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JOEL ADDINGTONMANAGING EDITOR
Carly N. Worley was driving home on 228 South in the Maxville area short-ly after midnight on Janu-ary 1 when her 2008 Dodge Avenger veered off the road-way and hit a cement ditch and tree on the southside of the roadway.
The 26-year-old from Glen St. Mary was knocked unconscious and still doesn’t recall what led to the crash, but she’s very thankful for a passerby who saw the wreck and dialed 9-1-1.
The caller was Dusty Shirley, 23, of Middleburg,
who was driving past the accident scene with his wife Savannah.
“I was driving by and we
noticed the car. It was
sitting sideways,” recalled Mr. Shirley, a lineman ap-prentice for Clay Electric. “It was really dark on 228 so I backed up and got my flash-
light out. I could see she was hurt pretty bad. She was trapped in there.”
In Ms. Worley’s eyes, his call that night gave her a sec-ond chance at life. She in-
JOEL ADDINGTONMANAGING EDITOR
Two-year-old Matthew Odom squirmed on his mother’s lap as
they shared a plate of food at the community baby shower hosted by the Healthy Start program Saturday morning at the Women’s Club.
Rebecca Barnes is expect-ing her second son in April. The Macclenny resident was among roughly a doz-en pregnant women who at-tended the free baby shower where they learned about maternal and child health resources available to them in Baker County.
“It’s good,” she said. “You can learn a lot from them and their experience so you feel more comfortable, es-pecially if you’re alone and don’t have family support ... It’s really a blessing.”
She and the other expect-ant mothers visited with shower sponsors to be en-tered into a drawing for a combination car seat and stroller. They collected liter-ature and gifts as they went from one table to the next before sitting down to enjoy the refreshments and fellow-ship with other women.
Healthy Start’s Stepha-nie Bechtel said her organi-zation plans to do another community baby shower in the summer. She said baby showers have been held previously for Healthy Start clients but the shower on January 26 was the first one
open to all pregnant women in the community.
High school teacher and Macclenny native Haley
Cushenberry, who is also pregnant with a boy and due about the same time as Ms. Barnes, called the event “very informative.”
She particularly liked the “water watcher” bracelets handed out by Vicki Whit-field, a program coordina-
tor with the UF Health Child Protection Team (CPT).
The waterproof bracelets are worn by adults designat-ed to monitor children when they’re swimming.
“It’s a clever idea,” said Ms. Cushenberry, who will
JANUARY 30Council on Aging open house10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Baker County Council on Aging’s Open House is set for Wednesday, January 30 from 10 a.m. to noon. Everyone 60 years old or older is welcome to come and learn more about the organization. There will be light refreshments at 10 a.m. along with information and introductions at 11 a.m. Dr. Leilani Doty will be speaking on “Memory Loss, What to Watch For.” The open house will be at the senior center downtown at 101 E. Macclenny Avenue. Call 259-2223 ext. 232 for more information.
JANUARY 31Girls Basketball5:30 pm
Both of the BCHS girls basketball teams will host Suwannee on January 31.
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Purchase these photos at www.bakercountypress.com Photso by Joel AddingtonHaley Cushenberry speaks with Vicki Whitfield of the Child Protection Team from UF Health.
From left: Expectant moms Constance Evans, Elizabeth Dillard and Nicole Howell.
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The Baker Correctional Development Corporation (BCDC) expects to refi-nance its massive $35-mil-lion debt load next week to effectively end a cash-flow crisis that has plagued the nonprofit owner of the county jail and sheriff’s complex in recent years.
The refinancing should come in the form of a low-interest USDA loan at roughly half the inter-est rate on the bond debt used to build the facility in 2008, which today stands at 7.5 percent.
BCDC was set to close on the loan in early Janu-ary but the partial federal government shutdown de-layed those plans until the government re-opened, which happened Monday, albeit for just a three-week period if Congress and the president don’t come to a budget agreement that in-cludes money for a border wall.
The loan closing can’t come soon enough, how-ever.
BCDC was due to make a roughly $3.3 million an-nual principal and interest payment on the bonds on Friday and needed about $500,000 to fund the next payroll period for jail em-ployees.
Sheriff Scotty Rho-den said thanks to a deal worked out with bond-holders last Friday, em-ployees would get paid this Friday.
The problem was BCDC didn’t have enough money in the bank to meet both the payroll and debt ser-vice obligations because the federal agencies send-ing prisoners to the 512-bed facility stopped paying invoices during the shut-down, leaving BCDC with-out some $2 million in rev-enue this month.
That led BCDC officials to reach out to bondhold-ers through a bank trustee to work out an arrange-ment.
The deal struck during a January 25 phone call would defer a roughly $1.8
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Carly Worley at left after her accident. Above is the Dodge Avenger she was extricated
from by rescue personnel.
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be a first-time mom. Ms. Whitfield said the
shower was “awesome” and she was impressed by how much the women, some as young as 18, already knew about child safety.
“They were really excited to get the information and talk with people, too,” she said.
In addition to Healthy Start and UF Health, sev-eral other nonprofit entities participated including Flor-ida Gateway College, WIC (Women, Infants and Chil-dren), the Baker Preven-tion Coalition, the Women’s Center of Jacksonville, Me-ridian Behavioral Health, Healthy Families and the county health department.
WIC’s Melissa Oswald said the women were very receptive to her organiza-tion’s message about the benefits of breastfeeding.
“WIC is not just about formula. We also offer breastfeeding support, be-cause baby formula is not the best way to feed babies,” she said, adding that beyond the health benefits of breast-feeding for both moms and
infants, it’s also cheaper and more convenient.
Elizabeth Dillard, 18, hit her 33rd week of pregnancy last weekend. She’s expect-ing her first child, a girl.
“I’m ready for her to come out,” said the Glen St. Mary resident. She’s been taking faith-based parenting class-es at First Coast Women’s Services, 368 South Fifth St.
She was chatting with Constance Evans, also 18.
“It was actually real-ly helpful,” she said of the shower, adding that see-ing her sisters go through pregnancy previously also
helped prepare her for the experience.
“It showed me what to do and what not to do. I learned from my sisters’ mistakes,” said Ms. Evans, who had a message for other young women preparing for child-birth.
“Don’t give up. It might be difficult. Being a teen mom and being pregnant is really difficult, especially if you’re going through high school, but you can do it,” she said.
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million principal payment to February 1, 2020, leav-ing BCDC on the hook for an interest-only payment of some $1.4 million on Fri-day, in addition to the inter-est on the deferred principal through next year. It also granted BCDC access to a bond reserve account held by the trustee, UMB Bank, which has more than $2.4 million.
A majority of the bond-holders also agreed to suspend monthly escrow requirements for year-ly principal and twice-an-nual interest payments “as long as there exists a con-tinuous shutdown,” as the draft agreement reads, and provided BCDC has not re-ceived payments from fed-eral law enforcement agen-cies.
That provision may not be invoked immediately, however, since the shut-down has ended and the draft agreement approved by board members on Mon-day stipulates the escrow payments would resume on
the last day of the month fol-lowing the end of the shut-down.
The agreement shows that once federal agencies begin paying previously submitted invoices for in-mate housing, those rev-enues will be used first to replenish the reserve fund and then to make monthly escrow payments for bond principal and interest.
BCDC board chairman Ed Barber summarized the agreement during an emer-gency meeting called on Monday afternoon, saying it would allow BCDC “to tap the reserves if we need to pay our bills this month and in the future.”
The caveats are that the federal agencies — Immi-gration and Customs En-forcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshals Service — could make inmate housing payments any day now, and should the USDA loan close next week, the outstanding bond debt, minus the re-serves held by the trustee, will be paid off using loan proceeds.
“We have every reason to
believe those payments will be forthcoming,” said Mi-chael Givens, BCDC’s con-sulting accountant, adding that similar facilities across the country were not paid either during the shutdown.
Following the meeting, board treasurer Jack Baker Jr. started discussing with financial staff exactly how much to request from the reserve monies.
He said it would at least be enough to make payroll this week, about $500,000, though he acknowledged that BCDC remains behind on payroll reimbursements to the sheriff’s office for jail workers.
BCDC had already es-crowed most of the bond interest payment due Feb-ruary 1, save the January escrow payment of about $244,000.
The county also paid BCDC about $233,000 this month for housing local prisoners.
“We’re only going to draw as much as absolutely feel like we need,” said Mr. Barber earlier in the meet-ing before the board voted unanimously to grant him the authority to sign the shutdown agreement with the trustee and Mr. Baker the authority to request a portion of the reserves.
Jeffrey Cox, the sheriff’s office finance manager, not-ed that the trustee has typ-ically been able to transfer reserve funds within a day, though the turn-around time in the draft agreement was capped at three days.
He said the money would be needed to process payroll on Wednesday.
The next regular meeting of the board of directors was scheduled for February 12 at 2 p.m. at the sheriff’s office.
tends to meet the couple in person soon, though they’ve already connected on Face-book.
“It has been an emotion-al roller coaster without a doubt the last two weeks going on three,” Ms. Wor-ley posted on Facebook January 17, “but I’m so so grateful just to wake up ev-ery morning and be able to progress that much more each day. I have no other way to see things but in a positive way. I was given a second chance at life, and I just want to make the best of each day!”
Rescue personnel had to cut through her mangled Dodge to remove Ms. Wor-ley from the car. Its front end was “heavily impacted and pushed inward,” ac-cording to the crash report by Deputy K.W. Nash of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
The windshield was shattered and falling off. Both front airbags were de-
ployed. The front right tire was off its wheel and the front end was deeply sunk-en into the ground.
Ms. Worley was trans-ported to UF Health in Jacksonville with non-life-threatening inju-ries that included a brain bleed, fractured wrist, sprained left ankle and a dislocated right ankle that led to tendon and ligament damage in the right foot, Ms. Worley said.
She’s undergone two sur-geries, one on each leg, with a third surgery on her right leg scheduled for February 5, said Ms. Worley’s mother Carol Worley.
She’ll be under observa-tion for a few days before returning home, but she’ll be confined to a wheelchair for the next three months as her legs heal.
Carly Worley came home for the first time since the accident last Saturday.
“She had a really good time. She was sad to go back,” said Carol Worley.
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The following case dis-positions were ordered by Judge Joey Williams during regular county court session on January 23:
• Teresa Bland, VOP (probation violation) dis-orderly coduct; 60 days in jail.
• Andrew Blandford, non-assigned tag, driving on a suspended license (DWLS), violation of pro-bation or house arrest; 50 days in jail, one-year pro-bation.
• Lee Deblaker Jr., DUI, refusal to submit to blood or urine test; two days in jail, 12-month probation, all DUI sanctions, six-month monitoring.
• Jasmine Durkovic, DWLS; 94 days in jail.
• Kenzie Jackson, dis-orderly conduct; two days in jail, $500 in addition to court costs.
• Darnell Lee, disorderly conduct; two days in jail.
• Nick Lee, disorderly conduct; court costs.
• Darresha Mathews, DWLS; six-month proba-tion, license class, obtain license.
• Kimberly Muse, VOP no valid driver’s license; 30 days in jail.
• Marion Tisdale, DWLS
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• Willie Williams, obtain property by trick; charge dropped.
• Jonathan Brown, battery; 20 days in jail, 12-month probation, bat-terer’s intervention class, parenting class, GBB (Give Back to Baker) community service.
• Michael A. Bennett Jr., VOP failure to leave infor-mation after crash, DWLS; 180 days in jail.
• Charles Clemons, VOP DWLS; 20 days in jail.
• Canaan Combs, giving false name to law enforce-ment, DWLS, criminal mis-chief; 90 days in jail.
• Ronald Daniels; VOP no valid driver’s license; 32 days in jail.
• Stephen Holdampf; VOP DWLS, resisting ar-rest; 180 days in jail.
• William Padgett, VOP petty theft, request refund with false receipt; 180 days in jail.
• Rodger Siemering, VOP disorderly intoxica-tion; 60 days in jail.
• Brandon Wilkerson, VOP DWLS, non-assigned tag, petty theft, resisting arrest; 240 days in jail.
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A female inmate at the county jail may have gotten herself a little deep-er in trouble recently when authorities say she enticed her boyfriend to sneak drugs into the facility and hide them in a bathroom during a visit the evening of January 24.
On January 22, law enforcement of-ficials said, a phone call was intercepted between inmate Melissa Oneail and her live-in boyfriend Samuel S. Oralls, both 41 and both of Clet Harvey Road in Glen St. Mary. Some of the language they used aroused the suspicion of jail staff who said the two were talking “in code.”
