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118th Year No. 40 2 Sections www.TheHeraldAdvocate.com 93¢ Plus 7¢ Sales Tax Thursday, August 30, 2018 It’s Flores; Evers Vs. Horton By CYNTHIA KRAHL the Republican Party’s nomina- was 44 percent to 39.6. chance to go on to November. the November election,” he ily captured Hardee, with 1,885 Of The Herald-Advocate tion with 1,440 votes to Birge’s The third contender, James F. “I would like to thank every- said. votes to Stephen Pincket’s With little more than 31 per- 1,012. Pyle, took 601 of the ballots, or body for their support,” he said In regional races, Hardee 1,295. cent of Hardee County’s regis- And in the battle for the 16.3 percent of the votes. Tuesday night. “This was very County voters favored Melissa Circuit-wide results were not tered voters casting ballots in bench, Ken Evers took an early Flores will go on to fight De- humbling. We still have lots of Gravitt for Group 10 circuit in at press time. the Primary Election, an in- lead, which slipped as returns mocrat Ralph Arce in the Gen- work to do. I hope voters will judge for the 10th Judicial Cir- State races brought some un- cumbent county commissioner continued to come in but held eral Election on Nov. 6, with continue to support me in the cuit, which includes Hardee, expected upsets for Hardee was ousted and a runoff was long enough to put him into a the winner taking the District 2 General Election.” Highlands and Polk counties. Countians, whose overwhelm- forced for county judge. runoff with David Horton. County Commission seat. Evers expressed similar sen- Candidates Lee Cohen and ing favorites succumbed to the As final tabulations came in It would have taken 1,900 Evers and Horton will face timents. Keith Merritt nearly split the statewide polls. Tuesday night, two-term votes to emerge a clear winner. off in the General Election, “I would like to thank all remaining ballots equally, 970 In the race for governor, County Commissioner Sue Evers garnered 1,620 votes and with the top vote-getter becom- those who supported me in the to 981, respectively. Adam Putnam stole local Re- Birge fell to political new- Horton 1,458 – a 162-vote dif- ing Hardee’s new county judge. election and hope to earn the For the Group 11 circuit publican hearts, amassing comer Noey Flores, who won ference. Percentage-wise, it Flores was grateful for the votes of those who didn’t for judgeship, Dana Moore hand- See ELECTION A3 ROUSING REACTIONS Company Now Generating Its Product PFMan Seeking Military Contracts By MICHAEL KELLY occupy the building, but con- Of The Herald-Advocate sistently cited numerous rea- An upstart generator com- sons for delays in getting into pany that has occupied a build- production. ing from the Hardee County He was never able to pro- Industrial Development Au- duce a working prototype. thority in its Commerce Park After his death, Kevin since 2014 now has a working Minds was appointed to run the prototype and is looking to se- company by Okun’s wife, who cure military contracts for its is the controlling shareholder product. of the company. PFMan is hoping its 15- Skip Durbin was hired as the pound, 500-watt unit will be business manager, and showed utilized by military personnel The Herald-Advocate one of to power communication the working prototypes during equipment in the field as well a tour of the facility last week. as to recharge various equip- The 2.5-horsepower engine ment used by soldiers carrying can run on a number of fuel out their missions. types including gasoline, In February, the IDA board diesel, jet fuel or even high-al- agreed to provide the company cohol liquors, Durbin said. with a $500,000 line of credit He said the motor being able following the death of former to run on a wide-variety of CEO and founder Shaun Okun fuels without changing parts or COURTESY PHOTO late last year. filters was a big advantage over Alexandre Bulinsky and Mira Ahir, fourth graders in Mary Ann Duncan and Laura Carter's class at North Okun had said he was ready competitors when trying to se- Wauchula Elementary School, react to the chemical reaction they just created. A mix of baking soda and vine- to begin manufacturing the cure military contracts. gar resulted in a gas which expanded and filled the balloon, proving the theory that the study of science can generators once he was able to be fun. See COMPANY A3 ZS Cancels Election As Incumbents Return By JENNIFER McCONKEY missioners since no one else Herald-Advocate Intern Buffest Bod ran against them. For the second year in a row, Rod Cannon will continue the town of Zolfo Springs auto- serving the town in Seat 1 and By TOM STAIK matically re-elected its com- Virginia Irby will continue Of The Herald-Advocate serving in Seat 3. Christopher Thompson was a lanky teen. Since commission terms are Caught up in a world “doing what teenagers do,” WEATHER four years and the other three Thompson wandered aimlessly until an acquaintance commissioners were all re- encouraged him to join a gym. DATE HIGH LOW RAIN elected last year, there won’t be 08/21 94 71 0.01 “It changed my life,” Thompson said. 08/22 90 73 0.00 another Zolfo Springs Town Thompson weighed 165 pounds when he Commission election until 08/23 89 74 0.01 started lifting weights. 08/24 92 73 0.57 2021 unless one of the current 08/25 93 71 0.47 commissioners resigns. Within six months of lifting his first barbell, the 08/26 91 72 0.44 Irby has been a town com- Hardee County native had gained 30 pounds of 08/27 93 72 0.04 missioner since 2012, when she muscle and tipped the scales at 195 pounds. Rainfall to 08/27/2018 - 39.03 stepped up to fill the vacancy Same period last year - 29.97 “As a stress reliever, it helped a lot,” Thompson Ten Year Average - 49.17 after Rhonda Long’s resigna- said. “It gave me purpose.” Source: Univ. of Fla. Ona Research Center tion. She is currently the town’s After years of work, Thompson, 32, has the body of a vice mayor. champion. INDEX Cannon took his place at the commissioners’ table last year The Wauchula resident, who grew up in Zolfo Springs, Classifieds ...... B2 after commissioner and mayor took first place Saturday in the U.S. Bodybuilding & Fitness As- Courthouse Report . . .A13 Crime Blotter ...... B13 Juan Otero resigned. Commis- sociation’s Florida Classic. Hardee Living ...... A6 sioner Dierdre “DiDi” White is The honor also included an official invitation to compete over- Obituaries ...... A5 currently mayor. seas in an international physique challenge in Birmingham, Puzzles ...... B4 The qualifying period and England. instructions were announced in Save The Date ...... A2 The impressive finish was only Thompson’s second com- School Lunch Menus . . .A6 the last two issues of The Her- Solunar Forecast ...... A5 ald Advocate in addition to ad- petition. His foray into fitness competition was last month, vertisements about the where he finished fourth. qualifying period. No oppo- “I wasn’t going to give up,” Thompson said. “I came into nents applied. (Saturday’s) show looking a lot better.” Since Irby and Cannon were Most of Thompson’s training heading into the challenge the only two to submit their See BOD A2 See ZS A2 A2 The Herald-Advocate, August 30, 2018

THE Bring Back The Bleep For Cursing There is one word in the routine use of terms on televi- circles, while cursing is the erald- dvocate American lexicon that is con- sion that would be met by taking of God’s name in vain. H HARDEE COUNTY’SAHOMETOWN COVERAGE SAVE sidered so vile that it is re- parental discipline in most The latter is specifically MICHAEL R. KELLY ferred to only by its code homes and serious sanctions prohibited by one of the Ten Co-Publisher and Editor name, “the N-word.” in the workplace. Commandments. It is in a THE JAMES R. KELLY A commonly used pejora- Donald Trump’s widely re- class by itself when it comes Co-Publisher to unacceptable language. It comes under the broad head- CYNTHIA M. KRAHL ing of blasphemy. DATE Managing Editor Broadcasters still bleep out NOEY DeSANTIAGO an occasional cuss word, but Production Manager routinely broadcast blasphemy AUGUST TOM STAIK without restraint. Sports Editor DARLENE WILLIAMS One of the most recent in- 31 – Friday Night Magic/ Assistant stances, which was repeated Sanctuary Gaming Production Manager tive for racial minorities until peated misogynistic remarks numerous times on CNN and Club/1321 E. Main a few decades ago, it is now about women, picked up by a several times on the other net- St., Wauchula/ 115 S. Seventh Ave. • P.O. Box 338 6:30 pm Wauchula, FL 33873 widely considered to be too live microphone, were re- works, was President Trump’s Phone: (863) 773-3255 • Fax: (863) 773-0657 offensive for use under any broadcast ad nauseam during cursing in a surreptitiously circumstances. It is widely his campaign, without the recorded conversation with SEPTEMBER [email protected] banned from our language, to bleeping that once was com- Omarosa. 4 – Money Smart for [email protected] which I say good riddance. monly used to screen out It’s not as if the entire con- Families/Hardee [email protected] Of the many criticisms that crude language. versation was broadcast for Help Center/713 may be accurately leveled at Broadcasters of yesteryear our viewing and listening E Bay St, Wauchula/ Published weekly on Thursday at Wauchula, Florida, by the me, prudery is not one of employed the bleep to block pleasure. That gratuitous curse 6 pm Herald- Advocate Publishing Co. Inc. Periodical Postage paid at them. A military career that all but the most benign cuss was selected by broadcasters U.S. Post Office, Wauchula, FL 33873 and additional entry office began with four years in words. It didn’t take much ef- for inclusion in a brief excerpt 5 – Adult Coloring Club/ (USPS 578-780). “Postmaster,” send address changes to: ROTC, followed by two years fort to figure out what word or from the recording. HC Public Library/ The Herald-Advocate, P.O. Box 338, Wauchula, FL 33873. in the active Army and 30 phrase was missing, but it kept Please, broadcasters, bring 315 N. 6th Ave., years in the Army National the airwaves relatively free of back the bleep, at least for Wauchula/10 am DEADLINES: Guard, has helped me gain a words not commonly used in blasphemy. Hardee Living — Thursday 5 p.m. degree of fluency in military polite discourse. I cannot purport to speak for 6 – Storytime, HC Public School News & Photos — Thursday 5 p.m. acronyms, bureaucratic jar- To my way of thinking, the how the Almighty feels about Library/10 am Sports — Thursday 5 p.m. (Weekend Events, Monday Noon) gon, and profanity. bounds of propriety were in- it, but I am sure I am not the 6 – “Stitch by Stitch” General News — Monday 5 p.m. All three are encountered on excusably breached when only mortal who would appre- Crochet and Ads — Tuesday Noon a regular basis in the armed broadcasters began to blithely ciate it. Knitting/HC Public forces, though the opening of send out cursing over the air- S. L. Frisbie is retired. In his Library/10 am SUBSCRIPTIONS: virtually all jobs to women has waves. years as an editor and pub- Hardee County — 6 months, $21 • 1 year, $39 • 2 years, $75 brought a welcome degree of For those who lack my flu- lisher, he banned the use of 11 – Cry Out America Florida — 6 months, $25 • 1 year, $46 • 2 years, $87 restraint to the latter. ency in profanity, let me ex- cursing both in print and in Prayer Rally/Faith Out of State — 6 months, $29 • 1 year, $52 • 2 years, $100 Common usage in the plain that cussing and the workplace. He would Temple Ministries Online — 1 month, $5 • 6 months, $19 • 1 year, $37 • 2 years, $70 broadcast media is headed in swearing are language that never succeed as a network Church of God/noon would draw a frown in polite broadcaster. LETTERS: the opposite direction, with 11 – Money Smart for The Herald-Advocate welcomes letters to the editor on matters of Families/Hardee public interest. Letters should be brief, and must be written in Help Center/6 pm good taste, signed and include a daytime phone number. BOD Crop Update Continued From A1 12 – Adult Coloring Club/ HC Public Library/ came with grueling daily rou- 10 am tines at Wauchula’s Anytime August 27, 2018 Fitness. 13 – Storytime, HC Public Kelly’s Column General: According to the National Agricultural Statistics “The hardest thing is to try Library/10 am By Jim Service in Florida, there were 6.1 days suitable for fieldwork for to find balance to spend the 13 – “Stitch by Stitch” the week ending Sunday, August 26, 2018. Precipitation esti- right amount of time with the Crochet and mates ranged from no rain in multiple locations to 8.78 inches gym and with my family,” Knitting/HC Public in Orlando (Orange County). The average mean temperature Thompson said. Library/10 am ranged from 79.9°F in Milton (Santa Rosa County) and Lake Thompson said he plans to Florida Trend magazine in April reported Florida's popula- City (Columbia County) to 86.2°F in Dry Tortugas (Monroe attend another challenge in 18 – Devotion & Lunch/ tion was 21.16 million, a gain of 430,000 or two percent more County). Daytona next month as he con- Hardee Help than a year ago. Florida's population was about 6 million in tinues to raise funds for the Center/Noon 1967, 9 million in 1977, 12 million in 1987, 15 million in 1997, Citrus: Temperatures were seasonably warm in the citrus England trip. 18 – Money Smart for and 18.4 million in 2007. By 2030 the population may be almost growing region with highs reaching the low to mid 90s on most “Since I am in shape now, I Families/Hardee 25 million, wrote publisher Andy Corty. days. Avon Park (Polk County) recorded the highest temperature might as well try to do all I Help Center/6 pm Hardee County's population is 28,198. This compares to at 97°F. Several stations had at least one day reaching 95 to 96°F. can,” he said. DeSoto, 36,456; Highlands, 105,125; Polk, 672,133; and Man- Most citrus producing counties received adequate to above-nor- Thompson is helping to sup- 19 – Adult Coloring Club/ atee, 384,140. mal rainfall during the last week. The western and northern citrus port his competition fitness ca- HC Public Library/ Florida's largest counties are Miami-Dade, 2.78 million; producing areas had the most rainfall. Plant City (Hillsborough reer through a brand of athletic 10 am Broward, 1.98 million; Palm Beach, 1.5 million; Hillsborough, County) recorded 7.99 inches; Zephyrhills (Paso County) apparel. The brand, Barbarian 1.4 million; and Orange 1.35 million. The state's smallest coun- recorded 7.73 inches. According to the August 23, 2018 U.S. Lifestyle Fitness Finesse, is 20 – Storytime, HC Public ties are Liberty, 8,631; Lafayette, 8,897; Franklin, 12,195; Drought Monitor, the entire citrus region remained drought free. available through a Facebook Library/ 10 am Glades, 14,128; and Hamilton 14,444. Favorable conditions persisted across the citrus growing re- page. 20 – “Stitch by Stitch” Hardee has the state's fifth youngest median age at 35.3 gion. Caretakers maintained normal spray schedules while also Thompson is also planning Crochet and years but has one of the state's highest unemployment rate conducting general grove maintenance. Also noticed was push- to alter his workout schedule Knitting/HC Public among the 67 counties. ing of dead trees and taking care of young replants. Fieldworkers to spend one day a week train- Library/10 am The Tampa Bay Rays Major League Baseball team has been reported oranges as large as tennis balls and grapefruit almost ing others. last in attendance the past six years, reports Florida Trend. There as large as softballs. Tree condition remained good in well-cared- “All I am trying to do is mo- 25 – Money Smart for has been proposed a new $800 million baseball stadium for the for groves. tivate people,” he said. Families/Hardee Rays on 14 acres in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood. Team Help Center/6 pm owner Stuart Sternberg said the Rays might be willing to pay Fruits and Vegetables: Vegetable growers continued to $150 million toward the cost. prepare land for fall vegetables. Planting of snap beans was un- 26 – Adult Coloring Club/ –––––– derway in Lafayette County. Green peppers were nearly ready HC Public Library/ The Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program based in for harvest in St. Lucie County. Crops harvested included avo- ZS 10 am Punta Gorda recently printed a list of the state animals in Florida: cado, bitter melon, boniato, mango, malanga, and okra. Continued From A1 Freshwater Fish – Largemouth Bass. 27 – Storytime, HC Public Reptile – American Alligator. Livestock and Pastures: Surplus soil moisture in pastures qualifying packets, they will Library/10 am Bird – Mocking Bird declined in several counties after weeks of hit-or-miss heavy continue their roles serving 27 – “Stitch by Stitch” Animal – Florida Panther. rain; however, fields in Alachua, Hernando, and Sumter counties alongside commissioners Crochet and Marine Mammal – Manatee. had standing water at the week’s end. The St. Johns River began White, Sara Schofield and Knitting/HC Public Butterfly – Zebra Longwing. receding, so ranchers were able to return their cattle to the river Guadalupe “Lupe” DeLeon. Library/10 am Saltwater Reptile – Loggerhead Sea Turtle area for grazing. The shift in weather greatly improved pasture The commission holds reg- Shell – Florida Horse Conch. condition in St. Lucie County where some producers were able ular meetings on the fourth OCTOBER Saltwater Fish – Atlantic Sailfish. to bail hay from pastures. Cattle condition remained mostly Tuesday of every month at 6 Tortoise – Gopher Tortoise. good. p.m. at Town Hall, 3210 Main 3 – Adult Coloring Club/ Saltwater Mammal – Dolphin. St. Members of the public are HC Public Library/ –––––– Field Crops: Hay was cut when conditions were dry welcome to attend. 10 am Little Lambs Inc. of the John and Eileen Sala Prison Min- enough in Dixie, Levy, and Suwannee counties. Corn harvesting istry based in Sebring reports some drug users are relieved and was wrapping up in Suwannee County. Limited rain during the 4 – Storytime/HC Public happy when they get arrested and sent to jail. It gives them a latter part of the week allowed the saturated peanut fields in Library/10 am chance to turn their life around. Some get a spiritual awakening. Jackson County to dry some. Peanut harvesting began in Wash- 4 – “Stitch by Stitch” One former prisoner got his job back with a construction ington and Levy counties. Growers in Dixie County expressed Crochet and company in Lake Placid. concern regarding the possibility of peanut crop loss this season It pays to Knitting/HC Public Another prisoner wrote he was drinking nine cups of coffee from excess moisture. Sugarcane continued to thrive. advertise in Library/10 am a day. After learning what excessive caffeine can do to the brain, your Hometown he started a limit of no more than three cups. He was also a user 10 – Adult Coloring Club/ Newspaper HC Public of "multiple drugs, a two-pack-a-day smoker and a thirsty alco- We are saving holic." He has been clean for nine years. Library/10 am Another prisoner, 51, has entered a seminary program at a this space just state prison in Hobbs, New Mexico. On This Day: for 11 – Storytime/HC Public Little Lambs is a Christian-based program and can be • In 1850 Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city Library/10 am YOU! 11 – “Stitch by Stitch” reached at 863-273-7388 or littlelambsinc.org. Eileen heads up • In 1890 President Benjamin Harrison signed the ministry. Her husband John passed away several years ago. Crochet and –––––– the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat The Herald- Knitting/HC Public My favorite out-of-town restaurant chain is Cracker Barrel. products Advocate Library/10 am Because of their good wholesome food plus the gift shop I • In 1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum 115 S. 7th Ave. bought some of their stock about 20 years ago. 16 – Devotion & Lunch/ As of late 2017 there were 645 Cracker Barrel stores in 44 cleaner 773-3255 Hardee Help states. In fiscal 2017 revenues increased a half percent to $2.93 • In 1956 White mob prevents enrollment of TheHeraldAdvocate.com Center/Noon billion, with a net income of almost $202 million. The company blacks at Mansfield High School, Texas had about 73,000 employees. 17 – Adult Coloring Club/ The top states for Cracker Barrel stores are Florida, 59; Ten- • In 1957 US senator Strom Thurmond speaks HC Public nessee, 52; Texas, 51; Georgia, 48; North Carolina, 40; Ken- 24hrs 27m against civil rights Library/10 am tucky, 36; Alabama, 33; Virginia, 32; Ohio, 31; South Carolina, • In 1961 James Benton Parsons is confirmed 26; Pennsylvania, 23; and Illinois, 21. Corrections 18 – Storytime/HC Public The average store sales volume was $4,538,000-- as 1st African American judge of a US District Library/10 am $3,646,000 restaurant and $892,000 retail. The average store has Court 18 – “Stitch by Stitch” 104 employees operating two shifts. Breakfast prices range from Crochet and $3.39 to $11.99. Lunch and dinner prices range from $4.49 to At The Herald-Advo- Knitting/HC Public $16.69. Restaurant sales are breakfast (until 11 a.m.), 24 percent; cate, we want accuracy to Library/10 am lunch (until 4 p.m.), 39 percent; and dinner (4 p.m. to closing), be a given, not just our 37 percent. Average weekly store sales were $87,000 ($70,000 1,600 billboards along highways as part of its advertising. goal. If you believe we 24 – Adult Coloring Club/ restaurant and $17,000 retail). Labor and related expenses are 35 percent of revenues. have printed an error in HC Public Retail sales were apparel and accessories, 30 percent; food, There are about 24 million outstanding shares. Long-term debt fact, please call to report Library/10 am 18 percent; decor, 13 percent; toys, 11 percent; and bed and bath, is $400 million and other long-term obligations are $129 million. it. We will review the infor- Save The Date will keep resi- 8 percent. Share prices for fiscal 2017 ranged from $130 to $175. mation, and if we find it dents informed of upcoming The largest share of food purchases were beef, 14 percent; The president and CEO is Ms. Sandy Cochran, 59. Senior needs correction or clarifi- community happenings. To dairy including eggs, 12 percent; fruits and vegetables, 12 per- VP and CFO is Ms. Jill Golder, 55. Senior VP and Chief People cation, we will do so here. have your non-profit meeting cent; poultry, 11 percent; and pork, 10 percent. A typical store Officer is Ms. Beverly Carmichael, 58. Senior VP Retail is Ms. To make a report, call or event posted for free, e-mail has 9,000 square feet, including 2,100 square feet for retail and Laura Daily, 53. Senior VP Operations is Nicholas Flanagan, 51. Managing Editor Cynthia features@theheraldadvocate. dining room seating for 180 guests. Cracker Barrel uses over Senior VP Marketing is Donald Hoffman, 60. Krahl at 773-3255. com as far ahead as possible. August 30, 2018, The Herald-Advocate A3 Eviction Notice Given Teacher Faces Drug Charges By CYNTHIA KRAHL lot. Of The Herald-Advocate A subsequent search of the A teacher employed by the Dodge Journey allegedly re- To NWES Bat Brigade Hardee County School Board vealed a small plastic bag with By TOM STAIK Krahl oversaw the construc- “I went Saturday morning will appear in Hardee Circuit small chunks of Oxycodone Of The Herald-Advocate tion of “exclusion” devices and there were some flying Court next week on drug pills, a small plastic bag hold- Eviction notices went up that would allow bats to leave around, but I didn’t see any charges. ing an Alprazolam pill, a plastic last Friday for the flock of the cave at sunset but prevent trying to get back in,” Durden Jennifer Lynn Taylor, 28, of container with less than one pesky bats that had claimed a their return at sunrise. said. “I didn’t see any come 3109 Sasser Road, Zolfo gram of marijuana, and a glass section of a local school as a “We had to seal all the open- out of the pipe. I am hoping we Springs, was arrested by the smoking pipe with marijuana cave. ings, where they could possi- have fixed that situation.” Wauchula Police Department residue. “All the reports that I have bly enter the building,” Krahl A visual inspection of the in- in June following a routine All of the items were located are good,” said Todd Durden, said. “At the known entry/exit terior of the portico is planned traffic stop. Following her ar- within Taylor’s purse, Lott al- deputy superintendent of the point we installed a PVC for later this week, and in the rest, she was suspended with Taylor leged. The purse had been sit- School District of Hardee chute, which would allow the meantime officials watch and pay per Hardee County School ting on the front passenger seat County. bats to exit, but not return.” wait. District policy. of the vehicle. Bats were discovered at The chutes were installed “We are required to leave Personnel Director George Kelly said on Taylor was arrested and booked into the North Wauchula Elementary last Friday. the chute in place for five to Monday of this week that Taylor was hired by Hardee County Jail. She was charged with two School earlier this month as School officials are utilizing seven days,” Krahl said. “Once the district on Aug. 2, 2016. She taught Lan- third-degree felony counts of possession of a staff returned to school to pre- an “exclusion” technique ad- that is up, we will visually in- guage Arts at Hardee Junior High School that controlled substance without a prescription and pare for the new school year vocated by the Florida Fish & spect the space.” academic year, he said. one misdemeanor count each of possession of and saw three bats in an office Wildlife Conservation Com- The bat infestation drew in- Last year, Taylor moved to Hardee Senior less than 20 grams of marijuana and possession space. mission that calls for the in- terest from the public during High School, where she taught English. of narcotics equipment. The horde of nocturnal stallation of bat escape tubes last Thursday’s meeting of the Kelly also noted Taylor’s current suspension Taylor was released from custody about nine winged insect eaters continued and mesh material. School Board of Hardee with pay is “pending action at the next (school) hours later after posting a $3,000 bond to gain to steadily grow, and by the The tubes include a collapsi- County when an employee of board meeting based on the superintendent’s her freedom while awaiting trial. weekend of Aug. 18-19 ble membrane on one end. the Hardee County Health De- recommendation.” She and her attorney, Stacey McNelis of reached a count of several hun- Bats fly into the tube from the partment complained she first In an arrest report filed by Wauchula police, Bartow, waived her appearance at what would dred dwelling in the school cave and then escape through heard of the infestation by Cpl. Bryanna Lott said she stopped Taylor at have been a July 24 arraignment and instead name lettering and front por- the collapsible membrane. reading The Herald-Advocate. 10 a.m. on June 27 for driving 62 in a 45-mph entered a written plea of “not guilty” to all of tico of the campus. When the bats try to return, the Board Chairman Paul zone. The corporal further alleged she smelled the charges. Maintenance and custodial membrane – deflated – pre- Samuels said officials would the odor of marijuana coming from Taylor’s Tuesday’s hearing before Circuit Judge Mar- staff worked throughout the vents them from entering the “work on communicating bet- car as she approached it in the CVS parking cus J. Ezelle is set as a pre-trial conference. weekend to isolate the ventila- tube from the outside. ter” in the future. tion system of the portico from Mesh material was also in- Faculty and staff of North the rest of the school and to stalled in an effort to prevent Wauchula Elementary School begin sealing any crevices that re-entry. were briefed on the bat infes- could be inviting to the mam- Durden said he was pleased tation by Durden during a Landlord Lands In Jail malian flock with the initial results over the schoolwide staff meeting last By CYNTHIA KRAHL the fire marshal she had been Facilities Director Rob weekend. Monday, Aug. 20. Of The Herald-Advocate evicted by Brown, Hart re- A property owner who al- ported. She showed McIntyre legedly falsified a court docu- two “As Is” contracts. COMPANY ment in order to easily evict a One was dated June 4 and Continued From A1 tenant was arrested by the was for a month-to-month Hardee County Sheriff’s Of- rental, with $865 to move in Durbin, who retired after units if the company can se- firm to vet and verify the intel- fice. plus a $400 deposit. The sec- serving 22 years in the Navy, cure a contract. In October, the lectual property for the line of Roy Allen Brown, 75, will ond, also dated June 4, agreed is pleased with the progress the generator will be demonstrated credit. be arraigned in Hardee Circuit to $200 a week for the company has made in such a to the U.S. Marine Corps The attorney did verify the Court this coming Tuesday on monthly rental. short time, especially given Combat Development Com- intellectual property was valid the third-degree felony charges But on July 2, the woman some of the obstacles it has mand at its Quantico Base in and owned by PFMan, but the of forgery of a public record said she received an eviction overcome since he began Virginia. board got some sticker shock and uttering a forged instru- notice from Brown, the arrest Brown working there. In additional to the 500-watt when the firm billed the IDA ment. report said. was crafted to either compel He alleges the former chief model, the company is also de- $94,362 for the work. He was jailed by sheriff’s McIntyre said in viewing the the tenant to pay or to leave, operating officer, Veronica veloping a 1,000-watt and The attorney, who charged Det. Lyle Hart on Aug. 7 fol- document, he noticed the no- but without going through the Hurst, stole engine blueprints 5,000-watt unit. the board $485 per hour, did lowing a fire investigation at a tary seal on it was in the name time and expense of a court and other intellectual property The 5,000-watt model not assess a value to the prop- house he owns at 517 Hanchey of Roy A. Brown, who also eviction proceeding. from the company and left the weighs 72 pounds and also erty. Road in Wauchula. The struc- was the originator of the doc- Brown was taken into cus- country, returning to England. runs on the various fuel types. Hurst also made a claim on ture burned on July 18. ument. He turned the papers tody. Durbin has notified the Hardee Durbin said that model will ownership of the intellectual According to an arrest re- over to the Sheriff’s Office for He was released about four County Sheriff’s Office of the also be marketed to the general property in question, and the port, Det. Lt. Stacy McIntyre further investigation, Hart hours later after posting a alleged theft, and that agency public in addition to the mili- attorney determined her claim of the state Fire Marshal’s Of- noted. $2,000 bond to gain his free- is looking into the claims. tary. was not valid. fice discovered the alleged for- Hart checked the eviction dom while awaiting trial. He also said the company is Currently the company is The IDA has given the com- geries while investigating the notice with the Clerk of Courts Brown has requested the considering pursuing civil employing six people and will pany rent abatement for nearly blaze. Office, allegedly finding the services of the Public De- charges against her. be looking to at least double its three years after constructing A tenant who had just case number was a fake. fender’s Office, court records Two new engineers and an workforce if it can land a con- the custom-built building but moved out of the house told The notice, Hart alleged, show. engine tester were hired to tract. has not given it any cash sub- recreate much of that work that As part of providing the line sidies except for the line of was previously done. of credit to PFMan, Mines credit. Since May, they have been agreed to put up the company’s Terms of the agreement call Someone Will Listen able to produce four function- intellectual property as collat- for PFMan to pay six-percent ing 500-watt units. eral instead of signing a per- interest on the one-year note, RUNAWAY HOTLINE Durbin said he expects the sonal guarantee on the note. and any income from sales of 1-800-621-4000 various military branches The IDA hired an attorney the machines are to go toward would purchase up to 7,000 with the Grey Robinson law paying off the debt. ELECTION Continued From A1 1,951 ballots to the nearest op- Fried was Hardee’s choice for Republicans decidedly chose ponent’s 463, that being Ron ag commissioner at 383 votes. Greg Steube, with 1,765 votes DeSantis. The other six Re- Jeffrey Porter took 294 ballots to the 325 cast for Bill Akins publican hopefuls failed to and Roy Walker 251. and 269 for Julio Gonzalez. reach triple digits all together, The final state race, for at- Freeman and Steube ap- stealing only 64 of the votes torney general, went to Sean peared early winners statewide cast. Shaw on the Hardee County as well. On the Democratic ticket, Democratic ballot. He gath- Hardee County went with ered 636 votes to Ryan Tor- Gwen Graham over Andrew rens’ 284. Gillum and Philip Levine. On the Republican side of Graham scored 448, Gillum that race, locals opted for Ash- 257 and Levine 152. ley Moody by a whopping Jeff Greene was fourth here, 1,724 votes to Frank White’s with 85. Three other candi- 567. dates took 81 remaining votes. And in the national contests, Statewide, DeSantis and Rick Scott owned Hardee Gillum were well ahead at County Republicans, with press time. 2,193 votes to Rocky DeLa- Then, Hardee County’s own Fuente’s 263 in the race for Denise Grimsley soared here U.S. senator. PHOTO BY MICHAEL KELLY with 1,701 Republican votes Scott handily took the state PFMan has now manufactured a working generator after being behind schedule for for commissioner of agricul- count as well. a couple of years. Company officials gave The Herald-Advocate a tour of the facility ture, but crashed statewide. In the race for Congres- Flores and a demonstration of its functioning engine last week. Pictured behind the 500- Next here was Baxter Trout- sional District 17 representa- watt unit are (from left) Gary Spencer, engine tester; Micah Lee, electrical engineer; man with 502 votes, Matt tive, Hardee County Skip Durbin, business manager; and Rob Simmons, chief engineer. Caldwell with 231 and Mike Democrats picked April Free- McCalister with 47. man over Bill Pollard, 669 For the Democrats, Nikki votes to 277. Hardee County Hardee County Election Results 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Agri- Fort BG BG 1st UM County Zolfo 1st MB New City Ona PRECO Civic Totals Green Church City Church Comm. Springs Church Hope Hall Center COUNTY COMMISSION DISTRICT 2 Evers Sue Birge 40 60 56 92 47 54 209 2 195 43 56 158 1,012

Noey A. Flores 64 77 68 146 77 90 196 3 297 93 56 273 1,440

COUNTY JUDGE

Ken Evers 63 126 61 149 62 99 259 33 295 93 65 315 1,620

David N. Horton 63 112 86 143 72 86 213 52 246 109 74 202 1,458

James F. Pyle 21 67 35 42 42 27 114 29 98 27 42 57 601 Horton A4 The Herald-Advocate, August 30, 2018 – CHURCH SCHEDULE –

