1A WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28-29, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Teacher faces Globe-trotting auto theft Tough Enough Tough Enough To Wear charge Pink Golf Tournament to benefit Tough Enough To Was suspended Wear Pink crisis fund and without pay by the residents of Columbia and surrounding coun- school board. ties will be held at Quail Heights Country Club on By LAURA HAMPSON Sept. 29. Sponsor or player [email protected] brochures are available at the Fair Office or download An elementary school application on our website teacher was suspended at www.columbiacountyfair. without pay after being org. For more information arrested this month on a call 752-8822. charge of v e h i c l e theft. Kamrie benefit Virginia Friends and family of R u t h Kamrie Mitchell will have Ferguson, a benefit 11 a.m. Saturday 59, of Lake next to Office Max on City was Ferguson U.S. 90 in Lake City. All a r r e s t e d proceeds go directly to Sept. 7 on a the family to help aid in third-degree felony charge locating Kamrie and bring of grand theft of a motor her home. There will be JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter vehicle. a barbecue dinner, a rum- Former Harlem Globetrotter Michael Douglas reacts after successfully transferring a spinning basketball onto the finger Before her arrest, mage sale, photography, of Columbia High School freshman Kelsey Gonzalez, 14, Thursday. Douglas came to speak to more than 400 CHS stu- Ferguson was a Exceptional bounce houses, raffle dents to motivate them to aim high, never give up on their dreams and to keep learning. ‘Keep your mind open to learn Student Education teacher drawings, face painting and new things,’ he said. ‘The smarter you are, the more valuable you are.’ at Westside Elementary more. A Zumba class starts School. She is certified until at 10 a.m. Bring the kids. 2016 to teach early child- Admission is $7 per per- hood education, elementa- son, including dinner. Ex-Harlem Globetrotter, now ry education and emotion- ally handicapped education, according to the Florida Department of Education. Fall festival a Harlem Legend, visits CHS TEACHER continued on 5A Westside Elementary’s ‘Keep your mind went out, got a book and I learned Douglas gave a basketball- Fall Festival will be how to speak some Japanese,” infused motivational speech Saturday, Sept. 29 from 3 open to learn,’ Douglas said Thursday. Thursday afternoon to about 400 to 8 p.m. with activities for students are told. “Keep your mind open to learn- Columbia High School students. Sexual the whole family, including ing new things. Because I could Students jumped at the chance corn hole toss, minute to speak those languages I was the to learn tricks from Douglas and By LAURA HAMPSON win it, sponge toss, frisbee designated Globetrotter to do all shoot free-throws. Some took offender [email protected] toss, face painting, cupcake the interviews,” he said. home prizes, including a signed walk, bounce houses and raveling the world At the end of the tour and after basketball. assaulted a dunking machine. There with the Harlem learning several languages, man- Douglas is in the area for will also be a fun run at Globetrotters, Michael agement paid him extra just for Saturday’s celebrity basketball local teen, 2:30 p.m. Douglas faced fans being able to communicate and show in Live Oak featuring the asking for autographs keep the Globetrotter brand alive. Harlem Legends taking on five say police Tin foreign languages. “I didn’t “The smarter you are the more Walk 4 Life know what they were saying but I valuable you are,” he said. LEGENDS continued on 5A From staff reports Pregnancy Care Center of Lake City will host the Local authorities arrested Annual Walk 4 Life event a convicted sexual offender on Sept. 29 at Olustee Park Trash transition a from Arkansas Wednesday with registration starting at night for 8 a.m. Events in Lake City a l l e g e d l y and Live Oak will be chal- s e x u a l l y lenging each other to reach bit shaky for some assaulting a or exceed the $25,000 goal. 17-year-old You may register online By TONY BRITT day,” said Jason Dumas, customer Columbia at www.facebookpcc.com [email protected] service manager for the City of County girl or www.friendsofpcc.com. Lake City. “Waste Pro is the new he met on Registration forms may The transition to a new solid contractor that we’re going to have an Internet Swanson also be picked up at both waste collection vendor for the City and they in the process of putting chat line. Pregnancy Care Centers. of Lake City is proving to be a bit new cans out.” “Deputies were