WEEKEND GLANCE

YOUR FORECAST: Today Shook Up” takes the stage in Square, classic and custom and Sunday offer increased Clermont. Also, make sure to cars line up at 4 p.m. and opportunities for rain, while catch “Southern Fried Funeral” gourmet food trucks start temperatures remain near 90. before it closes at Living Drama serving at 5 p.m. Entertainment Theatre in Eustis. will be provided by Steel Away ON STAGE: It’s a busy weekend beginning at 5. The free movie as “The Drowsy Chaperone” FOOD TRUCK -N- FLICK NIGHT: — “The Grinch” — starts after opens in Mount Dora and “All Saturday at Leesburg’s Towne dusk in front of City Hall.

Friday, July 12, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial $1 DeSantis asks offi cials to remove statue

Confederate general on the 144th anniversary of removed from the U.S. Capi- Confederate has been on display for Bethune’s birth. tol’s Statuary Hall Collection. Gen. Edmund almost 100 years “Dr. McLeod Bethune’s Debate has since swirled Kirby Smith statue will represent the best around the statue coming to was born in By John Kennedy of who we are as Floridians Lake County. Seven of the St. Augustine Gatehouse Florida to visitors from around the county’s municipalities passed in 1824 and world in our nation’s Capitol,” resolutions opposing it. Statue graduated TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis said. “Her legacy opponents argue that Smith, a from the DeSantis formally asked U.S. endures and will continue to Confederate soldier, doesn’t U.S. Military Capitol officials Wednesday to inspire future generations.” belong in Lake County, and Academy in remove the statue of a Confed- The statue of McLeod Bet- opens old wounds inflicted 1845. In 1861, erate general, which has been hune is expected to be on by slavery. He was from St. he resigned part of the state’s display for display next year. Augustine. from the almost 100 years. It wasn’t immediately clear But Lake County Historical Army and The letter to the Capitol’s why it has taken so long for the Museum curator Bob Gre- joined the architect is the latest step letter to be sent. The Florida nier said he’s already found Confederate in replacing Edmund Kirby Legislature last year approved some ties, and is working forces. Smith’s statue with one hon- the statue switch and soon on more. He’s also said he’ll [COURTESY OF oring educator and civil rights after, the Lake County His- put the statue in the correct THE ARCHITECT pioneer Mary McLeod Bet- torical Society agreed to take OF THE hune. DeSantis sent the letter the Smith statue when it was See STATUE, A10 CAPITOL]

World’s largest Making the grade sargassum bloom probably here to stay

By Kimberly Miller 19 years of NASA satellite GateHouse Florida images and detailed in a study published this month in Sci- Florida researchers have ence magazine. discovered the world’s larg- University of South Florida est sargassum forest in the and Florida Atlantic Uni- Atlantic Ocean, a sweeping versity scientists found the bloom of macroalgae gorging seaweed’s growth spurts on natural and man-made occur in years when runoff nutrients that has waged a from the Amazon River suffocating assault on Sun- includes large amounts of fer- shine State beaches the past tilizer and when an upwelling two years. in the eastern Atlantic brings The thriving pelagic fauna, cooler water and nutrients which stretches from the west from the bottom of the ocean coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico, was measured using See BLOOM, A10

“I’m very proud to see that we have more A schools than we did last year, and that the vast majority of our schools either improved over last year’s grade or maintained,” said Superintendent Diane Kornegay. “The hard work of our teachers, administrators, support staff, students and parents is paying off.” [DAILY COMMERCIAL FILE]

Lake County Schools earn third consecutive B

By Payne Ray [email protected]

TAVARES — The Lake County School District received its third straight B A boy tries to make it through the thick seaweed last week in Lake grade from the state Thurs- Worth Beach. [GREG LOVETT/PALMBEACHPOST.COM] day, earning a 12-point bump as many Lake schools held strong to their 2018 performance, according to LOCAL | A3 the Florida Department of Education. Kyden Jackson gets help pronouncing words from Tutor For Kids MOUNT DORA The district earned a score Coordinator Pat Moore at Leesburg Elementary. [CINDY SHARP/ of 643 this year compared CORRESPONDENT] OUTLINES with 631 in 2017-18. The dis- trict went from eight to 10 To see a full listing of all school and district grades, visit the PROBLEMS School Grades page at https://bit.ly/2NOSlHa on the Florida See GRADE, A7 Department of Education’s School website. WITH CHIEF

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GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS. Jim Bouton, ex-Yankees pitcher Barry could become hurricane and ‘Ball Four’ author, dies

Jim Bouton, the former New Tropical storm’s winds York Yankees pitcher who are relatively weak, shocked and angered the con- but may produce servative baseball world with torrential downpours the tell-all book “Ball Four,” has died. He was 80. By Kevin Mcgill Bouton’s family said he and Rebecca Santana died Wednesday at the Great The Associated Press Barrington home he shared with wife Paula Kurman. He NEW ORLEANS — Tropi- fought a brain disease linked cal Storm Barry formed off to dementia and was in hos- the coast of Louisiana on pice care. Bouton also had two Thursday and threatened to strokes in 2012. blow ashore as a hurricane Published in 1970, “Ball with relatively weak winds Four” detailed Yankees great but torrential rains that Mickey Mantle’s carousing could test the flood-control and the use of stimulants in improvements made in New the major leagues. Bouton’s Orleans since Hurricane revealing look at baseball off Katrina 14 years ago. the field made for eye-opening Forecasters said the first and entertaining reading, but hurricane of the Atlantic he paid a big price for the best- season could hit the state’s seller when former teammates swampy southern tip Friday and players and executives night or early Saturday, with across baseball ostracized him potentially ruinous down- for exposing their secrets. He pours that could go on for wasn’t invited to the Yankees’ hours as the storm pushes St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Offi ce inmate workers move free sandbags for residents Thursday in Old-Timers’ Day until 1998. inland. Chalmette, La., ahead of Tropical Storm Barry from the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters said the fi rst Plaquemines Parish, at hurricane of the Atlantic season could hit the state’s swampy southern tip on Friday, with the biggest NEW YORK Louisiana’s southeastern danger posed not by the wind but by downpours that could go on for hours. [MATTHEW HINTON/THE Amazon, seeking more skilled tip, ordered the mandatory ASSOCIATED PRESS] workers, will do the training evacuation of as many as 10,000 people, and com- the entire region could get Louisiana and other states, areas not under evacuations Amazon, needing a more munities began handing out as much as 10 inches. New officials asked people to keep orders, as did several other tech-savvy workforce, is sandbags. Louisiana Gov. Orleans could receive 10 at least three days of supplies communities in Louisiana offering to pay to retrain its John Bel Edwards declared inches, forecasters aid. on hand and to keep their and Mississippi. employees and help them an emergency and said The storm’s surge also neighborhood storm drains The National Weather switch to more technical jobs National Guard troops and could prevent water from clear so water can move Service said it expects the at Amazon or elsewhere. high-water vehicles will be emptying out of the already- quickly. river to rise to 19 feet by The online shopping giant positioned all over the state. swollen Mississippi River, After Katrina, the Army Saturday morning at a key said Thursday that it plans to “The entire coast of Loui- possibly sending water over Corps of Engineers began gauge in the New Orleans spend $700 million by 2025 siana is at play in this storm,” levees near New Orleans, a multibillion-dollar hur- area, which is protected by to retrain 100,000 workers, he warned. forecasters said. The river ricane-protection system levees 20 to 25 feet high. or a third of its U.S. work- On Wednesday, with the has been running high for that isn’t yet complete. The “We’re confident the force. The initiative could gathering storm still out months. work included repairs and levees themselves are in help Amazon find and keep over the Gulf of Mexico, it The National Hurricane improvements to some 350 good shape. The big focus is more workers. With a strong dumped as much as 8 inches Center said Barry could have miles of levees and more than height,” Corps spokesman economy and unemployment (20 centimeters) on metro maximum sustained winds 70 pump stations that are Ricky Boyett said. near a 50-year low, workers New Orleans in just three of about 75 mph, just over used to remove floodwaters. New Orleans got an early have more options, giving hours. The deluge triggered the 74 mph threshold for a A spokesman for the taste Wednesday of what employers a tougher time flash flooding and raised hurricane, when it comes Corps in New Orleans said may be in store. Floodwaters finding help. fears about the even heavier ashore, making it a Category the agency is not expecting invaded downtown hotels rains on the way. 1 storm. widespread overtopping of and businesses and turned The Associated Press The National Hurricane In New Orleans, where the levees, but there are con- streets into rivers, paralyz- Center said as much as 20 Katrina in 2005 caused cerns for areas south of the ing rush-hour traffic and inches of rain could fall in catastrophic flooding that city, like Plaquemines Parish. stalling cars. Some people parts of eastern Louisiana, was blamed altogether for The parish made sand- paddled their way around in including Baton Rouge, and more than 1,500 deaths in bags available to people in kayaks. LOTTERY

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Thursday, July 11 Pick 5 By Sophia Tareen swirling around it. Afternoon: 2-2-0-3-8 and Colleen Long Trump announced on Pick 4 The Associated Press Twitter last month that Afternoon: 4-6-0-3 the sweep would mark the Pick 3 CHICAGO — A nationwide beginning of a push to deport Afternoon: 0-8-0 immigration enforcement millions of people who are Pick 2 operation targeting people in the country illegally, a Afternoon: 2-2 who are in the United States near-impossibility given illegally is expected to begin the limited resources of ICE, this weekend after it was which makes the arrests postponed last month by and carries out deportation President Donald Trump, orders. according to two administra- Then he abruptly canceled tion officials and immigrant the operation after a phone activists. call with House Speaker The operation, which has Nancy Pelosi, a California sparked outrage and concern Democrat, while lawmak- among immigrant-rights ers worked to pass a $4.6 advocates, would target billion border aid package . people with final deportation President Donald Trump speaks at Morristown Municipal Airport Plus, details had leaked, and orders, including families on Sunday in Morristown, N.J. [MANUEL BALCE CENETA/THE ASSOCIATED authorities worried about the whose immigration cases PRESS] safety of ICE officers. Today’s code is... were fast-tracked by judges The agency said in a state- in 10 major cities, including officials, who were not Chicago. ment that it would not discuss Chicago, Los Angeles, New authorized to discuss the The operation is similar specifics about enforcement fee54 York and Miami. matter publicly and spoke to ones conducted regularly operations. “Our communities have on condition of anonym- since 2003 that often pro- “As always, ICE priori- been in constant fear,” Estela ity. Still, activists ramped duce hundreds of arrests. It tizes the arrest and removal CODE VALID UNTIL THE NEXT PUBLISH DATE. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. OFFICIAL RULES Vara, a Chicago-area orga- up efforts to prepare by bol- is slightly unusual to target of unlawfully present aliens AT 150KGIVEAWAY.COM nizer said Thursday at a rally stering know-your-rights families, as opposed to immi- who pose a threat to national outside the city’s Immigra- pocket guides, circulating grants with criminal histories, security, public safety and tion and Custom Enforcement information about hot- but it’s not unprecedented. border security,” according Enter offices where some activists lines and planning public The Obama and Trump to the statement. now at chanted “Immigration Not demonstrations. Vigils out- administrations have tar- Pelosi said she hoped 150KGiveaway.com Deportation!” side of detention centers geted families in previous the administration would The sweep remains in flux were set for Friday, to be operations. reconsider. “Families and could begin later, accord- followed by protests But this latest effort is belong together,” she ing to the administration Saturday in Miami and notable because of the politics said.

