IS up in the AIR the Plane Will Either Be Sold, Sent Back to Five Days Museum, Or Remain in Place, County Says
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SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.50 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Defense wins 48-47 Ben Scott ready Branford High grad SUNDAY in Purple & to take on is serving EDITION Gold game. 1B No. 2 spot.1C with pride. 1D Mom: Son got wrong meds Pinemount nurse substituted another medication after stealing his, Heather Bonanno asserts. By MEGAN REEVES and giving him a different drug for stance. According to arrest reports, among those stolen and the effect on [email protected] about three weeks before the nurse she admitted stealing students’ medi- his behavior was disastrous. The boy resigned and was arrested Tuesday. cations since October. The report said has a heart condition as well, she Heather Bonanno says the school The nurse, 24-year-old Marilee she told deputies she consumed them said, and the results could have been nurse at Pinemount Elementary was Boozer, faces charges of petit theft herself, sometimes at work. Bonanno stealing her son’s ADHD medication and possession of a controlled sub- Bonanno says her son’s pills were PINEMOUNT continued on 7A Assistant FIGHTER JET’S FATE principal suspended IS UP IN THE AIR The plane will either be sold, sent back to five days museum, or remain in place, county says. By SARAH LOFTUS | [email protected] Pinemount Elementary’s he fate of a Gassett penalized for failing Vietnam War-era to report sex abuse claims. Navy fighter jet that sits on the By ROBERT BRIDGES northbound side [email protected] ofT Interstate 75 about two miles south of Lake City is up in the The assistant principal at Pinemount Elementary School received a five-day sus- air. The plane, an A-7E Corsair II, pension without pay for failing to report was acquired by the county on an 8-year-old student’s allegations of sexual loan from the National Museum abuse at home, district officials said Friday. of Naval Aviation in Pensacola Marilyn Gassett will serve the penalty at a in 1988 as a way to promote the time to be determined by the district, accord- ing to a disciplinary letter from Supt. Terry Lake City Air Show, and it’s been Huddleston. kept on private property since Gassett learned of the student’s claims she A decommissioned U.S. Navy striking a deal with then-land- had been assaulted by her stepfather from A-7E Corsair II jet is seen owner Ray Sessions. However, a Pinemount paraprofessional. The para- displayed in a field off Interstate the air show has ended, Sessions professional had been told by a co-worker 75 on Friday. has died, and issues with access GASSETT continued on 6A JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter to the land have arisen. ‘Every option is open’ back to the museum, move it or keep it much it would cost to return the plane. County manager Dale Williams said where it is. State, county since Sessions passed away in October “Right now, every option is open,” he No legal access to land 2013 and his son Austin Sessions inher- said. Although there was a chain around ited the property, the county has had The jet was delivered at no cost to the gate with locks on it, the Lake jobless rates trouble accessing the plane, partly the county, but the county would have City Reporter visited the site Friday because of a locked gate, and that’s why to pay transportation costs to return it, and found the lock holding the chain it’s considering getting rid of it. Williams said. was unlocked and that the gate could fall in April The county needs access to the land At Thursday’s Columbia County be opened. The gate is accessed via to clean and paint the plane, among Commission meeting, commissioners Southwest Monitor Glenn. County down 0.6 percent, other things, Williams said. He said the authorized the county to contact the but labor force down also. county’s options are to send the plane U.S. Department of Defense to see how PLANE continued on 6A From staff and wire reports TALLAHASSEE — Florida gained 34,000 jobs last month, which helped bring the Family, friends mourn Jared Allison, 31 state’s unemployment rate back down after it ticked up in March. By SARAH LOFTUS “He always had time He held numerous swimming The state’s overall unemployment rate for [email protected] to spend with people,” records when he went to Columbia April was 6.2 percent, a slight decrease. she said. “He could High School, and his dad thinks he The jobless rate in Columbia County fell as Jared Allison wasn’t your typical talk to anybody.” may hold one still, even though he well, from 6.2 percent in March to 5.6 percent bookworm. Jared Allison, 31, graduated in 2001. in April. Yes, he loved to read and read a was killed Friday night But his involvement with the However, that’s mostly because of a drop lot. He was reading “Intellectuals in shortly after 9 p.m. Columbia High School swim team in the local labor force, which fell from Society” before he passed, his dad, Allison in Gainesville after didn’t end there. 