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Vol. 5 No. 22 50 ¢ 46¢ + 4¢ Friday, December 23, 2011Flor ida ’s Keystone County

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LAZARO ALEMANECB PublishingSenior Staff Writer

Building activity picked up a littlebit during November, compared withthe previous month.

Figures released by the JeffersonCounty and City of Monticello Build-ing Inspection and Contractor Licens-

ing Department on Friday, Dec. 2, showthat the city and county issued a com-bined 49 permits in November, up from34 permits in October.

The figures show the combinedpermits generated $7,306.73 in fees,compared with $3,561.84 the previousmonth. Of the 49 permits, the city is-sued 13 and generated $857.00, and the

county issued 36 and generated$6,449.73.

A breakdown of the permits shows42 were for repairs and additions,three for residential construction, onefor a commercial related activity, onefor a mobile home and two miscella-neous activities related sheds, signs,workshops or barns, etc.

The valuation for residential per-mits was $506,016 in November, com-pared with $267,389 in October and$138,702 in November 2010.

The commercial valuation was$227,000, compared with $4,920 in Oc-tober and $87,529 in November 2010.

Please See BUILDING PERMITSPage 3A


The Jefferson County Commission and SchoolBoard agreed on a new district map on Mondayevening, Dec. 19, following a lengthy and contentiousjoint meeting where race was very much upfront andlargely set the tone for the proceeding.

School Board Member Shirley Washington raisedthe issue of race almost immediately after Commis-sion Chairman Hines Boyd’s introductory remarks,wherein he called for everyone to exercise fairnessand civility in the coming discussion and refrainfrom making personal attacks.

Washington proclaimed she was hurt and sad-dened by the fact that the two boards couldn’t worktogether harmoniously.

“I’m not going to have you slander black people,”Washington said emotionally, accusing Boyd of hav-ing designs to exclude African-Americans from Dis-trict 3, which became the fulcrum of the battle.

Please See DISTRICT MAP Page 9A


Whatever the good will thatmay have been generated amongschool officials at a recent retreatin a Madison County plantation,the effect apparently wasn’t longlasting, judging from the tensionsthat surfaced at the School Boardmeeting on Monday evening, Dec.12.

It started with School BoardMember Shirley Washington tak-ing new School Board Chair-woman Marianne Arbulu to taskfor allegedly changing the proce-dure to deprive members of thepublic of the opportunity to ad-

dress the board.Washington made a point of

addressing the audience andpointedly stating that if membersof the public weren’t allowed toaddress the board on issues hence-forth, she wanted it clearly under-stood it wasn’t the board’s doings,but strictly the chair’s preroga-tive.

Arbulu picked up on the criti-cism and pointedly thanked Wash-ington for preempting her and sowell clarifying what she (Arbulu)had intended by the new guide-lines, which appeared on the back-side of the agenda page.

Arbulu said the new guide-lines were intended to shorten

meetings, which had tended to ex-treme lengthiness in recent times.

She said the new proceduresimply meant that if members ofthe public wanted to address theboard, they could do so at the startof meetings under the public com-ments section. The commentswould be limited to the usualthree-minute rule, she said. Thecaveat was that no board discus-sion would ensue from the com-ments.

“This time is reserved for citi-zens who want to make a requestor provide input that doesn’t re-quire discussion,” the guidelines stated. “This spot is frequently

Please See RETREAT Page 3A

OLD TENSIONS RESURFACE INSCHOOL BOARD POST RETREAT

FRAN HUNTECB PublishingStaff Writer

A Jefferson Correc-tional Institution (JCI)officer has been dis-missed from her job andnow faces several felonycharges.

The Florida Depart-ment of Law Enforce-ment (FDLE) reportedthat Special Agent EdKing with FDLE, to-gether with agents of theFlorida Department of

Corrections InspectorGeneral’s Office (OIG),and the United StatesPostal Inspection Serv-ice (USPIS) had con-ducted an investigationwhere evidence had beendiscovered to an illicitcriminal conspiracy. Theconspiracy had occurredwithin the perimeter ofJefferson CorrectionalInstitution (JCI).

Evidence revealedthat Correctional OfficerPamela Annette Branch,

46, of Madison, and in-mates of JCI were all in-volved in the conspiracy.

Beginning in earlySeptember 2011 and con-tinuing through themiddle of October, theagents had conductedseveral interviews,when it was alleged thatBranch was receivingpackages, including cellphones, drugs andmoney, in the US mail

Please See FELONYCHARGES Page 9A

JEFFERSONNOW HAS ADIFFERENT

DISTRICT MAPSOME VOTERSMOVED INTO

OTHER DISTRICTS


Sometimes, good en-sues from a newspaperstory.

Case in point, Joyand Bill Hopkins’ deci-sion to donate threebrass instruments to theJefferson County March-ing Band, in response tothe Monticello Newsstory of Derrick Jen-nings’ efforts to organizeand train a group of mu-sically inclined youthsduring his off time andat his own expense.

Reading that thekids had only percussioninstruments, the Hop-kins’ searched throughtheir attic and found abass trombone, a bari-tone horn and a trumpet,

Please See HOPKINSPage 3A

Hopkins Donate InstrumentsTo Band & Issue Challenge

ECB Publishing Photo by Laz Aleman, Dec. 15, 2011Joy and Bill Hopkins presented Jefferson County Marching Band Director

Derrick Jennings with three brass instruments on Thursday, Dec. 15. From left toright are Jennings, and Joy and Bill Hopkins.

Building Permits Pick uP A little

JES Students Decorate

School Tree

ECB Publishing Photo By Debbie Snapp, Dec. 15, 2011.Jefferson Elementary School students dec-

orated their school Christmas Tree with orna-ments handmade by each student and with theirpicture on each one. The tree is on display inthe school media center. Pictured here on Pa-jama Day, in front of the beautiful tree from leftto right are: Kaylin Bronson, 5th grade, EdnaHenry, district parent coordinator and ZariaPleas, 5th grade.

Jefferson CorreCtional offiCerarrested on several felony Charges

Correctional OfficerPamela Annette Branch

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Happy Holidays to thestaff, parents, students(scholars) and stakehold-ers of JES,

Merry Christmas!Feliz Navidad! HappyKwanzaa! HappyHanukkah!

As the holidaysquickly approach, and theNew Year is only a fewweeks away, I want to takethe time to personallythank all the staff mem-bers, parents, students,civic organizations,churches, businesses andstakeholders that havesupported the JeffersonElementary School staffeach year.

First, I would like tothank the School Board ofJefferson County for af-fording me the opportu-nity to work in JeffersonCounty since 2009. Now, tomy wonderful staff… Icannot thank each of youenough for working ex-tremely hard, supportingmy vision at JES; teachinglike your hair is on fireand putting up with me asyour leader.

Custodians (WilburEllis- Head Custodian,Ninetta Parrish, Cassan-dra Perkins); Thank youfor ensuring that our stu-dents have a clean place tolearn.

Maintenance (Hay-ward Bell); Thank you forfixing items that breakand keeping our campusmowed and well-mani-cured.

Paraprofessionals(Cayco Brooks, BerthaDaniels, Margaret Frazier,Gloria Graham, LutriciaHamm, Carolyn Hester,Tess Knight, KennethRobinson, CharlotteWingate); Thank you forbeing the unsung heroesand stepping in to help outwhenever needed.

Food Service Workers(Jackie Johnson, Rose-mary Norton, AnnetteHolland, Tammy Bowling,Jennifer Hill, RonaldJames); Thank you forproviding nutritiousmeals for our students’daily.