The following is a detailed descrip-tion in a report of the incident leading up to charges of introducing contra-band into a detention facility being filed against both individuals:
“The phone call drew suspicion that Oneail was soliciting Oralls to bring contraband into the visitation area and hide it for someone to pick up. The two were attempting to talk in code refer-ring to the contraband as a ‘pipe’ and using the terms ‘working on the bath-room’ and ‘work on the toilet.’”
That evening Mr. Oralls, who was the last to come into the visitation area and the last to leave, was observed on surveillance cameras walking directly to the bathroom before beginning his visit with Ms. Oneail.
Nobody else entered or exited the bathroom.
During their visit together, Mr. Oralls was overheard telling Ms. Oneail that “the pipe” is stuck to the back of the toilet. Later, upon a search of the bath-room, authorities discovered a 75 mg Fentanyl patch behind the toilet.
Information also was obtained that another inmate, identified as 30-year-old Melissa K. Jordan of Glen St. Mary, was involved. She is a trustee who as-sists with building housekeeping, in-cluding the visitation area.
Upon questioning, Ms. Jordan said she was solicited by Ms. Oneail to pick up the Fentanyl patch that Mr. Oralls had placed behind the toilet, but that she never did so.
Mr. Oralls was later arrested at his residence the evening of January 25 by Detective Jake Betros, who said he met Mr. Oralls in his front yard as he drove up.
While searching Mr. Oralls prior to arrest and transport, Detective Betros said he found a glass pipe and a white powdery substance in a clear baggy in a front pocket of his pants.
“Samuel put his head down and ut-tered, ‘Man, I should have left that in the truck,’” the detective said.
The white powdery substance, which weighted 1 gram, later tested positive for methamphetamine, and Mr. Oralls was charged additionally with posses-sion of controlled substance and pos-session of drug paraphernalia.
In other drug-related incidents re-ported by the Baker County Sheriff’s Office recently:
• On January 24, authorities discov-ered marijuana hidden in the waistband of Samuel Kmahzi Deshaun Evans, 20, as he was being searched following a court hearing.
“When Samuel Evans was being pro-cessed in the booking area … he was found to be in possession of marijua-na and loose tobacco,” according to an arrest report. “Samuel was concealing the contraband in a ball of paper that was hidden in the waist area of his un-dergarments. The contraband was ob-served during a body scan ... which is common procedure for bringing a per-son into a detention center.”
The pot and tobacco each weighed approximately 1 gram. Mr. Evans was arrested for introduction of contraband into the facility.
• Timothy Charles Leighton, 36, was charged with possession of controlled substances without a prescription after authorities said he was found sleeping
in his parked car in the front yard of a residence on East McIver Avenue the evening of January 22.
Deputy Trevor Bloxham spotted Mr. Leighton, whose address was listed on Vicki Drive in Macclenny, inside his ve-hicle and stopped to question him.
“Timothy stated that he knew one of the residents of the address and that he was taking a nap in their yard,” the dep-uty wrote later in his report. “I then con-ducted a records check through com-munications personnel which revealed Timothy to have an active warrant out of Charlton County, Ga.”
A subsequent search revealed a sy-ringe with residue and a glass smok-ing pipe with residue in Mr. Bloxham’s right front pocket.
At that point, “due to the odor of marijuana” emanating from the vehicle, Deputy Bloxham said he conducted a probable cause search and discovered a clear plastic bag with a crystal like sub-stance, which later tested positive for methamphetamine, on the floor board.
• Tory G. Ison, 33, of Jacksonville, was arrested the evening of January 20 and charged with possession of mar-ijuana in excess of 20 grams, a felony, after Deputy Archie Crews said he saw a gray colored Chevy truck fail to come to a complete stop on the west bound exit ramp to SR 121 from I-10.
Deputy Crews said he ran check of the license plate on the vehicle and learned that it had expired on Dec. 31, 2018, and he stopped the vehicle in the Burger King parking lot on SR 121.
When the driver rolled down the window the deputy said he immediately noticed the smell of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle. He asked the driver to step out, which Mr. Ison did, releasing an even stronger odor of the drug.
The officer also added a possession of a firearm charge during the commis-sion of a felony after he found a loaded 9mm handgun in the center console.
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JOEL ADDINGTONMANAGING EDITOR
Baker County High School achieved A-grade sta-tus last year but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement.
BCHS principal Allen Murphy revealed to the school board last week that one component to the school grading formula, the grad-uation rate, dropped from 81 percent for the 2016-17 school year to 75 percent last spring.
Mr. Murphy said the de-crease was disappointing but that some students are at-tracted to high school diplo-ma alternatives, like a GED, jobs or the military.
“Life happens, unfortu-nately,” he told school board members January 22 while presenting his improvement plan for the Glen St. Mary campus.
“Especially for students at this age,” he said. “There are options for them ... We try to reach out to those students and hang on to them. Some-times it might even be better for those students to make another choice other than the diploma. We push them
toward it and offer them ev-erything we can do to keep them in school and get them a high school diploma, but some chose other routes.”
He also said there are some students who drop out as seniors but return the fol-lowing year to finish and get their diploma. Those teenag-ers, however, are not includ-ed in the graduation rate cal-culation. He explained that only students who come in as ninth-graders and grad-uate on time four years later get counted.
The school district, with only one high school, also doesn’t have any alternative schools that larger districts may have to help keep stu-dents in the system and on track. Mr. Murphy said some larger counties have online high schools that can serve that purpose.
The principal opened the presentation by noting how well the school performed on state testing to make the coveted A-grade.
“That came with a lot of blood, sweat and tears,” he said.
Out of 1000 possible points in the school grading formula, BCHS earned 651 points in 2017-18, compared
to the 620 points needed to be labeled an A-school and 569 points earned the prior year.
Mr. Murphy said even before the school year be-gan, the faculty was plotting ways to improve test scores. Those strategies included more teacher training on state standards and creating common lesson plans and benchmark tests across dif-ferent classes on the same subjects.
Doing so helped make teachers more accountable by clearly showing where better instruction was need-ed, the principal said.
The results were prom-ising, particularly the per-formance gains of students struggling academically.
The share of low-per-forming students passing the Algebra I exam, for in-stance, jumped from 61 per-cent the previous year to 74 percent last year.
“That’s major,” noted Mr. Murphy. “We’re excited and we hope to continue that trend this year.”
Another change partially implemented last year could help boost biology results this year.
Mr. Murphy said incom-ing ninth-grade honors stu-dents now take biology as freshmen but others take it as sophomores after taking a different science class with an emphasis on biology as freshmen, giving them ad-ditional instruction for the end-of-course exam in 10th grade.
The change was first im-plemented for the 2017-18
school year, so the effect should become apparent by the end of this school year.
“It’s been a long struggle to get there,” school board member Patricia Weeks commented regarding the A-grade for BCHS. “But it makes it easier to identify what you need to work on.”
BCMS ups goals to state averages
Baker County Middle School principal Thomas Hill made his presentation on the school’s improve-ment plan during the near-ly 40-minute workshop as well.
Rather than aim to in-crease test performance gen-erally, he said, the new goals for 2018-19 are to reach the average performance of all 67 school districts in Florida.
In some cases, Mr. Hill said, that will mean improv-ing passing rates by 15 per-cent, while in other areas the passing rates will need to rise only a few percentage points.
By boosting the share of students scoring proficient on math, language arts, civ-ics and science tests to the state averages, BCMS would garner enough points in the school grading formula to nearly reach a B-grade for the Macclenny campus, Mr. Hill said.
BCMS has been a C-school for the last four years.
The targets: a jump of 9 percent in science perfor-mance (the share of students scoring proficient or high-er on the science test), a 15
percent rise in civics perfor-mance, a 3 percent increase in math performance and a boost in language arts per-formance by 8 percent.
Like the high school, the middle school aims to reach those goals by using com-mon lesson plans and as-sessments across different classes of the same subject.
But, Mr. Hill said, oth-er strategies have included moving to a rotating period schedule, so students receive instruction in each subject at different times of the day, using more online applica-tions in the classroom and encouraging more parent involvement.
The principal also re-ported that parents and vis-itors have largely complied with new security protocols on campus with few com-plaints.
“One thing that’s amazing to me is we’ve had three par-ent complaints about how to get through that door,” he said, referencing the re-quirement that visitors and parents present ID on cam-era before being allowed to enter the school.
“We’ve had thousands of parents come through that door and for only three of those folks to be disgruntled in any way, shape or form shows the community is re-ally behind the safety efforts ...” said Mr. Hill.
Adult Ed sees big gains
Ann Watts, who heads up the district’s adult educa-tion programs, was the final administrator to present an improvement plan during the workshop.
Her presentation showed that enrollment was up 30 percent to 274 students, completion points earned grew by 44.5 percent and high school diploma equiva-lents increased 47 percent to 28 diplomas.
Beyond the adult educa-tion metrics, which include basic education at a K-8th grade level and GED edu-cation at the 9th-12th grade level, Ms. Watts also report-ed on her department’s ca-reer prep programs in nurs-ing and phlebotomy, or the drawing of blood.
While there was less than half the number of students in the program — nine in 2017-18 compared to 26 the prior year — all completed the program last year com-pared to 85 percent in 2016-17.
Seven earned certifica-tions, or 77 percent of those enrolled, versus about 85 percent the previous year.
In other business last week, the school board:
• Looked on as Superin-tendent Sherrie Raulerson presented grant checks from ExxonMobil. BCHS, BCMS, Macclenny Elementary and Westside Elementary each received $1000 awards. Keller Intermediate, the PreK-K Center and the adult education program each re-ceived $500.
Mrs. Raulerson said most of the cash will be used for STEM (Science, Technolo-gy, Engineering and Math) projects.
• Approved beginning the state-mandated process for construction of a new K-5 school.
Board member Paula Barton thanked the superin-tendent and her staff for the preliminary work they’ve done to reach this point in the process.
“This is not an easy pro-cess ... I know it will take some time, but when it’s here and it becomes a reali-ty, these kids will be the sole beneficiaries,” she said.
“It’s a historical time in the Baker County School District to move back to that K-5 model,” added Mrs. Raulerson. “We feel like that is going to be advantageous for our students and provide a great seamless education.”
State funding is now being sought to fund con-struction of the new school, though a location has not been announced publicly.
• Approved minimum wage increases for non-stu-dent workers from $8.46 per hour to $8.71 per hour and increasing the pay for sub-stitute teachers aides to that of substitute teachers.
While the amount of the raise was not specified, a let-ter from finance chief Mar-celle Richardson noted that schools are struggling to fill the substitute aide positions at the current rate.
• Approved a job descrip-tion for a “system support specialist for technical as-sistance for the installation, maintenance, configuration and troubleshooting of all IT, security/safety systems and related software ... at the district and school level.”
The position reports to Michael Green Jr., the ex-ecutive director of support services.
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JOEL ADDINGTONMANAGING EDITOR
In a previously unreported arrest, an 18-year-old Mac-clenny man was taken into custody December 9 after har-boring a 15-year-old female runaway for less than a day.
The girl reportedly left a note before leaving her grand-mother’s home on North Fifth Street with Jakob B. Ingles of Woodlawn Road about 3 a.m., according to the arrest report by Deputy Archie Crews.
The grandmother contacted police when she found the girl missing about 8:30 a.m. and started contacted family members in search of her granddaughter.
Deputy Crews soon learned about Mr. Ingles and contact-ed him by phone. He repeatedly denied knowing the where-abouts of the 15-year-old even while arranging to drop her off to family members at the Sanderson Dollar General.
After that occurred the suspect was pulled over at CR 125 and 90 where Mr. Ingles apologized for lying to police. He was then arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor.
When the deputy spoke to the 15-year-old’s parents, they reportedly said they didn’t want the suspect to face serious charges and wanted to handle the situation internally.
In an unrelated arrest on January 23, Richard F. Smith of Macclenny was taken into custody at the Country Boys con-venience store at CR 125 and 90 on an out-of-county warrant for failing to pay child support.
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A Middleburg woman was arrested at a rest stop on I-10 in Baker County on January 25 after her teenage daugh-ter called 911 and said her mother was “crazy” and was taking her out of state be-cause her parents had been fighting, shows a report from the Florida Highway Patrol.
Kristina Gail Jewett, 43, was charged with DUI and felony cruelty toward a child without great bodily harm after authorities searched her 2010 Toyota Scion and found numerous bottles of prescription medications, including opiates.
The 15-year-old daugh-ter was removed from the scene by a case worker with Florida Department of Chil-dren and Families while her mother was transported to the county jail after failing to pass a series of roadside so-briety tests administered by FHP Trooper K.A. Hilliard.
“During my contact with Ms. Kristina Jewett I ob-served her shaking, swaying, fidgeting and [she] appeared to be impaired,” Trooper Hilliard stated in his report, adding that the woman sub-sequently agreed to perform field sobriety exercises.
