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+ PLUS >> Monkey-human hybrid embryo created, Health/3A PREP BASEBALL PREP SOFTBALL CHS shut out 10-0 in Tigers drop third straight run-rule rout to Madison County See Page 1B See Page 1B WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2021 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Chamber looking for new director Patented success Executive Director Theresa Pinto’s last day set for May 31. Bing trademarks By JAMIE WACHTER her Alirra hair [email protected] The Lake City-Columbia County product line Chamber of Commerce is looking for a new executive director. Chamber President Brandon Beil By JAMIE WACHTER “I was like, ‘It’s too much,’” announced Tuesday that the board had [email protected] she said. “That’s really how accepted Theresa Pinto’s resignation, I felt.” effective May 31. Shanekia Bing wasn’t So after praying for a dif- Pinto said after 30 years of working doing hair. ferent life and a better life, for various Chambers of In fact, the Lake City resi- asking God for help, Bing Commerce, she is retir- dent had no interest in doing said it came to her. ing from that industry people’s hair. The next thing she knew and will begin other pur- She was so steadfast she was mixing products, for- suits while also planning against it, she ended up mulating, testing. to spend additional time launching a business and just The next thing she knew, with her family, moving recently receiving a patent her daughters hair started Pinto back closer to her moth- and trademark for her hair growing. Another person’s er in New Hampshire. product line, Alirra. hair she worked on, grew “It’s been a wonderful career and I “One thing led to another thick and healthy, healing a learned early on that you end on a high it just formulated with me dandruff issue. note,” Pinto said. “I don’t think there’s doing something I didn’t All from the same product. any better time to put family first.” want to do,” Bing said from “My products, it was like Beil said the Chamber board wished her small salon on the north God helps everybody so I Pinto the best and were thankful for side of Lake City. “It’s amaz- wanted something that her two years spent in Lake City. ing because now people flock helped everybody,” Bing “The Board of Directors as a whole to me and I’m educating said, adding certain name- are saddened to be losing the wealth them on the proper way to brand hair products are of knowledge and experience Theresa take care of their hair and it’s formulated for certain hair has brought to our organization and to because of those products types, to help with different our business community,” Beil said in that I was able to do it.” issues. “I didn’t want some- a written statement. “Undoubtedly, she Those products — all thing that singled out one has taken this organization to the next seven of them — came from demographic or background. level, and we are better because of her a desire to find something, I wanted to help everybody.” leadership and hard work.” anything, that would work So after about a two-year Unlike the previous search in which on not only her own hair but trial run on her family mem- the Chamber utilized the Ewart Group also her daughters’ hair. bers, Bing finalized her first to help navigate the search process, Frustrated by the need to product, Hair Crack, in 2014. Beil said the board has already assem- use a shampoo and a differ- That product, which she bled an internal search committee that ent conditioner for each as describes as a natural way to will handle the process, starting with well as a different leave-in cleanse hair while also heal- listing the position and job description product and then if a grease ing it and helping it grow, hopefully by the beginning of May. was needed, an oil had to also helped grow her brand From there, Beil said the board hopes JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter be used as well, but not on and business with a growing Shanekia Bing holds up one of her products along with a page certain hair types, Bing was PINTO continued on 8A from her U.S. trademark for her hair product line. at her end. HAIR continued on 8A Peeler ‘honored’ to attend Mar-a-Lago event Columbia GOP chair of Florida Republicans, Scott, Trump and former opportunity to mingle As great as meeting popped in for a visit and invited to Lincoln including former Secretary of State Mike and have a conversation Pompeo was, someone stayed for dinner and a Day dinner. President Donald Pompeo addressed the with the likes of Pompeo, Peeler said he has looked speech. Trump, and the Lincoln crowd. who represented Kansas up to since his days in “It was a great sur- By JAMIE WACHTER Day dinner at the histor- “It was just a great in the U.S. House of Congress, the highlight prise,” Peeler said. [email protected] ic landmark was an event experience to hear them Representatives before of the event was the for- A surprise that helped the Columbia County all at one place.” being appointed the mer president. cap off a great trip, one PALM BEACH — Just Republican Party chair- The chance to net- director of the Central Trump, who had not that Peeler hopes won’t getting to visit the Mar- man won’t soon forget. work with Republican Intelligence Agency by confirmed whether he be the last. a-Lago Club on Saturday “It was an even bigger Party stalwarts across Trump in 2017 and then would attend the fund- “Just an honor to be night was an “honor” for honor,” Peeler said of the state is a big benefit served as the Secretary raising event for the there,” he said. “A great Hunter Peeler. getting to listen as Gov. from attending, Peeler of State from 2018 until Palm Beach County Add in a who’s who Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rick admitted, but so was the earlier this year. 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The data shows 1,500 figures to 4.8% with 869 out The state’s lowest unem- saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of Columbia County work- of work from a labor force ployment rates were in evil, to give you an expected end.” Staff report ers out of work in March of 18,049. In March 2020, Monroe (3.3%), St. Johns, — Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV) from a labor force of nearly Suwannee County’s rase Wakulla, Alachua, Clay, The unemployment rate 30,500. was 5.5% with more than Collier, Nassau, Okaloosa, was unchanged across the Columbia County’s rate 1,000 unemployed workers. Santa Rosa and Union state in March, but climbed was down from a year ago The county-level unem- counties. Thought for Today slightly locally. when it was at 5.3% as the ployment rates are not sea- Miami-Dade County had Perfection is the child of time. According to data covid-19 pandemic hit and sonally adjusted. the state’s highest jobless released Friday by the the state entered a shut- Florida’s adjusted rate rate in February at 8.2%, — Havelock Ellis, 1574-1656, British writer Florida Department of down. was 4.7% in March, the followed by Sumter, Citrus Economic Opportunity, Suwannee’s County same as February, and a and Osceola counties. Winning Lottery Numbers Pick 3: (Monday p.m.) 0-5-0 Pick 4: (Monday p.m.) 9-3-3-2 Georgia man killed in I-75 crash Fantasy 5: (Monday) 15-33-34-35-36 Staff report up truck rear-ended a driven by a 23-year-old ing to FHP, was trans- See an error? WHITE SPRINGS — A semi truck around 6 p.m. man from Colquitt, Ga. — ported to a local hospital The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news Georgia man was killed Monday in the center lane veered off the roadway to where he was pronounced items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, Monday evening in a crash of I-75 south near mile the west and ran into a deceased. please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will on Interstate 75 south. marker 439. tree. The semi driver, a run in this space.

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