Printed as a Public Service by BOWLING GREEN WAUCHULA WAUCHULA WAUCHULA ZOLFO SPRINGS The Herald-Advocate NEW BEGINNINGS ENDTIME CROSSROAD IGLESIA HISPANA ST. MICHAEL PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF Deadline for changes or additions: WORSHIP CENTER MINISTRY PRESENCIA DE DIOS CATHOLIC CHURCH GOD FAITH TEMPLE Thursday 5 p.m. 230 E. Lemon St. 375-3208 908 Martin Luther King Ave 511 West Palmetto Street 408 Heard Bridge Road 773-4089 Oak Street Sunday...... 10:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. 773-0160 Domingos...... 6:00 p.m. Saturday Mass (English) ....5:00 p.m. Sunday Worship...... 10:00 a.m. BOWLING GREEN Wednesday ...... 7 p.m. Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Miercoles...... 7:00 p.m. (Spanish) .....7:00 p.m. Evening Worship...... 7:00 p.m. Friday ...... 7 p.m. Morning Service ...... 11:30 a.m. Sunday(English)...... 8:30 a.m. Tuesday Worship...... 7:30 p.m. APOSTOLIC LIGHTHOUSE (Service with Fellowship to follow) Evening Service ...... 7:30 p.m. (Spanish)...... 11:30 a.m. Thursday Worship ...... 7:30 p.m. UNITED PENTECOSTAL Wed. Bible St. & Yth. Gath7:30 p.m. IGLESIA MINISTERIOS (Creole) ...... 1:30 p.m. Saturday Worship ...... 7:30 p.m. CHURCH PRIMERA MISION BAUTISTA Friday (Holy Ghost Night).7:30 p.m. CRISTIANO DIOS ES AMOR Catecismo...... 9:45 a.m. 310 Orange Street 773-1017 3920 Murray Road 375-2295 807 S. 8th Ave. 773-4576 Daily Mass in English ...... 8:30 a.m. Sunday Service...... 10:00 a.m. Domingos Escuela Dom.....9:45 a.m. FAITH PRESBYTERIAN Domingos Escuela PRIMERA MISSION Wednesday Service ...... 7:00 p.m. Servicio de Adoracion ...... 11:00 a.m. CHURCH Dominica ...... 10:00 a.m. SEVENTH-DAY BAUTISTA HISPANA Servicio de Predicacion...... 5:00 p.m. 114 N. 7th Avenue 773-2105 Servicio...... 11:00 a.m. ADVENTIST CHURCH 518 8th Avenue East CHESTER GROVE MB Miercoles Servico ...... 6:30 p.m. Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Lunes Oracion...... 6:00 p.m. 440 Carlton Street 773-9068 Escuela Dominical...... 10:00 a.m. CHURCH Sunday Worship...... 11:00 a.m. Miercoles Servicio ...... 7:00 p.m. Sabbath School...... 9:30 a.m. Servicio del Domingo...... 11:00 a.m. 708 W. Grape Street REAL LIFE CHURCH Wednesday Supper...... 6:15 p.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m...... 7:00 p.m. Sunday Morn. Worship...... 8:00 a.m. 3365 US Hwy 17 375-4032 Wed. Youth Fellowship ...... 7:00 p.m. Wed. Prayer Meeting...... 6:30 p.m. Servicio del Miercoles ...... 7:30 p.m. Sunday School...... 9:30 a.m. Morning Service...... 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study .....7:00 p.m. KINGDOM HALL OF Wednesday Bible Study Night Wednesday Study/Learning6:30 p.m. JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES SOUTHSIDE BAPTIST Chidren & Youth ...... 4:30 p.m. FAITH TEMPLE CHURCH 155 Altman Road 767-1131 CHURCH PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH Adult Class...... 6:00 p.m. ST. JOHN A.M.E. CHURCH OF GOD - ENGLISH 505 South 10th Avenue 773-4368 Pioneer Park 513 W. Orange Street 701 N. 7th Avenue 773-3800 Sunday Service...... 2:00 p.m. Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. 2nd Sunday...... 10:30 a.m. CHRISTIAN BIBLE Sunday Church School...... 9:30 a.m. Sunday School...... 9:30 a.m. - SPANISH Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. Evening Service ...... 6:30 p.m. FELLOWSHIP Sunday Morning Worship.11:00 a.m. Sunday Worship...... 10:30 a.m. Sunday Service...... 10:00 a.m. Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. 5th Sunday...... 6:00 p.m. 3950 Aurora Avenue 375-2864 Wednesday Bible Study .....6:30 p.m. Children’s Chuch...... 10:40 a.m. Wednesday Prayer...... 7:00 p.m. Morning Worship...... 10:30 a.m. Evening Service ...... 6:00 p.m. Youth Group - Sunday...... 6:00 p.m. VICTORY PRAISE CENTER Wednesday Bible Study .....7:00 p.m. LIGHT OF THE WORLD TABERNACLE OF REALITY RANCH 128 E. Main Street MINISTRIES PRAISE & JOY COWBOY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF GOD Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Womans Center 131 N 7th Ave. 1507 MLK Avenue 2-1/2 Miles east on Hwy. 66 121 West Broward St. 375-2231 Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. 1570 W. Main Street 773-4182 Friday Evening...... 6:00 p.m. Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. 863-781-1578 Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. SUNDAY: Morning Worship...... 11:30 a.m. Sunday Service ...... 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. Thursday Night Services, Bible Study for all ages ...... 9:45 a.m. Evening Worship...... 7:00 p.m. Evening Worship...... 6:30 p.m. Evening Worship...... 7:00 p.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. LAKE DALE BAPTIST Tues. Bible Stdy. Wednesday ...... 7:30 p.m. Kidz Club...... 7:00 p.m. Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. CHURCH & Child Train ...... 7:00 p.m. ST. PAUL’S MISSIONARY WEDNESDAY: 3102 Heard Bridge Rd. 773-6622 Friday Prayer Service...... 7:00 p.m. BAPTIST CHURCH NEW LIFE POWER ONA Children’s Chiors Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. 3676 U.S. Hwy. 17 S. 735-0636 OUTREACH CHURCH (PK-Grade 4)...... 5:30 p.m. Morning Service ...... 11:00 a.m. WAUCHULA CHURCH OF GOD Sunday School...... 9:30 a.m. 725 Palmetto Street IGLESIA PENTECOSTES Mid-Week Prayer Meeting 6:00 p.m. Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. 1543 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. Morning Worship...... 11 a.m. Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. VISION POR LAS ALMAS NEST Backyard Wednesday Prayer...... 7:00 p.m. 773-0199 Wed. Prayer Service...... 7:00 p.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. 149 Badger Loop 448-2831 (PK-Grade 4)...... 6:30 p.m. Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Wednesday Night Empowerment Martes: Oracion...... 7:00 p.m. Club 56...... 6:00 p.m. Morning Worship...... 11:15 a.m. Class...... 7:30 p.m. Jueves: Ensenaza Biblica ...7:00 p.m. Youth Group (Grades 7-12)6:00 p.m. MINISTERIO INTERNACIONAL Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. SAN ALFONSO MISSION Evening Worship Domingo: Servicio ...... 10:30 a.m. Church Orchestra ...... 5:15 p.m. Cambriadores de Mundo Wed. Night Fam. Training..7:30 p.m. 3027 Schoolhouse Lane 773-4089 st 1 Sunday ...... 5:00 p.m. Adult Choir ...... 6:30 p.m. 704 W. Main Street Thurs. Youth Bible Study...7:00 p.m. Domingo, Misa en Espano10:00 a.m. LIMESTONE BAPTIST Wednesday Service ...... 7:30 p.m. Friday Night Worship...... 7:30 p.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CHURCH FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Bowling Green 4868 Keystone Ave. Limestone 1121 W. Louisiana St. 773-9243 WAUCHULA HILLS SPANISH MISSION 4531 Hwy. 17 N 375-2253 863-242-2855 SUNDAY: MY NEW LIFE IN CHRIST SPANISH CHURCH OF GOD 735-8025 SUNDAY: Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. Generations Café Open ...... CHURCH 1000 Stansfield Rd. Escuela Dominica...... 10:00 a.m. Bible Study...... 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m...... 9:00-10:20 a.m. 117 West Palmetto St. 773-2929 Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Servicio...... 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship...... 10:45 a.m. Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. Kids World Check-In for Sunday Service...... 10:00 a.m. Evening Worship...... 7:30 p.m. Pioneer Club...... 6:30 p.m. Children’s Church ...... 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Prayer...... 6:00 p.m. Nursery-5th Grade...... 10:15 a.m. Sunday Evening Service ....6:00 p.m. Tuesday Prayer...... 7:30 p.m. Servicio de la Noche ...... 7:00 p.m. Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. Pre-K Blast ...... 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Service ...... 7:00 p.m. Thursday Worship ...... 7:30 p.m. Mierecoles Merienda...... 6:00 p.m. WEDNESDAY: NEW ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Kids World B.L.A.S.T. Children Ministries for all services Saturday Worship ...... 7:30 p.m. Servicio ...... 8:00 p.m. Youth (7th-12th grade)...... 6:00 p.m. 202 Sidney Roberts Road (K-5th)...... 10:30 a.m. Sabado Liga de Jovenes .....5:00 p.m. Adult Discipleship Train. ...6:30 p.m. 735-0123 Worship Service ...... 10:30 a.m. ZOLFO SPRINGS TeamKID (ages 4-3rd grade)6:30 p.m. Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. WEDNESDAY: NEW BEGINNINGS BOLD (4th-6th grade)...... 6:30 p.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. Generations Café Opens...... 1002 S. Florida Avenue 781-5887 CREWSVILLE BETHEL Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m...... 5:15-6:15p.m. Sense Saturday ...... 3:00 p.m. BAPTIST CHURCH ds of Ho FORT GREEN Wednesday Prayer Meeting6:30 p.m. Check-In begins for “Making Sense of the Non-Sense” 8251 Crewsville Road ee pe BAPTIST CHURCH Nursery-5th grade ...... 5:45 p.m. The Bread of Life...... 3:15 p.m. Church 735-0871 Pastor 385-7867 S 2875 Baptist Church Road ONA BAPTIST CHURCH Classes for children ages Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. Guido Evangelistic Association 773-9013 Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. 131 Bear Lane 863-245-2371 PreK-12th grade...... 6:30-7:30 p.m. Metter, Ga. Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Adutl Bible Studies....6:00-7:30 p.m. NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH Evening Worship...... 6:30 p.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. 1999 State Rd. 64 East 773-2101 Wednesday Prayer...... 6:30 p.m. Some years ago the cover of Sunday Evening ...... 6:00 p.m. Thursday Prayer ...... 7:00 p.m. FIRST CHURCH OF Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. Time magazine asked an intrigu- Wednesday Supper ...... 6:00 p.m. THE NAZARENE Morning Worship Service.11:00 a.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ing question on its cover: “What Wednesday Bible Study .....7:00 p.m. UNION BAPTIST CHURCH 511 W. Palmetto Street Evening Worship Service...6:30 p.m. OF ZOLFO ever happened to ethics?” The 5076 Lily Church Rd. 494-5622 Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Wednesday Night Supper...6:00 p.m. 320 E. 4th Street 735-1200 subtitle continued saying that we FOX MEMORIAL Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Morning Service ...... 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Activities Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. have been, “Assaulted by sleaze, HOLINESS CHURCH Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. (All Ages)...... 7:00 p.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. scandals and hypocrisy, America 140 E. Main Street 836-273-7576 Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Prayer...... 7:00 p.m. Training Union ...... 5:00 p.m. searches for its moral bearings.” Sunday Morning Worship.10:00 a.m. Wednesday Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. There is little doubt that there has Sunday Night Worship ...... 6:00 p.m. SHINE for Kids...... 6:00 p.m. FIRST MISSIONARY NEW INSPIRATION CHURCH Wednesday Prayer...... 7:00 p.m. been a loss of moral sensitivity Wednesday Service ...... 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Time...... 7:00 p.m. BAPTIST CHURCH OF GOD BY FAITH and responsibility. That is very 1347 Martin Luther King Avenue 917 S. 6th Avenue 863-657-2253 FIRST UNITED obvious. It is difficult to watch tel- GATEWAY CHURCH WAUCHULA 773-6556 Sunday School...... 9:00 a.m. METHODIST CHURCH evision and not be offended by the (formerly Faith Assemly of God) Sunday School...... 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship...... 10:00 a.m. Corner of 6th & Suwanee 735-1544 language or scenes of indecency. 4937 Hwy. 17 N. 375-4000 APOSTOLIC ASSEMBLY Morning Service ...... 11:00 a.m. Thursday Praise...... 7:00 p.m. Gospel Music...... 10:30 a.m. A new language has been intro- Sunday School...... 9:30 a.m. 640 Apostolic Road 773-3052 Evening Worship...... 4:00 p.m. Worship Service...... 11:00 a.m. duced that has no respect for God Morning Worship...... 10:30 a.m. Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Wed. Prayer/Bible Study....7:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study .....7:00 p.m. or godly principles. Evening Worship...... 6:30 p.m. Englishg Service...... 11:30 a.m. NEW MT. ZION A.M.E. The only way to solve this Wednesday Service ...... 7:00 p.m. General Worship Service....1:30 p.m. FIRST UNITED CHURCH GARDNER BAPTIST CHURCH problem of moral decay or it can Tuesday Prayer...... 7:00 p.m. METHODIST CHURCH 1615 Martin Luther King Jr Ave. 8660 US Highway 17 S be reversed would be through a GREATER MACEDONIA Wednesday Service ...... 7:00 p.m. 207 N. Seventh Avenue 773-4267 767-0023 Zolfo Springs, FL 33890 national revival. If those of us PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH Coffe and Fellowship ...... 9:15 a.m. Morn. Worship Sunday Worship ...... 11:00 AM who profess to trust God’s Word 607 Palmetto Street 375-3226 BAYSIDE COMMUNITY Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. (1st & 3r Sun.) ...... 8:00 a.m. and believe in the fact that He will Church School...... 9:30 a.m. CHURCH Blended Sunday Worship .10:55 a.m. Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. LIFE CHANGING do what He says He will it is not Morning Service ...... 11:00 a.m. HARDEE COUNTY CAMPUS Wednesday Night Dinner ...5:30 p.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. WORSHIP CENTER unreasonable that revival will Evening Service ...... 7:00 p.m. 615 Rainey Blvd. 941-755-8600 Youth (0-18) & Adult Programming . 2nd Sunday Youth Service .4:00 p.m. 3426 Oak Street 863-832-9808 come. A spiritual awakening will Wed. Bible Study/Prayer....7:00 p.m. Mybayside.church ...... 6:30 p.m. Allen Christian Endeavor...4:00 p.m. Sunday Worship ...... 2:30 p.m. visit our nation if we have enough Communion-2nd Sun. Eve.6:00 p.m. Sunday Services ...... 8:15 a.m. Wed. & Fri. Bible Study.....7:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study .....6:30 p.m. faith, persevere in prayer and re- ...... 10:00 a.m. & 11:45 a.m. FLORIDA’S FIRST ASSEMBLY gain a sense of the holiness of HOLY CHILD Fusion (6th - 8th grade)...... OF GOD CHURCH MARANATHA BAPTIST God. SPANISH CATHOLIC MISSION ...... Duing all Sunday Services 1397 South Florida Avenue NEW PHILADELPHIA CHURCH Psalm 99:1 describes what 4315 Chester Avenue 773-4089 Wednesday Epic (9th - 12th grade) ... 773-9386 WORSHIP CENTER 2465 Oxendine Road 832-7829 would happen if we did regain a Misa (Espanol) Sunday ...... 7:00 p.m...... 6:30 p.m. www.flfirstag.org 1652 Old Bradenton Road Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. new sense of the holiness of God. Sun. Community Groups....9:30 a.m. Sunday ...... 10:30 a.m. Worship...... 11:00 a.m. Because “the Lord reigns, let the HOUSE OF PRAISE CELEBRATION FELLOWSHIP Sunday Worship...... 10:30 a.m. Wednesday ...... 6:30 p.m. Evening ...... 1:00 p.m. nations tremble, He sits enthroned JOHN 3:16 773-0427 Family Night Wednesday...7:00 p.m. Wed. Bible & Prayer Meet.7:00 p.m. between the cherubim, let the 3920 Murray Road 863-582-6716 Celebration Service ...... 10:30 a.m. Ministry for all ages! earth tremble.” Sunday...... 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Evening Cell Groups NORTHSIDE BAPTIST NEW BEGINNINGS This awesome picture of God ...... 6:30 p.m. Adult Cell Group...... 7:00 p.m. FOUNTAIN OF LIFE CHURCH CHURCH 3704 U.S. Hwy. 17 S. 781-5887 that the Psalmist presents to us de- Wednesday ...... 7:00 p.m. Youth Cell Group ...... 7:00 p.m. IGLESIA FUENTE DE VIDA 912 N. 8th Avenue 773-6947 M-F Family Services...... 8:00 a.m. scribes His holiness, power, might Children’s Cell Group ...... 7:00 p.m. Bilingual Services / Servicios Bilingües Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. Sense Friday...... 3:00 p.m. and majesty. This description of IGLESIA DEL DIOS VIVO Call for locations 311 Goolsby St. 832-9914 Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. “Making Sense of the Non-Sense” God is not one that we are familiar 105 Dixiana Street 375-4191 Sunday/Domingo...... 10:30 a.m. Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. Friday Bread of Life...... 3:15 p.m. with since our minds have be- Domingo De Predicacion .11:00 p.m. CHARLIE CREEK Wednesday/Miércoles ...... 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Prayer...... 7:00 p.m. come so “clouded” with the things Martes Estudio Biblico...... 7:00 p.m. FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH NEW VISION of this world. Certainly we can Miercoles Estudior Juvenil.7:00 p.m. 6885 State Rd. 64 East 773-3447 THE GOSPEL TABERNACLE WORSHIP CENTER blame the producers for the pro- Jueves De Predicacion ...... 7:00 p.m. Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. 810 Tennessee St. 781-2708 OAK GROVE BAPTIST 64 E. & School House Road grams we watch, but they would Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Service..10:00 a.m. CHURCH Church 735-8585 Childcare 735-8586 not produce what they do without IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. Sunday Night Service...... 6:00 p.m. 4350 W. Main Street 735-0321 Morning Worship...... 10:00 a.m. us watching and enjoying it. 210 E. Broward Street 445-0290 Wesnesday Children’s Ministry...... Wednesday Service ...... 7:00 p.m. www.ogbcwauchula.org Children’s Church ...... 10:00 a.m. Visit us at: SowerMinistries.org Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m...... 5:00 p.m. Sunday Schedule: Wed. Youth & F.T.H...... 7:00 p.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Worship...... 6:30 p.m. HIGHER GROUND Bible Study for All Ages ....9:30 a.m. Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY Morning Worship...... 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Prayer...... 6:00 p.m CHURCH OF CHRIST 1258 West Main Street Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. 240 Will Duke Road Sunday School Adult & Youth ...... Wednesday Schedule: 773-2249 ...... 10:00 a.m. M&M Kid’s Klub...... 6:00 p.m. MT. PISGAH BAPTIST Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship.11:00 a.m. Youth Group...... 6:00 p.m. CHURCH Sunday Morning Worship.11:00 a.m. Wed. “Night in the Word”..7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting & Bible Study...... 6210 Mt. Pisgah Rd. - 375-4409 Wed. Night Bible Class...... 7:00 p.m. Wed. Extreme Kids ...... 7:00 p.m...... 6:30 p.m. Sunday School...... 9:45 a.m. Thursday Prayer ...... 6:00 p.m. Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST PEACE VALLEY LUTHERAN Disciples Training ...... 5:00 p.m. OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS CHURCH Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. 630 Hanchey Rd. 773-3532 IGLESIA ADVENTISTA 1643 Stenstrom Road - 773-2858 Wednesday Prayer Time.....7:00 p.m. st rd Sacrament Meeting...... 9:00 a.m. DEL SEPTIMO DIA 1 & 3 Sun. Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. 1819 Dishong Road 767-1010 Worship/Communion .....9:00 a.m. Priesthood...... 11:00 a.m. 2nd & 4th Sun. NEW BEGINNINGS Divine Worship...... 9:00 a.m. 4810 Sally Blvd. 781-5887 ELEVATE COMMUNITY IGLESIA CHRISTIANA ** Fellowship each Sunday after service Sense Sunday...... 11:00 a.m. CHURCH EL REMANENETE “Making Sense of the Non-Sense” 529 West Main Street 318 W. Main Street PROGRESSIVE MISSIONARY Sunday Bread of Life ...... 3:15 p.m. (Robarts Funeral Home Chapel) Martes - Oracion ...... 7:00 p.m. BAPTIST CHURCH 2nd Sunday Communion ..11:00 a.m. Sunday Service ...... 11:00 a.m. Jueves - Clase Biblica ...... 7:00 p.m. 149 Manley Road 452-1281 Weekly Life Groups Viernes - Servicio...... 7:30 p.m. Sunday School...... 9:30 a.m. Domingo - Servicio ...... 11:00 a.m. Worship Service...... 11:00 a.m. Wed. Evening Prayer...... 7:00 p.m. Peace River Growers IGLESIA de DIOS RIVERVIEW HEIGHTS ALFA Y OMEGA MISSIONARY BAPTIST 1909 Stanfield Road CHURCH Wholesale Nursery Sunday School...... 10: 00 a.m. 1321 SR 636 East - 773-3344 Evening Service ...... 6:00 p.m. Sunday School...... 10:00 a.m. Donnis & Kathy Barber Tuesday (Bible Study & Prayer Morning Worship...... 11:00 a.m. Hwy. 66 East (863) 735-0470 Night) ...... 7:30 p.m. Evening Worship...... 6:00 p.m. P.O. Box 760 Zolfo Springs, FL Friday Worship Service...... 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Prayer...... 7:00 p.m. August 30, 2018, The Herald-Advocate A5 Solunar Forecast Obituaries 8/30/2018 9/1/2018 9/3/2018 9/5/2018 Sun Data Sun Data Sun Data Sun Data Rise: 7:05 AM Rise: 7:06 AM Rise: 7:07 AM Rise: 7:08 AM Set: 7:50 PM Set: 7:48 PM Set: 7:45 PM Set: 7:43 PM NORMA JEAN Day Length Day Length Day Length Day Length ELBERTSON 12 hrs. 45 mins. 12 hrs. 42 mins. 12 hrs. 38 mins. 12 hrs. 35 mins. He was preceded in death In Loving Memory by his brother, Stanley Ray Norma Jean Elbertson, of Moon Data Moon Data Moon Data Moon Data Kirkland. Wauchula, died Sunday, Aug. Rise: 10:37 PM Rise: 11:57 PM Rise: 12:42 AM Rise: 2:31 AM Set: 10:38 AM Set: 12:32 PM Set: 2:33 PM Set: 4:35 PM He is survived by his par- 26, 2018. Overhead: 4:18 AM Overhead: 5:52 AM Overhead: 7:37 AM Overhead: 9:34 AM ents, William Frank Kirk- She was born Nov. 8, 1955 Underfoot: 4:41 PM Underfoot: 6:17 PM Underfoot: 8:06 PM Underfoot: 10:05 PM land Jr. and Barbara Dale in Wauchula, and has been a Moon Phase Moon Phase Moon Phase Moon Phase Kirkland, of Bowling Green; lifelong resident of Hardee 84% Waning Gibbous 66% Waning Gibbous 44% Waning Crescent 22% Waning Crescent his loving wife, Amy Kirk- County. She was Baptist and a Major Times Major Times Major Times Major Times land, of Bowling Green; his homemaker. 4:18 AM - 6:18 AM 5:52 AM - 7:52 AM 7:37 AM - 9:37 AM 9:34 AM - 11:34 AM daughters, Terissa Griffis She was preceded in death 4:41 PM - 6:41 PM 6:17 PM - 8:17 PM 8:06 PM - 10:06 PM 10:05 PM - 12:05 AM (Randall), of Raiford, and by her parents, Alton Norwood Minor Times Minor Times Minor Times Minor Times Marissa Kirkland, of Starke; Brooks and Alberta Brooks; 10:38 AM - 11:38 AM 12:32 PM - 1:32 PM 12:42 AM - 1:42 AM 2:31 AM - 3:31 AM sister Peggy Bonds (Grant), and sister, Donna Conerly. 10:37 PM - 11:37 PM 11:57 PM - 12:57 AM 2:33 PM - 3:33 PM 4:35 PM - 5:35 PM of Wauchula; as well as his She is survived by her lov- Prediction Prediction Prediction Prediction grandchildren, Anderson ing husband, David Elbertson; Hunting or Fishing Hunting or Fishing Hunting or Fishing Hunting or Fishing Average Average Average Average Griffis and Leanna Darity. daughters, Tanya Ayers, of A visitation will be held at Wauchula, and Trinity Garner Time Zone Time Zone Time Zone Time Zone Robarts Chapel on Saturday, (Russell), of Wauchula; sisters, UTC: -4 UTC: -4 UTC: -4 UTC: -4 TRAVIS CLAY Sept. 1, 2018, at 11 a.m. Fu- Joan Waldron (Jerry), of 8/31/2018 9/2/2018 9/4/2018 9/6/2018 KIRKLAND neral services will follow Wauchula, and Cindy Todd Sun Data Sun Data Sun Data Sun Data Rise: 7:05 AM Rise: 7:06 AM Rise: 7:07 AM Rise: 7:08 AM Today we lost a husband, starting at noon. The Rev. (Johnny), of Bowling Green; Set: 7:49 PM Set: 7:46 PM Set: 7:44 PM Set: 7:42 PM son, father, brother and best Barry Taylor will be officiat- as well as four grandchildren. friend. He was truly loved ing services. Services are pending. Day Length Day Length Day Length Day Length 12 hrs. 44 mins. 12 hrs. 40 mins. 12 hrs. 37 mins. 12 hrs. 34 mins. and missed. Expressions of comfort Arrangements were by Ro- Rest in Peace. We love you. may be made at barts Funeral Home. Moon Data Moon Data Moon Data Moon Data robartsfh.com. Rise: 11:15 PM Rise: --:-- Rise: 1:34 AM Rise: 3:34 AM Travis Clay Kirkland, 49, Set: 11:34 AM Set: 1:32 PM Set: 3:35 PM Set: 5:32 PM of Bowling Green, passed Overhead: 5:04 AM Overhead: 6:43 AM Overhead: 8:35 AM Overhead: 10:35 AM away on Monday, Aug. 27, Robarts Family Underfoot: 5:28 PM Underfoot: 7:10 PM Underfoot: 9:04 PM Underfoot: 11:05 PM 2018. FUNERAL HOME Moon Phase Moon Phase Moon Phase Moon Phase He was born in Bartow, WAUCHULA In Loving Memory 75% Waning Gibbous 50% Last Quarter 33% Waning Crescent 13% Waning Crescent on June 23, 1969. He was a Major Times Major Times Major Times Major Times lifelong resident of Hardee JOHN KYLE 5:04 AM - 7:04 AM 6:43 AM - 8:43 AM 8:35 AM - 10:35 AM 10:35 AM - 12:35 PM County. He was self-em- 5:28 PM - 7:28 PM 7:10 PM - 9:10 PM 9:04 PM - 11:04 PM 11:05 PM - 1:05 AM ployed through Kirkland SCARBRO Minor Times Minor Times Minor Times Minor Times Construction. He was a Provided as a courtesy of John Kyle Scarbro, 67, of 11:34 AM - 12:34 PM --:-- - --:-- 1:34 AM - 2:34 AM 3:34 AM - 4:34 AM Hardee County, passed away 11:15 PM - 12:15 AM 1:32 PM - 2:32 PM 3:35 PM - 4:35 PM 5:32 PM - 6:32 PM member of Grace Fellow- Robarts Family Funeral Home ship Church. on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. Prediction Prediction Prediction Prediction He was born in Pontiac, Hunting or Fishing Hunting or Fishing Hunting or Fishing Hunting or Fishing Average Average Average Average Mich., on Sept. 8, 1950. John had been a resident of Time Zone Time Zone Time Zone Time Zone Hardee County for eight UTC: -4 UTC: -4 UTC: -4 UTC: -4 In Memory Roberts and his wife Kim; years, coming from St. Pe- Provided courtesy of solunarforecast.com four grandchildren, Paul tersburg. He worked for Roberts and his wife Julia, Home Depot as a window Craig Roberts and his wife and door salesman. Brittany, Grant Roberts, and He was preceded in death Bible Sidney Roberts; two sisters, by his parents, Carl Scarbro Notices LuAnn Collins and her hus- and Chressie Jacovides, of Trivia band Carl, and Nancy Wauchula; and his sister, By Wilson Casey Becker and her husband Christina VarVil. Charlie; one brother, David He is survived by his 1. Is the book of Labour in Johnson and his wife Pat; wife, Helen Elaine Conley, the Old or New Testament or and five great-grandchil- of Wauchula; brothers, Carl Notice neither? dren, Ava, Nolan, Amelia, Scarbro, of Ann Arbor, Notice is given that the owners of the real prop- 2. From Ecclesiastes 4, how Talon, and Jace. Mich., William Scarbro, of many are better than one, be- Visitation was 6-8 p.m. on Louisville Hills, Mich., Kurt erty within the plat known as Manley Homeplace Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, at Scarbro, of Annapolis, Md., Subdivision intend to petition the Board of County cause they have a good reward for their labor? Two, Three, ETHEL ‘TULLIE’ Ponger-Kays-Grady Funeral Philip Scarbro, of St. James; Commissioners to vacate the plat in its entirety. Five, Seven Home in Wauchula. Service and sister, Leslie Warren, of 8:23,30c 3. In 1 Kings 5, how many VALERIA was at 10 a.m. on Wednes- Chardon, Ohio. thousand men comprised the ROBERTS day, Aug. 29, 2018, at New Expressions of comfort labor force that King Solomon Ethel “Tullie” Valeria Zion Baptist Church in Ona may be made at raised? 1, 5, 10, 30 Roberts, 89, of Wauchula, with Pastor Stephen Darley robartsfh.com. MEETING NOTICE 4. What son of Abda was in passed away Saturday, Aug. and Pastor Robert Roberts 25, 2018, at her home. officiating. Burial followed Robarts Family The Insurance Committee will meet Wednesday, charge of the forced labor in She was born March 3, in New Zion Baptist Ceme- FUNERAL HOME October 17, 2018, at 8:30 a.m. in the County David's kingdom? Baal, Adoniram, Cyrenius, Phaneul 1929, in Haines City, and tery. WAUCHULA Commission Chambers, 412 W. Orange Street, ANSWERS: 1) Neither; 2) was a lifelong Hardee In lieu of flowers, the Room 102, Wauchula, Florida. Two; 3) 30; 4) Adoniram County resident. Tullie was family has requested dona- Visit Wilson Casey's new a member of New Zion Bap- tions be made to the Hardee For more information, please call the Hardee County Trivia Fan Site at www.pa- tist Church in Ona, she Education Foundation, Tyler Human Resource Department at 863-773-2161. treon.com/triviaguy. worked for many years as a Roberts Scholarship Fund. Provided as a courtesy of 8:30c (c) 2018 King Features Synd., Inc. bus driver for Hardee Online condolences Robarts Family Funeral Home County Schools, and in her may be made at ______and spare time she enjoyed pongerkaysgrady.com Elvia P. Garcia (292698) NOTICE UNDER bowling. Law Offices of Respondent: FICTITIOUS NAME ACT She was preceded in Ponger-Kays-Grady Gregory I. McMurray, P.C. ISIDORO VELASCO death by her husband, Paul 1035 Santa Barbara Street, Notice is hereby given that Funeral Home & ______2nd Floor the undersigned, pursuant to Roberts; parents, Barney Cremation Services the provisions of the Fictitious OBITUARY Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Johnson and Myrtle Young NOTICE OF ACTION FOR PETI- Name Act, Section 865.09, Wauchula Telephone: (805) 965-3703 TION TO ESTABLISH Florida Statutes, as amended, Johnson; grandson, Tyler POLICY Fax: (805) 965-0678 PARENTAL RELATIONSHIP TO: intends to register with the Roberts; and sisters, Mar- ISIDORO VELASCO, YOU ARE Secretary of State of the State cella Roberts, Emily Bryan The Herald-Advocate Attorneys for Petitioner, NOTIFIED that an action for Pe- of Florida, the fictitious name and Tiny Johnson. ANGELINA GONZALEZ publishes obituaries free tition to Establish Parental Rela- of Hardee Animal Clinic PMA Tullie is survived by two of charge as a public tionship has been filed against under which the undersigned SUPERIOR COURT OF THE sons, Calvin Roberts and his service. Forms showing you and that you are required to is engaged or will engage in STATE OF CALIFORNIA serve a copy of your written de- business at: near 1927 HWY wife Pamela, and Milton the information which 17 N, in the City of Wauchula, fenses, if any, to it on Angelina may be included in a FOR THE COUNTY OF Florida 33873. Gonzalez whose address is free obituary are avail- VENTURA 1035 Santa Barbara Street #7, That the party/parties inter- able at local funeral Santa Barbara, CA 93101, on or ested in said business enter- FAMILY DIVISION homes or at our office. before September 28, 2018, and prise is/are as follows: Lovett, Paid obituaries may file the original with the clerk of William-Houston L.S. Case No. D388882 Ventura County Superior Court, Ponger-Kays-Grady include additional infor- Dated at Wauchula, Hardee Family Division, 800 South Vic- mation and remember- NOTICE OF SUMMONS County, Florida 33873. toria Avenue, Ventura, California Funeral Homes & Cremation Services ances. 93009, before service on Peti- Person authorizing publica- 205 N. 9th Ave. • Wauchula, Fl. 33873 All obituaries, how- tioner or immediately thereafter. tion: Lovett, William-Houston In re the Matter of: ever, must be submitted If you fail to do so, a default may L.S. by a funeral home. No be entered against you for the Petitioner: Dated: August 22, 2018 relief demanded in the petition. personal submissions ANGELINA GONZALEZ, ______8:30-9:20c 8:30p (863) 773-6400 will be accepted. Funeral homes can sub- PongerKaysGrady.com mit obituaries to obits 8:2tfc @theheraldadvocate.com. ______IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF All persons on whom this no- claims or demands against the THE TENTH JUDICIAL tice is served who have objec- Decedent's estate must file their CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR tions that challenge the validity claims with this Court WITHIN HARDEE COUNTY, FLORIDA of the Will, the qualifications of THREE MONTHS AFTER THE PROBATE DIVISION the Personal Representative, DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICA- JUDGE: MARCUS J. EZELLE venue, or jurisdiction of this TION OF THIS NOTICE. court are required to file their We CASE NO.: 252018CP000028 objections with this Court ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND WITHIN THE LATER OF THREE OBJECTIONS NOT SO FILED IN RE: ESTATE OF MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. Value THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF GERALD J. PLOURDE, THIS NOTICE OR THIRTY DAYS The date of the first publication Deceased. AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE of this Notice is August 23rd, You ______/ OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE 2018. ON THEM. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION PAUL BENNETT SEUSY, P.A. NOTICE TO CREDITORS All creditors of the Decedent Attorney for Personal and other persons having claims Representative The administration of the es- or demands against Decedent's Mailing Address: tate of GERALD J. PLOURDE, estate on whom a copy of this P.O. Box 230, Arcadia, FL 34265 Deceased, File No. notice is served within three Physical Address: 252018CP000028, is pending in months after the date of the first 7 North Roberts Avenue, the Circuit Court for Hardee publication of this notice must Arcadia, FL 34266 County, Florida, Probate Divi- file their claims with this Court 863-491-7285 Office sion, the address of which is P. WITHIN THE LATER OF THREE 888-430-5940 Facsimile MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF Paul Bennett Seusy, Esquire O. Drawer 1749, Wauchula, As a family-owned and -operated funeral home, we take our commitment to your Florida 33873. The names and THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF Florida Bar No. 0690252 addresses of the Personal Rep- THIS NOTICE OR THIRTY DAYS family personally. We value your trust in us, and it is our honor to help you through resentative and the Personal AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE Timothy J. Plourde your time of sorrow with compassionate service, professional guidance and a dig- Representative's attorney are OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE Personal Representative nified tribute to your dear departed loved one. set forth below. ON THEM. 257 Shady Hollow Casselberry FL 32707 View Obits at RobartsFuneralHome.com ALL INTERESTED PERSONS All other creditors of the ______8:23,30c 529 West Main Street, Wauchula, Florida 33873 • 863-773-9773 ARE NOTIFIED THAT: Decedent and persons having 8:30c A6 The Herald-Advocate, August 30, 2018 – HARDEE LIVING – EXCELLENCE AWARD Talent Show Features Seniors & Those With Disabilities People with disabilities and by Sept. 20 to Special urday, Sept. 22, at Ridge Area seniors 65 and older will hit S.T.A.R.S., 4352 Independ- Arc, 4352 Independence St., the stage to showcase their tal- ence St., Avon Park, FL 33825. Avon Park. This will assist or- ents for prize money next There will be categories for ganizers in planning the event. month. children and adults with dis- There will be three divisions The fourth annual “Special abilities and for senior citizens. available: adults with disabili- S.T.A.R.S. Got Talent” show Judging will be for 30 minutes ties, children with disabilities will be held on Sunday, Sept. prior to the show, which is and seniors. Performers in 23, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Bert open to the public for a $5 do- each category can win $100 J. Harris Jr. Agricultural Cen- nation. cash and a trophy. Prize money ter, 4509 George Blvd., Se- All proceeds will benefit will also be awarded to sec- bring. An “expressive art” Special Sports Training And ond- and third-place winners. competition has been added Recreation Services, which To schedule an audition this year to spotlight those serves children and adults with time, get an entry form and with artistic talents as well as disabilities in Hardee, High- contest rules for the talent entertainers. The artwork will lands, Okeechobee and south- show or art contest, or to re- be based on the theme “What ern Polk counties. serve a booth, call Cindy Mar- Makes You Feel Special?” All acts — singers, dancers, shall at (863) 452-1295, There will be no entry fees comedians, etc. — need to extension 124, or (863) 443- for the artists or performers. schedule an audition time be- 0438; or email cindykmar- Artwork must be submitted tween 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sat- [email protected]. Fort Green News COURTESY PHOTOS By Rilla Cooper The Center for Great Apes in Wauchula and its founder, Patti Ragan, recently were honored by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries with the 2018 Carole Noon 773-6710 Award for Sanctuary Excellence. The award is given annually to an individual and sanctuary who embody and put into practice the GFAS philosophy of vision, dedi- Greetings from Fort Green! is coming into a nice air-conditioned room after cation and excellence in animal care. GFAS is the leader in accreditation of animal This is another week when there are too working real hard outside. I am adding another sanctuaries, assessing operational excellence and humane care at facilities across many making their final journey. Our sincere super joy is when you hear the ting of jarred the globe. The Noon Award was created in 2009 to honor outstanding contributions sympathy is extended to the family of John food you have taken out of the canner. I have to the animal sanctuary field in memory of the late Dr. Carole Noon, founder of Save Burdeshaw. He had moved to Hardee County a been making guava jam, and after processing the Chimps and a champion of chimpanzees. Ragan is shown (at right) accepting few months ago but then moved back to Ten- the jars and removing from the boiling water, the award. nessee, I believe. A memorial service will be in the sound of the jars sealing is special! the future. We will be having a baptism this coming Sympathy is extended to the family of Larry Sunday morning and then the Lord’s Supper Thompson, who passed last Thursday, on his will be served Sunday night. The Sheltons are untimely death. He lived out here in Fort Green. in concert Sunday a.m. 4-City News No arrangements have been made. By the time the paper is printed, the primary By Henrietta Benson Also, deep sympathy is extended to the fam- will be over and you will be either happy or not! 448-6737 ily of Tulie Roberts. She was a bus driver and Avis Sasser has had plenty of company this ran the snack shack at the high school years ago past week. Her great-nephew and his wife from Sorry: The Hats on Parade Happy birthday to Susie For tickets at church, call (863) when the shack was first opened. Doris Thorn- Colorado came over and were especially de- Tea has been canceled. Moore today (Thursday). 294-6553. ton told me Tulie called her every morning. You sirous of showing off their new adorable son, Our deepest sympathy to Wedding anniversary bless- Brenda and Vincent Brown will definitely miss that close a friend. They who is 2 months old. Avis, who is 97, was able Sylvia Brummett and family in ings to Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. of Cocoa were Thursday and both drove buses for the school system, even to get down on the floor and play with him. If I the home-going of “Mr. Don” Gough Jr. Aug. 23 made their Friday visitors in Bowling way back when Ethel Thomas drove a bus. She had tried to get down I would not have been Donald L. Brummett Sr., who 27th year. Green with relatives the is Doris Thornton’s mother. able to get up! Then the mother of Andrew her passed Tuesday, Aug. 21, at Congratulations to Darby Greenes, Benson, Irvin and Sympathy is also extended to the family of nephew and Sister Lynn arrived in Wauchula on home in Bowling Green. Visi- Sanders on being the co-cap- Jackson. Don Brummett. I only knew some of his rela- Friday night. They both are the daughters of tation was Saturday with the tain of the Hardee varsity Remember the sick at tives but he will certainly be missed. Mark Silverman. service following at First Bap- cheerleaders. home, hospital and nursing The benefit for Tracy Powell was really suc- Todd Silverman had a procedure last week tist Church. Pastor Scott Tharp Upcoming 2018 Woman-to- home. cessful. He has insurance but it does not cover but is recovering nicely. Like most men he does officiated. He was given mili- Woman Empowerment Con- The New Mt. Zion AME the tests required for his particular problem. not want any attention! tary honors and final resting ference is Sept. 7-9. Theme: Church, the Rev. Mackey, pas- Even when you have supposedly good insur- There are the usual large number of people place in Bowling Green Ceme- “Women Celebrating God’s tor, hosted the AME Mission ance, you still have to come up with thousands we need to continue to pray for, and we do reg- tery on Bryan Avenue. Blessed Assurances,” Philippi- Meeting last Saturday in Se- of dollars just to try and find out what can be ularly. Helen Albritton still has not been able to The varsity football Wild- ans 4:3. Host, First Missionary bring. done to help your problem. The chicken and return to church and Mary Samuels is still in the cats team will be playing the Baptist Church, the Rev. Deepest sympathy to the dumplings were delicious and the leftovers nursing home. Everyone was glad to see Lynda Sebring Blue Streaks here Fri- Clifton E. Dollison, pastor. David Elbertson family and were sold after church Sunday morning, and Abbott and husband back at church last night day evening at 7:30. Let’s all Guest Speakers will be Dr. friends in the passing of wife were even better! for the benefit and then Sunday morning. Ken come out to support the Wild- Brandi Ancrum, Sis. Sandra Norma. Young miss Tonya Fields sang a solo at the Oden is feeling better and was at church Sun- cats. Ming, Sis. Theresa Denise The Men’s 2018 Confer- benefit and another young person, Brody Wa- day. I understand Linda Strickland needs spe- Monday will be the Labor Timmons, Sis. Khristian ence “Man Up” will be hosted ters, made his debut playing the drums in cial prayer. Day holiday; no school, day McMillian and Sis. Jacqueline at Greater Works Ministries, church with Lee Chancey’s band. Both were re- Alice Faye Moye has returned from a trip to off from work for most. Enjoy “Renae” Jackson. Friday, Sept. Bishop Joe Halman Sr., pastor, ally great and, of course, we expect more! Scotland. Hopefully she will give us a detailed your time and be safe. 7, at 6:30 to 9 p.m., registra- at 2110 Oakhurst Dr., Winter On a happy note, Brother Steve and Tara trip report! Her husband did not go but a Jean Youte, I remember tion, an evening of gospel and Haven, on Sept. 13-14 at 7 McGaughey celebrated their wedding anniver- nephew did travel with her, and they wanted to your first days of riding school comedy. Sept. 8, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., p.m. Guest speaker Thursday sary on the 27th of August. They are living in see the burial spot of her distant grandfather. bus 307 and here you are a and Sunday 10 a.m.-noon evening, Bishop Matthew Joshua, Texas. Please pray for all the sick and each other senior. Good luck No. 1. morning worship service Williams, pastor at Brown Me- I read or heard one of life’s greatest pleasures along with our nation. Hardee won 45-0 last Fri- Women’s Day keynote morial COGIC in Tampa. Fri- day evening vs. Fort Meade speaker. day speaker will be the Rev. School Menu Miners. The weather caused The location is 200 Avenue Jimmy Thompson, presiding Letter To The Editor the game to start later than R W., Winter Haven. All are elder of the Lively Lakeland usual time. Game ended about welcome. The $25 registration District of the AMEs All are 11:10 p.m. deadline is today (Thursday). welcome. MONDAY Roxie Takes A Fall No School Dear Editor: area, under my left arm, under This is your True Story my left shoulder and back, and TUESDAY Teller again. upper left back. Breakfast: cereal & graham Brookside Bluff News It is a tale that happened to A friend who visited me crackers, banana bread, bis- me this Sunday morning (Aug. after church said to use an ice cuit & sausage, fruit and milk By Jerry Smith Lunch: fried chicken (k-12), 26, 2018, about 4:30 a.m.). pack to help the pain and PB&J (k-12), tuna salad 517-930-1524 I got up early because we bruises. Another friend w/crackers, tuna salad w/egg, were having "dinner-on-the- brought me a pulled pork din- nachos (k-12), Big Daddy For those of us who have been a challenge to say the least ladies from our park. Jeanie grounds" as it has always been ner from the church meal Pizza (6-12), spicy chicken in our park for a long time, we when trying to keep informed. Kiergaard, Carol Colby, Dolly called. Between you and me, which was served after the sandwich (6-12) garden salad have seen a lot of changes and But perhaps in today’s world Gray, Jackie Vanderhorst and I'd like it better to have it morning church service. An- (k-12), pinto beans (k-12), fruit have faced a lot of challenges. we have a better shot at it with P. J. Cain made the trip, and it somewhere else rather than on other friend came after church and milk Starting with the purchase of Facebook, cell phones and a looked like they had a great the ground. and stayed with me for a the property known as the variety of sources to keep us The dish I wanted to prepare while. WEDNESDAY time enjoying unique art ex- Breakfast: cereal & graham Meadows, then the expansion up-to-date on what is happen- hibits, beautiful architecture was coconut macaroons. So I appreciate these friends for crackers, donuts, pizza, juice, of Highway 17, and most re- ing with friends and neighbors. and other displays including that is the reason for my early showing their love and con- fruit and milk cently the selling of the Bluffs So seeing many of our folks some unusual cars. I under- "up-getting," so I wouldn't cern for me. This is something Lunch: chicken fajita wrap Golf Course. on vacation and indeed attend- stand the paintings are dis- have to rush. Jesus teaches us to do. It mat- (k-12), PB&J (k-12), ravioli dip- Rumors of the pending sale ing functions in Florida keeps played in an actual vault. I started going to the rest- ters not what your church's re- pers (k-12), chicken sandwich and what would happen after us up-to-date like never be- So even though we are room so I wouldn't have to be ligion is — all churches teach (6-12), fajita chicken salad, that sale has swirled around for fore. more than a thousand miles rushed in trying to get ready this. Believe in God — this is Swan’s French Bread Pizza (6- a long time now. All of the A good example of this is from Brookside, we do have for church. I was almost in the what all churches teach. 12), celery, sweet potato events mentioned above have the recent trip taken to the Sal- ways of knowing a lot of what bathroom when these 91-year- Read your Bible and do wedges (K-12), garden salad (6-12), fruit and milk had a profound effect on vadore Dali Museum in St Pe- is going on including the old legs decided they didn't what it tells you! It won't lead Brookside Bluff. Even more tersburg, Florida by a group of weather. God Bless Everyone! want to help me. They threw you astray! THURSDAY importantly is all of these me for a loop — down I went. Breakfast: cereal & graham events have ended favorably I was eaten up with bruises Roxie Bentley crackers, yogurt, chicken bis- for our park. and sore muscles in my breast Wauchula cuit, pumpkin bread, fruit and The sale of the golf course milk is our latest case of Good For- • It is a good idea to update your emergency contacts on your Lunch: chicken alfredo (k- tune. First of all, the course has driver’s license or I.D. periodically, especially if you or your 12), PB&J (k-12), fiestada been sold! But instead of the contacts have moved. pizza (k-12), cobb chicken rumors that varied from salad, cheeseburger (6-12), buffalo chicken chunks (6-12), whomever you talked to, the carrot sticks, corn, garden final outcome is what will be salad (6-12), fruit and milk best for our park. The course Come Camp With Us will remain an 18-hole course. FRIDAY With some improvements al- No RV • No Tent • No Problem Breakfast: cereal & graham ready made and many more crackers, poptarts, eggs, being planned, the course will cheese, bacon, & hash brown remain a very important fea- bowl, juice, fruit and milk ture of our park. So all our WE HAVE Lunch: chicken nuggets (k- 12), yogurt, muffin platter, golfers can breathe a sigh of PB&J (k-12), fish wedge relief, and the rest of us will CABINS!! w/mac & cheese (k-12), cal- benefit from the results of the COURTESY PHOTO Thousand Trails zone cheese (6-12), french sale. Carol, P.J., Jeanie, Jackie and Dolly visited art museum 2555 US Hwy 17 South, Zolfo Springs • 863-735-8888 fries (k-12), cole slaw (k-12), Being gone from our park is in St. Petersburg. 8:30c fruit and milk August 30, 2018, The Herald-Advocate A7 uppose also not blind you to all the good were the Peavy’s Ponderings he has done. School District Abandons SCEO of a He appointed large com- By Jonell Peavy Justice Neil pany with Sugar Possum of the late Truman Thomas Gorsuch to hundreds of the Supreme Property Talks With IDA employees, Court, cut By TOM STAIK rector Rob Krahl, the efforts Agency – will impact plans to all different taxes, lowered Of The Herald-Advocate were to “preserve the integrity renovate the school. ages and all with different run. No matter what you have unemployment, signed a bill School officials have aban- of the building.” Buildings designated as his- backgrounds. These employ- to do, it is your job to do what giving troops the largest pay doned talks with the Hardee The School Board of Hardee toric can be subject to in- ees all have their own work is best for your employees and raise in seven years, declared County Industrial Develop- County faced calls from the creased requirements during ethics, and most of them have for the company you are in Jerusalem the capital of Israel, ment Authority in the search public at a meeting last year to the remodeling process, but their own political views. charge of. and has signed 53 bills into for a possible new home for find a use for the historic the designation can, in some They run all the many de- It's not going to be an easy law. These are just a few of his the School District of Hardee building. cases, also open the door to ad- partments in the company. It job because in everything you accomplishments, but if you County. Krahl said such an effort is ditional grant money. takes all departments working set out to accomplish there are want to see more go to “I haven’t been able to get in no easy task. Any changes, he The Downtown Wauchula together in order for that com- those few whom you can never www.magapill.com. touch with the IDA in weeks,” said, would require upgrades Historic District encompasses pany to run smoothly and be a please, and you have to deal You won't hear these things said Superintendent Bob Shay- to current code and Americans roughly 14 blocks and in- success, and ultimately it is up with them on a case-by-case from the mainstream media so man. with Disabilities Act require- cludes the Hardee County to you to see that it does. basis. President Trump uses Twitter IDA Director Bill Lambert ments – including the installa- Courthouse, old Hardee You may have to do That is what our president as his messenger board. He has approached the district earlier tion of an elevator. County High School, Atlantic things that you really don't like is trying to do. He is trying to been harassed more than any this year with a proposal that “It would be a complete re- Coast Line Railroad Depot, to do. You may have to let em- put our country back on the president in my lifetime, and I would have seen the district model using the current build- and the 1920s Spanish Revival ployees go because it's for the right track and be the leader of would just like to see it “swap” the land at its current ing envelope,” he said. City Hall designed by noted good of the company. You may the free world. stopped. Just think what he U.S. 17 complex in exchange The building – along with a architect M. Leo Elliot of have to make changes in how I'm not saying I agree with might get done if he could be for the CareSync complex. large swath of downtown Tampa. the different departments are all he says and does, but I am left alone to do the job we At the time the talks began, Wauchula – received designa- CRA Director Jessica New- elected him to do. IDA officials were hoping the tion as part of the National man told the Wauchula City I'm really not a political technology company would be Register of Historic Places as Commission earlier this month person, but it gets old after a moving into the vacant Winn- part of the Downtown she was in the process of re- while when every time you Dixie complex across U.S. 17. Wauchula Historic District. viewing options to denote the Strange But True turn on your TV it's all about Shayman said his last con- It remains unclear to what historic district with signs By Samantha Weaver bashing President Trump. tact with Lambert was shortly degree the designation – cham- along U.S. 17 and a possible Jonell Peavy lives in Avon before the surprise shuttering pioned by the Wauchula Com- memorial plaque somewhere • It was Scott Adams, best ter of an acre, 36 square miles Park and can be reached at of the now-defunct CareSync munity Redevelopment in the downtown zone. known as the creator of the and 10 acres. 863-453-3589. in mid-June that sent 292 em- "Dilbert" comic strip, who • Do you suffer from mis- ployees to the unemployment made the following observa- oneism? Quite a few people line. tion: "Give a man a fish, and these days seem to; it's a hatred “I am glad we didn’t go Flash Back you'll feed him for a day. or fear of change or innova- through with a walkthrough Teach a man to fish, and he'll tion. with the department heads so By Chris Richcreek buy a funny hat. Talk to a hun- • Between Memorial Day ABOUT... we didn’t get anyone’s hopes gry man about fish, and you're and Labor Day, it's estimated Hardee Living up,” Shayman said. 1. Who released "Love So were reversed. School officials have been Right?" 2. Iggy Pop's "The Idiot" a consultant." that Americans eat a whopping Hardee Living prints • According to the Oxford 818 hot dogs every second. weighing options for finding 2. "China Girl" appeared on album in 1977. The song didn't your news on people, what artist's debut album, and get any traction until co-writer English Dictionary, the word • In 1938, Fortune maga- clubs and organizations, more space for administrative that has the largest number of zine published a prediction operations for some time. when? David Bowie recorded it on his including meeting sum- 3. Which group released album "Let's Dance" in 1983. different meanings is "set"; it that, in hindsight, turns out to maries, births, children’s Another lingering option "People Say," and when? 3. The Dixie Cups, in 1964. takes 26 pages to detail them have been rather egregiously and senior citizens’ birth- that remains on the table is all. off the mark: "Few scientists days, engagements, wed- renovating the old Hardee Jun- 4. Name the English singer The trio consisted of two sis- • As fall approaches, here's foresee any serious or practical dings, silver or gold ior High School complex. whose first solo offering was ters and their cousin in New some good news: Except for use for atomic energy. They re- anniversaries, church Portions of the first floor "Never Gonna Give You Up." Orleans. the queens, all wasps die in the gard the atom-splitting experi- events and military as- have been converted into us- 5. Name the song that con- 4. Rick Astley, in 1987. The autumn. ments as useful steps in the signments. able office space for the Ex- tains this lyric: "And now the song launched his career, top- • There are those who feel attempt to describe the atom Forms are available at ceptional Student Education clock is still passing time, And ping the charts in 25 countries. that we should adopt the met- more accurately, not as the key our office. For engage- Department and for housing I know someday that she will Astley would go on to sell 40 ric system of measurement, to the unlocking of any new ments and weddings, a student records. be mine, And I know she'll al- million records worldwide be- claiming that our current sys- power." photo should be included. The entire complex was ways bring me love." fore retiring in 1993. tem is outdated and archaic. To Publication is free of tented for termites in July of 5. "Image of a Girl," by the go truly archaic, though, we *** charge. Coverage of 2015. The roof was replaced ANSWERS Safaris, in 1960. The doo-wop could start measuring things in Thought for the Day: weddings over three later that year. Around the 1. The Bee Gees, in 1976. song, which featured a ticking flags, baronies, falls, roods, "Should you shield the months old will be limited same time, crews recaulked all The single's B-side was "You clock in the background, went townships and hides. 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COURTESY PHOTO Teachers at North Wauchula Elementary School use the structure "Quiz, Quiz, COURTESY PHOTO Trade" to get students up, moving, interacting and studying. Students each get a It’s not a spelling bee, but a practice session in the comforts of a beanbag chair. card to quiz a partner with, they pair up, quiz one another, exchange the cards and These two were among students in Priscilla Bowes’ third-grade class at North find another partner to quiz and repeat the process. Students in Nicole Keen's fifth- Wauchula Elementary School who helped one another prepare to ace their spelling grade class are shown enjoying the challenge. and vocabulary tests.

