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A1 WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 20 & 21, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Gilchrist deputies Saturday Westside festival The Westside Elementary slain in restaurant School PTO is sponso- rong its first ever Westside Were shot through Elementary Community front window while Spring Festival on Saturday. eating lunch. The Menestrelli Circus Dog Show is coming from Orlando to perform at the By COREY ARWOOD event and there will be laser [email protected] tag battles from Tropical Extremes of Naples. The Two Gilchrist County Menestrellis are set to per- Sheriff’s Deputies were form at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 eating a late lunch at a p.m., she said. (See more on Chinese restaurant in Page 2A.) Trenton when a Revolutionary War gunman The Edward Rutledge walked to Chapter, Daughters of the the win- American Revolution, will dow, shot conduct a memorial and and killed historical program at Price them Ramirez Creek Cemetery honoring both, then Private Theophilus Weeks, returned a soldier of the American to his Revolution, at 11 a.m. on vehicle Saturday. Theophilus Weeks and shot is the only soldier of the himself American Revolution docu- around mented buried in Columbia 3 p.m. County. The ceremony is Lindsey Thursday, being held in conjunction sources at the scene said. with the annual reunion of Dead are Sgt. Noel the Markham/Marcum fami- Ramirez and Deputy ly, many of whom are descen- Taylor Lindsey. dants of Private Weeks. The The shooter was identi- family reunion will be at the fied late Thursday as John Mason City Community Hubert Highnote, 59, of Center immediately following Bell. He is also dead. Photos by COREY ARWOOD/Lake City Reporter the DAR ceremony. Contact No further information Scarlet Parnell Frisina at 386- on Highnote was available 365-0687 for more. Thursday. TOP, LEFT: Mobile Behind the crime scene crime scene inves- Diabetes benefit tape, two bullet holes could tigation units were A car wash at Home2 be seen in the window of parked outside Ace Suites by Hilton will benefit Ace China Restaurant. China Restaurant in the Florida Diabetes Camp Parked along the side Trenton where gun- to help children learn how of the building with a tarp man John Hubert to manage their illness. The over its driver side and a Highnote, 59, report- car wash takes place on shattered driver side win- edly shot Gilchrist Saturday starting at 10 a.m. dow sat an older model County Sheriff’s dep- white Jeep. uties Sergeant Noel Family reunion “As fellow deputies Ramirez, 29, and Descendants of William responded to the scene, Deputy Sheriff Taylor Joseph & Harriet Green they found the shoot- Lindsey, 25. Bullet Owens will hold their 53rd er deceased outside the holes can be seen in family reunion on Sunday, business,” an initial press the windows of the April 22, 2018 at the Mason release from the Alachua restaurant between City Community Center, US County Sheriff’s Office the truck and the pole 41 South of Lake City. A stated. to its right. BELOW covered dish lunch will be Witnesses said the LEFT: In all there were shared at 1:00 PM. All friends shooter’s body was still two bullet holes in and relatives are invited to in the vehicle around 7 the window of the attend. Memories made, p.m., believed dead from restaurant where the memories remembered and a self-inflicted gunshot deputies were eating, lots of good things to eat. wound. as seen here illumi- Don’t forget to bring pho- One bullet hole was nated by the lights tos to share. For more, call visible in the driver side of surrounding law Danny Owens at 752-8497 or window. enforcement vehicles Dee Wolford at 752-4272. “The only thing these Thursday night. men were guilty of was Sunday DEPUTIES continued on 5A Pulitzer winner speaks The Friends of the Library present Nature’s Dozen: How Key Natural Events Shaped the History of Florida, present- ed by University of Florida City narrows manager field to 13 — for now environmental historian Dr. Jack Davis, at 2:00 p.m. Mayor: Lower- and other necessary pre- cants that applied for the Instead they unani- plan to have two days of Sunday at the Main Library. liminary requirements as job could still be consid- mously adopted a time- interviews during the week Davis, who won the 2018 ranked candidates they consider choosing the ered for the position. line for Michele Greene, of June 4-8. The candidates Pulitzer Prize in history for his are still eligible. next city manager from When he asked whether City Human Resources that will be interviewed book The Gulf: the Making their aggregate list of the the council wanted to add Director, to contact the will be announced May 9, of an American