Blue versus Grey Full report, this edition. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Tax offices may start accepting $1M for Olustee Museum By TONY BRITT of Orlando. duces the re-enactment gun license [email protected] Founder Copeland Hill, each year. who died in 1997, was a “Every year we spend applications Before Sunday’s 38th trucker in his early days and money on the (battle re-enactment of the Battle of on trips, he often stopped re-enactment), but we By DARA KAM Olustee, it was announced and visited battlefields. always manage to make The News Service of Florida that a $1 million grant has “He developed a love of a little money and we’ve JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter been awarded to build a Civil War battlefields,” said been keeping that money Jeffrey McClanathan, president of the Hill Truck Rental TALLAHASSEE — Gun new museum there. Gary Dickinson, president to build a museum,” Foundation, presents a check for $1M to Gary Dickinson owners would be able to apply The money comes by of the Olustee Citizen (right), president of the Olustee Citizen Support Organization for concealed weapons licens- way of a grant from Hill Support Organization, a MUSEUM continued on 7A before the re-enactment on Sunday. es at their Truck Rental Foundation 501c3 non-profit that pro- local tax col- lector’s offic- es under a National Rifle Association- Re-living history backed measure Brannon approved unanimous- ly by the Senate Agriculture Committee on Monday. Florida has more than a mil- lion concealed weapons licens- PERMITS continued on 7A 3 missing kids last seen here By STEVEN RICHMOND [email protected] Law enforcement are on the lookout for three missing Miami children last seen in Lake City, according to a miss- ing child alert from FDLE. Erin Pena, 12, Derick Pena, 7 and Steven Pena, 8, all of Miami, were last seen on Photos by JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter the 2000 block Union artillerymen send a barrage of cannon fire to keep Confederate troops at bay during Sunday’s re-enactment. of West US 90 near TD Bank in Lake City, Thousands cheer as 150th goes off without a hitch according to the alert hazardly through the sky, took Erin Pena and LCPD Weather perfect for a brunt of the battle’s bombard- Investigator 38th annual battle. ment as well. Craig To those without a knowledge Strickland. By STEVEN RICHMOND of the battle itself, the outcome Investi- [email protected] seemed uncertain as momentum gators believe see-sawed precariously to either the children Thousands of visitors gath- side during the thick of the fighting. may be travel- ered to witness the 38th Annual That is, until one pivot- ing in a 2014 Battle of Olustee Re-enactment al moment—a small group of Derik Pena white Nissan Sunday afternoon, honoring the Confederate infantry broke rank Altima with sesquicentennial anniversary of and dashed into the no man’s land Florida tag Florida’s most significant Civil between the two opposing sides, U291LR, War battle. reaching for the Union’s 35-star and may be The blue and grey traded vol- banner that had fallen with its with 32-year- leys of musket and cannon fire for Gunsmoke fills the air as Confederate re-enactors look to take down the carrier. old Carrie an hour and a half, the sky filled Union front line Sunday. The crowd gave a raucous Weingarth, with black powder fog and smoke cheer as the soldiers returned to FDLE said. rings. fell as troops aimed for their oppo- enemy manpower and morale. Steven Pena The chil- One by one, standard-bearers nent’s flags, aiming to damage Palmetto shrubs, launching hap- BATTLE continued on 7A dren are around three- and-a-half to four feet tall with dark Weekend saw biggest turnout brown/black hair and since Olustee Festival founded Weingarth brown eyes, the alert said. By AMANDA WILLIAMSON County, but an additional 5,000 peo- Erin Pena [email protected] ple joined this year to celebrate was wearing a blue polo shit, the 150th anniversary of the battle. khaki pants and gray and Even though the economic impact Lord believes the festival received orange tennis shoes the last of the Olustee Festival is still being the largest turnout since its incep- he was seen, FDLE said. calculated, the Columbia County tion 36 years ago by the Blue-Grey Weingarth is white, 5-foot- Tourist Development Council offi- Army, Inc. 1-inch tall with black hair, cials said Lake City’s businesses Lake City restaurants reported brown eyes and a weight of benefited from an influx of visitors positive feedback on weekend busi- 130 pounds, the alert said. over the weekend. ness, Lord said, adding that Texas Anyone with information According to Paulette Lord, mar- Roadhouse and Olive Garden spe- concerning the whereabouts JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter keting director for the TDC, the cifically told her they had seen an of these children are encour- A dance on the eve of battle annual event was very successful, increase. Many of the hotels in aged to call FDLE at 1-888- drawing big crowds both Friday town were nearly at capacity, and 356-4774, the Miami-Dade Jeanie Wilks and Randy Sweet enjoy square dancing while at the and Saturday. the Olustee Festival vendors stated School Police Department at 35th Annual Blue-Grey Square Dance held at Rountree-Moore Normally, the Olustee Festival 305-775-7682 or 911. Toyota Showroom on Saturday. attracts 20,000 people to Columbia TURNOUT continued on 7A Vol. 140, No. 11 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER SCHOOLS SPORTS (386) 752-1293 Schools . 6A RMS students take Two elementary SUBSCRIBE TO Obituaries . 5A THE REPORTER: 76 47 Advice & Comics . 4B home Latin Forum schools field Voice: 755-5445 ribbons, 6A. archery teams, 1B. 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Submissions The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter caption information to run at the discretion of the Nueva named Independent Carrier of the Year editor. If you would like to see your organization in the newspaper, send the picture and information to Joe Smith (from right), Lake City Reporter circulation district manager, presents Jorge Villa Nueva and Jordana Smith with a associate editor Emily Lawson at elawson@lakeci- plaque for Independent Carrier of the Year on Friday. Also pictured is their 18-month-old daughter Estella. tyreporter.com. 94-year-old Heimlich maneuver namesake pens memoir CINCINNATI to have it down in print so the public will used the maneuver or been saved by it. snakes, but then picked them back up he surgeon who wrote the book on have the correct information.” His autobiography is entitiled and continued on. Within minutes, Winn saving choking victims through his Heimlich says thousands of deaths “Heimlich’s Maneuvers: My Seventy said Coots headed to the bathroom. T namesake Heimlich maneuver has reported annually from choking prompted Years of Lifesaving Innovation.” “He had one of the rattlers in his hand, now penned a new book: his memoir. him in 1972 to seek a solution. Over the he came over and he was standing beside Dr. Henry Heimlich’s views on how the next two years, leading a team of research- Snake-handling pastor me. It was plain view, it just turned its maneuver should be used and on other ers at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, he head and bit him in the back of the hand innovations he has created or proposed successfully tested the technique by dies from snake bite ... within a second,” Winn said. have put him at odds with some in the putting a tube with a balloon at one end MIDDLESBORO, Ky. — A snake-han- When an ambulance arrived at the health field. But he hopes his recently down an anesthetized dog’s airway until dling pastor who appeared on the National church at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, they published memoir will preserve the tech- it choked. He then used the maneuver to Geographic television reality show “Snake were told Coots had gone home, the nique that has cleared obstructions from force the dog to expel the obstruction. Salvation” has died after being bitten by a Middlesboro Police Department said in a windpipes of choking victims around “By 1974, I knew I needed to get the snake during a weekend church service. statement. Contacted at his house, Coots the world for four decades and made his maneuver to the public as soon as possi- Jamie Coots was handling a rattlesnake refused medical treatment.