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Citrus County chronicle

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Citrus County chronicle
Place of Publication:
Crystal River, FL
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Citrus Publishing LLC
Gerald Mulligan
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2006
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Daily[<1987-1995>]
Weekly[ FORMER <1939-1968>]
Semiweekly[ FORMER <1980-1981>]
daily
regular
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English

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Newspapers -- Inverness (Fla.) ( lcsh )
Newspapers -- Citrus County (Fla.) ( lcsh )
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United States -- Florida -- Citrus -- Crystal River
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28.886556 x -82.539299

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Began in 1889?
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Description based on: Vol. 48, no. 51 (June 8, 1939).
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This project was funded under the provisions of the DLIS Florida American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Florida's DLIS Florida ARPA program is administered by the Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services.

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APRIL 12, 2023www.chronicleonline.com HIGH A few showers. PAGE A4 TODAY & next morning WEDNESDAY 63 82 LOW Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community VOL. 129 ISSUE 102 $1Democrats pick Chicago for 2024 convention / A16 INDEX Business ................. A13 Classi eds ................ B5 Comics ..................... C6 Crossword ................ C5 Entertainment ........... B4 Horoscope ................ C5 Nation/World ........... A16 Obituaries ................. A6 Opinion ................... A14 TV Listings ................ B4 Weather .................... A4Commission contributes to new Monkey Island home By FRED HIERS Chronicle Reporter Tuesday was a good day for the three primates Ebo-ny, Ralph, and Emily living on Monkey Island when the Citrus County Commission voted 3-2 to allocate money toward a new habitat on the island on the Homosassa River. But getting the money has been no short Monkey’s tale. The small island has been home to the three aging spi-der monkeys, and others, for decades. For years they’ve been a tourist attraction for boaters passing the island and a spectacle for visitors to the businesses on either side of the river. The county commission approved contributing $98,000 from its tourist col-lected taxes to the nonpro t Historic Monkey Island Inc. (HMI). The nonpro t His-toric Monkey Island Inc. was formed in 2020 to raise money to restore the island and to care for the current and future monkey resi-dents. HMI will match the county’s donation and start the nal phase of construc-tion on the island. County commissioners Ruthie Schlabach and Re-becca Bays voted against the measure. HMI has already demolished the primate shelter and now looks to replace it with a cooled and heated structure. HMI is current-ly housing the monkeys in Brooksville, while the island facilities are being overhauled. Commissioners Diana Finegan, Holly Davis, and Jeff Kinnard agreed the monkeys were an import-ant tourist attraction and the monkey attraction was the sort of project was tour-ist tax dollars was meant to support. “It’s an iconic place,” Finegan said during the com-mission meeting. “People pay to go see these monkeys,” she said, referring to tourist visiting businesses along the river and looking to see the mon-keys or taking tour boat ex-cursions, which includes the monkey island. Without the nancial support for the attraction, businesses in the area will eventually be negatively impacted, she said. “I’m all for it,” Finegan The monkeys of Monkey IslandTwo local high school students need help from the community By NANCY KENNEDY Chronicle Reporter High school is dif cult enough for most teens, but for some, their home life makes it even more fraught with dif culty. Teachers, guidance counselors, school social work-ers, and volunteers with support groups like Alateen see and hear stories of bro-kenness and struggle, and it’s heartbreaking, said Pat-rick Simon, retired coun-ty educator and now the director of Citrus County Coalition for Colleges and Careers. This group of volunteers go into the high schools once a week to meet one-on-one with high school seniors to help them plan their lives after graduation, helping them with college applications, lling out nancial aid forms, helping athletes with legal contracts. In the process, they do a whole lot of listening, Si-mon said. “We hear about so many extreme situations in num-bers we haven’t seen previ-ously,” he said. “Kids who have lost one or both parents SIMON More Information Contact: Shaunda Burdette at 352-726-1931, ext. 2240.Email: burdettes@citrus schools.org.The Citrus County Educa-tion Foundation office is at Withlacoochee Technical College, 1201 W. Main St., Building 700, Inverness.Mailing address is: P.O. Box 2004, Inverness, FL 34451Let the celebration begin By NANCY KENNEDY Chronicle Reporter In 1923, the new city of Crystal River was three square miles. The city’s rst public water system was the water tower and pumping station, now both city historical landmarks. The pump house was once the city jail. At that time, Crystal River had a town marshal and crime was low. The jail was used for minor offenders or to hold more serious offenders until they could be taken to the county jail in Inverness. Downtown Crystal River bustled, especially on Sat-urdays, with its gas stations, drug stores, grocery stores and meat markets, a bakery and a restaurant, barber shops, doctors’ of ces, a furniture store and hardware stores. Charlie A. Miller was postmaster in 1923 and J.E. Stevens was the mayor. The only road between Crystal River and Yankee-town was rocky and dusty. What a difference 100 years makes – Kings Bay River Walk, the Town Square, the Splash Pad, First Fridays, the Historic Pump House and Water Tower renovation and restoration, the revival of Citrus Avenue into a destination place with its shops and restaurants. This year, 2023, the city of Crystal River celebrates its centennial year with a full schedule of events honoring the city’s past, celebrating its present and looking for-ward to its future. Everything culminates with a huge 100th birthday party on July 3. Because you only turn 100 once. Matthew Beck / Chronicle photo editor Crystal River Mayor Joe Meek points to a historic photo taken in the 1950s of the property where he and his family now live in Crystal River. He stands inside the downtown pump