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.
Historic City News business reporters visited the site of the first phase of Brooks Rehabilitation’s $35M Bartram campus in St Johns County; which began construction in July, and is slated to be complete next summer.
Saint Augustine Beach Civic Association invited Historic City News readers to attend the free Music by the Sea concert tonight; with entertainment provided by local Rhythm and Blues artist Roland Fleming.
A 42-year-old man is being sought in connection with the financial exploitation of two elderly Ponte Vedra Beach residents earlier this year, according to an alert received by local Historic City News reporters in St Augustine this afternoon.
During the regular business meeting Monday night, Dana Ste Claire, 450th Development Director for the City of St Augustine, introduced posters for the First Annual Spanish Wine and Food Festival coming to town on October 3-6.
