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WEEKEND GLANCE Your forecast: Expect pleasant Saturday at the Marianne Shelter, 28123 County Road weather and sunny skies this Beck Memorial Library. The 561 in Tavares, will host its weekend as highs stick around Lake Concert Band performs second annual Star Wars- 90. Lows will be in the 70s. at 11 a.m. followed by Brooke themed adoption event from Founder’s Day: Celebrate & Brie on stage at 12:15 p.m. 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday 94 years of Howey-in-the- May the Fur be with You: and features no-cost pet Hills from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Lake County Animal adoptions. Friday, May 10, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial $1 Pope mandates reporting of DeSantis touts new abuse to church, not police school voucher By Nicole Winfield and nuns around the world to The law provides whistle- The Associated Press report clergy sexual abuse and blower protections for anyone Pope Francis speaks during a cover-ups by their superiors making a report and requires meeting with the dioceses of program VATICAN CITY — Pope to church authorities, in a new all dioceses to have a system Rome, Thursday at the Vatican Francis issued a groundbreak- effort to hold the Catholic hier- in place to receive the claims Basilica of St. John Lateran, in ing new church law Thursday archy accountable for failing to Rome. [ALESSANDRA TARANTINO/ By Jim Saunders requiring all Catholic priests protect their flocks. See ABUSE, A5 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] News Service Florida TALLAHASSEE — Saying he wants to “empower parents,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday touted a major education bill that includes creating a controversial school- Word of mouth vouchers program. DeSantis, flanked by key lawmakers, appeared Thursday morning at Potter’s House Christian Academy in Jacksonville and at Mount Moriah Christian Fundamen- tal Academy in St. Petersburg. Lawmakers last week gave final approval to the bill (SB 7070), which includes creating the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program to provide vouchers to as many as 18,000 students next year to attend pri- vate schools. DeSantis pointed during the Jacksonville appearance to what he called a “historic legislative session” on education issues, including creation of the vouchers program and other efforts to bolster school choice, such as moving to eliminate a waiting list in the long- established Florida Tax Credit Scholarship See VOUCHER, A5 The attention-grabbing LifeTime Dental billboard sits on the corner of St. Clair Abrams Drive and U.S. Highway 441 in Tavares. [CINDY SHARP/CORRESPONDENT] Tavares dentist preaches the gospel of mouth health By Katie Sartoris people to the site, where he Dr. Chuck [email protected] explains just how much oral Reinertsen health affects overall health. poses with a TAVARES – If you’ve made Spoiler alert: “You cannot specialized the drive on U.S. Highway 441 have a healthy body without dental X-Ray from Tavares into Leesburg, a healthy mouth,” Reinertsen machine in you’ve probably noticed a said. his LifeTime peculiar billboard. Talking with Reinertsen Dental offi ce in On it, a woman covers her for just a few minutes reveals Tavares. [KATIE mouth with both hands and his passion for that mes- SARTORIS/DAILY SPORTS | B1 sports worried look on her sage, backed up by years of COMMERCIAL] face. medical research and stud- ARI MILLER Next to her is a web address: ies. His website, launched YourFilthyMouth.com. last year, reaffirms it. He LIFTS MDCA Don’t worry, it’s safe for co-hosts weekly podcasts work. The domain name is just with titles like “Surprising TO WIN IN a catchy way that local den- tist Chuck Reinertsen drives See DENTIST, A5 REGIONAL Volume 143, Issue 130 Local & State ................ A3 Drive ........................... C1 © 2019 GateHouse Media Opinion ....................... A7 Comics ........................C4 Home delivery: 352-787-0600 Sports...........................B1 Diversions .................... C5 A2 Friday, May 10, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF MONTGOMERY, ALA. Abortion ban vote delayed after shouting breaks out As war’s witnesses Alabama lawmakers on Thursday postponed a vote on a proposed abortion ban after anger erupted in the state die, memories fade Senate when some Republi- cans stripped an exception for rape and incest from the bill. By Angela Charlton his mother — unexpectedly Shouting broke among sen- The Associated Press alive. ators when the exemption for For four decades, he didn’t rape and incest was removed PARIS — One more talk much about the war. But without a roll call vote. Dem- funeral, one less witness to as more and more survivors ocrats and some Republicans the world’s worst war. died, and at his granddaugh- objected to the change to the Bernard Dargols lived ter’s urging, he realized the bill, which would make per- almost long enough to