1A FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JUNE 7 & 8, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Andrea Trial slow going appears to have June 7 manners First Friday First Friday will be Tropical storm observed from 6 to 10 p.m. brings rain, wind at The Cafe’, 281 N. Marion St. Jazz music will be provid- but no destruction. ed by Ben Grier and Rose Burls and Myron Carter. By AMANDA WILLIAMSON Cost is $8. Reservations are [email protected] recommended. Call (407) 690-0776. Donations will After a morning downpour and be solicited for the Annie continuous afternoon drizzle, it Maddox Summer Camp. appeared by Thurs-day Artist reception evening that A reception for local art- the worst ist Jeanne Van Arsdale, the of Tropical Artist of the Month, from S t o r m 7 to 9 p.m. at the High Andrea had Springs Art Co-op, 115 N p a s s e d . Main St. in High Springs. H o w e v e r, Wine and cheese will be h e a v y served. rains with s u s t a i n e d winds of 50 June 7-8 mph were Blueberry festival e x p e c t e d The 20th Annual Wellborn T h u r s d a y Blueberry Festival will night, with be today and Saturday. gusts up to Admission is free. There will 60 mph. be arts and crafts and food Paulette vendors, the Country Store Lord, pub- selling blueberry pies, cob- lic informa- JASON MATTHEW WALKER/ bler, muffins and more, live tion officer Lake City Reporter entertainment by Herold at Columbia Sarah Roberts White and fresh blueber- C o u n t y walks home in the ries and blueberry plants Emergency rain after getting available for purchase. The M a n a g e - coffee on Thursday. Blueberry Bake-off and ment, pre- Tasting Party will be Friday pared for evening. Saturday features the worst as the news hit about the Blueberry Pancake JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter the first named storm of the Breakfast, the Parade, and Richard Franklin (center) looks on Thursday morning during jury selection for his capital murder trial. Franklin season. the Talent Contest. For will be tried for the stabbing death of Columbia County corrections officer Sgt. Ruben Thomas III. “We’re expecting it to not be more, call (386) 963-1157 or as bad as expected,” she said. go online to www.wellborn “We’re looking for a little more communityassociation.com. No jurors picked for murder case rain and a little more wind.” A rumor started early Music fundraiser Prospective panel of prospective Courtroom 1 on the third floor Thursday afternoon that The Phlockers on the jurors slowly of the courthouse. Emergency Management per- Suwannee Parrott Head Club members quizzed, filed into the Dewitt Cason, county Clerk sonnel had asked businesses to will present a music festival many excused. C o l u m b i a of Court, said the jury selec- close due to the weather, and to support Hospice of the C o u n t y tion was moved to Courtroom 1 that all Columbia County resi- Nature Coast’s Wishes pro- By TONY BRITT C o u r t h o u s e . because it holds more people. dents should be off the street by gram. Tropical Night Rocks [email protected] Some had their Although 400 people were 2 p.m. County officials said the the Suwannee will be held in summonses in sent summonses to appear as rumor was false. the Music Hall at the Spirit Several potential jurors were Thomas hand and by potential jurors in the trial, only “The Columbia County of the Suwannee Music excused from service in the 8:30 a.m. when 113 showed up at the courthouse Emergency Management Office Park in Live Oak. Doors will Richard Franklin capital murder jury selection was slated to start, on Thursday morning. has not asked or suggested that open at 6 p.m. both nights trail Thursday, but at least 30 the line leading up to the court- By 9:15 a.m., 35 potential any business in our area close and music will be from 7 to more have to be interviewed house’s metal detector was at jurors were taken to another due to the weather,” Lord said 11 p.m. Cost is $15 per per- before court officials decide least 20 people long and continu- courtroom, where Judge Paul in a news release. “Any business son per night. Friday night whether they will sit on the jury. ing to grow. Bryan asked a dozen questions, which has closed has done so at will feature Homemade Franklin, already a convicted A trio of sheriff’s deputies reducing the potential pool to their own discretion, not by our Wine of Knoxville, Tenn. murderer, is scheduled to be checked people for security pur- 102. request.” Saturday night’s band tried