JOE FELL

Sorry....the date of the memorial for Joe is Sat. Sept. 7th. at St. Johns Funeral Home. 

 

11:00 in the morning.

 

Paula

JOE FELL

It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that Joe Fell passed away Thursday morning, August 22nd, 2013 while in hospice care.

 

There will be a memorial service on Saturday morning at 11:00 at St. Johns Funeral Home on SR 207.  Refreshments will be served.

 

Joe and Betty have lived in Treasure Beach over 25 years and were always very active in the community.  Joe was one of the founding veterinarians of an established dog food company ( Gaines which began in 1928).

He introduced many patented items for dog food and was a leader in the veterinary field.

 

Joe and Betty were very active in our community. Joe was always willing to trade stories of Treasure Beach and his days back east when he was a  brew master. He will be missed by everyone who has any connection to him. 

 

I know that Ron and I will always fondly remember our dinners with Joe and Betty and will miss his sense of humor.

 

Paula and Ron Murphy

 

June Smith

As some of you may already know, we lost a long time resident, June Smith (also know as "June Bug") last week.  Our sympathies go out to June's friends and family for this loss.   

CANAL DREDGING

Well...it is official now.  The St. Johns  County Commissioners voted to grant TBPOA an MSBU to get the canals dredged.  The next step will be to put the project out to bid to see what company will do the dredging. 

 

The front page article in The Record was a real eye opener on Monday morning.  I was in the middle of my first cup of coffee....not quite awake until I saw the headlines.  Unfortunately, there were some errors in that article.  The canals have not been dredged for almost 20 years. My husband purchased our property 17 years ago and the canals had been dredged a few years before that.  He had to pay the assessment for 2 years after the purchase.

 

The second mis-statement was that the erosion was being caused by speeding boats. ( I wish it was that simple.)  The erosion is caused by "mother nature" with the natural rising and lowering of the water level in the canals. AND the fact that some property owners don't maintain their bulkheads.

 

The article the next day written by Damon Douglas was correct.    What is truly sad is that 137 property owners FAILED TO RESPOND TO LETTERS FROM THE TBPOA OR THE COUNTY!  TBPOA sent out letters 2 different times and the county sent out letters 2 different times.

 

Having navigable canals is a big selling point for TB.  Our community is the ONLY community in St. Johns County that can directly access the intercoastal by boat.  I sincerely hope and believe that anyone who sells their property in the next few years will make more than a $10,000 profit on that sale because the canals will have been dredged.

 

Paula Murphy