Davie Lloyd out As Weems CEO George Island There Will Be a Community by David Adlerstein Ficer
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Crazy for geocaching, A10 Thursday, November 24, 2011 WWW.APALACHTIMES.COM Vol. 126 IssUE 30 50¢ xxxxxOut to see Thanksgiving on St. Davie Lloyd out as Weems CEO George Island There will be a community By David Adlerstein ficer. of Lloyd’s initial perfor- cussions with TMH of- Thanksgiving lunch at 12:30 Times City Editor Lloyd, 39, was hired in mance, said she was noti- ficials since last month’s p.m. at the St. George Island July, at an annual salary fied last week of Lloyd’s county commission meet- United Methodist Church, Davie Lloyd has left of $145,000, to succeed departure. ing, when she agreed to 201 E. Gulf Beach Drive. her position as hospital Weems CEO Chuck Col- Sanders had asked amend her motion for Turkey and ham provided, CEO, although officials vert. She most recently for Lloyd’s removal dur- Lloyd’s removal so as to bring covered dish. There at Weems Memorial Hos- served as CEO of Flem- ing the commissioners’ grant TMH until Jan. 3, will also be a community pital are not confirming ing County Hospital, a 52- Oct. 18 questioning of 2012, to satisfy the com- Thanksgiving dinner at Eddy whether she was removed bed not-for-profit county Mark O’Bryant, CEO of missioners’ concerns Teach’s Raw Bar at 4 p.m. or voluntarily stepped hospital in Flemingsburg, Tallahassee Memorial about Lloyd’s perfor- Bring covered dish or dessert down. Ky., that was managed HealthCare. TMH has an mance. if you can. Band begins Staff at the hospital at that time by Quorum affiliation agreement with TMH said it plans to around 7 p.m. were notified Friday of Health Resources, a hos- Weems, which employs provide support to Drapal Lloyd’s departure. Hos- pital management firm the hospital’s CEO and as part of an affiliation pital officials said Cindy headquartered in Brent- CNO, although both sala- agreement with Weems Apalachicola Drapal, the hospital’s wood, Tenn. ries come from Weems to provide manage- chief nursing officer County Commission- operating revenue. ment oversight for the Christmas celebration (CNO), will take over as er Cheryl Sanders, who Sanders said Friday LOIS SWOBODA | The Times The Apalachicola chief administrative of- was critical last month she had no further dis- See LLOYD A7 Davie Lloyd Christmas Celebration will light up Apalachicola from 4 to 8 p.m. Nov. 25, the day after Thanksgiving. Santa arrives on shrimp boat at TDC 4 p.m. at the City Dock on Water Street, and will hear children’s Christmas wishes. On Saturday, Nov. 26, city broadens celebration continues with Poles Apart afternoon holiday programs, caroling, and Santa. On Apalachicola ‘funeral’ protests transmission lines marketing Sunday, Nov. 27 the Tree of Remembrance Ceremony By David Adlerstein Richard Bickel takes place at Riverfront Times City Editor made his Park at 3 p.m., a non- feeling known campaign denominational activity to The effort to thwart a Progress Monday as Energy plan to erect giant trans- honor loved ones during the a pole was By Lois Swoboda mission lines through the heart holidays. Reception follows. about to be Times Staff Writer For info, call 653-9419. of Apalachicola picked up steam erected in last weekend. Tourist Development A symbolic funeral procession front of his Council funds received Eastpoint Christmas of about 100 mourners plodded home. from BP are being used to celebration Dec. 1 through Apalachicola’s down- fund such things as social town streets Saturday in protest Photos by media campaigns, contests Santa will be in Eastpoint of Progress Energy’s impending DAVID AdLERSTEIN The Times and compiling a database of at the Eastpoint Pavilion on construction of the lines. email addresses of visitors Patton Drive on Thursday, Then on Monday morning, who have shown interest in Dec. 1 from 6-8 p.m. For where one of the new poles is the county. information, call 653-5596. slated to be erected in the right- At the county commis- of-way in front of photographer sion’s Nov. 1 meeting, Helen Island Lights Richard Bickel’s home at 96 Sixth Spohrer, who was chosen to St., a small early-morning gather- administer the TDC mar- The annual Island Lights ing of about 20 activists greeted keting funds, said BP had festivities begin at 5 p.m. Progress workers at about 7:30 approved her third quar- Friday, Dec. 2, at mid-island a.m. The group had parked their ter marketing plan with no in the St. George Lighthouse cars along the curb, making work changes. She said because Park. The one-mile “Jingle impossible, and brandished signs it is for the off-season, the Jog” starts at 5 p.m. on deploring the