County Looks to Drop $640K on a Building It Doesn't
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A3 + PLUS >> Kirk Douglas dead at 103, See 2A WRESTLING CINCINNATI On Senior Night, it’s Bell picks CHS vs. Orange Park Bearcats See Page 5A See Page 5A THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM IMPEACHMENT TRIAL/3A TRUMP ACQUITTED Valentine’s Day prep work COUNTY COMMISSION County looks to drop $640K on a building it doesn’t own Wants to pay for renovations to structure it leases to house TDC, EDAB, elections chief. By CARL MCKINNEY project, about 75 percent by County Manager Ben [email protected] Scott’s estimate, pertains The county may spend to space used by the coun- $641,000 remodeling offic- ty’s Tourist Development es it rents for tourism, Council and will be paid for economic development and with revenue from a tax on election officials. The most hotel rooms. outspoken opponent of the The economic develop- proposal is part of the very ment and tourism offices agency that host guests from various would most businesses that may be benefit, but looking to invest in the he still says community, Scott said. ABOVE: Summer it would be “They have a lot of peo- Camiel (left), 9, and a waste for ple that come in, and so Lyla Marzucco, 8, place the county we’re just trying to make a cardboard hearts on a to drop nice office and put a good Scott bulletin board at the that kind of foot forward for Columbia Girls Club Wednesday cash making over a build- County,” he said. afternoon. LEFT: ing it doesn’t even own. The building is known as Isabella Coleman Tonight, county commis- Duval Place. (from left), 10; Blayre sioners will mull a proposal The county rents about to spend $641,000 remod- 5,000 square feet there at Slanker, 8; and Ryleigh eling an office complex off a rate of $8 per square foot Franks, 9, focus on U.S. Highway 90 that hous- per year, around $40,000 in creating pieces of art es the county’s Economic total. The 10-year lease was using construction Development Department, renewed during the 2018- paper, glue and imagi- Supervisor of Elections 2019 fiscal year. nation at the Girls Club and Tourist Development on Wednesday after- Council. The bulk of the COUNTY continued on 2A noon. Photos by TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter Suspicious fire leads ADA playground nearing finish to arrest for drugs Disabled kids will finally have a place By TONY BRITT County Sheriff’s Office [email protected] reports, a deputy spoke of their own. to the homeowner, who A Lake City woman was was at the dwelling when By TONY BRITT arrested Tuesday after- [email protected] the fire started. The man noon after a suspected told the deputy he was Columbia County’s first meth lab caused a fire at outside doing yard work playground catering to the a Saturn at the time. The deputy needs of children with physi- Lane home, later determined that the cal disabilities is expected to authorities fire appeared to have been open by early April, according said. started by a possible meth to county officials. Stephany lab, after speaking to a wit- Construction on the play- Lynn ness. ground, which will be located Baisden, A witness said she was behind the voting precinct on TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter 34, faces driving by the home and Southwest Bishop Avenue in A pavilion was recently added to the site that will serve as Baisden charges of saw two people standing the Columbia City area, began the county’s first ADA-exclusive playground. possession in the yard while smoke in September when construc- of a controlled substance was coming from the tion crews started prepping and possession of drug par- house and stopped to see equipment used by physically crews are putting the final aphernalia in connection the property for the ADA challenged children to access touches on the restroom if everything was OK. The (American Disabilities Act) with the incident. She was witness identified the peo- the playground. building that was installed at booked into the Columbia exclusive playground. Clint Pittman, Columbia the site in December. ple as the homeowner and The playground will accom- County Detention Facility Baisden. County Landscapes and Parks on $6,000 bond. modate wheelchairs and other director, said construction continued on 2A ADA According to Columbia FIRE continued on 2A Vol. 145, No. 235 Obituaries . 3A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A Sports . 5A SUBSCRIBE TO THE REPORTER: 81 49 Advice & Comics. 7A Voice: 755-5445 Classified . 