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C M Y K PRSRT-STD BASEBALL: Teams compete Postal Customer U.S. Postage Clermont, FL Paid at Crack of the Bat spring 34711 Clermont, FL break tournament Permit #280 SEE PAGE B4 REMEMBER WHEN | B1 FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013 www.southlakepress.com 50¢ NEWSSTAND GROVELAND TAVARES Mosquito season starts soon for area GREG JONES | Staff Writer Scott, an entomologist [email protected] with the Lake County April showers bring Mosquito and Aquatic May flowers — and mos- Plant Management quitoes. Division. He has been Three days from now is battling the disease-car- rying and bothersome the start of Florida’s tradi- 1 tional rainy period. It also arthropods here for 2 ⁄2 signals the start of the decades. mosquito season that “The biggest change continues through I’ve seen is when I came here 25 years ago, there December. was less than 100,000 This will be the busiest time of the year for Craig SEE SEASON | A2 ROXANNE BROWN / DAILY COMMERCIAL The Health Occupation Students of America Club at South Lake High School is collecting crutches to send to Africa to help people walk. Health occupation students collect ‘Crutches 4 Africa’ ROXANNE BROWN | Staff Writer Maybe that is why when Hebert [email protected] It was hard to even imagine heard an interview on the radio HEIDINES PEREZ / DAILY COMMERCIAL about a national organization called Craig Scott, an entomologist with Lake County, shows a ost of the members of the that something as simple as mosquito trap in Tavares. Health Occupation Students crutches could make such a Crutches 4 Africa, it struck a chord M of America, or HOSA Club, at with him. South Lake High School have aspira- big difference in people’s “The organization collects crutches for people in Africa who otherwise tions of going into the medical field lives. We watched videos of wouldn’t be able to walk. On the orga- after graduation in hopes of making Big biters could be in people desperate because nization’s web site, there are videos a difference in the lives of others. that show people crawling on the Already these students coordinate they can’t walk. ground in the dirt because they can’t and participate in 3-4 blood drives — Josh Lopez, HOSA student walk,” Hebert said. “There are also the air this summer each year, study about advances in videos of the founder, Dave Talbot, medicine and physical therapy and President Marcy Vasquez, 18, said. delivering crutches to these people Staff Report known colloquially as practice administering aide to those Health Science Instructor and and watching them come alive.” “gallinippers,” are notori- As Florida braces for ous bloodsuckers that who need it. HOSA Advisor“ John Hebert, who has Immediately, Hebert was inspired mosquito season this They have also collected money taught at the school for 10 years, said thrive in heavily flooded with thoughts about his students year, experts warn that for cystic fibrosis and for the juve- the students just finished a segment areas, according to getting involved. some Sunshine State resi- nile diabetes research foundation in the physical therapy curriculum University of Florida The organization’s goal nation- dents may soon have to and are getting ready to compete in that deals with learning about the researchers. They can also wide, is to collect more than 1 mil- deal with an unusually a state competition early next importance of crutches, which bite through clothing, the lion crutches and have them large, unusually aggres- month that will highlight their skills. included learning how to — and Huffington Post reports. sive and unusually “We like helping out,” HOSA Vice teaching others how to — use them. SEE CRUTCHES | A10 “It’s about 20 times painful “supermosquito.” Psorophora ciliata, SEE BIG | A2 INSIDE CLERMONT CLASSIFIED B7 CROSSWORDS B2 Water possibly contaminated DEATHS A9 REAL ESTATE C1 ROXANNE BROWN | Staff Writer Legends, King’s Ridge, Magnolia Pointe, REMEMBER WHEN B1 [email protected] Hunt Trace, Greater Pines, Lost Lake, SPORTS B4 Drinking water for 9,475 Clermont John’s Lake, Summit Greens and VOICES A4 households may have been contaminat- Heritage Hills. WORD ON THE STREET A2 ed with human or animal waste. No water boil alert was issued because According to a notice sent to the the water tested was a “raw sample” with SOUTH LAKE PRESS affected homes, an assessment sample no indication that it ever reached the taken from the East Water Treatment treatment plant, officials said. VOLUME 98, NO.12 | 3 SECTIONS Plant on March 19 came back entero- On Friday, residents were informed cocci positive. Additional tests were UF/IFAS PHOTO BY MARISOL AMADOR ©2008, HarborPoint