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GROVELAND City outlines problems with O’Grady Man killed after slamming into truck on US 27 Mount Dora fi red the could have been done sooner. A man was killed Thursday police chief aft er an City Manager Robin Hayes, morning after slamming into the investigation during a press conference on rear end of a tractor-trailer on Wednesday after release of U.S. Highway 27, troopers say. By Roxanne Brown the report, said police depart- According to the Florida roxanne.brown ment employees affected by Highway Patrol, around 5:30 @dailycommercial.com misconduct on O’Grady’s a.m. a 22-year-old driver of a part — which was described 2008 Chevy Malibu plowed into MOUNT DORA — The as insensitive and racially the rear of a semi truck travel- release of a 96-page full inves- charged remarks, shows of ing south on US 27, just south of tigation report by DSK Law, favoritism and intimidation — Heritage Drive. an independent law firm that are now in a state of healing. Troopers say the unidenti- was hired to investigate former Hayes said it is a process the fied driver of the Malibu, for an Police Chief John O’Grady, city — with help from acting unknown reason, failed to slow provides more insight into the Police Chief Robert Bell, in down as he rapidly approached events leading to his termina- whom she has “100 percent the rear of the semi-truck. He Former Mount Dora Police Chief John O’Grady, center, listens as tion last week. confidence” — is committed was not wearing his seat belt, Depuity Chief Robert Bell talks at Mount Dora Middle School on March The report, released to helping them through. troopers noted. 8, 2018. The city of Mount Dora fi red O’Grady on July 2 following an Wednesday, left city officials The man was taken to South investigation into a complaint fi led against him. [DAILY COMMERCIAL FILE] wondering whether something See O’GRADY, A4 Lake Hospital’s Blue Cedar ER in Leesburg, where he was pro- nounced dead. The lanes were re-opened, but the crash remains under investigation according to FHP. South TAVARES Miami to Animal Shelter hosting Playing a part free adoption event challenge The Lake County Animal Shelter is hosting a free adop- ‘sanctuary tion event. in history “Hot Dogs, Cool Cats” will start at 11 a.m. Saturday at the cities’ ban shelter, 28123 County Road 561, Tavares. It will go to 5 p.m. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., By Jim Turner LEASH, a nonprofit that sup- News Service of Florida ports the shelter, will offer free hot dogs and popsicles. TALLAHASSEE — The “Summer is the ideal time for city of South Miami is families to consider adopting a preparing to fight a con- pet,” shelter director Whitney troversial new law aimed Boylston said in a statement. at banning so-called “Our free event will give local “sanctuary cities,” after families the opportunity to commissioners unani- spend quality time with their mously agreed Tuesday to new best friend this summer, hire an attorney to handle while the kids are home from the legal challenge. school.” The ban, signed into For information about the law by Gov. Ron DeSantis event, go to facebook.com/ last month, was one of the events/2176998575925234. most fiercely fought issues For details about the shelter, of the 2019 legislative ses- to adopt or volunteer, call 352- sion that ended in May. 343-9688 or go to lakecountyfl. The measure came after gov/LCAS. DeSantis vowed during his 2018 campaign to prevent EUSTIS sanctuary cities. Trout Lake Nature Center The law is designed to hosting mushroom foray spur local law-enforce- William Van Duyn, who grew up in rural Mandarin, was a chemical engineering student at the ment agencies to fully As a continuation of an in- University of Florida who became an engineer on the Saturn rockets that took Apollo astronauts to comply with federal immi- depth class held about Florida the moon. [WILL DICKEY/GATEHOUSE FLORIDA] gration detainers and share mushrooms, expert Jon Martin information with federal returns Saturday to lead a immigration authori- mushroom foray at Trout Lake Rocket engineer before the end of the decade. complete that quest. ties after undocumented Nature Center recalls role in It would be difficult and Van Duyn would rise to immigrants are in custody. A mushroom foray is an orga- Apollo 11 mission expensive, Kennedy said, and become a lead engineer on the Under the new law, local nized group of people venturing would require the efforts of second phase of the Saturn V governments are required into the forest to look for fungi By Matt Soergel the entire nation: “All of us rocket that carried astronauts to “use their best efforts to or mushrooms. Through relat- GateHouse Florida must work to put him there.” into orbit. He worked on all support the enforcement able, practical, witty and hands So when aerospace recruit- the manned Apollo missions, of federal immigration on instruction, Martin, aka Before the journey to the ers came to campus, Van Duyn including Apollo 11, which put law.” Fungi Jon, takes participants moon changed everything, was ready. No paper mill for astronauts Neil Armstrong But, during a brief spe- on a walk into the woods sur- William Van Duyn, like him. and Buzz Aldrin on the moon cial meeting Tuesday rounding the Nature Center. many of the senior chemical Instead Van Duyn, the on July 20, 1969, beating Ken- evening, South Miami Participants will discover what engineering students at the eldest of four children, had nedy’s deadline by several Mayor Philip Stoddard mushrooms grow there, where University of Florida, had a job to tell his widowed mother months. echoed critics’ concerns they can be found, how to col- lined up after college: He’d go in rural Mandarin that in a He was 31 then, 81 now, and that the law would dis- lect them, how to identify them work in a paper mill: A good, few days he was leaving for looks back on that part of his courage undocumented and more. solid career. California, to work on rocket life with quiet satisfaction. residents from reporting Cost to attend the 9 a.m. But it was 1961, and Presi- engines in America’s race to “There’s not too many of us crimes. foray is $15 for TLNC members dent John F. Kennedy, in a the moon. left to interview. I was one of “Our police are respon- or $25 for non-members. Go to speech to Congress, promised Six years later, he headed the young guys,” he said. “I sible for maintaining the www.universe.com/foray2019 to launch the U.S. on “a great home to Florida, to Cape got to launch every man who public safety, and as soon to register. Trout Lake Nature new American enterprise” — Canaveral, one of tens of ever went to the moon.” as they are seen as some- Center is at 520 East County landing a man on the moon, thousands of men and women body who might turn you Road 44 in Eustis. and bringing him home safely, trying to figure out how See ENGINEER, A4 in if you called for assis- tance, they’re no longer SUMMERFIELD trusted and they can no Deputies: 2 killed in home longer do their primary invasion, homeowner wounded job of keeping all the citi- zens and all the residents Authorities say a Summer- of a community safe,” field homeowner apparently Lake County Fair announces Stoddard said. “It creates fired shots at four intruders, divisions.” killing two of them before being Stoddard, who said the shot. new CEO, manager city had been approached The Marion County Sher- about the lawsuit by the iff’s Office said in a Wednesday Southern Poverty Law night Facebook post that depu- Staff Report A native Central Floridian, Center, said the statute is ties found one man dead and she started her career in 2002 vague and overrides local two others, including the home- EUSTIS — Stacey Wade at the Central Florida Fair in authority. owner, with gunshot wounds. was recently named the Lake Orlando as the manager of “This state-level anti- The injured suspect was taken County Fair Association's new agriculture and education sanctuary movement not to a hospital where he died. CEO and fair manager. programs. In 2017, Wade only looks to repeal local The homeowner was in serious Wade took over July 1 when became the director of com- sanctuary policies, it is condition. her predecessor, Happy petitive events and education, also aimed at eliminat- Officials say deputies found Norris, retired in June after 22 which included overseeing ing the discretion that two other suspects while years. and managing the agricultural, local communities have searching the area. “I am extremely honored to livestock, education, arts and traditionally exercised Investigators tell the Ocala have the opportunity to follow culinary programs for the fair. over their involvement Star-Banner that four men in Happy’s footsteps,” Wade In May of 2017, Wade in federal immigration entered the property, which is said. “He has been one of the joined the Osceola County enforcement efforts,” surrounded by dense woods. most influential colleagues Fair as its director of spe- the resolution approved Apparently, one of them entered in my career and to be able cial events and education by the city commission the home and was shot by the to work alongside of him for where she handled the fair's Stacey Wade recently states. homeowner. The second man the past few months has been marketing, advertising, spe- joined the Lake County Fair City Attorney Thomas was hit during an exchange of awesome.” cial events and developed Association in Eustis as Pepe warned the gunfire. The incident happened Wade is no stranger to the its new CEO/fair manager. in Summerfield. fair industry. See NEW CEO, A4 [SUBMITTED] See CHALLENGE, A4 A4 Friday, July 12, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com