notified troublesome after the vendor of the Several residents have called city by the victim’s father that BC fundraiser past 10 years removed residential officials asking what should they do his daughter may have had trash carts before new replacment because their trash cart has been sexual conduct with the sus- The Columbia County carts were distributed. taken away. pect,” said Sgt. Ed Seifert, Chapter of Bethune “The contract with Republic Dumas said he has fielded Columbia County Sheriff’s Cookman University will Services expires Sept. 30 and they about 20 calls from residents since COURTESY Office public informa- have a fish dinner sale and are currently picking up their trash The new receptacles should be in car wash on Saturday, Sept. cans on their last trash collection TRASH continued on 5A place by Sunday, city officials say. OFFENDER continued on 5A 29 starting at 11 a.m. at the corner of Wilson Street and Lake Jeffery Road near the Amtrack Station. Fish dinners will be $7.50 Flood Jam nets $60K including a drink. The car wash is by donation. for TS Debby victims Orders of five or more can be delivered. Call 752-7054. From staff reports “We are blessed to have so Farmers market The Suwannee Valley Flood many able and willing partners Jam, held August 16-18 at the in our community who came The Lake DeSoto Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park together for such a great cause,” Farmers Market is open in Live Oak, netted more than said Spirit of the Suwannee every Saturday from 8 a.m. $60,000 for victims of Tropical Music Park President/CEO to noon in Wilson Park Storm Debbie in Columbia and James Cornett, who was unable located along Lake DeSoto COURTESY Suwannee counties. to be present for the check pre- between the Columbia From left are Flood Jam promoter Paul Levine, United Way of Suwannee Valley Columbia County Long Term Recovery Secretary Debby Freeman, United Way of Suwannee Valley Two checks of $30,036 each sentation. “We are very pleased County Courthouse and Columbia County Long Term Recovery Coordinator Jenn Sawyer, Steve Briscoe of 1st were presented to Love INC of to have been a part of this Shands Lakeshore Hospital Street Music and Sound Company, United Way Executive Director Rita Dopp, Spirit of Suwannee County and United effort, and we appreciate the in downtown Lake City. the Suwannee Music Park Marketing Director Teena Peavey (making the check presenta- Way of Suwannee Valley at the opportunity to help fellow North The market is a regional tions), Love INC Executive Director Lisa A. Kriehn and the Rev. Arnold Philmore, Love INC Spirit on Sept. 20. Floridians.” favorite. Suwannee County Long Term Recovery Committee Vice-Chairman. Vol. 138, No. 173 Opinion ............... 4A CALL US: People................. 5A TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 87 66 PEOPLE SUNDAY SUBSCRIBE TO Partly cloudy Obituaries ............. 5A THE REPORTER: Advice & Comics ....... 6-7B ‘Homeland’ Local news Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles ............... 6-7B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A hauls in Emmys. roundup. 2A 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28-29, 2012 Celebrity Birthdays n Actress Brigitte Bardot is n Actress-comedian Thursday: Thursday: 78. Janeane Garofalo is 48. n Singer Ben E. King is 74. n Actress Mira Sorvino is 45. Afternoon: 9-1-1 Afternoon: 0-9-4-5 Wednesday: n n Evening: N/A Evening: N/A Singer Helen Shapiro is TV personality Moon 10-20-24-27-32 66. Zappa is 45. n Movie writer-director-actor n Actress Naomi Watts is 44. John Sayles is 62. n Rapper Young Jeezy is 35. n Actress Sylvia Kristel is 60. n World Golf Hall of Famer PEOPLE IN THE NEWS n Rock musician George Se Ri Pak is 35. Lynch is 58. n Actress Hilary Duff is 25. Daily Scripture Lewis: Appealing terrorist on ‘Homeland’ “But seek first his kingdom and his NEW YORK righteousness, and all these things will t could be, no TV drama has ever given viewers such a be given to you as well.” damaged pair of protago- – Matthew 6:33 nists as Brody and Carrie on “Homeland.” Thought for Today IMarine Sgt. Nicholas Brody was a prisoner of war in Afghanistan “Sometimes I think we Americans who returned home a national hero are the loneliest people in the world. — and, covertly, a terrorist turncoat (having been turned by Al-Qaida To be sure, we hunger for the power during his 8-year imprisonment). of affection, the self-acceptance that Carrie Mathison was a CIA agent whose obsessive inability to prove gives life. It is the oldest and strongest Brody’s betrayal, coupled with her hunger in the world.