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Education scholarship available to women

The Alpha Nu Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma is offering a $500 scholarship for a Bradford-Union area female graduate and/or resident. The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage and enable them to obtain a degree in the field of education.

Applicants must be enrolled full time at an accredited college or university and near completion of two years (four semesters) of undergraduate coursework. An official copy of an applicant’s transcript and three letters of recommendation are required.

For more information and an application, please call 904-964-6186 or 352-468-6884.

Bradford County Fair, March 11-16

The 64th Annual Bradford County Fair continues through Sunday, March 16.

Get details on the latest winners in Regional News.

Church hosting Wild Game Dinner, March 15

Old Providence Baptist Church is holding a free Wild Game Dinner on Saturday, March 15, from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

There will be various entrées including, but not limited to, deer, gator tail, game birds and fish. There will also be hot dogs, hamburgers, pulled pork, baked beans, potato salad, and other side dishes, especially for the children and folks who might not find wild game and fish to their liking.

The special guest speaker will be Larry Strickland.

The church is located at 9316 Northwest County Road 245. Everyone is invited.

FFA Annual Plant and Chick Sale, March 26-28

FFA’s Annual Plant and Chick Sale is March 26-28 at the Union County High School agricultural education building.

FREE tobacco cessation seminarsWS, March 20

Smoke? Dip? Spit? Want to quit? Then attend a FREE tobacco cessation seminar in Worthington Springs on March 20. I Quit with AHEC, in partnership with Suwannee River AHEC and Tobacco Free Florida, is hosting the FREE two-hour seminar, starting at 5:30 p.m. at Sardis Baptist Church.

Participants will receive information on how to select and get ready for a quit date. They’ll also learn about what triggers them to smoke, dip or chew, and how to handle withdrawal symptoms. The program offers free nicotine patches, lozenges and/or gum (while supplies last), as well as follow-up support.

LB, March 29A another seminar will

be offered in Lake Butler on March 29 at the Union County Public Library, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Samantha Deary bring years of experience to Union County.

BY VINCENT ALEX BROWNTimes Editor

The Union County Extension Office’s new addition to its staff is dedicated to helping families live healthy lives, both physically and financially.

“My main focus with Union County is to create a heart-healthy county, so I will be offering workshops that address topics such as how to live a heart-healthy lifestyle with a focus on healthy meal planning as well as ways to increase physical activity,” said Samara Deary, Family and

Consumer Sciences Agent I.“The knowledge that I bring

to the county will go further than just talking about how to make changes, but showing the community how to make those changes.”

Deary, who goes by “Sam,” grew up in Virginia, but moved to Florida around three years ago when her husband—a Jacksonville native who had retired from the Navy and worked for the post office—was transferred back here.

Her knowledge of nutrition is based on her culinary arts

education, received at Johnson & Wales University. She was the first in her family to get a bachelor’s degree, and later a master’s degree. Her first education in food, however, was at home.

“Food was always pivotal in my family,” Deary said. Her grandmother had a garden where she grew a variety of vegetables, a grape vine and multiple fruit trees. Growing, preserving and cooking food were a way of life growing up. Her grandmother is still at it, in fact, and when it gets

Extension office adds a family and consumer sciences agentSamara Deary to promote ‘heart-healthy lifestyle’

See DEARY, 2A

NC Klan group distributes ‘inflammatory’ fliers in LBOther communities in Florida also targetedBY VINCENT ALEX BROWN

Times Editor

On Tuesday morning, March 11, some Lake Butler residents along West Lake Avenue south of State Road 100 found a bag with treats on the easement in front of their house. However, inside a zip-closed bag were a couple of mints and a folded flier with the headline, “Wake up WHITE AMERICA!” from the Loyal White Knights, a Ku Klux Klan group based in Pelham, N.C.

The mints in the bags were possibly there to entice someone to pick up a bag and/or to keep the bags from blowing away in the wind.

“Although the letter does not contain a specific threat to any one person, the letter is inflammatory and clearly directed as a racial message,” the Union County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement released later in the day.

In response, UCSO is working with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Fusion Center, along with the FBI’s hate crimes unit.

“Hate crimes add an element of bias to traditional crimes—and the mixture is toxic to our communities,” the FBI stated on its related web page, which shows a picture of the KKK burning crosses at a rally.

