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BY PETE SKIBAPalatka Daily News
Charges of soliciting sex from a girl under the age of consent put 54-year-old Charles Dwayne Morris behind bars Monday, According to a Putnam County Sheriff’s Office report.
Putnam County Jail records show Morris faces four felony charges for obscene communication.
“Morris initiated conversation with and solicited sex from an undercover officer who was posing as a young teen-age girl,” said Capt. Gator DeLoach.
A c c o r d i n g t o reports, the online conversation took p l a c e d u r i n g a monthlong under-cover investigation by deputies and the P a l a t k a P o l i c e D e p a r t m e n t . I t started when Morris contacted “a ficti-tious Facebook page designed to capture criminals.”
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INDEXAdvice ............................. 6ABriefing ........................... 2AClassified/Legals .......... 10AComics ............................ 6AHoroscope ...................... 6ALottery............................. 8AObituaries ..................... 12AOpinions ......................... 4ASports ............................. 7ASudoku ..........................11A
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Scott signs bill to limit school testingThe bill also would allow school systems to begin the school year as early as
August 10.
See Page 2A
Nine ex-educators headed for jailFormer teachers and administrators involved in widespread cheating on test
scores in the Atlanta school system were sentenced to jail terms.
See Page 5A
County commission hears fi nal report from solid waste panelBY BRANDON D. OLIVER
Palatka Daily News
The Putnam County Board of Commissioners had its chance to ask questions and respond to the recom-mendations a task force made in regard to the Putnam County Central Landfill.
When the county commission meeting reconvened at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Putnam County Solid Waste Advisory Board Chairman Greg Walker briefly summarized the advisory board report that commis-sioners have had for nearly a week.
Having deliberated twice a month since October, the advisory board
ultimately recommended the county import solid waste from outside the county to help alleviate the financial burden of operating the landfill, which currently brings in only 200 tons per day from within the county.
“Our estimation with current staff-ing, the landfi l l c o u l d c u r r e n t l y accommodate plus or minus 600 tons a day with little or no increase in current day-to-day expenses,” Walker said. “Thusly, our
recommendation is we see plus or minus 400 tons a day to begin from outside sources for revenue genera-tion.”
In addition to relieving the finan-cial burden of local residents, Walker said, the advisory board’s goals when making its recommendations were also to have the county remain in control of every aspect of the landfill and eventually move toward a larger size and scope to attract alternative technologies.
Alternative technologies could be where the future is headed, but many of these technologies, including
BY PETE SKIBAPalatka Daily News
Sitting in Alachua County Jail, Richard Glenn Gertler now faces a first-degree m u r d e r c h a r g e i n P u t n a m C o u n t y , according to a P u t n a m C o u n t y S h e r i f f ’ s Office report.
The grand jury indic t -m e n t f o l l o w s a l e n g t h y Putnam detectives’ investiga-tion into the murder of Inter-lachen’s Floyd Anderson “Andy” Parrish in January,
Gertlerindicted
in murder of gun
collector
MASTER GARDENER PLANT FESTIVAL
CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News
Putnam County Master Gardener Tom Fritch with some of the plants that will be sold during the upcoming plant sale.
County to close road
for bike trail access
BY BRANDON D. OLIVERPalatka Daily News
The Putnam County Public Works Department was given permission to close a road in East Palatka in an effort to bolster the county’s access to the multi-use, multi-state trail under construction.
One condition of the depart-ment closing a portion of North Louis Broer Road is that Public Works must con-nect West Louis Broer Road to Putnam County Boulevard to p r o v i d e V o l u n t e e r F i r e Department Station 6 in East Palatka access to the rest of the town without having to use a detour.
Public Works Director Don Jacobovitz said his department requested to close the portion of road – which is 37.32 feet wide, 104.16 feet long and .09 acres – near where part of the St. Augustine to Lake Butler Trail will be built in East Palatka.
Station 6 firefighters assured their paths
will be clear
They’ll show and sell Florida-friendly plants and moreBY ASIA AIKINS
Palatka Daily News
Putnam County Master Gardeners will host the pro-gram’s first Plant Festival Saturday at the Putnam
County Ag Center in East Palatka. The Master Gardener program is
known for hosting an annual plant sale, the program’s main fundraising event that takes place each spring. But this year, organizers decided to open the event up to vendors in an effort to draw a bigger crowd.
“We’ve had the plant sale every spring for the last five or six years,” said festival coordinator Tom
Fritch. “This will be the first time we’ll have vendors.”
Fritch said the festival would host 10 vendors who will feature Florida-friendly plants, trees, yard art, outdoor furniture, birdhouses, hand-made soaps and herbs.
Flagg
Morris
Gertler
CAMPUS BEAUTIFICATION
CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News
Palatka High School agriculture students braved the rain Monday to continue landscaping work near the school’s sign on St. Johns Avenue.
Man faces computer solicitation charges
See LANDFILL, Page 5A
See INDICTED, Page 5A
See CHARGES, Page 5A
See PLANTS, Page 5A
See TRAIL, Page 5A
CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News
Putnam County Commissioner Larry Harvey, right, questions Greg Walker, the chairman of the Putnam County Solid Waste Advisory Board on Tuesday in commission chambers.
Flagg: ‘No such option as putting this report on the shelf’
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Local writer sets up book signing
John Hain, East Palatka author of “A Pipeline to Murder,” will be sign-ing copies of his book from 5-9 p.m. Friday at Gem City Cottage, 220 St. Johns Ave.
Live music and wine tasting from Tangled Oaks Vineyard. Free and open to the public.
EAST PALATKA
Putnam Academy board to meet Thursday
The Governing Board of Putnam Academy of Arts and Sciences will meet at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at 113 Putnam County Blvd. Interested parties are invited.
SAN MATEO
Church selling dinnersSan Mateo Presbyterian Church
will have a fried chicken dinner from 4:30-7 p.m. Thursday at 201 Currie Road, off of State Road 100 East. Cost is $8 and includes fried chicken, rice and gravy, green beans, roll, drink and dessert. Eat in or take out.
Woman’s Club hosts bunco night
The San Mateo Woman’s Club will host a Bunco Night (dice game) from 7-9 p.m. Friday at 125 E. State Road 100. Cost is $5; refreshment and prizes will be provided. Drinks will be available for purchase.
TALLAhASSEE
Wildlife commissioners to discuss bear hunt
For 21 years, it’s been illegal to hunt a bear in Florida. That may change this fall.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission meets this week to decide whether to give tenta-tive approval to rules for a revival of bear hunting, banned since 1994.
If commissioners give the proposed rules a green light on Wednesday, then a final vote would come at their June meeting.
The rules proposed by the wildlife agency staff say the bear hunt would last just one week, from Oct. 24 to 30, and only in daytime hours. Also, each hunter would be permitted to bag one bear per hunting season. Florida hunters would pay $100 for a permit, and out-of-state hunters $300.
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Driver alleges he was stopped by armored vehicle
The Alachua County Sheriff is investigating why an armored vehi-cle pulled over a driver who allegedly flipped them the bird.
Deputy Charles Drake wrote in a report that he and his colleagues spotted the driver extending a hand gesture toward them this weekend. The deputy also alleges he saw a woman performing a sex act on the driver.
The 23-year-old driver Lucas Jewell recorded the stop on his cell-phone. He told them the woman’s head was on his lap because she was sleeping.
Jewell says he was issued a warn-ing. He also said one of the deputies punched him, but the deputy’s report doesn’t mention that.
Sheriff’s spokesman Art Forgey told the Ocala Star-Banner (http://tinyurl.com/mwhstpl ) they’d just seen the cell phone video Monday and were investigating whether dep-uties violated any directives.
The armored vehicle was on its way to the University of Florida to patrol the Orange & Blue Debut foot-ball game and is not a routine traffic patrol vehicle.
gAiNESviLLE
Small nuclear reactor for teaching is online
The University of Florida has restarted its small nuclear reactor after four years of dormancy while it was upgraded with the latest safety technology.
The reactor at UF does not create electricity. It runs with 10,000 times less power than the usual electricity-generating nuclear reactors.
Students previously controlled the reactor with no digital tools to help. Now, researchers can monitor, start and shut down parts of the training reactor with the newly installed equipment, including kill switches.
The reactor does not run constant-ly. When it’s not being used metal plates are placed around the core to absorb any extra neutrons. These plates are removed when research-ers conduct experiments.
UF’s is one of 31 reactors used for student training and research in the United States.
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Man flees after deputy saves him from overdose
A man who was revived by a sher-iff’s deputy after overdosing on hero-in ran from the hospital where he was taken for treatment.
But Volusia County Sheriff’s dep-uties captured him Sunday night and he was taken to jail.
Deputy Patrick O’Melia was on patrol when he was flagged down by 31-year-old Kelly Boan. She led him to her car, where her unresponsive 34-year-old brother Justin Braddock was in the front seat. O’Melia put Braddock on the ground and started CPR. Boan told him that they had just purchased heroin and her broth-er had injected a large amount into himself.
jAcKSONviLLE
Sandhill crane nest delays road project
Work is being delayed on a stretch of a toll road that will connect Interstate 95 to Interstate 10 near Jacksonville because of a nest of endangered Florida sandhill cranes.
The contractor spotted the nest in early March and notified officials at the Florida Fish and Wildl i fe Conservation Commission.
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Florida School of the Arts visual art students will display their work at an upcoming graduate show. An opening reception will be held to
honor the work of seven graduating stu-dents on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Florida School of the Arts main gallery on the St. Johns River State College Palatka campus. The event is free and open to the public.
This year’s participants are fine art students David Brazell, Jennifer Broadbent, Victoria Karst, Patrick Kilby, Linzee Mancini, Douglas Parlette and Chelsey Patterson.
According to Gallery Coordinator Sarah Alexander, the show will include a mix of works from the students, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and mixed media pieces. “It represents the culmination of two years of visual arts study for graduating students and is part of the exit requirements for the program,” she said.
The exhibits will be on display through May 7. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and during evening main stage per-formances.
Florida School of the Arts is part of the academic and administrative struc-ture of SJR State College and awards the two-year associate degree. The school serves the state of Florida and is on the SJR State Palatka campus.
For details, call 312-4300 or visit online at FLOARTS.org.
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An untitled painting by Patrick Kilby is among the works to be exhibited at the upcoming Florida School of the Arts graduate exhibition. An opening reception will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday. The exhibit will be on display through May 7.
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Scott signs bill to limit standardized testsBy Gary Fineout
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE — Florida will scale back the use of high-stakes standardized tests under a bill signed into law on Tuesday by Gov. Rick Scott.
The measure followed months of debate, and criticism, over the amount of tests given to public school students, many of which are tied to the system primarily put in place by former Gov. Jeb Bush.
“I agree with many teachers and parents who say we have too many tests, and while this legislation is a great step forward, we will keep working to make sure Florida stu-dents are not over tested,” said Scott in a statement.
The changes, though not as wide as critics wanted, still represent a departure for Republicans who had fully embraced the reforms champi-oned by Bush during his eight years in office. Bush is touting his reforms
in what appears to be a likely presi-dential campaign.
The new law signed by Scott limits the amount of state testing that can be done in public schools, including a firm cap of 45 hours. It also perma-nently eliminates an 11th-grade standardized test and lets school dis-tricts move up the start of the school year to Aug. 10.
Bush’s A+ plan, which was first passed in 1999, expanded the use of standardized tests from the third grade to 10th grade. It also created an A-to-F grading system of schools t ied to test results. S c h o o l s w i t h t o p g r a d e s a r e rewarded with extra money, and chronically failing schools can be subject to sanctions.
Over the years the state added more tests, including ones given at the end of the school year in certain core subjects. This year, Florida switched to a new statewide test based on new standards primarily founded on Common Core. But the
rollout of that test was marred by technical glitches.
But even before the test was given this year, a backlash was growing. A school board in southwest Florida voted last August to opt out of state-wide testing. The board reversed the decision a week later.
The bill signed by Scott would delay the release of this year’s school grades until an independent review of the new test can be performed. Other sanctions associated with annual testing would also be put on hold while the review is underway.
Andy Ford, president of the Florida Education Association, had urged the governor to sign the bill. But Ford, who sent a letter to Scott about the legislation, said there are still problems with the state’s test-ing system, including the heavy reli-ance on online testing. Ford said students were losing instruction time because of how long it takes schools to schedule and administer online tests.
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Palatka woman hopes to mentor ‘Phenomenal Princesses’By AsiA Aikins
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A Palatka native is hoping to help guide girls in the community through some of their most trying years, inviting them to join her Phenomenal Princess mentoring program.
“I really feel like this is my purpose,” said Kerra Walker, the 2015 Ms. Azalea Queen. “That’s why God put me through what I had to go through.”
Walker, a mother of five, recently fin-ished her degree in psychology at Bethune-Cookman University. Holding two associate’s degrees and now her bachelor’s degree, Walker said she felt her purpose in life was to help young girls become young ladies.
“We want to redirect the older ones who are going down the wrong path and help encourage the ones who aren’t there yet,” she said. “If you can train them up, you won’t have to redirect.”
The Phenomenal Princess program
was established by Walker and her sister in Daytona Beach, where Walker said it was very successful. But since Walker decided to return to her hometown, she is building the program in Palatka.
The program is open to girls 10 and older. Girls will meet weekly and partici-pate in group activities, job shadowing and community service projects.
“In Daytona, we had a slumber party at a hotel on the beach once,” Walker said. “There was about five adults there, so the girls had the beachfront experi-ence, but we also had open discussions all night where they could talk to us about things going on in their lives or at school.”
A mother at the age of 18, Walker said she is able to identify with girls who become mothers at a young age. Despite being a young mother, she was able to complete schooling and wants to inspire other young mothers to do the same.
The program is also open to younger girls, Walker said, because she found that her 8-year-old daughter has also
benefited from being involved in the pro-gram.
“My daughter was able to share her experience with bullying with the group and help other girls,” she said. “Now days, kids are learning things earlier and earlier and are talking about things you wouldn’t expect.”
Walker will host a “Phenomenal Princess Coming Out Party” from 5-7 p.m. Saturday at the Price-Martin Center, 220 N. 11th St. in Palatka. The party will be an informational session for girls who are interested in participating in the program and their parents.
The Phenomenal Princess program is pre-sented by Total Life Ministries with a pur-pose of being an “assembly of young women encouraging, supporting, serving, nurturing and learning from one another in a commu-nity of equality, respect and honor.”
For more information, contact Walker at 386-453-4475.
Over objections, Cabinet approves land sale for mega-mallBy WilliAm mArch
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida C a b i n e t u n a n i m o u s l y approved a deal Tuesday to sell state land near Hialeah for American Dream Miami, planned as the nation’s larg-est shopping mall, despite objections that the land should have been put up for bids and that the state got too low a price.
Under the deal, the state will sell about 82 acres at the corner of Interstate 75 and the
Florida Turnpike for $12.3 million. The Miami-Dade County school system will get $8.25 million for a lease on part of the land.
The $4 billion project is pro-posed by developer Triple Five, owner of the Mall of America in Minnesota, now the nation’s largest. Triple Five is buying adjoining land from developer Graham Cos. for the 200-acre project at a per-acre price critics said is higher than the state’s.
“We don’t think the apprais-al is adequate to assure you that you’re going to get full
market value for the proper-ty,” said Bill Williams, a law-yer hired by South Florida opponents of the project. “It doesn’t seem fair to the tax-payers of Florida.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had heard rumors of a much higher price for the adjoining land. Bob Gorlow, representing Triple Five, said the price for the pri-vate land is confidential.
Williams said that under state law the land should have been put up for bids, and other South Florida mall developers said they would have been
interested in bidding.But Cab ine t members
including Bondi said the law wasn’t clear, and the state’s land isn’t valuable for any other project. Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam said the state has made other, similar deals.
Miami-Dade County Mayor C a r l o s G i m e n e z , s c h o o l Super in tendent A lber to Carvalho and economic devel-opment advocates supported the deal. The developers have guaranteed 5,000 jobs within 10 years but say the number will likely be 25,000 or more.
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Man sentenced for stabbing girlfriend’s dogA 50-year-old Ocala man has been sentenced to two years in
prison for stabbing and beating his girlfriend’s dog.Circuit Judge Jonathan Ohlman handed down the sentence
for Steven Scott Fleming on Monday. He granted Fleming a 354-day credit for time served, meaning he’s served almost half his sentence.
Fleming was arrested April 27, 2014 on charges of abusing an American boxer/Labrador mix named Molly. Neighbors told authorities they heard Fleming banging on a nearby door before they heard the screams from a dog. Molly was later found bleeding from her head. A broken, bloodied baseball bat was found nearby.
The dog suffered a fractured skull and three stab wounds. Molly was turned over to animal services and is now living in a new home.
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Zoo announces birth of baby giraffeThe Gulf Breeze Zoo has a new addition — a baby giraffe that
is more than 6 feet tall.Gideon the giraffe was born in March to Gabby and
Geronimo. His mother was monitored closely by zoo officials during her 15-month gestation period.
Zoo director Stephen Jagielski says Gideon is showing signs of personality. He said Gideon is independent, which is good since he’ll be separated from his parents after about two years.
