1A FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JULY 5 & 6, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Bombs bursting in air July 5 First Friday First Friday at The Café, 281 N. Marion St., will feature jazz music by Lisa Straughter, Laverne Williams and Voice Productions. They will per- form from 6 to 10 p.m. Cost is $6 in advance or $8 at the door. Tickets are available at The Café, the Lifestyle Enrichment Center or by calling (407) 690-0776. Proceeds will be donated to the Lifestyle Enrichment Center. Art reception The Gateway Art Gallery, 461 SW Main Blvd., will have a wine and cheese recep- tion from 5:30 to 7 p.m. for July’s artist of the month, Terri Sherrod. Sherrod, now of Jacksonville, is a renowned photographer, who was born in Lake City, graduated from Columbia High School, and took her first photography class at Florida Gateway College. Community theater High Springs Community Theater will present the musical “Nunsense,” directed by Sue Addis, through July 7. This hilari- ous show’s premise is that Photos by JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter of a fundraiser by the Little A barrage of aerial bombs brightens the night sky during the fireworks show at the end of the Lake City Fourth of July Celebration on Thursday at the Sisters of Hoboken to raise Columbia County Fairgrounds. Showers dampened the event, but a crowd estimated at 25,000 still turned out for the traditional Independence Day gala. money to bury sisters acci- dentally poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia Community celebration dampened but not deterred (Child of God). Updated jokes, musical arrange- Fireworks display ments, and a brand new song spice up the action. goes as planned Performances will be despite weather. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Ticket are $15 for By DEREK GILLIAM adults, $9 for children 12 [email protected] and younger and seniors he show started on Sundays, $12. Tickets about 20 minutes are available online at high- early to beat the springscommunitytheater. rain that was com or in High Springs sweeping in from at Pampered Paws, (386) TGainesville. 454-4464; in Lake City at Bright, colorful explosions The Framery of Lake City, lit up the sky Thursday night (386) 754-2780, at 341 S. at the Columbia County Marion St., or at the theater Fairgrounds. 30 minutes before curtain. An estimated 25,000 High Springs Community people attended the annual Theater is at 130 NE First Lake City Fourth of July St. in High Springs. For Celebration. Dennille Decker, more information, visit Lake City-Columbia County highspringscommunity- Chamber of Commerce theater.com or call (386) 454-3525. Symphony Green, 1, sinks her teeth into a slice of Rhonda Land and James Rhoden dance while listening to FIREWORKS continued on 3A watermelon Thursday. music performed by the Just Maybe band on Thursday. July 6 Love Festival The 2013 Love Festival Blogger of Christ Ministries will be Prosecution’s case almost done at 10 a.m. at Richardson Community Center. There Forensic experts testify loses bid will be free food, games and activities for children. as Zimmerman trial to block For more information, continues in Sanford. call Loretta Reed at (386) 365-0115. judge By KYLE HIGHTOWER and Camp sign-up MIKE SCHNEIDER By ROBERT BRIDGES Sign-up for the second Associated Press [email protected] session of community day camp for children will be SANFORD — Prosecutors are The judge in a libel law- from 1 to 2 p.m. at the winding down their case in George suit against a local blogger Columbia County Library, Zimmerman’s murder trial after will continue to preside over 308 NW Columbia Ave. The presenting forensics evidence the case, despite a request session will run July 8 to and testimony aimed at refuting by one of the defendants 26, 8 a.m. to 12:23 p.m. and Zimmerman’s claim he was acting that he recuse himself. will be held at the Lake in self-defense when he fatally shot Third Circuit Judge Shore Hospital Authority. Trayvon Martin. ASSOCIATED PRESS Darren K. Jackson denied a Breakfast and lunch will It is still to be seen if they will call Florida Department of Law Enforcement crime laboratory analyst Anthony motion to disqualify himself be provided. Space is lim- one or both of Martin’s parents to Gorgone points at Trayvon Martin’s sweatshirt during the George Zimmerman in the case of Jack Berry vs. ited to 25 children, ages the witness stand to testify about trial in Seminole County circuit court in Sanford on Wednesday. Stewart Lilker and Barbara pre-kindergarten to grade whose voice is on 911 recordings Lemley because he found eight, plus 10 high school- of a fight between Zimmerman and the calls, while Zimmerman’s father tion. An FBI expert testified earlier Lilker’s motion legally age students. There is a $25 Martin that preceded the shooting. has said it is his son. The screams in the week that a person familiar insufficient. registration fee. For more Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton are crucial pieces of evidence with a voice is in the best position Jackson is the second information, call (386) and Tracy Martin, contend it is because they could determine who 697-6075. their 17-year-old son screaming on the aggressor was in the confronta- TRIAL continued on 3A BLOGGER continued on 3A Vol. 138, No. 373 People................. 2A CALL US: Opinion ............... 4A TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 92 71 PEOPLE SUNDAY SUBSCRIBE TO Thunderstorms Obituaries ............. 5A THE REPORTER: Advice & Comics ....... 4-5B A swinging Local news Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles ............... 4-5B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A good time. roundup. 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JULY 5 & 6, 2013 Celebrity Birthdays Thursday: Thursday: n Actress Katherine n Singer Huey Lewis is 63. 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