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PALATKA DAILY NEWS www.mypdn.com TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015 $1 Mostly Sunny 5% rain chance 72 | 50 For details, see 2A By mail, 1 section The Voice of Putnam County since 1885 VOL. 127 • NO. 14 PALATKA, FLA. Public Notices on Page 10A INDEX Advice ............................. 6A Briefing ........................... 2A Classified/Legals .......... 10A Comics............................ 6A Horoscope ...................... 6A Lottery............................. 8A Obituaries ..................... 12A Opinions ......................... 4A Sports ............................. 7A Sudoku ..........................11A Hundreds turn out to celebrate MLK Day in Palatka Photos by CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News Hundreds marched along Washington Street Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. during the holiday. (More photos, Page 3A) BY BRANDON D. OLIVER Palatka Daily News Monday may have been a day off from work and school for many, but it was a “day on” for the people celebrating the life and works of slain Martin Luther King Jr. in Palatka. Hosted by the African- American Cultural Arts Council of Putnam County, Monday’s festivities included a march that went from Jenkins Middle School to Booker Lefty Turner Park, fol- lowed by festivities at the park. Hundreds of local citizens, including youth groups, church members and govern- ment officials, were out Monday morning and after- noon to participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations. Stephanie Brinkley-Wellon and her youth group, Citywide Youth Movement, were one of those groups in the march that started at 10 a.m. “This is our first year par- ticipating in the Martin Luther King parade,” Brinkley-Wellon said. “We’ve participated in the festivities before.” Brinkley-Wellon said that she and the children wanted to take place in Monday’s activities because it was another way for them to sup- port their community and cel- ebrate King’s contributions to society. Once the march ended, Citywide and everyone else in attendance continued to rec- ognize King during a ceremo- ny at the park. One of the people on the program was 11-year-old Johnson Session III, who read a brief history of King’s life and recited portions of some of King’s speeches. “Dr. King gave his life for others,” said Session, decked out in a suit and tie. “We must keep the dream alive. This is a day on, not a day off.” Having weeks ago agreed to speak during the ceremony, Session said it was an honor to be asked to participate in the festivities because of the amazing work King did for people. But before Monday arrived, Session said, he had to work up the courage to speak in front of such a large crowd. “I had to memorize the speech and all that,” he said. “I had to really get confident, so to speak. My stomach was still turning (during the speech), but I was OK.” In addition to the opening ceremony, the festivities at the park included a musical entertainment, basketball, a softball game, playtime for children on the playground and food, including a barbecue cook-off. Something new during this year’s King Day celebration was a prayer vigil that was Civil rights legend honored in parade, speeches, festival BY ASIA AIKINS Palatka Daily News Palatka city commissioners will be asked Thursday to postpone their discussion about Palatka Housing Authority units once more. Staff recommendation is for the commission to continue their discussion about the PHA annual plan and letter of understanding about units in the city until the Feb. 12 com- mission meeting. “We are still in the process City likely to put off PHA question Photos by PETE SKIBA / Palatka Daily News More than 30 people arrived at Rodman Dam for an impromptu “Save Rodman Dam Rally” at the dam Saturday. Residents rally in support of Rodman BY PETE SKIBA Palatka Daily News RODMAN DAM – The threat of removing Rodman dam, the reservoir and the habitat that started about 50 years ago brought Save Rodman Dam residents out to rally at about 9 a.m. Saturday. “I started this rally on Facebook a couple days ago,” said Darrel Moore. “I didn’t give much of an advance notice, but we just want to make people aware and voice our opinion.” That opinion brought more than 30 supporters out to the dam. The supporters don’t want the dam removed because it will damage the 50-year-old balanced habitat with great fishing and other leisure activities. Secondly, those at the rally said, officials in Duval County and Jacksonville should stay out of Putnam County’s busi- ness. “I understand they have their reasons for wanting the dam down,” Moore said. “But this is our county and our dam.” The idea for the rally sprung from information that the St. Johns Riverkeeper would drop its opposition to the dredging of the St. Johns River in return for Jacksonville’s support to remove the dam. No one in the Riverkeeper organization, Duval County or Jacksonville government told anyone in Putnam County about the agreement. Whether 76 years old or 17, many of the Putnam County supporters who want the dam to stay had stories to tell about catching fish for the The sign conveys what a reported majority of people in Putnam County say to anyone who wants to destroy the dam. Palatka Municipal Airport’s fly-in to feature 1920s-era Ford Tri-Motor airliner BY ASIA AIKINS Palatka Daily News A 1920s Ford Tri-Motor air- craft arrived in Palatka Monday morning, just in time for the Palatka Municipal Airport’s fifth annual Fly-In. The plane will be showcased at the fly-in, taking place from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24. “It really is an impressive aircraft,” airport manager John Youell said. “It travels all around the country, and they will be selling rides for it at the fly-in, too.” Youell said the particular plane is a 1929 plane that has been completely refurbished. The Experimental Aircraft Association is providing the plane and 30-minute flight experiences, 15 minutes of which is in the air. “From 1926 through 1933, Ford Motor Company built 199 Tri-Motors,” the EAA website said. “EAA’s model 4-AT–E was the 146th off Ford’s innovative assembly line and first flew on Aug. 21, 1929.” The plane was used in air shows until 1973, when a storm ripped it from its tie- downs in Wisconsin. The plane wreckage was purchased by the EAA and displayed in the CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News Pilot Todd Mather puts down wheel chocks after landing a 1920s Ford Tri-Motor airplane at Palatka’s airport Monday. The plane will be on display during the annual open house and fly-in on Saturday and will be available to fly passengers. See PALATKA, Page 5A See RODMAN, Page 5A See AIRPORT, Page 5A See KING, Page 5A VOTE EARLY THIS WEEK! GOP Primary for Florida Senate, District 6 Palatka, Crescent City and Interlachen 012015a1.indd 1 1/19/15 7:36 PM
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INDEXAdvice ............................. 6ABriefing ........................... 2AClassified/Legals .......... 10AComics ............................ 6AHoroscope ...................... 6ALottery............................. 8AObituaries ..................... 12AOpinions ......................... 4ASports ............................. 7ASudoku ..........................11A
Hundreds turn out to celebrate MLK Day in Palatka
Photos by CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News
Hundreds marched along Washington Street Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. during the holiday. (More photos, Page 3A)
BY BRANDON D. OLIVERPalatka Daily News
Monday may have been a day off from work and school for many, but it was a “day on” for the people celebrating the life and works of slain Martin Luther King Jr. in Palatka.
Hosted by the African-Amer ican Cul tura l Arts Council of Putnam County, Monday’s festivities included a march that went from Jenkins Middle School to Booker Lefty Turner Park, fol-lowed by festivities at the park.
Hundreds of local citizens, inc luding youth groups , church members and govern-ment o f f i c ia ls , were out Monday morning and after-noon to participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations.
Stephanie Brinkley-Wellon and her youth group, Citywide Youth Movement, were one of those groups in the march that started at 10 a.m.
“This is our first year par-t ic ipat ing in the Mart in L u t h e r K i n g p a r a d e , ” Brinkley-Wellon said. “We’ve participated in the festivities before.”
Brinkley-Wellon said that she and the children wanted to take place in Monday’s activities because it was
another way for them to sup-port their community and cel-ebrate King’s contributions to society.
Once the march ended, Citywide and everyone else in attendance continued to rec-ognize King during a ceremo-ny at the park.
One of the people on the
program was 11-year-old Johnson Session III, who read a brief history of King’s life and recited portions of some of King’s speeches.
“Dr. King gave his life for others,” said Session, decked out in a suit and tie. “We must keep the dream alive. This is a day on, not a day off.”
Having weeks ago agreed to speak during the ceremony, Session said it was an honor to be asked to participate in the festivities because of the amazing work King did for people.
But before Monday arrived, Session said, he had to work up the courage to speak in
front of such a large crowd. “I had to memorize the
speech and all that,” he said. “I had to really get confident, so to speak. My stomach was sti l l turning (during the speech), but I was OK.”
In addition to the opening ceremony, the festivities at the park included a musical
entertainment, basketball, a softball game, playtime for children on the playground and food, including a barbecue cook-off.
Something new during this year’s King Day celebration was a prayer vigil that was
Civil rights legend honored in parade, speeches, festival
BY ASIA AIKINSPalatka Daily News
Palatka city commissioners will be asked Thursday to postpone their discussion a b o u t P a l a t k a H o u s i n g Authority units once more.
Staff recommendation is for the commission to continue their discussion about the PHA annual plan and letter of understanding about units in the city until the Feb. 12 com-mission meeting.
“We are still in the process
City likely to put off PHA question
Photos by PETE SKIBA / Palatka Daily News
More than 30 people arrived at Rodman Dam for an impromptu “Save Rodman Dam Rally” at the dam Saturday.
Residents rally in support of RodmanBY PETE SKIBA
Palatka Daily News
R O D M A N D A M – T h e threat of removing Rodman dam, the reservoir and the habitat that started about 50 years ago brought Save Rodman Dam residents out to rally at about 9 a.m. Saturday.
“I started this rally on Facebook a couple days ago,” said Darrel Moore. “I didn’t give much of an advance notice, but we just want to make people aware and voice our opinion.”
That opinion brought more than 30 supporters out to the dam.
The supporters don’t want the dam removed because it will damage the 50-year-old balanced habitat with great fishing and other leisure activities.
Secondly, those at the rally said, officials in Duval County and Jacksonville should stay out of Putnam County’s busi-ness.
“I understand they have their reasons for wanting the dam down,” Moore said. “But
this is our county and our dam.”
The idea for the ra l ly sprung from information that the St. Johns Riverkeeper would drop its opposition to the dredging of the St. Johns R i v e r i n r e t u r n f o r Jacksonville ’s support to remove the dam. No one in the Riverkeeper organization,
Duval County or Jacksonville government told anyone in Putnam County about the agreement.
Whether 76 years old or 17, many of the Putnam County supporters who want the dam to stay had stories to tell about catching fish for the
The sign conveys what a reported majority of people in Putnam County say to anyone who wants to destroy the dam.
Palatka Municipal Airport’s fl y-in to feature 1920s-era Ford Tri-Motor airliner
BY ASIA AIKINSPalatka Daily News
A 1920s Ford Tri-Motor air-craft arr ived in Palatka Monday morning, just in time for the Palatka Municipal Airport’s fifth annual Fly-In.
The plane will be showcased at the fly-in, taking place from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24.
“It really is an impressive aircraft,” airport manager John Youell said. “It travels all around the country, and they will be selling rides for it at the fly-in, too.”
Youell said the particular plane is a 1929 plane that has been completely refurbished.
The Experimental Aircraft Association is providing the plane and 30-minute flight experiences, 15 minutes of which is in the air.
“From 1926 through 1933, Ford Motor Company built 199 Tri-Motors,” the EAA website said. “EAA’s model 4-AT–E was the 146th off Ford’s innovative assembly line and first flew on Aug. 21, 1929.”
The plane was used in air shows until 1973, when a storm ripped it from its tie-downs in Wisconsin. The plane wreckage was purchased by the EAA and displayed in the
CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News
Pilot Todd Mather puts down wheel chocks after landing a 1920s Ford Tri-Motor airplane at Palatka’s airport Monday. The plane will be on display during the annual open house and fly-in on Saturday and will be available to fly passengers.
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Putnam Academy board to meet Wednesday
The governing board of Putnam Academy of Arts and Sciences will meet at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the school office, 113 Putnam County Blvd. Topic is the evaluation of the school leader. Interested parties are invited.
FELONY ARRESTS
Jan. 16Antwon Katre l l Ba low , 22 ,
Palatka: possession of marijuana.Anthony Phillip Cannella, 25,
Crescent City: possession of cocaine.Randy Lasharn Shorter, 40,
Palatka: selling cocaine.
Jan. 17Ronnie Nelson Devane , 57 ,
Interlachen: moving traffic violation.Wyte Riley Lucas, 18, Palatka:
carrying a concealed weapon.Jessie Leigh Masters, 48, Palatka:
possession of a controlled substance; larceny.
Shawn Eric Miles, 37, Interlachen: two counts failure to appear.
Jan. 18Jose Ismael Cordero Martinez, 40,
Interlachen: sexual assault.
ORLANdO
State had nation’s highest foreclosure rate last year
The number of properties that lenders repossessed in foreclosures nationwide last year is at an eight-year low, but Florida continued to have the nation’s highest foreclosure rate in 2014.
Figures released last week by the research firm RealtyTrac shows Florida had a 2.3 percent foreclosure rate last year, the highest in the nation.
Florida was followed by New Jersey, Maryland, Ill inois and Nevada.
Four Florida metro areas also were among the top 5 cities with the nation’s highest foreclosure rates.
Atlantic City, New Jersey, was at the top of the list. It was followed by Miami, Orlando, Florida’s Space Coast and Tampa.
miAmi
Dock company offers $5K reward for info on pelicans
A marine construction business is offering a $5,000 reward for informa-tion leading to the arrest and convic-tion of anyone who has mutilated numerous Florida Keys brown peli-cans in recent weeks.
The reward was announced by Dock and Marine Construction Corp. President Glen Larson following news that about a dozen pelicans have been found recently with their pouches slit. The mutilated birds are unable to eat and will slowly starve to death.
Larson says his company frequent-ly rescues injured pelicans. The bird also is part of the company’s logo.
Pelicans are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and any-one caught harming them can be prosecuted under federal law, facing possible fines and prison time.
ORLANdO
Gatorland, Fun Spot join forces in Orlando
Two homegrown Orlando tourist attractions are joining forces.
Fun Spot America and Gatorland are breaking ground Tuesday on a new alligator-themed tourist attrac-tion.
The 15,000-square-foot attraction will be located at Fun Spot on International Drive in the heart of Orlando’s tourism district.
The $1 million attraction will
showcase alligators as long as 12 feet, along with other reptiles.
Admission will be $6 per person.Started as a roadside attraction in
1949, Gatorland is one of central Florida’s oldest tourist destinations.
Fun Spot is one of the largest pri-vately-held tourist attractions in central Florida.
hAiNES ciTY
Donors help pay costs of slain mother-daughter
More than $3,500 has been raised to help pay for the burial expense of a Haines City mother and daughter who were killed during a crime spree.
Police say 72-year-old Patricia Moran and her 51-year-old daughter Deborah Royal were killed in their home. A 34-year-old man is accused of killing the women as he and three other men fled authorities after a pawn shop robbery in Auburndale on Thursday night.
More than 100 people have donat-ed to a GoFundMe account set up by Rachel Dominguez. The Lakeland woman organizes a Relay For Life team that Deborah Royal’s daughter is part of.
Michael Gordon was arrested after driving Moran’s car out of her garage. The other three men were also arrested and face multiple charges.
TAmPA
Tampa cafe offers up 1 millionth free meal
A Tampa cafe that provides meals to the homeless has served up its one millionth free meal.
The Trinity Cafe food program has been in operation for 14 years on Nebraska Avenue in Tampa, offering free meals to the homeless and the working poor.
Manager Cindy Davis sees the milestone as a blessing. She says the cafe serves one meal per day. Breakfast on weekends and a hot lunch during the week.
Crowds wait in the lobby to be called to one of a dozen round tables that seat six people each. The meals are served on real plates. The pro-gram was founded by Christ the King Catholic Church, but doesn’t preach one religion.
Except for Davis and a chef, volun-teers run the program.
NAPLES
Crews save runner’s life after collapse
A 60-year-old man who collapsed just yards from the finish line of the Naples Half Marathon is lucky fire-fighters were nearby.
Naples Fire Chief Steve McInerny said the man had no pulse when res-cuers got to him on Sunday but he was alert by the time they got him to the hospital.
Two teams of firefighters, para-medics and EMTs were patrolling the area when the call came in about a possible cardiac arrest. Bystanders had started CPR and a fire crew sta-tioned at City Hall brought an ALS defibrillator.
The man’s name hasn’t been released. Officials say he’s recover-ing at the hospital and has serious facial injuries from his fall.
ORLANdO
2 dead, 1 injured in shooting at apartment
Two people are dead and another is in the hospital following a triple shooting at an Orlando apartment complex.
Orange County Sheriff’s deputies say the shooting happened late S u n d a y a t H a r b o r B e a c h Apartment Homes, several miles north of Orlando International Airport.
One man was pronounced dead at the scene. The other two victims drove to the hospital in their own vehicle. A woman died at the hospi-tal and the other male victim is being treated for injuries. His condition wasn’t available.
Deputies haven’t released addi-tional information about the shoot-ing, including who lived in the apart-ment.
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Putnam County students and their chaperones left Palatka by Amtrak around 3:45 a.m. Sunday and arrived in Washington, D.C. Monday morning around 7:15 a.m. Fifteen students from Jenkins and Q.I. Roberts middle schools and five chaperones, including their leader, Gale Overturf, will be touring the Washington area this week taking in the historic sites. Students Jenna Miller, left, and Lexie Lee are pictured at the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Monday where they found the name of Putnam County law enforcement officer Audie Motes. The memorial is the nation’s monument to law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty and includes two curving, 304-foot-long blue-gray marble walls and has more than 20,000 names of officers who have been killed in the line of duty throughout U.S. history, dating back to the first known death in 1791, according to the website http://www.nleomf.org/memorial. New names of fallen officers are added to the monument each spring in conjunction with National Police Week. The monument was dedicated on Oct. 15, 1991. The group also on Monday visited the National Japanese American Memorial, the National Archives, the National Museum of Natural History, the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center and the historic Ford Theater where students got to stand in the entrance way of the room where U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865.
Washington D.C. tour: Day 1
Wanted teen agrees to return to KentuckyBy Gary Fineout
Associated Press
PANAMA CITY — The drama sur-rounding two teenage sweethearts on the run from the law ended quiet-ly and unceremoniously in a Florida beach town.
Dalton Hayes, an 18-year-old sus-pected of committing a string of crimes with his 13-year-old girl-fr iend, agreed during a quick Monday morning court hearing to return to his home state of Kentucky to face charges.
Hayes and his girlfriend Cheyenne Phillips were arrested late Saturday night in Panama City Beach by the U.S. Marshal’s Service and local police after being found sleeping in a stolen vehicle.
During a first appearance hearing Bay County Judge Shane Vann said “here’s the deal” to Hayes: He could agree to return to Kentucky, or stay in jai l while authorit ies went through a formal extradition process.
“I’ll sign the papers so I can go back to Kentucky,” Hayes said dur-ing the brief proceeding held via a video link-up between the Bay County Jail and the Bay County Courthouse. Hayes appeared fidgety during the start of the brief hearing, but responded quickly to Vann. He signed his paperwork while Vann watched and then was taken out of view back into the jail.
The saga of both Hayes and Phillips had attracted national attention after the two sweethearts disappeared and worked their way to the Gulf of Mexico.
The couple allegedly began their run from the law and their families earlier this month when they van-ished from their small hometown in western Kentucky. Authorities believe their travels took them to South Carolina and Georgia before they ended up in Panama City Beach.
A Panama City Beach police report shows that an officer found a stolen
truck in the parking lot of a home furnishings store just off the main highway that straddles Florida’s coastline. Authorities surrounded the vehicle where they discovered both Hayes and Phillips.
Hayes’ mother, Tammy Martin, had urged her son and his compan-ion to surrender and “face the conse-quences.”
Authorities said Hayes is expected to be charged with burglary, theft, criminal trespassing and criminal mischief.
Phillips will face charges in juve-nile court because she is a minor. The police report shows that Phillips was turned over to F lor ida ’ s Depar tment o f Ch i ldren and Families and she was taken to a safe house. A spokesman for the Panama City Beach Police said Monday that her status had not changed and she was not being charged by Florida authorities.
Martin said the couple had been dating for about three months.
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PUBLIC NOTICEThe Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service (FFS) and the Etoniah Creek State Forest Management Plan Advisory Group announce two public meetings and a public hearing to which all persons are invited.
DATE & TIME: Public Meeting - Etoniah Creek State Forest Management Plan Advisory Group, January 21, 2015 at 6:00 pm
PLACE: Putnam County Agricultural Extension office, 111 Yelvington Road, East Palatka, Florida 32131.
PURPOSE: To allow the Etoniah Creek State Forest Management Plan Advisory Group to prepare for a public hearing later in the evening which will provide recommendations to the FFS to help in preparation of a management plan for the Etoniah Creek State Forest.
DATE & TIME: Public Hearing - Etoniah Creek State Forest Management Plan Advisory Group, January 21, 2015 at 6:30 pm
PLACE: Putnam County Agricultural Extension Office, 111 Yelvington Road, East Palatka, Florida 32131.
PURPOSE: To solicit comments on management of the Etoniah Creek State Forest. Comments may be presented orally or in writing at the hearing. Written comments may also be submitted to FFS’s Etoniah Creek State Forest Office at 390 Holloway Road, Florahome, Florida 32140 to the attention of Forestry Supervisor Scott Crosby and should be mailed so as to arrive at the office by the date of the public hearing.
DATE & TIME: Public Meeting, Etoniah Creek State Forest Management Plan Advisory Group, January 22, 2015 at 1:30
PLACE: Putnam County Agricultural Extension office, 111 Yelvington Road, East Palatka, Florida 32131.
PURPOSE: To allow the Etoniah Creek State Forest Management Plan Advisory Group to review comments from the public hearing the previous evening and provide recommendations to the FFS to help in preparation of a management plan for the Etoniah Creek State Forest.
Copies of a working draft of the plan and the management prospectus are available before the date of the public hearing online at http://www.freshfromflorida.com/public_notices/; by contacting the Etoniah Creek State Forest in writing at 390 Holloway Road, Florahome, Florida 32140; or contacting Forestry Supervisor Scott Crosby at (386) 329-2555.
Special accommodations for persons with a disabling condition should be requested in writing to the FFS’s Etoniah Creek State Forest office at the above listed address at least 72 hours in advance of these proceedings.
You are hereby notified in accordance with Chapter 286.0105, Florida Statutes, should you decide to appeal any decision made as a result of, or take exception to any findings of fact with respect to any matter considered at the hearing and meeting referred to above, you may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made. Such record shall include the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day in PaLatKa
Eleven-year-old Johnson Session III had to stand on a stepstool while giving opening remarks at the Martin Luther King celebration at Booker Park Monday
Two young girls marched along Washington Street on Monday during celebrations to honor the Martin Luther King Day holiday.
Morgan Wnoles, 4, sits on the lap of Abriyah Campbell as the pair listen to opening remarks during the Martin Luther King Day Celebration at Booker Park on Monday.
Pastor James Mathew prepares barbecued ribs for the barbecue cook-off during the Martin Luther King Day Celebration at Booker Park on Monday.
A young boy carries a sign
along Washington
Street Monday during a march to
honor Martin Luther King.
Two women hold candles during the opening of Martin Luther King Day celebrations Monday to remember Detret Latrell Burley who was killed last week.
Photos by CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News
StatelAkelAnd
Lawyer arrested after threatening deputiesA central Florida lawyer is being held without bail after sher-
iff’s deputies say he threatened them with a gun, knife and baseball bat.
Polk County Sheriff’s officials say 48-year-old Eduardo Pujol was arrested Sunday after deputies were dispatched to a home where he was striking the door of a Lakeland home with a bat.
Deputies ordered him to drop the bat. He screamed that he would shoot the deputies. He had his left hand behind his back. He also told them he had a knife and would stab them. An arrest report also says Pujol threatened to bash the deputies’ heads with the bat.
A deputy used a stun gun to subdue him. He did not have a gun or knife.
Jail records don’t say whether Pujol hired a lawyer.