For now, the giraffe family is together and zoo visitors can see them. Gideon joins other babies, including a kangaroo, a Thompson gazelle and a pygmy goat.
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Python hunt will return to Everglades in 2016Florida is bringing back a public hunt for invasive Burmese
pythons in the Everglades.The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
plans to hold the next “Python Challenge” early next year. Registration opens in October.
About 1,600 people participated in 2013 during the first monthlong python hunt on state lands. Most of the 68 pythons collected were caught by experienced hunters.
Tens of thousands of pythons may be slithering through the Everglades, and the hunt illustrated how difficult they are to find. Kristen Sommers of the wildlife commission’s exotic spe-cies coordination section says only about 200 pythons are caught in an average year.
Sommers says the next Python Challenge will increase train-ing for the public to identify the invasive snakes, so that they also can report python sightings year round.
TAllAhAssee
Senate passes bill to allow beer growlersA bill to help Florida’s craft brewing industry and allow sales
of popular 64-ounce growlers of beer could soon head to the desk of Gov. Rick Scott.
The Florida Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed the bill (SB 186) that deals with growlers. It heads over to the House, which is working on a similar bill.
Under a separate law enacted before craft breweries became popular in Florida, beer can only be sold in containers up to a quart or a gallon or more.
The popular half-gallon growler has become a pawn in a bat-tle over the complex laws regulating brewing and sale of beer. Similar legislation has been considered in previous years, but disputes in the brewing industry kept the bills from passing.
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30 injured by stingrays in past weekClearwater Beach officials say more than two dozen beachgo-
ers have been injured by stingrays in the past week.The Clearwater Beach Patrol is warning all beachgoers to do
the “stingray shuffle” when entering beach waters to scare off any stingrays that might be around.
They say about 30 people have been injured by stingrays on Clearwater Beach since April 6.
Clinic to pay $150k in transgender suit
Associated PressLAKELAND — A Central
Florida eye clinic has agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve a dis-crimination lawsuit brought on behal f o f a t ransgender employee who was terminated.
T h e U . S . E q u a l Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit which alleges the Lakeland Eye Clinic fired the employee after she started dressing as a woman and told her bosses she was transitioning from male to female. The commis-sion says the termination vio-lates the Civil Rights Act.
T h e s e t t l e m e n t w a s approved by the U.S. District Court in Tampa.
Republicans question health care movesAssociated Press
T A L L A H A S S E E — Republicans who control the Florida Senate are starting to question how serious the administration of Gov. Rick Scott was in trying to win approval of federal aid for the state’s hospitals.
The likely demise of the pro-gram has led to a standoff
between the Senate and House over the budget.
Scott himself has blamed the federal government for curtail-ing negotiations with the state. But emails and documents obtained by The Associated Press show that his admin-istration has remained in contact with federal off i -cials.
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Many of us feel Putnam County is at a cross-roads.
Linda Myers would agree, but not in the way you would expect.
In addition to her day job as Putnam County Tax Collector, Linda is what I like to call a “perpetual do-gooder,” a title of high honor I use for those who have the ener-gy, focus and vision to immerse themselves in projects for the betterment of the community.
Linda wears multiple hats, including one that reads “treasurer” for the Florida Greenways and Trails Foundation, a statewide group that advocates on behalf of the state’s non-motorized trials.
They are particularly mindful of the econom-ic benefits that greenways and trails represent for the business community.
As I sat in her office on a recent rainy Tuesday morning, Linda explained that a number of statewide non-motorized trails, both existing and still in the planning stages, inter-sect right here in our community, presenting some real opportunities that come our way because of our geographic location being where these trails come together.
If you are an avid bicyclist, as Linda and her husband Vernon are, you probably knew that already.
But if the last time you pedaled a bicycle was sometime toward the end of your junior high years, you may ask why you should care.
Fair question.The answer, in part, can be found in a 2011
University of Massachusetts study that shows the creation and maintenance of non-motorized trails creates not only jobs, but business for a number of commercial categories ranging from stone and concrete companies, to real estate firms, to food-and-drink establishments.
According to the study, an average of nearly 12 jobs is typically created for each $1 million spent on construction and maintenance of these trails.
That may not seem impressive at first glance, since we sit in one of Florida’s highest areas of unemployment, but economic develop-ment is a game best measured in inches, not yards. Putnam County is much more likely to put more of our citizens to work through a lot
of small projects rather than landing a massive, manufactur-ing megafactory.
In addition to the tangible benefits bicycle and hiking trails can bring to Putnam County, there are other less
tangible but very real benefits to our entire community.
Last year, Putnam County hosted the kickoff for the Bike Florida Tour, a statewide event that drew visitors from all parts of the state and across the Southeast.
These visitors not only spent money here, they saw first-hand the beauty of our commu-nity and the friendliness of the people who live here.
It’s not much of a stretch to envision a per-centage of these folks discovering what we already know, that Putnam County is Florida’s best-kept secret. Perhaps they made plans to return and explore more of what we have to offer. Perhaps a few will decide they want to call our community home. Several will undoubtedly return home singing the praises of our community to friends and neighbors who may in turn want to plan their own visit.
Linda feels that all these reasons add up to a big win for Putnam County, and that our entire community benefits from completing the “gaps” in the non-motorized trails in our coun-ty and supporting events such as the Palatka Bicycle Festival which is coming up this week-end.
Putnam County will flourish again, but improvements will come in many small steps over time. We plan to support such steps as much as we can and whenever possible, because there is a cumulative effect that kicks in when a lot of seemingly unconnected proj-ects reach the critical mass needed to trans-form our community.
I hope you will join me in welcoming our weekend visitors and making them feel right at home.
Who knows but that maybe someday, for some of them – or their friends, relatives or neighbors – Putnam County might actually BE their home.
Wayne Knuckles is the publisher of the Daily News. [email protected]
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Enhancing the quality of cancer care
Florida is blessed to have some of the highest quality cancer care centers in the world. Among them is the renowned Mayo Clinic in
Jacksonville, which is designated by the National Cancer Institute as a Comprehensive Cancer Center.
In fact, Mayo Clinic is unique among major providers of cancer care in that its Comprehensive Cancer Center is the nation’s only multi-campus, multi-state cancer center. If that were not enough recognition, last month Gov. Rick Scott and Florida Surgeon General John Armstrong designated Mayo Clinic and just three other institutions in Florida as state “Cancer Centers of Excellence.”
To enhance the quality of cancer care through patient care, research and edu-cation, the Florida Legislature last year created the Florida Consortium of National Cancer Institute Centers. The idea is to create more NCI-designated centers in Florida, while providing sup-port to cancer centers already holding or working toward the NCI designation.
Fortunately, many people will go through life never having to know what an NCI-designated comprehensive can-cer center is, but if you or a loved one is diagnosed with cancer, it is institutions like Mayo Clinic that are a beacon of hope and offer the most comprehensive diagnosis and treatment options.
You may be surprised to learn that despite its trailblazing work and global respect in helping to treat and heal the most ill among us, Mayo Clinic, with its NCI designation, is not recognized under the Consortium, nor does it receive sup-port under the annual distribution of funds.
This omission is extremely unfortunate and unjust, especially when you consid-er that Mayo Clinic is the only recipient of the state’s coveted Cancer Centers of Excellence to be excluded from partici-pation in the Consortium.
To help right this injustice, state Rep. Mia Jones, D-Jacksonville, recently pro-posed an amendment to include Mayo Clinic in the state’s Comprehensive Cancer Center program. This would bring Mayo Clinic’s resources and world-class health care to the table for the state. Mayo Clinic is committed to matching all funds provided under the program.
Cancer is the leading cause of death in Florida with more than 118,000 Floridians learning of a cancer diagnosis every year. The actions of our Legislature and governor to create the Florida Cancer Centers of Excellence are terrific examples of visionary leadership on behalf of these patients. This vision and belief in science and the healing power of quality health care are essen-tial to shrink the disproportional inci-dence of cancer in our state, which has the second-highest number of new diag-nosed cancer cases in the United States even though we are the fourth-largest state in terms of population.
Still, there is much more work to be done. Legislators must work together to help get this amendment passed and ensure that important programs like the Florida Consortium of National Cancer Institute Centers equitably recognize the leading cancer centers in the state.
Mia Jones is a member of the Florida House of Representatives from Jacksonville and is the Democratic
Leader Pro-Tempore and ranking member on the Health and Human Services Committee.
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Another unfunded mandate will cost taxpayers
A statewide shift in county-shared Medicaid costs could be detrimental to Putnam County’s budget, expected to cost more than $360,000 in just one fiscal year which is an increase of 27.12 percent from last year’s portion. This “unfunded mandate” will increase expenses and will have to be factored in as the county begins preparing next year’s budget in June. Unfortunately, Putnam County’s tax base is not grow-ing at a rapid rate and any significant increase in expens-es through additional state mandates will increase the burden on the county to bal-ance its budget.
“When an unfunded man-date is hand delivered to us, we face unthinkable adverse affects to our general revenue and this is how we fund essen-tial government services.”, said Putnam County Commission Chairman Karl Flagg.
In hopes of lessening the financial blow, the county is supporting a request to the Legislature from the Florida Association of Counties that the Medicaid cost share
increase be capped at 3 per-cent annually.
The cap would bring Putnam County’s $360,000 increase this fiscal year down to about $40,000. The County’s total Medicaid cost was about $1.34 million last year and would jump to about $1.7 million if the state opts to stick to the current growth rate.
The shift is part of 2013 leg-islative changes to the county-state Medicaid cost-sharing relationship, which affects the way counties are charged for Medicaid. The counties’ indi-vidual percentage shares will begin shifting this fiscal year through a four-year transition period, after which each coun-ty’s share will be solely based on its number of Medicaid enrollees rather than Medicaid usage. “That shift improved a lot of things that were broken in the previous model,” said Cragin Mosteller, communications director for FAC, which represents all 67 counties in Florida to the leg-islature. Ms. Mosteller contin-ues, “But unfortunately, while a lot of counties would end up saving money through the new model, about half will not.”
FAC estimates its proposed 3 percent growth cap will reduce the $280.7 million Medicaid contribution from all
Florida counties combined by about 1.6 percent, or $4.6 mil-lion.
Yvonne C. Parrish
Legislative and Information Coordinator
Putnam County
todAy’s HigHligHt in History:On April 15, 1865, President
Abraham Lincoln died nine hours after being shot the night before by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington; Andrew Johnson became the nation’s 17th president.
on tHis dAte:In 1715, the Yamasee War
began as members of the Yamasee tribe attacked English settlers in colonial South Carolina.
In 1850, the city of San Francisco was incorporated.
In 1912, the British luxury liner RMS Titanic foundered in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland more than 2 1/2 hours after hit-ting an iceberg; 1,514 people died, while less than half as many sur-vived.
In 1945, during World War II, British and Canadian troops liber-ated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died on April 12, was buried at the Roosevelt family home in Hyde Park, New York.
In 1955, Ray Kroc opened the first franchised McDonald’s res-taurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
In 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army held up a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco; a member of the group was SLA kidnap victim Patricia Hearst, who by this time was going by the name “Tania” (Hearst later said she’d been forced to participate).
In 1986, the United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5; Libya said 37 people, mostly civil-ians, were killed.
In 1989, students in Beijing launched a series of pro-democra-cy protests; the demonstrations culminated in a government crackdown at Tiananmen Square.
In 2013, two bombs packed with nails and other metal shards exploded at the Boston Marathon finish line, killing two women and an 8-year-old boy and injuring more than 260.
ten yeArs Ago: A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted
off from the Central Asian steppes, catapulting three crew members on a two-day journey to the International Space Station.
Five yeArs Ago: An ash cloud from an Icelandic
volcano drifted over northern Europe, causing the largest dis-ruption of flights since the 2001 terror attacks.
one yeAr Ago: Boko Haram terrorists kid-
napped some 276 girls from a school in northeastern Nigeria.
todAy’s BirtHdAys: Country singer Roy Clark is
82. Author and politician Jeffrey Archer is 75. Rock singer-guitar-ist Dave Edmunds is 72. Columnist Heloise is 64. Actress-screenwriter Emma Thompson is 56. Olympic gold, silver and bronze medal swimmer Dara Torres is 48. Rock musician Ed O’Brien (Radiohead) is 47. Actor Flex Alexander is 45. Actor Danny Pino is 41. Actor Douglas Spain is 41. Actor Luke Evans is 36. Rock musician Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) is 35. Actor-writer Seth Rogen is 33. Actress Alice Braga is 32. Rock musician De’Mar Hamilton (Plain White T’s) is 31. Actress Emma Watson is 25. Actress Maisie Williams (TV: “Game of Thrones”) is 18.
tHougHt For todAy: “We do not know what we want
and yet we are responsible for what we are — that is the fact.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, French philoso-pher (born 1905, died this date in 1980).
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tHis dAy in putnAm:In 1889, Asa Philip Randolph,
the son of the AME Zion church minister, was born in Crescent City. He would become the International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, founded in 1925, the first black union granted an interna-tional charter by the American Federation of Labor.
In 1904, construction of the Georgia-Southern and Florida Railroad depot was begun. (On the river where the Palatka riverfront parking lot for the dock is now located.)
In 1922, the famous Putnam House was demolished, much of the building material used in other homes.
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plasma arc gasification, are not yet properly developed to handle the 1,000 tons per day the landfill will need to bring in for these technologies to be sustainable, he said.
“For long-term perspective, we view the landfill as an eco-nomic opportunity for the c o u n t y , ” W a l k e r s a i d . “Increasing tonnage would also attract alternative tech-nologies as they become prov-en. We do not feel (plasma arc
gasification) is proven, vetted and ready to go yet. We, how-ever, are excited about that technology three, four (or) five years out.”
C o m m i s s i o n e r L a r r y Harvey expressed his contin-ued support of plasma arc gas-ification, but still supported the advisory board’s recom-mendation.
Also gaining his approval was the advisory board’s sug-gestion that the county estab-lish a citizens’ advisory board to closely monitor the landfill operation.
“I always thought the idea of a solid waste authority would be a good fit for Putnam
County,” Harvey said. One aspect of the advisory
board’s recommendation on which he was not too keen was having the county charge resi-dents to use the landfill conve-nience centers in Crescent City and Interlachen.
If people were made to pay to use those facilities, Harvey said, i t could lead to an increase of people dumping their solid waste along the roads, in the woods or other improper areas.
Commission Chairman Karl Flagg thanked Walker, the advisory board and everyone else who assisted the group during their meetings for all
of the services that led up to the committee making their recommendation.
It is now the commissioners’ responsibility to take was has been presented, individually research the matter and work to make a viable solution for the landfill, Flagg said.
“There is no such option as putting this report on the shelf; that option does not exist,” he said. “Opinions are many. Facts are few. We need to stick with the facts.”
The meeting was adjourned without any decision about the landfill being made.
DeLoach said that once con-tacted, the officer sent Morris a message saying she was under 18 years old.
According to the law, said Bob Dekle, University of Florida Law School legal skills professor, the person proposi-tioned does not have to really be an underage girl or boy. “He (the defendant) just has to think she is,” Dekle added.
After receiving the message indicating her age, Morris arranged “to meet the under-cover officer at a location away from his home,” a report dis-closed.
Instead, detectives inter-
cepted Morris before he met t h e u n d e r c o v e r o f f i c e r , DeLoach said. Detectives arrested Morris after question-ing him.
DeLoach said the obscene communication felony charges include two counts of enticing or luring a child and two counts of traveling to meet after using a computer to lure a child.
No bond was set on the charges and Morris remains in jail.
“Sheriff Hardy wants to remind everyone to be vigilant about their child’s activities online,” DeLoach said. “Sheriff Hardy also encourages parents to keep an open dialog with their children about their online whereabouts and to report suspicious activity to law enforcement.”
Master Gardeners are cur-rently growing a variety of vegetables, trees, butterfly host plants and Florida native plants for the fundraising fes-tival. Information about inva-sive plants and substitutes for them will also be offered at the festival.
“Those of you who are unfa-mi l iar w i th the F lor ida Friendly Landscaping pro-gram are welcome to inquire with a Master Gardener or the horticulture agent about rec-ognizing your yard,” said Prissy Fletcher, residential horticulture agent at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, located at the Ag Center.
Local FFA students will also be selling food and drinks,
and will be available to help visitors to their vehicles with their new plants.
Fritch said coordinators limited the vendor spaces to 10 so that they wouldn’t be overwhelmed in the festival’s first year. He said he hopes to open the festival to 20 vendors next year and have more com-munity involvement.
“If we are successful this year at bringing in the crowd, this will become an annual event,” Fletcher said.
The festival is set to take place from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday at the Putnam C o u n t y A g C e n t e r , 1 1 1 Yelvington Road in East Palatka. All funds raised at the festival will benefit the Master Gardener program’s educational and community outreach programs.
“I’d invite anybody who likes to work outside,” Fritch said.
said Capt. Gator DeLoach. Alachua County’s 11 deal-
ing in stolen gun charges stem from the murder and carry a $1.1 million bond, keeping 53-year-old Gertler locked up s ince January , DeLoach added.
