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Angelique Witmer, Tallahassee, FL— Angelique Witmer tragically passed away on November 11th, 2024, alongside her son, Gavin Witmer, while en route to perform in the Veteran’s Day parade in downtown Tallahassee. The loss has left the community and her family devastated.

Angelique, a talented musician, was known for her unwavering support of her son’s musical aspirations. She, Gavin, and their husband and father, Mark, frequently played music together at home and attended numerous concerts, sharing a love for music that bonded them deeply.

Gavin, a bright student and drum major at Rickards High School, was a multi-instrumentalist and a leader among his peers. He had dreams of studying music performance and eventually becoming a jazz musician and band director. Together, Angelique and Gavin nurtured each other’s musical passions, leaving a legacy that will continue to inspire those who knew them.

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In honor of their memory, a fundraiser has been set up by Elana Soper to establish the Angelique and Gavin Witmer Memorial Scholarship, aimed at supporting talented seniors in the Rickards High School Marching Band. The scholarship will serve as a lasting tribute to their contributions to music and their community.

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The Witmer family’s sorrow is immense, but their dedication to preserving Angelique and Gavin’s legacy through this scholarship brings hope that future generations of musicians will benefit from their love for music.

Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to the Witmer family during this incredibly difficult time.

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Walker Smith was hospitalized Friday after being kicked by a bull; His family is asking for prayers and donations

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Friday night was a blur for the Smith family.

The terror started with a phone call.

“The initial phone call was he had been kicked by the bull in his chest, and they were going to have him looked at by the EMTs,” Sabrina Smith said.

Sabrina and her husband Danny Smith got a phone call saying their 17-year-old son, Walker Smith, was at the rodeo. He was injured.

The teen is a gifted bull rider. He climbed onto his first miniature bull when he was just 12. In 2022, he was named the Junior Bull Riding Champion of the Year.

Walker’s father also ran the rodeo circuit for nearly two decades. So the ranch lifestyle is one the family knows and loves.

But by 10 p.m. Friday, it was clear that this rodeo was anything but normal.

“Just a short while later, I received another phone call that he was being life-flighted,” Sabrina Smith said.

Walker Smith was kicked by a bull during a bull-riding event in South Florida, his parents said. He took a major blow to his left chest. The 17-year-old was flown in a helicopter to Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, where he’s been ever since.

The teen is stable, but his injuries are significant. Lying in his bed in the ICU, Walker has tubes in his chest for his collapsed lungs. He’s on a ventilator. His parents said he can’t move his arms and legs.

The biggest concern is his head.

“He experienced no broken bones, no spinal problems, none of that,“ his parents said. ”It’s all in his brain.”

They explained that their son has been experiencing a series of mini-strokes.

Everything escalated so fast. Walker has been injured and checked out by emergency responders before, Sabrina Smith said. But it’s never been this serious.

So when the couple got the news Friday night that their son was being life-flighted, they dropped everything.

“I lost it,” Sabrina Smith said.

She was in Tallahassee, more than 300 miles away from her son. The distance was palpable. And terrifying.

They began to throw their belongings into bags.

“Pretty much started packing clothes. Drove as far as we could because it was nighttime,” Danny Smith said. “We got down here, and they began working on him.”

During the more than five-hour drive, the couple struggled to process the circumstances they were approaching.

“A lot of mixed emotions,” Sabrina Smith said. “I feel helpless because there’s nothing I can do for him.”

Danny Smith is usually the one that holds everyone else together. But he’s crumbling now, too.

“I’m not handling anything well. I’m not,” Walker’s father said. “Usually, I’m the one that’s telling everybody it’s ok. I’m the one that’s... but I’m not doing well.”

It’s a trial that has shaken the entire family.

Walker Smith is the middle child. He has an older brother who is 26 and a younger sister who is 13. He is close with his siblings and parents.

That’s part of what makes this so hard.

“They’re struggling bad,” Sabrina Smith said.

Smith enjoys hunting and fishing with his older brother. After his younger sister was diagnosed with Autism, he did a bull ride to honor the neurological disorder.

That’s just who he is.

But down at the hospital in south Florida, Danny, Walker and Sabrina are far away from those loved ones.

Walker’s parents are sleeping in their van to stay near their son during his treatment. They can’t work while they’re out of town at the hospital, which means that finances are challenging.

It’s an unimaginable hardship.

“You tell everybody, ‘Hey, it’s all going to be alright. And then you believe in your heart that it’s going to be alright.' Well, when you get alone, you just know when your best friend is... I can’t speak,” Danny Smith said, emotion catching in his throat as he tried to describe the situation.

But despite the distance from home, the Smiths said are still feeling support. People the parents have never met or even heard of — from places as far as Brazil and Australia — have reached out to share their love, prayers and support.

