Plane Crash Kills Pilot Health and Safety of Recovery Houses No One Disputes That Henry Green Kitchen, and Com- Provides a Valuable – Some Say Lifesaving Mon Area
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■ Barnabas helps with Cares Act 5B ■ Crescendo Amelia 7B Inside This WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 / 22 PAGES, 2 SECTIONS • fbnewsleader.com $1.00 Issue City reviews the Plane crash kills pilot health and safety of recovery houses No one disputes that Henry Green kitchen, and com- provides a valuable – some say lifesaving mon area. They – service in Fernandina Beach. Places are required to for people who have nowhere else to go, attend the twice- due to the life they lived as addicts. But, daily Narcotics can Green legally operate a residential Anonymous and/ recovery facility in the city? That is the or Alcoholics question at the heart of what Fernandina Anonymous meet- Beach says are code enforcement viola- ings, to keep their tions at the houses used for Grace and living space clean, Gratitude Sober Living Inc. Green to get a job, and Green rents four houses in the keep the house city that he uses to operate Grace and clean. Gratitude. The houses are located on Food is not provided, but everyone Vernon Street, South 10th Street, South is encouraged to buy enough to cook Ninth Street, and South 13th Street. “family style” for everyone in the house. Grace and Gratitude receives no Those staying in the houses sign a con- local, state or federal funding; no grants tract before they are allowed to stay, or loans or other funding other than a and must adhere to the rules to stay. $21.50 daily fee from residents. Green They must, above all, stay alcohol- and said each house costs approximately drug-free. NCSO $2,000 a month to operate, and the pro- In addition to housing, Green helps The 74-year-old pilot of a single-engine airplane died Monday in a crash in Hilliard, according to a news gram often operates in the red. residents find jobs, acquire clothes release Monday night from the Florida Highway Patrol. The man, who was not named by the FHP, was Residents come from the county’s suitable for job hunting, and get to from Palm Coast and was the only occupant of the aircraft. The release said his next of kin had not yet drug and veteran courts, hospitals, rehab appointments and work. He also helps been notified. programs, jail, and simply off the street. them get medical treatment and con- The accident happened around 3:14 p.m. Monday, according to the FHP, when the fixed-wing airplane He provides an address, which those in nects residents with agencies such as went down in the vicinity of Trinity Lane and Sundberg Road. recovery need in order to qualify for ser- Starting Point Behavioral Healthcare According to an email sent Tuesday from Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper, “(W)e received a call that vices. They live in the houses, separate and Barnabas Center. Green also helps a small plane possibly crashed at the end of Trinity Lane in a wooded area NW of Hilliard. Deputies and residences for males and females, for them obtain official identification and (Nassau County Fire Rescue) responded and found the single engine plane in the woods. Witnesses said the $21.50 program fee, as Green does driver’s licenses. He has coordinated the engine seemed to be sputtering and it appeared the pilot was attempting to clear the trees to land in not charge rent. The residents get a bed, an open field about 200-300 feet away, but struck the trees and crashed. The plane caught on fire and the access to a washer and dryer, bathroom, HOUSES Continued on 6A pilot died at the scene. FHP is investigating along with the FAA and NTSB.” NOR’EASTER + HIGH TIDES = FLOODING AND DRIVING RESTRICTIONS A nor’easter com- bined with seasonal high tides in Nassau County over the weekend to push the Amelia River over North Front Street in Fernandina Beach and rough seas into the dunes on Amelia Island through Monday. Other low-lying areas also experienced flood- ing. The National Weather Service issued advisories about coastal flood- ing, the high surf and high winds, and county officials tem- porarily suspended PHOTO COURTESY JOE WAAS NASSAU COUNTY beach driving. Callahan pilot seeking Soil and Water seat JULIA ROBERTS “He told me a little about what he things of that nature, on my own. If you News-Leader did, and it kind of goes in hand with are like me, and you are brand new to what I do when I am not working,” farming, you don’t know that stuff exists. When Devin Mizell started a farm, Mizell said, which is to operate Hodges You don’t know that that fence you built he knew a bit about farming; his family Homegrown, which sells grass-fed beef for $2,000 could have been cost-shared has generations of farmers. and pasture