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Bright sun for Menendez Landing
By Raphael Cosme
Special to Historic City News
A big crowd attended the celebration of the September 8, 1565 landing of Pedro Menendez de Aviles at the Mission Nombre de Dios.
Historic City News readers will recognize the name “Charles Ferdinand Hamblen” as a man who was as important to the construction of modern day St Augustine as Henry Morrison Flagler, David Paul Davis, or Dr Andrew Anderson, Jr, and the other investors and railroad tycoons of the 1800’s.
Michael Isam reported to Historic City News that when you meet 56-year-old St Johns County resident, Lynn Rothemund, you see a woman with more energy than a two-year-old freshly gorged on Halloween candy — you would never know she has cancer.
High Tide Gallery, located at 51 Cordova Street in St Augustine, reported to Historic City News that at tonight’s First Friday Art Walk, local artist Tiffany Beasi will do a painting demonstration from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
The Steering Committee of the Saint Augustine Tea Party announced to Historic City News local reporters that they would host a stop on the Tea Party Express next Friday, September 14, 2012, at Francis Field in St Augustine.
Southwind Construction Corps informed local Historic City News reporters that, for the next two months, the company will be removing approximately 162,000 cubic yards of beach-quality sand from the flood shoal on the north and south of the Vilano Beach Bridge.
The advisory board of the Friends of the Summer Haven River, Inc., will hold a restoration benefit this weekend, according to a report from Linda Ginn received by Historic City News this week.