“People we don’t even know have been reaching out to us. It’s overwhelming,” Danny Smith said. “You know, you try your best to raise your kid right and to have people reach out to you that you don’t even know, you understand that your kid is loved.”

The Smiths said their friends put together a GoFundMe to help them pay for food and try to get a place to stay while they stay near their son during this critical time.

“I can only imagine what that life flight bill is going to be, not to mention that he’s in ICU,“ his mother said. ”We’re probably looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s overwhelming.“

One thing the family is thinking about is the last time they saw Walker. As his son was heading off to work, Danny told him, “I love you.”

“We hugged like we always do. We never leave each other without saying we love each other,” the father said.

Danny and Sabrina Smith said are leaning on their faith and love to make it through the uncertainty amid this tragedy.

“All I can do is stand on faith. Walk by faith and not by sight,” Danny Smith said. “That’s the only thing that’s keeping me together.”

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — According to the Florida 511, Tuesday morning there is a "crash involving a tractor-trailer in Leon County on I-10 West, at MM 213. All lanes blocked."

Maya Sargent is getting more information on the crash, and we will update information as we know it below. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Update:

7:18 AM FINAL UPDATE According to FL511, both I-10 westbound lanes are now back open, but the right shoulder is still closed. Please use caution and move over for emergency vehicles. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Update:

6:30 AM Press release from Florida Highway Patrol (FHP)

"On the morning of 11/19/2024 at approximately 2:38 AM, Troopers responded to a call about a possible traffic crash on Interstate 10 in Leon County, FL near mile marker 213, just east of the Baum Road overpass.

Troopers arrived and observed a semi truck tractor trailer (Red Kenworth) with heavy front end damage and heavy trailer damage completely disabled in the roadway blocking both westbound lanes.

It was learned that another tractor-trailer traveled into the lane of the Red Kenworth, causing the Red Kenworth to strike the other tractor-trailer's trailer. The other tractor-trailer left the scene with what is assumed to be heavy rear left trailer damage. As of 6:00 AM, the other vehicle has yet to be identified.

Parkway Wrecker is on the scene assisting in cleanup operations near mile marker 213. The outside emergency shoulder has been opened for through traffic.

This case is still under investigation."

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Update: 6:00 AM

According to our neighborhood reporter Maya Sargent, one westbound lane is rerouted to the shoulder on I-10 westbound. Traffic is flowing smoothly.

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Update: 5:30 AM

ABC 27 spoke with Master Corporal Patricia A. Jefferson-Shaw around 5:15AM Tuesday morning. Shaw confirmed the following:

A Budweiser semi-truck is in the middle of the roadway after a collision that has caused the truck to lose its contents, blocking both lanes going West bound. Florida Highway Patrol said they do not have details regarding what the truck hit. FHP confirmed they have crews out on I-10 working to clean up the scene. No injuries or fatalities have been reported. East bound lanes are still clear.

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TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has opened the doors to the Tallahassee Florida Temple, which will be the 16th and final house of the Lord dedicated in 2024.

As has been the pattern for a number of years, the Church began the Tallahassee temple’s public open house phase with a media day Monday morning, Oct. 28, with an introductory news conference followed by Church leaders taking the media representatives on tours of the new sacred structure, explaining the purpose of temples, covenants and ordinances and answering any questions.

Welcoming the media were Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Kathy Andersen. Prior to his call as a Church general authority, Elder Andersen had lived and worked in Florida with Sister Andersen and their young family.

Joining Elder Andersen and Sister Andersen for the morning’s events were three General Authority Seventies — Elder Kevin R. Duncan, executive director of the Church’s Temple Department; Elder Steven R. Bangerter, an assistant executive director of the same department; and Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt, first counselor in the North America Southeast Area.

In conjunction with the start of Monday’s news conference and media tours, the Church released interior and exterior images of the new temple on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

Following Monday’s media event, invited guests — including local civic, community, educational and faith leaders — will tour the temple prior to the Monday, Nov. 4, start of the public open house, which will run through Saturday, Nov. 23, excluding Sundays.

Elder Patrick Kearon of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will dedicate the temple at 9 a.m. EST on Sunday, Dec. 8. The single dedicatory session will be broadcast to all units throughout the temple district. The 9 a.m. dedication time is an update to what had been previously announced.

The temple will be the 202nd dedicated and operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including eight temples in various stages of renovation or reconstruction. It will be the 16th temple dedicated this year, joining houses of the Lord dedicated across North, Central and South America and into the Philippines.

The single-story temple of approximately 29,000 square feet has been built on a 4.97-acre site located at 2440 Papillion Way in northeastern Tallahassee, the largest city in the Florida Panhandle and the state’s capital. Adjacent to an existing Church meetinghouse, the temple site also includes a distribution center.

