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Civic Roundtable Meeting
St. Johns County Civic Roundtable Meeting
Monday, May 12, 2008
St. Johns County Main Library
San Carlos & U.S. 1, St. Augustine
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
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SJCC benefits from dinner and a movie
Monday, April 28, Gypsy Cab and the St. Johns Cultural Council have teamed up to present the first movie for their Cultural Film Series.
A portion of the $25 per person ticket price will benefit the St. Johns Cultural Council and support their operations according to an announcement received by Historic City Media.
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Precautionary Boil Water Notice
The Public Works Department of the City of St. Augustine will be making improvements to the water system in and around the Lewis Speedway area.
This will require a water outage and a possible drop in pressure from 9:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. tomorrow, Wednesday, April 23, 2008.
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Smokin’ D’s
According to Smokin’ Daryl, it takes 6 – 15 hours to make authentic, fresh smoked BBQ. “That means you either get up real early to start your smokin’ or you serve yesterday’s meat”.
At Smokin’ D’s, they choose to get up early — in the case of brisket, they start the night before!
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“Chamber of Commerce” weather
Within a week, we go from chilly, windy and raining weather to bikinis and barbecue!
The last of the spring break crowd was treated to some beautiful summer like weather today and nobody wasted any time getting to the beach. Today’s high temperatures were in the 80’s and that means perfect conditions for fishing, skim boards and a weekend cookout St. Augustine style.
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Construction accident
Two co-workers of Wolfe Technologies on a construction site at the end of Osceola Elementary Road got into trouble yesterday evening when one of the workers attempted to use a crane to lower the other from the roof of a building approximately 40-50 feet off the ground.
According to the incident report filed by Deputy Jared Monie, the operator extended the boom of a crane and his co-worker, 20 year old Ryan Lankford, stepped onto the end of the lift.
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Adams wins historic preservation award
Dr. Bill Adams has long been known in St. Augustine as a tireless advocate of historic preservation, and now those tireless efforts have been recognized by the Florida Department of State.
Florida’s Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning announced that Adams will be presented with the 2008 The Senator Bob Williams Award in acknowledgement for his extraordinary efforts and accomplishments in the field of historic preservation. The award was presented in a ceremony in Tallahassee on April 2 as part of Florida Heritage Month.
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Bricks Are Back
Thanks to Dr. Sue Middleton, saving the city’s brick streets is on city hall’s front burner.
In an interview with Kathy Schirmacher, Secretary/Treasurer of the Citizens for the Preservation of St. Augustine (CPSA), she informed Historic City Media that their organization has awarded its highest honor of recognition for citizen service to Dr. Middleton for her effort to raise community-wide awareness concerning the preservation of this City’s brick streets.