While the Oct. 19 Nocatee Farmers Market Fall Festival was canceled due to rainy weather, Fr. Rick Lindsey (left to right), from St. Francis in-the-Field Episcopal Church, and Steve and Sandie Brainerd and their pets, Annie and Baxter, still showed up at Nocatee Station Field to represent St. Francis and receive blessings.

As a next-door neighbor to Ponte Vedra Recorder co-founder Gretchen Carpenter in 1969, Jacquelyn Bates witnessed the newspaper’s creation. Eleven years later, Carpenter’s co-founder, Peg Bradford, and her son, Tim, asked her to become its managing editor. Bates shares her memories of the early years, and her opinion of the paper today.

The Rotary Club of Ponte Vedra Beach planned to hold its weekly meeting at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse today, Nov. 7, in order to honor and celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Ponte Vedra Recorder.