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A Soldier Is Remembered of Meatballs 2” in Eva Lion Park on Saturday, August 9 at Dusk, Rain Or Shine Serving Satsuma ● Pomona Park ● Lake Como ● Crescent City ● Seville ● Pierson ● Welaka ● Fruitland ● Georgetown ● East Palatka ● Palatka ● Interlachen ● Melrose ● San Mateo since 1898 Putnam County Only Putnam County’s Favorite Weekly Community Newspaper 50 August 6, 2014 • Volume 70, No. 12 (2 sections) Crescent City, Florida (Includes 7% FL Sales Tax) ¢ Movies in the Park The City of Crescent City will hold “Movies in the Park” featuring “Cloudy With a Chance A Soldier is Remembered of Meatballs 2” in Eva Lion Park on Saturday, August 9 at dusk, rain or shine. In case of rain the event will be moved to City Hall’s Commission Meeting room. Bring your blan- kets and low back chairs. There will be hot- dogs, popcorn and drinks available. Full Moon Paddle Full Moon Paddle and Movie on Melrose Bay. A moon light paddle complete with a movie and pass-around picnic. Boat Launch at end of Trout Street in Melrose. Friday, August 8, from 7 to 10 p.m. The movie will be shown at the end of a dock and can be viewed from kayaks. Meet at the boat launch at the end of Trout Street at 7 p.m. to start. Bring pass around food to share and your beverage of choice. This paddle is for experienced pad- dlers only. Putnam Blueways and Trails sponsor’s daytime trips that are more appro- priate for new paddlers. Boat light, whistle, Photos by Mike Jones and PFD are mandatory. For more informa- tion email putnambluewaysandtrails@gmail. com or visit www.putnambluewaysandtrails. org. Spark a Reaction The Putnam County Library System is hav- ing a Spark A Reaction: Graphic Novel work- shop in all its locations. Each location will create one chapter. When completed all chap- ters will be collected and published. Each participant will receive a copy of the novel. They will meet on August 8 and 9 at 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. at the Crescent City Li- brary. Registration is not required and is free to teens and tweens. Saturday, August 2, members of the Putnam and Volusia VFW, along with friends and family of Charles M. Robinson, a Vietnam Veteran of the U.S. Army who pasted in 2005, attended an event to honor Robinson, by placing a headstone at his previously unmarked grave in Pierson. Robinson’s son, Charles Robinson, Jr. (bottom left) was presented with Smokey Bear’s 70th Birthday the American Flag as well as three spent shells, from a four man, three shot volley, to honor his fathers memory. The event was sponsored by the Putnam County Courier Journal. The Welaka State Forest Office is celebrating The Arlington style headstone was donated by Affordable Headstones of Jacksonville and Smokey Bear’s 70th birthday. Come Satur- flowers by the Crescent City Flower shop. day, August 9, from 12 until 2 p.m. Stop by the forest office to have your photo taken with Smokey Bear as well as games, activities, and cupcakes for kids of all ages. This is a free event. Be aware of children and heat stroke Paul Flateau self quickly enough. dow doesn’t help! your child such as a Putnam County A child’s body heats Source Safekids. briefcase, a purse or School Packet Giveaway Fire & EMS up three to five org, Putnam Coun- a cell phone that is If you have not times faster than ty Emergency Ser- needed at your final There will be a school packet giveaway at St. heard about the an adult’s, making vices and Safe Kids destination. This is Vincent de Paul Society, St. John Conference, many children be- them more suscep- are asking everyone especially important from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Friday, August tible to heatstroke. to help protect kids if you’re not follow- 8 on 111 N. Francis Street in Interlachen. ing left alone in hot Children must be accompanied by a parent vehicles lately, you When a child’s in- by remembering to ing your normal rou- or legal guardian. For more details call 386- have not been lis- ternal temperature ACT. tine. 684 -2797. tening. According reaches 104 degrees, A: Avoid heat- T: Take action. If to www.ggweather. major organs begin stroke-related injury you see a child alone com/heat/, 18 chil- to shut down, and and death by nev- in a car, call 911. Panama Canal’s 100th Birthday dren have died in when that tempera- er leaving your child Emergency person- non-crash related ture reaches 107 de- alone in a car, not nel want you to call. The Florida Museum of Natural History is vehicle incidents so grees, the child can even for a minute. We are trained to re- celebrating the