house where a Centennial Pop-up Exhibit is on display. The display celebrates the the city’s 100th anniversary.Crystal River ushers in its centennial birthday July 3 with slate of events Baseball legend Babe Ruth holds Doc Hudson and Ralph Thompson in this 1928 photograph that is on display in the Centen-nial Pop-up Exhibit in Crystal Riv-er’s pump house.Special to the Chronicle Historic cemetery cleanup April 22 – volunteers needed In recognition of the 100th Anniversary of the City of Crystal River, one of the events is a morning of ceme-tery cleaning.Why is it important to pre-serve these cemetery mark-ers? For many people it may be personal, said local histori-an Kathy Turner Thompson, adding, “Saving cemeteries is the preservation of our history. It is often more than a per-son’s first and last name carved into a pretty rock.” Headstones tell us a lot more than that, including some-times detailed records of that person’s life. Headstones and other items at cemeteries (cemetery symbolism) express loved ones still living emotions in addition to status, she said. Some more recent head-stones will even have photo-graphs attached.History is lost every day. This is just one more little way of sav-ing a thin sliver of our history. Come and join us for a fun day in the cemetery.More information call 352-220-251 or to sign up, please call. Q Date: Saturday, April 22, 2023Q Time: 9:00 a.m. to Noon Q Place: Crystal River Cemetery N. 3rd St. at NE 4th Ave.Q Crystal River, Florida, USA Supplies (D/2 a non biological cleaner made specifically for soft limestone materials) and water will be provided.Video shows Louisville police under fire from bank shooter By DYLAN LOVAN and REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Police body camera video released Tuesday shows the chaotic moments when po-lice arrived at the scene of a mass shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, as the shooter they couldn’t see from the street rained bullets down on them. The videos, taken from two wounded of cers’ lapels, offer a rare per-spective of police of cers responding to a massacre that killed ve and injured eight others Monday. One, a rookie of cer, was shot in the head within minutes of arriving at the scene, as his partner was grazed by a bullet and sought cover while still trying to take down the shooter. Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey walked reporters through edited footage and still photos at a new conference Tuesday and praised the responding of cers for their heroism. They received the call of a shooting at Old National Bank at 8:38 a.m., and the two of cers arrived three minutes later, according to a chronology provided by police. They hadn’t even gotten out of the patrol car when the gunman began ring on them. “Back up, back up, back up,” one of cer shouted as gunshots thundered in the background. One still image from surveillance video showed the shooter, who worked at the bank, holding a ri e, wearing jeans, a blue but-ton-down shirt and sneak-ers, surrounded by broken glass inside the building. He had already shot nu-merous people inside, and police said he set up an See MONKEYS , page A4 See CENTENNIAL , page A4 See STUDENTS , page A4 See SHOOTER , page A4

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A2 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Citrus County ChronicleCitrus County Sheriff’s Office Arrests from April 5Q William Joe Gwinn , 59, Lecanto, arrested April 5 for felony battery on LEO/fire fighter/EMS provider/public transport employee. Bond $5,000. Q Tyler John Flannigan , 30, Crystal River, arrested April 5 for misdemeanor petit theft. Bond $1,000. Q Ace Lee Cannon , 51, Homosassa, arrested April 5 for two misdemeanor counts trespass after warning from principal/designee. Bond $10,000. Q Priscilla Hope Lewis , 47, Homosassa, arrested April 5 for two misdemeanor counts tres pass in structure or convey ance occupied. Bond $2,000. Q Richard Deandre Henry , 40, Beverly Hills, arrested April 5 for writ of bodily attachment. Bond $2,184. Q Larry Bryant Kilpatrick , 29, Crystal River, arrested April 5 for felony possession of controlled substance. Bond $2,000. Q Julius Malyk Syheed Gardner , 20, Inverness, arrested April 5 for felony possession of controlled sub stance. Bond $2,000.Arrests from April 6Q Amanda Dawn Fredman , 35, Homosassa, arrested April 6 for two misdemeanor counts violation of probation. No bond. Q Dawn Marie Cooper , 44, Crystal River, arrested April 6 for felony failure to appear. No bond. Q Cody Tyler Reed , 18, Homosassa, arrested April 6 for felony auto theft and deal in stolen property by use of internet – property value more than $300. Bond $4,000. Q Elizabeth Ann Marie House , 27, Inverness, arrest ed April 6 for felony violation of probation. No bond. Q Billie Michael Dyson , 18, Fort Myers, arrested April 6 for felony violation of proba tion. No bond. Q Tammy Liptak , 55, Inver ness, arrested April 6 for felo ny violation of probation. No bond. Q Cameron Gage Mansfield , 18, Homosassa, arrested April 6 for felony written/electronic threat to kill or do bodily harm to another/conduct mass shoot ing/act of terrorism. No bond.Arrests from April 7Q Nathan Ryan Zolman , 32, Beverly Hills, arrested April 7 for misdemeanor DUI. Bond $1,000. Q Amy Nicole Anderkin , 43, Homosassa, arrested April 7 for misdemeanor violation of probation. Bond $2,000. Q Anthony Lynn Adams , 45, Crystal River, arrested April 7 for felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, battery with one prior conviction for battery and aggravated assault on persons 65 years of age or older second degree. Bond $9,000. Q Jasmyn Parkinson , 36, Brooksville, arrested April 7 for out of county warrant and pick up order. No bond. Q Stephanie Lynn Yates-Curry , 35, Homosassa, arrested April 7 for two felony counts possession of con trolled substance and two fel ony counts drug parapherna lia. Bond $18,000. Q Corey Lee Derrick , 24, Crystal River, arrested April 7 for felony petit theft. Bond $2,000. Q Trevor Dean McCoy , 21, Beverly Hills, arrested April 7 for flee/elude LEO with logo/light/siren while speed/disre gard for safety. Bond $2,000.Arrests from April 8Q Kimberly Lynn Flood , 40, Homosassa, arrested April 8 for two counts adult pick up order. No bond. Q Keith Mark Woegens , 40, Beverly Hills, arrested April 8 for misdemeanor violate injunction for protection against domestic violence. No bond. Q Michael Clarence Bagley Jr. , 32, Homosassa, arrested April 8 for felony battery with one prior conviction for bat tery, and aggravated battery using a deadly weapon. Bond $15,000. Q Timothy Patrick Leahy , 47, Dunnellon, arrested April 8 for misdemeanor operating vehicle without valid driver’s license. Bond $500. Q