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By Valerie GarmanStar Staff Writer

There are a host of species in the Gulf of Mexico that have yet to be discovered and observed.

“We’re in an area that you don’t have to travel to the other side of the world to fi nd something you’ve never seen before,” said Carol Cox, a volunteer for the Mexico Beach Artifi cial Reef Association (MBARA). “The main thing is that we’ve got a lot of unusual species here and there’s probably a lot out there that still needs to be discovered.”

Cox, an avid diver and underwater pho-tographer, learned fi rst-hand you never know what you’re going to fi nd at the bottom of the ocean while conducting a research dive for the MBARA on the Progress Energy Reef off Mexico Beach.

Cox noticed she had photographed some-thing unusual after examining underwater photos from the dive.

The oddball creature in the photo was actually a rare species of shrimp that Cox documented in its natural environment for the fi rst time.

“Just about every dive we do, we log in the marine life we observe and the condition of the reef,” said Cox, who volunteers for the MBARA and frequently tracks the condi-tions of reefs off Mexico Beach. “The fi rst photo I took of one of these (shrimp), I didn’t know I photographed it. I thought I was pho-tographing a seashell.”

She knew it was something she had never seen before, so Cox sent her photos in for a second opinion. But when her second opinion didn’t know what it was either, they called in the big guns.

Enter Mary Wicksten, a biology professor from Texas A&M University specializing in invertebrate studies. Wicksten was so in-trigued by the discovery she made the trip to Mexico Beach in October 2010 to observe the rarely observed shrimp species for herself.

“They contacted me and I said ‘Wowee gee-wiz!’ and got in touch with Carol,” Wick-sten said. “The fi rst discoveries (of these

By Tim CroftStar News Editor

Linda Griffi n was fi rst elected Gulf County Su-pervisor of Elections in 2000, the year of the pro-tracted recount between presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush.

Griffi n will head toward retirement with another signifi cant election cycle in 2012, with another presi-dential election and offi ces

from municipal to county to state to U.S. Senate up for grabs.

“In with a bang and out with a bang,” Griffi n chuckled this week as she talked about her decision to retire and not seek re-election after four terms and 16 years in offi ce. “This is my last year. Life is too short. The older I get the less ‘things’ mat-ter. Life is about more than having things.

“I always said I wanted to retire at 65 or 66. I will be 67 when I retire.”

Griffi n has presided over county elections during a period of much churning in the election process.

Oversight has in-creased, machinery has changed, time-tables, pre-cincts and districts have been altered. The land-scape in 2012 barely re-sembles that of 2000. Gone

are the chalkboards at the county courthouse, re-placed by computers and print outs and modems.

“There have been so many changes since I was elected,” Griffi n said. “The election world has been turned upside down.

“We have been gear-ing up for (this year). This will be a busy year. What a year to go out on.”

The year starts at the end of this month

with the Republican Pres-idential Primary.

The primary will be held Jan. 31 and all regis-tered Republican voters in the county will vote on Primary Day at their des-ignated precinct.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET.

Early voting begins Jan. 21 and runs through Jan. 28.


For a project that ap-pears all but dead, the Northwest Florida Renew-able Energy Center con-tinues to garner plenty of attention.

The fi nal few weeks of 2011 offered a fl urry of ac-tivity as the developer of the proposed woody bio-mass energy plant in Port St. Joe issued its fi rst pub-lic comments on the proj-ect it abandoned during the fourth quarter and several lawsuits were fi led chal-lenging the state and local permitting of the project.

During a meeting on Nov. 29, a consultant for Rentech Inc., the West Coast-based renewable energy company develop-ing the NWFREC notifi ed Port St. Joe city offi cials the company was pulling out of the project because of the inability to secure fi nancing for the $200 mil-lion construction phase.

A press release an-nouncing Rentech’s inten-tions was to be released the following day, city of-fi cials were told, but for several weeks no offi cial word came from Rentech, leaving opponents and proponents of the project guessing.

However, a press release issued just prior to Christ-mas, detailing Rentech’s activities for the fourth quarter of 2011, spells out the thinking behind the company’s decision to pull stakes from Port St. Joe.

“The Company’s energy strategy includes reduced spending on project de-velopment and (research and development) …,” the release said in part. “Rent-ech does not intend on its own to fund development activities … but may co-invest alongside partners. For example, Rentech may seek to invest in projects that would combine Rent-ech’s biomass gasifi cation technologies with third-party technology for the production of renewable fuels or power …”

The Rentech investment in such an instance would be to fund the commercial deployment of a gasifi er – the Port St. Joe project was set to be Rentech’s fi rst commercial applica-tion of its biomass gasifi ca-tion process – which would require $30-$40 million in investment by the com-pany contingent on a com-plete fi nancing package for such a project, the release stated.

Rentech project devel-opment should not exceed a few million dollars per year and the number of projects will be limited, the release stated.

The company also would no longer be involved with projects that relied on U.S.

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Top, Texas A&M Biologist Mary Wicksten made the trip to Mexico Beach to observe the rare species of shrimp. Here, Wicksten observes a saw blade shrimp.Left, Cox’s research and documentation on these arrow shrimp were also featured in a scientifi c journal article. See SHRIMP A10

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Commissioners urged to be proactive on rescue missionBy Tim Croft

Star News Editor

Port St. Joe city com-missioners were pressed Tuesday night on what they envisioned for the future of the Panama City Rescue Mission satellite offi ce.

Commissioners were strongly urged by a resident to be proactive in nipping potential negative impacts on the community.

Port St. Joe resident Christine McElroy ad-dressed commissioners during their regular bi-monthly meeting. And, she said, she would be back again and again until she believed commissioners had taken steps to “provide comfort to the community” concerning the rescue mis-sion.

Last month, com-missioners approved a

business license for the satellite offi ce at 5 Star Col-lision in North Port St. Joe. The property for the offi ce, which rescue mission offi -cials said is solely for refer-rals, is zoned commercial.

Mayor Mel Magidson reiterated on Tuesday the commission had little choice in the decision. There had been an application for a business license submitted, and all processes were fol-lowed.

“We had no right to deny it,” Magidson said.

McElroy referred to me-dia reports of the past year concerning issues with the rescue mission in Panama City. She noted the num-ber of people served by the mission is a fraction of the people who idle around the mission in downtown Pana-ma City.

McElroy also held up a

study on the homeless pop-ulation in Florida and noted there is no documented problem in Gulf County.

McElroy posed a series of questions to each com-missioner – Commissioner Bill Kennedy was not pres-ent because of illness – con-cerning the rescue mission.

In particular, McElroy asked if commissioners would approve a dormitory-style rescue mission facility in Port St. Joe and whether they were willing to pass or-dinances to prevent growth from the satellite offi ce.

She expressed a con-cern, stated by several residents over the previous months, for the city not to become the magnet the Panama City Rescue Mis-sion has been for homeless people, vagrants and crimi-nals from other areas.

“I am asking you to be

proactive,” McElroy said. “I think that is what the citizens of Port St. Joe de-serve.

“If we have zero (home-less) it shouldn’t be a prob-lem to pass an ordinance to prevent the import of people (who could create mischief and crime in the city).”

Commissioners Rex Buzzett, Lorinda Gingell and Bo Patterson all said they would not be in favor of a dormitory-style facility – a position in keeping with their previously stated con-cerns and views of the sat-ellite offi ce, which commis-sioners want as a referral offi ce only.

Magidson declined to be part of what he called McEl-roy’s “inquisition.”

He said the commission properly acted in issuing the business license, was aware of concerns, which

commissioners share in part, and would be vigilant in ensuring safety.

“I think you are making assumptions,” Magidson said, adding McElroy stated the absence of a homeless problem as fact but was as-suming the presence of the satellite offi ce would bring problems to the city.

McElroy pressed her point, saying she had been told that rescue mission of-fi cials wanted to create dor-mitory-style facility in Port St. Joe.

“This is the place they want to come,” she said.

Commissioners unani-mously agreed that they would consider any reason-able ordinance put in front of them to ensure compli-ance with their wishes on

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On Jan. 21-22, early vot-ing will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET at the Super-visor of Elections Offi ce on Long Avenue in Port St. Joe and from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. CT at the Charles Whitehead Public Library in Wewahi-tchka.

On Jan. 23-27, early vot-ing will continue from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET at Griffi n’s of-fi ce in Port St. Joe and from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. CT at the Charles Whitehead Public Library in Wewahitchka.

During the fi nal day of early voting, Jan. 28, the hours will be 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET at Griffi n’s offi ce and 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. CT at the pub-lic library in Wewahitchka.

Whether voting in the primary or not, Griffi n and assistant supervisor of election John Hanlon rec-ommended voters ensure

their registration informa-tion is correct as the year unfolds.

“Voters should make sure all their voter registra-tion information is correct,” Griffi n said. “Especially their address, where they live, they need to make sure we have the correct infor-mation.”

The city of Port St. Joe will have two seats up for grabs in the spring – those of Commissioners Rex Buzzett and Lorinda Gin-gell – and the city of Wewa-hitchka also will have two seats in play, those held by Commissioners Ralph Fisher and Jimmy Nunery.

The terms of county commissioners, the seats of Carmen McLemore, Warren Yeager and Bill Wil-liams expire this year, with Yeager already indicating

he will not seek re-election. In addition, all constitu-

tional offi cers – Property Appraiser, Tax Collector, Supervisor of Elections, Sheriff, Superintendent of Schools and Clerk of Cir-cuit Court – must stand for election ,and the School Board seats of Danny Lit-tle and Linda Wood also will be in play.

County Judge Tim Mc-Farland must also stand for reelection.

Beyond that, voters will elect a president and vice president this year, weigh in on Bill Nelson’s U.S. Senate seat and that of Congressman Steve Southerland and decide on the future placeholder for Florida House.

“This is going to be a very busy election cycle for us,” Hanlon said.

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The Gulf County Leg-islative Delegation will be holding a public hear-ing in Port St. Joe on Thursday, Jan. 5, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET.

The hearing will be held in the Board of County Commissioners meeting room at the Robert M. Moore Administration Building adjacent to the County Courthouse.

All residents and elect-

ed offi cials are invited to attend. This hearing will allow the citizens the op-portunity to meet their legislators, discuss con-cerns, ask questions and offer comments for the 2012 Legislative Session.

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Gulf County Emergency Management in coordina-tion with Be Ready Alliance Coordinating for Emergen-cies (BRACE) announced this week the kickoff of the 2012 Community Partner Initiative.

Meetings beginning Jan. 10 in Gulf and Bay counties will kickoff the North Flori-da campaign.

Additional meetings will be held in Okaloosa and Walton counties on Jan. 26 and in Franklin County on Feb. 7.

The Gulf County meet-ing will be held at 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 10 at the

Gulf County Emergency Operations Center located at 1000 Cecil G. Costin, Sr. Blvd. in Port St. Joe.

The meeting is free and open to the public and lo-cal organizations and busi-nesses are encouraged to attend.

“The goal of this unique partnership is to enhance disaster readiness and re-sponse capabilities of com-munity, faith-based orga-nizations and businesses throughout Gulf County,” said Marshall Nelson, director of the county’s Emergency Management Department.

“We are urging all local groups to sign up for this

excellent opportunity to-day.”

During 2012 the Commu-nity Partner Initiative will be working together with county emergency man-agement departments and numerous agencies and or-ganizations to strengthen relationships and disaster preparedness, response and recovery capabilities in the Florida counties of Gulf, Bay, Franklin, Okaloosa and Walton

For important meeting registration information and schedules please go to the Community Partner Initiative website at www.drc-group.com/project/cpi.html.

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Folks at the office tend to take their vacation time around the holidays. It’s actually a good time to get a lot of work done if you are running behind. My next door office neighbor Duane and I were enjoying lunch in his office. We’ve been friends and worked together for more than twenty years.

Duane was having a salad with balsamic vinaigrette dressing and a handful of walnuts. He had been watching the movie “Forks Over Knives” multiple times over the last week or so. The movie has a cult following of sorts and makes the claim that possibly all degenerative diseases can be controlled or reversed by not eating animal-based and processed foods. He’ll get over it.

I was eating kind of healthy too, with my left hand anyway. In my left hand, I had a bag of Roman Meal Sungrain Whole Wheat bread with 24 grams of whole grains per serving. It’s a good source of fiber. The bread bag had a picture of a Roman soldier on it. I like it; I used to eat it with my Papa (Grandfather) when we would go on our adventures.

As I ate my Roman Soldier bread a slice at a time, I was using my right hand to jab a black plastic fork into a can of Armour Barbecue Flavored Vienna Sausages. Armour Barbecue Flavored Vienna Sausages have a thick, rich barbecue sauce that is seasoned to perfection and bursting with flavor! That’s what it says on the can.

The instructions on the can also note that you should refrigerate after opening. Who opens a can of Vienna sausages and doesn’t eat them all? If you put them in the refrigerator, that stuff that they are in would get all thick and you would have Vienna sausage aspic.

As I alternated bread and barbecue Vienna sausage bites, we were talking about how it was the perfect holiday meal.

We got off on Christmas meals and parties and what we remembered about growing up. It was a good conversation. Both of our fathers enjoyed cooking breakfast and felt it necessary to cook every piece of meat and every egg when preparing breakfast for the family. We discussed fried bologna in the morning and how that

it was only proper to have the “thick slices.”

Duane grew up in the Lincoln Park area of Detroit, one of six brothers. His dad was in the auto industry and apparently was a great fellow. I never met Duane’s dad before he

passed away; after hearing about him through the years, I really would have liked to meet him.

Then our conversation moved on to parties and such. Duane shook his head in disgust and said that his

mother and her sisters would have a Limburger cheese party once a month to get together and talk about things (and maybe drink a beer).

It sounded like his mother’s Limburger cheese parties were similar to present day book clubs, bunko and sewing groups. In other words, they were an excuse to get together and talk and in some cases pop a cork. I understand this.

Duane told me that he would come home from school, open the front door and say something similar to “Oh my goodness, they are doing it again.” He didn’t use those exact words. I love cheese, but I’ve only smelled Limburger once. I understood what he was saying.

The parties took place in the family dining room and Duane said the best he could do was throw his books in the front door and run back outside. His brothers did the same the thing. He even noted that on warm days when the door was open, the smell of the Limburger squeezed through the screen door and could be smelled as he was walking home from school.

Duane noted, “I didn’t even go home for dinner on the days she had those cheese parties. We covered our faces and snuck in after dark.”

A mother with six boys deserved to breathe every once in a while, I think I get it. Maybe “breathe” is not the best choice of words. The Limburger cheese parties were exactly like the book clubs, bunko and sewing groups.

Stinky cheese versus stinky boys, I guess she decided that once a month she would cut the cheese and take a break.

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As international trends go, 2011 was the year ordinary people stood up and were counted, seeking real sway over the governance of their lives.

From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, events of the past year were hued in the color of the less fortunate, the dispossessed, hoping and acting to bring balance to

the scales between governed and government, between the haves and have-nots.

While certainly not of equal value or importance, 2012 should inspire a renewed commitment by the county powers

that be — the Board of County Commissioners — to bring more fairness and representation to the ordinary county voter.

Commissioners should proceed full speed ahead on county-wide voting.

The county does not possess a representative form of government.

When each voter has just a 20 percent say on the makeup of the board that guides their government, the BOCC, representative government can be counted absent.

When a county commissioner must answer to just 20 percent of the voting populace, must gain a majority of the vote from a population fragment of a mere 3,000 while the county population bulges over 15,000, that is not representative government.

When representation from county government is derived in stark contrast to the rest of the governmental structure — all voters in both cities have a say in every commission seat; each voter in the county votes for constitutional officers — full representative government remains elusive.

This is a fractured system that breeds competing agendas and missions, one that has led to questionable spending decisions and a sort of gridlock that seems to have permeated the BOCC this past year.

No better example was provided than a proposed RV ordinance.

Over several months commissioners held public workshops and meetings as they inched toward

the drafting of an ordinance to restrict the use and deployment of RVs in the county.

