May 19, 2021, 6:00 am
Last Wednesday (May 12) Carnaross Mart hosted Taaffe Auctions’ dairy sale, with the sale being noted as the last opportunity to buy freshly calved heifers and cows this spring.
The sale consisted of 116 lots made up of freshly calved heifers and cows, springing heifers and bulling heifers.
Entries from top herds such as: Cannontown; Smith Bros; Clonwood; Monamore; Ballydoogan; Ballyelan; Cornboro; Laurelmore; Seafield; Oranbay.
Also on offer at the sale were 40 heifer calves from the Borkilbeg herd, owned by Dermot and Joan Jackson, Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow.
The Borkilbeg herd was winner of champion herd, National Herds Competition (under 80 section) 2019 and 2020.
Cecil Louise Wright was a Brewster baby.
Almost 80 years ago she was born at Jacksonville s old Brewster Hospital, a medical facility for African Americans founded in 1901. At age 19 she returned there to work while attending Edward Waters College and has since been an employee at each of Brewster s successor hospitals Duval County Hospital, Methodist Medical Center and University Medical Center, which merged with Gainesville-based Shands Healthcare in 1999 and in 2013 was renamed UF Health Jacksonville.
Wright survived each transition and, at 79, still works at UF Health. I m a person of faith, I just take one day at a time, she said. There must be something better in store for me.