A3 + PLUS >> Foul-mouthed motorist booked, Story below DREAM MACHINE FGC BASKETBALL Meally Jenkins T-Wolves season set for 31st year tips off Saturday See Page 2A See Page 1B THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM CCFRD teams up with ELECTIONS CHIEF CCE’s Student Council Columbia County Fire Rescue Department and at Columbia City Elementary will collect clothes and personal items to help our local veterans this winter. By TONY BRITT tbritt@lakecityreporter The first responders of our county’s fire department are teaming up with some of the brightest students at Columbia City Elementary, with local veterans reaping the benefits. Horne Jeff Crawford, Columbia County Fire Rescue chief, said the fire department part- nered with the CCE’s Student Horne Council to help out veterans with a clothing drive. The Columbia County Fire Rescue Honoring Those Who to hang it Serve initiative is a program where the public can donate items — such as hygiene items, clothing and other up after personal supplies — that will TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter be given to veterans. The Kensley Crews (clockwise from left), Ansley Crews, Columbia County Fire Rescue Chief collection drive, which began Jeff Crawford, Daniel Owen, Cory Land, Dathan Cooper, Columbia City Elementary School Monday, will run through 16 years Friday, Nov. 8. Student Council adviser Kim Bass, Chrystian Mirra (obscured), Ryland Capen, Lexi Graham “We’ll present all the stuff and Tuff Holland, put personal hygiene items and clothing into a donation box for veterans. By CARL MCKINNEY The school’s six people to donate socks, under- “She asked if we would be lection boxes at Columbia City [email protected] wear, gloves, hoodies, beanie interested since our Student Elementary for the students, student council caps and other clothing that Council does a lot of commu- donations can also be taken to New technology and ever-evolving officers have can protect the veterans from nity service efforts to help Columbia County Fire Station rules have transformed the way ballots asked other stu- the elements, along with soap, those right here in our com- 46 in Fort White, Station 48 are cast and counted, and that’s one rea- dents to partici- tooth brushes, toothpaste, munity,” Bass said. on Race Track Road, Station son Columbia County’s top election offi- deodorant, body wash and The school’s six student coun- 40 at the Florida Gateway cial says it’s time for her to step aside pate. The school other personal hygiene items. cil officers have asked other stu- Fairgrounds and Station 43 on and let someone else to take charge. has roughly 600 Kim Bass, the Columbia dents to participate. The school Pinemount Road. Supervisor of Elections Liz Horne students. City Elementary School art has roughly 600 students. Tuff Holland, a Columbia teacher and Student Council Bass said fliers were sent City Elementary School has announced she will not be seeking sponsor, said a student’s home with students, advertis- fifth-grader, said he has a fifth term in 2020. we get the following week to mother who works at the VA ing the collection drive. attended the school since he “Elections have changed so much,” the VA Hospital so they can Hospital made the contact She said the general public was in pre-kindergarten, and the 73-year-old said. “I just started pray- give it out to the veterans who between the school and fire is also encouraged to make he likes helping people in ing about it, and I felt good about need it,” Crawford said. department to collaborate on donations to the program. making the decision to go ahead and Organizers are encouraging the project. In addition to multiple col- VETS continued on 2A retire. Let someone else take over and do better than I did. That’s the way we improve all the time, is to let somebody else come along and do better.” Foul-mouthed FW man booked after traffic stop By the time her current term ends in 2021, Horne will have served 16 years By CARL MCKINNEY say, and by that point he was Place, pulling a trailer with no Drive, the report states. in office, a position she worked her way [email protected] already facing misdemeanor tag attached, according to the As the deputy pulled up up to after starting out as a poll worker charges of resisting arrest and report. behind him, Faircloth got out in 1986. She’s been in the trenches After a vehicular pursuit and driving on a suspended license. The deputy pursued the of the Chevrolet and walked for three statewide recounts, acted as profanity-laden arrest, the sus- Another misdemeanor charge Chevrolet in an attempt to toward the CCSO vehicle in an a pair of boots on the ground for the pect in what started as a traffic — this one for threatening a conduct a traffic stop, but the aggressive manner, at which 2000 election and has spent numerous stop Tuesday afternoon pro- law enforcement officer — was driver started to speed up, the time he began to shout obscen- late nights tabulating ballots, though vided an encore to the encoun- added to the list. report states. ities, according to the report. the current generation of vote-counting ter by threatening to beat a Around 2:50 p.m., a deputy When the CCSO vehicle got Ignoring multiple warnings machines has made the process much deputy’s “mother****ing head was parked at the corner of close, the Chevrolet pulled over to get back into the Chevrolet, less time-consuming. in,” according to a Columbia Southwest Newark Drive and to the side of the road and trav- Faircloth continued to yell at “There’s been a lot of headaches and County Sheriff’s Office report. Southwest Alberta Place, near eled down the side of the road- the deputy, the report states. crying over some of them, then some Tommy Edward Faircloth, the Santa Fe River west of Fort way, according to the report. When the deputy displayed a of them would go so smoothly,” Horne 33, of Fort White, made the White. The runaway vehicle contin- firearm, Faircloth yelled, “why said. “It’s kind of like putting a cake in threat while handcuffed in the A gold Chevrolet Blazer ued down a ditch and turned back of a patrol car, deputies was headed north on Alberta right into a driveway on Newark PROFANITY continued on 2A HORNE continued on 2A Vol. 145, No. 165 CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER Obituaries . 3A (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A Big weekend ahead SUBSCRIBE TO Sports . 1B THE REPORTER: 87 59 Advice & Comics . 3B Voice: 755-5445 Community calendar, 5A Fax: 752-9400 Mostly cloudy Classified . 4B-5B Your Spare Change Really Adds Up! 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There must be $25 in the checking account after all transactions post transferred savings account during nightly processing for the even-up posting to occur. 2A THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2019 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER CHRISTMAS DREAM MACHINE QUICK HITS Jenkins ready for her 31st year Scripture of the Day By TONY BRITT cy’s Christmas tree. Anyone “Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them [email protected] can sponsor that individual rejoice that seek the Lord.” child. — Psalm 105:3 (KJV) There aren’t too many “That’s our main objec- people wearing Christmas tive is for them to sponsor, sweaters in October, but and they bring the gifts Thought for Today Meally Jenkins, found- back here and we have er and director of the a time for the parent to Why do you have to be a nonconformist like every- Christmas Dream Machine, pick it up so they will be body else? has been in the Christmas- there underneath the tree — James Thurber, 1894-1961, U.S. writer giving spirit for more than come Christmas morning,” 30 years. Jenkins said. “Our main The Christmas Dream objective is to sponsor a Winning Lottery Numbers Machine, the program that child, but we will accept provides toys and cloth- monetary donations.” Pick 3: (Tuesday p.m.) 2-7-7 ing to families who qualify Jenkins said 99.5% of Pick 4: (Tuesday p.m.) 0-1-8-5 financially, is set to begin its every dollar that is donat- Fantasy 5: (Tuesday) 2-7-12-20-33 31st season of sponsoring ed to the Christmas Dream children, on Friday morn- Machine goes to the cause. ing at 9 a.m. The 0.5% of funding is used See an error? The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news “I never thought I would TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter for administrative costs items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, make it this long,” Jenkins Meally Jenkins, founder and director of the Christmas for utility, water, phone please call the editor.