Prior to commencing the exercises the trooper said he asked her if she had any medical conditions that would hinder her perfor-mance on the tests and she replied: “kidney disease, os-teoporosis, PTSD, thyroid problems, night vision prob-lems, back problems, torn
ligaments and nerve prob-lems with [the] stomach.”
Nonetheless he started the sobriety test and later noted the suspect had poor balance, swayed, trembled was “slow and methodical in her movements on some in-structions.”
During a search of Ms. Jewett’s car the trooper re-ported finding recent pre-scription bottles contain-ing “numerous controlled substances” that included the anti-overdose medica-tion Narcan, the opiate Su-boxone, the amphetamine Adderall and alprazolam (Xanax), though all were prescribed to Kristina Jew-ett.
She stated that she had ingested some of the pre-scription drugs as well as medical marijuana earlier that day. She pointed the officer to her medical mar-ijuana registry card inside her wallet, according to the trooper.
Upon inspecting the pill bottles closely Trooper Hil-liard noted that dozens of pills were unaccounted for, and the woman’s daughter said her mother doesn’t take all the drugs herself.
“The complainant/victim stated her mother is missing medication because she sells her pills,” the trooper said.
The incident ended with the woman’s arrest at 2 p.m. but began shortly after Ms. Jewett checked her daugh-ter out of school around 11:30 a.m. and began driving west en route to Mississippi, during which the daughter called 911 seeking help.
At 12:38 p.m. the mother also called 911 and was in-structed to pull over at the Baker County rest area at mile marker 318 in the Sand-erson area and she complied.
During his initial contact with the woman’s daugh-ter, Trooper Hilliard said she “was very hysterical cry-ing uncontrollably,” while
stating that her mother “re-moved her from school un-scheduled around 11:30 a.m. and was taking her out of state with her belongings previously packed in the car.”
The daughter further stated she was scared of her mother and that “she always does this.” Asked what ‘this’ was, the youth responded her mom was “crazy” and al-ways fights with her father in her presence.
Once at county jail Ms. Jewett was read her Miranda Warning rights and provid-ed two alcohol breath sam-ples, both of which showed no sign of impairment from alcohol. That led the trooper to suspect she was under the influence of other substanc-es.
She then submitted a urine sample to be tested for the presences of drugs, tell-ing the officer the testing will likely show Xanax and Sub-oxone in her system.
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A circuit court judge ordered a Mac-clenny man to prison for 10 years on January 22 on multiple felony charges stemming from a brutal attack on his fi-ancé at their residence on Faye Rd. the evening of April 26 last year.
Kevin A. Crawford, 32, was adjudged guilty by Judge James Colaw of ag-gravated battery on a pregnant woman, false imprisonment, battery by strangu-lation and aggra-vated assault with a deadly weapon.
T h e s t a t e dropped one count of sexual assault.
Mr. Crawford advised a county deputy he had been drinking moonshine that day and an al-tercation with Tiffany Hilliard, also 32, began during a cookout.
Ms. Hilliard, who had visible injuries to her face and neck, told officers the ac-cused choked and pistol whipped her, and held the gun to her head threaten-ing her. He then placed the weapon in the area of her crotch and threatened to kill her baby. She was seven-and-one-half months pregnant.
Mr. Crawford’s criminal record in-cludes a domestic battery in 2013, a charge that was later dropped, and traf-fic violations.
Judge Colaw ordered two years on
house arrest and a five-year drug of-fender probation following release, along with mental health and drug abuse evaluations and a batterer’s in-tervention class.
In another case resulting in prison time, the judge sent Darnell Lee, 36, of Macclenny off for three more years after he pleaded no contest to sale of marijuana to an undercover buyer on successive days in October of last year.
Mr. Lee’s past convictions for sell-ing drugs including cocaine and other controlled substances have earned him prison time in 2001, 2005 and 2008, the longest sentence of five years.
He has other convictions for dis-orderly conduct and reckless driving, along with arrests for battery, violation of a domestic violence order and drug sales, charges later dropped.
In other sentences that day:• Brandi Estep, possession of pre-
scription drugs; five days in jail, 18-month drug offender probation. community service, drug abuse evalu-ation.
• Kristen Griffis, grand theft; three days in jail, three-year probation, com-munity service, $400 restitution.
• Jonathan Kyle Harvey, introduc-tion of contraband into county jail; one year, seven days in prison.
• Sanderria Johnson, felony driving on revoked license (habitual offender); failed to appear warrant issued.
• Kimberly Muse, grand theft; 23
days in jail, two-year probation, $1250 restitution, community service.
• Kyle Stelma, carrying concealed weapon, disorderly conduct; five days in jail, one-year probation, anger man-agement class, community service.
• Marsha Thornton, possession of prescription drugs, resisting arrest; three days in jail, 18-month probation, drug/alcohol abuse evaluation, com-munity service.
• Melissa Frley, VOP (probation vi-olation) child neglect, DUI; 14 days in jail, 50 hours community service.
• Paige Gresham, VOP resisting ar-rest, possession of drug paraphernalia; 40 days in jail and remain there until in-patient drug treatment space avail-able.
• Tessa Lombardi, VOP possession of prescription drugs; 63 days in jail, weekly drug testing for 90 days.
• Stacey Poppell, giving false pawn information, dealing in stolen property, contempt of court; 116 days in jail, two-year house arrest, 18-month probation, remain in jail pending in-patient drug treatment, community service.
• Joseph Mullins Jr., VOP grand theft; reinstate probation, make good faith effort to make restitution.
• Hannah West, VOP possession of prescription drugs; 14 days in jail, one year on house arrest, three-year proba-tion, remain in jail pending in-paient drug treatment, community service.
Kevin Crawford
Gets 10 years for felony assaultJOEL ADDINGTON
MANAGING EDITOR [email protected]
A 28-year-old Macclenny man was jailed January 20 for allegedly beating up his 19-year-old girlfriend on Rock Court that afternoon, including striking her head with an empty bottle.
Isaac D. Simmons Jr. of South First Street repeatedly said “nothing happened” between the couple when questioned by police, according to Deputy Andrew Thames’ account, but he was arrested for aggravated battery, a felony.
Photos were taken of the girlfriend’s injuries, including blood-stained clothes and a bloody nose, and she was direct-ed to resources for victims of domestic violence.
The alleged attack occurred during a verbal argument be-tween Mr. Simmons and Shiann S. Hollings.
An unidentified witness was said to have pulled Mr. Sim-mons off the victim before the suspect grabbed the empty glass bottle of Paul Masson liquor from a counter and hit Ms. Hollings in the back of the head.
Mr. Simmons has a criminal history that includes mostly traffic violations and property crimes. He had a bond hearing Tuesday.
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JOEL ADDINGTONMANAGING EDITOR
The First Coast YMCA is planning a fresh start for the nonprofit organization in Baker County by refocusing on its core missions — pro-moting health, water safe-ty and youth development. It’s doing so with help from a new community develop-ment coordinator in Anna Lewis.
She’s returning to the Y after spending about six years volunteering at and later leading the Baker County branch.
Ms. Lewis is what vice president of operations for the First Coast Y Jon Dearolf calls a “hometown hero” with a passion for both the Y and Baker County.
The Glen St. Mary resi-dent started with the non-profit as a part-time recep-tionist at the former gym and headquarters on West Lowder Street in 2001. She was offered the full-time di-rector position six months later and served in that role through 2007.
“I loved the Y with a pas-sion and volunteering was something that my [late] husband Wayne and I did as a team ... Unfortunately, he just passed away, and I feel like God opened this door for the Y,” explained Ms. Lewis, who attends Raiford Road Church.
She was invited late last year to a meeting with Mr. Dearolf and some former
advisory board members for the local Y.
Following closure of the Y headquarters on West Lowder Street in the spring of 2014, the board eventu-ally dissolved, though the neighboring pool facility remained open. The pool’s owned by the City of Mac-clenny but operated by the Y under a contract with the municipality.
“We all just kind of threw around ideas about what worked well back in the day and the things we felt could be improved on ...” Ms. Lewis recalled. “For me, I thought this would be a great place I could volunteer at. After losing my husband it would give me something to do.”
Instead, however, the or-ganization offered Ms. Lewis a part-time position as com-munity development coordi-nator, which she accepted in early December.
Since then Ms. Lewis has been meeting with commu-nity groups, including the Rotary Club last week, to gather input about Y opera-tions in the past and how the
nonprofit can better serve Baker County in the future.
Some of the feedback has been about the need for more adult leadership in the youth sports programs. Communication and sched-uling problems and a gener-al lack of organization were common complaints.
Some youths also didn’t receive their medals after seasons ended.
“When I do these listen-ing tours, I let them know this is not personal. You tell me what we could do better. What we did good, what we could improve on — the good, bad and the ugly. That’s why I’m here, so we can do a better job,” Ms. Lewis explained.
“... It’s been a lot of work for one person, but I’m defi-nitely game ... I just want to see the Y come back,” she said, adding that she has gotten support from local leaders in that mission, too. “People love the Y. We just have to get their confidence back.”
Her initial goals for com-ing months are many.
They include staffing up
— getting a recently hired aquatics coordinator trained and lifeguards and swim in-structors hired for the pool opening in early May. It will be free and open to the pub-lic for the first weekend.
“We’ll have bounce hous-es, fun events, educational events,” said Ms. Lewis.
She hopes to raise mon-ey for scholarships for un-derprivileged youths and seniors so they can partic-ipate in programs planned for later this year, subject to approvals by a reconstitut-ed advisory board expect-ed to have its first meeting on March 26 at noon at the health department. Prepa-rations for summer youth camp activities are also un-derway.
“I’m back. I just feel like the Lord led me here ... And I think have a lot to offer. I may not have all the answers but I will certainly find them out. And I won’t give you an answer just to be giving you an answer. That’s the honest truth,” Ms. Lewis said.
JOEL ADDINGTONMANAGING EDITOR
Two local men and a third from Palatka are fac-ing misdemeanor counts for baiting and hunting wildlife in the Osceola National For-est, a state-managed and protected wildlife area.
Chandler R. Combs, 31, of Macclenny, William S. Williams IV, 46, of Palatka and Wesley C. Canaday, 39, of Sanderson were observed violating wildlife manage-ment area regulations by baiting a location near For-est Raod 295 and Rattle-snake for hunting between mid-December and early January.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission officers placed cameras at the location af-ter officer David Burnsed followed a foot trail away from a pond and found a spot baited with whole corn.
Mr. Combs and Mr. Wil-liams were first spotted on the cameras examining at the corn and putting out dogs on December 17. Mr. Combs returned the fol-lowing day to put out more corn. Four days later the suspects returned to put
dogs out again.Mr. Canaday first ap-
peared on the cameras the next day with his brother, who was not charged, cast-ing hunting dogs into the baited site.
After documenting sim-ilar activity by the suspects in late December, FWC of-ficers contacted Mr. Combs at his home on Glo Gene Road. He initially denied knowledge of the bait site until presented with the camera images.
The other subjects made similar denials but acknowl-edged they knew about the site, dubbed by the group as “the honey hole.” Mr. Can-aday initially denied know-ing anything about the bait-ed hunting area while Mr. Williams told the officers he wasn’t aware it was baited, despite being seen there nu-merous times on camera.
Charges were filed with the state attorney’s office against the men. Mr. Combs faces two counts for placing bait and hunting over bait. Mr. Canady and Mr. Wil-liams were only charged with the latter misdemean-or count.
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JERRY WALLSPRESS NATURE COLUMNIST
There they were, several inverted pyramid-shaped funnels dug in the sand under our barn waiting for an unsuspecting small insect to fall in and become dinner. The “doo-dlebugs” were busy at work in their mine field for small ar-thropods.
Antlions, doodlebugs, owl flies — whatever you want to call them — are unique ar-thropods. The larvae, quite impressive looking with two large protruding jaw-like pro-jections, bury just under the sand at the bottom of their sand funnels waiting for a hapless ant or other small insect to fall into their traps. In addition to their pincher-laden head, antlion larvae also have a six leg-bearing thorax and large, plump abdomen. They are fero-cious looking little creatures. I’m glad
they don’t grow larger than they do!Many antlion larvae construct their
sand funnels under structures to be out of the rain so barns and outbuild-ings in sandy areas are prime habitat.
Adult antlions look like dragonflies or damselflies but are actually different from the two. Adult antlions usually have a club-like antennae. Many adults are nocturnal. Depending on the species, adults may eat nectar, pollen or insects. In some species it takes two to three years to grow from the egg to an adult.
