Palatka Man Dies Following 11Th St. Shooting Landfill Task Force
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Sunny A CENTURY OF LIFE 0% rain chance | Charlie Bryant of Florahome is turning 100 on Monday. APPLAUSE, Inside 91 72 For details, see 2A www.mypdn.com PALATKA DAILY NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014 $1 Palatka TOP SCHOLAR HAS ROOTS IN AGRICULTURE Landfi ll man dies task force following hears 11th St. details of shooting clean-up Police have County faces no suspects or millions in future witnesses in early remediation costs, Wednesday homicide they’re told BY PETE SKIBA BY BRANDON D. OLIVER Palatka Daily News Palatka Daily News Multiple gunshots split CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News The Putnam County Solid the night and left one man Ashley Adams of Palatka High School was recognized as Putnam County’s top scholar with the Robert W. Webb Waste Task Force discussed bleeding out on a northside Award of Excellence on May 14 at the annual Top 50 Scholars reception sponsored by the Daily News. the local landfill remediation porch Wednesday, accord- during a meeting on Tuesday. ing to a Palatka Police The topic of mining and lin- Department report. ing nearly 100 acres of the A Putnam County Fire ‘She is going to do what it takes to win’ landfill so as to repair the ben- and EMS ambulance took zene groundwater contamina- 40-year-old Iseley Crowley, tion was brought into the mix of Palatka, from 606 N. 11th BY JENNIFER THOMAS Putnam County Top Scholar. She Adams, 17. Ashley Adams said that as the task force considered St. to Putnam Community Palatka Daily News correspondent was handed the Robert W. Webb they have all been involved with 4-H. options to take concerning the Medical Center. He was Award of Excellence on May 14. Adams said she has held a number privatization of the Putnam pronounced dead of his shley Adams of Palatka grew Of winning the award, she said of officer positions with the organiza- County Central Landfill. wounds at the center, the up among family members she thinks her GPA, ACT scores, tion including president. Documents show that if the report added. who enjoyed agriculture. and recommendations because of Adams has also participated in the landfill sale were to happen, According to the report A The Adams family raises her community service earned her school Beta Club and the Safe and the county could be saved the morning went like this: cattle and hogs, said Adams, 18, a the recognition. Drug Free Schools nearly $119 million in devel- someone called 911 at about Palatka High School senior. Adams’ ACT score program. She said opment costs since 1 a.m. to report a man So it is not surprising that she was 28 out of a pos- she was part of the RepublicServices of Florida stabbed and bleeding on the enjoys working with farm animals. sible 36. "Pretty much March of Dimes would take responsibility for porch. When officers arrived “I started showing livestock in Adams said her anything that is Chain Reaction the remediation. they saw the man, later the Putnam County Fair when I strong subjects are Council. “We just The county’s solid waste identified as Crowley, suf- was 8,” Adams said. “I think I got science and math. agricultural is close advocate for the director, Larry Gast, said that fering from multiple gun- third in my class that year.” While attending proper care of prema- it could take about eight years shot wounds. “My family is very agriculture- Palatka High, she to my heart." ture babies and the to mine and line the currently Evidence from the inves- oriented,” she said. “Pretty much was also dual- ~Ashley Adams NICU,” Adams said unlined portion of the landfill. tigation led officers to anything that is agricultural is close enrolled in college of the Neonatal “There is a tremendous believe someone shot to my heart.” courses at St. Johns Intensive Care Unit. amount of tires, and we’re run- Crowley about 100-feet Adams said she also enjoys being River State College. Of memorable ning into more asbestos than away at North 11th Street outside. “I think, honestly, it is After completing her associate in arts moments, she said a fellow 4-H mem- we’d thought,” Gast said dur- and Bronson. what I know and what I’m most degree, she said, she will enroll in the ber’s cousin was diagnosed with brain ing Tuesday’s meeting. “If we Assistant Chief of Police comfortable with in life,” she said. University of Florida’s Food Animal cancer last year. Adams said the 4-H keep running into things that James Griffith said, But Adams also has another side. program and pursue a career as a members all wore red “Wonder we keep running into, we’ll be ”Officers located some wit- She is very focused on her studies meat inspector. Woman” shirts and took pictures to lucky to make eight years.” nesses in the area who stat- and shows