hannah Finch, Levi Fugate, Gracen Gonzalez, Morgan Hammack, Jaden Harris, Cullen Hodges, Elizabeth Kangas, Joshua Loomis, Nuinani-Gage Medina-Dykes, Alexis Rada, Tashara Roche, Mercedes Sim, Sarah Smith, John Somerset, Matthew Webber and Timothy York.
Sixth Grade: Jonathan Wyatt Adams, River Basinger, Nicole Bell, Christian Bowers, Ranger Brock, Erica Buckbee, Jakob Clements, Karmin Compton, Shannon Day, Skyler Day, Hayley
Faunce, Morgan Finch, Angela Grogg, Kody Hagan, Destiny Hennion, Austin Houge, Jacob Lee, Camron McKinney, Lance Newcomb, Madison Puckett, Keirston Seal, Megan Simmons, Caitlyn Smith, Steven Spears, Tabatha Tucker, Sydney Ward, Zackary Westgate, Alexis Whitener, Morgan Williamson, Isabella Wood and Isaiah Wyatt.
Seventh Grade: Makenzie Bear, Maylin Brock, Dylan Costales, Olivia Cotton, Halea Cushman, Curtis Earnest, Makayli Edwards, Faith Harmon, Marisol Holley, Kaitlyn
Sarah Lustig, Cierra Mayo, Destiny McDonald, Karrington Poppell, Shelby Redmon, Antonio Rodriguez and Dalton Webb.
Eighth Grade: Chase Adams, Tristan Costales, Erica Cureton, Caleb Donaldson, Austin Hallmark, Madisen Haws, Carlos Hillman, Alexandra Kellner, Kaitlyn Kolmetz, Tyreise Leblanc, Cameron McDaniel, Malik McDonald, Kristina Montemayor, Sabrina Reynolds, Katia Roche, Hannah Sellers, Andrew Smith and Clayton Taylor.
A Honor RollSixth Grade: Sadie
Honeycutt, Emily Knoblock and Zach Prescott
Seventh Grade: Ronnie Hall, Marissa Moran, Madison Powell, Randi Tolbert and Taylor West
Eighth Grade: Bo Rushing and Nellie Tolbert
10th Grade: Delilah Bass, Elisabeth Jackson, Shelby Rushing, Shelby Simmons and Crete Zorn
11th Grade: Brason English and Haley Goddin
12th Grade: Codie Allen,
Kristina Carroll, Ashlee Freeman, Ashley Harper, Makala Hicks, Matthew Hicks, Ciara Lee, Stephanie Moore, Shelby Moran, Desiree Rushing and River Stewart
A/B Honor RollSixth Grade: Abby Alford,
Jordan Carlson, Drew Carroll, Kaitlyn Craft, Faith Davis, Savanah Hougland, Briar Jones, William Larrick, Kailey McCroan, Michael McKinley, Gabriella Murley, Marissa
Rushing, Cheyenne Skipper and Michael Tadlock
Seventh Grade: Savannah Burgess, Devyn Butorac, Britni Godwin, Ashley Meeks, Bethany Miller, Mikayla Morgan, Mahaley Owen, Alex Parson and Mandy Rushing
Eighth Grade: Makayla Appelt, Andrew Blalock, Rebecca Bowers, Makayla Davis, Christian Frutos-Creamer, Ashton Locke, Makayla Smith, Mollie Sweat and Koby Townsend.
Ninth Grade: Jesse Armstrong, Breanna
Blane, Anna Bowers, Gavin Hewett, Jady Padgett, Caleb Short and Tyler Smith
10th Grade: Kristan Campbell, Dusty Griffin, Austin Knight and Chris Stout
11th Grade: Brittany Alford, Hannah Howell, D.J. Martin and Cory Short
12th Grade: Melody Barney, Cody Best, Josephine Carlson, Jason DePauw, Mossad El Sankary, Tiffany McFarling, Klayton Peak, Samantha Smith and Jordan Thomas.
Watermelon fest returnsKate M. Smith Elementary School HONOR ROLL
Ponce de Leon High School HONOR ROLL
Vernon Middle School HONOR ROLL
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WeeklyBibleTrivia
Name thethree thingswith whichSolomon
was blessed.
(answerfoundin thisweek’s
scripturereading)
FAITHWednesday, May 1, 2013
BPage 4
Section
w w w . b o n i f a y n o w . c o m | w w w . c h i p l e y p a p e r . c o m
The great pastime of America throughout the years has been sports. Americans have been ingenious in turning something simple into a sport for everyone to enjoy. I must say I have enjoyed my share of sports.
When younger, I was a baseball fan. I went to as many games as possible. The Stadium in Baltimore Maryland was just a few minutes from my house so I could visit it often, and I often did. I did not really care who won the game as long as it was a good game played, not to mention the hotdogs.
The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage accused me of going to ball games just to eat hotdogs. Whenever I would return from a ballgame the fi rst question would be, not who won the game but, “How many hotdogs did you eat?”
If the truth was known, and you will not get it from me, many a hotdog sacrifi ced itself at a ballgame. After all, when you are watching a ballgame, who has time to keep track of how many hotdogs you are eating?
I did have a moment of anxiety once when my wife threatened to weigh me before the game and then weigh me after the game to see if I had eaten too many hotdogs. When she fi rst mentioned it I laughed, but I noticed she was not laughing, which caused me some deep concern.
Fortunately, for me it never got to that but came perilously close.
Nothing is more relaxing on a Saturday afternoon than sitting in a ballpark watching a ballgame in progress. Somehow, all the cares of the world seem to fl utter away while watching the game.
It all ended for me one summer.I had come into the house from
some chore and my wife greeted me by saying, “Do you know your ball
team is on strike?”I looked at her, laughed and said,
“I know. They get three strikes and then they’re out. That’s the way they play the game.” I winked
at her and laughed good-naturedly. “Finally,” I said to her, “you’re coming to understand what the game is all about.”
