Mixing Horticulture and Holiness
Dated June 4, 2009 FULL story
www.highspringsherald.com/articles/2009/06/04/news/news02.txt
Ed Bez, the director of the Biblical Botanic Gardens Society, has now moved the national organization’s location to High Springs. More than 120 flowers and plants in Alachua County are included in the Biblical Botanical Gardens Society, an organization designed to add a spiritual component to gardening and inform people of the history behind some of the plants and flowers in the Bible.
A New Kind of Santa Fe Duck
Photos for The North Florida Herald May 14, 2009
A whole new kind of duck- the kind made of rubber- visited the Santa Fe River on the High Springs border Saturday, May 9 when the Rotary Club held a rubber duck race as a fundraiser.
Each duck was numbered, and residents were able to sponsor a duck for a fee. The ducks were dumped into the river from the U.S. 441 bridge, and the finish line was Boat Ramp Road.
Taking first place and $500 was Scott Towne of High Springs; second place and $100 went to W. Strickland of Gainesville; third place and $50 went to High Springs’ Lucy Regensdorf, who donated the money back.
The sausage kings (and more) for The North Florida Herald
Dated May 14, 2009 FULL STORY at www.highspringsherald.com/articles/2009/05/15/news/news03.txt
Don Sievers, sales manager for Nettles Sausage, hands a customer pieces of meat cut to the customer’s specifications at Nettles Sausage, where hundreds stand outside in lines waiting to get in during special sales. There are so many people that the butcher shop outside Fort White has to bring in an 18-wheeler truck of meat each day. Now Nettles Sausage is planning to expand to the Southeastern United States.
Brandi Bryant holds her daughter, Kyleigh, 2 months old, as Bryant’s groceries are bagged up at Nettles Sausage near Fort White.
Timothy Kravec, 3, looks around a crowded market Saturday afternoon at Nettles Sausage while waiting for his mom and grandfather to purchase meat at the market.
2009 Newberry Watermelon Festival
Published May 21, 2009 FULL story at www.highspringsherald.com/articles/2009/05/22/news/news05.txt
At the 64th Annual Newberry Watermelon Festival, children enjoyed watermelon, watermelon and more watermelon.
Dozens of kids flood the arena dirt floor during a portion of the rodeo in which a string is tied to a calf’s tail and the kids are told to try to get the string. The kids ended up chasing the calf around the arena for about 30 seconds before they finally caught the animal and took the string off.
A young boy reaches the top of a rock wall at the Newberry Watermelon Festival Saturday.
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A young boy reaches the top of a rock wall at the Newberry Watermelon Festival Saturday.
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