project. The funeral procession moves through the downtown Saturday. budget for the campaign is the bike path in front of the smallest of the year — Lighthouse Park and proceeds See POLES A2 18 percent of the total $1.67 through the business district. million BP fund. No fee. Come a little before She said 39 percent of the 5 p.m. to sign in. For more total funds were spent this information, see www. summer during the second SGILights.com or call 927- quarter campaign, and that 7744. the county is at the midpoint of the current BP market- Holiday Fresh Market ing grant. “We want to come back strong in the spring The Holiday Fresh Market when everybody’s booking,” featuring handmade, fresh she said. “We are up 13 per- products, locally made cent for summer over last baked goods and natural year and 15 percent over creations takes place on Dec. 2009. That’s huge,” 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Spohrer said the TDC is downtown Apalachicola. For targeting potential visitors information call 653-9419. by specific area of the coun- ty and recreational activity, xxxxx such as fishing, birding and Index ecotourism. She said the campaign Opinion. .A4 also targets small niches Society . .A8 Pal Rivers, a former Navy pilot, addresses the protest against Progress Energy putting giant such as geocaching (see Faith . .............A9 transmission lines thrown the downtown. Page A10), and that in most Outdoors. A10 cases, the most targeted Sports. A11 marketing brings the great- est return. Tide Chart. A13 Spohrer said her market- Classifieds . ........ A14 County jobless rate still improving ing group is also exploring mains larger than it was one year There were 34 Florida counties with new publications that serve By David Adlerstein niche markets, such as bird- xxxxxContact Us ago, when it comprised 5,252 work- double-digit unemployment rates in Times City Editor ing and fishing, to advertise ers, and the jobless rate was higher, October. local activities. Phone: 850-653-8868 Franklin County’s jobless rate at 8.2 percent. The unemployment rate in the The campaign includes Web: apalachtimes.com dropped again in October, falling Franklin County’s jobless picture Gulf Coast Workforce region (Bay, T-shirts and bumper stick- E-mail: [email protected] for the second straight month by 0.3 put it at seventh best in the state, Franklin, and Gulf counties) was Fax: ers and highlights lodging 850-653-8036 percentage points. better than both the national aver- 9.4 percent in October, 0.9 percent- Circulation: 800-345-8688 specials over the upcoming According to preliminary num- age of 9 percent, and the state aver- age points below the state rate, and quarter. The TDC is also bers released Friday by the Florida age of 10.3 percent. Monroe and Lib- 1.1 percentage points lower than sponsoring online contests, Department of Economic Oppor- erty counties had the state’s lowest the region’s year ago rate of 10.3 including one where three tunity (DEO), the county’s unem- rate, each at 6.3 percent, followed by percent. Bay County was at 9.5 per- vacations will be given away. ployment rate fell to 7.5 percent last Walton 6.8, Okaloosa 7 and Alachua cent, and Gulf County at 9.6 percent. That contest requires en- month, from 427 people without jobs and Lafayette counties, each at 7.4 Out of a labor force of 101,229, there DEADLINES FOR NEXT WEEK: trants to name a rental com- to 411. percent. were 9,498 unemployed Gulf Coast School News & Society: 11 a.m. Friday pany they wish to work with, Real Estate Ads: 11 a.m. Thursday The drop comes as the labor Many of the counties with the residents. part of a strategy to encour- Legal Ads: 11 a.m. Friday force shrank by 56 workers, from lowest unemployment rates are “Bay County’s unemployment age potential visitors to look Classified Display Ads: 11 a.m. Friday 5,550 in September to 5,449 last those with relatively high propor- Classified Line Ads: 5 p.m. Monday month. The county’s labor force re- tions of government employment. See JOBLESS A12 See TDC A7 A2 | The Times Local Thursday, November 24, 2011 POLES from page A1 By 8:20 a.m., the crowd the poles for more than a He noted that he had just some other area,” said Riv- had moved their vehicles, year. returned from a photo as- ers, 88. “We’re unique and after Police Chief Bobby Against a backdrop of signment in Albania, one of we need to preserve this,” Varnes requested that they shrimp boats, Daly spoke the poorest countries in the noting that the town boasts abide by the law. Every- from a dais erected in world. “But they’re able to of about 900 historic homes thing ended quietly, and Riverfront Park, before bury their power lines un- and buildings.