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1 dead when train hits car in Boca RatonOne person is dead after a train hit a vehicle in Boca Raton.Boca Raton police say the incident happened around 7 a.m.
Monday.The railroad intersection is blocked because of the investiga-
tion. Motorists will need to take alternate routes until the investigation is completed.
No further details were immediately available.
st. Augustine
Woman dies after car goes into canalA 72-year-old woman has died after north Florida deputies
rescued her from a car that had crashed into a drainage canal.The woman called 911 Sunday night after she was unable to
get out of her car. She told dispatchers it was starting to fill up with water.
When rescue workers found the partially submerged car, the woman was unresponsive. They performed CPR and other life-saving measures and the woman’s pulse returned.
She was taken to a Jacksonville Beach hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Authorities are investigating.No further details were immediately available.
melbourne
Woman who survived shooting helping policeA woman who survived a shooting at a central Florida shop-
ping mall is helping authorities with their investigation.Melbourne Police say 33-year-old Idanerys Garcia-Rodriguez
remains hospitalized in good condition, but has been cooperat-ing with detectives.
Shots rang out in the food court of the Melbourne Square Mall on Saturday morning.
Police say Garcia-Rodriguez’s husband, Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, was the gunman.
He’s accused of shooting his wife and 36-year-old Leonardo Coppola before turning the gun and fatally shooting himself.
brooksville
Toddler is killed after 2 dogs attack himA Florida toddler is dead after being attacked by a dog.The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office says 18-month old
Declin Moss of Brooksville, north of Tampa, was killed Monday morning.
Police say the boy’s grandfather was watching him while he played on the porch, when two of the family’s mixed-breed dogs attacked the boy.
Deputies pronounced the child dead at the scene.
west pAlm beAch
Body of sewer plant operator found in pipeAuthorities say the body of a West Palm Beach sewer plant
operator has been found in a sewage pipe, nearly 18 hours after he fell into an open tank.
Herminio Padilla Jr. was reported missing early Saturday at the East Central Regional Water Reclamation Facility. Plant operators spent hours training the tank and underground pipes before they could find the body of the 48-year-old man.
Police Detective Lori Colombino said Padilla’s death appears to be accidental.
It wasn’t immediately clear how Padilla fell into the tank.Padilla previously worked as a corrections officer at the Palm
Beach County Sheriff’s Office. He left that agency in 2007.
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Furniture from fossil hunter to be auctionedThe personal treasures of the late fossil hunter Roy Chapman
Andrews are being auctioned off this weekend in Florida.Chapman is said to be the inspiration for the movie hero
Indiana Jones. He was known for his discoveries all around the world. During a trip to the Gobi Desert in the 1920s, he discov-ered the first known fossilized dinosaur eggs, along with the fossils of early mammals.
Andrews brought back a collection of Asian furniture and art, which was acquired recently in California, where Andrews died more than 50 years ago. His family scrapbooks and photo-graphs depict many of the items being auctioned.
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Putnam may be one of the poorest counties in Florida, but we can show some spunk when it
comes to issues we care about. I’m talking Rodman, here. But, folks, stop calling me. I can’t fix it. Call your county commissioners, your sena-tor or House member.
Yeah! Go ahead and call the mayor of Jacksonville, and while you are at it, call the editorial writer of the Florida Times Union. Their half-page editorial on Sunday was full of oft repeated but unsubstantiated statements and half-truths about Rodman Reservoir.
If the Jacksonville Port Authority, the city of Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce are afraid their dredging proposal is so weak that a typical monkey-wrench lawsuit by environmentalists might go against them, then perhaps the dredging should be stopped.
What are they afraid of? Is their proposal that vulnerable? Is there something they don’t want the public to find out through court testi-mony, and that’s why they chose to join Lisa Rineman, the Riverkeeper, in her scheme to get the Rodman Dam demolished?
Rineman’s big complaint is that dredging the river’s mouth will increase salinity upstream and damage the entire river’s health. That, in itself, is merely a weak theory, but if she really believes that, then why would she make a deal to drop her lawsuit if the dredging people join her in attempting to breach Rodman Dam? That would allow the damage she claims to want to prevent to actually occur? That doesn’t sound like she is sincere in “keeping” the river.
It is almost laughable that entities way up there in Jacksonville are using a dam which has been in existence for 47 years and located a hundred miles away by water, and which has no bearing on the dredging issue, being used as a bargaining chip in a power game.
Maybe Putnam County should file its own lawsuit for damage to the local economy? The JaxPort people have budgeted quite a bundle for lobbyists, so maybe they could scare up a few million bucks in compensation for destroy-ing a valuable industry in our poor county and we could use it to solve our landfill problem.
The Port Authority wants to dredge the mouth of the St. Johns River so their port can accommodate larger ships. It means a lot of money for Jacksonville. That’s a powerful motive. It’s the same motivation that back in the early 1960s most Putnam County business people supported the construction of the Cross Florida Barge Canal. Palatka would have been the eastern terminus of the deepwater side of
the operation. It would provide jobs for local people.
President Richard Nixon didn’t stop the canal project after it was about one-third com-pleted because of it being a “boondoggle.” He stopped it
because, in his own words, it became “political-ly expedient.” Environmental groups, had ral-lied against him.
Myths and outright lies quickly arose con-cerning the Ocklawaha River and the Rodman Reservoir. One group insists the dam stopped the migration of manatees up the river and interrupted the spawning grounds of the striped bass. Those are easy statements for someone to make because they usually go unchallenged.
Allow me to challenge. My first job after crawling out of the back seat of a TBF Avenger after WWII was as a fishing guide by day which allowed me to be a student by night. I spent several days a week taking clients fish-ing on the Ocklawaha River. In all that time I never saw a manatee in the Ocklawaha River. Not one! And neither did I see a striped bass in that stream because they were not introduced into the St. Johns River until much later.
About those 20 springs that were “drowned,” that writers keep mentioning. I challenge any-one to name them. The only substantial spring covered up by the reservoir that I know of was Blue Spring and the last time I looked its water still flowed and was still a popular camping spot.
Rodman Reservoir doesn’t get “choked with weeds” as one writer keeps stating. The reser-voir is an impoundment, and as such the water can be lowered from time to time in order to expose and kill out unwanted aquatic vegeta-tion. That’s unique to impoundments and one reason why Rodman became such a great fish-ery. It can be managed.
The question must be asked, what would actually be gained if the dam is breached? We know what will be lost. Not just a good fishing hole, but an ecosystem that is supporting a number of endangered species of wildlife. They are there only because the reservoir is there. I am surprised that the Sierra Club isn’t up in arms about destroying their habitat!
Meanwhile, the Riverkeeper and others who keep trying to convince a gullible public that somehow blowing the dam will create more water flowing into the St. Johns River should be made to suck on a big bar of my sainted grandmother’s homemade lie soap.
Jody Delzell is a former publisher of the Daily News. [email protected]
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Vouchers shortchange
public schools
The Florida Constitution provides a clear road map on education. It states that “the education of chil-dren is a fundamental value of the
people of the State of Florida. It is, therefore, a paramount duty of the state to make ade-quate provision for the education of all chil-dren residing within its borders. Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uni-form, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools that allows students to obtain a high quality education.”
This “paramount duty of the state” is being whittled away by lawmakers in their expansion of tax-credit vouchers. In recent years, legislators have cut funding for public school projects and ratcheted up standards and accountability measures while shifting hundreds of millions of dollars into pro-grams that serve students in private schools that have little or no accountability or con-sequences for poor performance.
To be clear, these private schools use pub-lic tax dollars and are not held to the same standards as public schools, nor are they held accountable to taxpayers for what they teach and how they teach it. These changes in the state’s education system move the state further and further away from Florida’s constitutionally required system of public schools.
There’s no conclusive evidence that these taxpayer-financed vouchers improve the achievement of students who use them to attend unaccountable private schools. Voucher schools are largely unregulated, don’t have to follow the state’s academic standards and their attendees do not have to take state-required tests. And they don’t have to hire qualified teachers and don’t have to prove to the state that they are using public money wisely.
Vouchers do not reduce public education costs. In fact, they increase costs, by requir-ing taxpayers to fund two school systems: one public and one private. To date, the pro-gram has diverted $1.8 billion in taxes owed to the state to private schools and away from local public schools or other state ser-vices.
FEA believes that our public schools should be the best that they can be. We believe that all neighborhood schools should be safe, secure community centers with an array of services that provide fami-lies with high-quality before- and after-school programs. We believe that our local public schools should have strong curricu-lum, including arts, music and physical edu-cation. We believe our public schools should provide counseling, medical and dental ser-vices, smaller classes and flexible education plans developed at the local level.
Rather than supporting two school sys-tems – one accountable and the other not so much – Florida’s taxpayers and students would be better served by investing to improve our local public schools and help-ing all of the students who attend them.
– Joanne McCall, vice president of the Florida Education Association
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Just a few more words about that dam
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2015. There are 345 days left in the year.
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Gifts of the Holy Spirit
I do believe in the charisms or the “gifts of the Spirit.” The gifts of the Spirit were extremely important in the lives of the disciples, and we need them just as much today. Jesus came and did signs and wonders and peo-ple believed that He was the Son of God. If we did signs and wonders in the name of Jesus today, our religion would be vibrant and draw-ing millions of people to Christianity.
Even though the gifts of the Spirit are real for us today, we must ask for them to be manifested in our life. It is just like salvation - it is there for all of us; but, if we don’t believe and ask for Jesus to be our Lord and Savor, then we will not saved.
They are given in I Corinthians 12:8-10: The Word of Wisdom, Word of Knowledge, Faith, Gifts of Healing, Working of Miracles, Prophecy,
Discerning of Spirits, Different Kinds of Tongues, Interpretation of Tongues.
The gifts belong to the Holy Spirit, but they will only be manifested when we need them. We must open ourselves to the Holy Spirit’s leading. For instance, I was once led to go down front during the prayer time and pray for our then youth pastor- I went and started praying with him. That is when the Holy Spirit took over the prayer, and He used me to prophesy over the youth pastor.
From Webster’s dictionary under the word tongue: For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understand-eth him… (1 Corinthians 14:2). I believe every time the Bible mentions praying in the Spirit it means pray-ing in an unknown tongue.
Steps to take if you want your spirit to be able to speak directly to the God’s spirit: 1. Ask the Holy Spirit for this gift, and you will have it. 2. Open your mouth and start to speak. 3.
Whatever comes out is your “prayer language.”
Because we have been brainwashed into believing that we can’t have or should not have this gift, it may take some time before you can actually use your prayer language. Keep trying and believing; it will happen.
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Thanks for the thank-yous
On behalf of the Interlachen Police Department, I would like to thank the students from the culinary department at Interlachen High School for the delicious cookies. I would also like to thank the students at Interlachen Elementary for the banner they made. It is an honor to serve our community and we thank you for taking the time to remember us.
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Interlachen Police
TodAy’S HiGHliGHT in HiSTory:On Jan. 20, 1265, England’s
first representative Parliament met for the first time; the gather-ing at Westminster was composed of bishops, abbots, peers, Knights of the Shire and town burgesses.
on THiS dATe:In 1649, King Charles I of
England went on trial, accused of high treason (he was found guilty and executed by month’s end).
In 1887, the U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
In 1936, Britain’s King George V died; he was succeeded by Edward VIII.
In 1942, Nazi officials held the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their “final solution” that called for exterminating Jews.
In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn into office for an unprecedented fourth term.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated for a term of office in his own right. The Byrds recorded the Bob Dylan song “Mr. Tambourine Man” at Columbia Records in Hollywood.
In 1981, Iran released 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presi-dency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.
In 1985, President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush were sworn in for sec-ond terms of office in a brief White House ceremony (it being a Sunday, the public swearing-in was held the following day).
In 1986, the United States observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1990, actress Barbara Stanwyck died in Santa Monica, California, at age 82.
Ten yeArS AGo: President George W. Bush was
inaugurated for a second term as Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, ill with thyroid cancer, delivered the oath of office; anti-Bush demonstrators jeered the president’s motorcade during the inaugural parade.
Five yeArS AGo: National Intelligence Director
Dennis Blair conceded missteps in the government’s handling of the Christmas Day 2009 airline bomb-ing attempt in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
one yeAr AGo: Iran unplugged banks of centri-
fuges involved in its most sensi-tive nuclear enrichment program, prompting the U.S. and the European Union to partially lift economic sanctions as a landmark deal aimed at easing concerns over Iran’s nuclear program went into effect. American missionary Kenneth Bae, jailed in North Korea for more than a year, appeared before reporters in Pyongyang and appealed to the U.S. government to do its best to secure his release. (Bae and fellow American Matthew Miller were freed in Nov. 2014.) Italian condc-utor Claudio Abbado, 80, died in Bologna after a long illness.
TodAy’S BirTHdAyS: Comedian Arte Johnson is 86.
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin is 85. Olympic gold medal figure skater Carol Heiss is 75. Movie director David Lynch is 69. Israeli activist Natan Sharansky is 67. Comedian Bill Maher is 59. Actor Lorenzo Lamas is 57. ACountry singer John Michael Montgomery is 50. Actor Rainn Wilson is 49. TV personality Melissa Rivers is 47. Country singer Brantley Gilbert is 30. Actor Evan Peters is 28.
THouGHT For TodAy: “To enjoy life one should give up
the lure of life.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian religious leader (1869-1948).
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THiS dAy in puTnAm:In 1974, figures compiled
showed 1973 to have been a record year for construction in Putnam County. Work underway included Florida Power & Light plant expansion, $65,000,000; St. Johns River bridge, $8,348,000; Hudson Pulp and Paper air pollution con-trol, $7,800,000; HCA Hospital, $4,585,000; Palatka Housing Authority, 100 units, $1,808,000 and 85 units, $1,400,000; Miller Shopping Center at Crescent City, $279,000; and Wemco Manufacturing Co. plant, $208,973.
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By Kate BrumBacKAssociated Press
ATLANTA — Speakers honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday at his spiritual home in Atlanta repeated the same message: We’ve come a long way, but there’s still a lot left to be done to fulfill
King’s dream.King’s daughter, the Rev. Bernice
King, urged those gathered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for the 47th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Commemorative Service to act out against injustice. But she also said they should remem-ber his message of nonviolence.
“We cannot act unless we under-stand what Dr. King taught us. He taught us that we still have a choice to make: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation,” she said. “I challenge you to work with us as we help this nation choose nonvio-lence.”
The courage and sacrifice of those
who participated in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a model for those who want to act to effect change today, Bernice King said.
“We praise God for a new genera-tion of activists,” she said.
President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, also focused Monday
on the next generation. Along with their daughter, Malia, they went to a District of Columbia site for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, where they helped paint murals and assemble “literacy kits” of flashcards and books to help youngsters improve their reading and writing skills.
EAA AirVenture Museum until 1991, when it returned to the air.
The plane can carry up to nine passengers at a time. Flights are $70 for adults in advance, $75 for walk-up, and
$50 for children. Flights can be booked in advance at flyth-eford.com
Youell said he is expecting at least 3,000 people at this year’s fly-in.
“We stage this event to try to keep the airport in the fore-front,” he said. “We’re looking to have the best event yet this year.”
first time as children. Many plan to introduce their chil-dren and grandchildren into fishing and the beauty of nature at the dam’s reservoir, in the Ocklawaha River or surrounding woods.
“I grew up fishing here,” s a i d 1 7 - y e a r - o l d R o y Strickland of Palatka. “I’m going to bring my kids here to fish.”
Listening to people of differ-ent ages talk about the vari-ous species of fish, birds and other wildlife of the Rodman dam area, it became evident that the appreciation of the area is generational.
Houses have been bought for access to the river and res-ervoir, vacations planned around the fishing, and other family outings etched into long-term memories for fami-
lies at the dam.“They put the dam in and
ruined much of the area,” said Brian Lee, of East Palatka. “But it recovered and is thriv-ing. Now they want to ruin it again.”
The rally drew local govern-ment o f f i c ia ls inc luding P u t n a m C o u n t y Commissioner Larry Harvey, also president of Save Rodman Reservoir. Commissioners Walt Pellicer and Chip Laibl a lso jo ined in the ral ly . Welaka Mayor Gordon Sands, P o l i c e C h i e f C h a r l i e Piwowarski and Interlachen Mayor Ken Larsen all offered support to keep the dam in place.
[email protected] in honor of victims of vio-
lence and their families. Shirley Edwards, the King
Day chairwoman and arts coun-cil interim president, said local and national events were part of the reason the starting the vigil this year.
“The Christian Community
Alliance decided to do it because of recent events, but it’s for any-one who has been a victim of vio-lence,” she said. “It is aligned with Martin Luther King’s belief of non-violence.”
Edwards commended the city of Palatka for all of the work offi-cials have done with installing playground equipment, cleaning up the baseball field and the other work over the years to make the park look good.
The work paid off, she said,
because there were more people at the King Day festivities this year than there were last year.
“It’s almost twice as many – mostly youth groups,” Edwards said. “The whole initiative was to make sure (the children) were visible.”
While speaking at the open-ing ceremony, Palatka Mayor Terrill Hill paid tribute to King while also encouraging Palatka residents to look forward to the future.
Local residents should not fall into negative thinking because of news stories that names Putnam County as a dying county and the poorest county in the state. “Today, we stand before you, celebrating a drum major of justice,” Hill said. “I stand before you today with the dream of Dr. King to tell you (those news claims are) not true.”
of gathering information and documentation,” said Palatka C i t y M a n a g e r M i c h a e l Czymbor.
The annual plan, required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, included plans to develop four to six PHA units in the city of Palatka. PHA Execut ive Director John Nelson said two of the units are planned for the 900 block of Laurel Street in Palatka’s South Historic District, but the annual plan does not specify the locations of the proposed units.
The commission “continued” the letter of understanding discussion on Jan. 15, plan-ning to hold a public workshop with the PHA. Czymbor said that workshop would be held Monday, Jan. 26.
Commissioners approved
the annual plan with the exception of the development plans in December, stating that the development of multi-family units in the South Historic District was not in line with the city’s compre-hensive plan.
Nelson said the regional HUD office gave the PHA until the end of the month to turn in i ts annual plan. Nelson said he had to ask for an extension, as the original deadline to turn in the plan was Jan. 26.
Commissioners are also expected to discuss possible upgrades at the city’s waste-water treatment facil ity. According to city documents, the commissioners would be asked to authorize an applica-tion for the state Department of Environmental Protection Clean Water State revolving loan program priority list.
“The estimated cost for the improvement is approximate-ly $3.2 million,” city docu-ments said.
L a s t y e a r , A y e r s a n d Associates engineering firm conducted a study to deter-mine the most economic and efficient way to make improve-ments to the city’s wastewater treatment plant. The plant’s biosolid treatment system is approximately 30 years old.
“The study concluded that the BCR (proprietary sludge chemical treatment system) provided the best overall eco-nomic and efficient advantage and was recommended to the city commission to proceed with further evaluation,” city documents said.
Kevin Dunlap, vice presi-d e n t o f s a l e s a t B C R Environmental Corporation, visited the city commission last year. He said BCR was interested in bui ld ing a regional organic waste treat-ment facility in Palatka. He said the treatment results in no waste smell and no strong chlorine smell and the treat-ment results in NuTerra, the brand name of compost pro-
duced by the system. Commissioners are also
expecting to hear from Garry McIntire on Thursday, presi-dent of Advanced Plasma Arc G as i f i ca t i on t o Energy , regarding his proposal to use gasification at the Putnam County Landfill.
T h e P a l a t k a C i t y Commission meets regularly at 6 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursday of each month at Palatka City Hall, 201 N. Second St.
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Cheap oil means change from car lots to city budgetsBy Henry c. JacKson
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Cheap oil doesn’t only mean cheaper gas in the tank. It means that a car dealer in Illinois is shuffling the inventory of models he’ll be sel l ing, that more students in Wisconsin may get school-provided iPads, that some planned projects in a Southern Cal i fornia c i ty wi l l get delayed, and that some expected oilfield hiring in North Dakota and Texas may not happen.
In ways large and small, plummeting o i l pr i ces are now reverberat ing through businesses, towns, schools and family budgets, causing confusion and changing plans. With prices having fall-en by nearly half in just six months, the
potential impact has been sudden and wide ranging.
“I’m always chasing my tail,” said Ron Hicks, who has sold cars for 10 years in Galesburg, Illinois, and overall for 38 years, and suddenly finds himself with too many smaller fuel-efficient cars on his City Select lot when trucks and sports cars might sell better. “I need to be smarter even than I’ve been in the past. I need to find the balance.”
Fuel is a major cost item for many businesses and local governments, and the recent changes are upending budgets that were drafted month ago and used to plan hiring and authorize projects for 2015. For a medium-sized city with police cars and garbage trucks to fuel, gasoline costs can amount to several hundred thousand dollars annually.
But oil is also a revenue source in more than two dozen states, especially for about a third of them. In Alaska, where up to 90 percent of the budget is funded by oil, new Gov. Bill Walker has ordered agency heads to start identifying spend-ing cuts.
“This pullback caught most everyone by surprise,” Brian M. Youngberg, a senior energy analyst for Edward Jones wrote in analysis last week.
The stakes are especially high for transportation companies. But at Delta Airlines, which now projects $1.7 billion in fuel savings in 2015, no adjustments are envisioned, at least in ticket prices.
“When it comes lower, hang on to all of it,” Delta CEO Richard Anderson told investors in December about likely prof-its. “That’s kind of our philosophy.”
U.S. officials seek end to Cuban restrictions on diplomatsBy Bradley Klapper
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — American officials head to Havana this week with fairly mod-est goals of cooperation with the Cuban gov-ernment, seeking an end to restrictions on the U.S. Interests Section there so that an embassy — and symbol of the two countries’ new relationship — can eventually be estab-lished.
The migration and normalization talks between the United States and Cuba are the biggest face-to-face meetings since Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced their intentions last month to re-establish diplomatic ties. Leading the U.S. delegation is Roberta Jacobson, the top U.S. diplomat for Latin America, the most senior American official to visit Cuba in more than three decades.
A senior administration official said the
Obama administration has concrete if limit-ed objectives for the discussions Wednesday through Friday. They include American dip-lomats being reaccredited in Cuba and fac-ing no travel restrictions, no limits on the number of U.S. diplomats in the country, unimpeded shipments to the U.S. mission and free access for Cubans to the mission. Jacobson will meet Cuban activists and civil society representatives, as well.
How quickly the Cubans meet the requests related to the Interests Section will help determine when the two countries can re-establish embassies, post ambassadors in each other’s capitals and restore full diplo-matic relations, the official said. Reporters were briefed on this process Monday on the talks on condition the official not be quoted by name.
The U.S. and Cuba haven’t had diplomat-ic relations since 1961, shortly after Fidel Castro seized power. Interests sections were
established in the late 1970s to boost coop-eration, but never really advanced a detente between the two countries. In the years since, both governments have enforced restrictions on the activity of each other’s diplomats in their countries.
But changes have come quickly since December’s announcement of a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Cuba and their promises to end the decades-long estrangement. The Cubans last week released 53 political prisoners. Three days later, the U.S. significantly eased travel and trade rules with Cuba.
Despite opposition by some American lawmakers, particularly Republicans, a U.S. congressional delegation was in Havana Monday to see how they could aid the process. Among their possible meetings was one with President Raul Castro. The delegation is being led by Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
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DILBERT Scott AdamsBEETLE BAILEY Mort Walker
JUMPSTART Robb Armstrong
BLONDIE Dean Young & John Marshall
BABY BLUES Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE Lynn Johnston
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE Chris Browne
THE BORN LOSER Chip Sansom
GARFIELD Jim Davis
HOROSCOPE
Don’t live in the past; it will only drag you down. Make the most of your potential and dis-regard what others may think of your ideas. You will have the last laugh if you follow your instincts and pursue your dreams.
