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1A WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM CCSO: Couple beat child with paint stick Illegal steroids, growth paint stir stick. reports said a childcare in “time-out,” continuing to open the room Authorities also are seeking an arrest worker noticed red- door and for lying about opening the door. hormone found in home warrant for the child’s mother. ness and bruising on The woman said she and her live-in boy- bring additional felonies. Jonathan Leonel Mesa, 23, 295 NW the child’s buttocks and friend, Mesa, were the ones who spanked Commons Loop, was arrested Saturday legs and reported it to a the child, according to the report. By TONY BRITT night and charged with a nonmoving traf- deputy. The deputy called officials at the [email protected] fic violation, cruelty toward a child, deliv- The child’s mother Department of Children and Families, ery/distribution of drugs, and possession Mesa told the childcare atten- who sent out an emergency report. A Lake City man in possession of illegal of drugs in connection with the case. He dant that the 3-year-old Initially the deputy was unable to find steroids was arrested and charged for was booked into the Columbia County received 30 spankings the suspects but found the woman’s car at repeatedly spanking his girlfriend’s 3-year- Detention Facility on $26,000 bond. during the course of about 45 minutes the old child multiple times with a wooden Columbia County Sheriff’s Office night before for not sitting while she was ABUSE continued on 6A Shouldering a need Bill Haley Haley, great community leader, dies Local attorney called ‘brilliant,’ tireless advocate for Columbia County. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Dawn Perry organizes backpacks full of school supplies while preparing for the Columbia County Recreation Department’s By LAURA HAMPSON 2012 Back to School Book Bag Bash, which will be held at the Richardson Community center from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. [email protected] There will be enough backpacks for 300 elementary students and 100 middle and high school students. Friends and co-workers will remember Bill Haley as a tireless community advocate and a well-versed leader. Backpack program helps students William James Haley, a longtime Lake City attorney, died Monday night following a Organizers pack Department’s 2012 Back Community Center, Annie served basis. The elemen- lengthy illness. He was 77. to School Book Bag Bash Mattox Park North, Jazzy tary bags contain: paper, A member of the firm of Brannon, Brown, 400 for use in will take place from 8 a.m. Cuts and United Way Best two folders, two pencils, Haley & Bullock, P.A., Haley was elected to local schools. to noon Saturday at the Neighborhoods program. crayons, two erasers, a two terms as Columbia County attorney and Richardson Community Dana Huggins, Columbia ruler, glue stick and scis- served as the Lake City Board of Realtors By TONY BRITT Center, 255 NE Coach School District homeless sors. The bags for second- attorney for nearly 40 years. Most recently, [email protected] Anders Lane. liaison, said event orga- ary students contain: paper, he served as 2011 Lake City-Columbia Columbia School Board nizers will give away 400 three folders, two pencils, County Chamber of Commerce president. Several community orga- chairman Steve Nelson back packs that have been two ink pens, a highlighter Dan Gherna, Lake City Board of Realtors nizations have partnered is scheduled to make the packed with various school and a composition book. president, said Haley “used to say he was with county and school opening remarks during supplies — 300 elementary “The purpose of the event just a country lawyer, but he was well-read board officials to provide Saturday’s event. bags and 100 high/middle is to get school tools to the and well-traveled.” school supplies, backpacks The event is sponsored school bags during the children who are needy “He was a community leader. He was bril- and information about the by the Columbia County event. Children must be and their families don’t liant,” Gherna said. upcoming school year to Commissioners and the accompanied by an adult to have the opportunity to Gherna said Haley was a good friend. “We local parents and children. county recreation depart- get the supplies. purchase them,” Huggins had a good time together,” Gherna said. The 2012 Columbia ment, Columbia School The bags will be distrib- Haley gave his time and expertise to County Recreation District, Richardson uted on a first-come, first- BASH continued on 6A everyone, without expecting anything in return, Gherna said. “He was a tireless volunteer who abso- lutely loved Lake City and Columbia County. He did everything in his power to make this Wreck claims one, injures five a better place to live,” Gherna said. Haley had been battling Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) for about three years, Truck, van collide Townsend was a passenger Gherna said. MDS is a group of disorders in a 2001 Ford Windstar van, caused by poorly formed or dysfunctional near intersection of driven by George L. Rock, 84, blood cells. SR 247, CR 252B. of Lake City. Rock was driving Recently, Haley developed a fungus in his south on State Road 247 in the lungs that spread due to a chemotherapy- By LAURA HAMPSON left turn lane and approaching weakened immunity, Gherna said. He passed [email protected] the intersection at about 5 p.m., away at North Florida Regional Medical according to the report. Center in Gainesville. One person died and five Rock attempted to make Haley was born in Haley, Minn., to the late others were injured Monday a left turn onto Southwest James William and Julia Stonich Haley. His night in a two-vehicle crash at Callahan Avenue in front of family moved to Tomahawk, Wis. where he State Road 247 and Southwest a 2005 Chevrolet truck travel- graduated high school. He earned his bache- Callahan Avenue in Lake City. ing north, driven by Steven C. lors degree from the University of Wisconsin Julie Anna Townsend, 62, Ruise, 40, of Macclenny, the and his law degree from Washington & Lee of Lebanon, Va., died Monday report said. University in Virginia. at Lake City Medical Center, The left front of Rock’s van JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter according to a Florida Highway Emergency crews work on a man involved in a two-vehicle HALEY continued on 6A Patrol report. WRECK continued on 6A wreck Monday at Highway 247 and County Road 252B. Vol. 138, No. 140 CALL US: Opinion ............... 4A (386) 752-1293 TODAY IN COMING 91 74 People................. 2A THURSDAY SUBSCRIBE TO T-Storm Chance Obituaries ............. 5A PEOPLE THE REPORTER: Advice & Comics ......... 4B Big concert Early voting enters Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles ................. 2B the home stretch. Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A for charity. 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