A1 + PLUS >> Woman turns herself in on sex charges, Story below. LOCAL SPORTS Changing of the Globetrotters guard at BOCC wow ‘em at FGC See BELOW See Page 1B WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8 & 9, 2017 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM BOCC Controversy quelled, Sunday bell-ringers are back liquor Today OK’d in ‘Mr. Scrooge’s Christmas’ Salvation Army agrees to keep collected funds here Fort White High School county will present a theatrical adap- tation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” at 6 p.m. Weekday hours today, 2 p.m. Saturday and also extended to 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15 at Fort White Middle School’s 2 a.m. nightly. cafeteria. A final showing will be performed at 6 p.m. By CARL MCKINNEY Saturday, Dec. 16 at the [email protected] Columbia County School Board auditorium. Adults $5 Bars and liquor stores in and students $3. Columbia the county are now allowed County School Board to sell liquor on Sundays. employees free with ID. The Columbia County Commission on Thursday Holiday play voted to High Springs Playhouse extend the is currently staging a live hours of radio play adaptation of “It’s sales and a Wonderful Life.” The play service for is based on Frank Capra’s alcoholic story of George Bailey beverages. and the struggles he goes Williams Under through, which lead to the the new incredible Christmas Eve rules, liquor sales are gift he’s given by Clarence, allowed between 11 a.m. his guardian angel. The play and 11 p.m. on Sundays, Photos by TAYLOR GAINES/Lake City Reporter runs on Fridays, Saturdays Marie Leslie Schretzmann greets customers (ABOVE) and rings the Salvation Army bell for donations but the window for beer and Sundays through (BELOW) outside the Walmart on U.S. Highway 90 in Lake City on Thursday morning. The owner of Caring and wine sales has been Sunday, Dec. 17. Doors Hands Animal Hospital, Schretzmann is a member of the Rotary Club of Lake City, which has resumed par- reduced slightly. open at 7:30 p.m. and the ticipation in the bell ringing campaign after sitting it out last year. The new Sunday hours play begins at 8 on Fridays for beer and wine are 7 a.m. and Saturdays. Sunday mat- to 11 p.m., compared to the inees are performed at 2 old timeframe of 7 a.m. to p.m. and the doors open Familiar holiday sight returns to LC midnight. at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are For the rest of the week, available online at www. highspringsplayhouse.com. By TAYLOR GAINES LIQUOR continued on 2A [email protected] Saturday Red kettles are back in Lake City this hol- Snow Day/parade iday season, a year after multiple local civic Thirty tons of man- clubs pulled out of the annual Salvation Army Woman made snow will turn Darby campaign due to concerns about leadership Pavilion (828 NE Lake as well as money raised turns self DeSoto Circle) and down- not being put back into the town Lake City into a winter What do community. wonderland from 9 a.m. to you think? The Salvation Army in on sex 3 p.m. Snow slides, bounce n Let us know admitted to having approxi- houses, live entertainment in a Letter to the mately $130,000 in available charges and food vendors will be Editor. See 4A. balance and in reserves for part of the fun. Children can work in Lake City after the Was tired of husband also visit with Santa from Gainesville captain denied the existence of any threatening to report her, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. At 6 p.m., surplus money. sheriff’s office says. Rotary Club of Lake City According to a Salvation Army official, the will present the 2017 Lake organization has been restructured to ensure By CARL MCKINNEY City Christmas Parade, smaller areas without their own offices will be [email protected] themed “Rockin’ Around watched out for equally. the Christmas Tree.” For An Alachua County KETTLES continued on 2A more, call 386-752-3690. woman said she was tired of her husband threatening Children’s art workshop to expose her for sexual- Gateway Art Gallery (168 ly abusing a young child N. Marion Ave., Lake City) McAlpin woman in Lake will hold its annual “Jingle, City, so Jangle Craft” workshop for she called children today and Tuesday, faces meth charge authori- Dec. 12. Children will be ties and making Christmas crafts By TAYLOR GAINES told them and the cost per session [email protected] herself, is $10 per student. Session Sheppard according one will be from 9:30 to A McAlpin woman was arrested on Wednesday after to reports. 