Serving Satsuma ● Pomona Park ● Lake Como ● Crescent City ● Seville ● Pierson ● Welaka ● Fruitland ● Georgetown ● East Palatka ● Palatka ● Interlachen since 1898 Putnam County April 2, 2014 • Volume 69, No. 46 (3 sections) Crescent City, Florida 50¢ (Includes 7% FL Sales Tax) 2014 Catfish Chronicle Inside TIME TO CRANK UP FOR CATFISH th Annual Welcome To The 36 A Special Publication of the Putnam County 2014 Catfish T-Shirts This years 36th Annual Catfish Festival on April 4 & 5, is gearing up to be one of the best yet! With awesome entertainment by CMT top ten Nashville recording artist Ryan Weaver, and local sensation 309C, not to mention some of the best cooked food in Florida, you won’t want to miss a minute of the fun this year! Money Raised for March Of Dimes Tasha Newbold dents from pre-k Community Contributor thru third grade to tape him to the wall from crew neck as well as ladies and youth T’s. You For the last two during their lunch can stop by Lighthouse Screen Printing at 2167 S months, the students Hwy 17 Crescent City, 386-698-4400 or the Putnam period. Since the of Middleton Burney County Courier Journal 330 N. Summit St. Crescent duct tape was do- City 386-698-1644. Order before the festival and Elementary school get your shirts for $13 (price correction from last have been raising nated by local busi- week) per shirt. Or $15 dollars at the festival. Buy nesses, the over four 12 shirts and get your name or company logo on the money for the March back for just $2 more per shirt. of Dimes. They made hundred and fifty their pennies count dollars that were during the facul- raised is profit. That Pomona Park Farmer’s Market ty and staff “Cutest money will be added A Farmer’s Market will be held at the Pomona Park Baby Contest.” Stu- to the money that Community Center, rain or shine, the first Saturday dents put on their has already been of every month. The market begins at 7 a.m. and will dancing shoes for made and given to run until 2 p.m. There will also be a pancake break- fast from 7 to 10:30 a.m., and lunch from 11 a.m. to a dollar during a the March of Dimes 2 p.m. For more information, call Michelle Johnson school dance. Mid- when the campaign at 386-983-1314 or Joyce Svingala at 386-649-9293. dleton Burney has is over. seen crazy hair, stu- Middleton Burney dent’s favorite sun- would like to thank glasses, and even Kid’s Fishing Rodeo Hill’s Hardware, some students walk- The 19th Annual Kid’s Fishing Rodeo will be held Crescent City’s Ace Saturday, April 19, at the Welaka National Fish ing around with their Hatchery located at 726 Highway 309 Welaka. The clothes on back- Hardware, Wal-mart, event will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and is wards all to raise Lowe’s, and Home free to kids of all ages. registration starts at 7:30 Photo by Tasha Newbold Depot for donating a.m. and fishing starts at 8 a.m. with prizes given at money for the March Photo by Mike Jones 10 a.m. Two ponds will be open, stocked with bass, Principal James Stout “sticks” to his word of Dimes. the duct tape that bream and catfish. Bing your own bait, prizes will be and allows studentrs to duct tape him to made this event such given and all fish are keepers with one line per child a wall to raise money for the March Of On Wednesday allowed in the water. The small fry tent will be open Dimes. principal James a success. for kids under 5 years of age. For more information Stout allowed stu- call 386-467-2374. Clay Electric Announces Employee Award Winners Special to the tomer service award. only helpful and caring, Heights District, was Landfill Workshop Courier Journal She has worked for but that she is always honored with a Rec- A workshop will be held on Thursday, April 4, at the co-op for nearly 30 cheerful and pleasant. ognition award in the 6 p.m. at City Hall in Crescent City. The purpose years. Several co-work- They said Monaghan for the workshop will be to help residents find out Clay Electric Cooper- Samaritan category. He more about the counties landfill operations, and for ative recently honored ers wrote praise-filled was diligent in finding has worked for the co- a presentation with a question and answer session four employees for out- nominations for Doug- solutions to issues in op for almost 30 years. conducted by Larry Gast, Director of Sanitation for standing achievement las, pointing out that a timely manner. “The Coursey was nominat- Putnam County. This workshop will help provide she frequently goes smile in her voice can information to attendees