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City Council committee appointed to probe JEA
‘EVERYBODY NEEDS A Record Daily PLACE FOR THEIR DOGS’ JACKSONVILLE
Dogs play and socialize at Kanine Social dog bar at 580 College St. in Riverside.
The three-member panel is investigating the utility’s push to privatize.
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BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
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Photos by Katie Garwood
Kanine Social owners Dustin Fries, left, and Daniel Moffatt opened their business as a place where dog owners can socialize while their pets play.
Kanine Social dog bar expansion adds boarding, veterinary services. BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
With the addition of boarding and veterinary services to the Kanine Social dog bar, owners Dustin Fries and Daniel Moffatt say their facility is a “one-stop shop” that they believe is the only one of its kind in the country.
Fries and Moffatt opened Kanine Social in August 2018, starting with dog day care services along with an indoor/outdoor dog park where owners can drink beer, wine and coffee and socialize while their dogs play. They bought the 15,884-squarefoot building at 580 College St. in Riverside in 2017, knowing that S4 Sports Academy’s lease of 4,000 square feet of space in the building would be up in two years. SEE KANINE SOCIAL, PAGE 2
A City Council special investigative committee will place witnesses under oath as it looks into JEA’s push to privatize. City Council President Scott Wilson announced the committee’s creation during a Jan. 20 news conference outside City Hall, which was closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Council member Rory Diamond, a Republican and former special assistant U.S. Attorney, will chair the committee. He will be joined by Council members Brenda Priestly Jackson, a Democrat, and Randy DeFoor, a Republican. Both are attorneys. Wilson said the committee is needed because a federal probe into JEA will be conducted in secret and may focus only on a small part of the utility’s invitation to Wilson negotiate. The JEA board canceled the ITN on Dec. 24. “The public has the right to know exactly what happened, why it happened, how it happened and who was involved,” Wilson said. The city Office of General Counsel is working on the official charge that will govern the committee’s work, Wilson said. Smith Hulsey & Busey Chairman Stephen Busey, Council’s independent attorney, will provide research and analysis for the committee.
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Forever Vets opened at Kanine Social on Jan. 4
Southern Grounds demo complete The demolition is done for the construction of Southern Grounds & Co. in Avondale. Realco Recycling Co. Inc. began demolition Jan. 3 in the Shoppes of Avondale at 3562 St. Johns Ave. to make way for the city’s third Southern Grounds location. Construction will begin next, with an estimated completion date in late summer, property owner Edward Skinner Jones said previously. Demolition began at the back of the building, and worked its way forward to the facade.
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