10:30 a.m., session two from selling meth to a confidential source multiple times, The Columbia County 11 a.m. to noon and session according to the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday three from 2 to 3 p.m. All Between Nov. 6 and Nov. 8, Brandi Schneider Crews, arrested Heather Marie supplies are included and 35, sold more than 3 grams of methamphetamine to a Sheppard, 37, on a charge each class is limited to 10 CARL MCKINNEY/Lake City Reporter confidential source, according to SCSO. A probable of molesting a child under children per session. For Changing of the guard cause affidavit says she was caught on an audio and 12. more information or to reg- Tim Murphy, left, was elected chairman of the county com- video recording each time. ister, call 386-752-5229. mission Thursday. At right is outgoing chair Ron Williams. METH continued on 2A ABUSE continued on 2A Vol. 143, No. 180 Obituaries . 3A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A Faith & Values . 5-6A SUBSCRIBE TO FAITH AND VALUES THE REPORTER: 50 36 TV guide . 2B Supreme Court hears cake dispute, 5A. Voice: 755-5445 Rain likely, 2A Advice & Comics . 3-4B Fax: 752-9400 A2 2A FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2017 DAILY BRIEFING LAKE CITY REPORTER “Not that I’m aware of, but I do have in her purse. METH several items of paraphernalia in the Due to the evidence and the pre- QUICK HITS Continued From 1A room where I’m staying at.” vious affidavits, Crews was charged When investigators searched her with four counts of possession of A subsequent search warrant on room, they found baggies with meth meth with intent to sell, three counts Scripture of the Day Nov. 20 revealed a small bag of meth residue, a small electronic scale, a of sale of meth, two counts of drug on her bed, according to the affidavit. marijuana smoking pipe, a purple paraphernalia possession, one count "Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth The Suwannee County Drug metal cigarette containing baggies, of meth possession and one count of his soul from troubles." Task Force knocked on her door six clonazepam pills, three carisopro- possession of a Schedule 4 controlled — Proverbs 21:23 (KJV) Wednesday, advising her of the affi- dol pills, a pouch with used needles substance. davit for her arrest and asking if she and residue, and a large bag “com- Crews was taken to Suwannee had any illegal substances in her monly used for packaging narcotics.” County Jail without incident, where Thought for Today home. Additionally, a small baggie with she is currently being held, SCSO Don’t be pushed by your problems, be led by your According to SCSO, Crews said, meth residue and a straw was found said. dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson gators that her husband, the same household with James had urged ABUSE James, threatened to turn James,” according to the Sheppard to molest the Winning Lottery Numbers Continued From 1A her in for sexually abus- report. child after he or she fell ing a child when she lived Sheppard originally asleep, the woman told Pick 3: (Thursday midday) 2-7-2 The Florida Department on Southwest Irwin Glen claimed James “forced” investigators, but she even- Pick 4: (Thursday midday) 3-1-3-1 of Children and Families in Lake City, the report her to molest the child, the tually stopped because it Pick 5: (Thursday midday) 1-9-2-6-7 began an investigation states. report states. “wasn’t her thing,” accord- into Sheppard after she James was “hostile” She later changed her ing to the report. called law enforcement to toward her and wouldn’t story, saying he asked Custody of the child was See an error? her Alachua County home allow her or her children her to do it once and she given to the father. The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news Nov. 22, according to a to leave the house, a DCF agreed because she was Details of the interview items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, Columbia County Sheriff’s investigator told CCSO “young and stupid,” the between investigators please call the editor. Corrections and clarications will Office report. Monday. DCF investigator told and the child are heavily run in this space. Thanks for reading. Alachua County authori- Sheppard said she knew CCSO Tuesday. redacted. ties later referred the case she’d be arrested if she The incident occurred in The child said James was to CCSO, the report states. came forward, but that was April, only seven months “mean to mom,” according Sheppard told investi- “a lot better than staying in prior, the report points out. to the report. Submissions The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption information to run at the discretion of the editor.