many engineers monitor- inside where the rockets to and aptitude (he wanted ENGINEER ing a console in the firing the moon were assembled. to see how things worked). Funeral Services room, each in a white It was a good life, the Van He went to Jacksonville From Page A3 launch jacket with a com- Duyns said, for them and University for two years, pany name on the back. their three children. but quit to help care for his ••• His, in black letters, said William Van Duyn family after his father died Harriette M. Hill At his Orange Park “Rocketdyne.” and others often worked at 49. A year later, he went home, Van Duyn pulled out He wants people to 70-hour weeks, but you on to Gainesville, to UF. He children, Harrison & a three-ring binder, thick understand the importance felt, he said, as if you wanted to be a fighter pilot Angie Hill of Oxford, with hundreds of pages. of the private companies were part of something but was an inch shy of the Sissy & Tony Hayes of “My hunch is this is rare,” that worked on the moon momentous. “Absolutely. 5-foot-8 minimum height, Wildwood and Oren & he said. launches. “NASA was the No doubt. Everyone knew so he took up chemical Rhonda Hill of Wildwood; Inside the binder is the program manager,” he what their part was.” engineering. 4 grandchildren and 2 launch manual for Apollo said. “They did not build “Even the families were Working at Cape Canav- great-grandchildren. 11, with detailed instruc- spacecraft, they didn’t part of it,” Linda Van Duyn eral took every bit of his Visitation will be 10:00 – tions — indecipherable build spacesuits, they said. “As a matter of fact, natural ability and years of 11:00am with the funeral to the layperson — of the didn’t build rocket engines. my children learned to training. IBM mainframes services beginning at thousands of steps and They were managers. And count backwards, 10-9- as big as a room printed 11:00, Saturday, July checks taken in the long they did a dadgum good job 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, before out the manual they used, Harriette M. Hill, 86, 13, 2019 in the First hours before liftoff. Van of it. That was their con- they learned to count he said, but back then get- of Wildwood, passed Presbyterian Church of Duyn got his copy on July tribution, because pulling forward.” ting a ship to the moon and away Wednesday, July Wildwood. Interment will 8, 1969, and somewhere all these people together, ••• back was done largely with 10, 2019. Mrs. Hill be private in Greenwood along the line, wrote on the hundreds of contractors, More than four days after blueprints and slide rules. was born July 31, 1933 Cemetery, Wildwood. cover: “APOLLO 11. MIS- and on that tight schedule, the Apollo 11 spacecraft was “We got to the moon on in Fitzgerald, GA to On-line condolences SION TO THE MOON!” was a major miracle.” launched, the Van Duyns a slide rule, basically,” Van Harrison K. and Kathleen may be shared by visiting Everyone in the firing He joined North Ameri- watched the landing and Duyn said. (Chester) Meeks. She www.bankspagetheus. room at Cape Canaveral can Aviation’s Rocketdyne moon walk on TV, from the Much of the work was moved here at an early com. Arrangements are had one, and everyone division in 1961, testing home of his mother, Ruth. hands-on: Inside the age from Griffin, GA and entrusted to Banks/ had an assignment listed rocket engines in a valley His Van Duyn ancestors Vehicle Assembly Build- grew up in Wildwood. Page-Theus Funerals and inside. Though there were north of Los Angeles. He were Dutch, and date back ing, he took frequent trips Harriette was a cashier Cremations, Wildwood. windows that looked out on didn’t like California — to 1649 in New Amster- up in the cage elevator, to for many years at Winn the rocket, you didn’t have the smog, the way of life dam, now New York. “We dizzying heights, to walk Dixie. She is a member time, he said, to gaze at — though he did meet his stayed there ‘til the English out on a swing-arm to of the First Presbyterian the launchpad. You didn’t future wife, Linda, a native ran us out,” he said. “Then the looming rocket, as tall Church of Wildwood have time to ponder that Angeleno, at a church in we went to New Jersey.” as a 36-story building. It and loved to go fishing. you were in the midst of a North Hollywood. He His father, Abram, was a was high-pressure work, Survivors include her historic mission. wanted, badly, to go back field auditor for an insur- on well-nigh impossible loving husband, Gene; You had a job to do. Van to Florida. ance company, and took deadlines. Duyn’s was monitoring the So he landed a job with his family with him as he “I had a work crew out second stage of the Saturn another company work- traveled from place to there. We did a lot of engine V, the most powerful ing at Canaveral; the work place. For young William’s modifications out on the rocket ever launched. wasn’t as interesting but it early years, the family launchpad. They were sup- NEW CEO The first stage, on the got him home. But his boss didn’t have a settled home posed to be done before we morning of July 16, 1969, at Rocketydyne tore up and lived mostly in hotels. even got to Florida, but it Leonard “Shine” From Page A3 shot the Apollo spacecraft his resignation letter and “Before I was 5 years old, was an R&D program, you Patterson off the launchpad until its and threw it the trash. He we’d been every state in know? We were supposed Leonard “Shine” educational programs. fuel was expended. The told Van Duyn: We’ve got the United States, Mexico to get there by the end of Patterson, 78, Royal, Wade is a gradu- second stage, fueled by people in Florida now, and and Canada, some many the decade, and we did FL died July 4, 2019. All ate of the International liquid hydrogen and liquid you’ll join them. times,” he said. “I have to things in a very big hurry.” arrangements entrusted Association of Fairs and oxygen, took over and pro- In 1967, the Van Duyns think that was influential.” Van Duyn jokes of to Eastside Funeral Expositions — Institute pelled the rocket into the came to the Cape, where They moved to Manda- the frequent calls he got Home Leesburg, FL of Fair Management and thin atmosphere, before it people worked hard and rin in 1949. It was country, from concerned bosses at 352-326-5688 has received the distin- too broke off and fell in the played hard, especially with miles of piney woods Rocketdyne. Everyone’s guished designation of ocean. The third stage then down in Cocoa Beach. He between it and Jackson- waiting, they’d say. When certified fair executive. took the craft into orbit. laughed: “It was something ville, and it suited William, are you going to get done? John W. Sparrow Since launching her And when Van Duyn’s else. There was the space who went fishing and began “I said, ‘Well, the reason John W. Sparrow, 88, career, Wade has been stage kicked in? program side of it, then building boats. From an we can’t get any work done Leesburg, FL died July 3, active at the state and “Goosebumps all over. there was the, uh, social early age, he was a tinkerer, is because everybody keeps 2019. All arrangements national levels, serving But you couldn’t stand side.” building things, fixing calling from California, entrusted to Eastside as agriculture commit- there and go woo-woo- They weren’t really look- things, modifying things, and they want to stay on Funeral Home Leesburg, tee chair and serving on woo,” he said. “All through ing for that, so they settled including rebuilding his the phone for a half-hour. FL 352-326-5688 the scholarship and leg- the flight I had to stay on farther north in Titusville, family’s old English Ford Please, if you need to call us, islative committees for my panel and watch cer- close enough that he could Prefect from the ground make it quick — ‘cause I’ve Robert “Bob” Earl the Florida Federation tain instrument readings sometimes bicycle to the up. That came from both got to go back in there and of Fairs. In July 2018 she on there for any problems.” Vehicle Assembly Build- necessity (the family work, and we’ve got to get Wentz was elected to serve on Van Duyn was one of the ing, the gigantic structure didn’t have much money) to the moon somehow.’” Robert “Bob” Earl Wentz, the Florida Federation of 90, of Tavares, FL died Fairs board of directors. Tuesday, July 9, 2019. She is also the former said that opinion is based and retaliation throughout recent years? I think that Steverson Hamlin and agriculture committee O’GRADY on information she gath- the police department. there was some intimida- Hilbish Funerals and chair for the IAFE and ered from interviews with Hayes also said O'Grady tion, so therefore when Cremations, Tavares, FL. has been a featured facil- From Page A3 employees. was not truthful when he I would ask a couple of itator and speaker for In Greene’s summary, said she had given him per- questions, there was no numerous IAFE meet- “The department will made public last week, a mission to move forward response,” Hayes said. Today’s Services ings and conferences. implement a training pro- few examples were given, with a re-organization of Now that the city has “The Lake County gram, such as sensitivity including many that the police department. both support and some Fair has always been and leadership training,” suggested a pattern of When she attempted to ini- answers, however, Hayes one of my favorite fairs Hayes said during the inappropriate comments. tiate an audit of the police said she will continue with to visit,” Wade said. “It press conference at City For example, O’Grady once department last year, it open communication with is a real county fair, you Hall. “Acting Chief Bell refused to give a lost puppy was delayed due to a lack the police department, with feel it the minute you has already begun active back to its rightful owners, of response from bidders. Bell, and with employees to walk on the grounds. communications with saying he could take better “In FY 2017 2018 the improve morale and root It brings you back to a his officers and staff and care of the animal. City Council requested out inconsistencies within simpler time and place will address the policies This week, when the full and approved funding the division. in America ... where which need to be updated. report was released, even for an audit of the police “We’ll look at processes family, friends and During the upcoming more instances where department. A similar audit and we’ll look at everything community gather to weeks I will work with the O’Grady seemingly crossed was performed on the fire that we do from a simple reconnect and celebrate. chief to develop a plan for the line were revealed. department — Fitch Asso- policy to a process to our “I am excited that I the department to reflect Among the new exam- ciates report. There were employees. Do we have have been chosen to the proper staffing and ples: When talking to a two request for propos- employee type of process carry on the traditions leadership needed to con- group of people partici- als released for the police that we need to look at? and legacy of the Lake tinue the high standards of pating in the Citizens Police department audit, with no We’re gonna look at all of County Fair.” excellence.” Academy about a year ago, response. Had there been a that,” Hayes said. The fair, 2101 County The incident that opened O’Grady made a remark response, these issues may Hayes added, “We’re Road 452, is slated for the investigation happened that targeted Capt. Coy have arisen earlier,” Hayes gonna spend time and go April 9 to 18, 2020. For April 12, during a charity Hunter, a black officer. said. through the entire divi- details, go to lakecofair. golf tournament sponsored According to an “I feel as though I need sion and make sure that com. by the Mount Dora Heroes employee interview, to specifically address we correct and at least Foundation. O’Grady said, “Sometimes the puppy issue that was acknowledge that there O’Grady was presenting he (Hunter) gets out of line included in the report. I was are some that need to be Republican Party of Flor- an award to Luis and Edna and I have to whip him back made aware of the puppy addressed.” CHALLENGE ida, and Rep. Cord Byrd, Gonzalez, the owners of Las into line.” issue after a period of time Hayes also said that for R-Neptune Beach. Crit- Palmas Cuban Restaurant. A Hispanic employee had passed. I reached out now, Bell will continue as From Page A3 ics of the proposal have When O’Grady realized said O’Grady would ignore to a member of the police acting police chief. Though argued, in part, that the law the couple was not there her while readily speak- department for further she believes that he may commission that several will lead to increased deten- to accept, he asked Offi- ing to other employees. information, but that be the best fit for the job economic issues could tion and deportation of cer Ivelisse Severance to This practice developed police department member on a permanent basis, a arise from complying with undocumented immigrants, accept it instead, allegedly after she had told him one informed me that the issue decision won’t be made the law, such as a lack of including people stopped by saying, “Ivy, you are Puerto day how much she loved had been resolved," Hayes about extending him the reimbursement from fed- police for minor offenses. Rican, or whatever, so you Miami. She said O’Grady said. "There were some job or conducting a search eral agencies and potential An arm of the Southern can accept this for her.” had told her that he “hated” comments of inconsistent for a new chief until the lawsuits against the city. Poverty Law Center pre- The Gonzalezes sought Miami, and when she asked management practices; department has time to “If the city detains some- viously issued a statement the advice of an attor- why, he said, “It’s the type however, when I looked sufficiently heal. one and there is no warrant, alleging that the measure ney and asked for a public of people.” into the issue, members In an effort to reach and nine times out of 10 violates the U.S. Constitu- apology. Severance filed a The investigation found of the department could O'Grady for comment, The there is no warrant other tion’s Fourth Amendment formal hostile work envi- that O'Grady favored a not recall any incidents or Daily Commercial called a than an administrative war- ban on unreasonable ronment complaint against female officer to the point provide any substantiating cellphone number used rant, the city could be liable seizure. O’Grady, saying the chief that she may have been examples.” to reach him previously, for a due-process, equal- “The legislation signed humiliated her in front of promoted over Severance In a previous statement, but it had been changed. protection kind of claim by Governor DeSantis a room full of people. Sev- and others for a job and the city said the police When asked, city officials that could be filed by the today is unconstitutional, erance’s complaint goes raise for which she may not department, overall, was said they could not provide person that was detained and Republican lawmakers on to say that O’Grady’s have been fully qualified or “fraught with distrust.” forwarding information for by the city,” Pepe said. knew this when they fast- comments were insensi- eligible. On Wednesday, Hayes O'Grady since it is exempt When signing the bill into tracked the bill to appease tive, especially coming The report suggests that said she remains concerned under Florida law. law in June, DeSantis said anti-immigrant voters from a person in charge of many people from within that the problems were A public records the measure will help ensure and use racial grievance a diverse workforce. the police department were not caught sooner and is request submitted to the the safety of communities. to drive a wedge between Beyond that one inci- aware of such incidents, but committed to creating a city clerk for any commu- “This is about the rule of Floridians,” Scott McCoy, dent, DSK Law partner were not forthcoming with better environment going nications received from law,” he said at the time. senior policy counsel for Lindsay Greene, who con- information for various forward. O'Grady, or his representa- “It’s also about public the SPLC Action Fund, ducted the investigation, reasons. “I had been addressed a tive, concerning the claims safety.” said after the governor concluded that O’Grady Hayes said custom- couple of times that there outlined in the report is But opponents blasted signed the measure. “This has a history of question- ary weekly meetings with were some inconsisten- under review. A request for the governor for signing the law forces local and state able behavior and practices O’Grady did not uncover cies. It’s very disturbing. comment sent to O'Grady measure, which was spon- police to detain people and of making insensitive those incidents. On I’m worried that how many via Facebook Messenger sored by Sen. Joe Gruters, for federal immigration and sometimes “shock- Wednesday, she said she years for the entire period on Thursday afternoon was a Sarasota Republican who authorities without prob- ing” comments that are believes O'Grady engaged of time he was here did it not answered before press doubles as chairman of the able cause.” not “chief-like.” Greene in “intimidation” tactics exist, or was in just in more time. DailyCommercial.com | Friday, July 12, 2019 A5 House panel Prison system prepares authorizes subpoenas tied to Mueller report for storm season By Mary Clare Jalonick Judiciary Chairman Jer- The Associated Press rold Nadler of New York By Ana Ceballos property damage. And, “You best believe at some Institution during Michael, will make the final decision News Service of Florida after neighboring com- point everyone that was in which weather officials ear- WASHINGTON — The about issuing the subpoe- munities were destroyed, that area did not want to lier this year upgraded to a House Judiciary Com- nas and has said they can TALLAHASSEE — Nine the state has struggled to be there — from us to the Category 5 storm. mittee voted Thursday be avoided if witnesses months ago, Rodrick Fagiole fill vacancies in Northwest guards,” Fagiole said. “[The state] had the to authorize subpoenas and the administration was inside Gulf Correctional Florida prisons, exacerbat- With storms already means to move us, but the for 12 people mentioned cooperate voluntarily. The Institution when Hurricane ing an already problematic brewing off of Florida’s thought was, as with a lot in special counsel Robert vote was 21-12. Trump Michael blew the roof off of workforce shortage. In Gulf Coast, state officials of hurricanes, it’ll miss us, Mueller’s report , includ- tweeted about the vote the Panhandle prison. mid-June, there were say they are ready for this as always. Well, it didn’t,” ing President Donald shortly before the meeting Through a gaping cavity nearly 2,400 correctional year’s hurricane season. he said. Trump’s son-in-law, began. He said the wit- above him, Fagiole said he officer position vacancies “Plans are in place to When asked about Fagi- Jared Kushner, and former nesses “have already spent watched as the eye of the statewide. ensure that food and water oli’s recollections of what Attorney General Jeff hours with Robert Muel- storm passed overhead, fol- Hundreds of correctional supplies are prepared for happened during Michael, Sessions. ler, and spent a fortune on lowing a moment of calm. officers who worked in Pan- interrupted service in the Department of Corrections The panel also voted lawyers in so doing.” “Looking at the hole in handle state-run prisons event of a major impact spokeswoman Michelle to authorize subpoenas The president added of the ceiling, I was thinking, lost their homes and have from a natural disaster. Glady said the state’s “high- for documents and testi- the Democrats: “Enough where can I be safe?” Fagi- moved away, according to Preparations also include est priorities are the public mony related to Trump’s already, go back to work!” ole, who was released in Matt Puckett, the executive providing staffing assis- safety, the security of the handling of immigration, The resolution autho- December after two years director of the Florida Police tance, such as additional institutions, and the safety including on the separa- rizes subpoenas for behind bars, told The News Benevolent Association. officers and maintenance of our staff and the inmates tion of migrant families documents and testi- Service of Florida in a tele- After the storm, some crews, from non-impacted under the department at the southern border. mony from several former phone interview. “I really officers were relocated to regions,” Rob Keppler, a supervision.” The resolution autho- administration officials, thought I was going to die.” other prisons. spokesman for the Florida No injuries were reported rizes an investigation including former national The 40-year-old said he “Others just uprooted to Department of Corrections, at the Gulf County facility into whether there have security adviser Michael rode out the storm at the other parts of the state,” said in an email. during the storm, accord- been any discussions of Flynn , former White Wewahitchka facility, just Puckett said. Keppler said all state pris- ing to state officials. Trump offering pardons House chief of staff John 24 miles north of Mexico Panhandle prisons were ons have backup generators But Fagiole said he was to Homeland Security Kelly and former Deputy Beach where Michael made already strained by vacan- in case of power outages. hit when the ceiling caved officials who work on Attorney General Rod landfall in October. cies prior to Michael, Corrections officials have in. And Jim Baiardi, the immigration issues. Rosenstein. The damage to the prison Puckett said. With nearby conducted exercises and president of the Police was so bad that it remains communities now in tatters, developed contingency Benevolent Association, closed. filling those job openings plans to make sure they are said that some staff reported And, with the 2019 hur- may prove even more dif- ready for a natural disaster, “minor injuries” but that, in ricane season already under ficult, he added. he added. Those plans are general, “everything was way, state corrections offi- To help ease the situation, confidential, Keppler said. OK.” cials are still dealing with the Florida Department of Prisons, which are con- Two days after the storm the aftermath of the mas- Corrections purchased 23 structed with concrete and made landfall, Puckett said sive storm that caused more trailers from the Federal cinderblock, are “hurri- he saw one correctional than $50 million in property Emergency Management cane rated and evacuations officer from Gulf Cor- damage to 14 facilities in Agency to help displaced are made with that in mind rectional Institution who Florida’s Panhandle region. prison guards from Franklin based on the informa- looked as though “he came The devastation from Correctional Institution in tion available as the storm from combat, still in the Michael was a major blow Carrabelle, the Northwest approaches,” corrections state of shock.” to the state’s entire prison Florida Reception Center officials said. In Florida, where the hur- system, which has a large in Chipley, and Gulf Cor- Fagiole, however, said ricane season began less concentration of prisons in rectional Institution, where inmates and staff should than two months ago, cor- North Florida. Fagiole was one of the facil- have been evacuated rections workers are bracing Aside from buildings ity’s 1,500 inmates. from Gulf Correctional for what may come next. needing repair and recon- During Michael, inmates struction, the Department and correctional officers at of Corrections also has the prison were evacuated faced other hurdles in the to secure areas within the storm-recovery process. Gulf County facility, state Corrections officials have officials said this week. By had to shuffle thousands the time the storm had bar- of inmates across Florida, reled through the prison, after numerous facilities Fagiole said he saw the roof were shuttered temporar- come off, the ceiling cave ily. They’ve worked with in and electric wires snake the federal government to down to a floor that was secure reimbursement for quickly flooding. A6 Friday, July 12, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com