“Crimes of hatred and prejudice—from lynchings to cross burnings to vandalism of synagogues—are a sad fact of American history, but the term ‘hate crime’ did not enter the

UCSO investigating possible classic car theft ringLocal incident may be related to two othersBY VINCENT ALEX BROWN

Times Editor

On the morning of Feb. 11, C.J. Elixson, owner of Elixson Lumber Co. in Providence, reported to the Union County Sheriff’s Office that his 2008 Ford F-350 flatbed truck had been stolen from his residence west of Worthington Springs the night before. Later in the day, Elixson realized that his 1977 Chevrolet Nova was missing as well. It was recently painted red with two black racing stripes going along the top of the vehicle across the hood, roof and trunk.

See KKK, 2A

See CAR, 2A

BY VINCENT ALEX BROWNTimes Editor

“You’re on in five, four, three, two, one…”

Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about little ole Union County, another nugget gets discovered to show how rich Florida’s smallest county really is. One such treasure is Lake Butler Elementary School’s A/V (audiovisual) Broadcasting and Business Academy, which boasts the area’s own soundproof green screen production room where full news crews crank out a daily broadcast—all from teams of seventh- and eighth-graders.

Every school day, students in Lindsay Clyatt’s A/V broadcasting class produce “Tiger News Network,” which is broadcast via the school’s network. Teachers in each classroom throughout LBMS run the short show from their computer during first period. Content includes school news, that day’s lunch menu and weather, birthday and anniversary recognitions along with other congratulations, regular announcements, special notices and upcoming meetings, and can even include on-location interviews.

In one episode, the students had teachers singing opera, providing some must-see TV.

Four teams of five students each—two anchors, one computer engineer and two camera operators—produce a show on a rotating basis. Each newscast is based on a theme the team picks out, unless something special comes up.

Clyatt uses Google Calendar to inform the students on what they need to include in that day’s broadcast. Then she has the students use Google Docs to collaborate on their team project.

Each four-day production cycle goes something like this:

• Day 1 — Work on news, start putting it together.

• Day 2 – Write a script, create slides, get teacher interviews.

• Day 3 – Piece together all the elements—script, photos, video clips.

• Day 4 – Record the anchors in the green screen studio.

• Day 5 – Teachers stream the show from their computer.

It all sounds like a CNN production, but, mind you, we’re talking middle school here, in the little town of Lake Butler.

While just producing a daily news show seems like it would be enough to automatically warrant an ‘A,’ each team is actually graded on a rubric based on the job they did.

“The skills they get using the software makes them sharper in general,” Clyatt said. “Because though it’s a computer program, it’s unlike anything they’ve ever used before.”

Clyatt’s academy not only includes the A/V broadcasting component where students produce TNN, but also provides a technical lab, an intensive math class and a business course.

In fact, the business portion is closely related to the business class at Union County High School, and includes Microsoft Office certification. These middle school students

LBMS goes pro with own news showStudents use real tools to learn video production trade and much more

Before and after: “Tiger News Network” is filmed against LBMS’s own green screen in a special soundproof room dedicated to the show, which is broadcast every school day via the school’s network in each classroom which teachers run during first period from their classroom computer.TOP: Dylan Waters and Jasmine Thomas anchor that day’s show. Kensley Hamilton operates the teleprompter computer and Bailey Crews mans one of two cameras.ABOVE: The final production shows a photo dropped in, magically replacing the green screen, which gives students the option of changing backgrounds throughout the show, switching between photos and video clips.

See TNN, 5A

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Upcoming events hosted by Lake Butler

• The Florida League of Cities Regional Summit will be at the Lake Butler Community Center on Thursday, March 13, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

• The Lake Butler Splash Park ribbon-cutting will be on the first day of spring, Thursday, March 20, at 10 a.m. Located by the lake and next to the community center, the splash park will then be open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 pm.

• The NE Florida League of Cities meeting will be at the community center on Thursday, March 20, at 6 p.m. (NEFLC membership is based in the counties of Baker, Union, Bradford, Nassau, Duval, Clay, Putnam, St. Johns and Flagler.)

Hunter safety Internet-completion course offered in UC

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is offering a free hunter safety Internet-completion course in Union County.

The class is April 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. and April 12 from 8 a.m. until completed. Students who have taken the online course and wish to complete this classroom portion must bring the online-completion report with them.

The locations for this class will be given to those who register in advance by calling the regional FWC office at 386-758-0525 or going to MyFWC.com/HunterSafety.

