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BEYOND INSIDE ORMOND BEACH DAYTONA BEACH HOLLY HILL THE CALL OF DUTY Citizen thanks Holly Hill police officer Page A2 Vol. 7, No. 3 Your Local News and Information Source • www.HometownNewsOL.com Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 Community New Bike Week rules adopted, Notes Free Consultations & Second Opinions Crowns $ fees for police dropped 675 • Denture $ Walk with the 495 • Implants $995 manager scheduled By James Harper to them to be less safe because by products. Paul Szott, D.M.D. For Hometown News police are working down on Main “It is the respon- Kerri Graham D.M.D. See ad in this section for more information The city of Ormond Street,” Ms. Woods said at a sibility of each food Beach will hold “Walking DAYTONA BEACH — Change is recent city commission meeting. vendor to properly 386-944-5002 with the Manager” from 8:30 coming for bar owners, vendors Taxpayers have been picking up dispose of the con- 802 Sterthaus Drive, Suite A • Ormond Beach, FL to 9:30 a.m., Friday, Feb. 10, and property owners who want to (Across the Street from the closed Florida Hospital) the tab for special event costs like tents of the recep- 684069 at The Casements, 25 S. participate in special events such overtime for police and the clean- tacle at an appro- Riverside Drive. as Bike Week. ing of sewer lines mucked up priate site and Participants should meet Zone 2 Commissioner Pam from improper waste disposal, comply with any and all other city at the front door of The cial Woods says those who benefit Ms. Woods said. ordinances,” said J. Paul Wetzel, Casements facing Rocke- events for a period of from the events need to pay for feller Gardens. The entire Vendors will be required to pro- Daytona Beach’s Support Services three years if receptacles are not what it costs the city. walk will be approximately vide a receptacle approved by the Director. in place and contents disposed of two miles. “Public safety is the No. 1 issue city of adequate capacity for the Property owners will lose the Shelly Arzola, human of people I represent. I don’t want disposal of all grease and cooking privilege of participating in spe- See BIKE, A9 resources director, will be the city manager’s“guest walker and will answer questions from the group. Community See NOTES, A6 support Karlie Guinther, 7, of Ormond Beach has her face painted by Carlye Hubert, 17, of Seabreeze High School’s Movement Against Cancer Club during a ‘Benefit for Makayla & Tatum’ at Ormond Beach Middle School recently. Tatum Gibbens, 3, (Karlie’s little sister) was recently diagnosed with leukemia and Makay- la McNamara, 13, has osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. The benefit included a silent auction, blood drive, pasta dinner and bake sale. Proceeds from the bake sale went to the family of Cameron Brenneman, 12, who was recently killed in a car accident. For more information or to donate, go to Facebook: Benefit for Makayla &Tatum, email [email protected] or call (386) 265-8719. Randy Barber/staff photographer 684076 Conklin Center helping blind live independently By Dan Harkins game to indicate which blind or nearly blind and when Mr. Cameron joined a usually uses a debit card, [email protected] direction to move or shoot usually have one or more full-time, on-site program he’s learned to fold his or jump. If he fails once, the additional disabilities like at Conklin that can accom- money denominations into DAYTONA BEACH — next time he tries a slightly cerebral palsy, autism or modate 14 students at a distinguishing shapes: Though he’s blind in one different path. mental retardation. This is time. Its mission: to fully Ones stay unfolded, fives eye and barely makes out It’s the same with life. where Mr. Cameron, like engrain the life skills the are folded in half length- vague shadows with the Since 2010, Mr. Cameron hundreds of others, has program participants need wise, 10s are folded in half other, Cody Cameron has attended life-skills learned many of the impor- to eventually live safely and and 20s are folded in half boasts of having been a training at the Conklin Cen- tant skills he’ll need to productively on their own. twice. video gamer for 15 of his 20 ter for the Blind off White become independent. He cooks meals, does his He also mastered his fold- years of life. He listens for Street. The center serves Since May, his lessons own laundry, cleans his telltale sounds in each people of all ages who are have intensified. That’s dorm room. Though he See BLIND, A8 Medardo ENTERTAINMENT B1 PULLING THE PLUG Soldevilla takes ORDER UP a peek under Has local man invented the electric lor’s in