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Inside this B Section 99 11 00 22 ONTICELLO EWS M 151 Years of Serving the Monticello Community N www.ecbpublishing.com Wednesday, August 21, 2019 No. 25 75¢+Tax Child left in Young hot car life Ashley Hunter ECB Publishing, Inc. The Monticello Police Department lost (MPD) and Jefferson County Fire Rescue were located on the south shoulder: a 2019 (JCFR) rushed to the Honda Accord driven by Taiki Williams, Jefferson County Early 32, of Orlando, Fla.; and a 2019 GMC Headstart daycare on Yukon, driven by Christopher Miller, 41, Friday, Aug. 16 after of Port St. Lucie, Fla. receiving a 911 call that Strohbehn's vehicle came to a final a young child had been rest, jack-knifed with its occupied horse ECB Publishing, Inc. Photo By Deidre Myers, August 15, 2019 left in a vehicle. The driver of a 2002 Toyota Camry, 21-year-old Samuel M. Shiver, of Monticello, trailer, just east of the wreckage in the At 11:11 a.m., the has died after being involved in a five-car wreck on Interstate 10 on the night of inside lane of Interstate 10. MPD received a report Thursday, Aug. 15. FHP reports that Shiver attempted to exit the vehicle when he was Shiver was pronounced dead at the that a 16-month-old struck by an oncoming truck. scene and Madison-resident Susan child had been left in a John Willoughby traveling the wrong way in the inside Maultsby was transported to Tallahassee vehicle. ECB Publishing, Inc. eastbound lane of Interstate 10. Traveling Memorial Hospital with serious, but non- When officers east in the eastbound inside lane, was also life threatening injuries. responded to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) Susan Maultsby, of Madison. The incident, which closed both daycare, they found troopers and local first responders sped to While Shiver continued to drive his eastbound lanes, caused traffic to back up that the child had been the scene of a multi-vehicle pile-up on 2002 Toyota Camry the wrong way up the for miles on Interstate 10. Both lanes were shut inside an unlocked Interstate 10 on Thursday, Aug. 15, at eastbound lane, Maultsby was unable to opened at approximately 6 a.m. on Friday, vehicle that had been approximately 9 p.m. One Monticello avoid a collision with Shiver's vehicle, Aug. 16, after being closed for nine hours. parked in the daycare's resident is dead after an alleged wrong- resulting in a head-on collision. Both Alcohol has not been ruled out and is parking lot. By the time way driving incident claimed his life and vehicles came to a rest in the inside pending investigation. that officers arrived, also injured a Madison County resident. eastbound lane of the roadway. The scene was investigated by Trooper however, the child had Five vehicles were involved in the After the collision, Shiver attempted to W. Dixon and FHP Homicide Investigator already been pile-up at the Interstate 10 mile marker exit the vehicle but was struck by a 2012 Corporal K. Shipman. FHP was assisted by See HOT CAR page 3A 240, around the overpass that sees traffic Dodge Ram, driven by Iowa-resident the Madison County Sheriff's Office, over Highway 150, in Greenville. Michael Strohbehn. After striking Shiver, Madison Fire Department, Madison According to a report by the Florida Strohbehn's Dodge Ram also collided with County Fire Rescue, Hamburg-Lovett Highway Patrol (FHP), 21-year-old the left side of Shiver's Toyota Camry and Volunteer Fire Department and Sirmans Man Samuel M. Shiver, of Monticello, was then collided with two parked vehicles that Volunteer Fire Department. gets 25 Pearl Street set for repaving Search Lazaro Aleman for gun years ECB Publishing, Inc. range Lazaro Aleman The City of Monticello has ECB Publishing, Inc. now received the state funding alignments; The and hired an engineer to repave evaluating the current roadway, continues A FDOT is funding the project the portion of Pearl Street from drainage patterns and structures; Lazaro Aleman county through its Small County Mulberry to Railroad streets. and designing a new roadway, ECB Publishing, Inc. man Outreach Program (SCOP), The city was awarded along with providing the recently which now has component that $210,505 by the Florida required construction plans and The county's closed received is applicable to municipalities. Department of Transportation bid documents. The Pearl Street resurfacing, landfill on Tyson Road a 25-year (FDOT) for the resurfacing Baxley said the project had a along with the improvements on is no longer under Anthony prison project, and it recently completion date of June 30, Dogwood Street and those consideration as a Scott Bolen sentence contracted with Dewberry 2020. Per the agreement, city scheduled for Cherry Street, are possible