All firearms, ammunition and materials are provided free of charge. Students should bring a pen or pencil and paper. An adult must accompany children younger than 16 at all times.

Anyone born on or after June 1, 1975, must pass an approved hunter safety course and have a hunting license to hunt alone (unsupervised). The FWC course satisfies hunter-safety training requirements for all other states and Canadian provinces.

Those interested in attending a course can register online and obtain information about future hunter safety classes at MyFWC.com/HunterSafety or by calling the FWC’s regional office in Lake City at 386-758-0525.

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time each year to put up those preserves, the family pitches in.

“Just being in the kitchen with my mom, watching her cook, and my grandmother, watching her cook—and you know older people, when they cook, it’s not with a recipe; you have to watch them. That’s how you pick it up,” she said.

Deary has carried on the tradition with her children. She has a 19-year-old son and two daughters, 12 and 9.

“Everybody in my house cooks except for the dog,” she said, and some of that food comes from their container gardens. “It’s really important that my kids understand that you don’t just go to the store and think things pop up, and McDonald’s is not the place that you live at. Everyone in my house can cook something from scratch.”

In Virginia she taught home economics at an all-girls school, with topics covering parenting and family relations, finances and nutrition. A chef instructor suggested she use her experience in catering and cuisine to apply for the position. She was surprised to find there was nothing really comparable in many Florida schools.

Instead, Deary went to work

for the extension program in Duval County in 2011. She was a program assistant for a program known as EFNEP—the Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program. She went into the community and worked with families, teaching them how to prepare budget-friendly meals that were also good for them.

“I was really fortunate to come across extension, because I really didn’t know about extension before, even though I was always in the vicinity of an extension office,” she said.

When Thomas got her new job in Duval County, the position at both Union and Bradford County opened up.

Deary said she wants meet the needs of the community and is spending time learning what people would like to see from her. Health education—including diabetes and heart health—is a priority. Teaching people with

these and similar conditions that they can cook and eat in ways that support health is important, as well as getting them moving with a walking program. Gardening and the benefits of eating fresh produce is also something she’d like to teach to kids as well as adults.

“I know there is continued interest in food preservation so I will be offering workshops on how to preserve food safely,” Deary said.

While she admits she shares a weakness for desserts with most people, she is also adept at preparing vegetables and doing things that are beyond the every day, such as cooking Asian cuisine.

Deary said she will also teach on other topics such as financial management as well as areas that relate to personal wellness and ways to strengthen the family.

“My goal is to connect

with the community, develop partnerships and offer the best researched-based solutions in order to gain the biggest impact,” Deary said. “I look forward to having the opportunity to work with everyone.”

She also has plans to work with 4-H and at the senior center and library. Where the community is at, that’s where Deary wants to be.

“I’m really excited about it,” she said.

She’s also excited about the possibility of her parents moving to Florida, so the state is feeling more and more like home all the time.

Contact Deary at 386-496-2321 or sdeary@ufl.edu. Learn more about the extension office at http://union.ifas.ufl.edu.

Bradford County Telegraph Editor Mark J. Crawford contributed to this report.

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nation’s vocabulary until the 1980s, when emerging hate groups like the Skinheads launched a wave of bias-related crime,” the web page continues. “The FBI began investigating what we now call hate crimes as far back as World War I, when the Ku Klux Klan first attracted our attention. Today, we remain dedicated to working with state and local partners to prevent these crimes and to bring to justice those who commit them.”

The Loyal White Knights claims, on its website, to not be a “hate group,” but states, “we do hate some things that certain groups are doing to our race and Nation.”

It bases its claims on Leviticus 20:24-25 and goes on to say, “we are a Brotherhood. More like a family; we are always trying to do whats (sic) best for our members. To strengthen the bonds of Christian fellowship among our brothers and sisters. We would love for all white Christian Americans to become a part of our family.”

Lake Butler hasn’t been the only Florida community targeted.

The sheriff’s office said fliers were also distributed throughout Alachua County and other North Florida counties.

And WFTV Channel 9 in Central Florida reported in

December that for the third time in two months, the group distributed flier in the area.

The station said that fliers were dropped off just before members of the state NAACP arrived in Brevard County for an annual meeting.

The fliers were dropped off at Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park, named for a civil rights activist and his wife.

“I think that’s their message they were trying to send, that they’re still alive and well and they are right in our backyard, so to speak,” Bill Gary of the NAACP told WFTV.

