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Family > 3 Interests > 4 Voice Homes > 10 Ice Cream Social helps families be Boy Scouts become bat-men as they Add some color to your home close to kids in the hospital. solve Geneva fire station’s problem. during your spring cleaning. www.SeminoleVoice.com Free! April 12 - April 18, 2013 School rezone to Seminole County’s big lift ALLISON OLCSVAY The Voice get final Amid the chill of the early morn- ing hours on Saturday a team of construction workers labored vote to lift four massive beams into place, hanging precariously over ISAAC BABCOCK State Road 436. Flying over the The Voice top of the massive commuter artery and landing on Red Bug Parents of Oviedo and Winter Lake Road, the giant I-beams are Springs elementary school students the beginning of the bridge that will have a last chance to voice their will carry traffic through the con- opinions about a proposed school voluted six-way intersection. rezoning at a meeting April 16. And it will do it without stop- The school rezoning would af- ping traffic for the first time. fect students in Sterling Park, East- Consisting of 28 beams, sup- brook, Red Bug, Keeth, Rainbow, porting two lanes of traffic over Lawton, Evans, Stenstrom, Caril- 436, the bridge will eliminate the lon, Partin, Walker and Geneva el- need for a traffic signal. ementary schools, shifting students The beams, averaging 100 feet from overcrowded schools to those in length and weighing in at any- farther below capacity. where between 33,000 to 74,000 More than 900 students would pounds each, will carry tens of PHOTO BY ALLISON OLCSVAY — THE VOICE be relocated if the plan goes for- thousands of cars per day. Construction crews will be working all night on coming weekends to create a flyover bridge that will improve the ward as proposed by Seminole Construction crews used two troubled State Road 436/Red Bug Lake Road intersection that channels more than 150,000 cars per day. County Schools Superintendent skyscraper-tall cranes to lift the Walt Griffin. The proposal passed pieces, steadied by two smaller in successive weekends. As the ment, said FDOT public infor- Estimates for completion of unanimously on a first reading by cranes. Like a giant erector set, bridge segments are installed, mation manager Steve Olson. the project range anywhere from the School Board March 12. each piece was lowered into traffic access to Winter Park Included in that cost is an in- November 2013 to early spring “I hope we can all embrace the place, then secured, before the Drive will be detoured to accom- dependent consulting engineer 2014, depending on potential change that we as a district are go- next truck rolled in with another modate the construction. whose job it is to provide over- weather and utility delays. ing through in a positive light,” piece of the puzzle. The project cost, budgeted at sight to the project, reporting Authorities are anxious, how- School Board member Tina Calde- The first bridge segments $30 million, is born jointly by the weekly to the FDOT. ever, to wrap up the project in rone said after that decision. The were completed over the past Florida Department of Transpor- “We are in constant contact,” time for the next one, another meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. weekend with more to follow tation and local county govern- Olson said. n Please see BRIDGE on page 2 April 16 at 400 E. Lake Mary Blvd. in Sanford. Bill stripping FHSAA power gains momentum STEVEN BARNHART stepping their boundaries.” Just before presenting the bill FHSAA executive director Dr. The Voice Home searches that seek to to the Education Appropriations Roger Dearing had said publicly verify whether or not a student Subcommittee on April 4, Metz in the past that this bill would The Florida High School Athletic lives in the residency shown on added in some additional lan- not only undermine the Associa- Association took another hit on his or her school records would guage. If the bill is made into a tion’s ability to enforce the rules, April 9th as the Florida House no longer be allowed; while si- law, students would be allowed but conjointly students could Education Committee passed multaneously investigations into to participate at another pub- play a sport in one school while House Bill 1279. The bill includes those matters would be limited lic school in an extracurricular playing a different sport at an- provisions that FHSAA officials to 90 days. The bill would also activity if their school does not other. Publisher statement on page 2. USPS 008-093 said would make illegal recruit- place the costs of the investiga- offer it. Additionally, a student One local coach said that this ing between high schools easier