* * * A GateHouse Media newspaper read by 10,450 people every week. Obituaries .................. A2 Faith ........................ A4 Opinion .................... A6 Classifieds ................. A7 Sports........................A8 A6 Investigation uncovers prison squalor A4 Mark Broadhead: We are all one in Christ TAKE A LOOK BACK AT BAKER’S THRILLING FOOTBALL SEASON, A8 CHURCH SETS SERVICE TO THANK FIREMEN, A5 Saturday, July 20, 2019 @cnbulletin facebook.com/crestviewbulletin 50¢ crestviewbulletin.com Vol. 44 Issue 58 WEEKEND EDITION By Ashleigh Wilde 850-682-6524 @ cnbAshleigh | awilde@ crestviewbulletin.com CRESTVIEW — The city of Crestview has been named as one of six communities that received a $40,000 grant for economic development. The grant was admin- istered by the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) and comes with the support and guidance of the DEO. “The grant is to help us create the economic development strategy,” said City Senior Planner Trae Duley. “The DEO created a curriculum on things to do to reach out to businesses and site selectors.” The city was in the process of looking at other grants when they were notified of the DEO grant. “The farther we got into it, we realized it is absolutely something that could help the city out,” Duley said of the grant. Duley said the grant ties perfectly into the strategic planning that was done by city staff at the end of May. “One of the things they highlighted that was going to be part of the process was asset mapping,” Duley said. “We’ve already kind of done that with our SWOT analysis. We’ve already got some of the work done that says here’s what we want. Now, we’ll get a little more fine-tuned on that and we’ll get a little more technical.” The city will look at individual projects they want to accomplish, but because it is early in the process Duley wasn’t sure where the main focus would be. “There are still some steps we have to do,” Duley said. “We’re anticipating in next week or so that the DEO will get more specific in terms of here’s step 1. Crestview awarded $40,000 economic grant The new grant could help bring new businesses to the area. [ASHLEIGH WILDE/ NEWS BULLETIN] By Ashleigh Wilde 850-682-6524 | @cnbAshleigh [email protected]BAKER — Baker School Principal Mike Martello held a parent meeting on Monday evening to discuss changes to the car and bus traffic flow. The initial proposal of a change in the way drop-offs and pick-ups occur came after several businesses and parents presented concerns to Martello. “Baker continues to grow. We had almost 1,500 kids here last year and with that comes additional traffic around our school,” Mar- tello said. “Several people brought us their concerns about traffic backing up onto (State Road) 4. The credit union out front also asked if we could somehow alleviate traffic because some of their patrons couldn’t even get into the parking lot.” One of the major factors in the decision to change how things flow is the safety of the students. “Safety has been a big issue at school board meetings,” Martello said. “Having cars backed out so far created an unsafe situation.” Martello said the school partnered with the trans- portation and facilities departments to find the best solution to the problem. “We got with our transpor- tation folks and asked them what were some alternatives for moving the buses,” Mar- tello said. “Then we got with the facilities folks and talked about if we need to change anything and just put our heads together with those two. We came up with utiliz- ing our facilities as they are.” The new flow of school traffic calls for the bus and car areas to trade places. The car rider line will now be located where the bus ramp was, while the buses will now use the old car line. As they exit, drivers will have multiple options for getting back to State Road 4. Baker School proposes new traffic routes Baker School Principal Mike Martello explains the new traffic route to parents at a meeting on Monday evening. [ASHLEIGH WILDE/NEWS BULLETIN] See GRANT, A5 Dog wouldn’t leave canine friend killed by car By Ashleigh Wilde 850-682-6524 | @cnbAshleigh [email protected]BAKER — Dogs are often considered to be man’s best friend, but last week it was all about the friendship between animals. On July 11, PAWS received a call regarding a dead pit bull in a ditch on Yellow River Baptist Church Road. The animal was not alone. A light brindle-colored cane corso and pit bull mix was sitting by the dog who had been killed. According to PAWS senior animal control officer Andi Warren, an officer responded but was unable to locate the animals on the long road. Warren said she received another call on Monday, so she went to meet the caller at the dogs' location. “The dog by the ditch was very skinny and had the most beautiful eyes,” Warren said. “He kept looking at me and then looking at the ditch like, 'I don’t want you near me or him.' " Warren said the dog that was lying in the ditch had some road burns, which could indicate that the animal was struck by a vehicle. She couldn’t do anything with the deceased animal until she earned the trust of his faithful companion. “They had been out there for four days, so I knew he had to be hungry and thirsty,” Warren said. “It took me about 15 min- utes to get him on a leash.” Warren said as she was taking the dog to the van, he kept looking back at the ditch where his friend was lying. ‘He just howled and howled’ It took PAWS’ senior animal control officer 15 minutes to convince this dog to leave his canine friend who had been killed by a car. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO] Mamoha spent four days next to a deceased dog in a ditch on Yellow River Baptist Church Road. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO] Mamoha is a brindle-colored cane corso and pit bull mix. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO] See SCHOOL, A5 See HOWLED, A5
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CRESTVIEW — The city of Crestview has been named as one of six communities that received a $40,000 g r a n t f o r e c o n o m i c development.
The grant was admin-istered by the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) and comes with the support and guidance of the DEO.
“The grant is to help us create the economic development strategy,” said City Senior Planner Trae Duley. “The DEO created a curriculum on things to do to reach out to businesses and site selectors.”
The city was in the process of looking at other grants when they were notified of the DEO grant.
“The farther we got into it, we realized it is absolutely something that could help the city out,” Duley said of the grant.
Duley said the grant ties perfectly into the strategic planning that was done by city staff at the end of May.
“One of the things they highlighted that was going to be part of the process was asset mapping,” Duley said. “We’ve already kind of done that with our SWOT analysis. We’ve already got some of the work done that says here’s what we want. Now, we’ll get a little more fine-tuned on that and we’ll get a little more technical.”
