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WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY, APRIL 6 & SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Skunkie Acres called ‘nuisance’ Tractor & engine show The 24th annual Antique Commissioner Tractor and Engine Show Ron Williams: ‘The continues Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 smell is awful.’ p.m. at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State HANNAH O. BROWN Park in White Springs. [email protected] See working equipment and demonstrations from Commissioner Ron rural America’s history. Williams declared Skunkie There will be competitions Acres, a self-described for adults and children and exotic zoo and animal on Saturday an antique trac- rescue shelter in White tor parade. Admission is Springs, a “nuisance” at $5 per vehicle of up to six the county commission people. (See story on 5A.) meeting on Thursday. “The smell is awful,” Painting contest Williams said. Williams said that he The Art League of North JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter had recieved continual Florida is sponsoring an art Clanton uses non-potable water to spray deposits and debris free from a clarifier, which can hold about 250,000 gallons complaints from neighbors contest (plein air) on April of water. of the shelter concerning 7 as part of the Alligator an unpleasant odor, horses Lake Festival. Check- tied to county roads, horse in is between 8:30 a.m. feces on roads around the and 11:30 a.m. at the Art facility and barking dogs. League booth. The judging Williams also said the and awards will be present- shelter was calling itself a ed shortly after noon. rescue mission without the Prize money will be appropriate certification to determined by the number Water for sale do so. of entrees. The entry fee Although Skunkie for work produced between Acres has a White Springs 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. is address, it is actually locat- $15 for two entrees. Call City to collect revenue ed in Columbia County. 228-8898 or 758-7853 for Skunkie Acres was details. from reclaimed H2O – originally denied Special preserving a resource. Exemption for agricultural Easter Fun Day zoning by the Board of Hopeful Baptist Church, Adjustment in 2007 due By HANNAH O. BROWN 289 SE Hopeful Drive, will to the predicted effect the [email protected] host Easter Fun Day on shelter would have on the April 7 from 10 a.m. until surrounding community. noon. Free Admission. hether washing Skunkie Acres appealed dishes, watering the denial and was later Egg hunt a lawn or taking a granted the permit. Williams said that he Gold Standard Lodge #167 shower, everyone now regretted that deci- will their annual Easter egg of us uses water sion. hunt activity on Saturday, Wconstantly. Gallons slip through “If I had to do it all over April 7 at Annie Maddox drains and into the city’s sewer sys- again years ago when we Park from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. tems without a thought. done this, I would have not Come out and enjoy this free Where does this discarded liquid done this today,” Williams festival with free food and go? said. prizes. For more information After meeting our most basic County Attorney Marlin call 867-6675. needs, wastewater embarks on JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Feagle suggested that the a long and multifaceted journey Cathy Richards, a lab technician at the St. Margarets Street Waste Water Farmers market through Lake City’s wastewater Department of Health do treatment system, a network that Facility, runs water samples through a filter in order to determine the percentage an investigation of the Children of all age are spans from the St. Margarets of solids present. The facility treats an average of about 2.3 millions gallons a facility. welcome to the inaugu- Wastewater Treatment Facility day. “Every regulatory agen- ral Easter Egg Hunt in down past Kicklighter Road and cy has been out there in one Wilson Park on Saturday, ultimately dispersed onto over 800 form or fashion,” Williams April 7 starting at 10:30 acres of land fertilized with byprod- water to a secondary effluent, con- The process begins at the head- said. Williams agreed that a.m. in conjunction with ucts of the treatment process. sidered non-potable but adequate works, which sorts out indigestible he would speak with the the Lake DeSoto Farmers “It’s a balancing act that we have for irrigation and other non-con- materials and sends the remaining Health Dept. about the Market. The market’s to go through,” Executive Director sumptive uses, is achieved through wastewater to be begin the treat- issue. spring/summer hours of Utilities and undercover conser- predominately biological interven- ment process. Clanton recalled In other business, are each Saturday from 8 vationist Dave Clanton said. tion. hearing of large objects such as bas- Supervisor of Elections a.m. to noon in the Lake The wastewater treatment facility Microorganisms that are almost ketballs and large blocks of wood Liz Horne asked the board City downtown park, 778 on St. Margarets Street has been undetectable break down decaying getting sorted out in this system. NE Lake DeSoto Circle. in existence since 1928. Since that matter contained in the wastewater. As recent as 1995, the facility SHELTER continued on 8A Healthy local foods and time the facility has undergone a Though it is difficult to detect used an open air manual basin creative gifts are also avail- series of improvements, tweaking these hardworking microorganisms for the headworks in which utility able. the process so that work is more even with a microscope, adequate workers had to manually shovel This event is co-pre- robotically controlled and less by levels are verified by identifying the sludge out of a cement pool after Alligator sented by the city of Lake manual labor. ratio of slightly larger microorgan- treatable water had been extracted. City and the Lake City – One gallon of water typically isms such as rotifers, stalked cili- Luckily, the facility now has a Lake Spring Columbia County Chamber makes its way through the facility ates and protozoa that thrive on the mechanical system in which com- of Commerce. in around 22 to 25 days. tiny creatures that make the break- Festival set Florida native Shana The transformation from waste- down happen. WATER continued on 3A Banana brings her “Great Kids” show featuring lots for Saturday of interactive music, move- By LAURA HAMPSON ment, and puppets. Also [email protected] for the kids will be hands Papa John’s back in business on activities presented by Celebrate the beauty of United Way and Suwannee If an April 23 pretrial con- U.S. 90, that destroyed the spring with up-close nature Valley 4C’s. Alleged arsonists ference presents no delays, restaurant’s interior. After walks, creative activities set for pre-trial Bryan David Sullivan and more than five months of and educational displays FFA plant sale Sean Everett Davidson will rebuilding, Papa John’s Saturday at the Alligator appearance. be tried the week of June reopened Thursday. Lake Spring Festival. The Columbia County 11, said Roberta Getzan, Sullivan reportedly told Sponsored by Four Farm Bureau FFA By LAURA HAMPSON assistant state attorney. police he believed his Rivers Audubon and Leadership Academy will [email protected] Sullivan and Davidson, restaurant would attract JASON MATTHEW WALKER Gateway Wildlife Habitat have a flowering plant and managers at Domino’s more customers if Papa Lake City Reporter Organization, this family Two Lake City men vegetable plant sale at Pizza, 2372 W. U.S. 90, John’s was closed. Sullivan Long time customer Bill event will run from 10 a.m. charged with arson in an the Lake DeSoto Farmers are accused of using an told police he recruited Brock, of Lake City, savors to 3 p.m. at Alligator Lake alleged attempt to increase Market April 7 from 8 a.m. accelerant to start an early Davidson, who suffered the first bite of Papa John’s Park, 420 SE Alligator Glen pizzeria business are to noon. Please support morning fire on Oct. 20 burns on his arms, to assist scheduled to be tried this pizza Thursday since the your FFA. at Papa John’s, 2815 NW in the plan. summer. store was set aflame. 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Cameron Bure is 36. Daily Scripture LOS ANGELES – Keith Olbermann is moving his grievances with his “For Christ’s love compels us, former employer Current TV from because we are convinced that the airwaves to the courtroom, suing one died for all, and therefore the network for more than $50 mil- lion and blasting it for what he claims all died.