DeLoach said, “Parrish’s remains were found on Jan. 8, 2015, buried in a wooded area located in a rural and isolated portion of Marion County.”
The story of how gun-collec-tor Parrish’s remains got to
the burial site covers more than 300 miles, two states and an aborted burial in a lake.
Parrish visited relatives in Athens Georgia before the new year. He planned to return to Putnam County on Jan. 1.
When his family didn’t hear from him his relatives report-ed him missing. With law enforcement looking for him, Parrish’s 2006 Ford Explorer turned up with empty gun cases on dead-end Clifford T h o m a s L a n e i n W e s t Jacksonville.
According to the Alachua arrest warrant, many people called law enforcement after hearing reports that Parrish
had disappeared.The warrant added that
30-year-old Jordan Thomas Sweet told of helping Gertler take a wooden crate contain-ing firearms to a lake in the National Forest of Marion County.
The men put the box in the lake. It didn’t sink. The warrant added the men fished it out.
“Upon its opening, there w a s a d e c e a s e d s u b j e c t inside,” the warrant stated. “The subject had a rope tied around the neck and there was a pair of black handcuffs on his hands, around his back.”
The warrant went on to describe the two men remov-
ing the subject’s clothes and burying him in the woods. A medical examiner later identi-fied the subject as Parrish.
Parrish’s brother, Charles Parrish, said in a phone call from Georgia, “I am really grateful to the hard work the Putnam County Sheriff ’s Office and State Attorney’s Office have done,” Charles Parrish said. “I think it is going to be a slow process, but we are going to have a good resolution to this.”
“The Lake Butler trail from St. Augustine has several trailheads, but the closest ones to us here in Palatka…there’s one in Florahome, and the other one is almost in St. Augustine,” Jacobovitz said. “We keep wanting to make Palatka a center for trail use, but we have no trailheads around here for someone to park and use the trail.”
T h e B o a r d o f C o u n t y Commissioners on Tuesday voted unanimously to close North Louis Broer Road from Putnam County Boulevard to 168 Boulevard.
The road is already paved, Jacobovitz said , and his department will transform the area into a cul-de-sac and a parking lot to create a trail-head.
“We looked at it and deter-mined that this would be a good use of the public proper-ty,” he said. “What we’re pro-posing to vacate is just the crossing of Louis Broer right where it crosses the trail and connects to East River Road.”
Prior to specifications that were reached the day before the commission meeting, members of the volunteer fire station, which is on Louis Broer Road, had major con-cerns about the road closure forcing them to take a longer route to go north in East Palatka.
Stan Owens, a member of t h e V o l u n t e e r F i r e
Department in East Palatka, spoke during the commission meeting, telling the board that even an extra five minutes matters in life-or-death situa-tions.
“If they closed (North Louis Broer Road) at the proposed area there, (volunteers) would have to pass the fire station there, turn around, and come back and lose valuable time,” he said. “And when you’re dealing with a cardiac arrest at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morn-ing…minutes count.”
With Public Works extend-ing West Louis Broer Road to m e e t P u t n a m C o u n t y Boulevard, the firefighters won’t have to take detours to go north of East River Road.
Turning on West Louis Broer Road would be easier and more time efficient than having to make the sharp turn at North Louis Broer Road, Owens said. So as long as that change is made, Owens said, he and other vol-unteers have no problems with closing North Louis Broer Road.
“We did not want to waste time,” he said. “In fact, what we’re proposing now would even improve that as our response time. The concern is that we don’t want them to close (North) Louis Broer before they do complete this new section.”
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Sincere and heartfelt thanks to our supportersduring the homecoming of our belovedGloria Francis Cooper Epps, who is now resting in the arms of Jesus. Your prayers are very upliftingand the flowers sent are beautiful, the food so delicious and the many, many other acts of kindness so very much appreciated. We rest assured that God relieved her from pain. He did not ask us to understand, but to trust him as our loving father who knows best. We cherish the blessing of having this strong and courageous warrior for 73 years. Again, we, the family of Gloria Francis Cooper Epps wants to thank you for all acts of kindness.
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Rosemary plants will be sold during the upcoming plant sale.
Greg Walker, the chairman of the Putnam County Solid
Waste Advisory Committee, presented the board’s report
and fielded questions from Putnam County
Commissioners Tuesday in commission chambers.
CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News
Jail for 9 of 10 ex-educators in Atlanta cheating caseBy Kate BrumBacK
Associated Press
ATLANTA — All but one of 10 former Atlanta public school educators convicted in a widespread conspiracy to inflate stu-dent scores on standardized tests were sen-tenced to jail time Tuesday, and the judge called the cheating scandal “the sickest thing that’s ever happened in this town.”
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter had delayed sentencing by a day and encouraged all to negotiate deals with prosecutors. But only two agreed to deals. In both those cases, Baxter followed
the state’s recommendations: He gave a former teacher a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew at home for one year and a former testing coordinator six months of weekends spent in jail. They’ll also serve five years on pro-bation.
Despite their lawyers’ pleas for proba-tion and community service, the remaining eight received harsher sentences, ranging from one to seven years in jail. They are expected to appeal and will be free on bond while the appeals are pending.
A state investigation found that as far back as 2005, educators from the 50,000-student Atlanta school system fed
answers to students or erased and changed answers on tests after they were turned in. Evidence of cheating was found in 44 schools with nearly 180 educators involved, and teachers who tried to report it were threatened with retaliation.
In 2013, 35 educators were indicted on charges including racketeering, making false statements and theft. Many pleaded guilty before the trial, and some testified at the monthslong trial. The jury acquitted one of the 12 former educators who went to trial and convicted the other 11 of racke-teering.
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DILBERT Scott AdamsBEETLE BAILEY Mort Walker
JUMPSTART Robb Armstrong
BLONDIE Dean Young & John Marshall
BABY BLUES Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE Lynn Johnston
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE Chris Browne
THE BORN LOSER Chip Sansom
GARFIELD Jim Davis
HOROSCOPE
You will encounter some set-backs. Preparation will help you come out on top. Be aware of anyone in a position to hold you back, and counter his or her influ-ence by going above and beyond the call of duty. Trust in yourself, and don’t be deterred. You can go the distance.
ARIES(March 21-April 19)
An unexpected slowdown will turn in your favor. Financial changes are headed your way. Set aside some time to spend with an elderly relative. Learn from a past mistake.
TAURUS(April 20-May 20)
Your willingness to help oth-ers will come into play and raise your profile. Someone close to you needs your empathy and assistance. Love and romance are highlighted.
GEMINI(May 21-June 20)
Be a leader and share the ideas you have to improve the work-place. A jealous colleague will try to stymie your plans, but you will win in the end if you are persistent.
CANCER(June 21-July 22)
Don’t let minor annoyances sour your day. Control what you can and go with the flow other-wise. The changes that concern you will end up working in your favor.
LEO(July 23-Aug. 22)
Ask yourself if your current partnerships will help you get where you want to go. If you feel it is time to move on, make personal alterations and focus on fulfilling your dreams.
VIRGO(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Unleash your creativity and do something unusual. Younger rela-tives will play a prominent role in your plans and give you insight to make improvements.
LIBRA(Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
If your career is boring you, a change is in order. Daily routines will lead to dissatisfaction. Check your options, but don’t quit one job without having a replacement lined up.
SCORPIO(Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
You will be inspired and excit-ed. Share your ideas, and take
time for fun and entertainment. Forget about your current trials and tribulations, and go for the gusto.
SAGITTARIUS(Nov. 23-Dec. 21)
There will be turmoil on the homefront. Tact and diplomacy will be needed when dealing with the people you live with, so don’t try to push your opinions on any-one.
CAPRICORN(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Accept social or group invi-tations. A chance meeting will lead to an important connection. Your style and flair will result in greater popularity and new friend-ships.
AQUARIUS(Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
Uncertainty at work will con-fuse you. Have faith in your abili-ties. If you feel your talents are being wasted, follow your dreams and utilize your skills effectively.
PISCES(Feb. 20-March 20)
You will have an emotionally challenging day. Don’t get upset if someone offers you friendly advice. Consider what’s said and use the information offered to you productively.
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Dear Harriette: It’s tax time again, and I feel like an idiot. I know that every year we have to do taxes, but somehow I never get it together on time.
So here we are again, and I have not done a single thing to get ready.
In the past, I have basically just hidden in a sense, until the IRS came looking for me. I want to do better this year, even though I’m starting out late. What can I do? — Afraid of Uncle Sam, Baltimore
Dear Afraid Of Uncle Sam: Start by filing a request for an extension. This alerts the IRS that you know you are late and intend to get your papers in order and sent in.
Since getting your taxes together is not your strong suit, I recommend you hire an accoun-tant to help you. This service does not have to be expensive, but ultimately, it can save you time and money.
Gather up all of your papers — a W-2 form if you have an
employer, bank records, mort-gage or rent bills, utility bills and any other bills or expenses you may have — so that you are ready to present everything to an accountant.
For a list of what you need to get ready, go to taxes.about.com/od / f i nda t axp repa re r / a /documents.htm.
Dear Harriette: My husband bought me a computer for my birthday, and I was so happy at first. I have needed a new computer for years. It turns out, though, that I think he really bought it for himself. Whenever I want to use it, he is already on it.
Never mind the fact that he has his own computer. This is so frustrating. I can’t figure out how to wrestle my new com-puter out of his hands. Should I just give it to him and call it a day? I’m beginning to feel like the gift was really for him in the first place, even though he said it was for me. — Need to Sign On, Seattle
Dear Need To Sign On: Maybe your husband doesn’t realize that he’s hogging your computer.
In a kind and direct way, you must remind him. Talk to him when he is not using the com-puter, but when he is fully awake and paying attention.
At that moment, thank him again for getting you the com-puter.
Then ask him if he is will-ing to give it back to you. Note that he has been using it almost exclusively since he brought it home. Tell him that you really appreciate that he bought it for you and that you want to be able to use it.
If he acts surprised, kindly point out to him that he has been so enraptured with your com-puter that you haven’t really had a chance to use it. Hopefully, this will make him realize what he’s doing and actually give you your gift.
Good luck!
ADVICE BY HARRIETTE COLECROSSWORD
Yesterday’s Answer
BRIDGE
Reader must get taxes in order
COMICS
Tom Lehrer, a mathematician, singer-songwriter, satirist and pia-nist, said, “On my income tax 1040 it says ‘Check this box if you are blind.’ I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.”
On tax day, let’s look at a deal many of my students find tax-
ing. First, look at only the West hand. South opens one spade, West makes a takeout double, North jumps to four spades, and everyone passes. What should West lead?
Note North’s four-spade raise. With a weak hand, he follows the guidance from the Law of Total Tricks: with 10 combined trumps, bid to the 10-trick level.
West’s best opening lead is not obvious. If he is due to collect tricks with each of his honor cards, he should cash the spade ace, then exit with a diamond. Here, though, that does not work well. To have any chance West must lead a low club. Then, how should East-West play to defeat four spades?
Many years ago, I was asked: What is the one thing I teach my
students that they never seem to get straight and I cannot under-stand why? This was my answer: Third hand’s playing the bottom of touching honors.
In this deal, when West leads his club two, East must play the jack, not the queen. Then, when South takes the trick with his ace, West knows that East must have the queen (otherwise, South would have won with the queen, not the ace). So, after West gets in with his spade ace, he should lead a second low club. This puts East on play for the fatal heart shift through South’s king-jack into the jaws of West’s ace-queen. The defenders take one spade, two hearts and one club.
For Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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SPORTSwww.palatkadailynews.com WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015 PAGE 7A
DANNY HOOD
‘Partnersin Faith’hit course
Palatka’s First Presbyterian Church will again serve as host for Saturday’s “Partners In Faith” Golf
Tournament at the Municipal Golf Course.
Celebrating its 16th year, pro-ceeds from the event are ear-marked to assist the church’s youth program for weekly activi-ties, summer trips, national and international mission trips, con-ferences and more.
Format is a four-person scram-ble. Anyone without a team will be paired on game day. Play begins with a shotgun start. Prizes will be presented for first and second place, as well as prizes for longest drive, straightest drive, closest to the pin and longest putt. Plenty of door prizes are included. Lunch will be served after play,
Cost is $50 per player. Various sponsorships ranging from $100-300 are also available.
For more information, contact Patrick Tripp (386 937-3554 [email protected]) or call the church office at 328-1435…
Gator Club tournament April 25. The MC will no doubt be awash in Orange and Blue in a couple of weeks as the Putnam County Gator Boosters hosts their annual golf tournament.
Format again is modified scram-ble, which finds players playing their own ball from the best drive of the team. Full handicaps will go into the formula, meaning scores will be low. Cost is $60. Guests coming out just to enjoy the day can get in on lunch for $10. A raf-fle and auction will be held after play.
Bob Clark Memorial is May 9. Palatka Moose Lodge 184 and Chapter 1915 is set to go for the ninth annual Bob Clark Memorial Golf Tournament. This year’s tour-ney is on the Municipal Course calendar for Saturday, May 9. Funds raised through the tourna-ment will go towards supporting a variety of Moose-related charities, as well as other Chapter and Lodge efforts.
In addition to playing in the tournament support can also be shown through purchasing hole sign sponsorships, donating door prizes or food.
Tammy Bader again is this year’s tournament coordinator. She can be reached at (352) 206-6868...
Keep Putnam Beautiful tour-ney coming. The sixth annual Best Ball Tournament hosted by Keep Putnam Beautiful is May 16 at the Muni.
The organization is currently soliciting sponsors and prizes for the tournament. Funds are used to promote recycling, beautification and cleanup projects, and litter prevention education.
Cost is $60 per player. Play begins with a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
Sign-up sheets can be had at the Municipal Course pro shop…
Rodeheaver sponsoring May 30 tournament. Rodeheaver Boys Ranch will be the beneficiary of a scramble golf tournament set for May 30 at the local course.
Play begins with a 9 a.m. shot-gun start. Lunch will be provided, as well as door prizes and awards for longest drive, straightest drive, closest to the pin, longest putt and prizes for the three top teams.
Cost is $50 per player.Twilight Scramble results.
Keith Fleetwood, Philip Young, Brian Weldon, Cale Weldon and Tanner Tipton shot nine under to win last Thursday’s Twilight Scramble. The group also won tri-ple carryover skins from eagles on Nos. 4 and 5..
Ladies Day results. Points was the game for the April 9 gathering of the Palatka Women’s Golf Association. Gen Alvers was the winner and Joyce Oliver took runner-up. Alvers also was CTP on No. 18…
South Putnam news. Shirley Carlisle, Will Parker and Bob Stites shot 33 to win the April 8 league scramble at The Oaks Golf Course in Fruitland. Donna Cumming was CTP on No. 13.
Danny Hood’s golf column appears every Wednesday in the Palatka
Daily News.
DISTRICT SOFTBALL
Raiders reach 8-1A final; Panthers throughBy Mark BluMenthal
Palatka Daily News
PIERSON – This time, Kylee Liles was going on this excursion to the state tournament.
On Tuesday night, she helped assure that the Crescent City Junior-Senior High School softball team would be going back for the second straight year.
Liles threw a five-hitter, walked none and struck out six in the circle, while at the plate, she was 2-for-4 with two runs scored as the third-seeded Raiders took down No. 2 seed
Wildwood, 6-4, at Taylor High School on Tuesday night in the District 8-1A semifinal.
The victory pushed the Raiders (9-12) into the district title game again in a rematch with top-seeded Taylor (15-7). The Wildcats methodi-cally took apart the Raiders in last year’s district title game, 10-0, and have outscored the Raiders by a com-bined 26-0 in games this season.
But that issue the Raiders will deal with on Thursday night in front Taylor’s home crowd. For this night, it was Liles just making up for lost time.
A year ago, Liles was nothing more than a spectator, a victim of academic ineligibility. This time, the senior has been a major part of the team’s suc-cess.
“It was important for me to be with this team for my senior year,” Liles said. “My job was just staying focused and try to treat this like this was another game. I threw my fastball, my drop, my rise, my inside and out-side pitches (Tuesday) night.”
A year ago without Liles, the Raiders had little trouble beating Wildwood, 17-3, in five innings to advance. But Wildwood (1-12) had
won its only game of the season against Crescent City, 7-6, on March 24 at Wildwood, forcing a coin flip for the second and third seeds.
“I was definitely nervous coming into this game,” Raiders coach Karen Baker said. “We had to rely on Kylee getting the ball over the plate. She’s pulled us through a lot. She got groundball outs when we needed her to. She’s just a great ball player that I’m glad we have this year.”
The game was tied at 2-all going to the top of the fifth. Then Bri Wolfe got
Forcing the issue
CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News
Interlachen shortstop Matthew Hewitt snags a throw in time to force a diving Dillon Dunnigan of Crescent City.
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Special DeliveryRaiders’ Reiter comes through in clutch; Panthers win
By andy hallPalatka Daily News
CRESCENT CITY
Right man, right spot.
It’s a common exhortation from the dug-out in clutch situations – and hits the nail on the head from time to time.
Tie game, bases loaded, two out in the bottom of the ninth and who better to come up for the Crescent City Raiders than three-time all-coun-ty honoree Brandon Reiter?
No one on a hot Tuesday afternoon at Kelly Borgh Field.