Office Staff (KarenBullock, Donna Jarvis,

Mary Kaye Jones); Thankyou ladies for every-thing! I couldn’t make itwithout all three of you.

Nurses (Jackie Guy-ton, Dorothy Crumitie);Thank you for dealingwith our students in sick-ness and in health and al-ways being willing toassist the office staffwhen I need to meet withthem.

TCC Extended DayStaff (San Saunders, Mr.Roger Milton, Ms. Mock,Mr. Bellamy, Ms. Hamm,Mr. Jackson, Ms. Robin-son, Mr. Skipworth, EmilyHowell, Rodell Thomasand all the JES staff mem-bers that work); Thankyou for providing an Af-terschool Program for ourstudents to attend Mondaythrough Thursday.

Teachers Pre-Kinder-garten: (Cheryl Gross,Geraldine Hill, Cathy Ma-honey, Vivian Miller, Con-rad Norton, LaKayshaWideman)

Kindergarten: (KathyBarker, Charlotte Christy,Sarah McClellan, MaryRoberts)

First Grade: (AnnieGervin, Natikka Hall,Kristie Lamb, ShellyMash, Nicole Rodden-berry, Sara Strickland)

Second Grade: (Cyn-thia Barrington, Brenda

Brown, Terri Clark,Theresa Stubbs, CathyWatt)

Third Grade: (MakebaButler, Indy Mack, CarolRevell, Sarah Workman)

Fourth Grade:(Twynetta Howard, Le-land Loper, Sharico Par-rish, Nancy Whitty)

Fifth Grade: (Tan-ishia Barnhart, ThaddiusGreen, Shakeila Moxey,Matthew Pridgen)

Enrichment: (Jacque-lyn Dupuis, Amy Kell,Eddie Thompson)

Thank you for givingthe students at JES the op-portunity to succeed aca-demically and socially. Iknow that you have thehardest job on campusand many of you need theupcoming Winter Break.Please relax, rejuvenate,and enjoy your family andfriends this holiday sea-son. I hope your New Yearwill be blessed and allyour dreams come true.

School Based Leader-ship Team, SBLT: (LindaButler, Sabrenia Coates,Kyisaiah Joyce, JillianWallace) Thank you all forhandling your roles withconfidence. Each of youhave something “’special”and I appreciate your hardwork and dedication eachday. NEW Assistant Prin-cipal: (Mr. Jonathan Wil-

son) Welcome aboard! Iam looking forward tobuilding a positive work-ing relationship with you.

Staff, during this hol-iday season, relax andenjoy your time off. Re-member, treat every week-end or holiday like a minivacation and have fun likea kid at Christmas! JES,you are the best and I amthankful that I am able towish you all a Happy Holi-day! I wish I could giveeach of you a big holidaybonus, for all that you do,but I can’t. However, Iwould like to publicly ac-knowledge your wonder-ful daily efforts with ourstudents, parents, andstakeholders. I realizeyour job is getting tougheryear after year and Iwould like to THANKYOU for your dedication,hard work, and unwaver-ing spirit to educate thestudents we are entrustedwith. Keep on keeping on,and once again, HAPPYHOLIDAYS. You are ap-preciated!

With warmest wishesfrom your proud princi-pal.

From The Desk OfValarie Thompson

Principal Of JeffersonElementary School

HOLIDAY CHEER

Pictured above: Jillian Wallace-Reading Coach, Valarie Thompson-Principal, and Linda Butler-Math Coach

DECEMBER 21-23First Corinthian Church will hold itsWinter Revival at 7 p.m. Wednesdaythrough Friday at 955 Lemon Streetin Monticello. For more informationon how you can be involved, contactRev. John Jones, pastor, at 850-445-0076.

DECEMBER 24Christmas Eve Service at the ChristEpiscopal Church beginning at 10p.m. on Saturday evening. Enjoy aspecial service and special music.Guest Priest Pastor Teri Monica in-vites the community to join with thechurch family in celebrating thebirth of Christ. There will be no Sun-day Church Service on December 25.

DECEMBER 25New Bethel AME Church will holdits Sunday Morning Worship Serviceat 8 a.m. (only) on Christmas Morn-ing. Rev. Jimmie F. Dickey, pastor.

DECEMBER 29

Bible Study every Thursday at theLloyd Woman’s Club at 7 p.m. Joinwith Elder Linda Ross for an eveningof Christian faith. For more informa-tion contact her at 850-322-3424.

DECEMBER 30Tent of the Holy Guests offers prayerfor the sick and a special scripturemessage every Friday at 7:30 p.m. TheTent is located at 295 West PalmerMill in Monticello.

JANUARY 8Sunday of Silence will be held from 7a.m. to 3 p.m. every second Sunday ofeach month at One Heart Earth Cen-ter. It’s a non-denominational time ofstillness and reflection. A vegetarianlunch is offered at noon; served andeaten in silence. Gentle HathaYoga will begin at 10 a.m. with in-structor Joy Moore. Mats are pro-vided. OHEC is located at 450 WestMadison Street in downtown Monti-cello and is a non-profit 501c3 public

charity. Donations appreciated andare tax deductible. For more informa-tion contact Sallie Worley at [email protected] 850-997-7373.

JANUARY 27, 28Second Harvest Food Program, to-gether with the churches of NewBethel AME, Elizabeth MB, HickoryHill MB, Mt. Pleasant AME andPhiladelphia MB, will provide food toanyone needing assistance includingthe needy, infants and the elderly.This is done monthly with distribu-tion from 9 to 10 a.m. usually on thefourth Saturday at the New BethelAME Church located at 6496 AshvilleHighway. Volunteers are also wel-come to come on Friday evening at6:30 p.m. to help bag the food pack-ages. Contact Nellie Randall at 850-997-5605 or 850-997-6929 to volunteeror for more information about thisprogram.

Nellie Kay and Jerome Akins will celebrate their39th Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, December 24,2011.

Donna Hagan, executive director for the HealthyStart Coalition of Jefferson, Madison & Taylor Coun-ties, Inc. says her agency will have a Board vacancy asof January 1, 2012. In order to fill the seat, the agency isrequesting that Jefferson County Community Coalitionmembers make appropriate nominations for a suitablereplacement. The ideal Board candidate will be a strongcommunity advocate, passionate about early childhoodissues and willing to serve a three-year term to promotethe maternal and child health agenda in JeffersonCounty. JCCC members should contact the potentialnominee for interest before submitting the nomination.Nominations should be submitted to Cindy Hutto, busi-ness manager at [email protected] on or be-fore January 31, 2012. The JCCC staff will be responsiblefor soliciting the candidate’s biographical information,proper balloting and providing a mechanism for theJCCC members to vote for their representative(s).

The vendors at Courtyard Flea Market congratulateBetty Hodges, the winner of their December drawing.Betty won a $25 gift certificate to Winn Dixie and a 20-pound Christmas Turkey. The prize for January will beannounced on January 1, 2012. Since this was a Christ-mas drawing, vendor Kent Phillips tells me that you canregister now for the January drawing. The CourtyardFlea Market is located at 2084 South Jefferson. This wasthe kickoff of a new round of contest drawings for it’sloyal customers. This first drawing was held on Decem-ber 18, just in time for Christmas. Monthly drawingswill continue to be held and future prizes will includegift certificates from local merchants and restaurants asa part of Monticello’s ‘Buy Local, Shop Local and EatLocal’ program. You do not have to be present to win butyou do have to be present to register. The CourtyardMarket invites everybody to come out to shop locallyand save money at a place where they can find ‘a littlebit of everything and more’… all from local vendors.

