Matthew Sara reported to Historic City News that firefighters from Station 14 played host to a group of local day school students this morning. The kids got the chance to take a VIP tour of the firehouse and see where, when there’s a fire, a loud bell rings, a red light goes off, and our county’s first responders have to jump out of bed and go to work.
The regular meeting of the St Johns County Board of Commissioners was held Tuesday July 16, 2013, in the County Auditorium in the St Johns County Administration Palace located at 500 San Sebastian View in St Augustine.
In what turned out to be a “darts and laurels” letter submitted to St Johns County Tourist Development Council Executive Director, Glenn Hastings, the St Augustine Beach Civic Association has questioned the rationale used to reduce bed tax funding of its “Music by the Sea Concert Series” by 20 percent, and to deny bed tax funding to the City of St Augustine Beach for its annual “Beach Blast Off” event.
Diane Bradley, president of the St Augustine Art Association, is not happy with the way the Category II funding panel, under the direction of the St Johns Cultural Council, and its new director, Andy Witt, have handled the 54-year-old, local non-profit organization’s application for bed-tax funding for the 48th Annual St Augustine Art and Craft Festival.
At the St Johns County commission meeting today, two agenda items concerned requests from the City of St Augustine for their September Gentlemen of the Road concert event; they consumed the morning session with mixed public comment but unanimous commission support.
Historic City News is pleased to introduce “Making the Grade” — Florida’s first radio talk show focused solely on education issues. The new program airs each Wednesday on WFOY 102.3 FM following Rush Limbaugh.
Kenneth Rainer announced to Historic City News that a new Volunteer Coordinator for the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve will start work on August 12th; and she brings many years’ experience with her.
George Waters, vice president of the Sea Oats Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society, invited Historic City News readers to attend the August 20th meeting when their guest speaker will be local herbalist Laurence Layne.
