SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.50 Lake City Reporter SUNDAY EDITION LAKECITYREPORTER.COM EDITORIAL Coming up short on voter 1B fraud case COLUMN A true Giant Step Citizen Soldier for Life 5K Tigers take down What it means Lake City man out to make Pregnancy Care Center to be ‘military- WWII movie on unheralded annual fundraiser draws friendly’ heroics. dozens of Englewood 58-0 1D walkers 6A 4A Principal Voter fraud case Fike out at Melrose; no reason to end in apology reported Prosecution deferred for 2 local women Will be offered Jefferson to send deferred prosecutions in their she allegedly falsified or stole position as teacher voter fraud cases and will only during the 2010 District 10 at different school. letter of regret to have to meet certain minimal Lake City city council prima- alleged victims. requirements, which include ry, won easily by her husband By SARAH LOFTUS refraining from work on polit- Eugene Jefferson. Ivery Jefferson [email protected] By TONY BRITT ical campaigns for 30 months, The deal does not exonerate [email protected] to escape criminal punishment. the women. Cervone and the women and Laurie Ann Fike, who had been In addition, Jefferson will have The document signed by their attorneys lists the charges the Melrose Park Elementary Betty Wilson Jefferson and to write a letter of apology to Eighth Judicial Circuit State School principal since the begin- Linda Jean Ivery received the individuals whose ballots Attorney William “Bill” P. APOLOGY continued on 7A ning of 2012, was removed from that position on Tuesday for unknown reasons. Supt. Terry Huddleston said he didn’t have any comment about why she was GUESS WHO What’s next? KISSED THE PIG? removed The school board will but did vote to make assistant say it has principal Stacey Frakes nothing interim principal at to do with Oct. 14 meeting. students or previ- ous incidents that have occurred in the district. “It’s just a decision we had to make,” he said. On Tuesday, she was told she was being removed as principal and was placed on paid administrative leave because that’s all the dis- trict can do without school board approval, Huddleston said. Stacey Frakes, who is the assis- tant principal at Melrose Park, acted as interim principal on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Huddleston said. The school board will vote to make her interim principal at Oct. 14’s school board meeting, he said. Photos by SARAH LOFTUS/Lake City Reporter The five candidates for Kiss the Pig at Westside Elementary School’s fall festival anxiously wait to find out who will have to kiss the pig on Huddleston said she might Saturday. Students had been telling Principal April Vinson all week that they voted for her to kiss the pig. Their wishes came true but so did those become principal and that he’s of other students because there was a three-way tie. See story, more photos in’s Tuesday Lake City Reporter. not looking outside the district for someone to fill the principal or assistant principal position. “She’ll (Frakes) be able to lead the school just fine,” he said. Fike was an elementary school teacher in Columbia County for almost 30 years before becoming principal at Melrose and now will be offered a teaching position at another elementary school in the Principal April Vinson Assistant Principal Janice Cam Tutor Ralph Rowand FIKE continued on 7A District has no say in child’s stay at Carlton Palms Placement is up to MORE INSIDE child’s parents, APD n Where the toughest spokeswoman says. cases go. By SARAH LOFTUS director, said that since the dis- [email protected] trict only pays for the educational portion of the student’s stay at It appears that the Columbia Carlton Palms, even if the board County school district has no COURTESY doesn’t approve the contract, she say in whether a local student Carlton Palms Education Center is located in Mt. Dora. thinks the student would proba- at Carlton Palms Educational bly still remain at the facility. Center in Mt. Dora stays there. the facility for people with devel- notified the district on Tuesday to Carlton Palms for the educa- The rest of the cost of the child’s A Department of Children opmental and intellectual disabil- about DCF’s findings, the district tional part of the local student’s stay at Carlton Palms is paid for by and Families investigation deter- ities in July 2013 was medical pulled a contract renewal from stay at the facility. the state Agency for Persons with mined this month that the cause neglect. Tuesday night’s school board Robin Talley, the district of death for a 14-year-old girl at After the Lake City Reporter agenda that would pay $19,771.49 Exceptional Student Education CARLTON continued on 7A Vol. 140, No. 169 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER LOCAL (386) 752-1293 Business . 1C SPORTS Obituaries . 5A JROTC present Softball coach SUBSCRIBE TO colors at football THE REPORTER: 85 68 Advice & Comics . 3D steps down, 1B. Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 2B game, 2A. Fax: 752-9400 Storm chance, 8A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2014 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 Scripture of the Day “Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the king- dom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 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PowerBall: (Wednesday) 7-14-21-24-41-26-x4 AROUND FLORIDA Cop: Man refused to move for helicopter landing DAYTONA BEACH looking for a driver they say killed Authorities say the woman is first-degree murder in the fatal Speed trap town central Florida man a 42-year-old man as he was walk- in custody. It’s unclear if they shooting of 17-year-old Jordan has been arrested after ing along a Lakeland road. were married or what the argu- Davis. Dunn was convicted of may lose police force A deputies say he refused Polk County Sheriff’s detec- ment was about. No other details attempted second-degree mur- WALDO — A tiny north to move his car so a helicopter tives say Donald Bryan Branch were released. der in February but that jury Florida town known as a speed could land and transport a victim was walking early Friday morn- deadlocked on the first-degree trap may lose its police depart- to the hospital following a seri- ing when he was struck and Juror dismissed in murder count. ment. ous car crash. killed. Authorities say the sus- loud music case Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Volusia County officials pect left the scene without help- 6 arrests over potent Darnell said her office will not say 26-year-old Tessa George ing the victim. JACKSONVILLE — A juror cannabis wax extend a contract with the town lost control over her vehicle Authorities say the suspect’s has been dismissed in the mur- of Waldo to provide a temporary Thursday and struck a tree. vehicle is a GM truck or SUV. der trial of a man accused of MULBERRY — Authorities police commander. Deputies called for a helicopter to The passenger side mirror was shooting a teenager during an have arrested six Florida resi- Waldo is one of only two U.S. airlift George to the hospital and completely removed and there argument over loud music out- dents they say used butane gas towns officially labeled “traffic blocked off traffic for the landing. may also be damage to the pas- side a convenience store. to extract THC from marijuana traps” by AAA. But authorities say James senger side of the vehicle. Saturday’s dismissal comes to create a potent cannabis wax. Two Waldo police chiefs Allen, a 52-year-old physician’s after an online column by Polk County Sheriff’s detec- resigned after state investiga- assistant, refused to move his Woman arrested Jacksonville alternative Folio tives charged the Mulberry resi- tions were launched into illegal car. The Daytona Beach News- after shooting Weekly that quoted a former dents with multiple drug offens- activities including speeding Journal reports he was charged prospective juror who was dis- es Friday following an undercov- ticket quotas. with failure to obey police/fire WEST PALM BEACH — missed because he had previ- er investigation. Authorities say City officials have said Waldo department and resisting an Authorities are questioning an ously written for publication. He the suspects used butane gas has a speeding problem, and officer without violence.