The city will look at individual projects they want to accomplish, but because it is early in the process Duley wasn’t sure where the main focus would be.
“There are still some steps we have to do,” Duley said. “We’re anticipating in next week or so that the DEO will get more specific in terms of here’s step 1.
Crestview awarded $40,000 economic grant
The new grant could help bring new businesses to the area. [ASHLEIGH WILDE/
BAKER — Baker School Principal Mike Martello held a parent meeting on Monday evening to discuss changes to the car and bus traffic flow.
The initial proposal of a change in the way drop-offs and pick-ups occur came after several businesses and parents presented concerns to Martello.
“Baker continues to grow. We had almost 1,500 kids here last year and with that comes additional traffic around our school,” Mar-tello said. “Several people brought us their concerns about traffic backing up onto (State Road) 4. The credit union out front also asked if we could somehow alleviate traffic because some of their
patrons couldn’t even get into the parking lot.”
One of the major factors in the decision to change how things flow is the safety of the students.
“Safety has been a big issue at school board meetings,” Martello said. “Having cars backed out so far created an unsafe situation.”
Martello said the school partnered with the trans-portation and facilities departments to find the best solution to the problem.
“We got with our transpor-tation folks and asked them what were some alternatives for moving the buses,” Mar-tello said. “Then we got with the facilities folks and talked about if we need to change anything and just put our heads together with those two. We came up with utiliz-ing our facilities as they are.”
The new flow of school traffic calls for the bus and car areas to trade places. The car rider line will now be located where the bus ramp was, while the buses
will now use the old car line. As they exit, drivers will have multiple options for getting back to State Road 4.
Baker School proposes new traffi c routes
Baker School Principal Mike Martello explains the new traffi c route to parents at a meeting on Monday evening. [ASHLEIGH WILDE/NEWS
BAKER — Dogs are often considered to be man’s best friend, but last week it was all about the friendship between animals.
On July 11, PAWS received a call regarding a dead pit bull in a ditch on Yellow River Baptist Church Road. The animal was not alone. A light brindle-colored cane corso and pit bull mix was sitting by the dog who had been killed.
According to PAWS senior animal control officer Andi Warren, an officer responded but was unable to locate the animals on the long road. Warren said she received another call on Monday, so she went to meet the caller at the dogs' location.
“The dog by the ditch was very skinny and had the most beautiful eyes,” Warren said. “He kept looking at me and then looking at the ditch like, 'I don’t want you near me or him.' "
Warren said the dog that was lying in the ditch had some road burns, which could indicate that the animal was struck by a vehicle. She couldn’t do anything with the deceased animal until she earned the trust of his faithful companion.
“They had been out there for four days, so I knew he had to be hungry and thirsty,” Warren said. “It took me about 15 min-utes to get him on a leash.”
Warren said as she was taking the dog to the van, he kept looking back at the ditch where his friend was lying.
‘He just howled and howled’
It took PAWS’ senior animal control offi cer 15 minutes to convince this dog to leave his canine friend who had been killed by a car. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]
Mamoha spent four days next to a deceased dog in a ditch on Yellow River Baptist Church Road. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]
Mamoha is a brindle-colored cane corso and pit bull mix. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]
See SCHOOL, A5
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A2 Saturday, July 20, 2019 | Crestview News Bulletin
OBITUARIES
On June 20,2019 the angels carried Remy Shawna Austin to be with her family in heaven. Remy was born on July 12, 2017. She was always happy and dancing around and talked to everyone she encoun-tered. Remy had a love for music, Tigger, hot wheels, dinosaurs, and her favorite stuffed animals, which she referred to as her Jackass and Vampirina. Remy is survived by her parents Brandi Harper & Tyler Austin, Aunts Krystal Early (Kevin), Stefanie Austin
(Jorge) and Kayla Brown (Timmy), Uncles Steven Austin and Patrick Cor-dial. Grandparents Patti
Harper, Tammy Austin (Dale) and David Austin (Angie). And Great grand-parents Vivian Cordial, Rita Austin, Susan Cor-dial and Robert Harper as well as several cous-ins and great Aunts and Uncles, great-great aunt and uncles and numer-ous friends that became family. A Celebration of Life will be held on July 20, 2019 at Rocky Bayou Baptist Church, 2401 Partin Drive North, Niceville, beginning at 12:00. The family would
like to thank the commu-nity of Niceville for their thoughts and prayers, people who have donated ,the people who are doing the benefit for her on July 27th at Peoples National Bank, the Niceville Fire Department and Twin Cities Hospital and Sacred Heart Hospital in Pen-sacola for their care and support in helping Remy. You may go online to offer condolences to the family and sign the guestbook at www.heritagegar-densfuneralhome.com.
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William Hubbart Byrd died peacefully Saturday morning, July 13, 2019, at his home in Crestview surrounded by his family.
Born July 12, 1935, he had turned 84 years of age the day before his pass-ing. William Hubbart Byrd married his soul-mate Martha Ellen Johnston, June 26, 1957, recently celebrating their 62nd Wedding Anniversary. An Alabama native, Hubbart grew up in Lockhart and he and Martha raised their childeren in Florala before moving to Crestview in the late 80’s. William Hub-bart Byrd began his 42 year long military career with two Army Tour of Duties in Germany, the 2nd during the Cold War serving in Intelligence at the IG Farben Building.
He earned a System Science degree from University of West Florida while working for defense contractor, Vitro Services. Hubbart was an auditor
and inspector for 15 years with the Alabama Mili-tary Department, tasked to establish the Alabama National Guard Tank Range at Eglin Air Force Base and was the Facility Manager for the Training Site there. He retired as a Chief Warrant Officer Four in the Alabama National Guard after 31 years of service and the Alabama Army National Guard after 38 years of service. William Hubbart Byrd received the Meritorium Service Medal, and the Alabama Distin-guished Service Medal.
Mr Byrd began his love of officiating with the Florala Youth baseball League in the ’70s. He joined the Okaloosa Wal-ton Officials Association and began working with the City of Crestview youth programs after his move to Crestview.