Timothy Wilson Dunn , 26, Beverly Hills, arrested April 8 for retail petit theft (value $100 or less). No bond. Q Deborah Lynne Dunn , 66, Beverly Hills, arrested April 8 for misdemeanor violation of probation and domestic bat tery. No bond. Q Clifford Brendan Michael Belcher , 18, Inverness, arrested April 8 for two mis demeanor counts trespass other property after warning and two misdemeanor counts drug paraphernalia. Bond $4,000. Q Susan Marie Fantino , 53, Dunnellon, arrested April 8 for DUI and possession cannabis (less than 20 grams). Bond $6,000. Q Suzanne Louise Crad dock , 68, Inverness, arrested April 8 for felony failure to appear. No bond. Q Clint James Livers , 27, Floral City, arrested April 8 for misdemeanor failure to appear. Bond $2,000. Q John Lester Deidesheimer , 51, Crystal River, arrested April 8 for mis demeanor violation of proba tion. No bond.Arrests from April 9Q Jason Jay Riley , 44, Crys tal River, arrested April 9 for felony possession of con trolled substance and drug paraphernalia. Bond $4,000. FOR THE RECORD F OLLOW US ! 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Citrus County Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 2023 A3L CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLESupervisor of Elections at Homosassa Library The Supervisor of Elec tions ofce will hold an outreach event from 9 to 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 13, at the Homosas sa Public Library, 4100 S. Grandmarch Ave., Homo sassa. To learn more, visit the website votecitrus.gov or contact the ofce at 352-564-7120.Homosassa River Alliance to meet The Homosassa Riv er Alliance will hold its April meeting at 7 p.m. on April 13 in the Learning Center at 10950 W. Yulee Drive, Homosassa. The center is directly across from the Old Homosassa Civic Club. Guest speakers will be Captain Brian Spiddle, Sergeant Evan Marshall and Deputy Jimmy Sud low of the Citrus County Sheriff’s Ofce.Friends of state trail to meet The Friends of the Withlacoochee State Trail (FOTWST) general mem bership meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. on April 13 in the second-oor courtroom of the Old Courthouse Heritage Museum, 1 Courthouse Square, Inverness. Robert Esposito, exec utive director of the Her nando/Citrus Metropoli tan Planning Organization (MPO), will present a discussion on the impact the MPO’s decisions have on Citrus and Hernando counties.Department of Health to hold free health fair The Florida Depart ment of Health in Citrus County (DOH-Citrus) is hosting a free health fair from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 15, at the George Washing ton Carver Community Center, 95 Three Sisters Springs Trail, Crystal River. The fair is based on the state’s theme of “Healthy Communities Build a Healthier Florida,” and features no-cost health screenings and edu cation including: low/no-cost car seat infor mation, blood pressure screening, glucose, A1C and cholesterol checks, safe sleep and breast feeding information, nu trition information and hemoglobin checks, and vaccination information, including information on COVID-19 vaccinations. For more information about DOH-Citrus, go to www.citrus.orida health.gov or follow @FL HealthCitrus on Twitter.Abuse shelter seeks donations The Citrus County Abuse Shelter Associa tion (CASA) is in need of: QFood items: Milk, condiments (ketchup, mayo, mustard, sauces), kid-friendly snacks and drinks (Gatorade, juice). QNon-food items: Bri ta pitcher replacement lters, hair care products, facial care products and countertop ice maker. The next time you’re out shopping, pick up some extra supplies and drop them off at the CASA Outreach ofce between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, at 1100 E. Turner Camp Road, Inverness. Shelter needs can also be dropped off at their alternative drop off location, Carol’s Interiors and Floors, 6410 S. Suncoast Blvd. in Ho mosassa. For more information, email Kimberly Martini at kimberly@casa.org. IN BRIEF City asks state for help as parkway project moves ahead By FRED HIERS Chronicle Reporter With the imminent expan sion of the Suncoast Park way from its current ter minus on State Road 44 to U.S. 19 in Crystal River, the city’s council voted unani mously Monday to write the turnpike authority for help. The extension is expected to connect to County Road 495 (Citrus Avenue) and construction could be un derway by 2026, City Man ager Ken Frink told his council boss es during the Crystal River City Council meeting. “The new turnpike and interchange will undoubt edly increase trafc on our local roads,” Frink said. Frink asked the council to approve a letter from Mayor Joe Meek requesting specic and unspecied upgrades to the city’s local roads to help mitigate the trafc impacts. The state will spend a lot of money on the parkway project and some money should be earmarked for city roads that will be im pacted, Frink said. He warned that the project looks to be on the fast track in Tallahassee among state lawmakers and that in the next three years the city will see “bulldozers pushing to U.S. 19.” In the mayor’s letter, Meek said that “the city is concerned that our local roads will have a signicant negative impact without strategic pre-emptive trans portation upgrades.” “The city already deals with unnecessary backups on Citrus Avenue headed south and both directions on U.S. 19 and State Road 44,” Meek wrote. “The city is urging the state to work with us in identifying and implement ing strategic upgrades on our city, county, and state roads designed to enhance the ow of new trafc in and around the city created by the Suncoast.” “Upgrades, at a minimum, should include enhance ments along Turkey Oak Drive at the State Road 44, Citrus Avenue, and U.S. 19 intersections,” he said. “Im provements should include enhanced turn lanes, ac celeration and deceleration lanes, signalization, and signage. We ask that you also work with the city to identify and upgrade other locations that are predicted to have impacts that we may not be aware of now,” Meek said in his letter. “By taking these steps, I believe that we can effectively manage the increased trafc from the Suncoast Parkway exten sion and ensure the safety and well-being of our com munity.” Fred Hiers is a reporter at the Citrus Chronicle. Email him at fred.hiers@chronicleonline.com.City says local roads will be affected MEEKCommissioners OK burn banAs Citrus County continues expe riencing dry weather conditions due to a prolonged lack of rainfall, Citrus County Board of County Commis sioners Tuesday issued an ofcial burn ban. The burn ban applies to all unincorporated Citrus. The ban includes: QCampres; QBonres; QUnpermitted controlled burns; QBurning of yard and household trash; QBurning