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Section Lottery Here are the winning numbers selected Monday in the Florida Lottery: 7)k PENSACOLA i Journal www.PensacotaNewsJournal.com OCAL Cash 3: 0-0-9 Play 4: 2-9-1 -8 Fantasy 5: 6-8-12-15-18 I Information: www.flalottery.com TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2004 Other debris clogging Ivan cleanup Santa Rosa asks only storm trash be piled on roads storm relief information '-is To get on a list of property owners who need assistance removing Hurricane Ivan-related debris, call the county's Public Works Department at 626-0191. Property owners waiting on their substantial damage letters from the county Building Department can call 981-7042. These letters are required by many insurance companies to show the. amount of damage suffered from the storm. Tony Gomillion, Santa Rosa public services director, announced the phone number Monday as a response to extremely high call volume.

probably would take until early January to finish the job. "What we're finding in some of these final pass areas, debris has come back to the right of way," said Avis Whitfield, Santa Rosa public works director. "A lot of stuff has come out since Nov. 28." Some of the items being left for the county's contractor to pick up clearly are unrelated to the Sept. 16 storm.

Boxes for new sink fixtures, fresh-cut branches from pruning and, in one case, a used lawnmower, are being put in the county right of way with the intention of having cleanup crews load them as they pass by for the final time. It could cost the county money if the debris is ruled ineligible for reimbursement by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. See CLEANUP, 3C Derek Pivnick PensacolaNewsJournal.com Santa Rosa County officials are serving notice again that dumping construction debris or other garbage along area roadways could result in a visit by a county code enforcement officer. County officials had set Nov. 28 as the deadline for people to bring Hurricane Ivan debris to the side of roads for pickup but acknowledged that it Albertsons, NFL to aid Santa Rosa recovery News Journal file photo Weather delays Oriskany's departure from Texas by a day The towing of the decommissioned aircraft carrier Oriskany from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Pensacola was delayed Monday because of weather, according to Navy public affairs officials.

The ship Is destined to be the first decommissioned Navy vessel to be sunk for use as an artificial reef, and it eventually will become the largest ship intentionally sunk as an artificial reef off the U.S. coast. The decision regarding whether to proceed with the tow will be made about 6 a.m. today. Below-normal temperatures to chill the Panhandle this week Bundle up tonight.

Temperatures are expected to dip down to 22 degrees after a high around the 50s, AccuWeather.com meteorologist Frank Strait said. Temperatures are expected to stay below the normal temperatures about 64 degrees this time of year through the weekend, he said. Wednesday's daytime temperature is expected to hover around 52 degrees with a low of 33 degrees. Thursday should be a little warmer, with a high about 57 degrees. "This is the first real blast of winter so far," Strait said.

"There was plenty of arctic air building in Canada for several weeks, so when it came down, it came down with vengeance." A freeze warning is in effect through Wednesday. Cantonment man, 52, dies of injuries in motorcycle accident A 52-year-old Cantonment man died over the weekend of injuries he suffered in a motorcycle crash on Friday. Richard Sears was taken to West Florida Hospital after the crash on State Road 95 about 4:30 p.m. Friday, according to Florida Highway Patrol reports. Sears was heading north in the left lane of State Road 95 when his motorcycle struck a sport utility vehicle attempting to cross the road.

The front of Sears' motorcycle struck the left rear of the vehicle, driven by Jeannine Olson, 37, of Pensacola. Florida attorney general to visit Rebuild meeting today at church State Attorney General Charlie Crist plans to Derek Pivnick PensacolaNewsJournal.com A vacant Milton supermarket likely will become a short-term storage center for Hurricane Ivan recovery supplies, including roofing materials purchased with money donated by the National Football League. The United Way of Santa Rosa County, the County Commission and Albertsons, the grocery store chain that bought the property but has put on hold plans to move into the building, are near an agreement that would allow truckloads of furniture, food, clothes and roofing supplies to be kept in the building pending delivery to the legions of Sept. 16 storm victims. United Way executive director i 1 i i J0 if i J' and Milton Mayor Guy Thompson asked commissioners Monday at their committee meetings to cover the liability costs of usine the buildine.

''000 I 5 formerly occupied Thompson by Piggly Wiggly, for six months. Commissioners scheduled a vote on the matter for regular meeting. Thompson said he will ask the United Way board of directors to use relief funds to pay the utilities on the building during that span. "That is a centrally located facility and will serve all our county, north and south, relatively easily," Thompson said. Thompson said large donations of building materials, supplies for homeless families and other I "is attend the Rebuild Northwest Florida meeting at 4 p.m.

today at Northminister Presbyterian Church, 1100 E. Nine Mile Road. The focus of the meeting is to provide the community and Rebuild stakeholders a progress report on the nonprofit group's plans to restore housing destroyed TonyGibersonPensacolaNewsJournal.com Keeping an eye on Christmas Crist Garrett Malone, a fourth-grader at Holm Elementary School, amuses himself with his Santa hat Monday morning during a break from singing Christmas carols at Washington High School. See SANTA ROSA, 4C by Hurricane Ivan, said Rebuild executive director Carolyn Appleyard. Anyone interested in volunteering, or helping in any way, is encouraged to attend.

