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Friday, November 20, 2020 Vol. 14 Number 17 Journal Jeffersoncounty +tax 75¢ ECBPUBLISHING. COM Monticello man killed in Tallahassee hit-and-run Kathrine Alderman brother, son and father. ECB Publishing, Inc. After Grice hit Fishburn, he kept driving, going through the parking lots of two businesses before On Sunday, Nov. 8, just after 11 a.m., according finally stopping. Police said witnesses told Grice to law enforcement, a Honda Accord, driven by that he had hit Fishburn, but he drove away Dacey Glenn Grice, 31, veered off the roadway anyway. near Sharer Road and hit Marquis Fishburn, 31. Fishburn was transported to a local hospital, Though currently at Tallahassee COmmunity where he later died from his injuries. College (TCC) to complete his GED, Fishburn was After an investigation and consultation with the a resident of Monticello, having attended school in State Attorney's Office, the Tallahassee Police Marquis Fishburn Dacey Glenn Grice Deceased both Jefferson County and Leon County. He was a See KILLED page 3 Arrested ECB Publishing, Inc. Photo by Deidre Myers, November 18, 2020 ECB Publishing, Inc. Photo by Deidre Myers, November 18, 2020 The blaze from a local workshop fortunately did not spread to the nearby Jefferson County Fire Rescue firefighters work to control the fire that trees, propane tank or structures. had started at a workshop off of Lake Road, Wednesday morning. Structure fire Deidre Myers ECB Publishing, Inc. A fire broke out at a residence around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18, off Lake Road in Monticello. Jefferson County Fire Rescue (JCFR) Tanker 1, Engine 1 and Rescue 3-6 responded to the structure fire along with Monticello and Lloyd Volunteer Fire Departments. The caller advised that there were flames, but all persons were out of the structure. Captain Jared Parramore advised, once on the scene, that the structure was fully involved. JCFR deployed three hose lines to control the fire, so it didn’t spread to the nearby trees and brush. In the process of extinguishing the fire, the ECB Publishing, Inc. Photo by Deidre Myers, November 18, 2020 structure collapsed, resulting in a total loss. There were concerns from the A workshop that was used for antique furniture restoration collapsed as neighbors about the large propane tank exploding from exposure to the flames firefighters began to extinguish the flames. See FIRE page 3 Mayor and city receive awards Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Monticello officials had several things to celebrate last week at their first in- person meeting since the start of the pandemic, other than they were able to be together and communicate in person after months of separation. That said, the celebration was a muted affair, as everyone wore masks and maintained minimum distances of at least six feet from each other throughout the proceeding, except for a brief group photo. City Councilman Troy Avera did the honors, presenting Major John Jones with a framed certificate from the Florida League of Cities (FLC). The award, Avera said, was in recognition of Jones’ 20 years of service as an elected municipal official. Avera also presented the council with two awards from the Northwest Florida League of Cities (NWFLC), a subset of the FLC that ECB Publishing Inc. Photo by Laz Aleman, November 10, 2020 represents the various cities and towns The Monticello City Council gathered to honor Mayor John Jones for within the 16 panhandle counties that his 20 years of public service award. Pictured from left to right are George stretch from Jefferson County on the Evans, Gloria Cox, Jones, Troy Avera and Julie Conley. east to Escambia County on the west. The two awards were the City readies to 2020 Community of Excellence Award and the Gene Wright Municipal renegotiate electric Resilience Award for 2020. The former recognizes city officials’ continuing efforts to franchise with Duke improve residents’ quality of life as well as government efficiency Lazaro Aleman renewal in April. by the implementation of ECB Publishing, Inc. City Clerk Emily Anderson various programs, including informed the Monticello City Council creation of the ecological City of Monticello staff is about to on Tuesday evening, Nov. 10, that park, protection of ECB Publishing Inc. Photo by Laz Aleman, November 10, 2020 Mayor John Jones, left, and Councilman Troy begin a review of the city’s 10-year- Duke Energy had submitted a heritage trees and historic Avera, right, hold the two awards presented to the old electric utility franchise proposed agreement for review and structures, the promotion city by the NWFLC in recognition of excellence agreement, which comes up for See ELECTRIC page 3 See AWARDS page 3 and resilience. One Sections - 16 pages Did you know? There's a pirate museum in Index St. Augustine Fla. that displays Sports...............................................8 Farm & Outdoors............................12 not only one of two authentic Farm-City Week..............................13 Jolly Roger flags known to Viewpoints.........................................2 School...............................................9 exist, but also the only known Thanksgiving.................................4-5 Teachers of the year.......................10 History.............................................14 treasure chest that actually Community News..........................6-7 National Education Week...............11 Class. & Public Notices..................15 belonged to a pirate. 