Reserve your booth now for the Monticello/Jeffer-son County Chamber of Commerce Business Expo, Sat-urday, January 21, 2012, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at theMonticello Opera House. There will be booths insideand outside the Opera House. Members should have re-ceived the first mailing about the Business Expo. If youreserve a booth before January 6, you will receive a size-able discount. Booths outside are $75 for a 4’ X 6’ space;inside the cost is $85; non-profits pay $50. After January11 the price goes up. The Business Expo is open to thepublic. General admission is $5. The public can pur-chase tickets beginning on Wednesday, January 4, fromparticipating businesses for just $3. Anyone purchasinga ticket will receive five free raffle tickets towards greatprizes. This is the time for your business to offer dis-counts, specials, samples and to introduce you and yourbusiness to new customers. New members are encour-aged to participate and show your wares. You’ll receive25 complimentary postcards to mail to your customers.More are available for a small fee; just ask. This eventwill be advertised and promoted to help businesses get2012 off to a great start. It’s all about new sales leads andcustomers. According to Chamber Director MelanieMays, this promises to be the biggest and best BusinessExpo ever! On Friday, January 20, the Chamber will hosta business seminar at the Chamber location.

To find out if you have a pension due from a com-pany that went bankrupt years ago, contact the PensionBenefit Guaranty Corp at www.pbgc.gov and go to ‘Miss-ing Participants Search’, or call the federal agency at 1-800-400-7242. Bankrupt companies often failed to fullyfund their pension plans. In that case, the PBGC mightpay benefits, though perhaps at a reduced level.

Finding a job can mean actively searching every dayand utilizing all resources available to you. With thatsaid, here are a few niche sites to look in to: *www.ca-reerrookie.com *www.headhunter.com *www.workinre-tail.com *www.sologig.com *www.miracleworkers.com*www.jobsonthemenu.com *www.primecb.com*www.empleoscb.com *www.blackcareers.com and*www.degreedriven.com Good luck! I hope this helpsyou.

Did you know that the sentence “The quick brownfox jumps over a lazy dog” uses every letter of the alpha-bet? And, a baby robin eats 14 feet of earthworms everyday?

used by citizens whodon’t want to stay forthe entire meeting anddon’t need an immedi-ate response from theSchool Board.”Arbulu said citizens

who wanted board ac-tion on a particularissue needed to gothrough the appropriateprocedures and gettheir items listed on theagenda for the boarddiscussion. The new rules in no

way deprived citizensof participation, Ar-bulu said. Citizens werewelcome to participateat any time duringboard discussions onagenda items, she said.Was everyone clear

on the rules? Arbuluasked pointedly, if smil-ingly. Did everyone havean understanding of therules? Good, let us thenproceed, she said. But the real sparks

flew toward the end ofan otherwise placidmeeting, when SchoolSuperintendent BillBrumfield reported hisplan to assign TigersHead Football Coach Je-remy Brown to a datainput position at Jeffer-son County MiddleHigh School (JCMHS)

and also have him assistwith the oversight ofstudents in the cafeteriaat certain times. It was Brumfield’s

representation that dataentry was a critical taskthat needed to be per-formed at the highschool and that Brownwas eminently qualifiedto do the task, having aMasters in the field. Washington ques-

tioned if anyone elsehad been considered forthe position, or ifBrumfield had simply“pulled the name out ofa hat?” “Was anyone else

given the opportunitywho might not have aMasters Degree but whomight have the expert-ise?” Washington asked. Arbulu offered that

the question had legiti-macy. If the positionwas a temporary one, itwas one thing, she said.But if the position wasto be a permanent one,then the board neededto create the position,develop a job descrip-tion for it, and advertisethe opening, so that eq-uity should be assured.It was time that the dis-trict started followingthe proper procedures

and doing things theright way, she said.Brumfield accused

Arbulu of using theissue for political aims,an allusion to Arbulu’squest for the school su-perintendent position.Arbulu denied the alle-gation but Brumfield in-sisted it was true. “Yes you are,” he

said emphatically of Ar-bulu’s motivation. As for Washington’s

objection to Brown’s ap-pointment, Brumfieldsaid he would withdrawthe recommendation.He wasn’t about to sub-ject himself to anotherbruising round of theboard second-guessinghis recommendations,as had occurred over theselection of the JCMHSprincipal, he said.

School Board Mem-ber Ed Vollertsen sidedwith Brumfield. He re-minded the board that itwas the superintend-ent’s prerogative to han-dle the administrationand hiring and firing ofpersonnel. He’d heardoften enough boardmembers say that it wasall about the childrenand about doing right bythe children, Vollertsensaid.“We have someone

who is qualified,”Vollertsen said ofBrown. “We can acceptthe recommendation orwe can just let things goon and on.” Arbulu offered a

compromise. Let Brownbe assigned the positionon a temporary basisuntil the scope of thework could be deter-

mined and if the workwarranted creation of apermanent position, shesaid. “Once we determine

if it’s a full-time posi-tion, then we can do thejob description,” Ar-bulu suggested. All the while, an ev-

idently agitated ValarieThompson, principal ofJefferson ElementarySchool, sat impatientlyin her seat and shookher head vigorously asshe followed the discus-sion. When it came her

time to speak, Thomp-son marched to thepodium and let go witha barrage of accusa-tions and grievances.She had intended tohighlight her school’sa c c om p l i s hm e n t s ,Thompson said. But inlight of the previousdiscussion, she had afew things to say, shesaid. Calling herself “a

realist” and “a teamplayer”, Thompson saidshe wanted to talk aboutequity. The fact was thatthe elementary schoolhad a larger studentpopulation than thehigh school, that it hadsecurity issues, and thatit lacked personnel, shesaid. She had made do

without all this timeand had never com-plained about the defi-ciencies because sheunderstood the greaterneed at JCMHS, havingbeen an assistant prin-cipal there earlier, shesaid. But the inequitieshad now become intol-

erable, she said “Where there’s a

will, there’s a way,”Thompson said. She said she had

nothing against theJCMHS new adminis-tration, referring to Dr.Gwen Courson, assis-tant principal, who hasbeen made interim prin-cipal following Princi-pal Guy Cooper’sresignation. “But it seems that

the squeaky wheel getsthe oil,” Thompsonsaid. “If we’re going togive Coach Brown adata position, we needhim at the elementaryschool too.”Talk about equity,

she did everything thatwas asked of her,Thompson said. By law,she was entitled to havea data entry person, shesaid. She had sacrificed;her people had sacri-ficed, and for what? Itwas deflating, she said.“The bottom line is

that we put in positionswhen it’s convenient,”Thompson said, prompt-ing Brumfield to saythat she was out oforder and calling on thechairwoman to reign inthe discussion. Which Arbulu did,

reminding Thompson tostick to her intended re-marks. Thompson then pro-

ceeded to cite JES’s ac-complishments, if in ahighly agitated and ag-grieved tone. The factwas that JES was ac-complishing a greatmany things and posi-tive things were happen-ing at the school, if

“without any help”, shesaid. She said it was herconstant exhortation tothe staff “to teach likeyour hair’s on fire.” She had even man-

aged to get herself outof her dejected state andhad started writing andcirculating an internalnewsletter anew, shesaid. But the fact wasthat “my heart is veryheavy tonight,” Thomp-son concluded.“We just went on a

retreat,” she said. “It’svery dishearteningwhen we say one thingand do another.” Cooper’s name and

resignation were neveronce mentioned, but itwas evident that it wasat the heart of much ofThompson’s dejection,if not her frustration.Thompson, it must bepointed out, is also acandidate for the schoolsuperintendent posi-tion. And it is generallyaccepted that Brumfieldwill likely seek reelec-tion, although he hasn’tformally announcedany decision. Which makes and

will make for interest-ing dynamics amongthe various office seek-ers in the future, asthey pursue their as-signed duties withinthe context of a politi-cal season. It is to saythat it will be virtuallyimpossible to distin-guish each player’sbona-fide and legiti-mate actions fromthose politically in-clined, as it is impossi-ble to separate thedance from the dancer.

