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We Insure SPORTS HOMES FOCUS Jane DiLoreto Agency Clay players part of SOL state title run. 215-2121 SPORTS 3701193-01 THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2012 WWW.CLAYTODAYONLINE.COM VOLUME 42, NO. 31 75¢ COUPON SAVINGS ‘Data Busters’ $AVE $ teaches kids about work WITH73 COUPONS By Stephen Kindland INSIDE THIS ISSUE Staff writer FLEMING ISLAND – They entered the Data Busters summer work program with no job ex- perience and no knowledge about how to conduct themselves during job interviews. They also were unfamiliar with employer expectations and how to function in the workplace. But that was six weeks ago. On Wednesday, Aug. 1, 18 Clay County public school students from low-income families received certi cates for completing Data Busters, a com- prehensive employment and youth development program sponsored by the Northeast Florida Com- munity Action Agency. Among them was 16-year-old Yusnehili Encar- nacion, who spent 30 hours a week scanning and 2012 Election Guide ling documents, answering phones and making Chamber In Motion photocopies at Orange Park Town Hall. “I did need help a couple of times, but after that NEWS SEE DATA, 34 Kutting For Kids Search on for robbery suspect CORRESPONDENT PHOTO BY KELLY STIGLIANO FOCUS Gator Clown Barbara Anderson and Hair by Lee salon owner Lee Goodnight prepare to ORANGE PARK – A bank robbery Wednesday, cut Lori White eld’s hair during the annual Kutting for Kids at the Orange Park Mall. See Aug. 1, had Clay County Sheriff’s Of ce deputies related story on Page 19. and K-9 units searching a wooded area behind the Blanding Boulevard bank. The armed suspect who robbed the Compass Bank, 561 Blanding Blvd. was described as a white Workshop lets young actors take stage male with black, curly hair (possibly a wig), wear- By Stephen Kindland ing a blue bandana and a black shirt. The suspect Orange Park Community Theatre summer Staff writer did not discharge the weapon at the bank before workshop director Langdon Zimmer believed eeing on foot into the nearby wooded area, the ORANGE PARK – Many years ago in a was worth re-telling. Sheriff’s Of ce said in a news release. nebulous, Mideast country where sh mon- With a talented if not ambitious cast of A NEW PRACTICE A search for the suspect was continuing gers and beggars were as common as talking 34 youngsters culled from a summer work- Get local business news Wednesday afternoon. Watch www.claytodayon- animals, ying carpets and genies trapped on Page 15. line.com for more details about the incident. in bottles, a series of events unfolded that SEE STAGE, 14 The best deals! 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