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Smashed – Movie Trailer
Dec 13th
Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Charlie (Aaron Paul) are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking…especially the drinking. When Kateʼs drinking leads her to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. With the help of her friend and sponsor Jenny, and the vice principal at her school, the awkward, but well intentioned, Mr. Davies, Kate takes steps toward improving her health and life. Sobriety isnʼt as easy as Kate had anticipated. Her new lifestyle brings to the surface a troubling relationship with her mother, facing the lies sheʼs told her employer and calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love or is just boozy diversion from adulthood.
St. Johns County Health and Human Services Partners with Local Radio Station to Host Thanksgiving Food Drive
Nov 11th
The Skybox will be present between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 17, at Coggin Honda and between 1 – 3 p.m. on Sunday, November 18 at the Floor Factory Outlet across from the Cobble Stone Plaza. All donations will help stock the St. Johns County Social Services Food Closet, 1955 U.S. 1 South. Food items are made available to any County resident upon request and availability. For more information about this event, please contact Richard Zicht at rzicht@sjcfl.us or 904.209.6127. To learn more about services offered by St. Johns County HHS, call 904.209.6144 or visit www.co.st-johns.fl.us/SocialServices/index.aspx
St. Johns County Residents and Officials Gather to Introduce New Health Facilities
The St. Johns County Health and Human Services Hastings Resource Center and the Hastings Family Medical Center are now open and offering a number of valuable services to Hastings-area residents. The Hastings Resource Center will provide emergency financial assistance, job coaching, Medicaid, limited prescription, and specialty care assistance, and educational seminars about healthy lifestyles, diabetes prevention, and computer and budgeting skills. The Hastings Family Medical Center will provide primary care with a sliding fee scale, minor surgical services, pre and post-natal services, and pharmaceutical assistance. The Community Resource Center bears the name of Shell Regan, a community advocate who dedicated his life to serving the community of Hastings.
Source: St. Johns County
“Flight” Features a “Junior Birdman”
Nov 10th
“Junior Birdman”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
Flight stars Denzel Washington as a commercial airline pilot with more problems than just flying and landing the airliner on time.
Right away at the beginning of the movie we know that Captain Whip Whitaker is not who he pretends to be. But, Man, does Denzel Washington look mighty fine in his captain’s uniform as he walks through the airport to take command of his airplane.
The flight is from Orlando, Florida, to Atlanta, Georgia, and right after he sits down in the pilot’s chair in the cockpit, Whip starts acting a bit unusual and different from how we would want our pilot to act.
He takes a couple of hits of oxygen before taking off and asks the copilot if he would like a hit.
Then when they encounter some turbulence, Whip personally goes back into the cabin to reassure the passengers, and he tells them that there won’t be any service of beverages for safety reasons, but as he is telling the passengers and crew this, he is fixing himself a glass of orange juice and vodka out of sight from everyone.
Back in his pilot’s seat, Whip suddenly experiences what appears to be a mechanical failure, and the airliner goes into an uncontrollable nose dive in what is one of the most harrowing scenes about an airplane you will ever see.
Miraculously, Whip manages to roll the airliner upside down in order to get control back, and he then glides the airplane to a soft landing in an open field, and only six people of the 102 aboard die.
Captain Whitaker is called a hero, but a required investigation into the accident turns up some evidence that could damage his reputation and career and even send him to prison.
The rest of the movie is about that investigation, and John Goodman and Don Cheadle show up in important roles in the story.
Also, Whip gets involved with a woman who distracts him from his problem at hand: staying sober and getting through the investigation with his reputation and career intact.
This is a very serious movie, but I couldn’t help being reminded of the lyrics to an old song called “Junior Birdman” and flying “upside down!”
Flight is an excellent film about difficult subjects, and we should hope we never experience any of them firsthand.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”