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This week in history 9/21/17

Clay Today
Posted 9/20/17

5 years ago, 2012Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler launched the Clay Connection program to keep in contact with shut-in elderly residents in the event of an emergency. St. Vincent’s Medical …

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This week in history 9/21/17


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5 years ago, 2012
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler launched the Clay Connection program to keep in contact with shut-in elderly residents in the event of an emergency.

St. Vincent’s Medical Center Clay County held a ceremonial “topping out” event in which supporters of the hospital signed a steel beam that was then hoisted atop the hospital’s tower.

In a 3-2 vote, Orange Park Town Council voted to install traffic light cameras in a collaboration with American Traffic Solutions.

10 years ago, 2007
Originally faced with a $1.1 million shortfall, Orange Park Town Council passed a $16 million budget that cut $180,000 from previous year spending levels.

Clay County School Board Member Wayne Bolla embarked on a protracted battle with School Superintendent David Owens over busing students to Ridgeview Elementary from the Bear Run subdivision.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office arrested six people on drug charges after a sting operation that uncovered more than $45,000 in cash and various amounts of narcotics.

20 years ago, 1997
The Clay County Hazardous Materials Response team extinguished a burning barge fire on the St. Johns River during a training exercise.

Roosevelt Paige, president of Citizens Working for Community Involvement and Development, told the Green Cove Springs City Council that “Matthew Tinney is a personal friend, but he is not my favorite council member – Diane Hutchings is.”

Kelly and Mickey Moneyham of Jacksonville picketed Better Home Entertainment on Kingsley Avenue in Orange Park because they received only six of 13 sports channels they said were promised on their new satellite system.

30 years ago, 1987
Park HealthCare applied for state permission to build a two-story, $9 million hospital in Green Cove Springs that would replace Clay Memorial Hospital, which it managed.

Montclair Elementary School fourth grader Justin McCullar, 9, of Orange Park, died a day after he was struck by a pickup truck driven by George Byron McNeal, 16, of Orange Park. McCullar was trying to cross Doctors Lake Drive to get to school.

Citing a need for more information regarding drainage, Green Cove Springs City Council delayed approval of 200 homes in Phase II of Magnolia Point Golf and Country Club.

40 years ago, 1977
The Board of County Commissioners awarded a $5,000 bid to Araneo, Parker and McCulley to design an addition to the Green Cove Springs Public Library.

Green Cove Springs City Council voted to keep its millage rate at 4 mills, which would fund the city’s $3.8 million annual budget.

Law enforcement from Clay, Duval and St. John counties searched for Terri Lynn Guy of Orange Park after her abduction from the old Roosevelt Mall on U.S. Highway 17 in Jacksonville. She was later discovered in the metro Atlanta area and placed in custody of her parents.