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Teachers honored
for achievement
CRISTY LOFTIS
cloftis@chronicleonline.com
Chronicle
Taking on roles as stu-
dents, 19 Citrus County
teachers have been taught,
judged and tested earn-
ing them well-deserved recogni-
tion as National Board-certified
teachers.
This certification was devel-
oped by the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards
to help maintain high standards in
teaching.
Debra Roopani, a teacher at
Lecanto Primary, said she put in
about 400 hours researching, col-
lecting data and writing reports to
get the certification, which pro-
duced a five-inch stack of paper-
work, two videotapes and a whole
lot of hard work
"I looked at it as getting a sec-
ond master's degree," Roopani
said.
She dedicated her Saturdays to
working on the certification, and
asked friends and family to leave
MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle
Lecanto Primary School Exceptional Student Education teacher Debra Roopani works to solve math problems with a small group of her students
Thursday morning. Roopani, along with 18 other county schoolteachers, was recently recognized for becoming National Board-certified.
her alone and not tempt her to
stop working.
After an unsuccessful try for the
certification in 2003, Roopani
tried again this past year and was
rewarded with good news before
the winter break
"I think I'm a lot more confi-
dent in my teaching," Roopani
said. "It's really a worth while
endeavor."
Mike Ballard, district program
specialist for planning and devel-
opment, said it is typical for the
teachers to try several times
before receiving the certification.
In the past, only 30 to 40 percent
of the teachers trying for the first
Please see CLASS/Page 4A
Children learn about Martin Luther King Jr. Tortoise disease
CRUSTY LOFTIS
cloftis@chronicleonline.com
Chronicle
Nine-year-old Brianna Kirkpatrick
intends to change the world.
She and her fellow classmates at Forest
Ridge Elementary School wrote letters to
Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of his
birthday, as a way to reflect on the lessons
lie taught
"I have a dream that all people would
stop killing one another," Brianna wrote.
"All men are created equal, and yet we
have not shown you that. You have done a
lot for America since your speech, but we
need you more than ever today. Wars,
fighting and discrimination poison this
Earth. The world' needs your peace-mak-
ing skills now."
During the past few weeks, the children
in Janet Tuggle's fourth-grade class have
learned the meaning of words such as
"racism" and "colored," as well as finding
out what Jim Crow laws were.
The class watched videos, read books,
had class discussions and performed a
play to learn about the ideas and goals of
Pr. Martin Luther King Jr. a man who
spent his life trying to establish equality
for all people, regardless of race.
Please see KING/Page 4A
BRIAN LaPETER/Chronicle
Janet Tuggle and pupils Samantha Kempton and Jeremy Lee, both 9, hang letters written
to Martin Luther King Jr. Thursday at Forest Ridge Elementary School. Tuggle's fourth-
grade class wrote the letters as part of their studies about the slain civil rights leader.
divides experts
Scientists discuss
burying tortoises
TERRY WITT
terrywitt@chronicleonline.com
Chronicle
Two of the state's leading
experts on gopher tortoises are
offering contrasting views
about whether a disease that
sometimes kills tortoises
should be controlled by allow-
ing animals to be buried alive
if they test positive for the ill-
ness.
Scientists with the Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission (FWC) say they
are attempting to stop the
spread of upper respiratory
tract disease (URTD) by forbid-
ding the relocation of animals
that may be sick
For a fee, developers are
allowed to entomb them in
their underground burrows.
Money generated from the
"incidental take" permit fees is
used to purchase gopher tor-
toise conservation land in an
effort to protect what is left of
the species in Florida.
Tortoises are listed as a
species of special concern
under state law because their
numbers are in decline.
Ray Ashton, founder of
Ashton Biodiversity Research
and Preservation Institute Inc.
in Gainesville, is a critic of the
entombment policy, but Dr.
Mary Brown, a professor at the
University. of Florida's veteri-
nary college, supports the poli-
cy, with one qualification. She
said no one feels good about
having animals buried alive in
their burrows.
In Citrus County, the issue
came to light recently when
four tortoises at the site of a
future subdivision in Lecanto
Please see TORTOISE/Page 5A
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And the
winners are ...
Hollywood's
celebrities
turn out in
force for the
first major
televised
awards
ceremony of
the year, the
Golden
Globes./2A
GOLDEN
GLOBE
AWARDS
The scoop on the buzz
High-tech companies
don't release products
anymore, they pro-
vide solutions.
And those solu-
tions enable d
experiences, opti- \"
mize agility
or make
people's pas-
sions come
alive./7A--
4~.
'Coach Carter'
tops 'Fockers'
Samuel L.
Jackson
coached his
latest movie
to a box-office
championship,
with "Coach
Carter" pull-
ing in an esti-
mated $23.6
million./11A
Troops clamp down
Troops clamp down
on Insurgents
* U.S. troops stage
a series of raids
in Iraq./16A
* AARP offers driv-
er-safety courses
in the area./13A
* Walking catfish '
less of a threat in
Florida./6A
E Studio to do "Fear
Factor Live."/4A
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4-of-5 354 $115
3-of-5 12,604 $9
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6-of-6 No winner
5-of-6 64 $7,257
4-of-6 3,954 $95.50
3-of-6 84,707 $6
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14
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Play 4:8-6- 1 -0
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4-of-5 424 $89.50
3-of-5 10,584 $10
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Mega Ball: 18
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4-of-4 7 $1,426.50
3-of-4 MB 59 $371
3-of-4 1,025 $63.50
2-of-4 MB 1,388 $32.50
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13
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4-of-5 545 $63.50
3-of-5 13,538 $7
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12
Cash 3:0-6-3
Play 4:0-7-4-3
Fantasy 5:1 12 15 27 30
5-of-5 1 winner $225,488,11
4-of-5 316 $115
3-of-5 8,961 $11
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6-of-6 No winner
5-of-6 79 $4,026.50
4-of-6 4,326 $59.50
3-of-6 88,605- $4
TUESDAY, JANUARY 11
Cash 3:8 8 9
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Fantasy 5:2 10 21 24 31
5-of-5 4 winners $52,684.81
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