“No, you don’t understand. Your team is on strike.”
“I get you, and this Saturday I’m going to go and watch them strike again.”
It took me a while but fi nally my wife got through the thickness of my skull and got me to understand the strike she was talking about was not the strike I was talking about. It is always nice when people are on the same page.
In a marriage situation, the biggest challenge a couple has is staying on the same page. Even though the husband and wife might be reading the same book, for some reason wives have the ability to read three or four chapters ahead. When a husband tries to correct her she impatiently says, “We were on that page last week. Try to keep up.”
Try as we might, it is a rare husband who can keep up. But we try.
When I got up to the same page as my wife about the baseball team on strike, I was feeling rather low. “What do you think about your baseball game now,” she taunted.
As it turned out, the baseball team was actually out on strike and if I remember correctly, we missed the whole season that year. They were on strike for, you will never guess, more money.
Up to that point, I thought the players played because they loved the game. Boy was I on the wrong page with that. I went to games because I love the game and it did not matter to me who won or lost as
long as it was a good game.Now, to fi nd out that my heroes,
if you can call them such, were primarily interested in money was disheartening. I have never been able to watch a game since with the same excitement I did before.
Why can’t we just have fun? Why does life have to be such a battle? Why can’t we have a baseball game just for the fun of it?
Recently, I attended a baseball game at the local high school. I thought I would just go and enjoy the game. I did not know any of the players; I just wanted to enjoy the game.
Then I met an unfamiliar phenomenon of high school baseball. Parents of baseball players!
The game started as normal but soon the air exploded with shouting and yelling in the stands. I did not quite understand what all the noise was about at the time. Two women, imagine that, got in a fi stfi ght over the ballgame! They were mothers of two of the players on opposite teams.
That was just the beginning of the shouting and the yelling that afternoon. As I walked away, I sadly shook my head and said to myself, “Why can’t we just have fun?”
I believe the Preacher in the book of Ecclesiastes explains it well. “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit” (Ecclesiastes 1:14 KJV).
Some are so caught up in the vanity and vexations of life that they never know what it is like to just enjoy life. Why can’t we just have a little bit of fun?
Rev. James L. Snyder is pastor of the Family of God Fellowship, PO Box 831313, Ocala, FL 34483. He lives with his wife, Martha, in Silver Springs Shores. Call him at 866-552-2543, email [email protected] or visit www.jamessnyderministries.com.
Why can’t we just have fun?
DR. JAMES L. SNYDEROut to Pastor
Faith BRIEFSNational Day of
PrayerBONIFAY — The Holmes
County Ministerial Association invites the public to join in as we gather in front of the Holmes County Courthouse in Bonifay at 12:10 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, in order to observe the 2013 National Day of Prayer. Laity and ministers from area churches will offer heartfelt prayers on behalf of our local, state and national leaders, our military service men and women and their families and for our local congregations. Prior to the celebration, the Holmes County Sheriffs Department will sponsor a hotdog lunch for attendees at 11:30 a.m.
Piney Grove plans annual tea
CHIPLEY — Piney Grove Baptist Church will host its annual “Hearts of Love Tea” at 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 4.
Tickets are available for $10 each and may be purchased by calling 547-2415. The theme is “Make A Joyful Noise Unto The Lord.”
Come enjoy the food, fun and fellowship. The church is on Piney Grove Road off Sapp Road between Cottondale and Chipley.
Saint Agatha Cooked to Order BreakfastDEFUNIAK SPRINGS — Saint
Agatha’s Episcopal Church will sponsor a Cooked to
Order Breakfast, from 7 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 4. Breakfast plates will be $4.50 for adults and $2.50 for a child 10 and under. Breakfast will include eggs, grits/home fries, pancakes, bacon/sausage, toast, sausage gravy on biscuits or toast, juice/milk/coffee, there will also be healthy choice items. Breakfast will be served in the Parish Hall located at 150 Circle Drive in DeFuniak Springs. All proceeds will benefi t the building and grounds fund.
Trash and Treasure Sale
BONIFAY — Bonifay First United Methodist Church will be having a Trash and Treasure sale at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 4. The sale will include a variety of items. All money raised will be used to support missions in Ecuador. Come hunt for your treasure while supporting a worthy cause.
Cords of Love to hold Homecoming
COTTONDALE — Cords of Love Assembly of God Church will hold a Homecoming beginning at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 5. The featured singers will be the Sheila Smith Trio.
Sunday School will be held at 10 a.m. and the singing will begin at 11 a.m. There will be “dinner on the ground” and more singing in the afternoon.
The church is located at 2060 Bethlehem Road.
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WEDNESDAY10 a.m. to noon: Holmes
Council on Aging provides hot meals and socialization.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: The Vernon Historical Society Museum is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Meetings are fourth Wednesdays at 2 p.m.
11 a.m.: Washington Council on Aging (Chipley) senior lunches; for reservations, call 638-6217. Donations accepted.
1 p.m.: Line dancing, Washington Council on Aging in Chipley.
7 p.m.: Depression and Bipolar Support Group meets at First Baptist Church educational annex building in Bonifay. Call 547-4397.
THURSDAY7:30 a.m.: Washington
County Chamber of Commerce breakfast every third Thursday
9-11 a.m.: Amazing Grace Church USDA Food Distribution every third Thursday (Holmes County residents Only)
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Money Sense at Goodwill Career Training Center; call 638-0093; every third Thursday
10 a.m. to noon: Holmes Council on Aging provides hot meals and socialization.
10:30 a.m.: Chipley Library preschool story time.
11 a.m.: Washington Council on Aging (Chipley)
senior lunches; for reservations, call 638-6217. Donations accepted.
11 a.m.: Care Givers Support group meets third Thursdays at the First Presbyterian Church at 4437 Clinton St. in Marianna.