Commissioners took a county-wide approach – but from a single-member posture.

While trying to craft an ordinance that was, effectively, a one-size fits all, commissioners ignored the reality that this is not a homogenous county.

Commissioners on the south end, particularly the two representing much of the south end tourist corridor, were listening to their constituents while trying to get a handle on a plethora of RVs popping up in St. Joe Beach, Beacon Hill, St. Joseph Peninsula and Indian Pass.

As was stated by one of those commissioners repeatedly, there was a need to provide some protection in tourist areas of the county regarding how RVs were set up, what areas would be open to RVs long-term and how RVs were used.

That stance and goal, though, was not a fit for much of the rest of the county, particularly inland areas where RVs, motor homes, mobile homes, whatever the label, are a part of living in Gulf County and pretty much always have been.

Therefore the two commissioners on the county’s north end were hearing from their constituents that, hey, this RV ordinance seems an over-step by government.

And instead of seeking an ordinance that would address all concerns, all areas of the county, commissioners were undermined by their competing agendas — and the feedback from constituents that fed those agendas.

So it was no surprise that in the end, commissioners, with north end commissioners leading the charge, pulled the plug on the ordinance.

After months of meetings and drafting the ordinance, all at taxpayer expense, commissioners ended up passing on nothing but frustration.

From this corner, Commissioner Tan Smiley was correct when he took office last year and insisted that commissioners be judged by their actions, not the number of their district or who held the seat before.

Commissioner Ward McDaniel is not Billy Traylor, the man he replaced.

Smiley is not Nathan Peters Jr., the man he replaced when voters thought they were bringing political change in 2010.

But the system Traylor and Peters helped perpetuate for over two decades in office — a fact made clear when an attorney researched the viability of a legal fight for county-wide voting; noting the delays on the issue by prior commissions — remains in 2012.

The faces, ideas and perspectives might have changed, but voters are still not fully represented — with each voter allowed to vote on every BOCC seat — on the commission.

While a court fight would be dicey, the attorney said, it was not one to set aside. The key issue was voting trends in 2008. They changed dramatically between 2004 — when voters once again overwhelmingly supported county-wide representation — and 2008, as commissioners dithered.

The coming year offers an opportunity to change those dynamics.

Voting trends in 2012, as well as the end of redistricting, could alter the dynamics, the price tag, the potential for a winnable challenge, the odds of opposition to that challenge,

But no matter how it lines up the first domino that must fall is the BOCC putting the county in position for change, for returning full power to the voters of the county.

The price tag of a court fight can be handled if done judiciously, budgeting funds just as rainy day and contingency funds are created.

Commissioners could have taken taxpayer dollars expended last year on an RV ordinance that went nowhere, a EMS firing reversed after a series of public meetings and a dust-up over health insurance and TDC spending — both of which should have been addressed years ago — and provided a tidy nest egg to get court action moving.

Commissioners, though, whiffed on the chance to move ahead, as they have each year since 2004.

But if events of 2011 proved anything, the clock is ticking for those who would choose to restrict the power of the ordinary citizen and voter.

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TIm cRofTStar news editor

No New Year’s predictions and/or resolutions from me. Wasn’t it Gutenberg, or maybe Garfield, who said, “Things at rest tend to stay at rest and things in motion tend to stay in motion”? The translation is, people are going to keep on doing what they’ve been doing in spite of good intentions, well thought out plans or late December promises made out of desperation, hope or exaggerated beliefs in one’s own abilities.

I’ve tried the dieting resolution. I couldn’t pass on the coconut cream pie. I tried the “kinder to your neighbors” promise. My good neighbors already overlook my many shortcomings. They even kid me about them over the fence. I’ve made the “get in shape” pledge. I don’t look good in shorts and that computer enhanced, muscled up guy on the video kept shouting at me! One year, I “resoluted” to do the vacuuming, dish washing and dusting on a shared basis. Unfortunately, that was the exact January my tennis elbow reared its ugly head.

New Year’s Resolutions are good ideas that most often don’t pan out.

Maybe we aim too high. It would be like Olive Oil determining she wanted to become the fat lady for a circus; or Pavarotti deciding to become a country singer; or Stevie Wonder trying out for the Green Bay Packers.

My 1963 promise to myself was to get a date

with Mary Hadley Hayden. I shared my inner most

thoughts over some eggnog with Ricky Gene Stafford. “My stars and garters, are you completely nuts!” Rick, I thought, was a little too quick to sum up the situation. Besides, who died and left him in charge of resolutions!

Mary Hadley was the prettiest girl in school. “Exactly my point” was the way Ricky Gene put it. There had to be a way! I sought out the advice of my older, and much wiser, brother. Leon stared off into space for what seemed like forever before turning back to me. “How much money do you have? It’s going to take something like the bribe of the century to pull this off!”

I approached Pam Collins, who was Mary Hadley’s good friend, and I think, first cousin. Pam looked me right in the eye and swallowed hard. Dang! I knew she wasn’t going to be much help even before she started laughing. 1963 wasn’t going too well for me and we weren’t even through the first week!

LaRenda Bradfield put her hand on my shoulder in the parking lot our first day back at school, “Kes, good luck with Mary Hadley.” Now how did she find out? I just had this thought a couple of days ago— I’m going to kill Pam Collins the first time she shows her face! Buddy Wiggleton caught up with me going into English, “Hey, this is

going to be better than the time we let the bull loose at the church picnic.” “I have heard,” Yogi leaned over while Miss Clark was digging out “Great Expectations”, “that the prettier they are, the worse they kiss.” He said it like this whole thing was a scientific experimentation.

Mr. Warren, the school superintendant, ran into me in the gym, “I think you might have misunderstood my ‘aim high’ speech at the beginning of the semester.” Daddy strolled down to the barn where I was finishing up with the milking. “Son, dating can be a difficult challenge. You might want to start out with some of the girls out this way before you tackle Hubert Hayden’s daughter.”

The small town curse had gotten me again! And I was thinking I’m through with the News Year’s hex game forever when I ran slap into Mary Hadley in the lunch line on Thursday. My neck turned six shades of red! I prayed the floor would open up and swallow me. My knees buckled. I went to wishing I had that Frankie Avalon curl or Fabian smile. And I was trying like the dickens to say “hello” in my most grown-up, manly voice. But there wasn’t nothing coming out!

Mary Hadley smiled and moved on down the line. Drats! We’d never heard of the “Carpe Diem” philosophy in 1963. And that “suave and debonair” stuff only worked in Brylcreem commercials and Cary Grant movies.

Mom ironed my best shirt and kept it ready “just

in case”. Mr. John Motheral, who ran the drugstore downtown, was kind enough to tell me the Coke float was on him if Mary Hadley and I “per chance” came in together. Frank out at Frank’s Dairy Bar said basically the same thing. Tommie Hill at the DX Station offered a tank of gas “if and when” the occasion took place. I was thinking why not take out a billboard for goodness sakes! Or put it on the marquee at the Park Theatre! And oh, by the way, Mr. Clericuzio, who ran the Theatre, had one of the double seats reserved for us because “stranger things have happened.”

Never, in the entire history of New Year’s resolutions, had a plan gone so awry!

So, you can make all the pledges and declarations you want to. I hope and pray they all work out for you. Just please understand why I’m kinda doing it one day at a time. And that is not to say that I haven’t done my share of long-range thinking. I daydreamed about playing shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, but I never got so far as to make that a prediction or a resolution. I’ve often wondered what it would be like to be rich and famous. But that has never been an overriding consideration. I’ve entertained on several occasions running the Boston marathon, but reality always overtakes me before I get too deep into training.

I reckon I did hear some of Mr. Warren’s speech.

Respectfully,Kes

HuNKER dowN

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Toy BB gun considered a weapon?

Dear Editor:On April 18, 2010, while living in

another part of the county, I was arrested for exhibiting a fi rearm, which is a fi rst-degree misdemeanor. But according to the legal defi nition, which I got from the Florida Senate website, my toy gun didn’t qualify as a fi rearm, which would make sense considering it was a toy BB gun. The neighbor who called the authorities was good friends with another neighbor who had, at that time, charges pending through the State Attorney’s offi ce. The neighbor said I had a magnum revolver and she was afraid for her life. However, my toy BB gun is clear plastic and does not look like a magnum.

When I saw the judge on April 19 at the jail he was about to give me a bond until I told him it was a toy BB gun. The judge said in front of 10 different people that he didn’t think I could be charged with what I was charged with. Then he stopped talking and looked up the law but did not fi nish either way. Then he said he would release me with the condition that I would not have anything in

my hands that would be considered a weapon. Then I asked him what I can do about not being able to walk outside my home without being afraid. He told me considering I was seeing the State Attorney on Dec. 20 to make the State Attorney aware of what happened over the weekend. So I did as I was told and the State Attorney became upset. He then read me the same defi nition of a fi rearm that I got from the Florida Senate website. Then he read the defi nition for a weapon and said that my toy BB gun was a weapon. After my conversation with the State Attorney, he changed my charge to improper exhibition of a dangerous weapon. So I looked up the law on the internet. As I stated before, what I found was this law gives many examples of weapons, but it did show a toy BB gun as an example of a weapon but it did say “etc.” This is how I believe they were able to get the law to fi t this case instead of the case fi tting the law.

Through additional research, I found that the evidence log for my BB gun indicates that the offi cer who took it into custody believed it a “toy gun.” Further, the manufacturer of my BB gun clearly provides labeling

indicating the gun is a “toy.”According to the legal department

at Walmart Corp., which sold the BB gun, the toy is sold as a “sporting goods” item with an age level appropriateness label.

Now let me tell you the reason for me having a toy BB gun in my hand in the fi rst place. You see my mom’s life and my life have been threatened several times. So when my mom said she was going to the store and was late coming back I got afraid for her life. So I grabbed the only thing I could think of that might help her and that was my toy BB gun. You are asking how would a toy BB gun help, right? Well, I was hoping it would help buy me enough time to help my mom out of whatever anybody was doing to her.

Now that you have read what happened to me please keep in my mind if it could be done to me, it could be done to anyone. So please let me ask you one thing: Is this justice or something you or the community should be concerned about? I think so. If you agree let the community know what you think.

George M. StrobeleSt. Joe Beach

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

By Capt Bob Zales

We are individuals, businesses and associations that represent the true fishermen (commercial, recreational and recreational charter) from the five Gulf of Mexico States of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Collectively, we represent many thousands of fishermen and we are unanimous in our opposition to further funding of any new Catch Share programs in the Gulf of Mexico.

The commercial fishing associations and seafood dealers listed here market 80 percent of the reef fish harvested in the Gulf. We are united in our request that new Catch Share Programs in the Gulf of Mexico be put on hold and that no further funding for new Catch Share programs be provided by Congress and/or NOAA/NMFS until a complete analysis of the effects of the current programs is completed.

Before we do more damage to the coastal communities of the Gulf we want to know what impacts Catch Share programs are having on Gulf of Mexico jobs, recreational charter boats, commercial fishing vessels, recreational anglers, seafood houses, industry infrastructure, and small industry-related support businesses. In Florida alone, recreational and commercial fishing accounted for $15.3 billion in sales for 2008.

In addition to the negative social and economic impacts on our coastal communities, the amount of discards and discard mortality created by these programs needs careful consideration. A comprehensive study of the social, scientific, and economic impacts of Catch Share programs is the prudent way to address this issue rather than a headlong rush to implement more of these programs to benefit a small class of fishermen.

You have heard from the Environmental Defense Fund, their K Street lawyers, and the few so called “commercial fishing associations” (paid for by EDF), that the Gulf should be exempted from any legislation that restricts funding for new Catch Share programs. EDF and their pseudo-associations represent fewer than 10% of the fishermen and an even smaller percentage of commercial seafood dealers from the Gulf.

These people do not speak for the multitude of fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico. Catch Share programs provide no benefit for the resource — they serve only to make millionaires of a few and sharecroppers of the many, while reducing overall jobs, harming families, and negatively impacting coastal communities.

Until and unless Catch Share programs can be proven to provide benefits to the resource, to the majority of fishermen, to create jobs, and to enhance communities, they should be placed on hold with no new funding from Congress.

This position has not changed for the over 3,000 fishermen from across the country who traveled to Washington, DC for the United We Fish rally held on Feb. 24, 2010. This was the largest gathering of commercial, recreational charter, and recreational fishermen ever assembled for one United event.

We encourage you to support zero funding for new Catch Share programs in the Gulf of Mexico in FY2012.

For more information and to be added to a list of supporters contact Bob Zales, II [email protected] 850-814-8001 or Bob Spaeth [email protected] 727-643-9558.

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By Jason Alderman

College costs are out of control. Total outstanding student loans hover around $1 trillion, second only to home mortgages. Student loan repayment takes a hefty toll on starting salaries even during good economic times. But with so many recent graduates unable to fi nd a decent job — or any job — repayment can be a nightmare.

You can’t walk away from student loan debt. It’s practically impossible to get it discharged through bankruptcy and there’s no statute of limitations on how long lenders can pursue you through collections. Indeed, the government can withhold tax refunds and garnish wages indefi nitely.

The Obama administration recently accelerated improvements to a readily available, yet underused, student loan repayment plan called Income-Based Repayment (IBR) that had been slated to begin in 2014.

IBR is available for many federally guaranteed student loans and can be particularly benefi cial for low-income families, the unemployed and people with lower-paying, “public service” jobs in education, government or non-profi t organizations.

Under IBR, monthly payments are capped at an affordable level relative to your adjusted gross income, family size and state of residence. For example, if you earn less than 150 percent of the government’s poverty level for your family size, you would pay zero. You still owe the money, but are not required to begin making payments until your income increases. As

your income increases, so will your monthly payment — but up to no more than 15 percent of income that exceeds that same 150 percent of poverty level.

In addition, the government will forgive debt still owed after 25 years of consistent repayment. And those with qualifying public service jobs must only repay for 10 years before the balance is discharged.

Under the recent IBR enhancements, for students who took out their fi rst loan during or after 2008 and open at least one additional loan during or after 2012, the cap will drop from 15 to 10 percent and the forgiveness period drop to 20 years. Those with older loans can still benefi t from the original IBR terms.

Other IBR features include: •All Stafford, PLUS and

Consolidation Loans made under either the Direct Loan program or the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program qualify for IBR, except loans in default, Parent PLUS Loans or Consolidation Loans containing Parent PLUS Loans.

You must submit updated income documentation each year. If your income rises, so will your payment amount, although never above what you’d otherwise pay under a standard 10-year repayment schedule.

Because IBR will likely extend the term of your loan, you’ll probably accrue more interest than under a standard 10-year payoff.

Private student loans don’t qualify for IBR.

Borrowers with two different types of federal loans — at least one each issued under the Direct Loan and FFEL programs — may consolidate their loans under a new Special Direct Consolidations Loans program between Jan. 1, 2012, and June 30, 2012. This will lower FFEL loan rates by 0.25 percent, plus an additional 0.25 percent discount if you sign up for automatic payments. Visit www.studentaid.ed.gov/specialconsolidation for details.

If you expect your fi nancial hardship to be temporary, other loan repayment options, including economic hardship deferment, forbearance and extended repayment, may be better options. For details, visit the Federal Student Aid site, www.studentaid.ed.gov and search “Postponing Repayment.” Other good resources include www.fi naid.org and the Project on Student Debt (www.projectonstudentdebt.org).

Jason Alderman directs Visa’s fi nancial education programs. To Follow Jason Alderman on Twitter: www.twitter.com/PracticalMoney.

Easing student loan repayments

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When it acquired the Port St. Joe project in April 2011, Rentech an-nounced it was in discus-

sions on a term sheet for a federal loan guarantee.

Later in the year, it was announced the loan guar-antee was on hold because of a lack of government

funding.“The Company stopped

development of large scale projects that required larg-er development spending by Rentech in order to meet deadlines for government funding,” last month’s re-lease stated. “For example, in the fourth quarter of fi scal year 2011, Rentech abandoned its large-scale projects that relied on DOE funding and took losses of more than $58 million based on prior investment in those projects.”

