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NWW.TUMHASSEE.COm Tallahassee Democrat 'Tuesday, December 4, 20073A CONTACT US Rebeccah Cantley, local desk editor: 599-2391 or rcantleytallahassee.com Byron Dobson, metro editor: 599-2256 or bdobsontallahassee.com Jeff Burlew, assistant metro editor: 599-2180 orjburlewtallahassee.com iVIissoog woman's vehicle Dunlap last seen on Saturday to teach her Sunday school class nor did she show up to work at her state job Monday morning in Tallahassee. "This is atypical behavior for her," said Maj. Maurice Langston, spokesman for the Sheriffs Office. Her car was found aban- on Sunday. Cheryl Hodges Dunlap, 46, was last seen in her Crawfordville home Saturday morning.

She has brown hair and brown eyes. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall. Deputies were alerted after she did not show up at church Cheryl Hodges By Jennifer Jefferson and Tabltha Yang DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITERS The Wakulla County Sheriffs Office is looking for a Crawfordville woman who didn't show up for work on Monday after missing her church duties Family struggled to help found dead in Tom Brown Park FROM AROUND THE BIG BEND TALLAHASSEE Local TV producer wins Suncoast Emmy Thomas Bronakoski, a producer for the city of Tallahassee, won his first Emmy during Saturday's prestigious Suncoast Emmy Awards. The Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, gives annual Emmys to television markets throughout the southeast and Puerto Rico. Bronakoski, 44, won in the "PublicCurrentCommunity Affairs Special" category for his documentary "Tallahassee Matters DUI Prevention." The hour-long video offers a look into how families on both sides of a DUI-re-lated crash are affected.

A nine-minute version was posted on YouTube, generating more than 13,000 hits. Nationally, law-enforcement agencies have requested both versions, and the state has approved the video to be used in mandatory DUI classes. Man Injured in 1-10 crash: A Louisiana man was seriously injured in a crash that occurred early Monday morning on Interstate 10 in Leon County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Joshua Galjour, 28, of Larose, was driving west on the outside eastbound lane of 1-10 and collided with Leah Robertson, 26, of Tallahassee, who was driving east in the same lane. Galjour was seriously injured and was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.

FHP has determined that alcohol was not a factor in the crash. Tropical Smoothie robbed: The Tropical Smoothie on the 3800 block of North Monroe Street was robbed at gunpoint around 7:20 p.m. Monday, according to the Leon County Sheriffs Office. A man entered the store, pulled out a gun and demanded cash. The clerk gave him some, and he left.

No detailed description of the robber is available. Anyone with information should call the Leon County Sheriffs Office at 922-3300 or Crime Stoppers at 574-8477. FORT LAUDERDALE Suspect in fatal deputy shooting pleads not guilty: A man pleaded not guilty Monday to fatally shooting a Broward County sheriffs deputy who was transporting him to a court appearance. Michael Mazza, 41, pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, carjacking, escape and armed robbery in the death of Deputy Paul Rein. A grand jury indicted Mazza on the charges last week.

Mazza is charged with killing Deputy Paul Rein, 76, with the officer's own firearm on Nov. 7. -h'KWf I H. i i i ILjii muml pened to Dunlap, Langston said the investigation was new and he refused to comment further. Anyone with information about her whereabouts, should call Capt.

Randall Taylor or investigator Scott Delbeatto at 926-0800. Contact Reporter Tabitha Yang at (850) 599-2304 or tyang tallahassee.com. MMAOOBlrK vONDl Special to the Democrat FSU professor creates magic in fictional character By Angeline J. Taylor DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER He is 243 years old, and he's inspired the likes of Winston Churchill, Helen Keller, Elvis and Claude Monet. He is Edward Magorium a fictional centenarian who came to life on the big screen in the movie "Mr.

Magorium's Wonder Emporium" starring Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Port-man. But the Baggott movie doesn't relay Magorium's life since birth. To take part in that historically-fictional ride complete with such notables as Gandhi and the Wright Brothers, one would need to read the novel by one of Tallahassee's own Florida State University assistant professor Julianna Baggott. Baggott was asked by a film executive to write the novel, "The Amazing Compendium of Edward as a prequel to the movie. "The story was a story that could have come from my imagination," Baggott said.

"It was so magical, in complete keeping with the kinds of books I write for kids." Baggott wrote the 150-page novel using her pen name: N.E. Bode. She's written 16 books seven of which are novels for younger readers. But Baggott had some challenges in writing the prequel. She originally believed she would be given a plot for the story.