8A-9A Fax: 752-9400 A few showers, 2A 2A THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2020 NEWS LAKE CITY REPORTER Spartacus, Paths of Glory, Seven Days in May QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day “He loveth righteousness and judgment: the Actor Kirk Douglas dead at 103 earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.” — Psalm 33:5 (KJV) The Associated Press mitment to justice and the Minnelli and Billy Wilder from the American Film LOS ANGELES — Kirk causes he believed in set to Stanley Kubrick and Institute. Douglas, the intense, a standard for all of us to Elia Kazan. His career He was a category Thought for Today muscular actor with the aspire to.” began at the peak of the unto himself, a force for dimpled chin who starred Kirk Douglas’ death was studios’ power, more than change and symbol of My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet. in “Spartacus,” “Lust for first reported by People 70 years ago, and ended endurance. — Edith Wharton, 1862-1937, U.S. novelist Life” and dozens of other magazine. in a more diverse, decen- In his latter years, (“Ethan Frome,” “The Age of Innocence.”) films, helped fatally weak- His granite-like strength tralized era that he helped he was a final link to a en the blacklist against and under- bring about. so-called “Golden Age,” a suspected Communists lying vul- Always competitive, man nearly as old as the Winning Lottery Numbers and reigned for decades as nerability including with his own industry itself. a Hollywood maverick and made the family, Douglas never In his youth, he rep- Pick 3: (Tuesday p.m.) 5-8-6 patriarch, died Wednesday, son of received an Academy resented a new kind of Pick 4: (Tuesday p.m.) 7-5-4-6 his family said. He was illiterate Award for an individual performer, more indepen- Fantasy 5: (Tuesday) 21-23-24-33-35 103. Russian film, despite being nom- dent and adventurous than immigrants inated three times — for Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy “It is with tremendous Douglas sadness that my brothers one of “Champion,” “The Bad and and other giants of the See an error? and I announce that Kirk the top stars of the 20th the Beautiful” and “Lust for studio era of the 1930s and century. He appeared in Life.” 1940s, and more willing to The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news Douglas left us today at items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, the age of 103,” his son more than 80 films, in roles But in 1996, the speak his mind. please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will Michael said in a statement ranging from Doc Holliday Academy of Motion Reaching stardom after on his Instagram account. in “Gunfight at the O.K. Picture Arts and Sciences World War II, he was as run in this space. Thanks for reading. “To the world, he was a leg- Corral” to Vincent van awarded him an honorary likely to play cads (the end, an actor from the gold- Gogh in “Lust for Life.” Oscar. His other awards movie producer in “Bad and en age of movies who lived He worked with some included a Presidential the Beautiful,” the journalist Submissions well into his golden years, of Hollywood’s greatest Medal of Freedom and a in “Ace in the Hole”) as he The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption a humanitarian whose com- directors, from Vincente lifetime achievement award was suited to play heroes. information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you would like to see your organization in the newspaper, send the picture and information to Robert Bridges: rbridges@lakecityreporter. com. cally votes on expenditures County officials main- Ford said the building COUNTY of hotel bed-tax funds. It tain the project is sensible is “showing its age” and Continued From 1A has not done so for this given the alternative. Scott needs the work. project, county officials said the county chose to do The $8-per-square-foot Lake City Reporter In exchange for the confirmed. the work itself instead of rate the county gets now HOW TO REACH US ADVERTISING “For spending of this having the landlord doing is a good price, said local Main number ....... (386) 752-1293 Director Chris Ratliff below-market rate, the Fax number ............ 752-9400 (386) 754-0417 county must assume magnitude, I think it’s it, which would have raised real estate broker Tom Circulation............. 755-5445 ([email protected]) important that the TDC the rent. Eagle. But that would Online .... www.lakecityreporter.com responsibility for any reno- CLASSIFIED board is taken into consid- “It was either let them no longer be the case if The Lake City Reporter, an affiliate vations, Scott said. of Community Newspapers Inc., Kym Harrison The planned remodel eration,” Patel said. do the remodel for us and the county goes through is published Tuesday through (386) 755-5440 The TDC must approve increase the lease rate, or with its plan, Eagle said, Saturday/Sunday at 180 E.