P~qp 10 .-I 0 ecember 2004


A LOCALLY OWNED NEWSPAPER


The Franklin Chronicle


A gathering to share healing through words, music,
lights and candles, and through memory

Service Of Remembrance

Held At Lafayette Park,

Apalachicola

Several dozen friends and mourners gathered at the gazebo in Lafayette
Park on Sunday afternoon, November 28th for the Big Bend Hospice
Service of Remembrance, 2004.
Saundra Kelley, Community Relations of the Big Bend Hospice, gave
her welcoming remarks followed by Chaplain Scott Smallwood. His
remarks focused on the following thoughts:
We gather here to share our journeys:
No matter the path each one of us has traveled,
We are joined by a common experience,
We know love and we know loss.
We gather here to share our grief:
To remember those we love,
And to express sorrow and joy,
To seek comfort and healing,
We gather here to share in our healing:
Through words and music,
Through lights and candles,
And through memory.


As we face our grief together,
"May we remember where we come from,
Where we are right now,
And where we are going,
Throughout this holiday season and beyond.
May we allow the words spoken and sung,
The rituals observed, and
The joining of our hearts and minds
To invoke memories tender and sweet,
Like roses in December.
The Love Center Inspirational Voices provided choral music supple-
mented by Debbie Bachman. A Hospice Story was related by the Stahl-
Waters Family followed with a lighting of the tree and candle lighting.


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 Funding For

 U.S. Highway

 319

 Last weekend, Congressman
 Allen Boyd (D-North Florida), a
 member of the House Appropria-
 tions Committee, voted in favor of
 the fiscal 2005 omnibus appro-
 priations package (HR 4818), se-
 curing $1 million to continue the
 expansion of U.S. Highway 319.
 Expanding the highway will help
 alleviate traffic and provide the
 only four-lane Hurricane Evacu-
 ation Route in the Big Bend area
 of Florida.
 U.S. Highway 319 is currently a
 two-lane highway connecting Tal-
 lahassee with Wakulla, Franklin
 and Gulf Counties and is the ma-
 jor north/south roadway connect-
 ing Interstate 10 and U.S. High-
 way 98. The population growth in
 Wakulla County has created a
 pressing need for the expansion
 of U.S. 319 to accommodate the
 increasing traffic flow through the
 county, which has become a bed-
 room community for Tallahassee.
 "I am pleased this funding will
 help area residents travel through
 the county safely and with greater
 ease," said Congressman Boyd.
 'This past hurricane season has
 further proven the need for a
 four-lane highway. It is vital that
 we work together to support the
, growth of this county and provide
a safe route in the extreme case
 of evacuations."




 Aggressive

 Drivers,

 Beware

 The Florida Highway Patrol's new-
 est enforcement tool, the Mercury
 Marauder, was unveiled at a news
 conference December 6th in Tal-
 lahassee. Eighteen new vehicles
 will join the patrol force to play a
 key role in the campaign against
 aggressive driving.
 The Mercury Marauder is an ex-
 cellent stealth vehicle for use in
 detecting and apprehending ag-
 gressive drivers. These unmarked
 marauders are equipped with co-
. vert lighting packages, emergency
 sirens, speed measuring devices,
 and state-of-the-art audio/video
 recording systems designed to
J provide valuable recorded docu-
 mentation need for court presen-
 tations and prosecution of viola-
1 tors.