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‘Lost’ hikers found 50¢ CLJ includes THE CALHOUN-LIBErtY News in training drill at tax .com Torreya State Park OURNAL by Teresa Eubanks, Journal Editor J Volume 31, Number 29 • Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Emergency workers were put to the test last week when they were sent out on a mock call at Torreya State Park to find a missing hiker. The location of the training drill was chosen because Former Brooksville Public of the challenges it offers, according to Liberty County Emergency Management Director Rhonda Lewis. The combination of hills and ravines provide many places for a park visitor to get lost. Radio and cell phone Works Director hired as new communication is spotty because of the park’s distance from the nearest cell phone tower. Despite the obstacles, searchers completed their task Blountstown City Manager in approximately one hour, according to Torreya Park Manager Steve Cutshaw. by Teresa Eubanks, Journal Editor “It was a perfect scenario and worked exactly as it An engineer from Brooksville was hired as the should,” said Cutshaw. new Blountstown City Manager following a round of Volunteers responded to a radio pageout at 6:45 p.m. candidate interviews on Friday. Thursday. When they gathered at the park they were told Emory Pierce, 64, spoke with the council that they were responding to a report from a frantic mother afternoon. Two other candidates were interviewed after who had not heard from her 16-year-old son who was him. Two others who were scheduled to meet with the camping there. board that day dropped out of the running; one that very Searchers divided up into teams and began the hunt morning, the other, just a couple of days earlier after for the missing teen, played by Cutshaw’s son, Heath. learning he had gotten another job. Planners threw in some surprises for participants, Once the interviews were completed, the council telling them the “camper” had not registered and could tallied up their score sheets. Pierce received 430 points be anywhere within a 2,000-acre block of the park, of a possible 450, while local applicant Nathan Goodman except for the primitive campsites, which had already had 347 points and Don Hart of Tallahassee received been searched. 270 points. Teams hit the trails and worked around communication A native of Gainesville who got his engineering degree problems to keep in touch. One team located a teenage from the University of Florida, Pierce joined the Army hiker - although not the one they were sent to find. He as a young man, went on to get a degree in business and was posing as the first hiker’s friend who had gotten worked in construction before returning to school to lost while trying to get help for the other teen, who had become an engineer. He has done consulting work in Jacksonville and worked for the Aqueduct Authority in See LOST HIKER DRILL continued on page 3 the Florida Keys. Emory Pierce to begin duties soon. He has worked as an engineer for the past 20 years, spending 12 Shoemake. “He will be able to give the council some years as the Brooksville Public guidance on engineering matters even when we are Works Director. dealing with an outside engineer.” He added that having “We liked the fact that he is an engineer in the city manager’s job will also save a civil engineer and has done a money, noting that it costs between $1,000 and $2,500 lot of in-house engineering in to have architect sign off on plans. Brooksville,” said Blountstown During Friday’s interview Pierce explained he lost that City Council member Tony job in Sept. 2009 after Brooksville City Manager Jennene See CITY MANAGER HIRED continued on page 3 Bristol man charged with making meth by Teresa Eubanks, a clear 20 ounce bottle of Journal Editor lighter fluid in the bathroom A man who had moved trash can. into a Bristol home just Deputies then looked four days earlier was through the couple’s arrested for possession outside trash can and found o f m e t h a m p h e t a m i n e a shopping bag from the a n d m a n u f a c t u r i n g Dollar Store that held two methamphetamine within empty packs of lithium 1,000 feet of a church batteries, stripped lithium Thursday. batteries, an empty box of Charged was Joseph pseudoephedrine pills with Folsom, 44. blister packs and a bottle of A tip from a citizen led lighter fluid. A receipt for JOSEPH FOLSOM deputies to the 12449 NW the cold medicine was also Pea Ridge Road residence found. Folsom shared with Norma Dishong admitted to deputies that Dishong. she had purchased the cold medicine in Sgt. Jamie Shiver of the Liberty County Blountstown at Folsom’s request and then Sheriff’s Office