As a child, I remember catching ants and placing them in the sand funnels of
antlions. The antlions would flick their two little pinchers (actually compara-tively speaking they are not so little) until the ant was firmly grasped. The ants would try to climb up the side of the funnel while the antlion flicked sand into the air. The sliding ants
would not be able to secure their foot-ing and usually finally succumbed to the antlions fierce protruding pinch-ers. It was history for the ants from this point on.
Often, I felt sorry for the ants and stopped doing this letting nature take its true course. I bet most kids don’t venture outside in today’s computer-ized world to look for antlions or oth-er members of our amazing natural world.
So, if you are in a sandy area usually protected from the rain and see several little inverted funnel-shaped holes in the ground, you are in the midst of the ferocious little antlion. Just be thank-ful they don’t grow much larger than they do!
Enjoy your Baker County nature trails.
For questions or comments, e-mail Jerry Walls, a teacher, naturalist, envi-ronmental educator in northeast Flor-ida, at [email protected].
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JOEL ADDINGTONMANAGING EDITOR
The Baker Prevention Co-alition and its partners will be hosting a “Say Yes to the Dress” giveaway on Febru-ary 8-9 at the Women’s Club in Macclenny.
Coalition executive direc-tor Lea Rhoden announced the event during a meeting with community partners at the sheriff’s office Janu-ary 24. The free event will include designer dresses in sizes 0-26 as well as shoes, jewelry and purses, all do-nated from the community.
“We wanted to do some-thing for prom and it evolved into this,” explained Ms. Rhoden, noting that the first giveaway took place last year at the high school. “It’s a feel-good event. We had two moms cry [last year]. Totally didn’t expect that. The girls just had fun put-ting the dresses on. Some probably had never tried on dresses like that.”
The giveaway last spring was held in the entryway to the cafeteria and auditorium and students tried on dress-es in the nearby restroom. The venue this year at the women’s club will offer more space to show off more dresses.
“It will look like a bou-tique,” said Ms. Rhoden to the group of a few dozen at-tendees, including a repre-sentative from Congressman Al Lawson’s office.
“We’ll decorate it to look really pretty. We have over 100 dresses now and some are new with the tags still on them and only worn once. They are five, six, eight-hun-dred-dollar dresses. Some
are simple ... Anything you’d like to donate would be help-ful,” she said.
The dress giveaway will be February 8 from 3-8 p.m. and February 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The director also an-nounced a first-time event for the coalition, a gala fund-raiser to be held at the fair-grounds exhibition hall on July 19.
Noting that the coalition is largely funded through a five-year federal grant that will end next year, Ms. Rhoden said the nonprofit organization is looking for ways to become financially self-sustaining should such funding end in the future.
“The shutdown didn’t af-fect, but they could easily say, ‘No more funding.’ ... It’s out of our hands, so we
need to be able to sustain ourselves as an organization and fundraising is one of the easiest ways to do it,” said Ms. Rhoden.
The gala will include din-ner, a silent auction, danc-ing, a lip sync battle and oth-er entertainment. It will be alcohol-free.
In other news from the meeting, some 30 people participated in this month’s parents town hall meeting at Raiford Road Church re-garding signs of youth sub-stance abuse.
Attendees also heard from the mother of a wom-an killed by a drunk driv-er whose brother is dealing with addiction and BCSO narcotics Detective Rickie Crews spoke about the drug trends he’s seen in the com-munity and those expected
to move north from south-ern parts of the state.
Stephanie Bechtel with Healthy Start, who attends Raiford Road Church, said a common misconception that people have is that their family won’t be impacted by substance abuse and addic-tion, which may be keeping them away from town halls on those issues.
“I think we have the mis-conception in the communi-ty that it’s not going to affect me ... My family was one of those,” she said, adding that she lost her cousin to opioid addiction.
“You couldn’t have told anyone in my family that. So I think the reason you’re not having the turnout at these town halls is you’ve got those families [who say] ‘Well, it’s not going to hap-pen to our family so I don’t need to know about it,’” said Ms. Bechtel.
“It can happen to any family ... We have to get that message out,” she said.
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Board of County Commissioners of Baker County, Florida will consider the TRANSMITTAL of proposed CHANG-ES TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN described in this advertisement.
The public is hereby notified that the Land Planning Agency of Baker County, Florida will hold a public hearing on February 14, 2019 at 6 P.M. or as soon thereafter a can be heard, in the Board of County Commissioners Meeting Room, 55 North Third Street, Macclenny, Florida to consider the transmittal of an amendment to the 2020 Baker County Comprehensive Plan to the Department of Economic Opportunity. The Board of County Commissioners of Baker County will hold a public hearing on February 19, 2019 at 6 P.M. or as soon thereafter as can be heard, in the Board of County Commissioners Meeting Room, 55 North Third Street, Macclenny, Florida to consider, after receipt of public comment, the transmittal of the proposed amendment to the 2020 Baker County Comprehensive Plan described below. The public hearings are scheduled for the purpose of receiving public comment pursuant to Section 163.3187, Florida Statutes, on the proposed amendment the 2020 Baker County Comprehensive Plan.
ORDINANCE 2019-
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUN-TY COMMISSIONERS OF BAKER COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE ORDINANCE NO. 91-1 WHICH ADOPTED THE 2020 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, AS AMENDED TO EXTEND THE PLANNING PERIOD TO 2040 AND IMPLEMENT EAR-BASED AMEND-MENTS, TO WIT: AMENDING THE 2020 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IN ITS ENTIRETY TO DELETE REFERENCES TO RULE 9J-5, FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE; AMEND-ING REFERENCES TO CHAPTER 163, FLOR-IDA STATUTES TO REFLECT CHANGES SINCE 2010; AMENDING REFERENCES TO THE FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE TO RE-FLECT CHANGES SINCE 2010; AMENDING REFERENCES TO THE NORTHEAST FLORIDA REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL TO THE NORTHEAST FLORIDA REGIONAL COUNCIL; AMENDING REFERENCE TO RURAL AREA OF CRITICAL ECONOMIC CONCERN TO RURAL AREA OF OPPORTUNITY; AMENDING REF-ERENCES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COM-MUNITY AFFAIRS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY; REPEALING THE 2020 FUTURE LAND USE MAP AND ADOPTING THE 2040 FUTURE LAND USE MAP; REVISING FUTURE LAND USE POLICY A.1.6.10 TO IDENTIFY THE BASIS FOR REVIEW OF PROPOSED AMENDMENTS SUBJECT TO SECTION 163.3184, FLORIDA STATUTES; AMENDING TRAFFIC CIRCULATION POLICY H.1.12.9 TO ESTABLISH A DE MINIMUS STANDARD FOR TRANSPORTATION CONCURRENCY; AMENDING TRAFFIC CIRCULATION ELEMENT POLICY B.1.4.1 TO EXEMPT PUBLIC TRANSIT FACILITIES FROM TRANSPORTATION CONCURRENCY; AMENDING TRAFFIC CIRCULATION POLICY B.1.4.2 TO PROVIDE FOR PROPORTIONATE SHARE MITIGATION OF TRANSPORTATION IMPACTS BY A PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT; AMENDING TRAFFIC CIRCULATION POLICY B.1.4.7 TO PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR PROPORTIONATE FAIR SHARE PAYMENTS; DELETING TRAFFIC CIRCULATION ELEMENT MAP B-1 2010 EXISTING TRANSPORTATION URBAN; DELETING TRAFFIC CIRCULATION ELEMENT MAP B-2 2010 EXISTING TRANSPORTA-TION MAP RURAL; AMENDING THE TITLE OF TRAFFIC CIRCULATION ELEMENT MAP B-3 FROM 2020 TO 2040 FUTURE TRANSPORTATION URBAN; AMENDING THE TITLE OF TRAFFIC CIRCULATION ELEMENT MAP B-4 FROM 2030 TO 2040 FUTURE LONG TERM TRANSPORTATION URBAN; AMENDING HOUSING POLICY C.1.2.4 TO RE-VISE THE DEFINITION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO A PERCENTAGE OF INCOME; AMENDING PUBLIC FACILI-TIES OBJECTIVE D.1.8 AND POLICIES D.1.8.1 AND D.1.8.2 TO ADOPT A WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES WORK PLAN PURSUANT TO SECTION 163.3177(6)(C)(3), FLORIDA STATUTES; AMENDING CONSERVATION ELEMENT POLICY E.1.2.6 TO REQUIRE WATER SUPPLY PLANNING FOR AT LEAST A 10 YEAR PERIOD; ADDING CONSERVATION ELEMENT POLICY E.1.2.7 TO PROVIDE FOR COORDINATION OF THE WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES WORK PLAN WITH THE SJRWMD AND THE REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY PLAN; AMENDING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ELEMENT POLICY H.1.3.6 TO INCORPORATE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A FIVE-YEAR SCHEDULE OF CAPITAL IMPROVE-MENTS; ADOPTING A 5 YEAR SCHEDULE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS (2020- 2025); PROVIDING DIRECTIONS TO STAFF; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
After the public hearing the Board may take immediate action to transmit the proposed amendment, or may continue its deliberations to a date, time and place then announced without publishing further notice thereof. A copy of the proposed amendment is available for inspection by the public at the Baker County Community Development Department, 360 East Shuey Avenue, Macclenny, FL, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. Interested parties may appear at the meetings and be heard with respect to the proposed amendment.
Pursuant to Section 286.0105, Florida Statues, a person deciding to appeal any decision made by the Local Planning Agency or Board of County Commissioners with respect to any matter considered at the meeting or at any subsequent meeting to which the Board has continued its deliberations is advised that such person will need a record of all proceedings and may need to ensure that a verbatim record of all proceedings is made, which must include the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person needing a special accommodation to par-ticipate in this matter should contact the Baker County ADA Coordinator by mail at 55 North Third Street, Macclenny, Florida, 32063 or by telephone at (904) 259-3613 no later than three (3) days prior to the hearing or proceeding for which this notice has been given.
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Prevention Coalition director Lea Rhoden addresses partners last week at the sheriff’s office.
Dress giveaway set for Feb. 8-9
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240 get free Farm Share foodA semi-trailer full of foodstuffs were handed out for free to Baker County residents during a giveaway organized by Farm Share and the North Florida Community Action Agency with help from some 40 volun-teers with the sheriff’s office, health department and other local agencies, said Farm Share regional man-ager Paul Smallwood, pictured above assisting one beneficiary of the charity event held the morning of January 24 starting at 9 a.m. The foods included both perishable and non-perishable goods, which were cleared out within about an hour and a half. “It went quick,” said Mr. Smallwood.
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I was a little shocked hearing BCHS principal Allen Murphy say last week that for some students, a high school di-ploma may not be the best choice.
He was speaking about a dip in the high school’s graduation rate last spring (see story on page 4) and rightfully pointed out that for some kids, life gets in the way of a typical high school diploma.
I fully understand that in education, one size doesn’t fit all. We need alterna-tives.
There’s been a movement in recent years to push some students away from traditional liberal arts universities and degrees in the humanities towards more specialized mechanical, techno-
logical and medical fields where there are too few skilled workers in the labor force to meet the current demands of those industries.
Similar moves are afoot for high school stu-dents with bills being filed at the state level for alternative graduation requirements that focus less on test scores and more on mastery of em-ployable skills.
I’m a little cautious on both counts, however. It’s not because I learned a ton in college. I was far more educated by doing this job than learning about it.
I’ve heard the stories of people who got degrees in art or history, or even worse art history, who end up serving coffee while they reevaluate their lives.
Sometimes they go back to college for something more practical. Other times they open a food truck and are probably much happier for it.
I often pine for knowledge and skill it takes turn a hunk of wood into a table, not to mention the tools. Oh, the tools.
So I get it. College ain’t for everybody and not passing the 10th grade state as-sessment for language arts isn’t the end of anyone’s future.
My trepidation, I suppose, is that a young, indecisive minds could waste time trying discover the right path when the traditional route was always it. And maybe that’s OK. My experience was similar. Perhaps I’m just astounded that a high school principal devalued a traditional diploma, albeit in defense of a lower graduation rate and limited in scope. It’s a brave new world, folks.
Brrrr!I could not get warm all
day Sunday. It had been raining all day and I was just cold and damp. It was probably in the low 40’s and as I wandered around the house in a T-shirt, hoodie and jacket I kept thinking to myself.
You are such a wimp.In Oklahoma City its 18
degrees where son Spen-cer lives. It’s 8 in Nashville, where son Dylan recently visited. Here in Macclenny it’s 45 and I think I’m in the arctic tundra.
What a wimp.One of the crazy things
about it is that I am origi-nally from the arctic tundra.
When I was a kid I lived in Buffalo, where the winds off of Lake Erie will pile up winter snow in 12-foot drifts and you don’t see a blade of grass from mid-Oc-tober to mid-March. All you see is dirty, brown snow and slush.