each complete with acase and mouthpieces. The three instru-

ments — other thanneeding a little clean-ing, tuning up, andmaybe a minor repairor two — were in goodcondition and readilyuseable. On Thursday

evening, Dec. 15, theHopkins met with Jen-nings after work (heworks for the City ofMonticello’s water di-vision) and presentedthe three instrumentsto him. Aside from want-

ing the kids to improvemusically, as well asnot have the instru-ments lying in theirattic gathering dust,the Hopkins said theyintended their gestureto be a challenge to oth-ers in the community,

especially those whomay have instrumentsof their own lyingabout. “This is a challenge

to others to look inyour attics, or checkthe flea markets andgarage sales and do-nate instruments to theband or make a dona-tion for uniforms,” BillHopkins said, notingthat Jennings’ was anoble endeavor, provid-ing a viable and con-structive outlet foryouths who might oth-erwise go astray. Joy Hopkins

agreed. She noted that,among other positives,playing an instrumentand playing in a bandtaught discipline,teamwork and the re-wards of effort — les-sons that hadapplication in other

areas of life. Jennings was most

appreciative of the do-nation and assured theHopkins that the in-struments would mostdefinitely be used. Infact, he already had itin mind which youthswould receive whichinstruments, he said. The Jefferson

County Marching Bandrehearses regularlyevenings and weekends

at the Martin LutherKing Center and Clif-ford Brown Park on thesouth side of town. Theband will perform atlocal and area func-tions upon request. Anyone who de-

cides to accept the Hop-kins’ challenge andmake a donation to theJefferson CountyMarching Band can doso by calling Jenningsat 342-8015.

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www.ecbpublishing.comFriday, December 23, 2011 Jefferson County Journal • 3A

notice froM the elections office

January 3, 2012 the registration books close for the Republican Presidential Preference Primary Election to

be held on January 31, 2012.

All voters are reminded; please bring your FloridaDriver’s License, Florida Identification Card, or some

form of photo ID and signature when you come to vote.

Please note this is a Republican Party ballot only.

Marty Bishopsupervisor of elections

A Very Special Happy Birthday!!

59th

December 23

To: Dr. James H. Ammons, Jr.President of F.A.M.U.Tallahassee, Florida

• Birthplace: Winter Haven, FL.(1952)

• Geneaology: Descendant of the Ammons Familyin Jefferson County ( Lloyd and Monticello )

“ May God affix many years to your life! ”From: F.A.M.U. Students:• Janelle BassaLloyd, FloridaBusiness Management Major• Shanice BassaMobile, AlabamaPharmacy Major

And The Bassa Family of Lloyd, Florida

Birthday MemoriamDecember 23 Honoring Tommie Lee ( Skinny ) Reed

on his82nd

1929 1991

Happy Birthday to one of Lloyd, Florida’spride and joy, Skinny Reed

“ We know that you are celebratingtoday in Heaven.”

The Bassa Family of Lloyd, Florida

In Loving Memoryof

First Cousins Who Transitionedon December 22nd

•Barbara Bassa Stewart•Died: Dec. 22, 2009•Born: Apr. 25, 1940

Lloyd, Florida

•Parents: Letha Green BassaDavid Bassa, Sr.

•Children: John II & Debbie

•Surviving Siblings: Rosa,Willie, Miley, Marie &David, Jr.

•Earl Lawrence•Died: Dec. 22, 1973•Born: Dec. 16, 1916

Lloyd, Florida

•Parents: Deanna Green LawrenceHenderson Lawrence

•Children: Major & Margaret

•Surviving Siblings: Paul,Yari, Ray, Hoover, & Sarah

• II Timothy 4:7“ We fought a good fight; we finished the course; we kept the faith.”

Submitted by: Rosa BassaFamily HistorianLloyd, Florida

And the valuationfor other permits (a cate-gory that includes addi-tions, re-roofs andnon-residential struc-tures, was $267,111, com-pared with $85,212 inOctober and $162,382 inNovember 2010. Meanwhile, the Jef-

ferson County Planningand Zoning Departmentissued eight permits andcollected $2,581.45 in No-vember, compared with11 permits and $5,662.36collected in October. In November 2010,

the department issuedeight permits and col-lected $2,360.21.The planning depart-

ment collected a total of$2,668.19 in fire and am-bulance impact fees in

November, comparedwith $220.04 in October.In November 2010, the de-partment collected$110.02 for the two im-pact fees.

FRAN HUNTECB PublishingStaff Writer

Monticello residentRay Cichon recentlyspoke of his early days inMonticello, but said thestory could not be right-fully called “Remember-ing The Good Ol’ Days”since he had not been inMonticello in the good ol’days. However, he couldturn back the pages oftime to the days when hefirst arrived in Monti-cello and share those.Therefore, the heading onthis story, “Turning BackThe Pages Of Time.”

Cichon arrived inMonticello February 3,1990, traveling from hishometown of Dudley, MA.He became a staff writerfor the Monticello Newsin 1991 and was namedthe managing editor in1996, a position he helduntil his retirement De-cember 31, 2009. TheNews office was locatedon Dogwood Street at thattime, behind Edenfield’sHardware. Over the yearsit had moved to a locationon North Jefferson Streetacross from Fred’s andnow to it’s present loca-tion on West WashingtonStreet, across from theOpera House.

Among his recollec-tion of establishments op-erating when he arrived,either no longer open orhaving moved to anotherlocation are Ace Hard-ware, DeVane’s furniturefacility, Fashion Flair andEdenfield’s Hardware, allon North Jefferson Street.

“The current BurgerKing was occupied byHardee’s, on South Jeffer-son Street. McDonald’s,Arby’s and Huddle Houseat US-19 and I-10 werenon-existent,” Cichon re-calls.

“Streets branching

easterly off WaukeenahStreet were dirt anddid not see pave-ment until 1996,”he said.

“H owa r dMiddle Schoolwas locatedon SecondStreet andJ e f f e r s o nCounty HighSchool com-plex was lo-cated onWater Street,”Cichon added.

“ T h eCounty Librarywas located onCherry Street inwhat was reportedly ahotel at an earlier time,”he said. “Monticello Fur-niture was located onWest Washington Street,if memory serves. Au-thentic Wood Design, spe-cializing in custom-madequality furniture, was lo-cated at 745 East PearlStreet.

“There were threebanks in town; Farmersand Merchants, CapitalCity in their current loca-tions and First Federal onSouth Jefferson Street,”Cichon continued.

“Wards Drug Storeoccupied space in Jeffer-son Square. Braswell’sClothing Store, Milady’sDress Shop and the WhiteElephant were all locatedon Dogwood Street.

“With the exceptionof the Brahman Hotel, noother facilities were oper-ational in town at thetime in question,” he re-calls. “The BrahmanRestaurant was onceupon a time the more pop-ular eateries, particularlyat lunch time. Bed andbreakfast establishmentswere yet to come to town.