Hubbart has officiated countless city, middle school and high school games and has touched the lives of budding student athletes, parents, sports fans, coaches and fellow officiants. Hubbart was a member of New Bethel United Methodist Church of Crestview at the time of his death. Hubbart leaves behind his loving wife Martha Byrd and Sons, Marty (Kaylyn) Byrd and W. Steve (Sherry) Byrd, Sr, of Georgia. Grand-children, Eric Byrd, W. Steven (Amanda) Byrd, Jr, Samantha (John Michael) Thrash and Heather (Jason) Leonard, Tim Knopes, Rob Knopes
and Heather McBrayer. Great-grandchildren, Noah, Julia, and Cara Leonard, W. Gunner and Waylon Byrd, and Wil-low Thrash. His brother, Lonnie (Beverly) Byrd, Sister, Ophelia Fuqua, sister-in-law, Ellen Byrd, brother-in-law John Johnston and numer-ous nieces, nephews and extended family. Hubbart was preceded in death by his parents, Joseph L Byrd Sr and Lelia Smithart Byrd and siblings, Joseph L Byrd, Jr, Marie Byrd Man-ning and brother-in-laws, James Fuqua and Holland Manning. In lieu of flow-ers donations in Hubbert's memory can be made to the Wounded Warriors Project or The USO. Please join us in remembering William Hubbart Byrd by visiting our Memorial at evansfuneralhomeal.com.
Through this site we invite you to share your thoughts and fond memo-ries with our family.
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On Friday, July 12, 2019, Debora Marie (Case) Hurst went home to her Savior at the age of 64.
Debora was born in Toledo, OH where she raised her two chil-dren, and later moved to Niceville, FL. Her body simply was not as strong as her spirit, and after a brief illness, she passed away in Fort Walton Beach, FL with her chil-dren at her side. Debbie loved gardening, music, and being a grandma.
Her spunk and sense
of humor kept her fam-ily and friends laughing anytime she was around. She was a member of CrossWay Community Church, where she loved to play with the babies in the nursery. A graduate from the University of Toledo, Debbie became a registered nurse out of her passion to care for those in need.
She specifically chose to work in geriatric medicine because she desired not only to meet the physi-cal needs of her patients, but also to show them
the love of God which she knew in the gospel. Her heart for the lost guided her compassionate and generous lifestyle, and it is the legacy she leaves behind for her family and friends. Debbie is lovingly remembered by her two children, Chante’ (Jay) Shartz and Adam (Amber) Mooney; her five grand-children, Justin, Casey, Allison, Adam Jr., and Alyssa; her brothers and sister, Jack, Danny, Garry, and Sue; and her extended family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her father, Nor-man Case; mother, Alma Jones; stepfather, Vin-cent Jones; and husband, Anthony Hurst. Fam-ily and friends gathered at Brackney Funeral Home in Crestview, FL for a service in memory of Debbie on Monday, July 15th at 10:00am.
Memorial donations in honor of Debra Hurst can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association online or at 225 N. Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601.
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James Jennings, age 89, of Niceville, FL, passed away on July 11, 2019. He was born to Clarence and Doris Jen-nings on July 4, 1930 in Fremont, OH. He will be remembered for being a loving husband, father, grandfather, and distin-guished Air Force Offi-cer. Jim was a graduate of the Ohio State Uni-versity (1954). In 1955, he received his commis-sion as a second lieuten-ant in the United States Air Force. Jim served 30
years as a career officer and aviator, did two tours in Southeast Asia,
where he flew over 100 combat missions, and later served as a base commander and division commander. He retired in 1985, and settled in Niceville, FL. along with his wife of 68 years, Paula. He is predeceased by his parents Clarence and Doris Jennings, and his brother, David Jen-nings. He is survived by his wife Paula, children James Jennings and Debra Keller; his sister Joyce Daniel, and four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
The family would like to thank all personnel at the Manor Skilled Nurs-ing Facility for their support and absolute devotion to his care over the past several months.
In lieu of flowers, please make dona-tions to the Disabled American Veter-ans Association.
Expressions of love and sympa-thy may be placed and viewed online at www.mclaugh-lintwincities.com
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Maurreen Perecko, age 75, of Niceville, FL passed away on Mon-day, July 8, 2019 sur-rounded by her family.
She is survived by her daughter; Mary Cath-erine Baker (Ray), two grandchildren; William and Zoe as well as her brother -in-law; Richard
Sarnosky and many nieces and nephews.
You may go online to offer condolences to the family and sign the guestbook at www.heritagegardensfuner-alhome.com. Heritage Gardens Funeral Home of Niceville is entrusted with the arrangements.
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Mrs. Gladys Cain Sellers, age 93, of Niceville, passed away Sunday evening, July 14th. She was born October 19, 1925, to the late Sam and Annie Tolbert Russell. Gladys was preceded in death by her hus-bands, Dan C. Cain and Dewey Sellers and one son, Dannis L. Cain Sr. Gladys was a long-time resident of Valparasio and Nicev-ille. She was a mem-ber of the 1st Baptist Church of Valparasio. Gladys is survived by two grandsons, Dannis L. Cain Jr. of Niceville and Robert Alan Cain (Cherie) of Huntsville, Alabama. Three great grand-sons, Andrew Cain of Niceville, Bradley Cain of Huntsville,
and Nathaniel Cain of Niceville. And one great-great-grandson R.J. Cain of Niceville. She also leaves other family members and friends who will sadly miss her. The fam-ily of Gladys wishes to extend our sincere thanks and gratitude to the staff and nurses of The Manor of Blue-water. Your kind-ness, compassion and generosity have been a blessing to our fam-ily. We will forever be grateful to all of you for caring for her. You may go online to offer condolences to the family and sign the guestbook at www.heritagegardensfuner-alhome.com. Heritage Gardens Funeral Home of Niceville is entrusted with the arrangements.
