WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT PUTNAM? Show off the natural beauty of Putnam County. E-mail your photo and brief description to positivelyputnamfl @palatkadailynews.com or call Mary Kaye Wells at 312-5210. All photos must have been taken in Putnam County. Include your name, where photo was taken. PPALATKAALATKA DDAILYAILY NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2021 PUTNAM COUNTY’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER $1 Collaborative effort pays off for Palatka Lowe’s Manager Brian Rau said City among 100 areas to win a combined the competition was not highly publicized outside of a few nation- The amphitheater al TV appearances or local cover- at the Palatka $10M to celebrate company’s centennial riverfront will get age. About four months ago, Rau saw a corporate email related to an upgrade thanks BY NICK BLANK to the $125,000 the competition and he later told Palatka Daily News local clubs about the competition. the city won as [email protected] Rau, Putnam County Chamber of Commerce Board part of the Lowe’s President Wayne McClain and Palatka General Services corporation’s centennial Palatka can expect to receive $125,000 for a new Director Jonathan Griffith presented to Palatka city celebration. amphitheater at the Palatka riverfront from Lowe’s 100 commissioners about the amphitheater in March. Hometowns program following an announcement from “It was a huge collaborative effort,” Rau said. “We NICK BLANK/ the hardware giant. wanted to highlight a portion of the riverfront and the Palatka Daily News Lowe’s offered $10 million for community projects in city’s downtown area.” 100 cities to celebrate the hardware company’s centenni- al. There were 2,200 applicants and only three Lowe’s locations in Florida were selected. See EFFORT, Page 5A Make a Joyful Noise Singer venturing to Texas for Christian music competition Submitted photo Freddie and Pauline Lewis receive BY SARAH CAVACINI congratulations from American Legion Bert Palatka Daily News Hodge Post 45 Commander Ken Moore, [email protected] left, after their future home is dedicated at Veterans Village in Palatka on Saturday. EAST PALATKA – A local woman is tak- ing her musical talents to Texas after becom- ing a finalist in a national Christian music competition. Couple celebrates Summer Frost, 29, will take the stage in San Antonio on Friday for the You, God’s Music showcase. She is one of five finalists performing at new home in the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts and will sing an original song, “Prayers You Pray,” that she wrote during the coronavirus Veterans Village pandemic in 2020 about looking to God for stability in anxious times. BY NICK BLANK Although Frost grew up in Jacksonville, she calls East Palatka her home now. She is a Palatka Daily News [email protected] worship leader at Trinity Baptist Church in Palatka and often sings or plays the piano during Sunday services. The Putnam Habitat For Humanity dedi- And it’s her strong faith that keeps her cated its second home in Veterans Village on making music. Saturday for an Army veteran and his wife. “For me, I love to worship,” Frost said. “… Freddie and Pauline Lewis, have been on The heart of it is I do it for God.” the waiting list for a couple of years, said they She grew up playing the flute, piano and were thrilled to be moving into their new eventually guitar. The East Palatka musi- home. Officials broke ground for the Lewis cian, whose full name is Summer Frost home in January. The project received fund- Jones, said she wrote her first song with her ing from Georgia-Pacific, the Pineland Lodge grandfather, from whom she gets the Frost in Palatka, and other local businesses and middle name. Her grandparents lived in groups. Palatka, and Frost would often visit them Pauline Lewis said she was excited and Submitted photo Summer Frost poses for a promotional photo ahead of her going to Texas to compete in a Christian music competition. See JOYFUL, Page 10A See VILLAGE, Page 5A 2 sections INDEX Applause........................................... 1B Obituaries ......................................... 3A Classified/Legals .............................. 9A Opinions ........................................... 4A Comics .............................................. 4B Sports ............................................... 6A VOL. 133 • NO. 143 | PALATKA, FLA. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” — Greg Anderson is the founder of Cancer Recovery Foundation International, a global affiliation of national organizations whose mission 2A is to help all people prevent and survive cancer. THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2021QUICK HITS PALATKA DAILY NEWS Today in History www.palatkadailynews.com 1825 St. Johns Ave., Palatka FL 32177 MAIL: P.O. Box 777, Palatka, FL 32178 Today is Thursday, July 22, the 203rd USPS 418-500 day of 2021. There are 162 days left in the year. Periodicals postage paid at Palatka, FL, Palatka Daily News, est. 1885, is TODAY IN PUTNAM published daily Tuesday through Saturday. In 1884, the Palatka News noted that POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the riverfront had three schooners dis- Palatka Daily News, P.O. Box 777, charging cargo and several steamboats Palatka FL 32178 tied to their wharves. The “Minnie and MAIN NUMBER ..... 