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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

* The FPL pumped water from Lake Desoto to their generator plant to
cool their machines, then returned the water to the lake.

* Two local citizens got into a fight in the Court House one day. One
ran outside and jumped into the lake and started swimming to the
other side. The other man chased him, pistol in hand, and started
shooting at the swimmer. He didn’t hit the swimmer but he shot the
man’s hat off and it floated alongside him as he swam.

A.K. Black provided a lot of public service to our community and also
preserved a lot of our local history in his 95 years on this earth.

SKIPPING AROUND

Congratulations to John and Kathleen Burns who recently celebrated
their 70th wedding anniversary. John was Lake City’s ‘Mr. State
Farm Insurance” for many years and his father, J.W. Burns, Sr., was
our longest serving school superintendent (22 years).

*Happy Birthday to J. Quinton Rumph (FWHS 1941), generous
benefactor to our school system, to the Advent Christian Village, and
to many other deserving institutions and individuals, whose birthday
was November 8.

Celeste Belvin Bradley was the first contracted and paid female
football coach in our county’s history. She coached at Richardson
Middle School in 2000-2001.

WISE WORDS

The CCA Lake City Corrections Facility, just east of town, prominently
displays this wise and compassionate message from Supreme Court
Justice Thurgood Marshall: “When the prison gates slam behind an
inmate, he does not lose his human quality; his mind does not
become closed to ideas; his yearning for self-respect does not end,
nor is his quest for self-realization concluded.”

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