PANAMA CITY LOCAL | B1 LGBTQ CENTER OPENS Support group is the fi rst of its kind in the Panhandle off ering free services to LGBTQ youth. Monday, March 5, 2018 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ Car show surprise Scouting for history New program asks Sea levels are rising along citizens to help the coast of Florida — in preserve history some areas more than third of an inch every year — By Jennie McKeon according to the National 315-4434 | @jenniemnwfdn Oceanic and Atmospheric [email protected] Administration (NOAA). Historical sites that sit MARY ESTHER — along the coast are at risk Storms are a part of Florida of being washed away for life. After homes and busi- good. nesses are torn down, “Once they’re gone, they’re built back up. they’re gone forever,” But what about historic sites that can’t be rebuilt? See PROGRAM, A3 Nine-year-old Mikah Phillips, diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma, holds a model of his favorite car, a Nissan GTR, as a surprise car show meant to lift his spirits before he goes in for surgery next week. [PHOTOS BY ERYN DION/THE NEWS HERALD] Hundreds turn out to support boy with cancer By Eryn Dion 747-5069 | @PCNHErynDion [email protected] Nicole Grinnan, Public Archaeology Coordinator works with a group of volunteers on how to be a Heritage Monitoring PANAMA CITY — It Scout. The scout program aims to get citizens involved by started, as many things do documenting conditions of archaeologial sites. [JENNIE MCKEON/ now, with a Facebook post. DAILY NEWS] Aimee Livingston put out a call on her page hoping to attract the attention of local car enthusiasts. Her daugh- ter’s friend, nine-year-old SPORTS | C1 Mikah Phillips, was struggling with stage four glioblastoma, NFL COMBINE an aggressive form of brain Nine-year-old Mikah Phillips, right, who has stage four brain cancer extremely rare in cancer, revs the engine of Dominik Briggs’ Nissan Skyline at a UCF’s Shaquem children. His family had just surprise car show Sunday to help lift his spirit before he goes in for Griffi n, the one-handed learned the tumor removed surgery next week. do-it-all defender, did a through surgery in early personal best 20 reps in February was growing back contacted by other car enthu- The cancer diagnosis, the bench press. and he would need to go in siasts who wanted to show Debbie Phillips said, has been for another surgery as soon up and support Mikah. Soon, hard on Mikah and his family. as possible, then through at Livingston said they outgrew His father, Justin Phillips, least six weeks of radiation their original venue plan and said they’ve tried as hard as and chemotherapy. had to find a new space, at the they can to make sure he’s Mikah really loves cars, Panama City Surgery Center taken care of, but also keep and Mikah especially loves off Jenks Avenue. life as normal as possible for ‘Trump slump’ in the Nissan GTR, a high-per- “This was more than any- their three older daughters, formance coupe that puts out thing I could have expected,” but sometimes, the stress gun sales continues well over 500 horsepower. Livingston said. “It blew up and the uncertainty gets the And Mikah, Livingston wrote into something I never could better of them. on Facebook, would really have imagined.” “He’s very scared,” Debbie By Andrew Florida high school. love to take a ride in a Nissan All of this, of course, was Phillips said. “It makes him Welsh-Huggins In the past, gun massacres GTR before having to leave a secret to Mikah. He knew very scared and very nervous. The Associated Press generally led to an uptick in for his surgery Tuesday and something was going on, his We just tell him we love him sales as people worried about two months of radiation. mother Debbie Phillips said, and these are the things that COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gun the government restricting “I know a lot of car people, and knew he would get to ride we have to do to make him store owners called it the access. But with Parkland, my husband knows a lot of car in a GTR, but he had no idea better.” “Trump slump.” Sales of things are different. people — someone has to have that on Sunday, dozens of But at Sunday’s surprise firearms slowed dramatically “The day after the elec- a GTR,” Livingston said. cars and hundreds of people car show, cancer was a four- after the election of Donald tion, it’s just like somebody As quick as a race car off would line the parking