Reiter singled sharply to left, scoring Curtis Patnaude as the Raiders edged Interlachen 4-3, ending the Rams’ four-game win streak.
The hit completed a 2-for-3, three-RBI day for Reiter as Crescent City improved to 9-10 and dropped Interlachen to 8-10.
Raiders coach Tim Ross thought he had the right man in the right spot before Reiter came to bat in Max Jackson, but Rams right fielder Hunter Davis snagged Jackson’s low liner.
“I thought Max was going to do it, but their right
fielder made a great catch. Then Brandon came through for us,” Ross said. “Interlachen’s a quality team. Any time Jeff (Interlachen coach Finch) brings a team in here, it’s quality.”
Finch wasn’t so sure after Tuesday’s game.Usually steady defensively, the Rams made
seven errors. They also left 13 on base – nine in scoring position, six over the last four innings.
“You aren’t going to win a ball game like that,” said Finch, told of the statistics. “There’s not a whole lot to say – regroup and get ready for Palatka.”
Interlachen plays the Panthers in the Azalea Bowl tonight if the weather cooperates.
The Crescent City ninth began with a throwing error that allowed No. 8 batter Patnaude to reach on a slow grounder. An errant pickoff throw got him to second. Omar Cruz walked, Dillon Dunnigan bunted the runners up a base and the bases were loaded after an intentional walk to Ryne Beasley.
Patnaude had to stay put after Davis snagged Jackson’s liner in right, but Reiter punched the next pitch to left for a game-winning single.
Vikingsget splitwith PatsBeat top-ranked Central Florida in second game, boost playoff hopes
Palatka Daily NewsThings have changed dramatically
for the St. Johns River State College softball team.
All it took was bouncing back after a tough opening-game loss against the current No. 1 team in the country on Tuesday.
After the College of Central Florida scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, then held on for a 4-3 win, the Vikings jumped out to a 7-0 lead and went on to a 7-3 victory in the nightcap to split the Mid-Florida Conference twinbill with the Patriots, who drubbed the Vikings by an 18-1 count last month in Palatka.
That was huge for Daytona State – with which the Vikings were tied for third place in the conference – swept by surging Seminole State College by scores of 4-3 and 1-0 on Tuesday, to drop behind SJRSC. Meanwhile, Florida State College-Jacksonville, which swept SJRSC last Thursday to threaten the Vikings’ state tournament hopes, mowed down Lake-Sumter in Leesburg, 6-0 and 6-3, to improve to 11-11 in the conference and move into a .500 percentage third-place tie with SJRSC (32-18 overall, 10-10 in confer-ence) with Daytona State at 9-11.
On Thursday, the Vikings have their final home doubleheader of the season against Seminole (39-7, 17-5), which swept Central Florida in n Saturday and is one game behind Central Florida (47-7, 18-4) for the conference lead. Meanwhile, Daytona State hosts the reeling Patriots and the mission for the Falcons (20-21) is to stay within at least two games of the Vikings going into Friday’s 4 p.m. completion of a double-header started Saturday at Daytona State when inclement weather reports halted the first game tied at 2-2. That doubleheader is to be picked up in the fifth inning of the opener.
The Vikings took advantage of four Patriots errors in the nightcap to build a 7-0 lead. Haley Wildes drove in two runs and had a hit and Alexis Martinez was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Tikeya Strong, who had a big doubleheader, was 2-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI. Julie Leduc, Jen Valle, Savannah Montgomery, Hannah Sommers and Erin Klein had one hit each in the nightcap with winning pitcher Nicole Brock also driving in a run.
Brock (16-5) allowed three unearned runs on three hits, walked three and struck out one.
In the opening game, the Vikings took the lead twice, 2-0 in the second
Spinal issue ends Gator lineman’s playing career
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Associated Press
GAINESVILLE — Florida offen-sive tackle Rod Johnson has plans for a new tattoo, one to mark his final day as a football player.
Johnson, who had been expected to start for the Gators this fall, instead ended his career Tuesday
because of a spine problem.The team released a statement
saying Johnson has been diagnosed with congenital cervical stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal that prevents enough fluid to gather around the spinal cord. The fluid protects the spinal cord from injury.
“Just heartbreaking news on Rod,” Gators coach Jim McElwain said before a speaking engagement Tuesday evening. “It was one of those deals that we wanted to make sure that we got as many opinions as possible to make sure. Just feel horrible for him, and yet at the same
time, a blessing that it was kind of discovered through what we kind of thought was probably a stinger.”
Johnson experienced numbness in his fingers and hands after he was injured April 3 during a scrimmage.
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CALENDARNOTE: Schedules are submitted by schools, leagues and recreation departments and are subject to change without notice.
WEDNESDAY, April 15HIGH SCHOOL
SoftballDistrict 5-4A Tournament
At Starke Bradford High SchoolFirst Round
Interlachen vs. Keystone Heights, 6 p.m.
BaseballInterlachen at Palatka, 7 p.m.
Track and FieldAt Tavares High School
Crescent City at District 6-2A Meet, 11 a.m.
Flag FootballPalatka at Orange Park, 6 p.m.
COLLEGEBaseball
Central Florida at SJRSC (2)-x, 2 p.m.x-The first game is a continuation of a March 11 game. The regular game will start 30 minutes later.
THURSDAY, April 16HIGH SCHOOL
SoftballDistrict 8-1A Tournament
ChampionshipAt Pierson Taylor High School
Crescent City vs. Pierson Taylor, 7 p.m.
District 3-2A TournamentChampionship
At Bicentennial Park, Crystal RiverPeniel Baptist vs. Lecanto Seven Rivers Christian, 7 p.m.
BaseballMenendez at Interlachen, 7 p.m.
At St. Johns River State CollegeCrescent City vs. Starke Bradford, 7 p.m.
Florida Christian Athletic LeagueSemifinal Round
At Gainesville Countryside ChristianPeniel Baptist vs. North Division win-ner, 3 p.m.
COLLEGESoftball
Seminole at SJRSC (2), 4 p.m.
TIDESPalatka City Dock
High LowToday 12:58A,1:29P 8:14A,8:48PApril 16 1:59A,2:27P 9:17A,9:43PApril 17 2:55A,3:21P 10:15A,10:34P
St. Augustine Beach High LowToday 5:37A,6:03P 11:54A,---------April 16 6:36A,7:00P 12:22A,12:49PApril 17 7:31A,7:55P 1:21A,1:42P
PREP BASEBALLCrescent City 4, Interlachen 3
Interlachen 020 001 000–3 7 7Crescent City 000 120 001–4 9 0Two out when winning run scored.Sellers, Glisson (6) and McCole. Beasley, Horvath (6) and Reiter. W–Horvath, 4-3. L–Glisson, 2-3. 2B–Interlachen: McCole 2, Mitchell; Crescent City: Reiter.Records: Interlachen 8-10, Crescent City 9-10
St. Johns River Athletic Conference game
Palatka 9, Orange Park 7Orange Park 400 010 2–7 6 5Palatka 031 401 x–9 7 4Moore, Nalpea (2), Dumas (4), Hackney (5) and Simmons. Arnold, Mills (5), Crouse (6), A. Calhoun (7) and Barnes, Lamoreaux (7). W – Arnold, 2-1. L–Nalpea. 2B–Palatka: Crouse 2, Tincher, Barnes, D. Calhoun.Records: Palatka 15-8, Orange Park 4-19.
PREP SOFTBALLDistrict 8-1A Tournament
Semifinal RoundAt Pierson Taylor High SchoolCrescent City 6, Wildwood 4
Crescent City 101 040 0–6 6 3Wildwood 002 000 2–4 5 3Liles and Lepanto; Zito and Shepherd; W–Liles, 9-10. L–Zito, 1-8. 2B–Crescent City: Liles; Wildwood: Coffman, A. Garr.Records: Crescent City 9-12, Wildwood 1-12.
District 4-5A TournamentSemifinal Round
At Clay High SchoolClay 12, Palatka 0
Palatka 000 0– 0 1 7Clay 602 4–12 11 1Reynolds and Bellamy; Stokes and Rouw; W–Stokes, 19-3. L–Reynolds, 2-3. 3B–Clay: Hamilton; 2B–Clay: Branch, Byrd, Stokes.Records: Palatka 4-17, Clay 19-3.
LOCAL COLLEGESOFTBALLGame One
Central Florida 4, SJRS State 3SJRSC 200 010 0–3 7 3Central Florida 020 002 x–4 7 0Scharf and Valle; McKinnon and Enter; W–McKinnon, 25-2. L–Scharf, 13-12. 2B–SJRSC: Montgomery, Strong, Brock; Central Florida: Morrow.
Game TwoSJR State 7, Central Florida 3
SJRSC 001 203 1–7 10 2Central Florida 000 000 3–3 3 4Brock and Valle; Hanners, Matthews (6) and Weber, Heimbach (7); W–Brock, 16-5. L–Hanners, 19-5.Records: SJR State 32-18 (10-10), Central Florida 47-7 (18-4).
BASEBALLAL Standings
East Division W L Pct GBBoston 6 2 .750 —Tampa Bay 5 3 .625 1Baltimore 4 4 .500 2Toronto 4 4 .500 2New York 3 5 .375 3Central Division W L Pct GBKansas City 7 0 1.000 —Detroit 7 1 .875 ½Chicago 3 4 .429 4Cleveland 2 5 .286 5Minnesota 1 6 .143 6West Division W L Pct GBOakland 5 4 .556 —Texas 4 5 .444 1Seattle 3 4 .429 1Houston 3 5 .375 1½Los Angeles 3 5 .375 1½Monday’s GamesPittsburgh 5, Detroit 4Boston 9, Washington 4Kansas City 12, Minnesota 3N.Y. Yankees 6, Baltimore 5
Tampa Bay 2, Toronto 1L.A. Angels 6, Texas 3Oakland 8, Houston 1L.A. Dodgers 6, Seattle 5, 10 inningsTuesday’s GamesBoston 8, Washington 7Detroit 2, Pittsburgh 0Baltimore 4, N.Y. Yankees 3Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 2Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland 1Texas 8, L.A. Angels 2Oakland 4, Houston 0Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesChicago White Sox (Danks 0-1) at Cleveland (Bauer 1-0), 12:10 p.m.Washington (G.Gonzalez 0-1) at Boston (Miley 0-0), 1:35 p.m.L.A. Angels (Santiago 0-1) at Texas (Ranaudo 0-0), 2:05 p.m.Detroit (Simon 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-0), 7:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 0-0) at Baltimore (B.Norris 0-1), 7:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez 0-0) at Toronto (Buehrle 1-0), 7:07 p.m.Kansas City (Volquez 1-0) at Minnesota (Gibson 0-1), 8:10 p.m.Oakland (Pomeranz 1-0) at Houston (McHugh 1-0), 8:10 p.m.Seattle (T.Walker 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 0-0), 10:10 p.m.
NL StandingsEast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 6 2 .750 —New York 5 3 .625 1Philadelphia 3 5 .375 3Miami 2 6 .250 4Washington 2 6 .250 4Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 5 3 .625 —Chicago 4 3 .571 ½St. Louis 3 3 .500 1Pittsburgh 3 5 .375 2Milwaukee 2 5 .286 2½West Division W L Pct GBColorado 5 2 .714 —Arizona 4 3 .571 1Los Angeles 4 3 .571 1San Diego 4 4 .500 1½San Francisco 3 5 .375 2½Monday’s GamesN.Y. Mets 2, Philadelphia 0Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 4Boston 9, Washington 4Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 4Colorado 2, San Francisco 0Atlanta 3, Miami 2Chicago Cubs 7, Cincinnati 6, 10
inningsArizona 8, San Diego 4L.A. Dodgers 6, Seattle 5, 10 inningsTuesday’s GamesBoston 8, Washington 7Detroit 2, Pittsburgh 0Miami 8, Atlanta 2N.Y. Mets 6, Philadelphia 5Cincinnati 3, Chicago Cubs 2Arizona at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.Colorado at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesMiami (Haren 0-0) at Atlanta (Stults 0-0), 12:10 p.m.Washington (G.Gonzalez 0-1) at Boston (Miley 0-0), 1:35 p.m.Detroit (Simon 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-0), 7:05 p.m.Philadelphia (Williams 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 0-0), 7:10 p.m.Cincinnati (Marquis 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 0-1), 8:05 p.m.Milwaukee (W.Peralta 0-0) at St. Louis (Lynn 0-1), 8:15 p.m.Arizona (C.Anderson 0-0) at San Diego (Morrow 0-0), 9:10 p.m.Seattle (T.Walker 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 0-0), 10:10 p.m.Colorado (Matzek 0-0) at San Francisco (Lincecum 0-0), 10:15 p.m.
Rays 3, Blue Jays 2Tampa Bay Toronto ab r h bi ab r h bi Guyer lf 2 0 1 0 Reyes ss 5 0 1 1Kiermr ph-cf 2 0 1 0 Pompy cf 4 0 1 0SouzJr rf 5 2 3 1 Bautist rf 3 0 0 0ACarer dh 5 0 0 0 Encrnc 1b 4 0 0 0Longori 3b 1 0 0 0 Dnldsn 3b 4 1 2 0DJnngs cf-lf 2 1 0 1 DNavrr dh 3 1 1 0Forsyth 2b 3 0 1 0 RuMrtn c 4 0 0 0Rivera 1b 4 0 0 0 Pillar lf 4 0 2 1TBckh ss 3 0 0 1 Travis 2b 4 0 1 0BWilsn c 4 0 1 0 Totals 31 3 7 3 Totals 35 2 8 2Tampa Bay 110 000 010—3Toronto 000 200 000—2E—Ru.Martin (1). LOB—Tampa Bay 9, Toronto 8. 2B—Guyer (2), Reyes (3). HR—Souza Jr. (1). SB—Guyer (2), Souza Jr. (2), De.Jennings (4), Forsythe (1). CS—De.Jennings (1). SF—De.Jennings, T.Beckham. IP H R ER BB SOTampa BayAndriese 3 2-3 5 2 2 1 2Yates 2 3 0 0 0 2Geltz W,1-0 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 0Balfour H,1 1 0 0 0 0 0Jepsen S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 0TorontoDa.Norris 5 2 2 2 3 4Hendriks 1 2-3 1 0 0 1 3Castro L,0-1 1 1-3 2 1 0 1 2Hynes 1 2 0 0 0 2HBP—by Andriese (Bautista), by Da.Norris (De.Jennings). PB—Ru.Martin.Umpires—Home, Cory Blaser; First, Jeff Nelson; Second, Laz Diaz; Third, Chris Guccione.T—3:06. A—17,264 (49,282).
NBAEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBy-Toronto 48 33 .593 —x-Boston 39 42 .481 9Brooklyn 37 44 .457 11Philadelphia 18 63 .222 30New York 17 64 .210 31Southeast Division W L Pct GBz-Atlanta 60 21 .741 —x-Washington 46 35 .568 14Miami 36 45 .444 24Charlotte 33 48 .407 27Orlando 25 56 .309 35Central Division W L Pct GBy-Cleveland 52 29 .642 —x-Chicago 49 32 .605 3x-Milwaukee 41 40 .506 11Indiana 38 43 .469 14Detroit 31 50 .383 21WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBx-San Antonio 55 26 .679 —x-Houston 55 26 .679 —x-Memphis 54 27 .667 1x-Dallas 49 32 .605 6New Orleans 44 37 .543 11Northwest Division W L Pct GBy-Portland 51 30 .630 —Oklahoma City 44 37 .543 7Utah 38 43 .469 13Denver 30 51 .370 21Minnesota 16 65 .198 35
Pacific Division W L Pct GBz-Golden State 66 15 .815 —x-L.A. Clippers 55 26 .679 11Phoenix 39 42 .481 27Sacramento 28 53 .346 38L.A. Lakers 21 60 .259 45x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched divisionz-clinched conferenceMonday’s GamesMilwaukee 107, Philadelphia 97Houston 100, Charlotte 90Cleveland 109, Detroit 97New York 112, Atlanta 108Miami 100, Orlando 93Chicago 113, Brooklyn 86Oklahoma City 101, Portland 90New Orleans 100, Minnesota 88Utah 109, Dallas 92Sacramento 102, L.A. Lakers 92Golden State 111, Memphis 107L.A. Clippers 110, Denver 103Tuesday’s GamesBoston 95, Toronto 93Indiana 99, Washington 95,2OTL.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesCharlotte at Toronto, 7 p.m.San Antonio at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m.Utah at Houston, 8 p.m.Portland at Dallas, 8 p.m.Boston at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Miami at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.Washington at Cleveland, 8 p.m.Orlando at Brooklyn, 8 p.m.Detroit at New York, 8 p.m.Indiana at Memphis, 9:30 p.m.Denver at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.