“The Veteran’s AffairsOffice was located on theCourt House Circle,”

he said. Cichon recalled Real-

tor Lynette Sirmon oper-ated a “Classy Junk”emporium on South Jef-ferson, which mysteri-ously burned to theground. “It was knownaround town that if youcouldn’t find it (whateverthe “it” might be) Sirmoncould do so. Good qualityand fair prices were hermotto,” Cichon recollects.Sirmon rented space froma similar store across thestreet, the name of whichCichon no longer remem-bers.

He recalls that Monti-cello Printers printed theWatermelon Festivalbooklets.

Cichon also remem-bers the Community Cho-rus, which always put ona spring and Christmasconcert. “It was always afull house,” he said. BillYates was the directorand Jane Freeland wasthe accompanist.

Cichon relates all heremembers, with no in-tention of slighting any-one.

He certainly hasturned back the pages oftime.


Jefferson County Living

Turning Back The Pages Of TimeRay

Cichon

American Legion Christmas Dinner

ECB Publishing Photo By Debbie Snapp, Dec. 13, 2011.Enjoying the American Legion Otto Walker Post

49 Christmas Dinner are members Jack and Marceline

Hamilton.

ECB Publishing Photo By Debbie Snapp, Dec. 13, 2011.Posing for a holiday picture during the American Legion Otto Walker Post 49 Christmas Dinner from left

to right are: Bert Banks, Paul Klug, Mike Smith, Bruce Sandell, Ed Register, Ron Slik, Buddy Westbrook and

Jack Hamilton. Seated in front is Post 49 Commander Frank Kolb.

ECB Publishing Photo By DebbieSnapp, Dec. 13, 2011.

Decorating the Amer-

ican Legion Otto Walker

Post 49 Christmas Tree,

from left to right standing

are: Auxiliary members

Sheila Slik, Norma Perky,

Nancy Banks, Marceline

Hamilton, Allene Sandell,

Brenda Register, Isabelle

de Sercey and Dianne

Westbrook. Seated are:

Jane Hand, in back and

Lorrie Klug, in front. Not

pictured was Della Smith.

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DECEMBER 25 JCHS Classes of the 80’sannual Christmas Partyon Sunday evening at theMonticello Opera House.Doors open at 7 p.m. andthe program will begin at8 p.m. Cost is $20 a ticket.Advanced tickets may bepurchased from the fol-lowing classmates: An-gela (Williams) Lewis;Leman Ulee, 850-274-6268;Althea Johnson, 850-933-2012; Corinne Broxie 850-212-0225; and BarbaraFarmer 850-519-6253. Aportion of the funds col-lected will be donated tothe Jefferson County Mid-dle High School. For ques-tions and commentscontact Derrick Farmer atDFE Events 850-980-2726.

DECEMBER 26Alzheimer’s and Demen-tia Support Group is held11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on thefourth Monday of everymonth at First UnitedMethodist Church in theFamily Ministry Centeron West Walnut Street inMonticello. A light lunchwill be served. This is afree monthly program.Call the Alzheimer’s Proj-ect at 850-386-2778 for moreinformation or 850-997-5545 for directions.

DECEMBER 26Martin Luther King Com-

munity Center meets 6p.m. on the last Monday ofeach month at the MLKCenter. Contact CharlesParrish at 850-997-3760 formore information.

DECEMBER 26Al-Anon meetings areheld at 8 p.m. every Mon-day at the AnglicanChurch, 124 Jefferson Av-enue in Thomasville, GA.For information go towww.al-anon. alateen.org

DECEMBER 26AA women’s meetings areheld on Mondays at 6:45p.m.; AA meetings followat 8 p.m., at the ChristEpiscopal Church Annex,425 North Cherry Street.For more information,call 850-997-2129 or 850-997-1955.

DECEMBER 27AA classes are held everyTuesday at 8 p.m. for thoseseeking help. The classesare held at the HarvestChristian Center, 1599Springhollow Road. Con-tact Marvin Graham, pas-tor, at 850-212-7669 formore information.

DECEMBER 28Monticello Kiwanis Clubmeets every Wednesday atnoon at the JeffersonCountry Club on theBoston Highway forlunch, a program and ameeting. Contact Presi-

dent Rob Beshears at 850-997-5054 for more informa-tion.

DECEMBER 29AA meetings are heldweekly at 8 p.m. on Thurs-day at the Christ Episco-pal Church annex, 425North Cherry Street. Formore information call 850-997-2129 or 850-997-1955.

DECEMBER 30Monticello Jamboree be-gins at 7 p.m. every Fridayevening at 625 SouthWater Street, just threeblocks north of the Amer-ican Legion Otto WalkerPost 49. For questions orconcerns contact CurtisMorgan at 850-933-8136 orBobby Connell at 850-445-0049. There are door-prizes, cold soft drinksand snacks.

JANUARY 1VFW Post 251 meets 5 p.m.on the first Sunday ofeach month at the Learn-ing Center on MarvinStreet for a meeting. Con-tact Commander Ned Hillat 850-339-5524 for more in-formation.

JANUARY 2VFW Ladies AuxiliaryPost 251 meets 6:30 p.m. onthe first Monday of eachmonth at Memorial MBChurch. Contact Presi-dent Mary Madison at 850-210-7090 for more

information.JANUARY 2

Sons Of The AmericanLegion (SAL) meetingsare held at 6:30 p.m. on thefirst Monday of eachmonth in the Otto WalkerPost 49 on South WaterStreet in Monticello. Formore information contactDistrict III CommanderBuddy Westbrook at 850-997-2973.

JANUARY 3Monticello Woman’s Clubmeets on the first Tuesdayof every month at noon atthe clubhouse on EastPearl Street for lunch anda meeting. Contact ClubPresident Ethel Strick-land at 850-997-3382 formore information.

JANUARY 3Monticello/JeffersonCounty Chamber of Com-merce General Member-ship Meeting is held atnoon on the first Tuesdayof each month. The meet-ing includes lunch and aprogram. For more infor-mation visit the ChamberWebsite at monticellojef-fersonfl.com or call 850-997-5552. Lunch will beprovided by CovenantHospice in recognition ofNational Hospice Month.

JANUARY 3, 19Jefferson County LionsClub meets at 1 p.m. on the

first Tuesday and at 5 p.m.on the third Thursday ofeach month at the RareDoor Restaurant, in themeeting room on NorthCherry Street. For moreinformation contact LionDebbie at 850-997-0901,leave a message.

JANUARY 4Jefferson Arts Gallerybusiness meeting is heldon the first Wednesday ofthe month from 11 a.m. to12 p.m., in the gallery at575 West WashingtonStreet in downtown Mon-ticello. (No meeting in Au-gust) Become a member!Get involved! Be there!

JANUARY 5You may qualify for assis-

tance through the CapitalArea Community ActionAgency WeatherizationAssistance Program. Theprogram reduces heatingand cooling costs by im-proving the energy effi-ciency of the home.Contact Annette Wilson at850-997-4104 for an ap-pointment from 9 a.m. to 2p.m. on the first Thursdayat Union Hill AMEChurch. Homes in Jeffer-son County are needed forweatherization. Or, con-tact Pat Hall or MelissaWatson at 850-997-8231 foradditional information,and other services cur-rently being offered. Thisis free to the client.

DEBBIE SNAPPECB PublishingStaff Writer

On Saturday, Janu-ary 14, 2012 the JeffersonCounty Community De-velopment Corporationwill again participate inthe ‘King StreetCleanup’. The morningwill begin at 10 a.m. andparticipants are asked toarrive at 9 a.m.

This event is held an-nually in preparation forthe Martin Luther KingJr. Day Parade, and in aneffort to provide infor-mation to the commu-nity, regarding housingeducation and neighbor-hood revitalization.

