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VOL. 100 | NO. 360 | $1.00 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 An Edition Of The Sun Fines from texting while driving starts Wednesday By KIM LEATHERMAN Florida Ban on Texting the law to the letter. first offense is considered STAFF WRITER While Driving Law “People have had plen- a non-moving violation was signed into law by ty of time,” Sebring Police that carries a $116 fine SEBRING — Don’t Governor Ron DeSantis Department’s Sgt. Mike with no points. The even think about texting and it took effect July 1. Cutolo said. “They’re second offense within if you’re driving. Driving Law enforcement officers aware they shouldn’t be five years is considered a and texting is always can pull over a driver who texting and driving. They moving violation; the fine dangerous, some even is texting as a primary know they are swerving. is $166. Court fees could pay with their lives. offense. Previously, LEO There have been signs put accrue if the citation is Lawmakers decided had to perform a traffic up and it’s been on the contested and the judge hitting people in their stop for another reason. FILE PHOTO news and social media.” upholds the citation. wallets might curb the October to Jan. 1 was Cutolo said it is “This law improves distracting habit. As of considered a time for Motorists caught on the cell phone in a school or construction ultimately the LEO’s driver safety,” Cutolo said. Jan. 1, fines and possibly educating motorists on zone can be pulled over as a main offense. Citations can be discretion on whether to “It cuts down on property points on a license may the new law. That grace steep. give a citation or warning. do the trick. period is over. Local law enforcement said they will be enforcing In Highlands County, the TEXT | 4A Problem intersections getting notice

COURTESY PHOTO Senior Hassan Javed, left, developed a student mentoring program at Avon Park High School. APHS senior develops student mentoring program Accepted to Ivy League university

By MARC VALERO FILE PHOTO STAFF WRITER An interested party, at left, photographs a black 2018 Ford Crew-cab pickup that got hit by a dark orange 2015 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited on AVON PARK — Senior Hassan Javed, May 7 on U.S. 27 southbound at Lake Josephine Drive. County Commissioner Arlene Tuck has asked County Engineer Clinton Howerton Jr. to ask who is one the first two students to the Florida Department of Transportation about safety improvements at the site, including a traffic light. graduate with an AP Capstone Diploma at Avon Park High, started a successful student mentoring program and has been accepted to FDOT policy: Must meet warrants for signals Columbia University. Avon Park High Advanced By PHIL ATTINGER Academic Diploma STAFF WRITER Program Coordinator Michael Scofield said SEBRING — Dr. Valerie Moulds Hassan has participated of Eye Specialists of Central Florida JAVED in a variety of summer remembers nearly dying as she left programs that set him work. apart from his peers within On Dec. 7, 2015, she saw a the county. One of those programs was at semi-trailer in the outside north- and hosted by Princeton University. bound lane of U.S. 27, far enough “You just don’t have students these days away for her to cross from Whisper that put other people ahead of them- Circle. She didn’t see the speeding selves the way he has done,” Scofield car in the inside lane, hidden by the said. “He saw a need in our community, a truck. gap, and he wanted to fill that gap.” She didn’t have time to cross or He also noted that not many students back up, so she turned left into the from Highlands County are accepted at middle lane, let them fly past her, an Ivy League university. then “fishtailed” into the median. Principal Danielle Erwin said Hassan “I felt my car shudder as the semi spoke to her in February 2018 about missed me by what had to be inches,” creating a mentoring program as part of a Moulds said. project for an academic program he was She said staff at the clinic have PHIL ATTINGER/STAFF in. witnessed several wrecks at that spot: He was aware of the district’s mento- A median crossover without a traffic Median crossovers on U.S. 27 have hosted hundreds of wrecks, including this one on July 10 in ring program, but Hassan proposed a signal serving Whisper Circle and an the southbound lanes across from Whisper Circle. The dark red Ford Fusion at left tangled with program where students would serve as access drive to Frontage Road. a silver Honda sedan and red Jeep Wrangler while the tan Lincoln MKS sedan at right wrecked mentors to help guide younger students, People leaving the eye clinic or the with a silver Nissan Rogue. No serious injuries were reported, but those who use the crossing she said. Ninth grade is a big change for mobile home community of Whisper frequently want a traffic signal. students where they have some freedoms, Lake have had wrecks or close calls. but also the stresses and demands that Cars hit each other, as in a five-car offered to pay for the signal, that is at Lake Josephine Drive, recent- they didn’t have in the lower grades. smash-up on July 10 of this year, or unless or until fatalities hit a high ly brought up by Commissioner Erwin said she met every week with they run off the road to avoid anoth- number then there won’t be a traffic Arlene Tuck to the Board of County Hassan, who served as the student liaison er car, as on Dec. 11. signal at the Whisper Circle inter- Commission. Tuck said she saw a for the school’s Positive Behavioral Now, AdventHealth Sebring is section. She and her staff don’t want school bus waiting for heavy traffic Interventions and Supports committee, building a cancer center across their patients or themselves becom- to clear in order to pull out from where he provides input on initiatives Whisper Circle from the eye clinic. ing statistics. Lake Josephine Drive. The site has a and rewards for that program. Hassan is Moulds and members of her staff Fatalities do come into play, but caution light, but that doesn’t slow also on the Superintendent’s Council. told the Highlands News-Sun they other factors do, too. speeding, she said. Hassan created the Avon Park High fear more wrecks — fatal ones. According to the department’s “Cars do go by [there] pretty fast,” School mentoring program called Red The Florida Department of Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Tuck said. Devil Buddies where successful high Transportation, under policy, must Devices, a highway intersection Cars crossing the highway must school students mentor and support their conduct a warrant study on an in- needs to have more than 105 vehicles traverse four lanes and a wide peers in an effort to positively impact the tersection to see if a light is needed. pass through the side streets during median, she said, with a curve to the school and community. Currently, at this point, it’s not. the busiest eight hours of the day to west and a hill to the east. She asked With input from guidance counselors, Residents and politicians fought warrant a traffic light. County Engineer Clinton Howerton deans, the graduation coach and ad- for years to get traffic lights at U.S. Also, the manual states, traffic Jr. to ask FDOT about a traffic light ministration, Hassan developed training 27 and Shop 16 Road in Avon Park, waiting to enter the highway would there. modules for the mentoring program. several years after the Walmart need to have an excessive delay — “It depends on how many wrecks Hassan said some students in ninth Supercenter opened, and finally got defined as 60 seconds or more. are there,” Tuck said. “What con- and 10th grade need additional support, one in 2018. Part of the change in- In addition, the manual also cerned me was the school bus: His while some juniors and seniors are ex- cluded closing the full median cross- requires that an intersection have at having to wait and wait and wait.” celling really well. The older students, he over between the Murphy gas station least five “angle crashes” each year, Howerton told the Highlands said, have learned how high school works and a Shell Oil station at U.S. 27 and meaning those where cars cross each News-Sun last week that FDOT has and how to navigate their courses. West Palmetto Street. FDOT made others’ paths. Although the site has looked at U.S. 27 at Lake Josephine “Miss Erwin and I developed this idea that a left-turn, only for northbound had crashes, FDOT would have to Road in the last year and determined that maybe if we put these two groups and southbound highway traffic. study it to confirm crash data, delays traffic counts and accident data don’t Moulds said FDOT has told the or vehicle counts. MENTOR | 4A owner of the clinic, who she said Another problem site on U.S. 27 POLICY | 4A

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1. Boxing Day is a real British observances of holiday in the United Boxing Day involve no Carnegie Hall performance Kingdom and other fi sticuffs. For patricians, European countries that however, another sport By MARC VALERO The choir has been several years. interested in returning to dates back to the days of rules the day: fox hunting. STAFF WRITER invited based on its past “We have been in- perform again, along with Queen Victoria. 5. In Ireland, Dec. 26th performances, according formed that because of the new varsity students. 2. Boxing Day occurs is sometimes known as SEBRING — The to a letter from Sebring the limited performances, “We estimate about 36 annually on Dec. 26th. Wren Day, a nod to an Sebring High School High Choral Director the two dates will fi ll up students and 12 adults 3. Many historians old tradition in which Varsity Choir has set its Christi Hagen. This year very quickly,” she said. to travel,” she stated. think the holiday’s poor children would sights on traveling to New they are only offering two “By submitting an appli- “This would be our 13th name is derived from kill a wren, then sell the York City to perform at dates at Carnegie Hall. cation and deposit now, trip since 1997 with the the church practice of feathers to neighbors Carnegie Hall in March or Hagen explained that we can lock in the 2020 WorldStrides company.” opening alms boxes the for good luck. In today’s April. Dr. Andre Thomas, past price, secure our spot The students raise the day after Christmas and celebrations, the wren is At its meeting on Jan. choral director at Florida and receive an additional money to pay for their distributing money to the fake. 7, The School Board of State University, will be discount. trip, Hagen noted. “The poor. Highlands County will the choral conductor of “Next year we will have community has been very 4. Despite the name, — Mental Floss vote on approval of the the festival in March. The a large group of students generous in their support out-of-state travel for the Sebring High choir has that went on the trip of the choir’s participa- choir. performed with him for in 2019 and they are tion in this great honor.” AG warns Garcia turns himself in, bonds out consumers about By KIM LEATHERMAN on Oct. 18, Canfi eld Street. under the age of 24,” he STAFF WRITER the young Upon arriving at is prohibited to possess lady’s Canfi eld Street, the report firearms or ammuni- identity theft AVON PARK — After mother told says detectives talked to tion, the report said. Highlands County deputies Garcia’s mother, who told After discussing the Sheriff’s Offi ce put a the juvenile detectives neither the girl trouble Garcia was in Special to the Highlands unless using encryption picture of Ivan Joel refused nor Garcia was there and with the drugs, guns News-Sun technology; Garcia, 18, of Avon Park to come