3-Car Crash Sends 6 to Hospital Munity in Becoming a Safer and a Better Place to Live
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1A WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Catalyst site has A raucous Round 2 a new name Now known as North Florida Intermodal Park. By TONY BRITT [email protected] Plum Creek representatives host- ed a stakeholder meeting Tuesday morning and unveiled a new logo and name for the RACEC/Catalyst site. The new name: The North Florida Intermodal Park. Plum Creek representatives gave out free shirts are part of the cam- paign to spread the word about the new title. “The project now has an iden- tity,” said Allison Megrath, a Plum Creek real estate manager. “Up until this point the project had either been referred to as the Plum Creek property, Inland Port, the Catalyst site and its had a num- ber of different names. Collectively we want to give the project one name and an identity where when people see the logo they know we’re taking about the 2,622-acre industrial project on the southside of U.S. Highway 90 on the eastside of town.” The stakeholder meeting took place at the Florida Gateway College Wilson S. Rivers Library and Media Center . The meeting was the quarterly stakeholder meet- ing for the North Central Florida ASSOCIATED PRESS Rural Area of Critical Economic President Barack Obama greets Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at the start of the second presidential debate at Hofstra University Tuesday in Hempstead, N.Y INTERMODAL continued on 5A Sharp exchanges mark 2nd debate Citizens energy and emotion just three nationally and in some battle- production. Obama aggressive, weeks before the election. ground states. The open-stage format left but Romney gave as Romney pushed back hard, Obama challenged Romney the two men free to stroll freely Police saying the middle class “has on economics and energy pol- across a red-carpeted stage, good as he got. been crushed over the last icy, accusing him of switching and they did. Their clashes four years,” that 23 million positions and declaring that his crackled with energy and ten- Academy By DAVID ESPO and Americans are struggling to economic plan was a “sketchy sion, and the crowd watched STEVE PEOPLES find work and that the death of deal” that the public should raptly as the two sparred while Associated Press the U.S. ambassador to Libya reject. struggling to appear calm and to launch was part of an unraveling of the Romney gave as good as he affable before a national televi- HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — An administration’s foreign policy. got. sion audience. By TONY BRITT aggressive President Barack The president was feistier “You’ll get your chance in The rivals disagreed about [email protected] Obama accused challenger from the outset than he had a moment. I’m still speaking,” taxes, measures to reduce the Mitt Romney of favoring a “one- been in their initial encounter the former Massachusetts gov- deficit, energy, pay equity for The Lake City Police Department point plan” to help the rich two weeks ago, when he turned ernor said at one point while women and health care issues. is launching a Citizens Police and leveling offensive criticism in a listless performance that Obama was mid-sentence. Immigration prompted yet Academy and taking applications about the recent deadly ter- sent shudders through his sup- He said the president’s poli- another clash, Romney saying until Dec. 15. There is no cost to rorist attack in Libya Tuesday porters and helped fuel a rise cies had failed to jumpstart the apply. night in a debate crackling with by Romney in opinion polls economy and crimped energy DEBATE continued on 5A The CPA is like the academy used to train police officers. Participants will learn a variety of law enforce- ment topics and are “armed” after graduation with knowledge that can be used to assist the com- 3-car crash sends 6 to hospital munity in becoming a safer and a better place to live. Graduates will By LAURA HAMPSON be honored at a ceremony at the [email protected] completion of the program and will also be eligible to join the CPA A three-car collision sent six people Alumni Association. to the hospital Tuesday afternoon. Citizens from all works of life will A Honda Passport left Pizza Hut on be introduced to a wide variety of West U.S. 90, crossed the westbound functions performed in daily police lanes and stopped in the median, said operations. The Lake City Police Lake City Police Department Sgt. Department believes it is impor- Marshall Sova. tant to have citizen-police interac- The driver of the Honda attempted tion and cooperation in the com- to cross the eastbound lanes but was munity. Police Department officials side-struck by a Nissan car traveling say one way to achieve the goal is east, Sova said. through an exchange of ideas and The Nissan then bumped a Kia education, and the Citizens Police Rio exiting the Gas-N-Go station on Academy is an excellent tool in the south side of U.S. 90. The Nissan accomplishing this. bumped a gas pump rail during the The CPA is a 12-week course collision, but the pump was not dam- offered twice a year to the citizens aged and fuel was not spilled, he of Columbia County. The sessions said. are free and open to all who wish to Two people in the Honda were participate and who pass the appli- taken to Shands Lake Shore Regional cation and background screening Medical Center, he said. Three people process. The first session is sched- in the Nissan were taken to Lake City LAURA HAMPSON/Lake City Reporter uled to begin Thursday, Jan. 11, Lake City Fire Department and Lifeguard Ambulance personnel take an injured person to an await- Medical Center and the driver was 2013. Classes will be held from 6-9 transported to a Gainesville hospital ing ambulance Tuesday afternoon as officials attend to another injured person on the ground outside ACADEMY continued on 5A the Gas-N-Go station. A three-car accident on West U.S. 90 sent six people to the hospital. 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