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And that’s the point behind the new quarterly Supper Truck Saturday events being hosted by the Rotary Club of Hastings.
While the monthly events have been fun, by moving Supper Truck Saturdays to a quarterly schedule, the club is able to expand the hours and make it a bigger event for residents to enjoy. The club will host food trucks, bathroom and wash stations, and a Main Street Marketplace as well as music by DJ Danny Fro. It’s an opportunity to come out and mingle with family and friends in an authentic rural Northeast Florida town. Shop from the various tables set up by local residents and businesses for homemade treats, crafts, and art, or sort through the items shared from attics and garages of local residents.
AROUND HASTINGS: South Woods principal Angela Rodgers visits Rotary Club
Nancy Quatrano
The Rotary Club of Hastings welcomed the “new” principal of South Woods Elementary School to their March 4 online meeting. Angie Rodgers took the position of principal after the Thanksgiving break in 2020 when Randy Kelley accepted a new role at the district offices.
Rodgers worked at South Woods as the curriculum resource coordinator and then as the assistant principal. She’s been part of the South Woods community for 25 years.
South Woods is home to more than 650 students, most of whom have returned to the live classroom environment, though there are approximately 50 students still engaged in distance learning. She was excited to announce that as of March 1, VPK and kindergarten students can enroll for the 2021-22 school year. Go to stjohns.k12.fl.us/student/enrollment.
AROUND HASTINGS: Grant to help Florida farmers fight threats
Nancy Quatrano
There are many things that can kill our crops in Florida.
Things like the Giant African Land Snail, the cactus moth, invasive fruit flies, and the Ailanthus altissima Tree of Heaven can wipe out crops for multiple years.
Food crops, sod, trees and ornamentals are all fair game for these threats. Weather is one of them, but invasive foreign plants, bacteriological enemies, and insect pests are major factors, too.
The GAL snail is considered by scientists to be one of the most damaging snails in the world, according to the USDA. It’s known to eat at least 500 different types of plants including, but not limited to, most beans, peas, cucumbers and melons.