A3 + PLUS >> Every election matters, Opinion/4A SPORTS FHSAA Rodeo No final decision action on spring sports See Page 5A See Page 5A TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Crash that killed daughter means charges for mom Cooke 3A KIDS TAKE FLIGHT AT CANNON CREEK CORONAVIRUS FEARS LC couple stuck at sea in cruise that won’t end All they can do is hope that today’s the day as ship heads back to Miami. By TONY BRITT
[email protected] A Lake City couple, on a seven-night Caribbean cruise, had the final day of their trip unexpectedly extended yesterday, when Puerto Rican officials refused to let passengers dis- ‘It is slightly embark from their ship. inconvenient, Ovidiu and Sondra but everyone Deaconescu are currently on the Royal Caribbean’s is being inconve- Freedom of the Seas cruise nienced in their ship, traveling to Miami. own ways during “We are making the most this time. Being of this situation and we really on a cruise ship aren’t in any distress,” Sondra isn’t really a wrote in an email. “It is slight- bad gig.’ ly inconvenient, but everyone Photos by AMY HIETT/Special to the Reporter is being inconvenienced in Mark Wiencek and Symphony Green, 8, get ready to take off from Cannon Creek Airpark and fly their own ways during this over Lake City as part of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles Rally on Saturday. time. Being on a cruise ship isn’t really a bad gig.” The two have been on the ship since Saturday when they last disembarked in St.