2 • JEFFERSON COUNTY JOURNAL • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2020 Viewpoints and Opinions PASSING PARADE by Nelson A. Pryor, Guest Columnist Are you “Unmanageable”? Are conservatives “unmanageable?” Are YOU Adams, perhaps was alluding to Jefferson’s basic His answer: “No, never! Unless compelled by force an unmanageable? If so, politically speaking, you philosophy, on the united States Constitution, as of arms…and then, sir, you will not stem a may be a “Jeffersonian.” expressed in the Kentucky Resolution of 1798, revolution, but will create one.” Smith, Albert H. Americans generally choose between two which spoke of a fear of tyranny, from big (editor) Writings of Benjamin Franklin. NY: political philosophies, or options, either you are a government and a regular plan of action in support Macmillan Co., 1907. 4:418. subservient, an (Alexander) Hamiltonian, or, those of States’ Rights. The Deputies of the 13 colonies, meeting in who are unmanageable, a (Thomas) Jeffersonian. Benjamin Franklin also saw the pre- general convention, on Oct. 21, 1774, in their “Thomas Jefferson and his followers,” wrote revolutionary war colonists, as unmanageable. On “Address to the People of Great Britain,” added fuel John Adams, the former Federalist President, on Feb. 13, 1766, Franklin, as the Ambassador for two to the fire, when they proclaimed they would not be July 9, 1813, “are the most difficult animals to of the colonies, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, “Hewers of wood and drawers of water,” for manage of anything in the whole theory and spoke to the “Committee of the Whole,” which was anyone. Journals of the Continental Congress, practice of government. They will not suffer the entire House of Commons of G.B, over the 1774-1789. D.C.: Library of Congress edition, themselves to be governed.” Cappon, Lester (editor) Stamp Act. He was asked the following question: 1904. 1:89. Submission. Never! Adams-Jefferson Letters. Chapel Hill: University of “Do you not think the people of America would Later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the N.C. Press, 1959. 2:352. submit to pay the Stamp duty, if it was moderated?” “New Deal” champion, recognized that the “unmanageable American” was suspect to the dole! He even told Congress that doling out relief: “(I)s to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit…. I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of doles, of market baskets, by a few hours of weekly work to the Editor cutting grass, raking leaves or papers in the public Letters parks.” Congressional Record, January 4, 1935. P. 95. Letters to the Editor are typed word for word, comma for comma, as sent to this newspaper. Please keep letter to 600 words or less. His administration failed to take heed. The Sep. 22, 1936 New York Times 34, records Harry L. Hopkins, of the Works Progress Administration Where did the Black Jockeys go? (WPA), saying in Phoenix, Ariz.: “relief of unemployment is a matter of right and not of When I was just a young lad around 10 years old, Out of curiosity, I researched several other charity.” Edmond B. Butler, secretary of the I remember well admiring one of my older brothers, websites, books, and periodicals. Paradoxically, I Emergency Relief Bureau, told a New York Eddie, as he rode large horses on a local ranch here in found that the majority of them do not even mention audience, March 16, 1936 New York Times 5, that Jefferson County, Florida. It was the King Meredith that the first winners of either of the triple crown horse “It is better to spend twice as much to have men dig ranch, and they had beautiful Appaloosa horses. racing events were negros. For instance, I visited holes and to fill them up again then to put them on Hoover Lawrence and some of my other uncles would KentuckyDerby.com and learned that as a test of skills the dole.” break in wild stallions on local plantations in Lloyd, and sportsmanship the Derby began as Colonel Edward R. Morrow, in his March 9, 1954 “See It Florida, and once they were tamed, they would have Meriwether Lewis Clark formed the Louisville Jockey impromptu races. I was amazed at the girt and finesse Club; he acquired land for a racetrack from his uncles Now” program, said this about the “unmanageable of these aspiring equestrians. John and Henry Churchill. Clark was the grandson of Americans:” “We must not confuse dissent with Imagine horse races on dirt tracks at ranches and William Clark – of the famed pair Lewis and Clark.