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Welaka Forest Hosts Fall Festival Few showers PALATKA PANTHERS LOOK TO BOUNCE BACK, 1B 30% chance of rain 84 | 69 For details, see 2A www.mypdn.com Palatka Daily News THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015 $1 House bill allows for medical marijuana WHAT DO YOU THINK? Legislation seeks to expand Right to Try Act to include non-smokeable pot for terminally ill patients Do you support the use of medical marijuana as an experimental drug? Email Rep. Matt Gaetz of Fort Walton Beach “In speaking to families, they said BY JOE REEDY Letters to the Editor to Associated Press announced on Wednesday he has filed a they appreciated what we did (in 2014) publicforum@ bill that would allow terminally ill but it did not go far enough,” Bradley palatkadailynews.com. TALLAHASSEE — A pair of patients to use experimental drugs to said. “We started down this road because Letter writers must include Republican lawmakers who helped include non-smokeable marijuana of all of personal stories from families so we full name, daytime phone author a bill to make a certain strain of strengths and doses. Sen. Rob Bradley of number and address. There is a 350- marijuana permissible for treatment is Fleming Island is expected to sponsor a word limit. seeking to go one step further. similar bill in the Senate. See POT, Page 5A Welaka forest hosts NO SHOT fall festival Event to include hiking, biking, paddling, horseback rides, more BY ALLISON WATERS-MErrITT Palatka Daily News October is State Forest Awareness Month, and to celebrate, Welaka State Forest will IN THE host its second annual Fall Festival on Saturday. For those looking to hike, bike, paddle, horseback ride or just have a fun time with DARK See WELAKA, Page 5A Medical experts say flu vaccinations can prevent spread of illnesses, 5A CHRIS DEVITTO/Palatka Daily News The Welaka State Forest Fall Festival will include a variety of activities, including kayaking. Stone crab claw harvest season opens Oct. 15 Palatka Daily News Florida’s recreational and commercial stone crab claw harvest season opens Oct. 15 in state and federal waters. State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials are reminding harvest- ers to use caution when removing crab claws and to follow protective management guide- lines. To be harvested, stone crab claws must be at least 2 3/4 inches long when measured from elbow to the tip of the lower immovable portion of the claw. Claws may not be taken from egg-bearing stone crabs, which can be identified by an orange or brown egg mass visible on the underside of the crab. CHRIS DEVITTO/Palatka Daily News Recreational harvesters can use up to five Putnam County Health Department registered nurse Linda Reinhardt prepares a flu vaccination Wednesday for one of the employees who stone crab traps per person. Traps that are will work in one of the flu shot clinics at the health department. not being fished should be removed from the water to avoid trapping other marine species. The season is open through May 15, 2016. For information and additional regula- tions, visit myfwc.com/fishing. By mail, 3 sections VOL. 127 • NO. 199 The Voice of Classified/Legals ............ 5B Obituaries ....................... 3A INDEX PALATKA, FLA. Putnam County Comics ............................ 3B Opinions ......................... 4A Advice ............................. 3B Horoscope ...................... 3B Sports ............................. 1B since 1885 Briefing ........................... 2A Lottery............................. 2B Sudoku ........................... 5B Public Notices on Page 5B 100815a1.indd 1 10/7/15 8:29 PM “Don’t let yesterday use up to much of today.” — Will Rogers American humorist morning briefing (1879-1935) 2ATHURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015 PALATKA DAILY NEWS Today in History www.palatkadailynews.com 1825 St. Johns Ave., Palatka FL 32177 MAIL: P.O. Box 777, Palatka, FL 32178 Today is Thursday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2015. There are 84 days USPS 418-500 left in the year. Periodicals postage paid at Palatka, FL, Palatka Daily News, est. 1885, TODAY IN PUTNAM is published daily Tuesday through In 1849, county commissioners Saturday by the Palatka Daily News, Inc., ordered a road be built in “as direst POSTMASTER: Send address changes to line as possible” between Palatka Palatka Daily News, P.O. Box 777, and the Old Bellamy Road. The road Palatka FL 32178 was to be called Black Creek Road. MAIN NUMBER ..... 312-5200 The ferry master was to pay the county $2 a year to operate a ferry Business hours are 8 a.m. to across the creek. In other business, 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Robert Reid was appointed treasur- er and building a courthouse was Call about classified or display ads, questions about circulation or any discussed. An offer by the heirs of other newspaper business. Call Dr. Nehemiah Brush for a site on with news tips at any time. Just fol- the corner of Reid Street and First low the instructions after business Street (now Fifth Street) was not hours. approved. “It would cost too much to Advertising fax ....................312-5209 move a house from the property as Newsroom fax ....................312-5226 the Brush heirs required.” It was later approved. CIRCULATION CHRIS DEVITTO / Palatka Daily News TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY Please call 386-312-5200 by Mike Walker of Interlachen will showcase Big Red, his 1940 Chevrolet sedan hot rod, during the 37th annual Palatka On Oct. 8, 2005, a magnitude 7.6 10 a.m. to report problems with the Car Show at the Palatka riverfront this weekend. The show is 10 a.m.