
Winner of Learn to Read St. Johns County’s Kiss the Pig contest Rick Ezequelle smooches Wilber the piglet on the snout during the Rhythm and Ribs festival at Francis Field on Saturday, April 1, 2017. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Hare Krishna devotees dance and chant down Avenida Menendez as they use ropes to pull a chariot carrying three deities, Lord Jagannatha (Krishna), Lord Balarama and Lady Subhadra, by hand in a procession through downtown during The Festival of Chariots, or Ratha Yatra, on Saturday, April 8, 2017. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Fifteen-year-old Kevin Harrison high-fives a cheering line of fans on Saturday, August 5, 2017, after competing in the St. Johns County Special Olympics Swimming Competition at the Solomon Calhoun Center. Twenty county athletes, from nine-years-old to adult, participated in the fifth annual event. Under the team name, the “St. Johns Splash,” the athletes have trained together for the competition since June. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Doug Toomey from North Carolina shows Great Dane Odin in the first day of the Greater Orange Park Dog Club All-Breed Dog Show on Saturday, April 8, 2017. Odin won a first place blue ribbon in the Working Group competition. More than 850 dogs are competing in the weekend event, which continues today from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free for spectators. Parking is $5.00 per vehicle. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Katie Gay, drummer for St. Augustine rockabilly trio Go Get Gone, plays with the band for the Rhythm and Ribs festival at Francis Field on Saturday, April 1, 2017. With all profits going to charity, the 22nd annual festival brings together seven award-winning regional and national barbecue restaurants and hosts daylong live music, festival games and activities. Rhythm and Ribs continues today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Amber Rock, a junior biology major at Bowdoin College in Maine, researches the development of hox genes in sea anemones at Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience at Marineland on Friday, July 14, 2017. Hox genes control the body plans of developing embryos in humans and animals. Rock, who intends to pursue graduate study in developmental biology, is undertaking her second summer research internship experience at the lab. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Living history re-enactors fire a canon salute outside of St. Francis Barracks on Saturday, August 12, 2017, at the start of the tenth annual commemoration of the 1842 parade and ceremony that closed the Second Seminole War and honored those who died in the bloody seven-year conflict on Saturday, August 12, 2017. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Toddler Rhett Natto, son of local U.S. Marine veteran Chris Natto, sits on his father’s lap to steer his new all-terrain wheelchair around the grounds of the Castillo de San Marcos on Wednesday, June 28 2017. Chris Natto, who was partially paralyzed in a parachute accident during a Feb. 2016 training exercise at Fort Bragg, was presented with the chair on Wednesday by Freedom Alliance, a national organization supporting American military veterans and their families. The chair is designed to provide Natto the mobility needed to more easily join his family in outdoor adventures, such as beach visits and trail walking. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Fireworks by Santore pyrotechnic crew members Marcos Ickes, from left, Christopher Washington, and King Sowm set up fireworks on the St. Johns County Ocean Pier on Friday, December 30, 2016 in preparation for Saturday’s New Year’s Eve Beach Blast Off fireworks display. The free event takes place tonight from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. at St. Johns County Ocean Pier Park and includes live entertainment, food vendors, a kids zone, and a fireworks display synchronized to music from 8:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

