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A3 + PLUS >> Norris new state ethics chairman, Story below SCHOOLS MUSIC New look Big doings at FWES at the Spirit See Page 6A See Page 3A THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SMUGGLING FORT WHITE CHARGES FILED PATCHWORK OF LOVE MAN KILLED Prison Log guard jailed; truck drugs crash alleged claims Officer at SCI hid stash, report says. a life By CARL MCKINNEY [email protected] Chain reaction wreck A Suwannee Correctional at site of roadwork. Institution Annex guard was arrested Tuesday following By COREY ARWOOD the discovery [email protected] of a hidden stash of meth, A Fort White man died in an Suboxone early morning collision with a strips, syn- log truck on Wednesday. thetic pot and Steven Butler, 64, was driving cigarettes a 2016 Ford F150 north toward Joseph inside the pris- I-75 exit 414 in the Mikesville on, according area around 8:45 a.m., according to the Florida Department of to the Florida Highway Patrol. Corrections. He was killed after his truck Shanika Shirley Joseph, 26, collided with a compact car and of Jacksonville, was booked log truck stopped in the thick of into Suwannee County Jail on roadwork and morning traffic at charges of smuggling con- a rural intersection along U.S. traband into a prison, drug Highway 441. Photos by TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter possession and trafficking Traffic was rerouted at the amphetamines. Bond was set intersection of County Road 18 at $5,000 each for the smug- and 441, and the section of high- gling and drug possession Volunteer puts way closed for over three hours charges and $10,000 for the as FHP conducted a homicide trafficking charge. investigation, Trooper Brian heart, soul into Bates said. GUARD continued on 2A Bates said construction crews had routinely stopped traffic in her creations the northbound lane. A flagger Norris new had signaled to the drivers of By TONY BRITT a 2006 Mack truck and a 2015 state ethics [email protected] Mazda 6. WHITE SPRINGS — Volunteering isn’t just The FHP report said the chairman a hobby for Marie Longo and her husband — Mack was driven by a 57-year- it’s also a way of life. old Cross City man and the From staff reports Longo volunteers at the Stephen Foster Mazda by a 41-year-old Branford Folk Culture Center State Park in White woman. Lake City attorney Guy Springs, as well as in the Osceola National Both were stopped to allow Norris has been elected chair- Forest. She volunteers eight months a year in the construction, which has man of the Florida Commission the ONF and four months (in the summer) at been ongoing for roughly two on Ethics for the SFFCCSP. months, to interrupt normal Longo volunteers as a quilter for craft the 2018-2019 traffic flow, Bates said. classes at the park. She has made quilts at term. the park for several years and makes them However, troopers said Butler Norris was gender specific as well as gender neutral. did not slow down. appointed Longo, 75, has been sewing for more than “It struck the Mazda and then by Gov. Rick three decades after starting with maternity the pickup continued,” said Scott in 2015 and baby clothing. Later, she started working TOP, ABOVE: Marie Longo smiles at her Lt. Pat Riordan, who was on Norris and was reap- with quilting when she began making quilts sewing machine in the Stephen Foster a conference call with Bates. pointed in 2018. He is a part- for family members. Folk Culture Center State Park crafts build- “It struck the back of the log ner in Norris & Norris, P.A. ing Wednesday afternoon and shows off a QUILTER continued on 2A quilt she created. CRASH continued on 2A Vol. 143, No. 349 CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER Obituaries . 5A (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A JELLYSTONE JAM SUBSCRIBE TO Puzzles . 2B THE REPORTER: 88 70 Ready for September, 3A. Voice: 755-5445 Chance of storms Advice & Comics . 3B Fax: 752-9400 2A THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2018 D AILY BRIEFING LAKE CITY REPORTER Patching together pieces of love QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day QUILTER “Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in Continued From 1A thy word.” Marie Longo, who — Psalm 119:114 (KJV) “I think I started my first volunteers eight quilting when my children months at the Thought for Today had kids — for my grand- Osceola National kids,” she said. Forest and four I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great Longo still has the first months each year many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. quilt she made for one on at the Stephen — Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, American