join importance of speaking out forming an abortion at any the celebrations next month and sharing his stories with stage of pregnancy a felony, marking 75 years since the schools and journalists. being gaveled through quickly. D-Day, 75 years since he Friends and family remem- “You’ve got 27 men over waded onto Omaha Beach bered him Thursday as shy on the other side ready to tell as an American soldier to but courageous, a lover of women what they can do with help liberate France from oysters and pastrami sand- their bodies,” Democratic Sen. the Nazis who persecuted wiches, known for his Bobby Singleton said. his Jewish family. mischievous smile. Republican Lt. Gov. Will Just shy of his 99th birth- Jolivet, his granddaughter, Ainsworth said legislative day, Dargols died last week. In this photo taken May 8, 2014, Bernard Dargols poses during an told the AP of his yearn- procedures were properly To the strains of his beloved interview with The Associated Press at his home in La Garenne- ing for leaders who “bring followed. American jazz, he was laid Colombes, outside Paris. Dargols waded onto Omaha Beach in people together, instead of to rest Thursday at France’s June 1944 as an American soldier to help liberate France from divide them.” CHARLOTTE, N.C. most famous cemetery, Pere Nazis who persecuted his Jewish family. At 98, Dargols died last Dargols would have had Affi davit: Witness told police Lachaise. week. [CHRISTOPHE ENA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] a clear message for the shooter targeted table An ever-smaller number D-Day anniversary, she of veterans will stand on or in the U.S.” really upset tweeted by veterans said: “Never take democracy A witness told police that Normandy’s shores on June him, granddaughter Caroline groups, published in local for granted. Dictatorship the suspect in a fatal university 6 for D-Day’s 75th anniver- Jolivet said. newspapers. is always a bad solution. shooting took aim at a specific sary. Many will salute fallen Normandy schoolteachers, Dargols wanted to be in Violence is always a bad table where students were comrades from their wheel- veterans’ families and mili- Normandy this year, it meant solution. Keep democracy seated, according to investi- chairs. As each year passes, tary memorials are laboring a lot to him. alive. Fight for democracy, gative documents made public more firsthand witnesses to against time to record sur- His story is both unusual for freedom, for peace.” Thursday. history are gone. vivors’ stories for posterity. and emblematic: Born in The cultural director at The documents also show Four weeks from now, U.S. In history’s biggest France, he left Paris in 1938 Normandy’s World War six boxes of ammunition were President Donald Trump and amphibious invasion, on that for New York to learn his II memorial in Caen, Isa- seized from an apartment asso- other world leaders will pay fateful June 6, some 160,000 father’s sewing machine belle Bournier, frets about ciated with the suspect. homage to the more than 2 Allied forces came ashore to trade. He watched from this fading message, as she Trystan Andrew Terrell, 22, million American, British, launch Operation Overlord to afar, sickened, as the Nazis watches schoolchildren is charged with first-degree Canadian and other Allied wrest Normandy from Nazi occupied his homeland. His cycle through her museum murder and other counts in forces involved in the D-Day control. More than 4,000 Jewish relatives were sent to every day. last week’s shooting at the operation on June 6, 1944, Allied forces were killed on camps, or fled in fear. “The parents and grand- University of North Carolina at and the ensuing battle for that day alone. Nearly half Determined to fight back parents of 13-year-olds Charlotte. Two students were Normandy that helped pave a million people were killed but skeptical of French today didn’t experience the killed, and four were wounded. the way for Hitler’s defeat. on both sides by the time General Charles de Gaulle’s war, so the family stories, Dargols outlived most of the Allies liberated Paris in resistance force, he joined the family history — where READING, PA. them, and knew the impor- August 1944. the U.S. Army instead. helmets are brought out, Coach accused of raping tance of sustaining their It’s unclear exactly how With the 2nd Infantry where we spoke about what Special Olympian, threats memory. many D-Day veterans are Division, Dargols sailed it was like — has been lost,” “I’m convinced that we alive today. The survivors from Britain on June 5 and she said. A former coach for a county have to talk about the war to are now in their 90s or 100s. only made it to Normandy “They don’t know the Special Olympics soccer team children, so that they under- Of the 73,000 Americans on June 8, after three inter- names of the landing is going to trial on charges of stand how much they need to who took part, just 30 are minable days on choppy seas.

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