would not let them in the and missing juvenile, TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — - Browsing and pur- on social media on Dec. GARCIA home. The house to verify. A search the detective told the Attorney General Ashley chasing online using only 17, he turned himself in girl was last warrant was obtained. mother to get her son to Moody has issued a a secure connection. just before midnight on seen leaving Garcia and the girl were deliver the missing girl consumer alert with tips Never use autofi ll feature Dec. 19. The young man another family member’s not there but there were and he wouldn’t seek to help protect Floridians when fi lling out online is being charged with in- house with Garcia. multiple bags of cannabis an arrest warrant that in recognition of National forms, unless it is on a terfering with the custody On Oct. 21, HCSO in plain view and am- day. Later that day the Identity Theft Prevention trusted site; of an incompetent minor turned to social media munition in a bedroom young lady pulled her and Awareness Month. - Using anti-virus person, possession of a for help with the missing that Garcia’s mom said car into the driveway More than 440,000 software, anti-spyware weapon or ammo by a child. The report shows belonged to her son. A of the Canfield home. consumers nationwide and a fi rewall; delinquent adult felony, a tip came in with an Glock pistol was in his The report said she fell victim to identity - Avoiding oversharing possessing over 20 grams, address of where the room. was uncooperative and theft last year, including on social networking possession of marijuana pair could be found. The Detectives found refused to tell deputies almost 38,000 Floridians. sites; and possession of drug tipster admitted buying during a search that where she was and who Safeguarding consumers’ - Refraining from giving equipment. drugs from the suspect “Ivan had been adjudi- she was with. identity is especially solicitors personal or A HCSO arrest report that morning and said cated a delinquent for a Garcia was released important amidst the fi nancial information says while investigating a the girl was with Garcia. felony offense (burglary) after he met his bond of waning hours of last-min- over the phone, by email missing female juvenile They gave an address on and due to him being $7,500. ute holiday shopping. or pop-up message; and Moody said, “Identity - Opting out of theft is not simply dam- pre-screened offers of aging to victims’ credit credit and insurance card or bank accounts, it by mail. To opt out, call can wreck lives. Victims 1(888) 567-8688 or visit In wake of cyberattack, Pensacola to may fi nd out that their OptOutPreScreen.com. Social Security Number If someone is a victim was stolen years after of identity theft, the pay for ID monitoring the crime when they following steps should be try to buy their dream taken immediately: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS international professional Robinson said the ransomware attack in home and are denied - Call the fraud depart- services company hired city will send out noti- the early hours of Dec. 7. because their credit was ments Lookingof all three major PENSACOLA, Fla. to audit the city’s cyberse- fi cations to those who Ransomware is a type of destroyed, or they may be credit bureaus and place (AP) — A Florida city is curity issues in the wake may have had data their software that infects com- questioned $ Find great by bargains the police in the $ a credit freeze; offering to pay for identi- of the attack. data breached. Some of puters by encrypting data because $ C LA theSS criminalIFIEDS $ - Contact Ftheor creditors ty protection monitoring Robinson said the city the information could and prevents access until who $ stole Every day their in the identity $ for any accounts that for up to 60,000 people had no evidence that any- include details on active a ransom is paid to the committed other crimes have been tampered with following a cyberattack one’s personal informa- city employees, pension- attackers. City offi cials using their information. or Something?opened fraudulently; that crippled Pensacola’s tion was compromised, ers, active customers with shut down the computer I am issuing these tips and computer systems for but said the city would online accounts with the network to prevent the because I don’t want any - File a report with law days. notify people because he city or Pensacola Energy problems from spreading, Floridian to live out these enforcement. The News Journal believed it was the right and housing clients. The which halted online nightmare situations.” The Attorney General reports Pensacola Mayor thing to do. list is estimated at 60,000 services and the city’s Floridians can reduce recognizes that the Grover Robinson said he He said some data was people. phone and email systems the chance of becoming holiday season is a busy made the decision after “acquired by the people The city was hit by for several days. an identity theft victim time for all, but it is espe- talks with Deloitte, the that hacked us.” what is known as a by remaining vigilant cially busy for criminals in allReal fi nancial Local matters. 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the fall of 2019 with the he plans to pursue an MENTOR mentors meeting weekly education in political Hepatitis A cases top FROM PAGE 1A with their mentees during science and economics. lunch. Erwin said, “We are together we can create Erwin said now they are very proud of him; he has something better out of developing really good made his mark on Avon 3,300 this year this,” he said. friendships. Park High School in a The program started in Hassan said at college very positive way.” By News Service of Florida cases in 2016. this year, according to the Florida had another 49 Hepatitis A can cause Department of Health. reported cases of hepati- liver damage and is As of Saturday, Pasco tis A last week, bringing spread through such County topped the the total this year to 3,327 things as fecal matter. state with 413 cases as of Saturday, according That can include trans- this year, followed by to new figures from the mission by people not Pinellas County with 377; state Department of properly washing their Volusia County with 301; Health. hands after going to the Orange County with 195; With the end of the year bathroom and contami- Hillsborough County with nearing, the number of nating food or drinks. 167; Brevard County with hepatitis A cases in 2019 Health officials have 159; Lake County with has dwarfed the totals urged people to get 157; Marion County with in past years as health vaccinated against the 149; Manatee County officials have tried to disease, and county with 138; Hernando combat an outbreak. By health departments and County with 117; Citrus comparison, the state other health providers County with 114; Sarasota had 548 cases in 2018, have administered more County with 109; and Lee 276 cases in 2017 and 122 than 302,000 vaccinations County with 104. Cities, counties take aim at gun law By JIM SAUNDERS as they make policy by adding penalties, such PHIL ATTINGER/STAFF NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA decisions. as the possibility of local A motorist talks with a Highlands County sheriff’s deputy on Dec. 11, immediately after a wreck “These immunities officials facing $5,000 fines on U.S. 27 at Whisper Circle sent a Ford backward down the southbound shoulder into a storm TALLAHASSEE — underscore our republican and potential removal drain. The site has a median crossover, and has hosted many local wrecks, but thus far has not Describing the law as an form of government in from office for passing gun warranted a traffic signal. “unnecessary and uncon- which citizens choose their regulations. stitutional overreach,” elected officials, who are The legal battle is not 9:15 a.m., 77-year-old northbound lanes. The cities and counties argue then duty-bound to rep- about the underlying 1987 POLICY Victor Peffley of Sebring Mercedes bounded that an appeals court resent their constituents’ preemption law. FROM PAGE 1A was in a 2012 Ford F150 northwest, crossed the should reject a 2011 state interests through legislative But the penalties law pickup, waiting to cross median and stopped in law that threatens tough and regulatory initiatives,” was challenged by 30 cities, warrant a light. U.S. 27 from Whisper the inside southbound penalties if local elected the 54-page brief said. three counties and more Moulds said the owner Circle. Bonnie Smart, lane. officials approve gun “Without immunity from than 70 elected officials, of the eye clinic had 75, of Sebring, was his Both drivers had regulations. liability, officials and local- according to Monday’s heard the same. passenger. For unknown minor injuries and were Attorneys for dozens ities are understandably brief. That includes cities Howerton said he had reasons, Peffley pulled treated at AdventHealth of cities, counties and likely to refrain from acting such as Miami Beach, asked FDOT yet again in front of a northbound Sebring. Smart had no local officials filed a brief on matters they reasonably Fort Lauderdale, West last week to look at the 2003 Mercedes C320, injuries, reports said. Monday urging the 1st believe are both permis- Palm Beach, Orlando, St. Whisper Lake crossing, driven by 28-year-old Both vehicles left District Court of Appeal sible and in the interest Petersburg, Gainesville and and they told him they David Jolly of Sebring. debris, tire marks and to uphold a lower-court of their constituents, for Tallahassee. would get back to him. The Mercedes hit the gouges on and in the decision that found the fear of professional and Leon County Circuit Meanwhile, Monday truck in the left side, pavement. law unconstitutional. financial ruin if it is later Judge Charles Dodson in saw yet another wreck. rotating the truck clock- FHP cited Peffley with Challenges to the law determined their belief was July found parts of the law Florida Highway wise and northward into failure to yield the right were filed after the 2018 mistaken.” unconstitutional, citing Patrol reported that at the center and outside of way. mass shooting at Marjory Florida since 1987 has issues related to “legislative Stoneman Douglas High barred cities and counties immunity,” which protects School in Parkland, as local from passing regulations local government officials vehicle operators, vehicle vocal about local traffic governments looked for that are stricter than state in their decision-making TEXT passengers, bicyclists, pe- patterns and trends, ways to curb gun violence. firearms laws, a concept processes. He also pointed FROM PAGE 1A destrians, and other road especially around school The brief Monday said known as “preemption” to the constitutional sepa- users. (b) Prevent crashes zones. He has even made the threatened penalties of local gun laws. The ration of powers, as judges damage and death.” related to the act of text videos on stacking cars in violate legal immunities 2011 law was designed to could be asked to rule on Cutolo said a phone messaging while driving a the medians and more. A provided to local officials strengthen the preemption penalizing local officials. can be used for GPS motor vehicle. © Reduce few weeks ago, he wrote navigation but he urges injuries, deaths, property on a social media site drivers to get a dash- damage, health care there were still many board phone holder. 