NHLPlayoff Glance
FIRST ROUND(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)EASTERN CONFERENCEMontreal vs. OttawaTonight at Montreal, 7 p.m.Friday at Montreal, 7 p.m.April 19 at Ottawa, 7 p.m.April 22 at Ottawa, 7 p.m.x-April 24 at Montreal, TBAx-April 26 at Ottawa, TBAx-April 28 at Montreal, TBATampa Bay vs. DetroitThursday at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.April 18 at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m.April 21 at Detroit, 7 p.m.April 23 at Detroit, 7 p.m.x-April 25 at Tampa Bay, TBAx-April 27 at Detroit, TBAx-April 29 at Tampa Bay, TBAN.Y. Rangers vs. PittsburghThursday at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.April 18 at N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m.April 20 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.April 22 at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.x-April 24 at N.Y. Rangers, TBAx-April 26 at Pittsburgh, TBAx-April 28 at N.Y. Rangers, TBAWashington vs. N.Y. IslandersTonight at Washington, 7 p.m.Friday at Washington, 7 p.m.April 19 at N.Y. Islanders, NoonApril 21 at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.x-April 23 at Washington, TBAx-April 25 at N.Y. Islanders, TBAx-April 27 at Washington, TBA
WESTERN CONFERENCESt. Louis vs. MinnesotaThursday at St. Louis, 9:30 p.m.April 18 at St. Louis, 3 p.m.April 20 at Minnesota, 8 p.m.April 22 at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m.x-April 24 at St. Louis, TBAx-April 26 at Minnesota, TBAx-April 29: at St. Louis, TBANashville vs. ChicagoTonight at Nashville, 8:30 p.m.Friday at Nashville, 9:30 p.m.April 19 at Chicago, 3 p.m.April 21 at Chicago, 9:30 p.m.x-April 23 at Nashville, TBAx-April 25 at Chicago, TBAx-April 27 at Nashville, TBAAnaheim vs. WinnipegThursday at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.April 18 at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.April 20 at Winnipeg, 9 p.m.April 22 at Winnipeg, 9:30 p.m.x-April 24 at Anaheim, TBAx-April 26 at Winnipeg, TBAx-April 28 at Anaheim, TBAVancouver vs. CalgaryTonight at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Friday at Vancouver, 10 p.m.April 19 at Calgary, 10 p.m.April 21 at Calgary, 10 p.m.x-April 23 at Vancouver, TBAx-April 25 at Calgary, TBAx-April 27 at Vancouver, TBA
S C O R E B O A R DTODAY ON TELEVISION
COLLEGE SOFTBALL7 p.m. SEC Network North Carolina State at Alabama9 p.m. SEC Network South Alabama at Missis- sippi State
GOLF7 p.m. Golf Channel LPGA Lotte Champion- ship, first round, at Kapo- lei, Hawaii
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALLNoon FS Florida Marlins at Braves1:30 p.m. MLB Network Nationals at Red Sox7 p.m. MLB Network Yankees at Orioles7 p.m. Sun Sports Rays at Blue Jays10 p.m. ESPN2 Mariners at Dodgers
NBA7 p.m. ESPN Hornets at Raptors8 p.m. FS Florida Magic at Nets9:30 p.m. ESPN Pacers at Grizzlies
NHL PLAYOFFS7 p.m. USA Network Eastern Conference, first round, Islanders at Capi- tals, Game 18:30 p.m. NBC Sports Western Conference, first round, Blackhawks at Pre- dators, Game 110 p.m. USA Network Western Conference, first round, Flames at Ca- nucks, Game 1
MEN’S NATIONAL SOCCER9 p.m. Fox Sports 1 U.S. vs. Mexico, at San Antonio
PREMIER LEAGUE SOCCER2:30 p.m. Fox Sports 1 Quarterfinals, first leg, Barcelona at Paris
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the rally started with a single. Sarah Hamling singled behind her to put runners on first and second. Loris Molter sacrifice bunted the run-ners up into scoring position.
Then came key play of the game. No. 9 hit-ter Jael Jara hit a grounder to shortstop Jacey Greene, who fired a strike to catcher Josie Shepherd to nail Wolfe. As Shepherd got the ball to pitcher Toni Zito, Zito thought she could catch Hamling napping at third base. However, her throw to third baseman Kari Niblack was wide and the error allowed Hamling to score the go-ahead run and allow Jara to continue to third base.
Liles walked and stole second uncontest-ed. Then on ball four to Marisa Cummings, Zito uncorked a wild pitch – one of six she recorded on the night – to score Jara to make it 4-2. When Shepherd’s throw to get Jara at the plate skipped away from Zito for another error – one of three the Wildcats had – Liles
scampered home to make it 5-2. The comedy of errors that was the wild pitch and error allowed Cummings to get to third and she scored on – yes – Zito’s sixth wild pitch of the game.
Other than the two-run third that saw Wildwood get three hits, Liles was in con-trol. But in the seventh, she ran into some difficulty. First baseman Marisa Cummings could not catch shortstop Taylor Cummings’ throw and the ball skipped by her for an error allowing leadoff hitter Niblack to reach second. Autumn Garr doubled to left field to bring in Niblack, making it 6-3. Liles got a groundout and strikeout, but Kayla Dasher singled to left field and when left fielder Jara had trouble picking the ball up, Garr raced home off the error to cut the lead to two runs.
Liles ended matters by getting Greene to pop out to second baseman Wolfe to end it.
Taylor Cummings finished 2-for-3 with two runs scored and Wolfe and Hamling added the other hits.
Both Liles and Baker weren’t promising milestone victories Thursday night against
talented Taylor. But they were hoping better than what they’ve shown in two games this season.
“I hope it’s going to be different,” Liles said. “I want it to end well. I don’t want another blowout against them.”
n Hope Hamilton delivered a two-run, first-inning single, then had a three-run tri-ple in a six-run fourth inning as top-seeded and host Clay eliminated Palatka, 12-0, in the District 4-5A semifinals.
Winning pitcher Ashley Stokes, who is 19-3 like her team, went the distance on a one-hitter, striking out 10 and walking none. The lone hit for fourth-seeded Palatka (4-17) was a third-inning single by Savannah Mills.
n Sixth-seeded Interlachen got a couple of runners on base in the top of the first inning against third-seeded Keystone Heights in the District 5-4A opener at Bradford when the skies opened up and left the field and surrounding area a mess.
The game will be pushed back for a second straight time, this time to 6 o’clock tonight at Bradford and pick up where it started in the top of the first inning.
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The Rams broke on top in the second. Kyle McCole hit the first of his two dou-bles to center, scoring Darius Oliver, and Davis’ hit scored pinch-runner D.J. Barber to make it 2-0.
Chase Mascia got the Raiders on the board after his fourth-inning single, mov-ing up on a wild pitch and a balk before Ashton Lansing got him home on a single to left.
Reiter’s two-run double gave Crescent City its first lead in the fifth, plating Dunnigan, who had singled, and Jackson, who reached on a fielder’s choice.
McCole greeted Raider reliever Dakota Horvath with his second double – his sec-ond to center – on the first pitch of the
sixth inning. Kele Blankenship singled pinch-runner Barber to third. Barber scored when Davis grounded to short, forcing Blankenship at second. A walk and a balk moved Blankenship to third with one out, but Horvath served up a pop fly and a grounder to get out if the inning tied 3-3.
“Both our pitchers (Beasley and Horvath) did a great job with runners in scoring position,” Ross said. “Ryne did a good job. That’s his first start of the year. Dakota usually starts for us and did well in relief.”
Horvath (4-3) got the win, allowing one run on three hits over four innings.
Austen Glisson (2-3) took the loss in relief of Brett Sellers, who pitched the first five.
Lansing was 2-3, Reiter 2-5 for the Raiders. Dunnigan, Jackson, Mascia and Patnaude had one hit apiece.
McCole was 2-3, Matthew Hewitt 2-5 for Interlachen. Aaron Mitchell had a double, Blankenship and Davis singles.
n Palatka collected five doubles in a 9-7 defeat of Orange Park in a St. Johns River Athletic Conference game at the Azalea Bowl.
Eight pitchers – each team used four – combined to walk 14 and hit five batters in a game that took almost two hours and 45 minutes. Orange Park (4-19) also made five errors, Palatka four.
“Sloppy, but you take a win when you can get a win,” said PHS coach Alan Rick, whose team improved to 15-8.
Justin Crouse and Brent Summers both went 2-for-3, Crouse with two dou-bles, to lead a seven-hit Palatka offense. Jacob Tincher, Clellan Barnes and Deonte Calhoun also doubled.
“It’s great to get (Crouse) going right before district,” Rick said. “If we can get
Crouse and Barnes and (Alex) Calhoun to swing the bat the way they can, that will be big for the guys batting in front of them.”
The Panthers had to come back from a 4-0 deficit that was largely their doing, the product of a first inning that included three errors, a walk and three hits, two of which didn’t get out of the infield.
They failed to score despite three walks and a hit batsman in the home half, but Deonte Calhoun’s double was the big blow in a three-run second inning. Two errors helped get the tying run home in the third. Palatka claimed the lead for good with a four-run fourth that included consecutive one-out hits by Tincher, Summers, Barnes and Crouse.
Starter Jacob Arnold (2-1) got the win with three scoreless innings after the mistake-filled first. He struck out three and allowed four hits.
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McElwain initially called it a stinger but later said it could b e c a r e e r - t h r e a t e n i n g . Johnson sat out the final week of practice along with Saturday’s spring game.
Johnson posted on his Twitter page Tuesday that he wants a tattoo to remem-ber his final playing day, saying “4/3/15 will tat it on m e m y l a s t p l a y i n t h e swamp saw that white light when I went down and I stood and walk off the field with pride.”
and again had a 3-2 lead in the sixth. But in the bot-tom of the sixth, a double by Taylor Morrow and a single by Autumn Hanners started the inning against starter and losing hurler Hunter Scharf (13-12). A forceout at second on a Jordan Lane grounder allowed Morrow to score to tie the game. An error off a ball hit by Rebecca Enter and a single by Mariah Wise loaded the bases for Erin Chester, who hit a forceout to the plate. But Cheyenne Blaha hit a grounder that third baseman Savannah Montgomery could not handle for an error to bring in Enter with the go-ahead run.
Former North Marion standout Holly McKinnon (25-2) held on from there to get the win, scattering seven hits and allowing three runs, walking none and striking out four. Scharf allowed four runs, two earned, on seven hits, walked two and struck out three. For the Vikings in the second game, Montgomery was 2-for-3, Strong was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and Wildes, Valle and Brock had one hit and one RBI each.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Bowl payouts top half billionThanks to the College Football Playoff, bowl games
paid more than a half billion dollars to conferences and schools last season, the largest payout ever and an increase of almost $200 million from the final sea-son of the Bowl Championship Series.
According to an NCAA report released Tuesday, the 39 postseason FBS games distributed $505.9 mil-lion to the participating conferences and schools. The schools spent $100.2 million to take part in bowl games.
The revenue figures were reported by the bowls and the College Football Playoff to the NCAA and the schools supplied expense reports for participation, said Damani Leech, the NCAA’s managing director, championships and alliances.
Total payouts from 35 postseason games from the 2013-14 season were $309.9 million while schools spent $97.8 million to participate. For the 2012-13 season, payouts were $300.8 million and expenses were $90.3 million.
BASEBALL
Rays edge Blue Jays, 3-2TORONTO— Desmond Jennings hit a tiebreaking
sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 Tuesday night for their fourth straight win.
Steven Souza homered in the first inning and, with the score 2-all, reached on a bunt single off Miguel Castro (0-1) leading off the eighth. One out later, Souza stole second and advanced to third on catcher Russell Martin’s throwing error. Evan Longoria was intentionally walked. and Jennings drove an 0-2 pitch to center, scoring Souza.
Steve Geltz (1-0) pitched 1 1-3 innings for his first major league win. Grant Balfour and Kevin Jepsen each pitched an inning of hitless relief, with Jepsen getting his first save this year.
n Marlins 8, Braves 2. Giancarlo Stanton broke out of a slump with three hits and four RBI, Dee Gordon and Ichiro Suzuki each scored two runs and visiting Miami beat Atlanta Braves.
It was Miami’s first win in five tries this season, and fifth in its last 13 games, against the Braves.
Stanton, who signed a record 13-year, $325 million contract in November, began the game hitting just .130 with three RBI in 23 at-bats.
HOCKEY
Howe battles back from strokeLUBBOCK, Texas — Ravaged by a stroke that left
him unable to walk and barely able to speak, Gordie Howe decided it was time to quit.
His sons didn’t want to hear it. Not from Mr. Hockey, whose 25-year career in the NHL was defined by his indomitable style and blend of grit and finesse.
“He was saying, ‘Take me out back and shoot me,’” recalled Murray Howe, a diagnostic radiologist. “He was serious. It wasn’t like a joke. I said, ‘Dad, let’s just see if we can help you first.’”
The 87-year-old Howe is back on his feet after what his family called a “life-changing” turnaround.
They had gone to Mexico for stem cell treatments that are still in an experimental phase. The treat-ments are not yet proven to work, and conclusions should not be drawn from the experience of a single patient. Howe plans another round of treatments in June.
These days there’s little doubt his spirits are high. At a recent session of occupational and physical thera-py in Lubbock, Howe’s eyes twinkled and he smiled now and then as he flirted with the two young women putting him through his paces. He even planted an innocent, light kiss on the cheek on his occupational therapist and twirled her once as if dancing.
–Associated Press
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9A PALATKA DAILY NEWS • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 , 2015
Special to the Daily News
On Saturday, March 7, about 20 Florida Power & Light
Company employees and family members joined other volunteers from the Water Works Environmental Education Center (WWEEC) for the annual FPL Power to Care Day. This was the seventh year that FPL has sponsored this event at WWEEC; it is just one of many FPL community volun-teer projects through-out Florida, according to a news release.
Volunteers began arriving before 8 a.m. and gathered in the WWEEC building where Roxane Kennedy, vice president of power generation operations, Dave Cobb, external affairs manager, and
Mike Garman, governmental account manager, greeted every-one and reviewed safety proce-dures.
Shann Purinton gave an over-view of the history of WWEEC and current projects. Cobb and Garman organized the various
teams with assigned tasks and they went straight to work accomplishing everything on the list and then some. The work included applying water sealer to the gopher tortoise enclosure and the board walks, painting pipes, removing inva-sive plants, spreading mulch on the nature trail, weeding fruit trees, picking up brush and fallen limbs, and much more.
FPL provided lunch for all of the volunteers in the Water Works building.
The Water Works Environmental Education Center is open to the public every Wednesday morning from 8 a.m. to noon and the
first Sunday afternoon of each month from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The center will also be hosting a “Birds, Bees, Flowers, and Trees” event on Saturday, April 25, in celebration of Earth Day. The cen-ter’s address is 1101 Whitewater Dr., Palatka.
‘Power to Care’ FPL volunteers show their support for the seventh year at Palatka’s Water Works Environmental Education Center
ABOVE: Chloe Skoglund holds a sign promoting the volunteers at work during the project.
AT RIGHT: Cindy Campbell removes invastive plants at the center.
BELOW: Jeff Simmons clears debris.
ABOVE: Cindy Campbell paints the marker board at the maintenance building.
BELOW: Duke Scabarozi and Steve Hessling talk in front of the water works building.
ABOVE: Volunteers get a morning briefing before the work begins inside the Water Works Education Center in March. Pictured are Dave Cobb, left, Roxane Kennedy, Cindy Campbell, Mike Garman, Steve Hessling, Jeff Simmons and Larry Spear.
AT RIGHT: Volunteers helping out during the project included Jim Bush, Daniel Bush, Shann Purinton, Mike Garman, Cindy Campbell, Jeff Simmons, Larry Spear, Dave Cobb, Steve Hessling, Roxane Kennedy, Jack Jermier, Mark Martin, David Kilgore, Jacob Kilgore, Pete Skoglund, Valerie Skoglund, Chloe Skoglund and Walker Skoglund.
Laying mulch on the nature trail are Roxane Kennedy, Steve Hessling, Mike Garman and Jack Jermier.
Apply water sealant to the center’s foot bridge are Pete Skoglund, David Kilgore, Jacob Kilgore and Valerie Skoglund.
Mark Martin and Jack Jermier paint pipes during the work day at the center.
Volunteer Michelle Usry fertilizes a fruit tree.
Photos provided by Shann Purinton
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1 0 A C L ASS I F I E D S • PALATKA DAILY NEWS • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 , 2015
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,t h a t M S N T R I N V E S T -MENTS LTD. the holder ofthe following certificatehas filed said certificate fora tax deed to be issuedthereon. The certificatenumber and year of issu-ance, the description of theproperty, and the names inwhich it was assessed areas follows:
Certificate Number 3278Year of Issuance 2008Description of Property:
INTERLACHEN LAKESESTS UNIT 15 MB4 P186BLK 60 LOT 6PARCEL NUMBER 24-10-23-4074-0600-0060
Name in which assessedHYLTON SANDRA.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15,4/22/15Legal No. 00032516
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,t h a t M S N T R I N V E S T -MENTS LTD. the holder ofthe following certificatehas filed said certificate fora tax deed to be issuedthereon. The certificatenumber and year of issu-ance, the description of theproperty, and the names inwhich it was assessed areas follows:
Certificate Number 3691Year of Issuance 2008Description of Property:
INTERLACHEN LAKES ES-TATES UNIT 16 FREDER-ICK TOWN MB5 P4 BLK 44LOT 23PARCEL NUMBER 24-09-24-4075-0440-0230
Name in which assessedL O U I S S A I N TA N O U C E + S T E P H A N I EF O N T U S ( J t r o s ) .
