1A SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.50 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Space Night Set aside for 25: SUNDAY EDITION a big draw Time capsule at Summers. 3A loaded, sealed. 7A 3 killed in crash PCS DECODED A look behind the walls PATRICK SCOTT/Special to the Reporter FHP Trooper Mark Birchard speaks with MCpl. Linda Albriton at the scene of a fatal three-car crash off US 441 Friday. Couple, along with unborn son, perish. From staff reports A crash on US441 took three lives Friday, including the unborn child of the fatally-injured driver. Four others were hurt, three seriously. COURTESY PCS/ROB WOLFE Jennifer Lee Anne Duncan, 20, Lake City, and her boyfriend, Kenneth Patrick Pelletier, 21, Orlando, died in the crash, Plant changed Suwannee River Valley forever according to an FHP media release. Duncan was six months pregnant with a boy, the release said. By STEVEN RICHMOND seek an $800,000 bond issue Duncan had turned onto the south- [email protected] for civic and infrastructural bound lanes of US 441 at SW Catherine improvements in April of ‘65. Road in a 2008 Smart Passion at 1 p.m. rmand Hammer, “It’s been in a landmark when David Lee Huckaba, 29, Lake City, president and within the community,” “swerved back into the southbound lane” CEO of Occidental PotashCorp-White Springs behind her after passing a line of south- Petroleum Public Affairs Manager Mike bound traffic headed uphill. Corporation, dug Williams said. “Basically Huckaba’s 1994 Camaro struck the right Aa shovel into the earth of this was the first major mod- rear of Duncan’s Passion, a micro com- Hamilton County on Oct. 31, ern industry that came to pact vehicle, spinning it into the path of a 1964—the phosphate boom Hamilton County.” northbound 2004 Chevy Cavilier driven by had found its way to North PotashCorp of Matthew Keven Schroader, 36, Lake City. Florida. Saskatchewan, Inc. pur- The Cavalier struck the right side Residents of Hamilton, chased all outstanding of the Passion, ejecting Duncan and Suwannee and Columbia shares of White Springs Pelletier. FHP said they were not wear- counties now know that Agricultural Chemicals Ltd. ing seat belts. site to be the home of from Oxy for $291.5 million Schroader suffered serious injury, as PotashCorp-White Springs. and became the new manag- did passengers Charletta Willette Beasole, Occidental, or “Oxy,” ing company of the Hamilton 39, Lake City, and Sarah Schroader, 15. A developed that land into a COURTESY PCS County phosphate operation third passenger, Joshua Lee. 22, suffered $35 million phosphate min- in 1995. minor injuries. ing and processing opera- Occidental Petroleum CEO Armand Hammer is seen giving a However, PotashCorp ABOVE: The PotashCorp–White Springs All four were taken to Shands Health tion that was “expected to speech in the 1960s. announced Tuesday that it at UF. transform [the] economy of facility is seen at night. will close the doors to the None was wearing a seat belt, accord- Northeast Florida within the opened Suwannee River chemi- ing to FHP. decade,” according to the roughly the doors to its newly orga- cal plant, part of its White Huckaba, who was wearing a seat belt, Florida Journal of Commerce equates to $255,660,000 nized Chamber of Commerce Springs operation, by the was unhurt, an FHP media release said. in Dec. 1964. today. Dec. 18 the same year and second half of 2014. The Charges are pending investigation, To put that in perspective, The capital investment was spurred the Town of Jasper, FHP said. $35 million in 1964 dollars so large that White Springs Hamilton’s county seat, to PCS continued on 6A Hunter, Kraus seek District, teachers union at odds No. 2 job at county over state-mandated pay hikes From staff reports Manager and Interim As Lisa Roberts pre- Airport Manager of District wants to give workers, psychologist, pares to leave her position Leesburg, Economic non-instructional librarians, principals and as assistant county man- Stimulus Coordinator assistant principals are all ager of Columbia County, of Alachua County, City workers bonuses. eligible to receive funds 50 applicants have submit- Manager of Archer, Lake from the allocation— as ted their resumes for con- Park, Dade City and By AMANDA WILLIAMSON well as charter and virtual sideration. Wallace, N.C.; [email protected] teachers. According to current •Michael Brillhart— Locally, however, Columbia County Manager St. Lucie County After 34 school districts Doyle Huddleston Porter Columbia County did not Dale Williams, the field Strategy Director, City have finalized payments receive enough funds to should be narrowed and Administrator of Paris, for teacher pay raises, with the Every time we’ve cated $480 provide the full amount pro- finalists