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Snoopy, Wood-stock, all the Pea-nuts Gang, her sister Martha, and count-less friends/students grieve the passing of Pamela Jane McDon-ald, 67, Niceville FL. She was an avid fan of Charles Schultz. Diagnosed with mul-tiple myeloma less than 3 months ago, Pam spent the last 5 weeks of her life at the University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock, for tests and treatment. She passed away in the Intensive Care Unit at 8:33 pm Saturday, July 6, 2019, with her sister at her side. Pam was born on a Monday, 14 April 1952 at the Keesler AFB hospital, Biloxi, MS to Edd Reed and Dortha "Dot" (Mos-ley) McDonald. At the age of 3, she traveled with her mother and sister to Yokota AFB Japan. In September 1958, she moved to Eglin AFB, beginning first grade that year at Eglin Elementary. In 1961, her family transferred to Bit-burg AFB Germany. In 1964, she returned to this area, attend-ing Ruckel Junior High and Niceville High
School. She gradu-ated from Florida State University with Bachelor and Masters Degrees in library science, spending one term at the University of Maryland Munich Campus. In September 1974, Pam began her long career as librar-ian at Bruner Middle School, Ft. Walton Beach, where she was still employed at her passing. There, she encouraged students to read, produced a morning show, and was especially adept at rounding up overdue books. She is survived by her sister Martha McDonald, Niceville, an aunt Doris Chris-tian, Ridgeland, MS. and many cousins. A bag piper played 'Scotland the Brave" and 'Amazing Grace" at her graveside, with her cousin, Rev. Paul McDonald, leading mourners in prayer. She was buried July 9 at the Merid-ian Memorial Park Cemetery beside her parents, who pre-ceded her in death. Online condolences may be posted at the Robert Barham Fam-ily Funeral Home, Meridian MS website.
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Linda Marie Simons Koonce, age 76, passed away on Monday, July 15, 2019 in Fort Walton Beach, FL.
She was born to parents, Lewis Elmer Simons and Bonnie Ruth Roach in Coun-cil Bluffs, Iowa.
Linda graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1961. After graduating, she joined the Navy in 1961
and married, Donald Eugene Koonce in 1963.
They had four children, Patricia A. Selbe, Donna J. Chappell, Mark A. Koonce and Zane L. Koonce. She is survived by her siblings, Cyndy L. Haines of Oakland, Iowa, Nancy J. Wedberg of Omaha, Nebraska, Toni R. Dorencamp of Fremont, Nebraska, Leslie Gleaves of Coun-cil Bluffs, Iowa, Laura L. Baller of Council Bluffs, Iowa and Lewis Elmer Simons, Jr., of
Richmond, Virginia; 9 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Linda was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Blind Vet-erans. She is preceded in death by her hus-band, Donald Koonce; son, Mark Koonce; and grandson, Kyle Selbe.
Expressions of love and sympathy may be placed and viewed online at www.emerald-coastfuneralhome.com
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OBITUARIES
Mr. Oscar Roy Klein-dolph, age 78, passed away Tuesday, July 16, 2019. He was born on June 14, 1941 in Muscatine, Iowa, to Oscar Forrest Klein-dolph and Dorothy Ann Mahaffey Kleindolph
Mr. Kleindolph was a resident of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. He was Methodist by faith and a member of the Point Washington United Methodist Church. He graduated from West-ern New Mexico Uni-versity receiving his Bachelor’s degree and his Master’s degree. He worked as a high school counselor for over 30 years before retiring. He was an avid golfer, and enjoyed
snow skiing. He also enjoyed making wine for over 30 years.
Mr. Kleindolph was preceded in death by his father Oscar Forrest Kleindolph and mother Dorothy Ann Mahaffey Kleindolph; and sis-ter Bonnie Walker.
Mr. Kleindolph is sur-vived by his life partner
Elsie Green of Niceville, Florida; one son Derek Don Kleindolph and wife Rain of Oregon; one daughter Shelby Wren Williams and husband Perry of Kan-sas; two brothers Tom Kleindolph of Texas and Jim Kleindolph of Iowa; one sister Janet Klein-dolph Reynolds of Iowa; eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
A celebration of life service will be held at a later date
You may view obitu-aries, offer condo-lences and sign the guest book at www.clary-glenn.com.
Clary-Glenn Funeral Homes & Crema-tory is entrusted with the arrangements.
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Larry Ricchio, 72, surrounded by his wife and children, gave into God and left us in peace, on Fri-day, July 12th, 2019 after complications from liver cancer.
Born in Blue Island, IL on December 31st, 1946 to Pasquale & Helen, Larry was a deeply loving and caring man, he spent his life with a passion for his family, motor-cycles and making friends with every-one he met. If Larry wasn't riding one of his bikes, he was working on building one or fixing another.
A Master Barber for more than 40 years he was able to con-nect his joy of talking
with people to his life-long career.
Our father was a faithful servant of the Lord and instilled in us the importance of attending mass every Sunday, staying close to God and loving oth-ers unconditionally.
He is survived by his wife of more than
40 years Suzy, his six children; Angel, Vin-nie, Matt, Patrick (wife Heather), Lauren & Jessica, as well as his seven grandchildren and sister, Patsy. Services will be held at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church on Monday July 22nd, 2019 at 11 am.
The family will receive visitors 2 hours prior. Burial imme-diately following the service at Sunset Cem-etery. "Submit your-selves, then, to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.' James 4:7.