of construction debris; QBurning of organic debris; and QIgniting of reworks Residents are permitted to have a re if it is done on a suitable piece of equipment designed to contain the re and ame. Outdoor cooking may also be done in any public or private place where there are facilities designed for outdoor cooking. “Citrus County Fire Rescue has waited as long as possible to issue this burn ban,” said Citrus County Fire Rescue Chief Craig Stevens. “The current dry conditions are favorable for the rapid development and spread of brush res throughout the County. Ensuring the safety of every resident and visitor throughout Citrus County and minimizing the likelihood for loss of property county wide are top prior ities for Citrus County Fire Rescue.” Anyone convicted of violating this ban could be subject to a $500 ne and/or a sentence of 60 days in jail.Lack of rain is the culpritCrystal River manager plans to remain in city following his resignation By FRED HIERS Chronicle Reporter Despite City Manager Ken Frink’s plans to resign in Au gust, the popular manager said he will remain in Crystal River where he grew up and lived most of his life. Frink said his plans for the fu ture are still not settled, but could include going back to work as a civil engineer. During the four years of Frink’s service to the city, he has gar nered the respect and praise of his council members, but changes on the board were likely inevitable. That’s because Frink and Coun cilwoman Cindi Guy are engaged to be married. The two plan to be married soon after Frink leaves in August. While the relationship did not violate Florida’s nepotism laws, Florida Statute 112.3135 (2a) shows that changes once mar ried. “A public ofcial may not ap point, employ, promote, or ad vance, or advocate for appoint ment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a posi tion in the agency in which the ofcial is serving or over which the ofcial exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public ofcial,” according to the statute. Relatives include husband and wife, but not individuals who are engaged, the statute says. Guy would have had to resign and the city hold a special elec tion, or Frink leave his post. Frink did not offer details during the council meeting as to why he was leaving, saying only “I must make a life decision and part ways with you as your city manager.” Frink’s contract with the city requires a 30-day notice if he resigns, but Frink said he would stay the additional time. “I will spend the next three and one-half months assisting you in a transition to a new City Manag er as you see necessary,” he wrote in his resignation letter. “It was a very difcult decision for me,” Frink said. The 56-year-old manager also apologized to his staff for not re vealing his decision, but said that announcing the decision during the public meeting was the best route. Councilman Ken Brown told Frink during the council meet ing that he had given Frink the highest possible scores across the board when evaluating him for the job four years ago, and his faith in Frink was well-founded. Frink’s salary is $118,000 an nually, plus benets. The city’s population is about 3,400 as of 2021, according to the U.S. Cen sus Bureau. Frink told the Chronicle he has enjoyed the full support of the board during the past four years and its stability and that support has made the job enjoyable. He said that being the city’s manager has been the best job he’s ever held. Fred Hiers is a reporter at the Citrus Chronicle. Email him at fred.hiers@chronicleonline.com.Ken Frink has garnered the respect and praise of his council members Fred Hiers / Chronicle Reporter Frink after his resignation announce ment.Car show rides biggest turnout to date By GEORGIA SULLIVAN Chronicle Reporter A host of Corvettes and Camaros both old and new lined the streets of downtown Inverness Sunday, March 26, during the annual Corvette & Camaro Only Car Show held in conjunction with the Vintage Market. The Citrus Vettes & Ca maros Car Club partnered this year with the Inverness Downtown Business Mer chants to bring about 50 ven dors to the lawn of the Old Courthouse Heritage Muse um for the Vintage Market while the cars were parked from Courthouse Square all the way down North Apopka and Main Street. The show had largest turn out ever with 168 cars regis tered this year, and a record of more than 5,000 people lled downtown Inverness on a beautiful, sunny Sunday to shop and browse the cars. A total of 60 awards were presented to the winners of the show. Close to $3,000 was raised to help support Citrus County veterans. The Citrus Vettes & Ca maros Car Club would like to thank Inverness Mayor Bob Plaisted, City Manag er Eric Williams along with the entire staff of Parks and Recreation and the City of Inverness Public Works for their support in helping make the event possible. They also want to thank all of the restaurants on Main Street, especially Stump knockers on the Square and the Courthouse Cafe, which opened early to accommo date everyone who attended the show. The show would not have been possible without the support and generosity from the 48 Citrus Vettes & Cama ros Car Club members who volunteered to work the show. They would also like to thank their sponsors: Cor porate Sponsor Wyoming Gun & Hunting Supplies, Ace Hardware Beverly Hills, Ace Hardware Crys tal River, Auto Zone Crystal River, Beyond The Stitch es, Biscuit Barn, Breakfast Station No. 9, Brooklyn Deli Too, Brother’s Piz za, Bubbaque’s, Cady’s Café, Century 21 Laurie Callahan, Charlie’s Fish House, Chicken King, Cit rus County Cruisers, Citrus Hills Nails, Cody’s Road house, Courthouse Cafe, Cove Restaurant, Culver’s, Corvette Central, Dock side Ice Cream, Fish Tales, Fresh Start Donuts, Frozen in Time, Grannie’s, Griot’s Garage, Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, Hy dro-Shine, Jim Green Jewel ers, LaCasita, Mama’s Café, Marguerita Grill, Marian na’s, Mr. B’s Car Wash, Nauti Time Seafood, New England Pastry & Café, Norton’s Riverside Sports Bar, OfceMax, Papa Wil lies Bar & Grill, Red’s, Sea food Seller & Café, Rustic Mama’s, Stumpknockers, The Cotton Club, Twist ed Oaks Golf Club, Ultra Graphics and World Fusion. Contact Chronicle Reporter Georgia Sullivan at 352-564-2929 or georgia.sullivan@chronicle online.com. Special to the Chronicle Citrus County residents enjoyed browsing the Corvettes and Camaros lining the streets of downtown Inverness Sunday, March 26, during the annual Corvette & Camaro Only Car Show along with the Vintage Market.Corvettes, Camaros and the Vintage Market Citrus Vettes & Camaros Car Club members brought their cars out for display for their annual Corvette & Camaro Only Car Show, which raised close to $3,000 for local veterans.

