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There’s A New Kid In Town – Hobby Card Shop

Hobby Card Shop’s The this booklet, holding it in my

Name And Sports Cards hands, reignited that passion.
I started buying and selling
Memorabilia Are The Game! cards again and in short order,
left my 9 to 5 job to run my
– Downtown Abacoa own business selling sports
cards and memorabilia online.
I started collecting cards I, along with my wife now,
at a very young age. When had found a lot of success but
my friends were asking it was time to take it to the next
for Hot Wheels and Nerf level. I have always wanted
Guns, I wanted sports cards. to open my own store and my
Birthdays, Christmas, and wife and I began to strategize
special rewards always came in the form of packs or boxes about how to make that
of cards. I constantly begged my parents to take me to the dream a reality. As St. Louis
local card shop. When I was 7 years old, my collecting had Cardinals fans ourselves, who
gotten pretty serious and I was beginning to trade and sell have attended countless spring
cards too. I had a custom, carbon-copy invoice booklet made training games at Roger Dean
up with “Blake Yager Baseball Card Business” at the top. Stadium, we knew that the
I took the business of card collecting very seriously, even only place that we wanted to open a store was in Downtown non-graded cards. In addition, we carry a variety of local
from a young age. Abacoa. It took over a year, but in August of 2023 we opened professional team merchandise like T-shirts, hats, coffee
Eventually, sports and high school, then college came the Hobby Card Shop. mugs, etc.
along, and I took a break from actively collecting cards. My At Hobby Card Shop, we offer collectible sports cards We have loved getting to meet our neighbors, regulars,
collection consumed a significant amount of space in my and memorabilia. We carry everything from hobby boxes to and out-of-town guests in Downtown Abacoa and are thrilled
parents’ home, and eventually in my own home. Several years retail boxes across all professional sports as well as Pokémon, to be a part of the community! You can keep up to date with
ago, I came across my old invoice booklet and reminisced Magic: The Gathering, and other collectible trading cards. Hobby Card Shop on Facebook and Instagram.
on how much fun I had had collecting cards as a kid. Seeing We also have a wide selection of individual graded and Blake and Tabbi Yager
Abacoa Community Garden

Coonties And Endangered as a warning sign to predators, such as ants and lizards, fence. A recent photograph shows the red and yellow
indicating their toxicity.
caterpillars which will transform into the atala butterfly.
Butterflies Native Americans historically used the coontie Garden membership runs from Aug. 1 to July
as a food source. They would prepare the roots and 31. Download forms at www.abacoa.com/abacoa-
The coontie fern, also underground stems by cutting them into pieces, pounding community-garden or find one in the outside mailbox at
known as the cardboard them into a powder, and washing in water multiple times the garden entrance at 1022 Community Drive. There is
palm, sago tree, or sago separating the toxins from the starch, which was used for a waiting list for independent beds but if interested, just
palm, has an interesting baking bread. check the box. Stop by, especially Saturday morning, and
history and significance in The garden’s coontie can be found just inside the eastern check out our Facebook page.
Florida’s ecosystem. The
coontie was once thought
to be extinct until a new
colony was discovered in
1935, bringing attention
to this plant’s unique
characteristics and its
role in the environment.
Today, the coontie is a
popular plant in Florida
landscaping as its stiff,
glossy, featherlike leaves
make it an attractive
a d di t i o n t o g a r d e ns
and landscapes, but it’s
important to note that the
plant is poisonous.
The coontie plant serves as the sole host plant for the
rare and endangered Atala butterfly. These butterflies
rely on the coontie for their
lifecycle, and the plant’s
toxins are sequestered
by the butterflies, also
making them poisonous.
The Atala butterflies, in
all their stages, including
caterpillars and chrysalises
accumulate toxins from
their host. The bright colors
of the Atala butterflies act

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