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032517
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that UNITY OF GODSMANNA MINISTRIES theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number E081Year of Issuance 2008Description of Property:
Y E L V I N G T O N P A R KAMENDED PLAT MB3 P120BLK 5 LOT 8PARCEL NUMBER 05-10-27-9570-0050-0080
Name in which assessedBRISTER LUCIOUS HEIRSOF.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032518
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that PUTNAM COUNTY theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number F161Year of Issuance 2008Description of Property:
POWELL + BISHOP MB3P191 PT OF LOT C OR153P669 + S1/2 OF SW1/4 OFNE1/4 (EX OR452 P1057OR476 P725 OR482 P1481OR485 P1698 OR511 P1991OR513 P771 OR543 PP1241557 OR584 P462 OR585P113 OR601 PP802 804 805806 807 808 OR610 P1357OR654 P742 OR697 P935)(ROADS)PARCEL NUMBER 23-10-23-0000-0060-0000
Name in which assessedGLADWIN JAY HEIRS OF.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15,4/22/15Legal No. 00032519
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDA
C A S E N O . :1 3 0 0 0 4 7 0 C A A X M X
WELLS FARGO BANK,N.A. ,Plaintiff,
vs.
CATHERINE A. LESTER; etal.,Defendant(s).
NOTICE OF FORECLOS-URE SALE PURSUANT TOCHAPTER 45NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat sale will be made pur-suant to an Order or FinalSummary Judgment. FinalJudgment was awarded onFebruary 25, 2015 in CivilC a s e N o .13000470CAAXMX, of theCircuit Court of the SEV-ENTH Judicial Circuit inand for Putnam County,Florida, wherein WELLSFARGO BANK, N.A. is thePlaintiff, and CATHERINEA. LESTER; UNKNOWNSPOUSE OF CATHERINEA. LESTER; UNKNOWNTENANT #1 THROUGH #4;ANY AND ALL UNKNOWNPARTIES CLAIMING BY,THROUGH, UNDER ANDAGAINST THE HEREINNAMED INDIVIDUAL DE-FENDANT(S) WHO ARENOT KNOWN TO BE DEADOR ALIVE, WHETHER SAIDUNKNOWN PARTIES MAYCLAIM AN INTEREST ASSPOUSES, HEIRS, DE-VISEES, GRANTEES, OROTHER CLAIMANTS areDefendants.
The clerk of the court, TimSmith wi l l sel l to thehighest bidder for cash atthe South front entrance ofthe Putnam County Court-house on April 30, 2015,the following describedreal property as set forth insaid Final Judgment, towit:
BEING A PORTION OFTHAT CERTAIN TRACT OFL A N D D E S C R I B E D I NDEED RECORDED IN DEEDBOOK II, PAGE 499 OF THEPUBLIC RECORDS IN OFPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA S ITUATE IN THEG E O R G E F L E M I N GGRANT, SECT ION 51 ,T O W N S H I P 9 S O U T H ,RANGE 27 EAST, ANDMORE PARTICULARLY DE-SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:FROM A PERMANENT REF-ERENCE MARKER SET ONTHE SOUTHEASTERLY,RIGHT OF WAY LINE OFSTATE ROAD NO. 209,WHERE THE WEST LINEOF THE GEORGE FLEM-ING GRANT, SECTION 51,T O W N S H I P 9 S O U T H ,RANGE 27 EAST INTER-SECTS THE SAID RIGHTO F W A Y L I N E , R U NTHENCE NORTHEAST-ERLY ALONG THE SOUTH-EASTERLY RIGHT OF WAYLINE OF STATE ROAD NO.209 FOR A DISTANCE OF508 .5 FEET FOR THEPOINT OF BEGINNING OFTHIS DESCRIPTION, (1)THENCE RUN NORTH-EASTERLY, ALONG THESOUTHEASTERLY RIGHTOF WAY LINE OF SAIDROAD FOR A DISTANCEO F 1 0 3 . 5 F E E T , ( 2 )THENCE RUN SOUTH 11DEGREES 56 MINUTESEAST, PARALLEL WITHTHE WEST LINE OF THESAID GEORGE FLEMINGGRANT, FOR A DISTANCEOF 1635 FEET, MORE ORLESS TO THE WATERS OFTHE ST. JOHNS RIVER,RETURN TO THE POINT OFBEGINNING, (3) THENCERUN SOUTH 11 DEGREES56 MINUTES EAST, PAR-ALLEL WITH THE WESTL I N E O F T H E S A I DGEORGE FLEMING GRANTFOR A DISTANCE OF 1608FEET MORE OR LESS TOTHE WATERS OF THE ST.JOHNS RIVER, (4) THENCERUN NORTHEASTERLYALONG THE WATERS OFTHE ST. JOHNS RIVER, TOTHE SOUTHERLY END OFCALL NO. 2 TO CLOSE.TOGETHER WITH AL ANDSINGULAR THE RIPARIANAND LITTORAL RIGHTSTHEREUNTO BELONGINGOR IN ANYWISE APPER-TAINING.
ANY PERSON CLAIMINGAN INTEREST IN THE SUR-PLUS FROM THE SALE, IFANY, OTHER THAN THEPROPERTY OWNER AS OFTHE DATE OF THE LISPENDENS MUST FILE ACLAIM WITHIN 60 DAYSAFTER THE SALE.
WITNESS my hand and theseal of the court on April,7, 2015.
CLERK OF THE COURTTim Smith
By: /s/ Kelly PurcellDeputy Clerk
IMPORTANTIF YOU ARE A PERSONWITH A DISABILITY WHONEEDS AN ACCOMMODA-TION IN ORDER TO AC-CESS COURT FACILITIESOR PARTICIPATE IN ACOURT PROCEEDING,YOU ARE ENTITLED, ATNO COST TO YOU, TO THEPROVISION OF CERTAINASSISTANCE. TO RE-QUEST SUCH AN ACCOM-MODATION, PLEASE CON-TACT COURT ADMINIS-TRATION IN ADVANCE OFTHE DATE THE SERVICEIS NEEDED: COURT AD-MINISTRATION, 125 E. OR-ANGE AVE., STE. 300,DAYTONA BEACH, FL32114, (386) 257-6096.HEARING OR VOICE IM-PAIRED, PLEASE CALL711.
4/15/15, 4/22/15Legal No. 00032792
NOTICE OF PUBLICAUCTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENTHAT ON 08 MAY, 2015,9:00 A.M. THE FOLLOW-ING VEHICLES WILL BESOLD:
1997 VW3VWRA81H3VM082895
2004 DODGE4B3AG42G84E077595
SALE TO BE HELD ATJOHNSON’S TOWING &RECOVERY, 253 HIGH-WAY 17 NORTH, PAL-ATKA, FL 32177, PUTNAMCOUNTY. JOHNSON’STOWING & RECOVERY RE-SERVES THE RIGHT TOBID.
4/15/15Legal No. 00032896
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE:ST. JOHNS AUTO BODYINC. gives Notice of Fore-closure of Lien and intentto sell these vehicles on04/27/2015, 12:00pm at1609 ST JOHNS AVE PAL-ATKA, FL 32177-4438, pur-suant to subsection 713.78of the Florida Statutes. ST.JOHNS AUTO BODY INC.reserves the right to ac-cept or reject any and/or allbids. 2B6HB21X5RK1580631994 DODGE4/15/15Legal No. 00032374
Tax Deeds
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that JRDES INVESTMENTSLTD. the holder of the fol-lowing certificate has filedsaid certificate for a taxdeed to be issued thereon.The certificate number andyear of issuance, the de-scription of the property,and the names in which itwas assessed are as fol-lows:
Certificate Number 0444Year of Issuance 2008Description of Property:
CLARKS S/D MB1 P121 PTOF S1/2 OF LOT 30 OR159P684(MAP SHEET 48/49H)PARCEL NUMBER 48-09-27-1420-0000-0306
Name in which assessedS C O F I E L D K E L L Y +EMILIO CIRELLI + StevenSemmelman.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032513
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that JRDES INVESTMENTSLTD. the holder of the fol-lowing certificate has filedsaid certificate for a taxdeed to be issued thereon.The certificate number andyear of issuance, the de-scription of the property,and the names in which itwas assessed are as fol-lows:
Certificate Number 1974Year of Issuance 2008Description of Property:
GRANDIN LAKE HILLSMB4 P111 BLK 4 LOTS 1920 21 22PARCEL NUMBER 34-09-24-3245-0040-0190
Name in which assessedSMITH CURTIS L JR.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032515
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,t h a t M S N T R I N V E S T -MENTS LTD. the holder ofthe following certificatehas filed said certificate fora tax deed to be issuedthereon. The certificatenumber and year of issu-ance, the description of theproperty, and the names inwhich it was assessed areas follows:
Certificate Number 3278Year of Issuance 2008Description of Property:
INTERLACHEN LAKESESTS UNIT 15 MB4 P186BLK 60 LOT 6PARCEL NUMBER 24-10-23-4074-0600-0060
Name in which assessedHYLTON SANDRA.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15,4/22/15Legal No. 00032516
IN THE CIRCUIT CIVILCOURT OF THE SEVENTHJUDICIAL CIRCUIT OFFLORIDA, IN AND FORPUTNAM COUNTYCIVIL DIVISION
Case No. 2013-CA-00042053Division 53
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,Plaintiff,
vs.
LUBERTHA DAVIS ANDU N K N O W NT E N A N T S / O W N E R S ,Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALENotice is hereby given, pur-suant to Final Judgment ofForeclosure for Plaintiffentered in this cause onMarch 30, 2015, in the Cir-cu i t Cour t o f PutnamCounty, Florida, I will sellthe property situated inPutnam County, Florida de-scribed as:
THE WEST 66 FEET OFTHE SOUTH 197 FEET OFLOT 9, HAGAN'S SUBDIVI-SION, RECORDED IN MAPBOOK 2, PAGE 2 OF THEPUBLIC RECORDS OFPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA. TOGETHER WITHT H A T C E R T A I N 1 9 8 8L A N D C R A F T C O R P . /L A N D R O V E R M O B I L EH O M E , V I N ( S )GDWVGA428740326A &GDVWGA428743026B.
and commonly known as:300 MICHELLE AVE, EASTPALATKA, FL 32131; in-cluding the building; ap-purtenances, and fixtureslocated therein, at publicsale, to the highest andbest bidder, for cash. Salesare held at the south frontentrance of the PutnamCounty Courthouse, onApril 30, 2015 at 11:00 AM.
Any persons claiming aninterest in the surplus fromthe sale, if any, other thanthe property owner as ofthe date of the lis pendensmust file a claim within 60days after the sale.
Dated this 6th day of April,2015.
Clerk of the Circuit CourtTim Smith
By: /s/ Ashley DarbyDeputy Clerk
4/15/15, 4/22/15Legal No. 00032888
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDA
C A S E N O . :1 3 0 0 0 4 7 0 C A A X M X
WELLS FARGO BANK,N.A. ,Plaintiff,
vs.
CATHERINE A. LESTER; etal.,Defendant(s).
NOTICE OF FORECLOS-URE SALE PURSUANT TOCHAPTER 45NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat sale will be made pur-suant to an Order or FinalSummary Judgment. FinalJudgment was awarded onFebruary 25, 2015 in CivilC a s e N o .13000470CAAXMX, of theCircuit Court of the SEV-ENTH Judicial Circuit inand for Putnam County,Florida, wherein WELLSFARGO BANK, N.A. is thePlaintiff, and CATHERINEA. LESTER; UNKNOWNSPOUSE OF CATHERINEA. LESTER; UNKNOWNTENANT #1 THROUGH #4;ANY AND ALL UNKNOWNPARTIES CLAIMING BY,THROUGH, UNDER ANDAGAINST THE HEREINNAMED INDIVIDUAL DE-FENDANT(S) WHO ARENOT KNOWN TO BE DEADOR ALIVE, WHETHER SAIDUNKNOWN PARTIES MAYCLAIM AN INTEREST ASSPOUSES, HEIRS, DE-VISEES, GRANTEES, OROTHER CLAIMANTS areDefendants.
The clerk of the court, TimSmith wi l l sel l to thehighest bidder for cash atthe South front entrance ofthe Putnam County Court-house on April 30, 2015,the following describedreal property as set forth insaid Final Judgment, towit:
BEING A PORTION OFTHAT CERTAIN TRACT OFL A N D D E S C R I B E D I NDEED RECORDED IN DEEDBOOK II, PAGE 499 OF THEPUBLIC RECORDS IN OFPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA S ITUATE IN THEG E O R G E F L E M I N GGRANT, SECT ION 51 ,T O W N S H I P 9 S O U T H ,RANGE 27 EAST, ANDMORE PARTICULARLY DE-SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:FROM A PERMANENT REF-ERENCE MARKER SET ONTHE SOUTHEASTERLY,RIGHT OF WAY LINE OFSTATE ROAD NO. 209,WHERE THE WEST LINEOF THE GEORGE FLEM-ING GRANT, SECTION 51,T O W N S H I P 9 S O U T H ,RANGE 27 EAST INTER-SECTS THE SAID RIGHTO F W A Y L I N E , R U NTHENCE NORTHEAST-ERLY ALONG THE SOUTH-EASTERLY RIGHT OF WAYLINE OF STATE ROAD NO.209 FOR A DISTANCE OF508 .5 FEET FOR THEPOINT OF BEGINNING OFTHIS DESCRIPTION, (1)THENCE RUN NORTH-EASTERLY, ALONG THESOUTHEASTERLY RIGHTOF WAY LINE OF SAIDROAD FOR A DISTANCEO F 1 0 3 . 5 F E E T , ( 2 )THENCE RUN SOUTH 11DEGREES 56 MINUTESEAST, PARALLEL WITHTHE WEST LINE OF THESAID GEORGE FLEMINGGRANT, FOR A DISTANCEOF 1635 FEET, MORE ORLESS TO THE WATERS OFTHE ST. JOHNS RIVER,RETURN TO THE POINT OFBEGINNING, (3) THENCERUN SOUTH 11 DEGREES56 MINUTES EAST, PAR-ALLEL WITH THE WESTL I N E O F T H E S A I DGEORGE FLEMING GRANTFOR A DISTANCE OF 1608FEET MORE OR LESS TOTHE WATERS OF THE ST.JOHNS RIVER, (4) THENCERUN NORTHEASTERLYALONG THE WATERS OFTHE ST. JOHNS RIVER, TOTHE SOUTHERLY END OFCALL NO. 2 TO CLOSE.TOGETHER WITH AL ANDSINGULAR THE RIPARIANAND LITTORAL RIGHTSTHEREUNTO BELONGINGOR IN ANYWISE APPER-TAINING.
ANY PERSON CLAIMINGAN INTEREST IN THE SUR-PLUS FROM THE SALE, IFANY, OTHER THAN THEPROPERTY OWNER AS OFTHE DATE OF THE LISPENDENS MUST FILE ACLAIM WITHIN 60 DAYSAFTER THE SALE.
WITNESS my hand and theseal of the court on April,7, 2015.
CLERK OF THE COURTTim Smith
By: /s/ Kelly PurcellDeputy Clerk
IMPORTANTIF YOU ARE A PERSONWITH A DISABILITY WHONEEDS AN ACCOMMODA-TION IN ORDER TO AC-CESS COURT FACILITIESOR PARTICIPATE IN ACOURT PROCEEDING,YOU ARE ENTITLED, ATNO COST TO YOU, TO THEPROVISION OF CERTAINASSISTANCE. TO RE-QUEST SUCH AN ACCOM-MODATION, PLEASE CON-TACT COURT ADMINIS-TRATION IN ADVANCE OFTHE DATE THE SERVICEIS NEEDED: COURT AD-MINISTRATION, 125 E. OR-ANGE AVE., STE. 300,DAYTONA BEACH, FL32114, (386) 257-6096.HEARING OR VOICE IM-PAIRED, PLEASE CALL711.
4/15/15, 4/22/15Legal No. 00032792
FLORIDA. CIVIL DIVISION
CASE NO. 14-0306-CA-53U C N :542014CA000306XXXXXX
DEUTSCHE BANK NATION-AL TRUST COMPANY, ASTRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OFTHE REGISTERED HOLD-ERS OF FIRST FRANKLINMORTGAGE LOAN TRUSTSERIES 2006-FF1, MORT-GAGE PASS THROUGHCERTIFICATES, SERIES2006-FF1,Plaintiff,
vs.