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COURTESY PHOTO Fourth graders in MaryAnn Duncan and Laura Carter's class at North Wauchula El- ementary School could hardly wait for their first visit to the Media Center to meet the new media specialist, Linda Hernandez, and to check out a Sunshine State Young Reader Award book. Students are challenged to read all 15 books, and are ready to start!

COURTESY PHOTO NWES NEWSCASTERS Second graders in Mary Idsardi's R.E.A.C.H. (Realizing Excellence through the Ad- vanced academic Curriculum of Hardee) class at North Wauchula Elementary School saved the day for Scaredy Squirrel, who never leaves his nut tree because there are too many dangers out there. Yet on one fateful day, Scaredy Squirrel found himself out of his tree. To his relief, the students solved math problems to free his emergency kit, which included antibacterial soap, Band-Aids and a para- chute.

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COURTESY PHOTO This year’s crew for Cool Cat TV, the school’s closed-circuit network, is at the mic and on screen. Here, a couple of the students use a green screen to bring the daily campus news to the North Wauchula Elementary School student body.

KNOWLEDGE NOOKS ABOUT... Letters To The Editor The Herald-Advocate COURTESY PHOTO welcomes letters to the edi- These kindergartners in tor on matters of public in- Ashley Rigney’s class at terest. Letters should be Hilltop Elementary School brief, and must be written in already know all of their good taste and include the letters and sounds! They writer’s full name, address have been working very and daytime telephone hard and are now getting number for verification. ready to read their very Letters must be received by 5 p.m. on Monday to be first Accelerated Reader considered for that week’s book, just like the big kids edition. Submissions should do. The little stars are be typed or legibly written. (from left) Luke Durrance, Send letters to: Letters to Janellie Rodriguez, Ryan the Editor, The Herald-Ad- Mejia and Lidia Flores. vocate, P.O. Box 338, Later, Ryan proudly Wauchula, FL 33873. Fax checked out his book. to (863) 773-0657.

REPORT ABUSE CHILD ABUSE COURTESY PHOTO HOTLINE Literacy centers in teacher Stacie Whaley's kinder- garten classroom at North Wauchula Elementary 1-800-422-4453 School provide little learners with a variety of settings to explore letters and words in. August 30, 2018, The Herald-Advocate A9 TRASHY TEST SPECIAL HOOPSTERS

PHOTO BY TOM STAIK Automated garbage pickup has arrived in the city of Wauchula. Tuesday morning saw the city’s state-of-the-art garbage truck effortlessly lift 95-gallon bins into the air and dump refuge into the truck’s collection bin. The roll-out – focused on resi- dences north of West Main Street and west of U.S. 17 — was the first phase of con- COURTESY PHOTOS verting to citywide automated garbage pickup. Few snags were reported, but crews Hardee and Highlands special athletes competed on the basketball courts on Aug. did encounter several cans facing the wrong way. City leaders are reminding resi- 18 in Sebring. About 40 athletes with various disabilities tested their skills during a dents to remember to point the bin with the arrows on the lid pointing toward the two-week training and a final competition as part of the Sports Training And Recre- road. Officials hope to convert the entire city to automated pickup by Oct. 1. ational Services program. Two, Cheryl Moore and Bruce Brummett, represented Hardee County. Moore won a third-place trophy while Brummett won fourth. They SWITCHING TEAMS competed in skills such as passing the ball, shooting baskets and dribbling through a course. They scored points for each skill to receive awards. Trophies were awarded to all athletes in each division. Brummett (above photo, at front left) com- peted in the Intermediate Division and Moore (bottom photo, back row center) in the Beginners Division. Special S.T.A.R.S. provides 14 different sports to children and adults with physical and mental disabilities throughout Hardee, Highlands, Okeechobee and southern Polk counties.

PHOTO BY TOM STAIK Hardee has gone to the dogs. ‘Sweetie’ – a one year old mini dachshund – barked with enthusiasm as he sported a pint-sized Wildcat ascot as he supported the Hardee Senior High School volleyball squads from the bleachers last Thursday (Aug. 23) as the Wildcats faced down the visiting Lady Bulldogs of Frostproof Mid- dle/Senior High School.

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COURTESY PHOTO Students from kindergarten through fifth grade at North Wauchula Elementary School are getting ready for college and career success. In the school’s new Advancement Via Individual Determination program, COURTESY PHOTO students are learning important skills for success, such as note taking. Kindergartners begin at a very Students in Megan Poreda's first-grade class at North COURTESY PHOTO Wauchula Elementary School learned a valuable les- foundational level of taking two-column notes, while Kindergarten students in Melissa Hartley’s class at son they want to share with others: Words are like fifth graders take three-column notes. North Wauchula Elementary School are busy determin- toothpaste. Once they are out, you cannot put them ing where the “h” sound comes from. They think back in. Choose your words wisely and kindly. SUPER HERO they’ve narrowed it down to one letter. 2 LOCATIONS TEACHING TASK