Media. the water was safe. taken March 20. “The way we found it is because we Entomologist Phil Kaufman shows the size difference between All rights reserved. Subdivisions where drinking water an invasive Asian tiger mosquito, right, and the native species www.southlakepress.com may have been affected include the SEE WATER | A2 Psorophora ciliata, sometimes called the gallinipper. C M Y K A2 SOUTH LAKE PRESS Friday, March 29, 2013 What South Lake residents are saying about... South Lake Briefs Word on the EASTER TRADITIONS CLERMONT Cagan Crossings Art Street Do you have a favorite Easter tradition or memory? Studio hosts Easter event Bring your aspiring artists, ages 4 and older to the Artist’s Boutique at Cagan Crossings to paint an Easter Bunny card for a donation of $2, from 4 to 7 p.m., Friday, during the Farmers Market, 16640 Cagan Crossings Blvd. Kids can visit Auntie Dawn’s Bakery Café for a cupcake and a chance to guess the number of jelly beans in the jar to win them all. For information, call 352 241-6407 or email [email protected]. We do have a tradi- Going to church and a I was raised in New As a child on Easter, I enjoy dying Easter CLERMONT tion, which is that we family dinner. York where Easter is we got all dressed up eggs with my kids and Church hosts Easter Egg enjoy going to our JUDY WOODBURY given a lot of impor- and went to church. having a family egg church. And while we CLERMONT tance. As a child, I Afterwards, my par- hunt. Treasure Hunt Saturday go every week, the remember my parents ents would take us to KIMBERLY JOHNSON Take a step back to ancient times Easter service is a spe- would take us to the Central Park and CLERMONT and experience the sights, sounds and cial one. There is a lot Bronx Zoo every year, I then, of course, it was smells of Jerusalem while following a of special music and don’t know why, and I the big Easter dinner. map to find Easter eggs along the way, it’s nice. It’s what remember everyone ELBA SILVA Saturday, at the First United Easter is all about, cel- singing “Put on Your MINNEOLA Methodist Church of Clermont. ebrating Christ’s resur- Easter Bonnet.” That Journeys will take place from 9 to rection from the dead. brought it alive for me 11:30 a.m., beginning at the Wesley HEIDI FERNETT but for some reason Center on the north side of the church CLERMONT it’s not there anymore. campus, at 950 7th St., Clermont. EDWIN SILVA For information, call Beth Reed at MINNEOLA 352-394-2412 or email childrensmin- [email protected]. Reed said he does not know taminated hands. let everyone know because we CLERMONT WATER how the water may have been “I’m not saying any of that want everybody to be safe no CONTINUED FROM A1 contaminated, but that all happened, I’m just saying that matter what. We wanted to be Dreamcatcher Horse subsequent tests for fecal bac- those are all possibilities since proactive.” Ranch to host fundraiser noticed Sanford was hit with a teria came back negative. the tests the very next day Possible symptoms of con- Performances by Dreamcatchers contaminant in their water on Reed said there other factors came back negative,” Reed tamination include diarrhea, own Hunt Club Team on rescue hors- the exact same day,” said Bob said. “And with Sanford show- cramps, nausea and headaches. es and Christine Drentwett and Reed, Clermont’s assistant could have caused the water to Amber Clarke with special dressage environmental services direc- test positive, including a con- ing a hit that same day, it’s like “We were telling people, if tor. “The tests were run at our taminated sample container, ‘Did their water cross contam- you feel safer, boil the water performances, from noon to 4 p.m., plants and the moment we got cross contamination from inate ours, or did ours cross but that was just until Friday. Saturday, at DreamCatcher Horse that sample, the well was samples kept at the lab or han- contaminate theirs?’” The water is now safe to Ranch, 10639 Toad Road, Clermont. taken off line.” dling of the sample with con- “Regardless, we wanted to drink,” Reed said. Adopt-a-Chick, pony rides, Easter egg hunt, huge silent auction, crafts, face painting, food and more for the whole family. as like being stabbed, or Not so fun are the dangers of the All performances are free with a BIG having a hot nail driven SEASON job, like snakes, which Scott takes CONTINUED FROM A1 CONTINUED FROM A1 small charge for activities and refresh- into your skin. in stride. He once had an alligator ments to help raise funds for the res- “The bite really hurts, I chomp down of the toe of his boot cue horses. bigger than the sort of typ- people; now Lake County is push- can attest to that,” said before he chased it away.