Basically, you’re living inside an Icee machine.
Eventually, my fami-ly had enough and moved south. They were in the van-guard of the exodus from the North to the South.
I don’t think they ever re-gretted it.
On the other hand, my sister and I missed it. She ice skated on winter eve-
nings when she and her friends met at a nearby fro-zen pond and did figure 8’s.
I could stand up on skates and slide around a little, but I dreamed of playing hockey one day once my ankles got stron-ger.
Winter meant snow and snow showed up around the middle of October. I can still remember standing in the front yard and looking up in the sky at the clouds and estimating if what I was seeing were actual “snow clouds.”
Any northerner, or “Yan-kee” as my wife terms it, can identify a snow cloud. They are a mixture of white and gray and look like they are pregnant. They just look heavy, like at any minute they aren’t gonna be able to take it any longer and will break open, disgorging whatever’s in there.
I was 5 or 6 and knew a snow cloud when I saw it. Many, many Florida years down the line I can still look in the sky on a frigid winter day and pick out a potential snow cloud.
I was thrilled when it fi-nally did snow. It was just like what you see in White
Christmas. It was silent and beautiful and it transformed even dull, ugly Buffalo into a winter wonderland.
My sister and I chomped at the bit to get out and play in it, but no sir, nobody was s t e p p i n g outside the door until
my mother unpacked the “snow suits.”
What is a snow suit? It’s the giant cocoon-like out-fit that Randy wore in A Christmas Story, when he cried the cry that all North-ern children from Maine to Washington wailed, “I can’t put my arms down.”
I believe mine was bur-gundy and smelled faintly of moth balls. It took about 10 minutes to get it on and about 15 to get it off. My mom would add a hood, a scarf or maybe two, mittens and “snow shoes,” which were galoshes with snaps.
By the time you got into that getup you were sweat-ing like a pig because it was 95 degrees in there. When we were sent out into the frozen tundra it was just about right. My mother in-sisted that I wear my snow suit every time I ventured out into the snow.
It was okay, because it re-
ally did keep out the slushy snow and kept us warm.
Just don’t fall down. You couldn’t get up and might be stranded there, covered in drifts until they found your body in March.
We loved making snow angels, but we had to have the equivalent of a des-ignated driver, someone whose only job was to help us get out of the snow and back on our feet. Otherwise we were the kid equivalent of a turtle flipped over on its shell.
The only problem was when we got to school. Our teacher had to budget in 30 or 40 minutes every morn-ing to get us out of our gear and another 30 or 40 to get us back into it. Each ele-mentary school classroom had their version of a “mud room.” There were hooks for everyone’s snow gear and cubbies for your hats, mittens and snow shoes.
If the radiators weren’t working, we started the day with jumping jacks and toe touches to get the blood go-ing and then said the Pledge of Allegiance and sang My Country ‘Tis of Thee.
Here in Florida, we just wait a day or two and it’s once again 68 degrees out-side.
I kind of miss it. Can you tell?
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
BAKERCOUNTY
On PointIn PrintJoel Addington
My Side ofthe Matter
ROBERT GERARD
Dear Editor:I second the recent let-
ter from Richard Fish. On Christmas Eve I found myself with a bout of kid-ney stones (Ouch!) and made my first visit to Ed Fraser emergency room. Dr. White and staff diag-nosed the problem and gave direction for correc-tive action, which worked as advised.
A couple of weeks lat-er, I was back and saw Dr. Jarczyk and staff for a re-lated symptom and again got accurate and caring attention from the team. Everything is all better now and I would like to say thanks to the whole team at Ed Fraser E.R. In time of great pain and need, they came through in a big way.
Randy Wilbourn Glen St. Mary
Dear editor:In recent days, Governor Ron DeSantis announced a
number of appointments to serve on his administration. A pivotal appointment to his cabinet is the new Secretary for the Department of Elder Affairs (DOEA) – Richard Pru-dom. DOEA is the State Unit on Aging, whose mission is to help Florida’s 5.5 million elders remain healthy, safe and independent.
Secretary Prudom has more than 30 years in executive leadership with the State of Florida where he has worked to develop, implement and lead public policies and programs that improve the lives of Florida families. Since 2011, he has served at the Department of Elder Affairs as Deputy Secretary, Chief of Staff and Chief Financial Officer.
With his appointment comes an opportunity to share in-formation about the work being done at the state and local levels to support our aging population in Florida.
Florida is the third largest state by population and has the highest percentage of residents age 65 and older. The number of older adults will increase by 38 percent over the next 10 years. This increase will have an avalanche ef-fect affecting Florida families, caregivers in the workplace, transportation, access to senior support programs and services, delivery of health care, community living and so much more.
A variety of initiatives are being examined and imple-mented by the Department of Elder Affairs such as work-ing alongside AARP to make Florida the first Age-Friendly State through a network of Livable Communities that fo-cus on tackling and embracing the challenges that an aging population create. The Dementia Care and Cure Initiative (DCCI) has been launched in 10 Florida cities to address the dramatic increase dementia and related disorders will have on communities. Most importantly, the Department relies on the work of the Area Agencies on Aging and the Aging & Disability Resource Centers to zero-in on local and regional aging issues.
Here in northeast Florida, ElderSource is your Area Agency on Aging and Aging and Disability Resource Cen-ter for Northeast Florida. We are funded by the Depart-ment and the federal Older Americans Act to implement programs and services offered by the Baker County senior centers. Our mission is to empower seniors, adults with disabilities and their caregivers to live and age with dignity and independence in their homes and in their communi-ties.
Our tagline, “Start Here for Help,” is so relevant now-adays. Many people are not aware of the resources and information available to help older adults and their fami-ly members navigate this slippery slope. People want and look for a trusted source.
We have proven to be that trusted source, as evidenced by the 5,000+ calls that come to our HelpLine each month from clients in our seven county service area --- Baker, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, St. Johns and Volusia counties.
Not sure what we do and how ElderSource might help your family? Please call to learn more. The aging issues fac-ing state legislators and the community leaders in our own backyards will only continue to grow in both size and com-plexity. Now is a great time for you to connect with us at ElderSource and to track how aging issues will affect your families, community and businesses.
Linda Levin, ElderSource CEO
DeSantis pick willbe good for seniors
Kudos to Fraser staff
Florida wimp nostalgic for icy snow
Caution on ‘alternate’ diplomas
Thursday, January 31, 2019 The Baker County Press Page 9
ACROSS1. Forever and a day
5. Organ of balance
8. What Jack Sprat couldn’t eat
11. Quinceanera or bat mitzvah
12. Wagon part
13. You can count on these
15. Heart of the matter
16. Perceive by touch
17. Fedora part, pl.
18. *Voter test, now illegal
20. Ireland’s other name
21. Written corrections
22. One from Laos
23. Kind of acid
26. *Segregation laws
30. *Stop segregation, e.g.
31. 40 winks
34. Zeus’ wife
35. Nadya Suleman’s children, e.g.
37. Subject of “Philadelphia” movie
38. Kind of southern pie
39. Chico or Groucho
40. Cured sausage
42. Member of Shoshonean people
43. *Montgomery Bus ____
45. Produced by inbreeding
47. Brown league
48. Kind of ray
50. Flying toy
52. *He challenged nonviolence
55. Juice alternative
56. Craving
57. Evening in Italy
59. Dead to the world
60. Harry Potter’s mark
61. Wet nurse
62. Ottoman officer title
63. CafÈ alternative
64. Kind of bean
DOWN1. *”The ____ of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice”
2. Lena Dunham or Allison Williams, 2012-2017
3. Red carpet purse
4. The Brady Bunch children, e.g.
5. Permission for absence from a college
6. Smart ____, pl
7. Be dependent8. *____ Housing Act
9. Climber’s destination
10. “____ the season ...”
12. *Mandela presided over its southernmost country
13. Perpendicular to the keel
14. French bun
19. Authoritative proclamation
22. Not to be given to those in authority
23. Manhattan Project invention
24. Chocolate tree
25. “Dear Diary...” note
26. Cup of joe
27. Happen again
28. Do like Demosthenes
29. What moon did
32. Not this
33. Bupkis
36. Oscillator, e.g.
38. ‘70s Ford model
40. Farm pen
41. Meat grinder, e.g.
44. For all to see
46. Model-builder’s wood of choice, pl.
48. *____ on Washington
49. Blue-Green scum
50. *Nobel Peace Prize winner
51. Light bulb
52. Necessary thing
53. Office dispatch
54. Roentgen’s machine
55. Langley, VA org.
58. “Eureka!”
THEME: CIVIL RIGHTSThe WayIt Was
BY: THE LATE GENE BARBER
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION:
Slaughter at Tiffin Pond
Press Ad Deadline: Monday 5:00 PM
South of Sanderson is a small swampy area known as Tiff-ens’ Pond. As is the case of all place names, there is a sto-ry behind the naming. In the early 1830’s John Joshua Un-
derwood Tippens, originally of North Carolina, brought his wife Nancy and three children into Columbia County (that part of which later became Baker). Due to the Cracker speech habit of substituting ‘F’ for double ‘P’ when located within a word, the lo-cale became known as Tiffens rather than Tippens.
Mr. Tippens was a son of Phillip and Mary Underwood Tip-pens of North Carolina. His wife was a daughter of David Mizell from Camden (Charlton) Co., Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Tippens were married in Camden County at Traders Hill on the 22nd of January 1825. She was sister to ancestors of many Charlton, Baker, Union, Columbia and Union citizens as well as many families in south Columbia. Her father, David, had recently moved to an area in south Columbia County, Florida (thought to be present Union Co.) and Mr. Tippens attempted removal of his family to the Mizell fortified home during an Indian alarm. It was the beginning of an incident related in this excerpt of a letter written by a neighbor to a relative in St. Marys, Georgia.
“It is again my painful duty to inform you of a most shocking Indian massacre - I mean the murder of Mr. John Tippins and family. Mr. Tippins was bringing his wife and children out of Florida to see her parents, and when within a few miles of her father’s house, was fallen in with about seven Indians, between 10 o’clock, A.M. and 12 o’clock. Mr. Tippens was shot from his horse, the Indians then made an easy capture of his helpless family and vented their savage spleen by beating them on the heads with their tomahawks. Mrs. Tippins lived (senseless) about 40 hours, but did not speak; her skull was smashed in many places by the tomahawk. She died in the arms of her fa-ther, Mr. David Mizell. Her children are not yet dead, although the skull of each is fractured in many places by the tomahawks. This melancholy occasion took place in this county last Mon-day not far from Ocean Pond.
“We are most critically situated. The Indians on the north of us close to the Okefinokee Swamp. On the south in the nation our market road leading from here to any market accessible to us passes through their gateway & we are here exposed on the border of the Okefinokee down both sides of the Indian gangways to the nation and no protection whatsoever from the army.”
The letter writer, in addition to almost waxing poetical re-garding the unfortunate family’s slaughter confused a few of the facts. The Tippens were not intending to leave Florida, but, according to the Mizell Family and the Green Family who found them, they were headed toward Mrs. Tippens’ father’s place to the southwest of them. Mrs. Elisha (Elizabeth Driggers) Green discovered the bloody scene, and left an eyewitness account.
Mr. Tippens evidently died on the spot where he fell, shot from his horse. Mrs. Tippens was scalped, and left to bleed to death. The children, the youngest 6 months old and the eldest 3 years old, were chopped in their heads with tomahawks, and slung to the ground.
Mr. Green was away in the army on a campaign against the Indians in the Alachua area. Mrs. Green and the children found Mrs. Tippens and the 3-year-old Cornelia still living the next morning. Mrs. Tippens died soon after she was discovered. Lit-tle Cornelia survived, and died in 1926 at the age of 88.
Mrs. Green buried the dead in one of her wagon bodies in present day South Prong Cemetery (the Green family burial grounds). This 137-year-old grave of John Joshua Underwood and Nancy Mizell Tippens and their two infants is located im-mediately north of Mr. Joe Jones’ grave.
Cornelia was reared by her uncle and aunt, Byrd and Sarah Ann Mizell Sparkman of Alachua County. She married William L. Mobley in 1861.
It would be quite appropriate to have the grave marked in honor of the little family during this history-minded year.
Cornelia and Mr. Mobley settled in Hillsborough County and raised a large family.
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Martha Wehling of Glen St. MaryMartha Doreen Wehling, 72, of
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Ms. Wehling was preceded in death by her parents, son Marty Davis, sister Danni Faye Moore and grandson Josh Davis. She is survived by her daughter Michelle (Jimmy) Irish and son Randy (Kim) Davis of Glen St. Mary; grandchildren Dylan Irish, Marshall Davis, Ryan Davis, Randy Davis Jr., Jessica Davis and Justin Davis; brothers: Robert (Janet) Thomas of Panama City, Jimmy (Sue) Sharpe of Abbeville, Alabam and Perry (Jennifer) Thomas of Hereford, Arizona; sister Sandè Thomas of Pan-ama City.