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Almanac Report: Popular UAE chat app Today is Thursday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2019. There are five days left in the year. ToTok a government spy tool Today in history THE ASSOCIATED PRESS being used as a spy tool. “No On Dec. 26, 1996, 6-year- exploits, no backdoors, no old beauty queen JonBenet NEW YORK (AP) — A chat malware,” he wrote in a blog Ramsey was found beaten and app that quickly became post. The app is able to gain strangled in the basement of popular in the United Arab insights on users through her family’s home in Boulder, Emirates for communicating common functions. Colorado. (To date, the slaying with friends and family is In a blog post Monday, remains unsolved.) actually a spying tool used by ToTok did not respond directly the government to track its to Sunday’s Times report, but On this date users, according to a newspa- said that with “reference to per report. the rumors circulated today In 1799, former President The government uses about ToTok,” the one goal George Washington was ToTok to track conversations, of the app’s creators was to eulogized by Col. Henry Lee locations, images and other create a reliable, easy-to-use as “first in war, first in peace data of those who install the communications platform. and first in the hearts of his app on their phones, The New The post said ToTok had countrymen.” York Times reported, citing high-security standards to In 1917, during World War U.S. officials familiar with a PATRICK CASTILLO/EMARAT AL YOUM VIA AP FILE protect user data and a priva- I, President Woodrow Wilson classified intelligence assess- cy framework that complied issued a proclamation autho- ment and the newspaper’s In this Oct. 27, 2013 file photo, a worker looks at his mobile phone at the with local and international rizing the government to take own investigation. newly opened Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai, United Arab legal requirements. over operation of the nation’s The Emirates has long Emirates. According to a New York Times report, ToTok, a chat app that ToTok said the app was railroads. blocked Apple’s FaceTime, quickly became popular in the United Arab Emirates for communicating temporarily unavailable in In 1947, heavy snow Facebook’s WhatsApp and with friends and family, is actually a spying tool used by the government the app stores from Google blanketed the Northeast, other calling apps. Emirati to track its users. and Apple due to a “technical burying New York City under media has been playing issue.” 26.4 inches of snow in 16 up ToTok as an alternative others. requests location informa- The Times says that based hours; the severe weather was for expatriates living in the Zero days exploits can be tion, purportedly to provide on a technical analysis and in- blamed for some 80 deaths. country to call home to their expensive to obtain on the accurate weather forecasts, terviews with security experts, In 1980, Iranian television loved ones for free. black market because they according to the Times. It also the company behind ToTok, footage was broadcast in The Times says ToTok is a represent software vulnerabil- requests access to a phone’s Breej Holding, is most likely the United States, showing few months old and has been ities for which fixes have yet contacts, supposedly to help affiliated with DarkMatter, an a dozen of the American downloaded millions of times, to be developed. users connect with friends. Emirati cybersecurity com- hostages sending messages to with most of its users in the The Times described ToTok The app also has access to mi- pany that has hired former their families. Emirates, a U.S.-allied federa- as a way to give the govern- crophones, cameras, calendar CIA and National Security In 1985, Ford Motor tion of seven sheikhdoms on ment free access to personal and other data. Agency analysts and has close Company began selling its the Arabian Peninsula. information, as millions of A security expert who said business ties to the Emirati Taurus and Sable sedans and Government surveillance in users are willingly download- he analyzed the app for the government. station wagons. the Emirates is prolific, and ing and installing the app Times, Patrick Wardle, said Emails sent to ToTok In 2004, more than 230,000 the Emirates long has been on their phones and blindly that ToTok “does what it through its website and to people, mostly in southern suspected of using so-called giving permission to enable claims to do” as a commu- the Emirates embassy in Asia, were killed by a 100-foot- “zero day” exploits to target features. nications app, which is the Washington were not immedi- high tsunami triggered by a human rights activists and As with many apps, ToTok “genius” of the app if it is ately returned. 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean. In 2006, former President Gerald R. Ford died in Rancho Roberts will tap his inner umpire in impeachment trial Mirage, California, at age 93. Ten years ago: Buddhist By MARK SHERMAN asked to hear yet another case the Supreme Court. “I would monks chanted on white-sand ASSOCIATED PRESS on the health care law before be shocked if he suddenly be- beaches in Thailand and the term ends. comes a very rigid jurist with thousands prayed at mosques WASHINGTON (AP) — The high court has moved respect to technical evidentia- in Indonesia to mark the America’s last prolonged look to the right with the addition ry rules,” Phillips said. fifth anniversary of the Asian at Chief Justice John Roberts of two Trump appointees, The mechanics of the trial tsunami. came 14 years ago, when Justices Neil Gorsuch and are not yet clear. Rehnquist Five years ago: Mourners he told senators during his Brett Kavanaugh, a de- had his top aide at the court, gathered to mark the 10th Supreme Court confirmation velopment that has made James Duff, and at least anniversary of the Indian hearing that judges should be Roberts the justice closest one law clerk on hand. He Ocean tsunami. like baseball umpires, impar- to its ideological center and regularly consulted with the One year ago: President tially calling balls and strikes. most able to decide how far Senate parliamentarian before Donald Trump made an “Nobody ever went to a the court will move to the announcing rulings. unannounced trip to Iraq to ballgame to see the umpire,” right, or left, in any case that Roberts runs a more meet with U.S. troops, landing Roberts said. otherwise divides liberals and flexible Supreme Court than at an airbase west of Baghdad His hair grayer, the 64-year- J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP FILE conservatives. Rehnquist, who would cut off after dark for a visit that lasted PHOTO old Roberts will return to the In the Senate, though, the lawyers mid-sentence when more than three hours. public eye as he makes the Chief Justice of the United States, chief justice’s powers are the red light came on to show short trip from the Supreme John G. Roberts, will move from the limited because any ruling he their time was up. Today’s birthdays Court to the Senate to pre- camera-free, relative anonymity makes can be overridden by a Whenever Roberts appears side over President Donald of the Supreme Court to the glare majority vote. in public, inside the court- Rhythm-and-blues singer Trump’s impeachment trial. of television lights in the Senate He is not likely to put him- room or elsewhere, he exudes Abdul “Duke” Fakir (The Four He will be in the national to preside over President Donald self in the position of inviting a calm confidence that comes Tops) is 84. Record producer spotlight, but will strive to Trump’s impeachment trial. reversal, said Paul M.Collins at least in part from prepa- (and convicted murderer) Phil be like that umpire — doing Jr., a political scientist and ration. As a leading Supreme Spector is 80. “America’s Most his best to avoid the partisan Court. Roberts has a solidly director of legal studies at the Court advocate earlier in his Wanted” host John Walsh is mire. conservative voting record on University of Massachusetts, career, Roberts would practice 74. Baseball Hall of Famer “He’s going to look the part, the court, with a couple of no- Amherst. for high court arguments with Ozzie Smith is 65. Former he’s going to play the part and table exceptions that include “Any controversial rulings his main points on five index Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., is he’s the last person who wants sustaining President Barack in support of either party cards. He rehearsed so that 64. Humorist David Sedaris the part,” said Carter Phillips, Obama’s health care law. will threaten the viewpoint he could make those points is 63. Rock musician James who has argued 88 Supreme Trump has been among that the court should be in any order and be ready to Kottak (The Scorpions) is Court cases, 43 of them in Roberts’ critics, blasting the above politics. Democrats answer 1,000 questions, even 57. Country musician Brian front of Roberts. chief justice for his health care would perceive any ruling for if he might only face 80 to Westrum (Sons of the Desert) He has a ready model he votes. While Roberts ignored Republicans as partisan and if 100 queries during a typical is 57. Rock musician Lars can follow: Chief Justice those remarks, at least public- he ruled against the president, 30-minute argument, he told Ulrich (Metallica) is 56. William Rehnquist, who never ly, he clashed with the pres- Republicans would allege he author Bryan Garner in an Actress Nadia Dajani is 54. became the center of atten- ident last year when Trump is holding a grudge,” Collins interview early in his tenure Rock musician J is 52. Country tion when he presided over lashed out at an “Obama said. The Senate’s impeach- as chief justice. singer Audrey Wiggins is 52. President Bill Clinton’s Senate judge” who ruled against the ment rules allow Roberts to He also has a quick wit that Rock musician Peter Klett trial. president’s migrant asylum put questions to a Senate he has used to settle confus- (Candlebox) is 51. Rock singer As Roberts moves from the policy. vote, without first ruling ing situations. When the lights James Mercer (The Shins; camera-free, relative anonym- It’s not as though there isn’t himself. dimmed and then went out Flake) is 49. Actor-singer Jared ity of the Supreme Court to plenty of controversy brewing Rehnquist looked back on during arguments in 2016, Leto is 48. Actress Kendra C. the glare of television lights in his regular place of work. his role in the Clinton trial Roberts quipped, “Ï knew we Johnson is 43. Rock singer in the Senate, he will have the Before the end of June, the with a smile. “I did nothing should have paid that bill.” Chris Daughtry is 40. Actress chance to demonstrate by ex- justices are expected to decide in particular and I did it very Soon after he became chief Beth Behrs is 34. Actor Kit ample what he has preached cases involving guns, abor- well,” Rehnquist recalled two justice, a light bulb exploded Harington is 33. Actress Eden relentlessly in recent years: tion, subpoenas for Trump years after the trial, borrowing in the courtroom, startling Sher is 28. Pop singer Jade Judges are not politicians. financial records, workplace a line from a Gilbert and the crowd, justices and court Thirlwall (Little Mix Actor) is He has stuck to his mantra protections for LGBT people Sullivan operetta. police included. Roberts 27. Actor Zach Mills is 24. even as he and his fellow, and the fate of an Obama-era Like Rehnquist, Roberts helped restore calm by calling Republican appointees program that shields young has virtually no experience the incident “a trick they play Bible verse hold a firm 5-4 conservative immigrants from deportation. running a trial, as opposed to on new chief justices all the “For the Lord himself majority on the Supreme It’s possible the court will be the appellate proceedings at time.” shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel, and