Noon: Alcoholics Anonymous open meeting at New Life Assembly Fellowship Hall, Chipley
1 p.m.: Caregivers Meeting at Washington County Council on Aging in Chipley for more information call 638-6216
2 p.m.: Writers Group meets the first Thursday of each month (unless a holiday) at the Chipley Library
4 p.m.: Holmes County
Historical Society 2nd Thursday of each month.
6 p.m.: TOPS meets at 7 p.m. with weigh in at 6 p.m. at Mt. Olive Baptist Church
6 p.m.: The Holmes County Historical Society meets first Thursdays at 6 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
6 p.m.: Washington County Council on Aging Line Dancing Class for more information call 638-6216
6:30 p.m.: TOPS Mt. Olive Baptist Church on State Road 79 North.
7 p.m.: Narcotics Anonymous meeting, Blessed Trinity Catholic Church on County Road 177A
FRIDAY6 a.m.: Men’s Breakfast
and Bible Study at Hickory Hill Baptist Church in Westville.
10 a.m. to noon: Holmes Council on Aging provides
bingo, games, hot meals and socialization.
11 a.m.: Washington Council on Aging senior lunches; for reservations, call 638-6217.
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.:
Washington County Council on Aging will have a plate lunch available to anyone as a fundraiser for local senior citizens. Plates are $6. Must make reservation at 638-6216 or 638-6217.
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TSGT (retired U.S. Air Force) Paul Robert “Bob” Tillery, age 77 of Graceville, (Poplar Springs Community) passed away, Saturday, April 20, 2013, at his residence. Bob was born in Fortson, Ga. on March 17, 1936, to the late Cecil and Emmie White Tillery. He retired in February, 1974, from the U.S. Air Force after serving for more than 20 years. Bob continued to work in Civil Service until just a few years ago, retiring in the Poplar Springs Community. He was a member of Bethel Baptist Church.
Proceeded in death by his beloved wife, Nadine Register Tillery.
Survived by one
son, Michael Tillery, Fredericksburg, Va.; granddaughter, Kayla Tillery; two sisters, Mary Ann Bradshaw (Johnie), Bonifay, and Martha Joyce Childs (Waylan), Cowarts, Ala., and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were at 11 a.m., Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at Bethel Baptist Church with the Rev. Kent Lampp officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery with military honors by the U.S. Air Force, James & Lipford Funeral Home in Graceville directing. Family received friends at the church from 10 a.m. until time of service. Expressions of sympathy can be made at www.jamesandlipford.com/.
Paul R. Tillery
Linda Faye “Nancy” Pate, 63, passed away April 21, 2013, at local hospital in Westlake, La. Nancy was born on Oct. 26, 1949, in Chipley. She was a resident of Westlake and the Pastors’ wife of The Pentecostals of Westlake for the past seven years coming from Panama City. She was a loving sister, wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother who, was dedicated to her family and church family.
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” II Timothy 4:7.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Bert and Ruby Bethel.
She is survived by her husband of 44 years, the Rev. Kenneth Pate; sons, Kenneth Wayne Pate Jr. and wife, Connie Lois and Kyle Warren Pate and wife, Amber Lynette all of Westlake, La.; daughters, Kimberly Michelle Capps
and husband, the Rev. Rodney Wayne of Panama City, Kristie Anne Gobert and husband the Rev. Derek Dwayne of Westlake, La., Karri Nichol Roney and husband, the Rev. John David of
Westlake, La., and Konnie Lynn Cook and husband, the Rev. Russell Franklin of Panama City; sisters, Elizabeth Ann Pendleton of Mobile, Ala., and Katherine Sue Deal of Murphy, N.C.; 20 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Her funeral was at 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at First Pentecostal Church of Westlake. Visitation was Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Hixson Funeral Home of Westlake and on Wednesday from 9 a.m. until the time of service at the church. Interment was in Westlake Memorial Cemetery. Words of comfort may be shared with the family at www.hixsonfuneralhomes.com.
Linda F. Pate
LINDA F. PATE
Mr. Thomas L. Edwards, 75, of Ebro, passed away April 13, 2013, in the Bay Medical Center, Panama City. He was a native of Ebro, and a member of the Wausau Assembly of God Church. He retired after 30 years with DOT Maintenance in Panama City. He wan an entrepreneur operating a pulp wood business and being a partner in Inspiration Gospel Music. He also worked with Gatlin Lumber Co., in Fort Walton Beach.
His parents, Jessie and Rosemary Edwards, daughter and son-in-law, the Rev. Myra and John Andrews and a granddaughter, Brandi preceded him to the Great Beyond.
His memory will be cherished by his wife of 55 years, Pearlie Edwards; four sons, Kenneth (Carol), Vernon, Tracy
(Denise), Tampa, Trevor Edwards and Keith Edwards both of Ebro; a sister, Katherine Potter, Ebro; six grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.
Funeral Services were conducted at 11 a.m., Saturday, April 20, at the Wausau Assembly of God Church in Wausau, with Pastor Danny Burns, Bishop W.A. Potters, the Rev. Benjamin Jackson, Elder Louis Brown and the Minister Walter Smith officiating. Interment followed in the Saint Luke Memorial Garden Cemetery in Vernon with Cooper Funeral Home of Chipley, directing. The family received friends from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday at the Wausau Assembly of God Church and remains were placed in the church one hour prior to services on Saturday.
Thomas L. Edwards
David Washington Rogers, 84 of Chipley, went to be with the Lord on April 24, 2013, at his residence. David was born Jan. 11, 1929 in Washington County to George and Annie Rogers. He served in the United States Army. He was also the owner and operator of Rogers Logging Company for many years, and later retired from the Washington County Road Department.
He is survived by his loving wife Charlotte Rogers of Chipley; two sons, Steve Rogers and wife Dottye of Alford, and Tim Rogers and wife Pam of Cottondale; two sisters, Georgia Johnson and Carolyn Nellems both
of Panama City; known as “Grand-dad” to his four grandsons, Ryan, Heath, Seth and Devin Rogers and three great-grandchildren, Cason, Kylie, and Laken Rogers.