AQUARIUS(Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
Maintain your momentum and don’t wait for others or give them a chance to catch up. You will get what you want as long as you are diligent and refuse to be sidetracked.
PISCES(Feb. 20-March 20)
There is something secretive going on behind the scenes. You should dig deep and examine the circumstances carefully. Don’t depend on secondhand informa-tion.
ARIES(March 21-April 19)
You will be solicited by a chari-table or benevolent organization. Rise to the occasion and give back to those who are down on their luck.
TAURUS(April 20-May 20)
A significant change is appar-
ent. Consider making a move if it will bring you greater career opportunities or incentives. Clear your mind and focus on increas-ing your cash flow.
GEMINI(May 21-June 20)
Your decisions will be easy if you follow your heart and intu-ition. Positive and exciting results will occur if you invest more time in travel or your education.
CANCER(June 21-July 22)
An unexpected financial gain will come to you through a loan repayment or windfall. If you’re persistent, you can implement a profitable deal and eliminate a roadblock.
LEO(July 23-Aug. 22)
Love is moving in a positive direction. Don’t get hung up on minor mishaps. Put your energy into a meaningful relationship, and don’t obsess about what oth-ers do or say.
VIRGO(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Be relentless. You can best your adversaries if you use a unique strategy. Your headlong advance-ment will be hard to beat and even more difficult to stop.
LIBRA(Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
An opportunity to launch a gangbusters idea will bring finan-cial rewards. Expect to face a trying time at home. If you keep your emotions in check, you will ride out the storm.
SCORPIO(Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
Before you head off in a new direction, make sure you have all your facts and figures in place. It will be hard to change course once you have started your jour-ney.
SAGITTARIUS(Nov. 23-Dec. 21)
Some deceitful deals will be offered to you. Make sure every-thing you are involved in is on the straight and narrow. Extra cash will come your way through an unexpected gift, investment or win.
CAPRICORN(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
If the standard approach isn’t getting you what you want, try something out of the ordinary. You will make a good impres-sion on someone able to influence your chances of success.
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Dear Harriette: I have a friend who likes me a lot and who is also a colleague. She hires me frequently to work on her productions.
Well, through another col-league, I learned that her father just died. I never really met her father, but I feel like I should show up for the funeral because she is my friend. She and I haven’t talked for about six months, which is normal. Still, I feel a little awkward about attending, considering I didn’t know him.
Do you think it is OK for me to go to pay my respects? It is an open funeral. — Should I Go? Los Angeles
Dear Should I Go: Do attend the funeral. Obviously, do not sit with the family. Give them their space.
At the same time, be sure to greet your friend and express your condolences. She will like-ly be very pleased to see you in the swell of people who come to pay their respects.
The times when it would be inappropriate for you to attend such a service include if it were listed as private or if some kind of friction existed between you and this woman or any of her family such that there might be discomfort for anyone pres-ent.
Dear Harriette: I did the thing I know better than doing over the holidays: I spent way too much money on gifts for family and my girlfriend. I splurged like crazy, and now here I am, broke.
I am way too old for this. Now I am faced with bills that I can’t really afford to pay, at least not in full.
I’m scared about how to climb out of this hole.
How can I stop this bad behav-ior? — In Deeper Debt, Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear In Deeper Debt: You allude to a pattern in your life of overspending and impulse spending. While your behavior happens to reflect that of a huge
swath of our country, it can be curbed. Just like in other situa-tions that reach a critical place, you need help. Do not trick yourself into thinking that you can handle it on your own. You know that you are not an expert on finance.
You may want to start by going to a meeting of Debtors Anonymous (debtorsanony-mous.org). Through this free 12-step program you will be in the company of people similar to you who are committed to changing their behavior.
You also should find a finan-cial adviser who can help you negotiate lower terms for your outstanding debt and help you design a budget that you can follow.
Be gentle with yourself as you work to change your ways. This didn’t occur overnight. Expect it to take time for you to develop good financial habits that will support you over time. Definitely get help.
ADVICE BY HARRIETTE COLECROSSWORD
Saturday’s Answer
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Reader debates going to funeral
COMICS
Carolyn Wells, who produced several clever limericks, said, “I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or dis-continued.”
At the bridge table, if your efforts to make or break a contract are not crowned with success, it will be too late for that deal. You can only try to recoup your losses on subsequent deals. You must find a winning approach the first time.
Today, how should declarer plan the play in three no-trump after West leads the heart queen?
South starts with six top tricks: two spades, two hearts and two clubs. He needs only three dia-mond winners, not four. In other words, he can afford two diamond losers as long as he does not also concede three heart tricks.
If South will lose two dia-monds, he should follow this general rule: With two stoppers in the suit led and two cards to
drive out, duck the first trick. Here, South must let West’s heart queen hold. Then South takes the second heart in his hand and plays a diamond to dummy’s nine, which allows for West’s having ace-10-fourth.
East wins with his 10 and shifts to a spade. Declarer wins in the dummy and plays the dia-mond jack, which West ducks. But South leads a club to his king and drives out the diamond ace to establish those nine winners.
Here is Carolyn Wells’ best limerick: A canner exceedingly canny / One morning remarked to his granny: / “A canner can can / Any thing that he can / But a canner can’t can a can, can he?”
For Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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SIDELINES
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SPORTSwww.palatkadailynews.com TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2015 PAGE 7A
MARK BLUMENTHAL
Maxingout on
pitching
The top sports stories in anoth-er Weekend That Was:
5. The Australian Tennis Open kicks off Sunday
(Monday in Melbourne) and immedi-ately, the first upset is recorded as Ana Ivanovic, the No. 5 seed of the women’s draw, is taken out by No. 142-ranked and Czech Republic quali-fier Lucie Hradecka, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2.
4. Two-time major champion Martin Kaymer holds as much as a 10-stroke lead on the final day of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, only to choke the lead away and watch Frenchman Gary Stal win with a 19-under par, two strokes better than Kaymer and one stroke better than Rory McIlroy.
3. Florida’s Southeastern Conference win streak of 24 comes to an end on Saturday as rival Georgia wins in Athens, 73-61.
2. The last major free agent left to be signed this offseason, 2013 American League Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, is off the board, according to a pair of sources, who have the former Detroit Tigers star signing with the Washington Nationals on Sunday night.
1. Super Bowl XLIX is set after the New England Patriots strafe the Indianapolis Colts, 45-7, in the AFC Championship. The defending cham-pion Seattle Seahawks come from behind to take the lead, have the game tied late, then win on a 35-yard touchdown strike from Russell Wilson to Jermaine Kearse in overtime to beat the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship, 28-22.
Our topic of discussion: 2. Nationals “Max-ed” out on talent.
So baseball’s biggest mystery has finally at long last been solved.
Max Scherzer has a home to pitch next year. And he may have landed in the biggest home of the 2015 season with the Washington Nationals.
The Nationals were the best team record-wise in the National League a year ago. Things were looking great in what was a rebound year for the fran-chise. They even beat the unbeatable Madison Bumgarner in last year’s postseason. The problem was that was the only hurrah as the Giants would take them out in four games.
But right now, a lot of things are aligning in place for the franchise. And capturing the biggest domino on the board may have just pushed the franchise over the top.
The Nationals were already stacked offensively. All-Star outfielder Bryce Harper has taken over as the de facto leader of the team, while third base-man Ryan Zimmerman, outfielder Denard Span, second baseman Danny Espinosa and veteran outfielder Jayson Werth are the everyday pil-lars. And they just added shortstop Yunel Escobar in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays, leaving another vet-eran, second baseman-shortstop Ian Desmond, in limbo.
Still, the highlight of this team will be the pitching staff. Scherzer, who signed a seven-year, $210 million deal with the Nationals, will be joining a rotation that is already one of the best in the game. The biggest question, though, is where one of their major starters, Jordan Zimmerman, will wind up going. Zimmerman is one of two starters who are scheduled to be free agents at the end of next season (along with former Scherzer team-mate with Detroit, Doug Fister) and stories are abounding that the Nationals are looking to move Zimmerman before either spring training or the start of the regular season.
But if Zimmerman isn’t moved, pick your ace of the staff: Is it Scherzer? Zimmerman? How about left Gio Gonzalez? Oh, the Nationals also still have Stephen Strasburg. Then add Tanner Roark to the equation, you have a six-headed monster that have many already envisioning a pitching
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Hyped Florida sophomores strugglingHill and Walker having their problems
By Mark LongAssociated Press
GAINESVILLE — Kasey Hill and Chris Walker arrived at Florida as McDonald’s All-Americans, can’t-miss prospects, the next big-time players for coach Billy Donovan.
Saying they have fallen short of expectations would be an under-statement.
Hill, a 6-foot-1 guard f r o m U m a t i l l a , a n d Walker, a 6-10 center from Bonifay, have been two of the top contributors to Florida’s struggles this season.
Hill has been wildly inconsistent, looking like one of the Southeastern Conference’s top point guards for a game or two and then playing like someone who has no idea what to do with the ball. The sophomore is Donovan’s worst 3-point shooter at that position in 19 years.
Walker has been consid-erably worse, averaging 2.9 points and 4.0 rebounds over the last eight games. He has stamina issues, provides little, if any, low-post presence and is shoot-ing 37 percent from the
free-throw line.Both are in the starting lineup for
the Gators (10-7, 3-1 SEC), who host LSU (13-4, 2-2) tonight.
“As much as I want the process to be fast forward, sometimes with these players they have to go through certain things before they actually
can really grow, develop and become the player that maybe we envision, they envision themselves,” Donovan said Monday.
Hill and Walker were expected to take huge strides after showing glimpses of potential last season, and stepped into starting roles this year.
Hill was dynamic off the bench in Florida’s first four NCAA tourna-ment games, totaling 21 points, 15 assists, four steals and just four turnovers while backing up Scottie Wilbekin.
TONIGHT
LSU atFlorida,
ESPN, 7:00
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District soccer
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Palatka’s Cristian Cedeno (7) works against Nease’s Ryan Veazey.
Net OutcomePalatka outshoots Nease early, but is scoreless in defeat
By Mark BLuMenthaLPalatka Daily News
PONTE VEDRA
Forty minutes were in the books of the District 4-3A boys soccer tournament opener and seventh-seeded Palatka had outshot No. 2 seed and host Nease High, 7-4.
It’s one thing to be outshooting an opponent. It’s another to put balls in the back of the net.
And down 3-0 at the break was scratching the surface of the frustrating season coach Pat Gould was having along with the Panthers. It wasn’t going to get any better in the second half either as Nease outshot Palatka, 13-2, in the second half and finished the night with a 7-0 victory, ending Palatka’s season at 8-14-2.
“That team is not 7-0 better than we were,” said Gould, who announced to his team before the game that this would be his last season as the Panthers’ coach, finishing his two years with a
14-27-2 record. “I felt like we were outplaying (Nease) in the first 15 minutes of the game. Unfortunately, we were down 3-0 and it comes back to fundamentals. But I felt that even though we were down 3-0, we were going to change things in the second half.”
But just 8:20 into the second half, Neal Patel scored off a Jonathan Gray assist and at 4-0, it was all but over.
“Once they got that (first) second-half goal, the bricks started to fall apart,” Gould said. “I’m still proud, though, of my guys. They didn’t quit.”
The tone of the game was set by Nease starting goalie Arron Zellner, a tall keeper who made point-blank stop of shots by B.J. Williams and Christian Wiehl in the first 10 minutes of the match. In between those stops by Zellner, who finished with three saves, Patel scored off a breakaway with Joe Gravelle getting the assist at the four-minute mark.
Did Patstake airout of ball?NFL investigating whether Patriots used deflated footballs
By howard FendrichAssociated Press
The NFL is investigating whether the New England Patriots deflated footballs that were used in their AFC championship game victory over the Indianapolis Colts.
“We are looking into it,” league spokesman Brian McCarthy wrote in an email to The Associated Press on Monday. “We do not have anything further to add at this point.”
The inquiry was first reported by the website for WTHR-TV in Indiana, citing an unnamed source.
“We’ll cooperate fully with whatev-er the league wants us to, whatever questions they ask,” Belichick said Monday during his regular confer-ence call with reporters.
He said he was unaware there was an issue until Monday morning.
The Patriots have come under scru-tiny with regards to NFL rules in the past, most infamously when they were punished for videotaping side-line signals used by the New York Jets during a 2007 game. Belichick was fined $500,000, and the team was docked $250,000 and stripped of its 2008 first-round draft pick.
According to the NFL rule book, home teams are responsible for fur-nishing playable balls at all times. Each team brings 12 primary balls, while home teams are required to also bring 12 backup balls.
Once the referee makes sure the footballs are properly inflated, they’re delivered to ball attendants provided by the home team.
The league’s game operations man-ual notes: “If any individual alters the footballs, or if a non-approved ball is used in the game, the person respon-sible and, if appropriate, the head coach or other club personnel will be subject to discipline, including but not limited to, a fine of $25,000.”
Deflating a football could change the way it would be gripped by a play-er or the way it travels through the air.
The Patriots beat the Colts 45-7 to reach the Super Bowl. New England will play the defending champion Seattle Seahawks for the NFL title at Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 1.
Colts coach Chuck Pagano said he did not notice issues with the football. He did not specify when asked wheth-er the Colts had reported the issue to officials.
“We talk just like they talk to offi-cials (before the game), we have an opportunity to talk to the officials See DISTRICT, Page 8A
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Top-ranked South Carolina overwhelms UF womenBy Mark Long
Associated Press
GAINESVILLE — Top-ranked South Carolina will remain unde-feated for at least another week.
Tiffany Mitchell scored 18 points, A’ ja Wilson added 16 and the Gamecocks dominated Florida 77-42 on Monday night.
Now, South Carolina (18-0, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) gets a week off before starting a consider-ably tougher stretch that includes games against No. 10 Texas A&M, Mississippi, 22nd-ranked Georgia and No. 2 Connecticut.
“The key all season long is great leadership,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “Our seniors
know the rigors of the SEC and they’re hungry. They want to do well and they want to take this team as far as it can go. And the way you do that is you have some success in this league. You know if you’re success-ful in this league it does translate outside our league.”
The Gamecocks controlled this one from the opening tip, taking a
double-digit lead early and going up by 35 midway through the second half.
Mitchell was the best player on the court, making 8 of 10 shots, beating Florida up and down the floor constantly and finishing with four steals.
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8A PALATKA DAILY NEWS • TUESDAY, JANUARY 20 , 2015
CALENDARNOTE: Schedules are submitted by schools, leagues and recreation departments and are subject to change without notice.
TUESDAY, January 20HIGH SCHOOLBoys Soccer
District 5-2A TournamentQuarterfinal Round
At Keystone Heights High SchoolInterlachen vs. Crescent City, 5 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, January 21HIGH SCHOOLBoys Soccer
District 4-3A TournamentQuarterfinal Round
Palatka at Nease, 6 p.m.Girls Basketball
St. Johns River AthleticConference Third-Place Game
Fleming Island at Palatka, 6 p.m.Boys Basketball
Palatka at Daytona Beach Seabreeze, 7:30 p.m.
WrestlingInterlachen at Palatka, 6 p.m.
TIDESPalatka City Dock
High LowToday 2:48A,3:21P 9:56A,10:43PJan. 21 3:41A,4:12P 10:48A,11:30PJan. 22 4:33A,5:02P 11:39A,---------
St. Augustine Beach High LowToday 7:37A,7:51P 1:12A,1:54PJan. 21 8:27A,8:43P 2:03A,2:42PJan. 22 9:16A,9:36P 2:53A,3:29P
NOTESSignups
PALATKA BABE RUTH BALL Palatka Babe Ruth baseball and softball signups for youth ages 4-15 is now under way and will continue through Friday. No late signups will be accepted. The cost is $60 plus $2.50 process-ing fee for those who sign up online at http://palatkababeruth.baberuthon-line.com. Walk in signups will be Jan. 20 from 5:30-7 p.m. at Bates & Hewett Insurance at 3400 Crill Ave., Palatka. Cost for signups on this day will be $70. The first 13 players to signup will receive a free Chevy baseball team shirt. Coaches’ forms are also being accepted and are first-come, first-serve.
FundraisersSJRSC BOSTON BUTT SALE
The St. Johns River State College Athletic Association will hold its annual Boston Butt sale Friday. Whole, smoked pork Boston Butts are $25 each and may be pre-ordered by contacting a member of the Athletic Association or by calling the SJR State Foundation at (386) 312-4100 to purchase a ticket. Pickup will be between 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at Tuten Gymnasium. Funds raised will benefit SJR State’s three athletic programs, which are based on the Palatka campus and consist of men’s base-ball, women’s fastpitch softball and women’s volleyball.
PREP BASKETBALLGIRLS
Hawthorne 41, Crescent City 7Hawthorne 9 10 10 12–41Crescent City 3 4 0 0– 7Hawthorne (10-8): Reeves 2 0-0 5, T. Fomby 1 0-0 2, Robinson 1 0-0 2, Burns 11 1-2 24, S. Fomby 4 0-8 8. Totals 19 1-3 41.Crescent City (4-14): A. Williams 1 0-0 3, King 1 0-0 2, Banks 1 0-0 2, Johnson 0 0-0 0, Harris 0 0-0 0, K. Williams 0 0-0 0. Totals 3 0-0 7.Three-point FG: Reeves, Burns, A. Williams. Team fouls: Hawthorne 4, Crescent City 5. Fouled out: none. Technical fouls: none.
NBAEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBToronto 27 14 .659 —Brooklyn 17 24 .415 10Boston 13 26 .333 13Philadelphia 8 33 .195 19New York 6 36 .143 21½Southeast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 34 8 .810 —Washington 29 13 .690 5Miami 18 22 .450 15Charlotte 17 25 .405 17Orlando 15 29 .341 20Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 27 16 .628 —Cleveland 22 20 .524 4½Milwaukee 21 20 .512 5Detroit 16 26 .381 10½Indiana 15 28 .349 12WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBMemphis 29 12 .707 —Houston 29 13 .690 ½Dallas 29 13 .690 ½San Antonio 26 16 .619 3½
New Orleans 20 21 .488 9Northwest Division W L Pct GBPortland 30 11 .732 —Oklahoma City 20 20 .500 9½Denver 18 23 .439 12Utah 14 27 .341 16Minnesota 7 33 .175 22½Pacific Division W L Pct GBGolden State 33 6 .846 —L.A. Clippers 28 14 .667 6½Phoenix 24 18 .571 10½Sacramento 16 24 .400 17½L.A. Lakers 12 29 .293 22Sunday’s GamesNew Orleans 95, Toronto 93Oklahoma City 127, Orlando 99San Antonio 89, Utah 69Monday’s GamesWashington 111, Philadelphia 76Charlotte 105, Minnesota 80Atlanta 93, Detroit 82L.A. Clippers 102, Boston 93Golden State 122, Denver 79Dallas 103, Memphis 95Houston 110, Indiana 98New York 99, New Orleans 92Cleveland 108, Chicago 94Toronto 92, Milwaukee 89Sacramento at Portland, 10 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 10 p.m.Tuesday’s GamesOklahoma City at Miami, 7:30 p.m.San Antonio at Denver, 9 p.m.
NFLWild-card PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 3Carolina 27, Arizona 16Baltimore 30, Pittsburgh 17Sunday, Jan. 4Indianapolis 26, Cincinnati 10Dallas 24, Detroit 20
Divisional PlayoffsSaturday, Jan. 10New England 35, Baltimore 31Seattle 31, Carolina 17
Sunday, Jan. 11Green Bay 26, Dallas 21Indianapolis 24, Denver 13
Conference ChampionshipsSunday, Jan. 18Seattle 28, Green Bay 22, OTNew England 45, Indianapolis 7
Pro BowlSunday, Jan. 25At Glendale, Ariz.Team Irvin vs. Team Carter, 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Super BowlSunday, Feb. 1At Glendale, Ariz.New England vs. Seattle, 6:30 p.m. (NBC)
COLLEGEAP Basketball Top 25
MEN’S POLLThe top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 18, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv1. Kentucky (63) 17-0 1,623 12. Virginia (2) 17-0 1,562 23. Gonzaga 18-1 1,467 34. Villanova 17-1 1,429 55. Duke 15-2 1,345 46. Wisconsin 16-2 1,282 77. Arizona 16-2 1,228 108. Notre Dame 17-2 1,055 129. Iowa St. 13-3 1,004 1110. Louisville 15-3 1,003 611. Kansas 14-3 943 912. Utah 14-3 940 813. Maryland 17-2 937 1414. Wichita St. 16-2 857 1315. North Carolina 14-4 803 1516. VCU 15-3 670 1717. Texas 13-4 554 2018. West Virginia 15-3 501 1619. Oklahoma 12-5 445 1820. N. Iowa 16-2 387 2321. Baylor 13-4 260 2222. Dayton 15-2 241 —23. Indiana 14-4 93 —24. Seton Hall 13-4 91 2125. Iowa 13-5 85 —Others receiving votes: Oklahoma St. 47, Miami 41, San Diego St. 34, Georgetown 33, Stanford 31, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 18, Providence 17, Colorado St. 16, Arkansas 15, Georgia 13, Butler 11, SMU 11, Michigan St. 8, LSU 6, Old Dominion 5, Wyoming 4, Ohio St. 3, Louisiana Tech 2, Tennessee 2, George Washington 1, St. John’s 1, Washington 1.
WOMEN’S POLLThe top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 18, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv1. South Carolina (27) 17-0 867 12. UConn (8) 16-1 848 23. Baylor 16-1 787 34. Louisville 17-1 746 45. Tennessee 15-2 740 66. Notre Dame 16-2 708 77. Maryland 15-2 629 88. Texas 14-2 616 49. Oregon St. 15-1 606 910. Texas A&M 16-3 551 11
11. Stanford 13-4 489 1312. North Carolina 16-3 457 1213. Arizona St. 16-1 451 1414. Kentucky 15-4 421 1015. Duke 13-5 371 1616. Nebraska 13-3 315 1717. Florida St. 17-2 283 2018. Mississippi St. 19-2 267 1519. Princeton 17-0 219 1920. Iowa 14-3 209 2221. Minnesota 16-2 191 2322. Georgia 16-3 132 1823. Syracuse 13-5 90 2524. W. Kentucky 16-2 80 —25. Rutgers 13-5 65 24Others receiving votes: Oklahoma St. 52, Chattanooga 45, Washington 30, Green Bay 21, Oklahoma 21, LSU 13, Seton Hall 13, George Washington 12, Long Beach St. 10, Miami 10, Iowa St. 6, South Florida 2, DePaul 1, Pittsburgh 1.
NHLEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GATampa Bay 47 29 14 4 62 152 126Detroit 46 26 11 9 61 134 115Montreal 44 28 13 3 59 121 105Boston 46 24 16 6 54 121 117Florida 44 20 14 10 50 107 122Toronto 47 22 22 3 47 139 146Ottawa 44 18 18 8 44 120 122Buffalo 47 14 30 3 31 89 167Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAN.Y. Islanders 46 31 14 1 63 151 129Pittsburgh 44 26 12 6 58 134 111N.Y. Rangers 43 26 13 4 56 131 104Washington 45 24 13 8 56 133 115Columbus 44 20 21 3 43 113 138Philadelphia 47 18 22 7 43 127 144New Jersey 46 16 22 8 40 102 132Carolina 46 16 25 5 37 98 120WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division GP W L OT Pts GF GANashville 44 30 10 4 64 136 102St. Louis 46 29 13 4 62 148 111Chicago 45 28 15 2 58 139 105Winnipeg 47 25 14 8 58 131 117Dallas 45 21 17 7 49 143 148Colorado 47 19 18 10 48 122 135Minnesota 45 20 20 5 45 124 132Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAAnaheim 46 30 10 6 66 133 121Vancouver 44 26 15 3 55 123 110San Jose 46 24 16 6 54 125 125Calgary 45 24 18 3 51 131 118Los Angeles 45 20 14 11 51 126 120Arizona 45 16 24 5 37 104 150Edmonton 46 11 26 9 31 104 154NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.Sunday’s GamesWinnipeg 4, Arizona 3, SON.Y. Rangers 5, Pittsburgh 2Dallas 6, Chicago 3Detroit 6, Buffalo 4Monday’s GamesN.Y. Islanders 7, Philadelphia 4Carolina 4, Toronto 1Vancouver 2, Florida 1St. Louis 3, Colorado 1Columbus 3, Minnesota 1Calgary at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.New Jersey at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.Tuesday’s GamesOttawa at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.Edmonton at Washington, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.Nashville at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.Minnesota at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Vancouver at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.Arizona at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Boston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
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MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL7 p.m. ESPN LSU at Florida7 p.m. ESPN Kansas State at Iowa State7 p.m. ESPNU Boston College at Syracuse9 p.m. ESPN Iowa at Wisconsin9 p.m. ESPNU Tennessee at South Caro- lina
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S P O R T S B R I E F S
Then before the water break, Christian Lorinez fed Gray for the first of his two goals and less than two minutes later, Gray pounced off an errant ball kicked into the box by a Palatka player and slipped a short 12-yarder
past Panthers goalie Keontae Shack to make it 3-0.
Matt DeParcq scored at 58:02 off a Brian Reinwald assist to make it 5-0, then Zachary Zebott scored an unassisted goal at 69:34 when the ball bounced off Shack’s hands and in behind him and Lorinez scored at 76:52 off a Patrick Farrar assist.
“They were the better team this time,” said Gould, whose
P a n t h e r s l o s t t o N e a s e ’ s Panthers, 3-0, on Nov. 4, all three of Nease’s goals coming in the final 20 minutes of play. “We had maybe four or five legitimate chances to score and maybe if we scored first, it’s a different story. But our spirit was broken. It’s been a frustrating year to say the l e a s t . I f w e h a d N i k o l a (Radinovic, a 30-goal scorer who went back home to Montenegro
after spending one year at PHS), we’d have had someone who could finish.
Shack and backup goalie Ryan Wells finished with a save each.
“It was an honor just watching the boys grow up like they did,” Gould said of leaving his team. “I think they taught me as much as I taught them.”
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He’s been less impressive in his second season. Although his speed makes his difficult to defend in the open court, he tends to drive too deep into the lane without a plan and has had trouble finishing at the rim. Since he’s not even a semi-dangerous shooter, teams dare him to beat them from long range.
Hill is 8-for-44 (18 percent) from 3-point range. Donovan’s other starting point guards over the pre-vious 18 years — Eddie Shannon,
Teddy Dupay, Brett Nelson, Just in Hami l ton , Anthony Roberson, Taurean Green, Nick Calathes, Erving Walker and Wilbekin — averaged 61.5 treys a season.
“We’ve always had guys back there that really stretched the defense, but it’s a great opportuni-ty for the both of us to grow because there’s things that I can do to help him in those situations and there’s things that he can do to help himself,” Donovan said. “I don’t think he’ll be a prolific 3-point shooter, but he can get bet-ter at it, he can improve.”
Meanwhile, Donovan would like to Walker’s work ethic improve.
The sophomore missed most of last season because of academics and NCAA suspension. He failed to qualify, spent the fall taking online classes to gain eligibility and joined the team in mid-December, but was way behind.
Then, he had to sit out 12 games, or 40 percent of the season, because the NCAA determined he received preferential treatment from five people, including two agents.
Even though he’s been on cam-pus for 13 months, Walker has yet to catch up.
“It’s different,” Walker said. “The speed, you’re actually play-ing against tall people. I’m just
staying with the process. It’ll come, everything will fall into place. I just know I need to improve, really. I just need to come in every day and be focused, work hard.”
Walker has looked lost at times on both ends of the floor, and he has nearly as many turnovers (16) as blocked shots (19).
“I feel bad for Chris because it’s a hard existence sometimes when you have everyone expecting you to be this and you’re not and you can sometimes personally feel like you know, ‘I’m letting people down; I’m a failure,’” Donovan said. “And it’s not his fault. And he’s got to be able to manage that.”
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about a lot of things, things that you’ve seen on tape like the for-mations we talked about last week,” Pagano said. “Every coach in the league gets an opportunity
to visit with the officials about that kind of stuff before the game.”
In Sunday night’s lopsided AFC finale, quarterback Tom Brady threw for three touchdowns and running back LeGarrette Blount gained 148 yards while scoring three touchdowns to send New England to its sixth Super Bowl in the past 14 years.
Colts quarterback Andrew Luck had his worst game as a pro, completing only 12 of 33 passes for 126 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions.
On his regular weekly morning-after-game appearance Monday on WEEI radio, Brady said he wasn’t aware of the report about the league’s investigation into whether footballs were properly
inflated against Indianapolis.“I think I’ve heard it all at this
point,” Brady said with a laugh.“That’s the last of my worries,”
he said. “I don’t even respond to stuff like this.”
AP Sports Writers Howard Ulman in Boston and Mike
Marot in Indianapolis contribut-ed to this report.
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Wilson was solid, too. She made 7 of 11 shots and added nine rebounds.
“I thought our team came out extremely focused and played with a lot of energy, something that you need to get a win in the SEC on the road,” Staley said. “I thought our offense looked a lot more fluid and loose and got up and down the floor and got some easy buckets and didn’t put too much pressure on our half-court sets. It looked good and felt good for us.”
Florida (9-10, 1-5) struggled from the start, missing 13 of its
first 16 shots and playing little, if any, post or transition defense. South Carolina finished with 46 points in the paint and 14 on fast breaks.
“It’s exciting to have the No. 1 team in our league again,” Florida coach Amanda Butler said. “But we didn’t bring the effort to match what it needs to look like to play against the No. 1 team. That’s really disappointing.”
Ronnie Williams led the Gators with 12 points before fouling out with 11:41 remaining.
Carlie Needles returned after missing the last two games because of a concussion, but was a non-factor. The guard missed her first five shots before finally find-ing the basket with about 2 min-
utes to play. She also had four turnovers.
South Carolina put away Florida early. The Gamecocks made 11 of their first 14 shots, get-ting just about anything they wanted in the paint and forcing the Gators into mistakes all over the court.
“The easy answer is just to look at their size and their talent,” Butler said. “They’re also deep. These five go off and then there’s another five that look very similar to the first five that were out there.”
n MOVING ONFlorida is moving forward with-
out Antoinette Bannister. The junior guard was dismissed from the team Friday after she was
arrested for allegedly stealing a teammate’s credit card and using it multiple times. Bannister played in 13 games this season, including three starts, and averaged 6.2 points.
“We’re just really going to focus on what we have and what we can do,” Butler said. “Losses and peo-ple who aren’t here, we’re not going to give that any energy. I think that we’ve got great poten-tial on our bench, a lot of different combinations we can play.”
n BOUNCING BACKFor Wilson, this was a nice
bounce-back game. The freshman had three points and four rebounds against Missouri, but finished one rebound shy of her fifth double-double of the season.
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staff comparable to the 1971 Baltimore Orioles (when four of their starters won 20 or more games, something none of us will ever see again in our lifetimes) or the great Atlanta Braves staffs of the 1990s that included Hall of Famers Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine and soon-to-be Hall of Famer John Smoltz.
But that Orioles team lost in the World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates. And those Braves teams of the ‘90s won just one World Series. So don’t start counting Series rings just yet, Nats fans.
Before this whole deal went down for Scherzer, who was 18-5 with a 3.15 earned-run average and 252 strikeouts in 220 1/3 innings a year ago, yours truly picked the Nationals to win the World Series over the Beltway rival Baltimore Orioles.
And I’m not saying this deal solidified all that, but it sure pushed the Nationals in the right direc-tion. Adding the 2013 AL Cy Young winner and 91-50 lifetime pitcher with a 3.58 career ERA showed Nationals fans they are all in as 2015 spring training starts.
It’s going to be a very good year in our nation’s capital. There’s going to be no mystery to that.
Mark Blumenthal is a writer for the Palatka Daily News. [email protected]
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Hawthorne shuts Raiders downVisiting Hawthorne held Crescent City scoreless
in the second half of a 41-7 nondistrict game Monday night.
Ardria Williams had three points for the Raiders (4-14), who were coming off a 67-14 loss to Wildwood on Friday. Tazariah Johnson had two rebounds, two assists and two steals for Crescent City. Rakeya Harris had eight rebounds, Brianna King six.
Former Interlachen player Brook Burns led Hawthorne (10-8) with 24 points.
GIRLS WEIGHLIFTING
Two Rams place at BradfordBrittany Viers placed third in the unlimited
class and Jerri Mae Bedenbaugh was fourth in the 183-pound class for the Interlachen girls weight-lifting team Saturday in the Bradford Invitational.
NFL
Jags still looking for coordinatorJACKSONVILLE — The Jacksonville Jaguars
might be evaluating more than players at the Senior Bowl.
Coach Gus Bradley and his staff took a charter bus to Mobile, Alabama, on Monday to coach the South team in the college all-star game. Bradley also could end up hiring an offensive coordinator during the weeklong event.
Bradley already interviewed seven candidates for the job, which opened when Jedd Fisch was fired two days after the regular season ended.
Bradley interviewed Minnesota running backs coach Kirby Wilson on Jan. 8, followed by San Francisco offensive coordinator Greg Roman (Jan. 10), former Buffalo head coach Doug Marrone (Wednesday), Oakland offensive coordinator Greg Olson (Thursday), former Buffalo offensive coordi-nator Nathaniel Hackett (Friday), Jets running backs coach Anthony Lynn (Saturday) and former Denver offensive coordinator Adam Gase (Sunday).
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Fewer underclassmen opt for draftNEW YORK — A record number of undrafted
underclassmen in 2014 may have dissuaded a few players from leaving school early for this year’s NFL draft.
The early-entry list includes 74 players, with an additional 10 who became eligible for the draft after notifying the NFL they had graduated.
A year ago, a record 98 players were granted special eligibility into the draft, leading to a record 36 underclassmen who went undrafted. It’s the first time since 2009 the number of early-entry players dropped from the previous year.
Florida State, which played in the College Football Playoff semifinals, had the most early entries with five, including quarterback and 2013 Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston.
This year’s Heisman Trophy winner, Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, was among the play-ers who became eligible after graduating. His teammate, defensive end Erik Armstead, also is leaving early after leading the Ducks to the nation-al title game, where they lost to Ohio State.
The Buckeyes had no players on the early-entry list after quarterback Cardale Jones decided to return to school.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Kentucky, Virginia remain 1-2The nation’s two unbeatens retain their spots
atop the AP Top 25.For the second straight week, Kentucky was No.
1 in 63 of 65 votes cast Monday, while Virginia stayed at No. 2.
The Wildcats (17-0) have been No. 1 in every poll and were the unanimous choice for five straight weeks before two voters switched to the Cavaliers (17-0) last week.
Both teams had a pair of double-digit conference wins last week.
Gonzaga remained in third, while Villanova swapped places with Duke. The Blue Devils fell from fourth to fifth after a loss to Miami that ended a 41-game home winning streak followed by a win at Louisville.
–Staff, Associated Press
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Because of the New Year’s holiday, the deadline for the community calendar is noon Friday. Be sure and check with organizers and clubs to make sure events have not been cancelled before making plans to attend.
TUESDAY
BEEKEEPERS OF PUTNAM COUNTY, third Tuesdays, 111 Yelvington Road, East Palatka (ag center) teaching video at 5:30 p.m. with refreshments and regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. Details: Mickie at 684-0902 or 904-886-9389.
THE PALATKA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB, third Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Palatka Library, 601 College Road. Interested public invited.
BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP OF PUTNAM COUNTY, 4:30-5:30 p.m., third Tuesdays, Woman’s Club of Palatka, 605 S. 13th St., Palatka. Details: 684-3258.
READERS’ ROUNDTABLE, ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP, 2 p.m., third Tuesdays, Crescent City Library, 610 N. Summit St. Details: 698-2600.
CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP meet, 1 p.m., third Tuesday of the month, Hospice of the Nature Coast Wings Community Education Center, 6721 Crill Ave., Palatka. Shanda Lewis at 530-4600.
A LADIES AROUND THE LAKE meeting, 10 a.m. first and third Tuesdays, George’s Lake Community Association, 114 Sarasota St., Florahome. Crafts and covered dish lunch.
INTERLACHEN LIONS CLUB meets 7-8:30 p.m. every first, third and fifth Tuesdays, 200 Prospect St. The first Tuesday is a business meeting; snacks. Open to public. Third and fifth Tuesday meetings include buffet dinner and speaker. Details: Lion Maria at 684-3673 or leave a message at 684-2188.
SENIOR FRIENDS AT PUTNAM COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER Bingo, 2-4 p.m., Tuesdays, Butler Building, 611 Zeagler Dr., Palatka. One-year membership: $15. 328-3986.
FREE COMMUNITY YOGA CLASS, 9:40-10:40 a.m., Tuesdays, Interlachen Library, 133N. County Road 315. Bring a mat or blanket and water. 546-6554
LINE DANCING, 9:30-10:45 a.m.; low impact aerobics with Terri for $3 per person, 11 a.m.; scrapbooking, 11 a.m.; can class, 1 p.m.; and photography club, 2-3 p.m., Tuesdays, Edgar Johnson Senior Center, 1215 Westover Dr., Palatka. Details: 329-0469.
12-STEP CHRISTIAN RECOVERY GROUP MEET, 11:30 a.m., every Tuesday, 419 St. Johns Ave., Palatka. Details: 546-1943.
PAWS TO READ, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Tuesdays, Bostwick Library, 125 Tillman St. No program on Nov. 11. Children can read to “Miss” Betsy and her golden retriever, Gabe, who loves to hear stories. Open to all ages. 326-2750.
SENIORS VS CRIME, walk-in assistance, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Sheriff’s complex, 130 Orie Griffin Blvd., Palatka. Assists seniors who have been victims of con artists, scams, fraud, or deceptive business practices. Volunteers needed. Details: 326-2839 or e-mail [email protected] or Barry Schnoor, project manager, [email protected].
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 4355, Pinochle, 1 p.m.; Ship, Captain, Crew dice game, 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Surprise Bingo, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; regular bingo, 6:30 p.m., Tuesdays, 110 Shrine Club Road, Lake Como. 649-5033.
AZALEA CITY KIWANIS CLUB, noon, Tuesdays, Florida National Guard Armory, 1301 Moseley Ave., Palatka.
TOPS FL 93, PALATKA, Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m., College Park Baptist Church, 3435 Crill Ave., Palatka, down from Burger King on left. 530-0114.
ASSISTANCE FOR FLORIDA SERVICES provided 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays, Trinity Episcopal Church, 204 State Road 26, Melrose. Help with applying for food stamps, Medicaid and more. Details: (352) 475-2177.
VFW POST 3349 BINGO, 6-9:30 p.m., every Tuesday, 3201 Reid St., Palatka. Details: 328-2863.
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES, INTERLACHEN, bingo 7 p.m. Tuesdays, 823 State Road 20. Hamburgers sold, 5-6:30 p.m. 684-3252.
WEDNESDAY
KLASSI TAP CLOGGERS will host an introduction to clogging open house at 6:45 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 21, St. John the Evangelist church hall, 1200 State Road 20, Interlachen. This will be to determine if there is an interest in commencing a 6-week beginner clogging and a 6-week intermediate clogging classes. Bud at 684-6906.
ZETA MU ZETA CHAPTER, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., meets third Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. at New Bethel A.M.E. Church Annex 154 N. Boundary Road, San Mateo. Details: Cynthia Asia at 326-1607 or 546-6598.
READ IT! DISCUSS IT! BOOK CLUB, 10 a.m., third Wednesdays, Interlachen Library, 133 N. County Road 315. Different selection each month. 684-1600.
POMONA PARK SENIOR PROGRAM INC. HANDMADE CARD MAKING CLASS, noon to 3 p.m., Wednesdays, Pomona Park Community Center, 200 E. Main St. Cost is $5; supplies included. Instructor, Judith Horton. Judy at 983-0370.
SENIOR FRIENDS AT PUTNAM COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER, Card Games, 1-4 p.m., Wednesdays, Butler Building, 611 Zeagler Dr., Palatka. One-year membership: $15. 328-3986.
HANDMADE CARD MAKING with Judith Horton, noon to 3 p.m., Wednesdays, 200 E. Main St., Pomona Park. Cost is $5 per class and all supplies are included. Details: 983-0370.
WINGS, 6-8 p.m., Wednesdays, Crescent City Moose Family Center. Different flavors to choose from.
ACRYLIC PAINTING, 8-11 a.m.; crochet class, 11 a.m.; bingo, 1-3 p.m.; and ceramics, 3-4:30 p.m., Wednesdays, Edgar Johnson Senior Center, 1215 Westover Dr., Palatka. 329-0469.
ADULT AND CHILDREN’S TAEKWON-DO, 6:15-7 p.m., Wednesdays, Putnam Family Fitness Center, 213 Perry St., Pomona Park. Instructed by Master Jim Weller, Taekwon-Do is a Korean martial art that combines combat and self-defense techniques with sport and exercise. Details: 649-8784.
LINE DANCING, 6-7:30 p.m., Wednesdays, Community Center in Pomona Park, 1775 U.S. 17. Offered by Putnam Family Fitness Center. 649-8784.
12-STEP CHRISTIAN RECOVERY GROUP MEET, 6 p.m., every Wednesday, 419 St. Johns Ave., Palatka. Details: 546-1943.
DARTS, FOOD, DRINKS, AND MUSIC, 6 p.m., Wednesdays, Putnam County Shrine Club, Yelvington Road, East Palatka.
BINGO, VFW POST 10164 INTERLACHEN, State Road 20, beginning at 6 p.m., Wednesdays. Cost is $1 per game with big money and door prizes. Refreshments available for purchase. Full-course dinner for $5. Public welcome. Details: 684-0839.
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 4355, Pinochle 1 p.m.; tacos 5-7 p.m., Wednesdays, 110 Shrine Club Road, Lake Como. Details: 649-5033.
PALATKA DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB meeting, 10 a.m., Wednesdays, 521 S. 13th St., Palatka. Open stratified games. Participants should bring a lunch. Details: 328-0263.
VFW POST 3349 VETERAN’S ROUND TABLE, 1-3 p.m., Wednesdays, 3201 Reid St., Palatka. The public is invited. Details: 328-2863.
AMERICAN LEGION POST 293, INTERLACHEN BINGO, noon, Wednesdays, County Road 315. Lunch available 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Bingo at 12:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
ALERT GROUP (Adults Lesiurely Enjoying Retirement Together) will meet for a brown-bagged lunch at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 22 in the Philathea Room at St. James United Methodist Church, 400 Reid St., Palatka. Details: 328-1461.
MONTHLY CARD PARTY, hosted by St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church ladies guild, 10 a.m., fourth Thursdays, 1200 State Road 20, Interlachen. Cost is $4 and lunch will be served. Different card games and pokeno.
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA DISTRICT COURT OF HONOR, 7:30 p.m., fourth Thursdays through May, St. James United Methodist Church, 400
Reid St., Palatka. Scouts will receive awards and rank advancements. The public is invited.
PALATKA YORK RITE BODIES meet, 7:30 p.m., second and fourth Thursdays, Palatka Lodge, 1334 Crill Ave. Past members and Master Masons welcome to attend supper at 6:30 p.m. to inquire about membership. The Knights Templar Commandery meets on the fourth Thursday. Details: 937-3744.
TODDLER STORY TIME for children 0-2 years old and their caretaker, 10 a.m., Thursdays, Melrose Public Library, 312 Wynnwood Ave. Details: (352) 475-1237 or visit funinputnam.com.
CANCER SUPPORT GROUP, second Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Interlachen Library. Facilitator, Vivian Bly.
DART LEAGUE, 7 p.m., Thursdays, Palatka Moose Lodge 184, 3875 Reid St. For members and guests.
EVERY CHILD TO READ, 0-2 years old, 10-10:30 a.m. and 3-5 years old, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Thursdays, Interlachen Library, 133 N. County Road 315. There will be songs, stories, playtime, and more.
EVERY CHILD READY TO READ (ECRR), 10 a.m., Thursdays, Crescent City Library, 610 N. Summit St. For ages 0-2 years and their caregiver. Ages 3-5 and their caregiver begins at 11 a.m. There will be stories, songs, finger plays, rhymes and other early literacy activities. Details: 698-2600.
10 TOUCHSTONES FOR GRIEF, 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Hospice of the Nature coast Wings Education Center, 6721 Crill Ave., Palatka. Facilitated by Grief Services Manager, Mary Rockefeller, LMHC. Based on the book “Understanding Your Grief,” by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD. Program is free and open to the public. Registration required. Details: 530-4600.
SMOKE FREE BINGO, 10:30 a.m., Thursdays, Crescent City Moose Family Center. Open to the public.
CHAIR AEROBICS WITH LORI for $3 per person, 9:30 a.m.; quilting class with Janelle, 10 a.m.; ping pong and games, 1 p.m., Thursdays, Edgar Johnson Senior Center, 1215 Westover Dr., Palatka. Details: 329-0469.
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES DARTS, 7 p.m., Thursdays, 823 State Road 20, Interlachen. Details: 684-3252.
SENIORS VS CRIME, walk-in assistance, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursdays, Sheriff’s complex, 130 Orie Griffin Blvd., Palatka. Assists seniors who have been victims of con artists, scams, fraud, or deceptive business practices. Volunteers are needed. Details: 326-2839 or e-mail [email protected]; or Barry Schnoor, project manager, [email protected].
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 4355, Surprise Bingo, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; regular bingo, 6:30 p.m., Thursdays, 110 Shrine Club Road, Lake Como. Details: 649-5033.
PALATKA KIWANIS CLUB, every Thursday, noon to 1 p.m., Sleep Inn & Suites meeting room, State Road 100. Visitors/potential members welcome for lunch. Open to public. www.palatkakiwanis.org.
U.S. VETERANS POST 104 bingo, 6-9 p.m. Thursdays; State Road 19, Palatka.
FRIDAY
KARAOKE, FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 3822, 7-11 p.m. fourth Fridays, 823 State Road 20, Interlachen. 684-3252.
