ROAD WORK to Trade Bill Is Places on Tap Couey Taking Over As Principal at FWHS; Hatcher to Dist
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1A SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Local housing Ex-councilwoman SUNDAY EDITION market gaining talks about progress momentum. 1C in racial equality. 1D Couey, Water Hatcher ROAD WORK to trade bill is places on tap Couey taking over as principal at FWHS; Hatcher to dist. office. again By TONY BRITT [email protected] Rep. Porter refiles measure that fell victim to political Keith Couey will become principal at Fort White High infighting in 2012 session. School and Keith Hatcher, who has been the principal By DEREK GILLIAM at FWHS for [email protected] more than a decade, State Rep. Elizabeth Porter, R-Lake is taking City, has resurrected a water manage- C o u e y ’ s ment bill that passed 119-0 in the House position at last year but the school died in the d i s t r i c t ’ s Senate due Hatcher c e n t r a l to political office. infighting. The switch is contingent on T h e school board approval during bill would Tuesday night’s meeting. r e q u i r e “Keith Couey will be prin- cooperation cipal down here,” Hatcher b e t w e e n said. “He and I are essentially neighboring COURTESY switching roles.” water man- State Rep. Elizabeth Porter Hatcher said he’s moving agement dis- at the Suwannee River. to the district office March tricts when a Porter’s HB 7 is designed 5 as director of community consumptive to protect against water dis- and family involvement and use permit tricts’ encroaching on one employee affairs. could pull another’s groundwater. Hatcher did not elaborate groundwater on the reason for the change. from one district to another. “Ever since (Terry) Despite passing unanimously in the Huddleston became superin- House, Porter’s bill was never allowed to tendent, he has had a vision come to a vote in the Senate. for the district and I’m happy “It was a victim of politics in the Senate,” to be part of that transition Porter said. and vision,” he said. Political insiders said the measure was Terry Huddleston, the dis- killed because the sponsor of a companion trict superintendent, said he bill in the Senate, Sen. Charlie Dean, R- had been looking at making a JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Inverness, opposed his own party’s push change at FWHS at the end of Work crews install a 60-inch storm drain along Pinemount Road at U.S. 90 West on Thursday in for prison privatization. the school year and discussed preparation for the expansion of U.S. 90 to four lanes in that area. The bill will again be co-sponsored by the matter with Hatcher. Dean in the Senate, but with new leader- “When you stay in a place ship in both the House and Senate, Porter for more than 12 years it gets said she expects the measure to pass this hard to stay in that same loca- ‘Stand your ground’ law gets year. It has already cleared its first com- tion,” he said. “I was want- mittee hurdle 12-0. ing to change and was prob- The legislative session begins March 4. ably going to change. Keith good marks from task force Porter has also introduced a measure (Hatcher) has done a really to help victims of Tropical Storm Debbie good job in taking a school By BRENT KALLESTAD a right to feel safe and secure in Florida and Hurricane Isaac. House Bill 43 would from nothing to making Fort Associated Press and have a fundamental right to stand their provide partial reimbursement of proper- White High School into what ground and defend themselves from attack. ty and sales tax payments for those whose it is today.” TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s “stand your Most of the recommendations had already homes were made uninhabitable during Huddleston said pending ground” law works and should not be over- been made public. the storms. educational programs also turned, but the standards for neighborhood The report, however, recommended that While the damaged homes’ value helped spark the change. watch groups should be looked at by the legislators look at neighborhood watch dropped, the drop was not reflected in the The Columbia School Legislature, a state task force concluded groups. The parents of Trayvon Martin, a amount of property tax due to tax collec- District is part of the North Friday. teenager killed a year ago by neighborhood tors across Porter’s district. The 44-page report released by Republican FWHS continued on 3A Gov. Rick Scott’s office said people have LAW continued on 3A PORTER continued on 3A Home and patio show HONORING THOSE WHO SERVED Looming cuts coming next weekend threaten gains, By TONY BRITT [email protected] say governors Spring is the time of the year when most people con- By KEN THOMAS and sider making upgrades to their