Expressions of sym-pathy may be viewed or submitted online at www.mclaugh-lintwincities.com
L A R R Y R I C C H I O
Charles Edward Shelley, "pops" or "Charlie ", age 69, of Pensacola, Florida passed away on Thurs-day, July 11, 2019 in Pensacola, Fl. Charles was born on November 21, 1949 in Dothan, Alabama to Eulice Shelley of Ashford, Alabama and Wilma Jean Murdock of Ash-ford, Alabama. Charles graduated from the University of West Florida with a bache-lor's degree in business administration. He owned and operated a moving and storage business in Pensacola for 40 years following
in his father’s foot-steps. Charles was known for his great sense of humor and kind giving nature. He loved boating and any-thing on the water and loved lilies. Charles is
preceded in death by his paternal grandpar-ents, Walt and Lessie Shelley and his mater-nal grandparents, Oscar and Ethel Mur-dock. He is survived by his parents, Eulice and Wilma Shelley; his daughter, Lori Hearn; granddaughter, Gracie Hearn; brothers, Tim and Glenn Shelley; numerous nieces and nephews; close friends and care givers Barbara Allen, Mike Minton, and Tommy Hess. Please visit www.daviswatkins.com to sign the guestbook, express condolences and share memories
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The school superin-tendent’s resigna-tion came aft er Gov. Ron DeSantis lift ed her suspension
Former Okaloosa County School Superintendent Mary Beth Jackson, who had been fighting her sus-pension from office since January, submitted a letter of resignation Wednesday to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Prior to accepting the resignation, DeSantis revoked Executive Order 19-13 through which he had suspended Jackson on Jan. 11. He terminated her suspension and allowed her to resign as superintendent.
DeSantis also officially appointed Marcus Cham-bers as the superintendent of the Okaloosa County School District. Cham-bers had been serving in an interim role since Jackson's suspension was announced.
Jackson appealed her suspension shortly after DeSantis announced his decision, and the Florida Senate was scheduled to decide whether to make the removal permanent or reinstate her.
A hearing was held in May before a special master, Dudley Goodlette, whose recommendation to remove or reinstate Jackson was to be considered by the full Senate in September.
Senate President Bill Gal-vano issued a statement Wednesday afternoon that outlined the day's events.
“Today, Special Master Goodlette received notice of Executive Order 19-166 revoking Executive Order of Suspension 19-13 and reinstating Ms. Mary Beth Jackson as the Superinten-dent of Schools for Okaloosa County. The Special Master also received Ms. Mary Beth Jackson’s letter of resigna-tion," the statement said. “Given this information, the referral to Special Master Dudley Goodlette is withdrawn and no further action is required by Special Master Goodlette, the par-ties, or the Senate.”
Chambers confirmed he had received an email from DeSantis announcing the resignation. He also issued a statement.
“When Mrs. Jackson was removed from office six months ago, the School District began the process of moving ahead. I have had confidence in the governor and his staff from the begin-ning to handle this matter, keeping the best interests of
students as the priority,” he said.
“Today marks the cul-mination of a challenging period in our School district, and I have been extremely proud of the performance of our students, teachers and staff," Chambers added. "Our focus is on providing the very best education we can for our students. We are either moving forward or moving backwards as a School District. We choose to move forward.”
Jackson said in her letter to the governor that her decision to resign had been made “upon somber delib-eration.” She admitted to no wrongdoing and in the letter spoke of the successes and progress made within the School District during her six years in office.
“When my dedication to the District and its pupils came under fire in recent months, I was moved to tell the students, parents, educators, and all others with a stake in the integ-rity and well-being of our district the unvarnished truth of the claims lodged against me," her letter said. "I thank you Gov. DeSan-tis, for your receptive ear and resulting decision to reinstate me to my rightful position as Superintendent of the Okaloosa County School District.” Jackson wrote that she had decided to resign to provide stabil-ity to the district, which had been roiled by a scan-dal she’d been at the center of since August 2017.
“Notwithstanding my gratitude, and that of my supporters, for my posi-tion having been restored, a solemn commitment to the values that have guided me throughout my career — placing the needs and betterment of students above all else — compels me to relinquish my role,” the letter said. “To do its best work, a School Dis-trict requires not only wise and humble leadership, but stability. With a new school year upon us, and an elec-tions cycle shortly after promising further change,
added interruptions to the continuity of the district leadership would not be in the best interests of the children whom I, as super-intendent, am duty-bound to serve.”
DeSantis suspended Jackson just three days after he took office.
The suspension came at the recommendation of also newly appointed Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. Corcoran asked the governor to carefully consider the findings of a grand jury that met twice in 2018 to look at policies and procedures within the School District and consider bringing criminal charges against Jackson.
Jurors said in both reports that Jackson had failed in her six years in office to fulfill her obligation to the district’s 30,000 students and had not satisfied her obligations as an elected official. It said she had failed to protect the health and well-being of the students of the county.
Asked to explain Jack-son's reinstatement prior to receiving her letter of resignation, the governor's press office said the move was made "in order to formally accept her resigna-tion." Efforts to determine whether Jackson will derive some benefit from being allowed to resign were unsuccessful Wednesday. The Governor's Office did not address the issue and the Florida Department of Education did not respond to inquiries made late in the day.
Katherine Betta, the spokeswoman for the Flor-ida Senate, said, “the Senate and the Special Master were not directly involved in any communications” regard-ing the reinstatement.
Neither George Levesque, Jackson’s attorney and Nicholas Primrose, the governor’s general coun-sel, could be reached late Wednesday for comment.
Don Gaetz, who previ-ously served as Okaloosa County School superin-tendent and also spent eight years in the Florida Senate, speculated that a deal might have been made between the attorneys on each side to spare taxpayers the cost of the Senate hearing Jack-son's case.
“It could be she was will-ing to resign because she didn’t want to go before the full Senate,” he said. “Mary Beth Jackson would have had no chance to be rein-stated. It looks to me to be an attempt to avoid a Senate trial that would have been very embarrassing to the Okaloosa County School District.”
Mary Beth Jackson quits
Mary Beth Jackson resigned Wednesday as Okaloosa County’s superintendent of schools. Gov. Ron DeSantis had lifted her suspension just hours earlier. [FILE PHOTO/
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FAITH
When I was a young child, my blond
hair was nearly white. My blue eyes seemed bluer when I wore blue shirts. My teeth were a bit crooked. And one ear didn’t have creases
like most ears do.One of my best friends
had brown hair. His eyes were brown. His teeth were white and straight. And both his ears looked the same. He also seemed to have a tan year round.
