1A SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.50 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM FGC hosts countywide Catholic Charities gives SUNDAY EDITION Speed Stacking annual Dove, Competition. 6A Grace awards. 7A Parade RAIN CAN’T DAMPEN... County now set SNOW DAY 2013 ranks to roll high on Monday From staff reports STD list Inclement weather Students here are postponed the Lake City Christmas Parade Saturday 18th of Florida’s night, but the holiday 67 counties. crowd-pleaser has been rescheduled for Monday. By AMANDA WILLIAMSON The parade route will [email protected] remain the same. The Lake City Christmas parade will Columbia County ranks take place at 6 p.m. Monday 18th out of 67 Florida coun- and the parade lineup will ties in terms of school-aged begin at 5 p.m. near the children with sexually-trans- corner of North West mitted diseases, a problem Washington Street and the Florida Department of North West Hilton Avenue. Education may be able to The parade will start help. on Marion Avenue near A DOE representative Washington Street with approached Columbia Meally Jenkins, founder County School District’s of the Christmas Dream health education coordi- Machine as its grand nator Gloria Spivey and marshal and head south, the Columbia County ending at the DOT office Department of Health on near Clements Street and Photos by JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Monday to conduct a coun- disperse at the Farmers Laciemae Hopper, 7, hits a mound of shaved ice during the Snow Day event held in Olustee Park in downtown ty health assessment sur- Furniture Parking lot. Lake City on Saturday. ‘The hump (in the snow) surprised me,’ she said. SEE MORE PHOTOS, 9A. vey. The department will The Lake City Christmas analyze the data to select 15 Parade is coordinated by counties in the state most the Rotary Club of Lake Weather threatened, but failed to spoil annual event. in need of help. Though City. Rotary Club presi- Columbia County may not dent Robert Turbeville said By AMANDA WILLIAMSON Over and over again, the same friends and family. Within sec- be selected, the local health Friday that the high chance [email protected] scene played out at the Lake onds after uncurling from the department plans to contin- of rain Saturday night was City-Columbia County Chamber sled, he already wanted to head ue county-wide education the reason the parade was uke clutched 3-year- of Commerce event, Snow Day, to one of the four snowhills. “I on STDs. postponed. old Maggie in his on Saturday. Children waited in get to build a snowman.” Currently, approximate- “We had a lot of churches arms as the two pre- line, anxiously anticipating their It wasn’t the first time Luke ly 3 out of 100 students and groups calling us con- pared to sled down turn to go down the slide or see had played in the make-shift contract either gonorrhea cerned about the rain fore- the snow-covered Santa. The smell of funnel cakes snow piled high in the down- or chlamydia between cast for Saturday night, so Lslide. One, two, three — and and other fair-esque food drifted town Olustee Park. After coming the ages of 15 to 19 in the we talked to several meteo- they propelled down the icy from the street lined with food last year, he looked forward to county. At a rate of 2,971.8 rologists and got their take slope in their blue sled, looks of vendors. this year’s Snow Day. per 100,000, Columbia on it and we felt it was bet- excitement beaming from their “It just doesn’t snow here,” “It’s a good event,” said his ranks higher than the state ter to move it to Monday faces as the sled hopped a small said 5-year-old Luke, who loved rate of 2,377.3. According night,” Turbeville said. hill and came to a rest. crafting snowballs to chuck at SNOW DAY continued on 9A to Florida Department of Health data, approximately 130 students tested posi- FLORIDA GATEWAY COLLEGE tive last year for STDs, not including HIV. Columbia County reported less than Trick pool shots on tap 10 cases of HIV among Law enforcement By STEVEN RICHMOND school-aged children. [email protected] “We have to do a bet- academy expands ter job of educating our Tom “Dr. Cue” Rossman youth,” Mark Lander, By STEVEN RICHMOND Columbia and Baker and his wife, Marty, were Columbia County Health [email protected] County Sheriffs’ Offices. regulars in the profes- Department administrator, The proposed facilities sional billiards circuit for said. “I’m not surprised [by Florida Gateway would be placed on the decades until one day in the numbers,] but I am College revealed concep- southeast side of cam- 1991 when they coined disappointed. I would like tual designs Friday morn- pus near the intramural the term “artistic pool”—a for us to do more outreach ing for a 25-acre campus softball field and include new sport