Graveside services were at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013, at Compass Lake cemetery with the Rev. Troy Lee Walsingham and the Rev. Donnell Walsingham officiating. Obert Funeral Home of Chipley directing.
Family received friends from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, April 26, 2013, at Obert Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Covenant Hospice or the Jackson Hospital Foundation.
David W. Rogers
Mrs. Mary Louise Sawyer, age 84, of Bonifay, passed away April 23, 2013, at her home. She was born March 18, 1929, in Bonifay, to the late Jessie Vander Parrish and Katie Eunice Steverson Parrish.
In addition to her parents, Mrs. Sawyer was preceded in death by one son, Robert Lovin.
Mrs. Sawyer is survived by her husband, Paul Sawyer of Bonifay; one son, Bill Davis and wife Donna of Bonifay; four daughters, Noni Rucker and husband James of Geneva, Ala., Lisa Gillard and husband Wesley of
Bonifay, Tina Sawyer of Bonifay, and Christal Bryant and husband Adam of Rockville, MD; one sister, Monette French of Bonifay; four grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m., Saturday, April 27, 2013, at Peel Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Ike Steverson officiating. Interment followed in the Bonifay Cemetery with Peel Funeral Home directing. Family received friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Peel Funeral Home Chapel.
Mary L. Sawyer
Mr. Billy Harold Blankenship, Jr., 53 of Bonifay, died on Friday, April 12, 2013, at his residence in Bonifay. Born Saturday, Aug. 29, 1959, in Panama City, he was the son of the late Billy Harold Blankenship and the late Betty Pate Blankenship.
Surviving are brother, Lloyd Blankenship of Bonifay; half sister,
Angela Yates of Bonifay; step brother, Christopher Blankenship of Bonifay; grandmother, Mary Lou Bullington of Bonifay, and special friend, Shirley Griffin of Bonifay.
A Memorial service was at 10 a.m., on Thursday, April 18, 2013, at Sims Funeral Home Chapel with Tad Wilson officiating and Sims Funeral Home directing.
Billy H. Blankenship
Carolyn Tobias Williams was born Sept. 11, 1925, in Chipley, the second child of Frank and Louise Tobias and died April 25, 2013 in Chipley. Carolyn and her husband, Jeep, moved to Ft. Pierce, in 1947. She worked with Southern Bell and retired in 1986 after 43 years. Jeep was a commercial fisherman, one of seven sons of Captain Fred Williams of Panama City, and died in 1976. Carolyn moved back to Chipley in 2006 to live close to her sister, Bobby.
Carolyn is preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Carroll Eugene (Jeep) Williams.
Survived by two sisters and one brother, Julia “Boots” Sirmans of Adel, Ga., Bobby Craven of Chipley, and Frank Tobias, Jr. and his wife Jacquelyn Gilbert Tobias of West Palm Beach; nephews and nieces are, Brownie and Mike Sirmans, Leola Brock and Kathy Rudd, Jeni Dennis, Susan Brown and Toby Tobias.
Graveside services were held at Glenwood Cemetery in Chipley, at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 28, 2013. Brown Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Family and friends may sign the online register at www.brownfh.net.
Carolyn T. Williams
Ruth Hunt, of Durham, N.C., passed away Friday, April 26, 2013, at UNC Hospital. Born in Washington County, Ruth was the daughter of the late George Post and Willie Slay Post.
Mrs. Hunt is survived by her husband, Bobby Hunt; two sons, James Hunt and Kevin Hunt and wife, Perla; two brothers, Richard Post and George Hart and wife Pat and three grandchildren, Alan Hunt, Collin Hunt and Sofia Hunt.
A graveside service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at Glenwood Cemetery, Chipley. Flowers are acceptable. Memorial contributions may be made to Lung Cancer Alliance, P.O. Box 418372, Boston, MA 02241 or online at [email protected]. The family is being assisted by Clements Funeral Service Inc. Online condolences may be made at www.clementsfuneralservice.com.
Ruth Hunt
Harold “HB” Hutto, age 83, passed away Saturday morning April 27, 2013, at the Northwest Florida Community Hospital in Chipley. He was born on Aug. 24, 1929, in Palmetto, to the late Ira and Ruby (Gardner) Hutto. HB served in the Army National Guard and worked for the Bradenton Herald for many years. He has been a resident of Wausau, for the past three years coming from North Carolina.
Mr. Hutto is survived by his loving wife of sixty
years, Thomasina (Willis) Hutto; one son, Harold Danny Hutto and wife Jill of Bradenton.; one daughter, Terri Hester and husband Lonnie of Iron Station, N.C.; three grandchildren, Cristy Allen, Daniel and Zachary Hutto, and five great grandchildren.
A graveside service was at 2 p.m., Eastern Standard Time Tuesday, April 30, 2013, in the Palmetto City Cemetery in Palmetto. Family and friends may sign the online register at www.brownfh.net.
