1A SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM ‘Sweet Tweets’ Lake City a stop SUNDAY EDITION from Terri at on cross-country new shop. 1C fundraising tour. 1D Body found in Officials: Springs money burning pickup too little for work needed Lake City man discovered dead after fire put out. By AMANDA WILLIAMSON [email protected] A Lake City man was found dead in a burning truck on Southwest Cypress Lake Road early Thursday morning. According to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, the Columbia County Fire Department and CCSO arrived at 3198 SW Cypress Lake Road at about 4 a.m. to find a white, four-door Chevrolet pickup on fire near the road. After the fire was extinguished, deputies discovered a single male occupant, Jason Lang, deceased in the truck. Lang, 36, was a life- long resident of Lake City. According to his obitu- ary, he graduated from Columbia High School in FILE 1994, attended Anderson A child paddles through the Ichetucknee Springs head. Area officials are hoping to get some of the $10 million appropriated by the state Legislature for College in South Carolina springs protection projects in 2013-14 to reduce nitrate pollution in the Ichetucknee’s water, but advocates for many other springs around the state are in 2000 and was working seeking shares of the money, too. at PCS in White Springs. He formerly was employed as a teacher at Richardson Middle School. Scramble under way for shares of $10M pot At this time, there is no indication of foul play, said other pollutants. right direction.” purse strings. Sgt. Ed Seifert, CCSO pub- Local leaders despair Silver Springs, The Suwannee Dr. Anne lic information officer. The that money will go once clear, has River Water Shortelle, direc- death is being investigated become matted M a n a g e m e n t tor of the water as accidental by detectives to projects elsewhere. with algae. D i s t r i c t management dis- from CCSO and the state By AMANDA WILLIAMSON “Ten million a p p r o a c h e d trict, said her dis- Fire Marshal’s Office. [email protected] dollars sounds the Lake City- trict aims to get An autopsy was conduct- Dean like a lot of money. Porter Columbia County Foreman part of the $10 ed Friday, and the results Florida lawmakers allocated But when you see Chamber of million to help will be made available once $10 million to springs protection the needs of our local springs, Commerce, The Ichetucknee renovate a Lake City spray field for the 2013-14 fiscal year, but it’s not going to go very far,” said Partnership and Columbia County that sits inside the Ichetucknee FIRE continued on 3A according to local scientists and Chris Bird, director of the Alachua Commissioners about supporting Trace. activists, it isn’t enough. County Environmental Protection a water quality project for the “What we’re proposing, if we Florida’s freshwater springs are Department. “You could easily Ichetucknee. The chamber par- get the money, is to change that dying. White Springs dried up, spend all that money on trying ticipated in the campaign by draft- sprayfield into wetland treat- 2 dead and the Ichetucknee River snakes to help the Ichetucknee, and not ing a letter to send to the state ment,” she said. “There’s no through Florida’s rural country- be done… But it’s important to Department of Environmental in Calif. side, contaminated by nitrates and understand that it is a step in the Protection, which controls the SPRINGS continued on 3A jetliner Two die crash in Baker By JOAN LOWY and TERRY COLLINS accident Associated Press By AMANDA WILLIAMSON SAN FRANCISCO — [email protected] An Asiana Airlines flight packed with more than 300 Two Lake City motor- people slammed into the ists were involved in a two- runway while landing at San v e h i c l e Francisco airport Saturday wreck at and caught fire, forcing the Inter- many to escape by sliding s t a t e 1 0 down the emergency inflat- i n t e r - able slides as flames tore c h a n g e through the plane. with U.S. At least two people died 90 on in the crash, authorities F r i d a y , Anne Ratliff said. One person was unac- l e a v i n g counted for and another 181 the two people were taken to hos- individu- pitals, most of them with als dead minor injuries. and their As the plane approached 3-year-old the runway from the waters grandson of San Francisco Bay injured. around noon, travelers in TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter Richard Richard Ratliff the terminals and others O w e n eyewitnesses could see Storm damage Ratliff, 60, and passenger that the aircraft was sway- Anne Rykard Ratliff, 58, A tobacco warehouse at the intersection of Washington Street and Lake Jeffery Road sustained damage to its roof dur- PLANE continued on 3A ing a Friday afternoon thunderstorm. 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Fireworks dispute child in the surf Thursday Emergency officials lands man in jail night during the July 4th from Pensacola to Panama fireworks display. City encouraged residents GAINESVILLE The boy was unrespon- to stay off water-clogged — Police say a 62-year-old sive when he was found, roads following days of Gainesville man is in jail but rescue crews revived heavy rain. Forecasters following a dispute with him. Marris says the child called for more rain neighbors over Fourth of was breathing and con- through the next several July fireworks. scious when he was taken days. Authorities say Marc to Halifax Health Medical In Walton County, a Levy yelled at his neigh- Center in Daytona Beach. dike break caused the bors Thursday night over Marris says the family U.S. Coast Guard to close their use of fireworks. had come to the beach to a four-mile section of the Neighbors told police watch the fireworks and Intracoastal Waterway Levy went into his apart- noticed the child missing a between Choctawatchee ment and returned with an short time later. Bay and West Bay late AR-15-style airsoft rifle. Thursday. Police say Levy waved Coast Guard officials DEREK GILLIAM/Lake City Reporter the gun in the air, then Dog trapped say they received a call pointed it at two adults and by car axle from boaters Thursday Anthem singer a 2-year-old child. DANIA BEACH afternoon reporting that Caitlyn Morgan Frisina, 13, sings the national anthem at Tuesday night’s Columbia County When Officer Crystal the dike had given way at Castor arrived, she found — South Florida firefight- Commission meeting. Commissioner Scarlet Frisina, Caitlyn’s mother, said her daughter ers came to the rescue of mile marker 263 between started singing in the fourth grade at Columbia City Elementary and has been in the choir Levy sitting on his front Panama City and Destin. a dog that traveled 5 miles every year since. Caitlyn will be an eighth-grader at Fort White Middle School next fall. porch with his arms The Coast Guard said behind his back. She while trapped under the Friday afternoon that the ordered him to show his hood of a car. Intercostal Waterway Thunderstorms caused the park service said pound aluminum chicken hands several times before The Broward Sheriff’s between mile marker periodic power outages campers who are already from a home in Putnam he complied. Office says firefighters 262 to mile marker 266 in the Pensacola area on set up at the campground County on Tuesday. They He remained in jail with- were called Thursday in Walton County would Friday and many down- and those who have exist- hooked it to a Chevrolet out bail Friday morning, afternoon to Dania Beach remain closed until work- town roads had standing ing reservations would be truck and dragged it a charged with aggravated to free the dog. The animal had been trapped between ers could take care of the water. allowed access to the park. mile down the road. The assault, child abuse and the car’s axle and steering broken dike. The National Park Park officials said the road owner of the bird told resisting an officer. The Walton County Service closed Fort would be closed to other deputies he saw one of the mechanism. Commission held a special Pickens Road, a scenic visitors. thieves mount the bird and A sheriff’s office spokes- meeting Friday morning roadway that runs through ride it.