located Folsom and found gave them to him. several items relating to methamphetamine During a recorded interview with use in his vehicle, including a package of deputies at the sheriff’s office, Folsom coffee filters, a small container of acid and stated that he was in the process of Plaque honors Wilhoit Eubanks another of lye, two small containers with an manufacturing methamphetamine when Iris Eubanks, seated, talks with Liberty County Commissioner Albert unspecified amount of methamphetamine, Sgt. Shiver arrived at the home. He Butcher during a ceremony at the Road Department Office to dedicate a five lithium batteries and a black zip-up admitted that all the evidence that was plaque in honor of her late husband, J.W. “Fiddler” Eubanks. The plaque container that held a hypodermic needle recovered belonged to him and said no one is shown on the wall behind her and faces visitors as they enter the office. and a spoon with burnt residue. else was involved. For more on the event, please see page 11. TERESA EUBANKS PHOTO Inside the home, deputies recovered He is being held on $35,000 bond. Sheriff's Log.....2 Arrest Reports...2 Calendar...4 The Arts...5 Commentary...6, 7 School Board minutes.....8 School.....12 Pets & Their People...13 Gardening...14 Obituaries...15 Classifieds...16 & 17 Ditch the itch...18 Page 2 THE CALHOUN-LIBERTY JOURNAL JULY 20, 2011 Blountstown man injured in early a.m. wreck A Blountstown man was SHERIFF’S LOG hospitalized with serious injuries C A L H O U N C O U N T Y after his car crossed the center July 11 line of the road and hit an •Richard Kyle, VOP (warrant), CCSO. oncoming semi in a 5:25 a.m. July 12 •Jack Stonewall Smith, VOSP, CCSO. accident last Thursday. •Bradley Allen Trickey, VOCP, CCSO. I n j u r e d w a s D o n n i e July 13 Grantham, 30. •Amy Lynn Nunez, VOCP (Washington County), According to the Florida CCSO. Highway Patrol report, •Bradley A. Trickey, VOSP, CCSO. July 14 Grantham was eastbound on •Dylan Johnson, possession of drug parapherna- S.R. 20, east of Tallahassee lia, possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana, Blvd., when his 2000 Ford APD. Taurus went into the oncoming •Cathy Long, domestic battery, CCSO. lane. The front left of his car •William Sanders, domestic battery, CCSO. July 15 collided with the front left of a •Eric Tolley, possession of meth, CCSO. westbound 2006 International •Kenneth Layfield,possession of meth, possession truck, driven by Carlos Byrd, of listed chemicals, possession of drug paraphernalia, 28, of Tallahassee. CCSO. The impact sent Grantham’s July 17 •Jerry Don Thurman, VOP, CCSO. car spinning before it came to Donnie Grantham’s car is shown after it hit a semi truck Thursday morning on S.R. 20. PAUL MATTICE PHOTO a final rest in the eastbound L I B E R T Y C O U N T Y lane. The truck rotated in a Both men were transported to Bay Trooper C. Condo-Varner. Grantham July 12 counter-clockwise direction before Medical Center. was cited for failure to maintain a •James Harold Blocker, petty theft, trespassing, overturning, blocking both lanes. The crash was investigated by FHP single lane. LCSO. •Cody Tucker, petty theft, trespassing, LCSO. July 13 compiled by Journal •Breeze Rochelle Bimms, failure to appear, ARREST REPORTS Editor Teresa Eubanks LCSO. •Amy Lynn Numez, holding for CCSO, CCSO. •Kristopher Bailey, domestic battery (warrant), LCSO. •Lisa Pumphrey, holding for CCSO, CCSO. Two arrested on meth charges in traffic stop •Karl Pulvermullar, VOP, self. A 51-year-old Blountstown containing pseudoephedrine in July 14 man known to have made the truck, along with a blue bank •Joseph Folsom, manufacturing of methamphet- amine, LCSO. over 20 purchases this year bag that held two plastic straws, a •Cathy Long, holding for CCSO, CCSO. of cold medicines containing glass pipe with methamphetamine July 15 pseudoephedrine – commonly residue and a clear plastic •Derek Jackson, holding for Gadsden County, used in the production of container with a white powder GCSO. methamphetamine – was arrested substance later confirmed to be July 16 •Johnnie Petty, VOP, LCSO. after returning from Bristol, methamphetamine. where he had just bought more The items were found in the Listings include name followed by charge and identification of arresting agency. The names above represent those charged. We remind our readers that all are presumed cold medicine. center area of the front bench innocent until proven guilty. The arrest report noted seat. that deputies had received KENNETH LAyFIELD ERIC TOLLEY Tolley was charged with Blountstown Police Dept. information that the driver, possession of methamphetamine.

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