FOURTH FRIDAY FOR LIFE, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 111 S. Francis St., Interlachen, 10 a.m. to noon. Food handed out until 2 p.m. West Putnam residents only. List of services include: free health screening and follow up care for low income and uninsured with St. Vincent’s Health Van and Family
Medical and Dental; phones for the hearing impaired from the Florida Department of Health; elementary school counselors available; Putnam County Anti-drug Coalition; Breast Cancer Awareness; F.R.O.G. Cancer doctors – cancer treatment for the uninsured; legal advice with a lawyer; SHINE – Medicare and prescription help for low-income; Adult Education GED program fro St. Johns River State College; Lee Conlee House with domestic violence help and counseling; Lutheran Social Service with 10,000 lbs. of food; sign-up for USDA grants and loans for home repairs, Medicaid and food stamps; home repair grants, call to pre-qualify at 325-5862; mental health therapist – see Mother Diane to sign up; eye screening with St. Vincent vouchers for 5 people a month – new glasses; Haven Hospice – home help for critical patients, grief counseling, and hospice facilities; North-East Florida Community Action Agency – help with light bills; Humane Society vouchers for spay/neuter of dogs and cats; Putnam County Property Assessor – tax discounts for seniors and disabled; free hair cuts; and more. 684-4506 or 972-4209
POMONA PARK SENIOR PROGRAM INC. FRIDAY FUN DAY, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays, Pomona Park Community Center, 200 E. Main St. Play cards, dominos, chess, checkers, bingo, or enjoy coffee with others. Covered dish for lunch; live entertainment until 2 p.m. Details: Joyce at 649-9293.
SENIOR FRIENDS AT PUTNAM COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER, Bingo, 2 p.m., Fridays, Butler Building, 611 Zeagler Dr., Palatka. First Fridays, Fun Fridays, 1-3 p.m. One-year membership: $15. Details: 328-3986.
DART TOURNAMENT, 8 p.m., Fridays, Palatka Moose Lodge 184, 3875 Reid St. For members and guests.
FRIDAY DINNERS, 5-7 p.m., Crescent City Moose Family Center. First Friday is prime rib; second, third, and fourth Fridays are cook’s choice. Music or karaoke, 7 p.m. Members and guests.
POWER YOGA, 8:30 a.m.; paint Fridays, 9 a.m.; low impact aerobics with Terri for $3 per person, 9:45 a.m.; Zumba Gold, 11 a.m.; Pickin and Grinnin, 1 p.m.; and happy hour, 2 p.m., Fridays, Edgar Johnson Senior Center, 1215 Westover Dr., Palatka. 329-0469.
STEAK NIGHT, 6-8 p.m., Fridays, Putnam County Shrine Club, Yelvington Road, East Palatka. Includes salad, potatoes, soup, dessert and tea. Music and karaoke beginning at 8 p.m.
BINGO, VFW POST 10164 INTERLACHEN, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays on State Road 20. Light lunch available for small charge. 684-0839.
KARAOKE U.S. VETERANS POST 104, 1050 State Road 19, Palatka, 8 p.m. Fridays.
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 4355, Steak and Seafood, 5-7 p.m., Fridays, 110 Shrine Club Road, Lake Como. Details: 649-5033.
VFW POST 3349 DINNER, 6-8 p.m., Fridays. Details: 328-2863.
INTERLACHEN LAKES ESTATES STATION 17 VFD BINGO, Fridays, 217 Kennedy Ave. Early birds, 6:30 p.m.; regular games, 7 p.m. Refreshments at 5:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION, 1-3 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 24, Ravine Gardens State Park, 1600 Twigg St., Palatka. Meeting for those looking to get more involved in the community, gain work experience, or looking for a new hobby. Ranger Kristine will introduce participants to the park and the volunteer opportunities available at Ravine Gardens and Dunns Creek state parks. Admission is free for participants. Reservations: www.VolunteerOrientationRGSP.eventbrite.com or call 329-3721.
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION, presented by Putnam County Archives, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 24, Putnam County Headquarters Library, 601 College Road, Palatka. Discussion will be “Civil War Navies on the St. Johns River.” Guest speaker, Rob Mattson. Discussions recorded for the Archives collection. Bring printed information to consider sharing, copies will be made. Darlene at 329-0126.
YARNING ON SATURDAYS, 10:30 a.m., Bostwick Library, 125 Tillman St. All are welcome, from beginners to the experienced. Bring crochet or knitting projects or come and get ideas. Details: 326-2750.
CREATIVE STORY HOUR, 10-11 a.m., Saturdays, Crescent City Library, 610 N. Summit St., Crescent City. Stories, songs, poems, games, and crafts for children 6-12 years old. 698-2600.
FUN FILMS, 11 a.m., Saturdays, Crescent City Library, 610 N. Summit St., Crescent City. Family friendly movies to be shown. Details: 698-2600.
KARAOKE, FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 4355, 8 p.m. to midnight, Saturdays, 110 Shrine Club Road, Lake Como.
U.S. VETERANS POST 104, State Road 19, Palatka, will have karaoke, 8 p.m., Saturdays.
AMERICAN LEGION POST 45, Palatka, all you can eat breakfast, Saturday, 8-11 a.m. Cost is $6.
SUNDAY
FAMILY DAY, 1 p.m. and orientation, 3-4 p.m., fourth Sunday, Crescent City Moose Family Center.
AUXILIARY BREAKFAST, Fraternal Order of Eagles 3822, 8:30-11 a.m. first Sundays and third Sundays, 823 State Road 20, Interlachen. Choice of pancakes or French Toast. 684-3252.
BINGO, 1-4 p.m., first and third Sunday, Interlachen Fraternal Order of Eagles, 823 State Road 20, next to Queen’s, Interlachen.
BAR GAMES, 5:30 p.m., Sundays, Palatka Moose Lodge 184, 3875 Reid St. For members and guests.
JAM SESSION, 7-10 p.m., Sundays, Crescent City Moose Family Center. Shuffleboard, 3 p.m. Members and guests.
COMMUNITY BINGO, 1 p.m., Sundays, Hermits Cove Community Club, Hermits Cove, Satsuma. Food and drinks available for purchase. Bring family and friends.
SHIP, CAPTAIN, CREW DICE GAME, Fraternal Order of Eagles 4355, 2-4 p.m. and Trivia, 5 p.m., Sundays, 110 Shrine Club Road, Lake Como. 649-5033.
MONDAY
EARTH STEWARDSHIP SUMMIT, 6-9 p.m., Jan. 26, Ravine Gardens State Park auditorium, 1600 Twigg St., Palatka. Learn how 10 local organizations are caring about natural resources. Each organization will have 15 minutes for a presentation as well as information. Organizations attending: Putnam Blueways & Trails, Bartram Trail Committee of Putnam County, Putnam County Environmental Council, Putnam Land Conservancy, Friends of Dunns Creek State Park, Palatka Pride, Keep Putnam Beautiful, Friends of Ravine Gardens State Park, The Water Works Environmental Education Center, and Santa Fe Audubon Society.Details: 546-1668; putnambluewaysandtrails.org or email [email protected].
SPAGHETTI DINNER, 4:30-6 p.m., second and fourth Mondays, Crescent City Moose Family Center. Fifth Monday is cook’s choice.
THE SHOPPE, to benefit the Lee Conlee House, will have a clothes sale beginning at 9 a.m. The last week of each month, 926 St. Johns Ave., Palatka. All clothes are $1 for each piece. Rosaline Woods, 328-7151.
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF INTERLACHEN meeting, 7 p.m., fourth Mondays, Old Interlachen Hall, 215 Atlantic Ave. Members are encouraged to bring their friends and neighbors. Refreshments will be served.
CRESCENT CITY LIONS CLUB MEETING, 6 p.m. fourth Mondays, 610 N. Summit Street, Crescent City. Open to public. Details: 467-9370.
PUTNAM COMMUNITY BAND meet, 7-8:30 p.m., Mondays, Palatka High School Band room, 302 Mellon Road. Musicians of all ages and abilities invited. 328-3923; putnamband.blogspot.com.
SENIOR FRIENDS AT PUTNAM COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER, yoga, 11 a.m. to noon and Bridge, 1-4 p.m., Mondays, Butler Building, 611 Zeagler Dr., Palatka. One-year membership: $15. Details: 328-3986.
FREE POOL, Mondays, Palatka Moose Lodge 184, 38575 Reid St., Palatka. For members and guests.
POMONA PARK SENIOR PROGRAM INC. QUILTING GROUP, noon to 3 p.m., Mondays, Pomona Park Community Center, 200 E. Main St. No charge; no instructor; help each other. Details: Joyce at 649-9293.
POMONA PARK SENIOR ACRYLIC PAINTING CLASS with Bob Grothaus, 9 a.m. to noon, Mondays, Community Center, 200 E. Main St. Class is $3 per person. Details: 325-0634.
TAI CHI, 9:30-10:30 a.m., Bingo, 1-3 p.m., and open activities, 3-4:30 p.m., Mondays, Edgar Johnson Senior Center, 1215 Westover Dr., Palatka. Details: 329-0469.
TOPS WEIGHT LOSS CLASS (SUPPORT GROUP) meet, 6 p.m., Mondays, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 111 Francis St., Interlachen.
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 3822 OF INTERLACHEN, bowling league, 7 p.m., every Monday. 684-3252.
AMERICAN LEGION POST 45 LUNCHES, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, 316 Osceola St., Palatka. Subs, sandwiches, salads and milkshakes available. Prices range from $1-7. Free Delivery. Details: 328-6976.
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 4355, Darts, 7 p.m., Mondays, 110 Shrine Club Road, Lake Como. 649-5033.
MATINEE BINGO, U.S VETERANS POST 104, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mondays, 1050 State Road 19, Palatka.
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1 0 A C L ASS I F I E D S • PALATKA DAILY NEWS • TUESDAY, JANUARY 20 , 2015
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDAGENERAL JURISDICTIONDIVISION
Case No. 12-636-CA-53
CitiBank, N.A.,Plaintiff,
vs.
Tracy Reinhold; et al.,Defendants.
NOTICE OF FORECLOS-URE SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENpursuant to a Final Judg-ment of Foreclosure datedDecember 1, 2014, enteredin Case No. 12-636-CA-53of the Circuit Court of theSeventh Judicial Circuit, inand for Putnam County,Florida, wherein CitiBank,N.A. is the Plaintiff and TheUnknown Spouse, Heirs,Devisees, Grantees, As-signees, Lienors, Credit-ors, Trustees and all otherparties claiming an in-terest by, through, under oragainst the Estate ofSandra V. Reinhold, De-ceased; Tracy Reinhold;Unknown Tenant #1 N/K/ATHOMAS REINHOLD; Un-known Tenant #2 are theDefendants, that I will sellto the highest and best bid-der for cash at the southfront door of the court-house, 410 St. Johns Aven-ue, Palatka, FL 32177, be-ginning at 11:00AM on the3rd day of February, 2015,the following describedproperty as set forth insaid Final Judgment, towit:
LOT 79, BLOCK 12, TOWNO F M A R I N E R S L A K E(FORMERLY THE TOWNOF ANDERSON) AS PERPLAT THEREOF RECOR-DED IN MAP BOOK 1,PAGE 67 IN THE OFFICEOF THE CLERK OF THECIRCUIT COURT OF PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDA.SUBJECT TO AN EASE-MENT OVER THE FOL-L O W I N G D E S C R I B E DPROPERTY: COMMENCEAT AN IRON ROD AT THENORTHEAST CORNER OFSAID LOT 79 FOR THEPOINT OF BEGINNING ANDRUN SOUTHERLY, ALONGTHE EASTERLY LINE OFSAID LOT 79, A DISTANCEOF 15.4 FEET TO A FENCELINE; THENCE WESTERLY,ALONG SAID FENCE LINE,9.3 FEET TO THE CORNEROF SAID FENCE; THENCENORTHERLY, ALONG SAIDFENCE LINE, 15.4 FEET TOTHE NORTHERLY BOUND-ARY OF SAID LOT 79;T H E N C E E A S T E R L Y ,ALONG SAID NORTHERLYBOUNDARY, 9.3 FEET TOTHE POINT OF BEGIN-NING.
Any person claiming an in-terest in the surplus fromthe sale, if any, other thanthe property owner as ofthe date of the lis pendensmust file a claim within 60days after the sale.
Dated this 12th day ofJanuary, 2015.
Tim SmithAs Clerk of the Court
By: /s/ Ruth MilliganAs Deputy Clerk
If you are a person with adisability who needs an ac-commodation in order toaccess court facilities orparticipate in a court pro-ceeding, you are entitled,at no cost to you, to theprovision of certain assist-ance. Please contact CourtAdministration, 125 E. Or-a n g e A v e . , S t e . 3 0 0 ,Daytona Beach, FL 32114;(386) 257-6096 at least 7days before your sched-uled court appearance, orimmediately upon receiv-ing this notification if thetime before the scheduledappearance is less than 7days; if you are hearing orvoice impaired call 711.
1/20/15, 1/27/15Legal No. 00030499
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO. 2014-CA-000220
MIDFIRST BANKPlaintiff,
v.
ALAN DANIEL BROWNA/K/A ALAN D. BROWNA / K / A A L A N B R O W N ;KYTRINA A. BROWN; UN-KNOWN TENANT 1; UN-KNOWN TENANT 2; ANDALL UNKNOWN PARTIESCLAIMING BY, THROUGH,UNDER OR AGAINST THEABOVE NAMED DEFEND-ANT(S), WHO (IS/ARE) NOTKNOWN TO BE DEAD ORALIVE, WHETHER SAIDU N K N O W N P A R T I E SCLAIM AS HEIRS, DE-VISEES, GRANTEES, AS-S I G N E E S , L I E N O R S ,CREDITORS, TRUSTEES,SPOUSES, OR OTHERCLAIMANTS,Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALENotice is hereby given that,pursuant to the SummaryFinal Judgment of Fore-closure entered on Janu-ary 07, 2015, in this cause,in the Circuit Court of Put-nam County, Florida, theoffice of Tim Smith, Clerkof the Circuit Court, shallsell the property situated inPutnam County, Florida,described as:
THE SOUTH 1/2 OF THEFOLLOWING DESCRIBEDPROPERTY: THE NORTH313 1/2 FEET OF THES O U T H 1 / 2 O F T H ESOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SEC-TION 19, TOWNSHIP 8SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST,EXCEPT THE WEST 2046FEET THEREOF.
LESS THAT PORTIONDEEDED OUT IN OFFICIALRECORDS BOOK 708 ,PAGE 1991 .
TOGETHER WITH A MO-BILE HOME LOCATEDTHEREON AS A PERMAN-ENT FIXTURE AND APPUR-TENANCE THERETO, DE-SCRIBED AS A MOBILEHOME, TITLE NUMBERS42622855 & 42647272;VEHICLE IDENTIFICATIONN U M B E R SSHS8PGA49850416A &SHS8PGA4985041B.
a/k/a 118 JOHNS PL, PAL-ATKA, FL 32177-8740
at publ ic sale , to thehighest and best bidder,for cash, at the South frontdoor of the Putnam CountyCourthouse, 410 St. JohnsAvenue, Palatka, FL 32177,on MARCH 3, 2015 begin-ning at 11:00 AM.
If you are a person claim-ing a right to funds remain-ing after the sale. If you failto file a claim you will notbe entitled to any remain-ing funds.
Dated this 12th day ofJANUARY, 2015.
Tim SmithClerk of the Circuit Court
By: /s/ Kelly PurcellDeputy Clerk
ANY PERSON WITH A DIS-A B I L I T Y R E Q U I R I N GREASONABLE ACCOM-M O D A T I O N S S H O U L DCALL (904) 329-0252 OR(800) 955-8771 (V/TDD), NOLATER THAN SEVEN (7)DAYS PRIOR TO ANY PRO-CEEDING.
1/20/15, 1/27/15Legal No. 00030501
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT OF FLORIDA INA N D F O R P U T N A MC O U N T YGENERAL JURISDICTIONDIVISION
CASE NO. 2012-CA-000170
C I T I B A N K , N . A . , A STRUSTEE FOR THE CERTI-F I C A T E H O L D E R S O FCWABS, INC. , ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES,SERIES 2007-QH1,Plaintiff,
VS.
TIFFANY M. BROWN, JOEJ O H N S O N , J R . , U N -KNOWN SPOUSE OF JOEJOHNSON, JR. N/K/A OL-LIE JOHNSON, PUTNAMCOUNTY, A POLITICALSUBDIVIS ION OF THESTATE OF FLORIDA,Defendant(s).
RE-NOTICE OF FORE-CLOSURE SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENpursuant to a Summary Fi-nal Judgment of Foreclos-ure entered August 25,2014 in Civil Case No.2012-CA-000170 of the Cir-cuit Court of the SEVENTHJudicial Circuit in and forPutnam County, Palatka,Florida, wherein CITIBANK,N.A., AS TRUSTEE FORTHE CERTIFICATEHOLD-ERS OF CWABS, INC., AS-SET BACKED CERTIFIC-ATES, SERIES 2007-QH1 isPlaintiff and TIFFANY M.BROWN, JOE JOHNSON,JR., UNKNOWN SPOUSEOF JOE JOHNSON, JR.N/K/A OLLIE JOHNSON,P U T N A M C O U N T Y , APOLITICAL SUBDIVISIONOF THE STATE OF FLOR-IDA, are Defendants, theClerk of Court will sell tothe highest and best bid-der for cash at the southdoor of the Putnam CountyCourthouse, 410 St. JohnsAve., Palatka, FL 32177 inaccordance with Chapter45, Florida Statutes on the19th day of FEBRUARY,2015 at 11:00 AM on thefollowing described prop-erty as set forth in saidSummary Final Judgment,to-wit: Parcel 11: A part oft h e J O H N H U E R T A SGRANT, Section 48, Town-ship 9 South, Range 27East, Putnam County, Flor-ida, being more particu-larly described as follows:
COMMENCE at the inter-section of the Westerly lineof Deed Book 165, Page 46,with the Northerly Right-of-Way line of State Road No.207-A; thence South 70 de-grees 55 minutes Westalong said Northerly Right-of-Way line, 903.57 feet tothe POINT OF BEGINNING;thence North 25 degrees 30seconds West, 224.06 feet;thence North 64 degrees 29minutes 30 seconds East,175 feet; thence South 25degrees 30 minutes 30seconds East, 67.66 feet;thence South 22 degrees42 minutes 15 secondsWest, 234.70 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING.Subject to an Easement foringress and egress overthe Easterly 25 feet of theaforedescribed property.AND Parcell2: A part of theJOHN HUERTAS GRANT,Section 48, Township 9South, Range 27, East, Put-nam County, Florida, be-ing more particularly de-scribed as follows: COM-MENCE at the intersectionof the Westerly line of DeedBook 165, Page 46, with theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road No. 207-A;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West along saidNortherly Right-of-Wayline, 673.57 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING;thence continue South 70degrees 55 minutes West,230 feet along said Right-of-Way line; thence North22 degrees 42 minutes 15seconds East, 234.70 feet;thence North 70 degrees 55minutes East, 73.60 feet;thence South 19 degrees05 minutes East 175 feet tothe POINT OF BEGINNING.Subject to an easement foringress and egress overthe Northerly 25 feet of theaforedescribed property.AND TOGETHER WITH aneasement for Right-of-Wayin common with othersover the land describedhereafter. Parcel 1: A partof the JOHN HUERTASGRANT, Section 48, Town-ship 9 South, Range 27East, Putnam County, Flor-ida, more particularly de-scribed as follows: COM-MENCE at the intersectionof the Westerly line of DeedBook 165, Page 46, with theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road No. 207-A;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West along saidNortherly Right-of-Wayline, 413.57 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING;thence North 19 degrees 05minutes West, 150 feet;thence North 70 degrees 55minutes East, 260.04 feet;thence North 20 degrees 25minutes West, 331.18 feet;thence South 79 degrees06 minutes 40 secondsWest, 611.31 feet; thenceN o r t h 2 5 d e g r e e s 3 0minutes 30 seconds West,174.63 feet; thence North61 degrees 55 seconds 17minute East, 292.06 feet;thence North 20 degrees 10seconds West, 50.48 feet;thence South 61 degrees55 minutes 17 secondsEast, 434.96 feet; thenceSouth 28 degrees 04minutes 43 minutes East,30 feet, thence North 61 de-grees 55 seconds 17minutes East, 86.80 feet;thence South 25 degrees30 minutes 30 secondsEast, 607.30 feet; thenceN o r t h 7 0 d e g r e e s 5 5minutes East, 295.94 feet;thence South 19 degrees05 minutes East, 150 feet tothe Northerly Right-of-Wayline of said State Road No.207-A; thence North 70 de-grees 55 minutes Eastalong said Northerly Right-of-Way line, 60 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING. EX-CEPTING from the abovethe following describedlands: COMMENCE at thePOINT OF BEGINNING de-scribed above, thenceSouth 70 degrees 55minutes West along theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road No. 207-A, 30feet; thence North 19 de-grees 05 minutes West, 200feet, thence North 70 de-grees 55 minutes East,238.86 feet; thence North20 degrees 25 minutesWest, 237.69 feet; thenceSouth 79 degrees 06minutes 40 seconds West,555.95 feet; thence South25 degrees 30 minutes 30seconds East, 318.88 feet;thence North 70 degrees 55minutes East, 281.25 feet tothe POINT OF BEGINNING.Parcel2: A part of the JOHNHUERTAS GRANT, Section48, Township 9 South,Range 27 East, PutnamCounty, Florida, beingmore par t icu la r ly de -scribed as follows: COM-MENCE at the intersectionof the Westerly line of DeedBook 165, Page 46, with theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road. 207-A;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West along saidNortherly Right-of-Wayline, 443.57 feet; thenceN o r t h 1 9 d e g r e e s 0 5minutes West, 175 feet;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West 303.60N o r t h 2 5 d e g r e e s 3 0minutes 30 seconds West,591.44 feet, thence North61 degrees 55 minutes 17seconds East, 109.43 feetto the POINT OF BEGIN-NING; thence continueN o r t h 6 1 d e g r e e s 5 5minutes 17 seconds East,10 feet; thence North 20 de-grees 10 minutes West, 245feet, more or less, to theSoutherly edge of waters ofthe St. Johns River; thenceWesterly along said South-erly edge, 10 feet, more orless; thence South 20 de-grees 10 minutes East, 245feet, more or less, to thePOINT OF BEGINNING.SUBJECT TO an easementfor ingress and egress overthe Southerly 25 feet of theaforedescribed property.
Any person claiming an in-terest in the surplus fromthe sale, if any, other thanthe property owner as ofthe date of the Lis Pen-dens, must file a claimwithin 60 days after thesale.
Dated this 12th day ofJanuary, 2015.
Deputy ClerkTIM SMITHCLERK OF THE CIRCUITCOURTAs Clerk of the CourtBy: /s/ Kelly Purcell
If you are a person with adisability who needs an ac-commodation in order toaccess court facilities orparticipate in a court pro-ceeding, you are entitled,at no cost to you, to theprovision of certain assist-ance. To request such anaccommodation, pleasecontact Court Administra-tion in advance of the datethe service is needed:Court Administration, 125E. Orange Ave., Ste. 300,Daytona Beach, FL 32114;(386) 257-6096. Hearing orvoice impaired, please call1(800) 955-8770.
1/20/15, 1/27/15Legal No. 00030517
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT INA N D F O R P U T N A MC O U N T Y , F L O R I D A
CASE NO: 2013-000525-CA-53
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,Plaintiff,
vs.
JOSEPH A. MOORE A/K/AJOSEPH ALBERT MOORE;ANGELA L. MOORE A/K/AANGELA LEE MOORE; UN-KNOWN TENANT I; UN-KNOWN TENANT II; PATRI-CIA A. HYNDS; GENE E.H Y N D S ; W I L L I A M B .HYNDS A/K/A BILL HYNDS,and any unknown heirs,devisees, grantees, credit-ors, and other unknownp e r s o n s o r u n k n o w nspouses c la iming by ,through and under any ofthe above-named Defend-ants,Defendants.