City Archaeologist Carl Halbirt wraps up the final day of an excavation inside a storefront on the bottom floor of 1 King Street, the downtown building housing A1A Aleworks, on Thursday, April 27, 2017, where he and a team of volunteers have identified the skeletal remains of approximately 30 individuals from the early colonial period. Halbirt has led the excavation since February, when property owner David White invited him to dig beneath the floors, which were undergoing repairs from damages sustained in Hurricane Matthew. The burial site included evidence of cremations occurring during the early colonial period in St. Augustine and gave insight into where the eastern boundary of the city’s first parish church, Nuestra Senora de Los Remedios, was located. Recovered skeletal and cremation remains are being sent off to the University of Florida for analysis, DNA testing and radiocarbon dating. Once analysis is finished, the bones will be returned to the Catholic Church for re-internment. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Ethan Flores and Eli Keeler with Fireworks by Santore load fireworks onto a barge destined for a Fourth of July show in Ormond Beach, adjacent to another barge with the finished fireworks display set-up for St. Augustine’s show, at MOBRO Marine in Green Cove Springs on Friday, June 30, 2017. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Nancy Lawson, costume specialist and co-curator of “Dressing Downton: Changing Fashions for Changing Times,” discusses the details of an original gown worn by character Freda Dudley Ward in season four of “Downton Abbey” during a media preview of the long-awaited exhibition in the Grand Ballroom Gallery of the Lightner Museum on October 3, 2017. The exhibition features 36 original costume pieces from the show, displayed alongside intricately crafted furnishings and art from Otto Lightner’s original collection of the same time period. The exhibit opens today, October 4, 2017 and runs through January 7, 2018. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Four-year-old Olivia McDonald, six-year-old Couper Holmes, and three-year-old Noah Jackson, peer through the glass of an outdoor tank at the St. Augustine Aquarium as colorful fish are fed by a staff member during the aquarium’s grand opening celebration on Saturday, May 27, 2017. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Artist Eric Newby of Ink Expressions in Chattanooga, Tennessee inks an Elvis Presley tribute tattoo onto Tommy Johnson from Jacksonville at the 2017 Jacksonville Tattoo Convention on Saturday, August 26, 2017. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Luis Mario Peral and His Rumba Kings bassist Tony McLeod, plays with the band at the Plaza de la Constitucion on Friday, May 5, 2017 in a free Cinco de Mayo concert kicking off the first night of St. Augustine’s Romanza Festivale of the Arts. The festival continues through May 14, and includes a series of music, dance, art and cultural events throughout the city. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Children play on an inflatable waterslide during #TeamHastings’ fourth annual Community Come Together Day at the W. E. Harris Community Center in downtown Hastings on Saturday, June 10, 2017. #TeamHastings, a community volunteer group comprised of six local men, invited Hastings residents to a day of free food, music and recreation as a way to not only give back to the community, but to help to foster healthy relationships within it. The event was hosted with the assistance of local churches and business as well as St. Johns County Parks and Recreation and the St. Johns County Library. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

The St. Augustine Beach Police Department patrols St. Augustine Beach on Saturday, July 1, 2017. Anticipating a heavy influx of visitors through the Fourth of July, local public safety officials have increased the presence of deputies and emergency responders across the county and on the beaches. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Shielding themselves with ponchos and umbrellas, a line of visitors crosses into the Castillo de San Marcos during a rainstorm on Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Michele Potts from Jade and Jada’s Parrotlet Emporium in Tampa hand-feeds a five-week old sun conure while its siblings look peek over the side their enclosure at the St. Augustine Exotic Bird Expo at the Mark Lance National Guard Armory on Sunday, December 17, 2017. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Charisa Butz, co-organizer of the St. Johns Family Festival and Tactical Elite Warrior Challenge 5K mud run, crawls through the course’s first obstacle on Sunday August 28, 2016. The inaugural event took place August 27 and 28 at the St. Augustine Flea Market with a portion of proceeds benefiting the Brave-Aid wounded warrior assistance fund. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

National Aquarium Animal Rescue team member Lindsay Jacks, prepares to release one of 19 rehabilitated sea turtles who washed up with symptoms of cold stunning in New England, at Anastasia State Park on Thursday, January 27, 2017. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)

Children sail across Salt Run near Lighthouse Park on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, while participating in the St. Augustine Yacht Club’s summer Junior Sailing Camp. Sailors, ages 7 to 15, spend a week learning the sport in the hands-on program, which started on Memorial Day and runs through early August. (Christina Kelso/ The St. Augustine Record)
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