MICHAEL MORE SEVERE THAN ESTIMATED LOCAL | B1 PANAMA CITY LOCAL | B1 PARKER CONTEMPLATES CLEAN UP EFFORTS Monday, November 12, 2018 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ Tent city closes, workers relocate By Katie Landeck church parking lot. Martinez, who had taken @PCNHKatieL Over 75 people relocated over as the group’s leader, [email protected] Sunday from a vacant lot near manning a sign-in sheet, Sam’s Club to the parking lot setting the rules at an infor- PANAMA CITY — As one of the Forest Park United mal meeting, and working on tent city was shut down for Methodist church just a few establishing regular feeding trespassing, workers living lots away, creating a small by the Salvation Army. “You there — who primarily have community of Coleman tents got to work to stay here.” come from out-of-town for and trailers within hours. In the aftermath of Michael, construction and clean up “This is the camp for dis- jobs — have found refuge in a placed workers,” said Ken See CITY, A2 RIGHT: Ken Martinez talks with Darrell “Cowboy” Maggard about how to keep the dwindling resources available for recovery workers coming into their camp at Forest Park United Methodist Church and on Sunday. [JOSHUA BOUCHER/THE NEWS HERALD] Election Ceremony pays recount begins in tribute to veterans Bay County By Collin Breaux [email protected] @PCNHCollinB PANAMA CITY — The recount for three Florida 2018 midterm elections began Sunday in Bay County at the Supervisor of Elections office. “We’re just here doing the machine recount. We’ve done them before here in Bay County. It’s a usual issue here in Bay County,” said Mark Andersen, Bay County Super- visor of Elections, whose staff handled the recount at their office in Panama City. “We just take our time, work our way through the ballots. This time the vote-by-mails are a little more interesting as they go through, because they experienced a hurricane and other issues.” See RECOUNT, A2 Royal Canadian Air Force Acting Canadian Detachment Tyndall Commander Blaise Boutilier pins a paper poppy to a cenotaph after a Remembrance Day ceremony at the VFW Post 10555 on Sunday. In previous years, the Canadian servicemen working at Tyndall Air Force Base would hold their Remembrance Day celebration at their mess hall at the base, but it was heavily damaged in Hurricane Michael. [JOSHUA BOUCHER/THE NEWS HERALD] By Ed Offley 10555 as the audience stood Special to the News Herald vigil before a simple shrine flanked by the Canadian PANAMA CITY BEACH – maple leaf flag and the SPORTS | C1 The heart of the ceremony American stars and stripes. was a long silence. For two minutes, no one NFL ACTION One hundred years to the stirred as they pondered minute after the guns fell the end of a global conflict Vrabel’s Titans rout quiet in Europe on Novem- a century past that had cost New England 34-10, ber 11, 1918, a large gathering the lives of 116,708 Ameri- snap Pats’ streaks of Canadian Air Force per- can servicemen, 64,996 of sonnel, American veterans their Canadian brethren, and family members stood and another 9 million com- in silence yesterday to batants and civilians. remember those who had The Remembrance Day NATION & WORLD | A4 given their lives for freedom event carried out by the men during the First World War. and women of the Cana- CENTENNIAL As the haunting bugle dian Detachment—Tyndall Royal Canadian Air Force and local Canadians celebrate notes of the “Last Post” is normally held at the Air Remembrance Day at the VFW Post 10555 on Sunday. 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C5 84° / 78° 85° / 76° 84° / 78° * ** A2 Monday, November 12, 2018 | The News Herald CITY COUNTY UPDATE The Bay County Govern- From Page A1 ment Center will be closed Monday, Nov. 12 in obser- hundreds of workers vation of Veterans Day; have come to Bay County however, several depart- from all over the South- ments will remain open to east and beyond to “help the public. The Bay County and make some money,” Landfi ll, located at 11411 by doing jobs such as tree Landfi ll Road is open seven removal work, roofing, days per week from 6 a.m. construction, picking up to 5 p.m. At the Bay County power lines and collect- Government Center, Builders ing scrap metal. Many Services will be open from of the workers, who are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Code mostly self-employed Enforcement will be open or independent contrac- from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. tors, follow disasters, The Bay County Utilities having come directly Department, located at 3410 Hurricane Florence Transmitter Rd., will be open clean-up efforts in North from 7:30 a.m.. to 4:30 p.m. Carolina. Disaster Recovery Centers “I was making $4,000 a are open seven days a week day in North Carolina, but from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. includ- I came here to help,” said ing Veteran’s Day. They are Darrell “Cowboy” Mag- located at the Bay County gard, who works in tree David Hickman and Corey Aleksines pack up Aleksines’ car to prepare to move out of the fi eld next to the 23rd Public Library at 898 W. 11 removal. “The locals don’t street Sam’s Club on Sunday. The two friends are contractors and came to Panama City for recovery work from St., and at the John B. Gore want us here because they their homes in Colorado and Mississippi. [PHOTOS BY JOSHUA BOUCHER/THE NEWS HERALD] Park in Callaway, at 530 want all the money, but Beulah Ave. they can’t take care of all recalling an incident of knees, closed my eyes, The Army Corps of Engi- this. ... We are just trying some people drinking too and said thank you Lord neers is closing its Panama to make a living.” much and trying to go (after he said yes),” Mag- City Beach “Blue Roof” Coming here though, mudding in a retention gard said, noting he didn’t location on Nov. 11. Beach Maggard said he ran into pond and then getting into know where else he would residents may call 888-766- a slate of problems. The a fight. have gone. “I’m just trying 3258 or go online at www. first week here, he said, “People were wanting to make a living supporting usace.army.mil/blueroof he worked on the prom- to be stupid,” David Hick- my family.” if they do not wish to visit ise of making $500, only man, who had come from A lot of other people the in-town locations. The to be paid $85 because the Denver to work, said. found themselves in Mag- other two locations are open employer was waiting on Hickman and Aleksines gard’s position. By 3 p.m, through Nov. 16. The Blue payment from the job. He were packing up Sunday to Martinez had signed 75 Roof locations are: the Bay said he still hasn’t seen the go back to Aleksines home people in with that number County Public Library at 898 full amount promised. He in Mississippi, figuring steadily growing. West 11th Street, Panama also couldn’t find a hotel Seventy fi ve people set up camp at Forest Park United between a damaging car But this camp, he said, is City, FL 32401 and at the room he could afford. Methodist Church on Sunday. wreck and the campsite going to be different. There Walmart Supercenter, 2101 Without a lot of options, being shut down their time will be rules. S State 77, Lynn Haven, FL he ended up staying in lot,” said Corey Aleksines, were unhappy with the in Panama City had come “You have to be work- 32444. The U.S. Army Corps the lot by Sam’s Club, adding the hotels were too arrangement and ordered to an end. But the major- ing to stay here,” Martinez of Engineers will continue to along with other work- expensive. “We were some no trespassing signs be put ity of workers seemed to said. “No drugs. No fight- collect Right of Entry (ROE) ers who also talked about of the first one’s here.” up. Starting today, police be moving down the road ing, and you have to keep forms for Operation Blue hardships finding a hotel Nobody had asked for will be trespassing people to the church, where Mag- it clean.” Roof through next Friday, room or problems with permission to be there from the site. gard said the pastor had If people didn’t follow Nov. 16, 2018. ROEs submit- employers. though, according to While workers were given him permission to the rules, Martinez said ted Nov. 16 or prior will be “We picked here Police Chief Scott Ervin, reluctant to pack up, many set up the camp. law enforcement would evaluated and Blue Roof because it was a big open and the property owners said they understood, “I got down on my be called.