OPEN 24 HOURS 526 N. 6th Ave (Across from Nicholas Restaurant) 112 W. Palmetto Open: 7 days COURTESY PHOTO (Yellow bldg. behind old carwash) Hilltop Elementary School received a special visitor on Friday, Aug. 17. Something of a super hero himself, NEW MACHINES CLEAN A/C Omegaman inspires and encourages students to be H.E.R.O.s (Helping Everyone Respect Others) and to www.supermattlaundries.com think about how their choices affect people. Omega- COURTESY PHOTO man gains the students’ attention for his message by Teaching is the best way to learn. So, third graders in 24 hr. Customer Service displaying super hero powers, breaking bats over his teacher Priscilla Bowes’ class at North Wauchula Ele- 877-394-0173 knee, bending steel in his teeth and shredding phone mentary School took turns teaching one another how 2:8tfc books. to estimate sums. A10 The Herald-Advocate, August 30, 2018 PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND- thorizing transfer of the accrued benefit from FINANCE AND TAXATION cases and within five years from the date of ap- efficiently to meet the demand of communities clude the adoption of ordinances that impose MENTS AND REVISIONS FOR THE 2018 the limitations on the assessment of home- SECTION 19. Supermajority vote required to peal in capital cases, unless a court enters an by aligning certificate and degree programs more restrictive regulation on the use of vapor- GENERAL ELECTION stead property, and this section, if submitted to impose, authorize, or raise state taxes or order with specific findings as to why the court with local and regional workforce needs, the generating electronic devices than is provided the electors of this state for approval or rejec- fees.— was unable to comply with this subparagraph people hereby establish a system of gover- in this section. I, Ken Detzner, Secretary of State for Florida, tion at a special election authorized by law to (a) SUPERMAJORITY VOTE REQUIRED TO and the circumstances causing the delay. Each nance for the state college system of Florida. (b) EXCEPTIONS. As further explained in the do hereby give notice that the following pro- be held on January 29, 2008, shall take effect IMPOSE OR AUTHORIZE NEW STATE TAX year, the chief judge of any district court of ap- (b) STATE COLLEGE SYSTEM. There shall be definitions below, tobacco smoking and the use posed amendments and revisions to the upon approval by the electors and shall op- OR FEE. No new state tax or fee may be im- peal or the chief justice of the supreme court a single state college system comprised of all of vapor-generating electronic devices may be Florida Constitution will be presented in erate retroactively to January 1, 2008, or, if posed or authorized by the legislature except shall report on a case-by- case basis to the public community and state colleges. A local permitted in private residences whenever they each county on the 2018 General Election submitted to the electors of this state for ap- through legislation approved by two-thirds of speaker of the house of representatives and the board of trustees shall govern each state col- are not being used commercially to provide ballot. proval or rejection at the next general election, the membership of each house of the legisla- president of the senate all cases where the lege system institution and the state board of child care, adult care, or health care, or any shall take effect January 1 of the year following ture and presented to the Governor for approval court entered an order regarding inability to education shall supervise the state college sys- combination thereof; and further may be per- The language for these amendments may such general election. The amendments to pursuant to Article III, Section 8. comply with this subparagraph. The legislature tem. mitted in retail tobacco shops, vapor-generating also be found at FloridaPublicNotices. com, Section 4 of Article VII creating subsections (b) SUPERMAJORITY VOTE REQUIRED TO may enact legislation to implement this sub- (c) LOCAL BOARDS OF TRUSTEES. Each electronic device retailers, designated smoking at DOS.Elections.MyFlorida.com/initiatives, (g)(f) and (h)(g) of that section, creating a limi- RAISE STATE TAXES OR FEES. No state tax paragraph. state college system institution shall be gov- guest rooms at hotels and other public lodging and at this newspaper’s website. tation on annual assessment increases for or fee may be raised by the legislature except (11) The right to be informed of these rights, erned by a local board of trustees dedicated to establishments; and stand-alone bars. How- specified real property, shall take effect upon through legislation approved by two-thirds of and to be informed that victims can seek the the purposes of the state college system. A ever, nothing in this section or in its implement- NO. 1 approval of the electors and shall first limit as- the membership of each house of the legisla- advice of an attorney with respect to their rights. member of a board of trustees must be a resi- ing legislation or regulations shall prohibit the CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT sessments beginning January 1, 2009, if ap- ture and presented to the Governor for approval This information shall be made available to the dent of the service delivery area of the college. owner, lessee, or other person in control of the ARTICLE VII, SECTION 6 proved at a special election held on January 29, pursuant to Article III, Section 8. general public and provided to all crime victims The powers and duties of the boards of trustees use of an enclosed indoor workplace from fur- ARTICLE XII, SECTION 37 2008, or shall first limit assessments beginning (c) APPLICABILITY. This section does not au- in the form of a card or by other means in- shall be provided by law. Each member shall be ther prohibiting or limiting smoking or the use January 1, 2010, if approved at the general thorize the imposition of any state tax or fee tended to effectively advise the victim of their appointed by the governor to staggered 4-year of vapor-generating electronic devices therein. BALLOT TITLE: election held in November of 2008. Subsec- otherwise prohibited by this Constitution, and rights under this section. terms, subject to confirmation by the senate. (c) DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this section, Increased Homestead Property Tax tions (f) and (g) of Section 4 of Article VII are does not apply to any tax or fee imposed by, or (c) The victim, the retained attorney of the vic- (d) ROLE OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCA- the following words and terms shall have the Exemption repealed effective January 1, 2019; however, authorized to be imposed by, a county, munici- tim, a lawful representative of the victim, or the TION. The state board of education shall super- stated meanings: the legislature shall by joint resolution propose pality, school board, or special district. office of the state attorney upon request of the vise the state college system as provided by (1) “Smoking” means inhaling, exhaling, burn- BALLOT SUMMARY: an amendment abrogating the repeal of sub- (d) DEFINITIONS. As used in this section, the victim, may assert and seek enforcement of the law. ing, carrying, or possessing any lighted tobacco Proposing an amendment to the State Consti- sections (f) and (g), which shall be submitted to following terms shall have the following mean- rights enumerated in this section and any other product, including cigarettes, cigars, pipe to- tution to increase the homestead exemption by the electors of this state for approval or rejec- ings: right afforded to a victim by law in any trial or ARTICLE X bacco, and any other lighted tobacco product. exempting the assessed valuation of home- tion at the general election of 2018 and, if ap- (1) "Fee" means any charge or payment re- appellate court, or before any other authority MISCELLANEOUS (2) “Second-hand smoke,” also known as envi- stead property greater than $100,000 and up to proved, shall take effect January 1, 2019. quired by law, including any fee for service, fee with jurisdiction over the case, as a matter of Death benefits for survivors of first responders ronmental tobacco smoke (ETS), means $125,000 for all levies other than school district (b) The amendment to subsection (a) abrogat- or cost for licenses, and charge for service. right. The court or other authority with jurisdic- and military members.— smoke emitted from lighted, smoldering, or levies. The amendment shall take effect Janu- ing the scheduled repeal of subsections (g) and (2) "Raise" means: tion shall act promptly on such a request, af- (a) A death benefit shall be paid by the employ- burning tobacco when the smoker is not inhal- ary 1, 2019. (h) of Section 4 of Article VII of the State Con- a. To increase or authorize an increase in the fording a remedy by due course of law for the ing agency when a firefighter; a paramedic; an ing; smoke emitted at the mouthpiece during stitution as it existed in 2017, shall take effect rate of a state tax or fee imposed on a percent- violation of any right. The reasons for any deci- emergency medical technician; a law enforce- puff drawing; and smoke exhaled by the FULL TEXT: January 1, 2019. age or per mill basis; sion regarding the disposition of a victim’s right ment, correctional, or correctional probation of- smoker. ARTICLE VII b. To increase or authorize an increase in the shall be clearly stated on the record. ficer; or a member of the Florida National (3) “Work” means any person’s providing any FINANCE AND TAXATION NO. 3 amount of a state tax or fee imposed on a flat (d) The granting of the rights enumerated in this Guard, while engaged in the performance of employment or employment-type service for or SECTION 6. Homestead exemptions. — CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT or fixed amount basis; or section to victims may not be construed to deny their official duties, is: at the request of another individual or individu- (a) Every person who has the legal or equi- ARTICLE X, SECTION 29 c. To decrease or eliminate a state tax or fee or impair any other rights possessed by victims. (1) Accidentally killed or receives accidental als or any public or private entity, whether for table title to real estate and maintains thereon exemption or credit. The provisions of this section apply throughout bodily injury which results in the loss of the in- compensation or not, whether full or part-time, the permanent residence of the owner, or an- BALLOT TITLE: (e) SINGLE-SUBJECT. A state tax or fee im- criminal and juvenile justice processes, are self- dividual’s life, provided that such killing is not whether legally or not. “Work” includes, without other legally or naturally dependent upon the Voter Control of Gambling in Florida posed, authorized, or raised under this section executing, and do not require implementing leg- the result of suicide and that such bodily injury limitation, any such service performed by an owner, shall be exempt from taxation thereon, must be contained in a separate bill that con- islation. This section may not be construed to is not intentionally self-inflicted; or employee, independent contractor, agent, part- except assessments for special benefits, up to BALLOT SUMMARY: tains no other subject. create any cause of action for damages against (2) Unlawfully and intentionally killed or dies as ner, proprietor, manager, officer, director, ap- the assessed valuation of twenty-five thousand This amendment ensures that Florida voters the state or a political subdivision of the state, a result of such unlawful and intentional act or prentice, trainee, associate, servant, volunteer, dollars and, for all levies other than school shall have the exclusive right to decide whether NO. 6 or any officer, employee, or agent of the state is killed during active duty. and the like. district levies, on the assessed valuation to authorize casino gambling by requiring that CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION or its political subdivisions. (b) A death benefit shall be paid by funds from (4) “Enclosed indoor workplace” means any greater than fifty thousand dollars and up to in order for casino gambling to be authorized ARTICLE I, SECTION 16 (e) As used in this section, a “victim” is a person general revenue when an active duty member place where one or more persons engages in seventy-five thousand dollars, and on the as- under Florida law, it must be approved by ARTICLE V, SECTIONS 8 AND 21 who suffers direct or threatened physical, psy- of the United States Armed Forces is: work, and which place is predominantly or to- sessed valuation greater than one hundred Florida voters pursuant to Article XI, Section 3 ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION chological, or financial harm as a result of the (1) Accidentally killed or receives accidental tally bounded on all sides and above by physi- thousand dollars and up to one hundred of the Florida Constitution. Affects articles X commission or attempted commission of a bodily injury which results in the loss of the in- cal barriers, regardless of whether such twenty-five thousand dollars, upon establish- and XI. Defines casino gambling and clarifies BALLOT TITLE: crime or delinquent act or against whom the dividual’s life, provided that such killing is not barriers consist of or include uncovered open- ment of right thereto in the manner prescribed that this amendment does not conflict with fed- Rights of Crime Victims; Judges crime or delinquent act is committed. The term the result of suicide and that such bodily injury ings, screened or otherwise partially covered by law. The real estate may be held by legal or eral law regarding state/tribal compacts. “victim” includes the victim’s lawful representa- is not intentionally self-inflicted; or openings; or open or closed windows, equitable title, by the entireties, jointly, in com- BALLOT SUMMARY: tive, the parent or guardian of a minor, or the (2) Unlawfully and intentionally killed or dies as jalousies, doors, or the like. This section applies mon, as a condominium, or indirectly by stock FINANCIAL IMPACT STATEMENT: Creates constitutional rights for victims of next of kin of a homicide victim, except upon a a result of such unlawful and intentional act or to all such enclosed indoor workplaces without ownership or membership representing the The amendment’s impact on state and local crime; requires courts to facilitate victims’ rights; showing that the interest of such individual is killed during active duty. regard to whether work is occurring at any owner’s or member’s proprietary interest in a government revenues and costs, if any, cannot authorizes victims to enforce their rights would be in actual or potential conflict with the (c) If a firefighter; a paramedic; an emergency given time. corporation owning a fee or a leasehold initially be determined at this time because of its un- throughout criminal and juvenile justice interests of the victim. The term “victim” does medical technician; a law enforcement, correc- (5) “Commercial” use of a private residence in excess of ninety-eight years. The exemption known effect on gambling operations that have processes. Requires judges and hearing offi- not include the accused. The terms “crime” and tional, or correctional probation officer; or an ac- means any time during which the owner, les- shall not apply with respect to any assessment not been approved by voters through a consti- cers to independently interpret statutes and “criminal” include delinquent acts and conduct tive duty member of the Florida National Guard see, or other person occupying or controlling roll until such roll is first determined to be in tutional amendment proposed by a citizens’ ini- rules rather than deferring to government Victims of crime or their lawful representatives, or United States Armed Forces is accidentally the use of the private residence is furnishing in compliance with the provisions of section 4 by tiative petition process. agency’s interpretation. Raises mandatory re- including the next of kin of homicide victims, are killed as specified in paragraphs (a)(1) and the private residence, or causing or allowing to a state agency designated by general law. This tirement age of state justices and judges from entitled to the right to be informed, to be pres- (b)(1), or unlawfully and intentionally killed as be furnished in the private residence, child exemption is repealed on the effective date of FULL TEXT: seventy to seventy-five years; deletes authori- ent, and to be heard when relevant, at all cru- specified in paragraphs (a)(2) and (b)(2), the care, adult care, or health care, or any combi- any amendment to this Article which provides ARTICLE X, FLORIDA CONSTITUTION, is zation to complete judicial term if one-half of cial stages of criminal proceedings, to the state shall waive certain educational expenses nation thereof, and receiving or expecting to re- for the assessment of homestead property at amended to include the following new section: term has been served by retirement age. extent that these rights do not interfere with the that the child or spouse of the deceased first re- ceive compensation therefor. less than just value. Voter Control of Gambling in Florida. constitutional rights of the accused. sponder or military member incurs while obtain- (6) “Retail tobacco shop” means any enclosed (b) Not more than one exemption shall be al- (a) This amendment ensures that Florida voters FULL TEXT: ing a career certificate, an undergraduate indoor workplace dedicated to or predominantly lowed any individual or family unit or with re- shall have the exclusive right to decide whether ARTICLE I ARTICLE V education, or a postgraduate education. for the retail sale of tobacco, tobacco products, spect to any residential unit. No exemption shall to authorize casino gambling in the State of DECLARATION OF RIGHTS JUDICIARY (d) An eligible first responder must have been and accessories for such products, in which the exceed the value of the real estate assessable Florida. This amendment requires a vote by cit- SECTION 16. Rights of accused and of vic- SECTION 8. Eligibility.—No person shall be el- working for the State of Florida or any of its po- sale of other products or services is merely in- to the owner or, in case of ownership through izens’ initiative pursuant to Article XI, section 3, tims.— igible for office of justice or judge of any court litical subdivisions or agencies at the time of cidental. stock or membership in a corporation, the value in order for casino gambling to be authorized (a) In all criminal prosecutions the accused unless the person is an elector of the state and death. An eligible military member must have (7) “Designated smoking guest rooms at public of the proportion which the interest in the cor- under Florida law. This section amends this Ar- shall, upon demand, be informed of the nature resides in the territorial jurisdiction of the court. been a resident of this state or his or her duty lodging establishments” means the sleeping poration bears to the assessed value of the ticle; and also affects Article XI, by making citi- and cause of the accusation, and shall be fur- No justice or judge shall serve after attaining post must have been within this state at the rooms and directly associated private areas, property. zens’ initiatives the exclusive method of nished a copy of the charges, and shall have the age of seventy-five seventy years except time of death. such as bathrooms, living rooms, and kitchen (c) By general law and subject to conditions authorizing casino gambling. the right to have compulsory process for wit- upon temporary assignment or to complete a (e) The legislature shall implement this section areas, if any, rented to guests for their exclusive specified therein, the Legislature may provide (b) As used in this section, “casino gambling” nesses, to confront at trial adverse witnesses, term, one-half of which has been served. No by general law. transient occupancy in public lodging establish- to renters, who are permanent residents, ad means any of the types of games typically to be heard in person, by counsel or both, and person is eligible for the office of justice of the (f) This section shall take effect on July 1, 2019. ments including hotels, motels, resort condo- valorem tax relief on all ad valorem tax levies. found in casinos and that are within the defini- to have a speedy and public trial by impartial supreme court or judge of a district court of ap- miniums, transient apartments, transient Such ad valorem tax relief shall be in the form tion of Class III gaming in the Federal Indian jury in the county where the crime was commit- peal unless the person is, and has been for the NO. 8 lodging establishments, rooming houses, and amount established by general law. Gaming Regulatory Act, 25 U.S.C. § 2701 et ted. If the county is not known, the indictment preceding ten years, a member of the bar of CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION boarding houses, resort dwellings, bed and (d) The legislature may, by general law, allow seq. (“IGRA”), and in 25 C.F.R. §502.4, upon or information may charge venue in two or Florida. No person is eligible for the office of cir- ARTICLE IX, SECTION 4, NEW SECTION breakfast inns, and the like; and designated by counties or municipalities, for the purpose of adoption of this amendment, and any that are more counties conjunctively and proof that the cuit judge unless the person is, and has been ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION the person or persons having management au- their respective tax levies and subject to the added to such definition of Class III gaming in crime was committed in that area shall be suf- for the preceding five years, a member of the thority over such public lodging establishment provisions of general law, to grant either or both the future. This includes, but is not limited to, ficient; but before pleading the accused may bar of Florida. Unless otherwise provided by BALLOT TITLE: as rooms in which smoking may be permitted. of the following additional homestead tax ex- any house banking game, including but not lim- elect in which of those counties the trial will take general law, no person is eligible for the office School Board Term Limits and Duties; Public (8) “Stand-alone bar” means any place of busi- emptions: ited to card games such as baccarat, chemin place. Venue for prosecution of crimes commit- of county court judge unless the person is, and Schools ness devoted during any time of operation pre- (1) An exemption not exceeding fifty thousand de fer, blackjack (21), and pai gow (if played as ted beyond the boundaries of the state shall be has been for the preceding five years, a mem- dominantly or totally to serving alcoholic dollars to a person who has the legal or equi- house banking games); any player-banked fixed by law. ber of the bar of Florida. Unless otherwise pro- BALLOT SUMMARY: beverages, intoxicating beverages, or intoxicat- table title to real estate and maintains thereon game that simulates a house banking game, (b) To preserve and protect the right of crime vided by general law, a person shall be eligible Creates a term limit of eight consecutive years ing liquors, or any combination thereof, for con- the permanent residence of the owner, who has such as California black jack; casino games victims to achieve justice, ensure a meaningful for election or appointment to the office of for school board members and requires the leg- sumption on the licensed premises; in which attained age sixty-five, and whose household such as roulette, craps, and keno; any slot ma- role throughout the criminal and juvenile justice county court judge in a county having a popu- islature to provide for the promotion of civic lit- the serving of food, if any, is merely incidental income, as defined by general law, does not ex- chines as defined in 15 U.S.C. 1171(a)(1); and systems for crime victims, and ensure that lation of 40,000 or less if the person is a mem- eracy in public schools. Currently, district to the consumption of any such beverage; and ceed twenty thousand dollars; or any other game not authorized by Article X, crime victims’ rights and interests are respected ber in good standing of the bar of Florida. school boards have a constitutional duty to op- that is not located within, and does not share (2) An exemption equal to the assessed value section 15, whether or not defined as a slot ma- and protected by law in a manner no less vig- SECTION 21. Judicial interpretation of statutes erate, control, and supervise all public schools. any common entryway or common indoor area of the property to a person who has the legal chine, in which outcomes are determined by orous than protections afforded to criminal de- and rules.—In interpreting a state statute or The amendment maintains a school board’s du- with, any other enclosed indoor workplace in- or equitable title to real estate with a just value random number generator or are similarly as- fendants and juvenile delinquents, every victim rule, a state court or an officer hearing an ad- ties to public schools it establishes, but permits cluding any business for which the sale of food less than two hundred and fifty thousand dol- signed randomly, such as instant or historical is entitled to the following rights, beginning at ministrative action pursuant to general law may the state to operate, control, and supervise or any other product or service is more than an lars, as determined in the first tax year that the racing. As used herein, “casino gambling” in- the time of his or her victimization: not defer to an administrative agency’s interpre- public schools not established by the school incidental source of gross revenue. owner applies and is eligible for the exemption, cludes any electronic gambling devices, simu- (1) The right to due process and to be treated tation of such statute or rule, and must instead board. (9) “Vapor-generating electronic device” means and who has maintained thereon the perma- lated gambling devices, video lottery devices, with fairness and respect for the victim’s dignity. interpret such statute or rule de novo. any product that employs an electronic, a nent residence of the owner for not less than internet sweepstakes devices, and any other (2) The right to be free from intimidation, ha- FULL TEXT: chemical, or a mechanical means capable of twenty-five years, who has attained age sixty- form of electronic or electromechanical facsim- rassment, and abuse. ARTICLE XII ARTICLE IX producing vapor or aerosol from a nicotine five, and whose household income does not iles of any game of chance, slot machine, or (3) The right, within the judicial process, to be SCHEDULE EDUCATION product or any other substance, including, but exceed the income limitation prescribed in casino-style game, regardless of how such de- reasonably protected from the accused and any Eligibility of justices and judges.—The amend- SECTION 4. School districts; school boards.— not limited to, an electronic cigarette, electronic paragraph (1). vices are defined under IGRA. As used herein, person acting on behalf of the accused. How- ment to Section 8 of Article V, which increases (a) Each county shall constitute a school dis- cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or The general law must allow counties and mu- “casino gambling” does not include pari-mutuel ever, nothing contained herein is intended to the age at which a justice or judge is no longer trict; provided, two or more contiguous coun- other similar device or product, any replace- nicipalities to grant these additional exemp- wagering on horse racing, dog racing, or jai alai create a special relationship between the crime eligible to serve in judicial office except upon ties, upon vote of the electors of each county ment cartridge for such device, and any other tions, within the limits prescribed in this exhibitions. For purposes of this section, “gam- victim and any law enforcement agency or of- temporary assignment, shall take effect July 1, pursuant to law, may be combined into one container of a solution or other substance in- subsection, by ordinance adopted in the man- bling” and “gaming” are synonymous. fice absent a special relationship or duty as de- 2019. school district. In each school district there shall tended to be used with or within an electronic ner prescribed by general law, and must pro- (c) Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the fined by Florida law. be a school board composed of five or more cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, vide for the periodic adjustment of the income right of the Legislature to exercise its authority (4) The right to have the safety and welfare of NO. 7 members chosen by vote of the electors in a electronic pipe, or other similar device or prod- limitation prescribed in this subsection for through general law to restrict, regulate, or tax the victim and the victim’s family considered CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION nonpartisan election for appropriately stag- uct. changes in the cost of living. any gaming or gambling activities. In addition, when setting bail, including setting pretrial re- ARTICLE IX, SECTIONS 7 AND 8 gered terms of four years, as provided by law. (10) “Vapor-generating electronic device re- (e) Each veteran who is age 65 or older who is nothing herein shall be construed to limit the lease conditions that protect the safety and wel- ARTICLE X, NEW SECTION A person may not appear on the ballot for re- tailer” means any enclosed indoor workplace partially or totally permanently disabled shall re- ability of the state or Native American tribes to fare of the victim and the victim’s family. election to the office of school board if, by the dedicated to or predominantly for the retail sale ceive a discount from the amount of the ad val- negotiate gaming compacts pursuant to the (5) The right to prevent the disclosure of infor- BALLOT TITLE: end of the current term of office, the person of vapor-generating electronic devices and orem tax otherwise owed on homestead Federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act for the mation or records that could be used to locate First Responder and Military Member Survivor would have served, or but for resignation would components, parts, and accessories for such property the veteran owns and resides in if the conduct of casino gambling on tribal lands, or or harass the victim or the victim’s family, or Benefits; Public Colleges and Universities have served, in that office for eight consecutive products, in which the sale of other products or disability was combat related and the veteran to affect any existing gambling on tribal lands which could disclose confidential or privileged years. services is merely incidental. was honorably discharged upon separation pursuant to compacts executed by the state information of the victim. BALLOT SUMMARY: (b) The school board shall operate, control, and (d) LEGISLATION. In the next regular legisla- from military service. The discount shall be in a and Native American tribes pursuant to IGRA. (6) A victim shall have the following specific Grants mandatory payment of death benefits supervise all free public schools established by tive session occurring after voter approval of percentage equal to the percentage of the vet- (d) This section is effective upon approval by rights upon request: and waiver of certain educational expenses to the district school board within the school dis- this section or any amendment to this section eran’s permanent, service- connected disability the voters, is self-executing, and no Legislative a. The right to reasonable, accurate, and timely qualifying survivors of certain first responders trict and determine the rate of school district amendment, the Florida legislature shall adopt as determined by the United States Department implementation is required. notice of, and to be present at, all public pro- and military members who die performing offi- taxes within the limits prescribed herein. Two or legislation to implement this section and any of Veterans Affairs. To qualify for the discount (e) If any part of this section is held invalid for ceedings involving the criminal conduct, includ- cial duties. Requires supermajority votes by more school districts may operate and finance amendment to this section amendment in a granted by this subsection, an applicant must any reason, the remaining portion or portions ing, but not limited to, trial, plea, sentencing, or university trustees and state university system joint educational programs. manner consistent with its broad purpose and submit to the county property appraiser, by shall be severed from the invalid portion and adjudication, even if the victim will be a witness board of governors to raise or impose all leg- SECTION . Civic literacy.— As education is es- stated terms, and having an effective date no March 1, an official letter from the United States given the fullest possible force and effect. at the proceeding, notwithstanding any rule to islatively authorized fees if law requires ap- sential to the preservation of the rights and lib- later than July 1 of the year following voter ap- Department of Veterans Affairs stating the per- the contrary. A victim shall also be provided rea- proval by those bodies. Establishes existing erties of the people, the legislature shall provide proval. Such legislation shall include, without centage of the veteran’s service-connected dis- NO. 4 sonable, accurate, and timely notice of any re- state college system as constitutional entity; by law for the promotion of civic literacy in order limitation, civil penalties for violations of this ability and such evidence that reasonably CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT lease or escape of the defendant or delinquent, provides governance structure. to ensure that students enrolled in public edu- section; provisions for administrative enforce- identifies the disability as combat related and a ARTICLE VI, SECTION 4 and any proceeding during which a right of the cation understand and are prepared to exercise ment; and the requirement and authorization of copy of the veteran’s honorable discharge. If victim is implicated. FULL TEXT: their rights and responsibilities as citizens of a agency rules for implementation and enforce- the property appraiser denies the request for a BALLOT TITLE: b. The right to be heard in any public proceed- ARTICLE IX constitutional republic. ment. This section does not Nothing herein discount, the appraiser must notify the appli- Voting Restoration Amendment ing involving pretrial or other release from any EDUCATION shall preclude the legislature from enacting any cant in writing of the reasons for the denial, and form of legal constraint, plea, sentencing, adju- SECTION 7. State University System.— ARTICLE XII law constituting or allowing a more restrictive the veteran may reapply. The Legislature may, BALLOT SUMMARY: dication, or parole, and any proceeding during (a) PURPOSES. In order to achieve excellence SCHEDULE regulation of tobacco smoking or the use of by general law, waive the annual application re- This amendment restores the voting rights of which a right of the victim is implicated. through teaching students, advancing research Limitation on terms of office for members of a vapor-generating electronic devices than is pro- quirement in subsequent years. This subsec- Floridians with felony convictions after they c. The right to confer with the prosecuting attor- and providing public service for the benefit of district school board.- This section and the vided in this section. tion is self-executing and does not require complete all terms of their sentence including ney concerning any plea agreements, partici- Florida’s citizens, their communities and amendment to Section 4 of Article IX imposing implementing legislation. parole or probation. The amendment would not pation in pretrial diversion programs, release, economies, the people hereby establish a sys- term limits for the terms of office for members NO. 10 (f) By general law and subject to conditions apply to those convicted of murder or sexual of- restitution, sentencing, or any other disposition tem of governance for the state university sys- of a district school board shall take effect on the CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION and limitations specified therein, the Legislature fenses, who would continue to be permanently of the case. tem of Florida. date it is approved by the electorate, but no ARTICLE III, SECTION 3 may provide ad valorem tax relief equal to the barred from voting unless the Governor and d. The right to provide information regarding the (b) STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. There shall service in a term of office which commenced ARTICLE IV, SECTIONS 4 AND 11 total amount or a portion of the ad valorem tax Cabinet vote to restore their voting rights on a impact of the offender’s conduct on the victim be a single state university system comprised prior to November 6, 2018, will be counted ARTICLE VIII, SECTIONS 1 AND 6 otherwise owed on homestead property to: case by case basis. and the victim’s family to the individual respon- of all public universities. A board of trustees against the limitation imposed by this amend- (1) The surviving spouse of a veteran who died sible for conducting any presentence investiga- shall administer each public university and a ment. BALLOT TITLE: from service-connected causes while on active FINANCIAL IMPACT STATEMENT: tion or compiling any presentence investigation board of governors shall govern the state uni- State and Local Government Structure and Op- duty as a member of the United States Armed The precise effect of this amendment on state report, and to have any such information con- versity system. NO. 9 eration Forces. and local government costs cannot be deter- sidered in any sentencing recommendations (c) LOCAL BOARDS OF TRUSTEES. Each CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION (2) The surviving spouse of a first responder mined, but the operation of current voter regis- submitted to the court. local constituent university shall be adminis- ARTICLE II, SECTION 7 BALLOT SUMMARY: who died in the line of duty. tration laws, combined with an increased e. The right to receive a copy of any presen- tered by a board of trustees consisting of thir- ARTICLE X, SECTION 20 Requires legislature to retain department of vet- (3) A first responder who is totally and perma- number of felons registering to vote, will pro- tence report, and any other report or record rel- teen members dedicated to the purposes of the erans’ affairs. Ensures election of sheriffs, prop- nently disabled as a result of an injury or in- duce higher overall costs relative to the evant to the exercise of a victim’s right, except state university system. The board of governors BALLOT TITLE: erty appraisers, supervisors of elections, tax juries sustained in the line of duty. Causal processes in place today. The impact, if any, on for such portions made confidential or exempt shall establish the powers and duties of the Prohibits Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling; Pro- collectors, and clerks of court in all counties; re- connection between a disability and service in state and local government revenues cannot be by law. boards of trustees. Each board of trustees shall hibits Vaping in Enclosed Indoor Workplaces moves county charters’ ability to abolish, the line of duty shall not be presumed but must determined. The fiscal impact of any future leg- f. The right to be informed of the conviction, consist of six citizen members appointed by the change term, transfer duties, or eliminate elec- be determined as provided by general law. For islation that implements a different process can- sentence, adjudication, place and time of incar- governor and five citizen members appointed BALLOT SUMMARY: tion of these offices. Changes annual legislative purposes of this paragraph, the term “disability” not be reasonably determined. ceration, or other disposition of the convicted by the board of governors. The appointed mem- Prohibits drilling for the exploration or extraction session commencement date in even- num- does not include a chronic condition or chronic offender, any scheduled release date of the of- bers shall be confirmed by the senate and of oil and natural gas beneath all state-owned bered years from March to January; removes disease, unless the injury sustained in the line FULL TEXT: fender, and the release of or the escape of the serve staggered terms of five years as provided waters between the mean high water line and legislature’s authorization to fix another date. of duty was the sole cause of the chronic con- Article VI, Section 4. Disqualifications.— offender from custody. by law. The chair of the faculty senate, or the the state’s outermost territorial boundaries. Creates office of domestic security and coun- dition or chronic disease. (a) No person convicted of a felony, or adjudi- g. The right to be informed of all postconviction equivalent, and the president of the student Adds use of vapor-generating electronic de- terterrorism within department of law enforce- As used in this subsection and as further de- cated in this or any other state to be mentally processes and procedures, to participate in body of the university shall also be members. vices to current prohibition of tobacco smoking ment. fined by general law, the term “first responder” incompetent, shall be qualified to vote or hold such processes and procedures, to provide in- (d) STATEWIDE BOARD OF GOVERNORS. in enclosed indoor workplaces with exceptions; means a law enforcement officer, a correctional office until restoration of civil rights or removal formation to the release authority to be consid- The board of governors shall be a body corpo- permits more restrictive local vapor ordinances. FULL TEXT: officer, a firefighter, an emergency medical of disability. Except as provided in subsection ered before any release decision is made, and rate consisting of seventeen members. The ARTICLE III technician, or a paramedic, and the term “in the (b) of this section, any disqualification from vot- to be notified of any release decision regarding board shall operate, regulate, control, and be FULL TEXT: LEGISLATURE line of duty” means arising out of and in the ac- ing arising from a felony conviction shall termi- the offender. The parole or early release author- fully responsible for the management of the ARTICLE II SECTION 3. Sessions of the legislature.— tual performance of duty required by employ- nate and voting rights shall be restored upon ity shall extend the right to be heard to any per- whole university system. These responsibilities GENERAL PROVISIONS (a) ORGANIZATION SESSIONS. On the four- ment as a first responder. completion of all terms of sentence including son harmed by the offender. shall include, but not be limited to, defining the SECTION 7. Natural resources and scenic teenth day following each general election the parole or probation. h. The right to be informed of clemency and ex- distinctive mission of each constituent univer- beauty.— legislature shall convene for the exclusive pur- ARTICLE XII (b) No person convicted of murder or a felony pungement procedures, to provide information sity and its articulation with free public schools (a) It shall be the policy of the state to conserve pose of organization and selection of officers. SCHEDULE sexual offense shall be qualified to vote until to the governor, the court, any clemency board, and community colleges, ensuring the well- and protect its natural resources and scenic (b) REGULAR SESSIONS. A regular session of SECTION 37. Increased homestead exemp- restoration of civil rights. and other authority in these procedures, and to planned coordination and operation of the sys- beauty. Adequate provision shall be made by the legislature shall convene on the first Tues- tion. —This section and the amendment to Sec- (bc) No person may appear on the ballot for re- have that information considered before a tem, and avoiding wasteful duplication of law for the abatement of air and water pollution day after the first Monday in March of each odd- tion 6 of Article VII increasing the homestead election to any of the following offices: clemency or expungement decision is made; facilities or programs. The board’s manage- and of excessive and unnecessary noise and numbered year, and on the second first exemption by exempting the assessed valua- (1) Florida representative, and to be notified of such decision in advance ment shall be subject to the powers of the leg- for the conservation and protection of natural Tuesday after the first Monday in January tion of homestead property greater than (2) Florida senator, of any release of the offender. islature to appropriate for the expenditure of resources. March, or such other date as may be fixed by $100,000 and up to $125,000 for all levies other (3) Florida Lieutenant governor, (7) The rights of the victim, as provided in sub- funds, and the board shall account for such ex- (b) Those in the Everglades Agricultural Area law, of each even-numbered year. than school district levies shall take effect Jan- (4) any office of the Florida cabinet, paragraph (6)a., subparagraph (6)b., or sub- penditures as provided by law. The governor who cause water pollution within the Ever- (c) SPECIAL SESSIONS. uary 1, 2019. (5) U.S. Representative from Florida, or paragraph (6)c., that apply to any first shall appoint to the board fourteen citizens ded- glades Protection Area or the Everglades Agri- (1) The governor, by proclamation stating the (6) U.S. Senator from Florida appearance proceeding are satisfied by a rea- icated to the purposes of the state university cultural Area shall be primarily responsible for purpose, may convene the legislature in special NO. 2 if, by the end of the current term of office, the sonable attempt by the appropriate agency to system. The appointed members shall be con- paying the costs of the abatement of that pollu- session during which only such legislative busi- CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT person will have served (or, but for resignation, notify the victim and convey the victim’s views firmed by the senate and serve staggered tion. For the purposes of this subsection, the ness may be transacted as is within the purview ARTICLE XII, SECTION 27 would have served) in that office for eight con- to the court. terms of seven years as provided by law. The terms “Everglades Protection Area” and “Ever- of the proclamation, or of a communication from secutive years. (8) The right to the prompt return of the victim’s commissioner of education, the chair of the ad- glades Agricultural Area” shall have the mean- the governor, or is introduced by consent of BALLOT TITLE: property when no longer needed as evidence visory council of faculty senates, or the equiva- ings as defined in statutes in effect on January two-thirds of the membership of each house. Limitations on Property Tax Assessments NO. 5 in the case. lent, and the president of the Florida student 1, 1996. (2) A special session of the legislature may be CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (9) The right to full and timely restitution in association, or the equivalent, shall also be (c) To protect the people of Florida and their en- convened as provided by law. BALLOT SUMMARY: ARTICLE VII, SECTION 19 every case and from each convicted offender members of the board. vironment, drilling for exploration or extraction (d) LENGTH OF SESSIONS. A regular session Proposing an amendment to the State Consti- for all losses suffered, both directly and indi- (e) FEES. Any proposal or action of a con- of oil or natural gas is prohibited on lands be- of the legislature shall not exceed sixty consec- tution to permanently retain provisions currently BALLOT TITLE: rectly, by the victim as a result of the criminal stituent university to raise, impose, or authorize neath all state waters which have not been utive days, and a special session shall not ex- in effect, which limit property tax assessment Supermajority Vote Required to Impose, Au- conduct. any fee, as authorized by law, must be ap- alienated and that lie between the mean high ceed twenty consecutive days, unless increases on specified nonhomestead real thorize, or Raise State Taxes or Fees (10) The right to proceedings free from unrea- proved by at least nine affirmative votes of the water line and the outermost boundaries of the extended beyond such limit by a three-fifths property, except for school district taxes, to 10 sonable delay, and to a prompt and final con- members of the board of trustees of the con- state’s territorial seas. This prohibition does not vote of each house. During such an extension percent each year. If approved, the amendment BALLOT SUMMARY: clusion of the case and any related stituent university, if approval by the board of apply to the transportation of oil and gas prod- no new business may be taken up in either removes the scheduled repeal of such provi- Prohibits the legislature from imposing, author- postjudgment proceedings. trustees is required by general law, and at least ucts produced outside of such waters. This sub- house without the consent of two-thirds of its sions in 2019 and shall take effect January 1, izing, or raising a state tax or fee except a. The state attorney may file a good faith de- twelve affirmative votes of the members of the section is self-executing. membership. 2019. through legislation approved by a two-thirds mand for a speedy trial and the trial court shall board of governors, if approval by the board of (e) ADJOURNMENT. Neither house shall ad- vote of each house of the legislature in a bill hold a calendar call, with notice, within fifteen governors is required by general law, in order ARTICLE X journ for more than seventy-two consecutive FULL TEXT: containing no other subject. This proposal does days of the filing demand, to schedule a trial to to take effect. A fee under this subsection shall MISCELLANEOUS hours except pursuant to concurrent resolution. ARTICLE XII not authorize a state tax or fee otherwise pro- commence on a date at least five days but no not include tuition. SECTION 20. Workplaces without tobacco (f) ADJOURNMENT BY GOVERNOR. If, during SCHEDULE hibited by the Constitution and does not apply more than sixty days after the date of the cal- SECTION 8. State College System.— smoke or vapor.— any regular or special session, the two houses SECTION 27. Property tax exemptions and to fees or taxes imposed or authorized to be im- endar call unless the trial judge enters an order (a) PURPOSES. In order to achieve excellence (a) PROHIBITION. As a Florida health initiative cannot agree upon a time for adjournment, the limitations on property tax assessments. — posed by a county, municipality, school board, with specific findings of fact justifying a trial date and to provide access to undergraduate edu- to protect people from the health hazards of governor may adjourn the session sine die or (a) The amendments to Sections 3, 4, and 6 or special district. more than sixty days after the calendar call. cation to the students of this state; to originate second-hand tobacco smoke and vapor, to- to any date within the period authorized for of Article VII, providing a $25,000 exemption b. All state-level appeals and collateral attacks articulated pathways to a baccalaureate de- bacco smoking and the use of vapor-generating such session; provided that, at least twenty-four for tangible personal property, providing an FULL TEXT: on any judgment must be complete within two gree; to ensure superior commitment to teach- electronic devices are is prohibited in enclosed hours before adjourning the session, and while additional $25,000 homestead exemption, au- ARTICLE VII years from the date of appeal in non-capital ing and learning; and to respond quickly and indoor workplaces. This section does not pre- neither house is in recess, each house shall be August 30, 2018, The Herald-Advocate A11 given formal written notice of the governor’s in- Charter, heretofore or hereafter adopted by the (5) The legislature may enact legislation to im- tention to do so, and agreement reached within electors of Dade County pursuant to Article VIII, plement this subsection, including, but not lim- he wel- cloth. that period by both houses on a time for ad- Section 11, of the Constitution of 1885, as ited to, defining terms and providing penalties comed The roof journment shall prevail. amended, shall be valid, and any amendments for violations. Any such law shall not contain to such charter shall be valid; provided that the provisions on any other subject. breeze As Seen From This Side lines stay lit ARTICLE IV said provisions of such charter and the said (g)(f) There shall be an independent commis- Twas singing every day and EXECUTIVE amendments thereto are authorized under said sion to conduct investigations and make public SECTION 4. Cabinet.— Article VIII, Section 11, of the Constitution of reports on all complaints concerning breach of its way By Jerry “Gray Wolf” Phillips night. The (a) There shall be a cabinet composed of an at- 1885, as amended. public trust by public officers or employees not through the bulbs have torney general, a chief financial officer, and a (f) DADE COUNTY; POWERS CONFERRED within the jurisdiction of the judicial qualifica- Wauchula commissioner of agriculture. In addition to the UPON MUNICIPALITIES. To the extent not in- tions commission. tops of the cy- changed powers and duties specified herein, they shall consistent with the powers of existing munici- (h)(1)(g) A code of ethics for all state employees press and through the exercise such powers and perform such duties palities or general law, the Metropolitan and nonjudicial officers prohibiting conflict be- as may be prescribed by law. In the event of a Government of Dade County may exercise all tween public duty and private interests shall be long leaf years from the tie vote of the governor and cabinet, the side the powers conferred now or hereafter by gen- prescribed by law. pines as the sun began to set one Army, one Navy already in long slender ones that bubbled on which the governor voted shall be deemed eral law upon municipalities. (2) A public officer or public employee shall not to prevail. (g) SELECTION AND DUTIES OF COUNTY abuse his or her public position in order to ob- showing a beautiful red hori- uniform and Stanley leaving in to the short fat colored ones, (b) The attorney general shall be the chief state OFFICERS.— tain a disproportionate benefit for himself or zon. The sailors' old phrase two weeks, but first he has to then the small colored ones legal officer. There is created in the office of the (1) Except as provided in this subsection, the herself; his or her spouse, children, or em- attorney general the position of statewide pros- amendment to Section 1 of this article, relating ployer; or for any business with which he or she came to mind about the sunrise stay awake to pull this line that fit your night lights. As ecutor. The statewide prosecutor shall have to the selection and duties of county officers, contracts; in which he or she is an officer, a and sunset, "Red in the morn- tonight. Easter passed then came the concurrent jurisdiction with the state attorneys shall take effect January 5, 2021, but shall gov- partner, a director, or a proprietor; or in which to prosecute violations of criminal laws occur- ern with respect to the qualifying for and the he or she owns an interest. The Florida Com- ing, sailors take warning. Red As the sun sets the night manger with the baby and all ring or having occurred, in two or more judicial holding of the primary and general elections for mission on Ethics shall, by rule in accordance at night, sailors' delight." sounds come to life, crickets the trappings. circuits as part of a related transaction, or when county constitutional officers in 2020. with statutory procedures governing adminis- any such offense is affecting or has affected (2) For Miami-Dade County and Broward trative rulemaking, define the term “dispropor- It looks like the Fourth of and locusts (cicadas). We get The old man who oper- two or more judicial circuits as provided by gen- County, the amendment to Section 1 of this ar- tionate benefit” and prescribe the requisite July 1950 will be a beautiful busy pulling the Radio Flyer ated the store eral law. The statewide prosecutor shall be ap- ticle, relating to the selection and duties of intent for finding a violation of this prohibition pointed by the attorney general from not less county officers, shall take effect January 7, for purposes of enforcing this paragraph. Ap- day tomorrow. Early, before it red wagon with two-foot tubs was old when than three persons nominated by the judicial 2025, but shall govern with respect to the qual- propriate penalties shall be prescribed by law. got hot, my brother, cousin and inside for fish (they must stay I was 20. He nominating commission for the supreme court, ifying for and the holding of the primary and (i)(h) This section shall not be construed to limit or as otherwise provided by general law. general elections for county constitutional offi- disclosures and prohibitions which may be es- I picked 30 big cannonball wa- alive most of the night). said no one (c) The chief financial officer shall serve as the cers in 2024. tablished by law to preserve the public trust and termelons 25 to 40 pounds I like catfish and country knew when chief fiscal officer of the state, and shall settle (h)(g) DELETION OF OBSOLETE SCHEDULE avoid conflicts between public duties and pri- and approve accounts against the state, and ITEMS. The legislature shall have power, by vate interests. each and loaded them in my cured ham. Tomorrow there Christ was shall keep all state funds and securities. joint resolution, to delete from this article any (j)(i) Schedule—On the effective date of this cousin's Gene's pickup. will be plenty but no sleep born. He cele- (d) The commissioner of agriculture shall have subsection of this Section 6, including this sub- amendment and until changed by law: supervision of matters pertaining to agriculture section, when all events to which the subsec- (1) Full and public disclosure of financial inter- After getting the trot line tonight. brated Christ- except as otherwise provided by law. tion to be deleted is or could become applicable ests shall mean filing with the custodian of state and pole line hooks with bait, All these years later I am mas every day with Easter for (e) The governor as chair, the chief financial of- have occurred. A legislative determination of records by July 1 of each year a sworn state- ficer, and the attorney general shall constitute fact made as a basis for application of this sub- ment showing net worth and identifying each we loaded all in the truck and 82, but the pride in my country one week. the state board of administration, which shall section shall be subject to judicial review. asset and liability in excess of $1,000 and its got to Spring Creek, putting is as fresh as a fresh white- The last time I went to succeed to all the power, control, and authority value together with one of the following: of the state board of administration established NO. 11 a. A copy of the person’s most recent federal in- the melons in the cold water washed fence. I hope some of Port St. Joe, Florida all that pursuant to Article IX, Section 16 of the Consti- CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION come tax return; or under Whites Bridge and have this pride will rub off on oth- area had changed, and I found tution of 1885, and which shall continue as a ARTICLE I, SECTION 2 b. A sworn statement which identifies each sep- body at least for the life of Article XII, Section ARTICLE X, SECTIONS 9 AND 19 arate source and amount of income which ex- been busy for hours getting ers. no sign of the "Christmas 9(c). ceeds $1,000. The forms for such source poles set along the creek banks There are two tunes that Store." (f) The governor as chair, the chief financial of- BALLOT TITLE: disclosure and the rules under which they are ficer, the attorney general, and the commis- Property Rights; Removal of Obsolete Provi- to be filed shall be prescribed by the independ- and stopped to eat a couple of still bring me to a halt and at- I have thought of this old sioner of agriculture shall constitute the trustees sion; Criminal Statutes ent commission established in subsection (g) sandwiches each while resting. tention, Taps and the National man many times. We should of the internal improvement trust fund (f), and such rules shall include disclosure of and the land acquisition trust fund as provided BALLOT SUMMARY: secondary sources of income. Next come the trot lines. Anthem, where ever I am. My treat each day as Christmas by law. Removes discriminatory language related to (2) Persons holding statewide elective offices We developed a system to only regret is the way some and as though it is the last we (g) The governor as chair, the chief financial of- real property rights. Removes obsolete lan- shall also file disclosure of their financial inter- ficer, the attorney general, and the commis- guage repealed by voters. Deletes provision ests pursuant to paragraph (1) subsection check the lines at night. One singers, mostly female, distort have on earth, for it may be. sioner of agriculture shall constitute the agency that amendment of a criminal statute will not af- (i)(1). rope, long enough to cross the the National Anthem with their –––––– head of the Department of Law Enforcement. fect prosecution or penalties for a crime com- (3) The independent commission provided for The Office of Domestic Security and Countert- mitted before the amendment; retains current in subsection (g) (f) shall mean the Florida creek and back on a pulley sys- up and down screaming/war- Okay, I broke my promise errorism is created within the Department of provision allowing prosecution of a crime com- Commission on Ethics. tem will allow us to work from bling of such a beautifully to not tell you how I vote, but Law Enforcement. The Office of Domestic Se- mitted before the repeal of a criminal statute. curity and Counterterrorism shall provide sup- ARTICLE V one side removing the fish, an written song. 2018 is too important to let so- port for prosecutors and federal, state, and FULL TEXT: JUDICIARY all-night job, after all our fam- While everyone else is cialists take away our voice. local law enforcement agencies that investigate ARTICLE I SECTION 13. Ethics in the judiciary Prohibited or analyze information relating to attempts or DECLARATION OF RIGHTS activities.— ilies have been cooking all day safe in the bunker, Francis S. We must keep and add more acts of terrorism or that prosecute terrorism, SECTION 2. Basic rights.—All natural persons, (a) All justices and judges shall devote full time to be here around 9 a.m. Key was standing at the open Republicans. If we don't, we and shall perform any other duties that are pro- female and male alike, are equal before the law to their judicial duties. A justice or judge They vided by law. and have inalienable rights, among which are shall not engage in the practice of law or hold In all, about 6 to 8 adults door relating to the others what all lose, just like Venezuela. SECTION 11. Department of Veterans’ Veter- the right to enjoy and defend life and liberty, to office in any political party. and 15 to 18 kids. We are he saw as the battle raged on Now I add one more (sort ans Affairs.—The legislature, by general law, pursue happiness, to be rewarded for industry, (b) A former justice or former judge shall not shall provide for a may provide for the estab- and to acquire, possess and protect property; lobby for compensation on issues of policy, ap- going to need fish, lots of fish, through the night. With the of). I have no love for the lishment of the Department of Veterans’ Veter- except that the ownership, inheritance, dispo- propriations, or procurement before the legisla- and that was our job tonight. flares he kept seeing our flag NFL millionaires taking enter- ans Affairs and prescribe its duties. The head sition and possession of real property by aliens tive or executive branches of state government of the department is the governor and cabinet. ineligible for citizenship may be regulated or for a period of six years after he or she vacates While eating this old dry sand- still standing. Today it flies tainment people pay to see and prohibited by law. No person shall be deprived his or her judicial position. The legislature may wich all I could think about is just as strong through the way jam their opinions on you. ARTICLE VIII of any right because of race, religion, national enact legislation to implement this subsection, LOCAL GOVERNMENT origin, or physical disability. including, but not limited to, defining terms and pumpkin pie and blueberry that unhappy people put it They are hired (and quite well) SECTION 1. Counties.— providing penalties for violations. Any such law cobbler. through. to play a game. It's their job. (a) POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. The state shall ARTICLE X shall not contain provisions on any other sub- be divided by law into political subdivisions MISCELLANEOUS ject. We enjoyed the Fourth of If you don't like my flag It's what their company ex- called counties. Counties may be created, abol- SECTION 9. Repeal of criminal statutes.—Re- July, but we kids don't forget please leave, go to the one you pects. ished or changed by law, with provision for pay- peal or amendment of a criminal statute shall ARTICLE XII ment or apportionment of the public debt. not affect prosecution or punishment for any SCHEDULE why we celebrate. Freedom, so do like. I'll help pay your one- I don't go to Walmart, (b) COUNTY FUNDS. The care, custody and crime previously committed before such repeal. Prohibitions regarding lobbying for compensa- many lives lost since 1767, way trip. have my items run up and have method of disbursing county funds shall be pro- SECTION 19. Repealed High speed ground tion and abuse of public position by public offi- vided by general law. transportation system.—To reduce traffic con- cers and public employees.—The amendments 1776, and until today. Dad –––––– their employee jam some po- (c) GOVERNMENT. Pursuant to general or gestion and provide alternatives to the traveling to Section 8 of Article II and Section 13 of Article walks with a cane and crutches As Easter nears, the scene litical opinion in my face. special law, a county government may be es- public, it is hereby declared to be in the public V shall take effect December 31, 2022; except tablished by charter which shall be adopted, interest that a high speed ground transportation that the amendments to Section 8(h) of Article at times with a Purple Heart on the roof of the store Don't mess with my National amended or repealed only upon vote of the system consisting of a monorail, fixed guideway II shall take effect December 31, 2020, and: following the loss of a knee changed from a manger to Anthem. electors of the county in a special election or magnetic levitation system, capable of (a) The Florida Commission on Ethics shall, by called for that purpose. speeds in excess of 120 miles per hour, be de- rule, define the term “disproportionate benefit” cap in 1918 in France and three crosses. One in the mid- But I feel so sorry for the (d) COUNTY OFFICERS. There shall be veloped and operated in the State of Florida to and prescribe the requisite intent for finding a other medals he never talks dle two feet taller than the ones Cleveland Browns. They elected by the electors of each county, for terms provide high speed ground transportation by in- violation of the prohibition against abuse of of four years, a sheriff, a tax collector, a prop- novative, efficient and effective technologies public position by October 1, 2019, as specified about. on each side. The middle cross haven't won one game since erty appraiser, a supervisor of elections, and a consisting of dedicated rails or guideways sep- in Section 8(h) of Article II. We have two brothers, draped with a white linen 2016. Guys, do something. clerk of the circuit court; except, when provided arated from motor vehicular traffic that will link (b) Following the adoption of rules pursuant to by county charter or special law approved by the five largest urban areas of the State as de- subsection (a), the legislature shall enact im- vote of the electors of the county, any county termined by the Legislature and provide for ac- plementing legislation establishing penalties for officer may be chosen in another manner cess to existing air and ground transportation violations of the prohibition against abuse of therein specified, or any county office may be facilities and services. The Legislature, the public position to take effect December 31, abolished when all the duties of the office pre- Cabinet and the Governor are hereby directed 2020. scribed by general law are transferred to an- to proceed with the development of such a sys- other office. Unless When not otherwise tem by the State and/or by a private entity pur- NO. 13 provided by county charter or special law ap- suant to state approval and authorization, CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION Notices proved by vote of the electors or pursuant to Ar- including the acquisition of right-of-way, the fi- ARTICLE X, NEW SECTION ticle V, section 16, the clerk of the circuit court nancing of design and construction of the sys- ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION shall be ex officio clerk of the board of county tem, and the operation of the system, as commissioners, auditor, recorder and custodian provided by specific appropriation and by law, BALLOT TITLE: of all county funds. Notwithstanding subsection with construction to begin on or before Novem- Ends Dog Racing 6(e) of this article, a county charter may not ber 1, 2003. abolish the office of a sheriff, a tax collector, a BALLOT SUMMARY: property appraiser, a supervisor of elections, or NO. 12 Phases out commercial dog racing in connec- a clerk of the circuit court; transfer the duties of CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION tion with wagering by 2020. Other gaming ac- NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING those officers to another officer or office; ARTICLE II, SECTION 8 tivities are not affected. change the length of the four-year term of of- ARTICLE V, SECTION 13 fice; or establish any manner of selection other ARTICLE XII, NEW SECTION FULL TEXT: FOR THE CITY OF BOWLING GREEN than by election by the electors of the county. ARTICLE X (e) COMMISSIONERS. Except when otherwise BALLOT TITLE: MISCELLANEOUS provided by county charter, the governing body Lobbying and Abuse of Office by Public Officers Prohibition on racing of and wagering on grey- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY OF BOWLING GREEN, CITY COMMIS- of each county shall be a board of county com- hounds or other dogs.-The humane treatment SION, WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 AT missioners composed of five or seven mem- BALLOT SUMMARY: of animals is a fundamental value of the people bers serving staggered terms of four years. Expands current restrictions on lobbying for of the State of Florida. After December 31, 6:30 P.M. OR AS SOON THEREAFTER, AT CITY HALL, 104 EAST MAIN STREET, After each decennial census the board of compensation by former public officers; creates 2020, a person authorized to conduct gaming BOWLING GREEN, FLORIDA. TO HEAR THE FOLLOWING: county commissioners shall divide the county restrictions on lobbying for compensation by or pari-mutuel operations may not race grey- into districts of contiguous territory as nearly serving public officers and former justices and hounds or any member of the Canis Familiaris equal in population as practicable. One com- judges; provides exceptions; prohibits abuse of subspecies in connection with any wager for ORDINANCE 2018-05 missioner residing in each district shall be a public position by public officers and employ- money or any other thing of value in this state, elected as provided by law. ees to obtain a personal benefit. and persons in this state may not wager money (f) NON-CHARTER GOVERNMENT. Counties or any other thing of value on the outcome of a AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BOWLING GREEN, FLORIDA AMENDING THE not operating under county charters shall have FULL TEXT: live dog race occurring in this state. The failure such power of self-government as is provided ARTICLE II to conduct greyhound racing or wagering on OFFICIAL ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF BOWLING GREEN FOR ONE PARCEL by general or special law. The board of county GENERAL PROVISIONS greyhound racing after December 31, 2018, OF LAND CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY 2.2 ACRES FROM R-1 (SINGLE commissioners of a county not operating under SECTION 8. Ethics in government.— A public does not constitute grounds to revoke or deny a charter may enact, in a manner prescribed by office is a public trust. The people shall have renewal of other related gaming licenses held FAMILY RESIDENTIAL) TO R-3 (MULTIPLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL) LOCATED AT general law, county ordinances not inconsistent the right to secure and sustain that trust against by a person who is a licensed greyhound 4219 CHURCH AVENUE (PARCEL NUMBER 0433-25-0010-00040-0007); PROVID- with general or special law, but an ordinance in abuse. To assure this right: permitholder on January 1, 2018, and does not conflict with a municipal ordinance shall not be (a) All elected constitutional officers and candi- affect the eligibility of such permitholder, or ING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. effective within the municipality to the extent of dates for such offices and, as may be deter- such permitholder’s facility, to conduct other such conflict. mined by law, other public officers, candidates, pari-mutuel activities authorized by general law. (g) CHARTER GOVERNMENT. Counties oper- and employees shall file full and public disclo- By general law, the legislature shall specify civil and ating under county charters shall have all pow- sure of their financial interests. or criminal penalties for violations of this section ers of local self-government not inconsistent (b) All elected public officers and candidates for and for activities that aid or abet violations of with general law, or with special law approved such offices shall file full and public disclosure this section. Ordinance 2018-06 by vote of the electors. The governing body of of their campaign finances. a county operating under a charter may enact (c) Any public officer or employee who ARTICLE XII county ordinances not inconsistent with general breaches the public trust for private gain and SCHEDULE AN ORDINANCE VACATING AND CLOSING AN UNDEVELOPED ALLEY RIGHT law. The charter shall provide which shall pre- any person or entity inducing such breach shall Prohibition on racing of or wagering on grey- OF WAY IN THE CITY OF BOWLING GREEN, FLORIDA DESCRIBED AS THAT vail in the event of conflict between county and be liable to the state for all financial benefits ob- hounds or other dogs.-The amendment to Arti- municipal ordinances. tained by such actions. The manner of recovery cle X, which prohibits the racing of or wagering PLATTED ALLEY RUNNING N & S THROUGH BLOCK 40 OF BOWLING GREEN (h) TAXES; LIMITATION. Property situate within and additional damages may be provided by on greyhound and other dogs, and the creation RR SURVEY 04 33S 25E 547P620 591P491 629P298 IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS municipalities shall not be subject to taxation law. of this section, shall take effect upon the ap- for services rendered by the county exclusively (d) Any public officer or employee who is con- proval of the electors. OF HARDEE COUNTY, FLORIDA; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. for the benefit of the property or residents in un- victed of a felony involving a breach of public incorporated areas. trust shall be subject to forfeiture of rights and (i) COUNTY ORDINANCES. Each county ordi- privileges under a public retirement system or The map below identifies the subject property of Ordinances 2018-05 and 2018- nance shall be filed with the custodian of state pension plan in such manner as may be pro- 06. records and shall become effective at such time vided by law. thereafter as is provided by general law. (e) No member of the legislature or statewide (j) VIOLATION OF ORDINANCES. Persons vi- elected officer shall personally represent an- olating county ordinances shall be prosecuted other person or entity for compensation before and punished as provided by law. the government body or agency of which the in- (k) COUNTY SEAT. In every county there shall dividual was an officer or member for a period be a county seat at which shall be located the of two years following vacation of office. No principal offices and permanent records of all member of the legislature shall personally rep- county officers. The county seat may not be resent another person or entity for compensa- YOUR moved except as provided by general law. tion during term of office before any state Branch offices for the conduct of county busi- agency other than judicial tribunals. Similar re- ness may be established elsewhere in the strictions on other public officers and employ- county by resolution of the governing body of ees may be established by law. BUSINESS the county in the manner prescribed by law. No (f)(1) For purposes of this subsection, the term instrument shall be deemed recorded until filed “public officer” means a statewide elected offi- at the county seat, or a branch office desig- cer, a member of the legislature, a county com- nated by the governing body of the county for missioner, a county officer pursuant to Article the recording of instruments, according to law. VIII or county charter, a school board member, COULD SECTION 6. Schedule to Article VIII.— a superintendent of schools, an elected munic- (a) This article shall replace all of Article VIII of ipal officer, an elected special district officer in the Constitution of 1885, as amended, except a special district with ad valorem taxing author- those sections expressly retained and made a ity, or a person serving as a secretary, an ex- APPEAR part of this article by reference. ecutive director, or other agency head of a (b) COUNTIES; COUNTY SEATS; MUNICI- department of the executive branch of state PALITIES; DISTRICTS. The status of the fol- government. lowing items as they exist on the date this (2) A public officer shall not lobby for compen- article becomes effective is recognized and sation on issues of policy, appropriations, or HERE shall be continued until changed in accordance procurement before the federal government, with law: the counties of the state; their status the legislature, any state government body or with respect to the legality of the sale of intoxi- agency, or any political subdivision of this state, cating liquors, wines and beers; the method of during his or her term of office. TOO!! selection of county officers; the performance of (3) A public officer shall not lobby for compen- municipal functions by county officers; the sation on issues of policy, appropriations, or county seats; and the municipalities and special procurement for a period of six years after va- districts of the state, their powers, jurisdiction cation of public position, as follows: Contact and government. a. A statewide elected officer or member of the (c) OFFICERS TO CONTINUE IN OFFICE. legislature shall not lobby the legislature or any Every person holding office when this article state government body or agency. Nancy Davis, becomes effective shall continue in office for b. A person serving as a secretary, an executive the remainder of the term if that office is not director, or other agency head of a department abolished. If the office is abolished the incum- of the executive branch of state government Kim Reas or bent shall be paid adequate compensation, to shall not lobby the legislature, the governor, the COPIES OF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCES CAN BE OBTAINED AT CITY HALL, 104 be fixed by law, for the loss of emoluments for executive office of the governor, members of the remainder of the term. the cabinet, a department that is headed by a Trayce Daniels EAST MAIN STREET, BOWLING GREEN, FLORIDA, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY (d) ORDINANCES. Local laws relating only to member of the cabinet, or his or her former de- BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8AM AND 5:00 PM. unincorporated areas of a county on the effec- partment. tive date of this article may be amended or re- c. A county commissioner, a county officer pur- pealed by county ordinance. suant to Article VIII or county charter, a school ANY PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ORDINANCE MAY ATTEND THE PUB- (e) CONSOLIDATION AND HOME RULE. Arti- board member, a superintendent of schools, an 773-3255 cle VIII, Sections 9, 10, 11 and 24, of the Con- elected municipal officer, or an elected special LIC HEARING AND BE HEARD. IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DIS- stitution of 1885, as amended, shall remain in district officer in a special district with ad val- ABILITIES ACT (ADA), ANYONE WHO NEEDS A SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION FOR full force and effect as to each county affected, orem taxing authority shall not lobby his or her TheHeraldAdvocate.com as if this article had not been adopted, until that former agency or governing body. THIS MEETING SHOULD CONTACT THE CITY CLERK AT (863) 375-2255 AT LEAST county shall expressly adopt a charter or home (4) This subsection shall not be construed to 48 HOURS IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING, EXCLUDING SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. rule plan pursuant to this article. All provisions prohibit a public officer from carrying out the du- of the Metropolitan Dade County Home Rule ties of his or her public office. 8:30c A12 The Herald-Advocate, August 30, 2018 Gov. Scott Speaks At GOP Reagan Day Dinner Florida Gov. Rick Scott, third largest in the nation, and Lake Okeechobee but noted it candidate for U.S. Senate, was 250 languages are spoken in will be finished by 2022. keynote speaker Friday night the state. He said Florida has more at the Reagan Day Dinner Scott said he grew up for a population than New York but sponsored by the Hardee time in public housing with New York gets 30 percent County Republican Party at his mother. "I never met my more federal transportation the Hardee County Civic Cen- (biological) father. My Mom money than Florida. ter. insisted that I do three things: Officers of the local Repub- Local GOP chair and dinner make all A's in school, be- lican Executive Committee emcee Sue Birge estimated the come an Eagle Scout and get are Sue Birge, chair; Yolanda crowd at 375 to 400. The din- a job." Esquivel, vice chair; Ann ner was beef brisket, potatoes, He said Florida created Schwartz, secretary; David green beans and cheesecake. 26,000 jobs last month, with a Durastanti, treasurer; Patty Scott was introduced by 3.7 unemployment rate, and Clark, State Committee State Sen. Denise Grimsley, a the state has paid off one-third Woman; and Dan Graham, candidate for Florida Com- of its debt. "The University of State Committee Man. missioner of Agriculture and Florida is rated the ninth best Other members of the Exec- Consumer Services. She said public university in the na- utive Committee are James he ran for governor in 2000 on tion." Youmans, Sam Fite, Shawna a platform of "jobs, jobs, jobs" The current national budget Lambert, Colon Lambert, Jean and that over 1.5 million jobs has a $600 billion deficit, with Kelly, Michelle Yeomans, have been created in Florida the nation's debt at $21.3 tril- Wendell Smith, Tanya Royal, since then, with a current un- lion. U.S. senators make Sandy Scott, Ken Lambert, employment rate of under four $174,000 a year and should Bob Shayman, Vanessa Her- percent. work harder, said Scott. nandez, Mary Idsardi, Rick Scott said the state's crime "The federal government Knight, Floyd Rice, Ginger rate is at a 47-year low and needs term limits. A senator Rice, Russell Melendy, Char- that 120 million to 125 million should not be up there for 40 lie Scott, Edward Schwartz, tourists visit Florida annually. years." Gloria Shackelford, Mike PHOTOS BY JIM KELLY Scott said Florida has a pop- Scott said federal funding Thompson, Tommy Watkins Dr. Julio Gonzalez, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, stands with Hardee ulation of over 21 million, has been slow for repairing the and Jim Harris. High School Junior ROTC Honor Guard.

Sue Birge is chair of the Hardee County Republi- can Party and a county Melony Bell, a Polk commissioner who is County Commissioner is seeking re-election. She running for Florida State was emcee of the dinner. Representative. Matthew Stunkard of Florida's First Assembly of God sang the National Anthem. Greg Steube, candidate for U.S. House of Representa- tives, poses with his wife Jen. The couple live in Mana- tee County.

B.J. Norris, 100, of From left are Doyle E. Carlton III, chairman of the Wauchula was in atten- State Sen. Denise Grims- Florida State Fair in Tampa, Sen. Denise Grimsley, and dance. Hodges and Norris ley, a candidate for Florida U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, who chose not to seek re-elec- were honored for their Commissioner of Agricul- tion in 2018. longevity and service to ture and Consumer Serv- the country and commu- ices. Grimsley introduced nity. Norris is a World War keynote speaker Gov. Rick II veteran and was part of Scott, a candidate for the U.S. Senate. Dr. Elver Hodges, 106, of Wauchula attended with his the Normandy Invasion. daughter Margaret Blanco.

From left are Marlene Hyde, campaign manager, and Jeff Mann, candidate for Florida State Representative. Mann is a septic tank business owner from Polk County and has been active on volunteer boards.

Dr. Julio Gonzalez poses with his wife, Dr. Gina Arabitg. Michael Pierson (right), U.S. Navy 1967-71, presented The couple live in Sarasota County. a hand-carved wooden plaque of the U.S. Navy to Gov. Scott, who also served in the Navy.

Bill Akins, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, poses with his wife Kathy. The couple live in Port Char- lotte.