The British Britain says Iranian vessels Embassy is shown tried to block tanker in Gulf Wednesday in By Aya Batrawy economic crisis that has sent shipments . It said three Ira- Washington. and Amir Vahdat its currency plummeting. nian vessels attempted “to [PABLO The Associated Press Russia and China, both impede” the ship’s passage. MARTINEZ signatories to the nuclear “HMS Montrose was MONSIVAIS/ DUBAI, United Arab agreement along with Brit- forced to position herself THE Emirates — The British navy ain, France and Germany, between the Iranian vessels ASSOCIATED said Thursday it stopped have called for restraint. and British Heritage and PRESS] three Iranian paramilitary Kremlin spokesman Dmitry issue verbal warnings to the vessels from disrupting the Peskov said “freedom of Iranian vessels, which then passage of a British oil tanker navigation should be ensured turned away,” the statement through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf and the said. in a brief but tense standoff Strait of Hormuz.” The HMS Montrose is on stemming from the U.K.’s Iran’s Revolutionary a three-year mission at the role in seizing an Iranian Guard denied any incident British navy’s support facil- Diplomats shaken by resignation supertanker a week earlier. had occurred in the strait, ity in Bahrain, the hub of its The incident highlights saying if it had received naval operations east of the of Britain’s US ambassador how fragile maritime secu- orders to seize any ships it Suez Canal. rity has become through would have done so imme- U.K. Defense Secretary By Matthew Lee Donald Trump’s furious The State Department one of the world’s most diately. Iranian President Penny Mordaunt said the The Associated Press caustic response to the downplayed the fracas, vital energy supply routes as Hassan Rouhani, however, government is concerned leaked cables in which saying: “The United States the Trump administration had warned on Wednesday by the incident and urged WASHINGTON — The Darroch offered candid and the United Kingdom carries out a campaign of of repercussions for the sei- Iranian authorities to de- abrupt resignation of negative views of his share a bond that is bigger maximum pressure on Iran. zure of the Iranian vessel by escalate the situation. She Britain’s ambassador to administration. than any individual, and Iran recently began Britain’s Royal Marines in thanked the Royal Navy for the United States over In the cables, Darroch we look forward to con- breaching uranium enrich- Gibraltar, off the southern upholding international law leaked cables critical of called the administra- tinuing that partnership. ment limits set in its 2015 coast of Spain a week ago. and supporting freedom of the Trump administra- tion’s policy toward Iran We remain committed to nuclear deal with world The U.K. said in a state- navigation through the Strait tion may have jolted “incoherent,” said the the U.S.-UK Special Rela- powers in response to ment that the British naval of Hormuz. official Washington, president might be tionship and our shared President Donald Trump’s vessel HMS Montrose had A U.S. aircraft was in but it’s unlikely to have indebted to “dodgy Rus- global agenda.” decision to pull the U.S. out been accompanying the the area at the time of the a lasting impact on the sians” and raised doubts But Rep. Adam Schiff, of the accord a year ago. He commercial ship, Brit- incident and the military U.S.-British relationship about whether the White the California Democrat also has re-imposed tough ish Heritage, through the has video imagery, a U.S. or diplomatic practice. House “will ever look who chairs the House sanctions on Tehran’s oil narrow Strait of Hormuz, a official said, speaking on Current and former competent.” intelligence committee, exports, exacerbating an crucial waterway for energy condition of anonymity to diplomats say the leak of Trump’s lambasting of said Trump’s comments discuss security matters. Ambassador Kim Dar- Darroch on Twitter — he make the work of Ameri- The U.S. 5th Fleet in Bah- roch’s sensitive reports is called the ambassador “a can diplomats abroad rain declined to comment unfortunate and alarm- pompous fool” and “a very harder than they already on the incident. ing, particularly given the stupid guy” and criticized are. U.S. Central Command apparent political motive outgoing British Prime “Diplomats the world spokesman Capt. Bill Urban behind it. Yet, they believe Minister Theresa May — over, including ours, said CENTCOM was aware any complications will be drew condemnation from are expected to provide of reports of “harassment temporary even as they both sides of the Atlantic. candid assessments and and attempts to interfere create short-term turbu- British Foreign Secre- advice to their home gov- with” the passage of the Brit- lence in relations. tary Jeremy Hunt, who is ernments,” he said. “If a ish Heritage near the Strait “It’s a problem, but I in the running to replace foreign leader treated an of Hormuz by the Islamic don’t know that it has a May, replied: “Allies need American ambassador as Revolutionary Guard’s naval chilling effect over time to treat each other with President Trump treated forces. because in the end people respect.” the British ambassador, In recent months, the U.S. have jobs to do and they Others suggested that we would be up in arms, has sent thousands of addi- do their jobs,” said Ronald Trump’s reaction proved and justifiably so. “ tional troops, an aircraft Neumann, a retired three- Darroch’s point. In fact, U.S. diplo- carrier, B-52 bombers and time U.S. ambassador “Trump’s petty and mats have already felt advanced fighter jets to the who is the president of vindictive overreaction the consequences of region as tensions with Iran the American Academy of not only reinforces the leaked cables that laid out rise. Diplomacy. “It’s wrong accuracy of Darroch’s unvarnished and often Washington has blamed and it’s too bad. Still, you portrait of him in his unflattering impressions Iran for a series of mysteri- move on because there’s leaked cables, but fur- of foreign leaders and ous attacks on oil tankers in work to be done.” ther erodes an already governments. the region in the past two Darroch, a well-known complicated bilateral rela- The 2010 publication months — charges that figure in Washington, tionship,” said William by WikiLeaks of tens of Tehran denies. Tensions resigned on Wednes- Burns, a highly respected thousands of classified spiked further last month day amid an uproar over retired career diplomat and sensitive documents when Iran shot down an the candid cables, saying who served as deputy had a direct impact on at American military surveil- “the current situation is secretary of state during least three U.S. ambassa- lance drone, which the U.S. making it impossible for the Obama administra- dors, including one, Carlos says was in international me to carry out my role as tion and is president of the Pascual, who resigned as airspace but Tehran says had I would like.” The resig- Carnegie Endowment for envoy to Mexico over fall- violated Iranian airspace. nation followed President International Peace. out from cables critical of then-Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Pascual was traveling Wednes- day and not immediately available to comment on any similarities between his resignation and Darroch’s. Carnegie’s Burns, who was serving as the third- ranking U.S. diplomat at the time, recalled that the leaks had “negative prac- tical implications” for the day-to-day conduct of embassies. “The immediate impact was to make U.S. dip- lomatic missions more careful, so there is, at least initially, a dampen- ing effect,” he said. “But, we got over it in time.” In the long run, though, few believe damage to the “special relationship” caused this week will be severe or lingering. DailyCommercial.com | Friday, July 12, 2019 A7

Lake County music teachers learn to play guitar with a new program geared toward helping students get interested in music at Clermont Middle School. [CINDY SHARP/ CORRESPONDENT]

concentrated in north Panasoffkee Elementary GRADE Lake County, earned a C. School also received A’s The district’s long- like they did the year From Page A1 term goal, set by before. Kornegay, is to have each South Sumter Middle district-operated school School and South Sumter A-grade schools and saw achieve a B or higher. High School held steady one school drop to an F. “We’re getting there, with their B grades. The last time the district but there is still work to On the low end, had an F school was 2015. do,” Kornegay said in a Webster Elementary, Overall, there were statement released by Wildwood Elementary seven schools that Lake County Schools. and Wildwood Middle increased their grades and “I’m very proud to see High School all received 11 that dropped, including that we have more A C’s. It was a tick down Beverly Shores Elemen- schools than we did last for Webster, which got a B tary, which was the only year, and that the vast the year prior. The others’ school to receive an F in majority of our schools grades stayed the same. 2019. either improved over last Across the state, the That said, only one year’s grade or main- number of A schools school, Leesburg Ele- tained. The hard work increased from 1,043 in mentary, received a D of our teachers, admin- 2018 to 1,172 in 2019. this year, down from a istrators, support staff, The FLDOE generates C. Eustis Heights, which students and parents is school and district grades earned a D last year, paying off.” on a measure of 11 compo- improved to a C school in Neighboring Sumter nents each year, including 2019. County received an A student achievement, Leesburg missed a C from the state, same as learning gains and gradu- by only one point, which last year. ation rates. the school district attri- Of the district’s eight To see a full listing of butes to a small decrease schools, Bushnell Ele- all school and district in yearly mathematics mentary School showed grades, visit the School learning gains, one of the the greatest year-over- Grades page at https:// components used to grade year improvement, from bit.ly/2NOSlHa on the a school. a C to an A. Florida Department Both Leesburg and The Villages Char- of Education’s School Beverly Shores Elemen- ter School and Lake website. tary have been assigned new principals for next year, and the school district reported it has developed improvement plans for the two schools to “address academics, attendance and parent engagement.” Earlier this year, Lake Superintendent Diane Kornegay noted that the district had been keeping its eyes on schools that demonstrated perfor- mance deficits and that plans of action were in development. For Beverly Shores, which has also suffered from years of high turn- over, a rally of public support has also taken shape this summer, including events and initiatives from the com- munity specifically aimed at supporting the school and its students. Almost half of Lake’s schools earned a B or above in 2019. The county’s A schools include Grassy Lake Elementary, East Ridge Middle School, The Vil- lages Elementary of Lady Lake, Round Lake Elementary, Lost Lake Elementary, Pine Ridge Elementary, Cypress Ridge, Lake Minneola High School, Imagine Schools South Lake and Pinecrest Lakes. The schools that earned a B include Astatula Ele- mentary, Cecil E. Gray Middle, Clermont Middle, East Ridge High, Lake County Virtual School, Minneola Elemen- tary Charter, Seminole Springs Elementary, Spring Creek Charter, Tavares Middle, Triangle Elementary, Umatilla Ele- mentary, Umatilla Middle and Windy Hill Middle. Around 21 other schools, largely A8 Friday, July 12, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com BUSINESS

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MARKET WATCH White House yanks drug ‘rebate’ plan Dow 27,088.08 ▲ 227.88 Nasdaq 8,196.04 ▼ 6.49 S&P 2,999.91 ▲ 6.84 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar is encouraged by continu- Russell 1,557.92 ▼ 7.13 The Associated Press ing bipartisan conversations NYSE 13,198.72 ▲ 25.46 about legislation to reduce WASHINGTON — President outrageous drug costs COMMODITIES Donald Trump is withdraw- imposed on the American REVIEW ing a plan to ease the financial people, and President Trump bite of costly medications for will consider using any and all Gold 1404.30 ▼ 5.80 people on Medicare by let- tools to ensure that prescrip- Silver 15.067 ▼ .080 ting them receive rebates that tion drug costs will continue Platinum 825.00 ▲ 0.90 drugmakers now pay to insur- to decline,” Deere said in a Copper 2.6825 ▼ .0105 ers and middlemen, the White statement. Oil 60.20 ▼ 0.23 House said Thursday. The administration’s The once-highly promoted about-face was the second MARKET plan from Health and Human setback in a week for the MOVERS Services Secretary Alex Azar president’s drive to lower ran into opposition within the drug prices. • CVS Health Corp., up White House. The pushback A federal judge in Wash- $2.59 to $57.97: The White grew after the nonpartisan President Donald Trump speaks about kidney health at the Ronald ington, D.C., ruled on House withdrew a plan Congressional Budget Office Reagan Building and International Trade Center, accompanied by Monday that the adminis- that would have allowed estimated the plan would have Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, left, Wednesday in tration did not have legal patients to receive little impact on manufacturer Washington. [ALEX BRANDON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] authority to require drug- rebates that drugmakers prices and cost Medicare $177 makers to disclose list prices now pay to insurers and billion over 10 years by leading debate on rebates because its sights on bipartisan legis- in their TV ads that were distributors. to higher premiums subsidized other proposals on the same lation in Congress . Various supposed to have started by taxpayers. issue could surface on bills would cap drug copays this week. But GOP Sen. • Delta Air Lines Inc., up White House spokesman Capitol Hill, where law- for people with Medicare. Chuck Grassley, chairman 69 cents to $60.16: The Judd Deere said the proposal makers are working with the Patients taking very expen- of the Senate Finance Com- airline reported record to create the rebate program administration on drug cost sive medications for cancer, mittee, and Illinois Sen. revenue and a big increase was withdrawn “based on legislation. rheumatoid arthritis and Dick Durbin, the chamber’s in profi ts as it benefi ted careful analysis and thorough Deere said Trump is not other conditions can now second-ranking Democrat, from strong demand for consideration.” It was not backing away from his prom- face copays that rival a are pushing legislation that air travel. immediately clear whether ise to lower drug prices, and mortgage payment. would grant the government that meant the end of the the administration is setting “The Trump administration such powers. DailyCommercial.com | Friday, July 12, 2019 A9 OPINION

ANOTHER OPINION

ANOTHER VIEW Perot captured America’s imagination

The Dallas Morning News

oss Perot’s legendary list of lifetime achievements should start with “captured the imagination.” Brilliant in business, generous and demand- R ing, driven, quirky and colorful, Perot was as hard to pigeonhole as a Texas tornado. His death at age 89 leaves a broad legacy and some of the nation’s enduring one-liners born of homespun wis- dom. A best-selling book and televised miniseries drama- tized his adventure to rescue employees being held in Iran — using his own hired commandos, no less. But no single volume or TV show could capture the man’s full sweep. The hostage rescue was emblematic of a boss Epstein case shows who demanded the ultimate effort on the job, then reciprocated with the ultimate loyalty. If it was difficult working for Perot; it was also different, mistreatment of crime victims to put it mildly. Workers at his revolutionary, Dallas-born Electronic Data Systems abided by a meticulous groom- ing policy that made white shirts mandatory and banned By Robin Abcarian prosecutors in the South- Scout and had good grades. tasseled shoes. Cohabitating unmarried was out. Los Angeles Times ern District of Florida, led Three days later, the The rules reflected his background as a Navy officer, training by then-U.S. Attorney R. same appeals court panel that people said made him manic, even obsessive, about secu- here are a lot of com- Alexander Acosta, who rebuked a different family rity. Perot was strong medicine, and he wasn’t for everybody. plicated threads to is now President Don- court judge in the case of a In Texas we recall him as an irresistible force in Austin to drag Tuntangle in the case of ald Trump’s secretary of 16-year-old boy accused of the state out of the dark ages on public education by demanding billionaire financier Jeffrey Labor. Herald investiga- raping a 12-year-old girl. results. In Dallas some may recall that he wrote a $10 million Epstein, the Gatsbyesque tive reporter Julie K. Brown The lower court judge in that check to assure a spectacular new downtown symphony hall. financier who owns six tracked down 80 victims, case — a woman — sounded Across the nation, Perot is best known for big fights homes — including man- and was able to get many of like she’s been under a and swashbuckling, like his attempt to deliver Christ- sions in Palm Beach and them to open up about their rock for the last 30 years. mas presents to POWs in North Vietnam and his Manhattan — two private experiences with Epstein. “The victim claimed that relentless push to find MIAs after the war. jets and a Caribbean island, In a thinly veiled rebuke the (alleged rapist) pushed One of his noisiest fights was with General Motors, after and has a sexual predilec- to Acosta, federal prosecu- her, grabbed her hands, it acquired EDS. The cultural collision between Perot’s tion for teenage girls. tors in New York’s Southern removed her clothing and Texans and GM’s traditions was epic, and the auto giant We cannot forget that, at District have now charged then penetrated her with- bought out his stake to secure the peace. The deal asked heart, this is a very high- Epstein with sex traf- out her actual consent,” a lot of Perot — keeping his opinion of GM to himself. end version of the same ficking and conspiracy, wrote Judge Marcia Silva. Perot may be best known in defeat, running an uncon- treatment that victims of alleging he paid girls as “However, beyond los- ventional yet formidable populist campaign for presi- sexual crimes — particularly young as 14 for sex and ing her virginity, the State dent in 1992 and again, with less impact, in 1996. The young women — receive also used them to recruit did not claim that the vic- blunt-talking billionaire seemed out of place or off at the hands of the jus- other girls between 2002 tim suffered any further the mark at times, but he stoked debate on his core tice system all the time. and 2005. He was arrested injuries, either physical, issues of budget deficits and trade imbalance. As is too often the case Saturday in New Jersey. mental or emotional.” People still refer to “the giant sucking sound” Perot when high-profile men are This time, Epstein faces Last year, Santa Clara warned about — the sound of jobs leaving country. accused of sexual miscon- up to 45 years in prison. He Superior Court Judge Taking in the broader sweep of the man, we would say duct, Epstein’s money and has pleaded not guilty. Aaron Persky was recalled he was a person who didn’t accept the world as it was. He connections allowed him The case is exceptional by voters after deliver- always believed, or at least his actions told us that he believed, to receive a relative slap for the number of alleged ing a light jail sentence to that the world could be made better, that great accomplish- on the wrist 11 years ago victims and the social sta- Stanford swimmer Brock ments were possible. In many ways he did that by cap- in Florida after he pleaded tus of the perpetrator, Turner, who had been turing the imagination of millions and signaling that the guilty to sexually exploiting who has been friendly with convicted of sexually seemingly impossible was achievable. The hard-charging teenage girls. The deal was Trump, former President assaulting a drunk woman approach drove change and bent the arc of history. made in secret; the victims Bill Clinton and Prince outside a fraternity party. Not everything worked out. Not everything worked were not informed of it. Andrew, among others. The recall was organized out for the better. But a lot did. Perot left a mark, and Epstein, who had made But the leniency accorded and pushed by Stanford law in the broad sweep of history we are better for it. financial settlements with Epstein is entirely, professor Michele Dauber, dozens of victims, spent 13 and sadly, familiar. who was intensely criticized months in jail, though he Recently, a New Jersey by many legal experts for was allowed to leave the jail appeals court reprimanded trying to punish a judge for 12 hours a day, six days a a family court judge for exercising his discretion. HAVE YOUR SAY week. He was also required saying that a 16-year-old But you know what? She to register as a sex offender. who was accused of rap- was right. And so was the We welcome signed letters and guest columns. Letters should Last November, a Miami ing a drunk 16-year-old New Jersey appeals court. not exceed 300 words and columns should not exceed 500 Herald series rekindled girl, filming the assault If removing judges is words. Columns need to include a recent headshot of the interest in Epstein’s case. and sending it to friends, what it takes to bring them writer. We edit for length, clarity, and grammar. Mail: Voices, The report outlined the should not be tried as an around to the idea that rape P.O. Box 490007, Leesburg, FL 34749-0007 Email: letters@daily- bizarrely lenient treatment adult because he came from is a serious, life-altering, commercial.com Fax: 352-365-1951 he received from federal a good family, was an Eagle soul-killing crime, so be it.

