Serving Satsuma ● Pomona Park ● Lake Como ● Crescent City ● Seville ● Pierson ● Welaka ● Fruitland ● Georgetown ● East Palatka ● Palatka ● Interlachen since 1898 Putnam County April 30, 2014 • Volume 70, No. 50 (2 sections) Crescent City, Florida 50¢ (Includes 7% FL Sales Tax) Family Fun Movies Family fun movies will be held at the Melrose Pub- 9th Annual Celebrity Chef Event lic Library. Melrose Public Library will feature a pop- Mike Jones ular family movie on the big screen for FREE! The Staff Writer Melrose Library Association is providing popcorn and juice. Mark your calendar for Thursday, May This years Celebrity 1, at 1:30 p.m. for great family entertainment! The movie is part of the Afternoon Adventures Programs Chef Event was, yet that will be held throughout the school year on again, a success. The Putnam County School’s early release days at 1:30 ninth annual event, pm at the library. A list of programs is available benefiting the Lee Con- at the library. The monthly calendar is also on the Putnam County Library’s webpage. Call the library lee House Domestic at 352.475.1237 for the movie title. The library is Violence Center, was located behind the Melrose Post Office at 312 Wyn- hosted by Tim and Dar- nwood Avenue. lene Smith and spon- sored by area busi- nesses and citizens Drawing Workshop who donated time and Pastel Drawing Workshop is being offered at the money to help serve Melrose Public Library located at 312 Wynnwood Ave on Friday, May 2 at 4 p.m. This beginner’s work- the needs of wom- shop will continue the techniques gained in Pastel en, children and men Photo by Enrique Martinez Drawing II. Teens and tweens are encouraged to across Putnam Coun- 2014 Lee Conlee House Board of Directors: (not in order some not present) attend even if they missed the first two workshops. ty who are victims of Meghan Deputy, Deb Mangum, Yvonne Parrish, Julie McClain, Caroline Tin- Supplies and refreshments are provided. domestic, dating and gle, Gary Bowling, Betsy Driggers, Pat Freeman, Marshall Fulghum, Gretch- en Lunsford, Melissa Miller, Russ Miller, Vernon Myers, Margie Payne, Lynda sexual violence. Taylor and Angie Pye. Back Country Lawman The Lee Conlee House is also be able Theobold who pre- BLT dip and ranch and Renee Hough with Welaka Lodge & Resort presents Bob Lee, author pared grilled sea scal- bean dip, Vernon and Wally’s bread pudding, of Back Country Lawman on Saturday, May 3 at to support an existing 1001 Front Street in Downtown Welaka. Seating list of programs and lops with cilantro and Linda Myers and their Frank and Mary Ellen starts at 4 p.m. and “Cocktails and Conversation” is services that includes jalapeño aioli served creole crayfish cheese- Hancock with seafood from 5-6 p.m. Bob will be accompanied by his nem- community education, with polenta, Adam cake, Richard and jambalaya and Dusty esis poacher Roger Gunter. If you want to know how bilingual services, out- Deputy with “Deputy’s Yvonne Parrish with Pye served tequila lime old-time game wardens did it, come listen to Bob’s stories of a Putnam County backcountry lawman. reach programs and Margarita-ville, Chip chicken breast in sher- chicken fajitas cooked Call 386-467-7171 for more information. others. and Liz Laibl serving ry mushroom cream on a paella pan. This years celebrity datil pepper meatloaf sauce, Stanley and For more informa- chefs were as follows: cups, Disney Chef John Hodge prepared tion visit www.leecon- Boat Regatta Ed Reed and John Robert Laurie with duck fat fries, Wally leehouse.org. Cinco De Boat Regatta, co-sponsored by Keep Putnam Beautiful and Beef ‘O’ Brady’s, will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 3 in celebration of Cinco de Mayo. The race starts at the soft landing by the gazebo and clock tower next to the Memorial Bridge Putnam Landfill Privatization in Palatka. Participants will float under the bridge R.G. Leary tion (FDEP). These reg- and over to Beef’s dock. The recycling regatta will County Administrator ulations are designed to follow the Mug Race launch. Your homemade vessel prevent contamination of from used/recycled materials could win you a grand County officials began groundwater and protect prize of $100 or other great prizes! Entry fee is $20 the environment. FDEP per vessel prior to the race; $25 the day of the race. to examine options re- Register at Beef ‘O’ Brady’s in Palatka, or visit www. garding the landfill to as- inspects landfills regu- KeepPutnamBeautiful.org for registration forms and certain alternate means larly, and the landfill in more information of dealing with tremen- Putnam County would dous costs that would continue to be monitored have to be borne by the by