Instead, she got a paragraph detailing what must be in the novel which led her to come up with a quirky idea. "I would take away the expectation of plot," she said. "I made it an index of all these different kinds of little adventures and then I'd kind of sneak plot into it." One such adventure involves Magorium advising Paris painter Monet. "I just put him (Magorium) in contact with every famous person that he could have possibly come into contact with throughout history," she said. "Monet was drawing blurry pic-Please see BAGGOTT, 5A T-- ft Li 1 By Nic Corbett DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER Since William "Billy'' Royce developed paranoid schizophrenia in his-mid 20s, his family had been trying to get him help, but they did not know how.

"There's no cure for it, and it got progressively worse, and there would be periods of time where he would just go completely out of reality," his father, Chuck Royce, 68, said. Billy Royce, 35, was found dead in a shack near Tom Brown Park Nov. 16. His father and stepmother said they knew he needed to be institutionalized, but they wished there was a halfway house in Tallahassee where he could have gotten help until then. "He would get arrested, he would go inside the Leon County Jail, they'd give him his medicine, he'd come out and for some time he'd be OK, and then he'd revert back to the same, being homeless and not working," Sherrie Royce said.

Circuit Court Judge Jonathan Sjostrom said the county has applied for a grant to create a mental health court to connect people with mental health issues to services they need. "The mentally ill are arrested repetitively, they're expensive to jails and they cannot be treated effectively or humanely in the county jail in many circumstances," Sjostrom said. The shack was a familiar haunt for Billy Royce from his years at Lincoln High School when students would go there to play hooky. It appears that Royce had been living there. Tallahassee police are awaiting toxicology reports to determine his cause of death, spokesman David McCranie said.

Foul play is not suspected. "He told me once in conversation he'd rather live in a tent than be a burden to somebody," Chuck Royce said. "I'd say, 'You're my son. You're not a The last time Chuck Royce saw his son was about a month ago, when doned on U.S. 319 just north of the Wakulla County line.

It is being exam ined by deputies. Langston Dunlap did not know if Dunlap was married or if she lived alone. When asked what the Sheriffs Office thought had hap- son CANNON Special to the Democrat dead on Nov. 16. annually through the Homeless Project grant.

Contact reporter Nic Corbett at (850) 599-2161 or ncorbetttallahassee.com. Community College. Gail Rossier, president of the production company, said staffers created Operation Filmmaker for students three years ago, where they got a step-by-step look into what it takes to create a documentary. They went back to school, possessing new knowledge and oozing with enthusiasm. Rossier said teachers wanted to learn, too.

"I have found a new respect for educators," Rossier said. "This group made the process come alive in a whole new way." Contact Reporter TaMaryn Waters at (850) 599-2162 or tlwaterstallahassee.com. I. I STEVE The shack In the woods near Tom Brown Park in which Billy Royce was found "I stopped for a traffic problem." Apalachee is the light on Monroe Street and primary source for treat-Park Avenue, and he just ment here, he said. Begot out of my vehicle and tween 400 and 500 home-took off and hollered back, less people with mental 'It's OK, Daddy.

I love you. health issues are treated I'm going to my Dr. Jay Reeve, chief clin- ical and managed care of- ficer for Apalachee Center, said treating those with se- vere mental health issues is "a huge public health Teachers get a taste of life behind the camera Go to Tallahassee.com and keep the conversation going. he was released from the Apalachee Center. He was drivinghissontoTheShel- ter on Tennessee Street, but his son said it was too crowded.

He didn't want to go to his father's house. improve reading. Another film was an easygoing take on how to make a music video using original music and a nature soundtrack. The teachers will make their productions available for students or parents, depending on the targeted audience. "I was excited about learning the different types of film," said Betsy Spearing, a media specialist at Canopy Oaks Elementary.

As a media specialist, she's seen students make mistakes, thinking they can excel despite bad habits like procrastinating before a big project. Spearing's hu- By TaMaryn Waters DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER When it was time for action, 12 local teachers were behind a camera instead of in front of a classroom during "Operation Filmmaker Educator Their 10-minute films premiered Monday evening at the Aquilina Howell Center with more than 60 friends, family members and colleagues watching. Teachers committed four weeks and long hours, which included the tedious task of editing the film. The films ranged in topic and targeted audience. One film was geared toward parents and how to help students "I have found a new respect for educators.

This group made the process come alive in a whole new way." Gail Rossier Rossier Productions morous approach and clever catch phrases from her "student actors," triggered laughter in the audience. The project was sponsored by Rossier Productions, the Leon County Training and Education Center and Tallahassee LOTTERIES Frostproof ticket hits Fantasy 5 Jackpot: One ticket sold in Frostproof matched all five numbers in Sunday's Fantasy 5 drawing of the Florida Lottery. The ticket with numbers 2-24-28-29-31 is worth $193,959.25. Georgia fantasies fall flat: No tickets matched all five numbers in Sunday's Fantasy 5 drawing of the Georgia Lottery. The numbers drawn were 3-7-9-15-31.

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