NOTICE OF FORECLOS-URE SALE
NOTICE is hereby giventhat the Clerk of the CircuitCourt of Putnam County,Florida, will on the 5th dayof February, 2015, at 11: 00a.m. at South front door ofthe Putnam County Court-house in Palatka, Florida,offer for sale and sell atpublic outcry to the highestand best bidder for cash,the following-describedproperty situate in PutnamCounty, Florida:
LOT 2, BLOCK 106, UNIT31, INTERLACHEN LAKESESTATES AS RECORDEDIN PLAT BOOK 5, PAGE 62O F T H E P U B L I C R E -C O R D S O F P U T N A MC O U N T Y , F L O R I D A .
TOGETHER WITH A 2004FLEE DOUBLE WIDE MO-B I L E H O M EID#GAFL307A51392F221AND GAFL307B51392F221.
pursuant to the Final Judg-ment entered in a casepending in said Court, thestyle of which is indicatedabove.
Dated 01-05-15
Any person or entity claim-ing an interest in the sur-plus, if any, resulting fromthe foreclosure sale, otherthan the property owner asof the date of the Lis Pen-dens, must file a claim onsame with the Clerk ofCourt within 60 days afterthe foreclosure sale.
WITNESS my hand and of-ficial seal of said Court this13 day of January, 2015.
AMERICANS WITH DISAB-ILITIES ACT. If you are aperson with a disabilitywho needs an accommoda-tion in order to accesscourt facilities or particip-ate in a court proceeding,you are entitled, at no costto you, to the provision ofcertain assistance. To re-quest such an accommod-ation, please contact CourtAdministration in advanceof the date the service isneeded: Court Administra-tion, 125 E. Orange Ave.,Ste, 300, Daytona Beach,FL 32114, (386) 257-6096.Hearing or voice impaired,please call 711. If you are aperson with disability whoneeds an accommodationin order to access court fa-cilities or participate in acourt proceeding, you areentitled, at no cost to you,to the provision of certainassistance. Please contactCourt Administration, 125E. Orange Ave., Ste. 300,Daytona Beach, FL 32114;(386) 257-6096 at least 7days before you sched-uled court appearance, orimmediately upon receiv-ing this notification if thetime before the scheduledappearance is less than 7days; if you are hearing im-paired call 711.
TIM SMITHCLERK OF THE CIRCUITCOURT
By/s/ Ruth MilliganDeputy Clerk
Legal No 0003055201/20/15, 01/27/15
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT, IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO.: 14-433-CP
IN RE: THE ESTATE OFNORMA JEAN GROSEN-BAUGH, Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS(Summary Administration)
TO ALL PERSONS HAV-I N G C L A I M S O R D E -MANDS AGAINST THEABOVE ESTATE:You are hereby notifiedthat a Petition for Sum-mary Administration hasbeen entered for the estateof NORMA JEAN GROSEN-BAUGH, deceased, FileNumber: 14-433-CP, in theCircuit Court for PutnamCounty, Florida, ProbateDivision, the address ofwhich is Post Office Box758, Palatka, Florida 32178;that the decedent's date ofdeath was 3 November2014; that the value of thenon-exempt property of theestate is $ negligible -- anamount which will be ex-ceeded by the expenses foradministration, attorneysfees and funeral expenses.The names and addressesof beneficiaries listed indecedent's will are:
NAME/ADDRESSBONIE JEAN CHAPMAN3310 Crill Avenue, Apt.$402Palatka, FL 32177
DARLA MAE SATTERFIELD114 Churchill St.Interlachen, FL 32148
MARY LOU WILSON108 Churchill St.Interlachen, FL 32148
LORI BRENDA FISHEL113 Churchill St.Interlachen, FL 32148
ALL INTERESTED PER-S O N S A R E N O T I F I E DT H A T :All creditors of the estateof the decedent and per-sons having claims or de-mands against the estateof the decedent must filetheir claims in this courtWITHIN THE TIME PERI-ODS SET FORTH IN SEC-TION 733.702 OF THEFLORIDA STATUTES.
ALL CLAIMS AND DE-MANDS NOT SO FILEDW I L L B E F O R E V E RB A R R E D .
NOTWITHSTANDING ANYOTHER APPLICABLE TIMEPERIOD, ANY CLAIM FILEDTWO (2) YEARS OR MOREAFTER THE DECEDENT'SD A T E O F D E A T H I SB A R R E D .
The date of first publica-t ion of th is Not ice is1/13/15.
KEYSER & WOODWARD,P.A.Attorneys for Plaintiff/s/ R. KEVIN SHARBAUGHR. KEVIN SHARBAUGHFlorida Bar Number: 86240Post Office Box 92Interlachen, Florida 32148(386) 684-4673 fax: (386)684-4674
1/13/15, 1/20/15Legal No. 00030319
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDAGENERAL JURISDICTIONDIVISION
Case No. 12-636-CA-53
CitiBank, N.A.,Plaintiff,
vs.
Tracy Reinhold; et al.,Defendants.
NOTICE OF FORECLOS-URE SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENpursuant to a Final Judg-ment of Foreclosure datedDecember 1, 2014, enteredin Case No. 12-636-CA-53of the Circuit Court of theSeventh Judicial Circuit, inand for Putnam County,Florida, wherein CitiBank,N.A. is the Plaintiff and TheUnknown Spouse, Heirs,Devisees, Grantees, As-signees, Lienors, Credit-ors, Trustees and all otherparties claiming an in-terest by, through, under oragainst the Estate ofSandra V. Reinhold, De-ceased; Tracy Reinhold;Unknown Tenant #1 N/K/ATHOMAS REINHOLD; Un-known Tenant #2 are theDefendants, that I will sellto the highest and best bid-der for cash at the southfront door of the court-house, 410 St. Johns Aven-ue, Palatka, FL 32177, be-ginning at 11:00AM on the3rd day of February, 2015,the following describedproperty as set forth insaid Final Judgment, towit:
LOT 79, BLOCK 12, TOWNO F M A R I N E R S L A K E(FORMERLY THE TOWNOF ANDERSON) AS PERPLAT THEREOF RECOR-DED IN MAP BOOK 1,PAGE 67 IN THE OFFICEOF THE CLERK OF THECIRCUIT COURT OF PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDA.SUBJECT TO AN EASE-MENT OVER THE FOL-L O W I N G D E S C R I B E DPROPERTY: COMMENCEAT AN IRON ROD AT THENORTHEAST CORNER OFSAID LOT 79 FOR THEPOINT OF BEGINNING ANDRUN SOUTHERLY, ALONGTHE EASTERLY LINE OFSAID LOT 79, A DISTANCEOF 15.4 FEET TO A FENCELINE; THENCE WESTERLY,ALONG SAID FENCE LINE,9.3 FEET TO THE CORNEROF SAID FENCE; THENCENORTHERLY, ALONG SAIDFENCE LINE, 15.4 FEET TOTHE NORTHERLY BOUND-ARY OF SAID LOT 79;T H E N C E E A S T E R L Y ,ALONG SAID NORTHERLYBOUNDARY, 9.3 FEET TOTHE POINT OF BEGIN-NING.
Any person claiming an in-terest in the surplus fromthe sale, if any, other thanthe property owner as ofthe date of the lis pendensmust file a claim within 60days after the sale.
Dated this 12th day ofJanuary, 2015.
Tim SmithAs Clerk of the Court
By: /s/ Ruth MilliganAs Deputy Clerk
If you are a person with adisability who needs an ac-commodation in order toaccess court facilities orparticipate in a court pro-ceeding, you are entitled,at no cost to you, to theprovision of certain assist-ance. Please contact CourtAdministration, 125 E. Or-a n g e A v e . , S t e . 3 0 0 ,Daytona Beach, FL 32114;(386) 257-6096 at least 7days before your sched-uled court appearance, orimmediately upon receiv-ing this notification if thetime before the scheduledappearance is less than 7days; if you are hearing orvoice impaired call 711.
1/20/15, 1/27/15Legal No. 00030499
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Legal Notices
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT INA N D F O R P U T N A MC O U N T Y , F L O R I D A
CASE NO: 2013-000525-CA-53
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,Plaintiff,
vs.
JOSEPH A. MOORE A/K/AJOSEPH ALBERT MOORE;ANGELA L. MOORE A/K/AANGELA LEE MOORE; UN-KNOWN TENANT I; UN-KNOWN TENANT II; PATRI-CIA A. HYNDS; GENE E.H Y N D S ; W I L L I A M B .HYNDS A/K/A BILL HYNDS,and any unknown heirs,devisees, grantees, credit-ors, and other unknownp e r s o n s o r u n k n o w nspouses c la iming by ,through and under any ofthe above-named Defend-ants,Defendants.
NOTICE OF FORECLOS-URE SALE
NOTICE is hereby giventhat the Clerk of the CircuitCourt of Putnam County,Florida, will on the 5th dayof February, 2015, at 11: 00a.m. at South front door ofthe Putnam County Court-house in Palatka, Florida,offer for sale and sell atpublic outcry to the highestand best bidder for cash,the following-describedproperty situate in PutnamCounty, Florida:
LOT 2, BLOCK 106, UNIT31, INTERLACHEN LAKESESTATES AS RECORDEDIN PLAT BOOK 5, PAGE 62O F T H E P U B L I C R E -C O R D S O F P U T N A MC O U N T Y , F L O R I D A .
TOGETHER WITH A 2004FLEE DOUBLE WIDE MO-B I L E H O M EID#GAFL307A51392F221AND GAFL307B51392F221.
pursuant to the Final Judg-ment entered in a casepending in said Court, thestyle of which is indicatedabove.
Dated 01-05-15
Any person or entity claim-ing an interest in the sur-plus, if any, resulting fromthe foreclosure sale, otherthan the property owner asof the date of the Lis Pen-dens, must file a claim onsame with the Clerk ofCourt within 60 days afterthe foreclosure sale.
WITNESS my hand and of-ficial seal of said Court this13 day of January, 2015.
AMERICANS WITH DISAB-ILITIES ACT. If you are aperson with a disabilitywho needs an accommoda-tion in order to accesscourt facilities or particip-ate in a court proceeding,you are entitled, at no costto you, to the provision ofcertain assistance. To re-quest such an accommod-ation, please contact CourtAdministration in advanceof the date the service isneeded: Court Administra-tion, 125 E. Orange Ave.,Ste, 300, Daytona Beach,FL 32114, (386) 257-6096.Hearing or voice impaired,please call 711. If you are aperson with disability whoneeds an accommodationin order to access court fa-cilities or participate in acourt proceeding, you areentitled, at no cost to you,to the provision of certainassistance. Please contactCourt Administration, 125E. Orange Ave., Ste. 300,Daytona Beach, FL 32114;(386) 257-6096 at least 7days before you sched-uled court appearance, orimmediately upon receiv-ing this notification if thetime before the scheduledappearance is less than 7days; if you are hearing im-paired call 711.
TIM SMITHCLERK OF THE CIRCUITCOURT
By/s/ Ruth MilliganDeputy Clerk
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Acreage / LotsFour 2-acre lots for sale.
Melrose Landing/Hawthorne from $8K-
$11K. Owner will financefor as low as $100/m.John 813-727-1770
On improved lot, Inter-lachen Lake Estates,$300. Call for detailed
directions. 239-728-1043
Homes1510 Oak St. Duplex, 3/2Sell or trade $50K-$99Kcash. NOF. Rent $600/m
+dep & ref. 385-3818
3Br/2Ba on 1.5 ac Newroof & new kitchen. Near
Seminole Electric$65,000 386-916-9172
FREE LISTForeclosures, Bank,
Gov't, Short Sales, Fixer-Uppers. From $16K &
up. Call SunstateRealty, 386-916-8328.
FSBO 3BR/1.5BA Newmetal roof, cabinets etc.,105 St. Johns TerraceWest E. Pal $83,500
386-325-0168/937-7255
Investment Property,sold as is 814 N. 20th St.Pal. 3Br/1Ba, 2 porches.$5,500 cash. 336-1845
Mobile Homes3BR or 2BR, 2BA, lg
den. Complete remodel,1,000sqft scrn porch &
deck, fenced yard &storage shed. Clay
County $59,000, or willconsider lease option.
352-213-4594
Affordable living, quiet,Senior park, $3,500-
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Waterfront Property3BR/2BA DW San MateoDouble boat dock w/lift.$80K OBO. Call for info& appt.: 904-626-5239
904-725-3514/595-5083
Mobile HomeWith Land
FREE LISTForeclosures, Bank,
Gov't, Short Sales, Fixer-Uppers. From $13K &
up. Call SunstateRealty, 386-916-8328.
SATSUMA4BR 2000sf .5 Ac $34K3BR 1200sf $28K. 3BR1000sf family rm, porch,comm. boat ramp, $40K.
3BR 1800sf $22K.Sunstate Realty386-916-8328
RECREATIONAL
800
Motorcycles /ATV /AccessoriesGorgeous '07 GoldwingTrike. Too many options
to list! Only 9K miles,$24K. 304-433-9751
TRANSPORTATION
900
Trucks &Accessories2003 Dodge Ram 1500pickup, 80K miles, new
tires, runs great, $5,500.386-336-0656
'97 Expedition, 3rd seat,4x4, cold AC, clean, $3K;'93 F-150 ext. cab, new
tires, 6 cyl., $2,500.386-972-3133
LivestockHay - Fertilized, Barn-
Stored. Large Rolls $35-$55. Pomona Park area
386-546-4466
Hay for sale in PomonaPark, starting @ $40.
386-649-0867
Hay for sale: $45 & up.386-659-2875, if no
answer pleaseleave message.
Free AnimalsFree young cats to
loving homes. Male &female, fixed, UTD onshots 352-214-0647
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If you've LOST a Pet.check out the Dogs &
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ApartmentsBarrington AptsOffering 2BRs.386-325-0512
www.barringtonapartments.org
Business /Commercial
Adjacent to Lori's Res-taurant. Many possibilit-
ies. 802 Husson Ave.386-325-9932/328-9769
Medical office space forlease. Exc. location nearPCMC. 1st month's rentfree. $12-$13 per sqft
based on lease period.Approx. 1500sqft.
386-328-1117
Homes128 Floridian Club Rd.Welaka. Sm, 3BR/1BA,lg porch, $550/m F/L/S
386-329-3159
Recently remodeled inPalatka 3br/2ba $750/m& 2br/2ba $650/m. Go toRealtor.com or call Scott,386-328-6716. Coldwell
Banker Ben Bates,Inc. Realtor
3BR/2BA, 3 acres, blockhome, Hwy 17, Bostwick.
$650/m 386-559-2889
Mobile Homes2BR/2BA w/add-on. LR,den ,kit./din. & utility, lg
scrn porch & deck.$695/m 352-213-4594
3BR/2BA DW, furn.,W/D, CH/A, quiet area,shady private lot, clean,$750/m 386-325-4037
For Rent in Interlachen2BR/1BA Fun Time
Realty 352-478-1190
Fully furnished, on canalw/dock, San Mateo, 2/2w/office, CH/A, $695/m
+dep. 386-328-3956
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MERCHANDISE
400
AppliancesGE Clothes Dryer,
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Fruits &Vegetables
CITRUS For SaleTree-ripe. Navels,
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20" Hedge trimming $35,Honda Pressure washer
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Items $25 or Less
1 artist aluminum 4x6display rack, Armstrong,
$25. 386-684-3348
Heavy 4pc fireplacetool set, brass color,$25. 386-325-5591
HP PhotoSmart inkjetprinter - photo, scanner,copy, fax, + manuals &
disk, $25. 386-684-3348
Peerless kitchen faucet,paid $100 @ Home De-pot, good cond., asking
$25. 386-328-3992
Trailers7x12 enclosed trailer:
motorcycle, ATV, handy-man, lawn maint., $1,850
OBO 386-983-4887
HD Equip Trailer, tan-dem axles & wheels,New 16' deck w/ 4'
beaver tail $4500 obo325-0168/937-7255
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550
Pets & SuppliesToy (small) Chihuahua
pups, 2 long-hair males,born 12/12, ready 2/7.
Health certs. Beingtrained. 386-237-0993
LIVESTOCK & SUPPLIES
560
IN THE COUNTY COURT,IN AND FOR PUTNAMCOUNTY, FLORIDA.
CASE NO. 14-SC-1135DIVISION 63
TIM SMITH AS CLERK OFTHE CIRCUIT COURT,Plaintiff,
vs.
MARY BLALOCK, if aliveand if dead, her unknownheirs at law and PUTNAMCOUNTY BOCC,Defendants.
NOTICE OF ACTIONTO DEFENDANT: Mary Bla-lockAddress unknown
YOU ARE NOTIFIED that aComplaint for Interpleaderon the following propertyin Putnam County, Florida:
Excess tax sale proceedsfrom Tax Deed Sale No.201114825
has been filed against youand you are required toserve a copy of your writ-ten defenses, if any, to iton John D. Mussoline,Plaintiffs' attorney, whoseaddress is 415A St. JohnsAvenue, Palatka, Florida32177 on or before Febru-ary 6, 2015 and file the ori-ginal with the clerk of thiscourt either before serviceon Plaintiffs' attorney orimmediately thereafter;otherwise a default will beentered against you for therelief demanded in thecomplaint or petition. Per-sons with disabilities re-questing reasonable ac-commodations to particip-ate in this proceedingshould contact 1-800-955-8771 (Voice & TDD) or viaFlorida Relay Services at 1-800-955-8771.
WITNESS my hand and theseal of this court this 24thday of December, 2014.
TIM SMITHClerk of the Circuit Court
By: /s/ Diane M. ShulerDeputy Clerk
1/6/15, 1/20/15Legal No. 00030096
PUBLIC NOTICERFQ 540311512
The School Board of Put-nam County, Florida, re-quires construction man-ager services for the fol-lowing project within thisSchool District. The scopeof work consists of the fol-lowing:
MIDDLETON BURNEY ELE-MENTARY SCHOOLNEW FOUR CLASSROOMBUILDING ADDITION1020 HUNTINGTON ROADCRESCENT CITY, FLORIDA
Pursuant to the Consult-ants Competitive Negoti-ations Act, Chapter 287,Section 287.055 of the Flor-ida Statues, the SchoolBoard of Putnam County,Florida, does declare theintention to certify profes-sional firms or individualsas consultants to performservices for this project be-ginning in the 2014-2015school year.
Construction Managers de-siring to provide servicesfor this project will solicitfive (5) copies of a propos-al that must include, butnot limited to:
A. A letter of interest;B. Certificates evidencingthat insurance coverage isin force;C. Copies of State of Flor-ida licensing board certific-ates for the firm, membersof the firm, and subcon-tractors for the proposedproject;D. A notarized statement offinancial status. (The formof the statement is option-al and could be in a formsuch as Dunn and Brad-street, by a certified publicaccountant, or other);E. A sworn statement onPublic Entity Crime, as re-q u i r e d b y F . S .2 8 7 . 1 3 3 ( 3 ) ( a ) ;F. A list of design-build,construction management,or program managementprojects of similar size andcomplexity, including thename, address, phonesand contact persons of thearchitects and owners;G. The firms bonding capa-city;H. Description of the pro-gram management tech-niques, scheduling tech-niques, and cost controltechniques used on simil-ar projects;I. Identification of litigation,major disputes, contractdefaults, and liens over thepast five (5) years in whichthe firm has been involved;J. A history of project com-pletion dates for similarsized projects, in relationto the contract awardschedule, over the pastthree (3) years. Submit nomore than f i f teen (15)projects;
To be eligible for consider-ation, all applicants mustbe located within 60 (sixty)miles of the project siteand be registered in theState of Florida to practicetheir profession at the timeof application. Applicantswithout the data describedwill be considered improp-er.
Firms or individuals inter-ested must apply in writ-ing directly to Mr. ScottGattshall, Facilities Super-v isor , Putnam CountySchool District, 1001 Hus-son Ave. , Palatka, FL32177. Applications will beaccepted on or before10:00am Wednesday, Janu-ary 28, 2015 at the front of-fice. Applications receivedafter that time and date willnot be considered.
1/13/15, 1/20/15, 1/27/15Legal No. 00030439
The Putnam County Anim-al Services Advisory Com-m i t t e e w i l l m e e t o nThursday, February 5, 2015in the Administration Con-ference Room, 2509 CrillAvenue, Suite 200 at 8:30a.m.
1/20/15Legal No. 00030613
The Putnam County Trans-portation Committee willmeet on Tuesday, January27, 2015 at 2:00 P.M. in theCounty Commissioners'Conference Room, locatedin the Putnam County Gov-ernment Complex, 2509Crill Avenue, Suite 200,Palatka.
Dated this 1st day ofDecember, 2014.
BOARD OF COUNTY COM-MISSIONERSPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
By: Shannon M. Burge,MSBU Assess. Coord.
1/20/15Legal No. 00029965
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT,SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIR-CUIT, IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY FLORIDA
CASE NO.: 2015-008-CPDIVISION: 53
IN RE: ESTATE OF KATH-RYN J. LEE,Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORSTO ALL PERSONS HAV-I N G C L A I M S O R D E -MANDS AGAINST THEABOVE ESTATE:
The administration of theESTATE OF KATHRYN J.LEE, deceased, File No. 15-008-CP, is pending the Cir-cuit Court for PutnamCounty, Florida, ProbateDivision, the address ofwhich is 410 St. Johns Av-enue, Palatka, FL 32177.The names and addressesof the Personal Represent-ative and Personal Repres-entative's attorney are setforth below.
ALL INTERESTED PER-S O N S A R E N O T I F I E DT H A T :
All creditors of the de-cedent and any other per-sons having claims or de-mands against decedent'sestate on whom a copy ofthis notice is served withinthree months after the dateof the first publication ofthis notice must file theirclaims with this CourtWITHIN THE LATER OFTHREE MONTHS AFTERTHE DATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THISNOTICE OR THIRTY DAYSAFTER THE DATE OF SER-VICE OF A COPY OF THISNOTICE ON THEM.
All other creditors of thedecedent and persons hav-ing claims or demandsagainst the decedent's es-tate must file their claimswith this Court WITHINTHREE MONTHS AFTERTHE DATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THISNOTICE.
ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDSAND OBJECTIONS NOT SOFILED WILL BE FOREVERBARRED.
The date of the first public-ation of this Notice is:1/13/15
By: /s/ Laura Lee Shamrock265 Huckaby RoadBrooks, GA 30205
1/13/15, 1/20/15Legal No. 00030390
IN THE COUNTY COURT,IN AND FOR PUTNAMCOUNTY, FLORIDA.
CASE NO. 14-CC-1131DIVISION 63
TIM SMITH AS CLERK OFTHE CIRCUIT COURT,Plaintiff,
vs.
PAUL G. BISHOP, if aliveand if dead, his unknownheirs at law and GULFCOAST ASSISTANCE, LLC,Defendants.
NOTICE OF ACTION
TO DEFENDANT: Paul G.BishopAddress unknown
YOU ARE NOTIFIED that aComplaint for Interpleaderon the following propertyin Putnam County Florida:
Excess tax sale proceedsfrom Tax Deed Sale No.2010D018 has been filedagainst you and you are re-quired to serve a copy ofyour written defenses, ifany to it on John D. Mus-soline, Plaintiffs' attorney,whose address is 415A St.Johns Avenue, Palatka,Florida 32177 on or beforeFebruary 6, 2015 and filethe original with the clerkof this court either beforeservice on Plaintiff's attor-ney or immediately there-after; otherwise a defaultwill be entered against youfor the relief demanded inthe complaint or petition.Persons with disabilitiesrequesting reasonable ac-commodations to particip-ate in this proceedingshould contact 1-800-955-8771 (Voice & TDD) or viaFlorida Relay Service at 1-800-955-8771.
