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NHighlands County’s Hometown-S Newspaper Since 1927 Low score, high drama Life lessons Win your Oscar pool with these Pitchers shine as Lake APMS hosts first predictions Placid edges Sebring Teen Summit SPORTS, 1D PAGE 2A PAGE 1C Sunday, February 26, 2012 www.newssun.com Volume 93/Number 28 | 75 cents Forecast County eyes A couple of afternoon showers 4 spots for High Low 75 63 new HCSO Complete Forecast PAGE 8A building Online By ED BALDRIDGE both the warrants division [email protected] and the communications SEBRING — The department, which are County Commission will approximately 5,448 review four sites for a new square feet of the needed Question: Should all sheriff’s building at their space, will remain at the meeting on Tuesday, and existing Sheriff’s Office high school students will look at different facility. have to take at least News-Sun photo by ED BALDRIDGE A section of CR 17A near the Avon Park Clay Pit was blocked Friday after a refuse truck financing and ‘When ADG also rec- one online course flipped onto its side while trying to avoid an accident. debt service ommended that before they graduate? options based on considering the training and recommendations the most IT components Yes Overturned dump truck from county glaring need be removed from staff. for improved the original plan The building of 48,370 square 30.2% development facilites ... it feet, which blocks CR 17A for hours considerations is definitely reduced the pro- were put together the Crime jected building by Architects Scene/ needs to 40,361 Truck driver airlifted after being trapped Design Group square feet. No (ADG) of Winter Property & “When consid- By ED BALDRIDGE Park, which Evidence ering the most [email protected] assessed four areas.’ glaring need for 69.8% AVON PARK — An overturned refuse sites under con- improved facili- truck closed a section of County Road 17A sideration. Report from ties within the for over four hours on Friday when the driver Site A is down- Architects Sheriff’s Law Total votes: 86 lost control after hitting a Jeep that reported- town Sebring at Design Group Enforcement ly pulled out in front of him. the corner of facility, it is Next question: According to a Florida Highway Patrol Eucalyptus Avenue and definitively the Crime Should the county accident report, a 2003 Mack dump truck Palmetto Avenue. Site B is Scene/ Property & have regulations on driven by Richard Ritenour, 55, of Sebring on the Sebring Parkway Evidence (P&E) areas,” all special events, was traveling east on CR 17A near the Avon News-Sun photo by ED BALDRIDGE adjacent to the Fred Wild ADG said in a letter to the regardless of size? Park clay pit when it struck the front of a EMS workers prepare Richard Ritenour Elementary School. Site C commission. 2011 Jeep Cherokee, which was entering the Friday afternoon for an airlift after being is West George Boulevard “The current facilities removed from his overturned refuse truck. Make your voice heard at truck route from Geneva Avenue. and site D is located on are woefully inadequate The Jeep, driven by Debroah L. Gomez, 45, the existing HCSO and located within an area www.newssun.com allegedly violated the right of way after stop- sion, but struck the front of the Jeep before Maintenance Shop proper- of the jail facility that is ping at the intersection by proceeding north the refuse truck flipped over onto its left side ty on Kenilworth very much needed for Obituaries into the pathway of the truck, the report writ- and slid several feet before coming to rest at Boulevard. immediate jail facilities Frances Brennan ten by Trooper John Paikai stated. According to the agenda Age 88 Ritenour tried to swerve to avoid the colli- See WRECK, page 6A packet for the meeting, See FOUR, page 7A Florence Padgett Age 81, of Sebring Obituaries, Page 2A AP turning waste into cash Index By CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY capacity, Deleon said, the Arts & Entertainment 3C Treatment plant [email protected] city was able to add the state- Business 1B AVON PARK — City expected to earn of-the-art equipment and pro- Chalk Talk 7B Manager Julian Deleon, who $300K this year vide an environmental serv- Classifieds 4D is also the city’s director of ice, not just to the city, but to Community Briefs 2A public works, took the News- only does the plant have surrounding counties as well. Community Events 5B Sun on a tour of the new de- plenty of capacity for growth, “The city is providing an Crossword Puzzle 2C watering press bar screen at it is easily accessed from environmentally sound the sewage treatment plant. U.S. 27, and isolated enough process