SPORTS | B1 LOCAL & STATE | A3 EUSTIS’ SINGER RARE ALLIGATOR READY TO BEGIN IS BELIEVED TO NEXT CHAPTER HAVE BEEN STOLEN OF HIS CAREER IN SUMTER COUNTY Tuesday, June 26, 2018 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial 75¢ City commits to new $2.7M pool Commissioners say some emotional angst from the property, which contains city pool in Venetian Gardens the community for generations. it will be in Susan the public, City commissioners baseball fields and handball is being demolished to build a The pool is named for the late Street complex ‘area’ Monday committed to spend- courts, is linked loosely with new community center. The H.O. Dabney, a coach, teacher ing $2.7 million for a swimming trails and property to the pool, built in the late 1920s, and civic leader who picked up By Frank Stanfield pool in the Susan Street recre- Dabney recreation center, holds a sentimental spot for kids in an orange grove bus to [email protected] ation complex “area.” which has an existing pool and longtime residents. take them to the pool to teach The four commissioners a gymnasium on Griffin Road. So does the Dabney pool. them how to swim. LEESBURG — After a long present stressed the word Commissioners decided to Agnes Berry said the Dabney discussion, complete with “area” because the back of build a new pool because the pool it has been a focal point of See POOL, A5 LOCAL & STATE | A3 PRESIDENT’S APPROVAL RATING UP IN FLORIDA Authorities halt ‘zero-tolerance’ By Scott Sonner parents and children who and John L. Mone cross the southern border. Boats and docks were piled on one another at the Tavares Seaplane Base docks during Hurricane Irma The Associated Press The comments by Cus- on Monday, Sept. 11 in Tavares. In Lake County, the hurricane season left a mark. Hurricane Irma caused toms and Border Protection more than $41 million in damage to commercial and residential properties. Millions more went to debris RENO, Nevada — The Commissioner Kevin removal and other recovery efforts. [WHITNEY LEHNECKER / DAILY COMMERCIAL] nation’s top border McAleenan came shortly enforcement official after Attorney General acknowledged Monday Jeff Sessions defended the that authorities have administration’s tactics abandoned, for now, the in a speech in Nevada and Trump administration’s asserted that many children Rising from the storm “zero-tolerance” policy were brought to the border toward immigrant families by violent gang members. after the president ordered New Seaplane a design, engineering and moving forward is com- an end to the separation of See HALT, A5 Base and Marina construction firm based in plete and that we can let the on drawing board Jacksonville, was chosen by company’s engineers and city staff in March to design designers loose,” Economic U.S. Attorney By Roxanne Brown and lead construction of the Development Director Bob General Jefferson roxanne.brown new facilities. 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A8 Sports...........................B1 Home delivery: 352-787-0600 Opinion .......................A9 Comics ........................ B6 A2 Tuesday, June 26, 2018 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD NATION AND WORLD DIGEST 86 killed in Nigeria during clash MINNEAPOLIS Lawsuits challenge proposed mine near wilderness area By Sam Olukoya The Associated Press Environmental groups filed two more lawsuits Monday LAGOS, Nigeria — Scores challenging the Interior Depart- of people died in central ment’s decision to reinstate the Nigeria during vicious federal mineral rights leases for weekend clashes between the proposed Twin Metals cop- mostly Muslim herders and per-nickel mine in northeastern Christian farmers, with one Minnesota. report citing police saying One of the lawsuits was filed 86 people were killed. By by three national groups: The some accounts, the growing Wilderness Society, the Center conflict over resources has for Biological Diversity and the become deadlier than Nige- Izaak Walton League of Amer- ria’s Boko Haram extremist ica. The other was filed by the insurgency. Minneapolis-based Friends Nigeria’s president of the Boundary Waters Wil- accused unnamed politi- derness. They follow a similar cians in a statement Monday lawsuit filed Thursday by nine of taking advantage of the businesses that rely on the chaos ahead of next year’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area, elections, calling it “incred- plus Northeastern Minnesotans ibly unfortunate.” for Wilderness. All three were Dramatic footage from Jos filed in federal court in Wash- showed angry people waving ington, D.C. machetes and sticks and shouting at passing security BUCHAREST, ROMANIA forces as they weaved around Probe sought in communist- overturned and burning era deaths of 340 orphans vehicles. Smoke rose in the distance. Women and chil- A Romanian government dren clutching overstuffed institute asked prosecutors bags piled into the back of Monday to investigate the trucks, seeking a way out. deaths of 340 children at a com- President Muhammadu munist-era orphanage during Buhari warned against repri- the 1980s. sal attacks after the “deeply The Institute for Investigat- unfortunate killings across a ing the Crimes of Communism number of communities” in A woman stands near her relative as he receives treatment Monday at the Jos University teaching said the deaths occurred from central Plateau State as the hospital in Jos, Nigeria, after clashes in central Nigeria between mostly Muslim herders and Christian 1980-1989 at “the Horror military, police and counter- farmers. Dramatic footage from Jos showed angry people waving machetes and sticks and shouting at Orphanage,” the nickname terror units were sent to end passing security forces as they weaved around overturned and burning vehicles. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] local residents gave to a facil- the bloodshed. ity for children with chronic “No efforts will be spared” “Please remain calm. It is very, very, unfortunate that an “Less than 24 hours later, neurological disorders in the to find the attackers, Buhari incident is happening again like this.” violence broke out. Some northern town of Siret. said. thugs then took advantage of A total of 8,586 children were Nigeria’s government said Plateau State governor, Simon Bako Lalong the situation, turning it into admitted there from 1956 until “scores” were killed, but an opportunity to extort the the facility closed in 2001. There did not provide an official public, and to attack people were 1,500 deaths during that death toll. The independent again like this.” feeling the effects of climate from rival political parties.” period, but the institute only Channels Television cited a The deadly clashes change, have been forced Some people were dragged reviewed ones from the 1980s Plateau State police spokes- between herders and farm- south into more populated from their cars and attacked due to time constraints. It said man, Mathias Tyopev, as ers are a growing security farming communities. if they said they supported 81 children died in 1981 alone. saying 86 people had been concern in Africa’s most The widespread security certain politicians, the state- killed and at least 50 houses populous country, which issues pose a major challenge ment said. BERLIN destroyed. is roughly split between to Buhari, a Muslim former The Plateau State gover- Court convicts Syrian who Mass burials began Muslims in the north and military ruler who won office nor announced a 6 p.m. to 6 beat man wearing Jewish cap Monday amid fears that the Christians in the south. in a democratic transfer of a.m. curfew in the commu- death toll was even higher. The threat from Boko power in 2015, as elections nities of Jos South, Riyom A Berlin court convicted a “Please remain calm,” said Haram, which continues approach next year.