My family went to the congregational church. His went to the Catholic church. His family was a bit better off economically than mine, but mine never lacked for any essentials.
We were very good
friends. Yes, we would have our periodic squab-bles and impose our childish banishments from each other's yard — at least until we made up. And we always made up.
When my family moved from the North to the South, we were both quite sad. We knew we would probably not see each other again in this lifetime. Tears were shed the day the moving van left our neighborhood.
Jose was born in Puerto Rico. I was born in New Hampshire. He was Hispanic. I was Anglo. Neither of us knew there was a difference. All we knew was there were certain aspects of our lives that were different — like our churches, our diets, the accent his mother had.
But there were many more aspects that were the same. We laughed at the same jokes. We cried when we got hurt. Our
blood flowed red when we scraped our knees.
I was not raised with prejudices. I was never taught that one race was superior or another inferior, or one religion better than another, or one political party was the only true party.
I was raised with the Scripture of Paul’s let-ter to the Galatians firmly ensconced in my heart and mind: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is nei-ther slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28)
James 2:8-9 says, “If you really fulfill the royal law, according to
the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you do well. But if you show partial-ity, you commit sin …”
My encouragement is to not see yourself as better than another, to not see others who are different than you as inferior nor superior, to not see your worth as being any more or less valuable than any other.
We are all created by God and for that reason alone, worthy of respect.
The Rev. Mark Broad-head is pastor at Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church and First Presbyterian Church of Crestview.
F R O M T H E P U L P I T
We are all one in Christ
Mark BroadheadMark Broadhead
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Special to Gatehouse Media Florida
BAKER — The mem-bers of the First Baptist Church of Milligan would like to thank the Baker, Holt, Crestview and Eglin Air Force Base fire departments for the great job, hard work and long hours they spent putting
out the fire at their church buildings.
Because of their hard work and efforts, the fire did not spread to sur-rounding homes.
The members would like the firemen to be their special guests this Sunday.
The services start at 11 a.m. July 21 at the former First United Methodist
Church, 5826 FL High-way 189, Baker, across from the HealthSmart Pharmacy.
"Once again, thank you all for you dedication. God bless and protect you all," said Pastor Charles Smith and the First Bap-tist Church of Milligan congregation in a news release.
Milligan church sets service to thank fi remen
We don’t know what that is yet. We do know that it is possible for this to be a multi-year effort. After we get through this piece of the puzzle, there will be following pieces that will come down the road.”
Duley believes the grant will help attract businesses to the Crest-view area.
“The first thing a site selector is going to do is call the state and say ‘Who’s been doing their job? Who’s been doing
what they’re supposed to do?’” Duley said. “The state is going to say ‘Here’s our list of communities we think are following the process and doing it like they’re supposed to. These are the competitive Florida communities.’ We’re getting on that list.”
Duley attended a DEO conference in Tallahas-see on Monday. The amount of resources and contacts the DEO presented exceeded his expectations and made him excited about their partnership.
“The DEO office will be a very vital part of moving us forward,” D u l e y s a i d . “ B e i n g
partnered with them, the world will open up. There’s a tremendous number of options avail-able just waiting to be tapped.”
Duley said it’s impor-tant to remember that changes won’t come overnight.
“They’re probably going to ask us what we see and then they’ll follow through with ‘Your community wants to do these things. Let’s see what you’re capa-ble of getting done.' Then we’ll find a way forward to make that happen.” Duley said. “I don’t expect it’ll be easy or painless, but we’ve started.”
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“This will redirect con-gestion to a part of the community where there is a lot less traffic,” Martello said. “I don’t think it will alleviate the congestion but it will put it in a place where it won’t be as impactful on the safety of the students.”
Martello said the school did some trial runs of the
new flow of traffic at the end of last school year before informing parents of the change.
The 15 parents at the meeting did not disagree with the new route, but Martello said he hoped more parents would be involved.
“We’ll do another call out before school begins and also inform parents during the open house,” Martello said. “As new people are registering their
children, we’ll make sure they know.”
Martello said the change mainly affects those with children in elementary school, but the safety of every student was consid-ered in the change.
“If we can’t make sure you’re safe first, we’ll never get to educate you,” Mar-tello said.
Martello said anyone with input or concerns about the new route should call the school at 850-689-7279.
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The new fl ow of traffi c will have cars (red arrows) enter on Walther Street, while buses (yellow arrows) will use the old car line ramp. Both lines will have multiple ways to exit to Highway 4. [ASHLEIGH WILDE/NEWS BULLETIN]
“For a little while when he first arrived at the shelter, he just howled and howled,” Warren said. “It was so sad.”
It didn’t take very long for him to become friends with all of the animals at the Laurel Hill shelter.
“He turned out to be the sweetest dog,” Warren said. “He loves the puppies and other dogs and he likes to lick the cats.”
The dog had no name tag, so they decided to name him Mamoha, after the actor Jason Momoa. Warren said the two have very similar eyes.
As of July 18, Warren said an owner hasn’t s h o w n u p t o c l a i m
Mamoha, but they have put his picture on their website.
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Mamoha is currently being taken care of at the shelter in Laurel Hill. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO]
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OPINION
F lorida has the worst prison system in the nation. It’s filled with violence, riddled with scandals and incredibly inef-
fective in rehabilitating prisoners.This is the reality of prisons in Florida,
and the people in positions of lead-ership who allowed this to happen should be ashamed of themselves.
What other conclusion should be reached from a six-month investigation by GateHouse Media and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune titled “Wasted Minds”?
The investigation revealed a lot more than minds are being wasted; the lives of the inmates and their future vic-tims are being wasted, too — and so is much of the $2.4 billion spent by the Florida Department of Corrections.
Put it all together and the GateHouse reporters described a system that can be summarized as “punish and contain.”
