Lanark Village Association elects new board
Hi Y’all,
It is beginning to feel like Christmas… up north. Yes, we have had some cooler days, but after all, it is Florida. It will give us some nice days.
The Lanark Village Association had its monthly members meeting Monday, Dec. 2, and the 2025 board was elected. Kathy Brown was voted in as secretary, and Barbara Nolen as treasurer, with the governors now Roy Hall, Debra Howells, Janie Shafer, and Bobbi Trickett, with Bert Boldt retaining his seat until his term is completed. Good luck to the new board and the organization. If you have not joined the LVA, please do so to support your community.
This week our St. James/Lanark Fire Department volunteers responded to a call from the Florida Highway Patrol that a dump truck was on fire on Highway 98. With quick action from the volunteers, they were able to stop a potentially bad situation. The Lanark area thanks these amazing volunteers who take pride in what they do for the community. The time is near when the community needs to step up and back our volunteer fire department and do what we can to help. Everyone can help, whether it be fundraising, helping at the fire station, or monetary donations so that these volunteers can have what they need to save your home, not to mention help with your insurance rates. Pitch in and help!
The Lanark Village Golf Club had its very cold yard sale on Saturday and the LVA opened to serve coffee and restrooms available. The golf club will not have a sale in January. The golf club is not only about playing golf; it is a nonprofit community organization that keeps the grass cut at the entrance to Lanark Village and supports the medical helipad. A members’ meeting will be held Thursday, Dec. 12 at 6:30 p.m. ET. The 2025 board will be voted in, and they need your support.
The Lanark Village Boat Club had its annual members’ Christmas party. The food and the socializing were wonderful. Thank you to all the volunteers who made it possible. The boat club will have its elections for the 2025 board on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Many Lanark residents will be participating and attending the Holiday on the Harbor and Boat Parade of Lights in Carrabelle this Saturday. Festivities start at noon with the light show at dark-thirty.
The bears are getting very active in the Lanark area. Please see that your garbage cans are secure. Don’t feed the bears and leave the mess for your neighbor to pick up.
Love Lanark
Pat Sewell Funderburk is the Times’ Lanark News columnist. Be sure to send news and society items about Lanark Village life to her at p.funderburk@yahoo.com.
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David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.