St. Augustine

Paddy Kelly is a man that's no stranger to the cycling scene here in the county and indeed he has taken on a huge challenge in aid of two very worthy causes, Sláinteán Clare and Hughes House.

On September 19th, he set off from San Diego, California to cycle 3,000 miles in just 35 days, finishing up in St. Augustine in Florida.

He raised an impressive €24,000.88 towards his €75,000 target and those donations are remaining openings until November 30th.

Delighted to say that Paddy is with us on the line.

that got us to America, you know? So I think all of those people.

Fantastic.

And Paddy, how do you go about, I suppose, in the terms of the logistics of this, like from deciding that you're going to start off in San Diego, that St. Augustine's going to be the finish line and everything that has to be, I suppose, covered in between?

Well, there was a thing as such, the Great Southern Teal Route, and I bought that online.

I saw... as it related to the story, that he was the youngest winner in 88 years.

He surpassed, you ready, Bobby Dunkelberger, which is an interesting name, but Bobby Dunkelberger's win when he was 19 years plus happened at the St. Augustine Pro-Am.

He was 18 years old at the time, so Brown's the youngest winner of the modern era, but I did a little research on the St. Augustine Pro-Am.

And I found this out.

It was played at the historic Ponce de Leon Golf Club.

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Uh, and we celebrate that today, but, um, It's very important we continue this tradition of celebrating this every year.

Actually, I wish it was a larger celebration throughout the country, but we still do have parades around different parts of the country that celebrate Veterans Day.

And we intend to continue this tradition here in St. Augustine for our veterans in St. John's County for Home Veterans Day in honor of them.

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We say thanks to the folks at St. Joe's Academy down in St. Augustine for inviting us out here at the Golf Club at Southampton as they have their annual scholarship fundraiser.

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You know, a good example of this for me is one of our cohorts this last year, we were talking about how guys prepare the jar for Easter.

And one of my friends actually, who's leading an awesome church in just outside of St. Augustine, Florida, growing and going church, they were trying to break a thousand for Easter, you know, and it was it was going to be like a doubling of where they're at, which was which was so awesome.

Huge vision, which they did, by the way.

It was it was awesome.

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Tonight, St. Augustine picks an interim city manager and the city's own announcement leaves out the end date.

Plus, license plate readers go before the county on Tuesday and the item on the agenda is a single page.

and I'm Graham Pearce.

The consequences are already showing up in budget planning.

In St. John's County near St. Augustine, officials have reportedly put roughly $100 million in capital projects on hold and identified millions in staffing expenditures for reassessment.

That means layoffs, folks.

You're going to make an unemployment.

But when you get on the road and you're just like, this is such a beautiful road.

And I think Old St. Augustine for you.

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St. Augustine.

The excessively rigid credentialism of academia.

Just to back up a little bit, when I was finishing up at the University of Tennessee and planning on moving back to Florida, back to the St. Augustine area where Flagler College was, they had an opening for a full-time history professor position.

And at that point, I still didn't quite realize how rigid the credentialing stuff is in academia.

I thought there was still at least like some kind of wiggle room because in most jobs there is.