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golf team try outs
Creekside High School will have the boys and girls Golf Team Try outs the week of Aug. 19. All interested students must contact Coach LaVercombe by Aug. 1 via e-mail at elliott.golf@gmail.com. Summer Golf Camp for Creekside High School boys and girls is Aug. 11-15 at South Hampton. Discount will be available for Creekside students. E-mail Coach LaVercombe to sign up. Boys golf coach is Elliott M. LaVercombe and girls golf coach is Michael Chancellor, chancem@stjohns.k12.fl.us.

st. johns travel team
The St. Johns Travel Team Wildcats are still looking for football players and cheerleaders. The cut off date has been extended to July 7 for the invitation for 12-14 year old to attend the free summer camp. Practice location is Palencia, 6-8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. For more information call (904) 292-1571 ext. 439 or visit www.stjohnstravelball.com.

old fashion camp
July 6, 10:30 a.m. come and enjoy an Old Fashioned Camp Meeting and Church Picnic! We will have just one service on that Sunday with great praise music and a chance to call out requests for your favorite hymns. After a fun time of worship, we will share a picnic together with hot dogs and drinks and invite you to bring your favorite picnic side dish to share. Most of the chairs will be moved from the center of the sanctuary, so you can bring lawn chairs or blankets to sit on. (There will be chairs available for those who prefer them). This will be a fantastic opportunity to all come together at the same time as a church family! River of Life, United Methodist Church, 2600 Race Track Road, St. Johns. (904) 230-2955.

new park in durbin crossing
A new 35-acre park system is now open to the public at Durbin Crossing, in the northwest corner of beautiful St. Johns County. Durbin Crossing Park features recreational areas, including baseball and multipurpose fields, and plenty of leisure space for visitors to enjoy the natural beauty of the park. Veterans Park, which is located on the northwest side of the community, has numerous soccer fields, a skate park and the first dog park in the area. The Creeks Athletic Association, hosts all Creeks Lacrosse and Julington Creeks baseball educational camps, practices, games and tournaments at the recreational fields at the new parks. Community activities, like the Creeks Art & Musical Festival, also attract a wide-range of visitors from both St. John’s and Duval Counties. Located off of St. Johns Parkway or County Road 2209.

Below is email correspondence between my self & JCP CDD.... I thought the fees went up plenty enough last year.  This is one meeting I do not plan on missing.........

Dear Ms. xxxx,

Thank you for your interest.  Most likely the CDD assessment will need to change this year due to the costs of operating our new recreation facility which will open  at the end of the summer.  Every effort is going toward making any increase as small as possible.  Projected program revenue that the new recreation facility will be able to generate for our community will go a long way toward keeping our CDD fees lower than most (if not all) other area CDD’s.  The exact amount of the fees, as well at the entire JCP CDD budget, for Fiscal Year 2009 will be discussed at a public hearing on August 12th, 2008 at Fruit Cove Middle School at 6pm.  All homeowners are welcome to come and see what is on the horizon for our great community. 

Respectfully,Shelly Timbol
Administrator
Julington Creek Plantation CDD 

  More pro-action from JCP's HOA board!  I noticed signs put out where some idiots had been peeling out on the sod.  They stated that "YOU are paying for this!" (most likely not, the parents, yes)  And also let the morons know that there would be a reward for information leading to the ARREST of the perps. Maybe if these idiots learn that it's NOT all fun and games, and they CAN and WILL go to jail, they will think twice.  Also, I plan on discretely placing a few of my digital game cameras in public areas around my neighborhood.  The kind that go off if there is motion within x amount of feet.  I guess I will get some shots of Nanuck cutting the grass, but I might also get the retards that are "offroading" in daddy's hummer.  Legal?  Probably not, but I ain't gonna tell.  Who's to say if I saw it or my camera.

Did anyone attend the Creeks Art & Music Festival at Veterans Park?  We were out at Veterans Park finishing up Soccer Camp on Saturday.  Then we checked out the music and food.  It was really nice.  My kids loved the music and of course the ice cream.  It was a nice little local event, you didn't have to drive to St Augustine.  There were many different vendors selling artsy stuff.  I'm sure there will be more events held at Veterans Park in the future.

Jena was 14 years old. Her mother will never understand what happened on her daughter's life, something so terrible, that pushed her to finish her own life. Two days ago, she was going to go to the mall with her friends one afternoon. She seemed very excited about it.

Her mother was happy too, Jena had been kind of quiet and sad lately, and she had occasionally complained about her appearance, nothing strange in a teenage girl. Who didn't feel unhappy sometimes with her body while going thought adolescence? However, Jena wasn't only experimenting those "natural" changes on her young life, she was also going through a hard time, being bullied by other kids at school, and constantly critized by one of her teachers. She had become the target of prank calls, and despite of this stress, Jena never told anyone about it, because she felt that no one really cared about her feelings. Jena was suffering of deep depression, the quiet killer condition of hundreds of teens today in our society.

st. johns travel team
The St. Johns Travel Team Wildcats are still looking for football players and cheerleaders. The cut off date has been extended to July 7 for the invitation for 12-14 year old to attend the free summer camp. Practice location is Palencia, 6-8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. For more information call (904) 292-1571 ext. 439 or visit www.stjohnstravelball.com.

golf team try outs
Creeside High School will have the boys and girls Golf Team Try outs the week of Aug. 19. All interested students must contact Coach LaVercombe by Aug. 1 via email at elliott.golf@gmail.com. Summer Golf Camp for Creekside High School boys and girls is Aug. 11-15 at South Hampton. Discount will be available for Creekside students. E-mail Coach LaVercombe to sign up. Boys golf coach is Elliott M. LaVercombe and girls golf coach is Michael Chancellor, chancem@stjohns.k12.fl.us.

As the days and weeks have passed, I've started to wonder whether the Daily Dose was something interesting on the website, or whether it just took up a bunch of space on the Blogs page. So I'd like to ask you for your thoughts. Do you want to continue to see the Daily Dose posted, or have you had your fill of (incredibly interesting) web videos at this point? As this is your website, what you want matters most. Let us know what you think.

Young Voices...all it takes is one...

Wow – what a letter – I have three children who are all a bit older than Justin and I’ve been telling them all their lives that “it only takes one” but it definitely has more impact when told by someone who’s been there.

The flip side is that it only takes one person like you, Justin , to turn a life around – yours or someone else’s. You are insightful, intelligent and gifted; a very good or very bad combination depending upon how you choose to channel your energies.

Making a change in your own life is much more difficult than helping another person do the same. You have my respect and admiration for choosing what must be, for you and so many others, the more difficult path. And while I agree that the support of a loving family and friends is extremely important, in the end it really does come down to just you and the work you are willing to do. Thank you for your letter – I am going to send it on to my children and to all the children I know... maybe the “one” it will take for someone else right now is you.