JOHNNY B. VALDES, JR.A/K/A JOHNNY VALDES,J R . A / K / A J O H N N YV A L D E S ; E T A L . ,Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE PURSU-ANT TO CHAPTER 45NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENpursuant to an Order orSummary Final Judgmentof foreclosure dated March25, 2015, and entered inCase No. 14-0306-CA-53U C N :542014CA000306XXXXXXof the Circuit Court in andfor Putnam County, Flor-ida, wherein DeutscheBank National Trust Com-pany, as Trustee, on be-half of the registered hold-ers of First Franklin Mort-gage Loan Trust Series2006-FF1, Mortgage Pass-T h r o u g h C e r t i f i c a t e s ,Series 2006-FF1 is Plaintiffand JOHNNY B. VALDES,J R . A / K / A J O H N N YV A L D E S , J R . A / K / AJOHNNY VALDES; UN-KNOWN TENANT NO. 1;UNKNOWN TENANT NO. 2;a n d A L L U N K N O W NPARTIES CLAIMING IN-TERESTS BY, THROUGH,UNDER OR AGAINST ANAMED DEFENDANT TOTHIS ACTION, OR HAVINGOR CLAIMING TO HAVEANY RIGHT, TITLE OR IN-TEREST IN THE PROP-E R T Y H E R E I N D E -SCRIBED, are Defendants, Iwill sell to the highest andbest bidder for cash at theSouth Front Steps of thePutnam County Court-house, 410 St. Johns Aven-ue, Palatka, FL 32177 ,11:00 a.m. on April 30,2015, the following de-scribed property as setforth in said Order or FinalJudgment, to-wit:
LOT 9 , BLOCK 7 , ST.JOHNS RIVERSIDE ES-TATES MARINA SECTION,ACCORDING TO THE PLATOR PLAT THEREOF AS RE-CORDED IN MAP BOOK 5,PAGES 6, 7, 8 AND 9, PUB-LIC RECORDS OF PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDA.
ANY PERSON CLAIMINGAN INTEREST IN THE SUR-PLUS FROM THE SALE, IFANY, OTHER THAN THEPROPERTY OWNER AS OFTHE DATE OF THE LISPENDENS MUST FILE ACLAIM WITHIN 60 DAYSAFTER THE SALE.
ATTENTION: Persons WithDisabilities. If you are aperson with a disabilitywho needs accommoda-tions in order to particip-ate in this proceeding, youare entitled, at no cost toyou, to the provision ofcertain assistance. Pleasecontact Court Administra-tion, 125 East Orange Av-enue, Suite 300, DaytonaBeach, Florida, 32114;Telephone No: (386) 257-6096, within two (2) days ofyour receipt of this notice.If you are hearing impaired,call 1-800-955-8771; if youare voice impaired, call 1-800-955-8770. THIS IS NOTA COURT INFORMATIONLINE.
DATED at Palatka, Florida,on April 7, 2015.
TIM SMITHAs Clerk, Circuit Court
By: /s/ Kelly PurcellAs Deputy Clerk
4/15/15, 4/22/15Legal No. 00032785
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT, IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO: 15-0121-CPDIVISION: 53
IN RE: THE ESTATE OFDARWIN VICTOR THOMASLUXFORD, Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORSThe administration of theestate of DARWIN VICTORTHOMAS LUXFORD, de-ceased, File Number 2015-0121-CP, is pending in theCircuit Court for PutnamCounty, Florida, ProbateDivision, the address ofwhich is 410 St. Johns Av-enue, P.O. Box 758, Pal-atka, Florida 32178. Thenames and addresses ofthe personal representat-ive and the personal rep-resentative's attorney areset forth below.
All creditors of the de-cedent and other personshaving claims or demandsagainst decedent's estate,including unmatured, con-tingent or unliquidatedclaims, on whom a copy ofthis notice is served mustfile their claims with thiscourt WITHIN THE LATEROF 3 MONTHS AFTER THEDATE OF THE FIRST PUB-LICATION OF THIS NO-TICE OR 30 DAYS AFTERTHE DATE OF SERVICE OFA COPY OF THIS NOTICEON THEM.
All other creditors of thedecedent and other per-sons having claims or de-mands against decedent'sestate, including unma-tured, contingent or unli-quidated claims, must filetheir claims with this courtWITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTERTHE DATE OF THE FIRSTPUBLICATION OF THISNOTICE.
ALL CLAIMS NOT FILEDWITHIN THE TIME PERI-ODS SET FORTH IN SEC-TION 733.702 OF THEFLORIDA PROBATE CODEW I L L B E F O R E V E RB A R R E D .
NOTWITHSTANDING THETIME PERIODS SET FORTHABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILEDTWO (2) YEARS OR MOREAFTER THE DECEDENT'SD A T E O F D E A T H I SB A R R E D .
The date of first publica-tion of this Notice is April8, 2015.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE SEVENTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT IN AND FOR PUT-NAM COUNTY, FLORIDACIVIL DIVISION
CASE NO.: 2013 CA 000462
TD BANK, NATIONAL AS-SOCIATION,Plaintiff,
vs.
DAVID S. BAGGS, JR. ;DORIS ANNA BAGGS;DAVID S. BAGGS, I I I ;DORA DAWN BAGGS ;TENANT # 1 and TENANT #2, unknown parties in pos-session,Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENpursuant to the Final Judg-ment of Foreclosure datedMarch 25, 2015 (the "Judg-ment"), entered in Case No.2013-CA-000462 of the Cir-cuit Court of the SeventhJudicial Circuit in and forPutnam County, Florida, inwhich TD BANK, NATION-A L A S S O C I A T I O N , i sPlaintiff and DORIS ANNABAGGS, DORA DAWNBAGGS, DAVID S. BAGGS,JR.; ESTATE OF DAVID S.B A G G S , I I I , a n d U N -KNOWN HEIRS AT LAW OFDAVID S. BAGGS, III, areDefendants.
The Clerk of Court will sellthe Property as defined inthe Judgment and as setforth below at a public saleon APRIL 28, 2015 at 11:00a . m . t o t h e " h i g h e s tbidder", for cash at thesouth front entrance of thePutnam County Court-house, 410 St. Johns Aven-ue, Palatka, FL 32177, inaccordance with Section45.031, Florida Statutes.
The "highest bidder" forpurposes of this Notice ofSale, is defined as theparty who bids the largestamount of money to pur-chase the Property (asdefined below) and whocompletes the sale in atimely fashion, as herein-after set out. The one whobids the largest amount ofmoney to purchase theProperty (as defined below)shall be permitted to com-plete the sale by deliveringto the Clerk, the balance ofsuch bid, over and abovethe deposit, by 3:00 p.m.on the day of the sale.
The following property loc-ated in Putnam County,Florida, is the subject ofthis Notice of Sale:
Lot 8, POINT WEST, ac-cording to the plat thereofrecorded in Map Book 6,Page 45 of the public re-cords of Putnam County,Florida
and
The East Half of the South-west 1/4 of the Southeast1/4 (EXCEPT the North 1/2of the Northeast 1/4 of theSouthwest 1 /4 o f theSoutheast 1/4) AND theWest 1/2 of the Southwest1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 ofSection 22, Township 8South, Range 25 East, Put-nam County, Florida
LESS AND EXCEPT thoselands as described in Offi-cial Records Book 653,Page 307 and in Official Re-cords Book 1064, Page 761of the public records ofPutnam County, Florida
ALSO TOGETHER WITH a1994 FLEE double-widemobile home: I.D. Num-bers GAFLR35A08076HHand GAFLR35B08076HH,which is located on theabove-described parcel ofland.
ALSO TOGETHER WITH aneasement for the purposeof ingress, egress, and util-ities over and across theSoutherly 35 feet of theEasterly 35 feet of the SE1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Sec-tion 22, Township 8 South,Range 25 East, and acrossthe Easterly 35 feet of theNE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 andacross the North 50 feet ofthe East 35 feet of the SE1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Sec-tion 27, Township 8 South,Range 25 East, PutnamCounty, Florida
together with all existing orsubsequently erected or af-fixed buildings, improve-ments and fixtures (the"Property").
Any person claiming an in-terest in the surplus fromthe sale, if any, other thanthe property owner as ofthe date of the Lis Pen-dens, must file a claimwithin 60 days after thesale.
DATED on APRIL 1, 2015.
TIM SMITHClerk of Circuit Court(COURT SEAL)
By: /s/ Kelly PurcellDeputy Clerk
4/8/15, 4/15/15Legal No. 00032651
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400 PETS & SUPPLIES
550
LIVESTOCK & SUPPLIES
560 FOR SALE
REAL ESTATE
700
RECREATIONAL
800 TRANSPORTATION
900
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1 1 A C L ASS I F I E D S • PALATKA DAILY NEWS • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 , 2015
Business /Commercial
Adjacent to Lori's Res-taurant. Many possibilit-
ies. 802 Husson Ave.386-559-2845/328-9769
Mobile Homes2BR/1BA & 3BR/2BA
for rent in different loc-ations, $450/mo andup, call 386-559-0660
FOR SALE REAL ESTATE
700
HomesRiver Villas 2BR/2BA,Screen porch, Carport,New AC, Crn lot, $60k
For appt. 386-649-6817
Crescent City Huge 3/2across from lake. Alsohas comm. downstairs.$110k OBO 336-1544
Handyman Special! 1205Old Jacksonville Rd.
Palatka. Asking $16K.Call for more info:
904-583-1931
Homes for sale Palatka,E. Palatka, Owner fin.,low dn pymt. Starting@ $40K, 386-559-0660
Mobile Homes3BR/1.5BA CH&A, De-tached garage, $39,000or Rent $600/mo + Sec
Dep 386-972-4172
Affordable living, quiet,Senior park, $3,500-
$19,000, 386-698-3648lakecrescentflorida.com
Mobile HomeWith LandInterlachen, Satsuma,Owner fin., low down
pymt. Starting @$25K, 386-559-0660
Owner Finance! 2/1 SWin Interlachen, $2K down,
$500/m, $29.9K.386-972-1333
Open HousesInterlachen, 119 NatalieCir. Wed. 10a-2p RealEstate Central Group,
LLC, Yolie Ferrari,REALTOR 904-814-7310yolieferrari.mfr.mlsmatrix.com
Waterfront3BR/2BA on canal - Rent$650/m + dep., or Sale$75K. CH/A, dock, SanMateo. 904-396-7626
or 904-710-1119
RECREATIONAL
800
Boats & Accessories
06 Key Largo 160 CtrConsole, Like New, 90hrMerc 50hp, Alum trailerw/ S/T, Wireless trolling
mtr, Depth finder, GPS, 2Optium batteries $7200
386-603-5005
15ft boat w/trailer & OMCmotor, exc. cond. $3,200.Also O/B motors for sale
386-336-1544
TRANSPORTATION
900
Four Wheel Drive Vehicles
2003 Ford F350 6LPower Stroke Diesel,
4x4, super cab, flatbed.Best offer. 386-336-1544
Lawn & GardenTroybilt Horse Rototiller,8HP, rear tines, w/plow,
$500. 386-972-0130
MedicalEquipmentWheelchair, heavy duty,in excellent condition,
only $95. 386-328-3108
MiscellaneousMetal wheelchair
ramp, 27ft long, $1K.386-546-2686
Items $25 or Less1 large pickup truck loadof goat manure, $15. You
haul. Free mulch hayalso. 386-329-8603
25 unused 8in concreteblocks, $25. 325-5591
3 Goodyear70/R14/P215 tires, good
tread, $25 for all.386-538-8697
Vintage records - over 20each of 45 & 78rpm,
more than 50 33rpm, $20for all. 386-649-8741
Nebulizer, brand new,$25. 706-318-0973
New 80-piece rotary tool,$20. 386-325-5591
New electric guitarbag, padded, $20.
386-328-3108
New padded acousticguitar bag, $20.386-328-3108
Ralph Lauren goosedown mattress topper or
comforter. $25.706-318-0973
Vegetable plant for salein a 5" black pot, $2.
386-264-7574
Vintage outdoortheater speaker,
$15. 386-649-8741
PETS & SUPPLIES55
0
Pets & SuppliesYorkie pup, $600, andChorkie pups $350.Health certs, male &
female. 904-501-0233
LIVESTOCK & SUPPLIES
560
LivestockHay - Fertilized, Barn-
Stored. Large Rolls $55.Pomona Park area
386-546-4466
Free AnimalsFree: Playful brown
mixed breed lap dog.386-530-0052
FOR RENT REAL ESTATE60
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ApartmentsBarrington Apts
Offering 2BRleasing for April.386-325-0512
www.barringtonapartments.org
Palatka 2BR/1BAremodeled apt. OleanderDr. New CH/A. $575/m+ sec. 386-916-9235
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CULLEN STEVEN theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0017263Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
W 1/2 OF S 3 ACRES OF E1/2 OF W 1/2 OF LOT 11(MAP SHEET 18B)PARCEL NUMBER 18-09-23-0000-0151-0000
Name in which assessedJOHNSON CAROLYN Y.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032540
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that US BANK AS CUSTFOR MOONSTONE LIENthe holder of the followingcertificate has filed saidcertificate for a tax deed tobe issued thereon. The cer-tificate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0017774Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
PT OF LOT 2 BK233 P378 +OR493 P574 (MAP SHEET6B)PARCEL NUMBER 06-10-23-0000-0040-0000
Name in which assessedHANBURRY SUSAN G.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032541
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CULLEN STEVEN theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0019724Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
PT OF NE1/4 OF SE1/4OR225 P86 OR229 P377PARCEL NUMBER 20-12-26-0000-0022-0000
Name in which assessedANDERSON WENDY.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032542
MERCHANDISE
400
ElectronicsPanasonic stereo sys-tem: 5-CD changer, 2
cassette players, remote,manual, $75. 328-9424
Furniture &UpholsteryMattresses: Thick plushpillow-top or tight-top, allsizes. Cheapest prices!Pomona Park 336-1544
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that MTAG AS CUSTODI-AN FOR CAZ CREEK FLOthe holder of the followingcertificate has filed saidcertificate for a tax deed tobe issued thereon. The cer-tificate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0012604Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
PINEHURST MB3 P61 BLK12 LOT 2PARCEL NUMBER 01-10-26-7200-0120-0020
Name in which assessedSWINDLER RUBY HEIRSO F C / O T R E N E A S ET A Y L O R .
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032537
ADDITIONAL TAX DEEDS
Without regard for the pub-lic’s right and need toknow, Putnam County con-tinues to pay for half of taxdeed sales notices to bepublished in the DailyNews and pay for the otherhalf to be published inCrescent City’s weeklynewspaper. As a result ofthis legal but flawed sys-tem, many notices have notappeared in the neighbor-hood where the at-riskproperty is located. To fixthis problem, the DailyNews will publish tax deedsale notices as assignedand, at no charge to thecounty, publish a sum-mary of the other notices.This month’s summary ap-peared on April 1, 2015. Acopy may be reviewed at1825 St. Johns Ave. duringnormal business hours.
4/8/15, 4/15/15, 4/22/15Legal No. 00032508
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that ATCF II FLORIDA-ALLC the holder of the fol-lowing certificate has filedsaid certificate for a taxdeed to be issued thereon.The certificate number andyear of issuance, the de-scription of the property,and the names in which itwas assessed are as fol-lows:
Certificate Number 0014909Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
ST JOHNS RIVERSIDE ES-TATES RIVEROAKS SEC-TION MB4 P181 LOT 45B(MAP SHEET 5/37/38)PARCEL NUMBER 37-11-27-8253-0020-0452
Name in which assessedPNC MORTGAGE A DIV OFPNC BANK NA.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032538
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CULLEN STEVEN theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0017203Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
PT OF SW1/4 OF SE1/4O R 1 0 4 P 5 2 8 ( L O T 6M C K A Y S H A L F M O O NL A K E U N R E C P L A T )PARCEL NUMBER 03-09-23-0000-0434-0040
Name in which assessedDOMBROSKY BENJAMINA.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15,4/22/15Legal No. 00032539
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CULLEN STEVEN theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0017263Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
W 1/2 OF S 3 ACRES OF E1/2 OF W 1/2 OF LOT 11(MAP SHEET 18B)PARCEL NUMBER 18-09-23-0000-0151-0000
Name in which assessedJOHNSON CAROLYN Y.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15,4/22/15Legal No. 00032540
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that THE LOSEN WILLIE Kthe holder of the followingcertificate has filed saidcertificate for a tax deed tobe issued thereon. The cer-tificate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0007407Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
INTERLACHEN LAKES ES-TATES UNIT 25 MB5 P46BLK 12 LOT 14PARCEL NUMBER 31-08-25-4084-0120-0140
Name in which assessedMCKEE WILLIAM J III +FAY H/W.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032534
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that THE LOSEN WILLIE Kthe holder of the followingcertificate has filed saidcertificate for a tax deed tobe issued thereon. The cer-tificate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0007485Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
INTERLACHEN LAKES ES-TATES UNIT 28 MB5 P55BLK 10 LOT 15PARCEL NUMBER 23-08-24-4087-0100-0150
Name in which assessedKENNEY IRENE + JAMESP.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032535
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CAP ONE AS COLLASSN RMCTL2013 theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0010076Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
MELROSE LANDING MB6P29 BLK I LOT 11PARCEL NUMBER 01-10-23-5740-0090-0110
Name in which assessedIRISH MICHAEL A.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032536
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that MTAG AS CUSTODI-AN FOR CAZ CREEK FLOthe holder of the followingcertificate has filed saidcertificate for a tax deed tobe issued thereon. The cer-tificate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0012604Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
PINEHURST MB3 P61 BLK12 LOT 2PARCEL NUMBER 01-10-26-7200-0120-0020
Name in which assessedSWINDLER RUBY HEIRSO F C / O T R E N E A S ET A Y L O R .