compassion toward her Adams said most of her service was honor her. Formed less than a month ed that they heard multiple fellow man. Adams, who graduates done through 4-H. She said she Palatka High School guidance coun- ago, the task force is charged gun shots, but did not give Friday, holds a 4.8 weighted grade joined the organization in 2002 and selor Amanda Burney said Adams is a with reviewing all options – any suspect information.” point average. Unweighted, it is 4.0. eventually judged livestock and won very driven student. “Ashley is just a including the current privati- The police are seeking And Adams, daughter of the local and state titles in 2011. different breed of student. She is very zation option the county has any information on the peo- Christopher and Paula Adams, also Adams said her family’s farm is highly motivated. She has never been with Republic – the county ple involved in the shooting volunteers her time after school at mainly to help with her and her sib- one of those kids that you have to could take to help alleviate and the identity of the Jenkins Middle School, where her lings’ 4-H projects. She said she has remind of this or that,” Burney said. the fiscal burden of operating shooter. Griffith asked any- mother teaches agriculture. an older sister, Courtney Adams, 21, the landfill and remediating one with information to call Ashley Adams is the 2014 and a younger brother, Austin See ADAMS, Page 8A the damage. Lt. Jason Shaw at 329-0115, extension 349, or central See LANDFILL Page 8A dispatch at 329-0801. The Crime Tip Hotline is 329- 0170. Palatka’s airport looks to build its business, cut debt INDEX BY ASIA AIKINS for 100 percent REDI funding. Advice ............................. 6A Palatka Daily News City commissioners unani- Briefing ........................... 2A mously approved a $96,000 Classified/Legals ...........11A The Palatka Municipal work order in April for design Comics ............................ 6A Airport is looking to expand, services from Passero Horoscope ...................... 6A starting from the ground up. Associates for hangar addi- Lottery........................... 10A “The more hangars you tions and building demolition. Obituaries ..................... 12A have, the more planes will “We are at 100 percent occu- Opinions ......................... 4A come. More planes mean more pancy,” said airport manager Sports ............................. 9A fuel sales and more business,” John Youell. “We’d like to get Sudoku ..........................11A said John Rutkosky, owner of some more T-hangars and box Marvel Air Inc., a jet and pis- hangars.” The Voice of ton aircraft repair and inspec- Youell said airport officials Putnam County tion company that operates are researching shade han- out of the Palatka Municipal gars as well, which would be since 1885 Airport. built at a lower cost, but also Rutkosky said he has oper- have a lower rental rate. VOL. 126 • NO. 112 ated his business at the air- “We’d like to have some PALATKA, FLA. port for about 10 years. While flexibility out here to accom- most of his business comes CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News modate more people and from other areas, Rutkosky Palatka Municipal Airport Director John Youell stands near a corporate jet parked near the new uses,” he said. Public Notices said the addition of hangars terminal at the airport recently. Construction plans are also on Page 11A could help the airport attract in the works as commissioners By mail, 2 sections more planes and space rent- approved a $17,000 work als. Griffith, the city is using Economic Development T-hangers, box hangars and order last month for Passero According to city Grant state Department of Initiative grant money to rentals at the airport. Administrator Jonathan Transportation Rural fund the addition of new The project was approved See AIRPORT, Page 8A 060514a1.indd 1 6/4/14 7:35 PM 2A PALATKA DAILY NEWS • THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014 CresCent City Library’s Open HOuse Putnam AM Authorities are continuing to search for the other suspect, who Local reportedly fled after the shooting. PALATKA It wasn’t immediately clear whether the car owner approached Ribbon cutting set the burglary suspects while armed. The State Attorney’s Office will for Friday downtown determine whether any charges will Palatka Main Street Inc. will be filed. sponsor its First Friday Open House ceremony at 5 p.m., 330 St. Johns LAKELANd Ave. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held fro S.D.S. Creations. Details: Polk County deputies 329-0100, ext. 333. seize 19 neglected horses A Lakeland couple faces animal Backpack drive at cruelty charges after 19 neglected Daily News building horses were seized from their prop- erty, including one that died from A Back to School Backpack Drive malnutrition.