comedian her grandchildren as part Foster Folk Culture of her display at the park. Center State Park She calls it “log cabins.” “That was one of the along with her Winning Lottery Numbers first quilts I made for my husband, has been grandson,” she proudly making children’s Pick 3: (Tuesday p.m.) 7-7-4 said of the twin-sized piece. quilts for decades Pick 4: (Tuesday p.m.) 9-5-5-1 “I made it with scraps that and donates them Fantasy 5: (Tuesday) 8-15-18-25-30 were leftovers. I was at a to the Pregnancy KOA (campground) where Care Center. Here I had big tables to work she demonstrates a See an error? with and a lot of teachers quilting technique. The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news — older folks that quilted items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, and they taught me.” please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will Over the years, Longo run in this space. Thanks for reading. has made quilts for her 10 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Submissions The quilts she creates TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption at the park are donated to made to the Saint Gerard other quilters. She and her roughly 30 per year, for the information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you would the local Pregnancy Care Pregnancy Care Center husband have been RV last few years — mostly in like to see your organization in the newspaper, send the picture Center. They usually range until she moved from the camping enthusiasts since their RV. and information to Associate Editor Steve Wilson at from 36 by 44 inches to 33 area. 1989 and for seven years “I’ve made a lot,” she [email protected]. by 39 inches. She said she started they found jobs working as said. “It’s hard to say how She only makes baby donating her quilts to the volunteers with the Corps long it takes me to make quilts. The quilts often con- Pregnancy Care Center of Engineers Department a quilt. When I leave the Lake City Reporter tain a variety of designs, when she came to the area in the north Georgia moun- park around October, HOW TO REACH US BUSINESS.............. 754-0419 stitching patterns, fabrics because the center was tains during the summers. right now I’ve given them Main number ........ (386) 752-1293 CIRCULATION with vibrant colors, while new and needed all the During the winter six quilts, six more here Fax number .............. 752-9400 others may contain fabric and I’ve got three draws Circulation ............... 755-5445 Home delivery of the Lake City Reporter with Disney characters, Online ... www.lakecityreporter.com should be completed by 6:30 a.m. full of quilts ... there’s 30 Tuesday through Friday, and by 7:30 princesses or shapes. Longo only makes baby quilts. The quilts The Lake City Reporter, an affiliate total.” of Community Newspapers Inc., is a.m. on Sunday. She said she knows the often contain a variety of designs, stitch- When Longo finishes her published Tuesday through Friday and Please call 386-755-5445 to report any quilts will get used by the Sunday at 180 E. Duval St., Lake City, problems with your delivery service. ing patterns, fabrics with vibrant colors, volunteering with the park FL 32055. Periodical postage paid at babies as they continue to at the end of September, Lake City, FL, Member Audit Bureau of In Columbia County, customers should grow. while others may contain fabric with Circulation and The Associated Press. call before 10:30 a.m. to report a she plans to have all of the service error for same day re-delivery. “Once I give it to them Disney characters, princesses or shapes. unfinished quilts in a stage All material herein is property of the its theirs,” she said. “They Lake City Reporter. Reproduction in After 10:30 a.m., next day re-delivery where they’re each pinned whole or in part is forbidden without the or service related credits will be issued. can drag it around the together with the batting permission of the publisher. U.S. Postal In all other counties where home delivery house for three or four help it could get back then. months, they camped at and a top. Service No. 310-880. is available, next day re-delivery or years and it doesn’t bother “This was new,” she a KOA campground in “Now, when I go back POSTMASTER: Send address changes service related credits will be issued. me a bit.” to Lake City Reporter, P.O. Box 1709, said. “They were starting Starke. over to Osceola National Lake City, FL 32056. Circulation ............... 755-5445 Longo, a former home- it up and I figured they “At the KOA the other Forest and use a 50-watt ([email protected]) maker, and her husband Publisher Todd Wilson ....