1A FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MAY 10 & 11, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Officers kill city man Task force members say he fired at them May 10 with shotgun first. Veterans hiring fair By DEREK GILLIAM Florida Crown Workforce [email protected] Board and Dollar General Stores will have a veterans Members of a sheriff’s drug hiring fair from 9 am. to task force shot and killed a man 2 p.m. at American Legion they say fired a shotgun at them Post 57, 2602 SW Main late Wednesday, according to a Blvd. Employers with job news release from the Columbia openings are encouraged to County Sheriff’s Office. sign up at no cost. Veteran The Florida Department of Law jobseekers, active mili- Enforcement, which is investigat- tary, National Guard and ing the incident, did not release Reserve members and mili- the man’s name Thursday. tary spouses are encour- According to the news release, aged to attend. Veterans the Columbia County Multi- should take copies of their Jurisdictional Task Force was con- DD214 or other proof of ducting a narcotics investigation at service. Employers should 611 NW Bronco Terrace at about call Denise Wynne at (386) 11:50 p.m. Deputies “attempted 755-9026 to register. to make contact with the persons inside the home” when a man St. Leo commencement came outside with a shotgun. DEREK GILLIAM/Lake City Reporter Columbia County According to the news release, Superintendent of Schools deputies “continually” ordered Terry Huddleston will the man to drop the weapon. The ABOVE: Official vehicles line Bronco Terrace deliver the guest com- man then fired at the deputies, at Thursday morning during investigation of an mencement address to which point the officers, “fearing officer-involved shooting. Sheriff’s officials say local graduates of Saint Leo for their lives, returned fire with a man brandishing a shotgun fired at deputies, University. their issued sidearms,” the news who returned fire, killing him late Wednesday. Nearly 90 area residents release said. Bronco Terrace was closed to traffic for at least will receive degrees at the 5 The man died at the scene. 12 hours. RIGHT: Columbia County Sheriff’s p.m. event, to be held at the The release said no one else was Howard Conference Center injured. Office public information officer Sgt. Ed Seifert at Florida Gateway College. Columbia County Property speaks to news reporters Thursday afternoon Two students receiving the Appraiser’s records show the outside the home at 611 NW Bronco Terrace. Bachelor of Arts degree in home is owned by Alberto Valdes. The deputies had gone there Wednesday night elementary education have Valdes bought the house in June to conduct a narcotics investigation, officials been selected to deliver 2011 for $119,000. The single-fam- said. No one else was injured. farewell addresses: Philip ily home has an above-ground Donaway of Lake City and pool that had four chairs on the JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Courtney Squires of Cross deck Thursday. City. Don Loeb, who lives on NW Bronco Terrace, said he heard later that morning, deputies would Three people lived at 611 NW ing out of his fenced-in property, at least three loud blasts that only allow him to pass after he Bronco Terrace, Loeb said. He he would stop and shake Loeb’s May 11 sounded like gunshots around proved he lived on the street. said an older man in a wheelchair hand and talk for a minute before Food drive midnight Wednesday. Loeb, 56, He said deputies would not who didn’t speak English, a man closing the gate, Loeb said. Postal Service mail carri- said deputies blocked NW Bronco allow a school bus to go to a bus probably in his 50s and the man’s “The man seemed to be a pretty ers will be conducting their Terrace at the intersection of NW stop on the road. son lived at the house. nice dude,” Loeb said. “Drive by, 21st annual national “Stamp Pillsbury Drive. Loeb said he tried to walk to Loeb said the three were he’d wave. He’d shake your hand Out Hunger” food drive. Loeb said he left his home the scene at about 12:30 a.m., but friendly, and the middle-aged man if you were out walking.” Mail patrons are asked to around 6 a.m. to buy cigarettes, a deputy shined a spotlight at him would wave when Loeb walked by place donations of canned, and when he tried to return home and told him to get back. their house. If the man was back- SHOOTING continued on 3A boxed and nonperishable foods at their mailboxes for carriers to pick up. No glass bottles or jars. The food will be delivered to area food Garden club members hear 1 dead, pantries for distribution. 