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AIRMAN MAKES SURPRISE TRIP TO SEE FAMILY, SPORTS B1 LEESBURG, FLORIDA Saturday, April 5, 2014 www.dailycommercial.com FORT HOOD: More details emerge about SPORTS: MVA to play for high shooter’s life leading up to incident, A6 school national title, B1 CLERMONT Body found in wooded area MILLARD K. IVES | Staff Writer 8:45 a.m. Friday discovered the strawberry-blonde hair; wear- [email protected] body about 300 feet from the ing denim Capri pants and a Lake County Sheriff’s deputies intersection of Hancock and blue shirt. She also two red tri- are trying to identify a woman Hartwood Marsh roads. Herrell angles with their bases fac- whose body was discovered in a said detectives believe the body ing each other tattooed on her wooded area just outside of Cler- was there less than 24 hours. upper left chest area, and the mont early Friday. Investigators described words, “WHAT NOURISH- According to sheriff’s spokes- the dead woman as be- ES ME ALSO DESTROYS ME,” BRETT LE BLANC / DAILY COMMERCIAL man Lt. John Herrell, a wom- tween 18 to 25 years of age; 5 etched on her left shoulder. Crime scene workers investigate a body found in the woods south of an walking her dog around feet 2 inches tall; small build; SEE BODY | A2 the intersection of Hancock and Hartwood Marsh Roads on Friday. 6 years later, US regains jobs lost in the recession CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER That’s why the over- AP Economics Writer all economy still has 422,000 fewer jobs than WASHINGTON — it did then. The U.S. economy has As a result, most an- reached a milestone: It alysts were hardly cele- has finally regained all brating the milestone. the private-sector jobs it Heidi Shierholz, an lost during the Great Re- economist at the lib- cession. eral Economic Poli- Yet it took a painfully cy Institute, called it a BRETT LE BLANC / DAILY COMMERCIAL slow six years, and un- “pretty meaningless People enjoy a ride at the Lake County Fair in Eustis on Thursday. employment remains benchmark economi- stubbornly high at 6.7 cally.” EUSTIS percent. “The potential labor The comeback figures force is growing all the were contained in a gov- time, so the private sec- Grace and Joy at the fair ernment report Friday tor should have added that showed a solid if millions of jobs over the unspectacular month of last six-plus years,” she AUSTIN FULLER | Staff Writer real great experience for job growth in March. said. [email protected] kids,” Hawthorne said. Businesses and non- U.S. employers did Nine-year-old Grace Grace Vanzant’s profits shed 8.8 million add a seasonally ad- Vanzant of Tavares 11-year-old brother Jack- jobs during the 2007- justed 192,000 jobs in showed her 5-month- son presented Thursday 09 recession; they have March, just below Feb- old calf named “Joy” for evening as well, his sec- since hired 8.9 million. ruary’s 197,000, which the first time at the Lake ond time at the fair. But because the popu- was revised higher. County Fair Thursday “It’s very fun, just nerve lation has grown since March’s figure nearly evening. wracking,” Jackson said. the big downturn, the matched last year’s aver- Her grandfather, He showed the same economy is still millions age monthly gain, sug- Wayne Hawthorne, said cow he presented last of jobs short of where it gesting that the econo- the minimum age for year, named “Ruby.” should be by now. my has recovered from showing is 8 years old, “She won fourth place Also, government jobs the hiring slowdown and this was his grand- last year and she did re- are still 535,000 below caused by severe weath- ally good, because I Wayne Hawthorne, right, talks to his granddaughter Grace er in December and Jan- daughter’s first year Vanzant about her performance during the Breeding Beef the level they were at showing. thought she wasn’t going and Heifer Show at the Lake County Fair in Eustis on when the recession be- uary. “This whole thing is a SEE FAIR | A2 Thursday. gan in December 2007. SEE ECONOMY | A2 Even the healthy now locked out of 2014 insurance policies CONNIE CASS Associated Press Companies choosing to wait for next ACA open enrollment period — in November sequence of President the young and healthy her customers last year by the health care law. to stop. WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s health as well as the sick and that the change was Companies are follow- The law, which re- Americans thinking care overhaul. injured, even those who coming. “It just closes ing that schedule even quires nearly all Amer- about buying health in- With limited excep- can afford to buy with- everything down.” for the plans they sell icans to be insured or surance on their own tions, insurance com- out government subsi- The next wide-open outside the federal and pay a fine, bans insur- later this year, or maybe panies have stopped dies. chance to sign up state exchanges. ers from rejecting cus- switching to a different selling until next year “Now they’re stuck,” comes in November, The health care law tomers because of insurer, are probably the sorts of individu- said Bonnie Milani, an when enrollment for allows insurers to keep poor health. The com- out of luck. 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INSURANCE There wasn’t much FLORIDA FROM PAGE A1 public discussion about people who pre- LOTTERY individuals year-round. fer to buy policies out- “If you didn’t have an side the state or fed- APRIL 4 eral marketplaces, open enrollment pe- CASH 3 ...............................................7-4-3 riod, you would have sometimes finding people who would po- better deals or options Afternoon ..........................................1-3-9 tentially enroll when more to their liking. PLAY 4 .............................................7-3-2-6 they get sick and dis-en- Health and Human Afternoon .......................................6-2-7-4 roll when they get bet- Services spokesman APRIL 3 ter,” said Chris Stenrud, Aaron Albright point- spokesman for insur- ed to a note buried FANTASY 5 ............................. 1-6-17-19-35 er Kaiser Permanente. on the HealthCare. “The only insured peo- gov website: It says ple would be sick peo- “in some limited cases some insurance com- ple, which would make THE NEWSPAPER OF CHOICE FOR LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES SINCE 1875 insurance unaffordable panies may sell pri- BRETT LE BLANC / DAILY COMMERCIAL The Daily Commercial (ISSN 0896-1042) is published daily for for everyone.” vate health plans out- $90.74 per year (plus Florida sales tax) by Halifax Media Group The Lake County Fair opened Thursday in Eustis. at 212 East Main Street, Leesburg, Florida. Periodicals postage is The change makes side the marketplace paid at the USPO, Leesburg, FL. POSTMASTER: Send all address and outside open en- changes to The Daily Commercial, P.O. Box 490007, Leesburg, FL individual policies 34749-0007. All material contained in this edition is property of work more like the rollment” that satis- The Daily Commercial and is protected under the copyright laws of fy the law’s coverage FAIR AT THE FAIR TODAY the United States of America. Reproduction is forbidden without job-based plans that written consent from the publisher. already cover far more mandate. It doesn’t FROM PAGE A1 8 a.m. to noon — Steer check-in Americans. say how to find any 1 p.m. — Gates open MISSED YOUR NEWSPAPER? HOW TO REACH US 2:30 p.m. — Poultry show REDELIVERY NOT AVAILABLE IN But those who act companies doing that. to do as good as she did,” 5 p.m. — Rabbit show ALTOONA OR SUMTER fast may still be able Albright had no fur- Jackson said. 6:30 p.m. — Talent show 365-8200 auditions. Call 352-787-0600 in Lake In Sumter County: to get in this year, de- ther comment. The Lake County fair County or 877-702-0600 in 877-702-0600 pending on where they Gary Claxton, a Sumter County 6 a.m. to 10 opened Thursday evening a.m. Monday through Friday. Call ADVERTISING live. health law expert at at the Lake County Fair- rides she could go on,” Da- 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturday and 7 to 10 a.m. on Sunday. 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