Changing of the Guard Co-Op Raises Rates Clay Electric’S Rates Will Be Near Earlier Levels
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1A WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Gator’s Dockside coming soon Restaurant set to ing cards for Gator’s Dockside landlord at the time choose He said he’s looking forward Restaurant, set to open in Lake Kazbor’s over us,” said Jerry to a Lake City site to comple- open in Lake City City in March. Roberts, owner of the new ment it. plaza in March. The restaurant will be in the Gator’s Dockside location. He said he met several peo- Lake City Commons shopping Roberts described Gator’s ple from the area who visited By TONY BRITT plaza and will occupy the suite Dockside Restaurant as a family- the Gainesville location and [email protected] that formerly housed Kazbor’s friendly, casual, sports-bar asked about opening a store in Grille. themed restaurant. There are 20 the Lake City area. A family-friendly atmosphere, “We’ve been looking at com- Gator’s Dockside Restaurants Gator’s Dockside, which is big-screen televisions, a menu ing to Lake City for about around the state. open for lunch and dinner only, that includes wings, ribs and five years, and we considered Roberts opened the Gator’s will be open daily from 11 a.m. seafood, and a huge outside this location about five years Dockside Restaurant in JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter eating area will be the call- ago before Kazbor’s, but the Gainesville about 10 years ago. GATOR’S continued on 3A Future site of Gator’s Dockside. Power Changing of the guard co-op raises rates Clay Electric’s rates will be near earlier levels. By TONY BRITT [email protected] Clay Electric Cooperative members will notice an increase in their January util- ity bills, but the new rate will be lower than last year’s aver- age rate. The rate Clay Electric is charged for energy and the rate its customers are charged changes throughout the year. Wayne Mattox, Clay Electric manager of communications, said the rates are reviewed monthly. “We do a monthly assess- ment at the first of each month,” he said. “We look at what our power costs are pro- jected to be, which typically remains very stable through- out the year. We look at operational expenses and lots JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter of other factors and then go Incoming Third Circuit Public Defender Blair Payne (center) recites the oath of office as he is sworn in by Circuit Judge David Fina on Tuesday at the ahead and set the power costs Suwannee County Courthouse. Alisa Bergmann holds a Bible for Payne. Payne replaces Dennis Roberts, who held the post for the past 24 years. at the first of the month.” Tuesday, Clay Electric Cooperative officials announced the rate Clay charg- es for 1,000 kilowatt hours of U.S. roasts to hottest year on record electricity would increase to $109. The rate for November By SETH BORENSTEIN in 1998. decades of warming.” and December was $105. Clay AP Science Writer Breaking temperature records by an The data center’s figures for the entire Electric officials said the $109 entire degree is unprecedented, scientists world won’t come out until next week, but charge is lower than Clay’s WASHINGTON — America set an off-the- say. Normally, records are broken by a tenth through the first 11 months of 2012, the average cost for 1,000 kilowatt charts heat record in 2012. of a degree or so. world was on pace to have its eighth warmest hours for 2012, which was just A brutal combination of a widespread “It was off the chart,” said Deke Arndt, year on record. a little more than $110. drought and a mostly absent winter pushed head of climate monitoring at the National Scientists say the U.S. heat is part glob- Mattox said the new rate is the average annual U.S. temperature last Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., al warming in action and natural weather basically setting the rate back year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the which calculated the temperature records. variations. The drought that struck almost to where it was previously, but government announced Tuesday. That’s a Last year, he said, will go down as “a huge a little lower. full degree warmer than the old record set exclamation point at the end of a couple RECORD continued on 3A “In 2012 we had two months, in November and December, where we lowered That’s a wrap our power cost as a benefit to City man arrested our members,” he said. “We provide service at cost. We are a not for-profit utility. We in theft of auto scrap saw that our margins were getting a little bit larger than By DEREK GILLIAM W i l s o n ’ s we felt comfortable with, so [email protected] Salvage, told we decided to go ahead and the deputy lower our power cost through A Lake City man alleged- that he had our power cost adjustment ly stole scrap transmissions, been out of feature in our bill statement. engines and metal from a local town since That allowed the members to scrap yard and then sold them Dec. 21, and take the money rather than to a different scrap yard. Claridy his brother paying a higher electric bill.” Earntraevis Antonio Claridy, notified him Clay Electric, which is 23, 297 SE Avalon Ave. 108, that he saw a white Ford truck headquartered in Keystone faces felony charges of deal- drive past him on Saturday Heights, serves approximate- ing in stolen property, pos- with what looked like his scrap ly 165,000 customers in 14 sessing burglary tools, bur- metal, according to the arrest counties with district offices glary and larceny, according report. in Keystone Heights, Orange to a Columbia County Sheriff’s Wilson said when he arrived Park, Lake City, Gainesville, Office arrest report. back at his lot, he noticed that JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Salt Spring and Palatka. Deputy Ted Wooley the chain that locked his fence Columbia County Tourist Development Council marketing director Paulette Mattox said the power cost responded to Wilson’s Salvage was cut, and that between 50 Lord (left), executive director Harvey Campbell and administrative assistant increase will impact all of its on Hope Henry Road in refer- to 60 engines, 50 to 60 trans- customers. ence to a burglary around 9 missions, 50 to 60 drive shafts Lori Regan stand in front of a van adorned with a new wrap-around. ‘This “We enjoyed — thanks p.m. on Monday. van is one of the many marketing tools we have at our disposal,’ Campbell Carlos Wilson, owner of THEFT continued on 3A said. 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