1A SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUNDAY Friends of Music to Rountree Moore EDITION continue concert to introduce new series in Live Oak. 3A Nissan showroom. 1C NAACP branch president ousted firmed Friday. A reporter for the is now president. Patricia Brady is now Bernice Presley removed Dale R. Landry, president of the Lake City Reporter was first vice president and Debra White is after less than a month in Tallahassee branch NAACP and fourth vice present at the NAACP second vice president. president of the Florida State Conference meeting during which it Presley declined comment. office; no reason given. NAACP, said during a telephone call that is believed Presley was Thomas did not return calls seeking Lynda Thomas has been named president removed on Thursday, comment. By TONY BRITT of the local branch. but was ordered to leave Calls to the national NAACP headquar- [email protected] He declined to say why Presley had by Thomas before the ters on Friday regarding Presley’s removal been removed from office less than a meeting began. Presley as local branch president were not imme- Bernice Presley has been removed as month into her term, referring additional Thomas, who was diately returned. the Columbia County NAACP branch questions to the NAACP national head- elected first vice president during the orga- president, a state NAACP official con- quarters. nization’s bi-annual election in December, NAACP continued on 6A Flu has peaked, Girls on wheels but still packs a punch Fewer cases here lately, says local health dept. head. By MIKE STOBBE Associated Press Flu is now widespread in all but three states as the nation grapples with an earlier-than- normal season. But there was one bit of good news Friday: The number of hard-hit areas declined. The flu season in the U.S. got under way a month early, in December, driven by a Karnes strain that tends to JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter make people sicker. That led Lake City Girls Club members Kiley Craig (from left), 8; Taylor Collins, 9; Jordan Tessier, 8; and Brianna Cannon, 8; race on scooters while playing to worries that it might be a at the club on Friday. bad season, following one of the mildest flu seasons in recent memory. 2 juveniles face burglary charges M e a l l y Jenkins, of Lake City, From staff reports spent loads County Detention Center Wednesday on had been burglarized and a television and Jenkins of time at the A citizen’s tip to the sheriff’s office result- charges of burglary and dealing in stolen other items were stolen. Lake City ed in the arrest of two teenagers who were property. Their names were not released. The witness provided authorities with a Mall while organizing for the allegedly attempting to burglarize a Lake According to Columbia County Sheriff’s description of the suspicious vehicle, a white Christmas Dream Machine. Jeffery Road home. reports, a concerned citizen noticed a suspi- Ford Crown Victoria with a police-style spot- She said she caught the flu on Authorities arrested a 15-year-old and a 17- cious vehicle and person at their neighbor’s light. Dec. 3. year-old in connection with the crime. Both home and notified the Sheriff’s Office. When “I went juveniles were booked into the Columbia deputies arrived they discovered the home BURGLARY continued on 6A home and slept 17 hours. I was sick, sick, sick,” she Credit union plans said. “Best Land thing for you new location here to do is get plenty of liquids and rest.” By TONY BRITT The latest numbers, how- [email protected] ever, hint that the flu season may already have peaked in The Campus USA Credit Union is planning to some spots, like in the South. expand its services in Columbia County by opening a Still, officials there and in new, full-service location later this year. other places are bracing for Jerry Benton, the Campus USA Credit Union vice more sickness. president and chief operations officer, said the prop- Administrators at Miami erty purchase for a new location is very recent and a University in Oxford, Ohio, timetable for opening has not been established yet. are fearful that a bug that “We closed on the two-plus acre property in hit employees will spread to December,” he said in an e-mail Friday. “Tentatively students when they return to we plan to open in the fourth quarter of 2013. However, campus next week. a schedule has not been established.” “Everybody’s been sick. Campus USA credit union is a full-service It’s miserable,” said school DEREK GILLIAM/Lake City Reporter The current location of Campus USA Credit Union on Bascom Norris Drive in Lake FLU continued on 6A City. Campus USA will move to a new location later this year. CAMPUS USA continued on 6A Vol. 138, No. 249 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 Business . 