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As of 8:00 a.m. this morning, Nassau County has issued an Evacuation Order for Evacuation Zones A and D. An Evacuation Zone Map can be located at www.onenassau.com/evacuations. There is also an interactive version at www.nassauflpa.com, under the GIS Mapping feature. Nassau County is unable to tell residents when they will be able to return as that will depend on damages from the storm and associated assessments deeming it’s safe to return. Upon returning to Nassau County, please have identification available. This will ensure that you don’t have any issues returning to your home. If your identification card does not include your home address, please ensure you have some sort of documentation so they can confirm your address (deed, utility bill, property tax bill, etc.). Sheltering information will be released within the next few hours. Nassau County is working closely with the School Board to get the sites ready for resident’s arrival. Please continue to remain vigilant and follow public safety announcements. They can be heard on NOAA Weather Radio; Local radio stations 89.9 FM, 145.5 FM and 690 AM; and local news stations Channels 4, 12, 30 and 47. Information related to the storm can also be found at www.OneNassau.com. Follow Emergency Management on social media at Nassau EM or at www.twitter.com/NassauEM. ************************************************************************************* If you have any questions, please contact Nassau County Emergency Management at (904) 548-0900.    
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As of 5:00 p.m. yesterday evening, Nassau County has been placed under a Tropical Storm Surge Watch. This means that Nassau County could experience high tides and storm surge as a result of Hurricane Ian. Residents should prepare now by checking disaster supplies and ensuring you have an evacuation plan in place.
Please note that a Storm Surge Watch is different that a Storm Surge Warning. Right now, residents are reminded to stay vigilant and have a plan in place. Should a Storm Surge Warning be issued, Nassau County residents in low-lying and flood prone areas should prepare by placing sandbags around doors and garage doors, elevating or anchoring utilities, elevating furniture and clearing gutters of debris. No announcements have been made regarding evacuations or sheltering. However, please be assured that plans are in place and will be announced should the need arise. Know your evacuation zone! Should Nassau County be upgraded to a Hurricane Warning, evacuation orders will be announced by zone. You can find an evacuation zone map by visiting https://www.onenassau.com/evacuations/. If you have not yet signed up for Emergency Alerts, please do so ASAP. This will ensure that you are notified right away if any evacuation orders are issued. Sign up at https://www.onenassau.com/citizens-alerts/. If you have any questions, please contact Nassau County Emergency Management at (904) 548-0900. All updates and information related to the storm can be found at www.OneNassau.com. Follow Emergency Management on social media at www.facebook.com/NassauEM or at www.twitter.com/NassauEM. Hurricane Resources in Florida
The U.S. Small Business Administration North and South Florida District Offices; SBA's Disaster Office (FOCE East); the Florida Small Business Development Center Network; and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity are working together to ensure our small business owners have the information they need to prepare for hurricanes and other natural disasters. With Tropical Storm Ian pending as a threat to the Florida, we collectively encourage business owners to make a plan and take action now. The Florida State Emergency Response Team (SERT) will provide daily conference calls at 1:30 p.m., Eastern Time, for private sector and industry partners beginning Monday, September 26, 2022. Learn more about resources available to Florida Business Owners including the Emergency Bridge Loan at Floridadisaster.biz. Tips to Protect Your Business A message from the Florida Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network
We encourage businesses to visit our website for preparedness resources, including a disaster preparedness plan guide, preparedness plan template, and emergency procedures template. For additional preparedness tips and resources, please visit www.FloridaSBDC.org. We're here to help. The Florida SBDC Network is a principal responder in the state's Emergency Support Function (ESF) 18 for Business & Industry. As such, we help businesses prepare for, respond, and recover from hurricanes and other disasters. Following a storm, the Florida SBDC Network helps impacted businesses prepare disaster loan applications and with other post-disaster challenges. After the Storm - SBA's Disaster Loans SBA provides low-interest disaster loans to help businesses and homeowners recover from declared disasters. LEARN MORE OR APPLY Who can use an SBA disaster loan? Businesses of all sizes located in declared disaster areas, private nonprofit organizations, homeowners, and renters affected by declared disasters, including civil unrest and natural disasters such as hurricanes, flooding, and wildfires. How to use an SBA disaster loan
Business physical disaster If you own a business located in a declared disaster area that has experienced damage, you may be eligible for financial assistance from SBA. Businesses of any size and most private non-profit organizations may apply to SBA for a loan to recover after a disaster. Eligibility
Use of proceeds Loan proceeds may be used for the repair or replacement of the following:
Disaster loan funds may not be used to upgrade or expand a business, except as required by building codes. If you apply for mitigation assistance to make improvements that help reduce the risk of future property damage caused by a similar disaster, you may be eligible for up to a 20% loan amount increase above the real estate damage, as verified by SBA. Nassau County is continuing to monitor Hurricane Ian. While it’s still too early to determine the exact impacts of the storm locally, preparations are taking place to ensure we are ready. At a minimal, Nassau County is expected to receive heavy rains and flooding.
