Year: 2009

Guest column: World travel changes us all

As one who has a hankering for learning, specifically about other governmental organizations, and enjoys traveling to the European Union (EU), it always behooves me to consider how Europe has overcome monumental odds over “centuries of existence,” and how they have recognized that change is good.

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35th annual Grande Illumination December 5th

John Thornton, Board Member for the Committee for the Night Watch reported to Historic City News that the 35th annual Grande Illumination – British Night Watch Parade sparkles to life on Saturday, December 5th.

The British Night Watch Concert

Historic City News has learned that on Friday, the 4th of December, 2009, The British Night Watch Concert will be held featuring national Celtic recording artists “Father, Son and Friends”.

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Halloween entertainment this weekend

St. Augustine Visitors and Convention Bureau Communications Director, Jay Humphreys, updated Historic City News on this Halloween weekend’s entertainment including Uptown Saturday Night, a benefit event for the Shriner’s Hospitals for Crippled Children, and more frights than you can imagine.

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Another weekend change – smoke alarm batteries

As Fire Prevention Month comes to a close and we change our clocks from Daylight Savings Time, St. Johns County Fire Rescue wants to remind Historic City News readers to make another change that could save lives – changing the batteries in their smoke alarms.