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- Survivors walk for a cure in Willis

BY JEFF SIRMONS
STAFF WRITER

At 5 p.m., a torrential hail storm
terrorized Williston’s Relay for Life,
blowing over tents, damaging trucks
and forcing Relayers to seek shelter

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at Williston Elemen-
tary School.

As soon as the
storm subsided how-
ever, Relayers worked
strenuously to set up
their stands. By 6 p.m.,
aside from the tent
pole on top of Willis-
ton Elementary’s roof,
there was no evidence
a storm passed.

“When cancer patients lose their
hair, they get a wig,” said event co-
director Jennifer Jeffres. “When they
lose their eyebrows, they draw them
on. Cancer patients are used to ad-
versity, so who’s to say a big storm
will stop us from relaying?”

LEVY COUNTY JOURNAL

supported the fight against cancer by
walking around the track. Some, such
as Althea and Jesse Jenkins, wore T-
shirts honoring their cancer-surviving

relative.

Althea Jenkins said.
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RELAY for five years so we can
FOR LIFE support any means to stop

    

  
 

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“Our mother has sur-
vived cancer five times,”

cancer.”

Local government;
schools and businesses set
up themed stands around |
the track so relayers could
learn more about the fight against

Williston Middle School students
set up a tropical themed stand and
used the opportunity to wear tattoos.

The city of Williston set up a boxing
ring equipped with sock ‘em boppers
so children could literally “give cancer

AROUND LEVY COUNTY

LITA HALCHA

Cox’s class takes trip; thanks bank

SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL

On Monday, April 10 Mrs.
Cox’s EMH/TMH class
went to Disney’s Animal
Kingdom.

This trip was made
possible due to the generosity
of a $200.00 grant given by
Bobbie Smith and her Levy
County Schools Foundation,
and donations made by BHS
staff.

With two school
(Thank you Mr. Tyson and
Suzanne), our trip began
at 6:30 a.m. with a stop in
Wildwood at McDonald’s for
breakfast. Everyone was so
excited when Disney signs
started’ appearing (Cody
Devine says, “Are we there
yet?”).

Once in the park, the
dinosaur ride was our
first encounter, as Dylan
McKinney put it so plainly,
“T wanted to throw up, but it
was fun!”

Roller coasters, triceratops
flying, petting zoo, lunch, ice
cream and the safari was all
we had time for. With a quick

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trip through Burger King for
dinner, we returned safely
back to Bronson about 8:30
p.m.

Tired and sweaty, we all
reflected on what a good time
was had by all, due to some
very good people.

Mrs. Goedeck, as our field
trip specialist, you are the
best! Miss. Debbie, what
would we do without our

_ financial advisor? And most

of all the great support from
our parents.

- Thank you all so much!
Cox’s Class
Bronson Middle High School

(Next — year-Jacksonville
Zoo?? We'll see...)

Mrs. Cox’s class would
like to thank Perkins State
Bank (Bronson Branch) for
sponsoring our annual Egg
Hunt. On Tuesday, April 4,
we walked over ‘to the bank
where a plethora of eggs
awaited the class.

The kids were rewarded
with candy and some even
found gold dollar coins hidden
inside their eggs. Cookies and

punch were served by our
wonderful Perkins’. angels:
Billy, Jennifer, Cindy, Marie,
Mandi, Ann and Diane. You
are the GREATEST!!.
Special thanks from Mrs.
Jennifer Cox, Ms. Debbie
Dexter, Mrs. Jennifer
Goedeck, Kyle Wilson, Bruce
Bright, Dennis Bright, Daniel

Branson, Justin Hill, Ruby
Dee, Cody Inman, Tommy

Cook, Dylan McKinney,
Ashley Patterson, Nikki
Catlett, Justin Calloway,

Cody Devine, Caleb Hulbert,
Cory Powell, Andrew Moore,
and Nurse Kim.

 

Low cost vaccinations Saturday

On Saturday, April 29, Levy
County Animal Services will
host low cost pet vaccinations
at the Levy County Animal
Services Shelter, 12051 NE
69" Lane, Bronson off of
C335 at the Levy County
Landfill from 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Rabies vaccinations are
needed for the quality of
the environment and_ the
protection of our pets. Rabies
vaccinations will be $7 for
dogs and cats.

Animal Services will be
doing dog and cat adoptions
during the clinic for those who
want to adopt a companion
animal. . Normal adoption

hours are Monday through
For more information call
486-5138.

Flea and tick season is
upon us; your pet needs its
protection.

For those of you that used
our emergency shelter during
the past hurricane season and
those that may have to again
this year, we need plastic or
metal kennels to house the
animals. You might want
to set funds aside now to
purchase a kennel for your

pet and have it on hand. Once .

a storm is headed our way the
stores sell out of pet carriers
very fast.

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2006

 

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BY WINNELLE HORNE
CORRESPONDENT

Log Cabin Quilters met
Thursday, April 20, at

 

the Levy County Quilt
Museum.
We had another busy day
with quilting and whatever.
Karen Arendell has
finished her first two
learning projects and today
she quilted on one of the
big quilts. She started with
pillow covers, and then
went to a small baby quilt.
She is now ready to get on
to quilting on a frame. Her
work is great and she has
really come a long way. She
drives from Live Oak and
comes as often as she can.
We have had the lumber
and what we need to build is
a gazebo in the front yard.
We had money donated
in memory and we decided
what we would do. We had

  
   
   
   
 
 
   
   
  
    
  
 

   

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Museum will add gazebo

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K (racecar driver), Tina Roberts, Dolores Gaitanis, Carol Glass,
Melissa Lewis, Joelene Vining, Carlie Vining, 5, Peggy Brooks and Nancy Bow-
man represent Williston Elementary School’s race themed stand.

DESPITE A HAILSTORM, it was a
night of Fun at Williston’s Relay
for Life. (1) Jasmine Jones, Lily-
Ann Greenstein, Katie Batchelor,
Caitlin Kearney and Samantha
Hall sport their new pirate ta-
toos. “I can make my tatoo wink
but you can’t see it because of
the eyepatch,” Kearney jokes. . —
(2) Armed with only the sheath,
Darren Krause, 7,
to dodge 4-year-old Marissa
Krause’s plastic sword as their.
parents watch the duel from a
nearby bench. (3) Laura Hunt, 35,
analyzes whether the toy horse is
in the best possible place to help
represent the Curves stand at
Williston’s Relay for Life. (4) Gar-
rett Phillips, Christina Woeller
and Norma Woeller stroll around
ithe track during Williston’s Re-
‘| lay for Life. (5) Andrea Evans, 4,

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lots of plans and had to
decide where it would go
and now to get it built.

Ken Skelton will be doing
the. work with the help
from inmates at Lancaster.
It reminds me of when we
started the museum, not
really knowing what to do,
but we all learned as we
went along. Come by and
visit to see how it will be
done.

Greg and five boys
were out Tuesday to do all
the great things they do.
Thanks, Lancaster.

Lunch was so good, with
sweet and sour hot dogs,
onion casserole, cheese
and macaroni, lots more
with strawberry dessert
and more.! There were 22
present.

Winnelle Horne is
the director of the Levy
County Quilt Museum.

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