site for the for violation of Engineering to provide the personnel will inspect the part of city officials' overall plan proposed gun range. probation on a sexual design and surveying services. completed work, as state law to enhance and bring economic It appears that battery case dating On Tuesday, Aug. 6, prevents engineering firms from vitality to the downtown district. opposition from an from 2005. Dewberry engineer Josh Baxley inspecting their own work. The Pearl Street resurfacing adjacent landowner and Anthony Scott presented the council with a The total length of the is also a recognition of the patrons of a nearby Bolen, 36, formerly of detailed description of the resurfacing project is 0.4 miles, vitality that the area already church and cemetery Lloyd, was adjudicated services his organization Baxley said. gained with the Ranco Grande pretty much nixed the guilty of attempted proposed to provide for $21,000. The FDOT released the Mexican restaurant, which is in idea. sexual battery of a Those services included $210,505 following the the process of remodeling a County person under 12 and surveying the right-of-way and agreement that the city entered building across the street to Coordinator Parrish See BOLEN page 3A existing improvements and with the state agency in June. relocate there eventually. See RANGE page 3A Two Sections - 22 pages Did you know? Index Over 2,500 left handed people are killed a year from Viewpoints.................................2A Crime News...............................9A Classifieds & Legals................12A using right Community News....................4-8A Faith & Family....................10&11A Football Preview..............B Section handed products. 2A • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2019 • MONTICELLO NEWS Viewpoints & Opinions Emerald’s Gem Box... Heaven, like Earth, needs children too Tomorrow, Thursday, August 22, “baby” but always wished that I had our life should just make us stronger The Lord answered her by saying, marks what would have been the 47th that younger brother that I could have Christians. I knew that, and understood “Heaven, like earth, needs children birthday of my had. I always longed for “what could that, even during my younger years. too.” younger have been” and always wondered what However, the question always lingered, That story, and that thought brother, Forest. life, in our home, would have been like, “Why did Forest have to die?” It’s just a process, meant a lot to me – and it still Forest with that extra brother. question we, as humans, always wonder. does. It said a lot to me about my Forest Selman Greene Even on into my teenage years I One day, in my early 20’s, I was as well. We, his family, did not get to was born on never lost that feeling. When I had reading a book (back then I actually had spend time with him and enjoy him, but Aug. 22, 1972, troubles on my mind (as all young time to read for pleasure). Within the God did – for God loves children too. and was the teenagers do) I would drive to the story, there was a lady who had a child Even after all these years, I still Emerald Greene fourth child cemetery and sit by Forest’s grave and that died. The lady began questioning think about that story. When I hear, or born to my “just talk.” I could sit there for hours, the Lord on His reasoning behind her read, about a baby, child or young Parsons parents. For with him, and just think and talk. It child dying. Her attitude changed person dying I think about that story. Publisher reasons always seemed to ease my mind and towards God and she began to be angry Too many times in life we question unknown, Forest was born with major help me feel better. and resentful. She began to turn her God with “why?” medical problems and only lived one I have always been strong in my back on the Lord. We may never know the answer to day. He died on August 23, 1972. faith. I KNEW/KNOW that for One night she had a dream. She all of our questions, but we need to My youngest childhood memory is everything under the sun, there is a dreamed she was standing with the Lord remember there IS a reason to of Forest’s funeral. reason. The Lord never gives us more talking. She asked Him, “Lord, why did everything under the sun. We just have Without Forest, I grew up as the than we can handle. The adversities in you let my baby die?” to have faith. secularizes, and grows less tolerant of Christian orthodoxy, I’m noticing a pattern in many of the hristian people who fall away; they’re retreating from faith not because they’re ignorant of its key tenets and lack the necessary intellectual, theological depth, but rather C because the adversity of adherence to increasingly oncepts countercultural doctrine grows too great.