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WEEKEND:APRIL 9-11, 2017 NORTHERN STARS DIG IN! The Northern portion of Geneva Elementary Seminole County decided its students work District Lacrosse Champions in Garden Club Thursday night See Sports, Page 9 See People, Page 5 AKEANFORDARY ONGWOOD INTER PRINGS VIEDO ENEVA ASSELBERRYERALDSTEEN HULUOTA LTAMONTE PRINGS E ARY L M ,L ,W S ,O ,G ,C ,O ,C ,A S ,D B S • © 2017 H Vol. 125, No. 67 VISIT US AT MYSANFORDHERALD.COM Since 1908 HEADLINES FROM Train depot to become brewery, marketplace OUR TAKE ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday night is the first reading of an ordi- HeraldBy Larry Staff Griffin nance that will give a developer from South US HITS SYRIAN AIR BASE Florida control over the parking lot for the WITH TOMAHAWK MISSILES Seminole County courthouse, the block where Where the old train depot used the post office used to be, and the parking lot The attack of some 60 missiles to stand at 212 W. 1st St., there will at First and Palmetto used by customers of the blasted an air base where U.S. of- soon be yet another brewery and Willow Tree and downtown merchants. ficials say the Syrian military eatery, called Wekiva Basin Brew- launched a deadly chemical at- ing, to add to the collection of The document gives him control of the tack earlier this week. them growing in downtown San- property for the next thirty years. The devel- ford. oper puts up absolutely no money, there are no 'END THE SLAUGHTER AND Navigated by realtors at NAI See OUR TAKE, Page 3 BLOODSHED IN SYRIA' Realvest, the sale of the property from owner Mike Moreno of De- President Trump calls on other Bary to new owners Sean Kelley nations to join the U.S. in seeking and Joe Buttice will transform the to halt the Syrian civil war that historic building into a new brew- began six years ago. ery and marketplace combo – with some of the 6,000 square-foot space going to the brewery and the WHAT JOBS REPORT The former train depot at 212 W. 1st St. willHerald be the photonew brewery by Larry in town. Griffin MIGHT REVEAL ABOUT See DEPOT, Page 14 ECONOMY Economists forecast that em- ployers added a decent if less- than-spectacular 180,000 jobs last FIRST FLIGHT FROM ARUBA LANDS IN SANFORD month. WHERE COLLEGES ENJOY The Sanford Civic Center sits onPhoto the lakefront,contributed at A BOOM IN DEMAND the corner of Sanford Avenue and Seminole Blvd. The number of creative writ- ing bachelor's programs spikes from 161 in 2008 to 592 in 2013, CRA's Charles Davis according to the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. champions new civic NAZI-PLUNDERED ART- WORK RETURNS TO center idea OWNER'S HEIR Max Liebermann's "Basket HeraldBy Larry Staff Griffin Weavers" is being shipped back to the American descendants of its original Jewish owner. At a Community Redevelopment Agency meeting on Wednesday, members of the board stuck to their guns on the proposed new Events STOCKS OF Center, saying it was for the best to do so. In particular, Chairman Charles Davis was a LOCAL INTEREST vocal proponent of the idea – which would de- molish the current Civic Center, located down- As of 4 p.m. Friday See CENTER, Page 13 Allegiant $155.25 To welcome the inaugural guests from Aruba the airport set up goodies for Suriname AirwaysPhotos (above). contributed As the Bombardier $1.66 flight arrived it was greeted with the traditional water salute (below). Faro $33.75 Check out what’s Invacare $10.40 Special to the Herald national Airport (PBM) in Para- Monday included: happening around NextEra $128.93 maribo, Suriname with a stop in • Members of the Aruba Par- Seminole County - Page 4 Tractor Supply $69.94 Orlando Sanford International Aruba before its scheduled ar- liament Airport (SFB) and Surinam Air- rival into SFB at 4:30 PM. The • Surinam Airways, CEO Toro $62.21 ways announced the start on flight pre-clears U.S. Customs & • Surinam Airways, Chair- Wells Fargo $54.84 Monday of scheduled nonstop Immigration in Aruba so will ar- woman of the Board of Directors service from Queen Beatrix In- rive into SFB as a ‘domestic’ • Surinam Airways, Member SEMINOLE SMILE ternational Airport (AUA) in flight. Aruba. The flight originated Dignitaries who arrived See FLIGHT, Page 14 from Johan Adolf Pengel Inter- on the inaugural flight INSIDE OPINIONS • 3 PEOPLE • 5 SPORTS • 9 LEGALS • 11 CLASSIFIEDS • 12 CROSSWORD • 13 Madison Sunderman Student and Member of Geneva Elementary Garden Club PAGE 2 • Weekend: April 9-11, 2017 SANFORD HERALD COUCH REVIEW MOMENTS IN TIME By Sam Struckhoff The History Channel PICKS OF THE WEEK * On April 27, 4977 B.C., the universe is created, ac- "Hidden Figures" (PG) -- NASA cording to German mathematician and astronomer Jo- needed all its brainpower in the 1960s to hannes Kepler, considered a founder of modern science. win the Space Race. That was a problem, Scientists in the 20th century showed that Kepler's calcu- because some of its brightest math minds lations were off by about 13.7 billion years. belonged to women who weren't white, and they were kept in separate locations * On April 28, 1789, the HMS Bounty is seized in a for "Colored Computers." Katherine mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the master's mate. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal supporters Jackson (Taraji P. Henderson, Octavia were set adrift in a small, open boat. They reached Spencer and Janelle Monae) were three Timor in the East Indies on June 14, after a voyage of such women whose work was vital to about 3,600 miles. America's earliest swipes at the stars. The movie handles historical topics in * On April 24, 1800, President John Adams approves a way that is uplifting, but not superfi- $5,000 to establish the Library of Congress. The first li- cially satisfying with easy solutions and brary catalog, dated April 1802, listed 964 volumes and platitudes. Math can be hard, but doing nine maps. the hardest math while surrounded by bitter racism and backhanded sexism is * On April 30, 1939, the New York World's Fair opens heroic. This struggle is powerfully shown Taraji Henson in "Hidden Figures" 20th Century Fox on 1,200 acres at Flushing Meadow Park in Queens. while the story manages to stay New technology exhibits included FM radio, robotics, grounded. fluorescent lighting and a crude fax machine. Sixty-three (Sandra Huller) has a high-pressure con- nessman has a sultry affair with the icy nations participated. "Lion" (PG-13) -- Saroo (Dev Patel) is a sulting job at an oil company in Roma- Scandinavian woman overseeing the grown man in Australia who can't shake nia, where condescending co-workers downsizing of his employer. The final * On April 25, 1947, President Harry Truman officially memories of being a lost little boy in make sexist remarks to her face as she (and best) act features J.K. Simmons as a opens the two-lane White House bowling alley in the India. He was 5 years old when he got fights to be taken seriously without rock- German expat on a weekly series of sub- West Wing. President Dwight Eisenhower closed the stuck on an empty train in rural India ing the boat. It's dad to the (good-inten- lime supermarket dates with a housewife alley in 1955 and turned it into a mimeograph room. and was taken thousands of miles away tioned but unwanted and embarrassing) (Maria Kavoyianni). The emotional pay- from his family. An Australian couple rescue! Her bored and bumbling father, off for each story varies, but the sum of * On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear acci- (Nicole Kidman and David Wenham) Winifred (Peter Simonischek), shows up the experience for this economically dent to date occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near adopted him in Calcutta and raised him for some unsolicited family bonding. strained romance is a net gain. Kiev in Ukraine. The full toll from the disaster is still with love, but Saroo's vivid memories of After Ines rebuffs her dad, Winifred re- being tallied, but experts believe that thousands of peo- his birth mother and brother pull him to turns in a ridiculous disguise as "Toni TV RELEASES ple died and as many as 70,000 suffered severe radiation the search. His girlfriend (Rooney Mara) Erdmann," a life coach to the corporate "Mars: Season 1" poisoning. and adoptive parents support him, but elite. It's charming and cringe-inducing "Silicon Valley: The Complete Third fear the search could consume him -- the and sweet without suffocating. The main Season" * On April 29, 1974, President Richard Nixon an- trail is 25 years cold, and the territory is caveats are that it's nearly three hours "Top Gear 23" nounces that he will release transcripts of 46 taped vast. long and subtitled, but neither should be "Veep: Season 5" White House conversations in response to a Watergate It's something that could tug on so a deal breaker for fans of original offbeat "Tangled: Before Ever After" trial subpoena, but not the actual tapes. Nixon cited ex- many heartstrings that you'd be incredu- comedy. ecutive privilege, which the Supreme Court rejected. On lous -- but it's based on a true story, you'll EDITOR'S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in Aug. 8, 1974, Nixon avoided a Senate impeachment trial recall. The cinematography does an "Worlds Apart" (R) -- Three separate this column are available in stores the by becoming the first U.S.