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Eckstein wants
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DAVE PlEKLIK
S1 dpieklik@chronicleonline.com
Chronicle


It's not often the media
makes itself the story, but
Citrus County Sheriff's Capt
Joe Eckstein wants to make
sure when the next hurricane
season arrives, everyone's on
the same page as emergency
officials when it comes to sav-
ing lives. /
Eckstein, emergency opera-
tions director for the county,
met Friday
with represen-
tatives from
local radio sta-
tions WGRL
102.7 FM and
WOW 104.3
FM, along with
representa-
tives from the Capt. Joe
Citrus County -..
Chronicle and wants to be
the St better prepared.
Petersburg
Times to discuss ways to make
sure- the emergency informa-
tion gets to the public in the
most effective way.
Eckstein admitted
"Hurricane Season '04," as he
calls it, was "a dress rehears-
al" for a direct hit from a major
hurricane.
"We were shooting from the
hip. That will only work so
many times," he said. "We're
going to be pushing the enve-
lope to people. 'Are you pre-
pared for the next hurricane
season?'"
Eckstein said despite escap-
ing relatively unscathed from
tropical storms Charley,
Frances and Jeanne, there
were some breakdowns in
communication that he wants
to prevent the next time
storms arrive. After Frances,
where an estimated 80 percent
of county residents were with-
out power, many were without
essential information about
the storm through television
Please see EOC/Page 4A


Council candidates cite their involvement, accomplishments
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Diaz-Fonseca: Infratructur
JiM- HUNTER -
Jhunter@chronicleonline.com
Chronicle


Sophia Diaz-Fonseca said the thing
that got her interested in running for
Inverness City Council was water quali-
ty.
She said she was already involved in So
community activities and she figured 01
this was just taking it one step higher. Fon
Both the problem with some old water invol
lines in the city that results in what she comr
called "yellow water" and the need to
get septic tanks away from the lakes spurred her
to run for Seat 4 on the council against incum-
bent Jacquie Hepfer.
Diaz-Fonseca said that though the city has
done a lot of work on the water system, there are
still some water pipes from the early 1900s serv-
ing residents, and those need to be replaced.
She said there needs to be a plan to replace
them incrementally to keep the project afford-


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e needs priority HAT: Inverness
City Council
Seat 4.
able.
She said the a WHO: Sophia
city was getting a Diaz-Fonseca and
good matching Japquie Hepfer.
grant for the 0 WHEN: Early
sewer project, voting begins
That's another Monday;
quality she would Election day Is
ha bring to the coun- Feb. 8.
61a cil, Diaz-Fonseca I WHERE: First
Weca said during a Baptist Church,
ed in recent interview 123 S. Seminole
unity. with the Ave., Inverness.
Chronicle
Editorial Board. She has 0 INFO: Call City
been finding and writing Hall, 726-2611.
grants for the past seven
years. She believes grants
can be used to lower the price for hook-ups to
residents.
.While she feels the outlying areas around the


Please see PRIORITY/Page 4A


Hepfer: Continue council's current progressive tract


JIM HUNTER
jhunter@chronicleonline.com
Chronicle


Incumbent Inverness City Councilwoman
Jacquie Hepfer says the council's accomplish-
ments while she has been serving on it are
pretty obvious.
She said she has been part of the effort that
has kept taxes low, that has seen the downtown
renovation and beautification through, and
that has begun working with the county on a
number of projects.
Hepfer, challenged by Sophia Diaz-Fonseca
for Seat 4 on the council, says she wants to con-
tinue the trend of council accomplishments.
"It's progressive," she said of the council,
adding that it needs to be. "If you don't grow,
you die."
For her, the reasons for being on the council
are very personal. "This is home," she said
during a recent interview with the Chronicle
Editorial Board.


