Scholarship available through Supervisor of Elections office

GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Clay County Supervisor of Elections, Chris H. Chambless, is once again happy to announce a scholarship opportunity for college students across the state. The Florida Supervisors of Elections will present three $1,200 scholarships to the winning students at the 2020 FSE Summer Conference in May.
Eligible applicants must be a Florida resident and enrolled, or accepted, as a full-time student in a senior college or university in the state. Students must have finished two years of junior college or undergraduate work and be a Political Science, Public or Business Administration, or Journalism/Mass Communications major. They must also be registered to vote in Clay County and demonstrate financial need.
Any interested students can review the guidelines and application online at ClayElections.com or at the SOE Office, located at 500 N. Orange Ave., Green Cove Springs. Completed applications and two letters of recommendation must be submitted by 5 PM on February 28, 2020 to
the SOE Office.
For more information visit ClayElections.com or contact our office (904) 269-6350.

Jax Spine & Pain Centers celebrates 20 years in NE Florida

FLEMING ISLAND – Jax Spine & Pain Centers is celebrating 20 years of serving Northeast Florida.
The practice, after growing steadily through referrals and a commitment to exceptional patient care, has expanded in recent years. Starting with three board-certified physicians and a single office on Jacksonville’s Southside in 1999, Jax Spine now has seven dual-board-certified physicians and four offices: a larger office on the Southside, and offices in St. Augustine, Fleming Island and North Jacksonville. The practice is in the planning stages for a fifth office in South Georgia. The local office is located at 2349 Village Square Pkwy., Suite 107, on Fleming Island.
Jax Spine & Pain Centers was founded by Dr. Christopher Roberts, who brought in Dr. Claudio Vincenty and Dr. John Carey shortly after the beginning. Dr. Vincenty was one of the leading pain specialists in Jacksonville. Drs. Carey and Roberts had trained together at Mayo Clinic.
The founders had a shared vision for the practice – to treat the causes of pain, rather than manage or mask the pain, with interventional techniques that were just becoming available.
“When I first came to Jacksonville to train, there were pain management practices, but no practice that offered what I thought was essential to cure neck or back pain,” Dr. Roberts said. “Back or neck pain is a symptom, not a diagnosis. It’s easy to assign a symptom, but to come up with a diagnosis of what’s wrong is more difficult. Once you have a diagnosis, you can create a plan to make the patient better. Our goal is to listen to patients in order to make a correct diagnosis, to identify what the source of their problem is, and then to use interventional techniques to treat the problem.”