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6_20_pages_1to3.qxp_redesign 6/18/21 3:38 PM Page 1 WEEKEND: JUNE 20-22, 2021 SANFORD CHAMPIONS Memoir Reveals Author’s Sanford recently held its Experiences Traveling the 32nd All-American Soap Box World Solo as a Full-Time Derby Local Race Wheelchair User See Sports, Page 8 See People, Page 5 SANFORD HERALD LAKE MARY, LONGWOOD, WINTER SPRINGS, OVIEDO, GENEVA, CASSELBERRY, OSTEEN, CHULUOTA, ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, DEBARY Vol. 130, No. 91 • © 2021 READ US ONLINE AT: MYSANFORDHERALD.COM Since 1908 HEADLINES FROM Swoop, there it is! Teenager in shootout ASSOCIATED PRESS Swoop airlines to begin flights to Canada from Sanford with Volusia deputies Biden trip takeaways: Respect, optimism, some skepticism By Steve Paradis to be charged as adult [email protected] WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres- Herald Staff By Steve Paradis ident Joe Biden’s first overseas [email protected] trip put his diplomatic and ne- Swoop airlines announced Herald Staff gotiating philosophy on display, Wednesday that it will start service as he rallied traditional U.S. between Orlando Sanford Interna- Two children involved in an exchange of democratic allies to confront tional Airport and three Canadian gunfire with Volusia County deputies June 1 new and old challenges. destinations this fall. will face the same charges, one as a juvenile Authorities hope other airlines and the other as an adult, according to State Study: Texas bases lead will join Swoop in flying to Sanford Attorney R.J. Larizza. Army posts in risk of sexual as the airport recovers from the pan- Larizza said in a news conference Thursday demic and flaunts its recent major assault afternoon that 14-year-old Nicole Jackson terminal improvement project. would face adult charges of attempted first de- “SFB is better poised for growth gree murder on a law enforcement officer, WASHINGTON (AP) — Fe- with more gate capacity, more secu- armed burglary and criminal mischief with male soldiers at Army bases in rity screening lanes, larger ticketing property damage over $1,000. Texas, Colorado, Kansas and hall, and state of the art baggage re- The other defendant, 12-year-old Travis Kentucky face a greater risk of trieval system,” said Tom Nolan, O’Brien, will face the same charges as a juve- sexual assault and harassment Photos courtesy of flyswoop.com nile, Larizza said. than those at other posts, ac- Swoop airline was established in 2018 as an independent sub- Though she is being charged as an adult, the counting for more than a third sidiary of the WestJet Group of Companies, Canada. See SWOOP, Page 6B 14-year-old could receive sentencing under ju- of all active-duty Army women venile rules, if convicted, Larizza said. sexually assaulted in 2018. “This is a horrible, disturbing event,” Lar- izza told reporters Thursday. He said he spoke Brazil still debating dubious with state officials, and he expects the question virus drug amid 500,000 of how to deal with young people who commit deaths crimes like this to be addressed in the near fu- ture. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — As On June 1, deputies said the two young peo- Brazil hurtles toward an official COVID-19 death toll of 500,000 See VOLUSIA, Page 2B — second-highest in the world — science is on trial inside the country and the truth is up for grabs. Check out what’s Sealed with a kiss: Macron happening around revives France's cheeky embrace Seminole County PARIS (AP) — The double- See Page 4 cheeked embrace that was a customary greeting in France before the coronavirus pan- Seminole Smile sponsored by Oakport Dental demic saw it largely abandoned as a potential kiss of death is back with a presidential seal of approval. Swoop has a small fleet of Boeing 737s to fly passengers from Sanford to Toronto, starting Oct. 9; Hamilton, Ontario, starting Nov. 1; and Edmonton, Alberta, starting Nov. 5. 