LOCAL | A3 LOCAL | A3 CHARITY A LSSC RECEIVES WINNER IN GRANT TO BACK EUSTIS BBQ PERFORMING COMPETITION ARTS SERIES Monday, August 26, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial $1 Highway plan stirs big concerns By John Kennedy three major toll roads through these hearings are going to massive highway plans. equal to adding the population GateHouse Media rural stretches of Florida plan demonstrate that.” Galvano, who is among the of a city the size of Orlando on reviving attacks they lev- Instead of a Republican-con- speakers at the opening hear- each year. TALLAHASSEE — Battle eled unsuccessfully in spring as trolled Legislature, the target ing, said he hopes the series of “It will provide people with lines are forming again over the plan powered through the for opponents Tuesday will be meetings will ease some of the a deeper understanding of the plans for Florida’s biggest high- Legislature with the backing of three new task forces — com- concerns swirling around the challenges we face here in Flor- way expansion since the 1950s, Senate President Bill Galvano, prising a total of 127 members plans for roughly 330 miles of ida, and why we need to plan which is slated for its first, in- R-Bradenton. — launching what is scheduled new asphalt corridors. ahead and be prepared, and not depth review Tuesday at the “These are roads to ruin,” to be a series of hearings over He said the network of roads just constantly be in a position Tampa Convention Center. said David Cullen, a lobby- the next 13 months, analyz- will help Florida meet a popu- to respond and remediate what- Environmental groups and ist with Sierra Club. “There is ing the cost, design and likely lation forecast that basically ever road problems we face,” planning organizations that a build-at-all-costs attitude routes, along with the potential adds 900 people a day to the oppose the idea of building underway here and I fear that benefits and risks of each of the state, at least into 2024. That’s See HIGHWAY, A5 Walsh to run Classroom buzz against Trump Former Illinois congressman, radio host is making longshot challenge in GOP primary By Tom Davies The Associated Press Joe Walsh, a former Illinois congressman and tea party favorite turned radio talk show host, announced a challenge Sunday to President Donald Trump for the Republican nomina- tion in 2020, saying the incumbent is unfit for office and must be denied a second term. “He’s nuts. He’s erratic. He’s cruel. He stokes bigotry. He’s incompe- tent. He doesn’t know what he’s doing,” Walsh told ABC’s “This Week.” See WALSH, A5 Beekeeper Jonathan Beale looks over a comb as he relocates a beehive into an indoor observation hive in a classroom at Combee Academy of Design & Engineering. The clear hive will be observed by students this school year as they learn the secret life of bees. [PIERRE DUCHARME/GATEHOUSE FLORIDA] Polk County school gets glass bee box to study the insect By Kimberly C. Moore Engineering so students can Tracy Miller, a Science bees that hadn’t transferred GateHouse Florida observe the secret life of bees. Technology Engineering into the hive with the frames STATE | A3 “We are so excited about and Math teacher resource could then smell their queen LAKELAND — Beekeeper this,” Principal Tammy specialist, spearheaded the and began entering the glass FLORIDA and Lakeland firefighter Farrens said as she watched hive project and stayed busy hive through the rectangular Jonathan Beale carefully the bees work inside the tightening screws on the tube, which has a glass panel HISTORY: transferred four wooden hexagon shapes comprising hive. The quiet hum of the for viewing. frames from a beehive into the honeycombs. Eggs bees was barely audible as “We’ve only gotten positive HOW SUMTER a tall, slender glass bee box could be seen inside the wax Miller then slid a metal panel support from parents,” Miller and installed the clear hive configurations, some of the out from a small, rectangular said. COUNTY GOT in a classroom at Combee 2,000 a day a queen can lay tube that connects the hive ITS NAME Academy of Design & in summer. to the outside world. The See BEES, A8 Volume 143, Issue 238 Local & State ................ A3 Sports...........................B1 © 2019 GateHouse Media Opinion .......................A9 Diversions .....................B5 Home delivery: 352-787-0600 Weather ......................A10 Classified ..................... B7 A2 Monday, August 26, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF Iranian envoy gets surprise G-7 invite BEIRUT 2 Israeli drones crash over Beirut; Hezbollah denies fi ring By Sylvie Corbet, the world are smarting from Lori Hinnant and the trade dispute between the Two Israeli drones crashed Darlene Superville U.S. and China, which has in a Hezbollah stronghold in The Associated Press led to new import taxes on the Lebanese capital over- hundreds of billions of dollars- night, Lebanese and Hezbollah BIARRITZ, France — A worth of goods. Businesses officials said Sunday, saying top Iranian official paid an don’t know where tariffs will the first fell on the roof of a unannounced visit Sunday to be imposed next. building housing the group’s the G-7 summit and headed The White House had said media office while the second straight to the buildings putting the economy on the landed in a plot behind it. where leaders of the world’s agenda was Trump’s idea, The spokesman for the Iran- major democracies have been but the G-7 has for over four backed Hezbollah said the debating how to handle the decades always included a group did not fire on any of the country’s nuclear ambitions. focus on the economy. It drones, which crashed amid France’s surprise invitation was founded as a response to heightened tensions between of Iranian Foreign Minister Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, second from left, German the Arab oil embargo in the neighboring Israel and Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif was a Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, President of France Emmanuel 1970s and the recession that and shortly after Israeli war- high-stakes gamble for French Macron, second from right, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson followed. planes attacked targets near President Emmanuel Macron, take part in a working session with G7 leaders, Sunday in Biarritz, The backdrop is particu- the Syrian capital, Damascus. who is the host of the Group of France. [SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] larly worrying this year, with Israeli aircraft continued Seven gathering in Biarritz. the U.S. economy slowing to violate Lebanese airspace Zarif’s plane left Tehran on Zarif, who faces U.S. sanc- issue in the context of what and Germany and Italy close Sunday, flying low over Sunday morning and touched tions, had been scheduled to they agreed to during a dinner. to recession. Beirut hours after the drones down a few hours later at the go to Asia as part of a tour to For several months, Macron Meanwhile, Britain is due had crashed, raising fears of a Biarritz airport, which has seek support for Iran amid the has taken a lead role in trying to to leave the EU in October, wider conflict. been closed since Friday to all American campaign against save the 2015 nuclear accord, and there is no agreement on Hezbollah spokesman flights unrelated to the official it since Trump withdrew which has been unraveling how it should happen, raising Mohammed Afif said a small, G-7 delegations. the U.S. from Tehran’s 2015 since Trump pulled the U.S. the possibility of a disorderly unmanned reconnaissance A senior French official, nuclear deal. out of the agreement. His exit that could wreak havoc drone fell on a building hous- speaking on condition of ano- U.S. Treasury Secretary office said the G-7 leaders for business in Europe. ing Hezbollah’s media office nymity to discuss the sensitive Steve Mnuchin said Trump agreed he should serve as a Johnson said Britain and in the Moawwad neighbor- talks, said Zarif went directly had not “set preconditions” go-between with Iran. Europe needed to prepare for hood in Dahyeh, the group’s into a meeting with French on negotiations with Iran. “I haven’t discussed that,” that, saying the prospect of stronghold in southern Beirut. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Zarif arrived as fissures Trump said Sunday morning. a Brexit deal was “touch and He said a second drone, Le Drian. emerged among G-7 leaders He described the dinner as go.” which appeared to have been The Iranian foreign ministry over how to deal with Iran. “very, very good” and blamed The G-7 summit includes sent by Israel to search for spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, Macron said the leaders the media for anything that the heads of Britain, France, the first one less than 45 min- said Zarif flew to Biarritz at agreed during a dinner the implied otherwise. Germany, Japan, Canada and utes later, exploded in the air the invitation of the French night before that the French But it seemed from other Italy as well as a representative and crashed in an empty plot foreign minister. Mousavi said president could serve as a G-7 accounts that the previous of the 28-country EU. nearby, shattering windows in on Twitter that there would be messenger to Iran. Trump night’s dinner had been tense, In the nearby town of Bay- surrounding buildings. no meetings or negotiations denied agreeing to anything, with a clear divide between onne, protesters demanded with American officials during and Macron was forced to play him and the rest of the G-7.