A1 + PLUS >> 120-year term for ex-cop, Story below CHS SOFTBALL FW SOFTBALL Tigers take Indians face on GHS Santa Fe See Page 1B See Page 1B WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 23 & 24, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM NFL royalty pays a visit Today Spring book sale The Columbia County Public Library West Branch (435 NW Hall of Fame Drive, off U.S. Highway 90 just past Interstate 75) is holding a spring book sale through April 30. Fill a bag with books for $3. For more, call 386-758-1321 or email dhorner@columbi- acountyfla.com. Saturday Benefit for Matthew LC Mud Dogs will hold a barbecue benefit 11 a.m. Saturday in Osceola National Forest for 14-year- old Matthew Mazza, who learned in January that his brain cancer had returned after a two-year battle his family hoped he’d won. (See story, this page.) Easter egg hunt Gold Standard Lodge 167 will sponsor its annual Easter egg hunt Saturday, March 24, at Annie Maddox Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be a bicycle raffle and face painting. A limit- ed number of Easter egg baskets will be distribut- TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter ed to children. The event Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker and NFL Hall of Famer Derrick Brooks helps CHS senior Sarah Katherine (SK) also features free hot Lewis into a custom jacket designed for the occasion. Lewis is one of 25 finalists nationwide for the U.S. Army and Pro dogs, hamburgers, chips Football Hall of Fame Award for Excellence. That merited a visit from Brooks. See story, more photos, Page 3A. and drinks. For more, call Conrad Wallace at 386-344-8103 or Mike Kelly at 386-867-6675. Reward Car-wash fundraiser 120-year term for ex-cop Pinemount Panthers Archery Team will hold offered a car wash on Saturday, Kyle Kirby was formerly a March 24, from 9-12 at sergeant at Live Oak P.D. Former Live the First Federal Bank Oak police for vet’s in front of the mall. The By CARL MCKINNEY officer Kyle car wash is $5 and the [email protected] Kirby has been funds raised will help sup- sentenced to photo port the Panthers going A former Live Oak police officer convict- more than to Nationals in Kentucky ed of multiple child pornography charges a century in this coming May. has been sentenced to 120 years in federal prison fol- By COREY ARWOOD prison. lowing his [email protected] Get Fit, LC Color Run A jury in December found Kyle Adam conviction for The Color Run is part Kirby, 37, guilty of producing, attempt- creation and A Lake City woman said if of the 2018 Get Fit, Lake ing to produce, possessing and accessing possession of rewards are offered for missing City Initiative. Come run images and videos depicting the sexual child pornog- pets the same effort should at or walk and enjoy a morn- abuse of children. raphy. least be made for a local soldier ing of great fun and fit- Federal agents arrested Kirby on Oct. killed in an unre- ness Saturday at the CHS 28, 2015, and he has since been in the cus- ported province stadium. Check-in 7-7:45 of Vietnam at the a.m. Race starts at 8. KIRBY continued on 6A FILE height of the war. Register now for $25 ($30 Lelia Williams day of race). See ad, 6A, said she graduat- for more. ed from the same BBQ will benefit ailing youngster segregated high Farmers market Williams school that PFC The Lake DeSoto Matthew Mazza, 14, is LC Mud Dogs will hold a bar- street from Columbia County Eugene McCray attended. Farmers Market is open becue benefit 11 a.m. Saturday Correctional Institution. She said she’s talked to those every Saturday in the park- battling brain cancer. in Osceola National Forest for Food will be $5 per plate. who said they were McCray’s ing lot at Marion Avenue By CARL MCKINNEY 14-year-old Matthew Mazza, who Community members and classmates – acquaintances and and Duval Street, across [email protected] learned in January that his brain local businesses have agreed to contemporaries of hers during from the Courthouse cancer had returned after a two- donate goods and services as their Class of 1963 days at what Annex. Hours are 9 a.m. A group of four-wheeler fanatics year battle his family hoped he’d raffle prizes, which include a car was known then as Richardson to 1 p.m. For more, call is revving up to raise $2,000 for a won. 386-719-5766. local teenager with brain cancer. 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