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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Garden therapy helps nursing center residents Special to the News CHIPLEY — During April, Chipley Garden Club members Marlene Ray and Sue Jefferson met with Activities Director Kim Pothoff of Washington Rehabilitation & Nursing Center and made plans to visit the center on May 6 to do a little garden therapy with the residents. Club members arrived with several varieties of seeds — cucumbers and squash, small tomato plants, peat pots, plant markers, pans, and soil. As the group planted residents chatted about farms from their youth and flower gardens in their past. Marlene shared her experiences with growing strawberries, peppers
and zucchinis on her farm in Central Florida and Sue talked about raising daylilies and hybridizing amaryllises. Evelyn Block, Assistant Activities Director, assisted as the residents enjoyed a little hands-on gardening of their own. In a couple of weeks after the seeds germinate and the plants are large enough to be moved outside, they will be planted into a plot prepared by the center. With a little sunshine and care, residents will be able to enjoy vegetables… fresh from their garden. To learn more about Chipley Garden Club’s activities in our community, contact President Karen Roland at 638-9968.
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Garden Club members visited the Washington Rehabilitation & Nursing Center on May 6.
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posting her 17th win of the season. Sewell said she hadn’t yet determined her starting pitcher Thursday, as Sikes sports a 7-0 record. Sewell said that the Bulldogs coaching staff was unable to scout Lafayette in the opening semifinal, as Liberty County was given that same time frame to prepare for its game with Taylor. Lafayette spotted Chipley an early 1-0 lead before rallying to reach the finals four the fourth time in the past seven years. The Tigers, who lost four straight
games early this season, finished 10-13 after a strong stretch run under first-year head coach Kami Fannin. Chipley scored its lone run to forge a brief lead in the top of the first inning. Sarah Gilbert had a leadoff walk, was sacrificed to second by Kari Waldrip and moved to third on an infield single by Kara Bush. Kendal Daniels followed with a sacrifice fly for her team-leading 22nnd RBI of the season, but that is all the production Chipley could muster against Hornets starter Lindsay O’Steen. The senior right-
hander pitched a four-hitter with five strikeouts. Bush had two hits for Chipley. Lafayette was led by freshman Lacey Swafford, who improved her .516 batting average with a triple, two singles and an RBI. Sydney Shows had two hits and knocked in a run and Kaleigh Law added two RBIs for the Hornets. Gilbert was the losing pitcher, replaced by Mallory Dean in the third inning when Lafayette scored its final three runs for a fourrun edge. Dean struck out six for the Tigers in 3-plus innings.
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RESTORE ACT meeting set CHIPLEY — Washington County’s RESTORE ACT — Stakeholders Committee will have a meeting from 1-3 p.m. on May 14 at the Blue Lake Community in Chipley. The subject of the meeting is to review
opportunities that Washington County has for preparing plans and submitting projects for the RESTORE Act grant applications program. The Stakeholders Committee will accommodate handicapped and disabled persons who wish to attend this meeting. Contact the Planning Department at 4155093 at least 48 hours before the meeting date to make arrangements
map from page A1 the adjacent landowners are notified of the pending changes.” “I understand making changes to make corrections, but we’re not changing things just to change them,” Commissioner James Ussery said. “I would be concerned with them making those changes and knowing they are going to sell the properties,” Commissioner Jim Ackerman said. “We shouldn’t consider the economic value of the property,” DeRuntz said.
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Goodwill Industries — Big Bend held a Job Fair Thursday at PAEC in Chipley. More than a dozen employers were on hand to accept applications and meet with job seekers. Among the employers attending were Community South Bank, Gulf Power, Hasty Heating and Air, KFC, Loves Truck Stop, Personnel Resources, Regions Bank, Signature Health, Sonic, Vocational Rehab, WalMart, Washington-Holmes Technical Center, Wells Fargo Bank and Winn-Dixie.
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“We should be concerned with the usage, and whether or not that usage is applicable to that property.” “The process of correcting the map is administrative,” said Jim Town, a local real estate broker. He said coloring in the map for future use doesn’t change the fair market value of the property or affect the county’s tax base, but the process protects the county in the future from zoning deviations, and can drive growth in critical areas. “You’re the gatekeepers for the future of the county,” Town said. “That is the most important function that the planning commission does.” Now that the properties have been discussed by the commissioners, the zoning change requests will be considered by the commission at no charge to the landowners, DeRuntz said Thursday. Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Ted
Everett told the commissioners to look at providing more industrial zoning on the future land use map on Tuesday. “I strongly suggest we look at some light industrial usage in southern Washington County,” Everett said. Ebro is a north-south and east-west corridor that is ripe for growth, Everett added. “It will come, it is inevitable. That will be a key area of economic growth in the future for Washington County.” It was Commissioner Pippin’s final meeting. She resigned from the board after 10 years of service as a planning commissioner. Everett congratulated Pippin on a job well done and thanked her for her service to the community. “It’s been an honor and a privilege to serve on the commission,” Pippin said. “It was not always easy, but it was a pleasure to be able to give back to the community.”
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