SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUNDAY Hospice provides care for Camps perfect answer to a EDITION terminally ill. 1C boring summer. 1D JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Hugh Bryant and Annette Bleser, pose for a photograph at their organic farm, Planet Claire Farmacy, in O’Brien. Bryant and Bleser uses half an acre of land to grow a myriad of vegetables with no chemicals and solely on cow and chicken manure. Farmacy’s new take on natural JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter foods An FGC student waves to her family and friends as she finds her seat at the Commencement Ceremony Friday. Farmers market regulars grow organic treats on half-acre tract. 200-plus don caps at Florida Gateway By HANNAH O. BROWN [email protected] ‘I turned “no you can’t” into “watch me,”’ says O’BRIEN – At Planet Claire Farmacy, Hugh Bryant and Annette one new FGC graduate. Bleser work diligently in their “rock lobster” garden, tending to purple By HANNAH O. BROWN kohlrabi and dragon’s tongue green [email protected] beans. The couple own what they call a “rock and roll farm” out in O’Brien. Graduates in emerald gowns watched with Allusions to rock and roll songs wide eyes as student government president are the theme of the space with Ivan Arevalo, 21, gave a poetic speech on a rooster named Ozzy and a cow embracing opportunities and change. named Steve after Steve Clark from “Never forget that you are only one choice Def Leppard. away from changing your life,” Arevalo said. The couple practice alternative Around 130 students graduated with farming methods, using no chemi- Associate of Arts degrees at the 2012 Florida cals and developing their own reci- Gateway College commencement on Friday. pes for common problems such as An additional 75 graduated with Associate of pests and fungi. Science degrees or other certificates. In their garden, they cultivate Overcoming obstacles to embrace success unique crops unlike what many was the theme of the afternoon, with student local farmers are used to seeing. speakers sharing their stories on behalf of the Bright golden zucchini, yellow graduating class. and red-stemmed Swiss chard and Graduate of Elementary Education Jashun JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Cherokee purple heirloom tomatoes Collins, 19, told students and families that the Miranda Holland, who graduated Magna Cum Laude, waits for her name to be called before protrude from lucious greenery. road leading up to commencement was not walking across the stage to receive her degree. “Put that on a plate and they are always easy for her. Negativity from others and her own mind sometimes obscured her path drawn to it,” Bryant said. “The stuff Valedictorian Stephen Williams, 18, said he attending commencement then he initially that nobody knows what it is up to success. “I turned ‘no you can’t’ into ‘watch me,’” she did not initially think of a degree from FGC as thought he’d be. here. That’s what gets them to your all that valuable. Over time, however, Williams “I started coming here when I was 15 so I’ve table.” said. Collins said she plans to stay in Lake City. realized that his accomplishments at the col- got to grow up while here,” Williams said. She hopes to work as a teacher. lege were “not to be taken lightly.” FARMACY continued on 8A Williams said he was more excited about GRADUATION continued on 3A For 9/11 victims’ families, hearing is another ordeal By SAMANTHA GROSS Riches, whose firefighter ing, they generally refused what they want.” Devens in Massachusetts, Conn. and VERENA DOBNIK son, Jimmy, died at the to cooperate. At one point, Riches, himself a retired Joint Base McGuire Dix in Several people who Associated Press World Trade Center. Riches one detainee leafed through firefighter who worked dig- New Jersey and Fort Meade viewed the proceedings said watched the hearing from a copy of The Economist ging up remains in the days in Maryland, the only one they had little sympathy for a movie theater at Fort magazine, then passed it after Sept. 11, said he car- open to the public. the defendants’ complaints NEW YORK — Moans, Hamilton in New York City, to another. At other times, ried with him dark memo- At Fort Hamilton, Lee about their treatment, given sighs and exclamations one of four U.S. military defendants knelt in prayer. ries of the days after the Hanson said he became the brutality of the deaths erupted Saturday as rela- bases where the arraign- Like other family mem- attacks, and he hoped that deeply angry as he watched of the nearly 3,000 victims tives of Sept. 11 victims ment was broadcast live for bers, Riches expressed if convicted the five men the delays being caused of the attacks. Mohammed watched four closed-circuit victims’ family members, frustration about the pro- would be executed. by men he blames for the was waterboarded 183 times TV feeds from Guantanamo survivors and emergency ceedings. “I saw what they did to death of his son, daughter- and subjected to other mea- Bay, Cuba, that showed the personnel who responded “It’s been a mess for 11 our loved ones — crushed in-law and 9/11’s youngest sures that some have called self-proclaimed mastermind to the attacks. years,” Riches said as he them to pieces,” he said. victim — his granddaugh- torture. of the attacks and co-defen- Khalid Sheikh stood in the rain during a About 60 people repre- ter, 2-year-old Christine “My brother was mur- dants trying to slow their Mohammed and the other break in the proceedings senting 30 families were Hanson. All were aboard dered in the cockpit of arraignment, a move that defendants were arraigned and described the atmo- in the theater at Fort United Flight 175, the sec- his airplane, and we will drew outbursts from view- on charges that include ter- sphere inside. And after his Hamilton, where the mili- ond plane to crash into the have to stand up for him,” ers of “c’mon, are you kid- rorism and murder, the first first glimpse inside the mili- tary provided chaplains and twin towers. said Debra Burlingame, ding me?” time in more than three tary courtroom, he said, “It grief counselors, Riches “They praise Allah. I say, who attended the viewing “It’s actually a joke, it years that they appeared looks like it’s going to be a said. The other bases pro- ‘Damn you!’” said the silver- feels ridiculous,” said Jim in public. During the hear- very long trial. ... 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We have to a 4,400 students – NASA’s first Hispanic have guaranteed opportu- homeless in Dade astronaut was among three nity, but not a guarantee. astronauts Saturday who He believes in balancing MIAMI – Public schools joined John Glenn, Neil our budget, he believes in officials say they counted Armstrong and Sally Ride paying down our debt.” more than 4,400 homeless in the U.S. Astronaut Hall He also told about 700 students in Miami-Dade of Fame. people attending the Duval County in the last school Franklin Chang-Diaz, County GOP dinner that year. who was born in Costa they should vet the three Officials say homeless- Rica, was inducted into the candidates running for ness among public school hall of fame in a ceremony Senate, but even if the can- students ages 5 to 17 has at the Kennedy Space didate they choose loses, jumped 84 percent in the Center. Two other former they need to back the last five years. space shuttle astronauts, nominee. The Miami Herald Charlie Precourt and “We need to listen to reports that 56,680 stu- Kevin Chilton, also were them, we need to vet them, dents statewide were inducted. we need to understand reported homeless dur- Chang-Diaz flew seven what they’ve done in the ing the 2010-2011 school shuttle missions, a record past, how they voted, but year. Among those stu- he shares with former then we’ve got to win,” dents were 4,406 students astronaut Jerry Ross. Scott said. “Every other in Miami-Dade Public A plasma physicist one of these other candi- Schools, the fourth-largest with a doctorate from the dates in these other races, school district in the nation. Massachusetts Institute of you need to do the same The Miami-Dade Technology, Chang-Diaz thing you did to me,” Scott Homeless Trust says the helped deploy the Galileo said. “Every race that’s school district defines spacecraft on its mission ASSOCIATED PRESS going on, hold everybody homelessness to include to Jupiter and worked Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks to Republican activists Friday, May 4, 2012 in Jacksonville accountable. Ask them children living in house- on both the Russian what they believe in, get holds with more than one Mir space station and involved in their cam- family.