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Impeach Congress are out of this world. other such words intended to Republican Party that is led country, everyone has the Some may say we don’t harm the party. Add to that by a racist Kentucky sena- right to express dissent Here is a question that need to impeach, just vote the charges that the Demo- tor who publicly stated that without fear of retribu- every sane person who them out of office at the crats want the government his goal was to make certain tion. Do not allow the cur- loves this great country next election. However, to interfere in everyone’s life that the former president rent leader to disassemble should ask: Is there any that is a very difficult thing and the pattern of Republi- would only serve for one the concept that has made way that we, the people, to do because the re-elec- cans to re-elect their candi- term and a party whose and kept America great can impeach Congress? tion of an incumbent is date becomes increasingly philosophy is shaped by since its inception! There are more than about 97 percent assured. evil and increasingly clear. conservative radio person- George DelMonte, Belleaire 500 people who make up Thus, the question: Can As a registered inde- alities who spew venom Village Congress, yet we only we impeach Congress? pendent, I am appalled by and present it as news. hear from about 30. Since they gave Muel- the Republicans’ accep- I urge you to think about Don’t blame Democrats Why? Where are the ler $30-40 million to do tance of a president who what liberal thinking has others? They also are not his work, I believe we refuses to be a part of the done for the world. The In typical fashion of a very smart because they could do our work with global community, refuses Renaissance, child labor cookie-cutter, empty- have asked for a 3.1 percent less and accomplish it to accept that immigra- laws, the end of monarchs suit Republican legisla- increase in salary where they in less than one year. tion was part of what made and the institution of uni- ture, a recent letter writer should receive a 75 percent Back to the ques- America great, refuses to versity/college school- attempted to blame Demo- decrease for lack of work! tion: Can we, the people, behave with dignity, lies on ing changed the world. cratic members of Con- Here is their basic work impeach Congress? If a regular basis and seems In this country, the G.I. gress for voting against the week: They are scheduled not, then let’s get legisla- to know little about foreign Bill, Social Security, Medi- Senate’s watered-down to be in Washington, D.C., tion passed so we can! dictators who use him to care/Medicaid, federal assis- compromise of a bill that Tuesday through Thurs- Tom Cavanaugh, Mt. Dora further their own ideas. tance programs, the right for originated in the Demo- day, and in their district I am also troubled by everyone to vote, women’s cratic House. The bill Friday through Monday. Troubled by the GOP the Republican Party’s rights, freedom of speech contained restrictions on The average salary is embrace of a president and dozens of other consti- Trump to make sure that $175,000 yearly. They There is a growing senti- whose statesmanship is tutional entitlements are the aid funds went directly receive around $1 mil- ment among Republicans and sorely lacking, a president result of liberal thinking. to those in detention as lion to run their office the base of President Trump who regularly attacked a Get out and vote! Do originally intended. I sup- and staff, plus free health to define all Democrats with Senate war hero and who not waste that liberal right posed we should be used care, which is the best semantically charged words continues the attack long granted to you and allow to Republican lies, but it medical care in the world! such as “liberal,” “social after that hero’s passing. another term by the per- still remains despicable. Their retirement benefits humanist,” “snowflake” and Mostly I’m troubled by a son you want out. In this William D Hamm, Leesburg A10 Friday, July 12, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com

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By Kimberly Miller What is causing Lab tries to predict the size and increased water temperatures. less of an option in Palm Beach GateHouse Florida the bloom? breadth of sargassum blooms, In experiments, researchers County, which typically has but it can be difficult because found warmer water inhibited a greater density of sea turtle South Florida has been beset Scientists are studying why so many subtle environmental sargassum growth. nests. Special permits can be by mats of seaweed for two the bloom has exploded. A factors go into its growth. For obtained to remove some sea- consecutive years. Here are recent study linked the prolif- example, while nutrient-laden Is there anything good weed during nesting season. your questions answered: eration to nutrient runoff from discharge from the Amazon about the seaweed? Some hotels are also hand the Amazon River and upwelling may contribute to its growth, raking it to make the beach Why is there so much along the west coast of Africa too much freshwater dilutes Sargassum benefits the more pleasant for visitors. seaweed in Southeast that brings cooler water and the salinity in the Atlantic, environment in that it pro- Florida? nutrients up from the ocean which would inhibit growth. A vides shelter for hatchling sea Is the seaweed harmful floor. There is also a hypothesis lead researcher at USF said large turtles, who feed on the tiny to humans? A robust sargassum bloom that Saharan dust is contrib- sargassum blooms are likely the crabs and other organisms that started in the Atlantic Ocean uting to the growth by raining “new normal.” live in the seaweed. Birds also In general, the seaweed is in 2011 and began to plague down particles of phospho- pick through it to find food, and not harmful to humans, but Caribbean islands and rus. Nutrient runoff from the Is climate change it can help bolster beaches if it decaying seaweed releases Mexico. It showed up in large Mississippi River may also be to blame? works its way into the sand. hydrogen sulfide gas that quantities in South Florida contributing to growth in the smells like rotten eggs and can in 2015, then again in 2018 Gulf of Mexico. A warmer world can con- Why don’t they just pick present problems for people and 2019. It can be particu- tribute to increased rainfall it up? with asthma or other respira- larly bad in the Keys through Will it go away? that would lead to higher river tory issues. Palm Beach County when east discharges, but USF scien- Some cities in Broward winds blow it out of the Gulf The University of South tist Chuanmin Hu said the County are clearing beaches, or [email protected] Stream toward land. Florida’s Optical Oceanography blooms do not occur because of mixing it into the sand. That’s @KmillerWeather

Charters at the Jupiter Inlet. everything is in balance, but school’s Optical Oceanog- “This is all ultimately BLOOM “So we were excited to see it when you get too much bio- raphy Lap, and postdoctoral related to climate change when it came back, but it’s mass, things change.” student Mengqiu Wang. because it affects precipita- From Page A1 upsetting because there is no LaPointe said higher nitro- They’ve dubbed their dis- tion and ocean circulation life in it.” gen-to-phosphorus ratios and covery the “Great Atlantic and even human activities, Brian LaPointe, a co-author reductions in oxygen levels Sargassum belt.” but what we’ve shown is that to the surface. on the recent seaweed study at night when no photosyn- Last year, the bloom con- these blooms do not occur For beachgoers, the bloom and researcher at FAU’s thesis occurs could also have tained more than 20 million because of increased water can be a smelly nuisance, Harbor Branch Oceano- negative effects on life in the tons of seaweed. temperature,” Hu said in a but at least one Palm Beach graphic Institute, said the lack floating rain forest. LaPointe While the study points to USF article. “They are prob- County fisherman noted of the typical marine animals said similar discharges from two main culprits for the ably here to stay.” another characteristic to the in the sargassum has become the Mississippi River can feed increase in sargassum — Taylor said the seaweed floating wrack line that has a common observation. sargassum blooms in the Gulf higher nutrient levels from doesn’t hurt his fishing busi- piqued the interest of an FAU He said there are sev- of Mexico. Amazon runoff and upwell- ness, but trollers who draw researcher — there are fewer eral contributing factors, “It can alter food chains,” ing — there are more pieces to lines are getting tangled in it. critters in the weed. including that its growth has he said. “I’m kind of look- the puzzle. Too much runoff “I want to protect this little “Just one little clump used simply outpaced that of the ing at sargassum as another from the Amazon can dilute piece of the world here,” to have tons of little crea- organisms that call it home, canary in the coal mine for salinity levels in the ocean, Taylor said. “The most tures, crabs and shrimp, and spreading the critters out our planet.” causing fewer sargassum important resource we have we’d be sure to throw it back across larger areas. LaPointe’s co-authors blooms. Warmer ocean tem- is our water.” in the water right away if it got “But there are more seri- are Chuanmin Hu, a USF peratures have also shown on the boat,” said Bill Taylor, ous concerns,” he said. “In oceanography professor who to “suppress sargassum [email protected] who runs Black Dog Fishing this unique community, monitors sargassum with the growth.” @KmillerWeather

honored in the should inspire in all Floridians 1914. — environmental author Mar- STATUE Statuary Hall a great sense of pride,” said Dr. Efforts to replace Smith’s jory Stoneman Douglas and Collection, Clifford Porter, a B-CU vice statue began after nine Publix founder George Jenkins From Page A1 which includes president. people were killed in 2015 at were the others — recom- two represen- Smith had been among 12 a black church in Charleston, mended to the 2017 Legislature. context and bring balance to tatives from statues of former Confederate South Carolina, by a white But lawmakers got stuck, and the museum. Bethune each state. soldiers or politicians in the supremacist, prompting a couldn’t agree on who to honor. Meanwhile, proponents “Having hall. re-evaluation of Confederate Last year, though, Bethune accuse those who are against the first state-commissioned Smith’s statue has been in the memorials across the country. emerged as the overwhelming the statue of attempting to erase statue of an African-American hall since 1922, when it joined Lawmakers in 2016 approved choice. history. placed in National Statuary one representing John Gorrie, an replacing the Smith statue and When she arrives in Wash- Hall and the school she founded early developer of refrigeration organized a panel to recommend Daily Commercial staff ington, D.C., McLeod Bethune to continue its mission, Bet- and air-conditioning, which had a replacement. Bethune was writer Katie Sartoris con- will be the first black American hune-Cookman University, been placed there by Florida in among three famed Floridians tributed to this story. DailyCommercial.com | Friday, July 12, 2019 B1

Paul Jenkins, Sports editor 352-365-8204 SPORTS [email protected] NL Central in for taut 2nd half

First-place Cubs kept pitching up and in to his and last-place players, Maddon retired to Reds separated by the visiting manager’s office just 4 1/2 games at PNC Park. He eased into a chair, opened a bottle of wine, By Will Graves flipped on the television and BASEBALL | B2 Associated Press watched his wildly uneven team put the finishing touches ‘BALL FOUR’ PITTSBURGH — Joe on an 11-3 victory that avoided Maddon didn’t let the free a four-game sweep. AUTHOR time created by a rare ejection Veteran move. Opportu- go to waste. nities to relax over the next BOUTON Shortly after getting tossed two-plus months will be by home-plate umpire Joe scarce in the most competi- DIES AT 80 West on July 4 following an tive division in the majors. outburst in which the Chi- The National League Cen- cago Cubs’ manager appeared tral enters the second half with ready to take on any and all the first-place Cubs and last- Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon, center, yells toward the comers from the Pittsburgh place Cincinnati separated by Pittsburgh Pirates dugout as he is restrained by umpire Joe West dugout after taking excep- and Cubs’ Kris Bryant (17) during a game in Pittsburgh on July 4. [AP tion to the way the Pirates See MLB, B3 PHOTO/GENE J. PUSKAR]

UF’s 2019 recruiting

Boston has plenty of class sports stars, but none are bigger than New England keeps Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. [THE ASSOCIATED shrinking PRESS/FILE]