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If you have any questions you should contact the Hydr ological Data Section at (352) 796-7211. r r …r…rr†  …‡ rr „ˆ  r *From mouths of rivers**At King ‹ s Bay***At Mason ‹ s Creek rrr‰r‰ „ˆ (MORNING) (AFTERNOON) rRecordNormalMean temp.Departure from mean rTotal for the monthTotal for the yearNormal for the year Š‹0 -2 minimal, 3-4 low, 5-6 moderate, 7-9 high, 10+ very high Œr…… * r n Taken at Crystal River FRIDAY & SATURDAY MORNINGHigh: 83° Low: 63° Small chance of a pop-up shower and partly sunny. Yesterday0.01" 0.06"3.19" 11.28" As reported from https://citrusmosquito.org 30.15 Yesterday at 3 p.m.78%Yesterday observedGoodPollutantOzone Apr 13Apr 20Apr 27May 5 0 1Monday6 7Thursday2 3Tuesday 8 9 -or-Common AreasFriday 4 5Wednesday Daytona Bch.7567mcFort Lauderdale7870tFort Myers8068shGainesville7859mcHomestead7868tJacksonville7761pcKey West8074shLakeland8064shMelbourne7868sh TUEWED Albany72370.007054pcAlbuquerque77460.008354sAsheville7233Trace7544sAtlanta73360.007649sAtlantic City73450.007055pcAustin75530.007854sBaltimore78470.018361pcBillings81530.005336raBirmingham73480.007754sBoise66550.005431pcBoston75460.007052mcBuffalo57420.006153pcBurlington, VT70510.005945mcCharleston, SC68500.007456sCharleston, WV75360.007648sCharlotte73370.007850sChicago79520.007955sCincinnati75350.007549sCleveland66480.007155sColumbia, SC73370.007949sColumbus, OH73370.007549sConcord, NH74340.006646pcDallas76530.007756sDenver80500.008452pcDes Moines79500.008258sDetroit79480.007857sEl Paso84590.008764sEvansville, IN75450.007648sHarrisburg79420.008054pcHartford78350.007851pcHouston77570.007757shIndianapolis74430.007750sKansas City79460.007956sLas Vegas90590.008759mcLittle Rock76510.007853sLos Angeles68550.007054mcLouisville7745Trace7648sMemphis74500.007753sMilwaukee79550.007956sMinneapolis79500.008252sMobile75600.067561mcMontgomery74490.007759sNashville76440.007648s TUE Acapulco88/76/sAmsterdam51/46/raAthens67/52/pcBeijing72/39/pcBerlin55/36/raBermuda64/61/sCairo71/56/raCalgary42/31/snHavana84/73/raHong Kong76/73/mc Jerusalem52/44/ra 80/62n/a 79/60n/a 78/52n/a 82/570.10" 79/61n/a 4.20" TUEMON Withlacoochee at Holder26.8426.8434.64Tsala Apopka-Hernando36.6336.6238.66Tsala Apopka-Inverness37.6437.6439.73Tsala Apopka-Floral City38.8038.8141.37 Lisbon65/56/pcLondon50/41/raMadrid69/55/pcMexico City74/57/raMontreal54/41/clMoscow60/44/mcParis54/46/raRio81/69/pcRome68/48/mcSydney68/53/pcTokyo73/62/pcToronto72/51/mc Warsaw56/45/ra TUEWED New Orleans72640.006962shNew York City74520.007658mcNorfolk72380.007756sOklahoma City74500.027654sOmaha82490.008860sPalm Springs97650.008957pcPhiladelphia73450.007858pcPhoenix94660.009566pcPittsburgh73420.007652pcPortland, ME70370.006144pcPortland, OR52430.615136shProvidence, RI75370.007252mcRaleigh74370.007852sRapid City86390.006539pcReno65530.006231sRochester, NY72430.007255pcSacramento72530.006846sSalt Lake City82550.006741mcSan Antonio77550.007855sSan Diego64540.006352mcSan Francisco61550.006045sSavannah72530.007659sSeattle50390.285138shSpokane50430.265031rsSt. Louis79450.007953sSt. Ste Marie54370.006646pcSyracuse73370.007457mcTopeka81420.008356sWashington79440.008257s Miami7872shOcala8061mcOrlando7868shPensacola7564mcSarasota8366shTallahassee7860pcTampa8467shVero Beach7768shW. Palm Bch.7470t Chassahowitzka* 12:01 p.m.0.1 ftNonen/a8:07 a.m.0.0 ft2:09 p.m.0.1 ft Crystal River** 10:32 a.m.1.4 ft9:56 p.m.2.3 ft4:36 a.m.0.1 ft2:54 p.m.1.0 ft Withlacoochee* 8:13 a.m.2.3 ft6:34 p.m.3.4 ft2:05 a.m.-0.2 ft1:34 p.m.1.8 ft Homosassa*** 11:22 a.m.0.3 ft10:01 p.m.1.6 ft7:41 a.m.0.2 ft3:16 p.m.0.2 ft 7:53 pm7:05 am1:49 am 11:57 am 04/12WEDNESDAY7:076:537:537:2404/13THURSDAY7:057:547:548:24 Predominant: TreesWed lowmedhigh Yesterday at 3 p.m.54° 7 Yesterday81/59 94/3282/53 68 3 THURSDAY & FRIDAY MORNINGHigh: 83° Low: 63° Off and on showers. TODAY & TOMORROW MORNINGHigh: 82° Low: 63° A few showers. MODERATE. There is no burn ban. For established lawns and landscapes, irrigation may occur during only one (1) of the specified time periods, 12:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m., or 4:00 p.m. 11:59 p.m., on the allowable watering days below:Addresses with house numbers ending in: Questions, concerns or reporting violations, please call: City of Inverness at 352-726-2321; City of Crystal River at 352-795-4216, Ext. 313; unincorporated Citrus County at 352-527-7669. For more information, visit:https://www.citrusbocc.com/departments/water_resources/watering_restrictions.phpWEDNESDAY KEY TO CONDITIONS: c=cloudy; fg=fog; hz=haze; mc=mostly cloudy; pc=partly cloudy; ra=rain; rs=rain/snow; s=sunny; sh=showers; sm=smoke; sn=snow; ss=snow showers; t=thunderstorms 99, Blythe, Calif.14, Bondurant, Wyo. Today: East winds 20 to 25 knots with gusts up to 30 knots. Seas 3 to 5 feet. Bay and inland waters rough. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Tonight: East winds 15 WRNQRWVZLWKJXVWVXSWRbNQRWV 71° FORECAST FOR 3:00 P.M. Wednesday ALERT CITRUS SIGNUP Q To register for the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office’s Alert Citrus weather program, visit www.sheriffcitrus.org and click on the links to register. Q Create a profile, list how you want to be contacted in case of a weather emergency (text, mobile phone, home phone, email), then include the address(es) you want alerts for. You can choose what types of emergencies you want to hear about, and set a quiet period for no conduct. Q Those without computer access may call 352-2492705. said of the funding. “Let’s build this and bring our monkeys back.” A few members of the public opposed spending the money. County resident Paul Reinhardt, and former political candidate, said the county commission shouldn’t give money to bene t a private endeavor. The monkeys and the island were owned by the Lowman family and repre-sented by the Lowman Law Firm in Brooksville. The resort owners took care of the monkeys and island for the past several years, provid-ing monkey food, fruits and vegetables, and veterinary care and annual checkups. The Lowmans deeded the island property to HMI and are currently leasing the three monkeys to the non-pro t, Matt Lowman told the Chronicle. Reinhardt said the money should be used to help the poor in the county. He also called for Finegan to recuse herself from voting because she accepted a campaign donation from the Lowman family. Finegan said she’s voting to give the HMI nonpro t money, not the Lowmans. As for the new facility designed to be heated or cooled, Finegan said feder-al agencies, including the USDA, requires the facili-ty to be climate controlled similar to a zoo. But Commissioner Rebecca Bays said, “I’m having a really hard time with this one.” Bays said the county needed to diversify is reve-nue sources and not rely so much on tourism. She said that donating the $98,000 toward the monkey island wasn’t helping to diversify the county. “I don’t