SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.50 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUNDAY Tough EDITION as nails Rountree Moore gives free Ed White manicures in exchange for knocks off donation to fight breast Looking cancer. for a Tigers 51-7 future 1D SEE SPORTS,1B 2A Tennis is TDC territory, says county manager Will instruct econ chief to turn project Economic Development Director asked him to take it on as a TDC Glenn Hunter to relinquish con- project. He said Ron Williams over to Tourist Development Council. trol of the project. agreed. Hunter said Friday he had “At this stage of the game, (the By SARAH LOFTUS should be turned over to the spoken to County Commission tennis project) lends itself more [email protected] Tourist Development Council, Chairman Ron Williams in toward the Tourist Development said County Manager Dale Williams’ role as chairman of the Dale Williams Hunter Plans for a tennis complex Williams, who said he will ask Tourist Development Council and TENNIS continued on 6A ‘Dirty’ Anne Scaff, trailblazer, Parent money speaks found philanthropist, dies at 77 out on in vault Left major mark on the charitable group community here. home By SARAH LOFTUS and EMILY BUCHANAN Cites concerns over medication, Lester and Anne Scaff, own- ers and founders of S&S Food injury, lost items. Stores, gave generously to caus- es throughout the community for By EMILY BUCHANAN decades, and earned a reputa- [email protected] tion for kindness INSIDE that remains A local mother became See obituary, unmatched. concerned with conditions Page 5A. But Lester at one of the recently-shut- Scaff says his tered group homes owned wife, who passed away at the age by Janice Summers after her of 77 Friday morning, deserves autistic child residing there most of the credit. was sent home with a tackle “She was the charitable one of box full of medications, she us,” he said. COURTESY said. COURTESY LCPD Scaff said it was a blessing his Lester and Anne Scaff are pictured in this file photo. Anne passed away Friday at The owner of the Hazmat teams were wife was no longer in pain and Haven Hospice of Lake City following a long illness. homes, Janice Harrell called to Columbia Bank knew she was in a better place, Summers, 63, was arrested Friday to remove contam- but wasn’t sure what he would do Wednesday on charges of inated currency. without her. We were joined together as one, failure to report suspected “I don’t really know how to and I found out what it was like child abuse and destroying Bank tellers describe this, but we were joined evidence after she ordered fall ill after together as one, and I found out an employee at Dogwood what it was like when you lose Group Home to disable the transaction. one,” he said. when you lose home’s surveillance cam- They were married for 54 and eras while the Columbia By EMILY BUCHANAN a half years and built a con- County Sheriff’s Office [email protected] venience-store empire in North was actively investigating Central Florida. Their holdings the one. claims another employee The Lake City include 45 convenience and gro- beat a child there with a Fire Department cery stores and two Wendy’s life. She took on numerous respon- man, said the Scaffs always said it belt, according to CCSO and Gainesville Fire franchises. The company has sibilities at Florida Gateway College wasn’t they who donated, it was their public information officer Department hazmat consistently been among Florida and Epiphany Catholic Church. customers and employees. Murray Smith. teams made an emer- Trend’s Top 200 privately-owned She was a member of Altrusa But Anne Scaff’s accomplishments All four group homes — gency withdrawal at a companies since 1999. International. With her husband, she aren’t what define her. It’s her kind, Dogwood Group Home, local bank Friday after Scaff passed away at Haven co-founded the S&S Charities Golf loving, giving nature and faith in God, Open Arms Group Home, several bank employ- Hospice of Lake City after a long Tournament and the Lester and Anne her marriage and her friends that Summers Group Home and ees became sick follow- battle with ataxia, a neurological Scaff Foundation, Inc. she’ll be remembered for. Open Heart Group Home ing transactions made disease that causes a lack of The couple donated more than $1 Anne Scaff made people feel spe- — were issued a 30-day by a customer, accord- voluntary muscle coordination, million through the years to Shands cial when she talked to them, friend no-cause termination order ing to a release from following a stroke. Children’s Miracle Network through the Lake City Police She accomplished a lot in her S&S. Keith Brown, an S&S spokes- SCAFF continued on 6A GROUP continued on 6A Department. At around 3 p.m., police said hazmat teams entered the Home2Suites to open in 2015 Columbia Bank, at 173 NW Hillsboro St., to 86-room hotel to Inn and Suites, Comfort structed in the 1990s and is retrieve money that had be built on site of Inn and Country Inn and a 60-bed hotel. been deposited after two Suites, announced Friday “Our plans are to demol- transactions from an Red Roof Inn. he’s bringing a new Hilton ish the Red Roof Inn early unnamed customer ear- Hotel to town. next year in January and lier that week. By TONY BRITT The new hotel will be a begin construction of the The bank contacted [email protected] Home2Suites by Hilton and new, four-story, 86-room the FBI after employ- the hotel will sit in the space hotel,” Patel said. “This is ees became ill, LCPD Lake City will be getting currently occupied by the the first time in the history said in the release. a new hotel and its owner Red Roof Inn on Florida of Lake City that an extend- Investigator David is hoping to have it up and Gateway Boulevard. The ed stay brand is being Greear identified and running by late 2015. Red Roof Inn building will built with a kitchen facility. spoke to the customer, Nick Patel, owner of be demolished to make We’re excited to add this COURTESY several Lake City hotels room for the new hotel. The Home2Suites set to open in Lake City in late 2015 will MONEY continued on 6A including the Hampton The Red Roof Inn was con- HOTEL continued on 6A be similar in appearance to this one. Vol. 140, No. 179 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER SCHOOLS SPORTS (386) 752-1293 Business . 1C Obituaries . 5A Bundy takes Tigers hold SUBSCRIBE TO the fear out of serve at Fort THE REPORTER: 90 63 Advice & Comics . 3D Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles . 2B science, 7A. White, 2B. Fax: 752-9400 Patchy fog, 8A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2014 Page Editor: Emily Lawson, 754-0424 Scripture of the Day “For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my sal- vation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. ” — Psalm 62:1-2, 5-6 Thought for Today At times our own light goes out and is rekin- dled by a spark from another person. 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AROUND FLORIDA Officers pepper spray women in hair weave melee ORLANDO South Florida hospital is examin- Teens charged with posting were a joke, another said and Medicare billing documents, rlando police officers ing its oldest patient. she was trying to get her school prescription medications, finan- used pepper spray on a The radiology team at St. making school threats on the news. cial records and computers. O crowd of women outside Mary’s Medical Center is run- a beauty supply store after the ning tests on a 2,100-year-old CORAL SPRINGS — Two medical clinics Man convicted of women started pushing and shov- mummy to figure out how she Authorities have arrested two ing in an attempt to get inside. died. teenage girls they say threat- target of fraud probe killing sister, parents Police officers were called to The mummified girl, thought ened to light fires and start a ST. AUGUSTINE — Authorities LAKE SARASOTA — A the Beauty Exchange store Friday to have been between 4 and shootout at two South Florida are investigating two north- 61-year-old man has been con- after a crowd outside the store 9 years old when she died, schools in social media posts.