Harold Hutto
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4-3217IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR W A S H I N G T O NCOUNTY, FLORIDACASE NO:67-13-CA-000009
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL AS-SOCIATIONPlaintiff,vs.BRANDON MARQUIS A/K/A BRANDON MARGUIS; BRITTANY LEONARD A/K/A B. LEONARD; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF BRAN-DON MARQUIS A/K/A BRANDON MARGUIS; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF BRITTANY LEON-ARD A/K/A B. LEON-ARD; UNKNOWN TEN-ANT I; UNKNOWN TENANT II, and any un-known heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors, and other unknown persons or unknown spouses claiming by, through and under any of the above-named Defendants,
Defendants.NOTICE OF ACTIONTO:BRANDON MARQUIS A/K/A BRANDON MARGUIS250 TEQUESTA DRIVE SUITE 201TEQUESTA, FL 33469OR77 THE GREENWAY LOOPPANAMA CITY BEACH, FL 32413BRITTANY LEONARD A/K/A B. LEONARD250 TEQUESTA DRIVE SUITE 201TEQUESTA, FL 33469OR77 THE GREENWAY LOOPPANAMA CITY BEACH, FL 32413UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF BRANDON MAR-QUIS A/K/A BRANDON MARGUIS250 TEQUESTA DRIVE SUITE 201TEQUESTA, FL 33469OR77 THE GREENWAY LOOPPANAMA CITY BEACH, FL 32413UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF BRITTANY LEON-ARD A/K/A B. LEON-ARD250 TEQUESTA DRIVE SUITE 201TEQUESTA, FL 33469OR77 THE GREENWAY LOOPPANAMA CITY BEACH, FL 32413LAST KNOWN AD-DRESS STATED, CUR-RENT RESIDENCE UN-KNOWNAnd any unknown heirs, devisees, grant-ees, creditors and other unknown persons or unknown spouses claiming by, through and under the a b o v e - n a m e dDefendant(s), if de-ceased or whose last known addresses are unknown.YOU ARE HEREBY NO-TIFIED that an action to foreclose Mortgage covering the following real and personal prop-erty described as fol-lows, to-wit:Parcel A and B com-bined: Begin at the SW corner of the SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 10, Township 3 North, Range 15 West, Wash-ington County, Florida and run N 00° 15’ 30” W 299.50 feet; thence S 89° 38’ 48” E 250.00 feet; thence S 00° 15’ 30” E 299.50 feet; thence N 89° 38’ 48” W 250.00 feet to the Point of Beginning (P.O.B) containing 1.72 acres more or less. Parcel B: Commence at the SW corner of the SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 10, Township 3 North, Range 15 West, Wash-ington County, Florida and run S 89° 38’ 48” E 230.00 feet for the Point of Beginning (P.O.B); thence run S 89° 38’ 48” E 20.00 feet; thence run N 00° 15’ 30 “ W 299.50 feet; thence run N 89° 38’ 48” W 20.00 feet; thence run S 00° 15’ 30” E 299.50 feet to the P.O.BParcel D: Begin at the NW corner of the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 10, Township 3 North, Range 15 West, Wash-ington County, Florida and run S 89° 38’ 48” E 250.00 feet; thence run S 00° 15’ 30” E 54.48 feet to a point in the centerline of Union Hill Road; thence run S 67° 10’ 55” W along said centerline 270.70 feet; thence depart said cen-terline and run N 00° 15’ 30” W 161.00 feet to the Point of Beginning containing 0.6 acres more or less.has been filed against you and you are re-quired to serve a copy of your written de-fenses, if any, to it on L a t a s h aMoore-Robinson, But-ler & Hosch, P.A., 3185 South Conway Road, Suite E, Orlando, Flor-ida 32812 and file the original with the Clerk of the above-styled Court on or before 30 days from the first pub-lication, otherwise a Judgment may be en-tered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court on the 15 day of April, 2013.AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator by mail at P. O. Box 1089, Pan-ama City, FL 32402 or by phone at (850) 747-5338 at least seven (7) days before your scheduled court ap-pearance, or immedi-ately upon receiving this notification if the time before the sched-uled appearance is less than seven (7) days. If you are hearing im-paired, please call 711.CLERK OF THE CIR-CUIT COURTBy: K. McDanielAs published in the Washington County News on April 24 and May 1, 2013.
4-3215IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR W A S H I N G T O NCOUNTY, FLORIDACase No.: 2013-CP-04
RE: ESTATE OFTHOMAS L. FRAZER, deceasedNOTICE TO CREDI-TORSTO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS OR DEMANDS AGAINST THE ABOVE ESTATE:The ancillary adminis-tration of the estate of THOMAS L. FRAZER, deceased, Case No.: 2013-CP-04, is pending in the Circuit Court of Washington County, Florida, Probate Divi-sion, the address of which is 1293 Jackson Avenue, Chipley, Flor-ida 32428. The names and addresses of the ancillary personal rep-resentative and the per-sonal representative’s attorney are set forth below.ALL INTERESTED PER-SONS ARE NOTIFIED THAT:All creditors of the de-cedent and other per-sons 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 publica-tion 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 SERV-ICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.All other creditors of the decedent and per-sons having claims or demands against the estate of the decedent must file their claims with this Court WITHIN THREE MONTHS AF-TER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICA-TION OF THIS NO-TICE.ALL CLAIMS AND DE-MANDS NOT SO FILED WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.The date of the first publication of this no-tice is April 24, 2013.STEVEN J. BAKERFlorida Bar No. :20981315 W La Rue StreetPost Office Box 66Pensacola, Florida 32501/32591(850) 434-3009As published in the Washington County News April 24 & May 1, 2013.