feel it’s prudent,” she said. Commissioner Holly Davis supported the spending, but admitted she was at rst taken aback by the price. But when she researched all that was involved in the construction, she said she better understood. Davis read off a list of the mate-rials and labor to her fellow board members that were needed for the project. Commission chairwoman Schlabach said she’s sup-ported HMI in its fundraising, but “I’d like to see a little more fundraising” and the money put toward clean-ing the river. Kinnard said that although $98,000 is a lot of money it wouldn’t be enough to clean much of the river. He said that will cost millions. Also in county business, the commission voted for a burn ban given the recent high winds and lack of rain. Fred Hiers is a reporter at the Citrus Chronicle. Email him at fred.hiers@chronicleonline.com. MONKEYSFrom page A1 “Crystal River is excited to celebrate our 100-year mark,” said Joe Meek, Crys-tal River’s mayor who also grew up in Crystal River. “This is an opportunity for our community to come to-gether, and recognize and celebrate what a unique and special community we live in. “We are blessed by those who have worked over the last century to make Crys-tal River an awesome place. Today, we continued to be recognized as one of the best cities and communities in the country. Crystal River is an amazing city, and we look forward to marking our centennial anniversary.” The city schedule of events for the entire community to participate in includes:QSaturday, April 15: Music Under the Stars from 7-10 p.m. at Kings Bay ParkQSaturday, April 22: Historic Cemetery Clean-up from 9 a.m. to noon at Crystal River Cemetery N. 3rd St. at NE 4th Ave, Crys-tal River (See fact box for details.)QSunday, April 23: Happy Hour Storytime with the Dumas family from 4-6 p.m. at St. Johns Mar-tini Bar, 568 N Citrus Ave, Crystal River.QFriday, May 5: First Friday from 5-9 p.m. at Town Square at N Citrus Avenue and U.S. 19, Crystal River.QSunday, May 21: Happy Hour Storytime with Dr. Buddy Powell from 4-6 p.m. at St. Johns Mar-tini Bar, 568 N Citrus Ave, Crystal River.QFriday, June 2: First Friday from 5-9 p.m. at Town Square at N Citrus Avenue and U.S. 19, Crystal River.QWednesday, June 21: Summer Solstice Drum Cir-cle at 6 p.m. at Town Square at North Citrus Avenue and U.S. 19, Crystal River.QMonday, July 3: Centennial Celebration from 5-9 p.m. at Town Square and also Kings Bay Park. The festivities will include a ceremonial proclamation meeting at the Old City Hall on Citrus Avenue, a golf cart and bike parade, live music, food vendors, games and reworks over the bay. There will also be a historical manatee scavenger hunt and a historical coloring book designed with Crystal River Primary School students. The July 3 event will replace the city’s traditional 4th of July celebration this year. For more information, visit the city’s website at crys-talriver .org. Nancy Kennedy can be reached at 352-564-2927 or by email at nkennedy@chronicleonline.com. CENTENNIALFrom page A1 to COVID, kids whose parents are incarcerated or whose par-ents have abandoned them. “These kids – they didn’t choose their parents, and they’re thrown into (often dire) situa-tions.” Simon said currently there are two high school seniors he and others are working with whose futures are precarious, and he and school social worker Joan Trehy are appealing to the com-munity for help. To protect their identities, the Chronicle is not using their names or any identifying infor-mation about the students. After the parent of one student died, the other parent struggled with grief in ways that made home life unsafe for the teenag-er, so he has been staying with friends. Trehy said he quali es for McKinney Vento status, which means he quali es for federal aid due to being home-less, she said. She also said he is “deserving” and talented and on a waitlist for college while he gets his GPA up because his home environment had made it dif cult for him to concentrate on his studies. “He was in survival mode and his grades were understandably not a priority at that time,” Trehy said. “Now that he is a bit more settled and focused on school, he needs some community sup-port in the form of a safe and re-liable vehicle so he can get a job to support himself. “A safe, reliable vehicle would make all the difference in the life of this sweet, kind, motivated, and very deserving young man.” The other student has a similar story. After his parents aban-doned him he went to live with a relative. He, too, is “deserving and talented” and has potential for an incredible jump start on a cre-ative career, Simon. However, the vehicle he had been driving is currently inop-erable and needs major repairs, which he can’t afford. “This student works to support himself and his car is his means of self-reliance, and he can’t be self-reliant anymore because he’s dependent on others giving him rides,” Simon said. The student also needs his car to meet with a mentor who has offered to help him with a career. Shaunda Burdette, executive director of the Citrus County Education Foundation, has of-fered to accept donations on be-half of these two students and be the point of contact for them. Nancy Kennedy can be reached at 352-564-2927 or by email at nkennedy@chronicleonline.com. STUDENTSFrom page A1 ambush position to attack of cers as they arrived. The front doors are glass, elevated from the sidewalk, and because of the re ection, the of cers could not see the shooter inside, Hum-phrey said. Of cer Cory Galloway retrieved a ri e from the trunk of the patrol car. “Cover for me,” he said.Galloway was training rookie Of cer Nickolas Wilt, who had graduated from the police acade-my just 10 days earlier. The videos show them walking up the stairs toward the front door when the gunman red a barrage of bullets. Wilt was shot in the head. Galloway’s body camera shows him taking cover behind a concrete planter at the bottom of the stair-case leading to the building. “The shooter has an angle on that of cer,” he is heard saying in the video. “We need to get up there.” As other of cers arrived, more gunshots are heard. Galloway red toward the gunman, then shouted, “I think he’s down,” and advanced into the building. Galloway was grazed in the shoulder. “I think you can see the tension in that video,” Humphrey said. The video shows Galloway approaching the suspect, who lay on the ground inside the lobby. As he walked, shards of broken glass crunched under his feet and the shooter’s body can be seen with a long ri e next to it. Wilt was transported in the back of a police car to a hospital, Hum-phrey said. In the chaotic rst min-utes, police treated and triaged the victims inside. Wilt was still in criti-cal but stable condition Tuesday, ac-cording to University of Louisville Hospital Chief Medical Of cer Dr. Jason Smith. SHOOTERFrom page A1