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It has 33 antidotes to go by the Federal Government. with the second edition which will focus on another 33 antidotes. “An antidote is taken from the meaning of life,” Grigley told the Herald from his home in Suwanee, Maya Peters Student Correspondent See AUTHOR, Page 6B Carillon Elementary School 6_20_pages_1to3.qxp_redesign 6/18/21 3:38 PM Page 2 6_20_pages_1to3.qxp_redesign 6/18/21 3:38 PM Page 3 SANFORD HERALD Weekend: June 20-22, 2021 • PAGE 3A OPINIONS SNARKY McSNIDE SAYS, Random Thoughts South. In 1870 he publicly denounced the Ku Klux Klan. In 1872, he supported Our Governor is sending our law en- passage of a state statute which success- forcement officers to the Mexican bor- fully legalized black testimony against der? Why not the Georgia border to whites in court. In the latest hysteria, keep out all of those New Yorkers who his statue was removed in Lexington, are cluttering up our state? KY. Have you seen the beginnings of In earlier days, Mary Todd Lincoln, Spaghetti Junction where I-4 and 417 Breckinridge's cousin, was the girl- and 429 are going to meet? The steel is friend of Stephen A. Douglas, one of heading skyward. Abraham Lincoln's strongest oppo- nents. The fastest way to get to I-4 from downtown Sanford is still along the In battles at Shimonoseki, culminat- lakefront. You learn to drive across the ing in 1864, Japan was humiliated and roundabouts to save time. Too bad the forced to pay damages to four western City put the things in. It endangers the naval powers. They were France, Great city's main taxpayer, the hospital. It Britain, The Netherlands and the may lose its designation as a trauma United States. center because of the difficulty reaching it in an emergency. On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and at the same time , the The 1865 sojourner on Lake Monroe, British possession, Singapore. The John C. Breckinridge, the last Secretary Netherland East Indies were invaded of War in the Confederacy, advised and the rest of French Indo-China was against a guerrilla war by the defeated occupied. This Juneteenth, Remember Americans MALLARD FILLMORE Bruce Tinsley Who Put Slavery on the Path to Extinction By Michael Barone from a distaste for slavery than from empathy for the enslaved" and sometimes ineffective in This week, the Senate unanimously passed a practice. bill declaring Juneteenth a national holiday, True enough, but as Gordon Wood argued commemorating June 19, 1865, when a Union in a mostly favorable review in the Wall Street general informed the last enslaved people in Journal, this understates "the momentous blow Texas that, thanks to the 13th Amendment, that the American Revolution inflicted on the they were free. This was the denouement of a system of slavery in the New World" and the long process, begun more than four score years fact that "the United States became the first na- before and cruelly delayed for many decades. tion in the world to begin actively suppressing There was virtually no articulate opposition the despicable international slave trade." to slavery, except among Quakers, in the North Similarly, legal historian Robert Cottrol con- American colonies that rebelled against British cluded in "The Long, Lingering Shadow," his rule in the 1770s. But there was an obvious ten- survey of slavery and race in the Americas, sion between slavery and American assertions that "If the progress of northern abolition was of individual rights, encapsulated in Thomas gradual and at times halting, it was nonethe- Jefferson's phrase "all men are created equal." less the first large-scale emancipation in the Revolutionaries were uncomfortably aware of Western Hemisphere, a testament to the power the great English writer and lexicographer of the ideals generated by the American Revo- Samuel Johnson's remark, "How is it that we lution." hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the It is easy to judge these early antislavery drivers of negroes?" measures as insufficient by 21st-century stan- Americans in northern states responded. In dards. But they can be defended as the best 1781 and 1783, Massachusetts trial and appeals that practical politicians could do to put the courts ruled that slavery violated the common- "peculiar institution" on the "path to extinc- wealth's 1780 constitution, and later in the tion." decade, New Hampshire courts agreed. These Tragically, the trend did not extend far resembled Lord Chief Justice William Mans- southward. Virginia in 1782, Delaware in 1787 field's 1772 decision in Somerset's case that and Maryland in 1790 passed manumission slavery did not exist in England. laws, regularizing granting freedom to slaves, In 1780, the Pennsylvania legislature, declar- as George Washington did in his will in 1799. ing slavery "disgraceful to any people, and By 1860, 92% of Black people in Delaware and more especially to those who have been con- 40% in Maryland were free. tending in the great cause of liberty them- But Virginia repealed its manumission law selves," passed a law gradually freeing slaves, in 1806, and in the 1820s, rejected attempts to similar to one passed by the independent re- abolish slavery.