31,958 to 31,463. Two hundred and twenty Carl Allison, said. being hit by a truck on Even though he worked full time five fewer people were unemployed in April “He would read things no one else State Road 222, according to a Florida as the pharmacist-in-charge at his than in March, but the number with jobs also would think about reading,” he said. Highway Patrol report. Some reports parents’ business, Baya Pharmacy, went down, from 29,980 in March to 29,710 But he had so many other passions. say he was jogging when he was hit. and lived in Gainesville, he made time in April. He loved to coach and mentor kids and The driver, James Todd Brown, 51, to help coach the current Columbia was a great listener, his mother, Joan Gainesville, had not been drinking, JOBLESS continued on 5A Allison, said. FHP said. ALLISON continued on 6A Darden will sell Red Lobster, hang onto Olive Garden By CANDICE CHOI Capital in a $2.1 billion cash deal. growing popularity of places like AP Food Industry Writer The announcement came despite Chipotle and Panera, where cus- objections from some sharehold- tomers feel they can get the same NEW YORK — Darden is set- ers to the plan to separate Red quality of food without paying as ting Red Lobster adrift, but betting Lobster, which was announced late much or waiting for table service. that it can still turn around Olive last year. But Darden CEO Clarence Otis Garden’s fortunes. Both Olive Garden and Red has drawn a distinction between The company, which is based Lobster have been losing custom- Red Lobster and Olive Garden, in Orlando, said Friday that it ers in recent years, even as they both of which have restaurants in would sell its seafood chain and changed their menus and market- Lake City. the accompanying real estate ing campaigns to win back busi- FILE to investment firm Golden Gate ness. Part of the problem is the DARDEN continued on 7A The Lake City Olive Garden opened in March 2013. Vol. 140, No. 75 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER LOCAL (386) 752-1293 Local . 6A Bottle show LOCAL Obituaries . 5A Flooding leads SUBSCRIBE TO sees all shapes THE REPORTER: 88 58 Advice & Comics . 2D to boil alert, 5A. Voice: 755-5445 and sizes, 3A. Fax: 752-9400 Sunny, 8A Puzzles . 2B 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2014 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter Community Outreach of Lake City Middle School honored at School Board meeting Lake City Middle School’s Community Outreach program was selected as the Outstanding Community Involvement program, Middle School Level, for Columbia County and the Department of Education Region II. The team was recognized at the Columbia County School Board meeting on Tuesday. From left: School Board Chairman Keith Hudson, Joey Giberti, Donald Heeke, Assistant Principal William Murphy, Principal Sonya Judkin, April Vinson, Assistant Principal Meg Haley, Kristin Summers, Donna Darby, Leesa Ronsonet, Joy Thomas, Beth Cason and Superintendent Terry Huddleston. Tampa pastor found dead QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day amid embezzlement probe “For God has committed them all to disobe- dience, that He might have mercy on all. Oh, TAMPA nearing the end of its investigation. SunRail averages 10K the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and Tampa pastor was found Murphy said Dziadek was “very knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His dead of an apparent suicide well-received” at St. Joseph but had riders in 1st 2 weeks judgments and His ways past finding out! ‘For A amid an investigation he a history of depression. ORLANDO — Officials for cen- who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who had embezzled about $200,000 from tral Florida’s new commuter train has become His counselor?’” his church, authorities said. say that more than 100,000 riders — Romans 11:32-34 The Tampa Police Department Residents rally for have used the service during its ini- said the Rev. Vladimir Dziadek, 56, taken Nigerian girls tial two weeks. was discovered by a maintenance SunRail spokesman Steve Olson Thought for Today worker Monday morning at the MIAMI GARDENS — A Florida announced Friday that officials esti- bottom of a staircase at the offices congresswoman is among those mate the train has had 117,740 pas- I don’t see the point in measuring life of St.