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Citrus County Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 2023 A5Ozello should remain natural, pristineIf the powers that be in this county allow the developer to go ahead with that debacle in Ozello, I will give up hope that they will ever come to their senses. All the negatives have been clearly laid out and that should be the end of it. When I rst visited Citrus County in the 1950s, it was all the things they said it would be, the nature coast, pristine. Is there no end to concret ing over every inch and clamoring for more people? Enough is enough. Too many rats in the cage.Some questions for IngogliaIt’s been three months since Blaise Ingoglia was crammed down the throats of Citrus County by redis tricting. Much like his hero Marjorie Taylor Green, Ingoglia has an intense need for attention. I thought I’d give him a chance for more attention by asking the fol lowing questions. Are you a member or supporter of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, three-percenters or Ku Klux Klan? Are you antisemitic or racist? Are you a QAnon conspiracist? Who won the 2020 presidential election? Remember Blaise, you’re addressing Citrus County, so there are no right or wrong answers, but I doubt you have the courage to answer these questions.Be careful at the groomersAll pet lovers out there that take care of their animals and take them to a groomer, be careful es-pecially if they don’t want you to come inside because they must be hiding some-thing. Our little dog was frantic, and his job wasn’t done very well, and if you care about your pet, if they don’t watch inside, go in there every 15 minutes and check on your dog. Ours was really traumatized and we’re going to avoid groomers from now on.See the strides made by Florida legislatureOnce again, Democrat Nancy Tomasel li of Hernando doesn’t miss the opportunity in your newspaper to criticize the state legislature, Gov-ernor DeSantis for signing into law the permit-less concealed carry of rearms. And, once again, she fails to mention the strides the same legislative body has made and continues to make in keeping our schools in Florida safe by having SROs or armed guardian personnel present in each school to ensure the safety of our school children from would-be mentally deranged shooters or other lunatics that would harm them. In fact, she totally ignores the observation re-tired Colonel Kevin Adams of FWC appearing in your paper on the same day, that the same legislative body in the last session now offers equal protection to private schools since 2018. All I can say about Ms. Tomasel li’s anti-gun rhetoric is why didn’t she move to a state like New York where crime is rampant despite having some of the strictest gun laws in the entire United States.If you want a good chuckleFolks, with all the sadness going on, if you want to chuckle every day and have a sense of humor, turn on the Weather Channel. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, 60, 70, 80 percent, 90 percent rain. That’s when you wake up. By the time you go out and come back here in a couple of hours, it’s all gone. There’s no rain at all, so you can prepare before you leave the house and shut off the windows and cover everything you don’t wan-na get wet, but by the time you come home, it’s like it never happened and they’re in a different mindset. Way to go, Weather Channel.Keep up the great workRegarding the sound off on Sunday, April 9. Thank you to the person referencing that the Chronicle is getting better and better with sto ries. I had the same feeling soon after the hiring of Jim Gouvellis as the new exec utive editor. I have always loved the Chronicle, but now it seems there is even better reporting and feature stories. I also like the fact that the Thursday editions now include more shing and outdoor-related articles. Keep up the great work.Vote based on issues, not partyThere was a recent Sound Off complaining liberals are leading our town in the wrong direction. This is re-ally strange because all of our county commissioners are Republicans. Most of us agree our commissioners are leading us in a direction opposite to the wishes of most of our citizens. Sadly, this is what happens when people vote along party lines and not for the issues that affect their lives.Let’s rename Monkey IslandSince I have been in Flori da, even when snowbirding from Michigan, my opinion about Monkey Island should carry some credibility. Let’s call it “Baker’s Monkey Island” after the famous Bobby and Tammy Sue Bak er who had air-conditioned dog houses. Africa probably provides air conditioning and maybe Silver Springs did too in their heyday.Delivery is too erraticThis is in response to the person the other day that put a Sound Off in saying how good the paper has become. Well, the paper might be better, but the delivery has become so erratic that I’m canceling my subscription next time it’s due. SOUND OFFCALL 563-0579 See SOUND OFF , page A7 SOLARENERGYISFREE! 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A6 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle OBITUARIES Martin JoachimAug. 26, 1961 – March 25, 2023Martin Joachim, 61, of Beverly Hills, Florida, passed away on March 25, 2023. He was born in Bethpage, New York on August 26, 1961 to Joe and Joan Joachim. He was married to Sharon Joachim for 8 years. Marty worked for him self as dealer/broker of an tiques and all things valu able. He had a passion for coins, antiques, his chil dren, martial arts, and help ing people. He is preceded in death by his parents, Joe and Joan Joachim of Inver ness. He is survived by two brothers, Joe Joachim of Inverness, Jeff Joachim of Lecanto; his two children, Amber and Ryan McPherson of Pace, Florida and Adam and Heath er Joachim of Far ragut, Tennessee; as well as seven grandchildren and many close friends. Marty was a purveyor of historical documents, coins, American artifacts, art, and books. He was known for his limitless knowledge of Abe Lincoln, the Civil War and antiques of all sorts. Services will be held April 16 at 2 PM at Charles E. Davis funeral home in Inverness, Florida. In Lieu of owers, please make a donation to your favorite charity. Florida fight over ‘baby boxes’ part of bigger culture war By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE — Safe Haven Baby Boxes and A Safe Haven for New borns are two charities with similar names and the same goal: providing distressed mothers with a safe place to surrender their unwanted newborns instead of dump ing them in trash cans or along roadsides. But a ght between the two is brewing in the Flor ida Senate. An existing state law, supported and promot ed by the Miami-based A Safe Haven, allows parents to surrender newborns to reghters and hospital workers without giving their names. A new bill, support ed by the Indiana-based Safe Haven Baby Boxes, would give re stations and