4-3216IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDI-CIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY, FLORIDAGENERAL JURISDIC-TION DIVISIONCASE NO. 2012-CA-000121
DEUTSCHE BANK NA-TIONAL TRUSTCOMPANY, AS TRUS-TEE FORAMERIQUEST MORT-GAGE SECURITIESINC., ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGHC E R T I F I C A T E S , SERIES 2005-R4Plaintiff,vs.SERENA CUSHMAN AND ALAN CUSHMANA/K/A ALAN L. CUSH-MAN, et.al.Defendant(s).NOTICE OF FORE-CLOSURE SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Fi-nal Judgement of Fore-closure dated April 11, 2013, and entered in 2012-CA-000121 of Cir-cuit Court of the Four-teenth Judicial Circut in and for Washington County, Florida, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERIQUEST MORT-GAGE SECURITIES INC., ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CER-TIFICATES, SERIES 2005-R4, is the Plaintiff and SERENA CUSH-MAN; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF SERENA CUSHMAN; ALAN CUSHMAN A/K/A ALAN L. CUSHMAN; UN-KNOWN TENANT #1 N/K/A CARISSA TAY-LOR; STATE OF FLOR-IDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; CLERK OF THE COURT, WASH-INGTON COUNTY FLORIDA are the Defendant(s). Linda Hayes Cook as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bid-der for cash, the Front of the Washington County Courthouse 1293 Jackson Ave., Chipley, Fl 32428, at 11:00 AM June 12, 2013, on the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit:THE SW ¼ OF NE ¼ OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 2 NORTH, RANGE 15, WEST, W A S H I N G T O NCOUNTY, FLORIDA.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 pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.Dated this 12 day of April, 2013Linda Hayes CookAs Clerk of the CourtBy: K. McDanielAs Deputy ClerkIMPORTANTIf you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in
this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator by mail at P.O. Box 1089, Pan-ama City, FL 32402 or by phone at (850) 747-5338 at least seven (7) days before you scheduled court ap-pearance, or immedi-ately upon receiving this notification if the time before the sched-uled appearance is less than seven (7) days. If you are hearing im-paired, please call 711. ADA CoordinatorP.O. Box 1089, Pan-ama City, Florida 32402, Phone: 850-747-5338 Fax: (850) 747-5717, Hear-ing Impaired: Dial 711, E m a i l :[email protected] in: THE W A S H I N G T O NCOUNTY NEWSSubmitted by: Robert-son, Anschutz & Schneid, P.L.Attorneys for Plaintiff6409 Congress Ave-nue, Suite 100, Boca Raton, FL 33487T e l e p h o n e :561-241-6901Fax: 561-241-9181As Published in the Washington County News on April 24 and May 1, 2013
5-3212IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOUR-TEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUI IN AND FOR W A S H I N G T O NCOUNTY, FLORIDACIVIL DIVISIONCase #: 2011-CA-000083EverBank, Plaintiff, vs.Charles A. Hancockand Vicky K. Hancock, Husband and Wife Defendant(s).
NOTICE OF SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to an Order dated April 10, 2013, entered in Civil Case No. 2011-CA-000083 of the Circuit Court of the 14th Judicial Circuit in and for Washington County, Florida, wherein EverBank, Plaintiff and Charles A. Hancock and Vicky K. Hancock are defendant(s), I, Clerk of Court, LINDA HAYES COOK, will sell to the highest and best bid-der for cash AT THE FRONT COURTHOUSE STEP OF THE WASH-INGTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 201 WEST JACKSON AVE-NUE, CHIPLEY, FLOR-IDA AT 11:00 A.M. CENTRAL STANDARD TIME. on June 12, 2013, the following de-scribed property as set forth in said Final Judg-ment, to-wit: THE
SOUTH 1/2 OF THE SOUTH 1/2 OF THE NORTH 1/2 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 5 NORTH. RANGE 13 WEST, W A S H I N G T O NCOUNTY, FLORIDA.ANY PERSON CLAIM-ING AN INTEREST IN THE SURPLUS FROM THE SALE, IF ANY, OTHER THAN THE PROPERTY OWNER AS OF THE DATE OF THE LIS PENDENS MUST FILE A CLAIM WITHIN 60 DAYS AF-TER THE SALE.If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator by mail at P.O. Box 1089, Pan-ama City, FL 32402 at (850) 747-5338, at least seven (7) days before your scheduled court appearance, or imme-diately upon receiving this notification if the time before the sched-uled appearance is less than seven (7) days. If you are hearing im-paired, call 711.LINDA HAYES COOKCLERK OF THE CIR-CUIT COURT Washing-ton County, Florida.K. McDaniel DEPUTY CLERK OF COURTAs published in the Washington County News April 24, May 1, 2013.
5-5283NOTICETri-County Community Council, Inc., Board of Directors will meet on Thursday, May 09, 2013 at 5:00 P.M., with Finance Committee meeting at 4:30 and Programs Committee meeting at 4:40 P.M., at McLains Restaurant located on 331 South in DeFuniak Springs.As published in the Washington County News May 1, 2013.
5-3221NOTICE OF SETTLE-MENTCity: Choctawhatchee, FLCounty: WashingtonCase:
Brandy Commandervs.Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commis-sion
Notice is hereby given that the above refer-enced parties have en-tered into a settlement of claimant’s tort claim(s) (G10-09-532/A
against the insured, for the total amount of $7,500.00 to be paid by State of Florida to the claimant.Ray CochanRisk Management Pro-gram SpecialistAs published in the Washington County News May 1, 2013.
5-3213IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOUR-TEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR W A S H I N G T O NCOUNTY, FLORIDACIVIL DIVISION Case #: 2011-CA-000074Regions Bank d/b/a Regions Mortgage Plaintiff, vs. Charles M. Swingle and Lisa Swin-gle, Husband and WifeDefendant(s).
NOTICE OF SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to an Order dated April 10, 2013, entered in Civil Case No. 2011-CA-000074 of the Circuit Court of the 14th Judicial Circuit in and for Washington County, Florida, wherein Regions Bank d/b/a Regions Mort-gage, Plaintiff and Charles M. Swingle and Lisa Swingle, Hus-band and Wife are defendant(s), I, Clerk of Court, LINDA HAYES COOK, will sell to the highest and best bid-der for cash AT THE FRONT COURTHOUSE STEP OF THE WASH-INGTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 201 WEST JACKSON AVE-NUE, CHIPLEY, FLOR-IDA AT 11:00 A.M. CENTRAL STANDARD TIME on June 12, 2013
the following de-scribed property as set forth in said Final Judg-ment, to-wit: LOT 5, BLOCK 312, OF SUNNY HILLS UNIT FIVE, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 2, PAGES 55 THROUGH 59, OF THE PUBLIC REC-ORDS OF WASHING-TON COUNTY, FLOR-IDA.ANY PERSON CLAIM-ING AN INTEREST IN THE SURPLUS FROM THE SALE, IF ANY, OTHER THAN THE PROPERTY OWNER AS OF THE DATE OF THE LIS PENDENS MUST FILE A CLAIM WITHIN 60 DAYS AF-TER THE SALE.If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator by mail at P.O. Box 1089, Pan-ama City, FL 32402 at (850) 747-5338, at least seven (7) days before your scheduled court appearance, or imme-diately upon receiving this notification if the
time before the sched-uled appearance is less than seven (7) days. If you are hearing im-paired, call 711.LINDA HAYES COOKCLERK OF THE CIR-CUIT COURT Washing-ton County, Florida.K. McDaniel DEPUTY CLERK OF COURTAs published in the Washington County News April 24, May 1, 2013.