lot of letter word, replaced instead Trump as president in 2016 turned a faucet off,” said the line, the post took off. the surgery center to welcome with words like “McLaren,” allayed fears of a Democratic David Dobransky, 67, who Livingston was quickly con- him to his very own car show. “Skyline,” “RPM” and the crackdown on gun owners. owns Dobransky Fire- tacted by several people who “It’s hard,” Debbie Phillips loud revs of engines that That trend has continued arms, a small gun shop in owned a GTR and wanted to said. “He got upset last night, could be heard from blocks in recent weeks even with North Canton, Ohio. Since drive Mikah around, but it and I told him, ‘Remem- away. After being picked talk of gun control in Con- then, sales there have been didn’t stop there. Through ber, you get to ride in a GTR up and driven to the show gress and among business cut in half, and nothing word of mouth, and social tomorrow,’ and he said, ‘Oh leaders following the Feb. media, Livingston was yeah, that’s right!’” See CANCER, A5 14 massacre of 17 people at a See GUNS, A5 Panama City News Herald Diversions ..................... B7 Sports........................ C1-4 TODAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Want to subscribe? Local & State .............. B1-5 TV grid ......................... C5 Partly sunny T-storms Clouds, sun Call 850-747-5050 Obituaries ..................... B3 Viewpoints .................... A6 74° / 60° 73° / 51° 68° / 44° * ** A2 Monday, March 5, 2018 | The News Herald READER FEEDBACK CELEBRATE COMMUNITY TODAY IN HISTORY In a post on his 2017 Senate Today is Monday, March 5, the campaign Facebook page, former PICTURE PERFECT 64th day of 2018. There are 301 Alabama candidate Roy Moore days left in the year. called for donations to help We want your photos: Post your photos to the News Herald Facebook page with your name, city of Highlight in History: cover his legal fees in a sexual residence and information about the photo. You can email photos to [email protected]. On March 5, 1868, the impeach- misconduct case. In addition to ment trial of President Andrew "the liberal media," Moore also Johnson began in the U.S. wrote that “Gays, lesbians, and Senate, with Chief Justice transgenders have joined forces Salmon P. Chase presiding. with those who believe in abor- Johnson, the fi rst U.S. president tion, sodomy, and destruction of to be impeached, was accused all that we hold dear. Unless we of “high crimes and misde- stand together we will lose our meanors” stemming from his Country.” attempt to fi re Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; the trial P.j. Swapper: "Roy Moore has a ended on May 26 with Johnson’s net worth of approximately $2 acquittal. million and earnings of approx On this date: $300,000/year. His campaign In 1770, the Boston Massacre raised over $2 million. What took place as British soldiers happened to all that money, Roy? who had been taunted by a Then there's the hundreds of crowd of colonists opened fi re, thousands Roy, Kayla, and kids killing fi ve people. have taken from their char- In 1867, thousands of mem- ity - Foundation for Moral Law. bers of the Irish Republican Then there's the money Moore Brotherhood launched the and his wife have received for Fenian Rebellion in Ireland in an speaking engagements over the attempt at overthrowing British years. The Moore's live in a 4,300 rule; the poorly-organized rising square foot home on 16 acres was swiftly put down by British with a seven-car garage. If there and Irish authorities. were real justice in this world, In 1933, in German parliamen- Roy Moore would be needing tary elections, the Nazi Party lawyers for far more than this Rick Bywater, a snowbird from Canada, came upon this scene while taking a walk along won 44 percent of the vote; the child sexual abuse lawsuit. Hang Panama City Beach. Nazis joined with a conservative on to your money, folks. Or give nationalist party to gain a slen- it to someone who truly needs der majority in the Reichstag. it. Roy Moore can afford to pay In 1946, Winston Churchill his own attorneys. His request delivered his “Iron Curtain” for donations just demonstrates speech at Westminster College his absolute lack of decency and GO AND DO in Fulton, Missouri, in which he integrity." said: “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an As Spring Break begins, BCSO Lt. 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