1A WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Pat Summerall dies at 82 Summerall, famous for his deep, reso- tennis. He taught middle See related story, page 6A Area residents recall nant voice, called 16 Super Bowls as the school English, and always famed broadcaster who play-by-play announcer. He spent more remembered where he Summerall jumped out of the boat and than 40 years as the voice of the National came from, according to hightailed it to his truck -- wanting to leave was born and raised here. Football League. friends and family. the boat behind because the gnats were so By DEREK GILLIAM But before he was a nationally known One time, after a night bad, Kennon said. [email protected] broadcaster, Summerall was born and when the gnats were like “I told him to back the trailer up, and raised here in Lake City. Summerall a buzzing cloud at the that if he wanted to give the boat away, I Lake City’s own Pat Summerall passed He loved to fish on the Suwannee River, river, Summerall had had would take it,” he said. away Tuesday of heart failure. He was 82 but hated the sand gnats. He was all- enough, Summerall’s first cousin Mike years old. conference in football, basketball and Kennon said. SUMMERALL continued on 3A Hearing Hunt on for bomber set for Sunday liquor County commissioners to accept input on idea requested by restaurants. By DEREK GILLIAM [email protected] Sunday sales of liquor could soon be a reality in Columbia County as the coun- ty commission will hold a public hearing on the issue at Thursday’s meeting. The meeting will be at the Columbia County School Board Administrative Complex Auditorium, 372 W. Duval St., starting at 5:30 p.m. The proposed change to the county alcohol ordinance would allow restau- rants and private clubs to sell liquor by the drink on Sundays. It would not extend the same privilege to other busi- ness that serve alcohol or allow sales of bottled liquor on Sundays. ASSOCIATED PRESS Any change in the ordinance will Investigators in haz-mat suits examine the scene of the second bombing on Boylston Street in Boston Tuesday near the finish line of the have to be adopted by the Lake City 2013 Boston Marathon, a day after two blasts killed three and injured more than 170 people. City Council before it would take effect inside city limits, where the majority of the restaurants are located. According to a survey by Harvey Investigators piecing together evidence Campbell, director of the Tourist Development Council, some local res- Authorities still have no they still didn’t know who did it and why. attack an act of terrorism but said offi- taurants said the ban hurts their bottom The FBI and other law enforcement cials don’t know “whether it was planned line. Many restaurant managers and suspects nor clues to why agencies repeatedly pleaded for members and executed by a terrorist organization, owners said if the ban was lifted, they marathon was targeted. of the public to come forward with pho- foreign or domestic, or was the act of a might have to hire more employees tos, videos or anything suspicious they malevolent individual.” to handle the increase in business on By EILEEN SULLIVAN might have seen or heard. Scores of victims of the Boston bombing Sundays. and JAY LINDSAY “The range of suspects and motives remained in hospitals, many with grievous Campbell conducted the survey after Associated Press remains wide open,” Richard DesLauriers, injuries, a day after the twin explosions County Commissioner Ron Williams FBI agent in charge in Boston, said at a near the marathon’s finish line killed asked the TDC to compile information BOSTON — Federal agents zeroed in news conference. He vowed to “go to the three people, wounded more than 170 and on the impact or benefit of changing the Tuesday on how the Boston Marathon ends of the Earth to identify the subject reawakened fears of terrorism. A 9-year- Sunday ban on alcohol sales. bombing was carried out — with kitchen or subjects who are responsible for this old girl and 10-year-old boy were among pressure cookers packed with explosives, despicable crime.” SALES continued on 3A nails and other lethal shrapnel — but said President Barack Obama branded the BOMBING continued on 3A Yoho supports Teachers bill to help unions sue farm families state over By AMANDA WILLIAMSON [email protected] evaluations Congressman Ted Yoho, R-Gainesville, announced he is an original co-sponsor of By JAMES L. ROSICA the Farmers and Ranchers Minimizing Associated Press Estate Regulations Act, or FARMER Act, a bill TALLAHASSEE — Teachers unions that will grant some on Tuesday sued the state and three relief to farm families local school boards over performance when they are dealing evaluations that grade Florida’s teach- with a death. ers on subjects and students they The act, introduced don’t teach, which they called “arbi- by Rep. Austin Scott, trary, irrational and unfair.” Yoho R-Ga., creates a new The suit, backed by the National method of evaluation Education Association and Florida for generational farms Education Association, includes seven and their owners when the farm’s tax- teachers from around the state as payer dies. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter plaintiffs. The case was filed in federal When the estate tax — also known court in Gainesville. as the “death tax” by some conserva- New CARC director makes debut The complaint challenges the tives — is collected on the farm, cur- Student Success Act passed in 2011, rent regulations allow for the farm’s Kathy Nickells, an inventory control specialist at Timco Corp., congratulates Stephen Bailey claiming its evaluation system, on being named the new executive director of the CARC, Advocates for Citizens with YOHO continued on 3A Disabilities, on Tuesday. See story, page 3A. 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James Keenan is 49. n Actress-singer Lindsay Ex-catcher Piazza rehearsing for ballet n Actress Lela Rochon is 49. Korman is 35. n Actor William Mapother is n Actress Rooney Mara is MIAMI BEACH 48. 28. ormer Major League n Actress Leslie Bega is 46. n Actress Jacqueline Baseball catcher Mike n Actress Kimberly Elise is MacInnes Wood is 26. Piazza is joining Miami Heat basketball stars in promoting the athleticism Daily Scripture Fof the dancers at Miami City Ballet. Piazza began rehearsing Tuesday for his walk-on role in the company’s “Let no debt remain outstand- May 3 production of “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.” He also got fitted for ing, except the continuing debt the taupe houndstooth suit that he’ll to love one another, for whoev- wear as a gangster hired to shoot a er loves others has fulfilled the dancer’s rival. The Miami Beach dance com- law.” pany is embracing new collabora- — Romans 13:8 tions as it emerges from a financial restructuring. 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