Hepfer said she wants to see
the small-town look and feel
remain. "We don't want urban
sprawl," she said.
As to resistance to the sewer
and water hook-ups, Hepfer
said a grant for sewer expan-
sion will greatly reduce the
Jacqule cost and the city will then work
Hepfer it out to let people pay over as
says council much as 10 years, which will
efforts are greatly ease the pain. While
- obvious, she's not for forcing people out-
side the city to hook up, she
said, considering the often significant expense
of private water conditioning systems, "When
they see the benefit, they usually come
around."
In reference to some complaints that the
new $5 million city hall is more than the city
needs, she said, "The point is we're doing this
Please see /Page 4A


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Extra Apple
Juice
A new small
but powerful
amplifier by
Simpl clips
onto the Apple
iPod to
improve its
sound per-
formance./
Sunday


Membership explosion


Gulf to Lake Church has seen a steady
increase during the past 10 years./1C


Abortion debate


Both sides in the abortion debate wi I
watch Bush's second term closely./lOA


Turtles face decline
* Endangered.
loggerhead
turtles along
Florida beaches
are in serious and
rapid decline./5A
* Citrus County
Sheriff's Office
detectives are
searching for a
missing
Homosassa
man./4A


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DAVE SIGLER/Chronicle
Larry Witty reroutes Bright House cable wires around the new Lowe's sign on State Road 44 In Inverness. The wires, along with power lines aind poles, were moved
because they obstructed the view of the home Improvement store's sign. Lowe's will celebrate Its, grand opening Wednesday. Witty works for Cross
Communications.


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ENTERTAINMENT


dS% AT URDAY, JAN UARtY 22, 005 S...'


Florida
LOTTERIES


Here are the
winning numbers
selected Friday in
the Florida
Lottery:


CASH 3
1-0-9
PLAY 4
2-3-5-2
MEGA MONEY
8 14-28-34
MEGA BALL
14
FANTASY 5
12 13- 21 26 30
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20'
Cash 3: 2-2- 1
Play 4:0-8-4-4
Fantasy 5:11 21 22 30- 31
5-of-5 2 winners $106,239.94
4-of-5 309 $110.50
3-of-5 8,772 $10.50
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19
Cash 3:8-7-7
Play 4:9-2-0-9
Fantasy 5:1 10 16 25 26
5-pf-5 1 winner $230,590.40
4-of-5 381 $97.50
3-of-5 11,183 $9
Lotto: 15-19-22-32-41 -51
6-of-6 1 winner $14 million
5-of-6 84 $4,932.50
4'f-6 4,423 $76
3$of-6 86,711 $5.50
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18
Cash 3:4-5-0
May 4:1-8-9-2
Fantasy 5:8 22 26 31 36
5-of-5 2 winners $104,713.81
4-of-5 220 $153.50
3-of-5 7,784 $12
Mega Money: 7 9 -11 33
Mega Ball: 17
4-of-4 MB 2. winners $900,000
4-of-4 7 $1,450.50
3-of-4 MB 107 $208
3-of-4 2,000 $33
-of-4 MB 2,533 $8
2of-4 50,534 $2
1-of-4 MB 18,076 $2.50
MONDAY, JANUARY 17
Cash 3:9 2 5
Play 4:0-9-2-3
Fantasy 5: 12-14-19- 29 30
5-of-5 2 winners $102,261.22
4-of-5 263 $125.50
3*of-5 8,457 $10.50
SUNDAY, JANUARY 16
Cash 3: 2-8-9
Play 4:9 5 6 3
Fantasy 5:9 25 27 33 34


INSIDE THE NUMBERS
* To verify the accuracy of
winning lottery numbers,
players should double-check
the numbers printed above
with numbers officially posted
by the Florida Lottery. On the
Web, go to www.flalottery
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"Blithe Spirit," a Noel
Coward comedy about
an author doing
research on spiritual-
ism who is surprised by
,.a visit from his late
first wife, will continue
on stage this weekend
at the Citrus County
Art League Art Center
-Theatre. Curtain times
are 7:30 p.m. today
and 2 p.m. -Sunday.
Tickets are $15 each.
The theater Is at 2644
N. Annapolis Ave., Her-
nando. For more Infor-
mation, call 746-7606
or 746-0648. From
left: Lynn Abrams,
Howard Christ Ill,
Hannah Lowther, Pam
Schreck and Peter
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