home and property. STEVE PEOPLES Residents who want to get a jump on making those Associated Press improvements or new additions can do so by attending next weekend’s home and patio show. WASHINGTON — Washington’s pro- The 10th Annual North Florida Home and Patio tracted budget stalemate could seriously Show will take place March 2-3 at the Columbia County undermine the economy and stall gains Fairgrounds. Saturday, March 2, the gates will be open made since the recession, exasperated from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., while on Sunday, March 3, the event governors said Saturday as they try to will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. gauge the fallout from impending federal With less than a week before the event, Austin Seay, spending cuts. North Florida Home and Patio Show Chairman, said At the annual National Governors there are 70-80 total vendors registered to participate JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Association meeting, both Democrat and in this year’s event. He also said there are several busi- Columbia County Supervisor of Elections Liz Horne stands in front of a Republican chief executives expressed nesses that will on the outside showing-off goods and display featuring photographs of local black veterans in honor of Black pessimism that both sides could find products. History Month. ‘We wanted to do this because we wanted to honor a way to avoid the massive, automatic those that fought for us and our country,’ Horne said. ‘I’m so grateful to SHOW continued on 3A these people that fought for our right to vote.’ CUTS continued on 3A Vol. 138, No. 279 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 Business . 1C5A 9175 6456 Obituaries . 5A PEOPLE TUESDAY SUBSCRIBE TO ChanceT-Storm of Chance T-storms Obituaries . 6A THE REPORTER: Advice.Advice & . .Comics . .. 5D8B First lady won’t Local news Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 3B, 5B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A6A Puzzles . 2B be replacing Leno. roundup. 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER SUNDAY REPORT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2013 Page Editor: Jim Barr, 754-0424 Friday: Friday: Saturday: Saturday: Wednesday: Wednesday: 2-32-43-44 22 9-22-27-29-31 Afternoon: 3-1-6 Afternoon: 8-1-8-2 18-23-28-36-43-45 3-17-19-25-32 Evening: N/A Evening: N/A x4 PB 17 AROUND FLORIDA State warns about fake public aid websites TALLAHASSEE — home care. Tampa Electric spokes- County just east of Florida’s 26th congressio- Saintfleur obtained docu- Florida’s Department of Patients are allowed to man Rick Morera said in a Tallahassee. The trooper, nal district that stretches ments that listed tens Children and Families is hire a relative or friend statement Friday afternoon who had stopped a car for from the Miami suburbs to of thousands of names warning about fake web- to oversee small aspects that a small animal likely speeding on Interstate 10, Key West. and birthdates. He then sites that offer to help of their care, such as hair caused an outage on one died instantly when the Federal prosecutors searched an online propri- people apply for public styling or room decorat- of two underground power bomb went off as he tried charged Sternad with etary database in 2010 and assistance. ing. But instead of being lines to a city of Tampa to open a gift-wrapped conspiracy to violate fed- 2011 to find the victims’ The state agency said paid monthly or yearly, water treatment plant. microwave oven he found eral campaign laws, mak- Social Security numbers. Friday that it had gotten some caregivers are paid He added that a problem in the vehicle. ing false statements and Co-conspirators used that several reports this week up front for years of ser- with the city’s equipment Authorities said Howell accepting illegal contribu- information to file fraudu- regarding websites that vice at a time, which can exacerbated the issue by had hired a driver to deliv- tions. If convicted, Sternad lent tax returns seeking ask for financial and per- decrease some patients’ causing the second line er the package that was faces up to five years in refunds. sonal information. assets so they in turn qual- to fail, leaving the plant intended to kill two women prison on each of the three DCF officials said there ify for Medicaid. Spouses without power. Electricity in Marianna because they counts. was only one website also can sign over their was restored but city offi- knew too much about a “We are committed to Court upholds authorized to accept appli- patient’s financial support cials say all Tampa Water drug-related murder in promoting transparency license revocation cations for Medicaid, food to the state, which allows Department customers Broward County.