386-312-5200 Gussie” delivered a cargo of merchan- dise and brick at Captain Adams’ Business hours are 8:30 a.m. to wharf. 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. In 1885, the schooner Mattie May from Philadelphia, was unloading 250 Call about classified or display ads, questions about circulation or any tons of rails at the J.T. & K.W. Railway other newspaper business. Call wharf, using a dummy engine that did with news tips at any time. Just fol- the work more rapidly than could be low the instructions after business done using horse power; 25 more hours or email: schooners would arrive by December [email protected] with 250 to 450 tons of iron for the [email protected] railroad. In 1887, the old plank walk in front CIRCULATION of the Baum building was taken up Please call 386-312-5200 to report Submitted photo and a brick pavement would be laid. Twins Samiyah and Jamiyah Brinkle, 8, work on their math skills recently with CIty Commissioner Justin Campbell In 1911, the Palatka Gas, Light and problems with the delivery of your during the Putnam County School District Camp Jumpstart at James A. Long Family Investment Center in Palatka. paper. Circulation office hours are 8:30 Fuel Co., that eventually became part a.m. - 5 p.m. If you leave a message, of Florida Power & Light, announced an increase in rates up to 8 cents per please give your name, mailing address n Health department, 2801 Kennedy St. in Palatka. kilowatt-hour because demand was and phone number. Felony Arrests Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. not sufficient to warrant the expense of The health department’s list of COVID-19 vaccination keeping the dynamos running both For home delivery subscription, sites are as follows: day and night. The city council decid- including tax n Moseley Elementary Training Center, 1101 Husson ed not to award a franchise to the com- 13 weeks ................................ $24.62 July 19 Ave. in Palatka. 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Tuesdays. pany unless the lighting plant was at 26 weeks ................................ $49.25 n Miller Middle School, 101 S. Prospect St. in Crescent least 225 kilowatts day and night. 52 weeks ................................ $93.68 Sylvester Joseph Comer, 38, Palatka – drugs possession. City. 9:30 a.m.–3 p.m. Wednesdays. In 1930, Putnam County planned to EZ-pay .................................... $84.00 Dorcas Naomi Leon, 37, Green Cove Springs – metham- n Interlachen Elementary School, 251 County Road 315 charge tuition fee of $7 per pupil per Digital only .......................... $7/month phetamine possession; cocaine possession. in Interlachen. 9:30 a.m.–3 p.m. Thursdays. month and ordered 15% reduction in Justin Scott Wright, 33, Hastings – moving traffic viola- The Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are avail- all teacher salaries. tion. able for residents 18 and older. Residents 12 and older are CIRCULATION MANAGER eligible for the Pfizer vaccine. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY Stacy Grell .....................386-312-5243 July 20 Residents younger than 18 must have a parent or guard- On July 22, 1862, President Circulation Manager ian present when receiving a vaccine and must complete Abraham Lincoln presented to his [email protected] Joseph Adam Cooper, 27, Crescent City – battery. consent forms at putnam.floridahealth.gov. Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Charles Daniel Dubois, 39, Hawthorne – aggravated Emancipation Proclamation. OBITUARIES assault with weapon. ON THIS DATE Death notices and obituaries are Eston Ben Pitts, 35, Palatka – moving traffic violation. State News published daily. We accept obituaries Karry Lajean Stewart, 39, Palatka – two counts drugs pos- In 1587, an English colony fated to and photos from funeral homes. The session. vanish under mysterious circumstanc- es was established on Roanoke Island deadline is 5 p.m. Obituaries can be MELBOURNE off North Carolina. emailed to news@palatkadailynews. Correction Driver saved from car’s river plunge In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger com. For information about obituaries Two police officers from Florida’s Space Coast rescued a was shot to death by federal agents and our policies, call 386-312-5234. driver whose car had plunged off a causeway into a river, outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, PUBLISHER In Wednesday’s issue of the Palatka Daily News, the list- authorities said. where he had just seen the Clark Gable ed schedule for coronavirus testing and vaccinations was The unidentified driver was on the Eau Gallie Causeway in movie “Manhattan Melodrama.” Michael Leonard ...........386-312-5201 incorrect. We regret the error. The following is the correct Melbourne early Tuesday when it plunged off the roadway into [email protected] information: the Indian River, according to a report from Melbourne Police TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Department.