COMMENTARY Cornerback Edwards looking to transfer

Who are By Robbie Andreu the faces GateHouse Florida GAINESVILLE — The of biggest University of Florida’s 2019 recruiting class, which was ranked No. sports 9 in the nation back in February, continues to markets? shrink, and could grow even smaller. The latest to fall out By John Romano of the original class of Tribune News Service 25 is four-star Lakeland offensive lineman Dey- AMPA — The avie Hammond, who recent departures announced on Twitter that T of Evan Longo- he did not qualify academi- ria and Gerald McCoy cally and will be attending and Nikita Kucherov’s a junior college for the next recent crowning as the two years. NHL’s MVP got the He joins three other folks in the Tampa Bay earlier departures from Times Sports depart- Serena Williams reacts as she plays Barbora Strycova in a women’s semifi nal singles match on Day 10 of the class — four-star ment wondering: Who the Wimbledon Tennis Championships on Thursday in London. [HANNAH MCKAY/POOL PHOTO VIA AP] cornerback Chris Steele, is the face of Tampa four-star quarterback Bay sports now? Jalon Jones and four-star I think it’s Steven linebacker Diwun Black. Stamkos, and it’s Steele (Southern Cal) probably not close. and Jones (Jackson State) But what about the have transferred, while other U.S. sports mar- ‘Not about 24’ Black, like Hammond, kets (and Toronto) that failed to qualify academi- are our size, with at cally and is enrolled at least three franchises in Mississippi Gulf Coast North America’s tradi- Williams focused on Halep, not upping Community College. tional four major league The class could grow sports? This is not a sci- Grand Slam title total, at Wimbledon even smaller, with three entific list. We did not others facing issues that check Q ratings, sneaker have not allowed them sales or endorsement By Howard Fendrich Wimbledon at a glance to enroll in the summer deals. This is not a The Associated Press B semester yet, which comprehensive list. We LOOKING AHEAD TO FRIDAY started July 1. did not call experts or WIMBLEDON, England — Eleven years later, it’s time for the next installment of the Roger Four-star wide receiver monitor Google trends. Hours before her Wimbledon vs. Rafa rivalry at Wimbledon. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will Arjei Henderson and This may not even be semifinal, Serena Williams face each other in the men’s semifi nals, their fi rst meeting at the All three-star wide receiver a smart list. But we’re spent some time deep in England Club since a classic fi ve-set fi nal in 2008. Nadal won that Dionte Marks have aca- hoping it’s a fun, quick thought and arrived at a couple match 9-7 in the fi fth set, while Federer beat his Spanish rival in the demic deficiencies that and (barely) informa- of conclusions. previous two fi nals. Federer is looking for a record-extending ninth need to be resolved before tive list of the faces of For one thing, she shouldn’t Wimbledon title, while Nadal is chasing his third. In the other match, they can enroll, while four- sports in other markets focus too much on trying to defending champion Novak Djokovic takes on Roberto Bautista Agut, star offensive lineman with at least three of raise her Grand Slam title total a Spaniard playing in his fi rst Grand Slam semifi nal. Wardrick Wilson, who the major profes- to 24, a number achieved by is from the Bahamas, has sional sports leagues. just one other player in tennis THURSDAY’S WOMEN’S SEMIFINALS had problems obtaining a history. And for another, she No. 7 Simona Halep beat No. 8 Elina Svitolina 6-1, 6-3; No. 11 Serena visa that would allow him Atlanta needs to stay calm on the Williams beat Barbora Strycova 6-1, 6-2. to come to UF. court. There’s still a chance Check back in a few With that in mind, Williams STAT OF THE DAY that Henderson, Marks years, and the choice went out Thursday and made 37 years, 290 days: Serena Williams’ age on Saturday, making her and Wilson could enroll could be Ronald Acuna it all look so easy, overwhelm- the oldest woman to play a Grand Slam fi nal in the professional for the fall semester and or Ozzie Albies of the ing Barbora Strycova of the era — about a month older than Martina Navratilova was when she be eligible this season. Braves. But for now, Czech Republic 6-1, 6-2 in 59 played the 1994 championship match at Wimbledon. the town still belongs minutes to once again put her- CB Edwards to Falcons quarterback self on the verge of an eighth QUOTE OF THE DAY transferring Matt Ryan. Matty Ice championship at the All Eng- “I promise you, when I hit a volley I was like, ‘Would I have made has more than a decade land Club and major No. 24 that if I didn’t play doubles? I don’t think so.’” — Serena Williams Flor- at the helm, and is start- overall. on whether playing mixed doubles with Andy Murray helped her ida’s ing to creep into some “It’s really not about 24 or perform better at the net against Barbora Strycova. depth at NFL top 10 passing lists. 23 or 25. It’s really just about corner- going out there and giving my back has Boston best effort, no matter what. No taken matter what I do, I will always another Zdeno Chara is a have a great career,” said Wil- on No. 7-seeded Simona Halep the first for Halep, whose Edwards hit with team captain, 7-time liams, who at 37 is the oldest of Romania, a 6-1, 6-3 winner only major trophy came at the the All-Star and a Stanley woman to reach a Grand Slam over No. 8 Elina Svitolina of French Open last year. announcement this Cup winner, and he final in the professional era. Ukraine under a cloudy sky at They’ve played each other 10 week from junior Brian doesn’t come close. “Like, I just kind of let it go this Centre Court. previous times, with Williams Edwards that he is morning.” It’s the 11th final at the All See FACES, B3 On Saturday, she will take England Club for Williams, See WIMBLEDON, B3 See RECRUITING, B3 B2 Friday, July 12, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com SCOREBOARD

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W L T PTS GF GA MLB — Suspended Houston OF Jake Purse: $2.8 million. Winner’s share: $420,000. Simona Halep (7), Romania, def. Elina Philadelphia 10 5 6 36 39 28 Marisnick two games after his violent home Television: Today, 1:30-4 p.m. (Golf Channel); Svitolina (8), Ukraine, 6-1, 6-3. D.C. United 8 5 7 31 25 21 plate collision with Los Angeles Angels C Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel). Schools or coaches can report game results by calling Atlanta 9 7 3 30 27 23 Jonathan Lucroy. Defending champion: Vijay Singh. Men’s Doubles Montreal 9 9 3 30 26 34 American League 352-365-8204. Submissions also can be emailed to Charles Schwab Cup leader: Scott McCarron. Semifi nals New York City FC 7 2 8 29 30 20 KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Selected the Last tournament: Steve Stricker won the U.S. Nicolas Mahut, France and Edouard Roger- New York Red Bulls 8 7 4 28 33 27 contract of OF Bubba Starling from Omaha [email protected]. Results submitted after Senior Open. Vasselin (11), France, def. Ivan Dodig, Croatia Toronto FC 6 8 5 23 30 33 (PCL). Notes: Firestone previously held the World 9:30 p.m. may not appear in the next day’s edition of and Filip Polasek, Slovakia, 6-2, 7-6 (7), New England 6 8 5 23 22 36 Golf Championships, and previously the 7-6 (2). Orlando City 6 9 4 22 27 27 BASKETBALL the Daily Commercial. Robert Farah, Colombia and Juan Sebastian World Series of Golf, every year but one Chicago 5 8 7 22 31 29 National Basketball Association Cabal (2), Colombia, def. Michael Venus, New (2002) dating to 1976. ... Steve Stricker, Columbus 5 13 2 17 17 30 NBA — Named Kate Jhaveri chief marketing Zealand and Raven Klaasen (3), South Africa, coming off his U.S. Senior Open victory, is Cincinnati 4 13 2 14 18 44 offi cer. 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2), 6-4. playing the Senior Players instead of going ATLANTA HAWKS — Signed F Jabari Parker. for a fourth victory at the John Deere Classic SPORTS ON TV WESTERN CONFERENCE CHICAGO BULLS — Re-signed G Ryan on the PGA Tour. ... Vijay Singh (2008) and Mixed Doubles W L T PTS GF GA Arcidiacono. David Frost (1989) are the only players in Quarterfi nals Los Angeles FC 13 2 4 43 50 16 the fi eld who also won the World Series of Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands and LA Galaxy 11 7 1 34 26 22 AUTO RACING HOCKEY Golf or Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone. Zhaoxuan Yang, China, def. Bruno Soares, Seattle 9 5 5 32 29 25 National Hockey League ... The winner gets a spot in The Players 4:55 a.m. Brazil and Nicole Melichar (1), United States, Minnesota United 9 7 3 30 36 29 DALLAS STARS — Signed C Jason Dickinson Championship at the TPC Sawgrass next 6-4, 6-3. FC Dallas 8 7 5 29 29 25 ESPN2 — Formula One: The British Grand Prix, practice to a two-year contract. year. ... Bernhard Langer won the tournament Robert Lindstedt, Sweden and Jelena San Jose 8 7 4 28 30 30 LOS ANGELES KINGS — Signed F Samuel three straight times from 2014 through 2016. session 1, England Ostapenko, Latvia, def. Franko Skugor, Houston 8 7 3 27 28 25 Fagemo to a three-year entry-level contract. ... Miguel Angel Jimenez, Tom Lehman, Mark Croatia and Raluca-Ioana Olaru (12), Real Salt Lake 8 9 2 26 25 29 8:55 a.m. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Signed F Brett Calcavecchia and John Daly are in the fi eld. Romania, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-5. Portland 7 8 2 23 26 28 Leason to a three-year entry level contract. All but Daly is in the British Open next week ESPNU — Formula One: The British Grand Prix, practice Kveta Peschke, Czech Republic and Wesley Sporting Kansas City 5 7 7 22 29 34 ECHL in Northern Ireland. He withdrew after being Koolhof (5), Netherlands, def. Artem Vancouver 4 8 8 20 22 31 IDAHO STEELHEADS — Named Everett Sheen told he can’t use a cart. session 2, England Sitak, New Zealand and Laura Siegemund, Colorado 5 10 4 19 29 38 coach. Next tournament: Senior British Open on 11:30 a.m. Germany, 6-1, 6-2. 3 points for a victory, one point for a tie Ivan Dodig, Croatia and Latisha Chan (8), July 25-28. NBCSN — NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series: prac- Chinese Taipei, def. Eden Silva, Britain and SOCCER Online: www.pgatour.com/champions Today’s Games Major League Soccer Evan Hoyt, Britain, 7-5, 7-6 (5). New England at D.C. United, 7 p.m. tice, Sparta, Ky. COLUMBUS CREW — Named Steve Lyons LPGA TOUR Los Angeles FC at Houston, 9 p.m. executive vice president, chief business MARATHON CLASSIC 1:30 p.m. San Jose at LA Galaxy, 11 p.m. offi cer. Traded F Patrick Mullins to Toronto Site: Sylvania, Ohio. PRO BASEBALL Saturday’s Games NBCSN — NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series: fi nal for F Jordan Hamilton, a 2019 international Course: Highland Meadows GC. Yardage: Columbus at Orlando City, 7:30 p.m. roster spot, $50,000 in Targeted Allocation 6,550. Par: 71. practice, Sparta, Ky. Toronto FC at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. MLB Money and the Right of First Refusal for an Purse: $1.75 million. Winner’s share: Cincinnati at Chicago, 8 p.m. All times Eastern unnamed player. $262,500. 4 p.m. FC Dallas at Minnesota United, 8 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE ORLANDO CITY — Acquired M Robinho from Television: Today, 7:30-9:30 p.m. (Golf Philadelphia at Real Salt Lake, 10 p.m. NBCSN — NASCAR Xfi nity Series: qualifying, Sparta, Ky. EAST DIVISION W L PCT GB Columbus Crew SC for $50,000 in Targeted Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 6-8 p.m. (Golf Sporting Kansas City at Vancouver, 10 p.m. New York 57 31 .648 — Allocation Money (TAM). Channel). 6 p.m. Colorado at Portland, 11 p.m. Tampa Bay 52 39 .571 6½ Confederation of North, Central America and Defending champion: Jasmine Suwannapura. Sunday’s Games NBCSN — NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series: qualify- Boston 49 41 .544 9 Caribbean Association Football Race to CME Globe leader: Jin Young Ko. Atlanta at Seattle, 3:55 p.m. Toronto 34 57 .374 24½ CONCACAF — Named Nicholas Noble director Last week: Shanshan Feng won the ing, Sparta, Ky. 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United at Cincinnati, 8 p.m. WEST DIVISION W L PCT GB of women’s golf as an NCAA varsity program. a sponsor’s exemption to the Marathon ESPN2 — Formula One: The British Grand Prix, practice Orlando City at Portland, 10 p.m. Houston 57 33 .633 — Announced men’s golf coach Joseph Yeck Classic. The 17-year-old from California Friday, July 19 session 3, England Oakland 50 41 .549 7½ was appointed women’s golf coach and chose not to go to UCLA and instead turned Los Angeles FC at LA Galaxy, 10 p.m. Texas 48 42 .533 9 elevated to full-time status. pro without status on any tour. Last week Saturday, July 20 Los Angeles 45 46 .495 12½ MINNESOTA STATE — Named Brian Sebera was her fi rst LPGA Tour event as a pro. ... Chicago at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. CYCLING Seattle 39 55 .415 20 and Ben Held assistant track and fi eld Ariya Jutanugarn now has gone 25 starts on Houston at Toronto FC, 7:30 p.m. coaches. the LPGA Tour without winning. She had a 8 a.m. Montreal at Columbus, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday’s Game SHENANDOAH — Promoted Elsebeth Birman 260 at Thornberry Creek, breaking by fi ve FC Dallas at Sporting Kansas City, 8:30 p.m. All-Star Game at Cleveland, Ohio to women’s lead assistant basketball coach. shots her previous low 72-hole score. ... NBCSN — Tour de France: Stage 7, 143 miles, Belfort to New York City FC at Colorado, 9 p.m. American League 4, National League 3 WINTHROP — Announced men’s redshirt The fi eld includes Stacy Lewis, a corporate Minnesota United at Real Salt Lake, 10 p.m. Chalon-sur-Saône, France Wednesday’s Games freshman basketball F DJ Burns has trans- partner with Marathon Oil. ... Paula Creamer San Jose at Vancouver, 10 p.m. None scheduled ferred from Tennessee. won the tournament in 2008. She is the last 6:30 a.m. (Saturday) Sunday, July 21 Thursday’s Game American winner of the Marathon Classic. D.C. United at Atlanta, 4 p.m. NBCSN — Tour de France: Stage 8, 124 miles, Mâcon to Houston at Texas, late Next week: Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational. New England at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. Today’s Games GOLF Online: www.lpga.com Saint-Étienne, France Tampa Bay (Chirinos 7-4) at Baltimore New York Red Bulls at Orlando City, 7:30 p.m. Portland at Seattle, 9:30 p.m. (Bundy 4-10), 7:05 p.m. KORN FERRY TOUR Toronto (TBD) at N.Y. Yankees (TBD), 7:05 EUROPEAN TOUR GOLF SCOTTISH OPEN TPC COLORADO CHAMPIONSHIP AT p.m. NATIONAL WOMEN’S HERON LAKE L.A. Dodgers (TBD) at Boston (Rodriguez SOCCER LEAGUE Thursday’s leaders at The Renaissance Club, 5:30 a.m. North Berwick, Scotland Site: Berthoud, Colo. Yardage: 7,991. Par: 72. 9-4), 7:10 p.m. All times Eastern Course: TPC Colorado. GOLF — European Tour Golf: The Scottish Open, second Minnesota (Gibson 8-4) at Cleveland W L T PTS GF GA Purse: $7 million. Yardage: 7,136; Par: 71 First Round Purse: $600,000. Winner’s share: $108,000. round, Scotland (Clevinger 2-2), 7:10 p.m. Reign FC 5 1 5 20 12 9 Television: None. Houston (Cole 9-5) at Texas (Chavez 3-4), North Carolina 5 2 4 19 24 12 Romain Wattel, France 63 Matt Kuchar, United States 63 Defending champion: New event. 9:30 a.m. 8:05 p.m. Portland 5 2 4 19 19 13 Points leader: Xinjun Zhang. Detroit (TBD) at Kansas City (Duffy 3-5), Washington 5 3 3 18 17 11 Nino Bertasio, Italy 63 GOLF — European Tour Golf: The Scottish Open, second Edoardo Molinari, Italy 63 Last week: Ryan Brehm won the Lecom 8:15 p.m. Utah 5 3 2 17 8 7 Health Challenge. round, Scotland Chicago White Sox (Nova 4-7) at Oakland Chicago 4 5 2 14 17 18 Lee Slattery, England 64 Erik Van Rooyen, South Africa 64 Next week: Pinnacle Bank Championship. (Fiers 8-3), 10:07 p.m. Houston 3 4 4 13 13 18 Online: www.pgatour.com/kornferry 1:30 p.m. Seattle (Leake 7-7) at L.A. Angels (TBD), Orlando 2 8 2 8 12 27 Thomas Pieters, Belium 64 Andy Sullivan, England 64 GOLF — PGA Tour Champions Golf: Senior Players 10:07 p.m. Sky Blue FC 1 7 2 5 8 15 2019 PRESIDENTS CUP STANDINGS Saturday’s Games 3 points for a victory, one point for a tie Jamie Donaldson, Wales 64 Championship, second round, Akron, Ohio Kalle Samooja, Finland 64 At Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m., 1st game Melbourne, Australia; Dec. 12-15, 2019 Today’s Game Thomas Aiken, South Africa 64 Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m., 2nd game Through July 7 4 p.m. Utah at Sky Blue FC, 7:30 p.m. Chris Paisley, England 65 Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m. Top 10 automatically qualify Saturday’s Games Ian Poulter, England 65 GOLF — PGA Tour Golf: The John Deere Classic, second Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 4:07 p.m. UNITED STATES Reign FC at North Carolina, 7 p.m. Richie Ramsay, Scotland 65 Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m. 1. Brooks Koepka 6,809 round, Silvis, Ill. Chicago at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Oliver Wilson, England 65 Detroit at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m. 2. Dustin Johnson 6,445 Sunday’s Games Henrik Stenson, Sweden 65 7:30 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Boston, 7:15 p.m. 3. Xander Schauffele 5,574 Orlando at Portland, 3 p.m. Romain Langasque, France 65 Houston at Texas, 8:05 p.m. 4. Justin Thomas 5,472 GOLF — LPGA Tour Golf: The Marathon Classic, second Friday, July 19 Also Seattle at L.A. Angels, 9:07 p.m. 5. Matt Kuchar 5,454 Portland at Utah, 10 p.m. Sean Crocker, United States 66 round, Sylvania, Ohio 6. Bryson DeChambeau 5,225 Saturday, July 20 Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Spain 66 NATIONAL LEAGUE 7. Patrick Cantlay 5,002 10 p.m. Houston at Washington, 7 p.m. David Lipsky, United States 67 EAST DIVISION W L PCT GB 8. Gary Woodland 4,884 Sky Blue FC at Orlando, 7:30 p.m. Matthew Fitzpatrick, England 67 Atlanta 54 37 .593 — 9. Rickie Fowler 4,351 NBCSN — The American Century Championship: fi rst Sunday, July 21 Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland 67 Washington 47 42 .528 6 10. Tony Finau 4,344 North Carolina at Chicago, 6 p.m. Eddie Pepperell, England 67 round, Edgewood Tahoe South, Nev. (taped) Philadelphia 47 43 .522 6½ 11. Webb Simpson 4,058 New York 40 50 .444 13½ Padraig Harrington, Ireland 67 Justin Thomas, United States 67 12. Tiger Woods 3,868 Miami 33 55 .375 19½ U.S. OPEN CUP 13. Chez Reavie 3,689 MLB BASEBALL CENTRAL DIVISION W L PCT GB All times Eastern Martin Kaymer, Germany 68 Kurt Kitayama, United States 68 14. Phil Mickelson 3,535 Chicago 47 43 .522 — QUARTERFINALS 15. Kevin Kisner 3,269 2 p.m. Milwaukee 47 44 .516 ½ Wednesday’s Games Julian Suri, United States 68 St. Louis 44 44 .500 2 Atlanta United (MLS) 2, Saint Louis (USLC) 0 Andrew Putnam, United States 69 MLB — Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs Kevin Kisner, United States 70 International Pittsburgh 44 45 .494 2½ Minnesota United (MLS) 6, New Mexico 1. Marc Leishman AUS 159.42 6 p.m. Cincinnati 41 46 .471 4½ United (USLC) 1 Rickie Fowler, United States 71 Jimmy Walker, United States 73 2. Louis Oosthuizen RSA 153.43 MLB — Washington at Philadelphia OR Toronto at NY WEST DIVISION W L PCT GB Orlando City (MLS) 1, New York City 3. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 153.00 Los Angeles 60 32 .652 — (MLS) 1, Orlando City wins 5-4 on penalty UPCOMING TOURNAMENTS 4. Adam Scott AUS 149.17 Yankees (7 p.m.) Arizona 46 45 .505 13½ kicks 5. Haotong Li CHN 124.07 San Diego 45 45 .500 14 Portland (MLS) 1, Los Angeles (MLS) 0 All times Eastern 7 p.m. PGA TOUR 6. C.T. Pan TPE 117.03 Colorado 44 45 .494 14½ 7. Jason Day AUS 116.61 SUN — Tampa Bay at Baltimore San Francisco 41 48 .461 17½ SEMIFINALS JOHN DEERE CLASSIC Site: Silvis, Ill. 8. Jazz Janewattananond THA 111.54 Aug. 7 9. Abraham Ancer MEX 111.45 FS-Florida — NY Mets at Miami Tuesday’s Game Orlando City vs. Atlanta United (MLS), TBA Course: TPC Deere Run. Yardage: 7,268. Par: 71. 10. Cameron Smith AUS 110.58 10 p.m. All-Star Game at Cleveland, Ohio Minnesota United (MLS) vs. Portland (MLS), 11. Justin Harding RSA 102.04 American League 4, National League 3 TBA Purse: $6 million. Winner’s share: $1,080,000. MLB — Atlanta at San Diego OR Chicago White Sox at Television: Today, 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); 12. Shugo Imahira JPN 97.39 Wednesday’s Games 13. Sung Kang KOR 94.05 None scheduled CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday-Sunday, 1-2:45 p.m. (Golf Channel), Oakland 3-6 p.m. (CBS). 14. Sungjae Im KOR 93.39 Thursday’s Games Tuesday, Aug. 27 or Wednesday, Aug. 28 15. Adam Hadwin CAN 83.83 None scheduled Semifi nal winners, TBA Defending champion: Michael Kim. FedEx Cup leader: Matt Kuchar. Today’s Games 2020 RYDER CUP POINTS SOCCER (MEN'S) Pittsburgh (Archer 3-6) at Chicago Cubs Last week: Matthew Wolff won the At Whistling Straits, (Darvish 2-4), 2:20 p.m. 3M Open. 7 p.m. ODDS Kohler, Wis. Washington (Strasburg 10-4) at Philadelphia Notes: A spot in the British Open is available Sept. 25-27, 2020 ESPN — MLS: New England at D.C. United (Pivetta 4-3), 6:05 p.m. to leading player from the top fi ve not Through June 16 L.A. Dodgers (TBD) at Boston (Rodriguez PREGAME.COM LINE already exempt. ... Stewart Cink and Zach UNITED STATES 9-4), 7:10 p.m. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Johnson are among 13 players in the fi eld 1. Brooks Koepka 4,271.292 TENNIS N.Y. Mets (Vargas 3-4) at Miami (TBD), 7:10 Today who will be playing the British Open next 2. Dustin Johnson 3,236.395 p.m. National League week at Royal Portrush. ... Jordan Spieth has 8 a.m. 3. Gary Woodland 2,733.214 San Francisco (Anderson 3-2) at Milwaukee FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE not played the John Deere Classic since he 4. Tiger Woods 2,464.661 (TBD), 8:10 p.m. at Chicago -156 Pittsburgh +146 won in 2015 for the second time. ... Collin ESPN — Wimbledon: N. Djokovic vs. R. Bautista Agut 5. Xander Schauffele 1,688.295 Arizona (TBD) at St. Louis (Wainwright 5-7), Washington -141 at Philadelphia+131 Morikawa, a runner-up in Minnesota last 6. Matt Kuchar 1,287.938 and R. Federer vs. R. Nadal, Gentlemen's Semifi nals, 8:15 p.m. at Miami -107 New York -103 week, is playing on a sponsor exemption. His 7. Patrick Cantlay 1,175.088 Cincinnati (Gray 5-5) at Colorado (TBD), at Milwaukee -174 San Francisco +162 tie for second was enough for him to become London 8. Kevin Kisner 1,116.841 8:40 p.m. at St. Louis -122 Arizona +112 a special temporary member and receive 9. Chez Reavie 824.850 Atlanta (Keuchel 2-2) at San Diego (Lamet at Colorado -116 Cincinnati +106 unlimited sponsor exemption. Matthew 10. Jim Furyk 815.285 0-1), 10:10 p.m. Atlanta -108 at San Diego -102 Wolff, coming off his victory at the 3M Open, WNBA BASKETBALL 11. Webb Simpson 800.018 Saturday’s Games American League and Viktor Hovland also are in the fi eld. ... 12. Jordan Spieth 776.713 8 p.m. Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. at Oakland -178 Chicago +166 Steve Stricker, a three-time winner of the 13. Tony Finau 564.513 N.Y. Mets at Miami, 6:10 p.m. at New York -253 Toronto +223 John Deere, chose to play the Senior Players ESPN2 — Phoenix at Connecticut 14. Rickie Fowler 453.394 Arizona at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m. Tampa Bay -143 at Baltimore +133 Championship at Firestone this week. ... at Cleveland -122 Minnesota +112 15. Brandt Snedeker 433.359 10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Boston, 7:15 p.m. Since his victory last year, Michael Kim has NEXT UPDATE: July 21, The Open San Francisco at Milwaukee, 7:15 p.m. Houston -183 at Texas +168 missed the cut in 22 of his 27 events on the CBSSN — Dallas at Seattle at Kansas City Off Detroit Off Championship Jim Bouton, ex-Yankees pitcher and ‘Ball Four’ author, dies