From left are David Stamey, assistant state attorney who runs the Wauchula office, and Brian Haas, elected Marlene Hyde poses with her son Andrew Bozeman, a state attorney for the 10th Judicial Circuit which in- U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Sue Birge with Gov. Rick Scott. cludes Polk, Hardee and Highlands counties. August 30, 2018, The Herald-Advocate A13 Courthouse Report

COUNTY COURT Leonardo Lopez Santiago, tion for divorce. The following felony crim- narcotics equipment, not pros- with assault/battery, criminal The following marriage li- DUI, 12 months’ probation, li- Kimberly L. Barber and inal cases were disposed of ecuted. mischief (above $200), battery censes were issued recently cense suspended six months, Otho A. Barber, petition for di- recently by the circuit judge: Alicia Calderon, possession on law enforcement officer, re- in the Clerk of Courts Of- ignition interlock six months, vorce. Benjamin Lazo, burglary of meth, not prosecuted; pos- sisting officer with violence fice: 50 hours’ community work, Linn Whisman and Shellie with assault, 364 days’ jail, session of narcotics equipment and battery on law enforce- Rita Eileen Zimmerman, $1,653 fines, costs and fees. Hunt, petition for divorce. credit time served, $1,220 and/or use, 12 months’ proba- ment officer, failure to appear 52, of Wauchula, and Daniel Carlos Cruz, resisting arrest fines, costs and fees. tion, $1,320 fines, costs and $25,500 cash/surety. Maxwell Smith, 54, of without violence, 12 months’ The following decisions on Ricardo Luis Colon, resist- fees. Wauchula. probation, 50 hours’ commu- civil cases pending in the ing arrest without violence, Demetrius Stewart, criminal The following deeds for Stacy Neff Westbrook, 38, nity work, $525 fines, costs Circuit Court were handed possession of marijuana and mischief ($1,000 or more), not real estate transactions of of Fort Meade, and Steven Lee and fees. down recently by the circuit possession of narcotics equip- prosecuted; improper exhibi- $10,000 or more were filed Medrano, 30, of Wauchula. Marcus David Roberts Jr., judge: ment and/or use, 45 days’ jail, tion of dangerous weapon, 100 recently in the Clerk of use of firearm while under the Tiffany Verrell vs. Hector credit time served, license sus- days’ jail, credit time served Courts Office: The following civil actions influence of alcohol and resist- Rodriguez, final judgment of pended one year, anger man- followed by 12 months’ proba- Marilyn Ford to Marilyn and small-claims cases were ing arrest without violence, 90 injunction for protection. agement course, $350 fines, tion, no weapons/firearms, Ford and Angel F. Whidden, disposed of recently by the days’ jail, credit time served Anthony Lee Thomas and costs and fees. $1,220 fines, costs and fees, for $16,600. county judge: followed by 12 months’ proba- Billie Jo Goodwin, final order Eric Luis Santiago, uttering $1,221 restitution. Rawlings Family Limited Pamela Sellers vs. Andrew tion, no weapons/firearms, no of divorce. a forged check, not prosecuted; Terry Lynn Fischer, posses- Partnership to Schneider Rupert, order of dismissal. alcohol or bars, $575 fines, William McClenithan and grand theft, 12 months’ proba- sion of meth, possession of Group Holdings, for $180,000. Salvador Deloera vs. Des- costs and fees. Robin Chrisman, final order of tion, $1,220 fines, costs and marijuana and possession of Ellen E. Smith to Garza tiny Herrera and Mark Mc- Marcus David Roberts, vio- divorce. fees. narcotics equipment and/or Rentals 1, for $85,000. Cormick, order of dismissal. lation of pretrial release condi- David Allen Sanders and Ty Lane Trammell, inten- use, transferred to drug pretrial Wesley W. Wilson and Saul Delgado vs. Heather tion, not prosecuted. Tracy A. Sanders, final order tional killing/wounding of an intervention. Cheryl A. Brewster to Lester Eubanks, order of dismissal. Candice Danielle Dubose, of divorce. endangered species, reduced to Waylan Pleger, violation of T. Bates and Donna S. Bates, Suncoast Credit Union vs. possession of less than 20 Heather Elizabeth Eubanks attempted killing/wounding of probation (original charges: for $25,000. Cynthia Torres, final judgment grams of marijuana, not pros- and Florida Department of an endangered /threatened battery, aggravated assault Helen F. Keller to Marco for $5,705.24. ecuted; possession of narcotics Revenue vs. Amanda Jean species, adjudication withheld, with deadly weapon and resist- and Ludmilla Giacomelli, for Travis Revell vs. Julie Al- equipment and/or use, 57 Benner, order suspending on- 12 months’ probation, 50 ing officer without $220,000. cantor, final order of dismissal. days’ jail, credit time served, going child support order on hours’ community work, violence/force), charge with- Robert L. Shiver Sr. to Hayden Leon Cobb vs. $590 fines, costs and fees. arrears. hunter safety class, $1,120 drawn. Justin and Ashley S. Svendsen, Shyann Baker, final order of Maria Suarez, trespassing, FDOR and Elizabeth L. fines, costs and fees. Jessica Danielle Sanchez, for $107,000. dismissal. 18 days’ jail, credit time Thompkins vs. Keith Brown, Mohammed Iqbal, posses- grand theft auto, failure to ap- Dewitt F. Vanarsdale to Billy or Janice Hill vs. served, $500 fines, costs and recommendation of hearing sion of marijuana with intent pear $5,000 cash/ surety. Kathleen B. Arnold and Laura David Coughlin, order of dis- fees. officer order on civil contempt. to sell/deliver and delivery of Noah Levi Yoder, burglary K. Hollister, for $22,000. missal. Irvin Martinez, criminal Carl Wilburn and Tammy mischief (above $200), 60 Paterson vs. Charlie Sunday Jr. days’ jail, $400 fines, costs and and Stephanie Sunday, order fees, $250 restitution. NOTICE of dismissal. Irvin Martinez, trespassing Notices Portfolio Recovery Associ- structure/conveyance, not The following individuals have unclaimed monies at the ates vs. Blas Galvan, voluntary prosecuted; giving false iden- Hardee County Sheriff's Office. Any monies not claimed dismissal. tification to law enforcement, by October 5, 2018 will be turned over to the Board of Irma Darty and Clarence 60 days’ jail, concurrent with County Commissioners, to be placed in the Fine and ______Darty vs. Timothy Shawn other case, $500 fines, costs Forfeiture Budget. This is Pursuant to Florida State at public sale, to the highest and IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF Statute 116.21. best bidder, for cash, in the sec- Allen Darty and Jessica Nicole and fees. THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ond floor hallway outside Room Taylor Darty, two cases, final Santiago Lopez, disorderly IN AND FOR 202 of the Hardee County Court- judgment for $205 and final intoxication, 60 days’ jail, Persons claiming such funds need to come to the HARDEE COUNTY, FLORIDA house, 417 W. Main Street, judgment for tenant eviction. credit time served, $950 fines, Hardee County Sheriff's Office, with photo identification; Wauchula, FL 33873, on Sep- CASE NO. 25-2016-CA-000306 Highlands Regional Med- costs and fees; giving false Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - tember 12, 2018 beginning at ical Center vs. Ivy Knight, set- identification to law enforce- 3:00 p.m. 11:00 AM. WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. If you are a person claiming a tlement stipulation and ment, not prosecuted. Plaintiff, dismissal order. Almaraz, Osvaldo $435.00 right to funds remaining after the sale, you must file a claim with Discover Bank vs. Keri M. CIRCUIT COURT Beck, Andrew $277.95 v. the clerk no later than 60 days See, default final judgment for The following civil actions Delacruz, Reinaldo $18.17 after the sale. If you fail to file a JESUS L BRITO; UNKNOWN $10,521.39. were filed recently in the of- Garcia, Mark $34.76 claim you will not be entitled to SPOUSE OF JESUS L. BRITO; Credit Acceptance Corp. vs. fice of the Circuit Court: Garcia, Leonardo $35.00 any remaining funds. Gist, Taylor $35.00 UNKNOWN TENANT 1; Carla Gonzales and Joshua Doris Ann Hall and the UNKNOWN TENANT 2; Green, Gregory $20.00 Dated this 24th day of August, Gonzales, default final judg- Florida Department of Rev- ______/Defendants. ment for $12,323.57. enue vs. James Ray Day, peti- Huerta-Casillas, Marco $38.75 2018. tion for administrative Johnston, Joseph $4.06 NOTICE OF SALE VICTORIA L. ROGERS, The following criminal enforcement order on child Lopez, Jose $15.45 Clerk of the Circuit Court traffic and misdemeanor support. Lopez-Rendon, Guillermo $25.25 Notice is hereby given that, Hardee County, Florida cases were disposed of re- Alex Quesada, petition for Matteson, John $59.78 pursuant to the Final Judgment cently in County Court: name change to Alcibiades Eu- McManus, Michael $105.00 of Foreclosure entered on May By: Connie Coker 7, 2018, and the Order Resched- Deputy Clerk Carl Benjamin Coleman, staquio Quesada Perdomo. Moore, Dustin $13.25 uling Foreclosure Sale entered DUI, 12 months’ probation, li- Blanca Lidia Vargas Discua Nix, Rebekah $186.35 on August 24, 2018, in this If you are a person with a dis- cense suspended one year, 50 vs. Donnie Ray Boyett and Perada, Antonio $70.56 cause, in the Circuit Court of ability who needs any accomo- hours’ community work; refus- Marjorie Boyett, property Prestridge, Amy $3.44 Hardee County, Florida, the dation in order to participate in ing to submit to a DUI test, not foreclosure. Rodriguez, Steven $179.25 clerk shall sell the property situ- this proceeding, you are enti- Rugama, Samir $221.00 ated in Hardee County, Florida, tled, at no cost to you, to the prosecuted; $1,078 fines, costs Miranda Louise Sunday and described as: and fees. William Robert Sunday, peti- Santiago-Guman, Olegario $103.96 provision of certain assistance. Please contact the Office of the Tomlinson, Justin $5.00 N 1/3 OF THE N ½ OF Court Administrator, 255 N. Vasquez, Alfredo $34.55 THE NE ¼ OF THE SE ¼ Broadway Avenue, Bartow, Velasco, Juan $81.38 OF THE NE ¼ OF SEC- Florida 33830, (863) 534-4686, at Velasquez, Ruben $69.11 TION 30, TOWNSHIP 33 least 7 days before your sched- NOTICE OF APPLICATION Ybarra, Michael $23.10 SOUTH, RANGE 26 uled court appearance, or imme- 8:30,9:6c EAST, HARDEE COUNTY, diately upon receiving this FLORIDA. notification if the time before the FOR TAX DEED scheduled appearance is less A/K/A 1533 N HOLLAND- than 7 days; if you are hearing or WARNING TOWN ROAD, voice impaired, call 711. THERE ARE UNPAID TAXES ON THE PROPERTY WAUCHULA, FL 33873- ______8:30,9:6c WHICH YOU OWN OR IN WHICH YOU MAY HAVE 4413 LEGAL INTEREST.

The property will be sold at a public auction on the 2018 12th day of September, 2018, at 11:00 a.m., unless SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS FOR HARDEE COUNTY COMMISSION the back taxes are paid. To make payment or for AND APPOINTED BOARDS Meetings to be held in County Commission Chambers, Room 102 questions concerning real property taxes, contact Courthouse Annex, 412 W. Orange Street, Wauchula, Florida unless the Hardee County Tax Collector’s Office at (863) otherwise noted 773-9144 (PO Box 445, Wauchula, FL 33873). To re- BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ceive further information regarding the Tax Deed Regular meetings first Thursday at 8:30 a.m. & third Thursday at 6:00 Sale, contact the Hardee County Clerk of the p.m. Courts, immediately, at (863) 773-4174 (P.O. MONTH OF September–06th at 8:30 a.m. and 20th at 6:00 p.m. Planning Session –No Planning Session Drawer 1749, Wauchula, Florida, 33873). Labor Day Holiday – 03rd Tentative Budget Hearing – 11th at 6:00 p.m. The holder of the following tax certificate has filed Final Budget Hearing – 25th at 6:00 p.m. the certificate for a tax deed to be issued. The cer- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY “INDEPENDENT BOARD” tificate number and year of issuance, the descrip- MONTH OF September– To be announced. tion of the property, and the names in which it was assessed are: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL/INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP- MENT AUTH. Meets on second Tuesday of each month at 8:30 a.m. CERTIFICATE NO.: 1317 MONTH OF September–11th YEAR OF ISSUANCE: 2012 NAME(S) IN WHICH ASSESSED: James A. Cun- PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD – meets first Thursday night of each month at 6:00 p.m. ningham, Trustee MONTH OF September– 06th

Description of Property: CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LICENSING BOARD Meets on the second Monday night of each month at 6:00 p.m. in Parcel ID Number: 33-34-27-0000-50050-0000 Building Department Conference Room, 401 West Main Street MONTH OF September–10th 600 AC 1/32 MINERAL RIGHTS ALL LESS NE1/4 OF NW1/4 COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD PART OF 9185 ACRE TRACT Meets first Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m. LESS PHOSPHATE OR 228 P 790 MONTH OF September– No meeting scheduled LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD SUBJECT TO RESERVATIONS, COVENANTS, RE- Friends of Library meets on first Tuesday of each month at 5:00 p.m. STRICTIONS, AND EASEMENTS OF RECORD. at Library in Annex II MONTH OF September – 04th

All of the property is in HARDEE County, Florida. HOUSING AUTHORITY Meets quarterly on the third Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at 701 LaPlaya Unless the certificate or certificates are redeemed Drive, Wauchula MONTH OF September – No meeting scheduled according to law, the property described in the cer- tificate or certificates will be sold to the highest bid- HARDEE COUNTY INDIGENT HEALTH CARE BOARD der on September 12, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. Usually meets third Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. MONTH OF September – 18th

By: Norma M. Juarez, Deputy Clerk This is a Disabled-Accessible facility. Any disabled person needing to make special arrangements should contact the County Commis- Pursuant to F.S. 197.512 sioner’s office at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the public meet- ing. Victoria L. Rogers This notice is published in compliance with Florida Statutes 286.0105. Hardee County, Clerk of the Circuit Court and Interested parties may appear at the public meeting and be heard. If Comptroller a person decides to appeal any decision made by the members, with Tax Deed File: 252018TD012XXXX respect to any matter considered at such meeting or hearing, he/she will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such purpose, Date: 08/06/2018 he/she may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceeding Ad No.: 1 is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon 8:9-30c which the appeal is to be based. 8:30c 8:30nc A14 The Herald-Advocate, August 30, 2018 THE B Herald-Advocate Thursday, August 30, 2018

By MICHAEL KELLY Fort Meade 30-yard line and ceiver Dylan Davis open in the Of The Herald-Advocate returned it for a touchdown. left flat and he made one de- The Hardee Wildcats were Hardee elected to go for a fender miss a tackle before undeterred by the more than two-point try and Ellis Hodges stiff-arming another on his one-hour rain delay and came successfully ran up the middle way to the end zone for a 10- out and unleashed a dominat- to give Hardee an 8-0 lead yard touchdown. ing performance in every facet with 11:17 to go in the opening Leo Duarte came in and of the game, pummeling the quarter. made the PAT kick to give Fort Meade Miners in route to Kemp said Hardee will go Hardee a 23-0 lead. a 45-0 victory--one of the most for two points more often this Hardee scored again on its lopsided scores in the history year when he feels it is a good second possession of the sec- of the longtime rivalry be- matchup. ond half when St. Louis ran up tween the two schools. He said “stealing a few the middle and bowled over a Hardee Head Coach Brian extra points” during the game Miner defender near the goal Kemp was very pleased how can be a big advantage for the line for a 14-yard touchdown. his team played Friday night. Wildcats. The PAT kick was no good “Fort Meade is a big game Fort Meade’s next posses- and Hardee stretched its lead for our community,” he said. sion ended with a three-and- to 29-0 with 4:23 left in the “They had some good athletes out and Hardee took over at third quarter. and we were just more talented the Miner’s 44-yard line after Fort Meade’s next posses- on the offensive and defensive a short punt. sion ended with a safety when lines.” Hodges rushed for two first Trenton Roberson and Ray Zu- He credited both of his co- downs before Jean St. Louis niga pressured Howard in the ordinators for their game ripped off a 21-yard run to the end zone and caused him to PHOTOS BY NOEY DESANTIAGO plans. 2-yard line. throw the ball away, which re- Hardee running back Jean St. Louis runs over a Fort Meade defender at the two- “Coach (Jeff) Smothers had Three plays later, on fourth sulted with an intentional yard line before scoring his second of three touchdowns Friday night. a good offensive game plan and goal, St. Louis took a grounding call and a safety to coming into the game to wear handoff up the middle for a put the Wildcats up 31-0. Duarte made the PAT kick, under six minutes to go. He said Sebring is very them down during the game,” one-yard touchdown run, his Freshman Ke’Variss White which put Hardee up 38-0 and Roberson recovered a fum- physical, fast and well he said. “Steve (Rewis) had a first of three rushing touch- nearly returned the ensuing instituted a running clock for ble on Fort Meade’s next drive coached. great game plan for the de- downs for the night. kick for a touchdown but a the remainder of the game due and Hardee was able to take a They have a good athlete at fense and is always prepared Hardee again elected to go block-in-the-back penalty gave to Hardee leading by more knee and run out the clock be- quarterback who can throw but and never surprised by any- for two and quarterback James Hardee the ball at the Miner’s than 35 points. fore celebrating the victory. is very dangerous running the thing he sees.” Pearson rolled left and found 45. Hardee’s defense forced an- Kemp said Sebring has ball after switching from run- This week Hardee has its tight end Isaac Moreno open in Hodges rushed for a first other quick punt and Jean been the best team in the ning back to quarterback this regular-season home opener the end zone to go up 16-0 down before St. Louis rushed Youte picked up the short kick Heartland the past few seasons season. against Sebring, which had its with 2:58 left in the first quar- for his third touchdown of the and returned it 28 yards for a and Hardee will have a real Pearson will also be facing game rained out last week. ter. game, this one coming from 28 touchdown, giving Hardee a test against the Blue Streaks, his former team, after transfer- The Wildcats took the lead The teams traded punts on yards out on a nifty run off the score on defense, offense and which could be the best team ring from Sebring this spring less than a minute into the their next possessions before left end before he bounced out- special teams. the Wildcats will face in the and winning the starting quar- game when cornerback Myron Hardee scored again with 3:21 side and raced untouched to After the Duarte PAT, regular season. terback job for the Wildcats. Refoure jumped in front of left in the first half. the goal line for the score. Hardee led 45-0 with just Dearrick Howard’s pass at the Pearson found wide re-

Dylan Davis celebrates with Caden Dunlap after scor- ing on a 10-yard touchdown reception. Trenton Roberson and Ray Zuniga pressured Fort Four Hardee defenders converge on running back Meade quarterback Dearrick Howard in the end zone Kamron Simmons. Hardee’s defense held Fort Meade which led to a safety after he was flagged for intentional to only 80 yards of total offense for the game and Game Statistics grounding. forced two turnovers.

HARDEE FORT MEADE PASSING COMPLETIONS, ATTEMPTS AND INTERCEPTIONS 9-15-0 7-18-1 Players of the Week

PASSING YARDS 65 27 Fort Meade

RUSHING ATTEMPTS/ YARDS 29-184 20-53

TOTAL YARDS 249 80

TURNOVERS 0 2

FIRST DOWNS 11 4

PENALTIES, LOST YARDAGE 6-40 10-50 #54 Bo Villarreal #22 Trenton Roberson SCORING BY QUARTER: Offense Defense Hardee 16 7 8 14 45 Fort Meade 0 0 0 0 0 Trenton Roberson recovers a fumble for the Wildcats.

#17 Leo Duarte #55 Tom Pace Special Teams Lineman

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State Statutes 489- tfc-dh 119 Section 5 Paragraph B and Hardee County Ordinance 87-09 Section 10 Paragraph D require all ads for any construction-re- Sandoval Wholesale, Inc. is hiring 15 farmworkers to cultivate and harvest vegetable lated service to carry the con- crops in Colquitt County, GA for a temporary period starting on 10/14/2018 and tractor’s licence number. tfc-dh ending on 11/15/2018. One (1) month of verifiable work experience harvesting veg- etables is required. The wages offered are the highest of $10.95/hr. or applicable Yard Sales piece rates. This job requires prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Employer guarantees work will be available for at least three- quarters of the period stated. Required tools supplies, and equipment will be pro- Noon Tuesday Deadline COURTESY PHOTO vided at no cost to worker. Housing will be available for workers who cannot for all yard sale ads. reasonably return home after each working day. Transportation and subsistence SATURDAY, 8-?, OFF Bell Street. Mary Idsardi's second-grade R.E.A.C.H. class at North Wauchula Elementary School expenses will be provided, or reimbursed after 50% of the work contract is com- Tools, Vera bags, wedding explored and tinkered with some S.T.E.M. Center activities. The class name stands pleted, if appropriate. Applicants should apply for the position at their local State items, misc. 8:30p for Realizing Excellence through the Advanced academic Curriculum of Hardee, Workforce Agency office. Job Order Number: GA2586889476. cl8:20c FRIDAY, 8/31 & SATURDAY 9/1 and the center is for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math studies. from 7 am to 1 pm, little bit of everything. 401 Orange Place, Wauchula. 8:30c VIVACIOUS VERBS S. Derringer Harvesting, Inc. is hiring five Ag Equipment Operators to operate equipment used to harvest watermelon in Beaufort County, SC for a temporary period starting on ANGIE’S ATTIC THRIFT Store 09/23/2018 and ending on 11/08/2018. Twelve (12) months of verifiable work experience op- has relocated to 752 North 6th erating ag equipment are required. The wages offered are the highest of $10.95/hr. or appli- Ave., Wauchula. Open Tuesday cable piece rates. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws. through Saturday, 10 am - 3 pm. All drivers will be required to have a CDL license, and drivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Fed- Closed Sunday & Monday. eral Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization. Will be respon- 8:30-9:27p sible for operating the buses used to move watermelon from the field to the packinghouse and storage facility. Must be able to safely operate the buses that are used to transport work- FRIDAY, SATURDAY, 8am-2pm, ers to and from work sites. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving record corner of Orange & 1st Ave., and background. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no Wauchula. Clothes 50¢. 8:30p cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in imme- diate termination. Also, drug testing and background checks will occur during the interview FRIDAY, 7:30-?, 312 Pennsylva- process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Workers must nia Ave., Wauchula. 8:30p be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field. Employer guarantees work will be available for at least three-quarters of the period stated. Required tools supplies, and equipment will be provided at no cost to worker. Housing will be available for workers who cannot reasonably return home after each working day. Transportation and subsistence expenses will be provided, or reimbursed after 50% of the work contract is completed, if appropriate. Applicants should apply for the position at their local State Workforce Agency office. 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I don’t remember the visit- but the excitement had to go somewhere. My ing preacher’s name, but I remember Thursday excitement went to my bladder. The Washington Monument night of that week. There was something in the Now it’s Sunday night. With others, I’m message or the song that pulled me forward for standing in the baptistry, in a pool of water. Dear Editor: Charles L'Enfa nt ... a perfect cross imposed my “public profession of faith.” I remember Every 8-year-old boy knows the magic of One detail that is seldom mentioned is that upon the landscape, with the White House to writing on the back of an offering envelope being in the water: you can do things and no in Washington, D.C. there can never be a build- the north, the Jefferson Memorial is to the what I wanted to tell our pastor: “I want to ac- one knows. ing of greater height than the Washington Mon- south, the Capitol to the east and the Lincoln cept Jesus as my personal Savior.” The preacher recited from memory the story ument. Memorial to the west. We were on the third verse of “Just as I Am,” of the Ethiopian Eunuch. Pressure was building With all the uproar about removing the Ten A cross you ask? Why a cross? What about and I had this sense of now or never. I made inside my plumbing. The preacher said, “Let Commandments, etc., this is worth a moment separation of church and state? Yes, a cross; my way past my parents; I think my mother us pray” and began one of his very long prayers or two of your time. I was not aware of this separation of church and state was not, is not, began to cry. I was trying to squeeze past thanking God for creation, Jesus, salvation, amazing historical information. in the Constitution. strangers in the pew when the music stopped, those being baptized, the faithful work of the On the aluminum cap, atop the Washington So, read on. How interesting and, no doubt, and the preacher started talking. He was talking evangelist, the wonderful songs that drew us Monument in Washington, D.C., are displayed intended to carry a profound meaning for those about the need to come forward, receive Christ, close to Jesus, for the generous offering, for life two words: Laus Deo. No one can see these who bother to notice. and be obedient to Christ in baptism. itself, for his education, for justice and mercy. words. In fact, most visitors to the monument When the cornerstone of the Washington I should fill in non-Baptists. Baptists do not It was a long list of thanks. Meanwhile, in my are totally unaware they are even there and for Monument was laid on July 4th, 1848, de- baptize infants; we only dunk people old 8-year old body, the dam was about to be over- that matter probably couldn't care less. posited within it were many items including the enough to make their own decisions. We’d topped. Once you know Laus Deo's history, you will Holy Bible presented by the Bible Society. heard tell of Methodists and Presbyterians who Growing up in church, I had always heard want to share this with everyone you know. Praise be to God! Such was the discipline, the baptized babies, and regarded them about the sweet moment of surrender. The mo- These words have been there for many years; moral direction, and the spiritual mood given (Methodists and Presbyterians, not the babies) ment came. Excitement released. The volume they are 555 feet, 5.125 inches high, perched by the founder and first President of our unique with suspicion. in the baptistry increased slightly. atop the monument, facing skyward to the Fa- democracy “One Nation, Under God.” When one of our deacons was asked if he The preacher finished by thanking God for ther of our nation overlooking the 69 square I am awed by George Washington's prayer “The sacred waters of baptism miles which comprise the District of Columbia, for America ... Have you ever read it? Well, and the willingness of these can- capital of the United States of America. now is your unique opportunity, so read on! didates to enter these baptismal Laus Deo! Two seemingly insignificant, un- waters.” If only they knew. noticed words. "Almighty God; We make our earnest prayer I never told this story until Out of sight and, one might think, out of that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy after my stepfather passed away mind, but very meaningfully placed at the high- holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the and went to be with Jesus. I’m est point over what is the most powerful city in hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of sub- pretty sure Jesus met him at the the most successful nation in the world. ordination and obedience to government; and gates of heaven, laughing, and So, what do those two words, in Latin, com- entertain a brotherly affection and love for one had ever heard of infant baptism, he declared, said, “Lawrence, you remember the night you posed of just four syllables and only seven let- another and for their fellow citizens of the “Heard of it? I’ve seen it with my own two were baptized? Let me tell you the rest of the ters, possibly mean? Very simply, they say United States at large. eyes!” We were of the tribe that believed bap- story.” “Praise be to God!” “And finally that Thou wilt most graciously tism meant “put ‘em under till they bubble.” I once told this story to a Presbyterian and a Though construction of this giant obelisk be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to I was stuck amongst a family I didn’t know, Lutheran pastor. After they wiped the tears began in 1848 when James Polk was President love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that waiting for the preacher to be quiet and the from their eyes, they laughingly said, “Sounds of the United States, it was not until 1888 that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind music to start again, so I could get up there and like everyone who was baptized that night was the monument was inaugurated and opened to which were the characteristics of the Divine do what he was asking us to do. Finally, mer- baptized and sprinkled.” the public. Author of our blessed religion, and without a cifully, he stopped, and I started back down the I’m sure that some people who were bap- It took 25 years to finally cap the memorial humble imitation of whose example in these aisle. tized that night, March 4, 1968, are still alive. with a tribute to the Father of our nation, Laus things we can never hope to be a happy nation. I remember taking the preacher’s hand and Please accept my profound apologies. But re- Deo, “Praise be to God!” “Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, reading my declaration of faith off the back of member baptism is a picture of what Jesus has From atop this magnificent granite and mar- through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." that offering envelope. What happened after done for us. The Gospel was present at my bap- ble structure, visitors may take in the beautiful Laus Deo! that was a blur. People came by, shook my tism: the impurity of who I was and am, was panoramic view of the city with its division Editor’s Note: This item was e-mailed by hand, and my baptism was set along with oth- and is overwhelmed by the grace of Jesus. into four major segments. Henry Rhodes of Sarasota to Rev. Lorraine ers for the next Sunday. Thank God for his grace. From that vantage point, one can also easily Gillespie of Wauchula. She requested it be pub- For some reason, we only baptized on Sun- This, by the way, is why I never let 8-year see the original plan of the designer, Pierre lished in The Herald-Advocate. day night. Because of revival there were a old boys in the baptistry until right before I bunch of people to baptize, including my step- baptize them. father Lawrence. I was excited because so Hardee County native Clay Smith is lead pas- many of my relatives came to see us baptized. tor at Alice Drive Baptist Church in Sumter, I was also excited because I was eager to let the S.C. He and his brother and sister still own the Banking: Then, Now, And Later world know I believed in Jesus. family ranch in the Lemon Grove community Held out from last week. men. bank buildings typically are When 8-year old boys get excited, their bod- east of Wauchula. You can follow him at unlike- My first acquaintance with Deposits were posted by among the largest and most ies burst with energy. Twenty times I’d been lyclay.com. banks came in elementary hand to your bank book, and prominent structures in the school in 1947, when I became every three months, interest business community. a depositor in the Second earnings were computed and But according to my most Grade National Bank at Bar- posted, also by hand. reliable banking authority, Decades tow Elementary School. Today, males have all but even that will change. This institution (I’m pretty disappeared from your typical Banking offices, she pre- sure that it was in second bank, which often offers or- dicts, are an endangered grade) was created by the ange juice, coffee, cookies, lol- species. Banking of the future What were Hardee Countians Community Education. For in- teacher to teach us the concept lipops or popcorn to its will be conducted almost en- thinking and talking about in formation, call Joe Baxter, di- of setting aside some of our customers. The armed guard tirely on line, she says. the 1960s, or maybe the ‘30s? rector of vocational and adult meager revenue for our old has gone the way of the teller’s I did not ask her for details, Each issue, we will revisit that education, or Johnna M. Him- age, say when we turned 11 or cage. since I am sure that (1) I would corresponding week and year rod, coordinator of adult and 12. For customers who don’t not have understood her an- in a decade past, using old community education. Deposits — mostly nickels want to leave the air-condi- swer and (2) I figure anybody copies of The Florida Advo- –––––– and dimes — were duly cate, the Hardee County Her- Motor Sales: Hardee Motors recorded on the blackboard, ald or The Herald-Advocate. is advertising its 1978 model and periodically transferred to This week, the decade of … year close-out specials: a the Florida National Bank at Monte Carlo for $5,756 and a Bartow. Malibu Wagon for $5,524. Also The ‘70s on sale are a Chevette four-door In today’s regulatory envi- Aug. 31, 1978 ronment, I suspect the Second for $4,335.15 and a Chevy Luv Grade National Bank would pickup for $4,467. Routine Rest: This week, –––––– have violated several dozen Nancy Van Dyck talks about federal laws and hundreds of Local Help: The Mental how regular routines can keep ditioning. Papa Bear says, “My banking regulations, but in the tioned comfort of their cars to who can’t use an ATM will Health Center of Polk County everyone stabilized, regardless house is too hot to sleep in.” post-war 1940s, it seemed like walk 50 or 100 feet into the never figure out how to master has opened a new counseling of age. In her column “Nancy’s Mama Bear says, “My house is a good idea. And it was. bank lobby, there are drive- computerized banking. center in Hardee County. Lo- Fancies,” she says she and her too hot to live in.” But Baby In those days, deposits were through teller windows which Fortunately, I have three cated in Wauchula at the corner husband are returning to work Bear says, “My house temper- recorded in a bank book, allow you to conduct your adult children who already following a vacation while their ature is just right! It’s air condi- which was not a whole lot banking without that degree of have. grandson is starting kinder- tioned by Rheem.” larger than today’s credit cards. physical exertion. I only use Progress is finding a new garten. Nancy has had a few –––––– You took the book and your them after the lobby is closed way for today’s septuagenari- hectic weeks, but life in her Keep Learning: The Hardee deposit into the bank, an im- for the day. ans to become a burden to their daughter’s household with the County School Board has an- posing building with marble There are also automated children. grandson has been smooth sail- nounced the foundation of an floors, tellers cages (so called teller machines that allow you S. L. Frisbie is retired. He can ing. adult and community education because of the barred window to do your banking after the remember when Bartow got its –––––– program. There will be four dif- openings which separated drive-through facilities are second bank. One morning, of East Orange Street and Golden Air: This rendition of ferent programs: Adult Basic tellers from customers), and an closed. I do not know how to there was a rumor that robbers South Fifth Avenue, this new Goldilocks and the Three Bears Education, High School Com- armed guard. use them. would target one of them later building is planned to open on advertises air conditioning pletion for Adults, General Ed- All in all, a bank had the Bank books have been re- that day. The two banks were Sept. 5. It will offer a wide va- from Willis Heating & Air Con- ucation Development Test, and welcoming atmosphere that placed by deposit receipts gen- less than two blocks apart on riety of counseling services. one might associate with the erated in an instant by Main Street, and the chief of enforcement division of the computers which simultane- police conspicuously stationed IRS. ously record your upgraded ac- himself, armed with an auto- All bank employees (with count information. matic firearm, on the sidewalk Notice of Intended Agency Action by the the possible exception of the Now (as in the days of the half-way between them. There president’s secretary) were Second Grade National Bank) was no robbery. Southwest Florida Water Management District Notice is given that the District’s Intended Agency Action is approval of the application for a Water Use Permit to serve Agricultural activities. The total authorized withdrawal is 35,900 GPD, Peak Month is 247,900 GPD, Drought Annual Average is 52,300 GPD INVITATION TO BID and Maximum is 1,804,300 GPD. The project is located in Hardee County, Section(s) 13 and 14, Township 33 South, Range 23 East. The permit applicant is Bermont Prop- BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS erties, LLC / Attn: Steve Varner whose address is 2947 South East Highway 31, Arca- dia, FL 34266. The Permit No. is 20009103.003. The file(s) pertaining to this project is HARDEE COUNTY, FL available for inspection Monday – Friday except for legal holidays, 8am – 5pm, at the The Board of Co. Commissioners, Hardee Co., FL, hereinafter referred to as Southwest Florida Water Management District, 7601 Highway 301 North, Tampa, FL “County” will be soliciting proposals to provide four corrugated aluminum pipes for a 33637. bridge structure on Jack Jones Road as specified in the technical specification. Bid- Notice of Rights ding information must be submitted in writing no later than Thursday, September 20, 2018 by 2:00 PM ET. Any BIDS received after the time specified will not be accepted. Any person whose substantial interests are affected by the District’s action regarding Sealed bids will be received at: this matter may request an administrative hearing in accordance with Sections Hardee County Purchasing Office 120.569 and 120.57, Florida Statutes (F.S.), and Chapter 28-106, Florida Administra- Attn: Lorie Ayers, Purchasing Director tive Code (F.A.C.), of the Uniform Rules of Procedure. A request for hearing must (1) 205 Hanchey Road explain how the substantial interests of each person requesting the hearing will be af- Wauchula, FL 33873 fected by the District’s action, or proposed action; (2) state all material facts disputed Bid documents may be obtained from the Hardee Co. Purchasing Office, 205 Hanchey by each person requesting the hearing or state that there are no disputed facts; and Rd, Wauchula, FL 33873, or by emailing request to [email protected]. (3) otherwise comply with Chapter 28-106, F.A.C. A request for hearing must be filed Bidders shall confine their bids to the project in its entirety. Partial BIDS will not be with and received by the Agency Clerk of the District at the District’s Brooksville ad- considered. Bids submitted by FAX or other electronic media will NOT be accepted dress, 2379 Broad Street, Brooksville, FL 34604-6899 within 21 days of publication of under any circumstances. Late bids will NOT be accepted and will be returned to the this notice. Failure to file a request for hearing within this time period shall constitute bidder. a waiver of any right such person may have to request a hearing under Sections Hardee County reserves the right to: waive informalities and/or irregularities in any 120.569 and 120.57, F.S. Because the administrative hearing process is designed to BID, delete any portion of the project; extend the project within the limits of the work formulate final agency action, the filing of a petition means that the District’s final action involved which in its judgment is in the best interest of the County. Bids may be with- may be different from the position taken by it in this notice of agency action. Persons drawn prior to the date and time of bid opening. The County reserves the right to reject whose substantial interests will be affected by any such final decision of the District in any or all bid(s) and may postpone the award of the Agreement for a period of time this matter have the right to petition to become a party to the proceeding, in accor- which shall not extend beyond sixty (60) calendar days from the bid date. dance with the requirements set forth above. Mediation pursuant to Section 120.573, Russell Melendy, Chairman, Hardee County Board of County Commissioners F.S., to settle an administrative dispute regarding the District’s action in this matter is 8:30c not available prior to the filing of a request for hearing. 8:30c B6 The Herald-Advocate, August 30, 2018 CROSS COUNTRY

By TOM STAIK help the girl’s team this year,” Beatty said. the morning when it is cooler,” Beatty Of The Herald-Advocate High school runners trek a 5,000 meter said. The Lady Wildcats opened the 2018 course. cross country season with a win over the Yadira Sanchez, an eighth grader, took Individual Results: Lady Bulldogs. first place honors in the middle school Girl’s 5000M: 1st, Adrianna Mier, The cross-county cross country rivalry challenge with a time of 13:46.91. 23:43.18; 2nd, Tatiana Mier, 23:48.89; saw the both the varsity squad from Mikayla Metayer, a seventh grader, took 5th, Ingrid Mendoza, 26:16.64; 6th, Laura Hardee Senior High School and the mid- second with a time of 15:01.40 and Ava Ramos, 26:31.42; 7th, Kaitlynn Brande- dle school ladies from Hardee Junior Roberts, a sixth grader, took third place berry, 28:23.90; and 10th, Kareli Plata, High School sprint their way to first place with a time of 17:29.33. 30:14.83. finishes in the Aug. 21 run at Morgan Middle school players compete on a Girl’s 5000M Team: 1st, Hardee, 21; Park at Arcadia. 3,000 meter course. 2nd, DeSoto, 35. “Hardee’s girls won the meet signifi- The junior high runners ran well on Boy’s 5,000M: 1st, Zack Durastanti, cantly,” said head coach Rob Beatty. “It their 3000 meter course,” Beatty said. 19:26.88; 4th, Roberto Guiterrez, was ht, and times reflected it, but strong For the Wildcats, senior Zack Duras- 20:28.41; 8th, Dalton Kiella, 22:33.52; efforts.” tanti led the pack as he cruised to a first 12th, Noah Torres, 23:50.53; 13th, Scott Adriana Mier, a freshman, took top in- place finish with a time of 19:26.88. Meeks, 24:26.72; and 20th, Mike dividual honors for the varsity squad with “The boy’s team didn’t fare as well, but Trevino, 38.32.07. a time of 23:43.18. Tatiana Mier, a junior, did take the individual first place with Boy’s 5000M Team: 1st, DeSoto, 23; was second overall with a time of Zack Durastanti,” Beatty said. “Roberto 2nd, Hardee, 36. 23:48.89. Gutierrez finished well with 4th place.” Girl’s 3000M: 1st, Yadira Sanchez, The Lady Wildcats dominated the top Beatty said he hoped the team would 13:46.91; 2nd, Mikayla Metayer, 10 with all six runners claiming top fin- shave some time off their runs as they 15:01.40; and 3rd, Ava Roberts, 17:29.33. ishes. were set to travel Saturday (Aug. 25) for Boy’s 3000M: 2nd, Caleb Nadasky, “All six Hardee runners were in the top a morning meet at Holloway Park in 11:58.48; 3rd, Jacob Duncan, 12:08.99; 10. Hardee newcomers Ingrid Mendoza Lakeland. 6th, Zander Durastanti, 12:53.48; ad 7th, and Katie Brandeberry really are going to “Time should improve as they run in Chase Bryant, 12:53.98.

COURTESY PHOTOS Adriana Mier and Tatiana Mier took first and second place respectively for the Lady Wildcats.

Zander Durastanti took sixth overall for the Hardee Noah Torres took 12th Dalton Kiella took eighth Zack Durastanti, took first All six members of the Lady Wildcat squad finished in Junior High School squad. overall for the Wildcats. overall for the Wildcats. place for the Wildcats. the Top 10. VOLLEYBALL Lady Cats Win Historic Set ver Dragons By TOM STAIK The volleyball squads Of The Herald-Advocate opened the week on Aug. 29 The Lady Wildcats made with wins over the visiting school history this week as the Panther squad from Mulberry varsity volleyball squad High School. claimed a set against Green Junior varisty won the first Dragons from Lake Placid two sets, 25-5 and 25-12. High School. Varsity won the first three “This is the first time they sets, 25-15, 25-8, 25-8. ever won a set against Lake The wins continued last Placid,” said head coach Erica Thursday (Aug. 23) as both Roberts. squad defeated the visiting The Aug. 21 match-up saw Lady Bulldogs from Frost- Hardee fall 21-25, 14-25 in the proof Middle/Senior High first two sets before striking School. back to win the third set 25-22. Hardee’s junior varsity The squad lost the fourth set, squad won the first two sets, 25-21. 25-18 and 8-25. The junior varsity squad lost The varsity squad won three to the Lady Dragons in two first sets, 25-15, 20-25, and 25- sets, 19-25 and 19-25. 17.

PHOTOS BY TOM STAIK The Wildcats prepare to serve against Frostproof last Thuesday.