In a Volusia County neighborhood where they were distributed in November, KKK leader Robert Jones told WFTV’s Ryan Hughes that the fliers were aimed at recruiting new members, not frightening anyone.

“You say this was a recruiting effort; however, your group targeted a predominantly black neighborhood,” Hughes told Jones.

“Well, we don’t have no way of judging where we’re putting the fliers at,” Jones said.

Why the group would now target Lake Butler is unknown at this time.

“I am saddened to see that such hatred is still perpetuated here in America in 2014. These fliers just prove that there are still ignorant people who are in our society that use the name of ‘Christianity’ to promote hatred,” said Patrick

L. Maxwell, pastor of Victory Christian Center in Lake Butler.

“For this organization to consider themselves Christian is ludicrous. Christianity is about embracing all cultures, nationalities and ethnicities. As a pastor of a multicultural church I pray that no one in our loving community will be duped by these hateful and ignorant fliers.”

On the Union County Times Facebook page, Norma Owen Wilcox posted, “I would like to say, as one of the people who picked up and threw away the KKK leaflet left in my yard, I am very offended. We don’t need that kind of hate trash being thrown around our neighborhoods. We have worked for a long time to have a peaceful harmony in our town, and we don’t want this kind of trash in our town. Ok. Rant over. I hope everyone who found that trash in your yard threw it away.”

Sheriff Brad Whitehead was equally dismayed.

“The message was from a group that is trying to spread hate in many locations throughout America,” Whitehead said in the UCSO statement. “The Union County Sheriff’s Office will not tolerate any hate toward any minority group. We take this very serious and it is not welcomed in Union County.”

Anyone that has any further information about this incident should contact UCSO at 386-496-2501.

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Patrick L. Maxwell, pastor of Victory Christian Center.

The Klan fliers were dropped along the street easement in zip-locked bags also containing mints.

Keys were left inside each vehicle.UCSO was told by the Gainesville

Police Department that a 1974 Nova was stolen in Gainesville that same night, 19 miles south of Elixson’s. The owner of that vehicle actually ran a display advertisement in the Regional News section of the Feb. 27 issue of the Union County Times, asking for leads to its whereabouts. It is bright yellow with similar racing stripes, plus barbed wire-style pinstripes along both sides. The ad says the 386 cubic inch engine is “chromed out.”

GPD told UCSO Capt. Doug York said that there is yet another incident in Georgia involving either a Nova or similar classic car.

All three thefts happened within a mile of Interstate 75.

“That would indicate to me, that maybe somebody is working that corridor,” York said. “We’re keeping in contact with the U.S Customs Service in case these cars are destined for seaports, which a lot of times happens with collector or exotic cars.”

Elixson’s truck was recovered from an apartment complex in Gainesville about a week after being stolen, though a handgun inside it was not recovered.

Last week York said, “We are continuing our investigation and have had some leads that came in anonymous sources, and we’re following up on those leads right now.”

If you have information, call First Coast Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS (8477) where you can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward.

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FIFTH GRADE: (Top Row, l-r) Katie White, Emily Davison, Rebekah Milner, Brooklyn Williams, Julianne Roberts, Meghan Mobley, Katie Caren, Blake Bass and Layton Davis. (Middle row, l-r) Caroline Fillyaw, Delaney Sweat, Miranda Broughton, Katherine Dorsey, Brycen Peacock, Kaley Thornton, Kelsey Starling, Chloe McMinn, Gracie Stroud and Emily Johnson. (Front row, l-r) Elaine Odom, Joycelyn Gibson, Mark Seager, Hunter Maldonado, Hayden Johnson, Lake Harris, Braxton Dukes, James Tallman, Skyler Shatto, Colton Cox and Payden Clyatt. Not pictured is Brian Kish.

SIXTH GRADE: (Back row, l-r) Luke Griffis, Ryan Hardin, John Knagge, Karah Oden, William Laux, Alan Palmer and Steven Brown. (Front row, l-r) Cory Watts, Savannah Duncan, Trinity Watkins, Taylor Whitaker, Abigail Ripplinger, Kandace Moppert, Ariana Johnson, Alyssa Coyle, Haylee Miller and Sierra Graham. Not pictured is Madison Suggs.