Sea, will look By TONY BRITT 13th highest ranked can- any other candidates for a applicants, verify they’re according to the suggested at Florida’s history from the [email protected] didates. background check during still interested in the posi- timeline. pre-Spanish period to the pres- However, Mayor a special city council meet- tion and verify the educa- The candidates that will ent day through the lens of The City Council has Stephen Witt said that list ing Thursday night, coun- tion and employment histo- be considered are: Joseph nature and discuss how nature decided to move forward will not bind the council cil members did not sug- ries on their resumes. has shaped human events in with background checks and any one of the 54 appli- gest any names. City council members CITY continued on 6A our beautiful state. Vol. 143, No. 275 CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER Obituaries . 3A (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A SUBSCRIBE TO Faith & Values . 5-6A FAITH AND VALUES THE REPORTER: 74 52 TV guide . 2B Heaven or hell? It’s your choice, 7A. Voice: 755-5445 Partly cloudy, 2A Fax: 752-9400 Advice & Comics . 3-4B 2A FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2018 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER QUICK HITS BOCC cool to opioid lawsuit Scripture of the Day By CARL MCKINNEY between 10 and 25 percent of an offense investigated die from the drugs each [email protected] of the settlement or dam- by regulatory authorities, day. Commissioner Everett “A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a ages. Romano said. Phillips asked if anyone in just weight is his delight.” Pharmacies are off-limits A single court in But the big fish would Columbia County has ever — Proverbs 11:1 (KJV) if Columbia County decides Cleveland is handling hun- be the manufacturers and overdosed on an opioid. to file a lawsuit over the dreds of federal lawsuits, distributors. Bishop said that will have money it spent combating and an influx of state-lev- Commissioner Rusty to be researched if the Thought for Today the opioid crisis, multiple el litigation is probably DePratter expressed con- county chooses to go for- county commissioners said coming down the pipeline, cern that the litigation ward with the lawsuit. Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. Thursday evening. Smith said. would indirectly affect local Phillips responded. — Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, English poet Rod Smith of the Avera & “The question is, are businesses. “You’re here to get Smith law firm, part of a larg- you going to be on board?” “You don’t think this’ll money from somebody er coalition seeking to get Smith asked commission- trickle back down to them?” in Columbia County and local governments across ers. DePratter asked. you don’t know if anybody Winning Lottery Numbers the East Coast to pursue Commissioner Ron Romano said it’s possi- has overdosed or not?” he Pick 3: (Wednesday p.m.) 3-1-8 litigation over the opioid cri- Williams asked if the coun- ble a local pharmacy could asked. Pick 4: (Wednesday p.m.) 7-1-2-0 sis, made a case for why the ty can just target manu- be indirectly affected, but Williams said he under- Fantasy 5: (Wednesday) 6-9-10-30-31 County Commission should facturers and distributors, he’s never heard of such an stands the opioid crisis and sue drug manufacturers, leaving local pharmacists occurrence. agrees that drug manufac- distributors and local “pill and doctors out of it. DePratter said he won’t turers and distributors have Correction mill” doctors to recover “Why don’t you just go vote for a plan to sue local misled the public and doc- A story on Page 2A of Sunday’s paper wrongly attributed what taxpayers spent on law directly at them?” Williams pharmacies. tors about the dangers of investigation of a robbery to the sheri’s oce. The Lake enforcement, health care, asked. “I don’t think that’s fair,” the drugs. City Police Department actually investigated the incident court costs and any other The county needs to he said. “… We’re a small “There is a need to pun- and made the arrest. We regret the error. expenses. name at least one local “bad community here, I think I ish those that have done “It’s a national problem, actor” if it wants to take the know half the pharmacists that in Columbia County,” it’s a state problem, it’s a case before a local judge in town.” he said. local problem,” Smith said. and jury, which would be The commission has But Williams said local Submissions The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption Smith addressed con- advantageous, Eric Romano the final say in who would pharmacies and law-abiding information to run at the discretion of the editor.