the FDEP office in citizens in the future if Jacksonville. Six inches Rain Barrel Decorating the County continued its of soil required for daily Master Gardener Cheryl Owen drops by the Mel- current manner of op- cover controls odor, ver- rose Public Library to demonstrate how a rain barrel eration. Following the min and blowing trash. makes a huge difference in the garden. Barrels will completion of a Landfill The current operating be given to attendees and a decorating contest will Master Plan in 2012, it permits for the landfill, be held for the Spring Butterfly Festival on Satur- was confirmed that op- including the current day, May 3, in Heritage Park. Coffee will be provided tions were available that Photo special to the Courier Journal allowable height limita- by the Melrose Library Association. If you have any could provide reasonable tion of 150’ above grade, further questions about the workshop, please call short-term fiscal relief this possibility in order the form of a fee per ton would be transferred to the Melrose Public Library at 352-475-1237. and preserve long-term to evaluate the overall of waste brought to the a private operator. The viable options for future viability and practicality landfill by the success- only type of waste that landfill operations due to of such an approach. ful proposer. The Coun- would be disposed of by the considerable acreage A Request for Propos- ty will receive a guar- the operator is the same Renewal owned by the County. als was issued and re- anteed reduced tipping type that is currently The County faces a sponded to by two highly fee of $18 per ton for permitted and disposed Hospice of Citrus and the Nature Coast present qualified companies in residential waste that is Renewal, a non-denominational service of hope and cost of $25 million to of at the landfill today. remediate contamina- the solid waste indus- dumped at the landfill County officials recog- healing on Thursday, May 8 from 7-8:30 p.m. at try. The proposers have that is generated within tion emanating from the nize that some citizens the Wings Education Center located at 927 S. State agreed to sign a contract Putnam County. This closed, unlined Class I have a negative percep- Road 19, Palatka. Surviving the loss of a loved one that protects the Coun- will result in a reduction landfills that were in use tion of receiving waste is a personal and often challenging experience; at ty’s interests by ensur- in the annual solid waste prior to the time that the from outside the Coun- Renewal, family and friends come together to honor ing that contamination assessment for the fiscal Environmental Protec- ty. There are five re- and remember those they have lost. Hospice of Cit- issues will be addressed, year beginning October rus and the Nature Coast provides grief support ser- tion Agency mandated gional landfills operating environmental protec- 1, 2014, that has been vices at no cost to those who have experienced the the use of liners for the in the State of Florida. tions will be practiced, conservatively estimated death of a loved one. Everyone who has lost a loved protection of the envi- If these facilities are so a clean and orderly and at $30 per residential one is encouraged to come with family and friends. ronment. The County efficient operation of the structure. This is ap- detrimental, could any- Refreshments and fellowship will follow the service. continued its use of the landfill will be required proximately $15 million one have named even For additional information or to register, contact unlined portion of the one of the counties in Mary Rockefeller at 386-530-4600. landfill into the 1990’s, and economic benefits in savings to the citi- will be provided. zens over the first fifteen which they are located and it is now under a before this topic arose in mandate from Florida The proposal recent- years of the project with ly received that is most a potential for greater Putnam County? There Department of Envi- are a number of non-re- National Day of Prayer ronmental Protection to favorable to the County savings if the residential The 63rd annual observance of the National Day could have a value in solid waste assessment gional landfills operating eliminate the contami- in Florida today that re- of Prayer is Thursday, May 1. Pilgrim Congregational nation. The County excess of $200 million is reduced as expected Church, 111 West Main St., Pomona Park, will kick to the County over the in the future…… a sav- ceive much more waste has chosen to do this than that which is pro- off the day at 6 a.m. with programs scheduled until by excavating the solid life of the project. This ings for each residential 6 p.m.