JAX JAGUARS GO BIG WITH BORTLES, SPORTS B1 LEESBURG, FLORIDA Saturday, May 10, 2014 www.dailycommercial.com LAWSUIT: Despite will of voters, legislators NATO: As Russia rises, coalition drew state districts favoring incumbents, A3 has to decide next steps, A6 LEESBURG Ladder now the focus in tragic pool drowning MILLARD K. IVES | Staff Writer able to climb the pool’s [email protected] ladder and ended up in the water. Noticing his Detectives preparing sister was in “distress,” a case for the State At- the boy ran to another torney’s Office are try- nearby home for help. ing to determine how The girl was taken a ladder was situated to Leesburg Regional on an above-ground Medical Center, where swimming pool where a she was pronounced 3-year-old girl drowned dead. last month while her Police said the moth- BRETT LE BLANC / DAILY COMMERCIAL mother slept. er, who was sleeping at Lake County Fire Rescue workers in Clermont are stationed in the Value Place hotel off State Road 50 on Wednesday. Jayonna Brown and the time of the drown- her 4-year-old brother ing, awoke after hear- CLERMONT apparently snuck out of ing the commotion of their house on Bonaire the emergency vehi- Drive on April 24 and cles responding to the went two doors down, New home found for firefighters scene. where neighbors had Capt. Rob Hicks, po- a pool in an unfenced lice spokesman, would LIVI STANFORD | Staff Writer HARTLE ROAD EXTENSION the engineer for the site design backyard. With nobody [email protected] The Lake County Commission has agreed to extend and right of way acquisition is home, Jayonna was SEE POOL | A2 Hartle Road, which will allow Senniger Irrigation to a plus for all parties involved, lans to relocate six Lake expand, while the company will donate land for a said Paul Simmons, the coun- County Fire Rescue Sta- new fire station. ty’s economic development and tion 90 firefighters serv- 455 P 50 tourism coordinator. TAVARES N ing on rotating shifts out of the “It is a win-win with econom- Value Place Hotel off of State ic development side by side Road 50 in Clermont are inch- supporting this business in line Internet cafe raid last Hartle Rd. ing forward. with expansion and increas- Senninger Inc., a compa- ing safety for their employees,” ny which manufactures prod- SENNINGER IRRIGATION Simmons said. month nets first arrest ucts for agricultural irrigation, James Burks, president of is entering into an agreement Senninger Inc., said the part- MILLARD K. IVES | Staff Writer after offi- to donate a parcel of land for a [email protected] PROPOSED nership is a creative way to cials said modular fire station on its site FIRE STATION meet both the needs of private they seized located at 16220 SR 50 in ex- industry and the county. The State Attorney’s 33 gam- change for the first section of “We do have a mutual benefit Office reported its first ing ma- COUNTY ROAD arrest in Lake Coun- the realignment of Hartle Road 455/HARTLE JOHNS and interest to see the county chines and to be completed. ROAD EXTENSION LAKE grow, and the county recogniz- ty stemming from the KUCHAREK more than The extension of Hartle Road es the need to see us grow,” he April raid of five alleged $7,000 in the back of the company’s WHITNEY WILLARD / STAFF GRAPHIC said. “It is a great opportunity gaming houses here from the operation. property would give Senninger in the company’s hesitancy to for us to work together and im- during a statewide law He was released from employees safer access to a traf- expand because of safety con- prove that infrastructure.” enforcement operation. the Lake County jail af- fic light at the end of the road. cerns for employees entering Once the road is extended, David Paul Kucharek, ter posting a $4,000 Currently, all westbound traf- and exiting the property, coun- giving employees another alter- 58, alleged operator of bond. fic on SR 50 leaving and enter- ty officials said. native to a light at SR 50, Burks P.J.’s on County Road Kucharek, of Cler- ing Senninger must cross three As a result, the Lake County said it would enable him to ex- 561 in Astatula, was mont, faces five years in lanes of traffic. Commission’s unanimous vote pand the building’s footprint charged Wednesday prison on the charges, At the intersection of Gran- Tuesday to move forward with by 64,000 square feet result- with possession of a slot according to an official ville and SR 50, there have been an agreement with the com- ing in the creation of more high machine and maintain- with the 5th Judicial six collision accidents, resulting pany and begin working with SEE STATION | A2 ing a gambling house, SEE CAFE | A2 Putin hails ‘return’ of Crimea; fighting kills 7 in Ukraine VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and IVAN SEKRETAREV forces, fatal fighting broke out an port of Sevastopol, where Associated Press in the city of Mariupol as a po- Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is SEVASTOPOL, Crimea — lice station was set ablaze. The based, was strongly criticized Presiding over a triumphant Associated Press saw at least by both NATO and Ukraine’s spectacle of warships and seven dead and Ukraine’s In- Foreign Ministry, which said fighter jets, President Vladi- terior Minister said around 20 it trampled on Ukraine’s sov- mir Putin hailed the return of “terrorists” and one police- ereignty and international Crimea to Russia as the res- man were killed. law. toration of “historic justice” Russia’s annexation of Ukraine is struggling with before a jubilant, welcoming Crimea in March, a few weeks its most serious crisis in de- crowd Friday on the holiday after Ukraine’s president was cades as insurgents in the east that Russians hold dearest. toppled and fled to Russia, are grabbing buildings and In Ukraine’s east, where was a key event in Ukrainian’s territory, fighting the central pro-Russia insurgents have months-long crisis, which has government and preparing to IVAN SEKRETAREV / AP seized government buildings now descended into violence. hold a referendum Sunday on Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a parade marking the Victory and fought with Ukrainian Putin’s visit to the Crime- SEE UKRAINE | A2 Day in Sevastopol, Crimea, on Friday. 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Hicks added FLORIDA FROM PAGE A1 there was no requirement for the pool to be fenced not say if the children in or covered, per Florida LOTTERY had been in the backyard Statue 515.29, because the MAY 9 before, if Jayonna climbed height of the pool acted as in the pool or fell in, how its own barrier. CASH 3 ...............................................0-9-4 far the girl’s brother made “The pool in question is Afternoon ..........................................2-3-9 it into the pool or other 4 feet high and, therefore, PLAY 4 .............................................3-7-0-0 details. in compliance with state Afternoon .......................................2-8-1-3 MILLARD K. IVES / DAILY COMMERCIAL However, Hicks did say law,” said Hicks. “Part of MAY 8 Jayonna Brown and her 4-year-old brother apparently snuck detectives are trying to de- the investigation is an at- out of their house on Bonaire Drive on April 24 and went two termine if the ladder was tempt to determine where FANTASY 5 ........................... 6-14-18-20-25 doors down, where neighbors had this pool in an unfenced “capable of being secured, the ladder was prior to and backyard. locked or removed to pre- during the incident.” THE NEWSPAPER OF CHOICE FOR LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES SINCE 1875 STATION The Daily Commercial (ISSN 0896-1042) is published daily for $90.74 per year (plus Florida sales tax) by Halifax Media Group FROM PAGE A1 at 212 East Main Street, Leesburg, Florida. Periodicals postage is paid at the USPO, Leesburg, FL. POSTMASTER: Send all address changes to The Daily Commercial, P.O. Box 490007, Leesburg, FL 34749-0007. 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