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A1 + PLUS >> Get Smart is racing the clock, Story below. OLUSTEE LOCAL The battle ‘Americanism’ rages on at Post 57 See Page 3A See Page 2A TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM FROM FORT WHITE TO LA BANKRUPTCY THREAT LOOMS HOLLYWOOD THE HARD WAY Winn- Stuntman turned actor is making a Dixie in name for himself. By CARL MCKINNEY trouble [email protected] Raul Santiago Colon stood face-to-face with his idol, movie again? martial arts pioneer Don “The Dragon” Wilson. Then he got kicked in the Report: Parent company may face. close as many as 200 stores. It was awe- some. “I’ve been By CARL MCKINNEY watching him [email protected] since I was a teenager,” The parent company of Winn-Dixie is Colon Colon said. preparing for a potential bankruptcy fil- “Actually getting my butt ing as soon as next month, the financial kicked by him was so excit- news agency Bloomberg ing.” reported Friday. Colon, 47, had already per- What Bi-Lo LLC, which formed in films such as “Iron do you bought the grocery chain Man 3,” “Pain and Gain” and think? in 2012, is planning to shut “The Infiltrator,” when he n Let us down nearly 200 Winn- decided to leave Fort White know in a Dixie locations either behind in November and move Letter to before or after the filing, to Hollywood to take his career the Editor. Bloomberg reported, cit- to the next level. ing “people with knowl- When he was a young boy, edge of the matter.” he’d watch Westerns with his COURTESY A store manager at the Lake City adoptive mother and dream Raul Santiago Colon plays the role of Torres in the 2015 film “Catching Junior Tate.” The location directed all questions to the about starring on the big movie revolved around a bounty hunter who is stranded with a career criminal south of the grocery store chain’s corporate head- screen some day. Mexican border, a hitman hot on their trail. quarters. “Always wanted to be a cow- BI-LO continued on 3A boy in the movies,” he said. Connecticut and elsewhere in he said. starring Dwayne “The Rock” But he wasn’t sure how to Columbia County before he In 2012, a friend who owned Johnson and Mark Wahlberg. actually put that dream into settled down in Fort White a tattoo shop in High Springs The producers were looking motion, so he put it on hold. about 18 years ago. suggested that Colon audition for a “big guy” for a scene set Until six years ago. “I hated the little town at for a role in “Pain and Gain,” Suwannee CI Colon grew up in New York, first, but then it got better,” a film being shot in Miami ACTOR continued on 3A guard jailed on Get Smart squad is racing the clock bribery charge By CARL MCKINNEY Robotics team faces [email protected] midnight deadline to complete build. Deneb Delos A Suwannee Correctional Institution Trinos (clockwise guard from Lake City was arrested By TONY BRITT from left), Winston Friday for smuggling synthetic mar- [email protected] Kam, Jack Duarte, ijuana, cell phones Celena Crews (Get and other contra- Students feverishly Smart coach), band into the facil- moved through a mobile Brannon Bolkosky, ity, according to the home Saturday afternoon, Jason Morgan and Florida Department of all working on separate Christian Chiong Corrections. tasks to achieve a single pose with the robot David James that will compete at goal — finish building their Neveils Neveils, 26, of Lake competition robot. the First Power Up City, faces charges of The students were work- competition smuggling contraband, bribery and ing in “The Robot Shop,” a in March. unlawful use of a two-way communica- mobile home transformed tion device. 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American Legion unit THE WEATHER 20 TUE 21WED 22THU 23FRI 24 SAT Partly Partly Mostly Partly Partly celebrates patriotism cloudy cloudy sunny cloudy cloudy Unit 57 of the American Legion Auxiliary Post in HI 81HI LO LO 63 HI 83 HI LO LO 61 HI 83HI LO LO 59 HI HI81 LO LO 58 HI 81HI LO LO 59 Lake City gave the stu- dents of Columbia County the opportunity to explain REGIONAL FORECAST MAP for Tuesday, Feb. 20 what Americanism meant Tuesday's highs/Tuesday night's low to them in a written essay, Valdosta City Wednesday Thursday and what a surprise they 83/65 Jacksonville 81/63 Cape Canaveral gave the American Legion, Tallahassee Lake City 83/69/pc 81/69/pc 81/63 Daytona Beach 80/64/pc 79/65/pc their parents, teachers and 81/65 Gainesville Daytona Beach Fort Myers 86/67/pc 85/67/pc the administrators of the Pensacola 83/65 79/65 Ft. 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