2 injured Diva Day water conservation message The Altrusa Club’s fourth annual Diva Day will Springs expert in crash be from 9 a.m.to 2 p.m. at the Columbia County explains threat Fairgrounds Banquet of excessive use. on I-75 Hall. Altrusa, along with Ronsonet GMC, The Health By TONY BRITT Center and Campus USA By AMANDA WILLIAMSON [email protected] invite you to come out and [email protected] stroll through the vendor A Margate man died and reen lawns booths and enjoy the day. two Pensacola men were stretch Enjoy vendors with items injured in a single-vehicle neighbor- such as jewelry, handbags, crash Wednesday night on to-neighbor. candles, soaps, make-up, Interstate 75. Rose bushes cakes, chocolates, health The driver of the vehicle lost Gblossom in the warm screenings and more. An control, ran off the interstate afternoon sun, brushing affordable lunch is avail- and struck a tree. Authorities up against the turn-of- able in our café. The $5 had not determined which of the-century-style homes admission ticket enters you the three was driving the vehi- along Hernando Street. in a drawing for a bracelet cle as of Thursday afternoon. Lake Isabella curves courtesy of Ward’s Jewelry “Due to further investi- behind the Women’s & Gifts or a three-day/two gation, possible evidence Club building, the meet- night cabin and golf cart. revealed the identity of the ing place for the Florida Tickets are available at the JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter driver is in question,” said Federation Garden Club Lake City Reporter, Lake A garden maintained by the Lake City Garden Club overlooks Lake Isabella. The Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. District V’s Spring meet- City Advertiser, Chamber need for water conservation — especially that used for residential landscape irrigation Tracy Hisler-Pace, Troop B ing on Thursday. of Commerce and at the spokesperson. At the confluence of — was a key message delivered to a gathering of garden club members from around door. For more information, Jovan Robinson, 34, of well-trimmed flowers the region at The Clubhouse, home of the city club, on Hernando Street. call Jan Smithey at (386) Margate, died at the Lake City and the lapping shores 961-3217. average daily residential per day, he said. It is ing account,” Knight Medical Center Thursday of the nearby lake, club water consumption is for important for everyone said. Before people morning. members listened to Bob Tea, fashion show outdoor use. to know how much water inhabited the region, the Robert Jason Vetitoe, 37, Knight, the director of The Columbia County “You can’t garden they are consuming on springs were the only and Ethan L. Anderson, 28, the Howard T. Odum Women’s Club will have without water,” Knight a daily basis, and water outlet for the aquifer to both of Pensacola, were Florida Springs Institute, its annual Tea and Fashion said. “When the garden meters can be installed flow above ground, but injured in the crash. explain the importance Show at 7 p.m. at the needs to be watered like at a home to measure now there are 27,000 The wreck occurred of water conservation. club, 1145 Martin Luther it did last spring, it’s a lot the quantity. large consumptive use around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday Landscape irriga- King Drive, off Broadway of water. It starts surpris- Florida sits on the permits steadily draining at the Mile 414 marker, near tion on residential Avenue. Admission is $5. ing you.” same latitude as one the water supply. Private Ellisville. lawns and farms com- For more information, call The state average for of the world’s largest wells number over 1 mil- FHP Trooper Derek prises the largest use Deanna George at (386) private water use is 135 deserts, the Sahara. lion, Knight estimated. MacLaren reported the men of water in Florida. The 288-2368, Gaynell Lee at gallons per day per per- Therefore, North Florida “You can only pay so were northbound in a 2013 state Environmental (386) 397-5518 or Georgia son, but outside irriga- depends on rain as many bills from your Chevrolet Cruze in the left Protection Agency esti- Muldrow at (386) 752- tion can increase usage income to the peninsula’s mates 30 percent of the 0108. to more than 300 gallons declining liquid “check- WATER continued on 8A CRASH continued on 3A Vol. 138, No. 333 Opinion ............... 4A CALL US: People................. 2A TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 90 61 PEOPLE SUNDAY SUBSCRIBE TO Partly cloudy Obituaries ............. 5A THE REPORTER: Advice & Comics ....... 4-5B Singer charged Local news Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles ............... 4-5B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A in murder plot. roundup. 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MAY 10 & 11, 2013 Celebrity Birthdays Thursday: Thursday: n Author Bel Kaufman (“Up n Former Sen.