Announced on April 5, 2020, by President Russell M. Nelson, the Tallahassee Florida Temple was among eight new temples identified in the closing session of the April 2020 general conference. The site location and exterior rendering were released on Jan. 12, 2021.

Construction on the Tallahassee temple followed the June 5, 2021, groundbreaking ceremony, with Elder James B. Martino, a General Authority Seventy and then president of the North America Southeast Area, presiding at the event and offering a prayer on the site and the construction process.

The Tallahassee temple’s design and details

The new temple’s design, elements and details — from the patterns in the tile and carved carpets to the styles of light fixtures — feature historic geometric tile patterns from the mid-1800s, such as leaf lattice, palm fronds, magnolia flowers and interlocking key patterns.

In addition to Latte marble from Turkey and Gray Cloud stone and Silver Screen vein-cut marble from China, flooring also includes broadloom carpets, carved Axminster carpets, carpet tile and hand-tufted rugs, with gold and cream the prominent colors.

A highlight of the art-glass design is the arched glass transom above the main celestial room doors, with the radial pattern featuring a central magnolia flower. The magnolia rosette is among the carving and decorative patterns along the walls, as well as patterns such as guilloché, bead and reel, egg and dart and dentil.

The temple grounds include native or historically significant plants, such as oak, magnolia, crape myrtle, bald cypress and pines. The azalea is the signature shrub, with muhly and fakahatchee among the native grasses planted.

The Church and its temples in Florida

The Tallahassee temple will be the Church’s third dedicated house of the Lord in the state, with the Orlando Florida Temple dedicated in 1994 and the Fort Lauderdale Florida Temple dedicated in 2014.

After 30 years of operations, the Orlando temple closed earlier this year for extensive renovations.

Two other temples for Florida — in Tampa and in Jacksonville — have been announced and in planning since 2022, with sites released for both.

Missionaries first arrived in Florida in 1845, with the Church’s first congregation in the state created in 1847 in the Big Bend area of northern Florida. Today, the state is home to more than 172,000 Latter-day Saints comprising nearly 275 congregations.

Tallahassee Florida Temple

Address: 2440 Papillion Way, Tallahassee, Florida, 32309

Announced: April 5, 2020, by President Russell M. Nelson

Groundbreaking: June 5, 2021, presided over by Elder James B. Martino, a General Authority Seventy and then president of the North America Southeast Area

Public open house: Nov. 4-23, 2024, excluding Sundays

To be dedicated: Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, by Elder Patrick Kearon of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Property size: 4.97 acres

Building size: 29,355 square feet

Building height: 125 feet, including the spire

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Tallahassee International Airport (TLH) has been named as the Destination Sponsor for the eighth edition of TakeOff North America.

Dedicated to supporting the development and expansion of the North American domestic aviation market, TakeOff North America has become an integral forum for the small- and medium-sized airport air service development community within the region.

This year’s event saw its largest-ever attendance with more than 250 decision-makers from airlines, airports, destinations and industry suppliers.

Owned and operated by the City of Tallahassee, TLH is currently served by American Airlines, Delta Airlines and Silver Airways. Passenger traffic at the airport has increased 13.58 percent year-to-date during 2024 and is on track to surpass 1 million passengers annually.

With an investment of more than $28 million, the airport’s International Processing Facility is slated to open in 2025 as part of a five-year infrastructure improvement plan. The new facility will enable TLH to handle international flights and expand its cargo capabilities, positioning the airport as a gateway to northwest Florida and exceed $1 billion in annual economic impact.

Tallahassee, Florida’s Capital City, is a growing hub for meetings, conventions and leisure travel. With three major institutions of higher learning, world-class research institutes and a variety of companies large and small, Tallahassee is a vibrant city that offers global reach with southern charm. Known for its rich history, nature-based attractions and cultural tourism, Tallahassee is a year-round destination. Get a glimpse of Tallahassee in this brief TakeOff TLH video.

Steven Small, Director of Routes, said, “We are delighted to announce that the eighth edition of TakeOff North America will take place in Tallahassee. Tallahassee International Airport understands the important part that the airport plays in driving economic growth and opportunity for its local community. The event will come at an exciting time for the destination, with the opening of the International Processing Facility, and we look forward to uniting decision-makers in this dynamic and forward-looking destination next year.”

“Airports connect people and resources while driving economic growth. Serving Florida’s Capital City and the surrounding areas, Tallahassee International Airport exemplifies this, with an economic impact of nearly $1 billion and welcoming nearly 1 million passengers annually. With its emerging Foreign Trade Zone designation, TLH is poised to become the region's global connection point, creating more business opportunities. We look forward to hosting conference attendees in Tallahassee as TLH reaches new heights in 2025,” said Tallahassee Director of Aviation David Pollard.