with Going west, migrants wander through Bosnia in Balkan winter the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: By MANU BRABO near a mine field, becoming factories, or stay in the town’s Croatia’s border patrols Then we which are alive and ASSOCIATED PRESS a symbol of migrant suffer- migrant center if they are over the mountain tracks. remain shall be caught up ing as they travel through lucky. They camp among bare Sometimes migrants try sever- together with them in the BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina the Balkans. The camp was walls, waiting for a warm meal al times before they manage clouds, to meet the Lord (AP) — Bosnia’s notorious flattened earlier this month, from aid groups. to cross, sometimes it takes in the air; and so shall we Vucjak camp may have closed its residents transferred to With the winter settling weeks, even months. ever be with the Lord.” — 1 down after an international other parts of Bosnia. Yet they in, migrants want to hurry It’s toughest for families Thessalonians 4:16, 17. outcry, but the plight of mi- are making their way back to toward Croatia before the with small children. Babies The great gathering of grants stranded in the country Bihac because it is closest the weather gets even worse. But can’t stop crying. Parents God’s people is in the mak- while trying to reach Western place they want to get to — this is not easy — they have to bring the children as close to ing. We shall meet again Europe is far from over. Bosnia’s neighbor, European go over a mountain pass and the fire as possible to keep never to part. He has made it The tent camp near the Union member Croatia. police often turn them back. them warm, but they are tired possible. “Even so come Lord northwestern town of Bihac In Bihac, migrants look They call it the “Game” — a and the cold nonetheless bites Jesus.” stood on a former landfill and for abandoned buildings or cat-and-mouse chase with at their tiny faces. A6 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | December 26, 2019 www.highlandsnewssun.com VIEWPOINTS

HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1919 Timothy D. Smolarick Romona Washington VP & Publisher, D-R Media Corporate Executive Editor [email protected] [email protected] Cliff Yeazel Rob Kearley Advertising Director Corporate Circulation Director [email protected] [email protected] SUN ANOTHER VIEW Changing behaviors ... or at least trying to President Ronald Reagan signed the National Drinking Age Act into law on July 17, 1984. The measure required states to raise the minimum drinking age to 21 Wishing for a little Christmas weather? or face a reduction in federal highway It’s the day after freezing dash across an conditioning way down. funding. Christmas and all through icy tarmac to a puddle Even if it spikes your bill, The states complied, meaning teenagers the house, our new baby jumper that needed ad- if there’s a hurricane next were no longer compelled to cross state kitty chases a mouse. ditional de-icing before it summer it will balance lines in a search for more lenient alcohol Stockings are flat with rose and dipped its way out when you don’t have treats already scattered, a through blizzard condi- power for a week, right? laws. Today, anyone who visits a college mess all around, but what tions to a tiny airport. Having a cheery holiday town would notice that compliance isn’t does it matter? HARRIS & CO Surviving the wild ride, is worth it. Our daughter is home we endured slippery You could also try 100 percent, but this law had its de- Dorothy Harris sired effect. Drunken-driving accidents — no doubt still in bed — driving conditions and swimming in an un- dropped 50% in the three decades since while we discuss break- days accumulating into heated pool. Even if the fast as the paper is read. you grew up elsewhere several more feet of snow. weather’s fantastic, the 1984. The National Institutes for Health No longer do we spring and have winter won- The thermometer dipped water will be downright found that the greatest rate of decline was when the clatter begins, derland memories. It can to double negative digits chilly and leave your in drivers between the ages of 16 and 20. it’s just the cats fighting feel off-putting at first that week too. We were so teeth chattering. That In 2019, Congress is moving toward and the dingo joining and leave you wondering thankful to return back to will bring back festive establishing a minimum age of 21 for the in. We sip our coffee how to feel like it is the land of sunshine. winter memories for purchase of smoking products, including and enjoy the leisurely Christmas. We alleviated It’s true we’ve had hot, sure. moments before us. To be that nonsense by recall- sunny Christmas days There are also all traditional tobacco and electronic ciga- off on holiday time is so ing the snow shoveling, and rainy, dreary ones. sorts of holiday amuse- rettes. The measure, which doesn’t bother joyous. ice picking, pipe freezing Even so, it’s never been ments in Orlando, St. with the hammer of federal highway The weather is lovely, weather following the so you can’t enjoy at least Petersburg and Tampa funding, was included in a $1.4 trilling no ice or snow here and fluffy, holiday card snows an hour or so outdoors. where you can enjoy spending package that passed both maybe later we’ll travel of northern Pennsylvania. It is nice when we get a absolutely freezing to the park to see deer. It’s pretty, but if we’re little chill right around temperatures for about chambers. Leaves are scattered in honest — it’s also the holiday, but no one half a Benjamin each. If We don’t mean to blow smoke in your cheerful bright yellows miserable. wants it to be really cold, that doesn’t remind you eyes, but this new age restriction won’t and reds, the faint smell It only took one holiday right? We’re Floridians how much better it is in have the same dramatic effect with to- of pine wafting from cy- back north to cement the and most of us have had the Sunshine State, then bacco use and vaping. That’s because the press overhead. The sun wisdom of staying south enough of that wintery it might be time to plan 1984 alcohol law was in part meant to shines warmly and there’s for Christmas. The last mix, thanks so much. a trip north. Please don’t no cold wind to dread. time we flew back to our If you’re really missing forget to shut the door counter the immediate and tragic con- Florida Christmas hometown, we endured the cold weather, make at the Florida border sequences of getting behind the wheel is such a remarkable snow storm delayed your power company joy- though. We really don’t while intoxicated or impaired. experience, especially if flights, lost baggage, a ous by bumping the air care for the draft. The use of tobacco products — both tra- ditional and vapes — is a bad choice with harmful, long-term effects. We support Have you lived — really lived — the 2010s? clean-air measures that free non-smokers from having to endure the unpleasant- Do I owe someone an is Asian and the other is the back corner of the apology for not taking a Hispanic.”) refrigerator is). ness and dangerous effects of second- more active role in the It seems like only But I’m sure my hand smoke. We think more needs to be iconic cultural, tech- yesterday that journalists theoretical grandchildren done to get these newer products out of nological and political were in a less defensive will someday take it the hands of young smokers, including developments of the mode. (“According to for granted that I did taxation on par with traditional cigarettes 2010s? multiple insider sources, all those things, while and a ban on e-cig flavoring that appeals I had good intentions TYRADES Donald Trump conspired hobnobbing with Elon of being a full participant with Napoleon Bonaparte Musk. Just like youngsters to youth. in the decade; but other Danny Tyree and Tsar Nicholas to now think Ike Eisenhower But there is little about smoking tobac- things kept coming up, invent the myth of ‘fake sent the National Guard co or nicotine-based e-cigs that causes and suddenly the 2010s of teenagers lecturing us news.’”) to make sure every cognitive impairment and endangers mo- are about to pass the on gun control, climate It seems like only single American used a torists in the here and now. That means torch to this century’s change, menopause, yesterday that no one was coonskin cap and a Hula version of “The Roaring Early Bird Specials, hip proposing funeral homes Hoop. Congress is doing something other than Twenties.” replacements, varicose be equipped with sta- I have tried keeping a targeting the immediate consequences of Where has the time veins, Lawrence Welk, etc. tionary bikes and Pilates sense of humor, which bad decisions that young people make. gone? (As the Romans It seems like only mats in case the deceased I am assured is a bad In raising the age for the purchase of said, “Tempus fugits – but yesterday that “taking a identified as still living. thing. (“Inscriptions cigarettes, Congress is trying to change not aboard a Boeing 737 knee” was fossil-hunter I can’t name a single show that the ancient behaviors that bring negative, long-term Max, if it can help it!”) lingo and a “trigger significant 2010s trend Mesopotamians engaged It seems like only warning” was something in fashion, architecture in “Yo’ momma is so health consequences. yesterday that a boss Ralphie’s father gave him or art. I got so wrapped idolatrous…” jokes. Here, the 1984 alcohol law provides a could playfully slap in “A Christmas Story.” up in daily survival that Therefore, humor is warning on the limits of legislation that a subordinate on the It seems like only I never got around to cultural appropriation promotes good behavior. Even with the buttocks and send her to yesterday that TV was using blockchain, occu- and….”) drop in drunken driving, some of which try flagging down a cab so plugging along with pying Wall Street, trolling Yes, the 2010s have they could take a lei- its traditional level of strangers on social media, been a little unnerving can be attributed to increased enforce- surely lunchtime tour of unoriginality – blissfully playing Fortnite, initiating for someone who came ment as much as the age restriction, the Confederate monuments. unaware of the tidal a hashtag, binge-watch- of age in the 70s. I keep National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and (“Oh, and let’s buy a new wave of reboots, remakes ing anything, listening to juxtaposing the eras and Alcoholism reports that 12 percent of office dictionary while and sequels that was Bruno Mars or post-coun- suffer nightmares about youth between the ages of 12 and 20 en- we’re out. This one has coming. I understand try Taylor Swift, watching Evel Knievel sustaining gaged in binge drinking in the last month. way more pronouns than that an updated 10-hour the antics of Honey critical injuries while we’ll ever need.”) miniseries of Thomas Boo Boo, taking sides trying to jump a man bun Problem solved? Not exactly. That was It seems like only Edison’s five-second in the NFL’S Tom Brady with his motorcycle! true with one vice in 1984, and it’s still yesterday that society 1894 silent movie “Fred “deflategate” controversy Danny Tyree welcomes true with another one today. got its lectures from old Ott’s Sneeze” is in the or having anything to do email responses at An editorial from the St. Joseph News- guys such as Al Gore and works. (“Research & with “50 Shades of Grey” [email protected] and Press, Missouri. John McCain. Now we Development says, just (including whatever visits to his Facebook fan have a cottage industry be sure one of the nostrils that gluten-free blob in page “Tyree’s Tyrades.”

