News Briefs - Aug. 27, 2008
City of Milton Holiday Schedule
City Hall will be closed to allow employees to observe the Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 1, 2008.
Garbage routes will be picked up as follows: 1-Monday route picked up on Tuesday; 2-Tuesday route picked up on Wednesday; 3-Thursday & Friday route picked up as scheduled.
Yard debris pick-up is the same as the above schedule.
City Hall’s Public Works desk and accounting window will resume operation on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 7:30 a.m.
UWF/SBDC continue Brown-Bag Lunch Series
The University of West Florida Small Business Development Center (401 E. Chase St., Suite 100) is presenting a Brown Bag Lunch on Wednesday, September 3 from 12 noon to 1 p.m. entitled “Supervisor Training for a Drug-Free Workplace.” Seventy percent of all drug users are employed; does one of them work for you? Supervisors or managers will understand how to improve your staff’s productivity and protect their health and safety by tackling problems that may arise from alcohol and other drug use. Learn how to identify substance abuse problems and how to successful manage these situations. Panelists will be Danette Krumel, Business Development Manager/Professional Examiners, Inc.
Seminar is free, however registration is highly recommended. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunch. For further information, or to register, call 473-7830 or go to www.sbdc.uwf.edu.
Democrats’ to hold Yard Sale
The Santa Rosa County Democrats Monthly Yard Sale at 5746 Stewart Street, Milton, will be held on Saturday, September 6, from 8 – 2. Items for sale will include toys, stuffed animals, books, kitchen items, glassware, tools, and many miscellaneous items. In addition, there will be furniture and garden equipment for sale.
For information on delivery or pick-up of items for donation, call DEC Headquarters, 2-6 p.m., Monday - Friday, 623-2345, or contact DEC State Committeeman, Harold Webb, 572-6029 or 623-8040.
ARC Santa Rosa Plant Sale
ARC Santa Rosa will have a Plant Sale Friday, August 29 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. ARC Santa Rosa is located at 6225 Dixie Road in Milton (just north of the Extension Office) Plants available for sale will be Rabbit-Eye Blueberries, Muscadines (4 varieties), Crepe Myrtles, Tibouchina, Fig Trees, Day Lilies, Iris, Camellias, Canna Lily, Cassia, Landscape Shrubs, Ornamental Grasses, Trees, Perennials and much more. 1 Gallon pots are $3.50 each. 3 Gallon pots are $5. All plants are priced to sell.
Bronson reminds AG producers of Farm Bill change affecting Disaster Assistance
With the hurricane season entering its peak period, Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson today reminded agricultural producers that they must have crop insurance or non-insured crop disaster assistance coverage (NAP) to be eligible for compensation under the government's disaster programs.
A provision of the 2008 Farm Bill, which was enacted into law in June, requires that farmers and ranchers carry one or the other of the two insurance programs to be reimbursed for agricultural losses. Prior to the law's enactment, such coverage was not mandatory.
Because the law took effect after application periods expired for the insurance programs, producers have until September 16 to take advantage of a waiver that permits them to pay a "buy-in" fee to be eligible for disaster assistance. Producers can contact their local FSA County Office to file the waiver application and pay the applicable fees.
The buy-in fee is $100 per crop, or a maximum of $300 per county for growers who raise multiple crops in a county. For those growing in multiple counties, the fee is capped at $900.
“It is vitally important that growers obtain insurance coverage to protect themselves,” Bronson said. “While we've had a brief lull since the catastrophic hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, meteorologists remind us that we are in the middle of what is forecast to be a particularly active hurricane period.”
For more information about the 2008 crop year buy-in for disaster assistance programs, visitwww.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/buyinwaiver08.pdf
College Fair 2008
Pensacola Junior College partners with the Escambia and Santa Rosa county school districts to host College Fair 2008 Sept. 8-9 at its Pensacola and Milton campuses.
For Santa Rosa County students, the fair is 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, at the L.I.F.E. Center/Sports Complex, Building 4000, Milton campus, 5988 Highway 90.
Both events are free and open to the public.
College Fair invites about 100 colleges, universities and technical schools from across the Southeast to participate. The goal is to provide high school juniors and seniors a place to meet representatives from many institutions who can answer questions about admission procedures, registration requirements, tuition and fees, degree programs, scholarships, financial assistance, student life and housing.
Community college students who plan to transfer to universities are encouraged to attend – as well as parents. For more information about the Pensacola campus fair, contact Kathy Dutremble at 484-1547, kdutremble@pjc.edu; for the Milton campus fair, contact Georgieanna Bryant at 484-4440, gbryant@pjc.edu.
PJC Surplus Property Auction
Don’t miss Pensacola Junior College’s surplus property auction Saturday, Sept. 13.
The popular event that offers all types of items is held at the Pensacola campus, Building 69 on Douglas Avenue. View what is available from 8 to 9 a.m. The auction starts at 9 a.m.
Goods on the auction block include restaurant equipment, dental chairs, computers (notebooks and desktop), office supplies, chairs, desks, televisions and much more.
No credit cards accepted. Garth’s Auction Gallery supplies the auctioneer.
For more information, visit http://www.garthsauction.com/ or call 484-1911.