Here were just some of the find-ings from the investigation:
• Rehabilitation in prison is lacking, resulting in inmates unprepared for a crime-free life once they are released.
• The number of inmates who earned GEDs dropped from 3,000 in 2010 to 1,000 last year.
• Vocational training is largely use-less in Florida prisons because inmates often receive no hands-on experience.
• Work release programs have disap-peared due to a few bad examples of prisoners committing violent crimes; rather than reforming these programs, they essentially were eliminated.
• The state’s reluctance to reduce sentences in return for good behavior has dampened the incentive of prison-ers to pursue constructive endeavors.
• Florida’s prisons are hot houses for vio-lence; inmate violence has more than dou-bled in the last decade and inmate attacks on corrections officers have increased by 130 percent over the last four years.
• Teachers in the prisons are paid far less than those in public schools; as a result there are too few teach-ers — and the turnover is huge.
Clearly there is a correlation between prison education and violence: the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution led the sys-tem in prison assaults the past three years while giving out fewer educational cred-its than all but four prisons in Florida.
On the positive side, the Baker County and Gadsden County re-entry centers awarded more educational certifications per capita than any prison facility — and they were among the safest in Florida.
More needs to be done:• Florida lawmakers need to increase
funding for education and work-force training in the prisons.
• Laws need to be changed so that meaningful gain time can be earned fol-lowing completion of GEDs, high school diplomas and industry certifications.
• Nonviolent prisoners need to be released and monitored.
There is no excuse for the deplorable state of Florida’s prison system, not when equally conservative states like Texas and Georgia have passed reforms that pro-tect public safety, save dollars and do a better job of rehabilitating prisoners.
A version of this editorial first appeared in the Florida Times-Union, a News Her-ald sister paper with GateHouse Media.
Investigation uncovers prison squalor
A N O T H E R V I E W
T o be American is a won-derful thing most of the time. There are
moments, however, when it is downright humiliat-ing. Can you imagine a more pitiful scene than a busload of Americans traveling 815 miles from Minneapolis to a Walmart in London, Ontario, Canada, to buy insulin at a 10th — a 10th! — of the price charged in the United States?
Dollar-wise, the difference is not modest. In the U.S., one vial of insulin costs around $300. In Canada, it’s $30.
From 2012 to 2016, drug-makers nearly doubled the U.S. price of a medication that was invented almost a century ago. Type 1 diabetics saw their yearly insulin costs soar from about $2,900 to about $5,700. Deb Souther, a woman making the trip, said that even with insurance she’s been paying $700 a month for this essential medicine.
We’re not talking about a take-it-or-leave-it product. These are not lawn chairs or T-shirts, which, in any case, are manufactured by numer-ous companies competing for your consumer dollar. We are talking about insulin, a life-saving drug for diabetics pro-duced by three companies.
We’re talking about lives. Diabetics who’ve been cut-ting back on their prescribed insulin because they couldn’t
afford it have been dying as a result. One was Alec Smith, who, after aging out of his mother’s health insurance plan when he was 26, rationed his insulin, assuming he could survive until he saved money to buy what he needed. He was found dead in his apartment.
We might ask how the pharmaceutical industry gets away with extorting Ameri-cans with its your-money-or-your life demands. The answer is that other countries negotiate with the drugmak-ers to set reasonable prices. Republicans in Washing-ton, on the other hand, have served the American public to them on a silver platter.
The American government is not allowed to negotiate, with one notable exception. The Department of Veterans Affairs obtains deep discounts on drugs through direct negotia-tion. By contrast, the Republi-cans’ Medicare drug benefit of 2003 specifically bans the U.S. government from bargaining on prices for medications.
If Medicare Part D, the drug benefit, were to pay prescription prices similar to what the VA pays, Medi-care would enjoy a savings of about 44 percent on the top 50 oral drugs, accord-ing to an analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
In dollar terms, the sav-ings in 2016 would be over $14 billion.
When President Trump campaigned in 2016, he vowed to have the govern-ment negotiate on Medicare drug price. After the elec-tion, the promise vanished.
Right before the 2018
midterms, Trump suggested a modest plan whereby Medi-care Part B — the part covering drugs administered by doctors and hospitals — would use an International Pricing Index as a benchmark for setting prices. With a presidential election looming, Trump seems to be reviving that kind of talk again.
Of course, this is just more pre-election trickery. Even so, some Republicans expressed alarm at the very idea, calling it government “price controls.” They appar-ently prefer that drug com-panies control the prices.
Trump’s secretary of health and human services hap-pens to be Alex Azar, a for-mer Eli Lilly executive.
Lilly’s Humalog pen is seen as one of the villains in insulin price gouging.
Azar has diverted blame to socialism. “The Ameri-can senior and the American patient have been too long been asked to overpay for drugs to subsidize the socialist systems of Europe,” Azar charged.
And who’s been asking — no, forcing — the American people to pay so much? The drug industry and its (mostly) Republican enforcers.
Americans lining up at a Canadian Walmart prescrip-tion drug counter to buy life-saving drugs at a 10th the U.S. price must have been a pathetic sight. Only a change in Wash-ington, starting with the White House, will end the outrage.
Froma Harrop is a columnist with Creators Syndicate. You reach her on Twitter via @FromaHarrop or email her at [email protected].
Drug price gouging an American story
President’s words weren’t racism
In today’s America, if you even notice that someone is of a race, say African American, you run the risk of being judged and called a racist. And your accuser means that you have a hateful and effec-tive bias against everyone of that race. You are a threat, therefore, to the life and welfare of each one of them.
On Tuesday the House of Representatives voted to con-demn the president for his racist
remarks about four members of the House. He had said he thought them a threat to the country and called them names, but as far as I can read of his tweets, he did not note their race.
The House called him a racist. On MSNBC I heard his remarks were racist, and I even heard it on public television.