The cleanup willstart at the corners ofKing Street and theneighborhood Commu-nity Garden. Thecleanup will proceed asfar as the participantsare willing to go to assistthe families in houses onthe street.

So spread the word,come out and join withothers. For more infor-mation, contact Chair-person Cetta Barnhart at850-251-0386 or ViceC h a i r p e r s o nPamela Jones-Smith at850-294-6089. The Jeffer-son County CommunityDevelopment Corp is a501-C-3 Corporation.

“For if by one man’soffence death reigned byone; much more theywhich receive abundanceof grace and of the giftof righteousness shallreign in life by one, JesusChrist.” ROMANS 5:17

For many of us, asChristmas day getscloser, our anticipationgrows with each day, es-pecially for those whoare in a position to givegifts. We look forward toseeing little faces light upin awe. We desire to seefriends and loved onesscream with excitementor have their eyes get bigas we surprise them withthe gift they needed ordesired.

As I began to medi-tate this week on whatChristmas means to me,I was given the opportu-nity to share the follow-ing truths with someone:

(1) The prayers ofthe righteous availmuch. (James 5:16) Insum, the prayers of arighteous person arepowerful and effectivebecause of his/her“right standing” withGod.

(2) We are the right-eousness in God, throughChrist (Philippians 3:9)We are in right standing

with God, through thework that Christ did onthe cross.

You see, throughJesus Christ, Godbrought a turn-around tomankind’s sinful situa-tion, not only by restor-ing man’s righteousnessbut also by establishingit on a permanent basis.Yes, beloved, our right-eousness is irrevocablebecause it’s not based onwhat we did or do; it’sbased on the gift of right-eousness given to usthrough Jesus.

However, the thingthat I really want you tosee is God’s desire to getthis gift to you. As I men-tioned at the opening ofthis message, many of usare excited about givingour gifts to others. Butthe bible tells us that Goddesires to give gifts aswell. As Matthew 7:11tells us, “If ye then, beingevil, know how to givegood gifts unto your chil-dren, how much moreshall your Father whichis in heaven give goodthings to them that askhim?”

Can any of usfathom God’s excitementabout giving us the giftof righteousness? Couldyou see Him preparing a

way to come to Him at alltimes without apprehen-sion or inhibition? Couldyou image Him provid-ing a means in which wecould pray every dayknowing that our prayershave the weight theyshould have?

As a father who de-

sires to give gifts, I cansee a loving smile etchedof God’s face as He pre-pared this gift for us. Icould see the thoughtful-ness behind the gift be-cause it was sorelyneeded by mankind. AndI could see the prepara-tion of the gift because ofits lasting quality: it nei-ther fades nor fails, dis-solves nor dwindles. Itsuse lasts a lifetime and itsattainment takes us intoeternity. By possessing it,we secure every victoryand seal our destiny. Now,if you were excited aboutwrapping your gift, justimagine the Father’s ex-citement as He preparedHis gift of righteousnessfor you.

Merry Christmas, EDDIE YON, pastor of

Restored Glory Christian Center



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Tom Vogelgesang, Nancy Wideman

and Lisa Reasoner have a good time

at the Chamber Christmas Party.

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Cichon enjoy the

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table filled and in

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Enjoying the Chamber

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Dean.

ECB Publishing Photos By Debbie Snapp, Dec. 13, 2011.Monticello/Jefferson County Cham-

ber of Commerce members and friendsgathered on Tuesday evening for theirChristmas Party. Members broughtsnacks and drinks to share and eachbrought a canned good item for the localfood pantries. Partygoers in the photosare named from left to right.

Enjoying the evening activities during the

Chamber Christmas Party are Marianne

Arbulu, Lisa Hayes and Troy Avera.

Enjoying the cama-

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“I can’t believe that thisis the attitude that we’re stilldealing with,” Washingtoncontinued. “I thought we wereelected to represent the peopleof Jefferson County, not justone race. Commissioner Boydis trying to get blacks out ofDistrict 3.”

She accused Tom Love ofserving Boyd’s aims by de-signing a proposed districtmap that, in her view, wasdetrimental to black voters.

“Mr. Love made the state-ment that we don’t need twoblack commissioners in Jef-ferson County,” Washingtoncharged. “He probably doesn’twant two black members onthe School Board…I’ve beenhurt. I have cried. Here it is al-most 2012 and we still havethese feelings here. I can’t takeit anymore.”

Washington said, if needbe, she was willing to join inan antidiscrimination law-suit, addressing her remark toCharles Parrish, who was inthe audience and who waspart of the 1983 federal law-

suit that establish district rep-resentation in JeffersonCounty to assure the exis-tence of a minority-majoritydistrict and a balanced dis-trict.

School Board MemberEd Vollertsen followed with amotion to postpone the redis-tricting until 2013 (redistrict-ing can only be done on oddyears), noting that given thecontentious mood of the meet-ing, it was unlikely that anygood would result from it.

Vollertsen argued thatpostponing the decision until2013 would allow more timefor study of the maps andwould also allow for coolerheads to prevail in the future.But others of the officials ex-pressed doubts that the poli-tics would be any less fierce in2013, and ultimately, Vollert-sen’s proposal failed.

School Board MemberSandra Saunders next re-turned to Washington’stheme. Saunders said she wassurprised, as well as clueless,about what was going on. But

she had thought that JeffersonCounty had moved beyondstatements such as the onethat Love had allegedly made,she said.

“I don’t understand Jef-ferson County that we’re stillconcerned about colorthings,” Saunders said. “No-body should care about color.I’m sick of it.”

And if Love had madethe statement attributed tohim, then the map he was pro-posing wasn’t worth consider-ing “and we might as wellburn it,” Saunders said.

Boyd, for his part, de-fended Love, saying the latterdidn’t have a bias bone in hisbody and should be allowed toexplain himself. Which Lovewas finally able to do, aftersome more contentious back-and-forth debate.

Love, in his turn, ex-pressed disappointment thatpeople could make accusa-tions such as had been madeagainst him and engage inname calling without a basis.

“I like to believe I have atough skin, but this is a disap-pointment,” Love said, askingthat the audience keep anopen mind as he explainedwhy he had said what he hadsaid.

Without going intoLove’s lengthy explanation, itinvolved a meeting he had hadwith IT Director JohnnieAbron and C.P. Miller, of Con-cerned United People (CUP),on the previous Friday to tryand develop a single plan outof the several earlier propos-als, as directed by the twoboards at the workshop ofDec. 14.

Love said it eventuallybecame clear to him duringthe meeting that he couldn’t

support the plan that Abronproposed for reasons of fair-ness, given that it essentiallywent beyond CUP’s plan ingiving African-Americansgreater favorability over Cau-casians in District 3.

Love expounded on thehistoric reasons for the cre-ation of districts in JeffersonCounty, which was to give theminority community a voiceon the County Commissionand School Board, and said heagreed with the principle.

The problem presently,he said, was a numeric one, inthat the African-Americanpopulation had declined in theintervening years since thelawsuit. Even so, District 2had been maintained as a safeminority-majority districtand District 3 had achieved abalance that gave an 11-per-cent favorability to the whitepopulation, in keeping withthe intent of the lawsuit, hesaid.

Abron’s plan, on theother hand, gave a two-to-three percent favorability tothe white population in Dis-trict 3, which went beyondCUP’s proposed seven-percentfavorability, Love said.

