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A3 SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUNDAY + PLUS >> SOFTBALL Best of PLAYER OF the Best The real ballot Lake City THE YEAR 1D inside Opinion/4A Taste Buddies SPORTS/1B See 6B UPS Store’s Small Biz Challenge Man’s land taken in decade-long fight This local startup’s County may wade into looking water district dispute for glory One of 10 semi-finalists in UPS contest; could get feature in Inc. By MICHAEL PHILIPS [email protected] Like Steve Jobs, the Traficantes started their business out of a garage, in their case in West Palm Beach. While it’s unlikely Garden In Minutes will ever be a multibil- lion-dollar More juggernaut, than 1,700 the Fort small-busi- White-based ness owners company has submitted big plans. applications And now to compete. they have B. Traficante been given a chance to get a few steps closer to realizing them. The UPS Store has chosen Bryan Traficante, communications director of Garden In Minutes, as one of 10 national semifinalists in its Small Biz Challenge. More than 1,700 small-business owners submitted applications to vie for the $25,000 prize and to be profiled in Inc. magazine, and judges whittled the list to just 10. Traficante was the only one chosen from the Southeast. FILE PHOTOS According to a UPS Store announce- In this 2014 file photo, Jeffrey Hill poses with the rusty pipe at the heart of his dispute ment, the Small Biz Challenge looks to find small-business owners who think they have with water management officials. BELOW: Hill is seen during a 2014 legal proceeding. what it takes to compete in a live business GARDEN continued on 5A At least two county Lottery warnings commissioners now could be gamble think Jeffrey Hill for state schools got a raw deal. By JIM TURNER How much it will News Service of Florida help isn’t clear. The Florida Lottery wants another look 3A at the potential impact on education funding from legislation that would require slapping gambling-addiction warning labels on the front of tickets and ads. Gov. Ron DeSantis is get- Juneteenth ting closer to deciding wheth- er to approve the bill (HB on parade 629), which passed the House The banner-bearing and Senate in early May. DeSantis vanguard of Lake City’s An initial projection about Juneteenth parade the bill’s impact on education funding was marches at the front of made in March. But, appearing Wednesday the formation Saturday. More photos, 5A. LOTTERY continued on 2A CARL MCKINNEY/LCR Vol. 145, No. 67 CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER Opinion . 4A (386) 752-1293 Obituaries . 5A Solar farm chief SUBSCRIBE TO Puzzles . 2-3B THE REPORTER: 91 70 Local woman ran the one here, 6A Voice: 755-5445 Sports . 1B Fax: 752-9400 A few showers, 2A IF YOUR HOME COULD TALK WHAT WOULD IT SAY? 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Sheriff’s deputies, fire- fighters, state troopers, — Helen Hayes, 1900-1993, U.S. actress EMTs and more swarmed the Morning Glory Drive lemonade stand of Bentley and Ella Ganskop, ages Winning Lottery Numbers 3 and 4, on Saturday, but Pick 3: (Friday p.m.) 3-5-3 not for the The first Pick 4: (Friday p.m.) 2-8-8-4 reason you Fantasy 5: (Friday) 7-13-18-27-36 responders sometimes just wanted see on the lemonade evening See an error? — and to news. The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news This lift the spir- wasn’t a items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, its of Ella, case of please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will who had overzeal- run in this space. Thanks for reading. despaired ous cops earlier that or code Submissions day about enforce- ment The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption business officers Photos by ROBERT BRIDGES/Lake City Reporter information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you would being slow. storming Bentley (left) and Ella Ganskop, ages 3 and 4, serve lemonade to customers from like to see your organization in the newspaper, send the picture the place to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, Florida Highway Patrol, Columbia County and information to [email protected]. see if they Fire Rescue and more shortly after noon at their home on Saturday. had a business license or clearance from the state actual profits from the sale department of health. of lemonade. Lake City Reporter These first responders The kids blew through HOW TO REACH US BUSINESS ........... 