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ONTICELLO EWS M 151 Years of Serving the Monticello Community N www.ecbpublishing.com Wednesday, February 5, 2020 No. 49 75¢+Tax Suspect surrounded in hotel chooses suicide over custody Ashley Hunter been robbed, beaten and tied up inside their home. and was currently located in Jefferson County. ECB Publishing, Inc. The victims had managed to free themselves, after The PCBPD contacted the Jefferson County the suspect left the scene, and received help from a Sheriff's Office (JCSO), advising them of the case A weekend home invasion and investigation neighbor. and asking for assistance in apprehending that began in Panama City Beach, Fla. ended in In addition to the mistreatment they had See SUICIDE page 3 Jefferson County when deputies found a suspect received, the victims' car had also been stolen by who had fled from Bay County after committing a the suspect before he fled the scene. crime. The two victims provided a physical description On Saturday, Feb. 1, at around 1 p.m., the of the man to the Panama City Beach law Panama City Beach Police Department (PCBPD) enforcement. responded to a robbery that had taken place on During the ensuing investigation, the Panama Front Beach Road, in the area of Pier Park. When City Beach Police Department determined arriving at the reported location, police officers that the stolen vehicle had been found two victims, a brother and a sister, who had transported across several counties Toll road at heart of ARI presentation Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The Aucilla River Basin and its archeological, natural and Taylor Massage historical riches were the focus of recent three-part presentation by members of the Aucilla Research Institute (ARI) to the hosts Chamber Jefferson County Commission. Let it be said that Doctors George Cole, Willet Boyer After 5 and Jim Boyer never once mentioned the Suncoast Connector in their separate presentations. Even so, Page 5 however, the 150-mile toll road that is slated to extend from Citrus to Jefferson County was very much in the air. Call it the proverbial elephant in the room. Former See ARI page 3 Florida House Representative Postal Service visits local alerts of Club See email scam Page 6 what’s Lazaro Aleman Runa to ECB Publishing, Inc. perform at inside The United States Postal Service (USPS) is warning residents to beware of a fake email/email Opera House scam that is making the rounds, claiming to be from USPS officials and including the name of Postmaster this weekend General Megan Brennan. Page 7 In the email, which is being sent to Americans across the country, the scammers tell the recipients about an unsuccessful attempt to deliver a package. The email then prompts the recipient to confirm personal delivery information by clicking a button or downloading an Singles group See SCAM page 3 meets in Lamont Solar ordinance Page 11 set for public hearing Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The solar field ordinance that the Jefferson County Planning Commission has been refining for several months is now set for the first of three public hearings that it must undergo for adoption. This first hearing, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13, will be conducted by the Planning Commission and held at the courthouse annex off South Water Street. In brief, the ordinance is an attempt to get ahead of the curve on solar collector systems and put in place minimum requirements for their approval before they begin locating in the county. See SOLAR page 3 One Section - 12 pages Index Did you know? The Walt Disney World Resort spans across Crime........................................................9 30,500 acres, encompassing the same Viewpoints................................................2 Faith & Family...................................10-11 Community News..................................4-8 Classifieds & Legals...............................12 geographical area as San Francisco, Calif. 2 • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2020 • MONTICELLO NEWS C hristian Viewpoints & Opinions C oncepts Emerald’s Gem Box... Doomsday or Day of Integrity the Lord With the advent Integrity, according to believe that their “excuses” and “reasonings” outweigh of the nuclear age Dictionary.com, means and justify their actions. They have chosen to ignore some scientists got “adherence to moral and ethical their inner feelings of what is right and wrong and/or together and principles; soundness of moral were never taught it, to begin with. And the worse part… invented a character; honesty.” no one is holding them accountable. The liberal media metaphor for the What is integrity? It is the puts a spin on it to where it sounds justified; the colleges end of civilization quality of being honest and are encouraging the students to participate; and adults as we know it, the having strong moral principles. It are blaming it on the immaturity of young people. It’s Gary B. King Doomsday Clock. Emerald Greene is generally a personal choice to not immaturity - It is the absence of integrity! Guest Columnist It first appeared in Parsons uphold oneself to consistent moral Now, let’s bring it home a little closer. How do we 1947 and was set Publisher and ethical standards. use integrity and moral principles/values in our daily 17 minutes to midnight for the curtain to Integrity means doing the lives? If you’re a business owner, do you lie or cheat in fall on humanity. It was meant to highlight our proximity to nuclear right thing, at all times and in all circumstances, whether order to make more money? As an employee do you take holocaust. anyone is watching or not! Integrity means doing the home (steal) the company’s pens, paper, and other office The clock has recently been set at right thing no matter what the consequences are! supply materials? Do you sit at work and play on the 100 seconds to midnight with the new Integrity is when your conscience agrees with your internet and Facebook all day, when you should be threats of climate change and the actions! working (and are being paid to work)? Do you call in proliferation of disinformation. The My Daddy always taught us, “There’s nothing worse “sick” to work when you’re really not? Do you cheat on group of Chicken Littles known as the than a thief or a liar,” “A man is only as good as his your spouse? Do you “cut corners” on your task at hand Bulletin of Atomic Scientists who word,” and every time I ran out of the house, headed off and not deliver the best you possibly could, just to try to manage the clock said, “We now have a with friends, he would always hug me, kiss me, and say, get ahead? true emergency.” I suppose the last 23 “Always act like a lady.” Whenever we did wrong we Always remember that dishonesty will follow you a times the clock was moved by the were punished - hard. But, if we lied or cheated, during life-time. Don’t lose the ability to be trusted as a person Bulletin of Atomic Scientists were not that wrong, the punishment was ten times worse. of integrity! That is the most valuable quality anyone “true” emergencies. People seem to have an enormous lack of integrity can have; for a man is truly only as good as his word is. Here are some more predictions by scientists that never came true: in the world today. Integrity seems to be something that Live with integrity and teach your children the same. Climate specialists claimed, “global isn’t taught or spoken of as much as it should be. Teach them to be honest and excellent in all that they do! cooling trends” observed between WWII Marches and protests turn into violent beatings of Remember who you are and what you stand for! and the 1970s predicted the global other human beings; businesses are vandalized and/or Success will come and go, but integrity is forever! temperatures by the year 2000 would be destroyed; freeways and interstates are totally shut down “11 degrees cooler.” Twice what was because of the mass quantity of people standing in the Revelation 22:12 "Look, I am coming soon! My needed for a modern ice age. Newsweek way; and innocent police officers are being ambushed reward is with me, and I will give to each person published an article in 1975 titled “The and killed! And why? Because all of these perpetrators according to what they have done.” Cooling World” and Time magazine carried a story in 1974 asking “A New Ice Age?” Of course, climate specialists are now predicting the opposite. In the early 1970’s there were forecasts that the earth’s population was Ask Rusty growing faster than its ability to produce food, four billion people would starve to death, 65 million in America alone. The earth’s population has continued to boom, and the numbers of those starving have dropped significantly because of an increase rather than a decrease in food production. We took benefits early; can we get more now? In 1970, particle pollution was predicted to become so great that people “Dear Rusty: My birth date is Signed: year history with no or very low in urban areas would be forced to use 1947. My wife is 1950. We both took Regretful we took SS early. earnings, working now could replace breathing masks and particle clouds our Social Security years ago at age one or more of those years. I have no would block sunlight to the point that 62 due to health concerns because Dear Regretful: I’m afraid the way of determining whether that is a agricultural production would see a we questioned if we would live to age options for either you or your wife possibility; you would need to get significant drop, it didn’t happen.