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WEEKEND: APRIL 21-23, 2019 RALLY SEASON ENDS Magician brings The 2018-19 Rally Derby magic to young season came and old to a close recently See Sports, Page 9 See People, Page 5 SANFORD HERALD LAKE MARY, LONGWOOD, WINTER SPRINGS, OVIEDO, GENEVA, CASSELBERRY, OSTEEN, CHULUOTA, ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, DEBARY Vol. 127, No. 73 • © 2019 READ US ONLINE AT: MYSANFORDHERALD.COM Since 1908 HEADLINES FROM Chuluota triple homicide suspect maintains House Bill could limit public’s ASSOCIATED PRESS innocence in newly released documents, videos access to government A DAY 2 YEARS IN THE MAK- By Larry Griffin meetings by changing the ING Herald Staff form of advertisement The Justice Department pre- In recently-released law enforce- pares to release a redacted version ment documents and videos from By Larry Griffin of the special counsel's report on the January murders of the Amato Herald Staff Russian election interference and family in Chuluota, murder suspect Trump's presidential campaign. Grant Amato pleads for fairer treat- By transferring all legal and public notices ment and languishes over the loss of to a government website rather than newspa- NORTH KOREA SAYS IT his relationship with the Bulgarian per pages, a new House bill in Florida would TESTED NEW WEAPON cam girl whom he’d sent hundreds result in residents not as informed of govern- of thousands of dollars in stolen mental goings-on and newspapers losing a Pyongyang says that it has test- money. source of revenue, critics say. fired a "tactical guided weapon," Amato was arrested Jan. 26 after The bill is House Bill 1235, with a Senate its first such test in nearly half a his family members, Chad, Margaret comparison, Senate Bill 1676. If passed, it year, and demands that Washing- and Cody Amato, were found mur- would allow “fiscally constrained” counties to Photo contributed ton remove Mike Pompeo from dered by gunshot in their home the utilize a public government website to publish Murder suspect Grant Amato after being interviewed by law enforce- nuclear negotiations. legal notices, rather than paying to put them in ment following his arrest. See AMATO, Page 6 local newspapers. It would also remove the re- FRANCE TO SALUTE ITS quirement that governments publish them at BRAVEST all. Legal notices are used to notify residents of France is paying a daylong trib- ute to the Paris firefighters who See NOTICES, Page 6 saved the internationally revered SUNRISE ON THE LAKE Notre Dame Cathedral from col- lapse and rescued its treasures from encroaching flames. Seminole County, Seminole State 'WE DON'T GET OVER IT' to host future Women’s National Mental health resources vary Junior Golf Championships, widely, but the problem is getting survivors of school shootings to bringing in tourist dollars seek counseling in the first place. By Larry Griffin WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO Herald Staff YOUNG INDIAN VOTERS In 2022, Seminole State College and Semi- They are more concerned about nole County will be hosting a women’s golf landing jobs after college, living in championship which will feature “more than cleaner cities with breathable air, 100 of the top junior collegiate women’s increasing safety for women, and golfers” in the country. competing with top world In a press release, the county says the Na- economies. tional Junior College Athletic Association Women’s National Junior Golf Championships FORECASTERS TURN TO are headed to the Timacuan Golf and Country TECHNOLOGY TO FIGHT Club from May 9 to 12 of that year. “On behalf of Seminole County, we are FLOODWATERS thrilled to have been selected to co-host the Herald photo by Tommy Vincent Drones, supercomputers and Welcoming a new day this guitarist holds a sunrise service of solitude along the banks of historic Lake Monroe sonar that scans deep under water on the Nile of America, the St. Johns River in beautiful Sanford. See GOLF, Page 2 are helping to maintain flood con- trol projects and predict just where rivers will roar over their banks. Denim Day hopes to raise awareness on issue Check out what’s of sexual violence and services available happening around STOCKS OF By Larry Griffin Seminole County LOCAL INTEREST Herald Staff See Page 4 As of 3 p.m. Friday Advocates for stopping sexual violence are urging people to wear denim for Wednesday, Allegiant $131.98 April 24’s annual Denim Day SEMINOLE SMILE Bombardier $2.03 event, intended to raise aware- ness about the issue. Faro $57.05 According to Bianca HCA Healthcare $114.46 Sabrkhani, Director of Develop- Invacare $6.96 ment and Communications with the Victim Service Center (VSC) NextEra $189.90 of Central Florida, the goal is to Tractor Supply $103.05 let survivors and victims know Toro $73.74 they aren’t alone in the world. “There’s a lot of misconcep- Wells Fargo $47.57 tions and victim blaming about sexual assault,” Sabrkhani said. “We want people to know that they are not alone, that there’s a Herald photo by Larry Griffin community standing in solidar- Bianca Sabrkhani, Director of Development and Communication with Zahli Wenner ity with them that won’t judge the Victim Service Center of Central Florida, with Mayor Jeff Triplett at a recent City Commission meeting, where April 24 was declared as in her homemade Easter bonnet, See DENIM, Page 6 Denim Day in Sanford officially. bunny in hand PAGE 2 • Weekend: April 21-23, 2019 SANFORD HERALD MOMENTS IN TIME COUCH THEATER -- VIDEO/DVD PREVIEWS The History Channel By Amy Anderson Stewart and Angus Imrie, in the younger version), Alex * On May 5, 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French mili- "Glass" (R) -- In M. Night and his friends -- now tary leader who once ruled an empire that stretched across Shyamalan's coda to the knighted -- must battle the Europe, dies as a British prisoner on the remote island of "Unbreakable" trilogy, the evil Morgana (Rebecca Fer- Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean. His body was director brings together hero guson) before she can to returned to Paris in 1840. David Dunn (Bruce Willis) take over the world during and antihero Elijah Price an upcoming eclipse. Direc- * On May 4, 1886, a peaceful labor protest in Haymarket (Samuel L. Jackson), with tor Joe Cornish's 2011 debut, Square in Chicago turns into a riot, leaving more than 100 the mass of fragmented per- "Attack the Block," is a cult wounded and eight police officers dead. Seven of the eight sonalities introduced in classic, and this film has fatalities and the most of injuries were caused by shots fired "Split" that reside in Kevin much of the same rogue by fellow officers. Crumb (James McAvoy), spirit, but tuned for a known collectively as "The younger crowd. It's a de- * On May 2, 1933, the modern legend of Scotland's Loch Horde." The three men are lightfully pure fantasy Ness Monster is born when a newspaper reports a couple's conveniently incarcerated in movie that you can watch sighting of "an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the a specialized detention facil- with any group of kids for a surface" of the lake. The "monster" became a media phenom- ity after an incident pitting fun movie night. enon, and a circus offered a huge reward for the beast's cap- Dunn against Crumb's in- ture. credibly destructive person- "Dragon Ball Super: ality called The Beast. Sarah Broly" (PG-13) -- Fans have * On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his head- Paulson joins as Dr. Ellie highly anticipated this quarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallow- Staple, a psychiatrist who newest addition to the ing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon attempts to convince them "Dragon Ball Super" fran- after, Germany unconditionally surrendered, ending Hitler's that they are neither super- chise -- the legend of the dreams of a "1,000-year" Reich. hero nor villain, only ordi- third Saiyan. The destruc- nary men who are deranged. tion of planet Vegeta, from * On May 3, 1951, the Senate Armed Services and Foreign As she tries to break the men which only a few Saiyans es- Relations committees begin hearings into the dismissal of down, Price -- or shall I say caped, lands Goku and Gen. Douglas MacArthur by President Harry Truman. 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