WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 1, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM LEGISLATIVE SESSION BOCC looks at Gun bills on tap funding By DARA KAM in common? Bills dealing with toast- tive session that starts The News Service of Florida For anyone who has er pastries and insurance Tuesday. As in previous been paying attention to policies are just two of years, many of them will plans TALLAHASSEE — the Florida Legislature more than a dozen gun-re- go nowhere, especially if Today What do Pop-Tarts and recently, the answer is lated measures lined By STEVEN RICHMOND property insurance have easy: Guns. up for the 2014 legisla- GUNS continued on 3A [email protected] Yard sale North Florida Animal The Board of County Rescue, 16800 County Rd. Commissioners met 137 in Wellborn, is holding Thursday morning to dis- a yard sale on Friday, Feb. Turning dreams into cuss their short- and long- 28 and Saturday, March 1 term development plans from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both and financial priorities for days. The yard sale will Columbia County’s future. take place rain or shine. The workshop focused Proceeds will go to the res- on 13 key issues that will cue animals. play a significant role in the county’s budget delib- ALNF Art Exhibit erations leading up to Oct. The Art League of 1, the official start of Fiscal North Florida invites the Year 2014-15. community to the 9th “The idea is to progres- Annual Spring Members sively reach conclusions on Art Exhibit at the Levy various Performing Arts Center, COMING county Florida Gateway College. SUNDAY issues The exhibit opens with a where n See Sunday’s reception on Friday, Feb. 28 those res- from 5:30 to 7 p.m. There Lake City olutions will be refreshments, an Reporter for can then award presentation and more on the be incor- art on display from area BOCC salary porated artists in several mediums. survey. into next The exhibit is on display year’s fis- from February 28 through cal budget, which would be March 25. Artists that are fiscal year 2014-15,” County not members are invited to Manager Dale Williams join the Art League and be said. eligible for judging in this The issues include coun- show. For additional infor- ty debt/finances, road mation contact Rex Feagley improvement options, at 386 752-5229. stormwater mitigation, library funding, animal con- ‘The Nerd’ trol, administrative space This is the last week- needs, recreation, detention end to see High Springs center repair/replacement, Community Theater’s pro- economic development, duction of “The Nerd” by “year end” project requests, Larry Shue. Tonight and policy development and— tomorrow at 8 p.m.; Sunday two “major emphasis sub- at 2 p.m. Adult admission is jects”—communication $11 youth admission is $8. Purchase tickets online at BOCC continued on 8A highspringscommunitythe- ater.com, at The Framery of Lake City by calling 754- 2780, or at the Box Office at least 30 minutes before Teens the show. Five Wishes Photos by AMANDA WILLIAMSON/Lake City Reporter discuss Attend a Five Wishes Brandon Bingel practices welding in Wesley Faris’ Columbia High School Career and Technical Education Class. workshop at the Wings Education Center in the dating Lake City Plaza on Feb. 28 High school at 10 a.m., put on by the abuse Hospice of Citrus County, Inc. Host Jerry Tyre will has gone By AMANDA WILLIAMSON speak about Five Wishes — [email protected] America’s most popular liv- ing will. Reserve your spot high-tech ‘Disagreements do not at the workshop by calling constitute disrespect’ was Vicki Myers at 755-7714. By AMANDA WILLIAMSON sprawled across the white- [email protected] board inside Fort White Black History High School’s health sci- Closing Ceremony Digitally-manipulated celebrity ence classroom, a key point and Elders Banquet at 6 faces stared unmovingly into the eyes in Quana Perry’s Thursday p.m. at the Richardson of their creators, a team of young afternoon discussion on Community Center. designers at Fort White High School. teen dating violence. Admission is free. Contact Under the watchful instruction In honor of Teen Dating M. Mcallister at 386-867- of their teacher, Jason Howard, the Violence Awareness 1601 for more. Career and Technical Education stu- Seth Soto helps Brooke Johnson work on a logo design for Fort White High Month, the local domestic dents turned British model Twiggy School’s HOSA, the Future Health Professionals, organization. The two violence and rape crisis Love and Laughter into a line drawing and Robert Downey, center Another Way, Inc. B&S Combs Elks Lodge Jr. into a zombie. attend FWHS’s Digital Design Career and Technical Education class. educated local high school #1599, 1688 NE Washington Labeled Digital Design, the class students on the signs of St., will be hosting a Love & offers students the opportunity to abuse and how to handle Laughter Affair on Feb. 28 become industry certified in the full unhealthy relationships. at 8 p.m. Admission is $10. Adobe Creative Suite — InDesign, “Some people are in Call Carlos Brow at 386- Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver relationships where hit- 288-6235. and Flash. All considered to be foun- ting has never happened,” dational tools used by graphic design- Perry, an Another Way rep- ers currently working in the field. resentative, said. “It’s the March 1 “I love art, but it’s difficult to make verbal, the emotional, the Car Show a living as an artist,” Savannah Hearn, psychological, the guilt. ... Fort White’s 6th annual owner of the Twiggy print, said. “Like Domestic violence in a nut- Car Show and Swap Meet my mom said when I was little, you shell is a pattern of con- will take place Saturday, shouldn’t be an artist because you’ll trolling behavior used to March 1 from 9 a.m. to be starving. I’m trying to find more control the habits of others 3 p.m. at the Fort White practical ways to use my creativity. — whatever it is.” Community Center on So I’ve been looking into digital and According to the website State Road 47. Entry fee is graphic design.” Criminal Justice student Chris Sellers acts as judge for a mock trial in for Teen Dating Violence $25. Swap Meet Space fee The Columbia County School Sadie Koon’s classroom. Students participating in the Career and Technical Awareness, nearly 1.5 mil- is $20. For more informa- Education class learn the foundations of law enforcement — everything from tion, call 386-497-1481. 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Allman film ‘shutting down’ after train crash SAVANNAH themselves. that “Midnight Rider” producers didn’t city’s South End in July 2012 when anoth- ilmmakers have shelved production Following the collision, producers tell him that specifically. er SUV pulled up and someone inside on a movie about the life of Gregg requested a permit through the Savannah opened fire. F Allman a week after a freight train Film Office to film at a private home Hernandez sued by Nobody has been criminally charged killed one crew member and injured in the city next week, said William with their deaths, but Hernandez has seven others, a Savannah city official said Hammargren, the film office director families of 2 slain men been identified by police as a suspect. Thursday. working closely with the project. But he BOSTON — The families of two men The 24-year-old Hernandez is being Filming of the movie “Midnight Rider,” said they told him Wednesday night that found fatally shot in Boston in 2012 have held without bail after pleading not starring William Hurt as the Allman work on the project was being halted, at filed wrongful death lawsuits against for- guilty to murder in the unrelated death Brothers Band singer in his later years, least temporarily.