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By GABRIELLE CALISE than I can tolerate.’” worst places in the state as mosquito workers who TAMPA BAY TIMES Jonathan Dickinson was —if not the planet — was sprayed the chemical. “The shipwrecked near Jupiter Sanibel Island. Winged Scourge” played TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — in the 1600s, Patterson “Among entomologists, in movie theaters across Battling the winged beasts said. A book of his account Sanibel was renowned the state ahead of the main before modern methods describes the native people as ‘the world’s greatest show. wasn’t easy. Desperate surrounding themselves pest hellhole.’” Patterson Around this time in early Floridians tried in clouds of smoke and wrote in Mosquito Wars. Tampa, Boy Scouts led everything, from slathering burying themselves in the “Longtime Sanibel marches and launched their bodies in lumps of sand for protection. His residents were accustomed educational mosquito con- bear fat to burning oily journals lamented about to seeing Pat Murphy, the trol campaigns. Children rags. Indigenous people hard nights trying to sleep island’s mailman, driving policed the streets to drain avoided mangrove trees, among the biting. his route in the hottest empty cans and other where mosquitoes breed in The creatures weren’t summer months ‘wrapped collectors of still water. the summertime, and used just annoying — they were in Eskimo clothing and “Schoolchildren in nets to cover up. Spaniards deadly. netting.” Tampa put on plays where hid from the hungry “Hordes of mosquitoes GEORGE TRAVANT/TAMPA BAY TIMES VIA AP Mosquito control they dressed up like mos- skeeters under their armor suffocated cattle and drove ramped up in the 1940s, quitoes,” Patterson said. In this May 23, 1956 photo, a net is placed over a baby’s crib to as they trudged through humans to suicide,” reads protect them against mosquitoes in St. Petersburg, Fla. Dengue Patterson said. The USDA “Tampa played a major the marshes. the forward of Patterson’s and yellow fever epidemics slammed Florida in the 1700s. set up a “quasi-secret” role in that story.” That was just the book, The Mosquito Wars. According to Gordon Patterson, a professor at the Florida Insti- laboratory on Paramour The United States Office beginning. Dengue and yellow tute of Technology and an expert on the history of mosquitoes Street in Orlando, where of Malaria Control in War A missionary sent to fever epidemics slammed in Florida, in the last 20 years of the century, disease-harboring researchers experimented Areas and United States the Biscayne Bay area Florida in the 1700s. In the mosquitoes killed more human beings than any other animal with new insecticides that Public Health Service even in the 1580s provided last 20 years of the century, on this planet. would protect the Allied produced a short film in early evidence of the itchy disease-harboring mos- troops fighting in malar- 1945 showing the scouts hellscape that was early quitoes killed more human archives, draining projects the silver lining is fewer ia-rich areas. The lab still trying to prevent dengue Florida. beings than any other and the building boom of mosquitoes.” exists today, but is located and yellow fever around “He wrote back to his animal on this planet, the 1920s helped to reduce The Florida Anti- in Gainesville. the city. father superior that he Patterson said. mosquitoes, especially in Mosquito Association Shortly after this time, Mosquitoes were still would do anything to get Yellow fever caused so Pinellas. (now known as the mass spraying of the so bad on the space coast out of this pestiferous many to fall ill or die that “During this century, Florida Mosquito Control chemical DDT took off in that they held up rocket place,” said Gordon in 1888 the State Board developers have destroyed Association) was formed thousands of homes. launches at the Kennedy Patterson, a professor at of Health was formed a 45 percent of the man- in the early 1920s. The lo- According to Mosquito Space Center in the ‘50s. the Florida Institute of year later. The board’s groves that once lined cation of the first meeting: Wars, the United States A special sub-committee Technology and an expert first leader? An expert in Tampa Bay and more than Indian River County, then Public Health Service even was created to figure out on the history of mos- mosquitoes. 75 percent of the forest,” called Mosquito County. hired Walt Disney’s artists a mosquito solution. The quitoes in Florida. “’Give Floridians tried to wrote Jeff Klinkenberg for Florida’s salt marshes to spread the word about mosquito impoundments me thieves, scoundrels, hide from mosquitoes at the then-St. Petersburg were fantastic breeding malaria and mosquito that were created later murderers, but these night to avoid diseases. Times in 1989. “The result grounds for two types of defenses. One cartoon were distributed across the mosquitoes are are more According to Times is less wildlife and fish, but mosquitoes. One of the featured the seven dwarves state.

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High Low High Low Ocala Daytona Beach City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W 77/60 75/63 Apalachicola 68 59 c 68 59 r Bradenton DeLand Clearwater 78 66 pc 77 66 pc Today 2:37p 7:37a 11:39p 5:43p Fri. 3:13p 8:15a --- 6:22p Beverly Leesburg 77/64 Coral Springs 81 73 pc 80 73 pc Hills 77/63 Daytona Beach 75 63 pc 75 66 c Clearwater 77/60 Fort Lauderdale 80 73 pc 79 72 pc Today 12:52p 6:29a 11:35p 6:16p Orlando Fort Myers 83 69 pc 82 69 pc Fri. 1:30p 7:08a --- 6:56p Brooksville 80/66 Titusville Gainesville 74 58 pc 77 62 c St. Petersburg 79/62 Jacksonville 70 57 pc 74 61 c 77/66 Today 12:26a 8:32a 4:01p 6:38p Cold Warm Stationary Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Key Largo 79 74 pc 79 72 pc Fri. 1:03a 9:10a 4:37p 7:17p Kissimmee Key West 80 74 pc 80 72 sh U.S. Extremes (For the 48 contiguous states Wednesday) High ...... 81 at Boca Raton, FL Low ...... -4 at Stanley, ID Tarpon Springs 79/65 Melbourne Melbourne 78 68 pc 78 69 pc Vero Beach 78/65 Plant City Haines City 78/68 Miami 81 74 sh 81 72 sh Today 11:27a 5:19a 11:29p 6:10p Today Fri. Today Fri. Fri. 12:12p 6:08a --- 6:58p 79/65 80/64 Naples 83 69 s 83 68 sh City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Ocala 77 60 pc 79 65 pc Winter Haven Venice Albuquerque 47 33 pc 45 26 sn Kansas City 50 27 pc 47 40 pc Tampa Okeechobee 79 66 pc 78 67 pc 79/66 Today 1:59p 6:54a 11:01p 5:00p Anchorage 19 -4 pc 5 1 pc Knoxville 60 42 c 60 45 c 80/65 Orlando 80 66 c 80 68 pc Fri. 2:35p 7:32a 11:40p 5:39p Atlanta 64 48 c 61 53 c Las Vegas 50 41 pc 55 35 pc Bartow Frostproof Panama City 70 58 c 72 61 r 79/66 Baltimore 48 35 pc 51 40 c Los Angeles 55 46 r 63 42 s St. Petersburg 79/67 Pensacola 71 60 c 70 63 c Birmingham 66 51 c 67 56 c Louisville 65 54 pc 63 51 c 80/67 Avon Park Pompano Beach 80 74 pc 80 73 pc Marine Boise 36 21 c 34 19 pc Memphis 67 54 c 66 55 c Wauchula 80/67 Vero St. Augustine 70 61 pc 73 63 c Wind Speed Seas Bay/Inland Boston 40 34 pc 51 40 c Milwaukee 57 32 c 42 32 c 80/66 Basinger Beach St. Petersburg 80 67 pc 80 68 pc Sebring direction in knots in feet chop Buffalo 49 46 c 51 33 sh Minneapolis 37 24 c 34 26 pc 79/65 79/69 Sarasota 81 66 c 80 66 pc Sarasota Myakka City 79/67 Burlington, VT 34 31 pc 45 35 c Montgomery 70 54 c 68 58 c Tallahassee 73 56 c 74 60 c Cape Sable to Tarpon Springs 81/66 81/67 Charleston, WV 64 43 pc 59 44 c Nashville 64 53 c 64 53 c Okeechobee Tampa 80 65 pc 79 66 pc ENE 10-20 2-3 Moderate Charlotte 63 41 c 62 46 pc New Orleans 70 61 sh 68 63 r 79/66 Vero Beach 79 69 c 79 71 pc Tarpon Springs to Apalachicola Port Chicago 59 33 c 44 34 pc New York City 44 41 c 52 41 c Venice Venus Indiantown West Palm Beach 81 74 pc 80 73 pc ENE 8-16 1-3 Moderate 80/68 Charlotte Cincinnati 62 53 pc 60 47 c Norfolk, VA 58 42 pc 61 45 pc 80/67 80/67 79/70 Cleveland 58 51 c 55 34 c Oklahoma City 64 41 c 57 51 pc UV Index Today Sun and Moon Columbia, SC 65 45 c 66 51 pc Omaha 41 22 c 42 35 pc Sebring Winter Haven Columbus, OH 60 51 pc 59 42 c Philadelphia 46 38 pc 52 40 c The Sun Rise Set Concord, NH 35 21 s 42 33 c Phoenix 62 48 r 55 42 r Statistics through 1 p.m. Wednesday Statistics through 1 p.m. Wednesday Today 7:14 a.m. 5:39 p.m. Dallas 68 53 pc 68 58 c Pittsburgh 57 47 pc 56 38 c Temperatures Temperatures Friday 7:14 a.m. 5:39 p.m. Denver 43 23 pc 38 25 c Portland, ME 35 23 s 42 32 c Minutes to burn ...... 