The St Augustine Historical Society announced to Historic City News that at tomorrow evening’s annual meeting, University of Florida Historic St Augustine chairman, Allen Lastinger, will join in the presentation of a program focused on four of the city’s most important colonial buildings.
Those Historic City News readers wishing to know more about the proposed Lincolnville Community Redevelopment Agency can review the $75,000 blight study prepared by Prosser Hallock, Inc. — including boundary maps, applicable portions of state law and data about the area.
Gwendolyn Duncan has invited Historic City News readers to attend a free screening of the Andrew Young film, “Crossing in St Augustine”, presented by the Anniversary to Commemorate the Civil Rights Demonstrations, Inc.
St Johns County spokesman Michael Ryan reported to Historic City News that Alpine Groves Park has received state-wide recognition as the Florida Communities Trust Park of the Month for January 2013.
The St Augustine Alligator Farm announced to Historic City News that nine-year-old Meghan Hart has won the zoological park’s annual “EduGator” contest — and the prize will be enjoyed by her entire class at Ponte Vedra Palm Valley Rawlings Elementary School in St Johns County.
Jennifer Tesori, St. Augustine’s Community Liaison for THE PLAYERS Championship Boys & Girls Club, announced to Historic City News that it has selected Kirstyn Wilder, a seventh grade student at Murray Middle School, as its “Youth of the Month”.
Historic City News finds that the new fiscal year has brought one change for the trio of city employees responsible for producing the 450th Commemoration — at least for the man the city says has “the unique and necessary qualifications” to provide guidelines to the City Commission to properly prepare them for the event.
Castillo de San Marcos Chief of Interpretation, Jon Burpee, has invited Historic City News readers to join the National Park Service on January 19th as they revisit the events that occurred in St Augustine during the Second Seminole War through the eyes of a United States Army Sergeant inside the fort.
