Letter: St Augustine Record reporter is the bully
Denny Dean
St Augustine Beach
Peter Guinta’s opinions are getting in the way of his judgment, again.
I have no control over my neighbors or their actions and I have never condoned threatening or aggressive behavior.
Just one day after Historic City News reported that authorities were on the trail of a man whose elderly Ponte Vedra Beach victims say snookered them out of thousands of dollars, 42-year-old Bryan Keith Ruby turned himself in to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office on a local charge.
For well over a century, Historic City News readers and their local families have enjoyed a love affair with Saint Augustine’s most identifiable fruit — the noble datil pepper; and Saturday October 6 and Sunday October 7, as part of the St Johns County Home and Garden Show, your friends and neighbors will be looking for you at the 2012 Datil Pepper Festival.
Saturday morning, when the parents of a young girl left their daughter in the care of 67-year-old Joseph Larry Baggett, they never expected what they would learn when they returned to pick her up.
Monday evening, the stoic St Augustine Beach Mayor, Gary Snodgrass, announced to a room full of angry city residents that the controversial community garden constructed on the corner of “A” Street and Second Avenue, “was a well-intentioned effort to improve our community”. Woops.
Historic City News has learned that tomorrow morning; the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Community Network and Chaplaincy Services would hold an educational forum for workers in St Johns County’s faith and community-based programs geared towards young people and their families.
Historic City News readers are invited to attend the 2012 Community Lecture Series at Flagler College on September 25 — focusing on defining moments in American history during the mid-to-late 1800’s — entitled “Reconstruction and Gild: Wealth, Innovation and the Pursuit of Status in Late 19th Century America”.
Florida Heritage Book Festival
Admission is free at the Florida Heritage Book Festival being held in the Ringhaver Student Center, 50 Sevilla Street in St. Augustine. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., there will be author presentations and a book marketplace. Celebrate Florida’s rich and colorful literary heritage at 11:45 a.m., Jeff Lindsay will be there to sign copies of his Dexter novels – the basis for the popular TV series of the same name on the Showtime network. His wife, Hilary Hemingway, niece of Ernest Hemingway, will be there too.