Among the three proj-ects abandoned was the NWFREC, the release de-tailed.

While the company may no longer rely on DOE fi -nancing for commercial projects, the release stated the company would pursue other grants and forms of support as well as partner-

ships.As Rentech was sound-

ing retreat on its Port St. Joe project, a series of law-suits were fi led challenging the permitting of the NW-FREC.

On Dec. 19, six Port St. Joe residents fi led a pair of lawsuits in Circuit Court seeking to rescind the city of Port St. Joe’s develop-ment order for the project.

The development order was issued Nov. 17 and the suits challenge the local permitting of the plant on the grounds that offi cials claimed the biomass plant “quiet” and “clean” based on erroneous information provided by a contingent of local elected offi cials and business leaders regarding a visit to a much smaller plant at the University of South Carolina.

While local offi cials

claimed the plant was not noisy, smelly or an eyesore on the USC campus, The State newspaper published a series of articles in 2009 concerning chronic prob-lems at the plant.

“Although there have been some reports that Rentech is cancelling the project for lack of fund-ing, the city’s development order and the state’s air and water permits remain in effect. Rentech is still searching for funding, and it can transfer the develop-ment approval to another company,” said Landy Lu-ther, one of the plaintiffs in the development order ap-peal.

The city development or-der is in effect for 18 months; state water management and air emissions permits are good for fi ve years.

In its fi nal meeting of

2011, Port St. Joe city com-missioners took no action on the lawsuits as the city had yet to be served with any paperwork.

Further, three other Port St. Joe residents fi led a complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, asserting that the state committed a civil rights violation by issuing an air emissions permit for the biomass plant in close proximity to a predomi-nantly African-American neighborhood.

The plant, if built, would have been within 1-2 miles of North Port St. Joe.

A letter to the Florida Department of Environ-mental Protection during the permitting process last year threatened such a lawsuit.

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The following friends and associates of Karen Hanes are pleased to have participated in the initial establishment of the Karen Hanes Endowed Scholarship in recognition of her outstanding contributions to our community. This scholarship will help to ensure deserving students have the assistance needed to reach their dream of achieving a college degree at FSU Panama City.

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For a lot of smart Panhandle hunters, the deer season doesn’t even start until the New Year’s hangover is just an unpleasant memory.

That’s because Panhandle deer behave a lot more like Alabama whitetails than those in the rest of Florida. The “rut,” or mating season, doesn’t get started until the first strong moon phase in January, and typically runs until near the end of February.

For those who seek big bucks, it’s the only time of year worth being in the woods; the odds of seeing a trophy-quality deer increase dramatically as hormones drive the dominant males to stay on the move almost around the clock. Radio-tracking studies have repeatedly shown that adult bucks become almost entirely nocturnal during hunting season — except when the rut gets rolling. Then, they get stupid and may go roaming at high noon.

Where to find rutting bucks

Dominant bucks stake out a home territory during the rut, marking the terrain with scrapes in the dirt and antler “tickling” stations overhead. These locations let does in estrus know that they’re around, and also warn other bucks to stay clear. The dominant bucks make a circuit of their scrapes several times daily during the peak of the rut.

Scrapes can be anywhere, but frequently they are on an edge where agricultural fields meet hardwood forests, along little-traveled jeep trails through hardwoods, along creek edges, and, of course, on heavily used deer trails.

In well-populated woods, there might be dozens of these scrapes, and the key to successful hunting is to sit over one that is “live” or in use. You can tell from the fresh scrapes, foot prints and urine in the dirt, plus newly broken twigs overhead, when you find a hot scrape.

It’s not uncommon for a buck to bed close enough to his scrape line that he can hear any sounds that come from the area, so getting in and getting set in silence can be critical. If you carry in a portable stand and make a lot of racket going up a tree, you might well be alerting the buck that you’re there. A better plan is to set up a ladder stand in advance, walk in silently before first light, get up the tree as quietly as possible, and settle down to wait him out.

Stand placementWhitetails have an amazing

sense of smell, so placing the stand downwind from the area in which you expect the deer to appear is very important. In settled weather, the breeze most often comes from the west. After a front, it usually starts from the northwest, moves around to the north, then northeast. Sometimes a front coming in off the gulf will bring south winds —keep an

eye on the weather and position your stand accordingly. It’s also wise to put it well away from any scrape or trail, but with a clear shooting lane to the likely travel path.

Sit tightWhile the vast majority of

deer hunters limit their time in the woods from just before dawn until about 10 a.m. and then again from 3 p.m. until dark, for those who truly want a trophy, an all-day sit is a much better plan. Particularly in the rut, bucks might walk at any time of day.

There’s also the “man-drive” phenomenon; when other hunters start climbing down and walking out, they frequently start deer moving, and the hunter who stays put gets a shot. Take a comfortable butt-pad, plenty of food and water, and plan to make a day of it; your odds of success will go up dramatically.

Rattling and gruntingBucks sometimes make a

lot of noise when fighting or tending does, but unless you’re in an area where the deer are thick and other hunters are rare, it’s usually best to keep your silence. Rattling with real or artificial horns to imitate the sound of bucks fighting can work incredibly well in some areas like the big, deer-rich ranches of South Texas, but used on public lands in North Florida, all it usually does is scare deer into the next county.

That said, a grunt tube can sometimes help if used judiciously. A soft “baah” will usually stop a crossing buck in his tracks, and that might be just what you need to center the crosshairs, so keep one hanging around your neck. Knight & Hale and many other call companies make good ones.

Full moon huntingThere seems to be

something about the full moon that causes rutting deer to go crazy, so the ideal scenario is a cold front that arrives a day or two in advance of the full moon, blows in a bunch of icy air, then passes leaving the skies brittle but clear, the wind calm. On these frosty mornings, it’s common to see bucks running everywhere in what appeared to be totally empty woods a few days earlier.

There are full moons on Jan. 9 and Feb. 7.

Deer riflesThere continues to be a bit

of foolishness floating around some hunt camps about “brush guns,” rifles that shoot well through brush and thus are good choices in heavy cover—the 30-30 is the legendary brush gun.

But most modern whitetail experts point out that, in the first place, no responsible hunter is going to shoot at a deer that they can’t clearly see, and that if there’s a lot of brush between rifle and target, the shot ought not to be taken.

Secondly, the 30-30 is not much of a deer rifle compared

to others, coming up short both in energy and accuracy compared to many other rifles including the venerable .308, the 30-06, .280 and lots more. The object in deer hunting is to shoot like a sniper, one shot, one kill, and that requires patience, a clear target, and a rifle that will shoot exactly where you want it to at ranges out to 300 yards.

It also requires practice. A study done by an ammo company a few years back indicated that most hunters don’t go through a box of 20 cartridges in three years. That’s not nearly enough shooting to be consistently accurate. Enough practice to first, get the scope sighted dead on — 2 inches high at 100 yards is the standard for most hunters — and secondly to learn exactly when the gun is going to go off as you increase trigger pressure — is critical. (Also, there’s no reason to choose a gun that kills at both ends for whitetails; a .300 Win Mag will surely do the job, but it has such a wicked recoil that most hunters can’t shoot it without flinching and all the inaccuracies that go with.)

Warm wisdomDressing to stand a long

day in a cold woods is key to hunting success if the cold fronts roll through on schedule. The key to keeping warm, expert woodsmen agree, is to dress in layers that will allow you to regulate your temperature as conditions change.

A layer of absorbent polypropylene underclothing and socks next to the skin will help wick sweat and prevent

that damp, clammy feeling that results from a long walk to the stand. Long johns of this material, including a long-sleeved undershirt, will let moisture escape.

Poly socks are easy on the feet, too — they’re worn as an undersock, topped by a wool sock just bulky enough to make a comfortable fit in the hunting boot. Insulated boots with a close fit on the heel and arch but plenty of space around the toes make for easy walking but allow good circulation when you sit for long hours in a tree stand. Boots that are too tight guarantee cold feet.

When it’s really cold, a pair of bibbed wool pants is a great defense against the chill, and for sitting still for many hours in sub-freezing temperatures, you might want to top off with a down parka. (Yes, this is sort of Florida, but not really, not when a northern wind comes blowing down out of Canada — those 20-degree mornings are cold whether you sit in a stand in Bay County or 500 miles further north.)

Good rain gear from Gore-Tex or other breathable material also has to go in the pack; often a light rain causes deer to move really well, but you won’t see them if you have to head for the truck because you’re wet. Buy the rain gear plenty big enough to go over top of the heaviest coats and pants you’ll be wearing — again, stuff that’s too tight will make you cold. Don’t forget insulated Gore-Tex gloves, again, a bit oversized.

Hunting safelyThe biggest danger to

hunters is not from their rifles but from their tree-stands. Falling out of the stand causes dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries nationwide every year. The Tree Stand Manufacturers’ Association offers the following cautions for hunting safely from an elevated stand:

• Never climb while carrying weapons or gear; draw them up with a rope after you’re securely seated in the stand.

• Let other hunters know where you are, and take along a cellphone or two-way radio so you can contact them.

• Never use a stand that has worn, missing or loose parts.

• Always wear a full harness. Keep the tether as short as possible and clear of neck and shoulders.

• If you feel yourself becoming drowsy or sick, get out of the tree; many falls occur as a result of falling asleep or from sudden illness.

• Practice using the harness, including suspending yourself by the tether before you go hunting. Always have a helper standing by for practice runs.

• If you ever fall, first contact a hunting partner and let them

know you are attempting self-recovery. Ask them to keep tabs on you with return calls every five minutes.

• If you can’t recover and are hung suspended by the tether, call for help. Keep your legs moving to pump blood out of them; otherwise, blood pooling in the legs could cause you to pass out.

Manufacturers say the safest recovery via a harness is to climb back into the stand. Only as a last resort should you cut the tether or release the harness buckles.

For lots more on treestand safety, visit the Tree Stand Manufacturers Association website, www.tmastands.com.

North Florida seasonsThe modern gun season

continues through Feb. 19 in Zone D, the western panhandle. And the latest deer season in the state, the Zone D muzzle-loader/archery/crossbow extension, is Feb. 20-26. Only antlered deer may be taken in the late seasons. The daily limit is two bucks, the possession limit four.

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The Depot Creek is producing good numbers of crappie right now. With the cold snap this week, this fishery will only get better. Most are using live crappie shinners, but small grubs and jig heads will find fish faster. Channel cat are still being report here as well. The bass bite is quiet in the rivers, but some sheepshead are showing up at the docks in Howard Creek.

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Port St. Joe soccer is hit-ting its stride as the season begins the closing stretch.

With the boys and girls both in action tonight, each is on a winning streak.

The Lady Tiger Sharks have responded to a three-game losing streak last month by producing three consecutive wins in the fi -nal week before Christmas break to improve to 6-3-0 overall. They are 3-2-0 in District 1-1A.

The Tiger Sharks, meanwhile, continue their undefeated season, mov-ing to 10-0-1 as a stocking stuffer for the holiday. Port St. Joe is 4-0-1 in district play.

Both teams were to have played at Baker on the Thursday prior to the break but those games were postponed due to fi eld conditions and will be made up next week.

On the Tuesday prior to the break, each team se-cured a home win.

The Lady Tiger Sharks defeated Rutherford 5-3 at Sam Cox Field.

Port St. Joe was led by senior co-captain Rachel Jones, who recorded two goals (numbers seven and eight on the season) and added an assist.

Sophomore Allie Strip-pling scored her fi fth goal of the season and also as-sisted on a goal and mid-fi elder Bryanna Stuart scored her fi rst goal of the year and also had an as-sist.

Freshman Haley Wood had a goal and Mary Branch an assist for the Lady Tiger Sharks.

Sophomore keeper Christian Laine had fi ve saves on 10 Lady Ram shots to improve to 4-1-0.

The Tiger Sharks rout-ed North Bay Haven Acad-emy 5-1.

Five different players scored goals for Port St. Joe: LaGrand McLemore scored his third of the year, Javarri Beachum his seventh, Daniel May his ninth, Drew Lacour his fi fth and Cole Cryderman his fi fth.

LaCour had two assists and McLemore and Witt Shoaf each had an assist for the Tiger Sharks.

Senior Walt Bowers was

in goal for 70 minutes, fac-ing 14 Bay Haven shots and had four saves to earn the win, improving to 8-0-0 on the season.

Both teams travel to Franklin County for dis-

trict matches tonight. The teams will be at Freeport (boys) and Walton County (girls) on Saturday and face Baker in the make-ups for games lost before break on Monday.

Star Staff Report

The Port St. Joe Dixie Youth Baseball League will be holding its annual election of officers on Thursday, Jan. 12, at 6 p.m. ET. The meeting will take place at the STAC house

on 8th Street. Anyone interested in holding a position as an officer within the league is invited to attend. Also, for the first time in many years, we will be offering a Dixie Boys league for players age 13 and 14. And for

parents who might be purchasing new bats for the upcoming season, please be aware of new performance requirements in the AA and AAA leagues. This information can be found on the Dixie Youth Baseball website.

Star Staff Report

High school and junior high coaches in all sports, we need your help.

In our minds, every child participating in scholastic sports in our county deserves some recognition, if only for the sacrifi ce and discipline required to compete.

But there are a lot of teams, a lot of games and we are, alas, a small staff.

Coaches and athletic directors are urged to contact The Star will all the scores and results from your team’s games. The deadline for all information is 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday. Please call 227-7827 or email to tcroft@starfl .com, providing scores, individual totals and anything remarkable and which stands out from the day’s or week’s competition.

Photos are always welcome and can be sent via email as an attached jpeg fi le.

We can not make these sports pages what they can be without your help.

Coaches and athletic directors, parents and athletes, principals and School Board, Superintendent Jim Norton, these are your pages. Please help us fi ll them.

PRYOR STANDS OUT IN BOWL GAME

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Port St. Joe High School alum Calvin Pryor (No. 25) had a standout game on Dec. 27 during the University of Louisville’s Belk Bowl loss to North Carolina State. Pryor, starting at free safety, had three solo tackles and one assist. He also ranged far to his left in the second quarter to snag an interception on a deep pass attempt down the sideline by the Wolfpack. The Cardinals converted the turnover into three points. For the season, Pryor, a true freshman who played in all 13 games, starting the fi nal six, was sixth on the team in tackles with 43 – 31 solo and 12 assisted tackles. Pryor had one sack and three tackles for loss. He intercepted two passes, broke up fi ve more, forced two fumbles and recovered two.

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Twelve games into the basketball season, the Port St. Joe Tiger Sharks are moving up the learn-ing curve.

A team that sports just three seniors, one of those a fi rst-year transfer, to go with a roster dotted by sophomores, freshmen and even an eighth-grade starter, has experienced its share of lumps during a 5-7 start.

But Coach Derek Kur-nitsky, who has had to al-ter his coaching focus and team’s playing style, said he sees the progress.

“The record is not where we want to be, but I see the light at the end of the tunnel,” Kurnitsky said. “We’re getting there. We are just a young team and we are experiencing some growing pains. We are not going to win ev-ery one. I think we’ve im-proved. I see the kids are improving.”

Those kids would com-prise a mighty fi ne junior varsity team. The Tiger Shark starting fi ve in-cludes freshman Jarkeice Davis, eighth-grader Chad Quinn and sophomores Natrone Lee and Ramm-ello Zaccarro.

Only wing Alex King, a senior, has considerable playing time on the hard-wood.

King averages a team-high 17 points while Lee, who scored four or fewer points in the fi rst three games, has come on to av-erage 12 points a game.

The Tiger Sharks also are not deep, with a bench manned by sophomores

Caleb Odom and Jamie Gordon and seniors Arion Ward, the sixth man, and Nick Dickinson. The lat-ter two join King as the only seniors, Dickinson a transfer from Michigan.