electrical engi- the hood of the neering from the Univer- electric car he car that will change the world? sity of Florida. “I’m an eternal skeptic.” created at his By Dan Harkins Medardo “Jose” Soldevilla His 66-year-old father home in New [email protected] is so confident that he has expects that type of cyni- Smyrna Beach created this car that he cism, though. He’s spent recently. NEW SMYRNA BEACH has applied fora patent, 13 years and 300 reassem- — Engineers around the would seemingly “electri- blies to fill his third MG, a world have worked for fy” the field. faded 1977 sports car, Granada Cafe offers big decades to invent an elec- Instead, barely a spark. with enough rechargeable meals at small prices tric car that wouldn’t need Even Mr. Soldevilla’s fami- batteries and generators recharging. The Chinese ly is skeptical. to create a system he says alone have reportedly “It’s been awhile since may eventually eliminate the need for cars, trucks, INDEX spent billions of dollars to I’ve seen it, so I would unlock the key to a vehi- have to test it out to see boats, trains or airplanes Classified B10 Police Report A5 cle unencumbered by the for myself if it works,” to ever burn fossil fuels again. Crossword B9 Star Scopes B1 need for a plug. said his son, Cesar Sol- So the fact that New devilla, who lives in Vir- Randy Barber Out & About B1 Viewpoint A6 Smyrna Beach resident ginia and holds a bache- See PLUG, A10 staff photographer FREE ESTIMATES 684912 A2 • Ormond Beach/Daytona Beach/Holly Hill Hometown News Friday, February 10, 2012 Citizen thanks Holly Hill police officer for compassion By Patrick McCallister ily. His parents passed away. Campbell’s For Hometown News He was fighting a lot of death in demons.” December, HOLLY HILL — Robert Demons that would win Investigator “Allen” Campbell struggled somewhere in the middle of Melton rec- with depression, alcohol the night two months later. ognized dependency and suicidal Mr. Campbell accidentally their names thoughts for a long time, overdosed on a cocktail of and her according to his former girl- drugs and alcohol, accord- address friend, Wendy Longstaffe. ing to Investigator Melton. from the That’s how Investigator Wal- While Investigator encounter ter Melton of the Holly Hill Melton’s efforts didn’t save in October, Melton Police Department came to Mr. Campbell from a pre- and asked to meet him. mature death, Ms. go. In October, the investiga- Longstaffe said he made a “She was crying,” the cop tor had volunteered for a difference in his life. She said. “Very, very emotional. patrol shift. recently wrote a letter read Very distraught. She recog- “The day was a routine by Mayor Roy Johnson at a nized me, and came over day,” the officer said. “At the city commission meeting. It and gave me a hug.” end of the shift we respond- was candid and touching, a As if struggling with the ed to a call — a person who reminder that police officers death of a loved one wasn’t wanted to kill himself. I do much more than give enough, Ms. Longstaffe lives spoke to (Mr. Campbell). He tickets and make arrests. with her father, a man who explained to me he was dis- When Ms. Longstaffe traught over the loss of fam- called 911 to report Mr. See OFFICER, A7 Police agencies strengthening enforcement of ‘Move Over Law’ For Hometown News roadside, the director of the job because a vehicle drove [email protected] Florida Highway Patrol, Col. too close,” Col. Brierton David Brierton, recently said. “That is why our law TALLAHASSEE — More announced that FHP is includes protection for all than 170 law enforcement teaming up with two other first responders, emergency officers in the United States states to protect emergency personnel and wrecker have died after being struck workers on roadways. The operators. Each of them by motor vehicles since Florida Highway Patrol, deserves protection under 1999. Thousands have been Alabama Department of the law.” injured. To make the road- Public Safety and Georgia During the month-long ways safer for everyone, State Patrol are uniting this enforcement operation, law including law enforcement month to focus enforce- enforcement officers will 684312 officers and emergency ment and education efforts work together along busy workers who often work on the Move Over Law. highways and interstates to “All too often, a law catch Move Over Law viola- enforcement officer, para- tors and others breaking medic or wrecker operator is traffic laws. Law enforce- seriously injured or killed while they are doing their See LAW, A7 Subscribe for FREE Today! Knowledge is a terrible thing to waste... www.hometownnewsol.com A.A.T. 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