1C5A 9180 6456 Obituaries . 5A PEOPLE TUESDAY SUBSCRIBE TO PatchyT-Storm and Chance a.m. fog Obituaries . 6A THE REPORTER: Advice.Advice & . .Comics . .. 5D8B Big changes Local news Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 2B, 5B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A8A Puzzles . 2B for Britney. roundup. 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER SUNDAY REPORT SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013 Page Editor: Jim Barr, 754-0424 Friday: Friday: Saturday: Saturday: Wednesday: Wednesday: 15-23-28-33 20 7-25-27-35-36 Afternoon: 1-8-8 Afternoon: 4-1-3-6 19-20-24-27-42-51 11-13-20-27-59 Evening: N/A Evening: N/A x4 PB 26 AROUND FLORIDA Gov. Scott gets taste of food company work MIAMI — Gov. Rick Flores remains in jail. a month-long “Python Scott has gotten a taste of Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco Challenge” and offer- work at Goya Foods. plans to recognize Stinnett ing cash prizes to who- Scott loaded trucks, during an awards ceremo- ever brings in the longest filled in on quality control ny next week. python and whoever bags and warehouse jobs and the most pythons. stocked shelves at a super- The hunt startsed market with Goya’s Latino Citrus crop Saturday and ends Feb. 10. food products on Friday in forecast reduced The Burmese python Miami. is an invasive species that ORLANDO — The U.S. It was yet another of experts say is decimat- Department of Agriculture Scott’s “Let’s Get to Work ing native wildlife in the is lowering its Florida cit- Days.” They are patterned Florida Everglades. rus forecast by 3 percent after similar everyday jobs Florida currently pro- this season. that became a trade mark hibits possession or sale Agriculture officials said of former Gov. and ex-U.S. of the pythons for use as Friday that Florida will Sen. Bob Graham. pets. produce an estimated 142 Scott uses his work days Federal law bans the million boxes of citrus dur- importation and interstate to promote Florida indus- ing the 2012-2013 growing tries and keep in touch sale of this species. season. For the first time, the with his constituents. Agricultural officials say He also took advantage public is joining licensed forecasting is an imperfect hunters in the search for of the Goya job to boost science and this year’s his proposal for exempting the snakes. rainfall and disease made Officials hope the com- purchases of manufactur- ASSOCIATED PRESS predicting the crop espe- ing equipment from the petition will help rid the cially tricky. Everglades of the invaders. state’s sales tax. That Warriors ride The majority of the would cost the state $115 Wounded war veterans, including Army Staff Sgt. Russell Dennison, front left, and British decrease in the estimate million a year, but Scott soldier Steve Gill, front center, across the Seven Mile Bridge on Friday near Marathon. About is coming from Valencia State GOP says it would encourage oranges which decreased businesses to expand and 40 vets — most of whom lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan — and their supporters joined outraises Dems in the ride down segments of the Florida Keys Overseas Highway during Soldier Ride. The 3 million boxes to 76 mil- create new jobs. lion boxes. event is staged by the Wounded Warrior Project to help restore injured soldiers’ physical and TALLAHASSEE Early-to-midseason emotional well-being. — Florida Republicans State records oranges decreased 1 mil- continue to outraise the lion boxes to 66 million state’s Democrats despite device containing youth Stinnett told the Tampa compromised boxes. Democratic success at the and employee records to Ex-con helps Bay Times he heard loud Each box of oranges polls. TALLAHASSEE — State the Tallahassee Police thumping before the car’s struggling deputy weighs about 90 pounds. Campaign reports filed officials say the theft of a Department, which is cur- window shattered and on Thursday showed mobile device at a Florida rently investigating the NEW PORT RICHEY Osvaldo Flores jumped out that the Republican Party Department of Juvenile theft. The DJJ also notified — A man with a criminal and attacked Deputy John Nearly 800 of Florida raised nearly Justice office has com- the Office of Information past came to the aid of a Brown. Security. Pasco County Sheriff’s to hunt pythons $2.2 million in cash dona- promised thousands of Stinnett says he ran tions, while the Florida Officials say the device deputy who was in a vio- records that include per- across the parking lot and MIAMI — Nearly 800 Democratic Party took in was not encrypted or pass- lent struggle with a man sonal information.