George Gardner, former City Commissioner and Mayor and advisor to St. Augustine Foot Soldiers Remembrance Project, Inc., notified Historic City News local reporters that six years of community effort will culminate May 14th.
Renee Stambaugh announced to Historic City News that the Sea Oats Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society will convene in May with a special program entitled “Conservation and Future Water Needs for Floridians”.
The St. Johns County Public Library System invited all Historic City News readers to celebrate National Library Week beginning April 10th, with the theme this year being “Create Your Own Story @ Your Library.”
Alison Fulcher reminds Historic City News readers that although the St Johns County Audubon Society meetings and presentations take a summer break, there are many volunteer opportunities and activities through the Beach Nesting Birds Program.
As of April 4, your St. Johns County Tax Collector’s office achieved a 91 percent collection rate with revenue totaling $307,200,954.12, slightly ahead of the collection of 2009 taxes this time last year. Bills for the 2010 tax year were due March 31.
Historic City News was contacted by a member of the Board of Directors for St. Gerard Campus and asked to help raise awareness of recurring vandalism to the Cemetery of Innocence display at Prince of Peace church.
Local tourism officials have notified Historic City News that they are joining a last-ditch effort to save VISIT FLORIDA – what VCB Communications Director, Jay Humphreys, tells us is “one of the most effective tourism marketing programs in American history”.
Historic City News has been alerted that the centerpiece of the Plaza has been closed to public access because of structural problems.