Nassau County residents living in low-lying and/or flood prone areas should begin preparing now. The County will have sandbags available at two locations:
Both sites will be open beginning at 12:30 p.m. today and will close at 7:00 p.m. tonight. Following today, sites will be open from 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. until further notice. Hundreds of bags are pre-filled and available on a first come, first served basis. Once the pre-filled bags are gone, residents will need to fill their own bags. Please bring a shovel. Must provide proof of residency. If you have any questions, please contact Nassau County Emergency Management at (904) 548-0900. ***************************************************************************** All updates and information related to the storm can be found at www.OneNassau.com. Follow Emergency Management on social media at www.facebook.com/NassauEM or at www.twitter.com/NassauEM. 9/25/22 @ 12:00 p.m. - The State's contractor has sent notice of their intent to have a lane closure on 8th Street for repair of a drainage pipe beneath the road. They indicated that a majority of the work has been done at night however the final, remaining step in the repair will require daytime work and a subsequent lane closure to the outside (right) lane heading west off the island from approximately Adams Road to Clinch Drive. The closure is anticipated to take place from 6am to 5pm on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, so please plan accordingly. If you have any questions, please contact Melissa Williams, Project Administrator for Ferrovial Services, at (386) 247-6570 or via email at Melissa.Williams@ferrovialservices.com. -Sabrina Robertson Public Information Officer  You are part of an elite destination operation, those with the "need for speed" are asked to gather each year. Please join Amelia Island Convention & Visitors Bureau on 9/30/22 at The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island for this year's "Top Gun" Tourism Industry Meeting, (complementary valet parking). 8:30am Networking hour - meet your fellow wingmen 9:00am Session begins - fall in for the classified industry briefing We will cover the current state of tourism, walk through the 2023 marketing flight plan, and launch the cooperative marketing opportunities for partners. We will catapult you off the carrier at approximately 11:00am!  Congratulations to the Bullington Family and Amelia Island Kayak Excursions for being featured on Voyage Jacksonville! To read the full article, CLICK HERE. To learn more about Amelia Island Kayak Excursions, visit www.AmeliaIslandKayak.com.   On November 3, 2020, Florida voters approved Amendment 2, which amends Florida’s constitution to gradually increase the state’s minimum wage to $15.00 an hour by the year 2026. As of January 1, 2021, the minimum wage increased $.09 of $8.65 per hour as scheduled. On September 30, 2021, the minimum wage will rise to $10.00 per hour ($1.35 per hour increase). Every September 30 following, the minimum wage will increase $1.00 per hour through 2026, according to the following schedule:
Beginning 2027, the minimum wage will be adjusted annually for inflation, as it has been since 2004. It remains possible that there will be legal challenges to the “implementation” of this amendment, and that could involve inestimable time in the courts. However, barring that occurrence, all foreign missions are required to fully implement the new minimum wage law as it relates to foreign mission staff and their domestic workers. Inquiries concerning the impacts of Amendment 2 and the associated responsive effort on the operation of foreign missions in the United States should be transmitted by electronic mail to OFMMiami@state.gov. Pianist William Ransom Appointed Artistic Director of The Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival9/19/2022 The President of the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, Anne Coonrod today announced the appointment of acclaimed pianist William Ransom as Artistic Director of the Festival. Ransom is the founder and Artistic Director of the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta, the Mary Emerson Professor of Piano at Emory University, Atlanta, and the Artistic Director of The Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival. “We are so pleased that Will has accepted the position to lead our Festival as we enter our 22nd season of bringing world-class musicians to Amelia Island,” said Coonrod. “With the passing of the Festival’s founder and Artistic and General Director, Christopher Rex, it was important to find a successor who shared Chris’ vision and passion for the Festival. Will and Chris were colleagues and friends, and we look forward to Will’s vast experience and incredible musical talent to help us as we continue to grow the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival,” added Coonrod. Upon accepting the appointment Ransom said, “I am honored and thrilled to be joining the team leading the Festival into its next chapter. Chris, the board, and the legions of volunteers and patrons have built the Festival into an extraordinary organization.” Ransom continued, “I