45 Des Moines 42 23 c 41 33 pc Portland, OR 43 33 c 44 35 c High/low 76/61 High/low 80/63 The Moon Rise Set The higher the number the greater the risk. Detroit 55 47 c 49 30 c Providence 43 30 pc 51 36 c Normal high/low 74/48 Normal high/low 73/52 Today 7:34 a.m. 6:14 p.m. Duluth 36 20 sn 27 18 c Raleigh 60 41 pc 63 45 pc Record high 88 in 2016 Record high 86 in 2015 Friday 8:28 a.m. 7:10 p.m. Record low 18 in 1989 Record low 23 in 1989 Pollen Index Fairbanks -13 -26 sn -23 -35 pc St. Louis 69 39 pc 53 46 pc Precipitation (in inches) Precipitation (in inches) First Full Last New Fargo 23 12 sn 24 16 pc Salt Lake City 38 25 sf 33 23 pc Hartford 40 32 pc 47 35 sh San Antonio 71 55 c 72 60 c 24 hours through 1 p.m. Wed. 0.00” 24 hours through 1 p.m. Wed. 0.00” Helena 31 17 pc 32 17 s San Diego 60 45 r 63 45 s Month to date 2.64” Month to date 2.43” Honolulu 83 70 pc 83 72 pc San Francisco 56 41 s 56 40 s Normal month to date 1.54” Normal month to date 2.20” Cause ...... Palm, Juniper Houston 74 58 pc 74 64 pc Seattle 42 38 c 46 38 c Year to date 51.18” Year to date 53.34” Jan 2 Jan 10 Jan 17 Jan 24 Source: National Allergy Bureau Indianapolis 61 49 pc 54 42 pc Washington, DC 50 38 pc 54 43 c Normal year to date 51.77” Normal year to date 50.56” Last year to date 54.62” Last year to date 54.38” Solunar Table Air Quality Today The World Monthly Rainfall Leesburg Minor Major Minor Major Statistics through 1 p.m. Wednesday Today Fri. Today Fri. Month 2019 2018 Avg. Record Today 5:12a 11:26a 5:39p 11:53p City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Fri. 6:09a 11:51a 6:35p ---- Jan. 3.37 1.86 2.48 7.46/1948 Temperatures Amsterdam 43 38 r 43 38 r Mexico City 72 47 s 73 48 pc Sat. 7:05a 12:53a 7:31p 1:18p Feb. 1.56 1.01 2.54 10.61/1998 High/low 79/62 Main pollutant ...... Ozone Baghdad 70 49 s 67 46 pc Montreal 28 25 c 42 32 c March 1.43 0.58 3.60 12.18/1960 Source: The solunar period schedule allows planning days so you Beijing 39 18 pc 38 19 pc Ottawa 29 25 c 43 30 sn Precipitation (in inches) Airnow.gov will be fishing in good territory or hunting in good cover April 2.08 4.42 2.63 7.36/1951 Berlin 42 32 c 38 28 c Paris 49 46 r 53 43 r May 1.49 7.58 2.74 12.72/1957 24 hours through 1 p.m. Wed. 0.00” during those times. Major periods begin at the times June 9.66 5.19 7.87 16.44/1992 shown and last for 1.5 to 2 hours. The minor periods are Buenos Aires 77 71 s 83 73 t Rio de Janeiro 83 72 s 85 74 pc Weather Trivia™ shorter. July 11.89 13.13 8.25 16.45/1945 Airport Cairo 67 53 pc 64 51 pc Rome 58 40 s 57 38 pc St. John’s 33 25 sf 26 19 pc Aug. 8.20 6.15 7.48 14.59/1949 Q: What was the largest ice Cancun 78 67 s 81 66 s Possible weather-related delays today. Check with San Juan 87 76 t 85 75 pc Sept. 3.78 5.77 6.08 17.26/1960 accumulation from freezing rain? Weather History Dublin 51 49 r 55 45 c Oct. 4.66 0.64 2.58 9.43/1952 your airline for the most updated schedules. Edmonton 16 1 s 29 7 pc Sydney 81 68 s 82 68 s Nov. 2.79 1.14 2.11 7.81/1988 Hi/Lo Outlook Delays Miami, Fla., was in a cold snap on Halifax 24 17 pc 34 32 sn Tokyo 53 46 c 56 39 s

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2019_12_26_sea_10.001.pdf 1 26-Dec-19 00:19:36 SPORTS • LOCAL • STATE • NATIONAL Thursday, December 26, 2019 SECTION B Local do well in senior state games By NEIL SIMPSON 2019 Heartland Senior to register for the 2020 and was second in the HEARTLAND GAMES AMBAS- Games earned the right Florida State Games men’s 5K track and field SADOR to compete in the state- where they could qualify event. wide games. At the State for the 2021 National John “Johnny Mac” The 2019 Florida Games, competitors came Senior Games. Everyone McEachren won the 80 Senior Games wrapped from the 20 qualifying who has competed in the to 84 18-hole golf event; up on December 15th. events held throughout Nationals speaks highly Michael Zellner won in The Games were held in the year in locales right of the great organization, the 60 to 64 men’s tennis Broward County (Fort across Florida. Once excellent competition and singles and doubles; and Lauderdale) which will again, there was a good the chance to meet so Geraldine Fabb won the be the site of the 2020 showing from Heartland many great people. gold medal in the 50 Florida Senior Games and Games competitors. Highlands County breaststroke in the wom- the 2021 National Senior As is always the case, crowned several cham- en’s 70 to 74 age group. Games. our tennis players were pions, including Glenn It was one of five medals Those who finished our group with the best Wilkinson in the men’s 5K won by Fabb. in the top five in their representation. recumbent cycling event. Rosa Waters was first COURTESY PHOTO age/gender bracket in Those successful Wilkinson also finished athletic events at the locally are encouraged ninth in the 5K time trial SENIOR | 2B Geraldine Fabb. LOCAL SPORTS BRIEFS Sebring Senior Softball Signups SEBRING — Sebring Senior Softball signups are currently taking place. There are leagues for players 50 and over and a league for those 70 and over. Games will be played at the Highlands County Sports Complex in Sebring, which is at 216 Sheriffs Tower Road, behind the Sebring train station. The season will begin on Jan. 9 and continue through March 26. Games are played Tuesday and Thursday, with the 70s league playing at 9:45 a.m. and the 50s league hitting the field at noon. A draft will deter- mine which team players will be on. Practice is taking place now on Tuesday and Thursday, starting at 9 a.m. For more information on the 70s league, call John Kloet at 863-414- 2926 and for the 50s league coll 863-840-4291 or 256-504-1710. COURTESY PHOTO Interpretive volunteers Bob and Chris Wohlwend and Alice Oldford prepare to greet families for a Saturday Kids Discovery Nature Hike on the Ancient Junior Tennis After School Hammock Trail in 2018. Tennis Lessons After school tennis lesson are being offered at the Thakkar Tennis ‘First Day Hikes’ kick off the New Year Center located at the Country Club of Sebring. Lessons begin Jan. 6 and run through Jan. 30. Ages 4 thru 18 SPECIAL TO HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN Amphitheater Parking, walk and beginners are welcome. USPTA through the Amphitheater and certified tennis professional, Horace SEBRING — Start off the meet with Ranger McMullen at Watkis is the instructor. New Year on the right foot at 8:30 a.m. at the back entrance The sessions go for 4 weeks with Highlands Hammock State on the Loop Road. Walking 1 class per week. Tiny Tots (ages 4-6) Park with a First Day Hike! the half mile round trip on are Tuesdays from 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Three guided walks are sched- the Wild Lemon Trail will take with a cost of $37. Future Champs uled for Wednesday morning, approximately 45 minutes, and (ages 6-12) have a choice of any Jan. 1. Two “off the beaten the level of difficulty is rated day of the week with a start time of path” treks led by Ranger Laura strenuous. 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. with a cost of $45. McMullen, which include Pine Hammock Trail, the Pre-Tournament Academy is held the Wild Lemon Trail and the second hike, will begin at Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Pine Hammock Trail, provide 9:45 a.m. at the Amphitheater with a cost of $60. High School Team visitors the opportunity to walk parking area where visitors will Level is held Thurdays from 4 p.m. to historic trails in areas of the walk approximately 10 minutes 5:30 p.m. park restricted to public access. on the Loop Road to an un- For more information please con- The trails were constructed marked entrance with Ranger tact Coach Horace Watkis at his office during the New Deal era by the McMullen. Slightly more than at 863-386-4282 or his cell 863-414- Civilian Conservation Corps a quarter-of-a-mile in length, 2164 or by email at horacewatkis@ and abandoned in the 1940s. Pine Hammock joins the Young hotmail.com According to Park Services Hammock Trail and hikers will Specialist Carla Sherwin, “The walk another quarter of a mile Wild Lemon Trail was heavily on it to return to the Loop and American Veterans Golf damaged in Hurricane Irma. Amphitheater parking. The Scramble Park staff and the Heartland Pine Hammock walk is slightly American Veterans, Post 21 Chapter of the Florida Trail less than one mile and will take Golf Scramble will be held at Association worked very hard approximately 45 minutes. Golf Hammock Country Club on to clear debris so visitors may Visitors will learn about fire Saturday, Jan. 11. The shotgun start now walk a quarter-of-a-mile ecology and the succession of will be at 8:30 a.m. There will be three along this trail, and we are pineland to hammock due to flights consisting of 36 foursomes. planning to eventually connect lack of lightning-ignited and The cost is $60 per person that Wild Lemon to the historic prescribed fires. The degree of COURTESY PHOTO includes 1 mulligan, door prizes, Sweet Gum Trail after more difficulty ranges from easy to closest to the pin and longest drive restoration.” A historic terra cotta culvert marks the opening of the Wild Lemon Trail contests in the men and women Visitors may park in the HIKES | 2B that was created in the 1930s. divisions. Refreshments will be available during play. Lunch to follow at the American Vets post 21 at 623 US Highway 27 South. To sponsor a Playoff matchups: OU slowdown vs LSU; hole it is $50 per hole. Please make checks payable to AM VETS post No. 21. For more informa- tion or questions please contact Paul Clemson keys on Young Morris at 863-446-2064. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WHEN LSU HAS THE BALL: Lake Placid Senior Softball Coaches like to talk about The four College Football being aggressive offensively. Lake Placid senior softball men’s Playoff teams rank in the top That’s how Heisman Trophy league is now practicing on Mondays five nationally in points per winner Joe Burrow and the and Wednesdays at 9 a.m. at the game and yards per game. Tigers play. Lake June Ball Fields. The League For defenses to determine “Whether it’s by tempo or is for ages 60 and up. There will be who wins this championship, by play design, they maintain 23 games at the Highlands Sports there might be a turnover their aggressiveness from Complex in Sebring starting January here, a sack there and a cou- play one until the last play of through March. A player draft in ple of clutch red-zone stops. the game,” Mississippi State December will assign players to Coaches who faced each coach Joe Moorhead said. teams. team say there are several key The Tigers often have If interested and looking for good matchups that could decide five receivers on the field, camaraderie and exercise, just bring Saturday’s semifinals: relying on their front five to a bat, glove and enthusiasms to the No. 1 LSU (13-0) vs. No. 4 pass protect and Burrow’s Lake Placid practices and sign up. Oklahoma (12-1), Peach Bowl decision-making and mobility GERALD HERBERT/AP PHOTO For further league information please in Atlanta, 4 p.m. LSU quarterback Joe Burrow (9) scrambles during the first half of an NCAA visit the league website at lpsoftball. Line: LSU by 13.5. PLAYOFF | 3B college football game against Texas A&M. com B2 | HIGHLANDS NEWS-SUN | December 26, 2019 www.highlandsnewssun.com

