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SAY CHEESE: It’s important B1 to keep baby teeth healthy HIGHLANDS HEALTH SEBRING ▲ Lady Streaks hold off rival Devils to even record A9 EWS UN AP council NHighlands County’s Hometown Newspaper-S Since 1927 75¢ competes Unemployment Smoak 5K, Family Fun Brickell Building buy stays level A2 Day set Saturday A6 A3 www.newssun.com An Edition of the Sun Wednesday-Thursday, September 24-25, 2014 Sebring man accidentally shoots wife in face BY PHIL ATTINGER fi re and hit the person, cooperating with po- not life-threatening, need to speak with her got out of bed to inves- STAFF WRITER who turned out to be lice inquiries into the Carr said. about the incident, tigate. He reportedly his wife. matter. Christian’s wife, She was initially tak- Carr said. thought someone was SEBRING — A man Cmdr. Steve Carr whose name is being en to Highlands Re- Police fi rst got breaking in, due to pre- who thought he heard with the Sebring Po- withheld as a possible gional Medical Center, word of the incident vious suspicious inci- and saw an intruder lice Department said domestic violence vic- and then to Bayfront at 6:42 a.m. Sunday. dents he’d reported to Sunday morning at his Eusebio Christian, 47, tim, received one shot Medical Center in St. Christian told offi cers Sebring home opened of 1621 Hitakee Ave., is in her face, but it was Petersburg. Police still he’d heard a noise and SEE SHOOTS | A7 County goes 1-1 on new businesses Longhorn Steak House a no go, but new company set for Sebring airport BY BARRY FOSTER have fallen through, NEWS-SUN CORRESPONDENT representatives at the Sebring Regional Air- SEBRING — It’s one port indicate a new up and one down when parts supply company it comes to landing soon will commence new business in High- operations there. lands County. While of- In a one-sentence fi cials at the Highlands email to Economic De- County Economic De- velopment Commis- velopment Commis- sion board members sion report plans for a new chain restaurant SEE 1-1 | A6 News-Sun fi le Will Freddy Kreuger be part of the “Carn-evil” fun at the Terror Trail this year? You’ll have to take the walk to nd out. Plenty of scares and sweets BY BARRY FOSTER Four big Halloween year. It was re-themed and of- NEWS-SUN CORRESPONDENT fered in January, where it had events planned modest success. SEBRING — Although it is The event now is back in Oc- just through September, many Terror Trail. It serves to give a tober with a carnival theme. Katara Simmons/News-Sun eyes are turning toward the end good-sized scare to fright fans Dubbed “Carn-Evil,” the trail Employees of the Blue Crab restaurant in downtown Sebring came to work Monday to of next month and Halloween. and remains the biggest single has been under construction nd out that the business had been closed ‘until further notice.’ Currently, there are four fundraiser for the Humane So- for several weeks. One of the events planned for Highlands ciety of Highlands County each challenges this time around has County to mark the annual au- year. been the construction of new The Blue Crab tumnal observance. Wet weather caused the post- The best known may be the ponement of Terror Trail last SEE SCARES | A7 closes doors BY BARRY FOSTER closing. County EMS, Fire to get assessment study NEWS-SUN CORRESPONDENT “I know that the cost BY PHIL ATTINGER missioners recently of the good catfi sh he STAFF WRITER gave emergency op- SEBRING — For the liked to sell went up to erations administra- fi rst time in nearly two more than what he was SEBRING — High- tion permission to decades, the Blue Crab charging the custom- lands County has negotiate a contract in Sebring has closed ers for it,” said long- picked a vendor to do with Fitch and Associ- its doors. Employees time bartender Ron an assessment study ates of Platte City, Mo., reportedly showed up McMahon. “He put ev- for the county’s Emer- whose proposed price Monday morning to erything he could into gency Medical Servic- is $33,300 to analyze fi nd out that owners the place to try and es and Fire Services. EMS or fi re services, Bill and Debbie Pear- keep it going.” Now all that’s left or $48,600 to do both, son had shut the popu- The couple also re- is to have that an- with a timeline of six lar eatery “until further portedly had some alyst study wheth- to eight months. Katara Simmons/News-Sun notice.” medical issues, put- er or not county EMS Commissioners opt- Debris clutters two lanes of U.S. 27 southbound during a wreck on Feb. 6, 2014, Food costs and slow ting them out of the would benefi t from ed to include fi re ser- across from Southside Boulevard and near the administrative o ces for Emer- summer sales report- place for better than a a comprehensive as- vices in the study, as gency Medical Services, on George Boulevard. No one was injured in three-vehicle, edly were cited as two month, which added to chain reaction wreck, but whether EMS needs a county-wide assessment to con- sessment. High- tinue responding quickly to such wrecks is the subject of a study the county plans of the reasons that lands County com- SEE EMS | A6 to contract from Fitch and Associates of Platte City, Mo. contributed to the SEE BLUE | A6 A 60 percent chance Classifi eds ................... B8 Friends & Neighbors ..... B7 Sports ........................ A9 Good Morning To VOL. 95 of thunderstorms High 88 Low 73 Clubs ......................... B3 Highlands Health .......... B1 Sudoku Puzzle.............. B6 NO. 111 Luther Luck Details on B14 Dear Abby ..................... B6 Lottery Numbers .......... A4 Viewpoints ................... A5 Thanks for reading! A2 | NEWS-SUN | Wednesday, September 24, 2014 www.newssun.com Job numbers stay level BY BARRY FOSTER Good turnout at tors in the Sunshine NEWS-SUN CORRESPONDENT State also remained CareerSource job fair unchanged with con- The Murals SEBRING — The struction, professional OF LAKE PLACID Florida unemployment land spokesman Andy and business services, Shop Lake Placid for an experience as unique as our murals. numbers are out for Grines, who noted that leisure and hospitality, the month of Septem- August and Septem- private education and ber. ber represent the bot- health services leading The estimated la- tom of the agricultur- the way. bor pool and employ- ally driven job cycle in The CareerSource ment numbers were up central Florida. event had hiring activi- slightly. According the Officials at Career- ties including offerings the U.S. Bureau of La- Source Highlands are for medical profes- bor statistics, the eligi- reporting their hir- sionals, sales execu- ble number of workers ing event earlier this tives, clerical and ad- here went from an esti- month went well. Two ministrative positions, mated 38,120 to 38,273 dozen employers met general laborers, retail The Art of Clown School while employed indi- with a reported 232 job specialists, food servic- viduals in the county seekers as they tried to es, truck and bus driv- A Mural Book including also projected upward put local individuals ers, correctional offi- all the murals of Lake LAKE PLACID from 34,856 to 34,969. back to work. cers, customer service MARINE Placid can be purchased However, unemploy- The fall expo is one representatives, ware- ment also was up from of the largest of the house associates, grove at the merchants on this 3,264 in July and set at year and organizers laborers, preschool page indicated by: 3,284 in August. The said it offered a great- teachers, and youth bottom line was that er variety in the types care workers. 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