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A4 + PLUS >> Should Southern Baptist women be preachers? Faith & Values/6A SOCCER SPORTS US faces off CHS hoops with France camp coming See Page 1B See Page 1B WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JUNE 28 & 29, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM New automotive technology program at FGC promises FILE ROADS to be a real career Joseph Corrao and Pinky. builder for the 21st century Alleged Saturday SCHOLARS flamingo Farm Share The Lake City Police killer dies Department is partnering with Farm Share to provide fresh and nutritious fruits in crash and vegetables to commu- nities throughout Florida. Former LC resident This food distribution pro- was set to go on trial gram is open to everyone. when run over, killed. Distribution begins prompt- ly at 8 a.m.Vehicles should By CARL MCKINNEY enter on NW Alachua [email protected] Avenue beginning at NW Madison Street. The line A beloved dancing fla- will continue along NW mingo from Busch Gardens Alachua Avenue and turn at suffered a brutal death NW Washington Street. nearly three years ago, and a similar fate has now befall- Jazz concert en the animal’s accused The Greater Lake City killer, a former Lake City Community Development resident. Corp. and Super 8 of Lake Joseph Anthony Corrao, City are sponsoring “A 48, died after being struck Casual Evening of Jazz,” by a pickup truck while featuring Saxophone Jazz crossing a road near his Man Mr. Pierre Kendrick of Orlando home June 5, Jacksonville, on Saturday, Photos by CARL MCKINNEY/Lake City Reporter according to the Florida starting at 7 p.m. at the FGC President Lawrence Barrett (center left) and Larry Morgan of Morgan Automotive Group, cut Highway Patrol. Winfield Community the ribbon on the college’s automotive technology program Thursday afternoon. BELOW: State Center, 1234 NW Winfield Rep. Chuck Brannan (left), who took office last fall, and Garrett Timberlake, 19, who is poised to be PINKY continued on 2A Street. Kountry Korner part of the first wave of students enrolled in the program, which is set to start this fall. will provide the catering. Tickets are $25. Thousands of job openings await CRC matter Hearthstone Gardens Hearthstone Gardens, By CARL MCKINNEY and who-knows-how- [email protected] much in labor, he no emergency, 3300 134th Place in said. Wellborn, presents “Molly More than a year “I think it’s a per- says attorney the Monarch Butterfly ago, Florida Gateway fect storm,” Barrett Puppet,” an interactive, edu- College asked the said. “And our By CARL MCKINNEY cational program for chil- state for three-quar- expectation is we’re [email protected] dren 8 and under. The cost ters of a going to be one of MORE million is $5 the leaders in auto- After an appointee to the INSIDE dollars to n Perfect motive technology county’s charter review jumpstart programs in the state Kids art class storm at an auto- board said he never asked The Friends of the FGC, 4A. of Florida.” to be nomi- motive The donations Columbia County Public But wants nated and technology program included a realign- library invite children ages to see board has no desire that would fill a large ment rack, a truck, codify its 8-13 to attend the free industry need in the tools and in-kind to serve, “the ‘traditional acrylic painting/pour art region and country. to high-paying, in-demand jobs, design work. question has methods.’ class taught by Jeanne Van The money never came, so FGC Barrett said.The school will offer A private individual donated a arisen about Arsdall, Saturday from 1 to built the program anyway — one-year and two-year versions of car to the program as well. whether 4 p.m. at the Main Branch of with help from private sector the program. Nationwide, there are 76,000 this situation constitutes partners and minimal investment the Columbia County Public The college invested little openings for automotive tech- an emergency,” County from taxpayers, said college more than $100,000 to fix up a Library, 308 NW Columbia nicians. In Florida alone, there Attorney Joel Foreman President Lawrence Barrett. building for the program, Barrett Ave., Lake City. This is part are nearly 1,300 unfilled jobs in wrote in an email Thursday. When fall semester rolls said. the industry — more than 100 of our continuing series “A around, FGC is expecting an Companies such as the “I am not of the opin- Universe of Art.” Please just between Gainesville and ion that it does,” Foreman at-capacity class of 24 students Morgan Automotive Group, Jacksonville. wear clothes that can get to be enrolled in the program, which owns several dealerships wrote. which will provide the area with in Lake City, contributed about WEEKEND continued on 2A a desperately needed pipeline $340,000 worth of equipment FGC continued on 3A FOREMAN continued on 2A Vol. 145, No. 76 CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER Obituaries . 