moderate. Hikers complet- more! are advised to call the HIKES ing all three treks will have Sherwin stated, “This is Ranger Station at 863- FROM PAGE 1B walked three miles. an excellent opportunity 386-6094 to confirm the Registration for these for children to learn how walks. Registration for the moderate. field trips is requested. to observe wildlife and Saturday Kids field trips The third hike, Trek to Sign up by calling the sharpen their skills to is requested. Sign up by the Historic Dam, is a Ranger Station at 863-386- explore nature, regardless calling the Ranger Station leisurely stroll through 6094 or via email to laura. COURTESY PHOTO of whether they are in at 863-386-6094 or via forested wetlands along [email protected].fl.us. Visiting camper Steven Guillen who enjoys Highlands Hammock the park or in their own email to laura.mcmullen@ the park’s bike path to Following the First because of the “unique nature and many different habitats” backyards.” All children dep.state.fl.us. an historic dam within Day Hikes, the Monday leads his friends on a hiking tour of trails on Loop Road. must be accompanied “We hope that visitors cypress swamp. Hikers Morning Nature Walks are by an adult. Visitors are will take advantage of our will explore the ecology of scheduled to begin Jan. 6 warblers that overwinter in registration is not required. advised to meet in the many hiking field trips hammocks and swamps. at the Cypress Swamp Trail the hammock are sighted The Saturday Kids picnic area near the Music offered this year,” Sherwin Visitors may chance seeing and continue through the in addition to woodpeck- Discovery Nature Walks, in the Park Stage at 10 a.m. remarked, and concluded an alligator at the swamp end of March. Visitors may ers, red-shouldered hawks, which introduce children for first hike Jan. 11 on the by adding that “Hikers are and observe pileated take a leisurely walk with and water birds. Owls are and young adults to the Wild Orange Trail. reminded to dress for the woodpeckers and other volunteer trail guides Brian sometimes heard. park, resume on Jan. 11. All other hikes are being weather and wear sturdy birds. Visitors will meet and Susan Woodworth as January walks include Hikes will be held on held on trails located on shoes or hiking boots, long Ranger Laura McMullen they explore park trails, the following: Richard the second and fourth the Loop Road and visitors pants and protective cloth- at 11 a.m. at the Mammal observe birds, spot reptiles Lieber Memorial Trail Saturdays of the month will meet at the trailheads ing for all walks.” A hat, Kiosk located between and discover what’s (Jan. 13), and Ancient from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. as follows: Richard Lieber sunscreen, insect repellent, the Young Hammock and blooming. Hammock Trail (Jan. 20). through the end of March. Memorial Trail (Jan. 25), water, and snacks are also Cypress Swamp Trails on These two self-taught The Jan. 27 walk is planned Highlands Hammock Ancient Hammock Trail advised. Binoculars, field the Loop Road. Parking is naturalists actively scout for Lake June-in-Winter interpretive volunteers will (Feb. 8), Young Hammock guides, walking sticks, and available on the bike path trails in advance of their Scrub State Park. The walks lead youngsters aged 5 to Trail (Feb. 22), Richard cameras are useful. Park service road. The hike will hikes and keep track of the are rated easy to moderate 13 on exploratory hikes Lieber Memorial Trail entry fees of $6 per vehicle cover 1.5 miles round trip areas where birds and oth- in difficulty. Visitors are that incorporate scavenger (March 14) and Ancient (up to 8 persons), $4 per and take between 45 min- er wildlife are most likely instructed to meet at the hunts, bird watching and Hammock Trail (March single occupant vehicle, utes to an hour. The degree to be found. Migratory parking areas of the Loop other activities created es- 28). This schedule may and $2 for bicyclists and of difficulty of this field birds including song- Road trailheads at 9:00 am. pecially for children. Learn be subject to change or visitors walking on foot trip ranges from easy to birds such as robins and Walks normally take one about plants, animals, cancellation so visitors apply. hour to 90 minutes and habitats, food chains and

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Even though the Dallas ESPN.com Hernandez is a career Cowboys still have a path Free agent second base- was first to .277 hitter. to the playoffs, there’s a man Cesar Hernandez report the With Hernandez feeling of inevitability in has agreed to a one-year, agreement. expected to sign, the one of the most disap- $6.25 million contract The Indians will likely keep pointing seasons for Jerry with the Cleveland Indians Jose Ramirez at third Jones in 30 years as owner Indians, a person familiar were in base. The club considered and general manager. with with negotiations HERNANDEZ the market sliding Ramirez over The sense of doom told The Associated Press for a second to the right side of the starts with coach Jason on Monday. baseman after not picking infield and pair him Garrett being in the final Hernandez, who spent up veteran Jason Kipnis’ with All-Star shortstop year of his contract hav- the past seven seasons contract option for 2020. Francisco Lindor, whose ing led an underachieving with the Philadelphia The 29-year-old name continues to be CHRIS SZAGOLA/AP PHOTO team with a 4-8 record Phillies, must past a Hernandez became bounced around in trade since a 3-0 start fueled Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett, center left, walks off physical this week before available when the rumors. talk of a Super Bowl for the field after an NFL football game against the Philadelphia the deal is announced. Phillies chose not to offer Hernandez has played a franchise that hasn’t Eagles. The person who spoke him a contract. He batted at least 127 games in each been to one since the last on condition anonymity .279 with 14 homers and of the past five seasons. of five championships to center. His answers have played just one other because of the sensitivity 71 RBIs in 161 games last finish the 1995 season. never changed. game this season, two Losing in Philadelphia “The biggest thing we weeks before his Dallas 17-9 with a chance to have to do is to try and debut. The 32-year-old win the NFC East left the process this game, learn hasn’t kicked full time Jalen Hurts enjoying Cowboys (7-8) needing from it, and move for- since 2017. a victory at home over ward,” Garrett said. “Go STOCK DOWN Washington and a loss and have a great practice Prescott said his injured final college season by the Eagles at the New on Wednesday and prepa- right shoulder wasn’t ration for Sunday.” the problem, but he had York Giants on Sunday to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS make the playoffs. WHAT’S WORKING several poor throws in And even the ever-op- Receiver Michael critical moments against Gallup has made signifi- the Eagles, including NORMAN, Okla. — Almost begrudging- timistic Jones didn’t ly, Jalen Hurts is having some fun. mention that one remain- cant development in his an overthrow when the second season. He was speedy Tavon Austin His Oklahoma teammates and coaches ing scenario in very brief have defended their quarterback when comments — unusual for the leading receiver for was behind the defense. the fifth time this season Put Amari Cooper in asked about Hurts seemingly aloof him — after the game. personality, saying there’s more to one of “Frustrating,” quarter- with 98 yards against the here, too. The club’s No. ALONZO ADAMS/AP PHOTO Eagles. Gallup has his 1 receiver hasn’t played college football’s most successful players back Dak Prescott said. in recent years. Hurts has let loose on a Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) runs “I’ve sat here after every first 1,000-yard season that way for six weeks. and will likely more than Cooper had a huge third- few occasions, revealing another side of against West Virginia. game, pretty much – win the Alabama transfer. or lose – and said the double the 507 yards he down drop that cost the the College Football Playoff for the fourth had as a rookie. Cowboys a conversion. “I told Jalen before he came here that good part about it is we if he did come here, that one of my goals time when Oklahoma faces top-ranked control our own destiny. WHAT NEEDS HELP INJURIES LSU on Saturday in a national semifinal. The Cowboys have built LB Joe Thomas didn’t was going to be for him to be able to That’s gone.” enjoy it and have fun with it,” Oklahoma “It’s unprecedented,” Hurts said. “My Prescott and Ezekiel their identity around make it through the game situation is unprecedented. That’s the Elliott and the running because of a knee injury, coach Lincoln Riley said. “I think that’s Elliott started the season an important part of this game. (I) have