Sports Quiz By Chris Richcreek 1. In 2017, the University before they suffered a loss in of Florida became the fourth regulation? Division I school since 1954 to 6. Who is the only female win championships in men's skier to win three alpine gold basketball, football and base- medals in a single Olympics? ball. Name two of the other 7. Name the last male three to do it. golfer to win the U.S. Open in 2. Who held the New York consecutive years before Yankees record for most home Brooks Koepka did it in 2017- runs by a rookie (29) before 18. Aaron Judge hit 52 home runs ANSWERS in 2017? 1. Michigan, Ohio State and 3. Name the first player in UCLA. the Super Bowl era to score on 2. Joe DiMaggio, in 1936. a run, a catch and a kickoff re- 3. New England's Dion turn in an NFL postseason Lewis, in 2017. game. 4. Three times (2001-02, 4. How many times has the 2016-17, 2007-18). University of Cincinnati's 5. Twenty-four. men's basketball team won 30 6. Croatia's Janica Kostelic, or more games in a season? in 2002. The Lady Wildcats set an impressive pace as they re- 5. How many games did 7. Curtis Strange, in 1988- The Wildcats took down the Frostproof Bulldogs in turned to the court for the first full week of the 2018 vol- Chicago Blackhawks play to 89. straight sets last Thursday. leyball season. start the 2012-13 NHL season (c) 2018 King Features Synd., Inc. August 30, 2018, The Herald-Advocate B7 School Board, City Air Hunters: Help State Guard Utilities, Road Concerns Against Deer Disease By TOM STAIK earlier this month at Hardee sponsibility. After weeks of Chronic Wasting Disease, which is fatal to mounts, cleaned skulls, antlers and hides – as Of The Herald-Advocate Senior High School. back-and-forth debate, a deal deer, has most recently been detected in Mis- long as all soft tissue (meat) has been removed. Representatives of the According to Krahl, the out- was struck for the city to con- sissippi, the closest it has come to Florida’s The importation of live deer into Florida is School District of Hardee age began on the afternoon of duct repairs. border. also prohibited. County and the city of Friday, Aug. 10, and lasted “At the time they told us “We’re fortunate that CWD has not been The public is encouraged to report any pos- Wauchula met for a hastily until Sunday, Aug. 12. Con- they would repair what was found in Florida or our immediate neighboring sible violations to the FWC by calling the arranged strategy session on tents of the school’s freezers needed, and they have not,” states. But it’s going to take the help of hunters Wildlife Alert Hotline, toll-free, (888) 404- Monday afternoon following and refrigerators in the cafete- Krahl said. to keep it that way,” said Cory Morea, the co- FWCC (3922). an outcry of concern from the ria were shuffled to other The totality of the lingering ordinator of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Con- School Board last week over schools until power was re- issues prompted the School servation Commission’s Deer Management How To Help the maintenance of utilities stored, he said. Board to direct staff to meet Program. Another way hunters can help is by report- serving two local schools. The outage, however, illumi- with the city for clarity. What Is It? ing deer that are sick or found dead from un- “We met this afternoon and nated several deficiencies in Following the meeting, the CWD is a transmissible disease that affects known causes to FWC’s toll-free CWD Hotline had a great meeting with the school’s power grid that city reasserted that the power the brains of infected cervids, such as mule at (866) CWD-Watch (293-9282). School Board staff,” said were in need of urgent repair. and utility system at Hardee deer, white-tailed deer, moose and elk, eventu- Warning signs that hunters can look out for Olivia Minshew, assistant city On that point, Krahl said, High was the responsibility of ally causing them to become emaciated and while in the field include deer that are ex- manager on Tuesday morning. both the city and district agree. the district. display unusual behavior and die. tremely thin or appear sick, or those exhibiting “… Both parties are eager to The question of who is re- “The infrastructure at the It is caused by an abnormal protein called a odd behavior such as staggering, walking in work together to get all issues sponsible for the repairs, how- high school all belongs to the prion. circles, standing with a wide stance or head resolved.” ever, was a sticking point. School Board and therefore “While there’s no evidence that CWD can tremors. Added Deputy Schools Su- “The city seems to think that maintenance and upkeep is be transmitted to humans or livestock, this dis- Do not handle the deer, but simply call the perintendent Todd Durden, everything past the pole is the their responsibility. However, ease can have a significant negative impact on CWD Hotline, and the FWC will collect the “The city is more than willing school’s responsibility,” Krahl the city is more than willing to deer populations and our traditional hunting ac- whole carcass and conduct an examination. to work with us.” said. “We need to get with the aid the School Board to get the tivities,” Morea said. Concerns over the mainte- city and get an understanding.” necessary repairs completed,” Transmission among cervids nance of the electrical supply at “That thing went out on a Minshew said. occurs by direct contact with an Hardee Senior High School Friday and didn’t come back Durden said the two sides infected deer or by consuming and Wauchula Elementary up ‘til Sunday. If it had been are in the process of preparing prions that have been deposited were raised at the tail end of during the week, we would proposals for repairs. into the environment. Once in the last Thursday’s meeting of the have had serious issues,” “They agreed that we had environment, the prion stays in School Board by member Crawford added. “We need to some electrical issues that we the soil and can remain infec- Teresa Crawford. keep that school running, re- need to work on,” Durden said. tious for years. Crawford additionally criti- gardless.” “We do know this is something To date, CWD has been found in mule deer, Finally, hunters can help by providing sam- cized deteriorating conditions Chairman Paul Samuels we need to address.” white-tailed deer, moose and elk in these 25 ples from their harvested deer. The FWC would on Stenstrom Road – an noted concern over liability if Durden said details of the re- states: Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, like to test more samples from the counties of east/west roadway that serves the district stepped in to fix the pair plan would be presented to Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis- Baker, Bradford, Brevard, DeSoto, Duval, Fla- as a main artery funneling stu- school’s electrical grid. the School Board at a regular sissippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New gler, Hardee, Hillsborough, Lee, Levy, Mana- dents and teachers to and from “Let’s say we pay for it and meeting set for Sept. 6 at 5 Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Okla- tee, Miami-Dade, Okeechobee, Sarasota, Hardee High. She specifically fix it, what happens if some- p.m. homa, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Seminole, Union and Volusia. criticized deep indentations in thing goes wrong,” Samuels “All the people at the table Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Call the CWD Hotline to coordinate sample the road near recent utility said. were willing to work with us,” Wyoming. collection from your harvested deer. The deer’s work by the city of Wauchula Added Krahl: “The com- he added. It also has been detected in Canada, Norway, head is needed for testing, and it may be frozen and a manhole cover on the ments I get from them now is The hydrant repair and line Finland and South Korea. and the antlers/skull cap can be removed. edge of the westbound lane that it belongs to you and you work at Wauchula Elementary “Our goal is to collect samples throughout that has remained unfinished need to do it.” would be conducted by the Hunting Out Of State Florida, and we’re asking private landowners for months, surrounded by city A broken fire hydrant at the city, Minshew said. Hunters can help by not bringing CWD back and hunting clubs to participate in this re- traffic barricades. high school is also a concern, Stemstrom Road will also with them when they hunt out of state, and the search. Since 2002, we’ve tested over 10,000 “That is a road that students Krahl said. likely see repairs in the near fu- FWC has adopted rules regulating the trans- hunter-killed, road-killed and sick/diseased and teachers go down every The hydrant, according to ture. portation of harvested deer into Florida. deer for CWD,” said Mark Cunningham, FWC day,” Crawford said. “That is Krahl, failed a flush inspection “Stenstrom is a county- Hunters are prohibited from bringing into state wildlife veterinarian. something we need to work last Thursday by city crews. maintained right of way. The Florida whole carcasses of any cervid from any Early detection of CWD is key, and the best on.” City officials reportedly in- C.O.W. does have utilities in of the above-listed CWD-positive states or chance for eradication or controlling it is to be Facilities Director Rob Krahl formed Krahl repair and re- that right of way. Our man- countries. From these areas, hunters can only able to detect it and act quickly to prevent its said he had been in contact placement was the holes have all been inspected bring back deboned meat, finished taxidermy spread. with Hardee County Road & responsibility of the district and lined and are in good shape Bridge concerning the roadway and not the city. there,” Minshew said. “While and was informed that while Krahl also said the city has we haven’t found anything to the road was county-main- yet to repair a faulty feeder line lead us to believe that our util- To Your Good Health tained, the damage appeared to serving the cafeteria at ities are the only cause of the By Keith Roach, M.D. be near city utility work sites. Wauchula Elementary School. damage within that right of The conversation over the The Herald-Advocate re- way, in the spirit of coopera- DEAR DR. ROACH: to buy alkaline water. Calcium dosages because it would road followed questioning ported last year the line had tion, we are making plans to With everyone drinking a lot carbonate is a common antacid. keep me tired all the time. from Crawford on the causes sparked contention between handle necessary repairs along of water during the summer, Calcium, magnesium and —J.B. of a three-day power outage the city and the district over re- Stenstrom Road.” I noticed that the water depot potassium are all elements we ANSWER: High systolic where I fill up my gallon jugs need, so in that respect, the al- blood pressures in the elderly supplies water in different kaline water you are talking often are due to very stiff blood ranges of alkalinity, from 8- about is better than the sodium vessels. Since you have coro- 10. This seems to be a new you would add to water with nary artery disease, I think it's venture for the depot. The baking soda. likely that you have calcium in owner sells the alkaline water However, the important your large arteries, which make from inside the store and point is that under normal cir- them unyielding to the degree claims the benefit of this cumstances your body does not that the rush of blood from the water is to neutralize the need any help in maintaining heart drives the pressure up acidity of the many products pH or in neutralizing acid. The very high. It may be impossible we eat daily. He suggests that body's systems are able to to lower the pressure without one might start by taking maintain pH under almost any causing symptoms, so I under- water with a pH of 8 or dietary condition. Alkaline stand your doctor's concerns stronger, then dilute it to water is not necessary for and position. one's requirements. health. When I think about treating The purified water involves blood pressure, I think more reverse osmosis so the com- DEAR DR. ROACH: I am about trying to prevent bad out- pany reintroduces calcium, 90 years old, physically and comes (like stroke and heart at- magnesium and potassium to mentally in good health. tack) than just treating a bring it up in value. Do you Fourteen years ago, I had a number. There is good evi- have any comments on alka- triple bypass, which was very dence that ACE inhibitors, like line water being consumed successful. Since then I have ramipril, reduce heart attack during this hot summer sea- had trouble with my blood risk in people with known risk son? pressure. The low always factors, so I might try a very —B.A. runs between 50 and 70, low dose to see if it helps the PHOTO BY TOM STAIK ANSWER: I recently have which is fine, but the high blood pressure without making Damage to the travel lanes of Stenstrom Road prompted outcry from the School seen much confusion about side is between 150 and 190, you feel fatigued or light- Board of Hardee County last week. Since then, the city of Wauchula has agreed to acid and alkaline consumption. which is not good. My doctor headed. begin repairs on the county-maintained road. By adding a base to water, you has me on amlodipine and Dr. Roach regrets that he is un- raise the pH, making it more al- hydrochlorothiazide. Is there able to answer individual let- • Quick tip: Water and en- kaline. You can do this at home any way to lower the high ters, but will incorporate them gines don’t mix. Don’t start a pressure without also lower- in the column whenever possi- vehicle in standing water or simply by adding a bit of bak- you’re in for a few costly re- ing soda (sodium bicarbonate) ing the low side? My doctor ble. Readers may email ques- pairs. to your water — you don't need does not want to increase the tions to ToYourGoodHealth @med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write Legal Holiday to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. 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Elegibilidad. —Ninguna persona cidio y que tal lesión corporal no sea auto in- ELECCION GENERAL DEL 2018 tasación fiscal de la propiedad de la vivienda Voto (2) El derecho a ser libre de intimidación, acoso será elegible para el cargo de juez de la corte fligida intencionalmente; o familiar superior a $100.000 y hasta $125.000 y abuso. suprema o juez de cualquier corte a menos que (2) Muera o sea asesinado ilícita e intencional- Yo, Ken Detzner, Secretario de Estado de la para todos los gravámenes, a excepción de los RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE (3) El derecho, dentro del proceso judicial, de dicha persona sea electora del estado y resi- mente como resultado de tal acto ilícito e inten- Florida, por el presente notifico que las gravámenes para distritos escolares, entrarán VOTACIÓN: estar razonablemente protegido del acusado y dente de la jurisdicción territorial de la corte. cional o sea asesinado durante el servicio siguientes enmiendas constitucionales en vigencia el 1 de enero de 2019. La presente enmienda restablece los derechos de cualquier persona que actúe en nombre del Ningún juez o magistrado servirá después de activo. propuestas y revisiones estarán presentes de votación de los Floridanos que han sido acusado. Sin embargo, nada de lo contenido haber cumplido los setenta y cinco setenta (b) Un beneficio por fallecimiento se pagará en la papeleta de las elecciones generales N.º 2 condenados por delitos graves después de que en este documento tiene la intención de crear años de edad, excepto en el caso de una asi- con fondos provenientes de los ingresos gen- en cada condado de la elección general del ENMIENDA CONSTITUCIONAL cumplan todos los términos de su sentencia, lo una relación especial entre la víctima del delito gnación temporal, o para completar un término, erales cuando un miembro en servicio activo 2018. ARTÍCULO XII, SECCIÓN 27 que incluye la libertad condicional o provisional. y cualquier agencia u oficina de aplicación de la mitad del cual ya haya sido cumplido. de las Fuerzas Armadas de los Estados Unidos La enmienda no regiría para aquellos conde- la ley que no tenga una relación o deber espe- Ninguna persona es elegible para la Oficina de sea: El lenguaje para estas enmiendas también TÍTULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: nados por homicidio o delitos sexuales, a cial según lo defina la ley de la Florida. Justicia de la Corte Suprema o para ser juez (1) Accidentalmente asesinado o reciba le- se puede encontrar en FloridaPublicNo- Limitaciones sobre las Tasaciones Fiscales de quienes se les seguiría prohibiendo de manera (4) El derecho a tener en cuenta la seguridad y de un tribunal de apelaciones de distrito, a siones corporales accidentales que resulten en tices.com, en las Propiedades permanente votar, a menos que el Gobernador el bienestar de la víctima y de la familia de la menos que la persona sea, y haya sido durante la pérdida de la vida de la persona, siempre DOS.Elections.MyFlorida.com/initiatives, y y el Gabinete votaran para restablecer sus víctima al establecer la fianza, incluyendo el es- los últimos diez años, miembro del colegio de que tal asesinato no sea el resultado de un sui- en el sitio web de este periódico. RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE derechos de votación según cada caso en par- tablecimiento de condiciones de libertad provi- abogados de Florida. Ninguna persona es eleg- cidio y que tal lesión corporal no sea autoin- VOTACIÓN: ticular. sional que protejan la seguridad y el bienestar ible para la oficina de juez del circuito a menos fligida intencionalmente; o N.° 1 Se propone una enmienda a la Constitución del de la víctima y de la familia de la víctima. que la persona sea, y haya sido durante los úl- (2) Muera o sea asesinado ilícita e intencional- ENMIENDA CONSTITUCIONAL Estado con el fin de conservar de manera per- DECLARACIÓN DE IMPACTO FINANCIERO: (5) El derecho a evitar la divulgación de infor- timos cinco años, miembro del colegio de abo- mente como resultado de tal acto ilícito e inten- ARTÍCULO VII, SECCIÓN 6 manente las disposiciones actualmente vi- Los efectos precisos de la presente enmienda mación o registros que puedan ser utilizados gados de Florida. A menos que la ley general cional o sea asesinado durante el servicio ARTÍCULO XII, SECCIÓN 37 gentes, las que limitan el aumento de las en los costos del gobierno estatal y local no para localizar o acosar a la víctima o la familia disponga lo contrario, ninguna persona es eleg- activo. tasaciones fiscales sobre las propiedades en pueden determinarse. Sin embargo, la vigencia de la víctima, o que puedan revelar información ible para la oficina de juez del tribunal del con- (c) Si un bombero; un paramédico; un técnico TÍTULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: propiedades determinadas específicas que no de las leyes actuales de inscripción de confidencial o privilegiada de la víctima. dado, a menos que la persona sea, y haya sido médico de emergencia; un policía, un oficial Aumento de la Exención sobre los Impuestos sean destinadas a la vivienda familiar, a excep- votantes, así como el mayor número de per- (6) Una víctima tendrá los siguientes derechos durante los últimos cinco años, miembro del correccional u oficial de libertad condicional; o a la propiedad de la Vivienda Familiar (Home- ción de los gravámenes para distritos esco- sonas condenadas por delitos graves que se específicos bajo pedido: colegio de abogados de Florida. A menos que un miembro de servicio activo de la Guardia stead) lares, a un 10% anual. Si se aprueba, la inscriban para votar, producirá mayores costos a. El derecho a recibir una notificación razon- la ley general disponga lo contrario, una per- Nacional de la Florida o las Fuerzas Armadas enmienda eliminará la revocación programada generales en relación a los procesos que exis- able, precisa y oportuna, y a estar presente en sona será elegible ya sea por elección o nom- de los Estados Unidos es asesinado acciden- RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE de dichas disposiciones para el 2019 y entrará ten actualmente. El impacto, si lo hubiere, en todos los procedimientos públicos que involu- bramiento a la oficina de juez del tribunal del talmente como se especifica en los párrafos VOTACIÓN: en vigencia el 1 de enero de 2019. los ingresos públicos del gobierno estatal y cren la conducta delictiva, incluidos, entre condado en un condado cuya población sea de (a)(1) y (b)(1) o asesinado ilícita e intencional- Se propone una enmienda a la Constitución del local no puede determinarse. El impacto fiscal otros: juicio, declaración de culpabilidad, sen- 40,000 habitantes o menos, si la persona es un mente según lo especificado en los párrafos Estado con el fin de aumentar la exención fiscal TEXTO COMPLETO: de cualquier legislación futura que implemente tencia, o adjudicación, incluso si la víctima será miembro acreditado del Colegio de Abogados (a)(2) y (b)(2), el estado deberá exonerar cier- de la vivienda familiar mediante la exención de ARTÍCULO XII un proceso distinto no puede determinarse de un testigo en el procedimiento y a pesar de de Florida. tos gastos educativos que el niño o el cónyuge la tasación fiscal de la propiedad de la vivienda ANEXO manera razonable. cualquier regla en lo contrario. A la víctima tam- SECCIÓN 21. Interpretación judicial de estatu- del miembro de primeros auxilios o militar fall- familiar superior a $100.000 y hasta $125.000 SECCIÓN 27. Exenciones fiscales sobre las bién se le proporcionará una notificación razon- tos y reglas. —Al interpretar un estatuto o ecido incurra al obtener un certificado voca- para todos los gravámenes, a excepción de los propiedades y limitaciones sobre las tasa- TEXTO COMPLETO: able, precisa y oportuna de cualquier liberación norma estatal, un tribunal estatal o un fun- cional, una educación de pregrado o una gravámenes para distritos escolares. La en- ciones fiscales sobre las propiedades. — (a) Artículo VI, Sección 4. Descalificación. o escape del acusado o del delincuente, y de cionario atendiendo a una acción administra- educación de posgrado. mienda entrará en vigencia el 1 de enero de Las enmiendas a las Secciones 3, 4 y 6 del (a) Ninguna persona que haya sido condenada cualquier procedimiento durante el cual algún tiva de conformidad con la ley general no podrá (d) Un miembro de primeros auxilios elegible 2019. Artículo VII, que disponen una exención de por un delito grave, o que haya sido declarada derecho de la víctima esté implicado. deferir a la interpretación de la agencia admin- debe haber estado trabajando para el Estado $25.000 para los bienes muebles tangibles, mentalmente incompetente en este o cualquier b. El derecho a ser escuchado en cualquier istrativa de tal estatuto o regla, y deberá, por el de Florida o cualquiera de sus subdivisiones TEXTO COMPLETO: que disponen una exención fiscal adicional otro estado, estará habilitada para votar u ocu- procedimiento público que implique la libertad contrario, interpretar dicho estatuto o regla por políticas o agencias en el momento de su ARTÍCULO VII para la propiedad de la vivienda principal de par un cargo público hasta que se restablezcan provisional u otro tipo de liberación de cualquier segunda vez. muerte. Un miembro militar elegible debe haber FINANZAS Y TRIBUTACIÓN $25.000, que autorizan el traspaso de los ben- sus derechos civiles o hasta que desaparezca forma de restricción legal, declaración de cul- sido residente de este estado o que su puesto SECCIÓN 6. Exenciones fiscales para la eficios acumulados de las limitaciones sobre la su discapacidad. Salvo según se disponga en pabilidad, sentencia, adjudicación o libertad ARTÍCULO XII de trabajo haya pertenecido al mismo en el mo- vivienda familiar. — tasación de la propiedad de la vivienda familiar, la subsección (b) de la presente sección, condicional, y en cualquier procedimiento du- ANEXO mento de su muerte. (a) Todas las personas que tengan titularidad y esta sección, si se le presenta a los electores cualquier descalificación votar que surja a raíz rante el cual algún derecho de la víctima esté Elegibilidad de magistrados y jueces. —La en- (e) La legislatura implementará esta sección legal o equitativa sobre bienes raíces y man- de este estado para su aprobación o rechazo de una condena por delito grave se extinguirá, implicado. mienda a la Sección 8 del Artículo V, que au- por ley general. tengan en los mismos la residencia perma- en una elección especial que la ley autorizó y los derechos de votación se restablecerán, c. El derecho de consultar con el fiscal sobre menta la edad a la que un juez o magistrado (f) Esta sección entrará en vigencia el 1 de julio nente del propietario, u otra que dependa legal que se realizara el 29 de enero de 2008, en- una vez que se cumplan todos los términos de cualquier acuerdo de culpabilidad, participación ya no es elegible para servir en un cargo judi- de 2019. o naturalmente del propietario, quedarán exen- trarán en vigencia con la aprobación de los la sentencia, incluyendo la libertad condicional en programas alternativos previos al juicio, lib- cial excepto por asignación temporal, entrará tos de la tributación sobre los mismos, a excep- electores y operarán de manera retroactiva o provisional. eración, restitución, sentencia o cualquier otra en vigencia el 1 de julio de 2019. N.º 8 ción de las imposiciones para beneficios hasta el 1 de enero de 2008 o, si se le presen- (b) Ninguna persona que haya sido condenada disposición del caso. REVISIÓN CONSTITUCIONAL especiales, hasta la tasación fiscal de vein- tan a los electores de este estado para su por homicidio o por un delito sexual grave es- d. El derecho a proporcionar información sobre N.º 7 ARTÍCULO IX, SECCIÓN 4, NUEVA SEC- ticinco mil dólares y, respecto a todos los otros aprobación o rechazo en la próxima elección tará habilitada para votar hasta que se el impacto de la conducta del delincuente sobre REVISIÓN CONSTITUCIONAL CIÓN gravámenes a excepción de los gravámenes general, entrarán en vigencia el 1 de enero del restablezcan sus derechos civiles. la víctima y la familia de la víctima a la persona ARTÍCULO IX, SECCIONES 7 Y 8 ARTÍCULO XII, NUEVA SECCIÓN para distritos escolares, sobre la tasación fiscal año posterior a dicha elección general. Las en- (b c) Ninguna persona podrá ser candidata a la responsable de llevar a cabo cualquier investi- ARTÍCULO X, NUEVA SECCIÓN superior a cincuenta mil dólares y hasta setenta miendas a la Sección 4 del Artículo VII medi- reelección para ninguno de los siguientes car- gación previa a la sentencia, a compilar TÍTULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: y cinco mil dólares, y sobre la tasación fiscal ante las que se crean las subsecciones (g)(f) y gos: cualquier informe de investigación previo a la TÍTULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: Límites y Deberes del Termino de la Junta Es- superior a cien mil dólares y hasta ciento vein- (h)(g) de dicha sección, mediante las que se (1) Representante de Florida, sentencia, y a hacer considerar cualquier infor- Beneficios para los Sobrevivientes de Miem- colar; Escuelas Públicas ticinco mil dólares, una vez que se establezca crea una limitación sobre el aumento de la (2) Senador de Florida, mación de este tipo en cualquier recomen- bros de Primeros Auxilios y Miembros Militares; el derecho sobre estos según lo prescribe la tasación anual para las propiedades determi- (3) Vicegobernador de Florida, dación de sentencia presentada al tribunal. Colegios y Universidades Públicas RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE ley. La titularidad sobre los bienes raíces podrá nadas específicas, entrarán en vigencia con la (4) Cualquier cargo del gabinete de Florida, e. El derecho a recibir una copia de cualquier VOTACIÓN: ser legal o equitativa, mancomunada, solidaria, aprobación de los electores y primero limitarán (5) Representante de EE. UU. de Florida, o informe previo a la sentencia y cualquier otro RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE Establece un límite de mandato de ocho años en común, como condominio, o indirectamente las tasaciones a partir del 1 de enero de 2009, (6) Senador de EE. UU. de Florida informe o registro relevante para el ejercicio del VOTACIÓN: consecutivos para los miembros de la junta es- mediante la tenencia de acciones o la partici- si se aprueban en una elección especial que se Si, al término del período de su cargo, la per- derecho de la víctima, a excepción de aquellas Concede el pago obligatorio de beneficios por colar y requiere que la legislatura provea fon- pación que representen el derecho del propi- realice el 29 de enero de 2008, o primero limi- sona ha ocupado (o, si no fuera por renuncia, partes que sean confidenciales o estén exentas fallecimiento y la exención de ciertos gastos de dos para la promoción de la alfabetización etario o socio en una sociedad que tenga el tarán las tasaciones a partir del 1 de enero de hubiera ocupado) dicho cargo por ocho años por ley. educación a los sobrevivientes calificados de cívica en las escuelas públicas. Actualmente, dominio o los derechos de arrendamiento que 2010, si se aprueban en la elección general consecutivos. f. El derecho a ser informado de la condena, ciertos miembros de primeros auxilios y miem- las juntas escolares del distrito tienen el deber inicialmente superen noventa y ocho años. La que se realice en noviembre de 2008. Las sub- sentencia, adjudicación, lugar y tiempo de en- bros militares que mueran realizando tareas constitucional de operar, controlar y supervisar exención no se aplicará respecto a ningún reg- secciones (f) y (g) de la Sección 4 del Artículo N.º 5 carcelamiento u otra disposición del delin- oficiales. Exige una supermayoría de votos de todas las escuelas públicas. La enmienda istro de evaluación hasta que primero un or- VII se revocan con fecha 1 de enero de 2019; ENMIENDA CONSTITUCIONAL cuente convicto, así como de cualquier fecha los administradores universitarios y de la junta mantiene los deberes de una junta escolar a ganismo estatal designado por la ley general sin embargo, el poder legislativo, mediante res- ARTÍCULO VII, SECCIÓN 19 programada para la excarcelación del delin- de gobernadores del sistema universitario es- las escuelas públicas que establezca, pero per- determine que dicho registro cumple las dis- olución conjunta, propondrá una enmienda me- cuente, y de la liberación o el escape del delin- tatal para recaudar o imponer todas las tarifas mite que el estado opere, controle y supervise posiciones de la Sección 4. Esta exención se diante la que se abrogue la revocación de las TÍTULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: cuente de la custodia. autorizadas legislativamente si la ley requiere las escuelas públicas no establecidas por la revocará en la fecha de entrada en vigencia de subsecciones (f) y (g), la que se les presentará Voto Mayoritario Requerido para Imponer, Au- g. El derecho a ser informado de todos los pro- la aprobación de dichos organismos. Establece junta escolar. cualquier enmienda a este Artículo que a los electores de este estado para su torizar o Aumentar los Impuestos o Tasas Es- cesos y procedimientos posteriores a la con- el sistema de colegios estatales existente como disponga la tasación de la propiedad de la aprobación o rechazo en la elección general de tatales dena, a participar en tales procesos y una entidad constitucional; proporciona estruc- TEXTO COMPLETO: vivienda familiar a un valor inferior al valor 2018 y, si se aprueba, entrará en vigencia el 1 procedimientos, a proporcionar información a tura de gobierno. ARTÍCULO IX justo. de enero de 2019. RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE la autoridad de liberación para que sea consid- EDUCACIÓN (b) No se le permitirá más de una exención a (b) La enmienda a la subsección (a) mediante VOTACIÓN: erada antes de que se tome una decisión de TEXTO COMPLETO: SECCIÓN 4. Distritos escolares; juntas esco- ninguna persona o unidad familiar respecto a la que se abroga la revocación programada de Se prohíbe al sistema legislativo imponer, au- liberación, y a ser notificado de cualquier de- ARTÍCULO IX lares. — ninguna unidad residencial. Ninguna exención las subsecciones (g) y (h) de la Sección 4 del torizar o aumentar los impuestos o tasas es- cisión de liberación con respecto al delin- EDUCACIÓN (a) Cada condado constituirá un distrito esco- superará el valor de los bienes raíces tasables Artículo VII de la Constitución del Estado que tatales, a excepción de cuando dos tercios de cuente. La autoridad de libertad condicional o SECCIÓN 7. Sistema Universitario Estatal. — lar; sin embargo, dos o más condados con- al propietario o, en caso de posesión mediante existía en 2017 entrará en vigencia el 1 de la membresía de cada casa del sistema legisla- de libertad anticipada extenderá el derecho a (a) PROPÓSITOS. Con el fin de lograr la exce- tiguos, con el voto de los electores de cada acciones o participación en una sociedad, el enero de 2019. tivo hayan aprobado la legislación a través de ser escuchado a cualquier persona perjudicada lencia a través de la enseñanza de los estudi- condado conforme a ley, podrán ser combina- valor de la proporción que devengue de la una ley que no contenga ninguna otra materia. por el delincuente. antes, de avanzar la investigación y de proveer dos en un distrito escolar. En cada distrito es- membresía en la corporación sobre el valor N.° 3 Esta propuesta no autoriza un impuesto o tasa h. El derecho a ser informado de los proced- servicios públicos para el beneficio de los ciu- colar habrá una junta escolar compuesta de tasado de la propiedad. ENMIENDA CONSTITUCIONAL estatal que esté prohibido por la Constitución y imientos de indulto y expurgo, a proporcionar dadanos de la Florida, sus comunidades y cinco o más miembros electos por el voto de (c) De conformidad con la ley general y con ARTÍCULO X, SECCIÓN 29 no aplica a ningún impuesto o tasa impuesta información al gobernador, al tribunal, a economías, el pueblo de la Florida establece los electores en una elección no-partidista, sujeción a las condiciones que se especifican por, o autorizada para su imposición por, un cualquier junta de indulto y otras autoridades un sistema de gobierno para el sistema univer- para mandatos de cuatro años apropiadamente en la misma, el Poder Legislativo podrá entre- TÍTULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: condado, municipalidad, junta escolar o distrito en estos procedimientos, a que esa informa- sitario del estado de la Florida. escalonados, según lo dispuesto por ley. Una garles a los arrendatarios que sean residentes Control de Apuestas en Florida por parte de los especial. ción se considere antes de que se tome una (b) SISTEMA UNIVERSITARIO ESTATAL. persona no puede aparecer en la boleta para permanentes una reducción fiscal ad valorem Votantes decisión de clemencia o expurgo; y a ser noti- Habrá solo un sistema universitario estatal que la reelección a la oficina de la junta escolar si, sobre todos los gravámenes fiscales ad val- TEXTO COMPLETO: ficado de tal decisión antes de cualquier lib- incluirá todas las universidades públicas. Una para el final del mandato actual, la persona hu- orem. Dicha reducción fiscal ad valorem se es- RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE eración del delincuente. junta de fideicomisarios administrará cada uni- biese servido, o hubiese servido si no fuese por tablecerá de la forma y en el monto que VOTACIÓN: ARTÍCULO VII (7) Los derechos de la víctima, según lo dis- versidad pública y una junta de gobernadores su renuncia, durante ocho años consecutivos. disponga la ley general. La presente enmienda garantiza que los FINANZAS Y TRIBUTACIÓN puesto en el subpárrafo (6) a., subpárrafo (6) gobernará el sistema universitario del estado. (b) La junta escolar deberá operar, controlar, y (d) El poder legislativo podrá, de conformidad votantes de Florida tengan el derecho exclu- SECCIÓN 19. Para imponer, autorizar o elevar b., O subpárrafo (6) c., que apliquen a (c) JUNTAS DE FIDEICOMISARIOS LO- supervisar todas las escuelas gratuitas públi- con la ley general, permitirles a los condados sivo a decidir si autorizar o no las apuestas en los impuestos o tasas estatales se requiere una cualquier primer procedimiento de compare- CALES. Cada universidad constituyente local cas establecidas por la junta escolar del distrito o municipios, para efectos de sus gravámenes casinos, exigiendo que para que estas sean mayoría calificada de votos. — cencia se cumplirán mediante un intento razon- será administrada por una junta de fideicomis- dentro del distrito escolar y deberá determinar fiscales respectivos y con sujeción a las dis- autorizadas conforme a la ley de Florida, deban (a) VOTO MAYORITARIO REQUERIDO PARA able por parte de la agencia competente para arios constituida por trece miembros dedicados la tasa de impuestos del distrito escolar dentro posiciones de la ley general, conceder ser primero aprobadas por los votantes de IMPONER O AUTORIZAR NUEVOS IM- notificar a la víctima y transmitir las opiniones a los fines del sistema universitario estatal. La de los límites establecidos en este documento. cualquiera de las siguientes exenciones fis- Florida de conformidad con el Artículo XI, Sec- PUESTOS O TASAS ESTATALES. Ningún im- de la víctima al tribunal. junta de gobernadores establecerá las facul- Dos o más distritos escolares podrán operar y cales adicionales para la vivienda familiar o ción 3 de la Constitución de Florida. Afecta los puesto o tasa estatal pueden ser impuestos o (8) El derecho a la pronta devolución de la tades y los deberes de la junta de fideicomis- financiar programas educativos comunes. ambas: artículos X y XI. Define las apuestas en casinos autorizados por el sistema legislativo, a excep- propiedad de la víctima cuando ya no sea arios. Cada junta de fideicomisarios consistirá SECCIÓN. Alfabetización cívica. — Como la (1) Una exención que no supere cincuenta mil y aclara que la presente enmienda no discrepa ción de cuando dos tercios de la membresía de necesaria como evidencia en el caso. de seis ciudadanos miembros nombrados por educación es esencial para la preservación de dólares para una persona que tenga titularidad con la ley federal respecto a los convenios cada casa del sistema legislativo hayan (9) El derecho a la restitución completa y opor- el gobernador y cinco ciudadanos miembros los derechos y las libertades de las personas, legal o equitativa sobre bienes raíces y man- entre tribus y el estado. aprobado la legislación y la misma haya sido tuna, en cada caso y por parte de cada delin- nombrados por la junta de gobernadores. Los la legislatura deberá proveer fondos por ley tenga en los mismos la residencia permanente presentada al Gobernador para su aprobación cuente condenado, por motivo de todas las miembros nombrados deberán ser confirmados para la promoción de la alfabetización cívica del propietario, que haya cumplido la edad de DECLARACIÓN DE IMPACTO FINANCIERO: de acuerdo con lo establecido en el Artículo III, pérdidas sufridas por la víctima como resultado por el Senado y servirán por períodos escalon- con el fin de garantizar que los estudiantes ma- sesenta y cinco años, y cuyos ingresos del El impacto de la enmienda en los ingresos Sección 8. de la conducta delictiva, tanto directa como in- ados de cinco años como provisto por ley. El triculados en la educación pública comprendan hogar, según lo define la ley general, no públicos y costos del gobierno estatal y local, (b) VOTO MAYORITARIO REQUERIDO PARA directamente. presidente del senado de la facultad, o su y estén preparados para ejercer sus derechos superen veinte mil dólares; o si los hubiere, no pueden determinarse en este AUMENTAR LOS IMPUESTOS O TASAS. (10) El derecho a procedimientos sin demoras equivalente, y el presidente del cuerpo estudi- y responsabilidades como ciudadanos de una (2) Una exención equivalente al valor tasado momento. Esto debido a que se desconoce su Ningún impuesto o tasa estatal pueden ser au- irrazonables, y a una pronta y final conclusión antil de la universidad también serán miem- república constitucional. de la propiedad para una persona que tenga tit- efecto en las operaciones de apuestas que no mentados por el sistema legislativo, a excep- del caso y de cualquier procedimiento posterior bros. ularidad legal o equitativa sobre los bienes hayan sido aprobadas por los votantes medi- ción de cuando dos tercios de la membresía de al juicio. (d) JUNTA ESTATAL DE GOBERNADORES. ARTÍCULO XII raíces con un valor justo inferior a doscientos ante una enmienda constitucional propuesta a cada casa del sistema legislativo hayan a. El abogado del estado podrá presentar una La junta de gobernadores será un organismo APÉNDICE cincuenta mil dólares, según se determine en través de un proceso de petición de iniciativa aprobado la legislación y la misma haya sido demanda de buena fe para un juicio rápido, y empresarial consistente de diecisiete miem- Limitación del mandato para los miembros de el primer año fiscal que aplique el propietario y por parte de los ciudadanos. presentada al Gobernador para su aprobación el tribunal de primera instancia deberá celebrar bros. La junta deberá operar, regular, controlar, una junta escolar del distrito. - Esta sección y que cumpla los requisitos para la exención, y de acuerdo con lo establecido en el Artículo III, una audiencia de señalamientos, bajo previo y ser plenamente responsable por el manejo de la enmienda a la Sección 4 del Artículo IX que que haya mantenido en los mismos la residen- TEXTO COMPLETO: Sección 8. aviso, dentro de los quince días de la pre- todo el sistema universitario. Estas respons- imponen límites a los términos de los mandatos cia permanente del propietario durante al EL ARTÍCULO X DE LA CONSTITUCIÓN DE (c) APLICABILIDAD. Esta sección no autoriza sentación de la demanda, para programar un abilidades incluyen, sin limitación, la definición de los miembros de la junta escolar del distrito menos veinticinco años, que haya cumplido la FLORIDA se enmienda para que incluya la la imposición de ningún impuesto o tasa estatal juicio que comience en una fecha de al menos de la misión propia de cada universidad consti- entrarán en vigor en la fecha en que sean edad de sesenta y cinco años, y cuyos ingre- siguiente nueva sección: que estén prohibidos por la Constitución, y no cinco días pero no más de sesenta días de- tuyente y su articulación con escuelas gratuitas aprobadas por el electorado, pero ningún ser- sos del hogar no superen la limitación sobre in- Control de Apuestas en Florida por parte de los aplica a ningún impuesto o tasa impuesta por, spués de la fecha de la llamada del calendario, públicas y centros de formación profesional, vicio en un mandato que comenzó antes del 6 gresos que se prescribe en el párrafo (1). Votantes. o autorizada para su imposición por, un con- a menos que el juez de primera instancia pre- asegurando la coordinación, buena planifi- de noviembre de 2018, se contará en contra de La ley general debe permitirles a los condados (a) La presente enmienda garantiza que los dado, municipalidad, junta escolar o distrito es- sente una orden con determinaciones de cación, y funcionamiento del sistema, y la la limitación impuesta por esta enmienda. y municipios conceder dichas exenciones adi- votantes de Florida tengan el derecho exclu- pecial. hecho que justifiquen una fecha de prueba más evitación de la duplicación excesiva de instala- cionales, dentro de los límites que se pre- sivo a decidir si autorizar o no las apuestas en (d) DEFINICIONES. Conforme serán utilizados de sesenta días después de la audiencia de ciones o programas. La dirección de la junta N.º 9 scriben en esta subsección, mediante una casinos en el Estado de Florida. La presente en esta sección, los siguientes términos con- señalamientos. estará sujeta a los poderes de la legislatura de REVISIÓN CONSTITUCIONAL ordenanza que se adopte de la manera que lo enmienda requiere del voto mediante una ini- tarán con los siguientes significados: b. Todas las apelaciones a nivel estatal y los asignar los gastos de los fondos, y la junta ARTÍCULO II, SECCIÓN 7 prescribe la ley general, y debe disponer el ciativa de los ciudadanos de conformidad con (1) “Tasa” se refiere a cualquier cobro o pago ataques colaterales sobre cualquier sentencia rendirá cuentas sobre esos gastos conforme a ARTICULO X, SECCIÓN 20 ajuste periódico de la limitación sobre ingresos el Artículo XI, Sección 3, para que las apuestas requerido por la ley, incluyendo tasas de servi- deberán completarse dentro de los dos años lo previsto por ley. El gobernador nombrará a que se prescribe en esta subsección respecto en casinos sean autorizadas conforme a la ley cio, tasas o costos de emisión de licencias, y posteriores a la apelación en casos que no la junta catorce ciudadanos dedicados a los TÍTULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: a los cambios en el costo de vida. de Florida. Esta sección enmienda el presente cargos por servicios. sean capitales y dentro de los cinco años pos- fines del sistema universitario estatal. Los Prohibición de la Perforación de Petróleo y Gas (e) Cada veterano que tenga 65 años o más y Artículo; y además afecta al Artículo XI, al (2) “Aumento” se refiere a: teriores a la apelación en casos capitales, a miembros nombrados deberán ser confirmados en Alta Mar; Prohibición del Fumado de Cigar- que se encuentre total o parcialmente dis- hacer que las iniciativas de los ciudadanos a. Aumentar o autorizar el aumento en la tasa menos que un tribunal dicte una orden con con- por el Senado y servirán términos escalonados rillos Electrónicos en Lugares de Trabajo capacitado recibirá un descuento del monto del sean el método exclusivo de autorizar las de un impuesto estatal o una tasa impuesta clusiones específicas acerca de por qué dicho de siete años como dispuesto por ley. El comi- Encerrados. impuesto ad valorem que se adeude sobre la apuestas en casinos. sobre una base porcentual o por cada mil; tribunal no pudo cumplir con este subpárrafo y sionado de la educación, el presidente del con- propiedad de la vivienda familiar que posea el (b) Según se utiliza en la presente sección, b. Aumentar o autorizar el aumento en la can- las circunstancias que causaron el retraso. sejo asesor del senado de la facultad, o su RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE veterano y donde el mismo resida si la dis- “apuestas en casinos” hace referencia a tidad de impuestos o tasas estatales que son Cada año, el juez principal de cualquier tribunal equivalente, y el presidente de la asociación de VOTACIÓN: capacidad hubiera sido causada por el com- cualquiera de los tipos de juegos que suelen calculados sobre una base plana o fija; o de apelación del distrito o el presidente de la estudiantes de la Florida, o su equivalente, Prohíbe la perforación para la exploración o ex- bate y el veterano hubiera sido dado de baja encontrarse en los casinos y que se ajustan a c. Disminuir o eliminar una exoneración o Suprema Corte informará caso por caso al serán también miembros de la junta. tracción de petróleo y gas natural debajo de con honor tras retirarse del servicio militar. El la definición de juegos Clase III de la Federal crédito sobre un impuesto o tasa estatal. presidente de la Cámara de Representantes y (e) TARIFAS. Cualquier propuesta o acción de todas las aguas estatales entre la línea de descuento se expresará en un porcentaje Indian Gaming Regulatory Act [Ley Federal de (e) MATERIA ÚNICA. Los impuestos o tasas al presidente del Senado de todos los casos en una universidad constituyente para recaudar, media alta y los límites territoriales más aleja- equivalente al porcentaje de la discapacidad Regulación de Juegos entre la Población Indí- estatales impuestos, autorizados o aumenta- que dicho tribunal introdujo una orden con re- imponer o autorizar cualquier tarifa, según lo dos del estado. Agrega, con excepciones, el permanente vinculada al servicio del veterano, gena], 25 U.S.C. § 2701 y ss. (“IGRA”), y en el dos bajo esta sección deben estar contenidos specto a la incapacidad de cumplir con este autoriza la ley, debe ser aprobada por al menos uso de dispositivos electrónicos generadores según lo determine el Departamento de Asun- 25 C.F.R. §502.4 una vez que se adopte la en una ley separada que no contenga ninguna subpárrafo. La legislatura podrá promulgar leg- nueve votos afirmativos de los miembros del de vapor a la prohibición actual de consumo de tos de los Veteranos de los Estados Unidos. presente enmienda, y cualquiera que se otra materia. islación para implementar este subpárrafo. consejo directivo de la universidad consti- tabaco en lugares de trabajo encerrados; per- Para optar al descuento que concede esta sub- agregue a dicha definición de juegos Clase III (11) El derecho a ser informado de estos dere- tuyente, en caso de que la aprobación de la mite ordenanzas locales de vapor más restric- sección, el solicitante debe presentarle al en el futuro. Esto incluye, sin limitación, N.