The Associated Press New York The Yankees lost the career with a 62-63 record Yankees World Series both years, and 3.57 ERA. GREAT BARRINGTON, pitcher Jim with Bouton losing his Bouton was a televi- Mass. — Jim Bouton, the Bouton throws lone start in 1963 in New sion sportscaster in New former New York Yankees in 1967. York’s loss to the Los York City with WABC pitcher who shocked and Bouton, who Angeles Dodgers and win- and WCBS, wrote other angered the conservative shocked the ning twice the following books, appeared in the baseball world with the conservative year in the Yankees’ loss 1973 movie “The Long tell-all book “Ball Four,” baseball to the St. Louis Cardinals. Goodbye” and starred in has died. He was 80. world with Bouton injured his right a 1976 CBS sitcom based Bouton’s family said he the tell-all arm in 1965, going 4-15 on “Ball Four” that lasted died Wednesday at the book “Ball that season, and saw lim- only five episodes. He and Great Barrington home Four,” died ited action the next three a former teammate devel- he shared with wife, Paula Wednesday seasons with New York. oped Big League Chew, a Kurman. He fought a brain at age 80. [AP He worked on “Ball Four” bubble gum alternative to disease linked to demen- PHOTO/FILE] in 1969, a season spent tobacco. tia and was in hospice with the expansion Seattle Born in Newark, New care. Bouton also had two Pilots and Houston Astros, Jersey, Bouton was raised strokes in 2012. his fastball replaced by a in New Jersey and the Published in 1970, “Ball knuckleball as he tried to Chicago area. He pitched Four” detailed Yankees prolong his career. at Western Michigan great Mickey Mantle’s Nicknamed Bulldog, University before signing carousing and the use of reading, but he paid a big secrets. He wasn’t invited with six shutouts in 1963 Bouton also pitched for with the Yankees in 1958. stimulants in the major price for the best-seller to the Yankees’ Old-Tim- — his second season in Houston in 1970. He He made it to the majors in leagues. Bouton’s reveal- when former teammates ers’ Day until 1998. the majors and his only returned to the majors 1962, going 7-7, but didn’t ing look at baseball off and players and executives Throwing so hard that year as an All-Star — with the Atlanta Braves in appear in the Yankees’ the field made for eye- across baseball ostracized his cap often flew off his and went 18-13 with four 1978, going 1-3 at age 39. World Series victory over opening and entertaining him for exposing their head, Bouton was 21-8 more shutouts in 1964. He finished his 10-year the San Francisco Giants. DailyCommercial.com | Friday, July 12, 2019 B3

