HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN Monday, December 16, 2019 VOL. 100 | NO. 350 | $1.00 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 An Edition Of The Sun Lake Placid ‘Celebrates America’ in Christmas parade By KIM LEATHERMAN Boulevard south on Main kept everyone in step with Nativities and STAFF WRITER Avenue and east onto with a its drumline and other religious scenes and Interlake Boulevard. Christmas carols while drove slowly by. Walkers LAKE PLACID — The The Lake Placid High the color guard per- dressed as Santa’s helpers Greater Lake Placid School JROTC led the formed in time. passed out candies to the Chamber of Commerce parade by stepping off on Mayor John Holbrook crowd and Bible tracks. Christmas Parade Dal Hall Boulevard and and his wife Marge Dance troupes showed wrapped-up the holiday presenting the colors and waved to the crowds and off their talents as they parade season Saturday singing Christmas-related wished everyone a Merry twirled through the night with a flurry of cadences. They ushered Christmas. Beauty queens streets. A demonstration lights, floats music and in the Grand Marshals, rode in cars. Decked out of martial arts with fight- costumes. The patriotic Vann Peeples and Dale boats, floats and even ing sticks was performed them this year was McQuillen, who rode in swamp buggies were by the youth from a local “Celebrate America.” on a little red Corvette. decorated and strung martial arts studio. ALLEN MOODY/STAFF The parade route The Lake Placid High with twinkling lights. moved from Dal Hall School marching band Churches had floats PARADE | 2A The Tropical Harbor Estates float. KIM LEATHERMAN/STAFF Lt. Clay Kinslow of Animal Services said the dogs that attacked Melvin Olds Jr. have been euthanized. Dogs euthanized in Highway Park death By KIM LEATHERMAN STAFF WRITER KIM LEATHERMAN/STAFF LAKE PLACID — A pack of four pitbull Terri Conley, State Farm agent, and her office mates pose for a picture in front of the office’s new mural. From left; Terri Conley, Brooke Britt, mix dogs killed Melvin Olds Jr., 45, of Mary Followell, Kaitlin Pridgen and Keith Goodson. Lake Placid on July 4. Olds was found dead behind a home on Cochran Drive in the Highway Park subdivision. The Goodson mural livens up office interior dogs responsible for the death were located and euthanized. By KIM LEATHERMAN According to an autopsy on July 5 by is another highlight of the STAFF WRITER Dr. Stephen Nelson, District 10 Medical mural. Examiner, there were over 100 dog bites Conley said most offices have on Olds’ body. LAKE PLACID — Staring large acrylic signage with the “In my 27 years of law enforcement, at the inside of four walls is agent’s name and company I have never seen anything like this,” supposed to be the epitome logo. She said she didn’t want Lt. Clay Kinslow of Highlands County of boring, but not when those that and asked the Greater Lake Sheriff’s Office Animal Services said in walls have been painted by Placid Chamber of Commerce July after the incident. muralist, Keith Goodson. State for recommendations for an Kinslow said the elderly owner of the Farm Agent Terri Conley hired artist. Eileen May, executive dogs was located and she surrendered Goodson to paint a mural in director of the chamber, gave the dogs to animal services. DNA was her office at 139 Tower St. in her Goodson’s name. taken and measurements of the teeth Lake Placid. Goodson is a well-known were examined. The mural that Goodson was artist, especially in Lake Placid, “DNA came back from one of the planning on finishing on Friday where he has painted more dogs,” Kinslow said. “The other three embodies the spirit of Lake murals on walls and inside dogs couldn’t be ruled because their Placid. buildings than any other mural- DNA was so close.” “Since I began the agency, I ist. He has also refreshed many Kinslow said the dogs’ inbreeding have always wanted to incorpo- other murals done by others. was the reason their DNA was so closely rate Lake Placid into my office,” “I would recommend other matched. The dogs were euthanized on Conley said. businesses to have murals,” July 15. With the caladium fields, Conley said. “It was not as Kinslow said he had two deputies orange groves, lakes and iconic expensive as I thought would there for two weeks all day long and did Happiness Tower, the mural have been.” not see any more aggressive animals. certainly represents the Town of Goodson drew Conley an “It seems like everyone is keeping their Murals. Goodson also inte- artist’s rendering that she was dogs inside or inside a fence after that. grated the vintage clock that thrilled with. The only thing she The tragic event seems to have educated is located in front of Wauchula changed was the color of the the community and the neighborhood is State Bank, cows point to the clown car from a blue to red. safer for it. town’s agricultural history and The painting has taken about a the blue heron is a nod to the week to complete. Conley said Animal Control can be reached KIM LEATHERMAN/STAFF Monday through Friday at 863-402- lakes and wildlife and their she would welcome anyone 6730; at night or during weekends call importance to the area. A clown who wanted to see the latest Keith Goodson holds up his original artist’s rendition of 863-402-7200. riding in a little red convertible mural in her office. Conley’s mural. The lowdown on recycling What do you recycle and where? By AMANDA FERNANDEZ a processing facility and simple as the process CORRESPONDENT everything in between. may seem, Diefendorf “The drivers pick up and workers encounter a SEBRING — Ever the recycling waste, number of problems ev- wonder why certain where it’s then taken to ery time. Contamination “recyclable” products the Recycling Material being a big issue. aren’t accepted or Transfer Facility. They “Contamination could perhaps where they go? dump it in a pile, it gets be non-recyclable items Robert A. Diefendorf Jr., sorted through and found in the garbage. EI, project manager of checked for contamina- Some families only have the Transportation/Utility tion,” Diefendorf said. one garbage can and end Division at the County “Then it’s separated into up throwing their non-re- Engineering Department, different materials.” cyclables in the recycling explains the process of From there, everything bin and most times, the recycling. Diefendorf goes is loaded onto a flatbed driver can’t tell what’s into detail, from when truck and driven to a in the bin until it’s been AMANDA FERNANDEZ/CORRESPONDENT trucks pick up the bin, to processing facility in St. RECYLCE | 3A Compacted plastics at the Household Hazardous Waste facility. when it transfers out to Petersburg or Miami. As Classifieds ......................B5-9 Good morning To Local Sports ...................... B1 Puzzles ................A7-8, B9-10 Viewpoints ....................... A6 Charles Miller Lottery ........................... 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