Memorialization will be by cremation. Forbes Funeral Home of Macclenny is in charge of arrangments.
David Worthington, former residentDavid Worthington, 65 and a former resident of Mac-
clenny, passed away on Tuesday January 22, 2019. He was born in Brooklyn, NY to the late Louis and Mable (Lowe) Worthington and moved to North Florida in 1976. David was a retired correctional officer for the State of Florida. He was a devoted Baptist who put his faith in the lord. David marched peacefully into the arms of the Lord after nine months of trying to overcome a trying illness. David loved traveling, collecting guns, doing crafts, collecting cars, watching NASCAR, and was an avid Gator and Eagles football fan. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, uncle, brother and friend, and will be dearly missed by all.
Mr. Worthington was preceded in death by his sister Dorothy Stenger. He is survived by his loving wife Doris; daughters Cari Worthington and Jackie Van Antwerp; sons David and Joshua Worthington of Macclenny and Angelo Baxter; brother Lewis Worthington (Carol); sister Cath-erine Gaylardo; grandchildren Katie, Logan, Cammie, AJ, Brianna, Emily and Riley; many other loving relatives and friends.
A memorial services will be held on Saturday February 2 at 3 p.m. with Rev. David E. Smith officiating.
Thank youWe would like to thank
everyone for their gener-ous support after Robby’s passing. The visits, calls, food, flowers, cards, and prayers were so appre-ciated. We know how much we love Robby, but to hear how he impacted so many other lives truly warms our hearts.
The Family of Robby Colston
In loving memory ofDoyle
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I think about you al-ways, I think about you still. You have never been forgotten, and you never will. I hold you close with-in my heart, and there you will remain. To walk with me throughout my life, until we meet again.
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We Love and Miss You,Stephanie and Jonathan
In loving memory ofWilliam David
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Martha Wehling ‘Keepin’ It Kind’ at BCMSThese students and teachers entered the winning name for Kind-ness week at BCMS: “Keepin’ It Kind.” The school has participated in the program for three years, and in 2019 will do so February 11-15. That will include Valentines Day and club day. Students will be en-gaged in writing letters to employees of the school system to thank them and recognize the importance of everyone’s contributions in making the learning environment a successful adventure. Students will submit creative posters, announcements will include kindness quotes and character education are all a part of the Great Kindness Challenge to create a culture of kindness for all. Pictured above are (from left) Alexis Smith, Ivy Tisdale, Rebecca Lambright, Greta Elledge, Addisyn Boatright and Bodie McCleland.
Test retakesTesting dates for the
FSA (Florida Standards Assessment) retakes are scheduled to accommodate former high school stu-dents who need a passing score in order to receive their high school diploma.
The re-tests for writing are set for February 27 and for reading on March 5 and 6.
The FSA test is comput-er-based and will be given at the Baker County Adult Education Testing Center located at 212 South Blvd East, Macclenny. Students must complete all three test sessions to receive a score. Participants must pre-register by February 15 by calling 904-259-0403.
Seating is limited.
Minister's Meet-ing
The Baker County Min-ister’s Association will meet on Tuesday, Febru-ary 5 at 11 a.m. at Pier 6 Restaurant. For more in-formation contact Pastor Mitch Rhoden, 904-305-2131.
Help withutility bills
The Low-Income En-ergy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) has funds avail-able to assist Baker County residents with their winter electric or gas bills up to $600.
Eligibility is based on income and family size.
To schedule an appoint-ment, please call the auto-mated line at 1-844-625-8776. Appointments can be scheduled 24 hour a day, several days a week up to 14 days in advance.
The program is admin-istered through the North-east Community Action Agency in Macclenny. Call 259-4481 with questions.
Obituaries and a photo are printed for free.
24-hour RAPE CRISIS HOTLINE:
904.721.7273
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Meetings Mon. - Sat. at 8 pm
8981 S. SR 228, MacclennyMeeting Monday at 6:30 pm93 N. 5th St., Macclenny
Obituaries and a photo are printed
free of charge.
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REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES
FOR BAKER COUNTY PAVING OF A PORTION OF TURNER CEMETERY ROAD
The Baker County Board of County Commis-sioners is announcing the RFQ for professional engineering/surveying for the paving/resur-facing services of Turner Cemetery Road. The selected firm will provide engineering designs, permitting and surveying. The selected engi-neering firm must have a proven track record, extensive experience and hold a State of Flor-ida Professional Engineers License.
Baker County reserves the right to reject any or all proposals or any part thereof and/or to waive the information if such is deemed to be in the best interest of Baker County.
Download the Specification Details/At-tachments: http://www.bakercountyfl.org/purchasing.php
Point of Contact: Sole contact for the RFQ: Robert Fletcher. All questions pertaining to this solicitation must be submitted per RFQ guide-lines. Please reference RFQ 2019-01.
Submission Deadline Date: February 25, 2019 at 3:00 PM EST.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS RFP # 2019-02
SCAG 72” ZERO TURN RADIUS MOWER (OR EQUAL)
The Baker County Board of County Commis-sioners, Florida (County) will receive sealed proposals until 3:00 p.m. local time, on Feb-ruary 11, 2019 at the County Administration Office located at 55 N. Third Street, Macclen-ny, Florida 32063. Proposals delivered to any other location will not be considered received by the Administration Office. Any proposals re-ceived after the above time will not be accept-ed under any circumstances. Any uncertainty regarding the time will be resolved against the Bidder. Proposals will not be accepted via fax. Shortly after the bid due time has expired, the proposals will be publicly opened and an-nounced.
A clearly marked original proposal, five (5) copies of the proposal, and one (1) electronic copy of the complete proposal on CD/jump drive must be placed in a sealed envelope and clearly marked “RFP 2019-02 SCAG 72” Zero Turn Mower or equal” on the exterior of the package submitted.
Request for additional information or clarifica-tions must be made in writing to the Adminis-tration Office at the address, phone or email below. Facsimile or e-mail questions are ac-ceptable. The Administration Office will issue replies to questions and additional information or amendments on the County’s website in the form of written addenda. Any addenda will be issued prior to the deadline for responding to this Request for Proposal. Questions must be received no later than 3:00 p.m. on February 7, 2019.
Baker County Board of County Commissioners Administration Office
55 N. Third StreetMacclenny, Florida 32063
It will be the sole responsibility of the Bidder to check the County’s website prior to submitting a response to determine if any addenda have been issued, to obtain such addenda, and to acknowledge addenda with their bid.
Respondents to this solicitation or persons acting on their behalf may not contact, be-tween the release of the solicitation and the end of the 72-hour period following the agency posting the notice of intended award, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and County holidays, any employee or officer of the ex-ecutive or legislative branch concerning any aspect of this solicitation, except in writing to the Administration Office or as provided in the solicitation documents. Violation of this provi-sion may be grounds for rejecting a response.
The Baker County Board of County Commis-sioners reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, to waive any informalities or irregu-larities in any proposals received, to re-adver-tise for proposals, or take any similar actions that may be deemed to be in the best interest of the County.
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NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME LAW PURSUANT TO SECTION 865.09,
FLORIDA STATUTES
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the under-signed, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of DRIP DROP SMOKE SHOP located at 690 WEST MACCLENNY AVENUE, in the county of BAKER, in the city of MACCLENNY, Florida 32063 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corporations of the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, Florida.
Dated at Macclenny, Florida, this 22nd day of January, 2019.
Franklin Fowler, Owner1/31p
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR BAKER COUNTY, FLORIDACIVIL DIVISION
CASE #: 2018-CA-000130
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Associa-tion
Plaintiff,
vs.
Danny L. Mathern a/k/a Danny Manthern; Mary E. Mathern; Ridge Estates Property Owners Association, Inc.; Unknown Parties in Possession #1, If living, and all Unknown Par-ties claiming by, through, under and against the above named Defendant(s) who are not known to be dead or alive, whether said Unknown Parties may claim an interest as Spouse, Heirs, Devisees, Grantees, or Other Claimants; Unknown Parties in Possession #2, If living, and all Unknown Parties claiming by, through, under and against the above named Defendant(s) who are not known to be dead or alive, whether said Unknown Parties may claim an interest as Spouse, Heirs, Devisees, Grantees, or Other Claimants
Defendant(s)._________________________/
NOTICE OF ACTION FORECLOSURE PROCEEDINGS-PROPERTY
TO: Mary E. MathernLAST KNOWN ADDRESS, 8056 Ridge Estates Drive West, Glen Saint Mary, FL 32040Residence unknown, if living, including any unknown spouse of the said Defendants, if either has remarried and if either or both of said Defendants are dead, their respective un-known heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, and trustees, and all other persons claiming by, through, under or against the named Defendant(s); and the aforemen-tioned named Defendant(s) and such of the aforementioned unknown Defendants and such of the aforementioned unknown De-fendants as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise not sui juris.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action has been commenced to foreclose a mortgage on the following real property, ly-ing and being and situated in Baker County, Florida, more particularly described as fol-lows:
LOT 3A, RIDGE ESTATES, ACCORD-ING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THERE-OF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 3, PAGE(S) 14, PUBLIC RECORDS OF BAKER COUNTY, FLORIDA.
TOGETHER WITH THAT CERTAIN MANUFACTURED HOME, YEAR: 2005, MAKE: FLEETWOOD, VIN#: GAFL575A767875C21 AND VIN#: GAFL575B767875C21.
more commonly known as 8056 Ridge Estates Drive West, Glen Saint Mary, FL 32040.
This action has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your writ-ten defense, if any, upon SHAPIRO, FISHMAN & GACHÉ, LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, whose address is 2424 North Federal Highway, Suite 360, Boca Raton, FL 33431, within thirty (30) days after the first publication of this notice and file the original with the clerk of this Court either before service on Plaintiff’s attorney or immediately there after; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief de-manded in the Complaint.
WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court on the 16th day of January, 2019.
Stacie D. HarveyCircuit and County Courts
By: Tina CarringtonDeputy Clerk
Shapiro, Fishman & Gaché, LLP2424 North Federal Highway, Suite 360Boca Raton, FL 33431
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REGISTRATION OF FICTITIOUS NAMES
I the undersigned, being duly sworn, do hereby declare under oath that the names of all persons interested in the business or profession carried on under the name of Savvy Marketing Solutions whose principle place of business is: 12548 North County Road 23A, Macclenny, FL 32063 and the extent of the interest of each is as follows:
NAME EXTENT OF INTEREST
Marcia L. King 100%
Marcia L. KingSignature
STATE OF FLORIDACOUNTY OF BAKERSworn to and subscribed before me this
28th day of January, 2019.Stacie D. Harvey
Clerk of CourtBaker County, Florida
By: Tina CarringtonAs Deputy Clerk
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR BAKER COUNTY, FLORIDAGENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION
CASE NO. 18000104CAMXAX LOANDEPOT.COM, LLC,
Plaintiff,
vs.
LAWRENCE P MARSH, et al. Defendants.
_________________________/
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Summary Final Judgment of Foreclosure filed January 9, 2019 entered in Civil Case No. 18000104CAMXAX of the Circuit Court of the EIGHTH Judicial Circuit in and for Baker Coun-ty, MacClenny, Florida, the Clerk of Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at Baker County Courthouse, 339 East MacClen-ny Avenue Room 113, MacClenny, FL. 32063 in accordance with Chapter 45, Florida Stat-utes on the 21st day of March, 2019 at 11:00 AM on the following described property as set forth in said Summary Final Judgment, to-wit:
LOT 39, SANDS POINTE, AC-CORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 3, PAGES 88 AND 89, OF THE PUB-LIC RECORDS OF BAKER COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pen-dens, must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.
Dated this 17th day of January, 2019.
Clerk of the Circuit CourtAs Clerk of the Court
By: Tina CarringtonDeputy Clerk
Mccalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC 110 SE 6th StreetFort Lauderdale, FL 33301
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THEEIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR BAKER COUNTY, FLORIDACASE NO. 2018 CA 000118
COUNTRY FINANCIAL CREDIT UNION,Plaintiff,
vs.