5-3220CITY OF CHIPLEYNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGAMENDMENT TO CITY CODEThe Chipley City Coun-cil will conduct a PUB-LIC HEARING regard-ing adoption of the fol-lowing ordinance on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at 6:00 p.m., at the City Hall Council Chambers, 1442 Jack-son Avenue, Chipley, Florida.ORDINANCE NO. 925AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHIP-LEY, FLORIDA AMEND-ING CHAPTER 9, ENTI-TLED “HISTORIC PRESERVATION”, AND DECLARING AN EF-FECTIVE DATE.Adoption of this ordi-nance will replace the Landmark Commission with the Planning and Zoning Commission.All citizens and inter-ested parties are en-couraged to attend the public hearing and to provide written and/or verbal comments on the matter under con-sideration. Any person requiring a special ac-commodation at this hearing because of dis-ability or physical im-pairments should con-tact the City at (850) 638-6350, 48 hours prior to the hearing.For further information pertaining to the pro-posed ordinance, con-tact Dan Miner, City Administrator.As published in the Washington County News May 1, 2013.
AUCTIONS- 47 LOTS in Rarity Bay on Tellico Lake, East Tennessee. FORECLOSURE AUC-TION. May 11, 10:30 AM. Furrow Auction Co. 1-800-4FURROW. www.furrow.com TN Lic. #62
Love seat, sofa, chair$300; Queen head-board green $100; two twin beds, frames, headboard $100 each; 5 ft. sail fish $100.(850)547-4114
Big Yard Sale May 4 at Mini Storage Unit, Esto Fl. Hwy. 79 & 2. Lot of box deals. 8a.m.—.
Going out of businesshuge yard sale Saturday, May 4th @ bookstore across from Sims Funeral Home, Bonifay.
Estate/Yard Sale.(furniture and other household items).Rain or shine.Friday, May 3, Satur-day, May 4, 7:30 a.m. until. 1430A Merry Ac-res Drive, Chipley. Call 850-527-8144 for more i n f o r m a t i o n
HUGE YARD SALE FUND RAISER. North Bay Clan of the Lower Muscogee Creek Tribe Grounds 1560 Lonnie Road Hwy 77. South of Chipley 5 miles on left. Fri.,May 3, Sat.,4th, Sun.,5th. 8 a.m. til 1 p.m
Large Abandoned Goods Sale. Like a big Flea Market, but yard sale prices. Fri-day & Saturday, Mary 3rd & 4th, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Lo-cated on the bypass (Maple Avenue) Ge-neva, Al. Near court-house.
Yard Sale Hwy 77, Glen Avenue, Wausau, Saturday, May 4th, 8 a.m.-til. Furniture, ap-pliances, baby items, clothing, misc.
Yard Sale Saturday, May 4th. Margie Peel’s at 1488 S. Blvd., Chip-ley. Furniture, clothes, holiday decorations. Wedding stuff, toys and lots of good junk.
Yard Sale under pole barn at 2260 Hwy 173, Bonifay, Sat. 4th, 8-4.Come rain or shine.
Affordable Lawn Care. Low overhead=low prices. (850)263-3813,(850)849-1175.
Burn Barrels for sale $15.00 each. Call (727)992-1376 after 10 a.m. If no answer leave message.
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PROPERTYMAINTENANCEBushing hogging,
drivewaymaintenance, dirt spreading, land-
scaping lawns and mowing, tree trimm-ing and roto tilling
garden plots. 326-7185 or 638-3105.
WANTED;Musical Instruments of any kind in any condi-tion. Piano, banjoes, drums, guitars, amps. LESSONS. Covington Music, Chipley. 850-638-5050.
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C&C Bookkeepingand Tax Service. Open 5 days a week. 8am to 5pm. Call (850)638-1483
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Administrative Asst.FT for busy Veterinary Office. Experience pref. Drop resume at Pan-handle Vet., 900 Falling Water Rd., Chipley, Mon-Fri, 8:00-5:00. Deadline for dropping off resume, May 3.
EARLY HEAD START
CAREGIVER.Tri-County Commu-nity Council, Inc., is accepting applica-tions for the Early Head Start Program in Walton County. Great Benefits.Responsibility: Plan and initiate class-room activities ac-cording to Early Head Start Stand-ards.Minimum Qualifica-tions: Must have a Child Development Associate (CDA) Infant/Toddler or have a degree in Early Childhood De-velopment; minimum of 1 year work re-lated experience with infants and tod-dlers. Must have cur-rent driver’s license and proper vehicle insurance coverage. Must comply with health and back-ground screening. For additional infor-mation and qualifica-tions call LeaAnn, Personnel Tech at (850)547-3689. Ap-plications may be obtained from any Tri-County Commu-nity Council offices or from the agency website -www.tricountycommunity-c o u n c i l . c o mand submitted by May 06, 2013 at 4:30 p.m. Successful ap-plicant will be sub-ject to p r e - e m p l o y m e n t drug test. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EM-PLOYER AND DRUG AND SMOKE FREE WORKPLACE.
