A3 SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM >> 3A SUNDAY + PLUS Young 1D farmers, Way ranchers: to go, ‘Ready, set, Kha’Maya grow’ Opinion/4A Travel Tales Statewide essay winner See 1C WOMAN SAYS Not quite back to normal Stalked 2A by gators, at City Hall — but nearly she can’t FAMILY MATTERS get help Big ones regulars in her Lake Montgomery backyard, she says. By CARL MCKINNEY COURTESY
[email protected] A leak resulting from a Friday after- noon rainstorm caused a mess for Camille Souza says her back- Sakura Buffet in the Lake City Mall. yard is like a killing field — any unfortunate creature that ven- tures out there stands a chance of ending up as breakfast, lunch or dinner for the carnivores Storm lurking about. Souza first ‘A 10-foot- noticed the alli- er and gators in April swamps eight-footer, and has tried Photos by MICHAEL PHILIPS/Lake City Reporter those are to get them the two removed ever I’m having since, but says Family buffet a problem the catcher con- with,’ Souza tracted by wild- says. life officials has History been giving her in mall the runaround. Day at “I’m too afraid to even go back Rainwater pours through there and mow,” she said. ceiling, drenching eatery Souza lives on Short Lane by LDS and surrounding area. Lake Montgomery. “I understand it’s Florida. I Church opens its By TONY BRITT and MICHAEL PHILIPS live on a lake,” she said. “But database up to all, lakecityreporter.com still, I want the alligators gone.” offers expert help.