After stumbling from the gate, Port St. Joe won three of four after taking two of three during a holi-day classic in Tallahassee, before being blown out at Springfi eld Rutherford and splitting road games against Liberty County (53-35) and Cottondale (47-46) last week.

The Liberty County win moved the Tiger Sharks to 2-2 in District 4-1A.

“I am not into moral victories, but Cottondale is 11-2, just beat Holmes County and we were play-ing at their place, which is never easy, even when I’ve taken loaded teams up there,” Kurnitsky said. “We were up 13 points at halftime, up by seven at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and until the fi -nal minutes it might have been the best game we’ve put together.

“Our kids played well, but we had some mistakes at the end.”

The fi nal score was also indicative of a new style of play for the typically up-tempo Tiger Sharks.

Port St. Joe, usually playing the entire fl oor, pressing and running, has found success this year in the half-court, holding the ball when needed and employing set plays and a slower tempo to maximize skill sets.

The Tiger Sharks have yet to score more than 64 points in any games this season.

“I know how we are go-ing to have to play down the stretch and we are not a high-scoring team,” Kur-nitsky said. “You have to adapt your coaching to the talent you have. You have to adjust. We are just not capable of being a high-scoring team. We aren’t the deepest team, either.

“We have to be patient, cut down on turnovers and hold the ball and run our sets. This is who we are. If we are going to be a good team at the end this is what we have to be. The kids understand that this is just what it is. They have really bought into it.”

Kurnitsky, also, has had to buy into a new ros-ter and tactical changes in coaching and teaching his charges.

“I’ve learned to have way more patience,” Kur-nitsky said. “I’ve done more teaching this year than in the past fi ve years combined. And I’ve en-joyed it. It is a lot of fun watching the players learn and grow.”

Kurnitsky said he has seen things click for his young charges as the sea-son has unfolded and the team gains more experi-ence and understands how to play together in prepa-ration for the cauldron of the stretch run, district and region playoffs.

“We want to get hot late,” Kurnitsky said. “The last couple of weeks I want to be on a roll. And I see that happening.”

Port St. Joe hosted Lynn Haven Mosley on Tuesday and travels to West Gadsden on Friday and South Walton next Tuesday.

Young Tiger Sharks seek second-half growth

Dixie Youth Baseball elects offi cers

Coaches: We need your help

CARLA MAY | Special to the Star

Top, Cole Cryderman scored his fi fth goal of the season in a 5-1 win over North Bay Haven.Right, Drew Lacour (in white, left) scored a goal and had two assists against North Bay Haven.


A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to

keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. “The Constitution of the United States,”

Amendment 2.

Currently, 575 of your fellow Gulf County residents have exercised their constitutional 2nd Amendment right by

obtaining their Concealed Weapon License. We invite you to join us and qualify for your Florida Concealed Weapon or

Firearm License by attending the formal class held by the Republican Party of Gulf County on Saturday, January 14, 2012. The class is the first step in obtaining your license in the State of Florida. The cost of the class is $75.00. Please contact Tom

Semmes at 850-639-5345 for additional information.

Reminder…The Florida Republican Presidential Preference Primary

is January 31, 2012. If you wish to influence our Nation’s selection to correct the current administration’s failures and put

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Also, please join your fellow Gulf County Republicans at our next meeting on Monday, January 16th at 7:00 p.m. EST upstairs at the Capital City Bank building in Port St. Joe.

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shrimp) were from troll nets and fi sh stomachs. Until now, nobody had actu-ally seen this thing alive.”

Commonly known as sea whip shrimp, the spe-cies seeks a habitat in a type of reef known as a gorgonian, or sea whip. Al-though the species is very hard to find, Cox managed to locate two of the shrimp for Wicksten to observe during her trip to Mexico Beach.

“They really don’t know much about these shrimp,” Cox said. “You just never know what may be a key species out there.”

Wicksten said Cox’s documentation of the species will aid in a big project underway to docu-ment different species in the Gulf of Mexico and will also be added to a national list of marine species.

Cox’s observations also led to a scientific jour-nal article co-authored with Wicksten that docu-ments the different inver-tebrates associated with

sea whips in the Gulf of Mexico, including the sea whip shrimp and another species known as arrow shrimp.

The online article, ti-tled “Invertebrates asso-ciated with gorgonians in the northern Gulf of Mex-ico,” primarily used data Cox and her husband, Bob Cox, collected while do-ing research dives for the MBARA.

The MBARA is a non-profi t organization that has deployed more than 150 artifi cial reefs in the Gulf of Mexico since 1997. The organization focuses on the conservation and en-vironmental improvement of our natural and artifi cial marine reef systems, while also conducting and pro-moting scientifi c research and educational outreach.

Cox said the more re-search that is done for the MBARA, the more points they receive for the grants they apply for, especially those from the state of Florida. And more points

equal more money to build artifi cial reefs and more reefs means more marine life habitats in the Gulf.

Wicksten was very im-pressed with the artifi cial reef system produced by the MBARA off Mexico Beach.

“The artifi cial reefs were designed to attract fi sh, but they also intro-duce hard surfaces,” Wick-sten said. “You get all of these oddball shrimp and things on these reefs.”

Cox and Wicksten both agreed this area of the Gulf is incredibly understudied.

“There’s a fair amount of marine life in the Gulf that lives fairly close to shore, but you can’t see them because of visibility,” said Wicksten, also an en-thusiastic diver.

“There are a lot of small and inconspicuous marine creatures out there. You don’t have to be a PhD bi-ologist to fi nd animals that are unusual or worthy of a scientifi c paper; you just have to look carefully.”

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Cox captured the fi rst photo of this shrimp species, commonly known as the sea whip shrimp, alive in its natural environment, which led to a scientifi c journal article chronicling her research.

the satellite offi ce. “I don’t think any of

us want a problem from there,” Patterson said.

McElroy noted to Magid-son that three commission-ers, a majority, said they would not support a dormi-tory-style facility, meaning an ordinance should not be an issue.

Gingell said city attorney Tom Gibson was looking at other communities around Florida to examine how they addressed potential problems with a homeless shelter or rescue mission.

“It’s not up to me,” Magidson said. “Whatever any commissioner wants to do and they get three votes, that is up to them.

“We have a lot of bigger fi sh to fry to deal with a problem that isn’t there.”

City manager searchThe deadline for appli-

cations for the city manag-er position – City Manager Charlie Weston announced late last year he would re-

tire when his contract ex-pires this month – passed on Dec. 31 and Weston said 41 applications were re-ceived.

“We have a lot of quali-fi ed people in that bunch,” Weston said.

He said he will meet with Kim Bodine, execu-tive director of the Gulf Coast Workforce Board, to establish a process for screening and culling the applications and would provide a timeline for hir-ing once that process is set.

Weston indicated that if asked he would extend his employment as requested to ensure a smooth transi-tion.

Energy plant lawsuitCommissioners de-

ferred any decision on an answer to a lawsuit fi led by Gulf Citizens for Clean Renewable Energy until further consultation with Gibson. (See related story on A1).

The city was served papers on the lawsuit on Dec. 21 and has 20 days, or until Jan. 10, to formal-ly respond.

Magidson indicated Gibson has been trying to reach the plaintiff ’s South Florida attorney to ex-plore settlement options.

The underlying conten-tion of the lawsuit is that the city did not adhere to the tenets of its compre-hensive plan in issuing a development permit for the proposed Northwest Florida Renewable En-ergy Center.

The lawsuit was fi led two weeks after the city was notifi ed by the NW-FREC developer that it was pulling out of the proj-ect, confi rmed late last month in the developer’s press release on its fourth quarter activities.

The lawsuit seeks to rescind the development order, with the city on the hook for the plaintiff ’s at-torney fees.

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Tom Conley from the Florida League of Cities presents Mayor Mel Magidson Jr. with a check for more than $38,000, representing a return on property insurance premiums.

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By David AdlersteinFlorida Freedom Newspapers

Whenever a featured player in a performance goes down, a stand-in is called for because, as they say in show biz, the show must go on.

This past month, when a situation similar to this happened, dancers at Pam Nobles Studios had a rare opportunity to learn from a gifted artist, a veterans pro-fessional dancer who has hoofed it with the greats.

Longtime dance instruc-tor Pam Nobles, who has taught hundreds of young dancers over the last 30 years in both Franklin and Gulf counties, had to un-dergo neck surgery last year, and was out of action for a couple months.

On Nov. 29, surgeons performed an anterior cervical fusion, grafting bone from her hip and af-fixing a titanium plate with two screws to stabilize the

affected vertebrae. The problem of bone spurs and stenosis was solved, but it meant six weeks of inac-tion for the popular dance teacher.

So Nobles called upon her good friend, Scott Ben-son, a professional dancer and choreographer for the past three decades, to offer instruction to her students, both the children and young adults as well as the older “Hot Flashes” dance troupe.

The result was inspiring, and at times electric, as Benson gave the budding performers a glimpse of the insights and expertise from a professional career.

“There’s talent every-where, these kids have talent,” he said over a pre-Christmas lunch along the Apalachicola waterfront. “They just don’t know they have talent.”

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By Lois SwobodaFlorida Freedom Newspapers

This December, 103 hunters got to enjoy the St. Vincent Island experience and six of them bagged a sambar.

Anyone lucky enough to have visited St. Vincent Is-land knows that it is 12,500 acres of undeveloped paradise where wildlife abounds.

Birds and reptiles of many kinds share the for-est and dunes with white-tailed deer, bob cats, pos-sums, raccoons and other native mammals.

There are also more exotic residents on the is-land.

St. Vincent is famously home to a population of red wolves, since it is one of the nurseries where young-sters of the highly endan-

gered species are reared before being released in their native range.

Sadly, there are feral hogs, which are a constant threat to the natural bal-ance of the island ecosys-tem.

Last but not least, there are 70 to 100 sambar deer.

Sambar deer, a type of elk, are native to Southeast Asia. A former owner of the island introduced them to

St. Vincent in 1908, along with other exotic animals as hunting stock.

The other exotics are gone now, but the sambars share the island with native white-tailed deer without conflict, because the sam-bars feed on aquatic weeds and prefer the marshes. The whitetails keep to the dryer upland areas.

Public hunting of white-tailed deer, sambar deer,

feral hogs, and raccoons is permitted on 11,400 acres of St. Vincent Island.

The refuge opened to sambar hunting during the 1987-88 hunting season.

There are three hunts on St. Vincent each year per year but only the quota hunt in December allows a hunter to legally harvest sambar.

Each year there is a lottery for the 200 coveted

permits that allow the bearer to camp on the is-land during the hunt and bag a sambar. Often, more than 1,000 applications for the hunt are received.

During the quota hunt, sportsmen can take one sambar and unlimited hogs and raccoons.

Both hogs and rac-coons prey on the eggs of

Fall and winter hunts on St. Vincent Island

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Bringing in 2012 with a bangThe Port St. Joe sky

sparkled Saturday night as patrons gathered along St. Joseph Bay to blast into the New Year with a fireworks show. The Port St. Joe fireworks display was part of the “Celebrate Safe, Celebrate Twice” event sponsored by the Gulf County Tourism De-velopment Council and the Mexico Beach Community Redevelopment Council. The event aimed to ensure patrons enjoyed a safe drive into 2012 by provid-ing a free shuttle service to different hot spots in Port St. Joe and across the central time zone border to Mexico Beach.

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Special to The Star

I would like to extend a gracious thanks to all of the volunteers who helped make this holiday season special for the many needy families across Gulf County.

I know the wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners would not have been possible without God’s blessings, all of the volunteers and sponsors, the Oak Grove Church, Pastor James Wiley and Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Gainey, who both went beyond the call of duty, whatever the need. They ordered the food and supplies, directed, arranged and efficiently assembled hundreds of meals.

Thanks to Tim and Crystal DuPuy for their sharing and consideration for others. They gathered coats and jackets and Christmas toys for needy children and helped several people along the way. They also cooked turkeys and donated their time helping people in the community.

A very special thank you to George and Hilda Duren, owners of the Piggly Wiggly, and their great staff who assisted us every time we called, no matter what. They cooked the dressing, baked cakes, revised delivery schedules, and helped us so very much. Thanks Mr. Duren for all you’ve done to help us with this dinner.

Thanks to Sacred Heart on the Gulf’s Dietary department. They were all deeply involved with the turkey preparation for the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Their help was greatly appreciated by everyone involved.

We would like to thank Patti Blaylock and the staff at the Sunset Coastal Grill for cooking 15 turkeys in all, collecting toys, and arranging for the different visitors to help by donating Christmas toys for the community.

Charles Givens, owner of the Corner Grocery Store, helped the kids referred to as the G.A.N.G. (Getting to A New Generation) by teaching them the importance of helping people in need. They delivered over 200 plates of food throughout their community.

Thanks to Barbara Radcliff for making up the thank-you flyers, and for Ramsey’s Printing & Supply for printing and cutting them.

Eddie operated the computer that showed all of the volunteers what a wonderful gathering was held during Thanksgiving Day. He also played background music that helped set the theme. Special thanks to Sherrie Bowen, who coordinated the sweet potato preparation, and Sandie Kennedy for coordinating the green bean preparation. Plenty of help was needed for this massive undertaking.

Thank you all for making the volunteer program a success! Anyone interested in volunteering for this worthwhile program can call 850-381-6122 for more information.

Jerry Stokoe

Special thanks to all holiday volunteers

Star Staff Report

Come to the Panhandle Pioneer Settlement this Saturday for a Pancake benefit to raise funds for the Club House porch.

The breakfast will be from 6-9 a.m. CT.

A special breakfast will be served in the Club House which consists of all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage,

and choice of coffee, milk, or juice.The cost is $5 for adults, $3 for

children ages 6-12 and the breakfast is free to children age 5 and under.

The Panhandle Pioneer Settlement is a living museum documenting rural life in Northwest Florida since the early 1800’s. It is located in Sam Atkins Park, about one mile west of the intersection of State 71 and State 20. Follow State

20 West out of Blountstown. Look for signs for Sam Atkins Park. Turn north at Lindy’s Fried Chicken onto Silas Green Street (between 18th and 20th Streets) and follow the signs.

For more information, contact the Settlement at 850-674-2777

For further directions and information on the historic buildings at the Settlement, go to www.ppmuseum.org.

Panhandle Pioneer Settlement serves up pancakes

speciAl to the stAr

Lauren Davis, Callie Capps and Rebecca Kerigan are M.A.D. (Making A Difference). The girls held a bake sale and raised $150, which they took directly to the St. Joseph Bay Humane Society. What’s next, girls?

Society BriefsWriting group

meetingThe PRIZEWRITERS

writing group will hold its next meeting at the Gulf County Public Library at 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Jan. 17. All those interested in writing a book, compiling family memoirs, etc. are welcome to attend. The meetings are free. This group believes that writers should be with writers in order to encourage each other to complete their work. For

more information, contact Marjorie Parker at 229-6023.

Amateur radio society to offer license exams

The Gulf Amateur Radio Society will be providing license exams on Saturday, Feb. 11 at the EOC Building in Port St. Joe, located behind the Gulf County Courthouse, at 10 a.m. ET.

Those interested in

getting a ham license or upgrading a present license should contact C.H. Tillis at 850-648-8251 for details and registration.

Ham it up. Get your license and get on the air!

Quit smoking nowStar Staff ReportIf you are ready to

quit smoking now, a free weekly class/support group will begin at 5:30 p.m. ET Thursday, Jan. 12, at Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf.

Quit Smoking Now is a curriculum developed by ex-smokers for those who want to become ex-smokers.

Free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is available to all class participants.

Register at 1-87-QUIT-NOW-6 (1-877-848-6696) or contact Brigitta Nuccio at 850-482-6500 or email her at [email protected].

The class is sponsored by the Florida AHEC Network and the Florida Department of Health.

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Gulf County Health Department Special to The Star

Jan. 8-14 is Folic Acid Awareness Week, but folic acid should be a part of a healthy lifestyle every day of the week. You can start the New Year off right by taking a multivitamin with 400 mcg of the B-vitamin folic acid every day. Your body uses folic acid every day to stay healthy.

