Wishing you a happy and safe Easter LEESBURG, FLORIDA Sunday, April 20, 2014 www.dailycommercial.com SOFTBALL: Lake-Sumter State BOMB SCARE: Four suspicious College wraps up homestand, B1 packages detonated at Lowe’s, A3 Closing Boston amid bomber hunt was ‘tough’ BOB SALSBERG Associated Press BOSTON MARATHON BOSTON — Several WHEN: Monday at days after the Boston 9:32 a.m. (Women’s Marathon bombing, Elite) and 10 a.m. Gov. Deval Patrick re- (Men’s Elite) ceived a call in the pre- WHERE: Boston, Mass. dawn hours from a top WATCH: Universal aide telling him that Sports Network police officers outside LIVE STREAM: Watch- the city had just en- Live.BAA.org gaged in a ferocious gun battle with the two Shelter in place. men suspected of set- And for the better ting the bombs and BRETT LE BLANC / DAILY COMMERCIAL part of April 19, 2013, Chip Simpson, a 58-year-old salesman at Gator Harley-Davidson in Leesburg rearranges motorcycles on the showroom floor that one was dead and the other had fled. nearly everyone did. in preparation for BikeFest on Friday. John Malik Jr., owner of Gator Harley, said he expects to sell about 60 motorcycles On what otherwise over the BikeFest weekend. Within hours, Patrick shut down the region’s would be a normal LEESBURG public transportation weekday, people stayed system and made a re- home. Stores in Boston quest of more than 1 were shuttered, streets million greater Boston deserted and an eerie Sound of money residents: SEE HUNT | A2 For merchants, the roar of motorcycles means profit THERESA CAMPBELL and dance by the per capita AUSTIN FULLER | Staff Writers spending by out-of- [email protected] towners and applying hen 100,000 bik- a complex “multipli- ers and visi- er” that assumes every tors descend on dollar spent radiates W throughout the com- downtown Leesburg next week for the 18th munity. annual BikeFest, it will Lake County Eco- nomic Development be big and colorful and AP FILE PHOTO loud. Director Robert Chan- dler IV offered the Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says the decision to In other words, it lock down much of greater Boston during the search for won’t be everyone’s example of a biker spending money at a the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings ideal weekend along was a “tough call” but one he’s glad that was made. what is usually a qui- restaurant. The direct et stretch of Main Street benefit to the restau- known more for its rant multiplies as the TAVARES quaint brick cross- owners pay their sup- walks, soft background pliers and employees, who in turn spend their music and tortoise THERESA CAMPBELL / DAILY COMMERCIAL Dog mauled by bear is speed limit than for the extra income in the Joyce Huey of Two Old Hags shows the special red wine — Sweet community. thunder of Harleys. In- Ride — that was ordered with the Bikefest crowd in mind. deed, some of down- “So, every time it gets recovering, needs a home town Leesburg’s mer- to find a product niche BikeFest organizers re-spent, that’s called AUSTIN FULLER | Staff Writer She said a wound on chants will close shop that appeals to this and local economic de- the ripple effect, or the [email protected] the back of the dog’s multiplier, however you and leave town for the non-traditional cli- velopment experts esti- neck was original- want to say it. And then A plucky little dog event. entele, BikeFest is a mate the impact of the ly larger than a grape- what happens is, you that reportedly sur- But for merchants chance to stuff their three-event at roughly fruit, but it has since who are intrepid cash registers in a way $100 million, a number get a little leakage each vived a bear attack in time, which is why it late March is current- healed to about the enough to stay open that few other events they derive by multiply- size of a lemon. and creative enough can. ing the projected atten- SEE BIKEFEST | A2 ly up for adoption, ac- cording to Lake County The dog was picked Public Information Of- up as a stray by Lake MONEY ROLLING IN ficer Elisha Pappacoda. County animal con- Lake County officials estimate the total economic impact of BikeFest at roughly $100 million based on data “He went to a cou- trol officers in the Oca- gathered from the 2012 BikeFest TouchPoll of South Florida survey. Among the findings of the survey: ple of vets and I think la National Forest. they weren’t sure ex- He is currently being actly what happened taken care of by Whit- to him, but the last vet ney Luckhart, a volun- $987.17 $173 $140 43% 21% 14% teer with Lake County Average Average spent Average spent Merchants who Merchants Merchants said ‘bear attack.’ She said definitively it was Animal Services, Pap- expenditure on food and on gifts and close during reporting no reporting a pacoda said earlier in a per visitor drinks merchandise BikeFest negative impact negative impact a bear attack,” Pap- pacoda said. SEE DOG | A2 INDEX DIVERSIONS E5 OBITUARIES A4 Vol. 138 LEGALS C6 SPORTS B1 TODAY’S WEATHER CLASSIFIED C5 No. 110 $1 BUSINESS E1 VOICES C1 Detailed forecast 78˚/60˚ COMICS INSIDE 5 sections CROSSWORDS C5 CRUISIN’ C3 STATE/REGION A3 on page A8. Sun and some clouds. 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CASH 3 ...............................................3-8-0 we made it,” Patrick reflected He learned that the earlier Afternoon ............................................5-5-1 during a recent interview about shooting of Massachusetts In- PLAY 4 .............................................5-0-1-1 the anniversary of the bombing. stitute of Technology police offi- Afternoon .......................................9-9-2-2 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, it turned cer Sean Collier and a carjacking out, would not be captured un- in Cambridge were believed to be APRIL 18 til shortly after the shelter-in- linked to the bombing suspects FANTASY 5 ......................... 13-22-25-31-36 place request was lifted some as well. And other information, MEGA MONEY .................... 23-27-39-43-10 alarming though later unsubstan- 12 hours later. He was found in MEGA MILLIONS .............. 18-25-38-45-63-9 a boat, behind a home in Water- tiated, kept pouring in: One report town, a Boston suburb, blocks of a taxi going from Watertown to from where his older brother, Ta- Boston’s South Station just before merlan Tsarnaev, had died after the first scheduled train of the day PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LAKE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER to New York City; another that fed- THE NEWSPAPER OF CHOICE FOR LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES SINCE 1875 the earlier shootout. The home- The Daily Commercial (ISSN 0896-1042) is published daily for Percival was mauled by a bear but is recovering owner had ventured outside to eral agents had chased a person $90.74 per year (plus Florida sales tax) by Halifax Media Group through the Lake County Animal Shelter. matching the suspect’s descrip- at 212 East Main Street, Leesburg, Florida. Periodicals postage is check on his boat and, upon no- paid at the USPO, Leesburg, FL. POSTMASTER: Send all address ticing the cover amiss, peered in tion in South Boston. changes to The Daily Commercial, P.O. Box 490007, Leesburg, FL Patrick concluded that the sus- 34749-0007. All material contained in this edition is property of DOG and saw the bloodied teenager. The Daily Commercial and is protected under the copyright laws of pect could have already moved the United States of America. Reproduction is forbidden without That the population of greater written consent from the publisher. FROM PAGE A1 far from Watertown, necessitat- Boston overwhelmingly agreed ing a broader lockdown. MISSED YOUR NEWSPAPER? HOW TO REACH US press release. to shelter in place — it was not “So there was all this other REDELIVERY NOT AVAILABLE IN “In addition to the enormous crater mandatory — and that there was stuff happening and the ques- ALTOONA OR SUMTER little second-guessing despite 365-8200 in his back, he had hemorrhaging be- tion then was, How do you surgi- Call 352-787-0600 in Lake In Sumter County: the inconvenience and disrup- County or 877-702-0600 in 877-702-0600 hind his eye,” Luckhart said. “He was cally shut down (public transpor- Sumter County 6 a.m. to 10 hosting thousands of ticks but always tion of commerce it caused, was tation) in and out of Boston? It’s a.m. Monday through Friday. Call ADVERTISING viewed as a reflection of the anx- 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturday maintained a pleasant demeanor. He impossible to do.