selected some- Ill.; Columbia County still approach lost money in the million to posed to all 720 teachers time by early January. •Torey Alston—Chief finds itself in the midst of the district fund the employed by the district. Williams said he and of Staff, Office of the negotiations between the wants to past, we walked away proposal, FDOE allocated $1,651,417 his staff will be looking Vice-Mayor and Office local school district and the use to dis- peacefully and said and told to Columbia, and $91,662 of for a candidate who could of Commissioner Albert county teachers union. tribute the we understand the districts to those funds will be sent to replace him once he Jones at the Broward The school board had d o l l a r s . district’s having a dif- negotiate area charter schools. Based retires in a few years. County Board of hoped to issue payments ... A lot of ficult financial time. the salary on those calculations, that Here are some notable Commissioners, State before the holiday break; d i s t r i c t s — Kevin Doyle, teachers increases will leave approximately applicants: of Florida Executive but according to School a r o u n d union president l o c a l l y . $2,166 for instructional per- •Glenn Hunter— Director Office of Superintendent Terry the state, According sonnel only without includ- President and GM of Efficient Government; Huddleston on Friday, an and I think to the ing benefits. If the district Hunter Printing and •Ronald Akins— agreement has not be made Columbia County as well, Florida Depart-ment of decides to spread the funds former Columbia County Alachua County between the two parties. want to give it to non- Education, the funds to non-instructional posi- School Board member; Administrative Support “I know it’s frustrating instructional personnel remain at a state level until tions, the amount will be •David Kraus— Manager; the teachers, especially too.” the district has submitted further reduced. Columbia County Safety •Loren Wickham— right here at the holidays,” In January 2013, Gov. a board-approved distribu- “No district, to my knowl- Manager, former man- City Planner of Nisswa, Representative Elizabeth Rick Scott announced a plan tion plan. The department edge, received enough ager, City of Lake City; Minn.; Porter (R-Lake City) said. to give every classroom continued by stating that to give $2,500 to every •James Douglas “From what I understand, teacher in Florida a $2,500 classroom teachers, guid- Drymon—Deputy City APPLICANTS continued on 6A the union doesn’t agree raise. The Legislature allo- ance counselors, social RAISES continued on 6A Vol. 139, No. 219 Opinion . 4A CALL US: COUNTY TODAY IN (386) 752-1293 Business . 1C 79 59 Calendar . 5A NEWS SPORTS SUBSCRIBE TO Partly cloudy THE REPORTER: Advice . 5D CCFD training Coach Allen offers Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 5B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 10A to expand, 8A. locker room insight. 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER SUNDAY REPORT SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2013 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 Friday: Friday: Saturday: Saturday: Wednesday: Wednesday: 11-12-28-30-14 6-9-25-32-34 Afternoon: 9-6-2 Afternoon: 3-3-9-6 2-6-10-32-41-46-x3 6-9-11-31-44-25 AROUND FLORIDA Police: Man left child in car outside strip club FORT MYERS pany, in which he has been Florida man a suspected silent partner. is facing The city’s no-bid, verbal child neglect agreement with Southland charges after The Towing Company, allegedly leav- which state records show Aing an infant in a locked the mayor once owned, car outside a Fort Myers filled police coffers with strip club. wads of cash from fines Police arrested 21-year- — funds controlled by the old Andrew Sosa after recently resigned police they found the infant in chief, a Marono ally. Some the back seat of a Kia of that cash, deposited into Optima in the parking lot a postal-type box inside of the Lookers strip club. the police department, was A bystander had flagged found to be missing. down an officer, who The arrangement also smashed a window to get gave Sweetwater and the child out. the towing company the NBC2 in Fort Myers opportunity to sell dozens reports that the four- of seized cars at auction. month old girl was sweat- And it gave some police ing and covered in vomit. officers the chance to take She was taken to a local joy rides in luxury vehi- children’s hospital and cles, including an ultra- treated for mild dehydra- sleek Porsche Panamera. tion and is expected to recover. Couple killed Police say the infant was left alone for more than crossing US 1 three hours while Sosa JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter MALABAR — was inside the strip club.