plan to continue the tradition of presenting the greatest music in the world performed by some of the world’s greatest musicians in imaginative, compelling programs. The combination of the music, the musicians, and the community with the magic of Amelia Island is irresistible, and I hope a whole new generation of fans will join the fun!” More About William Ransom  Pianist, Artistic Director, Master teacher, editor and judge for international competitions, William Ransom regularly appears in recital, as soloist with orchestras, and as a chamber musician in Eastern and Western Europe, Japan, Korea, South America, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States. He has performed in New York’s Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall, and Merkin Hall; in Orchestra Halls in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Atlanta; at the National Gallery in Washington D.C.; and in Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, and Dallas.
He has been invited to perform for the American Ambassadors to Austria, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and Ireland, and his performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio and Television in the United States, Japan, Korea, Argentina, and Poland. His recording of Enoch Arden, by Richard Strauss, The Music of Alfredo Barili, Chamber Music of Johannes Brahms and “Listening to Memories” with Chopin, Brahms and Bach were released on the ACA label. Mr. Ransom can also be heard on Heartkeys, from Rising Star Records. Ransom commissioned and premiered several major works by composer Stephen Paulus including his “Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble,” and he was also the featured pianist performing music by Dwight Andrews used in August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit, The Piano Lesson, as well as the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie based on the same play. A popular performer on many University concert series, he has performed at numerous colleges around the world including Yale, Cornell, Duke, Tulane, Vanderbilt, M.I.T., Stanford, Toho (Japan), Yonsei (Korea), and the School of the Arts (Argentina) where he has also given masterclasses. Born in Boston, Ransom began his musical studies at an early age. He was a scholarship student of William Masselos at The Juilliard School in New York (BM and MM), and he also worked with Theodore Lettvin at the University of Michigan (DMA) and Madame Gaby Casadesus at the Ravel Academy in France. Ransom is the Mary L. Emerson Professor of Piano at Emory University in Atlanta. He is founder and Artistic Director of the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta collaborates with such artists as cellists Yo-Yo Ma, Steven Isserlis, and Zuill Bailey; clarinetist Richard Stoltzman; members of the Emerson, Juilliard, Tokyo, Cleveland, St. Petersburg, American, Ariel, Parker, Vega, Borromeo, Lark, Cavani, Attacca, and Muir String Quartets; violinists William Preucil, Elmar Oliviera, Tim Fain, and Robert McDuffie; guitarist Eliot Fisk, and members of the Empire Brass Quintet, the Eroica Trio and the percussion group Nexus among many other classical musicians. He has also worked with jazz great Dave Brubeck and American bluegrass masters Chris Thile and Mark O’Connor. In the summers, Ransom is Artistic Director of the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina and for ten years was also an artist-faculty member of the Kamisaibara Pianists Camp in Japan. In 2016 he was named Artistic Director of the Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival and also one of Musical America Worldwide’s “30 Musical Innovators.” About the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival The Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival was founded in 2001 by Christopher Rex, who was then a vacationer on Amelia Island and the principal cellist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and a group of Fernandina Beach residents who loved chamber music. The first season was launched with a budget of only $50,000, raised by a group of generous donors and a corporate sponsorship. Friends also donated housing for the artists, and some artists even donated their services to help get the Festival established. Now entering its 22nd season, the Festival has developed into one of the most prestigious events of its kind in the nation. The Festival’s mission includes presenting the world’s greatest musical artists in chamber music concerts of classical and alternative genres, to offer musical education for students, and to promote local businesses and tourism by attracting music lovers to our area.  Guitarist John Pizzarelli and Saxophonist/Clarinetist Ken Peplowski, two legendary and critically acclaimed jazz musicians, headline the 2022 Amelia Island Jazz Festival, October 2-9, 2022 in Fernandina Beach, FL. Peplowski and Pizzarelli’s Trio will appear October 7 and 8 respectively in the Grand Ballroom at the Courtyard/Springhill Suites by Marriott at 2700 Atlantic Avenue near Main Beach. Much of the 2022 AIJF program was originally set for 2021, but due to pandemic concerns some of the musicians had to postpone to 2022.