What is folic acid and why do you need it?

Think you are getting all of the vitamins you need from your diet alone? Think again. Most people do not know that it is hard to get certain vitamins from food alone. Many believe they do not need to take multivitamins be-cause they eat healthy foods. Multivitamins help fill in those nutrition gaps in the diet, especially when it comes to getting enough folic acid.

Folic acid is the syn-thetic form of the natu-rally occurring folate in foods. Folate is found in foods such as leafy green vegetables, beans, liver and some fruit. The syn-thetic version, folic acid, is found in multivitamins and fortified foods like breakfast cereal, pasta and bread. Folic acid is easier for your body to ab-sorb than folate, plus 50 to 90 percent of food folate is destroyed in cooking.

In 1998, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration started fortifying grain and cereal products with

folic acid in order to re-duce neural tube defects (NTDs). While this was a great step in the fight to prevent birth defects, it is not enough to protect all women and their po-tential children.

Folic acid is an es-sential B-vitamin; there-fore, everyone needs it in order to stay in good health.

Folic acid helps build DNA and your body uses it for cell growth and re-production, fundamental building block process-ing and genetic material production. Folic acid is water soluble, therefore it passes through your body very quickly. Tak-ing folic acid every day ensures that you always have it in your system when your body needs it.

For women in their childbearing years, it is particularly important to consume 400 mcg of fo-lic acid daily. It has been shown to reduce the risk of NTDs in developing ba-bies by up to 70 percent. Since 50 percent of preg-nancies are unplanned, it’s important to take folic acid every day, even if you’re not planning to get preg-nant. The most common NTDs are spina bifida and anencephaly.

Who needs folic acid?We all do. Everyone

needs folic acid every day. Taking folic acid ev-ery day, before pregnancy begins, is an important way to reduce neural tube defects (NTDs). These birth defects occur in the

first weeks of fetal devel-opment, often before a woman even knows she is pregnant.

Some women may be at higher risk. Not only do Latinas have higher rates of NTD-affected pregnan-cies, but they also have the lowest awareness/knowledge about folic acid than women of other race/ethnic groups. In addition, Latinas have a lower con-sumption of folic acid than non-Hispanic women.

Get Involved in Folic Acid Awareness Week

The Gulf County Health Department works to edu-

cate consumers and health care providers about the benefits and uses of folic acid. It is recommended to take a multivitamin with 400 mcg of folic acid, eat-ing fortified foods, along with a healthy diet.

For more information about the Gulf County Health Department or folic acid visit one of our clinics at 2475 Garrison Avenue in Port St. Joe or 807 State 22 in Wewahitchka or call our Healthy Start Education Team at 227.1276 ext. 106. Remember to make folic acid part of a healthy life-style in 2012.

hunts from page B1the endangered sea turtles that are also annual visi-tors to the island.

During the quota hunt only primitive weapons like muzzle-loaders and bows may be used. Crossbows are not permitted on the island.

In 2011, participants took home six sambar deer and six feral hogs.

Non-quota hunts are held on the island in Janu-ary and November.

The November hunt is for archers only. The Janu-ary hunt is open to primi-tive weapons.

During these hunts, sportsmen can bag a white-tailed deer, and unlimited raccoons and hogs.

From Nov. 17-19, 63 hunters visited the island and bagged 11 white-tailed deer and five feral hogs.

The 2012 primitive weapons non-quota hunt is scheduled for Jan. 19-21.

Hunters are responsible for providing their own transportation to and from the island.

To learn more about hunting on St. Vincent Is-land, visit www.fws.gov/saintvincent/hunt-fish.html or call or visit the refuge

office and visitor center in the Harbor Master Build-ing at 479 Market Street, Apalachicola. The Center is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The refuge telephone number is 653-8808.

Sea turtles on St. Vincent in 2011

After a tempestuous season with some unusual twists in 2010, the sea turtles on St. Vincent Island had a fairly good year in 2011

According to the Support-ers of St. Vincent, in 2010, 44 turtle nests were found on the island refuge. All of them were from loggerhead turtles.

Of those, 19 were moved to Kennedy Space Center to protect them from the BP oil spill.

Nearly 1350 of the eggs left on the island hatched and almost all of the hatch-lings made it to the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2011 the count of hatchlings on the island was up by over 1,000 with 2,375 young turtles emerg-ing from 46 nests.

Seven nests were inun-dated or washed away.

National Folic Acid Awareness Week is Jan. 8-14

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An aerial view of St. Vincent Island.

Jerry Arhelger,

SOUTHERLAND FAMILYFUNERAL HOME

507 10th Street • Port St. Joe

(850) 229-8111

To know ChrisT and To Make hiM known

St. JameS’epiScopal church

800 22nd Street, port St. Joe8:00 and 11:00 a.m. (EST) • Sunday School 9:45

www.stjamesepiscopalchurch.org

Come worship with us! Rector Father Tommy Dwyer

St. Peter’s Church, ACC(Traditional Services 1928 BCP)

Morning Prayer & Holy CommunionSunday...............10:00 A.M.

Community Healing Service 6:00 P.M.4th Thursday of Every MonthThe Rev. Dr. D. Pete Windham, Priest

The Rev Lou Little, DeaconServices Temporarily at Senior Citizens Center,

120 Library Drive“An Unchanging Faith In A Changing World”

5:00 & 6:00 p.m.

Pastor Josh Fidler

COMFORTER FUNERAL HOMEW. P. “Rocky” Comforter

L.F.D.(850) 227-1818

www.faithchristianpsj.net

(850) 229-6707

“Our Church can be your home”

First Church of the Nazarene2420 Long Avenue • Port St. Joe, Florida 32456

(850) 229-9596

Give unto the Lord the glory due His name, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.Psalm 29:2

Sunday School............................ 10 a.m.Sunday Morning Worship ........... 11 a.m.

Sunday Evening Worship ..............6 p.m.Wednesday Evening Service ....... 7 p.m.

A Spirit Filled Outreach Oriented

Word of Faith Church

Home of tHePowerHouse

YoutH ministries

Pastors Andrew & Cathy rutherfordwelcome you to worship with us:

sunday 10:30amsunday night Prayer 6pm

wednesday 7pmwww.familylifechurch.net

323 reid Ave ~ Downtown Port st. Joe, fL ~ 850-229-5433

First Baptist Church 102 THIRD STREET • PORT ST. JOE

Buddy Caswell, Minister of Music & Education Bobby Alexander, Minister to Students

New Service Schedule for First Baptist ChurchSunday School & Worship Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 amSunday School & Worship Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30 amSunday Evening Adult Bible Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00 pmWednesday Night Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:30 pmWednesday Night Adult Prayer Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30 pmWednesday Night Children's Ministry activities . . . . . . . 6:30 pmWednesday Night Youth Ministry activities . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30 pm

www.fbcpsj.org

Wednesday Night Youth Ministry activities

www.fbcpsj.org

Jeff Pinder Pastor

SundaySunday School ............. 9:00 amWorship Service............ 10:30 amYouth Groups ............... 5:30 pm

New Service Schedule for First Baptist ChurchSunday School & Worship Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 amWednesday

Wednesday Night Supper.............. 5:00 - 6:15 pmChildren’s Choir ............................ 5:45 - 6:10 pmNursery ........................................ 6:00 - 7:30 pmAWANA’s ....................................... 6:15 - 7:30 pmSurrender Student Ministry........... 6:15 - 7:30 pmThe Unshakable Truth Journey.....6:15 - 7:30 pmCelebration Choir Rehearsal ........6:30 - 7:30 pmPrayer Meeting ...........................6:30 - 7:30 pm“Praise Band”.............................7:30 - 9:00 pm(Rehearsal in Sanctuary)

7230 Doc Whitfield Rd., Howard Creek, FloridaPastor Henry Hester(850) 827-2887

Howard Creek Baptist Church

A Place of Grace

Sunday School ...........................9:45 am (EST)Sunday Morning Worship ........ 11:00 am (EST) Wednesday Evening Worship ....6:00 pm (EST)

Thursday, January 5, 2012Thursday, January 5, 2012

FAITHPage B4

This business invites you to visit the church of

your choice this week.

w w w . s t a r f l . c o m

You Have a Choice

Why can’t people put their faith in God and live for Him each day?

How much better life would be if we only lived His way.

It’s not a matter of who has their way, because God will have the fi nal say.

Why can’t we just learn to obey, listen to what He has to say?

A good example is to look back and seek. What did you do for God last week?He supplies our needs every day. If you don’t put Him fi rst, will it stay that

way?Daily living for Jesus will lead to an

abundant life. Living daily in sin will bring you judgment

and strife.It’s very simple, but you have to choose,

abundant life with Jesus, or with Satan and lose.

— Billy Johnson

Thomas Clay Doss, 49, of Wewahitchka, Fla., passed away, Dec. 24, 2011, in a local hospital.

He was born May 3, 1962. He had worked as a supervisor in oil fi elds in Louisiana.

He was preceded in death by his father, Reverend Thomas Pleasant Doss, Jr.

He is survived by his wife, Vickie Doss, of Wewahitchka, Fla; mother, Betty Doss, of Panama City, Fla; sister, Diane McCormick of Panama City; brother, Thomas Calvin Doss and wife, Pam, of Alaska; nieces and nephews, Stacy McCormick, Amanda McCormick, both of Panama City, Lauryn

Doss of Panama City, Jana Doss of Alaska and Christopher Doss of Panama City; great-nieces and nephews, Blake, Cole, Hunter, Wyatt and Aurora. He is also survived by the Drenkhahn family and the West family of Stoughton, Wis.

Funeral services were held Thursday, Dec. 29, at 1 p.m., in the Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor John Kramer offi ciating. Interment followed in Evergreen Memorial Gardens. The family received friends at the funeral home on Thursday prior to the service.

Wilson Funeral Home, 214 Airport Road, Panama City, FL 32405, 850-785-5272.

Thomas Clay DossMr. Osvaldo Isa Badillo

Alayo, 29, of Wewahitchka, Fla., passed away Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 at his home. Osvaldo was born on Dec. 12, 1982 in Havana, Cuba, and had lived in Wewahitchka for the past seven years after living in Mobile, Ala. He was a welder for Eastern Marine in Panama City and attended the New Harvest Assembly of God Church in Wewahitchka.

Survivors include his wife, Jaquelyn (Faircloth) Badillo, of Wewahitchka; mother, Zunilda Alayo Perdomo, of West Palm Beach, Fla.; father, Osvaldo Eliseo Badillo Diaz, of Mobile, Ala.; two sons, Juleon Badillo of Wewahitchka, and

Jose Alvaro Sanchez, of Havana, Cuba; one daughter, Jalyan Rose Badillo, of Wewahitchka; step-daughter, Jala Moulds, of Wewahitchka; and maternal grandfather, Ramon Alayo Zapata, of West Palm Beach, Fla.

Funeral services were Thursday, Dec. 29 at the New Harvest Assembly of God Church in Wewahitchka with Reverend Eddie Causey offi ciating. Internment followed the ceremony at Buckhorn Cemetery in Wewahitchka. The family received friends before the service. All arrangements were under the direction of Marlon Peavy at the Peavy Funeral Home in Blountstown, Fla.

Osvaldo Isa Badillo Alayo

Obituaries

Guardian Angel

Once I walked upon this earth in my life I had no clue.I had no knowledge of God or his Word and what Satan had planned

to do.I walked and lived unknowing and Satan with me had his way.For this very reason I struggled I found misery every day.No matter how hard I’d try I’d fail again and again.Until one day so frustrated I thought my life I had to end.I sat with my head dropped in my hands thinking how I’d leave this

world.My eyes were closed, my heart was broke but in my head there was

this girl.Then I heard this sound, looked up real fast and beheld a beautiful

face.Her hair was long, she seemed to glow white and a fl aw there was no

trace.She spoke to me in a heavenly voice and said “It’s you I came to see.”“This misery you’ve faced and this thing you’ve planned doesn’t have to

be.She went on to tell me about my life and how it was full of sin.Then she told me about salvation through Christ that I needed only to

invite him in.So on that day I gave my life to God’s only begotten Son.And on that day Satan lost his power to keep me on the run.Since, I’ve searched to thank that girl for all she had done for me.I never saw her again but know now deep in my heart an angel she

had to be. — Mark Cumbie

Faith BRIEFS“Fish Stories” at First

United Methodist of PSJWe have all grown up hearing

(and probably telling) Fish Stories. After all, living in Port St. Joe, we all have more opportunities to fi sh that most people. Beginning Jan. 8, Rev. Mac Fulcher will begin a fi ve-week series called “Fish Stories.” We will begin the series by looking at fi shing in Deep Water. Our scripture will be Luke 5:1-11. So, if you would like to learn more about fi shing, come this Sunday our Contemporary Service at 9 a.m. ET in the Fellowship Hall, or our Traditional Service at 11 a.m. in the Sanctuary. For more information, please call the church offi ce at 227-1724.

Revival at New Bethel Baptist

New Bethel Baptist Church of Port St. Joe and Pastor Cyril Mills will be hosting Revival services at 7 p.m. ET nightly Jan. 5-7. The speaker will be Evangelist Jennifer Bailey.

Everyone is invited to come out and support the woman of God and lift up the name of the Lord.

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Let the community know about loved ones that have passed away. Obituaries are free and allow families and friends to remember and share.

Submit obituaries by 8 a.m. ET Tuesdays to tcroft@starfl .com to leave a tribute to a loved one.

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Public Notice

The first Public Hearing will be held

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.

EST and the second Public Hearing for

adoption will be held January 24, 2012. The

public hearings will be held in the BOCC

Meeting Room at the Robert M. Moore

Administration Building, 1000 Cecil G.

Costin Sr. Blvd., Port St. Joe, Florida. The

public hearings will be to discuss and act on

the following:

AN ORDINANCE PER THE REQUIREMENTS

OF FLORIDA STATUE 163.3177(3)(b) TO

YEARLY REVIEW AND UPDATE THE

GULF COUNTY FIVE-YEAR CAPITAL

IMPROVEMENT SCHEDULE; ADOPTING

BY REFERENCE THE GULF COUNTY

SCHOOL DISTRICT 2011/2012 WORK PLAN;

INCORPORATING BY REFERENCE THE

UPDATED CONCURRENCY TRACKING

DATA; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF

ORDINANCE IN CONFLICT THEREWITH,

PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND

PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

The public is encouraged to attend and be

heard on this matter. The ordinance and

contents are on file with the Clerk of Court

and at the Planning Department, Room 312

in the Robert M. Moore Administration

Building, 1000 Cecil G. Costin, Sr. Blvd.,

Port St. Joe, FL.

Ad #2011-88

PUBLIC NOTICE

A Public Hearing will be held at the

Planning and Development Review Board

(PDRB) meeting on Monday, January 16 ,

2012 at 8:45 a.m. EST, and at the Board of

County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting

on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.

EST. Both public hearings will be held in

the BOCC Meeting Room at the Robert M.

Moore Administration Building, 1000 Cecil

G. Costin Sr. Blvd., Port St. Joe, Florida. The

public hearings will be to discuss and act on

the following:

1. Variance Application - by Michael

Weitman - for Parcel ID # 006268-119R -

Located in Section 18, Township 9 South,

Range 11 West, Gulf County, Florida -

Encroach into a 25’ setback by 5’.

2. Variance Application - Bailey’s Crab

House & Seafood Market - for Parcel 03946-

000R - Located in Section 5, Township 7

South, Range 11 West, Gulf County, Florida

- Encroach into the roadside setback by

8’ and rear setback by 12’ for business

improvements.

3. Public and Open Discussion

4. Staff

The public is encouraged to attend and be

heard on these matters. Information prior

to the meeting can be viewed at the Planning

Department at 1000 Cecil G. Costin Sr. Blvd.,

Room 312.

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Nobles from page B1Beach, California and now living in the Panhandle, Benson knew he had talent as a world-class water polo player, playing center-for-ward in the ’70s on teams that faced such top-notch foreign competition as for-eign competitors in the Pan American Games. The son of a California beach power lifter, Benson was a jock in his youth, earning a water polo scholarship to UCLA.

