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HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN Thursday, February 6, 2020 VOL. 101 | NO. 037 | $1.00 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 An Edition Of The Sun Not Guilty: Split Senate acquits Trump of impeachment By LISA MASCARO and MARY tumultuous 2020 race for votes would have been unrelenting partisan CLARE JALONICK the White House. needed to reach the divide three years into the ASSOCIATED PRESS A majority of sena- Constitution’s bar of high Trump presidency. tors expressed unease crimes and misdemean- What started as Trump’s WASHINGTON (AP) — with Trump’s pressure ors to convict and remove request for Ukraine to “do President Donald Trump campaign on Ukraine Trump from office. us a favor” spun into a won impeachment ac- that resulted in the two The outcome far-reaching, 28,000-page quittal Wednesday in the articles of impeachment. Wednesday followed report compiled by House U.S. Senate, bringing to a But the final tallies — 52- months of remarkable investigators accusing an SENATE TELEVISION VIA AP close only the third pres- 48 favoring acquittal of impeachment proceed- American president of idential trial in American abuse of power, 53-47 of ings, from Speaker Nancy engaging in shadow di- In this image from video, Chief Justice of the United States John history with votes that obstruction of Congress’ Pelosi’s House to Mitch plomacy that threatened Roberts arrives for the vote in the impeachment trial against split the country, tested investigation — fell far McConnell’s Senate, President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in civic norms and fed the short. Two-thirds “guilty” reflecting the nation’s TRUMP | 4A Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Schrader accepts AP city manager position By MARC VALERO STAFF WRITER KIM MOODY/STAFF AVON PARK — Mark The Highlands County Fair opens at Schrader has accepted the 5 p.m. Friday. The Ferris wheel looks position of city ready for riders. manager follow- COURTESY PHOTO/JOHN COOKE ing the Jan. 27 meeting during Approximately 60 or more people could not fit Tuesday night into the completely-packed County Commission which the City Fair is fun Chambers for the debate on resolutions to support the Second Amendment or the entire U.S. Constitution. Council selected Watching on the monitor, their applause had a two-second delay when commissioners approved both. him by a 3-2 vote for whole selected him for the position. SCHRADER Interim City family Manager Kim Gay said she received a call on By KIM MOODY Doubly resolved Friday from Schrader accept- STAFF WRITER ing the position. City Attorney Gerald Buhr SEBRING — The 83rd and labor attorney Brian Koji Highlands County Fair opens are working on Schrader’s its midway at 5 p.m. Friday. employment contract, she said. The lights and sounds of the When completed, the contract midway will draw hundreds of will go to Schrader for review county residents in for a week by his attorney. of family-friendly fun. Friday is Tom Macklin, who served Armed Forces Day and admis- on the Citizen Selection sion is $4 with a military ID; Committee, said Wednesday otherwise, admission is $8. he doesn’t believe Schrader is The site of the fair cannot qualified for the city manager be mistaken as there is a giant PHIL ATTINGER/STAFF position. He said Schrader has Ferris wheel arcing through been in law enforcement, but the air at the fairgrounds at Commissioner Arlene Tuck waves her copy of the U.S. doesn’t have the experience 781 Magnolia Ave. Crews are Constitution while making a plea Tuesday night for in municipal government that setting up the rides, games and her version of a resolution to call Highlands County a the City Council sought in its food stands in anticipation of ‘Second Amendment sanctuary.’ She got her wish: The advertisement for the position. the fair. Board of County Commission voted in favor of both her PHIL ATTINGER/STAFF “I think that Mark is a nice The livestock buildings have resolution and one from Commissioner Don Elwell in enough guy. I am not question- been prepared and are ready support of the whole U.S. Constitution. Jeremy Hicks, retired U.S. Marine living in Sun ‘N Lake ing his character in any way, to receive temporary residents. of Sebring, suggests at Tuesday’s debate on Constitu- shape or form, but there were Future Farmers of America County votes for both tional resolutions that the Highlands County commis- many, many very well qualified and 4-H youth will be showing sion approve both the items presented, for the Second individuals that we had the Amendment and the entire U.S. Constitution, because and eventually auctioning off opportunity to review and were their hogs, rabbits, poultry Constitutional resolutions without the ability to enforce them, ‘there are no legal ramifications.’ recommended even in the and cattle. The members keep faulty process,” he said. the earnings from the auction, By PHIL ATTINGER At the Jan. 27 City Council according to Rachel Wolfe, In presenting her proposed resolution, Tuck STAFF WRITER meeting, Macklin said most of administrative assistant at the said the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms — which she described as the committee members did fair office. not follow the guidelines in “Dr. Magic Balloons” will SEBRING — After two hours of discussion “the one that protects everything else” — has Tuesday night, county commissioners voted been “bombarded by the states” with gun filling out their top five list of take the Sebring Firemen’s candidates as agreed upon at stage. New to the fair this year down Commissioner Arlene Tuck’s Second control legislation. She noted 10 bills in the Amendment sanctuary resolution, 4-1. Florida Legislature at this time regarding gun the group’s first meeting. is a “Grizzly Experience,” a Macklin said that in his bear safety and conservation They then approved Commissioner Don regulation. Dana Ward, speaking later from the Elwell’s resolution to support all of the U.S. audience, said it was actually 40. followup presentation to show with a real bear. A cookie the council, he noted three contest is a sweet new compe- Constitution and its amendments, 3-2, with Elwell, in his presentation, said, “It’s not just Commissioners Ron Handley and Jim Brooks the Second Amendment right now that’s under of the original five as very tition this year. Scott’s World of qualified and worthy of being Magic is sure to be a hit. These dissenting. attack. It’s a bunch of them.” Then Elwell took a suggestion from several His said those include First Amendment interviewed. shows are placed throughout At the initial meeting of the the week. members of the audience who spoke during speech and religious freedoms, Fourth debate, and moved to vote in favor of Tuck’s Amendment search and seizure protections, Citizen Selection Committee, Friday kicks off the beauty Macklin told the Highlands pageant schedule with Jr. Miss resolution. It passed 3-2, with Handley and Fifth Amendment protection from self-incrim- Commissioner Greg Harris dissenting, putting ination, Sixth Amendment trial protections News-Sun, that many com- Highlands County beginning mittee members expressed at 7 p.m. at the convention both resolutions on the books. and Seventh Amendment civil jury trial Discussion Tuesday night had people lined protections. He also said 10th Amendment that they were hearing the job center. This year, in order to “was Mark Schrader’s to lose,” put the competition on a more up at the podium and was peppered with state powers provisions and 14th Amendment applause for certain speakers, despite Board due process of law protections have also been meaning he was already coun- even playing field, an age cil’s choice for the position. group was split from 11- to Chair Handley’s requests not to do so. eroded. Rumblings also moved through the room Elwell said Florida’s “Red Flag” laws, called The committee was told the 16-year-olds to having Jr. Miss City Council would take the Highlands County compete at during some speakers’ comments. risk protection orders, potentially violate all So many people attended the meeting, to those listed above. committee’s recommendations ages 11-13 and the Teen Miss seriously and would interview category with ages 14-16. speak in favor of one resolution or the other, “I’d love to support a Second Amendment that county officials had to put extra chairs sanctuary,” Elwell said, “but I’m telling you, it’s candidates, he said. At 2 p.m. Saturday, Little “As much as I was disap- Miss Highlands County will in the lobby for an estimated 60 people. Both not doing enough.” Tuck and Elwell thanked people for attending, He said a resolution supporting the en- pointed in the process, I am take the stage in the Alan Jay ever more disappointed in the Arena. The Miss Teen and and remarked that they’d like to see such tire U.S. Constitution would give a good a good turnout at future meetings, such as fact that at least a majority of VOTE | 4A FAIR | 4A budget hearings, Elwell said. SCHRADER | 4A Classifieds ......................B5-8 Obituaries ........................ A7 Viewpoints ....................... A6 Good morning To Comics ................A7-8, B9-10 Sports ............................ B1 Weather .........................A10 Sean Martin Lottery ........................... B2 TV Listings ....................... A9 facebook.com/ twitter.com/ Thanks for reading! newssun.com newssun TheNewsSun A2 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | February 6, 2020 www.highlandsnewssun.com 5 THINGS That Will Make You Faulk arrested on marijuana possession SMARTER By ROBERT MILLER deputies The deputies smelled a Deputies also observed 1. 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