Sanford City Commission Voting to Do Away with Parking for Alive After 5!
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WEEKEND:APRIL 16-18, 2017 RAMS ROMP ACTION! The Lake Mary boys lacrosse Iron Robot Films Barry team powered past St. Augustine in a First Round Kirsch brings films and Play-In Game on Thursday more to Sanford See Sports, Page 9 See People, Page 5 AKEANFORDARY ONGWOOD INTER PRINGS VIEDO ENEVA ASSELBERRYERALDSTEEN HULUOTA LTAMONTE PRINGS E ARY L M , L , W S , O , G , C , O , C , A S , D B S • © 2017 H Vol. 125, No. 69 VISIT US AT MYSANFORDHERALD.COM Since 1908 HEADLINES FROM FWC investigates dead ASSOCIATED PRESS bear found in park PLANNED EXECUTIONS DRAW OUTRAGE ONLINE HeraldBy Larry Staff Griffin Social media protests grow over Arkansas' unprecedented A bear was shot early Wednesday morning plan to put seven inmates to in Sanford, according to the Florida Fish & death before the end of the Wildlife Commission. month. Greg Workman, Public Information Coordi- nator for FWC’s regional office, said they re- EVACUATIONS UNDER WAY ceived a call about the bear early Wednesday IN SYRIA and are now investigating. The bear was found at Bookertown Park in The Assad government and Sanford, north of State Road 46 and west of I-4, the opposition begin a coordi- and according to Workman, it appeared to nated population swap of tens of have been dragged there from another location thousands of people from four after it was shot. besieged towns. Sanford City Commission voting to do As shooting black bears is illegal outside of WHERE FEAR IS RISING See BEAR, Page 6 ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF ONE-MAN RULE away with parking for Alive After 5! Turkey is a country divided as it heads toward a historic refer- All merchants and restaurants on First St will be affected! Sheriff’s Office arrests endum on a new political system that would expand the powers of Altamonte Springs man President Erdogan. Deal with South Florida de- parking lot properties for 30 Mayor Jeff Triplett: 407-688- veloper gives him immediate years! 5001, Email: Jeff.Triplett@san- HOW US ACTIVISTS PLAN control of lot used by majority of fordfl.gov for trafficking drugs TO USE TAX DAY Alive After Five attendees. In Miami Developer humiliates Commissioner Patrick Austin: addition, the Commission also is Sanford and still gets property 407-688-5001, Email: They'll hit the streets Saturday voting to do away with parking for free! The more insulting he [email protected] around the country and demand for the Courthouse! Seminole is, the more the Commission Commissioner Patty Mahany: HeraldBy Larry Staff Griffin See AP, Page 7 County government is being likes him. Never has to put up 407-688-5001, Email: forced out of Sanford. any money! Not one dime! [email protected] City taxpayers put up all the Commissioner Velma An Altamonte Springs man, Mackroy Sims Second reading of proposed money, Developer gets all the Williams: 407-688-5001, Email: Jr., 35, was arrested April Afghanistan says massive ordinance at April 24 meeting of profits! [email protected] 11 for a litany of drug pos- Commission is downtown stake- Commissioner Art Woodruff: session crimes police say US bomb killed 36 militants holder’s last chance to let their Mayor thinks this is a won- 407-688-5001, Email: indicates he was selling voices be heard. derful deal! [email protected] drugs. City Manager Norton Bona- But it all started with a See Page 7 Commission voted to give Numbers to call: parte: 407-688-5009, Email: Nor- disqualified license. Miami Developer control of [email protected] While the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office was conducting a raid on STOCKS OF Mackroy Sims’ residence alongside LOCAL INTEREST Sims the U.S. Drug Enforcement Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy meets Association, they observed As of 4 p.m. Friday with Sanford citizens, hears community concerns See SIMS, Page 6 Allegiant $152.05 Bombardier $1.76 Faro $32.00 HeraldBy Larry Staff Griffin Check out what’s Invacare $10.50 happening around NextEra $130.77 At Rabbit Foot Records on Fri- Seminole County - Page 4 Tractor Supply $63.54 day afternoon, customers flocked in not for the usual deli- Toro $60.81 cious coffee and pastries - but in- Wells Fargo $51.35 stead, a chance to chat with newly-minted Congresswoman SEMINOLE SMILE Stephanie Murphy, as she was passing through on her Coffee with a Congresswoman tour. The purpose of the tour is for INSIDE Murphy to get to know her con- stituents and take their concerns back to Washington to hopefully OPINIONS • 3 hash out solutions in the form of legislation. PEOPLE • 5 At Rabbit Foot, those con- OBITUARIES • 6 stituents in Sanford chatted ani- SPORTS • 9 matedly, all the while with the rich, sweet aroma of chocolate LEGALS • 11 pastries filled the air alongside CLASSIFIEDS • 12 the chatter and whirring of cof- Stephanie Murphy meets with members ofHerald the community photo by Friday Larry at Griffin Rab- fee machines. Murphy sat with bit Foot Records in Sanford. CROSSWORD • 13 them one by one for 10 minutes at a time and listened to them and provided answers to their Morgan Crane queries the best she could. Katherine Schroeder, who Murphy about HUD funding 5-year-old And their concerns were wide works with local grassroots or- and varied. ganization Women for Change, See MURPHY, Page 7 at Wee the People Pre School was happy to have spoken with PAGE 2 • Weekend: April 16-18, 2017 SANFORD HERALD COUCH REVIEW MOMENTS IN TIME By Sam Struckhoff The History Channel PICKS OF THE WEEK * On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an "Split" (PG-13) -- Kevin (James McAvoy) actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally has 23 distinct personalities in his head, and shoots President Abraham Lincoln during a three teenage girls in a basement. In this play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. plucky horror-suspense thriller, the surprise The attack came only five days after Confed- revelation of multiple personalities is given erate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered, effec- at the beginning, so the director can pull off tively ending the Civil War. a different, less cliched twist at the end. When "Kevin" is not Kevin, he could be an * On April 12, 1888, Cecil Kimber, founder excitable young boy, a pervy kidnapper or a of the British sports car company MG, is born kindly older woman, among others. in England. Following World War II, returning Through sessions with his therapist (Betty American soldiers who had become fans of Butler) we get the sense that Kevin's condi- MGs while serving in Europe helped popular- tion is worse and a new, more dangerous ize the brand in the U.S. personality could be on the way. Director M. Night Shyamalan couldn't re- * On April 16, 1917, Vladimir Lenin, leader sist another plot twist near the end, but it's of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns not the kind of groan-producing twist deliv- to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the ered with "The Village" and "The Happen- reins of the Russian Revolution. Lenin was ing." Most importantly, McAvoy's Michael Keaton in "The Founder" The Weinstein Company drawn to the revolutionary cause after his performance infuses fun into the PG-13 brother was executed in 1887 for plotting to creep-a-thon. assassinate Czar Alexander II. watch a movie about her. Despite all of that other shot when a TV producer (the always "The Founder" (PG-13) -- Michael Keaton plotting, "Sleepless" mostly relies on non- working J.K. Simmons) wants him to host a * On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, stars as Ray Kroc, the man who took the stop, dimly lit action to keep the pulse reality TV show -- not because Henry's com- becomes the first black player in Major template for a successful fast-food burger going, but can't avoid a flatline. You'll spend edy is great, but he's such a loser that he League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets joint from some brothers named McDonald, most of the time remembering how good should host a show about losers. See it for Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Dodgers. then cooked it into a globe-spanning fran- Foxx was in "Collateral," or how much the star, if not for the great cast built around Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport chise. Dick and Mac McDonald (Nick Offer- cooler that fight scene was when "Taken" him (Sarah Silverman, Tig Notaro, Doug that had been segregated for more than 50 man and John Carroll Lynch) had their own did it. Stanhope) years. formula for speedily prepared sandwiches in a welcoming, vibrant and casual setting. "Punching Henry" (R) -- Real-life come- TV RELEASES * On April 11, 1968, rescue workers pick up Kroc sees huge potential in expanding the dian Henry Phillips plays a slightly exag- "Killjoys: Season 2" the last survivors of the Wahine ferry disaster brand, and builds an empire while cutting gerated version of himself in this movie "Teen Titans: The Judas Contract" off the coast of Wellington, New Zealand. The corners and cutting out the brothers the about a schlub who has come to terms (sort "Masterpiece: Home Fires Season 2" ferry had capsized the previous day after hit- original was named for. of) with himself, even if the rest of the "My Hero Academia: Season 1" ting sharp rocks, leaving 53 people dead. Keaton is great as a highly effective huck- world tells him to improve. After leaving "Before the Flood" ster working capitalist magic, turning cheap L.A. and spending years sitting on the bot- * On April 10, 1972, British film pioneer beef patties into sizzling Americana.