to treat and dispose Dear Abby 2C Deleon said the city was that the unpleasant odors of residuals and septage from Deed Tranfers 6B News-Sun photo by CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY Trucks line up to deliver sludge to the Avon Park water well served by the treatment bother no one. Editorial & Opinion 3A treatment plant to be de-watered. plant’s original design. Not Because of the excess See WASTE, page 6A Horoscope 2C Lottery Numbers 2A Movie Times 2C Pause & Consider 2C Sports On TV 2D Lake Placid chamber honors Follow the News-Sun on top businesses at banquet By CHRISTOPHER “It’s been rave reviews,” Keep Lake Placid TUFFLEY May said. “People are saying Beautiful received the www.twitter.com/thenewssun [email protected] it was the nicest event they’d Chamber Board Appreciation and LAKE PLACID — Eileen been to in a while.” Award. School board mem- May couldn’t have sounded One hundred and ninety- ber Bill Brantley accepted more pleased or relaxed. The one chamber members gath- the award on behalf of the day after the Greater Lake ered Thursday night at the organization. www.facebook.com/newssun Placid Chamber of Chateau Elan to enjoy a The Dal Hall Award, Commerce’s annual banquet meal, conversation and the named for the former mayor, News-Sun photo by CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY she received call after call opportunity to recognize is given in recognition of Maurine Ritchie (left), and Willie Corredera congratulate complementing the chamber some special people and her husband, County Commissioner Jack Ritchie (center), who received the Dal Hall Award Thursday night. for a great party. organizations. See CHAMBER, page 7A 0990994 01007 Phone ... 385-6155 Fax ... 385-2453 Online: www.newssun.com HEARTLAND NATIONAL BANK***; 11.25"; 1.5"; Black plus three; process, front strip; 0 0 0 1 6 5 9 4 C M Y K Page 2A News-Sun ࡗ Sunday, February 26, 2012 www.newssun.com COMMUNITY BRIEFS Gator Club offering Prima/Keely Smith, Sonny $1,000 scholarship and Cher, Jerry Vale, Buddy Holly, Rosemary SEBRING – The Clooney, Liza Minelli and Highlands Gator Club is Connie Francis and more. Centennial Notebook offering a $1,000 scholar- This will be a New York on ship to qualified Highlands Las Vegas Night Club act County students who plan right here in Sebring. Highlands to attend the University of Doors and snack bar Florida in 2012. opens at 6:15 p.m., show at Hammock Applications are available 7 p.m. Tickets $12. now in the counseling Tanglewood is across office at the high schools U.S. 27 from Denny’s. a jewel of in Highlands County and Information, call 402-0763. the financial aid office at Sebring the South Florida ‘What’s Up Community College. Downtown Highlands Hammock Applications must be Sebring?’ meeting State Park is one of the submitted by Tuesday, to be held Tuesday first four original state March 27. Scholarships parks that were estab- will be awarded in May. SEBRING — The News-Sun photo by KATARA SIMMONS Sebring Community lished in 1935, opening to Boys raise their hands to show how many of them know teens that are pregnant or have Contact the scholarship the public in 1931, four kids during a free teen summit in Avon Park. chairman, Melissa Keiber, Redevelopment Agency years prior to the Florida at 385-0468. will host its next monthly State Park system was cre- “What's Up Downtown?” ated. Before being named Avon Park teens get life Rainbow/DeMolay meeting at 5:30 p.m. Highlands Hammock, it serves Leap Year Tuesday at Highlands Museum of the Arts, 351 was referred to as lunch ‘Hooker’s Hammock’ for a W. Center Ave. next to Captain Hooker who at lessons at first summit SEBRING — The Highlands Little Theater. one time had a ‘cow Rainbow Girls and the With 2012 marking the camp’ just west of the centennial of Sebring, the By SAMANTHA GHOLAR DeMolay Boys will host a hammock. local histories and the [email protected] joint lunch from 11 a.m. to Besides Captain effects that different groups AVON PARK — Drugs, 2 p.m. today at the Sebring Hooker, Jonathan Skipper of settlers have had on the dating and sex were the main Masonic Lodge, 1809 culture will be highlighted and W.L. Eiland also lived topics flowing through Home Ave. Donation is $7. at MOTA in special in the area. Both men rooms at Avon Park Middle The menu will include exhibits and companion cleared the land, built School Saturday morning. salad, orange garlic chick- events throughout the year. houses and planted orange Six guests speakers visited en, yellow rice, dessert and MOTA currently has 12 groves. students throughout the First beverage. Hours of Sebring and During the late 1920s, Annual Youth Summit event.