best way I can say it. That’s the best way believing the fourth year game, and the inconsis- forcing Malcolm Smith to I’ve been saying it.” tency in that area has play more than expected had guys like him before that take it so together for the former seriously. And he does have fun — he has He allowed himself to relax a bit after rookie sensations could mirrored the team’s hit- just five days after signing the Sooners rallied from 25 points down and-miss nature overall. with the Cowboys. Smith more fun with it than probably you guys be special. The timing see on the outside.” to beat Baylor in the regular season — of the two-time rushing A week after running for was part of a blown albeit just momentarily. a season-high 263 yards assignment on a 38-yard It’s understandable given his path why champion ending a Hurts remains so focused. he knows how “Well, it’s something you want to try preseason-long holdout in a 44-21 throttling of catch by Greg Ward Jr. to soak in,” he said. “The greatest come- the Los Angeles Rams, that led to Philadelphia’s quickly things can change. and signing a $90 million He was Alabama’s starting quarterback back in school history. Something that contract the morning of Dallas had 54 against touchdown for a 17-6 we wanted to enjoy. But now, that great Philadelphia. lead. for two seasons before Tua Tagovailoa the first practice of the replaced him at halftime of the national comeback is not going to win us the game regular season had the Elliott (47 yards) was KEY NUMBER this week. We completely understand held under 100 for the 24 — If the Cowboys championship game following the 2017 feel of a final piece in a season. Tagovailoa rallied the Tide to that, and I think we have the right focus title push. sixth time in seven don’t make the playoffs, going into it this week, playing TCU, as far games. It was his fourth that will be the number victory against Georgia and got the Instead, they’re on the starting job the next year. Hurts stayed at as that. We’re just ready to attack practice verge of repeating the on- game with fewer than 50 of consecutive seasons and get better.” yards. Elliott didn’t have without even a trip to the Alabama instead of transferring and in again, off-again pattern ironic twist of fate, he endeared himself If it was up to Hurts, he’d probably that has defined the past more than one such game NFC championship game never talk about any of it. He prefers to in any of his first three since Dallas became the to Alabama fans by rallying the Tide six seasons under Garrett. past none other than Georgia in the “keep the main thing the main thing,” as An 8-8 finish without a seasons. first team to win three he sometimes says. STOCK UP Super Bowls in four years. Southeastern Conference championship playoff spot would feel game after Tagovailoa was injured. “The ‘main thing’ is going out there and quite familiar, too. That’s Kicker Kai Forbath NEXT STEPS attacking every single day, every oppor- might have earned a The Garrett watch is on, After graduating from Alabama, Hurts how the first three full transferred to Oklahoma — where he tunity we have to get better,” he said. seasons under Garrett roster spot to start 2020, and it appears the only “Attacking and trying to improve. Taking if not with the Cowboys thing that can get him a is having a memorable run. He was the ended from 2011-13. Heisman Trophy runner-up and has big steps. That’s the main thing.” As usual in times of then probably another new contract is a highly Certainly, he’s a far cry from Baker team. He’s made all six unlikely playoff run if the led the Sooners to the College Football struggle for the Cowboys, Playoff. He has passed for 3,634 yards Mayfield’s enormous personality. Hurts questions about Garrett’s kicks in two games since Cowboys even get in. calls praise “rat poison,” something he Dallas cut the unreliable and 32 touchdowns and rushed for 1,255 future were front and yards and 18 touchdowns. He’ll play in carried from playing for coach Nick Brett Maher. Forbath Saban at Alabama.

HAS THE BALL: If fans on the outside against per carry), Clawson said. expect a typical fast- receivers. That line, especially PLAYOFF paced Big 12 offense, the The Buckeyes will be Carman, will be tested FROM PAGE 1B Sooners might surprise the first team this season by college football’s best to avoid pressure. LSU’s them. that can really challenge pass rusher. Heisman top three wide receivers “They are not a Clemson with power up finalist Chase Young had (All-American Ja’Marr high-flying tempo of- front behind All-America 16.5 sacks in 11 games. As Chase, Justin Jefferson fense. They are pro-style, guard Wyatt Davis and teams began scheming to and Terrace Marshall substitute personnel third-team All-America slow down Young, Ohio Jr.) each have at least 10 groupings, call two plays, guard Jonah Jackson. State moved him around touchdown catches. getting into the right play Venables is not afraid to the formation, particular- Versatile running back at the line. As a result commit extra defenders ly on third down. Clyde Edwards-Helaire they can limit posses- to stop the run. That’s Extra attention on (50 catches and 1,290 sions,” Rhule said. where Fields’ running Young means defensive yards rushing) is used Oklahoma’s offenses RICHARD SHIRO/AP PHOTO ability can come in. A linemen Davon Hamilton frequently in the passing under coach Lincoln sore knee kept the 6-3, and Jashon Cornell have game as more than just Riley have always been Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence throws a pass during the first half 225-pound Fields (10 to be handled one- an outlet for Burrow. balanced and among the of an NCAA college football game against Florida State, in touchdown runs) under on-one. The Buckeyes “Even when you best in the country on the Clemson, S.C. wraps in the Big Ten challenge will be to get include the tight end ground. With Heisman Rashard Lawrence all and 20 touchdowns. He is championship game enough pressure to fluster (Thaddeus Moss), all runner-up Jalen Hurts, weigh over 300 pounds) also effective as a receiver against Wisconsin. Trevor Lawrence. their guys can win the the quarterback is now are hard to move. with 17 catches for 200 “I think there’s still “I don’t know that they one-on-one matchups,” the Sooners’ primary “They play the odd yards and two scores. a little bit more in the have another dynamic Moorhead said. ball carrier. The powerful stack (three-down line- Dobbins will be arsenal,” Fickell said. rush guy,” Fickell said. Edwards-Helaire is senior ran for 1,255 yards men), really kind of stuff attacking a Clemson WHEN CLEMSON HAS “They’ve got some really, nursing a hamstring behind a huge offensive up your interior gaps,” defense that has been THE BALL: The Tigers are really good ones.” injury and might not play. line. Kennedy Brooks is Moorhead said. overhauled by coordina- making their fifth straight Lawrence led Clemson His versatility would be the top tailback. Injuries RUSSO’S PICK: LSU tor Brent Venables this playoff appearance and to a national title last year missed, though probably and suspensions have de- 45-24. year. The Tigers don’t have won two national as a freshman. He has not as much as Oklahoma pleted the depth behind No. 2 Ohio State (13-0) dominate with their titles in the last three pinpoint accuracy and will miss defensive end him. Expect a lot of Hurts vs. No. 3 Clemson (13-0), front four as they did last years. big targets in Tee Higgins Ronnie Perkins. and Brooks, setting up Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, year. The back end of the Still, this is the best and Justyn Ross, both 6-4. Perkins, who leads the play-action passes to All- Arizona, 8 p.m. defense is where the stars Clemson offense the The Buckeyes are used to Sooners in sacks with six, America receiver CeeDee Line: Clemson by 2. are, especially versatile Tigers have had entering cornerbacks Jeff Okudah, is reportedly suspended Lamb. WHEN OHIO STATE All-American Isaiah the playoff. The Tigers an All-American, and for the playoff. The Sooners don’t have HAS THE BALL: QB Justin Simmons. He is listed as a have gone from solid to Damon Arnette locking “The key to their much chance of holding Fields (40 touchdown linebacker but shows up elite along the line, led by down outside receiv- defense is really to get down LSU’s offense passes and one inter- all over the field. second-team All-America ers. That might be too pressure with their front, without getting a bunch ception) was a Heisman “They’ve evolved to guard John Simpson and much to expect against the line movement and of turnovers. Slowing finalist, but J.K. Dobbins kind of a three-safety sophomore left tackle Clemson, which has the twists and all the down the game might be might be the Buckeyes’ defense,” Wake Forest Jackson Carman. confidence in Lawrence things they do,” Baylor OU’s best bet. offensive MVP. coach Dave Clawson said. “If you ever try to to work the middle of the coach Matt Rhule said of But LSU’s defense is “He is the catalyst,” “They blitz a lot of more. lighten the box now field like few other college the Sooners. “I think the healthier than it’s been Cincinnati coach Luke They pressure a lot more.” you’re dealing with a quarterbacks do. loss of (Perkins) is really a all season and their big Fickell said of Dobbins. And they rely on cor- great offensive line and RUSSO’S PICK: big deal.” bodies up front (Glen Dobbins is tough inside nerbacks A.J. Terrell and Travis Etienne” (1.500 CLEMSON 42-35. 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