UNKNOWN SPOUSE, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES OF HETTIE H. HOLT, DECEASED, DEBORAH MARCUM, LARRY HOLT, BAKER COUNTY CLERK OF COURT AND UNKNOWN TENANT(S),
Defendants.____________________________/
AMENDED NOTICE OF ACTION
TO: Unknown Spouse, Heirs, Devisees, Grantees, Assignees, Lienors, Creditors, Trustees of Hettie H. Holt, Deceased17396 S. Ridgewood DriveGlen St. Mary, FL 32040
YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose a mortgage on the following real property in Baker County, Florida:
LOT 14 AND 15, BLOCK I, TIMBER-LAND ESTATES, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 3, PAGES 3 AND 4 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BAKER COUNTY, FLORIDA.
has been filed against you and you are re-quired to serve a copy of your written defens-es, if any, to it on Stephen Orsillo, the Plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is Post Office Box 3637, Tallahassee, Florida 32315, within thir-ty (30) days after the first date of publication and file the original with the Clerk of this Court either before service on the Plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief de-manded in the Complaint or Petition.
Dated this 11th day of January, 2019.
Stacie D. HarveyAs Clerk of the Court
By: Tina CarringtonAs Deputy Clerk
Sorenson Van Leuven, PLLCPost Office Box 3637Tallahassee, FL 32315
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Baker County School District School Board will hold the following public hearing on Monday, March 4, 2019, at Taylor Church lo-cated at, 26398 County Road 250, Sanderson, Florida, beginning at 6:00 p.m. The following items will be considered at the public hearing: Public comment on the NEWLY recommended instructional materials. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.
Student editions of NEWLY recommended instructional materials will be available for pre-view on the district website at www.bakerk12.org, on February 12, 2019.
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LEGAL NOTICES
It seems that everyone these days has a friend following a “keto-friendly” diet-a low-carb eating plan designed to make the body burn fat more efficiently. Developed years ago to control diabetes and then later to treat epilepsy in children, different versions of the keto diet have gained traction as effective weight loss plans, according to The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “One thing all keto diets have in common is that they restrict carbohydrates in favor of healthy fats in an effort to achieve nutritional ketosis -- the state in which your body burns fat instead of glucose,” explains registered dietitian, Courtney McCormick. The experts at the South Beach Diet are now taking a safe, effective approach to keto by offering a keto-friendly plan, and are providing helpful tips to get started.
1. Count net carbs: A keto-friendly diet is based around the idea of net carbs. Limit yourself to no more than 50 grams of net carbs daily. While this isn’t considered a strict keto diet, it follows the keto plan for those looking for assistance with getting started. To calculate this number, take your total grams of fiber and grams of sugar alcohols consumed and subtract that from your total grams of carbohydrates. The resulting number should be within the 40 to 50 net carb
range.
2. No beans, legumes or fruits: To keep your overall daily net carbs within a certain range, even good carbs like beans, legumes and those in most fruits are off-limits except for occasional indulgences. Stick to non-starchy veggies only, like leafy greens, cauliflower, broccoli, mushrooms and zucchini.
3. Water is essential: Your fiber intake is reduced on a keto-friendly diet with the elimination of whole grains, beans and legumes. For digestive health and to ward off constipation, it’s important that you drink sufficient amounts of water.
“We recommend drinking at least 64 ounces per day on the South Beach Diet Keto-Friendly plan,” says McCormick. “Plus, water keeps you fuller longer, prevents overeating before meals and may boost metabolism if it’s ice cold.”
4. Variety is key: Following a keto diet could put you at risk for deficiencies in micronutrients, including selenium, magnesium, phosphorus and vitamins B and C. To compensate, take a multivitamin and stay away from eating the exact same thing each day. Mix it up with an array of lean proteins, healthy fats and a daily serving of non-starchy veggies. Pay attention to
changes in your health like hair loss, vision changes, aches, pains or weakness. Simple blood tests can reveal levels of vitamins and minerals.
5. Plan special occasions: Carbs are king at special meals and holidays. Communicating your needs with family and friends beforehand can help you avoid peer pressure and garner support for your efforts. Offer to bring a keto-friendly dish so you’ll be sure to have something to eat.
When following a keto or keto-friendly eating plan, do so in the safest, healthiest way possible. Consult your doctor and consider following a plan supported by trusted weight loss and healthy lifestyle experts.
Source: StatePoint Media
Embrace a Keto-Friendly Diet
BRIANNA BARTLETTSPORTS EDITOR
After an injury riddled season the Wildcat soccer team finished the season 9-10-5 after losing to Stanton in the district tournament on January 23.
Early in the game the Wildcats lost starter Zach Auger due to a hamstring injury.
Stanton was able to score the first goal of the game shortly after Auger’s exit.
The Wildcats then lost starter Ben Platts after he was cleated with no penalty called.
“He toughed it out for as long as he could stand it, but he eventually had to come out,” said head coach Brandon Finley.
At halftime the Wildcats were down 2-0 and down two starters.
Early in the second half Kyjuan Chrome suffered a knee injury and became the third Wildcat starter to leave the game.
From there Stanton was able to capitalize on the loss of starters and control the remain-der of the game.
Stanton defeated the Wildcats 4-0.“We had talent this year but we never re-
ally got to capitalize on it,” said Finley. “That game summed up our season, started out re-ally well and then hit a rough patch but could never really recover.”
Next season the Wildcats will have eight returning starters. Finley is also looking for incoming ninth graders interested in trying out for next season’s team.
In the off season Finley encourages his athletes to continue participating in sports.
“I think it’s good to do as much as you can because you only get those four years to do it,” he said. “One of our players is a kicker for the football team, and some kids are going to do track.”
Multiple Wildcat soccer players will start competing on various travel ball teams in the coming weeks.
The Wildcat soccer team will begin sum-mer workouts shortly after summer break.
Season of injuries overOn Tuesday Florida’s
Education Commission-er Richard Corcoran an-nounced a plan to eliminate a significant backlog teach-er certifications, a press release from the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) said.
“Since the [department] implemented its new edu-cator certification system in November 2017, the wait time for certificate process-ing has increased and the number of educator certif-icates issued dropped by 55 percent, from 70,166 in 2016-17 to 31,397 in 2017-18,” the release states.
To combat the delays, Commissioner Corcoran has made the issue a top
priority and pledged to eliminate the backlog in 120 days by reviewing cur-rent procedures and taking the following actions:
• Addressing a “leader-ship deficit” in the Bureau of Educator Certification, though the release didn’t specify how,
• Assigning six new staff members to the bureau to quickly reduce the appli-cation time and clear the backlog,
• Designating a single point of contact within the department for superinten-dents to report any issues they encounter, which will be immediately addressed; and
• Issuing guidance to
district superintendents allowing them to submit the names of applications that need to be prioritized, which the department will immediately address.
“Upon taking the helm, I became aware of an inef-ficiency and began immedi-ately developing solutions,” said the commissioner. “These unreasonable wait times for our school teach-ers are unacceptable, and this stops today. Governor DeSantis asked me to en-sure the department op-erates in an efficient and accountable manner and these actions demonstrate my commitment to honor-ing that request.”
Corcoran pledges to eliminate teacher certification backlog
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SPORTSThursday, January 31, 2019 The Baker County Press Page 12
BRIANNA BARTLETTSPORTS EDITOR
The Lady Wildcat weightlifting team won the class 1-A re-gion three championship for
the fourth year in a row on Janu-ary 26, making Baker County High School history.
“This is the first time ever in a sport at Baker County High School that won four back-to-back-to-back regionals,” said Coach Scot McDon-ald.
For the five seniors, Mackenzie Carter, Emma Self, Brandi Taylor, Eva Gray and India Ellis, making history at their final home meet was a monumental moment.
“We saw a lot of tears because that was literally the last meet that they are going to have with our weights here at home,” said Mc-Donald.
Jameka Jones, Wendy McCau-ley, Mackenzie Carter, Brandi Tay-lor, Na’Desha Davis and Emily Car-penter each won the individual title of regional champion in their re-spective weightclasses.
Jones won the 110-pound class with a 245 pound total, McCauley topped the 129-pound class with a total of 265 pounds, Carter fin-ished atop the 139-pound class with a 275-pound total, Taylor con-quered the 169-pound class with a 320-pound total, Carpenter led the 183-pound class with a 295-pound total and Davis dominated the un-limited class with a 440-pound to-tal.
Winning first place in a weight-class gave lifters an automatic bid to the FHSAA state championship. Other lifters went into a pool where the top lifters out of the class 1-A were selected for the remaining 12 spots.
Winning a state title involves
as many lifters as possible in each weightclass placing in the top six to bolster the team’s point total. Some schools focus on the individual lift-er and not the program. Coach Mc-Donald looks at the sport as both an individual and team endeavor, which makes Baker County unique.
McDonald uses the phrase “team us we” to instill in his athletes that if they do good in a meet then that helps the whole team.
In addition to the regional cham-pions Emma Self, Eva Gray and In-dia Ellis were selected from the pool to compete in the state meet.
Self lifted in the 154-pound class for a total of 300 pounds, Gray lift-ed in the 199-pound class for a total of 355 pounds and Ellis lifted in the unlimited class for a 410 pound to-tal.
With nine lifters in the state meet the Lady Wildcats can make a solid run for a team state title.
“It’s a situation where we got-ta make it our day and get the job done,” said McDonald.
The Lady Wildcats will compete at Arnold High School in Panama City on February 9 in the FHSAA Class 1-A state meet.
Regional meet stats
Other Wildcat lifters set new personal records in the regional meet. Abbigail Karpf benched 95 pounds with a clean and jerk of 110 pounds to reach a new total of 205 pounds in the 110-pound class, Karysn Crews benched 105 with a clean and jerk of 120 pounds for a new total of 225 pounds in the 119-pound class, Allyson Cross-land in the 139-pound class clean and jerked 110 pounds for a per-sonal record, Joshlyn Green lifted 115 pounds on the clean and jerk to reach a new total of 235 pounds in the 154-pound class and Natasha Turner set a new personal record
in the 183-pound class with a clean and jerk of 135 pounds.
History-making 4th straight titlePurchase these photos at www.bakercountypress.com Photo by Brianna Bartlett
The Baker County High School lady weighlifting team celebrating their fourth regional championship in a row.
Nadesha Davis lifts 230 pounds in her final clean and jerk attempt. The junior lifter topped the umlimited pounds class with a 440 pound total. She’ll be competing in the state championship meet.
Emily Carpenter (center) celebrates with her teammate Natasha Turner
(right) on a first and third place finish. Carpenter qualified for the state meet and Turner set a new personal record.
Senior Mackenzie Carter lifts 135 pounds in her first clean and jerk attempt. She competed in the 139 class.
BRIANNA BARTLETTSPORTS EDITOR
Baker County High School softball season is quickly approaching and after holding tryouts January 22-23, head coach Kylee Canaday and staff released the final rosters.
The varsity roster is as follows: Cassidi Bea-ver, Mackenzie Carter, Damaria Gibson, Cait-lin Harvin, Sara Keeves, Katherine Rhoden, Liz McGovern, Mikayla Mulkey, Taylor Crews, Alyssa Taylor, Emily Griffin, Brooklyn Kenne-dy and Madison Lagle.
The Lady Wildcats have won eight district titles in a row and Canaday has high expecta-tions for the team this season. Last season the Lady Cats went 16-9 during the regular season.
“All the players did well at tryouts and it makes myself and my coaching staff excited to start the season,” said Canaday.
Canaday believes that in addition to the eight returnees, the five new players on the varsity roster bring a lot of talent to the team.
“I feel as though I have an extremely athlet-ic, talented and versatile roster,” said Canaday.
The Lady Wildcats will compete in Class 5A-Region R1-District 3 against Bolles and Su-wanee. Bolles’ previous regular season record was 8-16 and Suwanee’s 12-13.
The junior varsity roster coached by Ash-ley Tyson consists of Geneva Beck, Kaitleigh Combs, Harlee Williams, Lili Adams, Chloe Baldwin, Kyleigh Brown, Stacee Duffy, Brook-lyn Manucy, Isabella Mosley, Kaylee Rodgers and Megan Sullivan.
“The JV team will also be a very competitive team and is full of young talented kids,” said Canaday.
The Lady Wildcat varsity season will begin in a pre-season invitational hosted by Oakleaf High School on February 15-16. The Cats will play Creekside at 7 p.m. on February 15 and Keystone at 2 p.m. on February 16.
Junior Varsity will begin its season at 5 p.m. on February 21 at Yulee.
The season home opener for the Lady Wild-cats will be on March 7 against Hilliard at 6 p.m.
Softball expectations high
Purchase this photo at www.bakercountypress.com Photo by Brianna BartlettMikayla Mulkey practicing batting technique.
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BRIANNA BARTLETTSPORTS EDITOR
The Lady Wildcat basket-ball team lost their last two games by only one point, most recently on January 28 to Bishop Snyder 35-34.
The Lady Cats fought during the first quarter to keep the Cardinals to only a one-point lead. The Lady Cats went five of six from the free throw line in the first quarter, helping to close the Cardinals lead and begin the second quarter 13-12.