pork, along with his wife if it was built to a certain specification.” “I don’t ever remember a time and father. He learned, for example, that soil is my grandpa or somebody didn’t have Mizell said he learned about farming a living organism, and keeping it alive cows,” Mizell said. “I grew up on a fam- through books and watching YouTube will enable farmers to grow better crops ily farm in Callahan. It didn’t come out videos, but he wants to promote pro- without chemicals. of nowhere. grams available to Nassau County resi- “You want to grow corn, (so) you But learning how best to manage the dents through the Natural Resources think, ‘I need to put weed killer on it Devin Mizell wants soil organically, to grow things without Conservation Service, an agency of and I need to till the ground up,’” Mizell an unpaid job – to using artificial means, was a process of the United States Department of said. “But there are plants that suppress sit on the board of self-education. Now, Mizell wants to Agriculture. He said the information and weeds. There’s plants that pull nitrogen the Nassau County sit on the board of the Nassau County services are out there, and he wants to out of the air and put it in the soil, so Soil and Water Soil and Water Conservation District in act as the intermediary to facilitate that the plants that use nitrogen to grow, Conservation District order to help others learn about conser- connection. can grow. If you plant those plants, and – in order to educate vation of natural resources. “What interests me in this board manage them correctly with livestock local farmers how Mizell said the person who currently is getting that information out there,” and harvesting and termination at key best to care for the holds the position, Jackson Kinney, is a Mizell said. “I stumbled across con- times, you can manage a crop without environment while friend. Kinney asked him if he would be servation practices and holistic man- growing crops. interested in the seat when he left. agement and regenerative agriculture, MIZELL Continued on 5A JULIA ROBERTS/NEWS-LEADER INDEX LOOKING BACK 25 YEARS BUSINESS – 4A LEGAL NOTICES – 8-9B The Nassau County Commission CLASSIFIED ADS – 10B OBITUARIES – 2A declared a state of emergency in COURT REPORT – 8A POLICE REPORT – 8A connection with countywide flooding EDITORIAL – 7A PUZZLES – 7B and sought assistance from the state FISHING/TIDES – 3B SPORTS – 1B and federal governments. Sept. 20, 1995 News-Leader, 166th year. No. 77, Copyright, 2020 NL Wednesday 09.23.20.indd 1 9/22/20 6:57 PM 2A Wednesday, september 23, 2020 NEWS News-Leader OBITUARIES Lynn’s family has asked that those who would referred to the island as “Paradise” as in her fre- Betty Kaney Cason like to honor her memory make a donation to the quent, “It’s another beautiful day in Paradise.” She James Walter MacLaughlin Betty Kaney Cason, 89, of Woodbine, Ga., Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. enjoyed many new friends, continued her interests James Walter MacLaughlin, 82, of Fernandina passed away Sunday, September 20, 2020 after a We love you and miss you so much, mom. in cooking, knitting, contract bridge, church work Beach, Fla., passed away September 16, 2020. brief illness. Please share your memories and condolences at and keeping tabs on her far-flung friends, children Jim, the son of Jane and Walter Born November 24, 1930 in www.oxleyheard.com. and grandchildren. Of course, the beach attracted MacLaughlin, was born and grew Argyle, Ga., she was preceded Oxley-Heard Funeral Directors the children and grandchildren resulting in many up the oldest of four children in in death by her husband, Joel M. family get-togethers. Janet and Bill took numerous suburban Philadelphia, Pa. He (Mack) Cason Sr.; one son, Wayne Janet Abel Hayes trips over the years, including to Israel, France, graduated from Upper Darby High H. Cason; one granddaughter, Janet Abel Hayes, a resident of Amelia Island, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, School, where he was a varsity Melissa Ann Cason; her parents, Fla. for 25 years, died peacefully in her sleep on Mexico, and South and Central America including wrestler. Ralph G. Kaney Sr. and Emma the morning of Monday, September 14, 2020 after Buenos Aires, Machu Picchu, Cape Horn, and the At Penn State University, Godwin Kaney; two brothers, a short illness. Panama Canal. he studied, found brotherhood at Sigma Nu, and Ralph G. Kaney Jr. and Gardell K. Kaney; one sis- She was born Nancy Janet Abel Janet grew up in the Methodist church, but cheered on the Nittany Lions football team. He ter, Patricia Weatherington; and one great-grand- in Cleveland, Tenn. on October 2, after marriage joined the Episcopal church in New graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Science in son, Ronald H.