“I said I can’t support aproposal that goes beyondCUP’s proposal and goes to 3percent,” Love said. “I wasasked, ‘Why won’t you sup-port it?’ I said, ‘I don’t thinkit’s fair’. You end up with twosafe African-American dis-tricts and it will disrupt thebalance that we have workedto achieve. I was asked what’swrong with the commissionhaving two blacks? I said,‘Nothing, as long as people inthe district compete fairlyand it isn’t just a given’.”

Boyd stated it more

bluntly. Abron’s map moved137 whites out of District 3and moved in 35 African-Americans, he said.

“Do you think when themoves you make favor onegroup over the other that’sfair?” Boyd asked.

Abron defended his map,saying he had done what thetwo boards had instructedhim to do. Considering thatthe committee of three hadbeen unable to come up witha compromise map, he haddrawn his own map based onthe census data and the twoearlier maps in an effort tocome up with a better ratiofor District 3, he said.

Abron offered that hismap — as well as the otherproposed maps — all met therequired standards for redis-tricting. Meaning that eachassured population parityamong the districts, followednatural boundary lines, en-sured for the compactnessand continuity of the district,preserved the cores of the ex-isting districts, and kept allthe incumbents within theirdistricts.

A long battle ensued todetermine whether Love’s‘compromise’ map, which hadnot been made part of the ‘of-ficial’ proposals, should beconsidered, with Boyd argu-ing for its inclusion andWashington most notably ar-guing against it. In the endLove’s map was not consid-ered.

At one point, Washing-ton suggested that the twoboards should stop their jointdeliberations and pursue sep-arate maps, since theycouldn’t come to an agree-ment. County Attorney BuckBird advised that the two

boards could well produceseparate maps if they wanted,although traditionally theyhad agreed on a single mapfor the sake of making it eas-ier for the voters.

Vollertsen, meanwhile,kept calling for the redistrict-ing to be postponed until 2013,and Boyd continued arguingfor consideration of Love’splan. As it was, Boyd argued,the current distribution ofDistrict 3 was fair and equi-table, evident by the results ofthe six elections in the districtsince the 2000 redistricting.His point: of the six last elec-toral contests in District 3,three had been won by whitecandidates and three had beenwon by black candidates, withthe average winning marginbeing 46 votes.

“I’m disturbed when I seea plan that moves whites outof District 3,” Boyd said. “It’sdisturbing to me that we can’tget passed skin color and stopjogging for position based onrace. We should be passed thisby now and we’re not doingthat tonight. There’s not a sin-gle plan proposed that movesa disproportionate number ofblacks out of District 3. Everyplan moves the same numberor a greater number of whitesout of District 3. The plan thatLove proposes moves 34blacks and 81 whites out ofDistrict 3. That’s not a manwho is favoring the white pop-ulation. We need to give TomLove credit for doing a fairand balanced plan.”

Following almost fourhours of contentious andsometimes-heated discussion,the two boards finally voted 8-2 to accept Abron’s map, withBoyd and Vollertsen in the mi-nority.

from family members of theJCI inmates.

On October 24, 2011 FDOCLaw Enforcement InspectorSally Cole of the OIG, discov-ered information that Branchwas using Post Office Box 623at the Lee, Florida Post Officeto have contraband mailed toher.

The USPIS confirmedthat Box 623 was assigned tosomeone of a different name,other than Branch, with apoint of contact as Branch.USPIC also confirmed that apackage was presently in thepost office awaiting deliveryand they identified the sender.The contents of the packagewere unknown and deliveredwithout examination.

A second package con-taining the same sender and re-ceiver information wasreceived by the USPIS, who de-layed delivery until October 25,2011. Inspector AP Land con-ducted surveillance at the LeePost Office and monitoredBranch as she arrived and tookpossession of the package.Agents followed Branch, whodrove to Madison, where sheproceeded to the Wells FargoBank and made a transactionat the drive-through window.

Recorded inmate tele-phone calls made by a JCI in-mate to a particular persondating from October 28through November 3, revealedthat the inmate directed theperson to contact a third per-son identified by the streetname of “Lil’ Man.” The in-mate requested him to send 10grams of “white girl powder,”fifty Ecstasy pills and anyother pills he could get. The in-mate gave instructions to sendthe package to the Lee P.O. boxand what name to use.

On November 8, 2011 in-vestigators were advised byPostal Inspector Scott Padgettthat another package had ar-rived at the Lee Post Office ad-dressed to the same person andit had the same sender infor-mation. The package was in-spected without opening andthe physical examination ofthe package revealed that atleast one item was the samesize and shape as a pill. Inspec-tors Padgett and Land madearrangements to have a certi-fied narcotic K-9 examine thepackage. The K-9 gave a posi-tive alert to the presence of acontrolled substance.

On November 9, Branchwas on duty at JCI where shewas scheduled to work a 12-hour shift. At approximately3:45 p.m. Branch requested togo home early and was depart-ing the institution. At 4:20 p.m.Branch arrived at the Lee PostOffice wearing her DOC uni-form pants and had a wind-breaker covering her DOCuniform shirt. Branch enteredthe post office and picked upthe package.

Padgett made contactwith Branch once she exitedthe post office and advised herthey were conducting a crimi-nal investigation and sus-pected the package shepossessed contained narcotics.Branch gave verbal permis-sion to Padgett to open thepackage and he discovered itdid contain approximately 135pills.

Branch was interviewedand she advised she had re-ceived additional packagesfrom persons involved with in-mates, under her supervisionat JCI. According to Branchthe previous package had con-tained pills in addition to acell phone and money or-ders. Branch stated that themoney she received was pay-ment for her introducing thecontraband into JCI.

The collected 135 pillswere analyzed and the FDLEcrime lab confirmed that itwas Oxycodone with a com-bined weight of 24.6 grams.

Further investigationrevealed that Branch was apart time employee, as a Cer-tified Registered Nurse

(CRN), at the Madison Nurs-ing Center. It was also deter-mined that the name she hadused in acquiring the post of-fice box was a resident at thenursing home facility. Inves-tigators discovered thatBranch had obtained the res-idents’ personal informationand utilized the informationwithout the resident’s knowl-edge or permission.

The resident was inter-viewed by Land in her roomand she stated that she nevergave Branch permission toopen a post office box in hername.

A warrant was issuedfor Branch’s arrest and sheturned herself in to the Madi-son County Jail Tuesday,

December 19.She was charged with

trafficking in Oxycodone,identity theft, conspiracyto introduce contrabandinto the institution (JCI),and receiving unlawfulcompensation or rewardfor official behavior(bribery), all of which arefelony charges.

A total Bond of $80,000was set and she bonded outof jail the same day.

A DOC spokespersonadvised that the DOC hadapproved the dismissal ofBranch and her it becameeffective as of December21, 2011, once the letter ofdismissal was placedwithin her hands.


Legals

IN ThE CIrCuIT COurT Of ThE sECONd JudICIaL

CIrCuIT IN aNd fOr JEffErsON COuNTy, fLOrIda

CIVIL aCTION

ChasE hOmE fINaNCE LLC suCCEssOr

By mErGEr TO ChasE maNhaTTaN

mOrTGaGE COrPOraTION,

Plaintiff,

CasE NO.: 33-2010-Ca-000086

vs. dIVIsION:

WILLIam COLE rOBBINs , et al,

defendant(s).