The Lady Cats offense re-mained stagnant after mul-tiple turnovers and difficul-ty rebounding. The team scored only four points in the second quarter extend-ing Bishop Snyder’s lead 21-16 at halftime.
Baker County’s offense came to life in the third quarter and fought to take their first lead of the game at 23-21. The Cardinals quickly tied the contest and eventu-ally reclaimed a one-point advantage to end the third quarter.
Halfway through the fourth quarter Bishop Sny-der led 31-27. The Lady Cats were unable to capitalize on their free throw oppor-tunities during the period, going three for nine on free throws.
Baker County took a one-point lead, 34-33, with six seconds left in the game. Aja Moore fouled out and sent the Cardinals to the free throw line where they hit both free throws to regain the advantage.
With one second remain-
ing in the game head coach Steve Deslisle called for a timeout to construct one last play.
The Lady Cats final effort failed, ending the game at 35-34.
Miesha Givens led the team with 18 points.
On January 25 the Lady Cats traveled to Clay High School to face the Blue Dev-ils.
The Lady Cats led Clay 14-13 at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter Givens went two for two on free throws to keep the Lady Cats ahead 22-19 at half-
time. The Blue Devils out-
scored the Lady Cats in the third quarter with 14 points compared to Baker County’s 10 points.
With time dwindling down the Lady Cats lost their lead in the final sec-onds of the game, giving the Blue Devils a 46-45 win.
Givens led the team with 23 points.
Baker County was sched-uled to travel to Stanton on January 29 and host Suwan-nee on January 31.
Ladies fall by 1 pointto Bishop Snyder, Clay
Purchase these photos at www.bakercountypress.com Photos by Brianna BartlettSkye Miller fights for a jump shot. Skye Miller dribbles the ball down the court.
BRIANNA BARTLETTSPORTS EDITOR
Baker County High School baseball season will begin on February 19.
The varsity roster coached by Jarrell Rodgers includes Kelton Knabb, Car-ter Kennedy, Lane Dinkins, Austin Cole, Cason Mil-ton, Hunter Noblitt, Colby Kennedy, Mike Davis, Joel Satterwhite, Mason Pla-to, Blaine Roberts, Haiden Fish, Dylan Griffis, Ethan Wilford, Kyler Holton and Zac Lyons.
Last season the Wildcats went 19-6 in the regular sea-son before losing in the dis-trict semifinals to Suwannee 2-1.
The Wildcats had a large senior class last season which leaves multiple spots to fill in the lineup.
“We will only be return-ing four guys in the field with varsity experience so there will be a lot of compe-tition for spots in the line-up,” said Rodgers.
He’s excited to have a deep pitching staff this sea-son.
“If we execute on the mound we will put ourselves in a successful situation,” said Rodgers.
In regards to the Wild-
cats’ hopes for the season Rodgers noted that their goals remain the same re-gardless of his players’ ex-perience.
“We expect to make the playoffs and play for a dis-trict championship,” said Rodgers.
The Wildcats will com-pete against Bolles and Su-wannee for the district title.
Baker County High School will host a presea-son classic that will begin on February 18. Games are scheduled for February 18-19 and February 21.
The Wildcats will play their first game in the pre-season classic on Febru-ary 19 against Baldwin at 7 p.m. On February 21, Baker County will host Fernandi-na Beach at 7 p.m.
Junior varsity roster
The roster for the 2019 junior varsity team is as follows: Brady Chauncey, Caleb Jones, Bryce Crews, Justin Brown, Jamil Jones, Kelton Chambers, Wyatt Crockett, Zayne Eddins, Easton Stevens, Davon Woolf, Timothy Seymour and Jase Knabb.
The team will host Rid-geview on February 26 at 4 p.m. to begin their season.
Only four return to fill Cat rosters
Carter Kennedy throwing to first base after stopping a ground ball.
Lane Dinkins pitching in practice.
BRIANNA BARTLETTSPORTS EDITOR
The Lady Wildcats soccer season came to an end on Jan-uary 24 after losing to Paxon in the first district playoff game 4-2.
Andrea Pelfrey scored the first goal for the Lady Widcats on a penalty kick.
Amber Padgett crossed the ball over to Savannah Pelfrey who scored the second goal for the Lady Wildcats.
Tied 2-2 at halftime the Lady Wildcats ran out of gas after playing with 10 players the entire game according to assistant coach Freddie Oca.
After a no penalty call for roughing Andrea Pelfrey in the penalty box the dynamic of the game failed to shift for the Lady Wildcats.
While the season ended before a district title the Lady Wildcats improved by eight wins compared to last season.
Andrea Pelfrey finished the season with a school record of 35 goals.
Ladies soccer ends with loss to Paxon
On January 19 Alexandra Oakes was honored as the Lady Wildcats only senior. Her name was mispelled in last week’s edition. The same article misreported the score from the Jan-uary 16 game against Yulee as a 3-1 loss, per a team coach. The final score was 3-2. Andrea Pelfrey and Sophia Szelak scored for the Wildcats, rather than Lydia Szelak as reported per the same coach.
Corrections noted
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BRIANNA BARTLETTSPORTS EDITOR
The Wildcat 2018-2019 football team celebrated another historic season on January 17 at the annual banquet highlighting a third district title and honoring athletes for success on and off the field.
Senior Chase Hancock received the Wildcat award, which recognizes an athlete that embodies all the char-acteristics of a well-rounded football player.
“Chase attacks all of the different parts of being a great football player with an unbelievable level of tenaci-ty,” said defensive coordina-tor Brock Canaday.
The coach added that Hancock has proven over the past three years that he is al-ways mentally and physically prepared.
“It meant a lot to me, I feel as if I worked for this award my entire high school ca-reer,” said Hancock.
Kelton Knabb, another senior, received the Bad Cat award that goes to the player with the most tackles at the end of the season. Knabb has finished in the top four for this award for the past three seasons.
“He has racked up an impressive amount of tack-
les on special teams, which speaks to his effort level as a player,” said Canaday.
Knabb had 126 tackles, 16 TFI, two sacks and one inter-ception for the season.
Knabb said he had a good feeling that he would receive the award, but it still was a special moment.
“It meant a lot due to the fact that I was a leader on this year’s football team and so I have given the younger kids something to achieve,” said Knabb.
Knabb has not yet com-mitted to a college. He is hoping other schools will make him offers, giving him more options.
“I’m still looking for a place to call home for the next four years,” Knabb said.
In addition to the Wildcat and Bad Cat awards, the Fel-lowship of Christian Athletes awarded a player with the FCA Character Award.
Thomas Gainey, the FCA character team coach, pre-sented the senior character award to John Green, cho-
sen for the way he carried himself around school, his great attitude in changing positions and his respect for hard work.
“We wanted our seniors to be the example setters for the team,” said Gainey. “This award would not be based on the seniors athleticism or even GPA but who exempli-fied the four core values of the FCA.”
Integrity, serving, team-work and excellence.
“We had a great class of seniors this past football season that all exemplified themselves in having a great character about them but John Green was the one who stood out the most,” said Gainey.
Athlete Recognitions
The following athletes were honored for their rec-ognition by local associa-tions.
First team FACA: Tyler Burnsed, Myles Morrison, Matthew McDuffie, Scooby
Graham, William Keinath, Chase Hancock, John Green, Kelton Knabb and Maurice Moore.
FACA honorable men-tions: Chris Smith, Rob-ert Baker, Ace Crews, and Jaquez Elliot.
All First Coast: Myles
Morrison, Scooby Graham, Matthew McDuffie, Kelton Knabb, Chase Hancock and Tyler Burnsed.
Matthew McDuffie was honored for his selection to the Florida Times Union su-per 24.
The banquet marked the
end of the Jamie Rodgers era for Baker County High School. Rodgers was recently hired to head up the football program in Bacon County, GA. He led the Wildcats to the 2017 FHSAA state cham-pionship.
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Page 16 The Baker County Press Thursday, January 31, 2019
BRIANNA BARTLETTSPORTS EDITOR
The BCHS varsity Wild-cats fell to West Nassau on January 24 after Chris Smith tied the game 51-51 with 20 seconds left in the fourth quarter, sending the game into overtime.
Smith led the Wildcats to a 2-0 lead in the first min-ute of the game and then re-bounded a West Nassau shot before passing to Kyle Am-brose. Ambrose put the ball away bringing the score up to 4-0 early in the first quar-ter.
Smith scored six points in the first quarter, assisting in the lead of 12-11 at the end of the first quarter.
Dallan Coleman, an ESPN four-star athlete from West Nassau, opened the second quarter with a three pointer to take the lead 14-12. Thirty seconds later Coleman hit a deep three pointer to extend the Warriors lead 17-12.
Marcel Thomas, head coach for the Wildcats, called his first timeout of the game immediately following Cole-man’s second shot of the game.
“We went to a box de-fense, we deny the person that is doing all the scoring, we deny them the ball and we try to force other people on the team to beat us,” said Thomas.
Coleman didn’t score again in the second quarter following the timeout.
The Wildcats faced a sev-en-point deficit late in the second quarter, but after a steal by Noah Carter who passed the ball to Trae Mur-ray for a jumpshot, the Cats trailed 21-16.
Murray then forced a West Nassau turnover and went for a layup to bring the Wildcats within three points. West Nassau responded with a three-point shot by Shemar Melton and a layup by Trev-
on Hayward to extend the lead to 26-20.
Kyle Ambrose hit a field goal and three-point shot to cut the lead to one point at halftime.
Ambrose hit a three pointer at the beginning of the third quarter to give the Wildcats the lead for the first time since the first quarter.
West Nassau broke away with the help of costly fouls by the Wildcats, which put the score at 44-35 at the end of the third quarter. That’s when the Wildcats went one for four on the free throw line, compared to the War-riors 10 for 14.
The Wildcats went to work on the deficit with a layup by Noah Carter followed by a three pointer from Am-brose. Caleb Hayden stole the ball from the Warriors and passed to Murray who put up two points cutting the Warriors lead to 44-42 with six minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. West Nassau swiftly responded with a three pointer making it a five-point game with five minutes remaining.
Scooby Graham stole an inbound pass from the War-riors and passed the ball to Murray who got fouled in the process of taking the ball to the basket. Murray went 0-2 on his free throws keeping the score 47-42, West Nas-sau.
Joey Farmer scored his first points of the game to cut the Warriors lead to 47-44 with three minutes remain-ing in the fourth quarter.
Murray attempted a three point shot that bounced off the rim but Graham got the rebound and layup to cut the Warriors lead to one point, 47-46.
Baker County fouled Coleman with two minutes remaining. He went two for two on his free throws rais-ing the Warriors lead to 49-46.
Immediately following, Murray fought through traf-fic around the basket to put away a layup bringing the score to 49-48 with less than two minutes in the fourth quarter.
Graham got another steal from the Warriors and
passed the ball to Smith who got fouled prior to shooting the ball. Smith went one for two on his free throws bring-ing the game to a tie at 49 with one minute and forty seconds left.
West Nassau’s Coleman fought to the basket for a
layup, taking back the lead 51-49. After West Nassau was called for traveling, Bak-er County regained posses-sion with 30 seconds left. Murray passed to Smith, who ran to the basket for a layup tying the game 51-51. The Wildcats held the War-
riors from scoring in the last five seconds as the game went into overtime.
The Wildcats lost 60-55 in overtime after crucial turn-overs.
“Turnovers have been our Achilles heel the entire sea-son, especially when a team presses us,” said Thomas. “When we get pressed and turn the ball over a lot of it is just being tough with the basketball. If we can learn to be tough we will have less turnovers.”
Smith led the Wildcats with 18 points and Ambrose had 13 points.
The previous day the Wildcats lost a district game to Westside after leading during the first half.
The Cats went on a nine-point run for the first five minutes of the game to lead the Wolverines 9-0. At the end of the first quarter the Wildcats held their lead 12-8.
During the second quarter Westside fought back against the Wildcats and brought the game to a 16-all tie in the middle of the quarter.
Jalen Folston stole the Wolverines’ ball and passed to Carter, who hit a buzz-er-beater shot to give the Wildcats the lead 24-22 at halftime.
Westside took the lead early in the third quarter but the Wildcats regained con-trol and led the Wolverines 34-29 with four minutes left in the third quarter.
Westside tied the game 38-38 to end the third quar-ter. In the fourth quarter the Wildcats were unable to hold off the Wolverines offense while they ran away with the game. The Wildcats fell 61-48 and are now 2-5 in dis-trict play.
Smith scored 14 points during the district contest.
Baker County will play their final district game on February 1 at Ridgeview.
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Wildcats lose to the West Nassau Warriors in overtime
