A3 SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUNDAY + PLUS >> Horse FW grad sense 1C For elections, comes in stay vigilant goes handy at and focused pro LCCA Opinion Historic building 4A changes hands 1B 1D LC residency an issue for Lightning Archer city commissioner 3A strike ‘a blur’ for FAST FRIENDS 2nd victim Shelby Delgado recovering at home after death of friend. By CARL MCKINNEY [email protected] Eighteen-year-old Shelby Delgado sits next to the fifth-wheel trailer criss-cross style a week ago Saturday. A friend teases her about something in the way that friends do. They’re enjoying their afternoon at Woodpecker Mud Bog in White Springs, despite the downpour that started 10 or 15 minutes ago. A few seconds pass. Crack. Boom. Flash. Everything after that is a bit of a blur. “It happened very fast,” Delgado recalled. “It looked like I was looking Delgado into a bright light and it shook my body.” Delgado came to lying on the ground. A fog of confusion wrapped around her mind. “I didn’t know what happened,” she said. “I imme- diately started panicking and screaming.” She looked around and saw the other five people in her group were also knocked down. ‘It happened Her friend, Kourtney very fast,’ Delgado Lambert, 23, was unrespon- sive. They’d only known each recalled. ‘It looked other about seven months, like I was looking but had become close. into a bright light Delgado couldn’t feel her and it shook my left leg. It finally dawned on body.’ her what had happened. The lightning strike burned two holes in her jeans where it pierced her leg. “Max! Max!” she cried, trying to get the attention of Lambert’s husband. She started hitting her leg until she could feel it again, pushed herself off the ground and supported Photos by COREY ARWOOD/Lake City Reporter Ayden and Emma Pinard were at the Alligator Lake Spring Festival with their family from SHELBY continued on 2A Gainesville when they got the chance to hold this snake. Coffers start ’Gator fest good as ever to fill as local Maybe better — attendance hit new heights. races heat up By CARL MCKINNEY By COREY ARWOOD cmckinney@lakecityreporter [email protected] The local ecosystem was A 19-year-old contender for a seat on the Columbia on full display Saturday at County School Board reported a bigger war chest Alligator Lake Park. than any other candidate for local office, though People traveled from about 41 percent of the money came miles around to see it, in the form of loans from himself. touch it, learn how to pro- Hunter Peeler, who has his eyes tect it and then take a few on the School Board District 5 free native Florida plants seat, raised $9,300 in cash between back home to help the eco- September and March, most of which systems of their own front he spent in the yards. Held annually by the Peeler last three months, Four Rivers Audubon according to cam- of Lake City, the ninth paign filings. Alligator Lake Spring Danny Green, who is running Festival drew crowds from for re-election to the School Board Lake City, Gainesville and District 1 seat, is the next best-fund- Jacksonville. ed candidate for local office, having Finnell President of the orga- raised $8,650. nization and conservation Peeler lent his own campaign a total of $3,800. Trini Johannesen, a Fort White sixth-grade science teacher and manager with Audubon Most of the rest of his contributions came from local director of the Fort White “Parknership” show the Samera family of FESTIVAL continued on 9A Jacksonville the benefits of reducing, reusing and recycling. 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Jessica Nicole Jewett, 35, A blame-game ensued know they were there, but Thought for Today of Barts Terrace, before the when the deputy found a the daughter seemed to Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the By COREY ARWOOD black truck came they were small black hygiene bag in indicate otherwise. tempestuous sea of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson, [email protected] in came to a stop, that tipped the same compartment as “Jessica mentioned … 1743-1826, 3rd U.S. President (1801-1809) him off to the presence of a gun, which Terri had pre- while I was searching the A Lake City mother and potential substances. viously told the deputy was vehicle her mother Terri daughter were arrested on “While the vehicle was behind her driver’s seat, the told her that there is a meth Winning Lottery Numbers drug charges when nei- coming to a complete stop, report said. pipe in the vehicle,” the Pick 3: (Friday p.m.) 8-5-2 ther admitted to owning I observed It was the report said. Pick 4: (Friday p.m.) 1-7-0-4 the meth and marijuana the passen- same loca- She also told him the items Fantasy 5: (Friday) 2-15-16-27-34 found after a deputy spot- ger reach- tion the dep- weren’t hers, and like her ted the latter stash some- ing behind uty stated in mother she was also unaware thing before their Thursday the driver’s his report of their presence in the truck. Correction traffic stop, a CCSO arrest seat as if that Jessica “Due to neither of the par- Lake Shore Hospital Authority board member report said. she was Jewett ties admitting to the drugs, Jay Swisher gave executive director candidate Dale Traveling east on U.S. T. Jewett trying to J. Jewett reached both Terri and Jessica were Williams 58 out of 60 points during an evaluation on Highway 90 around 2:30 conceal before their arrested,” the report said. Thursday night. Friday’s edition indicated otherwise. p.m., Terri Lee Jewett, 57, something,” the deputy’s traffic stop. Mother and daughter of Mayo Road, was stopped statement said. “Inside of the black were both placed in jail Submissions by a Columbia County Seeing that, he called in hygiene bag was a clear on $11,000 each for seven The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption Sheriff’s deputy who said for a K9 unit from Lake City meth pipe, a clear baggie counts of drug and para- information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you would he was on routine patrol. Police. with a green leafy sub- phernalia related charges. like to see your organization in the newspaper, send the picture The deputy found Jewett He stated both Jewetts stance, a marijuana pipe and Terri Jewett has since and information to Associate Editor Justin Caudell at was driving with a suspend- had told him nothing would a small green baggie of a been released. 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