WITNESS my hand and theseal of this court this 22ndday of December 2014.
TIM SMITHClerk of the Circuit Court
By: /s/ Diane M. ShulerDeputy Clerk
1/6/15, 1/20/15Legal No. 00030045
IN THE COUNTY COURT,IN AND FOR PUTNAMCOUNTY, FLORIDA.
CASE NO. 14-SC-1135DIVISION 63
TIM SMITH AS CLERK OFTHE CIRCUIT COURT,Plaintiff,
vs.
MARY BLALOCK, if aliveand if dead, her unknownheirs at law and PUTNAMCOUNTY BOCC,Defendants.
NOTICE OF ACTIONTO DEFENDANT: Mary Bla-lockAddress unknown
YOU ARE NOTIFIED that aComplaint for Interpleaderon the following propertyin Putnam County, Florida:
Excess tax sale proceedsfrom Tax Deed Sale No.201114825
has been filed against youand you are required toserve a copy of your writ-ten defenses, if any, to iton John D. Mussoline,Plaintiffs' attorney, whoseaddress is 415A St. JohnsAvenue, Palatka, Florida32177 on or before Febru-ary 6, 2015 and file the ori-ginal with the clerk of thiscourt either before serviceon Plaintiffs' attorney orimmediately thereafter ;otherwise a default will beentered against you for therelief demanded in thecomplaint or petition. Per-sons with disabilities re-questing reasonable ac-commodations to particip-ate in this proceedingshould contact 1-800-955-8771 (Voice & TDD) or viaFlorida Relay Services at 1-800-955-8771.
WITNESS my hand and theseal of this court this 24thday of December, 2014.
TIM SMITHClerk of the Circuit Court
By: /s/ Diane M. ShulerDeputy Clerk
1/6/15, 1/20/15Legal No. 00030096
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT, IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDAGENERAL JURISDICTIONDIVISION
CASE NO. 2011-CA-000307-53
REVERSE MORTGAGESOLUTIONS, INC,Plaintiff,
vs.
U N K N O W N S P O U S E ,HEIRS, BENEFICIARIES,DEVISEES, ASSIGNEES,LIENORS, CREDITORS,TRUSTEES AND ALL OTH-ERS WHO MAY CLAIM ANINTEREST IN THE ESTATEOF D.R. WELCH A/K/ADARRELL ROSS WELCH(DECEASED) ET AL.,Defendants
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat, in accordance withthe Final Judgment ofForeclosure dated 01-05-15, in the above-styledcause, I will sell to thehighest and best bidder forcash at the SOUTH FRONTENTRANCE of the PutnamCounty Courthouse, 410 St.Johns Avenue, Palatka, FL32177 on 02-05-15, the fol-lowing described property:
L O T 4 2 , " P O I N T O FWOODS", AN UNRECOR-D E D S U B D I V I S I O N ,FORMERLY KNOWN AS"BRYAN ESTATES", ALSOAN UNRECORDED SUBDI-VISION, AND MORE PAR-TICULARLY DESCRIBEDAS FOLLOWS, TO WIT:
A TRACT OF LAND LYINGIN AND BEING A PART OFTHE NORTH 1/2 OF THESOUTHEAST 1/4 OF THESOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SEC-TION 15, TOWNSHIP 10SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST,PUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA, AND BEING MOREP A R T I C U L A R L Y D E -SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:COMMENCING AT THESOUTHWEST CORNER OFSAID NORTH 1/2 OF THESOUTHEAST 1/4 OF THESOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SAIDSECTION 15; THENCENORTH 89 DEGREES 09MINUTES 42 SECONDSEAST AND ALONG THESOUTH LINE OF SAIDN O R T H 1 / 2 O F T H ESOUTHEAST 1/4 OF THESOUTHWEST 1/4, 450.0FEET; THENCE NORTH 00DEGREES 25 MINUTES 01SECONDS WEST, 417.85FEET TO THE POINT OFB E G I N N I N G ; T H E N C ECONTINUE NORTH 00 DE-GREES 25 MINUTES 01SECONDS WEST, 150.0FEET; THENCE NORTH 89DEGREES 04 MINUTES 29SECONDS EAST, 320.0FEET; THENCE SOUTH 00DEGREES 25 MINUTES 01SECONDS EAST, 150.0FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89DEGREES 04 MINUTES 29SECONDS WEST, 320. 0FEET TO THE POINT OFB E G I N N I N G A N D T OC L O S E .
Property Address: 126POINT OF WOODS T., PAL-ATKA, FL 32177
ANY PERSONS CLAIMINGAN INTEREST IN THE SUR-PLUS FROM THE SALE, IFANY, OTHER THAN THEPROPERTY OWNER AS OFTHE DATE OF THE LISPENDENS MUST FILE ACLAIM WITHIN 60 DAYSAFTER THE SALE.
If you are a person with adisability who needs an ac-commodation in order toaccess court facilities orparticipate in court pro-ceeding, you are entitled,at no cost to you, to theprovision of certain assist-ance. Please contact CourtAdministration, 125 E. Or-ange Ave . , S te . , 300 ,Daytona Beach, FL 32114;(386) 257-6096 at least 7days before your sched-uled court appearance, orimmediately upon receiv-ing this notification if thetime before the scheduledappearance is less than 7days; if you are hearing im-paired call 711.
WITNESS my hand 13 dayof January, 2015.
BY/s/ Ruth MilliganDeputy Clerk of Court, Put-nam County
Legal No.0003055101/20/15, 01/27/15
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT,SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIR-CUIT, IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY FLORIDA
CASE NO.: 2015-008-CPDIVISION: 53
IN RE: ESTATE OF KATH-RYN J. LEE,Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORSTO ALL PERSONS HAV-I N G C L A I M S O R D E -MANDS AGAINST THEABOVE ESTATE:
The administration of theESTATE OF KATHRYN J.LEE, deceased, File No. 15-008-CP, is pending the Cir-cuit Court for PutnamCounty, Florida, ProbateDivision, the address ofwhich is 410 St. Johns Av-enue, Palatka, FL 32177.The names and addressesof the Personal Represent-ative and Personal Repres-entative's attorney are setforth below.
ALL INTERESTED PER-S O N S A R E N O T I F I E DT H A T :
All creditors of the de-cedent and any other per-sons having claims or de-mands against decedent'sestate on whom a copy ofthis notice is served withinthree months after the dateof the first publication ofthis notice must file theirclaims with this CourtWITHIN THE LATER OFTHREE MONTHS AFTERTHE DATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THISNOTICE OR THIRTY DAYSAFTER THE DATE OF SER-VICE OF A COPY OF THISNOTICE ON THEM.
All other creditors of thedecedent and persons hav-ing claims or demandsagainst the decedent's es-tate must file their claimswith this Court WITHINTHREE MONTHS AFTERTHE DATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THISNOTICE.
ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDSAND OBJECTIONS NOT SOFILED WILL BE FOREVERBARRED.
The date of the first public-ation of this Notice is:1/13/15
By: /s/ Laura Lee Shamrock265 Huckaby RoadBrooks, GA 30205
1/13/15, 1/20/15Legal No. 00030390
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDA
GENERAL JURISDICTIONDIVISION
CASE NO: 2013-CA-000267
CitiFinancial Services, Inc.d/b/a CitiFinancial EquityServices, Inc., Oklahoma,corporation,Plaintiff
vs.
William Schultz a/k/a Fred-erick William Schultz a/k/aFrederick W. Schultz; An-gela E. Schultz; UnknownTenant #1; Unknown Ten-ant #2,Defendants.
NOTICE OF FORECLOS-URE SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENpursuant to a Final Judg-ment of Foreclosure datedDecember 1, 2014, enteredin Case No. 2013-CA-000267 of the Circuit Courtof the Seventh Judicial Cir-cuit, in and for PutnamCounty, Florida, whereinCitiFinancial Services, Inc.d/b/a CitiFinancial EquityServices, Inc. , an Ok-lahoma corporation is theP l a i n t i f f a n d W i l l i a mSchultz a/k/a Frederick Wil-liam Schultz; Angela E.Schultz; Unknown Tenant#1; Unknown Tenant #2 arethe Defendants, that theClerk of Courts will sell tothe highest and best bid-der for cash at, the southfront door of the court-house, 410 St. Johns Aven-ue, Palatka, FL 32177, be-ginning at 11:00 AM on thethe 3rd day of February,2015, the following de-scribed property as setforth in said Final Judg-ment, to wit:
THE FOLLOWING DE-SCRIBED LOT, PIECE ORPARCEL OF LAND, SITU-ATE LYING AND BEING INTHE COUNTY OF PUTNAM,STATE OF FLORIDA, TOWIT: BEING A PART OFTHE SOUTH 1/2 OF THENORTHEAST 1/4 OF SEC-TION 16, TOWNSHIP 10SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST,AND MORE PARTICU-LARLY DESCRIBED ASFOLLOWS: BEGINNING ATA POINT 232 FEET EASTOF THE NORTHWESTCORNER OF THE EAST 1/2OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THESOUTHWEST 1/4 OF THENORTHEAST 1/4 OF SAIDSECTION; RUN THENCEEAST PARALLEL WI THTHE NORTH LINE OF SAIDS E C T I O N 2 0 9 F E E T ;THENCE SOUTH, PARAL-LEL WITH THE EST LINEOF SAID SECTION, 502FEET TO THE NORTH-ERLY LINE OF SAID RIGHTOF WAY OF STATE ROADNO. 20; THENCE NORTH-WESTERLY, ALONG THENORTHERLY LINE OF SAIDRIGHT OF WAY TO APOINT SOUTH OF THEPOINT OF BEGINNING;THENCE NORTH, PARAL-LEL WITH THE EAST LINEOF SAID SECTION 471FEET TO THE POINT OFBEGINNING, CONTAINING2 1/4 ACRES, MORE ORLESS.
LESS AND EXCEPT ALLTHAT PROPERTY CON-VEYED TO STATE OFFLORIDA DEPARTMENTOF TRANSPORTATION BYWILLIAM SCHULTZ, THEUNREMARRIED WIDOWEROF PATRICIA MICHAELSCHULTZ, DECEASED, BYD E E D R E C O R D E D02/07/2002, IN OR BOOK883.0, PAGE 1876 ALLTHAT CERTAIN LANDS I T U A T E I N P U T N A MCOUNTY, FLORIDA, VIZ: APARCEL OF LAND IN SEC-TION 16, TOWNSHIP 10SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST,PUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA, BEING MORE PARTIC-ULARLY DESCRIBED ASFOLLOWS: COMMENCE ATTHE NORTHEAST CORNEROF SECTION 16, TOWN-SHIP 10 SOUTH, RANGE 25EAST, PUTNAM COUNTY,FLORIDA; THENCE RUNSOUTH 00 DEGREES 02MINUTES 56 SECONDSWEST, ALONG THE EASTLINE OF SAID SECTION 16,A DISTANCE OF 2121.53FEET TO THE SURVEYBASELINE FOR STATEROAD NO. 20, SECTION76050-2532, F . P . NO.2099991; THENCE NORTH81 DEGREES 07 MINUTES3 3 S E C O N D S W E S T ,ALONG SAID SURVEYBASELINE, A DISTANCEOF 1229.87 FEET; THENCENORTH 00 DEGREES 02MINUTES 556 SECONDSWEST, A DISTANCE OF5 0 . 6 0 F E E T T O T H ENORTHERLY EXISTINGRIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OFSTATE ROAD NO. 20 ( A100.00 FOOT RIGHT-OF-WAY AS NOW ESTAB-LISHED), AND THE POINTOF BEGINNING; THENCENORTH 81 DEGREES 07MINUTES 33 SECONDSW E S T , A L O N G S A I DNORTHERLY EXISTINGRIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, AD ISTANCE OF 209 .39FEET; THENCE NORTH 00DEGREES 10 MINUTES 49SECONDS WEST, A DIS-TANCE OF 40.86 FEET TOA POINT ON THE ARC OFA C U R V E C O N C A V ENORTHERLY, HAVING ARADIUS OF 22 ,885 .26FEET; THENCE SOUTH-EASTERLY ALONG THEARC OF SAID CURVE,THROUGH AN ANGLE OF00 DEGREES 31 MINUTES35 SECONDS, A D IS -TANCE OF 210.28 FEET,SAID ARC BEING SUBTEN-DED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING AND DISTANCE OFSOUTH 79 DEGREES 50MINUTES 27 SECONDSE A S T , 2 1 0 . 2 8 F E E T ;THENCE SOUTH 00 DE-GREES 02 MINUTES 56SECONDS EAST, A DIS-TANCE OF 36.07 FEET TOTHE POINT OF BEGIN-NING CONTAINING 7,923SQUARE FEET , MORE ORLESS.
Any person claiming an in-terest in the surplus fromthe sale, if any, other thanthe property owner as ofthe date of the lis pendensmust file a claim within 60days after the sale.
Dated this 13 day of Janu-ary, 2015.
By/s/ Ruth MilliganDeputy Clerk
If you are a person with adisability who needs an ac-commodation in order toaccess court facilities orparticipate in a court pro-ceeding, you are entitled,at no cost to you, to theprovision of certain assist-ance. Please contact CourtAdministration, 125 E. Or-a n g e A v e . , S t e , 3 0 0 ,Daytona Beach, FL 32114;(386) 257-6096 at least 7days before your sched-uled court appearance isless than 7 days, if you arehearing or voice impairedcall 711.
Legal No.0003055301/20/15, 01/27/15
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT, IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDAGENERAL JURISDICTIONDIVISION
C A S E N O :1 4 0 0 0 1 2 6 C A A X M X
REVERSE MORTGAGESOLUTIONS, INC. ,Plaintiff
vs.
DOROTHY PITTS A/K/ADOROTHEY PITTS; UNITEDSTATES OF AMERICA ONBEHALF OF THE SECRET-ARY OF HOUSING ANDURBAN DEVELOPMENT,Defendant(s)
NOTICE OF FORECLOS-URE SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENpursuant to a Final Judg-ment of Foreclosure dated12-10-14, and entered in14000126CAAXMX of theCircuit Court of the SEV-ENTH Judicial Circuit inand for PUTNAM County,F lor ida , where in , RE-VERSE MORTGAGE SOLU-TIONS, INC., is the Plaintiffand; DOROTHY PITTSA/K/A DOROTHEY PITTS;U N I T E D S T A T E S O FAMERICA ON BEHALF OFT H E S E C R E T A R Y O FHOUSING AND URBAN DE-VELOPMENT are Defend-ant(s). Tim Smith as Clerkof the Circuit Court will sellto the highest and best bid-der for cash, at the SouthFront Door 410 St. JohnsAve., Palatka, FL 32177, at11:00 AM on 02-03-15, thefollowing described prop-erty as set forth in said Fi-nal Judgment, to wit:
PART OF THE EAST 1/2 OFTHE WEST 1/2 OF SEC-TION 4, TOWNSHIP 12SOUTH, RANGE 27 EAST,PUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA, DESCRIBED AS FOL-LOWS:
FROM THE NORTHEASTCORNER OF THE SOUTH-EAST 1/4 OF THE NORTH-WEST 1/4 OF SAID SEC-TION 4, RUN WEST 923FEET ALONG NORTH LINEOF SAID SOUTHEAST 1/4OF NORTHWEST 1/4 TOPOINT OF BEGINNING;THENCE (1) RUN SOUTH850 FEET AND PARALLELWITH EAST LINE OF SAIDS O U T H E A S T 1 / 4 O FNORTHWEST 1/4 TO APOINT IN THE WATERS OFL I T T L E L A K E C O M O ;T H E N C E R E T U R N T OPOINT OF BEGINNING AND(2) RUN NORTH 132 FEETTO A POINT; THENCE(3) RUN WEST 97 FEETAND PARALLEL WITHNORTH LINE OF SAIDS O U T H E A S T 1 / 4 O FNORTHWEST 1/4; THENCE(4) RUN SOUTH 800 FEETEND PARALLEL WITHE A S T L I N E O F S A I DS O U T H E A S T 1 / 4 O FNORTHWEST 1/4 TO APOINT IN THE WATERS OFL I T T L E L A K E C O M O ;T H E N C E(5) RUN SOUTHEASTERLYTO CORNER WITH THESOUTH END OF CALL #1END TO CLOSE, BEINGDESIGNATED AS LOT NO.10 ON UNRECORDED SUR-VEY PLAT OF LAKE COMOPARK, EXCEPTING 60FEET ALONG THE NORTHLINE FOR PUBLIC ROAD.
Any person claiming an in-terest in the surplus fromthe sale, if any, other thanthe property owner as ofthe date of the lis pendensmust file a claim within 60days after the sale.
Dated this 13 day of Janu-ary, 2015.
Tim SmithAs Clerk of the Court
By/s/ Ruth MilliganAs Deputy Clerk
If you are a person with adisability who needs an ac-commodation in order toaccess court facilities orparticipate in court pro-ceeding, you are entitled,at no cost to you, to theprovision of certain assist-ance. To request such anaccommodation, pleasecontact Court Administra-tion, at least 7 days beforeyour scheduled court ap-pearance, or immediatelyupon receiving this notific-ation if the time before thescheduled appearance isless than 7 days; Court Ad-ministration, 125 E. Or-ange Ave . , S te . , 300 ,Daytona Beach, FL 32114;(386) 257-6096. Hearing orvoice impaired, please call1(800) 955-8770.
Legal No.0003055001/20/15, 01/27/15
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT OF FLORIDA INA N D F O R P U T N A MC O U N T YGENERAL JURISDICTIONDIVISION
CASE NO. 2012-CA-000170
C I T I B A N K , N . A . , A STRUSTEE FOR THE CERTI-F I C A T E H O L D E R S O FCWABS, INC. , ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES,SERIES 2007-QH1,Plaintiff,
VS.
TIFFANY M. BROWN, JOEJ O H N S O N , J R . , U N -KNOWN SPOUSE OF JOEJOHNSON, JR. N/K/A OL-LIE JOHNSON, PUTNAMCOUNTY, A POLITICALSUBDIVIS ION OF THESTATE OF FLORIDA,Defendant(s).
RE-NOTICE OF FORE-CLOSURE SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENpursuant to a Summary Fi-nal Judgment of Foreclos-ure entered August 25,2014 in Civil Case No.2012-CA-000170 of the Cir-cuit Court of the SEVENTHJudicial Circuit in and forPutnam County, Palatka,Florida, wherein CITIBANK,N.A., AS TRUSTEE FORTHE CERTIFICATEHOLD-ERS OF CWABS, INC., AS-SET BACKED CERTIFIC-ATES, SERIES 2007-QH1 isPlaintiff and TIFFANY M.BROWN, JOE JOHNSON,JR., UNKNOWN SPOUSEOF JOE JOHNSON, JR.N/K/A OLLIE JOHNSON,P U T N A M C O U N T Y , APOLITICAL SUBDIVISIONOF THE STATE OF FLOR-IDA, are Defendants, theClerk of Court will sell tothe highest and best bid-der for cash at the southdoor of the Putnam CountyCourthouse, 410 St. JohnsAve., Palatka, FL 32177 inaccordance with Chapter45, Florida Statutes on the19th day of FEBRUARY,2015 at 11:00 AM on thefollowing described prop-erty as set forth in saidSummary Final Judgment,to-wit: Parcel 11: A part oft h e J O H N H U E R T A SGRANT, Section 48, Town-ship 9 South, Range 27East, Putnam County, Flor-ida, being more particu-larly described as follows:
COMMENCE at the inter-section of the Westerly lineof Deed Book 165, Page 46,with the Northerly Right-of-Way line of State Road No.207-A; thence South 70 de-grees 55 minutes Westalong said Northerly Right-of-Way line, 903.57 feet tothe POINT OF BEGINNING;thence North 25 degrees 30seconds West, 224.06 feet;thence North 64 degrees 29minutes 30 seconds East,175 feet; thence South 25degrees 30 minutes 30seconds East, 67.66 feet;thence South 22 degrees42 minutes 15 secondsWest, 234.70 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING.Subject to an Easement foringress and egress overthe Easterly 25 feet of theaforedescribed property.AND Parcell2: A part of theJOHN HUERTAS GRANT,Section 48, Township 9South, Range 27, East, Put-nam County, Florida, be-ing more particularly de-scribed as follows: COM-MENCE at the intersectionof the Westerly line of DeedBook 165, Page 46, with theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road No. 207-A;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West along saidNortherly Right-of-Wayline, 673.57 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING;thence continue South 70degrees 55 minutes West,230 feet along said Right-of-Way line; thence North22 degrees 42 minutes 15seconds East, 234.70 feet;thence North 70 degrees 55minutes East, 73.60 feet;thence South 19 degrees05 minutes East 175 feet tothe POINT OF BEGINNING.Subject to an easement foringress and egress overthe Northerly 25 feet of theaforedescribed property.AND TOGETHER WITH aneasement for Right-of-Wayin common with othersover the land describedhereafter. Parcel 1: A partof the JOHN HUERTASGRANT, Section 48, Town-ship 9 South, Range 27East, Putnam County, Flor-ida, more particularly de-scribed as follows: COM-MENCE at the intersectionof the Westerly line of DeedBook 165, Page 46, with theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road No. 207-A;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West along saidNortherly Right-of-Wayline, 413.57 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING;thence North 19 degrees 05minutes West, 150 feet;thence North 70 degrees 55minutes East, 260.04 feet;thence North 20 degrees 25minutes West, 331.18 feet;thence South 79 degrees06 minutes 40 secondsWest, 611.31 feet; thenceN o r t h 2 5 d e g r e e s 3 0minutes 30 seconds West,174.63 feet; thence North61 degrees 55 seconds 17minute East, 292.06 feet;thence North 20 degrees 10seconds West, 50.48 feet;thence South 61 degrees55 minutes 17 secondsEast, 434.96 feet; thenceSouth 28 degrees 04minutes 43 minutes East,30 feet, thence North 61 de-grees 55 seconds 17minutes East, 86.80 feet;thence South 25 degrees30 minutes 30 secondsEast, 607.30 feet; thenceN o r t h 7 0 d e g r e e s 5 5minutes East, 295.94 feet;thence South 19 degrees05 minutes East, 150 feet tothe Northerly Right-of-Wayline of said State Road No.207-A; thence North 70 de-grees 55 minutes Eastalong said Northerly Right-of-Way line, 60 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING. EX-CEPTING from the abovethe following describedlands: COMMENCE at thePOINT OF BEGINNING de-scribed above, thenceSouth 70 degrees 55minutes West along theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road No. 207-A, 30feet; thence North 19 de-grees 05 minutes West, 200feet, thence North 70 de-grees 55 minutes East,238.86 feet; thence North20 degrees 25 minutesWest, 237.69 feet; thenceSouth 79 degrees 06minutes 40 seconds West,555.95 feet; thence South25 degrees 30 minutes 30seconds East, 318.88 feet;thence North 70 degrees 55minutes East, 281.25 feet tothe POINT OF BEGINNING.Parcel2: A part of the JOHNHUERTAS GRANT, Section48, Township 9 South,Range 27 East, PutnamCounty, Florida, beingmore par t icu la r ly de -scribed as follows: COM-MENCE at the intersectionof the Westerly line of DeedBook 165, Page 46, with theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road. 207-A;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West along saidNor therly Right-of-Wayline, 443.57 feet; thenceN o r t h 1 9 d e g r e e s 0 5minutes West, 175 feet;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West 303.60N o r t h 2 5 d e g r e e s 3 0minutes 30 seconds West,591.44 feet, thence North61 degrees 55 minutes 17seconds East, 109.43 feetto the POINT OF BEGIN-NING; thence continueN o r t h 6 1 d e g r e e s 5 5minutes 17 seconds East,10 feet; thence North 20 de-grees 10 minutes West, 245feet, more or less, to theSoutherly edge of waters ofthe St. Johns River; thenceWesterly along said South-erly edge, 10 feet, more orless; thence South 20 de-grees 10 minutes East, 245feet, more or less, to thePOINT OF BEGINNING.SUBJECT TO an easementfor ingress and egress overthe Southerly 25 feet of theaforedescribed property.