Dallas faded without LeBron, Pittsburgh FACES and the Panthers have Jerry Jones is the been so-so. The two Ben Roethlisberger From Page B1 George Steinbrenner biggest names in town could be a strong choice, of the NFL. A power- — Dwayne Wade and but off-field issues ful, outspoken, med- Roberto Luongo — both can’t be ignored. That Mookie Betts won an dling owner of one of recently retired. So let’s leaves Sidney Crosby, MVP and a World Series the most iconic brands give Miami a break and who may not finish as last year and he doesn’t in sports. Casual foot- let the city claim Delray high on the NHL scoring come close. For now, ball fans may not be Beach tennis sensation list as once envisioned, and maybe forever, able to pick star run- Cori “CoCo” Gauff. but he’s been a model Tom Brady is the face ning back Ezekiel Elliott citizen and a three-time of Boston sports. Six out of a crowd, but they Milwaukee/Green Stanley Cup champion. Super Bowls and the would recognize Jones. Bay most wins of any quar- Phoenix Milwaukee Brewers’ Christian Yelich hits a solo home terback in NFL history Denver Aaron Rodgers’ star run off Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Tanner Roark will do that for you. has fallen a bit in recent Larry Fitzgerald is a on July 2 in Cincinnati. [AP PHOTO/GARY LANDERS, FILE] Tough call here. Rock- years, but it’s still rarity these days. A star Carolina ies third baseman Nolan hard to beat a Pack- who has remained in a you’re thinking 10 games Arenado is one of the ers quarterback with relatively low-profile MLB ahead and not focusing Good gosh, how did best players in baseball a Super Bowl title. setting for his entire on winning today. For us Carolina even get on and is rapidly building career. The Cardinals From Page B1 with the small deficit or this list? Let’s see, they a Hall of Fame resume. Minneapolis receiver is second in small lead, every game’s have an NFL team. And But the same could be NFL history — to some important so it locks us in they have an NBA team. said for Broncos line- You have to under- guy named Jerry Rice just 4 ½ games, an out- the now.” And an NHL team. backer Von Miller. A stand Minnesota sports — in receiving yards. lier during an otherwise And leaves each team Hmm, I guess they do Super Bowl MVP gives to understand the influ- yawn-inducing first half with some interesting deci- belong. Do you know the nod to Miller. ence of Sid Hartman. San Francisco in which five divisions sions to make as the trade stars in Carolina? We’ll An early executive with reached the All-Star deadline approaches. go with Panthers quar- Detroit the Minneapolis Lakers, Thanks to Kevin break with at least a 5 The resilient Pirates terback Cam Newton. Hartman began work- Durant’s defection, we ½ -game gap between entered the break just 2 ½ Miguel Cabrera’s ing as a sports writer in don’t have to answer the first and second. games behind the Cubs Chicago Triple Crown and back- 1945. And now, 74 years question of whether he There are no front-run- despite having 80 percent to-back MVP awards later, the 99-year-old was more beloved than ners in the NL Central. No of its starting rotation Lots of choices in the will forever earn him Hartman is still writ- Stephen Curry in the bay room to breathe either, spend time on the injured Windy City. Kris Bry- a place in Detroit lore, ing and wielding influ- area. (For the record, something Maddon saw list at some point over the ant was the league MVP but his career has been ence at the Star Tribune he wasn’t.) Giants coming long ago. last three months. All- the year the Cubs won fading for several years. in Minneapolis. catcher Buster Posey “I’ve been talking about Star first baseman Josh the World Series and Now that Steve Yzerman might have some claim this for the last two years Bell’s breakout season has is still in the prime of is back in Hockeytown New York on the title, but Curry how teams are getting helped. So has the impact his career. Khalil Mack USA as the Red Wings is bigger nationally. better in our division,” of rookie outfielder Bryan helped revitalize the general manager and all- Not sure if it says more Maddon said. “It’s not Reynolds and rookie Bears last year. But we’re around savior, we bow to about the town, the Toronto going to go away. It’s going infielder Kevin Newman. going to split our vote his Detroit popularity. sports or the personali- to be really difficult to really “We feel like we’re here between Patrick Kane ties, but it’s beginning This is a basketball separate, especially by for the fight,” Bell said. and Jonathan Toews. Los Angeles to look like 27-year-old town, right? The Blue the fact that everybody is “We’re ready for it. I like They both joined the Yankees slugger Aaron Jays look like they’re catching up right now. The the guys that we have. We Blackhawks as teenag- How big is LeBron Judge has replaced two- heading to an extensive second half is going to be trust ourselves to be cel- ers in 2007, and have James? He’s only been time Super Bowl cham- rebuild and the Maple very similar to what you’ve ebrating at the end of the won three Stanley in Los Angeles for one pion Eli Manning as the Leafs have been stuck seen in the first half.” season.” Cups while becoming forgettable season, biggest star in the sports in neutral for years. So Exactly what the Reds Then again, so does fixtures in Chicago. missed the playoffs, world’s biggest city. let’s hear it for Kawhi had in mind when they everyone else, which is one saw his coach fired, Leonard, even as he retooled over the winter in of the reasons the Central is Cleveland watched Magic Johnson Philadelphia takes his NBA ring and an effort to stop a streak of so competitive. No one is leave the franchise and bolts for the Clippers. four straight 90-loss sea- rebuilding or transitioning Can Cleveland still he’s still the biggest star The City of Brotherly sons. Cincinnati upgraded from one core to the next. claim LeBron James? in town. Bigger than Love is in, shall we say, Washington, D.C. its starting rotation over the “Each of us has our flaws, Because, for all the suc- Clayton Kershaw, big- a transition. The biggest winter, added a dash (OK, but there’s a deep level cess the Indians have ger than Jared Goff. name on the baseball Thanks to owner maybe more than a dash) of of talent in this division, had in recent seasons, team, Bryce Harper, has Daniel Snyder, the Red- swagger when it acquired and you do, you have five neither Francisco Lin- Miami been a disappointment skins haven’t had a true outfielder Yaisel Puig from teams that their ambition dor nor Corey Kluber in his first few months. superstar in years. The the Los Angeles Dodgers is to make the postsea- seems like the answer. These are not good The Eagles quarterback, Nationals just lost Bryce and overcame a shaky 1-8 son,” Pittsburgh general With all the excite- times in Miami. The Carson Wentz, missed Harper and we’re not start to stay within strik- manager Neal Huntington ment building around Dolphins haven’t won a the only two postseasons even sure if the Wizards ing distance in a division in said. “That’s not the case the Browns, the best playoff game since 2000 of his career. Can 76ers are still in the NBA. That which sustained momen- in some of the other divi- answer may be quarter- and the Marlins haven’t center Joel Embiid really leaves hockey beast tum has been nonexistent. sions. That’s not criticism. back Baker Mayfield. had a winning season be the most beloved star Alex Ovechkin and his “We’re in it,” Reds Teams cycle in and cycle since ’09. The Heat in town right now? Stanley Cup memories. second baseman Scooter out. It’s part of the indus- Gennett said. “It’s pretty try. It’s part of the game. close, pretty tight. There’s It’s been part of the game to have lifted her level Strycova would repeat- said, then rolled her eyes plenty of time to make a for decades.” WIMBLEDON considerably. edly flex or shake her legs and added: “It’s a day-to- run.” So have pennant races. Williams was limited to between points or try to day basis with me. We all Maybe, but that will The Central’s figures From Page B1 12 matches in 2019 until last stretch in her sideline know that. I’m far from require one team in the to go right down to the week. After a third-round chair by pulling her right perfect.” Central finding a way to wire as it did a year ago, loss at Roland Garros on foot onto her left knee and Williams has been this get the better of the other when Chicago and Mil- winning nine, including a June 1, she stayed in France rocking her leg. close to adding to her four on a consistent basis. waukee needed a 163rd three-setter at the Austra- for medical treatment and Not an ideal situation. title total before: In 2018, That didn’t happen in the game to determine a lian Open in January. finally felt pain-free while Especially when facing her first season back on first half. Milwaukee is the division winner. The “I respect a lot what she preparing for Wimbledon. Williams if she’s this tour after the birth of her only NL Central team with Brewers emerged and has done and what she’s “Well, if she will play dialed-in. daughter, Olympia, Wil- a winning record within eventually reached the doing,” said Halep, who, like this in the final,” said Williams played cleanly, liams reached the finals at the division (24-18) but National League Cham- like Williams, used to be Strycova, 33, the oldest accumulating nearly Wimbledon and the U.S. has been unable to create pionship Series. The Cubs ranked No. 1. “But now I first-time Grand Slam twice as many winners as Open but lost each time. any separation. had to settle for a wild card feel stronger, mentally, semifinalist in the modern unforced errors, 28-10. That has left her Grand “It doesn’t make me berth. facing her. We will see era, “it’s going to be very She was at her usual Slam total at 23, a record comfortable that we’ve There may not be any what is going to happen. hard for Simona.” court-covering best, which for the professional era been spotty,” Brew- sort of consolation prize It’s just a big challenge for After a three-set strug- helped limit Strycova to 10 that she established when ers manager Craig for the runner-up this time me.” gle against Alison Riske in winners. she won the 2017 Austra- Counsell said. “The divi- around. The four teams For anyone, really, when the quarterfinals Tuesday, “I just need to ... relax lian Open while pregnant sion, we haven’t, nobody running behind Chicago are Williams is at her best. Williams was dominant and do what I can do,” Wil- — but one fewer than has jumped out. Some- as close to the division lead And after an up-and- against Strycova, who liams said, referring again Margaret Court accumu- body will. It almost has to as they are to the second down first half of the year, was limited by a leg muscle to her deep thoughts from lated while playing part of happen that some team wild card, leaving all five due in part to injury and ill- problem that cropped up in the morning. her career against amateur is going to start playing clubs potentially vying for ness, she sure does appear the very first game. “I was calm today,” she competition. really well. Nobody has one postseason spot. dug a hole for themselves, It’s why Maddon — and I think every team feels whose job status is tenuous insufficient evidence. good about that in our divi- at best just three years RECRUITING sion for sure.” removed from leading the The two No. 1s First-place, after all, Cubs to their first World From Page B1 is only a week-long hot Series in more than a cen- Two players will be streak away. Not so much tury — wants his players to wearing the coveted No. 1 in the NL West — where buckle up and block out the entering the NCAA trans- jersey this season — junior the Los Angeles Dodgers noise. fer portal. cornerback CJ Hender- have smashed their way “You have to circle the Edwards posted his son on defense and junior to a 13 ½ - game lead — wagons at some point,” decision to transfer on wide receiver Kadarius or the NL East — where Maddon said. “Because Twitter. Toney on offense. Atlanta’s young core has today’s world, the way the With Edwards moving UF revealed that with given the Braves a healthy speed of information and on, the Gators will have the release of a new roster six-game cushion over the way it’s generated and only seven scholarship for the 2019 season this Washington. the vitriol that’s carried cornerbacks on the roster week. “You can slow it way with it and the promotion for the start of preseason Here are some of the down knowing that we’re of vitriol, you’ve got to get camp later this month, numbers that have been only a few games back,” beyond that at some point including two true fresh- Lakeland High School senior Deyavie Hammond smiles assigned to the true Cardinals infielder Paul and you have to insulate men who just recently after choosing the Florida Gators hat during an interview freshmen who enrolled deJong said. “Today’s yourself.” arrived on campus — on ESPN during a college signing event on Dec. 19, 2018, in summer B last week important, so we’re focus- And are they circled in Kaiir Elam and Chester at Lakeland High School. Hammond has announced that — Elam (No. 5), running ing on today. We’re not Chicago? Kimbrough. he did not qualify academically and will be attending back Nay’Quan Wright thinking, ‘Oh, we’re 7 ½ “They’re circled,” Edwards, who is from a junior college for the next two years. [ERNST PETERS/ (No. 6), tight end Keon back and we’ve got to win Maddon said with a smile. Miramar, played in 18 GATEHOUSE FLORIDA] Zipperer (No. 9), Kim- 10 in a row.’ All of a sudden “Circled.” games over the past two brough (No. 25), defensive seasons with zero starts. past two years,” Edwards being at the University of tackle Jalen Humphries Last season, he recorded posted. “Unfortunately, I Florida I have had some (No. 66), defensive end seven tackles, four pass will be entering the trans- ups and downs but I will Khris Bogle (No. 97) and break-ups, one quar- fer portal and looking to forever cherish my time defensive end Lloyd Sum- terback hurry and one further my education and here as a gator.” merall III (No. 99). fumble recovery. He athletic ability elsewhere. In May, Edwards In one other roster played mostly on special “This was a very tough was charged with mis- note, preferred walk-on teams as a true freshman decision for me. I have demeanor battery for quarterback Luke Mat- in 2017. built great relationships, holding his girlfriend thews will be wearing the “First I want to say impacted others, and against her will by same number his All-SEC thank you to the Univer- grown so much through- grabbing her neck. The quarterback dad Shane sity of Florida for all they out my time attending charge was dropped Matthews wore for the have done for me for the the University. My time two weeks ago due to Gators — No. 9. B4 Friday, July 12, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com DIVERSIONS DailyCommercial.com | Friday, July 12, 2019 B5

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Had partner bid and finding out that her better, but she hasn’t. bra, and his belly looks because the answer to 4. ♦ 7 V QJ7 ♦ AKQ95 ♦ AK83 one spade, two clubs or supported husband had molested Abby, she’s been nine months pregnant. your question lies within * * * diamonds, the value of your hand her teenage daughter through so much, I’m re- Problem is, he wears yourself. 1. Two diamonds. The choice is would have improved significantly, and other girls as well. It luctant to add to her trau- running shorts around between bidding two and three dia­ but after a one-heart response, you has been enough to drive ma by letting her go, but I the house and no shirt. Dear Abby is written by monds, and neither one is fully accu­ have nothing to get excited about. anyone over the edge of feel I’m being backed into Everything hangs out Abigail Van Buren, also rate. Two diamonds is an underbid; One spade — rather than rebidding emotional stability, and a corner here. Is there a regardless of whether known as Jeanne Phillips, three diamonds is an overbid. your diamonds — is chosen for two she has been noticeably solution I’m not seeing we’re alone or have family and was founded by her If partner’s response had been one reasons: It is an open-ended bid that struggling. or something I can say visiting. It’s embarrassing. mother, Pauline Phillips. spade or two clubs, either of which can show up to 18 points, and it also Sara has seen a doctor that will help resolve this When I ask him to dress Contact Dear Abby at would elevate the value of your caters to the possibility that partner and is seeing a therapist without having to let her or at least put on a shirt, www.DearAbby.com or hand, a three-diamond rebid would may have four spades. Rebidding for this, but she’s still go? There isn’t any work he says it’s his home, he P.O. Box 69440, Los Ange- be in order. But with the one-heart diamonds would deny possession of having a difficult time. currently available that can dress any way he les, CA 90069. response, your hand depreciates in four spades, and you could miss a These things don’t heal doesn’t require customer wants, and if someone value, and game possibilities are game (or slam) in spades by failing overnight. I understand interaction, or else I’d ask disapproves, they can To receive a collection remote unless partner can voluntarily to mention them at this point. that. her to do that.-- BAD FOR leave. That’s exactly what continue over two diamonds. 4. Three clubs. Not onlymust a BUSINESS of Abby’s most memora- Brick-and-mortar I am ready to do. I am ble -- and most frequently If partner does bid again, some game be reached, but slam possibili­ retail pretty much runs DEAR B.F.B.: You are a disgusted seeing him constructive move should then be ties must be explored, and the inves­ on presenting a cheerful caring employer -- more look like this. Also, when requested -- poems and made to show you are at the top of tigation is initiated by a jump-shift in face, happily engaging than most would be, con- we are alone, he tends to essays, send your name your previous rebid. clubs (forcing to game). with customers and sidering the shape that skinny dip in our swim- and mailing address, plus 2. Four hearts. This is the type of You intend to support hearts on the answering their questions retail is in these days. Talk ming pool. check or money order for hand with which some players might next round to complete the picture of -- something Sara has to Sara again. Explain that I’m afraid our 18-year bid onlythree hearts, thinking it is a your high-card values and distribu­ you are receiving com- $8 (U.S. funds) to: Dear been emotionally unable marriage is over. For the Abby -- Keepers Booklet, forcing bid. But the fact is that three tion. Once partner hears you support to do. Customers have plaints from customers last five years we have hearts is only a strong invitation to hearts, he will be able to evaluate his begun complaining to and what they have been lived like roommates P.O. Box 447, Mount continue bidding. If responder has honor cards more accurately and me about her moodiness saying. Give her another with separate bedrooms. Morris, IL 61054-0447. only six or seven points, he is not decide how high to go. In deciding and saying she has been chance to improve. If one Do you agree I should Shipping and handling required to bid over three hearts. his next move, he should regard any ignoring them. I’ve talked of your other employees leave? 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