3A (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A FAITH AND VALUES SUBSCRIBE TO Faith & Values . 5-6A THE REPORTER: 90 71 Advice & Comics . 3-4B Jerry Falwell Jr.’s name-calling, 5A Voice: 755-5445 Partly cloudy, 2A Fax: 752-9400 GW HUNTER 1130 WEST US 90 386-752-5890 VISIT YOUR LOCAL CHEVRON STATION 2A FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER FOREMAN Continued From 1A QUICK HITS The County Commission’s appoint- Scripture of the Day ments to the charter review board take effect June 30, but one of the “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and 15 nominees, Ozell Graham, said he whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” didn’t know he had been included — Matthew 16:25 (KJV) on the list and doesn’t want the seat. Commissioners’ next regularly sched- uled meeting isn’t until July 18, raising Thought for Today concerns about whether there’s time Common sense is genius dressed in its working to fill the vacancy without a specially clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, called meeting. U.S. writer However, state law gives the county 30 days from the date a seat is vacat- ed to name a replacement, Foreman Winning Lottery Numbers wrote. Pick 3: (Wednesday p.m.) 1-2-8 Graham needs to submit a resigna- Pick 4: (Wednesday p.m.) 2-9-7-9 tion, Foreman said Wednesday. Fantasy 5: (Wednesday) 5-7-14-27-32 Foreman had not seen a resignation from Graham as of Thursday after- noon. In his email to county officials See an error? and local media, Foreman wrote that The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news he was attempting to figure out wheth- items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, er Graham might have hand-delivered please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will a resignation or sent one by mail. run in this space. Thanks for reading. Graham was nominated by County Commissioner Ron Williams. Williams didn’t speak to him before Submissions making the nomination, Graham said The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption Wednesday. information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you would like to see your organization in the newspaper, send After Graham made clear his inten- the picture and information to Michael Philips at mphilips@ tion not to take the seat, there have lakecityreporter.com. been “reasonable questions” about the process for finding a replacement, Foreman wrote in the Thursday email. “I have adopted the Board’s consen- Lake City Reporter FILE sus as it was announced to me when HOW TO REACH US BUSINESS ........... 754-0419 I suggested alternatives for appoint- Main number ....... (386) 752-1293 Pinky the dancing Flamingo. Fax number ............ 752-9400 CIRCULATION ing members. I was told that cus- Circulation............. 755-5445 Home delivery of the Lake City Reporter end, according to a police report. tom called for each commissioner to Online .... www.lakecityreporter.com should be completed by 6:30 a.m. Pinky was known to dance for nominate three and then those three The Lake City Reporter, an affiliate Tuesday through Friday, and by 7:30 PINKY of Community Newspapers Inc., is a.m. on Sunday. guests, which was not a trained seats would hold as nominated by that Continued From 1A published Tuesday through Friday and Please call 386-755-5445 to report any behavior – she just enjoyed doing district,” Foreman wrote. “Alternates Sunday at 180 E. Duval St., Lake City, problems with your delivery service. FL 32055. Periodical postage paid at Corrao had lived in Lake City it, her keepers said in 2016. were appointed under the resolution Lake City, FL, Member Audit Bureau of In Columbia County, customers should until 2014, when he was impris- Prosecutors dropped the in the same fashion, such that each Circulation and The Associated Press. call before 10:30 a.m. to report a service error for same day re-delivery. oned for aggravated assault on a charges following Corrao’s death. district has a single alternate who All material herein is property of the Lake City Reporter. Reproduction in After 10:30 a.m., next day re-delivery senior citizen. He was weeks away According to an FHP report, moves onto the commission if some- whole or in part is forbidden without or service related credits will be issued. the permission of the publisher. In all other counties where home delivery from trial in an animal cruelty Corrao walked north onto State one within that district resigns.” U.S. Postal Service No. 310-880. is available, next day re-delivery or case stemming from the death of Road 50.