Panama Canal’s 100th birth- die. On an 80 degree And make sure to spond to these situa- day this August with a new gallery exhibition far this year. Many and family-friendly event. Opening Aug. 9, of these children die day, the temperature keep your car locked tions. One call could “Panama: Tropical Ecosystem” focuses on the due to heat stroke inside of a car can when you’re not in it save a life. region’s biodiversity and the cultural impor- because of the rapid rise 20 degrees in so kids can get in by For additional re- tance of nature in a country of rain forests, increase of tempera- as little as 10 min- themselves. sources please visit volcanic beaches and mountains. On display ture inside the vehi- utes and keeps get- C: Create remind- these valuable web- through May 31, 2015, the exhibit features cle. Heatstroke sets ting hotter with each ers by putting some- sites: safekids.org, photographs, stereographs, plant illustra- passing minute. And thing in the back w ww.kidsandcars. tions, books and artifacts highlighting the in when the body rich variety of flora and fauna in the land isn’t able to cool it- cracking the win- of your car next to org/heatstroke.html. between North and South America. Hope Stems from Therapy in Panama ning the treatments Mike Jones in late July. Though Staff Writer Laurie has not no- William “B.J.” Lau- ticed any improve- rie, past Editor/Pub- ment in movement or lisher of the Putnam muscle control in his County Courier Jour- hands or feet yet, he nal and former Cres- has reported an in- cent City Commis- crease in strength, sioner, is in his third improvement in blood week of stem cell ther- pressure, and an in- apy in Panama City, crease in stamina. Panama. Two years Although he has had and four-months after an increase in mus- a vehicle accident that cle spasms, which ac- rendered him a quad- cording to the Stem Cell Institute, it is a Only $24 a Year! Only $24 a riplegic. Subscribe Today The therapy con- good thing. sist of one injection He will remain at Inside of nine million stem the Institute in Pan- YOUR ADDRESS HERE! YOUR cells in his spinal ama until late August Church...................A5 canal per week and and will then begin Community............A3 two IV injections of more physical therapy 18 million stem cells back in Florida, which Crossword................B4 into his blood stream is designed to help per week. The stem the stem cell thera- Photo by Ryan Trammell William “B.J.” Laurie (middle) and his moth- Faces & Places......B1 cell therapy is done py “reconnect” nerve endings and replace er Laura Turner (left) at the Stem Cell Insti- in conjunction with tute in Panama City, Panama. Opinion..................A2 physical therapy five the damaged spinal Public Notices......B5 days a week. cord cells. Laurie, his him regain more hand be even walk again Laurie states that family and friends control so that he may someday. Way Back When....A4 he feels more like hope that this hard become more inde- himself since begin- work will one day help pendent and/or may- A2 Courier Journal • August 6, 2014 PINION O Facebook Government Watch That’s How I See It City of Crescent City The New Village Idiot City Commission Meeting, August 14, 7 p.m. A. Nonymous CRA Board Meeting, August 14, 7 p.m. If the odds makers in Vegas had a bet for the biggest idiot in Washington, it would Planning & Zoning Meeting, August 14, 6 p.m. be between Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. There’s no doubt in my mind that Pelosi Chat City Hall, 3 North Summit Street. Meets 2nd Thurs of the would take the win. Oh yes, Nancy has out done herself this time. I thought the biggest idiot phrase in month. 386-698-2525 - www.CrescentCity-FL.com history was, “We have to pass it to see what’s in it,” but that was before her latest Town Council of Welaka brain dead statement. This past week on CNN, she must have been off her medica- Town Council Meeting, August 12, 6:30 p.m. tion when she made the comment, “And we have to confer with Qataris, who have told me over and over again that Hamas is a humanitarian origination.” HUH? Code Enforcement Meeting, Tuesday, August 12, 5 p.m. Wait; let me get this straight, Pelosi has been talking to the Qataris? Oh yes, she Zoning Board Meeting, Tuesday, August 12, 5:30 p.m. said they have told her, “OVER and OVER AGAIN,” which means she has had more Town Hall, Fourth Ave. Meets 2nd Tues of the month. than one conversation with this terrorist funding group. Hey Nancy, in case you don’t remember, when you were the Speaker of the House, 386-467-9800.
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