º 6 chos, y a ser informado de que las víctimas junta directiva sea requerida por la ley general, tivas. tasador de propiedades del condado, a más cualquier juego donde la casa participe y pueda REVISIÓN CONSTITUCIONAL pueden buscar el consejo de un abogado con y al menos doce votos afirmativos de los miem- tardar el 1 de marzo, una carta oficial del De- ganar, lo que incluye, sin limitación, juegos de ARTÍCULO I, SECCIÓN 16 respecto a sus derechos. Esta información se bros de la junta de gobernadores, en caso de TEXTO COMPLETO: partamento de Asuntos de los Veteranos de los cartas como bacará, chemin de fer, blackjack ARTÍCULO V, SECCIONES 8 Y 21 pondrá a disposición del público en general y que la ley general exija la aprobación de la ARTÍCULO II Estados Unidos mediante la que se indique el (21), y pai gow (si se practican como juegos ARTÍCULO XII, NUEVA SECCIÓN se proporcionará a todas las víctimas de delitos junta de gobernadores, para que entre en vi- DISPOSICIONES GENERALES porcentaje de la discapacidad vinculada al ser- donde la casa participe) cualquier juego ban- en forma de una tarjeta o por otros medios des- gencia. Una tarifa bajo esta subsección no in- SECCIÓN 7. Recursos naturales y belleza es- vicio del veterano y las pruebas que de- cado por los jugadores que simule un juego TÍTULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: tinados a informar efectivamente a la víctima cluirá la matrícula. cénica. — muestren de manera razonable que la donde la casa participe, como el black jack de Derechos de las Víctimas de Delitos; Jueces de sus derechos en virtud de esta sección. SECCIÓN 8. Sistema De Colegios Estatales. (a) Será la política de este estado conservar y discapacidad fue causada por el combate, así California; juegos de casino como la ruleta, el (c) La víctima, el abogado retenido de la víc- — proteger sus recursos naturales y belleza es- como también una copia de la baja honorable pase inglés y el keno; cualquier máquina trag- RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE tima, un representante legal de la víctima o la (a) PROPÓSITOS. Con el fin de lograr la exce- cénica. La ley establecerá disposiciones ade- del veterano. Si el tasador de propiedades rec- amonedas según se definen en 15 U.S.C. VOTACIÓN: oficina del procurador del Estado, a petición de lencia y proporcionar acceso a la educación cuadas para la reducción de la contaminación haza la solicitud de descuento, el tasador debe 1171(a)(1); y cualquier otro juego no autorizado Establece derechos constitucionales para las la víctima, pueden hacer valer y solicitar el universitaria a los estudiantes de este estado; del aire y el agua y del ruido excesivo e innece- notificarle al solicitante por escrito los motivos por el Artículo X, Sección 15, ya sea si se de- víctimas de delitos; exige que los tribunales fa- cumplimiento de los derechos enumerados en de originar caminos articulados para un grado sario y para la conservación y protección de los del rechazo, y el veterano podrá volver a re- fine como una máquina tragamonedas o no, en ciliten los derechos de las víctimas; autoriza a esta sección y cualquier otro derecho otorgado de bachillerato; de garantizar un compromiso recursos naturales. alizar la solicitud. El Poder Legislativo podrá, el que los resultados sean determinados por un las víctimas a hacer respetar sus derechos du- a una víctima por ley en cualquier juicio o tribu- superior con la enseñanza y el aprendizaje; y (b) Aquellos en el Área Agrícola de los Ever- de conformidad con la ley general, ceder del re- generador de números aleatorios o se asignen rante los procesos penales y de justicia juvenil. nal de apelación, o ante cualquier otra autori- de responder de manera rápida y eficiente a la glades que causen contaminación del agua querimiento anual de solicitudes en los años de manera similar al azar, como instant o his- Exige que los jueces y los oficiales de audien- dad con jurisdicción sobre el caso, como demanda de las comunidades mediante la alin- dentro del Área de Protección de los Ever- posteriores. Esta subsección tiene efecto in- torical racing. Según se utiliza en el presente, cia interpreten de manera independiente los cuestión de derecho. El tribunal u otra autori- eación de los certificados y programas de glades o el Área Agrícola de los Everglades mediato y no necesita legislación de imple- “apuestas en casinos” incluye dispositivos elec- estatutos y las reglas en lugar de deferir a la in- dad con jurisdicción actuará con prontitud grado con las necesidades locales y regionales serán los principales responsables de pagar los mentación. trónicos de apuestas dispositivos de apuestas terpretación de la agencia gubernamental. Au- sobre dicha solicitud, ofreciendo una solución de la fuerza de trabajo, el pueblo de la Florida, costos de la reducción de esa contaminación. (f) De conformidad con la ley general y con simuladas, dispositivos de video lotería, dispos- menta la edad obligatoria de jubilación de jurídica de acuerdo con la ley por la violación en virtud de este acto, establece un sistema de Para propósito de esta subsección, los térmi- sujeción a las condiciones y limitaciones que itivos de concursos por Internet, y cualquier jueces y magistrados estatales desde setenta de cualquier derecho. Las razones de cualquier gobierno para el sistema de colegios estatales nos “Área Agricultural de los Everglades” y se especifican en la misma, el Poder Legisla- otra forma de réplica electrónica o electro- a setenta y cinco años; elimina la autorización decisión con respecto a la disposición del dere- de la Florida. “Área Protegida de los Everglades” tendrán la tivo podrá entregarle una deducción fiscal ad mecánica de cualquier juego de azar, máquina para completar el término judicial si la mitad del cho de una víctima se indicarán claramente en (b) SISTEMA DE COLEGIOS ESTATALES. misma definición como las definiciones con- valorem equivalente al monto total o una parte tragamonedas, o juego de casino, independi- plazo se ha cumplido antes de la edad de jubi- el registro. Habrá un sistema de colegios estatales único tenidas en las leyes en efecto el 1 de enero de del impuesto ad valorem que se adeude sobre entemente de la manera en que dichos dispos- lación. (d) El otorgamiento de los derechos enumera- compuesto por todos los institutos de forma- 1996. la propiedad de la vivienda familiar a: itivos sean definidos conforme a la IGRA. dos en esta sección a las víctimas no puede in- ción profesional y colegios estatales públicos. (c) Para proteger a la población de Florida y su (1) La cónyuge sobreviviente de un veterano Según se utiliza en el presente, “apuestas en TEXTO COMPLETO: terpretarse como denegación o menoscabo de Una junta directiva local deberá gobernar cada entorno, la perforación para exploración o ex- que haya muerto durante su servicio activo en casinos” no incluye apuestas mutuas en car- ARTÍCULO I otros derechos que poseen las víctimas. Las institución del sistema de colegios estatales y tracción de petróleo o gas natural está pro- calidad de miembro de las Fuerzas Armadas reras de caballos, carreras de perros o exhibi- DECLARACIÓN DE DERECHOS disposiciones de esta sección se aplican a la junta de educación del estado deberá super- hibida en tierras debajo de todas las aguas de los Estados Unidos. ciones de cesta punta. Para efectos de la SECCIÓN 16. Derechos del acusado y de las todos los procesos penales y de justicia juvenil, visar el sistema de colegios estatales. estatales que no se hayan alienado y que se (2) La cónyuge sobreviviente de un miembro presente sección, “apuestas” y “juegos” son víctimas. — son autoejecutables y no requieren una legis- (c) JUNTAS DIRECTIVAS LOCALES. Cada in- encuentren entre la línea de media alta y los de primeros auxilios que haya muerto en acto sinónimos. (a) En todos los procesamientos penales, el lación de implementación. Esta sección no stitución del sistema de colegios estatales es- límites exteriores de los mares territoriales del de servicio. (c) Ninguna disposición aquí empleada se con- acusado deberá, bajo pedido, ser informado de podrá ser interpretada para crear cualquier tará gobernada por una junta directiva local estado. Esta prohibición no aplica al transporte (3) Un miembro de primeros auxilios que se siderará como que limita el derecho del Con- la naturaleza y causa de la acusación, causa de acción por daños y perjuicios contra dedicada a los propósitos del sistema de cole- de productos de petróleo y gas producidos encuentre totalmente y permanentemente dis- greso a ejercer su autoridad a través de la ley asimismo se le proporcionará una copia de los el estado o una subdivisión política del estado, gios estatales. Un miembro de la junta directiva fuera de dichas aguas. Esta subsección es au- capacitado a causa de una lesión o lesiones general para restringir, regular o gravar cargos, y tendrá derecho a tener medidas com- o contra cualquier funcionario, empleado o debe ser residente del área en el cual el colegio toejecutable. que haya sufrido en acto de servicio. La conex- cualquier actividad de apuestas o juegos. pulsivas para la comparecencia de testigos, a agente del estado o sus subdivisiones políticas. preste sus servicios. Los poderes y deberes de ión causal entre una discapacidad y el acto de Además, ninguna disposición aquí empleada enfrentar testigos adversos en el juicio, a ser (e) Como se usa en esta sección, una "víctima" las juntas directivas serán provistos por la ley. ARTÍCULO X servicio no debe presumirse, sino que debe de- se interpretará como que limita la capacidad escuchado en persona, por un abogado o es una persona que sufre daño físico, psi- Cada miembro será designado por el gober- MISCELÁNEO terminarse según lo dispone la ley general. del estado o de las tribus americanas nativas ambos, y a tener un juicio rápido y público im- cológico o financiero directo o amenazado nador en términos escalonados de 4 años, su- SECCIÓN 20. Lugares de trabajo sin humo o Para efectos de este párrafo, el término “dis- de negociar convenios en materia de juegos de partido por un jurado imparcial en el condado como resultado de la perpetración o intento de jeto a la confirmación del Senado. vapor de tabaco. — capacidad” no incluye una condición crónica o conformidad con la Federal Indian Gaming donde se cometió el crimen. Si no se conoce perpetración de un delito o acto delincuencial (d) PAPEL DE LA JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN (a) PROHIBICIÓN. Como una iniciativa de enfermedad crónica, a menos que la lesión que Regulatory Act con el fin de realizar apuestas el condado, la acusación o información podrá o contra quien el delito o acto delincuente es DEL ESTADO. La junta de educación del es- salud para proteger a las personas de los ries- se haya sufrido en acto de servicio hubiera sido en casinos en tierras tribales, o de afectar las cobrar lugar en dos o más condados de man- cometido. El término "víctima" incluye al rep- tado supervisará el sistema de colegios es- gos de salud del humo y del vapor de tabaco la única causa de la condición crónica y la en- apuestas existentes en tierras tribales de con- era conjunta y la prueba de que el crimen fue resentante legítimo de la víctima, al padre o tatales según lo estipule la ley. de segunda mano, el consumo de tabaco y el fermedad crónica. formidad con los convenios formalizados por el cometido en esa área será suficiente; sin em- tutor de un menor o al familiar de una víctima uso de dispositivos electrónicos generadores Según se usa en esta subsección y según lo estado y las tribus americanas nativas según bargo, antes de declararse, el acusado podrá de homicidio, excepto cuando se demuestre ARTÍCULO X de vapor están prohibidos está prohibido en lu- defina más extensamente la ley general, el tér- establece la IGRA. elegir en cuál de estos condados se llevará a que el interés de dicho individuo estaría en MISCELÁNEO gares de trabajo encerrados dentro del estado mino “miembro de primeros auxilios” hace ref- (d) La presente sección tiene vigencia una vez cabo el juicio. El lugar para el enjuiciamiento de conflicto real o potencial con los intereses de Beneficios para los Sobrevivientes de Miem- de Florida. Esta sección no excluye la adopción erencia a un oficial de la policía, un oficial aprobada por los votantes, tiene efecto inmedi- los delitos cometidos fuera de los límites del es- la víctima. El término "víctima" no incluye al bros de Primeros Auxilios y Miembros Militares. de ordenanzas que impongan una regulación correccional, un bombero, un técnico médico ato y no se requiere ninguna implementación tado será fijado por la ley. acusado. Los términos "delito" y "delincuente" — más restrictiva sobre el uso de dispositivos de emergencia o un paramédico, y el término legislativa. (b) Para preservar y proteger el derecho de las incluyen conducta y actos delictivos. Las vícti- (a) La agencia empleadora pagará un beneficio electrónicos generadores de vapor que la pro- “en servicio activo” significa que surge a raíz (e) Si cualquier parte de la presente sección se víctimas de delitos a alcanzar la justicia, garan- mas del crimen o sus representantes legítimos, por fallecimiento cuando un bombero; un porcionada en esta sección. del desempeño real del servicio que sea nece- considera inválida por cualquier razón, la parte tizar a las víctimas de delitos un papel significa- incluidos los familiares de las víctimas de homi- paramédico; un técnico médico de emergencia; (b) EXCEPCIONES. Como se explica en las sario en virtud del trabajo como miembro de o partes restantes serán separadas de la parte tivo en todos los sistemas de justicia penal y cidios, tienen derecho a ser informados, a estar un policía, un oficial de correccional, un oficial definiciones siguientes, se puede permitir el primeros auxilios. inválida y se les asignará la mayor vigencia juvenil, y asegurar que los derechos e intereses presentes, y a ser escuchados cuando sea per- de libertad condicional; o un miembro de la consumo de tabaco y el uso de dispositivos posible. de las víctimas de delitos sean respetados y tinente, en todas las etapas cruciales de los Guardia Nacional de Florida, mientras partici- electrónicos generadores de vapor en residen- ARTÍCULO XII protegidos por la ley de una manera no menos procedimientos penales, en la medida en que pan en el desempeño de sus deberes oficiales, cias privadas siempre que no se utilicen com- ANEXO N.º 4 vigorosa que las protecciones otorgadas a los estos derechos no interfieran con los derechos sea: ercialmente para proporcionar cuidado infantil, SECCIÓN 37. Aumento de exención fiscal ENMIENDA CONSTITUCIONAL acusados penales y delincuentes juveniles, constitucionales del acusado. (1) Accidentalmente asesinado o reciba le- cuidado de adultos, atención médica, o para la vivienda familiar. —Esta sección y la en- ARTÍCULO VI, SECCIÓN 4 toda víctima tendrá los siguientes derechos, a siones corporales accidentales que resulten en cualquier combinación de los mismos; y, mienda a la Sección 6 del Artículo VII mediante partir del momento de su victimización: ARTÍCULO V la pérdida de la vida de la persona, siempre además, puede permitirse en tiendas minoris August 30, 2018, The Herald-Advocate B11 tas de tabaco, minoristas de dispositivos elec- (e) POSTERGACIÓN. Ninguna de las cámaras (b) CONDADOS; SEDE DE CONDADO; MU- obtenidos por sus acciones. El modo de recu- no podrá competir con galgos o ningún otro trónicos generadores de vapor, habitaciones podrá postergarse por más de setenta y dos NICIPIOS; DISTRITOS. El estado de los sigu- peración y daños adicionales pueden ser pre- miembro de la subespecie Canis Familiaris en designadas para fumadores en hoteles y otros horas consecutivas, a menos que sea en virtud ientes puntos, tal y como existan en la fecha en vistos por ley. cualquier apuesta por dinero u otros objetos de establecimientos públicos de alojamiento; y en de una resolución concurrente. que este artículo tome efecto, es reconocido y (d) Cualquier funcionario público o empleado valor en este estado, y las personas en este es- ABOUT... bares independientes. Sin embargo, nada en (f) POSTERGACIÓN POR EL GOBERNADOR. será prolongado hasta que se cambie de que haya sido condenado por un delito grave tado no podrán apostar dinero o cualquier otra esta sección o en su legislación de aplicación Si durante alguna sesión regular o especial las acuerdo con la ley: los condados del estado; su por violar el fondo publico estará sujeto a cosa de valor al resultado de una carrera can- School News o reglamentos, le prohíbe al propietario, arren- dos cámaras no pueden acordar sobre el condición con respecto a la legalidad de la perder sus derechos y privilegios bajo el sis- ina que se produzca en el estado. La no real- datario u otra persona en el control de la uti- tiempo de postergación, el gobernador podrá venta de licores intoxicantes, vinos y cervezas; tema de retiro público o plan de pensión en la ización de carreras o apuestas en carreras de The Herald-Advocate en- lización de un lugar de trabajo encerrado el postergar la sesión sine die o a cualquier fecha el método de selección de los oficiales del con- manera en que pueda ser provisto por ley. galgos después del 31 de diciembre de 2018 courages submissions from derecho de imponer prohibiciones o limita- durante el período autorizado para esas se- dado; el desempeño de funciones municipales (e) Ningún miembro de la legislatura u oficial no constituye motivo para revocar o denegar la ciones más estrictas con respecto a fumar o siones, siempre y cuando, por lo menos vein- por oficiales del condado; las sedes de los con- estatal electo podrá representar bajo pago a renovación de otras licencias de juego rela- Hardee County schools. usar dispositivos electrónicos generadores de ticuatro horas antes de postergar la sesión y dados; los municipios y distritos especiales del otra persona o entidad ante una agencia o cionadas que posea una persona con licencia Photos and write-ups vapor en el lugar. mientras ninguna cámara esté en receso, cada estado, sus poderes, jurisdicción y gobierno. cuerpo gubernamental del cual el individuo fue autorizada para carreras de galgos el 1 de should be of recent events, (c) DEFINICIONES. A los fines de esta sección, cámara reciba aviso formal y por escrito de la (c) OFICIALES A CONTINUAR EN EL funcionario o miembro por un periodo de dos enero de 2018, y no afectará la elegibilidad de las siguientes palabras y términos tendrán los intención del gobernador. Un acuerdo alcan- CARGO. Toda persona que ocupe un cargo años después de vacar su cargo. Ningún dicha persona autorizada, o de las instala- and must include first and significados indicados: zado por ambas cámaras acerca del momento cuando este artículo tome efecto continuará en miembro de la legislatura personalmente rep- ciones de dicha persona para llevar a cabo last names for both stu- (1) "Fumar" significa inhalar, exhalar, quemar, de postergación durante ese período deberá el cargo por el resto de su término si dicho resentará bajo pago a otra persona o entidad otras actividades de apuestas mutuas autor- transportar o poseer cualquier producto de prevalecer. cargo no es abolido. Si el cargo es abolido, al durante el plazo de su cargo ante cualquier izadas por la ley general. Por ley general, la dents and teachers. Identify tabaco encendido, incluidos cigarrillos, ha- titular del cargo le será pagada una compen- agencia estatal que no sea un tribunal judicial. legislatura deberá especificar sanciones civiles photos front to back, left to banos, tabaco para pipa y cualquier otro pro- ARTÍCULO IV sación adecuada, la cual será fijada por ley, por Restricciones similares contra otros funcionar- o penales por infracciones de esta sección y right. ducto de tabaco encendido. EJECUTIVO la pérdida de emolumentos del resto del tér- ios públicos o empleados podrán ser estable- por actividades que ayuden o contribuyan a in- (2) "Humo de segunda mano", también cono- SECCIÓN 4. Gabinete. — mino. cidas por ley. fringir esta sección. Deadline for submissions cido como humo de tabaco ambiental (HTA), (a) Existirá un gabinete compuesto de un fiscal (d) ORDENANZAS. Las leyes locales rela- (f) (1) Para los fines de esta subsección, el tér- is 5 p.m. on Thursday. significa humo emitido por el tabaco encendido, general, un jefe financiero, y un comisionado cionadas solamente con áreas no incorporadas mino "funcionario público" significa un fun- ARTÍCULO XII Please include the name humeante o en combustión cuando el fumador de agricultura. En adición a los poderes y de- del condado que estén en existencia en la cionario electo estatal, un miembro de la APÉNDICE no está inhalando; humo emitido en la boquilla beres especificados aquí, podrán ejercer tales fecha en que este artículo tome efecto podrán legislatura, un comisionado del condado, un Prohibición de competir o apostar con galgos u and phone number of a durante el soplo; y humo exhalado por el fu- poderes y desempeñar tales deberes como ser enmendadas o derogadas por ordenanza funcionario del condado de conformidad con el otros perros.- La enmienda al Artículo X, que contact person. Qualifying mador. pueda ser provisto por ley. En caso de una del condado. Artículo VIII o con el estatuto del condado, un prohíbe competir o apostar con galgos y otros items will be published as (3) "Trabajo" significa cualquier empleo o ser- votación empate entre el gobernador y el gabi- (e) CONSOLIDACIÓN Y AUTONOMÍA DEL miembro de la junta escolar, un superinten- perros, y la creación de esta sección, entrarán vicio de empleo proveído por una persona a nete, el lado en cuál el gobernador votó a favor GOBIERNO LOCAL. El Articulo VIII, Secciones dente de escuelas, un funcionario municipal en vigencia con la aprobación de los electores. space allows. petición de otra persona o personas o de se considerará prevaleciente. 9, 10, 11 y 24, de la Constitución de 1885, electo, un oficial de distrito especial elegido en cualquier entidad pública o privada, ya sea (b) El fiscal general deberá ser el jefe legal es- según enmendada, permanecerá en plena vi- un distrito especial con autoridad tributaria ad pago o no, ya sea a tiempo completo o parcial, tatal. Será creada en la oficina del fiscal gen- gencia y efecto en cuanto a cada condado valorem, o una persona que sirva como secre- ya sea legal o no. "Trabajo" incluye, sin limita- eral la posición de fiscal del estado. El fiscal del afectado, como si este artículo nunca hubiera taria, directora ejecutiva u otra agencia jefe de ciones, cualquier servicio realizado por un em- estado tendrá jurisdicción concurrente con los sido adoptado, hasta que aquel condado departamento de la rama ejecutiva del gob- pleado, contratista independiente, agente, abogados del estado para procesar la violación adopte expresamente una carta orgánica o ierno del estado. socio, propietario, gerente, funcionario, director, de leyes criminales que han o hayan ocurrido plan de autonomía gubernamental mediante (2) Un funcionario público no cabildeará para Notices aprendiz, pasante, asociado, servidor, volun- en dos o más circuitos judiciales como parte de este artículo. Todas las provisiones de “La obtener compensación sobre asuntos de tario y similares. una transacción relacionada, o cuando Carta Orgánica de Autonomía Gubernamental política, asignaciones o adquisiciones ante el (4) “Lugar de trabajo encerrado" significa cualquier tal delito esté afectando o haya afec- del Condado de Dade,” adoptadas hasta ahora gobierno federal, la legislatura, cualquier agen- cualquier lugar donde una o más personas se tado a dos o más circuitos judiciales tal y como o de aquí en adelante por los electores del cia u organismo del gobierno estatal o dediquen al trabajo, cuyo espacio esté predom- provisto por ley general. El fiscal del estado Condado de Dade, en conformidad con el Ar- cualquier subdivisión política de este estado, ______inante o totalmente delimitado por barreras físi- será nombrado por el fiscal general de entre no ticulo VIII, Sección 11, de la Constitución de durante su mandato. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF SOUTH HALF OF LOT 13 cas en todos los lados y por encima, menos de tres personas nominadas por la 1885, según enmendada, serán válidas, y (3) Un funcionario público no cabildeará para AND LOTS 14 TO 16 IN- independientemente de si tales barreras con- comisión de nominaciones judiciales para la cualquier enmienda a tal carta orgánica será que se le pague una indemnización en asuntos THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT stituyen o incluyen aberturas descubiertas, Corte Suprema, o como sea provisto por ley válida; siempre y cuando dichas provisiones de de políticas, asignaciones o adquisiciones du- IN AND FOR CLUSIVE, BLOCK 3, aberturas parcialmente cubiertas o con pan- general. la carta orgánica y dichas enmiendas a la rante un período de seis años después de que HARDEE COUNTY, FLORIDA BOWLING GREEN RAIL- tallas; ventanas abiertas o cerradas, persianas, (c) El director de finanzas servirá como el prin- misma sean autorizadas bajo dicho Artículo su cargo público sea vacante, como se indica ROAD SURVEY, SECTION puertas o similares. Esta sección aplica a todos cipal funcionario financiero del estado, saldará VIII, Sección 11, de la Constitución de 1885, a continuación: CIVIL ACTION los lugares de trabajo encerrados sin importar y aprobará cuentas debidas por el estado, y al- según enmendada. a. Un funcionario electo a nivel estatal o un 4, TOWNSHIP 33 SOUTH, si el trabajo se está produciendo en un mo- macenará todos los fondos y valores del es- (f) CONDADO DE DADE; PODERES CON- miembro de la legislatura no cabildeará a la CASE NO. 25-2018-CA-000280 RANGE 25 EAST, HARDEE mento dado. tado. FERIDOS SOBRE MUNICIPIOS. En la medida legislatura ni a ningún organismo o agencia del COUNTY, FLORIDA. (5) El uso "Comercial" de una residencia pri- (d) El comisionado de agricultura tendrá super- en que no sea inconsistente con los poderes gobierno estatal. A/K/A 4802 CHURCH AV- vada significa cualquier período durante el cual visión sobre asuntos relacionados con la agri- de municipios existentes o ley general, El Go- b. Una persona que se desempeñe como sec- U.S. BANK NATIONAL el propietario, arrendatario u otra persona que cultura excepto cuando sea provisto de lo bierno Metropolitano del Condado de Dade retaria, directora ejecutiva u otro jefe de agen- ASSOCIATION, ENUE, BOWLING GREEN, ocupe o controle el uso de la residencia privada contrario por ley. podrá ejercer todos los poderes conferidos cia de departamento de la rama ejecutiva del Plaintiff, FL 33834 esté suministrando o permitiendo que se sum- (e) El gobernador como presidente, el director ahora o de aquí en adelante por ley general a gobierno estatal no cabildeará a la legislatura, inistre: cuidado de niños, cuidado de adultos de finanzas, y el fiscal general constituirán la los municipios. al gobernador, a la oficina ejecutiva del gober- mayores, atención médica, o cualquier combi- junta estatal de administración, la cual asumirá (g) SELECCIÓN Y OBLIGACIONES DE LOS nador, a los miembros del gabinete, a ningún vs. has been filed against you and nación de los mismos en la residencia privada, todo el poder, control, y autoridad de la junta OFICIALES DEL CONDADO. — departamento que sea encabezado por un you are required to serve a copy y que reciba o espere recibir una compen- estatal de administración establecida por el (1) Salvo lo dispuesto en esta subsección, la miembro del gabinete, o a su departamento an- THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, of your written defenses within sación por ello. Artículo IX, Sección 16 de la Constitución de enmienda a la Sección 1 de este artículo, rela- terior. 30 days after the first publica- (6) “Tienda minorista de tabaco" significa 1885, y la cual continuará como entidad por lo cionada con la selección y obligaciones de los c. Un comisionado del condado, un funcionario DEVISEES, GRANTEES, cualquier lugar de trabajo encerrado dedicado menos durante la vida del Artículo XII, Sección funcionarios del condado, entrará en vigencia del condado de conformidad con el Artículo VIII ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, tion, if any, on Albertelli Law, principalmente a la venta al por menor de 9(c). el 5 de enero de 2021, pero regirá con respecto o el estatuto del condado, un miembro del con- CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, OR Plaintiff’s attorney, whose ad- tabaco, productos de tabaco y accesorios para El gobernador como presidente, el director de a la calificación y la celebración de las elec- sejo escolar, un superintendente de escuelas, dress is P.O. Box 23028, Tampa, tales productos, en el cual la venta de otros finanzas, el fiscal general, y el comisionado de ciones primarias y generales para oficiales con- un funcionario municipal electo o un funcionario OTHER CLAIMANTS CLAIMING productos o servicios sea meramente inciden- agricultura constituirán los administradores stitucionales del condado en 2020. del distrito especial elegido en un distrito espe- BY, THROUGH, UNDER, OR FL 33623, and file the original tal. fiduciarios del fideicomiso de mejora interna (2) Para el Condado de Miami-Dade y el Con- cial con autoridad tributaria ad valorem no ca- AGAINST THE ESTATE OF with this Court either before (7) "Habitaciones designadas para fumadores y del fideicomiso de adquisición de tierras dado de Broward, la enmienda a la Sección 1 bildeará a su antigua agencia u organismo de PAMELA NEWSOM, service on Plaintiff’s attorney, or en establecimientos públicos de alojamiento" como provisto por ley. de este artículo, relacionada con la selección y gobierno. immediately thereafter; other- significa los dormitorios y áreas privadas direc- (g) El gobernador como presidente, el director obligaciones de los oficiales del condado, en- (4) Esta subsección no se interpretará como DECEASED, et al, tamente asociadas, tales como baños, salas de de finanzas, el fiscal general, y el comisionado trará en vigencia el 7 de enero de 2025, pero que prohíbe a un funcionario público llevar a Defendant(s). wise, a default will be entered estar y áreas de cocina, si las hay, alquiladas de agricultura constituyen la directiva de agen- regirá con respecto a la calificación y la cele- cabo los deberes de su cargo público. ______/ against you for the relief de- a huéspedes para su ocupación transitoria ex- cia del Departamento de Investigaciones Crim- bración de las elecciones primarias y generales (5) La legislatura podrá promulgar legislación manded in the Complaint or pe- clusiva en establecimientos públicos de alo- inales. La Oficina de Seguridad Doméstica y para oficiales constitucionales del condado en para implementar esta subsección, que in- jamiento, incluyendo hoteles, moteles, Contraterrorismo se crea dentro del Departa- 2024. cluya, entre otras cosas, la definición de térmi- NOTICE OF ACTION tition. condominios de resorts, apartamentos transi- mento de Aplicación de la Ley. La Oficina de (h)(g) SUPRESIÓN DE ARTÍCULOS OBSOLE- nos y la imposición de sanciones por torios, establecimientos de alojamiento transi- Seguridad Doméstica y Contraterrorismo pro- TOS DEL APÉNDICE. La legislatura tendrá el violaciones. Dicha ley no deberá contener dis- TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DE- This notice shall be published torio, casas de hospedaje, pensiones, porcionará apoyo a los fiscales y agencias de poder, a través de resolución conjunta, de bor- posiciones sobre ningún otro tema. once a week for two consecutive viviendas de complejos turísticos, posadas de aplicación de la ley federal, estatal y local que rar de este artículo cualquier subsección de (g)(f) Habrá una comisión independiente para VISEES, GRANTEES, AS- alojamiento y desayuno y similares; que sean investiguen o analicen información relacionada esta Sección 6, incluyendo esta subsección, conducir investigaciones y hacer reportes públi- SIGNEES, LIENORS, weeks in the Herald Advocate. designadas por la persona o personas que con intentos y actos de terrorismo o que san- cuando todos los eventos a los cuales la sub- cos sobre todas las denuncias concernientes a CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, OR tienen autoridad de gestión sobre el establec- cionen el terrorismo, y realizará cualquier otro sección que será borrada es o podría ser aplic- infracciones contra el fondo público por fun- WITNESS my hand and the imiento de alojamiento público como habita- cometido que establezca la ley. able hayan ocurrido. Una determinación cionarios públicos o empleados no dentro de la OTHER CLAIMANTS CLAIMING ciones en las que se permite fumar. SECCIÓN 11. Departamento de Asuntos Vet- legislativa hecha como base para la aplicación jurisdicción de la comisión de calificaciones ju- BY, THROUGH, UNDER, OR seal of this court on this 25th (8) "Bar independiente" se refiere a un lugar de eranos de Veteranos. La legislatura, por ley de esta subsección deberá ser sujeta a revisión diciales. AGAINST THE ESTATE OF day of August, 2018. negocios dedicado, durante cualquier mo- general, deberá organizar podrá organizar la judicial. (h)(1)(g) Un Código de Ética para todos los em- PAMELA NEWSOM, DECEASED mento de su operación, en mayor parte o total- creación de un Departamento de Asuntos Vet- pleados estatales y funcionarios no judiciales VICTORIA L. ROGERS, mente a servir bebidas alcohólicas, bebidas eranos de Veteranos y prescribir sus deberes N.º 11 que prohíba conflicto entre cargos públicos e embriagantes, licores embriagantes, o La directiva del departamento son el gober- REVISIÓN CONSTITUCIONAL intereses privados será previsto por ley. Last Known Address: Unknown Clerk of the Circuit Court cualquier combinación de los mismos para su nador y el gabinete. ARTÍCULO I, SECCIÓN 2 (2) Un funcionario o empleado público no de- Current Address: Unknown consumo en las instalaciones autorizadas; en ARTICULO X, SECCIONES 9 Y 19 berá abusar de su posición pública para By: J. Wingo el cual el servicio de alimentos, si lo hay, es ARTÍCULO VIII obtener un beneficio desproporcionado para sí meramente secundario al consumo de tales GOBIERNO LOCAL TITULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: mismo; su cónyuge, hijos o empleador; o para ANY AND ALL UNKNOWN PAR- Deputy Clerk bebidas; y que no se encuentra dentro, ni com- SECCIÓN 1. Condados. — Derechos de Propiedad; Eliminación de la Dis- cualquier negocio con el que contrate; en el TIES CLAIMING BY, THROUGH, parte, cualquier entrada o área interior común (a) SUBDIVISIONES POLÍTICAS. El estado se posición Obsoleta; Estatutos Criminales que él o ella sea un oficial, un socio, un director UNDER, AND AGAINST THE **See the Americans with Dis- con ningún otro lugar de trabajo encerrado que dividirá, por ley, en subdivisiones políticas lla- o un propietario; o en el que posea algún in- abilities Act incluya cualquier negocio para el cual la venta madas condados. Los Condados podrán ser RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE terés. La Comisión de Ética de Florida deberá, HEREIN NAMED INDIVIDUAL de alimentos o cualquier otro producto o servi- creados, abolidos o cambiados por ley, con VOTACIÓN: por norma de conformidad con los proced- DEFENDANT(S) WHO ARE NOT If you are a person with a dis- cio sea más que una fuente incidental de ingre- provisiones para el pago o repartición de la Elimina el lenguaje discriminatorio relacionado imientos legales que rigen la reglamentación KNOWN TO BE DEAD OR ALIVE, ability who needs any accommo- sos brutos. deuda pública. con los derechos de propiedades determi- administrativa, definir el término "beneficio de- dation in order to participate in (9) "Dispositivo electrónico generador de (b) FONDOS DEL CONDADO. El cuidado, cus- nadas. Elimina el lenguaje obsoleto derogado sproporcionado" y prescribir la intención re- WHETHER SAID UNKNOWN vapor" significa cualquier producto que emplee todia y método de distribuir los fondos del con- por los votantes. Elimina la disposición de que querida para encontrar una violación de esta PARTIES MAY CLAIM AN IN- this proceeding, you are enti- un medio electrónico, químico o mecánico dado será provisto por ley general. la enmienda de un estatuto penal no afectará prohibición a los efectos de hacer cumplir este TEREST AS SPOUSES, HEIRS, tled, at no cost to you, to the capaz de producir vapor o aerosol a partir de (c) GOBIERNO. Mediante ley general o espe- el enjuiciamiento o las sanciones para un delito párrafo. Las penalizaciones apropiadas serán DEVISEES, GRANTEES, OR provision of certain assistance. un producto de nicotina o cualquier otra sus- cial, un gobierno del condado podrá ser es- cometido antes de la enmienda; retiene la dis- prescritas por ley. Please contact the Office of the tancia, incluidos, entre otros, un cigarrillo elec- tablecido por carta orgánica la cual se posición actual que permite el enjuiciamiento (i)(h) Esta sección no se interpretará para limi- OTHER CLAIMANTS trónico, cigarro electrónico, pipa electrónica u adoptará, enmendará, o revocará solo con el de un delito cometido antes de la derogación tar revelaciones y prohibiciones que puedan Court Administrator, (863) 534- otro dispositivo o producto similar, cualquier voto de los electores del condado en una elec- de un estatuto penal. ser establecidas para preservar el bien público Last Known Address: Unknown 4690, within two (2) working cartucho de recambio para dicho dispositivo y ción especial convocada para ese propósito. y evitar conflictos entre las funciones públicas days of your receipt of this (de- cualquier otro recipiente de una solución u otra (d) OFICIALES DEL CONDADO. Serán electos TEXTO COMPLETO: y los intereses privados. Current Address: Unknown sustancia destinada a ser utilizada con o dentro por los electores de cada condado, por térmi- ARTÍCULO I (j)(i) Apéndice. —En la fecha en que esta en- scribe notice); if you are hearing de un cigarrillo electrónico, cigarro electrónico, nos de cuatro años, un alguacil, un recaudador DECLARACIÓN DE DERECHOS mienda sea efectiva y hasta que sea cambiada YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an or voice impaired, call TDD (863) pipa electrónica u otro dispositivo o producto de impuestos, un tasador de propiedades, un SECCIÓN 2. Derechos básicos.—Todas las por ley: action to foreclose a mortgage 534-7777 or Florida Relay Serv- similar. supervisor de elecciones, y un secretario de la personas naturales, tanto mujeres como hom- (1) La revelación pública y completa de intere- ice 711. (10) “Minorista de dispositivos electrónicos corte de circuito; excepto que, cuando lo bres, son iguales ante la ley y tienen derechos ses financieros significará presentar con el cus- on the following property in generadores de vapor" se refiere a cualquier disponga la carta orgánica o una ley especial inalienables, entre los que se encuentran el todio de los registros estatales antes del 1 de Hardee County, Florida: ______8:30,9:6c lugar de trabajo encerrado dedicado principal- aprobada por el voto de los electores del con- derecho a disfrutar y a defender la vida y la lib- julio de cada año una declaración jurada mente a la venta al por menor de dispositivos dado, cualquier funcionario del condado puede ertad, a buscar la felicidad, a ser recompensa- mostrando el patrimonio completo e identifi- electrónicos generadores de vapor, y compo- ser elegido de otra manera que esté especifi- dos por la industria y a adquirir, poseer y cando cada activo y deuda de más de $1000 y nentes y accesorios para tales productos, en el cada en ella, o cualquier oficina del condado proteger propiedad; excepto que la posesión, su valor junto con uno de los siguientes: que la venta de otros productos o servicios sea puede ser abolida cuando todos los deberes de la herencia, la disposición y la posesión de a. Una copia de la declaración federal de im- meramente incidental. la oficina prescritos por ley general sean trans- propiedades determinadas por parte de extran- puestos sobre ingresos más reciente de la per- (d) LEGISLACIÓN. En la próxima sesión leg- feridos a otra oficina. A menos que Cuando no jeros no elegibles para la ciudadanía puede sona; o NOTICE OF APPLICATION islativa regular que se produzca después de la por ley especial aprobada por la carta orgánica estar regulada o prohibida por la ley. Ninguna b. Una declaración jurada que identifique cada aprobación de esta sección o cualquier en- o voto de los electores o de conformidad con persona será privada de ningún derecho de- fuente y cantidad de ingreso que supere los mienda a esta sección enmienda por parte de el Artículo V, Sección 16, disponga lo contrario, bido a su raza, religión, origen nacional o dis- $1000. Los formularios para tal declaración y FOR TAX DEED los votantes, la Legislatura de Florida aprobará el secretario de la corte de circuito será secre- capacidad física. las reglas bajo las cuales serán archivados legislación para implementar esta sección y tario ex oficio de la junta de comisionados del serán prescritos por la comisión independiente cualquier enmienda a esta sección enmienda condado, auditor, registrador y custodio de ARTÍCULO X establecida en subsección (g) (f), y tales reglas WARNING de una manera consistente con su objetivo todos los fondos del condado. Sin perjuicio de MISCELÁNEO incluirán la declaración de fuentes secundarias THERE ARE UNPAID TAXES ON THE PROPERTY general y términos establecidos, y con una la subsección 6(e) de este artículo, la carta del SECCIÓN 9. Derogación de los estatutos pe- de ingresos. fecha de vigencia a más tardar del 1 de julio del condado no puede abolir la oficina de un al- nales. —La derogación o enmienda de una ley (2) Personas ocupando cargos estatales elec- WHICH YOU OWN OR IN WHICH YOU MAY HAVE año siguiente de la aprobación de los votantes. guacil, un recaudador de impuestos, un tasador penal no afectará el enjuiciamiento o castigo tos también deberán presentar revelaciones de LEGAL INTEREST. Dicha legislación deberá incluir, sin limita- de propiedades, un supervisor de elecciones o por cualquier delito cometido previamente sus intereses financieros de acuerdo con el ciones, sanciones civiles por violaciones de un secretario del tribunal de circuito; transferir antes de dicha derogación. párrafo (1) la subsección (i)(1). esta sección; disposiciones para la aplicación los deberes de esos oficiales a otro oficial u SECCIÓN 19. Derogada Sistema de transporte (3) La comisión independiente establecida en The property will be sold at a public auction on the de medidas administrativas; y el requisito y au- oficina; cambiar la duración del mandato de cu- terrestre de alta velocidad. —Para reducir la subsección (g) (f) será la Comisión de Ética de torización de las reglas de la agencia para su atro años; o establecer cualquier forma de se- congestión del tráfico y proporcionar alternati- la Florida. 12th day of September, 2018, at 11:00 a.m., unless implementación y cumplimiento. Esta sección lección que no sea por elección de los vas al público que viaja, se declara de interés no Nada de lo contenido le prohíbe a la Legis- electores del condado. público que un sistema de transporte terrestre ARTÍCULO V the back taxes are paid. To make payment or for latura promulgar una ley que constituya o que (e) COMISIONADOS. Excepto cuando sea de alta velocidad compuesto por un monorraíl, PODER JUDICIAL questions concerning real property taxes, contact permita una regulación más restrictiva sobre el previsto de otra manera por la carta orgánica línea ferroviaria o sistema de levitación mag- SECCIÓN 13 Ética en el Poder Judicial. Activi- consumo de tabaco y el uso de dispositivos del condado, el cuerpo gobernante de cada nética, capaz de alcanzar velocidades superi- dades Prohibidas. — the Hardee County Tax Collector’s Office at (863) electrónicos generadores de vapor que la pro- condado será una junta de comisionados del ores a 120 millas por hora, sea desarrollado y Todos los jueces se dedicarán a tiempo com- 773-9144 (PO Box 445, Wauchula, FL 33873). To re- porcionada en esta sección. condado compuesto de cinco o siete miembros operado en el Estado de Florida con el fin de pleto a sus funciones judiciales. Un magistrado sirviendo términos escalonados de cuatro proporcionar transporte terrestre de alta veloci- o juez Estos no podrá participar en el ejercicio ceive further information regarding the Tax Deed N.º 10 años. Después de cada censo decenal el dad mediante tecnologías innovadoras, efi- de la abogacía o desempeñar cargos en Sale, contact the Hardee County Clerk of the REVISIÓN CONSTITUCIONAL cuerpo de comisionados del condado dividirá cientes y efectivas que incorporen rieles o ningún partido político. ARTÍCULO III, SECCIÓN 3 el condado en distritos de territorio contiguos lo carriles separados del tráfico de vehículos au- (b) Un ex magistrado o ex juez no cabildeará Courts, immediately, at (863) 773-4174 (P.O. ARTÍCULO IV, SECCIONES 4 Y 11 más iguales en población posible. Un comision- tomotores y enlacen las cinco áreas urbanas para obtener compensación sobre asuntos de ARTÍCULO VIII, SECCIONES 1 Y 6 ado residiendo en cada distrito será electo más grandes del Estado según lo determinado política, asignaciones o adquisiciones ante las Drawer 1749, Wauchula, Florida, 33873). como previsto por ley. por la Legislatura, y de proporcionar acceso a ramas legislativas o ejecutivas del gobierno es- TÍTULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: (f) GOBIERNO SIN CARTA ORGÁNICA Con- las instalaciones y servicios de transporte ter- tatal por un período de seis años después de Estructura y Operación del Gobierno Estatal y dados que no operen bajo cartas orgánicas restre y aéreo ya existentes. Se ordena a la que él o ella desocupe su puesto judicial. La The holder of the following tax certificate has filed Local tendrán tal poder de autogobierno como sea Legislatura, al Gabinete y al Gobernador a pro- legislatura puede promulgar legislación para the certificate for a tax deed to be issued. The cer- previsto por ley general o especial. La junta de ceder con el desarrollo de dicho sistema por implementar esta subsección, que incluya, RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE comisionados de un condado sin carta parte del Estado y/o de una entidad privada en entre otros, la definición de términos y la im- tificate number and year of issuance, the descrip- VOTACIÓN: orgánica podrá promulgar, en manera prescrita conformidad con la aprobación y autorización posición de sanciones por violaciones. Dicha tion of the property, and the names in which it was Requiere legislatura para conservar el Depar- por ley general, ordenanzas de condado que del Estado, incluida la adquisición de los dere- ley no deberá contener disposiciones sobre tamento de Asuntos de Veteranos. Asegura la no sean inconsistentes con ley general o espe- chos de vía, el financiamiento del diseño y la ningún otro tema. assessed are: elección de alguaciles, tasadores de cial, pero una ordenanza en conflicto con una construcción de este sistema, y la operación propiedad, supervisores de elecciones, recau- ordenanza municipal no será válida dentro del del sistema, como provisto por apropiación es- ARTÍCULO XII dadores de impuestos y secretarios de tribunal municipio en medida de tal conflicto. pecífica y por ley, con la construcción para APÉNDICE CERTIFICATE NO.: 1316 en todos los condados; elimina la capacidad de (g) GOBIERNO DE CARTA ORGÁNICA Con- comenzar el día 1 de noviembre de 2003 o Prohibiciones respecto al cabildeo por compen- los estatutos del condado para abolir, cambiar dados actuando bajo cartas orgánicas de con- antes de esa fecha. sación y contra el abuso de la posición pública YEAR OF ISSUANCE: 2012 el mandato, transferir deberes o eliminar la dados tendrán todos los poderes de por parte de funcionarios y empleados públi- NAME(S) IN WHICH ASSESSED: James A. Cun- elección de estas oficinas. Cambia la fecha de autogobierno local que no sean inconsistentes N.º 12 cos. —Las enmiendas a la Sección 8 del inicio de la sesión legislativa anual en los años con ley general, o con ley especial aprobada REVISIÓN CONSTITUCIONAL Artículo II y a la Sección 13 del Artículo V en- ningham, Trustee pares de marzo a enero; elimina la autorización por voto de los electores. El cuerpo gobernante ARTÍCULO II, SECCIÓN 8 trarán en vigencia el 31 de diciembre de 2022; de la legislatura para fijar otra fecha. Crea una de un condado actuando bajo una carta ARTÍCULO V, SECCIÓN 13 excepto las enmiendas a la Sección 8 (h) del oficina de seguridad nacional y contraterror- orgánica podrá promulgar ordenanzas del con- ARTÍCULO XII, NUEVA SECCIÓN Artículo II que entrarán en vigencia el 31 de di- Description of Property: ismo dentro del departamento de aplicación de dado no inconsistentes con ley general. La ciembre de 2020, y: la ley. carta orgánica proporcionará aquello que deba TITULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: (a) La Comisión de Ética de Florida definirá, por Parcel ID Number: 28-34-27-0000-50050-0000 prevalecer en caso de conflicto entre ordenan- Cabildeo y Abuso de Poder por parte de Fun- regla, el término "beneficio desproporcionado" TEXTO COMPLETO: zas del condado y ordenanzas municipales. cionarios Públicos y prescribirá la intención requerida para encon- 640 AC 1/32 MINERAL RIGHTS ARTÍCULO III (h) IMPUESTOS; LIMITACIONES. Propiedad trar una violación de la prohibición contra el LEGISLATURA situada dentro de municipios no será sujeta a RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE abuso de la posición pública antes del 1 de oc- ALL OF SECTION PART OF 9185 SECCIÓN 3. Sesiones de la legislatura. — impuestos por servicios provistos por el con- VOTACIÓN: tubre de 2019, como se especifica en la Sec- ACRE TRACT LESS PHOSPHATE (a) SESIONES DE ORGANIZACIÓN. En el dado exclusivamente para beneficio de la Expande las restricciones actuales sobre el ca- ción 8 (h) del Artículo II. decimocuarto día después de cada elección propiedad o de los residentes en áreas no in- bildeo para obtener compensación por parte de (b) Luego de la adopción de las reglas de con- general, la Legislatura se convocará en sesión corporadas. ex funcionarios públicos; crea restricciones al formidad con la subsección (a), la legislatura SUBJECT TO RESERVATIONS, COVENANTS, RE- con el propósito exclusivo de la organización y (i) ORDENANZAS DEL CONDADO. Cada or- cabildeo por compensación para funcionarios deberá promulgar una legislación de imple- selección de oficiales. denanza del condado se archivará con el cus- públicos en servicio y ex magistrados y jueces; mentación que establezca sanciones por viola- STRICTIONS, AND EASEMENTS OF RECORD. (b) SESIONES REGULARES. Una sesión reg- todio de los registros estatales y entrará en proporciona excepciones; prohíbe el abuso de ciones a la prohibición contra el abuso de la ular de la legislatura se convocará el primer vigor a tal tiempo de allí en adelante como sea un cargo público por parte de funcionarios posición pública a partir del 31 de diciembre de martes después del primer lunes de marzo de previsto por ley general. públicos y empleados para obtener un benefi- 2020. All of the property is in HARDEE County, Florida. cada año impar, y en el segundo primer martes (j) VIOLACIÓN DE ORDENANZAS. Personas cio personal. después del primer lunes de enero marzo, o en que violen las ordenanzas del condado serán N.º 13 cualquier otra fecha que pueda ser fijada por procesadas y castigadas según lo dispuesto TEXTO COMPLETO: REVISIÓN CONSTITUCIONAL Unless the certificate or certificates are redeemed ley, de cada año par. por la ley. ARTÍCULO II ARTÍCULO X, NUEVA SECCIÓN (c) SESIONES ESPECIALES. (k) SEDE DEL CONDADO. En cada condado PROVISIONES GENERALES ARTÍCULO XII, NUEVA SECCIÓN according to law, the property described in the cer- (1) El gobernador, mediante una proclamación habrá una sede del condado donde estarán lo- SECCIÓN 8. Ética en el gobierno. – Una oficina tificate or certificates will be sold to the highest bid- que declare el propósito, podrá convocar a la calizadas las oficinas principales y registros pública constituye un fondo público. El pueblo TITULO DE LA PAPELETA DE VOTACIÓN: legislatura en sesión especial, durante la cual permanentes de todos los oficiales del con- tiene el derecho de proteger y sostener ese Fin a las Carreras Caninas der on September 12, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. sólo se tratará actividad legislativa que sea rel- dado. La sede del condado no podrá ser fondo contra el abuso. Para asegurar este evante a la proclamación, o a una comuni- movida excepto sea previsto por ley general. derecho: RESUMEN DE LA PAPELETA DE cación del gobernador, o que se introduzca con Oficinas sucursales para conducir asuntos del (a) Todo funcionario constitucional electo, los VOTACIÓN: By: Norma M. Juarez, Deputy Clerk el consentimiento de dos tercios de los miem- condado podrán ser establecidas en otras candidatos para tales cargos, y otros funcionar- Elimina progresivamente las carreras caninas bros de cada cámara. partes del condado por resolución del cuerpo ios públicos, candidatos, y empleados, deberán comerciales relacionadas con apuestas para el (2) Una sesión especial de la legislatura podrá gobernante en la manera prescrita por ley. presentar pública y completamente las revela- 2020. Otras actividades de juego no se ven Pursuant to F.S. 197.512 ser convocada según sea dispuesto por ley. Ningún instrumento se considerará registrado ciones de sus intereses financieros cuando sea afectadas. Victoria L. Rogers (d) DURACIÓN DE LAS SESIONES. Una hasta que sea archivado en la sede del con- dispuesto por ley. sesión regular de la legislatura no podrá durar dado, o en una oficina sucursal designada por (b) Todos los funcionarios públicos electos y TEXTO COMPLETO: Hardee County, Clerk of the Circuit Court and más de sesenta días consecutivos, y una el cuerpo gobernante del condado para el reg- candidatos para tales cargos deberán presen- ARTÍCULO X Comptroller sesión especial no durará más de veinte días istro de instrumentos de acuerdo con la ley. tar pública y completamente las revelaciones MISCELÁNEO consecutivos, a menos de que sea extendida SECCIÓN 6. Anexo al Artículo VIII. — de las finanzas de sus campañas. Prohibición de competir y apostar con galgos u Tax Deed File: 252018TD011XXXX más allá de ese límite por un voto de tres quin- (a) Este artículo remplazará todo el Artículo VIII (c) Cualquier funcionario público o empleado otros perros. El trato humano a los animales es tas partes de cada cámara. Durante dicha ex- de la Constitución de 1885, como fue enmen- que viole el fondo público para obtener benefi- un valor fundamental de las personas del es- Date: 08/06/2018 tensión ningún asunto nuevo podrá ser tratado dada, excepto aquellas secciones retenidas ex- cios privados y cualquier persona o entidad que tado de Florida. Después del 31 de diciembre Ad No.: 1 en ninguna de las cámaras sin el consen- presamente y hechas parte de este artículo por induzca tal infracción deberá responder al es- de 2020, una persona autorizada para llevar a 8:9-30c timiento de dos tercios de sus miembros. referencia. tado por todos los beneficios económicos cabo operaciones de juego o apuestas mutuas B12 The Herald-Advocate, August 30, 2018 CROSS COUNTRY Runners Attend Jim Ryun Invitational By TOM STAIK Results: Of The Herald-Advocate Girl’s Varsity Team: 13th, The Wildcats are eyeing Hardee, 424, TT 2:09:09; AVG “more aggressive” training fol- 25:50. lowing a disappointing show- Girl’s Varsity: 40th, Tatiana ing Saturday at the Jim Ryun Mier, 23:08.80; 41st, Adrianna Invitational at Lakeland’s Hol- Mier, 23:10.70; 123rd, Ingrid loway Park. Mendoza, 26:59.30; 128th, “It was a learning experi- Laura Ramos, 27:11.70; ence,” said coach Rob Beatty. 152nd, Kaitlynn Brandeberry, Runners from both Hardee 28:38.50; 167th, Kareli Plata, Senior High School and 29:20.50; and 232nd, Acheline Hardee Junior High School Delhomme, 34:58.70. joined student-athletes from Boy’s Varsity Team: 35th, dozens of schools – many con- Hardee, 846, TT 1:51.35, AVG sidered the Sunshine State’s 22:19. most elite running programs. Boy’s Varsity: 50th, Zack Junior Tatiana Mier nar- Durastanti, 19:01.40; 110th, rowly edged ahead of sister Roberto Guiterrez, 20:37.60; Adriana Mier, a freshman, to 230th, Noah Torres, 23:29.80; lead the pack for the Lady 250th, Dalton Kiella, Wildcats. 24:06.50; and 258th, Scott Zack Durastanti led the Meeks, 24:19.20. Wildcat squad. Girl’s JV: 97th, Daniella Vil- “He was looking at a pretty lalva, 33:35.10. good low 18 or better time Boy’s JV: 259th, Mike until about 100 meters before Trevino, 35:57.00. the finish line when things re- Girl’s 0.62 Mile: 1st, Amelia COURTESY PHOTO ally shut down for him,” Roberts (Hardee Sole Crush- Adrianna Mier (left) and Tatiana Mier (right) run for the Caleb Nadasky was the leader of the boy’s team from Beatty said. “That’s cross ers), 4:45.10; and 3rd, Isabella Lady Wildcats. country some times.” Mier (Hardee Sole Crushers), Hardee Junior High School. The junior high squad per- 5:11.70. Caleb Nadasky, 12:48.90; formed more competitively in Girl’s 1.23 Mile: 2nd, 42nd, Jacob Duncan, 13:15.50; the 3 kilometer challenge. Shanah Virgile (Hardee Sole 43rd, Nolan Roberts (Hardee “Those kids ran really com- Crushers), 10:16.30. Sole Crushers), 13:16.70; petitively today, especially Girl’s Middle School: 39th, 45th, Chase Bryant, 13:21.40; Caleb (Nadasky) and Ava Yadira Sanchez, 15:06.90; 57th, Zander Durastanti, (Roberts),” Beatty said. 58th, Mikayla Metayer, 13:40.40; 90th, Austin Ulm Beatty hopes his team takes 16:07.60; 79th, Ava Roberts, (Hardee Sole Crushers); and the experience to heart. 17:09.50; and 84th, Madelyn 169th, Cameron White “Hardee boys and girls Nadaskay, 17:24.50. (Hardee Sole Crushers), learned today that they have a Boy’s Middle School: 33rd, 19:06.30. lot of work to do between now and the district meet,” Beatty said. “Heat has put a damper on our long run days, but we need to get more aggressive in our training seeing some of our district competition that was at this meet.”

