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SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.50 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM EEE discovery Tigers return Cedar River SUNDAY sparked by to practice ready for new EDITION abuse 6A field 1B locale 1C PINEMOUNT ELEMENTARY Parents: New district for us? Congressional District 3 could be redrawn before election. sional maps to benefit an incumbent or one Kids still political party over another. By SARAH LOFTUS Circuit Judge Terry Lewis ordered legisla- Lewis’ July 10 ruling sparked a legal battle in fear of [email protected] tors to hold a special session to draw up a new over what to do since Florida’s primary elec- congressional map for the state by Aug. 15, the tion is scheduled for Aug. 26. teacher Columbia County voters have been on notice day before early voting is set to begin. Lewis The groups that challenged the current that congressional District 3 may get redrawn, ruled the old map illegal last month, saying it districts wanted Lewis to adopt a new map and Parents also angry but with a Tallahassee judge’s order on Friday, violated the state’s Fair Districts Amendments, that Mary Rachal it may happen sooner than anyone thought. which prohibit drawing legislative or congres- MAPS continued on 7A won’t face charges. By ROBERT BRIDGES [email protected] Yoho, Parents of seven Rush Pinemount Elementary GOT YOUR GOAT School students who were allegedly struck, paddled to meet and pinched by a kinder- Learning to paint like Da Vinci garten teacher say the chil- at FGC dren now live in fear of the woman, who, according to parents, told the children forum not to tell and gave them To take questions gifts to keep silent. They are angry as well from LCR editor that Third Circuit State Monday on TV. Attorney Jeff Siegmeister has opted not to file criminal By SARAH LOFTUS charges against the woman. [email protected] Mary Lee Rachal, 43, a kindergarten teacher The race for U.S. at Pinemount, allegedly Congress in Florida’s struck at least seven of her third district is heating students with rulers and up, with challenger Jake paddles in an open closet in Rush launching attacks on her classroom up until May. members of U.S. Rep Ted According to school Yoho’s family, and Yoho officials, Rachal violated calling into question his district policy on corporal opponent’s punishment. The district character. referred the case to the Monday Columbia County Sheriff’s at 8:30 Office, which then sent p.m. voters Siegmeister a 30-page can see the report detailing allegations Photos by SARAH LOFTUS/Lake City Reporter two answer Yoho by parents and students. Josiah Car, 14, was one of about 20 participants questions According to CCSO, the in the final class of the three-day Da Vinci art on live TV Florida Abuse Hotline in program on Saturday at the west branch of the here in May received four calls say- Columbia County Public Library. In Saturday’s Lake City ing Rachal had struck up to class, the participants used watercolors to paint a concern- eight of her students. The goat head and neck. ing the children range in age from state of the 5-7 years old. The report Rush union and did not say how long she Aspiring artists get practice their con- had allegedly been spank- tentious campaign. ing them. painting livestock at final Local candidates for day of Art League program. school board, county attor- ‘What if we see ney, city council and coun- her in Walmart?’ By SARAH LOFTUS ty commission will also The CCSO reports says [email protected] participate in the Florida Rachal struck the children Gateway College candi- on the legs, buttocks and Kamryn Tyre, 12, won a bet with her uncle dates forum, sponsored hands with a ruler and made on Saturday, thanks to the Da Vinci art pro- by FGC, the Lake City them stay in the closet until gram for children. Reporter and the Lake City- they stopped crying. Some The bet? Twenty dollars to paint anything Columbia County Chamber children were allegedly other than a cat. of Commerce. pinched by Rachal, leaving Painting and cats are Kamryn’s first loves, The forum runs Monday bruises. One mother said so usually she paints cats, mostly her own cat, Instructor Carol Ghionzoli shows 8-year-old Stephanie and Tuesday nights. Rachal berated her son to Molly, who she’s had since she was about three. Selman how to mix watercolors on the paper. Monday at 7 p.m. can- other students after spank- “I’m like a cat fanatic. My mother says I’m didates for school board ing him. obsessed,” she said. “I’m not. I have a healthy District 1 will be on TV “‘The ... baby is going to liking.” answering questions spe- be in the closet for a while But on Saturday, Kamryn broke away from cific to school board. After until he stops crying,’” her preferred subject to paint the head of a that, at 7:30 p.m., District Terri Melton said her child goat, which according to her means she won 3 school board candidates told her Rachal announced the bet. will be on public access to his classmates after he She said it’s irrelevant that every child at the TV. County attorney candi- had been spanked. Da Vinci art program on Saturday was using dates will be on answering Melton and the parents watercolors to paint a goat. There were no questions at 8 p.m. The and grandmother of six stipulations in the bet saying she had to freely congressional candidates other children who were choose to paint something else, she said. follow at 8:30. allegedly pinched and The Da Vinci program, sponsored by the Art On Tuesday, District 10 struck by Rachal met with League of North Florida, Gateway Art Gallery, city council candidates will Siegmeister Friday morn- The Friends of the Library and Columbia be on TV at 7 p.m. At 7:30 ing, and after learning he County Library, may not have helped its other Harley Primm (right), 13, dabs paint off the nose of p.m., those running for would not file charges, participants win bets with their uncles, like it her goat painting at Saturday’s class of the Da Vinci city council District 14 will drove to the office of the did Kamryn, but it did help them improve their program. Harley attended the Friday class on acrylics. have their turn to answer Lake City Reporter to voice artistic skills. Acrylics is her favorite paint to use, she said. Montana questions specific to city their concerns. The free, three-day program for 10- to 14-year- Shiver (left), 14, puts the finishing touches on her goat council. At 8 p.m., county painting. She said it’s one of her best paintings. PARENTS continued on 6A DA VINCI continued on 3A FORUM continued on 3A Vol. 140, No. 129 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Column . 7A LOCAL SPORTS Obituaries . 5A SUBSCRIBE TO Car show at The ocean’s THE REPORTER: 90 70 Advice & Comics . 3D Teen Town, 5A. Chuck Norris, 4B. Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 3B Fax: 752-9400 Storm chance, 8A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 2014 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 Scripture of the Day “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.” — James 1:22-24 Thought for Today Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet (1854-1900) Winning Lottery Numbers Cash 3: (Saturday) 8-7-4 COURTESY Play 4: (Saturday) 3-4-9-1 CCSO has new receptionist Fantasy 5: (Friday) 10-12-17-24-34 In a ceremony Friday, Sheriff Mark Hunter swore in Chelsea Collins to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office. Collins took Florida Lotto: (Wednesday) 8-31-35-36-44-51-x3 the oath as a civilian employee. She will be assigned to the Records Section as the receptionist. PowerBall: (Wednesday) 13-30-42-49-53-29-x3 AROUND FLORIDA Family’s search for missing man ends at jail LEESBURG between the man and the wed- driving on Interstate 95 Thursday the suspect as an older man The Yorkie was found Friday he family of an apparently ding party. evening near Stuart when anoth- with medium-length white hair. morning along the South Dixie missing Kansas City man The Northwest Florida Daily er vehicle drove up behind him, a He was driving an older model, Highway corridor. She was T spent weeks and drove News reports that members of witness told deputies. beige colored sedan with round taken to the Hollywood Animal more than 1,200 miles in an the wedding party, including the Simon attempted to get out of taillights, they said. hospital in stable condition. effort to find him before learn- bride, attacked the man who was the way, but the vehicle passed Paramedics then arrived on Police are still searching ing that he has been in a Florida removing his rental lounge chairs him before slowing down again, scene and transported Simon to for the robber.