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Monday, June 18, 2007

Residents Want Help With Their Mailboxes

It is something most of us do every single day.  You go to the mailbox or maybe the post office if you have a P-O box to check your mail.  Now, that sounds like a simple task.  But for some Bay County residents, that simple task has turned into a chore.  Now, they want something done about it.  They passed their concerns on to News 13’s Problem Solver Department and this is what we found out.

“When I first moved out here they said I had to put it out there because I was the only one out here,” says Bay County resident Henton Durden.  And you still won’t see a mailbox in front of Durden’s house.  Durden lives on Skunk Valley Lane which is just off of Skunk Valley Road in North Bay County.

For Durden and the seven other families who live on Skunk Valley Lane, in order to check their mail everyday, they have to come down to the end of the street which is approximately a half mile for some folks to a row of mailboxes.  They want them moved closer to their homes or changed for better security.

Durden says he sent a letter in January last year to the Panama City Postmaster Pat Campbell.  Durden says he received a response from Postmaster Campbell in April of last year.  Durden says, “I got a petition and sent it to him and he sent a letter back stating he would put a box out front a lock box.”

That was fine with Mr. Durden and his neighbors.  But even after all of that, there is still no change with the mailboxes.  Durden says, “I can’t get my medication.  you see.  They will leave it at the mailbox...you don’t ever know when they will run.  They have been vandalized nine times in nine years.”

Postmaster Pat Campbell tells News 13 he has not received a petition from the residents.  But, if all of them agree, he is ready to help as best as he can.  Campbell says he has looked at the problem firsthand, “so when we went out there and checked, it is not a county maintained road.  It is a private road.  So, the solution I offer is that we will put a cluster box that is locked that only the residents of that road can get into and if is something too big for that we will bring it down there to their house.”

Postmaster Campbell says once he hears from the residents, he can have the new cluster box up within a couple of weeks.  That should at least help with mail security.


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New Surface Should Help Motorists On Section of Road

A News 13 Problem Solver update.  In May, we told you about a section of a Bay County road that was causing headaches for motorists.  Huge dump trucks haul garbage to a dump site off of Steelfield Road every day.  Sometimes, nails and other metal debris, would fall on the rough unpaved road.
Area residents who also had to drive the road said ‘that’ debris punctured many tires.

Well, last week, the section of Steelfield that seemed to be the problem was paved.  Two companies with developments in the area, followed through with their plans.  Gulf Asphalt GAC and C-W Roberts, working with the county, provided the new paved surface.  Now, hopefully better travels for everyone .


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Monday, June 04, 2007

Humane Society Still Needs Volunteers to Complete Project

Tonight, an update on the Humane Society of Bay County.  The shelter serves as a home for displaced dogs and cats and is now being upgraded.  But the shelter is faced with some roadblocks in reaching its goal.  In this week’s Problem Solver report you will learn more about what is needed and how you can help.

The Humane Society of Bay County is located at 1600 Bay Avenue behind the Panama City Police Department just off 15th street.  Recently, the center underwent some extreme makeover.  Shelter officials say about sixty volunteers turned out to do major landscaping, painting and general cleanup.  All in an effort to make a better temporary home for 200 plus animals.  But even with all of that work, the executive director says there are still a lot of loose ends that need to be dealt with.

Executive Director Mary Sanger says, “it is going to take us a couple of months for us to accomplish everything I want to do.  I am trying to build a garden of hope in front with flowers, trees make it very inviting, peaceful when you come in here. Instead of the dog kennel in the front, you are going to see a beautiful garden area.  And the painting...it will take months to do...got to prime everything first.” Sanger also says the shelter is looking for any age person to volunteer, “I do get a lot teens and high schoolers.  I welcome everyone to do it young or old...I have a job for them.”

Sanger says she is optimistic about the shelter’s future, “I am very optimistic...a great board to support...we want the same for these animals. We are doing really well...we are always going to financially struggle from month to month but we are better now than we were four months ago. And that’s something the board and I are very proud of.”

On the new coat of paint at the shelter, that is turning out to be a chore.  Two weeks ago, the new latex paint was put on oil-based unknowingly and therefore, the new paint is peeling.  So now, there is a lot of priming that needs to be done.

To learn more about the Humane Society of Bay County and how you can help, just click http://www.adoptme.org/


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