–3 p.m., and the public is invited. For details, call earthquake flattened villages on the delivery of your paper. Circulation office Larry Lavalley, club president, at 898-6664. For related story and more photos, see today’s Applause. Pakistan-India border, killing an hours are 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. If you leave a estimated 86,000 people. message, please give your name, 911 address and phone number. appoint a new council member at the Eugene B. Ledbetter, 53, Palatka: ON THIS DATE Correction town’s monthly meeting Tuesday. fraud – false statement. In 1869, the 14th president of the For home delivery subscription, According to town documents, Stephanie Nicole Scott, 27, United States, Franklin Pierce, died including tax Councilman Joe Lieb resigned from his Interlachen: moving traffic violation. in Concord, N.H. 13 weeks ................................ $24.62 seat in August because he was relocat- Willie Simmons, 39, East Palatka: In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire 26 weeks ................................ $49.25 The Pilot Club donated $5,000 for ing. moving traffic violation. erupted; fires also broke out in 52 weeks ................................ $93.68 the Palatka riverfront playground Pomona Park resident Victor Peshtigo, Wis., and in several com- e-edition .............................. $7/month project, not $500 as reported in Szatkowski expressed his interest in munities in Michigan. Duration of subscription subject to Wednesday’s Palatka Daily News. replacing Lieb in an Oct. 5 letter to In 1956, Don Larsen pitched the rate increase. We regret the error. Town Clerk Cindy Hair. State News only perfect game in a World Series The Pomona Park Town Council to date as the New York Yankees Paul Conner ..................386-312-5246 meets at 4 p.m. the second Tuesday of beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game Circulation Director each month at Pomona Park Town NEW SMYRNA BEACH 5, 2-0. [email protected] Announcements Hall, 1775 U.S. 17. In 1957, the Brooklyn Baseball Sheriff: Teen threatened Club announced it was accepting an OBITUARIES school shooting, bombing offer to move the Dodgers from New PALATKA York to Los Angeles. Death notices and obituaries are Felony Arrests A teenager faces serious charges published daily. We accept obituaries High school offers after an investigation revealed he TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS studied videos from the Columbine Entertainment reporter Rona and photos from funeral homes. The parade applications High School shooting before threaten- Barrett is 79. Actor Paul Hogan is deadline is 5 p.m. Obituaries can be Applications are being accepted for Oct. 5 ing to “blow up” his high school. 76. Rhythm-and-blues singer Fred emailed to clerk@palatkadailynews. student clubs and organizations to par- Rebecca Lee Barnhill-Griffis, 40, Officials began investigating the Cash (The Impressions) is 75. Civil com. For information about obituaries ticipate in the Palatka High School Melrose: two counts aggravated 15-year-old New Smyrna Beach High rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson is and our policies, call 386-312-5240. homecoming parade 4:30 p.m. Oct. 23. assault with a deadly weapon. School student Sept. 4 after he tweet- 74. Comedian Chevy Chase is 72. PUBLISHER Submit applications by Oct. 14 to the Virginia Leigh Mills, 58, ed several threatening messages. He Author R.L. Stine is 72. Actor Dale front office, Katelyn Miller at 329-0577, Hawthorne: possession of cocaine. was expelled from school. Dye is 71. Country singer Susan Wayne Knuckles ...........386-312-5201 ext. 374, or Cindy Bellamy. Anthony Wayne Steimle, 28, Volusia County Sheriff’s investiga- Raye is 71. TV personality Sarah [email protected] Satsuma: moving traffic violation. tors found hundreds of pages of text Purcell is 67. Rhythm-and-blues INTERLACHEN messages, web postings and photos singer Airrion Love (The Stylistics) ADVERTISING that outlined the teen’s “obsession is 66. Actress Sigourney Weaver is School’s homecoming Oct. 6 with death, mass killings and school 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer Robert Mary Kaye Wells ...........386-312-5210 celebration today Rodger Charles Christy, 45, shootings.” “Kool” Bell (Kool & the Gang) is 65. Advertising Director Jacksonville: resisting officer. Producer-director Edward Zwick is [email protected] Interlachen High School’s 2015 Mark Crawford, 49, Oakland Park: ORLANDO 63. Country singer-musician Ricky homecoming festivities begin 5 p.m.
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