I won’t quarrel with those who think the president’s remarks were rude, crude and undignified; but I see no evidence of their being racist other than the fact that the four are of a certain race. Perhaps
those who oppose the president could call him misogynist because the four are, after all, women.
So I followed the arguing in the House and the coverage in the news, and my anger grew. How could the House manage to waste most of a day formally criticizing the president for something he did not do? Couldn’t the House, MSNBC and PBS at least accuse him of bad grammar? It would be a more plausible fault.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUITIN AND FOR OKALOOSA COUNTY, FLORIDA
GENERAL JURISDIC-TION DIVISION
Case No. 2018 CA 002697 F
U.S. Bank National As-sociation, as Trustee for Banc of America Funding Corporation, M o r t g a g ePass-Through Certifi-cates, Series 2006-G,
Plaintiff,vs.
Wade G. Clingan, et al.,
Defendants.___________________/
NOTICE OF FORE-CLOSURE SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated July 15, 2019, entered in Case No. 2018 CA 002697 F of the Circuit Court of the First Judi-cial Circuit, in and for Okaloosa County, Flor-ida, wherein U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Banc of America Funding Cor-poration, Mortgage Pass-Through Certifi-cates, Series 2006-G is the Plaintiff and Wade G. Clingan; Kendall E. Clingan; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; The Ter-race at Pelican Beach Owners’ Association, Inc. are the Defend-ants, that JD Peacock II, Okaloosa County Clerk of Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash by electronic sale at www.okaloosa.realforeclose.com, beginning at 11:00 AM on the 7th day of August, 2019, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit:
UNIT 203, THE TER-RACE AT PELICAN BEACH, A CONDO-MINIUM. ACCORDING TO THE DECLARA-TION OF CONDOMIN-IUM THEREOF, RE-CORDED IN OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 2210, PAGE 1046, OF THE PUBLIC REC-ORDS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY, FLORIDA. TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN THE COMMON EL-EMENTS IF ANY, AP-P U R T E N A N TTHERETO, SUBJECT TO AND IN ACCORD-ANCE WITH THE COV-ENANTS, CONDI-TIONS, RESTRIC-TIONS, TERMS AND OTHER PROVISIONS.
Any person claiming an interest in the sur-plus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim before the clerk reports the surplus as unclaimed.
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Dated this 17 day of July, 2019.
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BAKER — The Baker Gator football team had an almost picture perfect season.
The team, led by head coach Matt Brunson, finished the season 13-1. The Gators went 7-0 at home and were 5-0 in district play.
There was only one game during the regular season in which the team did not score more than 30 points. It came during a 19-6 victory over Vernon High School.
Their fantastic regular season gave the Gators plenty of momentum going into the playoffs.
The Gators started the play-offs with a regional quarterfinal match against Freeport.
Quarterback Payton Rockwell was 2-2 for 21 yards and had two carries for 31 yards, including a touchdown.
Junior McLaughlin led all receivers with 18 carries for 284 yards, including four touch-downs. Derek Peoples added three carries for 66 yards and a touchdown run, while John Mateleska added two carries for 32 yards and a touchdown.
The Gators strong offense led them to a 49-21 victory that sent the team to the regional semifinals, where they faced Northview.
Rockwell went 5-15 during the game, passing for 53 yards with one touchdown. McLaughlin again led the offense on his way to 227 rushing yards and three touchdowns. Bradley Inscore helped out on offense with an 11-yard touchdown reception.
On the defensive side of the ball, Peoples had two intercep-tions during the game.
The 38-14 win for the Gators led them to the regional final to face Vernon, a team they had beat during the regular season.
The victory came pretty easily for the Gators, who won 51-19, thanks to McLaughlin and Peoples.
McLaughlin had 28 carries for 290 yards and three touch-downs, while Peoples had 10 carries for 61 yards and two touchdowns.
Trey Kolmetz also had an 11-yard reception during the game.
After securing the regional title, the Gators headed into the state competition. First up: a state semifinal game against Port St. Joe.
McLaughlin picked up where he left off, running for a com-bined 241 yards. McLaughlin led the team with four touchdowns.
Peoples also had 10 carries for 59 yards, while Eric McQueen added a 40-yard touchdown reception.
The Gators won the game 48-27, giving themselves a chance at the state title.
That game did not go their way, however.
Despite a 61-yard rushing night for McLaughlin, the Gators ended their season with a 48-6 loss to Madison County in the state championship game.
Even without the state title, the Gators had a stellar year.
Rockwell finished the season with 357 passing yards, including five touchdown passes.
McLaughlin had a stand-out year with 278 carries for an impressive total of 2,920 yards and 37 touchdowns. He rushed for more than 100 yards in 12 of the games last season.
Through the air, Peoples finished the season with 16 receptions for 278 yards, with three touchdowns and Inscore had eight receptions for 199 yards and one touchdown.
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Baker football
Baker junior Eric McQueen carries the ball in a Baker playoff game. [FILE PHOTO]
Baker’s John Mateleska returns a fumble to Madison County’s 13 yard line in the fi rst half of the state championship game at the Camping World Stadium in Orlando. [FILE PHOTO]
Junior McLaughlin breaks away from the rest of the players on a long run as Baker plays Port St. Joe in the 1-A state semifi nal football playoff game at Baker. [FILE PHOTO]
Junior McLaughlin stiff-arms Tyler Powell as he rushes for a long touchdown during the Baker-Rocky Bayou football game at Baker. [FILE PHOTO]
Derek Peoples returns a fumble for a touchdown as Baker plays Port St. Joe in the 1-A state semifi nal football playoff game at Baker. [FILE
PHOTO]
Derek Peoples goes airborne on a run as Baker plays Port St. Joe in the 1-A state semifi nal football playoff game at Baker. [FILE PHOTO]
Baker’s Payton Rockwell runs the ball during the state championship game against Madison County at the Camping World Stadium in Orlando. [FILE PHOTO]
Payton Rockwell runs for yard during the Baker-Northview playoff football game at Baker. [FILE PHOTO]