Noah Torres (second from left) runs for the Wildcats.

WATER WORKS Stump The Swami By John Szeligo

Cupcake Saturday Opens Football Season Well football fans, it is here. Time to kickoff another great year of football! It is the season for tailgates, wings at game watching parties, Charleston Southern at Florida – Gators unveil their re- and fantasy football. From Pop Warner to little league, from jun- bound season with a bang. Quarterback play will be the center ior high to jay-vee and varsity, from college to pro football, lives of attention but a strong run game will be the difference early will be filled with footballs for the next five months. for this team. Florida 45 – Charleston Southern 10 The first weekend of college football, as usual, has many top teams opening with cupcakes and some with interesting matches between top teams from power conferences facing off in intra-conference tilts. Michigan at Notre Dame – Irish have the preseason hype Nevertheless, it is finally here and the first weekend of col- but Las Vegas has Michigan favored by a point and a half. At lege football is at hand. As my old favorite broadcaster, Chris South Bend, the Irish have always been “lucky.” Notre Dame Schenkle, used to say: “What better way to spend an autumn af- 34 – Michigan 31 ternoon than watching college football.“ Now, let’s look at this weeks’ Bill O’ Fare:

Alabama vs. Louisville – The Tide rolls in the opener and throughout the 2018 season. The Cardinals were overrated in UCF at UConn – Knights pick up where they left off last 2017 and should not be in the national spotlight in 2018. Ala- season. Lots of veterans return and even on the road they should bama 56 – Louisville 17 have no trouble. UCF has the quarterback and receivers to light it up. UCF 45 – UConn 17

Elon at USF – Bulls open with easy win. It could be another magical season for Charlie Strong and his troops. USF 45 – Army at Duke – Blue Devils won’t challenge the top teams Elon 7 COURTESY PHOTO in the ACC but should be tough against the rest of their schedule. Ryan Mejia and Janellie Rodriguez, kindergartners in They enter the game favored by around 12 points. A disciplined Ashley Rigney’s class at Hilltop Elementary School, are run oriented team like Army could make life difficult though. conducting their first-ever science experiment. What Duke 33 – Army 21 Marshall at Miami (Ohio) – There is no love lost between will happen if we poke a pencil through a zipper bag these two rivals. Miami has made this their Homecoming Game of water? in an attempt to fire up their fan base. Marshall has new offensive and defensive coordinators plus a new quarterback. The Herd FAU at Oklahoma – Lane Kiffin and the Owls have got a does return 19 starters. Las Vegas inexplicably has Miami a 2.5 lot of press after winning C-USA last season. This could be an point favorite. Marshall 34 – Miami (Ohio) 13 interesting opener. Sooners should prevail but better take this team serious. Oklahoma 31 – FAU 14

LSU vs. Miami – Tigers take on the “other“ Miami and the ‘Canes are primed for a great season. Miami’s fast defense and Maryland at Texas – Terps are in turmoil. It could be a long an experienced quarterback should be the difference in this one. season for them. Texas is primed for a turnaround. Texas 44 – Miami 30 – LSU 17 Maryland 13

Virginia Tech at FSU – Seminole Nation enters the Willie Ole Miss at Texas Tech – Red Raiders get a chance to win Taggart era in good fashion. It will be a tough opener against a a solid out of conference contest. Texas Tech 34 – Ole Miss 27 better ACC foe but it is at Doak. Look for a spirited day with a ‘Nole victory. FSU 31 – Virginia Tech 21

Furman at Clemson – Tigers empty the bench as they open up with an easy win while getting a look at depth early on. Clem- McNeese at Northern Colorado – The UNC Bears return 17 son 58 – Furman 7 starters including a 1,000 yard wide receiver. The defense must improve if they are to reach a winning record. Northern Colorado 34 – McNeese 27

Austin Peay at Georgia – ‘Dawgs are so ready to get to the National Championship Game. This opener should see many players get some playing time. The new red shirt rule may let Stephen F. Austin at Mississippi State – Mullen didn’t leave some heralded frosh get a look. Georgia 66 ––Austin Peay 10 the cupboard bare for the Bulldogs. They roll in this game. Mis- sissippi State 51 – Stephen F. Austin 13

West Virginia vs. Tennessee – Grier begins his Heisman Campaign as the Mountaineers unleash an offense that could Middle Tennessee at Vanderbilt – MTSU has a solid quar- lead the nation. Grier has arguably the best receiving corps in terback in Stockstill. They could pull a stunner but it would be football. West Virginia 45 – Tennessee 23 a long shot. Vanderbilt 33 – MTSU 30

Indiana at FIU – Hoosiers ruin Butch Davis at home. Al- Missouri State at Oklahoma State – Cowboys could be a though it will not be easy for the Big 10 to get road wins. Indiana surprise in the Big 12. Look for a lot of points in a rout. Okla- 31 – FIU 28 homa State 59 – Missouri State 17 8:30c August 30, 2018, The Herald-Advocate B13 Crime Blotter

Sheriff’s deputies and city police officers investigated the fol- Aug. 24, animal cruelty was reported on the 900 block of Wauchula, was arrested by Dep. Beth Gainous and charged with lowing incidents and made the following arrests during the Quail Road. petit theft and simple assault. past week. All suspects or defendants are presumed innocent Aug. 20, Christopher Lee Woods, 31, of 3524 Poplar St., of the charges against them. Aug. 23, residences were burglarized on the 100 block of Zolfo Springs, was arrested by Dep. Mitchell Johnson and Erler Road and the 1700 block of Griffin Road. charged with probation violation. COUNTY Aug. 23, a theft was reported on the 200 block of Clint Aug. 20, a theft was reported on the 8800 block of U.S. 17 Aug. 26, a dangerous shooting was reported on the 600 Lane. South. block of Baker Street. Aug. 22, Jose Fidencio Garza, 46, general delivery, Zolfo WAUCHULA Aug. 25, Ulises Castrejon Tomas, 21, of 1036 Hummingbird Springs, was arrested by Dep. Beth Gainous and charged with Aug. 26, Cecil Winthrop Crews, 79, general delivery, Lane, Wauchula, was arrested by Dep. Christopher Bandy and trespassing. Wauchula, was arrested by Ofc. Estella Islas and charged with charged with battery. Aug. 22, John Henry Browdy, 41, of 700 Townsend St., battery and trespassing in a structure or conveyance. Aug. 25, residences were burglarized on the 300 block of Tampa, was arrested by Det. Carree Williams on an out-of- Aug. 26, Manuel Casas-Mata, 44, of 2047 Rigdon Road, State Road 62 and the 800 block of Chamberlain Boulevard. county warrant. Wauchula, was arrested by Ofc. Emmanuel Vazquez and charged Aug. 25, vehicles were stolen from the 600 block of Cham- Aug. 22, a theft was reported on the 1400 block of U.S. 17 with trespassing in an occupied structure or conveyance. berlain Boulevard and the 1900 block of Heard Bridge Road. North. Aug. 22, a vehicle was stolen near the corner of State Road Aug. 25, Jordon Crocker, 26, of 635 S. Fifth Ave., Aug. 24, Kosinski Ontrol Tucker, 36, of 1876 Desoto Land- 62 and Mini Washer Road. Wauchula, was arrested by Ofc. Estella Islas and charged with ing, Arcadia, was arrested by Dep. Alex Hipple and charged with grand theft. possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana not Aug. 21, Marcus Miguel Moton, 32, of 2800 Minute Maid Aug. 25, thefts were reported on the 1300 block of East more than 20 grams, possession of cocaine and possession of Ramp Road, Davenport, was arrested by Sgt. Danny O’Bryan Main Street and the 1000 block of South Sixth Avenue. narcotics equipment. and charged with probation violation. Aug. 24, Oscar Trevino, 18, of 1056 N. Florida Ave., Aug. 21, Karen Rae Hartner, 48, and Daniel Ray Hartner, Aug. 24, Amber Douglas, 28, of 604 S. Eighth Ave., Wauchula, was arrested by Sgt. Todd Souther and charged with 47, both of 3084 George Anderson Road, Wauchula, were ar- Wauchula, was arrested by Ofc. Estella Islas and charged with possession of marijuana not more than 20 grams and possession rested by Dep. Mitchell Johnson and charged with battery. aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal mischief. of narcotics equipment. Aug. 21, Carlos Gutierrez, 20, of 777 Lake Branch Road, Aug. 24, a theft was reported on the 800 block of South Aug. 24, Samuel Harbarugh, 19, of 4850 Freeman Ave., Bowling Green, was arrested by the Drug Task Force and Sixth Avenue. Bowling Green, and Juan Huitron Molina, 20, of 211 Orange St., charged with possession of liquor by a person under 21 years of Bowling Green, were arrested by Sgt. Todd Souther and charged age. Aug. 22, criminal mischief was reported on the 300 block with possession of marijuana, possession of narcotics equipment Aug. 21, Adrienne Alvarado, 29, of 4060 Captiva Ave., of River Chase Circle. and tampering with evidence. Harbarugh was also charged with Bowling Green, was arrested by the Drug Task Force and possession of drugs without a prescription. charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of Aug. 20, thefts were reported on the 300 block of Stenstrom Aug. 24, Mikey Retana, 24, of 4616 Chester Ave., Bowling narcotics equipment. Road and the 200 block of East Oak Street. Green, was arrested by Dep. Dean DeDominicis and charged Aug. 21, thefts were reported on the 1000 block of South with two counts of probation violation. Sixth Avenue and the 1400 block of U.S. 17 North BOWLING GREEN Aug. 24, a theft was reported on the 1400 block of U.S. 17 Aug. 24, Alvaro Gutierrez Cruz, 32, of 4820 Epps Ave., North. Aug. 20, Madison Rucker, 19, of 3942 E. Main St., Bowling Green, was arrested by Capt. Brett Dowden and charged with battery.

Aug. 22, a business was burglarized on the 5200 block of U.S. 17 North. STATE OF FLORIDA Aug. 22, criminal mischief was reported on the 4500 block DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION of First Street. NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE Aug. 21, Josephine Marie Gamez, 18, of 810 Redding St., Zolfo Springs, was arrested by Ofc. Breanna Locke and charged PERMIT MODIFICATION AND CONCEPTUAL with possession of marijuana not more than 20 grams. Aug. 21, criminal mischief was reported on the 4700 block RECLAMATION PLAN MODIFICATION of Central Avenue. The Department of Environmental Protection (Department), gives notice of issuance of an Environmental Resource Aug. 20, a theft was reported on the 5200 block of U.S. 17 Permit (ERP) Modification (File No. MMR_221122-027) and a Conceptual Reclamation Plan (CRP) Modification (File North. No. MMR_221122-028, MOS-SFMH-CPF) to Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC, 13830 Circa Crossing Drive, Lithia, Florida 33547 Aug. 20, criminal mischief was reported on the 4700 block for the existing South Fort Meade Hardee County Mine. These modifications are to: 1) Add eight new parcels and of Central Avenue. one road segment totaling 222.3 acres to the existing mine; 2) Reclassify 122.3 acres previously identified as undis- turbed to mined or disturbed; 3) As a result of items 1 and 2, add approximately 13.9 additional acres of wetland and other surface water impacts and add as mitigation, approximately 13.6 acres of additional wetland creation; and 4) Update the reclamation/mitigation plans for portions of several reclamation parcels to reflect revisions to the Notices final stream and wetland designs including changes to the sizes, shapes and locations of several mitigation wetlands and streams.

The 222.3-acre addition includes a section of Boyd Cowart Road and eight (8) infill parcels in Section 13, Township 33 south, Range 25 east and Sections 18 and 19, Township 33 south, Range 26 east in Hardee County. The 122.3 ______N THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SOUTHERLY 110 acres of reclassified lands are in Section 13, Township 33 south, Range 25 east and Section 18, Township 33 south, THE 10TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, Range 26 east in Hardee County. FEET THEREOF, HARDEE IN AND FOR COUNTY, FLORIDA HARDEE COUNTY, FLORIDA PARCEL 2: LOT 3 AND This action is final and effective unless a timely petition for an administrative hearing is filed under sections 120.569 CIVIL DIVISION THE EAST 100 FEET TO and 120.57, F.S., before the deadline for filing a petition. On the filing of a timely and sufficient petition, this action LOT 6, BLOCK 14, will not be final and effective until further order of the Department. Because the administrative hearing process is CASE NO. 252018CA000218 WILLIAMS ADDITION TO designed to formulate final agency action, the hearing process may result in a modification of the agency action or THE TOWN OF ZOLFO BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SPRINGS, FLORIDA even denial of the application Plaintiff, has been filed against you and The documents can be accessed through the Department’s Electronic Document Management System at: vs. you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, https://depedms.dep.state.fl.us:443/Oculus/servlet/shell?command=getEntity&[guid=26.88724.1]&[profile=Recla- UNKNOWN HEIRS, to it, on Choice Legal Group, mation BENEFICIARIES, DEVISEES, P.A., Attorney for Plaintiff, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, whose address is P.O. BOX CREDITORS, TRUSTEES AND 9908, FT. LAUDERDALE, FL https://depedms.dep.state.fl.us:443/Oculus/servlet/shell?command=getEntity&[guid=26.88727.1]&[profile=Per- ALL OTHERS WHO MAY CLAIM 33310-0908 on or before Sept. mitting_Authorization AN INTEREST IN THE ESTATE 21, 2018, a date at least thirty OF SHIRLEY ROBERTS, et al., (30) days after the first publica- https://depedms.dep.state.fl.us:443/Oculus/servlet/shell?command=getEntity&[guid=26.88725.1]&[profile=Per- Defendants. tion of this Notice in the (Please mitting_Authorization ______/ publish in THE HERALD ADVO- CATE) and file the original with NOTICE OF ACTION the Clerk of this Court either be- If you have any questions or have difficulty viewing the electronic documents, please email to MiningAndMitiga- fore service on Plaintiff's attor- [email protected] or call 850.245.8336. TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS, BENEFI- ney or immediately thereafter; CIARIES, DEVISEES, AS- otherwise a default will be en- A person whose substantial interests are affected by the Department’s action may petition for an administrative pro- SIGNEES, LIENORS, tered against you for the relief CREDITORS, TRUSTEES AND demanded in the complaint. ceeding (hearing) under Sections 120.569 and 120.57, F.S. Pursuant to Rule 28-106.201, Florida Administrative ALL OTHERS WHO MAY CLAIM Code (F.A.C.), a petition for an administrative hearing must contain the following information: If you are a person with a dis- AN INTEREST IN THE ESTATE ability who needs assistance in OF SHIRLEY ROBERTS order to participate in a program (a) The name and address of each agency affected and each agency’s file or identification number, if Last Known Address: 3065 or service of the State Courts known; MAGNOLIA ST, ZOLFO System, you should contact the (b) The name, address, any email address, any facsimile number, and telephone number of the petitioner; SPRINGS, FL 33890 Office of the Court Administrator at (863) 534-4686 (voice), (863) the name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s representative, if any, which shall be the PAUL R. ROBERTS address for service purposes during the course of the proceeding; and an explanation of how the 534-7777 (TDD) or (800) 955- Last Known Address: 4803 OAK 8770 (Florida Relay Service), as petitioner’s substantial interests are or will be affected by the agency determination; CIR, SEBRING, FL 33870 8814 much in advance of your court (c) A statement of when and how the petitioner received notice of the agency decision; appearance or visit to the court- (d) A statement of all disputed issues of material fact. If there are none, the petition must so indicate; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF house as possible. Please be (e) A concise statement of the ultimate facts alleged, including the specific facts that the petitioner contends SHIRLEY ROBERTS prepared to explain your func- Last Known Address: 3065 tional limitations and suggest an warrant reversal or modification of the agency’s proposed action; MAGNOLIA ST, ZOLFO (f) A statement of the specific rules or statutes that the petitioner contends require reversal or modification auxiliary aid or service that you SPRINGS, FL 33890 believe will enable you to effec- of the agency’s proposed action, including an explanation of how the alleged facts relate to the specific tively participate in the court rules or statutes; and YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an program or service. (g) A statement of the relief sought by the petitioner, stating precisely the action that the petitioner wishes action for Foreclosure of Mort- the agency to take with respect to the agency’s proposed action. gage on the following described WITNESS my hand and the seal property: of this Court this 20 day of Au- gust, 2018. The petition must be filed (received by the Clerk) in the Office of General Counsel of the Department at 3900 Com- LAND SITUATED IN THE monwealth Boulevard, Mail Station 35, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3000 or at [email protected]. Also, COUNTY OF HARDEE IN VICTORIA L. ROGERS, a copy of the petition shall be mailed to the applicant at the address indicated above at the time of filing. THE STATE OF FL As Clerk of the Court

In accordance with Rule 62-110.106(3), F.A.C., petitions for an administrative hearing by the applicant must be filed PARCEL 1: THE WEST 50 By: Connie Coker FEET OF LOT 6, BLOCK As Deputy Clerk within 21days of receipt of this written notice. Petitions filed by any persons other than the applicant, and other 14, WILLIAMS ADDITION than those entitled to written notice under Section 120.60(3), F.S., must be filed within 21 days of publication of the TO THE TOWN OF ZOLFO ______8:23,30c notice or within 21 days of receipt of the written notice, whichever occurs first. Under Section 120.60(3), F.S., how- SPRINGS, FLORIDA, LESS ever, any person who has asked the Department for notice of agency action may file a petition within 21 days of re- ceipt of such notice, regardless of the date of publication. The failure to file a petition within the appropriate time period shall constitute a waiver of that person's right to request an administrative determination (hearing) under Sections 120.569 and 120.57, F.S., or to intervene in this proceeding and participate as a party to it. Any subsequent NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS intervention (in a proceeding initiated by another party) will be only at the discretion of the presiding officer upon the filing of a motion in compliance with Rule 28-106.205, F.A.C. Florida Department of Transportation Project Bids will be received by the District One Office until Under Rule 62-110.106(4), F.A.C., a person whose substantial interests are affected by the Department’s action 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, September 20, 2018 for the fol- may also request an extension of time to file a petition for an administrative hearing. The Department may, for good lowing Proposals: cause shown, grant the request for an extension of time. Requests for extension of time must be filed with the Office of General Counsel of the Department at 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard, Mail Station 35, Tallahassee, Florida E1R88 – BDI Median Bullnose Painting in Desoto and 32399-3000, before the applicable deadline for filing a petition for an administrative hearing. A timely request for Hardee Counties. extension of time shall toll the running of the time period for filing a petition until the request is acted upon. Budget Amount: $45,000.00

Mediation is not available in this proceeding. Z1065-R0 – Pre-Event Traffic Signal Repair District- Wide. The applicant, or any party within the meaning of Section 373.114(1)(a) or 373.4275, F.S., may also seek appellate review of this order before the Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission under Section 373.114(1) or 373.4275, Complete letting advertisement information for this proj- F.S. Requests for review before the Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission must be filed with the Secretary of ect is available on our website at the Commission and served on the Department within 20 days from the date when this order is filed with the Clerk http://www.dot.state.fl.us/contractsadministrationdis- of the Department. trict1/: or by calling (863) 519-2559. 8:30c 8:30,9:6c B14 The Herald-Advocate, August 30, 2018 4-H Kicks Off New Year With Open House By JENNIFER McCONKEY still” during shows. She says of her favorites was a wood- Herald-Advocate Intern you need to cooperate with working project. A 4-H club is a fun, life- your animal and respect it. It’s not too late to sign up changing experience that lets Savannah Wills says her fa- your children. Kids 5-18 can you grow as a person and gets vorite thing about 4-H is get- join 4-H anytime during the you out of your comfort zone, ting a prize for showing, and year, but to show an animal at according to 4-H Reporter Re- Jay Southwell’s favorite part is the fair or do a shooting sports bekah Erekson. making money from his show project, they’ll need to be She, along with many other hog. signed up by Sept. 1 in order to 4-H members, attended a 4-H The kids said that the hard- attend the required amount of open house on Monday of last est part about 4-H is working meetings. week. with their animals and getting Email [email protected] to get There, families were able to them to look good for the more information on the differ- visit with leaders from each of county fair. ent clubs in Hardee County. the county’s clubs to decide But that hard work is a nat- And even though it’s time to which clubs are best suited to ural part of 4-H, which follows start working on fair projects, them this year. the motto “learning by doing.” 4-H doesn’t end in February Returning 4-H’ers Savanna Hardee County has 12 4-H along with the fair. and Haleigh Johns and Lily clubs for families to choose There are many 4-H events Southwell say their favorite from. throughout the spring and sum- part about 4-H is the animals. And there are plenty of op- mer, like Legislature, an event Savanna enjoys “learning cool tions for kids who aren’t into in Tallahassee; 4-H University, stuff about animals,” and agriculture or working with an- held in Gainesville; a local Haleigh’s favorite thing is rais- imals. awards banquet; and local ing them. For example, Hardee summer camps. This year, Lily’s favorite animal is County has a fishing club, and Hardee County had two 4-H chickens, but she says “it’s sewing projects are a popular camps: one for arts and crafts hard to get your chicken to be alternative. Rebekah said one and the other for agriculture.

PHOTOS BY JENNIFER McCONKEY 4-H’ers (from left) Savannah Wills, Savanna Johns and Haleigh Johns pose in a photo booth at the open house.

Jay and Lily Southwell are 4-H members who attended both summer camps this Parents were able to learn about the different 4-H clubs in the county at the open year. Jay’s favorite part was canoeing and Lily enjoyed the people she was with at house. Leaders from each club were available to answer questions. camp.

Each club had a table for families to visit at the 4-H open house, where they could Once parents decided which club was right for their kids, they could sign them up learn more about what the different clubs do. at the provided computers.

CLIPBOARD KIDS

COURTESY PHOTO Teacher Gloria Neel's first-grade scientists at North Wauchula Elementary School have been learning about their five senses. They then went outdoors for a nature walk and used several of their senses to record their observations. 8:30c