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Clouds Showers Coming From Gulf

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --Patchy fog may form this morning but it will rain again this afternoon.  very isolated areas with small hail and
gusty winds 60% high 86.  More showers Thursday  with only
20% chances for the weekend..

Increasing northeast winds will modify the afternoon heat by the weekend.

 

 

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Efforts To Rehab Northwest Jacksonville Cemetery Stalled

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Fred Douglas, James Caldwell and Rev. Raymond King are a few of the dead buried and abandoned in Sunset Memorial Cemetery.

Amy Blount lives next door to the Northwest Jacksonville graveyard. 

"I saw them cleaning two of them last week," said Blount.

Database: Registry of Historic Cemeteries in Florida

She said nobody seemed to care. From the front of the cemetery, facing Moncrief Road, it looks like there's an effort to maintain the property, but there are hundreds of graves that are covered with debris and thick brush.

Clean Out Those Cabinets: Stamp Out Hunger is Saturday

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Check your mailbox!  The Stamp Out Hunger food drive is Saturday and letter carriers have been dropping off donation bags at homes all over the First Coast this week.  

This is the 20th year of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Food Drive.  

The donation drive is designed to make giving easy.  All people have to do is put some non-perishable food in a bag and leave it by their mailboxes Saturday.  Postal workers will take the donations and transport them to Second Harvest of North Florida.  

Shrimp Festival Vendors Shut Out By Code Compliance

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. -- The Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival brings a large audience, and for small business owners, it is a great opportunity to sell their stuff. But 11 small business owners say their boom turned out to be a bust.

"I cried, I lost a lot," said Carol Zimmer.

Zimmer is one the eleven vendors who were hoping to cash in at the shrimp festival and leased space from Fernan-Deli, a small restaurant.

"It sounded solid to all of us vendors, it sounded solid to us. We were totally shocked," she said.

Zimmer said the vendors, including her, paid Craig Scott, owner of Fernan-Deli, $125 each to lease space in his parking lot for the two-day festival.

"I've done it on regular weekends before, but never had a problem with it," said Scott.

Goat at Junior High Killed by Wild Animal

MIDDLEBURG, Fla. -- A First Coast school is dealing with the death of a goat used for education.

Teachers at Wilkinson Junior High in Middleburg discovered one of the goats dead Monday morning.

Two other goats survived the weekend attack, but had severe cuts and bite wounds.

Dr. Craig Price of Black Creek Veterinary Hospital thinks a wild animal attacked the goats. They were part of agriculture education at the school.

"We found out they are still healthy. They had multiple puncture wounds. We took X-rays to make sure there weren't any vital organs involved," Dr. Price said.

Deputies in Clay County initially thought the goat was shot to death. But the vet didn't find any bullet or bullet fragments.

Detective Con Kelley says it was most likely a wild animal, although they don't know how it got inside the fence.