“We are thrilled to finally be able to bring in this exciting lineup,” said AIJF Artistic Director Les DeMerle. “Plus, they will be accompanied by a few highly talented special guests for several events as well.” Now in its 19th year, the festival will kick off a full week of shows beginning Sunday, October 2 from 12:00 – 2:00 PM with its traditional free concert, which, this year will present the 21-piece UNF Jazz Ensemble 2, directed by Dennis Marks at the Atlantic Recreation Center, 2500 Atlantic Avenue. DeMerle and his wife, singer Bonnie Eisele, will host the annual Sponsor’s Party, an invitation only affair on Monday, 10/2, at the Courtyard/Springhill Suites. Their special guest will be venerable Jacksonville vocalist/pianist/trombonist Joe Watts, known for his work with numerous big time acts, including Mary J. Blige and the Supremes’ Mary Wilson. For sponsorship opportunities, visit ameliaislandjazzfestival.com/become-an-aijf-sponsor/. On Tuesday, 10/3, wine and jazz will come together at The Decantery, 117 Centre Street, as host DeMerle along with multi-instrumentalist Bill Prince and pianist Doug Matthews join in for exquisite music and fine vintages during two sets, beginning at 5:00 and 6:30 PM. The Dynamic Les DeMerle Little Big Band with Bonnie Eisele will headline the popular Jump, Jive and Wail! Swing Night Concert and Dance on Wednesday, October 5, at Sadler Ranch, 868 Sadler Road. Joining them will be special guest Matt Vance, one of the top call professional saxophonists in the southeast. A Hot Latin Concert/Dance will bring back the sizzling and soothing Trio Caliente with their inimitable blend of flamenco, pop, and Latin dance music, also at Sadler Ranch on Thursday, 10/6. One of the world’s great woodwind players, Ken Peplowski, (“the man is magic”, says Mel Torme) will begin the weekend on Friday, October 7, followed on Saturday by the world-renowned John Pizzarelli Trio which includes Isaiah Thompson, piano and Mike Karn, bass. Also performing on each headliner show will be the Les DeMerle Jazz Quartet with Mike Levine, piano, Dennis Marks, bass, and Bonnie Eisele, vocals. Late night jam sessions on Friday and Saturday nights, from 10:30 PM – 12:00 AM will be hosted by the AIJF 2022 Scholarship winner, saxophonist, Cameron DeVane, at Mocama Beer Company, 629 South 8th Street. The Amelia Island Jazz Festival will conclude with a Dixieland Jazz Brunch featuring the Spare Rib Six plus Eisele in the Courtyard / Springhill Suites Ballroom on Sunday, October 9 with two seatings at 10:30 AM and 1:00 PM. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Festival website: https://ameliaislandjazzfestival.com. A not for profit 501(c)(3) corporation, Amelia Island Jazz Festival, distributes proceeds toward educational programs including a scholarship program to fund college educations for aspiring jazz musicians. |
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