901 55 a Complete weather Information on 2A lmeClassillei-N4n7Br Comics .---3B LU Crossword ----3B SNational -- -7A - Obituaries --7A SOpnion----4A Z Sports 1-2B - TV Ltin --2B 2 Sections, 16 Pages Volume 85 Number 202 Inside Missing F girl's mon indicted o murder .. -'49m I h'ms1' Ctn 3 JobSeq 112 PkgScq 004 ******* ORIGIN MIXED LIBRARY OF FLORIDA HISTORY PO BOX 117007 GAINESVILLE FL 32611-7007 A MEDIA GENERAL NEWSPAPER ADC2LORIDAN WEDNESDAY Ethanol plan brings hope to Campbellton BY MATT ELOFSON THE DOTHAN EAGLE MELOFSON@DOTHANEAGLE.COM The mayor of Campbellton, Fla., hopes a new corn-based ethanol plant will add indus- trial growth to the Jackson County town. "This is just what we need," Mayor Aggie Curry said. "This is our jump start." Curry said she hoped people would move to Campbellton to fill the 40 to 50 jobs with East Coast Ethanol, whose company officials announced the plant's arrival Tuesday at the town's community center. Construction of the plant is expected to start at its near 300-acre location off Florida Highway 2 in spring 2009, with operation to begin sometime in 2010. The announcement of the plant left one Jackson County resident with concerns about. its impact on the community. Richard Bibby, whose land is adjacent to some of the plant's property, said the announcement, left him concerned whether the town's volunteer fire department could handle an emergency at the plant if something happened. Bibby serves as one of about a dozen fire fighters for the town. "I'm keeping an openly optimistic mind about it," Bibby said. "I moved out here because it was quiet. I would rather wake up to the sound of my neighbors cows than the sound of trains bringing in corn." Randy Hudson, the company's chief execu- tive officer,' talked about how the plant's ethanol would help amid a nationwide energy crisis. "We have dedicated our lives to crude oil. We have to look at other areas of energy pro- duction," Hudson said. "Our platform begins with corn. That is the transitional energy we're all looking for and that's grain alcohol." Plant officials said much of the corn would be shipped at least 2,000 miles into the plant using rail cars, which will be redirected to make a stop near the plant. Lee Hatch, a director with the company, said the company will also buy corn from local farmers. "We plan to be good neighbors, and we plan to give back to the community," Hatch BY DEBORAH BUCKHALTER FLORIDAN STAFF WRITER.' Jackson County Commissioners quickly snapped up an offer of free labor Tuesday when a contractor offered to take something other than money as pay for his work. Contractor Mark Freeman, Freeman's Metals, said he'd demolish the old Sykes call cen- ter in exchange for the right to take all the material for,salvage. Commissioners agreed to the deal, on the condition that he present all the personal and business documentation called for in the request for bids. He has five days to produce all the material. Freeman and 16 other con- tractors responded to the coun- ty's request for bids, and their proposals were opened on Oct. 9. The next lowest bidder was. Harry's Haul/Randy Larson, who offered to take $30,630 off his demolition bid of $49,560 in exchange for the salvage materi- al. That made his ultimate bid $18,930, far below the third- lowest offer. But with a price of zero dol- lars offered by' Freeman, the Leon Hatch, director of East Coast Ethanol, talks with Dorothy Davis about the planned site of the company's Campbellton plant. - Mark Skinner / Floridan said. The plant will produce 110 million gallons of ethanol a year. Hudson said each bushel of 'corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol. The com- pany also plans to build ethanol plants in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The plants will have a combined production of 440 million gallons of ethanol a year, mak- ing it the sixth largest ethanol producer in the U.S, according to a statement released by the. company. ... Hudson said 30 percent of the processed product will also produce a dried grain, which will be sold as livestock feed. Hudson said most gas stations'across the See ETHANOL, Page 7A > -- -. : #: (._ w .. .. I-S 1 - Mark Freeman talks about his proposal to demolish the old Sykes call center. Deborah Buckhalter / Floridan vote to award him the job was unanimous. The highest bid came from Earthmovers, who offered to take $25,000 off the base price The old Sykes property needs of $162,910 for a total final bid to be cleared to make way for a $137,910 if the county would let new Jackson County Public him have the salvage. Health Department building. Mary Ann Young Local woman missing since last Friday B) DEBOR'~H BLiCKHALTER P Ft.,i,ILE .0 TFF \VVI., F. A Jackkon CounrN woman with a history of mental ill- ness is missing, and authon- Lies are hoping someone may know where