for the March 2012 stab- poses and gave the courthouse Bryan and representatives According to the National is Jimmy Parrish and the bing death of Columbia County visitors directions to Courtroom from the State Attorney’s Office Weather Service in Jacksonville, Ocean Waves. For more, corrections officer Sgt. Ruben No. 1. and Public Defenders Office heavy rain and possible thunder- call Barbara Test at (386) Thomas III. Jury selection will Originally scheduled to spent hours questioning the storms were expected Thursday 754-7227. continue today. be held in Courtroom 2, the night. Tropical storm-force Thursday morning, a line jury selection was changed to TRIAL continued on 3A June 8 STORM continued on 3A Father-son breakfast B&S Combs Elks Lodge 1599 will have a father Commission and son breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. at B&S Combs votes down Elks Lodge, 1688 NE Washington St. Cost is $5. alcohol sales The Rev. Wendell Wallace of Fellowship Missionary hours change Baptist Church will be the speaker. Contact Brother By DEREK GILLIAM Carlos Brown for more [email protected] information at (386) 288- 6235. Bar owners in Columbia County will still have to close Book sale shop at 1 a.m. after a proposal Wellborn Community to extend the sale of alcohol an Library will have its semi- additional hour failed on a 3-2 annual used book sale from vote Thursday. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the fel- County Commissioners Bucky lowship hall of Wellborn Nash and Ron Williams voted in United Methodist Church, favor of the proposed ordinance on Route 137 in Wellborn. amendment, but Commissioners A wide variety of books, Stephen Bailey, Rusty DePratter CDs and tapes will be avail- and Scarlet Frisina voted against able. A bake sale also will it. be held. For more informa- JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter The public hearing on extend- tion or to make last-minute ing the sale of alcohol to 2 a.m. book donations, contact the Family reading time had four people speak in favor Rev. Dr. Everett L. Parker of the proposed change. No one at (386) 754-8524 or (386) The Faulstich siblings read while visiting the Columbia County Public Library, 308 NW Columbia Ave. Pictured are 688-1358. (from left) Austin, 5; Amberlyn, 8; Nathan, 12; Nehemiah, 7; and Andrew, 10. SALES continued on 3A Vol. 138, No. 353 People................. 2A CALL US: Opinion ............... 4A TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 89 68 PEOPLE SUNDAY SUBSCRIBE TO Thunderstorms Obituaries ............. 5A THE REPORTER: Advice & Comics ....... 4-5B Musical Local news Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles ............... 4-5B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A entertainment. roundup. 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JUNE 7 & 8, 2013 Celebrity Birthdays Thursday: Thursday: n Movie director James Ivory Jenny Jones is 67. Afternoon: 2-1-3 Afternoon: 7-8-2-5 Wednesday: is 85. n Actress Anne Twomey is Evening: N/A Evening: N/A 1-5-7-9-28 n Actress Virginia McKenna 62. is 82. n Actress Colleen Camp is n Singer Tom Jones is 73. 60. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS n Poet Nikki Giovanni is 70. n Singer-songwriter Johnny n Actor Ken Osmond Clegg is 60. (“Leave It to Beaver”) is 70. n Author Louise Erdrich is n Former talk show host 59. Underwood takes top CMT award Daily Scripture NASHVILLE, Tenn. arrie Underwood’s awe- And I pray that you, being root- some week got off to a roaring start at the CMT ed and established in love, may Music Awards. have power, together with all Underwood won top the Lord’s holy people, to grasp Chonor video of the year Wednesday night for “Blown Away,” capping how wide and long and high and the evening with an emotional trib- deep is the love of Christ, and ute to Oklahoma tornado victims before taking the fan-voted award for to know this love that surpasses the second year in a row. Miranda knowledge—that you may be Lambert and Florida Georgia Line were the night’s top winners with filled“ to the measure of all the two awards apiece. fullness of God. “The good Lord has been very — Ephesians 3:17-19 good to me — well, to all of us in this room — for a very long time,” Underwood told the crowd after the Lake City Reporter win. HOW TO REACH US Underwood — the top winner in Main number . .(386) 752-1293 BUSINESS CMT Awards history with 10 belt Fax number . .752-9400 Controller Sue Brannon. .754-0419 Circulation .