WEEKEND GLANCE YOUR FORECAST: The Ministries 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Park. Fab 5, an award- weekend features a chance Saturday at Wooton Park in winning band from Jamaica, of thunderstorms each day, Tavares. will perform. Cost: $12, $5 with temperatures in the mid JERK FESTIVAL: Caribbean for ages 6 to 12 and ages 5 to high 80s. American heritage, food and and younger are free. The GOSPEL FESTIVAL: Live culture are on display at the festival is a major fundraiser music, vendors and more 8th annual Clermont festival for the Caribbean American await at the Gospel Festi- from noon to 10 p.m. Satur- Association of Lake County’s val hosted by Lighthouse day at Clermont’s Waterfront scholarship program. Friday, May 3, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial $1 No guns for teachers School Board doesn’t DeSantis’ desk this week said Superintendent Diane have plans to arm they don’t think it’s a good Kornegay said. “We now have Lake’s educators idea, generally, while one armed law enforcement offi- said he liked the idea, even if cers and hired guardians in By Payne Ray it isn’t for Lake. Most referred our schools, plus we have sev- [email protected] to a debate on the issue last eral administrators who have year, when the School Board gone through the training and TAVARES — Lake County agreed by consensus to use met the qualifications to serve Schools superintendent and school resource officers and as volunteer guardians. This School Board members don’t trained “guardians” to handle gives the added protection expect to take advantage of campus security while leaving we want for our schools while a new law that allows public teachers out of it. allowing teachers to focus on schools to arm teachers. “We discussed this issue teaching, as so many of them School Board members last year, and I believe we told us they wanted to do.” Sylvia Tarquine, an eighth-grade language arts teacher at Tavares polled as the approved bill have landed in a good place Middle School, holds a presentation on the Holocaust for students. made its way to Gov. Ron in Lake County Schools,” See GUNS, A5 [CINDY SHARP/CORRESPONDENT] Barr skips House He’s busy living hearing Pelosi accuses him of lying By Mary Clare Jalonick The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing Thurs- day on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump- Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Demo- crats and President Donald Trump’s Jus- tice Department. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Barr had already lied to Congress in other testimony and called that a “crime.” Barr’s decision to avoid the hearing, made after a disagreement with the House Judi- ciary Committee over questioning, came the day after the department also missed the commit- tee’s deadline to provide it with a full, unredacted See BARR, A4 Jeffrey Paradee Jr., pictured here at Lake-Sumter State College with some of his artwork, said he emerged from his darkest hours realizing that the only real limitations he faced were those he put on himself. [CINDY SHARP/CORRESPONDENT] LSSC honors grad It won’t be a celeb- when things looked bleakest, the experience,” Paradee said Jeff rey Paradee rity or someone who had a decided he’d go ahead and live recently. conquers muscular pull-yourself-up-by-your- anyway. Paradee was diagnosed with dystrophy and bootstraps moment. And it Jeffrey Paradee, now 32 Duchenne, a genetic disorder his own doubts won’t be someone who rose and graduating Summa Cum that halts the production of high with the help of a rich Laude, will describe his proteins that hold muscles By Payne Ray benefactor but wants you to 13-year odyssey toward grad- together, at age 3. By 1999, [email protected] know the secret to success is uation and how he discovered when he was in middle school, SPORTS | B1 hard work. in his classmates a commu- he could no longer walk. LEESBURG — Lake-Sumter It will be a paragon of nity, learned to embrace the Paradee said that once he SOUTH LAKE ENDS State College graduates will perseverance who’s faced support of others and real- couldn’t use his arms, he REGULAR SEASON hear from a death-defying enough struggle to fill sev- ized that most limitations are thought he had lost all his figure during Friday’s com- eral lifetimes at the hands of self-imposed. WITH WIN OVER mencement ceremony. a deadly genetic disorder and, “I think it’s really surreal, See LIVING, A5 LAKE MINNEOLA Volume 143, Issue 123 Local & State ................ A3 Drive ........................... C1 © 2019 GateHouse Media Opinion ....................... A7 Comics ........................C4 Home delivery: 352-787-0600 Sports...........................B1 Diversions .................... C5 A2 Friday, May 3, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF DENVER Trump defends clinicians’ Colorado Sen. Bennet enters Democratic presidential race right to refuse to do abortions U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado jumped into the packed Democratic presi- dential primary on Thursday, By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The conscience rule was funding from federal pro- Department of Health and announcing a 2020 campaign The Associated Press a priority for religious con- grams such as Medicare and Human Services. that had been stalled while servatives who are a key part Medicaid to certify that they Rather, the regulation he was treated for prostate WASHINGTON — of Trump’s political base, comply with some 25 federal will guarantee that religious cancer. Advancing his anti-abortion but some critics fear it will laws protecting conscience and conscience protections Bennet, a former head of agenda, President Donald become a pretext for denying and religious rights. already on the books can’t Denver Public Schools who Trump on Thursday moved medical attention to LGBT Most of these laws and be ignored. has carved out a reputation to protect health care work- people or women seeking provisions address medical “We are giving these laws as a policy-oriented moder- ers who object to procedures abortions, a legal medical procedures such as abortion, life with this regulation,” ate, made his announcement like abortion on moral or procedure. sterilization and assisted sui- said Severino, saying it’s no on CBS’ “CBS This Morn- religious grounds. “Religious liberty is a fun- cide. The ultimate penalty different from civil rights ing,” saying the country Trump chose the National damental right, but it doesn’t can be loss of federal funding statutes enforced in daily life faces two “enormous chal- Day of Prayer to announce include the right to discrimi- for violations of conscience through government regula- lenges,” among others: “One the new regulation. nate or harm others. Denying or religious rights, but most tion and oversight. “It makes is the lack of economic mobil- “Just today we finalized patients health care is not cases are settled by making sure Congress’ protections ity and opportunity for most new protections of con- religious liberty,” Louise Mel- changes in practices and are not merely empty words Americans, and the other is science rights for physicians, ling, deputy legal director at procedures. on paper.” the need to restore integrity pharmacists, nurses, teach- the American Civil Liberties The rule makes no new Under the rule, clinicians to our government.” ers, students and faith-based Union, said in a statement. law and does not go beyond and institutions would not “I think we need to do both charities,” Trump told an The complex rule runs statutes passed under have to provide, participate of those things,” he said. interfaith audience in the more than 400 pages and administrations of both in, pay for, cover or make White House Rose Garden. requires hospitals, uni- political parties, said Roger referrals for procedures CINCINNATI “They’ve been wanting to versities, clinics and other Severino, head of the office they object to on moral or Attorneys: Opioid distribution do that for a long time.” institutions that receive that will enforce it at the religious grounds. data should be public Attorneys for news orga- nizations argued Thursday that the U.S. public should be allowed to see federal data States work to avoid undercount in 2020 census about how prescription opi- oids were distributed as the nation’s overdose crisis was By Michael R. Blood said, standing near rows of worsening. and Geoff Mulvihill computers that will be staffed They urged a three-judge The Associated Press by volunteers trying to con- panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit nect with prospective census Court of Appeals in Cincin- LOS ANGELES — In a squat participants. nati to overturn a lower court office building not far from Census Bureau chief Ron judge’s denial of access to the downtown, Esperanza Gue- Jarmin said the agency is legally information. The judges will vara is getting ready to look for barred from sharing its infor- rule later. people who might not want to mation with law enforcement “The value of transparency be found. And her job could get agencies, adding: “We are here is great,” said Karen a lot harder. committed to ensuring that C. Lefton, an Akron, Ohio, The immigrant-rights activ- Esperanza Guevara, with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the data we collect are always attorney representing The ist is leading a drive to reach left, snaps a picture in front of a census campaign poster of volunteers protected.” Washington Post. The data tens of thousands of people Angeles Rosales, second from left, Janet Mendez, right, and organizer The U.S. Supreme Court concerns “a public health who entered the United States Diana Escamilla on Friday at their offi ce in Los Angeles.