CHIPOLACOLLEGE
is accepting applica-tions for the follow-ing full-time posi-tions:Associate Dean of Fine and Performing Arts;Account ing/Business Instructor;English Instructor;Chemistry Instructor;Mathematics Educa-tion Instructor;Nursing Instructor;Sociology Instructor;Welding Instructor;Career Coach – Welding Program.Minimum qualifica-tions are available at www.chipola.edu/personnel/jobs. APPLI-CATION DEADLINE IS OPEN UNTIL FILLED.To obtain an appli-cation, contact Hu-man Resources at [email protected] or at (850)718-2269. Can-didates may be sub-ject to background investigations.EQUAL OPPORTU-NITY EMPLOYER
GeneralNow acceptingapplications for
servers.Apply in person at
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Oyster Barlocated on Hwy. 90
Caryville, Fl.850-548-5800.
Healthcare/Medical
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Please fax resume & references to 850-547-5415,
attn Kim Sasser.
Other
EBROGREYHOUND
PARK and Poker Room is Hiring
For the Following Positions:
•Mutual Clerks•Food & Beverage
Server’s•Concessions and
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Preschool needsloving, dependable person to teach, play and love our 2 year olds. Experience preferred. Call (850)547-1444.
Logistics/Transport
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Contractors Needed To Verify and Re-solve Newspaper
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Carriers needed in Washington, Jack-son, & Calhoun Co
or Fountain/ Youngstown in Bay
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The News Herald needs carriers for early AM hours
Must have:
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If interested, Contact Jamie Meadors 850-896-2496
Logistics/Transport
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Sunday
Must Have:.Be 18 yrs or older.A reliable vehicle
.Proof of AutoInsurance
.A valid driver’slicense
If interested, ContactColin Parker at
850-625-7466 or cparker@
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AIRLINES ARE HIR-ING - Train for hands on Aviation Mainte-nance Career. FAA ap-proved program. Fi-nancial aid if qualified -Housing available CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 866-314-3769
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2 Bdrm Apt. LR, kitchen, new carpet & paint. Located in Boni-fay. Water, sewage, garbage included. $450/mo plus security depo. (850)547-5244, also (850)329-8381.
4BR Home & 2BR Apartments, furnished. Private, well main-tained. Includes W&D. Lawn maintance & water provided. 850-547-2096.
FOR RENT1B/R apartment, con-venient location in Chipley. No pets. 850-638-4640
Mandi Lea Apartments in Vernon, 1, 2, and 3/BR. Financial Assis-tance available is qual-ified. 638-4640.
SpaciousOne Bedroom
Apartments$425 - $450
Stove & Refrigerator.Free W/S/G
No PetsConvenient locationDowntown Chipley
638-3306.
Taking Applications.2 bedroom 1 bath du-plex. Background check and employment verification required. 850638-7128
1 Bdrm/1 Bath House. Chipley area. No Pets.(850)638-1918.
1271 Holley Ave. Chip-ley. 2 Bdr/2 Ba all elec-tric, corner lot. $750/mo. Call ( 8 5 0 ) 5 3 5 - 0 7 1 1 , (850)258-6016 or (850)258-6018
2 small 1 Br trailers$300/mo and $400/mo. Electric, water and sewage all included. In Vernon. Call (850)294-6600.
3 Bdrm/2 Ba MH for rent Westville 179A. Rent includes water, sewage & trash. 1st & last months rent re-quired. Call (850)956-1224 if inter-ested.
3 Bdrm/2Ba Mobile home, corner lot, 561 Cope Road. Two cov-ered porches. $650/mo and $650/deposit. Ref-erences a must. (850)547-2338.
2BR/1.5BA. New Car-pet and paint, large yard, well, CH/A & sep-tic. Quiet country area near Vernon. $425/mo. 850-535-9886.
2BR/2BA MH in Chip-ley. WD hookup. CH & A. 1 yr lease. No pets. $475/mth + deposit. 850-763-3320 or 850-774-3034.
2BR/2BA, MH for rent.on Pioneer Rd. Call 8 5 0 - 8 4 9 - 6 8 4 2 , 8 5 0 - 3 2 6 - 0 5 8 2 , 850-638-7315.
Clean Doublewide. 3BR, 2 complete baths. Front and back porch. $450/mo. No pets. Smoke Free. (850)547-2830.
For Rent, 2BR/1BAtrailer. 2 miles out of Chipley on owners property. Call 638-4252, ask for Lu-verne.
For Rent. 3BD/2BA. $500/mth $400 deposit. Includes garbage, water, & yard upkeep. Country Living. 2 miles from town. 638-8804.
For Rent.Two, 2BR/1BA MH and one 3BR/1BA MH. All on Corbin Rd. Storage build-
ings, decks, all elec-tric. On nice big lots. I furnish water, gar-bage, do lawn in
summer, spray once a month and change AC filters. For more
info call Lou at 638-1911 or
326-0044. Sorry, no pets.
Large 2BR/2BA MH.Clean. $500/mo, $250/deposit. Call 638-1462 or 260-5928.
3 Homes for Salein Chipley. Good rental income. Large lots. Recently re-modeled. Motivated seller. 850-481-5352 or 850-849-7676.
3BR/2BA House inChipley. Owner fi-nance. Newly reno-vated kitchen & bath-room floors. Stove & refrigerator included. $700/month. Call 850-547-3746.
POTENTIAL GREAT FLIP PROPERTY!
4 BD/2BA plus 800 sqf shop CH/A on 1
acre in country, 3 miles from Chipley. Present owner up-grades will sell in lower 70’s or you purchase as is for
lower 50’s. Call Ron @ 850-638-6414
For Sale by Owner: 19 wooded acres 3 miles north of Bonifay on Hwy 79. A tract has been divided into two 9.5 acre parcels. Some restrictions to protect buyers. Price $3500/acre. Call Rich-ard (850)547-2637.
Prime Property.Two 8 acres on Bedie Rd, Two 9 acres on Bedie Rd. 5 acres on Hwy 77. Some owner financing For more info call Milton Peel @ 850-638-1858 or 326-9109.
For Sale 1988 Chevy Silverado. $1500. For more information call 638-4492
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