A3 + PLUS >> Get real, Sen. Book, Opinion/4A CHS SOCCER ANNUAL PAGEANT Boys, girls reach The ladies district quarters of Olustee See Page 5A See Page 2A TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Whose nutty Rogue lawmaker wants to make coconut idea is this? patties the official state candy. We object. 3A CLEANUP FRAUD ALLEGED Taking pride Nurse ran in their scam on city patient, Volunteers gather to spruce Lake City up before visitors arrive. say cops By MICHAEL PHILIPS [email protected] Caretaker was stealing from City Manager Joe accounts, LCPD report says. Helfenberger stood in front a map of Lake City, a gen- eral marshaling a company By CARL MCKINNEY of volunteers in the battle [email protected] against trash. As the orga- A nurse tried to steal from her patient, nizer of the inaugural “Take who happened to have a background in Pride in Your Community both finance and crim- Clean-Up Campaign,” he inal justice, according had to make sure volun- to the Lake City Police teers made it to areas that Department. needed trash and litter Lorene Jane Owens, removed. 50, of Southeast Waldron “We are trying to cover Terrace, was arrested on the entire city, all four multiple charges Friday quadrants,” Helfenberger Owens afternoon. told the Reporter. “This is When police responded the first time we’re holding to a fraud reported at Southwest Zesty the event, Circle around 4:27 p.m., Owens flagged and we ‘We’ve down an officer’s patrol vehicle before weren’t trying to paint the victim as an unreliable seen a lot sure how of cooper- witness. many peo- Owens said the victim suffered from ation in the ple would community. dementia, telling the officer there was come out. nothing to be concerned about and it So we are But we’ve Photos by MICHAEL PHILIPS/Lake City Reporter wouldn’t be necessary to file a report, impressed. seen a lot according to an LCPD It’s a great of coopera- report. tion in the Owens said the start to this ABOVE: Garden victim suffered Owens was acting event.’ community. Club members Carol strange, the officer So we are from dementia, Stevens and Tina telling the offi- noted. Most nurses impressed. would stay with their It’s a great start to this Roberts pick up litter cer there was near McCray Avenue nothing to be patient during events event.” such as theft or fraud, The Lake City Garden on Saturday during concerned about Lake City’s inaugural and it wouldn’t be according to the Club, students from report, but Owens Belmont Academy, mem- “Take Pride in Your necessary to file a report, LCPD said. appeared to be in a bers of Evangelistic Community Clean- hurry. Deliverance Miracles Up Campaign.” LEFT: Ignoring her behav- Revival Center and former Harold Chatmon and ior, the officer spoke with the victim in his inmates participating in Fertima Robinson col- apartment. a work-release program lect trash on behalf of The victim, a disabled veteran on a were among the groups Lake City’s Evangelistic limited income, explained that he has a that came out in force on background in finance and criminal justice, Saturday. After collecting Deliverance Miracles Revival Center. saying he knew something illegal was bags of garbage, a free going on with his accounts, according to meal was provided for the Robinson traveled from Gainesville to the report. volunteers. The victim said he had sent Owens While the date of the help beautify Lake City. to his bank to withdraw $200, which he event wasn’t specifical- would use to pay bills. ly chosen because it CLEANUP continued on 3A NURSE continued on 3A Hollingsworth announces bid for county commission Business experience will Now he wants to represent says he has the business acu- and citizen has to do it, and it he’s alarmed by talk in recent prove valuable, he says. residents of the Columbia men and mindset it takes to seems to me like government years of raising property County Commission’s third do the job. sometimes doesn’t go by taxes. By CARL MCKINNEY district. “I’m a conservative guy,” those rules.” In 2018, county commis- [email protected] Robby Hollingsworth, Hollingsworth said. “I don’t Hollingsworth, a bail sioners pitched a sales tax owner of A1 Bail Bonds and believe in raising taxes, but I bondsman of 27 years who to free up money for a new He went from being a U.S. candidate for the County do believe in us living within briefly worked as a U.S. Marshall to a bail bondsman. Commission District 3 seat, our means. Every business Marshall in Jacksonville, said COUNTY continued on 2A Hollingsworth Vol. 145, No. 233 Obituaries . 3A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A Sports . 5A SUBSCRIBE TO THE REPORTER: 75 55 Advice & Comics . 7A Voice: 755-5445 Mostly cloudy, 2A Classified. 8A Fax: 752-9400 2A TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2020 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER Annual pageant QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear The ladies of Olustee heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” — 1 Corinthians 2:9 (KJV) Thought for Today Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, English author (“The Rape of the Lock,” “An Essay on Criticism”) Winning Lottery Numbers Pick 3: (Sunday p.m.) 7-7-0 Pick 4: (Sunday p.m.) 4-7-0-2 Fantasy 5: (Sunday) 10-21-27-35-36 See an error? The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news items. 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