she may :have gone. Foul play is not suspected in the disappearance of 30- year-old Mary Ann Young,. according to authorities, but' her family members are con- cerned about her welfare. Young \"as last seen around noon on Frida\. Oct 10, when'she left home and headed for her job at Lowe's in Panama City. Her employ- er called her family around 3 p.m. that da\ reporting that she never armed for wsork. She lih\e in the Sil\er Lake community just inside the Jackson County line. She is described as having short black hair and hazel eyes. She %,.eighs about 130 pounds and is 5-feet. '-inch- es tall. When last seen. she \'as nearing blue jeans. a gray See MISSING, Page 7A > Flu shots clinics on Oct. 20-21 JACKSON-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE The Jackson County Health Department will be providing a flu shot clinic to be held Oct. 20 and 21, at the main facility on the comer of Fourth Street and Fifth Avenue in Marianna. Flu shots are $35, and pneumo- nia shots are $45. Please call 526-2412 for an appointment. Cash, check,' Visa, Masteicard or Medicare Part B will be accepted. Please bring your Medicare Card with you. Getting a flu shot not only can protect the person receiv- ing it., it can also help protect See FLU, Page 7A > Commissioners compiling road-paving wish list BY DEBORAH BUCKHALTER FLORIDAN STAFF WRITER Co Jackson County Commissioners are T looking to pave some dirt roads in 2009 and beyond. See .Thurs On Tuesday they held a workshop of the Ja about their road paving plans, that ses- of.ri n foJ sion commencing just after the board Fan fo wrapped up its-regular first-of-the- Commisson month board meeting. C issio For several years, the county has been Speed using a one-penny local option sales tax Ploseda to resurface and otherwise maintain pr l sed existing paved roads. But on Tuesday p .psed they said they were now prepared to pos- near Meen sibly'devote two-thirds of that money to new paving. The county receives about g county $3 million a year through the tax. sion- With no opposition voiced by fellow commissioners, board chairman Chuck Lockey suggested that the county earmark about $2 mil- lion a year to pave roads. After some discussion, they agreed on a way to select the first roads to be considered for paving. I d ks Dr I b IU ex No ti w I Each commissioner is to select one i G candidate road in his district. County 'N G Engineer Larry Alvarez will then assess SA the feasibility and prudence of paving SD each, based on factors such as condition, Sei usage rate and importance to the com- ay's edition munity. The roads will then be ranked to on County determine the order in which each would more on be paved, based on his assessments. County Connector roads, for instance, might be meeting: ranked :higher than less critical road- Iumps pro- ways. nty road In some cases, commissioners may rpanded for select portions of roads, rather than try- subdivision to pave sudivsio ing to pave them end-to-end, board members indicated Tuesday. on in ongo- Road decisions were still on the mind rater exte- of District 5 Commissioner Milton Pittman, who was defeated in his bid for re-election and is finishing out the last few days of his term. He was worried about the fate of Sylvania Plantation Road. In earlier action, before his loss at the polls, the board had agreed to focus on four miles of the dirt road as the next possible paving project to be funded from the tax. Some preparatory work has already been completed: Surveys have been done, right-of-way easements have been obtained from adjacent property owners and the bid process has been authorized. But with Pittman on his way out, he wanted to know if the remaining board members were still committed. Some indicated they thought Sylvania Plantation should be at the top of the paving list even though Pittman is leaving, but no vote was taken on the matter. Chuck Lockey said he, too, has already selected the road he'd like to see paved in District 3 Bump Nose Road. That's the same road he chose in an earlier incarnation of the county's potential road paving list. The list has morphed more than once through the years, and may now change again.. Commissioner Jeremy Branch, who just used a chunk of his discretionary money to pave the most heavily-pop- ulated section of Old Spanish Trail, said he was going to have to review the potential roads in District 4 before offering one up for the list. District 2 Commissioner Ed Crutchfield did not indiL cate which road he might nominate, and District 1 Commissioner Willie Spires had left before the discussion ensued. This Newspaper - Is Printed On Recycled Newsprint 7 165161 80050 9[ ,Te hCflSteS ' CLASSIFIED SouMcE! =. WIREGRASS CLASSIFIED MARKETPLACE ,: See details each Tuesdayin 1 Jackson County Floridan's F S Contractor makes an offer the county can't refuse I I