SEVENTH GRADE: (Back row, l-r) Jon Johnson, Matthew Lynch, Sidney Johnson, Cade Peacock, Alex Perez, Chad Sanders and Ryan Young. (Front row, l-r) Victoria Lake, Naomi Murray, Audrey Davis, Kensley Hamilton, Jadee O’Steen, Brooklyn Cunningham and Savannah Douglass.

EIGHTH GRADE: (Back row, l-r) Kaylee Molchan, Tori Wilkins, Kale Oden, Brooke Waters, Erin Stidham and Ashley Harris. (Front row, l-r) Madalina Spires, Taylor Beatty, Madelyn Kish and Madison Adams.

LBMS A/B Honor Roll FIFTH GRADE: Brett Abraham, Ashlyn Agner, Alec Bailes, Hailey Britt, Arthur Brown, Trystin Bynum, Gracie Cabral, Jeffrey Conrad-Nicholas, Andrew Courson, Alivia Crawford, Bryanna Crawford, Destiny Daniels, Hayden Davis, Kelly Denson, Chloe Dubose, Keeley Durrance, Desiree Edwards, Hannah Fischer, Desmond Givens, Randa Godwin, Alexia Hall, Aliyah Hancock, Lili Hart, Ti’onna Healy, Miyahka Jenkins, Solomon Jones, Brian Knagge, Carmen Knight, Austin Lake, Hunter Lee, Elizabeth Lewis, Hannah Mason, Aidan McRannolds, Ethan Mesnard, Jacob Newman, Karla Parks, Hunter Parrish, Ryan Patrick, Hannah Perron, Christopher Piggott, Troy Rizer, Dylan Rodriguez, Jackson Romrell, Erica Roseke, Noah Sanderson, Lana Sapp, Roberto Saravia, Dylan Schaffer, Danielle Slown, Daniel Stone, Spencer Taylor, Gary Thornton, Maisie Thornton, Macie Whitehead, Madelyn Whitehead, Alexis Williams, Kiona Williams, Kenecia Woodridge and Ke’Andre Young.SIXTH GRADE: Araya Baldwin, Tyler Barrs, Ailee Bly, Madison Brown, Tiffany Clark, Kamaya Cohen, Mitchael Combs, Chase Cribbs, Sierra Dell, Matthew Eaton, Clarissa Elixson, Virginia Falk, Jason Ferguson, Jacob Fineley, Sabrina Fort, William Gallagher, Hunter Gilland, Kayla Godsmark, Carlyi Green, Spencer Hedman, Shands Howard, Destini Jackson, Diavion Jenkins, Cheyenne Johns, Chloe Johns, Makayla Jones, Justice Kite, Jonathan Maldonado, Jacob Mcrannolds, Kasie Murphy, Angel Padgett, Kiersten Palmer, Victoria Park, Jacob Petrovich, Mary Quiett, Aaron Romrell, Derrick Searcy, Harley Seay, Kaylee Shealy, Ayla Smith, Sydney Spears, Kendal Stalnaker, Kylie Stevens, Candace Suttles, Bethany Tatum, Dustin Thomas, Lance Thornton, Katie Tomlinson, Jimmy Waters, Brandon Woods and Tate Worrell.SEVENTH GRADE: Tyler Alexander, Matthew Beighley, Shyanne Bell, Jared Benton, Wesley Courson, Bailee Crews, Trace Croft, Mackenzie Davison, Aaron Edwards, Erica Faulkner, Summer Fulgham, Caitlin Gainey, Bre’onna Gilmore, Blake Harrell, Gage Hendricks, Nathaniel Hobson, Jessica Howard, Millinea Jennings, Jonathan Kerschner, John Manning, Hanna

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ABOVE: Sherry Barnett is the LBMS Teacher of the Year, here pictured with Principal David Campbell. Minnie Broughton is the LBMS School-Related Employee of the Year. This is Barnett’s 30th year of teaching. She started teaching fifth grade in 1984, then taught fourth grade and currently is the media specialist and gifted teacher.

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BY MARK J. CRAWFORDTelegraph Editor

Local authorities have helped capture an alleged murderer and arsonist sought by Duval County.

The Bradford County Sheriff’s Office and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced last week that Randal William Wagoner had been arrested.

According to BCSO Capt. Brad Smith, JSO detectives have been working on the case for several months to develop the probable cause necessary to seek an arrest warrant.

They caught up with Wagoner at the Timbuktu Lounge in Starke on the afternoon of March 6. The 45-year-old suspect did not resist being taken into custody, but he refused to answer questions.