_________________________________/

NOTICE Of rEsChEduLEd fOrECLOsurE saLE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to an Order

Rescheduling Foreclosure Sale dated December 6, 2011 and en-

tered in Case NO. 33-2010-CA-000086 of the Circuit Court of

the SECOND Judicial Circuit in and for JEFFERSON County,

Florida wherein CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO CHASE MANHATTAN MORTGAGE COR-

PORATION, is the Plaintiff and WILLIAM COLE ROBBINS;

THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF WILLIAM COLE ROBBINS

N/K/A MALISSA ROBBINS; are the Defendants, The Clerk

of the Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at

NORTH DOOR OF THE COURTHOUSE LOBBY IN JEFFER-

SON COUNTY, MONTICELLO, FLORIDA at 11:00AM, on

the 5th day of January, 2012, the following described property

as set forth in said Final Judgment:

THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF THE FOLLOWING DE-

SCRIBED PROPERTY, BEING A PORTION OF SOUTH-

WEST 1/4 OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 30,

TOWNSHIP 2 NORTH, RANGE 5 EAST, TO-WIT: BEGIN-

NING AT A POINT 10 FEET EAST AND 60 FEET NORTH OF

THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1, BLOCK 4, OF JEF-

FERSON HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION TO THE TOWN OF

MONTICELLO, AS PER MAP OR PLAT THEREOF IN THE

PUBLIC RECORDS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, FLORIDA,

IN PLAT BOOK B, PAGE 6; WHICH POINT IS THE SOUTH-

WEST CORNER OF THE J. H. WILLIAMS HOMESTEAD;

THENCE RUNNING EAST ALONG THE NORTH BORDER

OF SEMINOLE AVENUE AND ACROSS A GRADED FORTY

FOOT STREET A DISTANCE OF 40 FEET; THENCE RUN-

NING NORTH ALONG THE EAST BORDER OF SAID 40

FOOT GRADED STREET A DISTANCE OF 280 FEET TO

THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE LANDS HEREIN DE-

SCRIBED; THENCE RUN EAST 130 FEET, THENCE RUN

NORTH 345 FEET, MORE OR LESS, AND TO A FENCE

LINE BETWEEN THE PROPERTY OF ELLA LONG DEAN

AND J. G. ANDERSON, THENCE WEST ALONG SAID

FENCE LINE 130 FEET THENCE SOUTH ALONG THE

EAST BORDER OF SAID 40 FOOT GRADED STREET 345

FEET AND TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE

LANDS HEREIN DESCRIBED.

A/K/A 900 S MULBERRY STREET, MONTICELLO, FL 32344

Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if

any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pen-

dens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the sale.

WITNESS MY HAND and the seal of this Court on

December 13, 2011.

Kirk B. Reams

Clerk of the Circuit Court

By:Sherry Sears

Deputy Clerk

If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommo-

dation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled,

at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please

contact: Jefferson County Courthouse

1 Courthouse Circle

Monticello, FL 32344

Phone: 850-342-0218

12/16, 23/11, c.

NOTICE Of mONTICELLO CITy COuNCIL mEETING

The Monticello City Council will conduct its next regular monthly

meeting on January 3, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will take place

at City Hall, 245 S. Mulberry Street, Monticello. Persons with dis-

abilities who need an accommodation to participate in the meeting

should contact City Clerk Emily Anderson at 342-0292 or eander-

[email protected].

12/23/2011, c.

NOTICE

ThE JEffErsON COuNTy

BOard Of COuNTy COmmIssIONErs

Jefferson County Parks Department is now accepting bids for

Electrical work to be performed at the Mamie Scott Drive Recre-

ational Park. Specifications for this project can be picked up at

the Coordinator’s Office 450 W. Walnut Street, Monticello Fl.

32344 or by contacting Mr. Mike Holm at 850-519-6640. A

mandatory pre-bid meeting (site visit) will be held on Dec 27,

2011 at 11:00 a.m. at the Recreation Park located at 1380 Mamie

Scott Drive, Monticello Florida 32344. All bids must be received

by the County Coordinator’s Office, 450 West Walnut Street,

Monticello, Florida 32344 by 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Jan. 4, 2012

and will be opened at that time.

12/21, 23/2011, c.

FELONY CHARGES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A

DISTRICT MAP CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Jackson ThomasHerring, the 10-year-oldgrandson of JeffersonCounty residents Curtieand Carl Herring, shothis first buck in Jeffer-son County on Thursday,November 17, 2011 with aRemington 7mm.08 rifle.He was still-hunting in atree stand with hisgrandfather. His buck

was a large spike. He’shoping for a monsterrack next year.

Jackson lives inOlive Branch, Missis-sippi. He was vacation-ing with hisgrandparents duringThanksgiving week. Anardent Gator and Tebowfan, Jackson enjoyedwatching the Gators de-feat Furman and theDenver Broncos defeatKansas City on televi-sion while he was here.

He wears a #15 jer-sey himself and playsquarterback for the orange and blue Cow-boys little league team inOlive Branch. To the de-light of his family and ofhis grandparents, Jack-son’s team finished theseason with a big 38-0win over their littleleague Broncos on Satur-day, November 12, just

before he left for his Florida vacation.

The recreational red grouper bag limit in Gulf ofMexico state waters (excluding Monroe County) willincrease Dec. 30 from two to four fish, followed by theJan. 1 season closure of shallow-water grouper in At-lantic state waters.

The red grouper bag limit increase is one of sev-eral fishery management changes made at the No-vember Florida Fish and Wildlife ConservationCommission (FWC) meeting in Key Largo.

Management changes in 2012 will also affect gaggrouper season, which is currently closed to fishingin Gulf of Mexico state waters (excluding MonroeCounty) and will continue to be closed throughMarch 31, 2012. (This includes the regularly sched-uled annual closure from Feb. 1 through March 31 inGulf state waters.)

Both measures will help the state achieve consis-tency with federal red and gag grouper managementefforts.

Federal managers are working on a plan to fur-ther protect gag grouper, which is overfished and un-dergoing overfishing in the Gulf. The FWC willrevisit state gag grouper management efforts in Feb-ruary 2012, once federal rules are solidified.

Season closures for red and gag grouper, as wellas other shallow-water groupers, are also nearing. InAtlantic state waters, including Monroe County, theseason closes Jan. 1 and reopens May 1. Shallow-water grouper season closes Feb. 1 in Gulf state wa-ters and reopens April 1.

Shallow water groupers in Gulf state waters in-clude gag, red, black, yellowfin and yellowmouthgroupers; scamp; and rock and red hind. In Atlanticstate waters, it also includes tiger grouper, coney andgraysby.

To learn more, visit MyFWC.com/Fishing andclick on “Saltwater Fishing,” “Recreational Regula-tions” and “Grouper.”

www.ecbpublishing.com Friday, December 23, 201110A • Jefferson County Journal

The Jefferson JournalFish & Game Feeding ChartHow to use: the major and minor feeding times for each day are listed below. The majorfeeding times are the best for the sportsman and last about 2 hours, the minor feeding

times can also have good success, but last only about 1 hour.

The Week of December 23, 2011 through December 30, 2011Major Feed Times are marked by an asterisk (*)

Saturday, December 24

4:30 AM*10:45 AM

4:55 PM*11:20 PM

Sunday, December 25

5:30 AM *11:45 AM

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Tuesday, December 27

*1:20 AM7:30 AM*1:40 PM7:55 PM

Wednesday,December 28

*2:10 AM8:20 AM*2:30 PM8:45 PM

Thursday,December 29

*3:00 AM9:10 AM*3:20 PM9:30 PM

Friday,December 30

*3:45 AM9:55 AM*4:10 PM10:30 PM

Friday,December 23

3:30 AM*9:50 AM4:10 PM

*10:20 PM

Monday,December 26

*12:20 AM6:30 AM

*12:45 PM7:00 PM

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