“I’m still a rubber band,” he said. “It gave me flexibil-ity.”

But instead of an ath-letic career, the 5’10” 160-pound, 29-inch waisted Benson opted instead to pursue classical ballet at U.S. International Univer-sity in San Diego, a school affiliated with the San Di-ego Ballet.

There he studied under Sir John Hart, former ar-tistic director for the Royal Ballet, his wife Lady Ann Hart, and Erling Sunde before graduating in 1981 with a bachelor of fine arts with minor in music. As a ballet dancer, he played for four seasons with the San Diego Opera, in such clas-sical ballets as “Carmen” and “Don Quixote” but it was not his passion in life. “I played the wolf once but it wasn’t me,” he said.

Funky, jazzy stage work was more his style, and as Bernardo in “West Side Story” and with parts in such musicals as “Grease,” “Chorus Line” and “Cats” he was finding his style.

He picked up some other nice work if you can get it, appearing in South Ameri-can television commercials or bad television shows out of Tijuana, appearing as a federale with a machine gun.

Ultimately, though, it was in the realm of modern dance, and its growing im-portance as a showcase for other commercial and re-cording work, that Benson found his niche.

He became a member of the first group of dancers to do trade shows, now a sta-ple in the industry, when he performed with a group for Puma sportswear, dancing to the music of “Eye of the Tiger.” Set up a small stage in venues both in America and Europe, Benson and company combined prod-uct giveaways with an ath-letic spectacle, part of an effort to blend dance with contemporary recreation and lifestyle promotion.

As a dancer he promot-ed everything from Hurley skateboards and snow-boards, to Ski Doo snow-mobiles to Miller Beer, ap-pearing in a television com-mercial as a deliveryman dancing on bottle caps to the jingle “Hit Your Spot.”

“It’s just another job,”

said the soft-spoken Ben-son, who even with knee surgery two years ago, is still only about 190 pounds, with a 32-inch waist. He stays fit by doing mountain biking and cross training, and honing his prowess as a single handicap golfer at St. James Golf Resort in Carrabelle.

Perhaps the most ex-citing aspect of Benson’s dance career has been a chance to be a part of the music video craze that be-gan with the advent of MTV. He has appeared in perfor-mances by superstars who have included Rick Astley, George Michael, Reba Mc-Intyre, Stevie Nicks and Paula Abdul among a host of others.

Including Michael Jack-son, as Benson appeared with both ‘The King of Pop” and sister Latoya in their Moonwalker work, with “Smooth Criminals,” shot on a soundstage in Los An-geles.

“Just to watch Michael worked, they made it pos-sible to do what we did,” he said.

He has rubbed elbows and tripped the light with such world class choreog-raphers as Danny Hoctor and Betty Byrd, the famed American dance team, met Henny Youngman and Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse and done television work with Tommy Walsh.

“As long as you’re doing what you love,” he said. “I was given a gift.”

Benson has known No-bles for about 25 years, first crossing paths at a 1986 dance convention in Orlan-do when Benson was part of Dance Caravan, a six-week summer tour, mostly of big cities, to teach the latest dance moves, styles, and cutting edge work to aspiring dancers.

Sometimes Nobles would take as many as two dozen dancers to the event, where they had a chance to learn from the best and re-turn back home to perfect what they had learned.

“You get all your train-ing in studios, that’s where your best training comes from,” Benson said. “You learn what you need to do to go to auditions”

Benson’s dance instruc-tion expertise has taken him throughout the coun-try, from Phoenix to New Orleans, to convey hip-hop tricks and techniques, and lyrical dance combina-tions.

This January, Nobles will be back working at her studio and her danc-ers brush with a top-notch professional a thing of the past. Until he graces the lo-cal studios with his graceful moves and teaching tips.

Photos by DAVID ADLERSTEIN | Florida Freedom

Pam Nobles Studios’ “Hot Flashes,” including Gulf County Supervisor of Elections Linda Griffin, center, left, a stand in a tableau during a Scott Benson class.

Scott Benson does a flying leap during a class at Pam Nobles Studios.

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C L A S S I F I E D SThursday, January 5, 2012 The Star | B6

36879SIN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR GULF COUNTY, FLOR-IDACASE NO.: 11-431-CADIVISION:

21st MORTGAGECORPORATION, etc.,Plaintiff,

vs.

JERMAINEROBINSON, et al,Defendants.

NOTICE OF ACTION

TO:Jermaine RobinsonLast Known Address1842 Stonemill CreekWewahitchka, FL32454

Ursula RobinsonLast Known Address1842 Stonemill CreekWewahitchka, FL32454

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to fore-closure a mortgage on the following property in Gulf County, Florida:

Exhit “A”

COMMENCE AT A 4” SQUARE CONCRETE MONUMENT MARKING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST QUAR-TER OF THE SOUTH-EAST QUARTER OF SECTION 4, TOWN-SHIP 4 SOUTH, RANGE 10 WEST, GULF COUNTY, FLOR-IDA; THENCE GO SOUTH 00 DEGREES 20 MINUTES 00 SEC-ONDS EAST ALONG THE WEST BOUND-ARY LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUAR-TER OF THE SOUTH-EAST QUARTER (AS MONUMENTED) FOR A DISTANCE OF 225,60 FEET TO A 1/2” DIAMETER IRON ROD AND CAP, STAMPED L.B. NO. 6596 ON THE SOUTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY LINE OF STONE MILL CREEK ROAD (HAVING A 60 FOOT WIDE RIGHT OF WAY); THENCE GO SOUTH 71 DEGREES 18 MIN-UTES 00 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE SOUTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY LINE OF STONE MILL CREEK ROAD FOR A DISTANCE OF 211.56 FEET TO A 1/2” DIAME-TER IRON ROD AND CAP, STAMPED L.B, NO. 6596 FOR THE POINT OF BEGINN-ING, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING

CONTINUE SOUTH 71 DEGREES 18 MIN-UTES 00 SECONDS EASY ALONG THE SOUTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY LINE OF STONE MILL CREEK ROAD FOR A DISTANCE OF 105.78 FEET TO A 1/2-DIAMETER IRON ROD AND CAP, STAM-PED L. B. NO 6596, THENCE DEPARTING SAID RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY LINE, GO SOUTH 00 DEGREES 20 MINUTES 00 SEC-ONDS EAST FOR A DISTANCE OF 481.29 FEET TO A 1(2” DIAM-ETER IRON ROD AND CAP, STAMPED L.S, NO. 6596, THENCE CONTINUE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 20 MIN-UTES 00 SECONDS EAST FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 411.0 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE AP-PROXIMATE WATER’S EDGE AND TOP OF BANK OF STONE MILL CREEK; THEN TURN RIGHT AND MEANDER UPSTREAM ALONG THE APPROXIMATE WATER’S EDGE AND TOP OF BANK FOR 208 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT WHICH BEARS SOUTH 00 DEGREES 20 MIN-UTES 00 SECONDS EAST OF THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE DEPARTING THE APPROXIMATE WATER’S EDGE AND THE TOP OF BANK, GO NORTH 00 DE-GREES 20 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF 326.5 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO 1/2” DIAME-TER IRON ROD AND CAP, STAMPED L.B, 6596; THENCE CON-TINUE NORTH 00 DE-GREES 20 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF 431.54 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINN-ING.

Together with 2006 Nobility, Kingswood, 66x28 manufactured home, Serial No: N8-12961AB, located on the property.

has been filed against you and you are re-quired to serve a copy of your written de-fenses, if any, to it on Lance Paul Cohen, the Plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is Co-hen & Thurston, P.A. 1723 Blanding Boule-vard, Suite 102, Jack-sonvilee, Florida 32210, within thirty (30) days from the first date of publication of this no-tice, on or before Janu-ary 9, 2012, and filed the original with the Clerk of the Court ei-ther before service on the Plaintiff’s attorney’s or immediately there-after, otherwise a de-fault will be entered against you for the re-lief demanded in the complaint or petition.

DATED on the 29th day of November, 2011.

REBECCA L. NORRISClerk of the CourtGulf County, Florida

By: Tanya KnoxDec 29, 2011Jan 5, 2012

36288IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOUR-TEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR GULF COUNTY, FLOR-IDACASE NO.2011-CA-000230

FIRST TENNESSEE BANK NATIONALASSOCIATION,Plaintiff,

vs.

VIENTO BEACH, LLC, a Georgia limited liabil-ity company, STEVEN BRADLEY, JON LAP-LANTE, and BRAD ZEITLIN,Defendants.

NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure rendered on December 6, 2011, in that certain cause pending in the Circuit Court in and for Gulf County, Florida, wherein FIRST TEN-NESSEE BANK NA-TIONAL ASSOCIATION is Plaintiff, and VIENTO BEACH, LLC, a Geor-gia limited liability com-pany, STEVEN BRAD-LEY, JON LAPLANTE, and BRAD ZEITLIN, are Defendants, in Civil Ac-tion Cause No. 2011-CA-000230, I, Re-becca L. Norris, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, will at 11:00 a.m. (EST), on January 12, 2012, offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder for cash at the Courthouse Lobby of the Gulf County Courthouse, 1000 Cecil G. Costin, Sr. Blvd., Port St. Joe, FL 32456, in accord-ance with Section 45.031, Florida Stat-utes, the following de-scribed real and per-sonal property, situate and being in Gulf County, Florida to-wit:

REAL PROPERTY DE-SCRIPTION (collec-tively referred to in Ex-hibit 6 as the “Land”):

EXHIBIT “1”

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

A portion of Govern-ment Lot 2 of Section 27, Township 7 South, Range 11 West; Gulf County, Florida, Being more particularly de-scribed as follows:

Commence at the 6 inch triangular concrete monument marking the point of intesection of the Southwesterly right of way line of State Road 30 (U.S. Highway 98) with the West line of said Government Lot 2; thence along the Southwesterly right of way line of said State Road 30 S46°59’33”E, 622.44 feet to the iron rod marking the Point of Beginning; thence continue along said right of way line, S46°19’17”E, 621.66 feet to a concrete mon-ument; thence leaving said right of way line, S43°23’47”W, 182.84 feet to an iron rod; thence N65°36’09”W, 184.77 feet to an iron rod; thence N46°39’36”W, 150.06 feet to an iron rod; thence N43°11’46”E, 42.89 feet to an iron rod; thence N46°34’48”W, 149.98 feet to an iron rod; thence S43°30’09”W, 10.00 feet to an iron rod; thence N46°40’42”W, 149.91 feet to an iron rod; thence N44°14’39”E, 213.47 feet to the Point of Beginning

EXHIBIT “2”

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

PARCEL A:Commence at the Northwest corner of Original Government Lot 2, Section 27, Township 7 South, Range 11 West, Gulf County, Florida, and thence run South along the West line of said Original Government Lot 2, a distance of 170.28 feet to the Southwesterly right-of-way boundary of U. S. Highway No. 98, thence run South 46 degrees 47 minutes 20 seconds East along said right-of-way boundary 32.50 feet to a concrete monument for the POINT OF BE-GINNING. From said Point of Beginning thence run South 00 degrees 49 minutes 18 seconds West 1078.04 feet to a rod and cap, thence run South 89 degrees 10 minutes 03 seconds East 150.01 feet to a rod and cap, thence run South 00 degrees 50 minutes 44 seconds West 193.48 feet to the Northerly right-of-way boundary of Butler Bay Road, thence run along said right-of-way boundary as follows: South 87 degrees 53 minutes 27 seconds East 192.16 feet to a point of curve to the left, thence Northeasterly along said curve with a radius of 3307.00 feet thru a central angle of 03 de-grees 45 minutes 47 seconds for an arc dis-tance of 217.19 feet, the chord of said arc being North 87 degrees 25 minutes 05 seconds East 217.15 feet, thence North 82 de-grees 19 minutes 33 seconds East 332.21 feet to a point of curve to the right, thence Northeasterly along said curve with a radius of 1020.00 feet thru a central angle of 06 de-grees 18 minutes 49

seconds for an arc dis-tance of 112.40 feet, the chord of said arc being North 86 degrees 41 minutes 05 seconds East 112.34 feet, thence leaving said right-of-way boundary run North 25 degrees 57 minutes 22 seconds East 202.88 feet to a rod and cap on the Southwesterly right-of-way boundary of U. S. Highway No. 98, thence run North 46 degrees 01 minutes 15 seconds West along said right-of-way boundary 245.62 feet to a concrete monu-ment, thence run South 44 degrees 03 minutes 59 seconds West 182.90 feet to a rod and cap, thence run North 64 degrees 56 minutes 55 seconds West 184.74 feet to a rod and cap, thence run North 43 degrees 35 minutes 15 seconds East 43.19 feet, thence run North 46 degrees 01 minutes 19 seconds West 299.81 feet to a rod and cap, thence run South.44 degrees 10 minutes 01 seconds West 9.98 feet to a rod. and cap, thence run North 45 degrees 59 minutes 38 seconds West 450.90 feet to a rod and cap, thence run North 43 degrees 58 minutes 02 seconds East 77.59 feet to a rod and cap, thence run North 45 degrees 41 minutes 44 seconds West 60.24 feet to a rod and cap, thence run North 45 degrees 00 minutes 45 seconds East 12.08 feet to a rod and cap, thence run North 45 degrees 57 minutes 11 seconds West 112.60 feet to a concrete monument, thence run North 00 degrees 44 minutes 56 seconds East 164.79 feet to a concrete monument on the Southwesterly right-of -way boundary of said U. S. Highway No. 98, thence run North 43 degrees 07 minutes 43 seconds West along said right-of-way boundary 34.46 feet to the POINT OF BEGIN-NING. Containing 12.50 acres, more or less.

AND ALSO:

PARCEL B:

Commence at the Northwest corner of Original Government Lot 2, Section 27, Township 7 South, Range 11 West, Gulf County, Florida, and thence run South along the West line of said Original Government Lot 2, a distance of 170.28 feet to the Southerly right-of-way boundary of U. S. High-way No. 98, thence run South 46 degrees 47 minutes 20 seconds East along said right-of-way boundary 32.50 feet, thence run South 00 degrees 49 minutes 18 seconds West 1078.04 feet to a rod and cap, thence run South 89 degrees 10 minutes 03 seconds East 150.01 feet to a rod and cap, thence run South 00 degrees 50 minutes 44 seconds West 259.48 feet to the

Southerly right-of-way boundary of Butler Bay Road for the POINT OF BEGINNING. From said POINT OF BEGINNING thence run along said right-of-way boundary as follows: South 87 degrees 53 minutes 27 seconds East 193.08 feet to a point of curve to the left, thence Northeasterly along said curve with a radius of 3373.00 feet thru a central angle of 03 de-grees 49 minutes 20 seconds for an arc dis-tance of 225.01 feet, the chord of said arc being North 87 degrees 24 minutes 58 seconds East: 224.97 feet, thence North 82 de-grees 19 minutes 33 seconds East 334.05 feet to a point of curve to the right, thence Southeasterly along said curve with a radius of 954.00 feet thru a central angle of 26 de-grees 05 minutes 55 seconds for an arc dis-tance of 434.55 feet, the chord of said arc being South 83 de-grees 22 minutes 55 seconds East 430.81 feet to a rod and cap, thence leaving said right-of-way boundary run South 00 degrees 44 minutes 36 seconds West 337.92, feet to the approximate mean high waterline of St. Jo-seph Bay, thence run along said approximate mean high waterline as follows: North 63 de-grees 40 minutes 02 seconds West 272.75 feet, thence North 67 degrees 15 minutes 51 seconds West 182.34 feet, thence North 72 degrees 27 minutes 45 seconds West 188.39 feet, thence North 69 degrees 10 minutes 56 seconds West 33.72 feet, thence North 60 degrees 00 minutes 08 seconds West 28.34 feet, thence North 40 degrees 55 minutes 41 seconds West 30.46 feet, thence North 29 degrees 15 minutes 17 seconds West 38.17 feet, thence North 50 degrees 06 minutes 03 seconds West 28.67 feet to the Southerly right-of-way boundary of said Butler Bay Road, thence leaving said approximate mean high waterline run South 82 degrees 19 minutes 33 seconds West, along said right-of-way boundary 42.08 feet to the ap-proximate mean high waterline of said St. Jo-seph Bay, thence run along said approximate mean high waterline as follows: South 27 de-grees 17 minutes 38 seconds West 17.03 feet, thence South 66 degrees 21 minutes 16 seconds West 27.92 feet,thence South 87 degrees 23 minutes 16 seconds West 51.95 feet, thence North 88 degrees 18 minutes 10 seconds West 41.43 feet, thence South 79 degrees 59 minutes 47 seconds West 54.04 feet, thence South 75 degrees 08 minutes 56 seconds West 49.87 feet, thence North 88 degrees 31 minutes 58 seconds West 148.08 feet, thence South 86 degrees 13 minutes 04 seconds West 45.81

feet, thence leaving said approximate mean high waterline run North 00 degrees 50 minutes 44 seconds East 46.35 feet to the POINT OF BEGINN-ING. Containing 3.81 acres, more or less.