Wagoner’s arrest report lists his home address as Raiford in

Union County.Wagoner is charged with first-

degree arson and the second-degree murder of Kathy Lorraine Johnson, 43.

Firefighters responded to a fire at Greybeard’s Tavern on Commonwealth Avenue in Jacksonville on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 2013. After firefighting personnel extinguished the fire, a deceased victim was discovered.

Foul play was not suspected until a medical examiner determined Johnson died prior to the fire of blunt force trauma.

JSO Assistant Chief Chris Butler said Wagoner was the last person seen with the victim. He said Wagoner admitted he was with Johnson, but denied causing her any harm or starting the fire.

A combination of witness testimony and forensic evidence has allegedly proven otherwise, although the exact motive was unclear. Butler said the victim lived above the bar and the she and Wagoner knew each

other. There may have been an agreement to exchange sex for drugs, but Butler said they don’t believe that actually took place.

Wagoner was in the Bradford County Jail until March 10, when he was extradited to Jacksonville. Bond was set at more than $500,000.

Wagoner

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Local author Dr. Harold F. Green, who wrote “Prison Stories: Living the Life of a Prison Chaplain,” was a senior chaplain at several prisons in California for 30 years. At Feb. 24 meeting of the Union County Historical Society, Dr. Green related how prison systems are populated with many races and languages.

He described how he would talk to the inmates, taking their background into consideration. Some inmates required different holy days and foods. He could read and speak at least five different languages, enabling him to relate all the more.

When High Desert State Prison opened at Susanville, California, Dr. Green served as senior chaplain there for many years.

Dr. Green described how he got injured and thought he was dying. As a result he returned to Union County and planned his funeral. Every night when he laid down, he thought he wouldn’t wake up. After five years he decided he was going to live. But he had already ordered his tombstone, stating the various degrees he had acquired and places of his employment.

The tombstone is in the cemetery at New River Baptist Church in Bradford County.

Dr. Green was called to

preach when he was 13 years old. His family lived in the New River area of Bradford County and later moved to Lake Butler in the 1900s where they farmed across the road from Dekle Cemetery before moving to Jacksonville during the Great Depression. There his mother bought a farm where the Jacksonville International Airport is now located.

He joined the U.S. Air Force before finishing school. After the Korean War he went to Stetson University under the GI Bill.

His first pastorate was at Parkview Baptist Church in

Lake City. After pastoring, he began working for the prison systems in California.

The next meeting of the historical society will be held on March 31 when Robert Tucker will speak about Confederate soldiers and their families from the Lulu and Union County areas. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Union County Historical Society meets in the Townsend-Green Building and Museum at 410 West Main Street in Lake Butler.

The museum is open every Monday, 9 a.m. to noon.

‘Prison Stories’ author Harold Green presents at historical society

Back in October, Union County Public Library Director Mary Brown accepted an autographed copy of “Prison Stories: Living the Life of a Prison Chaplain” from local author Dr. Harold F. Greene.

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“It’s a pretty fast-paced class,” Clyatt observed. “Even though it’s an elective, they’re basically taking another core class. But their hard workers”—that being eighth-graders, who are the only ones who can take the Microsoft Office course.

“We also talk about career skills and cyber safety, but it’s mostly about Microsoft,” she added. “Mi-crosoft certification is adult-level stuff. And I tell them that in gen-eral it will help them with term pa-pers and reports in college.”

Even if the students pursue Microsoft certification at the high school, “it’s like they’ve al-ready done the first year.”

Obviously, with this kind of

training, it’s a prestigious academy to be in, with only 20 slots open each semester. Entrance is based on each student’s disciplinary report, grades and teacher recommendations.

In some ways, these students

are already prepared for the big world out there, and they haven’t even entered high school yet.

This kind of quality education and the opportunities afforded to students here, that often outshine

much bigger communities and budgets, is one of the many reasons residents love to call Union County home.

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SchoolUnion County High School “Perfect A” Honor Roll

9th GRADE: (Back row, l-r) Stephen Milner, Georgiana Spires, Morgan Eddy and Lane Griffis. (Front row, l-r) Deanna Truett, Justin Lovelace, Jarrett Shadd, Taylor Pate and Macey Fulgham.

10th GRADE: (L-r) Kent Coburn, Shelby McDowell, Amanda Snyder, Michael Rizer, Ashlynn Vaughn, Lexi Whitehead and Madison Worth.

