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beef unit around the corner from
the crop-research headquarters.
There, they got to pet a dairy
calf. and see some goars, pigs
and horses up close
 Afterward, they drank some
.chocolate milkshakes and had
their pictures taken with milk

 Time_\ uropped ilp therr day in
 a hay field, where each -class
omade a scarecrow to take back
to sharp n ith their school-mates.
 Peacock said high.school 4-H
 students helped put on the event
 ednesday, and that FFA stu-
 JentswIIIbehelpingtoday.
 The aim of this "Ag in the
 Classroom" project, called First
 Time Farmers was to make stu-
 dents more aware of where their
 food really comes from,
 Peacock said.
 "It was an action-picked da\."
 Peacock said. "'We wanted to let
 them see that their food doesn't
 just come from the grocery
 store. There's a whole lot that
 goes (Into getting it there, and we
 wanted them to. experience.1t.
 There's lots.of kids who don't
 know all that. It wouldn't have
 been possible without our vol-
 unteers. We had master garden-
 ers, the 4-H kids, individual
 farmers and litestock owners,
 and extension staff."
 Wednesdays students caine
 from Sneads. Grand Ridge,

 See FARM, Page 5A >


County amends
itS road plan
 BY DEBORAH BUCKHALTER
 FLORIDAN STAFF WRITER .
 The Jackson County
Commission fine-tuned a long-
term road-spending plan at its
meeting Tuesday.
 The commission moved
Sylvania Plantation Road up in
the paying schedule. Originally
set for fiscal year 2012-13, com-
missioners moved work on it to
2010-11.
 This and other changes were
discussed ma workshop prior to
the commissions' regular meet-
mg.
 After a public hearing and pos-
sible further revisions on Nov. 10
at 9:15 a.m., the commission will
 See ROADS, Page 5A >


 BY DEBORAH BUCKHALTER
 LORIDAN.STAFF RITER
 ^rson b suspected in the fire that Jamaged
the home of a Jackson. Count, couple this
week.
 The exact time of the fire is as yet not
kilbWII, according to Jackson Count:, Sherall
Lou Roberts.
 The owners, Mr. and IVfrk. Bills Ostrander,
are not suspected of any wrongdoing, Roberts
said.
.The couple had left their double-wide
mobile home, at 6197 Fort Road near Two
Egg; around-mid-day Monday and returned
about mid-day Wednesday to find that a por-
tion of the home's interior had burned.
 Jackson County Fire Rescue Chief Tony
Wesley estimated that the worst fire damage
was confined to a roughly 20 by 20 square
foot.area of the kitchen,
. Roberts said the fire apparently self-extiiv
gushed, possibly because the heat and flames
compromised some pipes and allowed water
to flow in and douse the blaze.
 See FIRE, Page SA >


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 By DEBORAH BUCKHALTER
 FLORIDAN STAFF WRITER
 His thick, unruly eyebrows give Bud Chiles
away as the offspring of the late and highly
respected Flonda governor, Lawton Chiles.
 The similarities begiti, but hardly end there.
These days, he's wearing out some shoe
leather, just as his father did almost 40 years
ago, but for a different cause. He brought his
message to Marianna 11ednesday, walking
from the Jackson County Courthouse to
Golson Elementary School to talk about his
cause with administrators and children there.
 He also stopped, in on the Jackson County
Health Department's mobile dentistry climc.,
 IIts father became known as Walkin
Lawton" in 1970, during his successful strat-
egy to walk and talk with potential con-
stituents m order to win a Senate seat. He
logged 1.11011 nules in that campaign. -
 The son says he has no plan to seek public
office. --Im walking, not running," he said.
That is not on in\ avenda.
 But he is on a c:ulipaign ef sorts; to build:
erassroon demand for front--end spending
on program for children, and to get1 milhare
 <51c to an nTf p ral effor le
Children is a project of the Lawton Chiles
Foundation. I)ud works for that organitutivil.
which focuses on the welfare of chl!Jren
 Lawton Chiles served .as governor of the
s te for1t9 2 iet ym d te f -

the youngest Flondians. Bud says he wants to
extend that legacy. '
 Bud Chiles' bui)- nile 1 million to-p walk
is part of the foundation's "Worst-to I tr-1
initiative, "to make children't iksues the top
pnonty for Florida's leaders," according to
the foundation's Web ite


.eft to right;.Jackson County Sheriff Lou Roberts, Bud Chiles, Chiles' senior advisor Loranne
Ausley, and Jackson County commissioner Jeremy Branch embark on a walk from the
Jackson .Coun Courthouse to Golson Elementary School to codiplete the local leg .of
Chiles' 600-m e walk around the state on behalf of Floricia's children. Chiles is the son of
former governor Lawton Chiles. -Deborah Buckhalter/Floriddn

 Chiles said he believes his father would "be really for kindergarten and to make sure the\
sick to his stomach about the state of educa- get a health\. solid start in lite.
tion and spending practices as it relates to He points to the prevalence of utenile
children in Florida. offenders and the large number of prisons in
 He believe more money should be spent on
children iri their formative years, to get them See CHILES, Page SA,>


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 B\ DEBORAH BUCKHALTER
 Fr.ericess, a\ve..as,
 More than 300 local first-
graders went to the North
Florida Research and Education
Center .Wednesday morning,
and another 350. are scheduled
le son in tunning and Inetrack
care.
 Pati Piacock. 4-H program
assistant, said it took the help of
many volunteers and staff to
make the experience meaningful
for the jounesters
 They puzzled their n3.1
through a corn maze, with
guides at e er.\ turn in case they
were h6pelessly lost. They also
learned a bit about producing
the crop, and shelled some corn
out of cobs. They alsp snacked
on popcorn after their maze
adventure.
. They .met a beekeeper and his
hive, learning about the role of
bees in food production, then
sampled different kinds of
honey and cand_1 with honey as
a inain ingredient.
 They toured a peanut field <:sn
the fesparch grounds, and .ate
some boiled peanuts afterward.
They also watched someone
make fresh peanut butter and
sampled some on crackers.
. They toured a cotton field,
and got to run their hands
through the fluffy stuff.
 They went to the resettrch


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 STAFF REPORT
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County woman
, accused of
abusing an elder-
ly t ictim under
her care when
she worked for a
health care.cen-
ter li Jackson
C (''igi Snell
 g Serrevara Shell, 26, was a
Certified nursing assistant
employed with Signature Health
Care Center when the incident
allegedly oc/tirred in August this
year. She has since been terminate-
 Sbhe a uPs slappine a
90-year-old ,wolitan across the
face, reddening the area, accord-
ing to a press release from
Auorne General Bill McCollum.
 Snell is charged with one

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