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POSTAL PRSTR STD CUSTOMER U.S. POSTAGE PAID Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Permit #272 February 11, 2016 Volume 46, No. 6 75 cents PonteVedraRecorder.com Breaking down barriers with BEAM Carrie Resch / The Recorder Jacksonville Beach Mayor Charlie Latham cuts the ceremonial ribbon along with BEAM (Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry Inc.) Thrift Operations Manager, Susan Taylor (left) and BEAM Executive Director, Susan King (right) to mark the grand opening of BEAM Thrift at 7north. Read about the grand opening on page 5. THE REGISTER SHOW YOUR LOVE Your guide to Ready for Valentine’s Day? weddings is inside Find more ideas inside Page 21 Serving Ponte Vedra and the Beaches since 1969 Sell Your Car Without Leaving Your Home -Scan the bar code. -Schedule a vehicle inspection -Get your cash offer 2 Ponte Vedra Recorder · February 11, 2016 Send us your news PUZZLE SOLUTIONS INSIDE We welcome submissions of photos, stories, columns and letters to the editor. Let us know what’s happening. If you have hard copies of photos you want us to feature, feel Community News free to bring them to our office — we’ll scan them and hand them right back. E-mail Page 5 submissions to [email protected] or bring them by our office at 1102 A1A N., Unit 108, Ponte Vedra Beach. One of Us Page 6 Visit our brand new website at Calendar www.pontevedrarecorder.com Page 18 Plus, find the Recorder on Facebook at Puzzles www.facebook.com/ThePVRecorder Page 36 What’s this? Do you know what this is? Susan Griffin Publisher Email your answer to [email protected] [email protected] by Tuesday at 5 p.m. (904) 686-3938 We’ll throw all the correct answers in a hat Kelly H. McDermott and choose the winner with a random Editor drawing. If we receive no correct answers, [email protected] (904) 686-3943 we’ll award four Jacksonville Zoo tickets (two adults, two children) to the best wrong Carrie Resch answer we receive. Reporter/Sales Coordinator [email protected] (904) 686-3939 Solutions correspond to last week’s puzzles. Rob Conwell Circulation Manager [email protected] (904) 686-3936 Carolina Durante correctly identified the St. Ed Johnson Johns Eye Associates sign in Nocatee. Caro- Senior Account Executive lina, please pick up your zoo tickets! [email protected] (904) 686-3940 Better luck this week, guessers! And don’t Kristin Flanagan forget — incorrect but entertaining guesses Account Executive (904) 285-8831 might also be rewarded with a trip to the zoo. April Snyder Sales Assistant [email protected] (904) 686-3937 Cary J. Howard Ad Designer [email protected] Adoptable pets at the St. Johns County Pet Center Megan Ray CAT OF THE WEEK DOG OF THE Ad Designer [email protected] My name is Wilson WEEK and I am a 6 year old My name is Jessica Stephens male cat who is look- Chewie and Rhonda Barrick ing for a new home I’m a pint sized Melanie Smith to call my own. I was Wookie! Just Stacey Neal Page Designers brought to the Pet kidding, I’m a 3 [email protected] Center by my par- year old male ents because they Brussels griffon could not keep me terrier mix. I was anymore. I’m a super brought to the friendly cat who gets along with everyone and Pet Center as a stray. I love to snuggle and play and go everything! Any new pet being introduced to a outside and go on long walks in the sun. Come visit us U.S.P.S. (705-300) Periodical Postage Paid new home will need time to adjust to their new today here at the Pet Center! #30113 at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl. 32082 Postmaster: Send change of addresses to: environment. Please reinforce house-training Ponte Vedra Recorder, P.O. Box 501, Ponte and behavioral training and be mindful of inter- Vedra Beach, FL, 32004. (904) 285-8831 Subscription Rates, Bulk Mail: One acting with other pets. Come visit us today here year, $35; six months, $20. Rates not ap- at the Pet Center! #29966 plicable in Canada or overseas. To subscribe, call Circulation Manager Rob All cat adoptions at the Pet Center are $20 for males and $30 for females. Dog adoptions are $35 for males Conwell at (904) 686-3936. and $50 for females. The fee includes neutering/spaying, rabies vaccinations and shots. The Pet Center is The Recorder is published every Thursday at 1102 A1A N., Unit 108 located at 130 N. Stratton Road. Hours are Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. For Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082 more information, call (904) 209-6190. Ponte Vedra Recorder · February 11, 2016 Movers & Shakers 3 CUSTOM BUILDING & REMODELING SINCE 1962 RRESIDENTIALES ENT L / CCOMMERCIALOMMERC AL TOM TROUT, inc. GENERAL CONTRACTOR CBC026189 (904) 737-5412 • tomtroutinc.com Contact us for a FREE consultation! Ed Johnson / The Recorder The crew at the Ponte Vedra store: Bera Bing, Terrie McCullough, Sally Dunsmoor, Sommer La- ettner, Sarah Hilton. Peterbrooke Chocolatier • Business and Personal Tax Preparation • Retirement Income Planning holds its grand opening • Life Insurance and Annuities Peterbrooke Chocolatier in Ponte store’s offerings such as chocolate • Small Business Consultations Vedra held a grand opening celebra- covered popcorn and other chocolate tion for their newly relocated Ponte delicacies, gelato and baked goods. LOCATED IN NOCATEE TOWN CENTER Vedra store on Friday, Feb. 5 from 6-9 Cocktails were provided by Mulligans (904) 860-1040 p.m. The public was invited to meet Pub; the specialty of the evening was 460 Town Plaza Avenue, Suite 230, Ponte Vedra, Florida 32081 the Peterbrooke team and sample [email protected] some of the neighborhood chocolate OPENING continues on Page 25 www.rmtcpa.com Watson Portfolio Ponte vedra carlyle Marsh landing Private Paradise $695,000 $995,000 $3,500,000 Enjoy the best Ponte Vedra has to offer in this 3 bedroom Welcome home to this beautiful, spacious residence with ÞV«iÌiÃiÀiÌÞvÀÌ Ã>}wViÌVi>vÀÌ condo with fully renovated kitchen, peaceful lagoon views direct access to the water. Offering bright and open rooms estate. Custom built with soaring ceilings and spacious from the balcony and the beach just steps from the front throughout, this would be the perfect house for entertaining gathering spaces are among the many features that make door. MLS 810901 guests. MLS 811391 this estate paradise. MLS 811433 Missy DeKay 904.280.2838 Murray & Elise Beard 904.465.2784 Veronika Wilson 904.864.6759 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Legendary Quality Service Since 1965 904.285.6300 • WatsonRealtyCorp.com 4 Community News Ponte Vedra Recorder · February 11, 2016 IN REMEMBRANCE ter, daughter-in-law, sister, sister-in- loving person who loved being a Ponte Vedra Presbyterian Church, 4510 law, granddaughter, niece, cousin, and homemaker and spending time with Palm Valley Road, Ponte Vedra Beach. Karla Susanne Donovan aunt. Karla’s easy smile, love of living her family and friends. Her creative At the family’s request, in lieu of flow- Karla Susanne Donovan, 37, of in the moment, and natural way of talents and love of children and ani- ers, memorial donations may be made to Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, passed away looking at life remain an inspiration to mals always gave a comfortable and the Ponte Vedra Presbyterian Church. on Monday, Febru- all of us. easy grace to her home and those in Please sign the online guestbook at ary 1, 2016. She Karla was born in Millington, TN, her presence. www.pontevedravalley.com. was the beloved on February 23, 1978, to Patricia Mat- Karla’s family welcomed her ex- wife of James Jay thews and Robert Mckay Matthews, tended family and friends to a viewing Michael David McLean Donovan and loving II. She was definitely a Florida girl at Ponte Vedra Valley Funeral Home, Michael David McLean, 50, passed mother to Aidan and lived in Jacksonville, Cocoa, Or- 4750 Palm Valley Road, Ponte Vedra away February 4, 2016. Ponte Ve- and Reese. Karla’s lando, Babson Park, and Ponte Vedra Beach, Friday evening, February 5, dra Valley Funeral Home, Cremation large family adored Beach. from 6:00-8:00 p.m. A funeral was held Center & Cemetery - (904) 285-1130 – DONOVAN her as their daugh- Karla was an incredibly kind and on Saturday, February 6, 11:00 a.m., at www.pontevedravalley.com. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR or 9% of the property. ment of Environmental Protection, the by the proposed zoning change did Not to mention, the soils are 50% Ti- legal wording for wetlands mitigation not become aware of the proposal Proposed neighborhood is sonia Mucky Peat, which are “frequently is “restoration (re-establishment or until a few concerned people noticed incompatible with environment flooded,” according to the US Depart- rehabilitation), establishment (creation), a single small sign buried in vegetation — and laws ment of Agriculture. enhancement and/or in certain cir- on the property to be developed and I am greatly concerned about the Not to mention, this property is in a cumstances preservation of wetlands, went door to door to gain input the residential development proposed for floodplain for the Guana River, which streams and other aquatic resources for weekend before the County Commis- 1044 Ponte Vedra Blvd. There have is one of only 28 federally protected the purposes of offsetting unavoidable sioners Meeting. Yet, as acknowledged been countless developers that looked estuarine research systems in the US. adverse impacts which remain after all by the commissioners at the hear- at purchasing this property over the “A floodplain is an area of land adja- appropriate and practicable avoidance ing, they had been meeting with the course of ten plus years, but learned cent to a stream or river … that experi- and minimization has been achieved.” developer behind closed doors for two there is not enough buildable land to ences flooding during periods of high Clearly, building a residential neigh- years.