PANAMA CITY LOCAL & STATE | A3 IT’S OFFICIAL Rick Scott launches bid for U.S. Senate Tuesday, April 10, 2018 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ Beach school, STEM vote set School district staff technology center. Allstate Construction Inc. recommends board hire After interviewing offi- were interested in handling 2 local contractors cials from four firms per the elementary school proj- project, staff have recom- ect, while Ajax Building By John Henderson mended hiring Reliant South Corp., Allstate, GAC and 522-5108 | @PCNHjohn Construction Group as the Reliant South were vying for [email protected] construction manager for the the STEM building contract. elementary school, set to be Lee Walters, the director of PANAMA CITY — Bay built alongside the planned operational support services District Schools staff have sports park off U.S. 98 at an for the school, said Monday recommended local firms estimated cost of $35 mil- the 125,000-square-foot oversee the construction of lion. They also would like to Beach school is sorely needed. two major upcoming capital see GAC Contractors hired “As growth is continu- projects. as contract manager for the ing to explode out there, it is The school board at its 1 new Science, Technology, proven to be really needed,” p.m. meeting today will vote Engineering and Mathematics he said. “We are at capacity on whether to go along with building at Bay High, which in all of our other schools on those recommendations doesn’t have a set price yet. the Beach. We expect to have for a new Beach elemen- Reliant South, GAC it open in 2020 at the start of A construction worker demolishes a brick wall of the old Bay High tary school and Bay High Contractors, Lord & Son School cafeteria. A new STEM building will rise in its place. [PATTI School’s planned science and Construction Inc. and See SCHOOL, A6 BLAKE/THE NEWS HERALD] PCB’s Man in the Sea Bird knocks Museum mulls move out power LOCAL & to 11,000 STATE | A3 PCB Much of Callaway, Springfi eld, Parker DEVELOPMENT without electricity for 45 minutes Planning board tables proposed News Herald staff report hotel on Front Beach Road CALLAWAY — A nest- ing bird led to a short power outage spanning most of Cal- laway, Parker and Springfield on Monday morning, accord- ing to a Gulf Power official. More than 11,000 custom- ers lost power just before 11 a.m. Monday in large portions of eastern Bay County after the bird entered Gulf Power’s Parker substation, according to spokesman Jeff Rogers. “It was a small bird,” Rogers said. “It had some nesting material with it. It may have been flying over BUSINESS | A9 it and landed in the wrong place.” CHILDREN’S Power was restored to all Courtney Diamond checks out exhibits at the Man in the Sea Museum in January 2016. The museum’s director but a few customers within said he is open to moving the museum to a more accessible location, possibly on the waterfront. See a gallery PRIVACY 45 minutes. of Bay County’s naval diving history at newsherald.com. [HEATHER HOWARD/NEWS HERALD FILE PHOTOS] Gulf Power reported the Groups asking outages affected 11,289 cus- FTC to investigate tomers, including Parker and YouTube for Callaway elementary schools, Director eyes school, dive shop involvement improperly several homes and businesses collecting in an area roughly bounded by children’s data U.S. 98 and Tram Road on the By Collin Breaux north, School Avenue on the 747-5081 | @PCNHCollinB west, East Bay on the south [email protected] and extending about half a mile east of Star Avenue. PANAMA CITY BEACH — Deputies with the Bay Volunteers with the Man in County Sheriff’s Office the Sea Museum are brain- initially were called to the storming ideas for future elementary schools as the expansion and community power went out, a precau- outreach, including a possible tionary measure should relocation to the Panama City students have to be released. Marina and getting teachers “ Power outages are some- and dive shops involved. thing we train and prepare The museum, on the for,” said Sharon Michalik, Beach’s west end at 17314 Bay District Schools’ direc- Panama City Beach Park- SPORTS | B1 tor of communications. way, houses numerous “This morning’s outage was, artifacts from Navy diving COLLEGE thankfully, short, and so history, including SEALAB 1, schools were able to carry an underwater habitat used BASEBALL on the teaching and learn- for saturation diving in the ing with minimal disruption. 1960s. But the location sees Pensacola scores 3 It wasn’t especially warm Andy Dick lifts his son, Travis, 4, to look out a porthole inside the runs in ninth, beats See MUSEUM, A6 restored SEALAB 1 during the 2017 Man In The Sea Bash. Gulf Coast 11-10 See POWER, A6 Panama City News Herald Business ........................ A9 Obituaries ......................A5 TODAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Want to subscribe? Diversions ......................B7 Sports......................... B1-5 Morning rain Sunny; nice Plenty of sun Call 850-747-5050 Local & State .............. A3-7 Viewpoints .................... A8 68° / 52° 73° / 54° 74° / 58° * ** A2 Tuesday, April 10, 2018 | The News Herald READER FEEDBACK CELEBRATE COMMUNITY TODAY IN HISTORY The family history of Faye Today is Tuesday, April 10, the Walker-Howell, who was PICTURE PERFECT 100th day of 2018. There are raised in Panama City, was 265 days left in the year. featured in an Oprah Winfrey We want your photos: Post your photos to the News Herald Facebook page with your name, city of Today's Highlight in History: segment of “60 Minutes.” residence and information about the photo. You can email photos to [email protected]. On April 10, 1968, "In the Heat Viewers also saw inside the of the Night" won best picture new National Memorial for of 1967 at the 40th Academy Peace and Justice in Mont- Awards; one of its stars, Rod gomery, Ala., as part of “The Steiger, was named best actor Legacy of Lynching.” while Katharine Hepburn Bobbie Cayce: “I sure hope was honored as best actress locals will watch this. I know for "Guess Who's Coming to I saw enough in my life to do Dinner." a 360 during the 60s includ- On this date: ing a smoldering cross in the In 1790, President George countryside of N.C.. Watching Washington signed the fi rst informative movies and docu- United States Patent Act. mentaries helped to open my In 1866, the American Society eyes as well. I will defi nitely for the Prevention of Cruelty to be buying Tumbleton Road. Animals was incorporated. Could anything be more toxic In 1912, the British liner RMS to the soul than hatred?” Titanic set sail from Southamp- ton, England, on its ill-fated Trulieve, Florida’s most maiden voyage. ambitious medical marijuana In 1925, the F. Scott Fitzgerald seller, feels Florida is unfairly novel "The Great Gatsby" was inhibiting expansion plans by fi rst published by Scribner's of capping sellers to 25 shops New York. statewide. In 1932, German President Paul James Downs: “Just go Von Hindenburg was re-elected ahead and legalize it where in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler it can be used medically and coming in second. recreational use and just In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers Pres- smoke some of the good stuff ident Branch Rickey purchased that hasn’t killed or harmed the contract of Jackie Robinson anyone like other drugs and from the Montreal Royals. alcohol that’s kills people In 1953, the 3-D horror movie everyday. And smoking a joint "House of Wax," produced will work and cure just as well by Warner Bros. and starring as the CBD oil does.” Robb Moss, of Lynn Haven, emailed this Picture Perfect photo to us and said, “Buddy, our Vincent Price, premiered in 4-month-old Cockapoo, is already practicing good dental hygiene.” [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO] New York. State officials asked a federal In 1971, a table tennis team judge Wednesday to put on from the United States arrived hold his order demanding that in China at the invitation of a new process be in place by the communist government April 26 for restoring felon’s for a goodwill visit that came voting rights in Florida. GO AND DO to be known as "ping-pong Dick Weeber: “I can under- diplomacy." stand why Republicans prefer 55th BAY ANNUAL BOOKS AND BITES BOOKS ON THE BAY — In 1978, Arkady Shevchenko, that released criminals don’t 1 ART EXHIBIT: April 10 3 — AUTHOR KRISTY 5 WILL GLOVER: 6 p.m. at a high-ranking Soviet citi- vote. In New York, about through May 4 at Panama WOODSON HARVEY: noon Sheraton Bay Point Resort, zen employed by the United one-third of felons released City Center for the Arts, to 2 p.m. EDT at Corinne 4114 Jan Cooley Drive, Nations, sought political from prison registered to vote 19 E. Fourth St., Panama Costin Gibson Memorial Panama City Beach. Host asylum in the United States. after their release. Of those, City. Free to the public Library, 110 Library Drive, Tony Simmons will speak In 1981, imprisoned IRA about 62 percent registered during regular gallery Port St. Joe. Author of the with author and News hunger striker Bobby Sands as Democrats and 9 percent hours. Details: CenterForT- best-selling “Peachtree Herald Managing Editor Will was declared the winner of registered as Republicans, heArtsPC.com Bluff” series introduces her Glover about his new novel a by-election to the British with 26 percent registering as latest novel, “The Secret to series and his approach to Parliament.