EXHIBIT “3”

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

Commence on the West line of Lot Two (2), Section 27, T7S, R11W, where the West line enters into St. Joseph’s Bay; being the Southwest corner of said Lot, thence run North parallel with said West line 270 feet; thence run East with right angle to said West line 150 feet; thence run South 270 feet, more or less, to St. Joseph’s Bay, thence run Westerly along-St. Joseph’s Bay 150 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning. Subject to mineral rights heretofore con-veyed.

EXHIBIT “4”

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

Beginning at a point South 05 degrees 25 minutes East 102.458 feet from the Northwest corner of Government Lot 4, Section 27, Township 7, Range 11, South and West, inter-secting a point 121.833 feet Southwest of a tri-angular concrete mon-ument, a permanent reference mark of St. Joe Paper Company. The point of beginning is also the point of in-tersection of the South right of way line of US Highway 98, 60 feet South of the center line of said highway, and the North right of way line of Old US Highway 98, 33 feet from the center line of said Old Highway. Thence North 46 degrees 50 minutes West following the South right of way line of US Highway 98 a distance of 365.083 feet to the center line of a concrete culvert un-der the Highway. Thence South 25 de-grees 04 minutes West 220.250 feet to a stake on the North right of way line of Old US Highway 98; thence in an Easterly direction following the curved right of way line on North side of Old US Highway 98 to the point of beginning.

EXHIBIT “5”

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

All of Las Palmas Sub-division according to the Plat thereof re-corded in the public records of Gulf County, Florida in Plat Book 4, .

EXHIBIT “6”PERSONAL PROP-ERTY DESCRIPTION

l .All of the buildings and improvements lo-cated on the Land and all right, title and inter-est of VIENTO BEACH, LLC (“Borrower”) in and to any utility lines and/or improvements located on the Land or

in which Borrower has any interest in connec-tion with the Land, and all right, title and inter-est of the Borrower in and to the streets and roads abutting the Land to the center lines thereof, and strips and gores within or adjoin-ing the Land, the air space and rights to use said air space above the Land, all rights of ingress and egress by motor vehicles to park-ing facilities on or within the Land, all easements now or hereafter affecting, or inuring to the benefit of the owner of the Land, including, without limi-tation, the Borrower’s rights under any ease-ment and related agreements and royal-ties and all rights ap-pertaining to the use and enjoyment of the Land, including, with-out limitation, alley, vault, drainage, min-eral, water, oil and gas rights, together with any and all other rights, privileges and interests appurtenant thereto (collectively, the “Premises”).

2. All fixtures and arti-cles of personal prop-erty and all appurte-nances and additions thereto and substitu-tions or replacements thereof, owned by the Borrower and attached to, contained in, or used in connection with the Premises (thought not attached thereto) or placed on any part thereof (collectively, the “Equipment”), (exclu-sive of any articles of personal property owned by any tenants occupying the Prem-ises) including, but not limited to, all screens, awnings, shades, blinds, curtains, dra-peries, carpets, rugs, furniture and furnish-ings, heating, electrical, mechanical, lighting, plumbing, ventilating, air conditioning, refrig-erating, incinerating and elevator equipment and systems, stoves, ranges, vacuum clean-ing systems, call sys-tems, sprinkler systems and other fire preven-tion and extinguishing apparatus and materi-als, motors, machinery, pipes, appliances, equipment, fittings and fixtures, and the trade name, goodwill and books and records re-lating to the business operated on the Prem-ises.

3. All of Borrower’s “equipment” and “general intangibles” (as quoted terms are deemed in the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of Florida) lo-cated at the Premises, together with the bene-fits of all deposits and payments made thereon by Borrower.

4. All leases, letting, rental agreements, use agreements, occu-pancy agreements and licenses, if any, of the Premises or any por-tion thereof (collec-tively, the “Leases”) and all right, title and inter-est of the Borrower thereunder, including, without limitation, the

rights of the Borrower, as lessor, in respect of cash, promissory notes and securities depos-ited thereunder and the right to receive and col-lect the rents, issues and profits thereof and any other sums paya-ble thereunder (the “Rents”).

5. All unearned premi-ums, accrued, accruing or to accrue under insurance policies ob-tained, or caused to be obtained, by the Bor-rower and the Borrow-ers’ interest in and to all proceeds of the con-version, voluntary or in-voluntary, of the Land and/or personal prop-erty described herein (the “Property”) or any part thereof into cash or liquidated claims, in-cluding, without limita-tion, proceeds of casu-alty insurance, title insurance or any other insurance maintained on the Premises and the Equipment or any part of either thereof, and all awards and/or other compensation (collectively “Awards”) made to the owners of the Premises and the Equipment or any part of either thereof by any governmental or other lawful authorities for the taking by eminent do-main, condemnation or otherwise, of all or any part the Property or any easement or other right therein, including Awards for any change of grade of streets.

6. All extensions, im-provements, better-ments, substitutes and replacements of, and all additions and appur-tenances to, the Prem-ises and the Equip-ment, acquired by or released to the Bor-rower or constructed, assembled or placed on the Premises, and all conversions of the security constituted thereby, immediately upon such acquisition, release, construction, assembling, placement or conversion, as the case may be.

Said sale will be made pursuant to and in or-der to satisfy the terms of said Final Judgment of Foreclosure.

Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.

DATED this 6th day of December, 2011.

REBECCA L. NORRISAs Clerk of the Court

By /s/ B.A. BaxterAs Deputy Clerk

Attorneys for Plaintiff:Joseph E. Foster, Esq.FL Bar No.: 282091AKERMANSENTERFITTPost Office Box 231420 South Orange Ave.Suite 1200Orlando, FL32802-0231(407) 423-4000

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76115SIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR GULF COUNTYCase No.:2011-CA-000394Division#:

JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Successor by Merger to Chase Home Fi-nance, LLC,Plaintiff,

vs.

Michael Edward Croft a/k/a Michael E. Croft a/k/a Michael Croft and Theresa Faye Croft a/k/a Theresa F. Croft a/k/a Teresa Croft, Husband and Wife; Unknown Tenants in Possession #l, If living, and all Unknown Par-ties claiming by, through, under and against the above named Defendant(s) who are not known to be dead or alive, whether said Unknown Parties may claim an interest as Spouse, Heirs, Devisees, Grant-ees, or Other Claim-ants; Unknown Tenants in Possession #2, If liv-ing, and all Unknown Parties claiming by, through, under and against the above named Defendant(s) who are not known to be dead or alive, whether said Unknown Parties may claim an interest as Spouse, Heirs, Devisees, Grant-ees, or Other ClaimantsDefendant(s).

NOTICE OF ACTIONFORECLOSUREPROCEEDINGS-PROPERTY

TO: Michael Edward Croft a/k/a Michael E. Croft a/k/a Michael Croft, WHOSE RESI-DENCE IS: 1403 Dewitt Street, Panama City, FL 32401

Residence unknown, if living, including any un-known spouse of the said Defendants, if ei-ther has remarried and if either or both of said Defendants are dead, their respective un-known heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, and trustees, and all other persons claiming by, through, under or

against the named Defendant(s); and the aforementioned named Defendant(s) and such of the aforementioned unknown Defendants and such of the afore-mentioned unknown Defendants as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise not sui ju-ris

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an ac-tion has been com-menced to foreclose a mortgage on the fol-lowing real property, ly-ing and being and situ-ated in Gulf County, Florida, more particu-larly described as fol-lows:

LOT 9, BLOCK “I”, RISH SUBDIVISION, BEING AN UNRECORDED SUBDIVISION OF THE NORTH HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUAR-TER OF THE NORTH-EAST QUARTER AND THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUAR-TER OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 4 SOUTH, RANGE 10 WEST, GULF COUNTY, FLOR-IDA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DE-SCRIBED AS FOL-LOWS:COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE NORTH HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUAR-TER OF THE NORTH-EAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 36, RUNNING THENCE N. 01 DEGREES 17’24”E. ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID SEC-TION 36 FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 1090.39 FEET TO THE INTER-SECTION OF SAID EAST LINE WITH THE NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF CORN GRIFFIN STREET (A PRIVATE 60 FOOT R/W); THENCE LEAV-ING SAID EAST LINE, RUN S. 89 DEGREES 59’26”W. ALONG THE SAID NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 118.31 FEET TO THE POINT ON THE CURVATURE OF A CURVE, CON-CAVE TO THE SOUTH-EAST, HAVING A RA-DIUS OF 100.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 90 DEGREES 00’00”, AND BEING SUB-TENDED BY A CHORD BEARING S. 44 DE-GREES 58’26”W. FOR 141.42 FEET; THENCE LEAVING SAID NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE, RUN N. 62 DEGREES 20’46’W. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 247.58 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING;

THENCE N. 85 DE-GREES 19’08’W. FOR A DISTANCE OF 200.35 FEET; THENCE S. 01 DEGREES 18’02’W. FOR A DISTANCE OF 439.00 FEET TO THE NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF SAID CORN GRIFFIN STREET; THENCE N. 84 DEGREES 59’26”E. ALONG SAID NORTH-ERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 148.08 FEET TO THE POINT OF CUR-VATURE OF A NON-TANGENT CURVE, CONCAVE TO THE NORTHWEST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 177.00 FEET, A CENTRAL AN-GLE OF 17 DEGREES 21’10”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING N. 82 DEGREES 46’56”E. FOR 53.40 FEET; THENCE NORTHEAST-ERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DIS-TANCE OF 53.61 FEET; THENCE LEAV-ING SAID CURVING NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE, RUN N. 01 DEGREES 18’02”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 403.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINN-ING. CONTAINING 1.94 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, AND BEING SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING 60 FOOT PRIVATE ROAD, BE-ING MORE PARTICU-LARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:COMMENCE AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE NORTH HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUAR-TER OF SAID SEC-TION 36, RUNNING THENCE S. 89 DE-GREES 59’26’W. ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID NORTH HALF OF THE SOUTH-EAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 652.42 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE N. 01 DE-GREES 18’02”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 245.25 FEET; THENCE N. 89 DEGREES 59’26”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 499.32 FEET TO POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVING CUL-DE-SAC CONCAVE TO THE WEST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 75 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 312 DEGREES 50’37”, AND BEING SUB-TENDED BY A CHORD BEARING N.00 DE-GREES 00’34’W, 60.00 FEET; THENCE EAST-ERLY, NORTHERLY, AND WESTERLY ALONG SAID CURV-ING CUL-DE-SAC AN

ARC DISTANCE OF 409.52 FEET TO A POINT OF NON- TAN-GENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE S. 89 DEGREES 59’26”W. FOR A DISTANCE OF 497.94 FEET; THENCE N. 01 DEGREES 18’02”E. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 456.59 FEET; THENCE S. 56 DEGREES 19’45”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 25.72 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVA-TURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE NORTHEAST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 150.00 FEET, A CENTRAL AN-GLE OF 38 DEGREES 40’50”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING S. 75 DEGREES 40’09”E. 99.35 FEET; THENCE S O U T H E A S T E R L Y ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 101.27 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE N. 84 DE-GREES 59’26”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 144.94 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE NORTHWEST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 237.00 FEET, A CEN-TRAL ANGLE OF 92 DEGREES 07’41 “, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING N. 44 DEGREES 30’55”E. 341.34 FEET; THENCE NORTHEAST-ERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DIS-TANCE OF 381.09 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE, THENCE N. 00 DEGREES 00’34”W. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 11.34 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF CURVE CONCAVE TO THE SOUTHEAST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 40.00 FEET, A CEN-TRAL ANGLE OF 90 DEGREES 00’00”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING N. 44 DEGREES 59’26”E. 56.57 FEET; THENCE NORTHEAST-ERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DIS-TANCE OF 62.83 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE N. 89 DEGREES 59’26”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 118.30 FEET TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID SECTION 36; THENCE N. 01 DEGREES 17’24”E. ALONG SAID EAST LINE FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 60.00 FEET; THENCE S. 89 DEGREES 59’26”W. FOR A DISTANCE OF 118.30 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVA-TURE OF A CURVE

CONCAVE TO THE SOUTHEAST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 100.00 FEET, A CENTRAL AN-GLE OF 90 DEGREES 00’00”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING S. 44 DEGREES 59’26”W. 141.42 FEET; THENCE S O U T H W E S T E R L Y ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 157.08 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE S. 00 DE-GREES 00’34”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 12.95 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE NORTHWEST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 177.00 FEET, A CEN-TRAL ANGLE OF 93 DEGREES 00’26”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING S. 44 DEGREES 57’18”W. 256.80 FEET; THENCE SOUTH-WESTERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 287.32 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE S. 84 DEGREES 59’26”W. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 148.08 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE NORTHEAST, HAVING A RADIUSOF 90.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 38 DEGREES 40’50”, AND BEING SUB-TENDED BY A CHORD BEARING N. 75 DE-GREES 40’09”W. 59.61 FEET; THENCE N O R T H W E S T E R L Y ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 60.76 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE N. 56 DE-GREES 19’45”W. FOR A DISTANCE OF 432.04 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVA-TURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE NORTHEAST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 367.00 FEET, A CENTRAL AN-GLE OF 81 DEGREES 11’00”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING N. 08 DEGREES 34’29”W. 477.23 FEET; THENCE N O R T H W E S T E R L Y ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 519.54 FEET TO A POINT OF NON-TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE N. 81 DEGREES 18’02”E. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 244.86 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE NORTHWEST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 334.75 FEET, A CEN-

TRAL ANGLE OF 40 DEGREES 00’00”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING N. 61 DEGREES 18’02”E. 228.98 FEET; THENCE NORTHEAST-ERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DIS-TANCE OF 233.70 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE N. 41 DEGREES 18’02”E. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 136.68 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE SOUTHEAST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 146.20 FEET, AND BE-ING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING N. 65 DEGREES 38’59”E. 120.56 FEET; THENCE N O R T H E A S T E R L Y ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 124.26 FEET TO A POINT OF REVERSE CURVATURE, SAID CURVE BEING CON-CAVE TO THE NORTH-WEST, HAVING A RA-DIUS OF 155.46 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 88 DEGREES 42’03”, AND BEING SUB-TENDED BY A CHORD BEARING N. 45 DE-GREES 38’58”E. 217.35 FEET; THENCE N O R T H E A S T E R L Y ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 240.67 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE N. 01 DE-GREES 18’02”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 18.56 FEET TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SEC-TION 36; THENCE S. 90 DEGREES 00’00”W. ALONG SAID NORTH LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 60.02 FEET; THENCE S. 01 DE-GREES 18’02’W. FOR A DISTANCE OF 17.20 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE NORTHWEST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 95.46 FEET; A CEN-TRAL ANGLE OF 88 DEGREES 42’04”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING S. 45 DEGREES 38’58”W. 133.46 FEET; THENCE SOUTH-WESTERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 147.78 FEET TO A POINT OF REVERSE CURVA-TURE, SAID CURVE BEING CONCAVE TO THE SOUTHEAST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 206.20 FEET, A CEN-TRAL ANGLE OF 48 DEGREES 41’59”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING S. 65 DEGREES 38’59”W. 170.03 FEET; THENCE SOUTH-

76109SIN THE CIRCUIT CIVIL COURT OF THE FOUR-TEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR GULF COUNTY

CIVIL DIVISIONCase No.:23-2009-CA-000438Division:

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.Plaintiff,

vs.