regarding the potential sale in 2013 that reflected ed by co-workers who of county property to a private waste management well on themselves and above and beyond to be contagious,” one learned that he had company. the cooperative. Awards assist members. Ac- person wrote on the helped save a member’s were presented in four cording to co-workers, nomination form. life when he happened categories: internal cus- Douglas shows com- Cato, a customer upon him while reading tomer service, external passion for members service representative meters. Not only did he customer service, com- and truly cares for in the Salt Springs Dis- help the member, but munity service and Sa- them. trict, was awarded rec- he returned later in the maritan. One employ- Douglas was also ognition in the commu- day to check on the ee was selected from selected as the 2013 nity service category. man and sat and talked Employee Recognition Cato has been with the among the four award with him for a while. facebook.com/putnamcountycourierjournal Award winner. She re- co-op for 29 years. She recipients as the 2013 Coursey’s co-workers Employee Recognition ceived the overall Rec- was nominated by sev- praised his actions and We’ve Gone Digital! Award winner. ognition award during a eral co-workers for tak- felt that he was worthy The four award recip- presentation by Gener- ing an active role in sev- ients are Marsha Doug- al Manager/CEO Ricky eral community events. of recognition. e-Edition Each winner was rec- www.cjnewsfl.com las of the Palatka Dis- Davis at the co-op’s An- Cato is president of the trict; Dawn Monaghan nual Meeting on March Salt Springs VFW La- ognized at his or her Putnam County of the Human Resourc- 20. dies Auxiliary and has department meeting In This Issue: es, Safety and Train- Monaghan, adminis- organized family fun in March. The award winners, nominated by Church......................A5 ing Department; Bar- trative assistant in Hu- days, food basket drives bara Cato of the Salt man Resources, was and back-to-school co-workers, were cho- Community...............A3 Springs District; and awarded a Recognition events. She has worked sen by a panel of previ- Crossoword/Sudoku...B3 Billy Coursey of the award in the internal to provide assistance to ous winners. This is an annual program at Clay Faces & Places.........B1 Keystone Heights Dis- customer service cat- the less fortunate and trict. egory. Monaghan has to make the holidays Electric and all employ- Opinion.....................A2 Douglas, office ser- been with the co-op brighter for everyone in ees are eligible and en- Public Notices....B4-B5 vices coordinator for for 18 years. In nomi- the community. couraged to nominate their colleagues. Way Back When.......A4 the Palatka District, re- nating her, co-workers Coursey, a meter ceived the external cus- described her as not reader in the Keystone A2 Courier Journal • April 2, 2014 OPINION Government Watch That’s How I See It City of Crescent City You Better Lock your Doors Through Thursday, April 3, 6 p.m. Sanitation A. Nonymous Department Presentation along with If I ate two boxes of ex-lax it wouldn’t get my bowels in more of an uproar than they are right now. Today, a group based in Washington that advocates for stricter immigration en- a Child’s Q&A with Larry Gast regarding Pri- forcement, released a document showing that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, vatization of Putnam County Landfill! better known as ICE, released almost 68,000 foreign nationals who have been convicted or charged with a crime instead of deporting them! Are you kidding me?! ICE agents reported City Commission Meeting, April 10, 7 p.m. that they had encountered over 193,000 criminal aliens in 2013 but only filed paper work Eyes City Hall, 3 North Summit Street. on 125,000 for deportation, and they released 67,879. ICE came back with a comment say- ing the numbers released in their own reports were wrong and that almost 216,000 illegal 386-698-2525. aliens, that were convicted criminals, had been removed in 2013. Now here’s an interesting www.CrescentCity-FL.com fact for you, in 2012 the House Republicans tracked down 26,000 illegal alien criminals and discovered they were linked to over 58,000 crimes. The Center for Immigration, also known Town Council of Welaka as CIS, reported that 870,000 illegal immigrants had been ordered to be removed from the U.S over a year ago, but to date not one of the 870,000 has been deported, in fact, they are Students at Code Enforcement, April 8, 5 p.m.