tions squarely on the shoulders will not automatically be ruled bill would not only have an effect to hide and lead to an unfair bal- of the FHSAA instead of the ineligible if they participate on on student-athletes, but coaches ance in competition. Legislators school in question. a summer league team and then as well. argued that it will help keep the Rep. Larry Metz, R-Yalaha, play for that coach in school the “I think it would make it dif- FHSAA’s power in check. the legislator who proposed the following year. ficult on the coaches because if “The amount of power they bill, had suggested in previous Even after evidence is collect- a player doesn’t like how much have is just unbounded,” Rep. statements that this would level ed by the FHSAA, the case has to time they’re [playing at a school] Elizabeth Porter, R-Lake City, the playing field between the be presented to an administra- then they might be out of there said. “There have been a number FHSAA and parents and stu- tive judge who makes the final much quicker.” said University of occasions of them really over- dents. ruling on a student’s eligibility. n Please see FHSAA on page 2 What’s goin’ on? INDEX Kids home for spring break? Interests .................................................. 3 Sign them up for sports or Calendar .................................................. 6 wilderness camps starting Athletics .................................................. 9 Opening this next week in Oviedo, Winter Home Magnifier.......................................10 week: ‘42’ Springs, Casselberry and Stetson’s Corner .................................... 11 beyond. Ask Sandi .............................................. 11 Young Voices ......................................... 11 The true story of Jackie Robinson, a black baseball player Calendar > 6 Classifieds ............................................. 12 who broke the Major League’s decades-long segregation. Page 2 April 12 - April 18, 2013 Seminole Voice THIS WEEK in history April 14, 1865 — John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Court THIS WEEK House in Virginia. BRIDGE | Flyover project is hoped to be completed before 17-92 bridge in Fern Park FHSAA | n CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE n CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE flyover, just down the road at U.S. High School varsity basketball Highway 17-92, which is slated to head coach Billy Owens. begin in January 2014. “[The bill] would give all of “We are confident it will be the authority back to the players. done before the 17-92 project will If a guy, for example, isn’t getting be in full swing,” Olson said. enough shots he may go over to The project has caused un- another school just because he avoidable interruptions to traf- thinks he’ll get more shots.” fic, businesses and residences in Another coach isn’t as con- the area, but Casselberry Mayor cerned with the effects the bill Charlene Glancy said she’s confi- could have on an athlete’s ability dent it will all be worth it in the to transfer, but on the students end. themselves. “We want to be sure that it’s “If you’re shopping your kid as residentially and commercial- around because of athletics it’s ly friendly as it can be,” Glancy not best for their overall develop- said. ment. I don’t support recruiting,” “There are some businesses it said Scott Gomrad, head coach of always hurts,” she said, recall- Winter Springs varsity wrestling. ing a time when her own father’s “As long as you’re running business closed because of road your program the right way and construction. helping them grow, parents [will] “It’s one of those things … PHOTO BY ALLISON OLCSVAY — THE VOICE see their growth and develop- there’s always going to be some- Part of a flyover bridge extends precariously over traffic where State Road 436 connects simultaneously with Red Bug ment.” body who’s affected by it and we Lake Road and Winter Park Drive. The project is expected to be finished in time for a U.S. Highway 17-92 project. Winter Springs lost two-time hate that.” state champion wrestler Brandon The city, in the meantime has change when it’s completed,” handles more than 150,000 cars the bridge will continue without Hatchett to a transfer to Oviedo relaxed their codes on signage, she said. “It’s certainly going to per day with peak hours during stopping through the intersec- High School in 2006. Oviedo was allowing more leniency in an ef- free up and help people to breeze the morning and evening rush. tion, allowing for much smoother later sanctioned by the FHSAA fort to help businesses attract at- through that area.” Upon completion of the fly- access through the busy area.

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