marrying phys- in schools. I would like for expansion that would a 700 by 400 foot emer- ics, dexterity, creativity our students to take this create additional train- gency vehicle operations and visual entertainment. seriously. They are suscep- ing facilities for their law training course, a four That sport came to Lake tible. Sexually-transmitted enforcement and public story fire training facil- City Friday during the first diseases aren’t random. safety programs. ity and enhanced firearm JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter round of the Dr. Cue Classic The actions of our youth The computer-gener- practice environments. Tom ‘Too Kool’ Kinzel sets up a shot during the Dr. Artistic Cup VII, a multi- are what drive our STD ated renderings were “This is an overall con- Cue Classic Artistic Cup VII held at the Pockets pool stage tournament at the rates.” revealed to the press dur- cept of what we’d like to hall on Friday. Competitors were expected to follow the Pockets pool hall featuring Columbia County fell ing a roundtable meeting see if our wishlist was ful- eight disciplines, including the Trick and Fancy, Special 14 skilled billiards players behind Gadsden County, with representatives from filled today,” Sheriff Mark Arts, Draw, Follow, Bank/Kick, Stroke, Jump and Masse Florida Gateway College, Hunter said. “But we real- shots. POOL continued on 8A STD continued on 8A Columbia County Fire ize we can’t do this all in Rescue, Lake City Fire Department and the FGC continued on 8A Yoho talks gun rights here By AMANDA WILLIAMSON filled the audience at the allows us to have ownership [email protected] Jackie Taylor building in of weapons responsibly.” Lake City. Most of them were The Second Amendment Congressman Ted curious about issues such as was written at a time when Yoho declared, to a cho- the Stand Your Ground law, America was fledgling nation rus of cheers at the Family selecting the right gun safe breaking away from a tyran- Firearms Safety event and how to handle a con- nical government. Since that Saturday, the Second cealed weapon if stopped by time, many military troops Amendment a constitutional law enforcement. have fought to protect the idea birthright that should not be “The gun doesn’t kill peo- of a free militia established TROY ROBERTS/Florida Gateway College infringed upon. ple,” Yoho said. “It’s the peo- during the Revolutionary LCFD Assistant Fire Chief Tim Westberry, FGC Vice JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Organized by Yoho’s ple behind it. It’s an instru- War, Yoho added. It remains President of Occupational Programs Tracy Hickman, LCFD U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R- staff, the event educated the ment. It’s something there, the responsibility of all Gainesville, speaks about the Fire Chief Frank Armijo, FGC President Charles Hall, FGC congressman’s constituents an animate object that has no Americans to make sure the Law Enforcement Academy Director John Jewett and FGC about gun safety, proper emotion unless someone’s Second Amendment is not Second Amendment during Law Enforcement Training Program Coordinator Jay Swisher maintenance, concealed behind it. And thank God, impacted, Yoho said. the Family Firearm Safety pose in front of a surplus 1993 Pierce International firetruck weapon permits and more. we live in a country that has Event held in Lake City on donated by the Lake City council and LCFD Friday morning. Approximately 40 people a Second Amendment that YOHO continued on 8A Saturday. Vol. 139, No. 224 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER TODAY IN TODAY IN (386) 752-1293 Business . 1C Obituaries . 5A SPORTS BUSINESS SUBSCRIBE TO Guitars at top of THE REPORTER: 65 36 Advice . 5D Tigers take on Palatka Voice: 755-5445 Rain showers, 2A Puzzles . 5B holiday shopping list. Fax: 752-9400 in double-header. 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER SUNDAY REPORT SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 Friday: Friday: Saturday: Saturday: Wednesday: Wednesday: 12-32-38-42 x17 6-30-32-34-35 Afternoon: 9-4-5 Afternoon: 0-6-8-4 2-33-38-51-52-53 x5 1-10-13-18-9 x27 AROUND FLORIDA Deputies: Teen kicks 72-year-old man, laughs FORT MYERS southwest Florida Former chairman community is ral- pleads guilty lying around a 72- A SARASOTA — The year-old man this holiday former Sarasota County season after authorities Republican Party chair- say a teenager kicked him man has pleaded guilty while her friend video- to making false campaign taped it. donations. Lee County Sheriff’s offi- The Sarasota Herald- cials said a 15-year-old high Tribune reports Robert school basketball player Waechter confessed and several teammates Thursday to using “under- were walking through a handed tactics” but will neighborhood when they avoid prison.