The Senior Citizens Council of Madison County is requesting funds to purchase a 32-gallon hot water heater (or a donated hot water heater) for an 80 year-old widow on a low, fixed income.
For information, call Case Manager Lavericia Copeland at (850) 973-4241.
Special thanks to Studstill Lumber Company of Madison for donating hot dogs for the All American Day Party on July 12 at the Madison Senior Center.
Melynda Rolene Kuhfeldt Darby of Lee passed away peacefully in her sleep and was received into the arms of Jesus Christ, her Savior on June 20, 2012.
Melynda Rolene was born to Robert and Laurel Kuhfeldt on October 2, 1953 in Rockledge, where she lived the majority of her adult life.
She is preceded in death by her father, Robert Kuhfeldt.
She is survived by her mother, Laurel Kuhfeldt, daughter Laurie Legg, son-in-law Charles and grandchildren Rachel, Steven, Aaron, Josiah, Jeremiah.
She is also survived by sisters and brother: Cathy Hayes and husband Don, Janet Bennett, Lucy Montanya and husband Wayne, Tracey Majors and husband Lee and Patrick Kuhfeldt and wife Lilly
She was very lovingly known as: Mom to daughter Laurie, Nana to her grandchildren, Rolene to her family, Aunt Rolene or Aunt “Nene” to her many nieces and nephews and Melynda to her friends
Memorial Services were held June 26, 2012 at Harbor City Church of the Nazarene in Melbourne. There was a brief graveside service in Lee on July 10, 2012, at 6 p.m.
I have seen some amazing things in my lifetime. I have been a part of some awesome things myself. Awesome and amazing are not words that can describe what people must have seen in Galilee 2,000 years ago.
I remember sitting at an FSU baseball game. It was being broadcast live to the nation (at least the cable subscribers back in 1986 or 1987) on ESPN. FSU vs. LSU. An epic battle between two teams ranked number one and two. Mike Martin had removed the FSU pitcher (it seems that it was Richie Lewis) from the game with FSU leading 2-1. I may have the score wrong. Anyway, in the bottom of the ninth with the score tied 2-2, Paul Sorrento launched a rocket over the fence with a runner on base and FSU won 4-2.
I remember watching on TV as Byron Wells, a reserve FSU senior with very little playing time, hit the shot of his life and FSU beat Duke for the first time 89-88.
I even know that I was on the brink of death and Jesus brought be back to life. That was awesomely amazing. It was amazingly awesome.
All these amazing and awesome things cannot compare with what those people in Galilee and Nazareth and Jerusalem saw. They saw God incarnate as Jesus Christ performing miracles. He was a man who was God. He was God, yet He was a man. How amazingly awesome and awesomely amazing is that?
Today, we read the Bible and find that God insists in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Awesome. Amazing.
I look forward to that awesomely amazing day and that amazingly awesome day when I will get to see Jesus, who paid the price for my sins, face to face.
Amazing.
Awesome.
NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Madison County, Florida will hold a special public meeting, to which all persons are invited to attend, as follows:
Date: Monday, July 9, 2012
Time: 11:00 A.M.
Place: The Board of County Commissioners Meeting Room, Room No. 107
Madison County Courthouse Annex
229 S.W. Pinckney Street
Madison, Florida 32340
Purpose: (1) Approve Tourist Development Council (TDC) Grant for Community Baseball League in the amount of $2,000; (2) Discussion with possible action on the Request for Proposals (RFP) process for County Engineering Services; (3) Approve Contract for Services with Apalachee Center, Inc. for jail mental health services; and (4) Discussion of tentative schedule for 2012-13 FY budget process.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in any of the above meetings is asked to advise the Board at least 48 hours before the meeting by contacting Tim Sanders, Clerk, at Post Office Box 237, Madison, Florida 32341, telephone:(850) 973-1500. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the Clerk by calling 711.
If a person decides to appeal any decision made by the Board with respect to any matter considered at such meeting he or she will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such purpose, he or she may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
Posted on July 6, 2012. Board of County Commissioners of
Madison County, Florida
By: /s/ Tim Sanders
Tim Sanders, Clerk
Arrested and charged : Mary Alice Brown 21 yoa of Madison, Fl
Cultivation of Marijuana
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Robert Noah-Michael Moral 22 yoa of Lee, Fl
Cultivation of Marijuana
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Rev. Dozier Balloon, Jr., 84, began his life on a farm and ended it as a well-respected husband, father, brother, uncle, soldier, provider and Christian leader. Affectionately known as David, he departed this life to be with the Lord on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at Center Pointe Rehabilitation Center in Tallahassee.
Rev. Balloon was a faithful servant who loved the Lord and had a strong conviction to tell the world of His goodness. He retired from the United States Navy, Madison County School System, and the AME Church as an itinerant elder. Although he no longer had a pastoral appointment, he never stopped preaching the gospel and inspiring others.
Rev. Balloon’s survivors include his devoted wife of 55 years, Lillian Aikens Balloon; daughter, ViElla Balloon Lindsey, son-in-law, Rev. S. Gerrard Lindsey and two grandsons, Micaiah and Caleb Lindsey, of Tallahassee; two sisters, Lillie B. Nesbitt, of Madison, and Leola B. Garvander, of Richville, Minn.; one brother, Ulysees “Buddy” Balloon, of Tampa; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and sorrowing friends.
Family visitation will be on Friday, July 6, 2012, from 5-7 p.m. at Jeslamb A.M.E. Church, 185 NE Almond Ave., Madison, FL 32340, (850) 973-6254.
A celebration of life will be held on Saturday, July 7, 2012, at 11 a.m. at North Florida Community College, Van H. Priest Auditorium, Madison, followed by interment at Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church Cemetery, Cherry Lake.
William “Jack” Hunter, age 81, died Monday, July 2, 2012 at Big Bend Hospice in Tallahassee.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Friday, July 6, 2012, at Beggs Funeral Home Madison Chapel with burial at Cherry Lake Methodist Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday from 6- 8 p.m. at Beggs Funeral Home.
He was born in Grand Ridge and lived in Madison
County, (Cherry Lake) since childhood. He was a farmer and won Outstanding Farm Family in 1967. He was County Commissioner for 12 years and worked at North Florida Community College as a Custodian Supervisor before retiring. He was in the Army 82nd Airborne.
He was preceded in death by his parents, George Christopher Hunter and Edna Dudley Hunter and sister, Willie Dee Bryant.
He is survived by the mother of his children, Jean Wynn Hunter of Madison; one son, William Hunter (Debbie) of Greenville; two daughters, Traci Mickel of Jasper and Janet Baldwin (Donald) of Lake Park, Ga.; one brother, Jim Hunter (Sue) of Cherry Lake; and six grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Beggs Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements 850-973-2258.