11th GRADE: (Top row, l-r) Abigayle Lahman, Amanda Lahman, Brianna Martin, Claire Sivyer and Madison Thornton. (Front row, l-r) Kayla Andrews, A.J. Baker, Travis Durrant, Crysta Fairfield, Kiersten Jenkins and Noah Kight. Not pictured are Macy Adams and Trey Spitze.

12th GRADE: Sammy Bustrycki, Joseph Chiominto, Coral Leffer, James Suttles and Beverly Westfall. Not pictured are Taylor Cross, Ashley Feltner, Austin Dukes, Kendallyn Johns, Kyle Mosher, Chance Vaughn and Danielle Willis.

6A Union County Times • Thursday, March 13, 2014

The Union County Health Departmentoffers a FREE Healthy Start program for:

• women who are pregnant;• familes who have a child less than 3

years old; and/or• women who have recently lost a

pregnancy or are between pregnancies

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Healthy Start provides education and support in breastfeeding, parenting, smoking cessation, childbirth education and women’s health.

THERE IS to participate in

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To enroll in the Union County program:

• Call the Union County Healthy Start Program at 386-496-3211 (ask for Healthy Start)

~ OR ~• Say to the Healthy Start Screenings

offered by any prenatal care provider or at the delivery in the hopsital

We also have monthly group connections in which our families come together to enhance their parenting experiences with other program participants. At these meetings we may have group discussions, guest speakers, and activities to do with our children.

Please come and join us, our next meeting will be on:Thursday, March 20th at 10 a.m.

at the First Baptist Church fellowship hall

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At its March 10 commission meeting, the City of Lake Butler announced details for the upcoming

election. Three seats are open this year: Seat 3, which was vacated by former Mayor Lonnie Norman

who moved to Perry; Seat 4, which becomes open due to the recent passing of LeRoy Stalvey; and Seat 5 which is up for reelection. That seat is currently held by acting Vice Mayor Fred Sirmones who said he will run again.

Here are the dates, deadlines and requirements:

• Each commissioner’s salary is $10,674.54. The term is for four years.

• Qualifying dates are April 21-25, from noon to noon.

• Qualifying fee is 3 percent of annual commissioner’s salary; filing fee is $25; election

assessment is one percent of annual commissioner’s salary. Obtaining 25 signed petitions exempts candidates from the qualifying fee.

• The election is June 24. Where do people vote?

City voting will be at the Lake Butler Community Center on Tuesday, June 24, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

For any questions, call City Hall at 386-496-3401 or visit www.cityoflakebutler.org.

Lake Butler announces upcoming election detailsThree seats are up for grabs this year

DECISION 2014

The Florida Department of Health recognized 125 years of Florida public health this past month. The State Legislature created the State Board of Health on Feb. 20, 1889, in response to yellow fever epidemics in Jacksonville and other port cities, and Dr. Joseph Yates Porter from Key West became Florida’s first State Public Officer.

Florida’s rapid population growth was due in large part to public health efforts that controlled disease and improved environmental health. The department invites Florida’s residents to join in

recognizing 125 years of protecting, promoting and improving the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county and community efforts. Explore the resources at www.flhealth125.gov.

On Thursday, Feb. 20, local health department employees began a day of celebrating 125 years at Lake Butler Elementary School during its Tiger Up Morning Mile program with students from first through fourth grade. Employees joining them were Demetrius Thomas, Lisa Underhill, Anita Thomas, Debbie Allen and Amie Reynolds.

Tiger Up is a walking and running program that gives students

and opportunity to exercise rather than sit or stand in front of their classrooms. Parents are invited to participate as well. The program is primarily for grades first through fourth, but pre-K and kindergarten students may participate if a parent or guardian accompanies them. The school has a quarter-mile trail marked off at the back and students may walk as little or as much as they wish.

The walk is open Monday through Thursday from 7:30 to 7:50 a.m. Tiger Up is not held on Fridays, early release days or days with inclement weather.

Health department celebrates 125 years with LBES

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Kaleb Clyatt is Union County High School’s Teacher of the Year, pictured here.Dale Hardin is UCHS’s School-Related Employee of the Year.Other Union County School District honorees include Juanita Harden in transportation, Paul Griffis in maintenance, Debbie McAlister at Tiger’s Den and Pam Pittman in the district office.“She does a lot of extras for the district office,” Superintendent Carlton Faulk said of Pittman.