KENNETH BURKHART and CARL BURKHART, UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF KENNETH BURK-HART; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF CARL BURKHART, AND UN-KNOWN TENANTS/ OWNERS,Defendants.

NOTICE OF SALE

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Final Judg-ment of Foreclosure for Plaintiff entered in this cause on December 16, 2011, in the Circuit Court of Gulf County, Florida, I will sell the property situated in Gulf County, Florida described as:

LOT 188 WETAPPO SUBDIVISION AC-CORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 5, PAGES 36-42 IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA.

and commonly known as: 188 NEEDLE GRASS WAY, WEWA-HITCHKA, FL 32465; including the building, appurtenances, and fix-tures located therein, at public sale, to the high-est and best bidder, for cash, Sales held in front lobby of court-house on January 26, 2012 at 11:00am E.T.


Dated this 21st day of December, 2011.

Rebecca NorrisClerk of the Circuit Court

By: BA BaxterDeputy ClerkJan 5, 12, 2012

6125SIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 14TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR GULF COUNTY, FLORIDACASE NO.:23-2011-CA-000260

RBC BANK (USA) F/K/A RBC CENTURA BANKPlaintiff,

vs.

OUELLETTE, ROBERT, ET ALDefendants

NOTICE OF ACTION

TO: ROBERT DONALD OUELLETTE, JR. AKA ROBERT D. QUELL-ETTE, JR., 1101 CON-STITUTION DRIVE,PORT SAINT JOE, FL 32456

ROBERT DONALD OUELLETTE, JR. AKA ROBERT D. OUEL-LETTE, JR., 519 MAINE AVE., PANAMA CITY, FL 32401

AMY CREWS OUEL-LETTE, 1101 CONSTI-TUTION DRIVE, PORT ST. JOE, FL 32456

AMY CREWS OUEL-LETTE, 519 MAINE AVE., PANAMA CITY, FL 32401

AND TO: All persons claiming an interest by, through, under, or against the aforesaid Defendant(s).

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an ac-tion to foreclose a mortgage on the fol-lowing described prop-erty located in Gulf County, Florida:

LOT EIGHT (8) BLOCK 97 OF UNIT NO. 4, ST. JOESEPH’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF PORT ST. JOE, FLORIDA AC-CORDING TO THE OF-FICIAL MAP RE-CORDED IN PLAT BOOK 1, PAGE 40 OF THE PUBLIC RE-CORDS OF GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA.

has been filed against you, and you are re-quired to serve a copy of your written de-fenses, if any, to this action, on Greenspoon Marder, P.A., Default Department, Attorneys for Plaintiff, whose ad-dress is Trade Centre South, Suite 700, 100 West Cypress Creek Road, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309, and the file original with the Clerk within 30 days after the first publication of this notice, or on or before January 23, 2012; oth-erwise a default and a judgment may be en-tered against you for the relief demanded in the in the Complaint.

WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL OF SAID COURT on this 15th day of December, 2011.

REBECCA L. (BECKY) NORRISAs Clerk of said Court

By: BA BaxterAs Deputy Clerk

In accordance with the Americans with Disabil-ities Act, persons need-ing a reasonable ac-commodation to partic-ipate in this proceeding should, no later than seven (7) days prior, contact the Clerk of the Court’s disability coor-dinator at PO BOX 826, MARIANNA, FL 32448, 850-718-0026. If hear-ing or voice impaired contact (TDD) (800) 955-8771 via Florida Relay System.Jan 5, 12, 2012

76065SIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOUR-TEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR GULF COUNTYCASE NO. 11-197CA

EMERALD COASTFEDERAL CREDITUNION,Plaintiff,

vs.

CARLA S.PATTERSON,Defendant.

NOTICE OF SALE

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclo-sure dated December 20, 2011 and entered in Civil Case No. 11-197CA of the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, in and for GULF County, wherein EMERALD COAST FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, is Plaintiff and CARLA S. PATTERSON is the De-fendant, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the front door of the Gulf County Court-house in Port St. Joe, Florida, at 11:00 A.M., ET on the 26th day of January, 2012 the fol-lowing described prop-erty as set forth in said Final Judgment:

EXHIBIT “A”

Description: Lots 1 thru 5 and Tract A, Block M, Howard Creek Proper-ties, unrecorded sub-division of a portion of Section 31, Township 6 South, Range 8 West, and a portion of Sec-tion 6, Township 7 South, Range 8 West, Gulf County, Florida, more particularly de-scribed as follows:

Commence at the Southwest Corner of the Southeast Quarter of Section 31, Town-ship 6 South, Range 8 West, Gulf County, Florida. Thence South 89 degrees 38 minutes 25 seconds East along the South line of said Southeast Quarter of Section 31 for 213.28 feet; thence North 25 degrees 15 minutes 19 seconds West for 232.89 feet to the Point of Beginning. Thence continue North 25 de-grees 15 minutes 19 seconds West for 331.90 feet to the P.C. of a curve concave to the Southwest and hav-ing a radius of 2234.30 feet; thence North-westerly along said curve for an arc dis-tance of 197.22 feet; said arc having a chord of 197.16 feet bearing North 27 degrees 47 minutes 03 seconds West; thence North 30 degrees 18 minutes 46 seconds West for 224.90 feet; thence South 59 degrees 41 minutes 14 seconds West for 218.00 feet; thence South 30 de-grees 18 minutes 46 seconds East for 224.90 feet to the P.C. of a curve concave to the Southwest and hav-ing a radius of 2016.30 feet; thence Southeast-erly along said curve for an arc distance of 177.98 feet, said arc having a chord of 177.92 feet bearing South 27 degrees 47 minutes 03 seconds East; thence South 25 degrees 15 minutes 19 seconds East for 227.39 feet; thence South 89 degrees 38 minutes 25 seconds East for 241.76 feet to the Point of Beginning.

LESS AND EXCEPT

Lot 3, Block M

Description: Com-mence at the South-west Corner of the Southeast Quarter of Section 31, Township 6 South, Range 8 West, Gulf County, Florida; thence South 89 de-grees 38 minutes 25 seconds East along the South line of said Sec-tion 31 for 213.28 feet; thence North 25 de-grees 15 minutes 19 seconds West for 564.79 feet to the be-ginning of a curve con-cave to the Southwest having a radius of 2234.30 feet; thence Northwesterly along said curve for an arc distance of 105.13 feet, the chord of said arc bearing North 26 de-grees 36 minutes 12 seconds West for 105.12 feet, to the Point of Beginning. Thence South 62 degrees 02 minutes 55 seconds West for 218.00 feet to a point on a curve con-cave to the Southwest having a radius of 2016.30 feet; thence Northwesterly along said curve for an arc distance of 83.1 feet, the chord of said arc bearing North 29 de-grees 07 minutes 56 seconds West for 83.10 feet; thence North 30 degrees 18 minutes 46 seconds West for 12.40 feet; thence North 59 degrees 41 minutes 14 seconds East for 218.00 feet; thence South 30 degrees 18 minutes 46 seconds East for 12.40 feet to the beginning of a curve concave to the Southwest having a ra-dius of 2234.30 feet; thence Southeasterly

along said curve for an arc distance of 92.09 feet, the chord of said arc bearing South 29 degrees 07 minutes 56 seconds East for 92.09 feet to the Point of Be-ginning.

DATED this 21st day of December, 2011

REBECCA NORRISCircuit Court Clerk

By: BA BaxterDeputy ClerkJan 5, 12, 2012

76047IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FOUR-TEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR GULF COUNTY, FLOR-IDAGENERAL JURISDIC-TION DIVISIONCASE NO.’11 CA 000251CA

NATIONSTAR MORT-GAGE LLC,Plaintiff,

vs.

TROY LEWIS FAIRCHILD COLLEEN WINONIA FAIRCHILD; UNKNOWN TENANT #1; UNKNOWN TEN-ANT #2,et alDefendant.

NOTICE OFFORECLOSURE SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Fi-nal Judgment of Fore-closure dated Decem-ber 20, 2011, and en-tererd in 11 CA 000251CA of the Circuit Court of the FOUR-TEENTH Judicial Cir-cuit in and for Gulf County, Florida, where-in NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, is the Plaintiff and TROY LEWIS FAIRCHILD; COLLEEN WINONA FAIRCHILD; UN-KNOWN TENANT #1; UNKNOWN TENANT #2 are the Defendant (s). Rebecca Norris as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bid-der for cash at 11:00 ET on January 26, 2012, following de-scribed property as set forth in said Final Judg-ment, so wit:

LOTS 2 AND 3, BLOCK 10, LESS THE SOUTH 25 FEET OF LOT 3, BLOCK 10 CORREC-TIVE PLAT OF TWIN LAKES, ACCORDING TOTHE PLAT THERE-OF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 2, PAGE 38, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA.


Dated this 21st day of December, 2011.

Rebecca L NorrisClerk of the Court

By: BA BaxterDeputy Clerk

IMPORTANT

In accordance with the Americans with Disabil-ities Act, Persons with a disability needing spe-cial accommodation in order to access court facilities or participate in a court proceeding at any courthouse or court program, should within two (2) days of receipt of notice, con-tact Court Administra-tion to request such an a c c o m m o d a t i o n . Please contact the fol-lowing: Court Adminis-tration, P.O. Box 1089, Panama City, Florida 32402; Phone: 850-747-5327; Hearing & Voice Impaired: 1-800-955-8771; Email: ADA R e q u e s t @ j u d 1 4 . f l courts.orgJan 5, 12, 2012

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WESTERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 175.26 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE S. 41 DEGREES 18’02”W. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 136.68 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE NORTHWEST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 274.75 FEET, A CEN-TRAL ANGLE OF 40 DEGREES 40’40”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING S. 61 DEGREES 18’02”W. 187.94 FEET; THENCE SOUTH-WESTERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 191.81 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE S. 81 DEGREES 18’02”W. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 175.00 FEET; THENCE N. 42 DEGREES 54’14”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 38.36 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVA-TURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE NORTHWEST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 210.00 FEET, A CENTRAL AN-GLE OF 33 DEGREES 49’51 “, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING N. 25 DEGREES 59’18”E. 122.20 FEET; THENCE N O R T H E A S T E R L Y ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 124.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE N.09 DE-GREES 04’22”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 78.94 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE WEST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 487.00 FEET, A CENTRAL AN-GLE OF 21 DEGREES 55’37”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING N.06 DEGREES 20’44”W. 185.24 FEET; THENCE N O R T H W E S T E R L Y ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 186.37 FEET TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SECTION 36; THENCE S.90 DEGREES 00’00”W. ALONG SAID NORTH LINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 63.28 FEET TO A POINT ON A CURVE, SAID CURVE HAVING A RA-DIUS OF 427.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 21 DEGREES 18’47”, AND BEING SUB-TENDED BY A CHORD BEARING S. 07 DE-GREES 45’39”E. 178.66 FEET; THENCE S O U T H E A S T E R L Y ALONG SAID CUR’JE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 158.84 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY; THENCE S.09 DE-GREES 04’22”W. FOR A DISTANCE OF 76.53 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE NORTHWEST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 150.00 FEET, A CEN-TRAL ANGLE OF 33 DEGREES 49’52”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING S. 25 DEGREES 59’18”W. 87.29 FEET; THENCE SOUTH-WESTERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 88.57 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE S. 42 DEGREES 54’14’W. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 111.48 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVE CONCAVE TO THE EAST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 427.00, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 85 DEGREES 44’46”, AND BEING SUB-TENDED BY A CHORD BEARING S. 06 DE-GREES 46’55”E., 561.04 FEET; THENCE S O U T H E A S T E R L Y ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 639.03 FEET TO THE POINT OF TANGENCY OF SAID CURVE; THENCE S.56 DE-GREES 19’45”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 120.10 FEET; THENCE S.57 DEGREES 15’51 “W, FOR A DISTANCE OF 272.77 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVA-TURE OF A CURVING CUL-DE-SAC CON-CAVE TO THE EAST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 50.00 FEET, A CEN-TRAL ANGLE OF 286 DEGREES 15’35”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEAR-ING S. 32 DEGREES 44’09”E. 60.00 FEET; THENCE WESTERLY, SOUTHERLY, AND EASTERLY ALONG SAID CURVING CUL-DE-SAC AN ARC DISTANCE OF 249.81 FEET TO A POINT OF NON-TANGENCY IN SAID CURVING CUL-DE-SAC; THENCE N. 57 DEGREES 15’51 “E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 298.97 FEET;THENCE S. 56 DE-GREES 19’45”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 153.33 FEET; THENCE S. 01 DEGREES 18’02”W. FOR A DISTANCE OF 496.00 FEET; THENCE S. 89 DEGREES 59’26”W. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 454.26 FEET TO THE POINT OF CURVATURE OF A CURVING CUL-DE-SAC CONCAVE TO THE EAST, HAVING A RADIUS OF 75.00 FEET, A CENTRAL AN-GLE OF 312 DEGREES 50’38”, AND BEING SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING S. 00 DEGREES 00’34’E. 60.00 FEET; THENCE WESTERLY, SOUTH-

ERLY, AND EASTERLY ALONG SAID CURV-ING CUL-DE-SAC AN ARC DISTANCE OF 409.52 FEET TO A POINT OF NON-TANGENCY IN SAID CURVING CUL-DE-SAC; THENCE N. 89 DEGREES 59’26”E. FOR A DIS-TANCE OF 452.89 FEET; THENCE S. 01 DEGREES 18’02”W, FOR A DISTANCE OF 245.25 FEET TO THE SOUTH LINE OF THE NORTH HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUAR-TER OF THE NORTH-EAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 36; THENCE N. 89 DE-GREES 59’26”E. FOR A DISTANCE OF 60.02 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.

more commonly known as 131 Corn Griffin Street, Wewahitchka, FL 32465.

This action has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defense, if any, upon SHAPIRO, FISHMAN & GACHE, LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, whose address is 4630 Woodland Cor-porate Blvd., Suite 100, Tampa, FL 33614, within thirty (30) days after tiie first publica-tion of this notice and file the original with the clerk of this Court ei-ther before service on Plaintiffs attorney or im-mediately there after; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court on the 16th day of Decem-ber, 2011.

REBECCA L. NORRISCircuirt and County Courts

By: Tina MoneyDeputy ClerkJan 5, 12, 2012

76127SNOTICE TO RECEIVE SEALED BIDSBID #1112-05

The Gulf County Board of County Commis-sioners will receive sealed bids from any qualified person, com-pany, or corporation in-terested in providing the following:

PIPE AS INDICATED ON SPECIFICATION SHEETS

Please place YOUR COMPANY NAME, SEALED BID, and the BID NUMBER on the outside of your enve-lope, and provide three copies of your pro-posal.

Bids must be submitted to and specifications may be obtained from the Gulf County Clerk’s Office at 1000 Cecil G. Costin, Sr., Blvd., Room 148, Port St. Joe, Florida, 32456 by 4:30 p.m., E.T. on Fri-day, January 27, 2012. Bids will be opened at this same location on Monday, January 30, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., E.T.

Any questions concern-ing this bid should be directed to Don Butler, Gulf County Adminis-trator at (850) 229-6106 or (850) 227-8971.

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERSGULF COUNTY.,FLORIDA

/s/ Warren J. Yeager, Jr., Chairman

Attest:/s/ Rebecca L. Norris, ClerkJan 5, 12, 2012

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