Cemex Faced Uphill Battle with Sand Mine
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TODD WINS BYRON NELSON FOR FIRST PGA TITLE, SPORTS B1 LEESBURG, FLORIDA Monday, May 19, 2014 www.dailycommercial.com PROJECT SOS: Donates wheelchairs LIVING HEALTHY: Shops say pet to three Lake Hills School students, A3 owners choose food with care, C1 CLERMONT Cemex faced uphill battle with sand mine LIVI STANFORD | Staff Writer CEMEX proposed the [email protected] 1,196-acre sand mine in Several Lake County the center of the plan- commissioners say they ning area of the Well- had concerns about the ness Way Sector Plan. effects of a controver- The sector plan would sial sand mine in south transform 16,000 acres Lake on adjacent land- in the southeast corner owners, agricultural re- of the county into a hub sources and traffic is- for high-tech health sues on U.S. Highway care jobs and other 27. SEE CEMEX | TIMOTHY D. EASLEY / AP A2 ABOVE: Darrell Uhls, left, shakes hans with Kentucky Republican senatorial candidate Mitch McConnell during a campaign stop Saturday, at the Tanglewood Farms Restaurant in Franklin, Ky. BELOW: Kentucky Democratic senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes speaks to a gathering of supporters at the Simpson County Courthouse on Saturday, in Franklin, Ky. Tea party is losing races but tugging GOP rightward CHARLES BABINGTON well-funded Demo- DAILY COMMERCIAL FILE PHOTO Associated Press crats, both women, is crucial to their hopes. This is a Cemex sand mining facility in Polk County. The uesday’s high-pro- company would like to open another one in south Lake. file primary elec- Six states hold pri- tions may extend maries Tuesday. Geor- T gia, Kentucky and Or- a streak of sorts for tea party Republicans: egon have closely Schools work to help losing individual races watched Republican but winning the larg- contests for Senate. er ideological war by Pennsylvania and Ar- transgender students fit in kansas have feisty gu- tugging the GOP right- LISA LEFF His close childhood bernatorial primaries. ward. Associated Press friend, who also identi- In Idaho, tea par- Tea party-endorsed fied as transgender, was candidates are strug- conservative creden- publicans control of ty-backed lawyer Bry- SAN FRANCISCO — an Smith is trying to Isaac Barnett took a ready to reveal his se- gling in Tuesday’s Re- tials, which narrows the Senate will prove cret, too. publican congressional the party’s philosophi- too far right for centrist oust Republican Rep. bold step last year: He With the administra- primaries in Georgia, cal differences. voters in November. Mike Simpson, who’s told teachers and class- tion’s blessing, a seg- Kentucky and Idaho. Citing similar dy- Republicans need to seeking a ninth House mates at his Kansas high In each state, howev- namics in other states, gain six Senate seats term. school that the student ment featuring the two er, the “establishment” Democrats say the to control the cham- In Kentucky, tea par- they had known as a girl friends talking about Republican candidates GOP candidates who ber. Holding Kentucky tyers would love to now wanted to be ac- their transitions aired in have emphasized their are trying to give Re- and Georgia against SEE GOP | A2 cepted as a boy. SEE STUDENTS | A2 FFA helps shape Tavares High School senior Krista Wilson’s life AUSTIN FULLER | Staff Writer “I think her going to the state [email protected] level for tractor is amazing be- cause she’s put so much hard Having been in Future Farm- work into it over the last four ers of America all four years years,” Holland said. “She was of high school, Tavares High four years to try to get the state a little disappointed to get sev- School senior Krista Wilson level,” Wilson said. enth, but she took it very well made it this year to the state Wilson, who finished seventh and knew what she could im- level in the tractor operations out of 12 in the state competi- prove upon and that shows a competition. tion, said she had competed in great person, in my opinion. … “This has pretty much been other competitions in the past, Also, I did some checking and my high school life,” Wilson but this year focused only on found out that she was the first said of FFA. tractor operations in order to female to compete at the state In order to reach the state study more for it. level (in Florida) for that con- competition, Wilson won Jessica Holland, the agricul- test, and that was very hum- both the sub-district and dis- ture instructor and FFA advi- bling for her and me.” trict-level competitions. sor at Tavares High School, also Wilson said she had been in- “It was pretty much a relief saw the level of work Wilson volved in music since the first AUSTIN FULLER / DAILY COMMERCIAL when I won it, because I was put into preparing for the com- grade and was in band her Senior Krista Wilson poses with agriculture instructor and FFA so excited because I’ve worked petition. 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Certain restrictions may apply. Call for details. fla#CAC1816408 A2 DAILY COMMERCIAL Monday, May 19, 2014 er levels of PM2.5 — the tering buses to the county kicked up by the trucks CEMEX particulates mining gen- commission meeting on on Schofield Road, a clay FLORIDA FROM PAGE A1 erates, including silica Tuesday, where the CE- road in the vicinity of the — than what was report- MEX request was slated proposed sand mine. industries, which would ed by the Department of to be heard before it was “A clay road is a dirt LOTTERY Natural Resources. withdrawn. road, and if you put 300 attract people who like to MAY 18 bike, walk and enjoy an “Even in digging it out Commissioner Jimmy trucks on it, it is going to active, healthy lifestyle. and loading it in a truck Conner also expressed create dust,” said Com- CASH 3 ...............................................7-2-1 Wellness Way has been you are generating those concerns. missioner Tim Sullivan. Afternoon ..........................................5-6-0 called the largest piece small particulates (of sil- “There were legitimate “I think one of the ways PLAY 4 .............................................8-5-4-3 of undeveloped proper- ica),” he previously said. concerns raised by adja- to mitigate that is to pave Afternoon .......................................2-4-7-2 ty left in Lake County. The “Without monitoring by cent landowners and by that road.” tract runs east of US 27 an independent agen- people who live in Kings Like Parks, Sullivan said MAY 17 along the Orange Coun- cy, we don’t have the kind Ridge,” he said. he had concerns about FANTASY 5 ........................... 7-17-21-27-32 ty border, running south of assurance we need to But Sara Engdahl, direc- the sand mine’s impact FLORIDA LOTTO ............... 3-11-13-15-33-50 from State Road 50 to U.S. protect public health.” tor of communications on agricultural resources. POWERBALL.................. 23-32-39-47-49-22 Highway 192. In a letter dated May 13 for CEMEX USA, said in a “Agriculture is a huge Commissioner Sean to County Attorney San- press release, “There are part of the Lake Coun- Parks said he was pleased dy Minkoff, CEMEX’s at- rumors and statistics re- ty economy,” he said. The CEMEX withdrew its ap- torney, Roger Sims, wrote garding our project that sand mine “needs to fit plication. the company wished to are false.” the character of the com- THE NEWSPAPER OF CHOICE FOR LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES SINCE 1875 The Daily Commercial (ISSN 0896-1042) is published daily for “I have had serious withdraw its application Asked what specifically munity.” $90.74 per year (plus Florida sales tax) by Halifax Media Group for conditional use ap- Engdahl was referring to, Commissioner Leslie at 212 East Main Street, Leesburg, Florida. Periodicals postage is concerns all along about paid at the USPO, Leesburg, FL. 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