Any person claiming an in-terest in the surplus fromthe sale, if any, other thanthe property owner as ofthe date of the Lis Pen-dens, must file a claimwithin 60 days after thesale.
Dated this 12th day ofJanuary, 2015.
Deputy ClerkTIM SMITHCLERK OF THE CIRCUITCOURTAs Clerk of the CourtBy: /s/ Kelly Purcell
If you are a person with adisability who needs an ac-commodation in order toaccess court facilities orparticipate in a court pro-ceeding, you are entitled,at no cost to you, to theprovision of certain assist-ance. To request such anaccommodation, pleasecontact Court Administra-tion in advance of the datethe service is needed:Court Administration, 125E. Orange Ave., Ste. 300,Daytona Beach, FL 32114;(386) 257-6096. Hearing orvoice impaired, please call1(800) 955-8770.
1/20/15, 1/27/15Legal No. 00030517
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDA
GENERAL JURISDICTIONDIVISION
CASE NO: 2013-CA-000267
CitiFinancial Services, Inc.d/b/a CitiFinancial EquityServices, Inc., Oklahoma,corporation,Plaintiff
vs.
William Schultz a/k/a Fred-erick William Schultz a/k/aFrederick W. Schultz; An-gela E. Schultz; UnknownTenant #1; Unknown Ten-ant #2,Defendants.
NOTICE OF FORECLOS-URE SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENpursuant to a Final Judg-ment of Foreclosure datedDecember 1, 2014, enteredin Case No. 2013-CA-000267 of the Circuit Courtof the Seventh Judicial Cir-cuit, in and for PutnamCounty, Florida, whereinCitiFinancial Services, Inc.d/b/a CitiFinancial EquityServices, Inc. , an Ok-lahoma corporation is theP l a i n t i f f a n d W i l l i a mSchultz a/k/a Frederick Wil-liam Schultz; Angela E.Schultz; Unknown Tenant#1; Unknown Tenant #2 arethe Defendants, that theClerk of Courts will sell tothe highest and best bid-der for cash at, the southfront door of the court-house, 410 St. Johns Aven-ue, Palatka, FL 32177, be-ginning at 11:00 AM on thethe 3rd day of February,2015, the following de-scribed property as setforth in said Final Judg-ment, to wit:
THE FOLLOWING DE-SCRIBED LOT, PIECE ORPARCEL OF LAND, SITU-ATE LYING AND BEING INTHE COUNTY OF PUTNAM,STATE OF FLORIDA, TOWIT: BEING A PART OFTHE SOUTH 1/2 OF THENORTHEAST 1/4 OF SEC-TION 16, TOWNSHIP 10SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST,AND MORE PARTICU-LARLY DESCRIBED ASFOLLOWS: BEGINNING ATA POINT 232 FEET EASTOF THE NORTHWESTCORNER OF THE EAST 1/2OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THESOUTHWEST 1/4 OF THENORTHEAST 1/4 OF SAIDSECTION; RUN THENCEEAST PARALLEL WITHTHE NORTH LINE OF SAIDS E C T I O N 2 0 9 F E E T ;THENCE SOUTH, PARAL-LEL WITH THE EST LINEOF SAID SECTION, 502FEET TO THE NORTH-ERLY LINE OF SAID RIGHTOF WAY OF STATE ROADNO. 20; THENCE NORTH-WESTERLY, ALONG THENORTHERLY LINE OF SAIDRIGHT OF WAY TO APOINT SOUTH OF THEPOINT OF BEGINNING;THENCE NORTH, PARAL-LEL WITH THE EAST LINEOF SAID SECTION 471FEET TO THE POINT OFBEGINNING, CONTAINING2 1/4 ACRES, MORE ORLESS.
LESS AND EXCEPT ALLTHAT PROPERTY CON-VEYED TO STATE OFFLORIDA DEPARTMENTOF TRANSPORTATION BYWILLIAM SCHULTZ, THEUNREMARRIED WIDOWEROF PATRICIA MICHAELSCHULTZ, DECEASED, BYD E E D R E C O R D E D02/07/2002, IN OR BOOK883.0, PAGE 1876 ALLTHAT CERTAIN LANDS I T U A T E I N P U T N A MCOUNTY, FLORIDA, VIZ: APARCEL OF LAND IN SEC-TION 16, TOWNSHIP 10SOUTH, RANGE 25 EAST,PUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA, BEING MORE PARTIC-ULARLY DESCRIBED ASFOLLOWS: COMMENCE ATTHE NORTHEAST CORNEROF SECTION 16, TOWN-SHIP 10 SOUTH, RANGE 25EAST, PUTNAM COUNTY,FLORIDA; THENCE RUNSOUTH 00 DEGREES 02MINUTES 56 SECONDSWEST, ALONG THE EASTLINE OF SAID SECTION 16,A DISTANCE OF 2121.53FEET TO THE SURVEYBASELINE FOR STATEROAD NO. 20, SECTION76050-2532, F . P . NO.2099991; THENCE NORTH81 DEGREES 07 MINUTES3 3 S E C O N D S W E S T ,ALONG SAID SURVEYBASELINE, A DISTANCEOF 1229.87 FEET; THENCENORTH 00 DEGREES 02MINUTES 556 SECONDSWEST, A DISTANCE OF5 0 . 6 0 F E E T T O T H ENORTHERLY EXISTINGRIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OFSTATE ROAD NO. 20 ( A100.00 FOOT RIGHT-OF-WAY AS NOW ESTAB-LISHED), AND THE POINTOF BEGINNING; THENCENORTH 81 DEGREES 07MINUTES 33 SECONDSW E S T , A L O N G S A I DNORTHERLY EXISTINGRIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, AD ISTANCE OF 209 .39FEET; THENCE NORTH 00DEGREES 10 MINUTES 49SECONDS WEST, A DIS-TANCE OF 40.86 FEET TOA POINT ON THE ARC OFA C U R V E C O N C A V ENORTHERLY, HAVING ARADIUS OF 22 ,885 .26FEET; THENCE SOUTH-EASTERLY ALONG THEARC OF SAID CURVE,THROUGH AN ANGLE OF00 DEGREES 31 MINUTES35 SECONDS, A D IS -TANCE OF 210.28 FEET,SAID ARC BEING SUBTEN-DED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING AND DISTANCE OFSOUTH 79 DEGREES 50MINUTES 27 SECONDSE A S T , 2 1 0 . 2 8 F E E T ;THENCE SOUTH 00 DE-GREES 02 MINUTES 56SECONDS EAST, A DIS-TANCE OF 36.07 FEET TOTHE POINT OF BEGIN-NING CONTAINING 7,923SQUARE FEET , MORE ORLESS.
Any person claiming an in-terest in the surplus fromthe sale, if any, other thanthe property owner as ofthe date of the lis pendensmust file a claim within 60days after the sale.
Dated this 13 day of Janu-ary, 2015.
By/s/ Ruth MilliganDeputy Clerk
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT OF FLORIDA INA N D F O R P U T N A MC O U N T YGENERAL JURISDICTIONDIVISION
CASE NO. 2012-CA-000170
C I T I B A N K , N . A . , A STRUSTEE FOR THE CERTI-F I C A T E H O L D E R S O FCWABS, INC. , ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES,SERIES 2007-QH1,Plaintiff,
VS.
TIFFANY M. BROWN, JOEJ O H N S O N , J R . , U N -KNOWN SPOUSE OF JOEJOHNSON, JR. N/K/A OL-LIE JOHNSON, PUTNAMCOUNTY, A POLITICALSUBDIVIS ION OF THESTATE OF FLORIDA,Defendant(s).
RE-NOTICE OF FORE-CLOSURE SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENpursuant to a Summary Fi-nal Judgment of Foreclos-ure entered August 25,2014 in Civil Case No.2012-CA-000170 of the Cir-cuit Court of the SEVENTHJudicial Circuit in and forPutnam County, Palatka,Florida, wherein CITIBANK,N.A., AS TRUSTEE FORTHE CERTIFICATEHOLD-ERS OF CWABS, INC., AS-SET BACKED CERTIFIC-ATES, SERIES 2007-QH1 isPlaintiff and TIFFANY M.BROWN, JOE JOHNSON,JR., UNKNOWN SPOUSEOF JOE JOHNSON, JR.N/K/A OLLIE JOHNSON,P U T N A M C O U N T Y , APOLITICAL SUBDIVISIONOF THE STATE OF FLOR-IDA, are Defendants, theClerk of Court will sell tothe highest and best bid-der for cash at the southdoor of the Putnam CountyCourthouse, 410 St. JohnsAve., Palatka, FL 32177 inaccordance with Chapter45, Florida Statutes on the19th day of FEBRUARY,2015 at 11:00 AM on thefollowing described prop-erty as set forth in saidSummary Final Judgment,to-wit: Parcel 11: A part oft h e J O H N H U E R T A SGRANT, Section 48, Town-ship 9 South, Range 27East, Putnam County, Flor-ida, being more particu-larly described as follows:
COMMENCE at the inter-section of the Westerly lineof Deed Book 165, Page 46,with the Northerly Right-of-Way line of State Road No.207-A; thence South 70 de-grees 55 minutes Westalong said Northerly Right-of-Way line, 903.57 feet tothe POINT OF BEGINNING;thence North 25 degrees 30seconds West, 224.06 feet;thence North 64 degrees 29minutes 30 seconds East,175 feet; thence South 25degrees 30 minutes 30seconds East, 67.66 feet;thence South 22 degrees42 minutes 15 secondsWest, 234.70 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING.Subject to an Easement foringress and egress overthe Easterly 25 feet of theaforedescribed property.AND Parcell2: A part of theJOHN HUERTAS GRANT,Section 48, Township 9South, Range 27, East, Put-nam County, Florida, be-ing more particularly de-scribed as follows: COM-MENCE at the intersectionof the Westerly line of DeedBook 165, Page 46, with theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road No. 207-A;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West along saidNortherly Right-of-Wayline, 673.57 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING;thence continue South 70degrees 55 minutes West,230 feet along said Right-of-Way line; thence North22 degrees 42 minutes 15seconds East, 234.70 feet;thence North 70 degrees 55minutes East, 73.60 feet;thence South 19 degrees05 minutes East 175 feet tothe POINT OF BEGINNING.Subject to an easement foringress and egress overthe Northerly 25 feet of theaforedescribed property.AND TOGETHER WITH aneasement for Right-of-Wayin common with othersover the land describedhereafter. Parcel 1: A partof the JOHN HUERTASGRANT, Section 48, Town-ship 9 South, Range 27East, Putnam County, Flor-ida, more particularly de-scribed as follows: COM-MENCE at the intersectionof the Westerly line of DeedBook 165, Page 46, with theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road No. 207-A;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West along saidNortherly Right-of-Wayline, 413.57 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING;thence North 19 degrees 05minutes West, 150 feet;thence North 70 degrees 55minutes East, 260.04 feet;thence North 20 degrees 25minutes West, 331.18 feet;thence South 79 degrees06 minutes 40 secondsWest, 611.31 feet; thenceN o r t h 2 5 d e g r e e s 3 0minutes 30 seconds West,174.63 feet; thence North61 degrees 55 seconds 17minute East, 292.06 feet;thence North 20 degrees 10seconds West, 50.48 feet;thence South 61 degrees55 minutes 17 secondsEast, 434.96 feet; thenceSouth 28 degrees 04minutes 43 minutes East,30 feet, thence North 61 de-grees 55 seconds 17minutes East, 86.80 feet;thence South 25 degrees30 minutes 30 secondsEast, 607.30 feet; thenceN o r t h 7 0 d e g r e e s 5 5minutes East, 295.94 feet;thence South 19 degrees05 minutes East, 150 feet tothe Northerly Right-of-Wayline of said State Road No.207-A; thence North 70 de-grees 55 minutes Eastalong said Northerly Right-of-Way line, 60 feet to thePOINT OF BEGINNING. EX-CEPTING from the abovethe following describedlands: COMMENCE at thePOINT OF BEGINNING de-scribed above, thenceSouth 70 degrees 55minutes West along theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road No. 207-A, 30feet; thence North 19 de-grees 05 minutes West, 200feet, thence North 70 de-grees 55 minutes East,238.86 feet; thence North20 degrees 25 minutesWest, 237.69 feet; thenceSouth 79 degrees 06minutes 40 seconds West,555.95 feet; thence South25 degrees 30 minutes 30seconds East, 318.88 feet;thence North 70 degrees 55minutes East, 281.25 feet tothe POINT OF BEGINNING.Parcel2: A part of the JOHNHUERTAS GRANT, Section48, Township 9 South,Range 27 East, PutnamCounty, Florida, beingmore par t icu la r ly de -scribed as follows: COM-MENCE at the intersectionof the Westerly line of DeedBook 165, Page 46, with theNortherly Right-of-Way lineof State Road. 207-A ;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West along saidNortherly Right-of-Wayline, 443.57 feet; thenceN o r t h 1 9 d e g r e e s 0 5minutes West, 175 feet;thence South 70 degrees55 minutes West 303.60N o r t h 2 5 d e g r e e s 3 0minutes 30 seconds West,591.44 feet, thence North61 degrees 55 minutes 17seconds East, 109.43 feetto the POINT OF BEGIN-NING; thence continueN o r t h 6 1 d e g r e e s 5 5minutes 17 seconds East,10 feet; thence North 20 de-grees 10 minutes West, 245feet, more or less, to theSoutherly edge of waters ofthe St. Johns River; thenceWesterly along said South-erly edge, 10 feet, more orless; thence South 20 de-grees 10 minutes East, 245feet, more or less, to thePOINT OF BEGINNING.SUBJECT TO an easementfor ingress and egress overthe Southerly 25 feet of theaforedescribed property.
Any person claiming an in-terest in the surplus fromthe sale, if any, other thanthe property owner as ofthe date of the Lis Pen-dens, must file a claimwithin 60 days after thesale.
Dated this 12th day ofJanuary, 2015.
Deputy ClerkTIM SMITHCLERK OF THE CIRCUITCOURTAs Clerk of the CourtBy: /s/ Kelly Purcell
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Donald E. AkinsDonald E. “Pencil” Akins, 57,
of Palatka, passed away, Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 at his home follow-ing an extended illness.
A native and lifelong resi-dent of Palatka, Pencil had worked as a latherer and plas-t e r e r f o r n u m e r o u s local construc-tion compa-nies, and had also been self-e m p l o y e d along with his son. He had been a mem-ber of Southside Baptist Church and more recently had attended First Assembly of God in Palatka. Pencil enjoyed hunting and fishing.
He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Virginia Akins.
He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Karen K. Akins of Palatka, his children, Cassidy (Michael) Kohler of Blountville, Tenn., Wesley (Desirre’) Akins of Palatka and Kelly Akins of Palatka, four brothers, Arnold Choate, George “Beeper” Akins and Henry (Pat) Akins, all of Palatka, and Robert “Cobb” Akins of East Palatka, two sis-ters, Sarah (Alvin) Salyerds of Bunnell and Deborah (Daniel) Casey of Palatka, nine grand-children, Boen, Autumn, Kaden, Dakota, Dalton, Kaleb, Hattyn, Dylan and Dawson, and numer-ous nieces and nephews.
Services will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20 at Johnson-Overturf Chapel in Palatka with Pastor Ted Stackpole offi-ciating. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 6 p.m. until the time of services.
Flowers are grateful ly accepted or memorial dona-tions may be sent to Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home, 307 S. Palm Ave., Palatka, FL 32177 to assist the family with expenses. Memories and con-dolences may be expressed to the family at Donald’s Book of Memories page at www.JohnsonOverturffunerals.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Palatka.
Michael L. CrushMichael Loring Crush, 57,
of Interlachen, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday,
Jan. 14, 2015 at his home from natural causes.
A native of Charleston, W . V a . , h e r e s i d e d i n Interlachen for five years, c o m i n g f r o m M a r y l a n d . Michael had worked as a line-man in Anne Arundel County, Md., for over 15 years.
He was preceded in death by his father, Richard Loring Crush.
Michael is survived by his g i r l f r i e n d , H o l l y o f Interlachen, his mother, Carolyn (Dennis) Arnold of Holly Lake Ranch, Texas, two sons, Richard B. (Amber) Crush and Michael (Amanda) J. Crush, all of Pasadena, Md., a brother, William B. Crush of Balt imore, Md. , and two grandchildren, Michael Crush and Reagan Crush.
No services are scheduled at this time.
Memories and condolences may be expressed to the family at Michael’s Book of Memories page at www.JohnsonOverturf funerals.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Palatka.
Jessie L. MathewsJessie L. Mathews, 78, of
Palatka, became absent from the body and present with the Lord on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 at the Putnam Community Medical Center in Palatka fol-lowing an extended illness.
She was born in Knoxville, Tenn., and had been a resi-dent of Palatka for most of her life. She had retired from G e o r g i a -P a c i f i c i n P a l a t k a i n 1996 after 43 years of ser-vice. She was a l o n g t i m e m e m b e r o f F r a n c i s B a p t i s t Church. She enjoyed spending time with her family, working in her yard, fishing, camping, shrimping, playing slots, bird watching and riding on the Ocklawaha River with family and friends. And most of all, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren were her life.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 33 years, Walter C. Mathews; her par-e n t s , F r a n k a n d E t h e l Loveday; two sisters, Mary S t r i c k l a n d a n d M a r i e Pequignot; three brothers, Will iam Loveday, Robert Loveday and Paul Loveday;
and a g randson , B la ine Wilkinson.
Surviving are two daugh-ters, Sheryl Nail (James Hope) and Selena Wilkinson (Eugene McDonald) all of Palatka; a brother and sister-in-law; Bobby and Jean Loveday of Palatka; three sisters and bother-in-law, Gertie (Bill) Heath and Pauline Burnham both of Palatka, and Mildred Rowland of Texas; five grand-children, Leslie Nail, Donna Wilkinson, Brian Nail, Ray W i l k i n s o n a n d R o b e r t Wilkinson all of Palatka; and many great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan 21 at Oak Hill East Cemetery in Palatka with Brother Mike Patterson, pastor o f the Francis Baptist Church, offici-ating. No calling hours are scheduled.
Flowers are grateful ly accepted or memorial gifts may be made to the family to help with expenses. Messages of sympathy may be expressed at www.themastersfuneral-homes.com.
Masters Funeral Home of Pa la tka i s in charge o f arrangements.
Martha M. GocioMartha M. Gocio, 79, of
Palatka, went to be with the Lord Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015 at Haven Hospice Roberts Care Center following an extended illness. Arrangements will be announced.
Masters Funeral Home of Palatka is in charge of the arrangements.
John MeltonDeacon John Melton, 66,
(retired deputy sheriff) of Palatka, entered the sunset of life on Monday, January 19, 2015 at Putnam Community Medical Center.
Arrangements are entrust-ed to the care of Karl N. Flagg Serenity Memorial Chapel.
James R. StilesJames Raymond Stiles, 62,
of Satsuma, passed at UF Health on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015.
Arrangements entrusted to the E.W. Lawson & Son Funeral Home.
Obituaries Europe police rethink weapons after attack
By Lori HinnantAssociated Press
PARIS — One was a young policewoman, unarmed on the outskirts of Paris and felled by an assault rifle. Her partner, also without weapons, could do nothing to stop the gunman. Another was a first responder with a side arm, rushing to the Charlie Hebdo offices where a pair of masked men with high-powered weapons had opened fire on an editorial meeting. Among their primary targets: the armed police bodyguard inside the room.
With the deaths of the three French officers during three days of terror in the Paris region and the suggestion of a plot in Belgium to kill police, European law enforcement agencies are rethinking how — and how many — police should be armed.
Scotland Yard said Sunday it was increasing the deploy-ment of officers allowed to carry firearms in Britain, where many cling to the image of the unarmed “bobby.” In Belgium, where officials say a terror network was plotting to attack police, officers are again permitted to take their service weapons home.
On Monday, French law enforcement officials demand-ing heavier weapons, protec-tive gear and a bolstered intel-ligence apparatus met with top officials from the Interior Ministry. An official with the ministry, speaking on condi-tion of anonymity to discuss ongoing talks, said automatic weapons and heavier bullet-proof vests were on the table.
Among the most horrific images from the Paris attacks was the death of police officer Ahmed Merabet, who can be seen on eyewitness video lying wounded on the pavement as a gunman approaches and
fires a final bullet into his head. Merabet, who is seen alone on the street, had a ser-vice gun and a bullet proof vest, said Michel Thooris, of the France Police labor union.
“But he did not come with the backup he needed, and the psychology to face a paramili-tary assault,” Thooris said. “We were not prepared in terms of equipment or mind-set for this kind of operation.”
One of the attackers, Amedy Coulibaly, said in a posthu-mous video that his plan all along was to attack police.
“We don’t want necessarily the arms that American police have. We need weapons that can respond,” said Philippe Capon of French police union UNSA.
Among those weapons, he added, are modernized crimi-nal databases, because the current databases are out of date, and firewalled between different law enforcement branches. “The databases are not interactive. They are not accessible to all. They are not up to date,” he said.
Unlike their British counter-parts, French national police are armed although their municipal counterparts tend to be weaponless. But Thooris said they are not permitted to have their service weapons while off duty, raising the pos-sibility that they could be tar-geted when vulnerable or unable to help if they stumble across crime afterhours.
Because o f increas ing unease and last week’s anti-terror raids, police in Belgium are again allowed to carry weapons home rather than put their handguns and muni-tion in specialized lockers.
“The conditions we have now are clearly exceptional,” said Fons Bastiaenssens, a police spokesman in Antwerp, where there are many poten-
tial targets, especially in the Jewish quarter.
In addition, firearms sudden-ly became far more visible, with some police carrying heavier weaponry as they guard sensi-tive buildings and police offices, and paratroopers in the streets of the major cities.
In Britain, the overal l threat level is “severe” — meaning intelligence and police officials have evidence that a terrorist attack is high-ly likely. The threat to police officers themselves is judged to be very high after the Paris attacks as well as the recent disruption of a reported Islamist extremist plot to attack individual police offi-cers in west London.
In response, the Metropolitan Police said Sunday it is bolster-ing the deployment of specialist firearms officers who are autho-rized to carry weapons. The force, also known as Scotland Yard, declined to provide details, and senior police offi-cials say there is no need for a wholesale policy shift that would arm all police.
But Mark Rowley, chief of the counter-terror operation, said the “overall security posture” of the police is being reviewed in light of the Paris attacks.
In Norway, where far-right f anat i c Anders Behr ing Breivik killed 69 people in a shooting spree at a political youth camp and eight others by bombing a government office, police are increasingly agitating for weapons.
“We have seen from the dec-larations of Coulibaly and also f r o m w h a t h a p p e n e d i n Belgium that police can be pri-mary targets for terrorist groups,” said Nicolas Comte, of the SGP police union in France. “We have to give the means to police services, and notably intelligence, to fight this new form of terrorism.”
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