Items confiscated at airport soon can be returned For a fee, flyers can mail home contraband Clarification A Truth for Youth lock-in is planned for 5 to 1 1 p.m. Saturday at Washington High School. Unclear information on this event appeared in Sunday's News Journal. The News Journal strives for accuracy and fairness. We will correct errors or misunderstandings created by stories, headlines or photos.

Readers may request a correction by calling 435-8511. For general assistance with news questions and issues, call the Community Announcement Desk at 435-8542. holidays is a shuttle bus that can move passengers from the spillover parking areas to the terminal. It was used for the first time during the Thanksgiving Day weekend. "Once the surface lot and the garage fills up, we'll get the shuttle bus running," Zephir said.

The shuttle bus is a 14-passenger vehicle that is handicapped accessible. Zephir expects the first wave of holiday travelers on Friday and Saturday, because of school breaks, then a. second push beginning about Dec. 22. ried by passengers have been seized, with no way of returning them to their owners.

However, a new service, Checkpoint Mailers will allow customers who forget to leave those kind of items at home to pay to have them returned by mail. Airport marketing manager Belinda Zephir hopes the service will be available to airport customers before Christmas. Some major airports already provide the service, and Pensacola is one of 11 airports where the mailing service is scheduled to launch. benefit to customers of the airport. "I've lost some items because I've forgotten them myself in my little toothbrush kit and stuff," Nobles said.

"Sometimes it's not expensive stuff, and there is sentiment attached. It's a good gesture, and it should build some goodwill." Checkpoint Mailers won't mail items that are prohibited by the U.S. Postal Service, such as ammunition, batteries, flammable liquids, full lighters and weapons. Zephir said another new service at the airport for the "A lot of people forget to empty their pockets, and sometimes they have that heirloom pocketknife that they got from the Grandpa, and they don't want to lose it," Zephir said. Passengers will be able to pay $8 for domestic packages and $14 for international packages to get their items back.

They will fill out a card, put the items in a sealable bag with a self-addressed label and drop it into a box provided by the mailer service. Pensacola City Council member Jack Nobles said it's a great idea and an added Sheila Ingram PensacolaNewsJournal.com By the end of the year, Pensacola Regional Airport passengers can retrieve items, such as manicure sets, that are confiscated at heightened security checks. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, items such as small scissors, corkscrews and manicure gadgets car To report a story Call Metro Editor Tom Ninestine at 435-8698. There's a limit to the value of term limits on political offices 1 whose time in office is finite.

Still, Democrats in particular should be glad 4 A their seats, but also they lost the public relations war to Superintendent Jim Paul, who was able to make his case against them as he rolled to an easy re-election. But term limits aren't the answer for local offices. If a truck driver, a cop or a doctor does a good job in their fields, we don't say they must quit. No, we keep them on the job and give them a raise. By the same token, critics should quit complaining that some politicians are in office 5ust because they need the money." Do we want only rich folks in office, or people who think voters a reason to terminate an incumbent.

It's not negative campaigning if it's accurate. Challenging an incumbent is tough, especially since fewer organizations and media outlets follow politics. But term limits have big drawbacks. Newcomers think they have fresh ideas, yet many of their concepts already have been tested. Governments waste time while rookies reinvent the wheel.

Decisions are contorted when politicians know they have limited time in office; stonewalling bureaucrats can stymie elected officials they're doing us a favor? Maybe a politician who "needs the job" has more in common with all us voters who work because we need the money. It makes no sense to, in effect, fire a politician who does good work. Look at Florida's House of Representatives, where term limits have made political parties into cults and discouraged compromise. Instead, voters should pay more attention to the current system, and challengers should focus more on hard facts and less on such ephemeral topics as "vision" and "leadership." The elections are barely over and already some people are looking ahead to the next campaign. Not to mention still rehashing last month's results.

Now there's another round of calls for term limits to periodically force politicians from office. It's understandable. Incumbents are tough to beat, as demonstrated again this year when only two incumbents lost. Escambia County School Board members John DeWitt and Linda Finkelstein were unusual because they not only faced challengers for One person's "vision" for a two-lane Bayfront Parkway is another person's power grab for special interests. Challengers should focus on the incumbents' performance and not fear going "negative" with criticism.

Folks say they hate negative campaigning, but they don't mean it, no more than guys mean it when they say they go to Hooter's only for the chicken wings. People need to know if the incumbent misses meetings or if their finances are a mess or if their employer is too cozy with other players on the political scene. A challenger must give that Florida has term limits keeping a governor from serving more than two consecutive terms. Otherwise, Jeb Bush would have a good shot at a third term if he wanted it. He's halfway through his second term, and a recent Strategic Vision survey of 1,200 Florida voters showed him with a 61 percent approval rating.

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