754-0419 Main number ....... (386) 752-1293 just wanted lemonade — that goal with ease. CIRCULATION and to lift the spirits of Ella, In all, they made $180 Fax number ............ 752-9400 who had despaired earlier Circulation............. 755-5445 Home delivery of the Lake City Reporter in about an hour’s work Online .... www.lakecityreporter.com should be completed by 6:30 a.m. that day about business serving lemonade to their The Lake City Reporter, an affiliate Tuesday through Friday, and by 7:30 being slow. special guests. of Community Newspapers Inc., is a.m. on Sunday. “We heard about it and If the numbers sound published Tuesday through Friday and Please call 386-755-5445 to report any Sunday at 180 E. Duval St., Lake City, problems with your delivery service. when we had a break or a little skewed, that’s FL 32055. Periodical postage paid at were in the area stopped because more than a few of Lake City, FL, Member Audit Bureau of In Columbia County, customers should in,” said CCSO Corporal their customers paid with Circulation and The Associated Press. call before 10:30 a.m. to report a Shane Foote. All material herein is property of the service error for same day re-delivery. 10’s or 20’s and wouldn’t Lake City Reporter. Reproduction in After 10:30 a.m., next day re-delivery The children’s mother accept change. whole or in part is forbidden without or service related credits will be issued. explained. Danielle said the $81 the permission of the publisher. In all other counties where home delivery U.S. Postal Service No. 310-880. “‘I hope more people left after subtracting the is available, next day re-delivery or POSTMASTER: Send address changes service related credits will be issued. come,’” Danielle Ganskop cost of the stand would be to Lake City Reporter, P.O. Box 1709, said her daughter told evenly split and deposited Lake City, FL 32056. Circulation............. 755-5445 ([email protected]) Deputy Chad Guerry, who into each child’s savings Publisher Todd Wilson ... 754-0418 had stopped by on his own Bentley and Ella at their lemonade stand after the account. ([email protected]) Home delivery rates a bit earlier. Kristine Winters, grand- (Tuesday–Friday and Sunday) rush had died down. NEWS 4 Weeks . $10.70 Guerry then got word mother to Ella and Bentley, Drive was packed with ed a few days earlier when Editor Robert Bridges ... 754-0428 12 Weeks . $31.67 out that a little girl and her was overwhelmed by the ([email protected]) 24 Weeks . .$54.14 cruisers and at least one Ella saw the canopied lem- brother could use some first responders’ gesture. 52 Weeks . .$88.81 fire truck as men and onade stand in a department ADVERTISING help from any available first “They went above and Rates include 7% sales tax. women who are used to store and had to have it. Ad. Dir. Chris Ratliff ..... 754-0417 responder who might be beyond what I could ever serving the public were Danielle said yes, but ([email protected]) Mail rates thirsty, should they have expect,” she said. 12 Weeks . $41.40 served tall cups of cool only on condition the girl a break or be getting off Added Danielle, “It was CLASSIFIED 24 Weeks . .$82.80 refreshment. and her brother pay for To place a classified ad ... 755-5440 52 Weeks . .$179.40 duty. incredible.” The whole thing got start- the $99 contraption with Soon, Morning Glory THE WEATHER Lottery warnings a gamble? 16 Sun 17 Mon 18 Tue 19 Wed 20 Thu The measure, which to help pay for education Few Few Scattered Scattered Scattered LOTTERY has not formally been sent programs. Showers Showers T-storms T-storms T-storms Continued From 1A to DeSantis, requires the State economists didn’t following warnings to be take such a dire view, before state economists, prominently placed on the questioning if other states HI 91 LO 70 HI 89 LO 72 HI 90 LO 73 HI 93 LO 74 HI 90 LO 72 Florida Lottery Director of front of all Lottery tickets: involved in the multi-state Product Shelly Gerteisen “Warning: Lottery games games would risk los- REGIONAL FORECAST MAP for Sunday, Jun.