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15,4/22/15Legal No. 00032537
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CULLEN STEVEN theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0002764Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
HIRES S/D DB E P771 PTOF LOTS 6 + 7 OR282 P704OR503 P593 (EX OR1016P429 + THAT PT TO ED-ROY OXENDINE PER FJOR1127 P1603)PARCEL NUMBER 35-12-26-3900-0000-0065
Name in which assessedKING DONNIE M + DONNALISA H/W + STACEY NTILTON (JTROS).
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15,4/22/15Legal No. 00032531
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CAP ONE AS COLLASSN RMCTL2013 theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0005764Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
INTERLACHEN LAKES ES-TATES UNIT 17 MB5 P27BLK 1 LOT 18PARCEL NUMBER 35-09-24-4076-0010-0180
Name in which assessedCONNER JAMES L + DI-ANA L H/W.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032532
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CAP ONE AS COLLASSN RMCTL2013 theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0005766Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
INTERLACHEN LAKES ES-TATES UNIT 17 MB5 P27BLK 2 LOT 13PARCEL NUMBER 35-09-24-4076-0020-0130
Name in which assessedCONNER JAMES L + DI-ANA L H/W.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032533
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that THE LOSEN WILLIE Kthe holder of the followingcertificate has filed saidcertificate for a tax deed tobe issued thereon. The cer-tificate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0007407Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
INTERLACHEN LAKES ES-TATES UNIT 25 MB5 P46BLK 12 LOT 14PARCEL NUMBER 31-08-25-4084-0120-0140
Name in which assessedMCKEE WILLIAM J III +FAY H/W.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15,4/22/15Legal No. 00032534
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CAP ONE AS COLLASSN RMCTL2013 theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0000047Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
ASHLEY LAKE PLANTA-TION MB 6 P 30 BLK T LOT2 (MAP SHEET 19B)PARCEL NUMBER 19-09-23-0100-0200-0020
Name in which assessedHUTCHINSON KINNZON MJ + KARLA H/W.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032527
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CAP ONE AS COLLASSN RMCTL2013 theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0001159Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
CRESCENT CITY MB2 P30BLK 6 PT OF LOT 4 BK181P544PARCEL NUMBER 30-12-28-1750-0060-0041
Name in which assessedBRADSHAW DOROTHY MHEIRS OF.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032528
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that SMITH ADRIAN theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0001268Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
CRESCENT HILLS MB6 P25BLK C LOT 2PARCEL NUMBER 23-12-27-1821-0030-0020
Name in which assessedKNEWASSER ELIZABETH.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032529
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that US BANK CUST CAZCREEK FL LLC the holderof the following certificatehas filed said certificate fora tax deed to be issuedthereon. The certificatenumber and year of issu-ance, the description of theproperty, and the names inwhich it was assessed areas follows:
Certificate Number 0002090Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
GEM CITY IMPROVEMENTMB2 P6 TRACTS A + B LOT45 (MAP SHEET 49K)PARCEL NUMBER 49-09-27-2920-0450-0011
Name in which assessedTILTON LAWRENCE V SR +DONNA W H/W.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032530
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that US BANK AS CUS-TODIAN FOR PRO TAX FIthe holder of the followingcertificate has filed saidcertificate for a tax deed tobe issued thereon. The cer-tificate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 16789Year of Issuance 2011Description of Property:
PT OF S1/4 OF SEC OR612P781 (PARCEL 5 OLD AIR-PORT FARMS UNRECOR-DED)PARCEL NUMBER 24-08-26-0000-0082-0050
Name in which assessedBROWN LILLIAN W.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032523
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that ROBINSON JACK MAND SHELBY A the holderof the following certificatehas filed said certificate fora tax deed to be issuedthereon. The certificatenumber and year of issu-ance, the description of theproperty, and the names inwhich it was assessed areas follows:
Certificate Number 18652Year of Issuance 2011Description of Property:
S1/2 OF NW1/4 OF NE1/4OF SE 1/4 OF SW1/4 (EX S+ E 30 FT) TRACT 1416OR344 P817PARCEL NUMBER 31-10-26-0000-8888-1416
Name in which assessedCOSTER BEN W C/O Mon-roe Bank Guardian.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032525
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that THE LOSEN WILLIE Kthe holder of the followingcertificate has filed saidcertificate for a tax deed tobe issued thereon. The cer-tificate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 19612Year of Issuance 2011Description of Property:
N 66 FT OF W1/2 OF E1/2OF SE1/4 OF NE1/4PARCEL NUMBER 29-12-26-0000-0050-0010
Name in which assessedOLIVERA CHRISTINA + LU-IS MICHAEL Charbonier.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032526
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that CAP ONE AS COLLASSN RMCTL2013 theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 0000047Year of Issuance 2012Description of Property:
ASHLEY LAKE PLANTA-TION MB 6 P 30 BLK T LOT2 (MAP SHEET 19B)PARCEL NUMBER 19-09-23-0100-0200-0020
Name in which assessedHUTCHINSON KINNZON MJ + KARLA H/W.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15,4/22/15Legal No. 00032527
Tax Deeds
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that PUTNAM COUNTY theholder of the following cer-tificate has filed said certi-ficate for a tax deed to beissued thereon. The certi-ficate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number F161Year of Issuance 2008Description of Property:
POWELL + BISHOP MB3P191 PT OF LOT C OR153P669 + S1/2 OF SW1/4 OFNE1/4 (EX OR452 P1057OR476 P725 OR482 P1481OR485 P1698 OR511 P1991OR513 P771 OR543 PP1241557 OR584 P462 OR585P113 OR601 PP802 804 805806 807 808 OR610 P1357OR654 P742 OR697 P935)(ROADS)PARCEL NUMBER 23-10-23-0000-0060-0000
Name in which assessedGLADWIN JAY HEIRS OF.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032519
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that US BANK AS CUS-TODIAN FOR PRO TAX FIthe holder of the followingcertificate has filed saidcertificate for a tax deed tobe issued thereon. The cer-tificate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 2582Year of Issuance 2010Description of Property:
INTERLACHEN MB1 PGS 89 BLK 24 LOT 97PARCEL NUMBER 15-10-24-4050-0240-0970
Name in which assessedLOWE CODY D.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15,4/22/15Legal No. 00032520
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that US BANK AS CUS-TODIAN FOR PRO TAX FIthe holder of the followingcertificate has filed saidcertificate for a tax deed tobe issued thereon. The cer-tificate number and year ofissuance, the descriptionof the property, and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 02570Year of Issuance 2011Description of Property:
GROVE LOTS MB2 P30 PTOF S1/2 OF GROVE LOT 88BK87 P158 BK111 P523PARCEL NUMBER 24-12-27-3350-0880-0070
Name in which assessedMCKAIN JASPER C JR ETAL C/O Jasper Mckain.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032521
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONFOR TAX DEED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,that PAPPU KAZI the hold-er of the following certific-ate has filed said certific-ate for a tax deed to be is-sued thereon. The certific-ate number and year of is-suance, the description ofthe property , and thenames in which it was as-sessed are as follows:
Certificate Number 11570Year of Issuance 2011Description of Property:
PARADISE LAKES S/DUNIT 3 MB5 P47 BLK 68LOT 28PARCEL NUMBER 07-13-27-7062-0680-0280
Name in which assessedVERONA V LLC.
All of said property beingin the County of Putnam,State of Florida.
Unless such certificate orcertificates shall be re-deemed according to lawthe property described insuch certificate or certific-ates will be sold to thehighest bidder in the Meet-ing Room, located at 107North Sixth Street, Palatka,Florida, on the 6th day ofMay, 2015, at 10:00 A.M.
Dated this 16th day ofMarch, 2015
TIM SMITHCLERK, CIRCUIT COURTPUTNAM COUNTY, FLOR-IDA
(SEAL) By: /s / DonnaWheelerDeputy Clerk
You can find more informa-tion online at www.putnam-fl.com/taxdeeds/list.html
4/1/15, 4/8/15, 4/15/15 ,4/22/15Legal No. 00032522
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Obituaries are paid adver-tising written by funeral homes based upon information provided by families. Death notices are brief announce-ments published at no charge.
David K. JohnsonMr. David Keith Johnson,
41, passed away on April 12, 2015 in Starke.
David was born on April 6, 1974 to the late Mr. Henry Johnson and Lita “Futch” Johnson. He w o r k e d a t North Florida R e g i o n a l Hospital as a r e g i s t e r e d nurse. David will always be known for the kindness he showed to every-one he came in contact with. His friends would come to him with their problem and would leave laughing. He enjoyed hanging out with friends and family, watching movies, dogs, and he was a huge jokester.
He is preceded by his father, Henry Johnson.
Survivors include his moth-er, Lita Johnson; brothers, Glenn (Tonya) Jones and Richard Johnson; sisters, Donna (Michael) Johnson-Pullium and Laura (Troy) McDaniel; and many other family members and nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will take place on April 15 at 2 p.m. at the DeWitt C. Jones Chapel in Starke.
Arrangements are by Jones-Gallagher Funeral Home, 620 Nona St. Starke, FL 32091; (904) 964-6200; www.jonesgal-lagherfh.com.
Polly T. PerryPauline Tanner “Polly”
Perry, 88, of Palatka, passed away Sunday, April 12, 2015 at Kiva of Palatka following an extended illness.
She was born in Macon, Ga., and had been a resident of Palatka for the past 82 years, coming from Macon. In the 1 9 8 0 s s h e retired as the se c re tary t o the director of personnel with t h e P u t n a m County School B o a r d i n Palatka after 30+ years of serv i ce . She was a member of the First Presbyter ian Church in Palatka where she had taught Sunday school and had been active with the Women of the Church. She had enjoyed play-ing bridge in the neighborhood bridge club. She was always there for her grandchildren for sports activities, dancing recitals, birthday parties and spelling bees. She had a way
of making her grandchildren feel special.
Preceding her in death were her husband, Thomas G. P e r r y J r . , h e r p a r e n t s , William W. and Ethel Tanner; a sister, Nell Tanner Deen; and a brother, Boyd Tanner.
Surviving are two sons and daughters-in-law, Bill and Lynn Perry, and Kenny and Carolyn Perry, all of Palatka; a sister and brother-in-law, Pat and E.L. “Punk” Walker of Palatka; six grandchildren and spouses, Joseph and Melissa Perry of Fleming Is land, Beverly Perry of Palatka, Jill Sheffield (Tray) of Palatka, Jay and Mandy Perry of Palatka, Jeff and Angi Perry of Gainesville, and Katy and Matt Bergen of Palatka; nine great-grandchil-dren and spouse, Haleigh and Marty Westbrook o f S t . Augustine, Matt Stilwell of Jacksonville, Troy Sheffield of Palatka, Sydney Sheffield of P a l a t k a , R a y P e r r y o f Gainesville, Hayden, Josie and Lucas Bergen, all of Palatka, and Laura Lee Perry of Fleming Island; three great-great-grandchildren, Eli, Eric and Chase Westbrook of St. Augustine; and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family will begin receiv-ing friends at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 16 at Masters Funeral Home in Palatka. Funeral services will follow at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the funera l home wi th Rev . George Head officiating. In honor and celebration of Miss Polly’s life a video tribute will be shown. Burial will follow in W e s t v i e w C e m e t e r y i n Palatka.
Flowers are grateful ly accepted or memorial gifts m a y b e s e n t t o F i r s t Presby ter ian Church o f Palatka, 123 2nd St., Palatka, FL 32177. Friends may sign the online guestbook at www.themastersfuneralhomes.com.
Masters Funeral Home of Pa la tka i s in charge o f arrangements.
Robert C. StapletonRobert C. “Bob” Stapleton,
64, of Hollister, passed away Monday, April 13, 2015 at the Doris Satterwhite Campus for Care and Compassion at Haven Hospice following a brief illness.
A native of Coffee County, Ga., Bob lived most all of his life in Putnam County . Bob had been in the construct ion industry, hav-ing worked as a welder and carpenter. He h a d a l s o served in the U.S. Army. One of Bob’s passions in life was singing, which he did solo at t imes and a lso with the “Michael Stacey Band” in Georgia. He likewise loved
riding his Harley as well as his love for eating out. He was a member of Dunham Woods Baptist Church in Hollister.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Ethel Bell Livingston, a son, Michael Stapleton and a brother, Wilber Lee Livingston.
Bob is survived by his lov-ing companion of 25 years, Deanie McNally of Hollister, two sons, Jason Stanford of Atlanta, Ga. and John (Joanie) Stapleton of Melrose, a broth-er, Lester (Linda) Sheppard of Palatka, two sisters, Patsy (Jimmy) Riley of Interlachen and Mary Ann Darden of Hollister and a granddaugh-ter, Elliana Stapleton.
Services will be at 11 a.m. T h u r s d a y , A p r i l 1 6 a t D u n h a m W o o d s B a p t i s t Church in Hollister with Pastor Dale Rogers officiating. Burial will follow at Hollister Cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Palatka.
Flowers are grateful ly accepted or memorial dona-tions may be sent to the National Kidney Foundation of Florida, 1040 Woodcock Road, Suite 119, Orlando, FL 32803 or to Dunham Woods Baptist Church, P.O. Box 94, Hollister, FL 32147. Memories and condolences may be expressed to the family at Bob’s Book of Memories page a t w w w .JohnsonOverturffunerals.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Palatka.
Neil A. DaroNeil A. Daro, 47, of Palatka,
passed away on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at Putnam Community Medical Center.
Arrangements are under the direction of Johnson-Overturf Funeral Home in Palatka.
Ryan M. Gadoury
Ryan Michael Gadoury, 23, of Hollister, passed away Monday, April 13, 2015 at Orange Park Medical Center following a brief illness.
Masters Funeral Home of Pa la tka i s in charge o f arrangements.
Jasmine B. MaysJasmine Satuba Brown
Mays, 41, of Palatka, entered the sunset of life on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at Putnam Community Medical Center, Palatka.
Arrangements entrusted to the care of Karl N. Flagg Serenity Memorial Chapel, Palatka.
Lee D. MyhanLee D. Myhan, of Satsuma,
passed away April 3, 2015 at his home following an extend-ed illness.
Cremation was handled by Watts Funeral Home, San Mateo.
Ora ShellmanO r a S h e l l m a n , 6 7 , o f
Bunnell, transitioned from labour to reward on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at Florida Flagler Hospital in Palm Coast.
Arrangements are under the supervision of Coleman’s Mortuary Family.
Casandra WilliamsCasandra Williams, 58, of
St. Augustine, transitioned from labour to reward on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at her residence surrounded by her loving family.
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Obituaries Tale of worker asleep in cargo hold is a ‘warning’By Manuel Valdes and
daVid KoenigAssociated Press
SEATTLE — The misad-venture of a baggage handler who fell asleep in the cargo hold of a jetliner should be a w a r n i n g f o r a i r l i n e s t o improve security procedures, safety experts said Tuesday.
The worker banged on the plane for help shortly after takeof f on Monday f rom Seattle. Pilots heard the noise and quickly returned to the airport. The worker was not injured.
T h e F e d e r a l A v i a t i o n Administration was investi-gating, but few new details emerged Tuesday about the bizarre incident at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Alaska Airlines has said the leader of a baggage-loading crew noticed the worker was missing and tried to call and text him before concluding he had gone home at the end of his 9 1/2-hour shift, which included a lunch break.
Safety experts say the crew should not have closed the cargo doors of Flight 448 to Los Angeles until they had accounted for the missing worker.
“This is a ‘huh?’ moment,” said Thomas Anthony, direc-tor of the aviation security program at the University of Southern California and a for-mer FAA official.
“That supervisor said, ‘Huh, I wonder where Louie is?’ The ‘huh’ is a yellow light that you need to pay attention to,” he said. “The worst thing you can do is just say, ‘It’s probably nothing.’”
Anthony said airports are responsible for screening workers with access to planes while airlines are responsi-ble for the security of an air-craft.
A U.S. aviation official said there is no legal requirement that airline crews check a cargo hold before every flight.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because airline security programs contain sensitive information and are not public documents.
Investigators are likely to examine how the worker got left on the plane with luggage that had been screened.
“How do you have some-thing in the cargo bin that you don’t know is there?” asked John Cox, a safety consultant and former airline pilot.
Alaska contracts for ramp work with Menzies Aviation, an English company that per-forms that work at numerous airports.
“Our policies and proce-dures … were knowingly vio-lated by an exper ienced employee who hid in the hold of an aircraft and elected to go to sleep,” Menzies said in a press release. “This matter remains under internal inves-tigation.”
Menzies officials declined to release the worker’s name and said no decision had been made on whether anyone would be disciplined.
The employee had worked at Menzies for 18 months and was fortunate he was trapped in a part of the plane that was pressurized and temperature-controlled for the entire flight. The worker had been off work the previous two days, the company said.
The flight carried 170 pas-sengers and six crew mem-bers. It was more than an hour behind schedule when it eventually arrived in Los Angeles, the airline said. There was no immediate word on how much the delay cost the airline.
Such incidents are rare but have occurred.
In 2011, a US Airways bag handler was accidentally locked inside the cargo hold of a plane at Reagan National Airport. A passenger heard the man banging on the underside of the floor and alerted a flight attendant.
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