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Escambia County Offices Closed Monday For Juneteenth; Century Open
June 20, 2022
Most Escambia County offices and facilities are closed Monday in observance of the federal Juneteenth holiday, while Century will open for business as usual.
TOWN OF CENTURY
All Town of Century offices will be open.
ESCAMBIA COUNTY
The following Escambia County offices will be closed on June 20, 2022.
- Escambia County Board of County Commissioners - all departments including:
- West Florida Public Libraries (all locations)
- Escambia County Property Appraiser
- Escambia County Tax Collector
- Escambia County Department of Animal Welfare
- Escambia County Clerk’s Official Records, Finance, Treasury and Clerk to the Board Offices
- Waste Services Administration
- Supervisor of Elections Office
- ECAT administrative offices
Escambia County Exceptions:
- The Perdido Landfill will be open with regular hours Monday, June 20.
- Escambia County Clerk of the Court offices located at the M.C. Blanchard Judicial Building, Theodore Bruno Juvenile Building, Public Records Center and the Century Courthouse will be open Monday, June 20.
- ECAT will run regular service Monday, June 20.
Comments
8 Responses to “Escambia County Offices Closed Monday For Juneteenth; Century Open”
@derek
The American Civil War was very much about slavery.
How about some examples of your churches, businesses, or ability to earn a living being shut down by federal agencies?
How has your life been ruined by a politician?
derek @ I was following your comments (not necessarily agreeing) and then I got to your last sentence.
“Now that YOU allowed the politicians to ruin OUR lives ….” Derek are you old enough to vote? It’s democracy, we vote, we don’t always get our way. If everything went “my” way then we would call this the United States of Ol’ Skinny.
So grateful to live in a country where we recognize that what some of our forefathers did was not the right thing to do when it came to buying humans and forcing them to do our hard labor. As a proud southerner I
will never see anything right in the way Africans were treated. Not in my eyes and surely not in Gods eyes.
it’s a very obscure thing that happened in a tiny little town. Just like you were told we had a civil war over slavery, it was just simply not true. Border states and the north had slaves leading up to and during the civil war. Fifteen and sixteen year old kids were not fighting for slavery, they were fighting for freedom. Freedom from federal control. Just like when a federsl agency shut down our businesses, churches and our ability to earn a living. Now that you allowed the politicians to ruin our lives there is no limits as to what they may do.
Because it stated as local holiday in Texas the black community started teaching about and it became large and large. Therefore it became a Federal because it was brought to a Washington DC as a bill and signed. Florida is a whole other issue
If you ever watch “Finding Your Roots” on PBS, you’ll learn about so many things never covered in school “back in the day”. It’s a wonderful show. I had never heard about Black Wall Street until it was talked about on this program.
@Ol’ Skinny
I also never learned about this event in school. All we ever heard was that “Lincoln freed the slaves”.
It’s sad that some places (Texas) waited 2 and a half years before actually following the new law.
“Ok … I will start the conversation…. How is it that I spent 12 years in the Escambia County School system and never once heard anything about Juneteeth?”
It was declared a federal holiday for the first time last year on June 17, 2021, just two days before the holiday (June 19, each year).
It is not yet adopted as a. state holiday in Florida.
Ok … I will start the conversation…. How is it that I spent 12 years in the Escambia County School system and never once heard anything about Juneteeth? I am old granted (Class of 1977), this information never really come to the forefront of my life until just a few years ago.