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TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Phish Heads flips for Bar Rescue treatment Iconic eatery now known as Phish Tales CARL MCKINNEY/Lake City Reporter Co-owner Rich Oiumette surveys the damage. By CARL MCKINNEY [email protected]
Philip Crenshaw stood in Malibu makes the parking lot and waited for them to take off the blindfold. a mess of local They had already torn up his place of business piece by piece. The crew’s ringleader pawn shop had even berated his family. Now, they wanted to change By CARL MCKINNEY the identity Crenshaw had [email protected] spent nearly 20 What years building. Sandra Robinson, co-owner of Empire Gold do you Resigned to his & Pawn on West U.S. Highway 90, drew her fate, his mind gun when she heard the bang around 11:50 think? ran through a.m. Monday. n Let us know in a the worst pos- A Chevrolet Malibu had just crashed into the Letter to sible scenarios. store while customers were inside. the Editor. Perhaps it was “I thought he was coming to rob us,” she See 4A. a mistake to let said. the star of “Bar Rich Oiumette, another co-owner, watched Rescue” on the Spike Channel as the collision sent DVDs flying off the shelf rename his restaurant, he near the door. thought to himself. The 10 seconds that elapsed after the car “He could have called it Billy Bob’s Burger Emporium CRASH continued on 3A Photos by CARL MCKINNEY/Lake City Reporter if he wanted to,” Crenshaw said. Crenshaw breathed a sigh ABOVE: Philip of relief as the crew took the Crenshaw, front blindfold off. left, Toni Crenshaw, Orlando boy, 6, Phish Heads is dead. Long front right, and live Phish Tales. James Crenshaw dies from rabies Spike contacted Crenshaw’s show off the new Associated Press family in July to ask if the menu at Phish restaurant, located on Tales. The restau- ORLANDO — A 6-year-old Florida boy has Southwest Main Boulevard, rant has been died from rabies he contracted after being could be featured on the show. revamped by the scratched by an infected bat. Crenshaw was dead-set Spike Channel The father of Ryker Roque told NBC that the against it, but his wife, Toni, show “Bar Rescue.” boy died Sunday at an Orlando hospital. and adult son, James, who LEFT: Toni and Father Henry Roque said he had found a sick co-own the business, were in James Crenshaw bat, put it in a bucket and told his son not to favor. work on Monday touch it, but he did and was scratched. “They talked me into it,” he night to prepare He said he washed the wound thorough- said. “Just wore me down.” for their grand re-opening today. PHISH continued on 3A RABIES continued on 3A WHY BANK WITH PEOPLE’S STATE BANK? WHY BANK WITH PEOPLE’S STATE BANK? WHY BANK WITH PEOPLE’SWHY BANK STATE WITH BANK? PEOPLE’S STATE BANK? LocalsWHY BANK honor WITH PEOPLE’S the STATElife BANK? of MLK Born 2 WHY BANK WITH PEOPLE’S STATE BANK? Praise Parade andWHY more BANK WITHNorth East PEOPLE’S Florida Leadership STATE non-violent BANK? philosophy, are all performs held here Monday. 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REGIONAL FORECAST MAP for Tuesday, Jan. 16 Tuesday's highs/Tuesday night's low Valdosta City Wednesday Thursday 58/34 Jacksonville 58/36 Cape Canaveral Tallahassee Lake City 67/40/pc 57/45/pc 61/34 59/36 Daytona Beach 61/34/pc 51/37/pc Gainesville Daytona Beach Fort Myers 70/40/pc 62/45/pc Pensacola 61/38 65/47 Ft. Lauderdale 74/50/pc 66/57/pc 59/27 Panama City 58/31 Ocala Gainesville 52/28/pc 49/30/s 63/40 Jacksonville 50/29/pc 46/31/s Orlando Cape Canaveral Key West 72/59/pc 68/58/pc 68/49 67/52 Lake City 52/28/pc 49/30/s
Tampa Miami 75/51/pc 67/57/pc Naples 70/43/pc 65/48/pc 70/47 West Palm Beach 72/59 Ocala 55/29/pc 51/32/s Orlando 64/35/pc 53/39/pc COURTESY Ft. Lauderdale Panama City 44/25/pc 47/33/s Ft. Myers 74/61 Pensacola 72/54 41/23/pc 45/33/pc Naples Tallahassee 45/23/pc 48/28/s Firefighters visit Eastside 74/54 Miami Tampa 63/34/pc 56/41/s 74/61 The Fire Department made a special visit to Eastside Elementary and spoke to Key West Valdosta 44/23/pc 46/27/s the students in Amber Thomas’s first grade class. The students always enjoy 72/65 W. Palm Beach 73/49/pc 65/56/pc the time that the firefighters take to talk to them about fire prevention and fire safety. Thank you for you do for the citizens of Lake City! Front row, from left: LAKE CITY ALMANAC UV INDEX FYI " Test Tonya Rogers, Kapri Trespalacios, Brian Williams, Blake VanDike, Farrah Musgrove, An exclusive TEMPERATURES SUN Langsley Smithy, Syl’veda Williams, Jacelyn Johnson. Back row: Firefighter Austin service Thomas, Shawn Donath, Alannah Lord, Brent Dicks, John Sanders, Brandon Ruwe, High Monday 57 Sunrise today 7:27 a.m. Low Monday 33 Sunset today 5:54 p.m. 5 brought to Levi Kirby, Mrs. Thomas. Normal high 66 Sunrise tom. 7:26 a.m. ModerateEXTREME: our readers 10 minutes to burn Normal low 42 Sunset tom. 5:55 p.m. 30 mins to burn by Record high 83 in 1989 Today’s Record low 20 in 1948 MOON ultra-violet The Weather radiation risk Moonrise today 7:01 a.m. Take Stock In Children needs mentors for the area on Channel. PRECIPITATION Moonset today 5:45 p.m. a scale from 0 7:45 a.m. From staff reports a Life Over Lunch” program up and stay in school. Those Monday 0.00" Moonrise tom. to 10+. Month total 1.02" Moonset tom. 6:37 p.m. are paired with deserving, who successfully complete Year total 1.02" Take Stock in Children, a low-income, at-risk students the program earn a two- Normal month-to-date 1.42" statewide nonprofit mentor- to provide guidance and year prepaid scholarship to Normal year-to-date 1.42" Jan 16 Jan 24 Jan 31 Feb 7 Forecasts, data and graphics ing program with a scholar- support as they work to Florida Gateway College. ©2018, The Weather Company, LLC New First Full Last Quarter Quarter ship incentive, needs volun- conquer the odds stacked To volunteer, contact teers to serve as mentors to against them. The stu- Antonia Robinson at 754- high school students. dents pledge to stay out of 4392 or antonia.robinson@ Mentors in the “Change trouble, keep their grades fgc.edu. WEATHER BY-THE-DAY WEATHER HISTORY SPONSORED BY 90 7a 1p 7p 1a 6a Up until 1990, January 16th had never seen a 80 77 77 recorded tornado in the 72 United States. Since 70 69 1990, tornadoes have 62 60 occured in Florida on 60 57 57 57 5858 57 this date in 1993 and 1997. The "jinx" has 50 apparently been broken. 0 32 33 30 20