hospitals the option to install the group’s ventilat ed and climate-controlled boxes, where parents could drop off their babies with out interacting with re or hospital employees. The bill recently passed the Florida House unani mously, but there is a long-shot effort to block it in the Senate, where it might be considered this week. Opponents call the boxes costly, unnecessary and po tentially dangerous for the babies, mothers, reghters and hospital workers. Each side accuses the other of be ing nancially driven. The ght is getting extra attention because Republi can Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida’s GOP-dominated Legislature are expected to soon ban abortions per formed more than six weeks after conception, lowering the state’s current limit of 15 weeks. Similar baby-box bills have been approved recent ly by lawmakers in Kansas, Montana and Mississippi and sent to those states’ gov ernors for approval. West Virginia’s governor recent ly signed such a bill. The boxes were already allowed in nine states, mostly in the Midwest and South, with the largest numbers in Indiana, Arkansas, and Kentucky, re spectively. About 145 boxes have been installed since the rst in 2016, with 25 new borns surrendered through one, Safe Haven Baby Box es says. Just one baby has been left in Florida’s only box, installed two years ago at a central Florida rehouse without state authorization. The boxes open from out side the building, allowing the parent to place the baby in a bassinet as a bag con taining instructions and ma ternal medical advice drops out. The door locks when it is reclosed and the agency is notied electronically. Safe Haven Baby Boxes says the average response time is two minutes. “Giving women an option of (total) anonymity is just that, an option. Why would (opponents) want to take that away from women?” said the group’s founder, reghter Monica Kelsey, who was abandoned as a newborn and is an outspo ken abortion opponent. She accused A Safe Haven for Newborns of fearing a loss of grants if the boxes are in stalled, something the group denies.Al Jaffee, longtime cartoonist for Mad magazine, dead at 102 By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK — Al Jaf fee, Mad magazine’s award-winning cartoonist and ageless wise guy who delighted millions of kids with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,” has died. He was 102. Jaffee died Monday in Manhattan from multiple organ failure, according to his granddaughter, Fani Thomson. He had retired at the age of 99. Mad magazine, with its wry, sometimes pointed send-ups of politics and culture, was essential read ing for teens and preteens during the baby-boom era and inspiration for count less future comedians. Few of the magazine’s self-billed “Usual Gang of Idiots” con tributed as much – and as dependably – as the impish, bearded cartoonist. For de cades, virtually every issue featured new material by Jaffee. His collected “Fold-Ins,” taking on everyone in his unmistakably broad vi sual style from the Beatles to TMZ, was enough for a four-volume box set pub lished in 2011. Readers savored his FoldIns like dessert, turning to them on the inside back cover after looking through such other favorites as Don Martin’s “Spy. vs. Spy” and Dave Berg’s “The Lighter Side.” The premise, orig inally a spoof of the old Sports Illustrated and Play boy magazine foldouts, was that you started with a full-page drawing and ques tion on top, folded two des ignated points toward the middle and produced a new and surprising image, along with the answer. The Fold-In was supposed to be a onetime gag, tried out in 1964 when Jaffee satirized the biggest celeb rity news of the time: Eliz abeth Taylor dumping her husband, Eddie Fisher, in favor of “Cleopatra” co-star Richard Burton. Jaffee rst showed Taylor and Burton arm in arm on one side of the picture, and on the op posite side a young, hand some man being held back by a policeman. Fold the picture in and Taylor and the young man are kissing. The idea was so popular that Mad editor Al Feldstein wanted a follow-up. Jaffee devised a picture of 1964 GOP presidential contend ers Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater that, when collapsed, became an image of Richard Nixon. “That one really set the tone for what the cleverness of the Fold-Ins has to be,” Jaffee told the Boston Phoe nix in 2010. “It couldn’t just be bringing someone from the left to kiss someone on the right.” Jaffee was also known for “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,” which delivered exactly what the title prom ised. A comic from 1980 showed a man on a shing boat with a noticeably bent reel. “Are you going to reel in the sh?” his wife asks. “No,” he says, “I’m going to jump into the water and marry the gorgeous thing.” Jaffee didn’t just sati rize the culture; he helped change it. His parodies of advertisements included such future real-life prod ucts as automatic redialing for a telephone, a com puter spell checker and grafti-proof surfaces. He also anticipated peelable stamps, multiblade razors and self-extinguishing cig arettes. Jaffee’s admirers ranged from Charles M. Schulz of “Peanuts” fame and “Far Side” creator Gary Larson to Jon Stewart and Ste phen Colbert, who marked Jaffee’s 85th birthday by featuring a Fold-In cake on “The Colbert Report.” When Stewart and “The Daily Show” writers put together the best-selling “America (The Book),” they asked Jaffee to contribute a Fold-In. “When I was done, I called up the producer who’d con tacted me, and I said, ‘I’ve nished the Fold-In, where shall I send it?’ And he said – and this was a great com pliment – ‘Oh, please Mr. Jaffee, could you deliver it in person? The whole crew wants to meet you,’” he told The Boston Phoenix. Jaffee received numerous awards, and in 2013 was in ducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, the ceremony taking place at San Diego Comic-Con Internation al. In 2010, he contributed illustrations to Mary-Lou Weisman’s “Al Jaffee’s Mad Life: A Biography.” The following year, Chron icle Books published “The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010.” Art was the saving pres ence of his childhood, which left him with per manent distrust of adults and authority. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, but for years was torn between the U.S., where his father (a department store man ager) preferred to live, and Lithuania, where his mother (a religious Jew) longed to return. In Lithuania, Jaffee endured poverty and bul lying, but also developed his craft. With paper scarce and no school to attend, he learned to read and write through the comic strips mailed by his father. By his teens, he was set tled in New York City and so obviously gifted that he was accepted into the High School of Music & Art. His schoolmates included Will Elder, a future Mad illus trator, and Harvey Kurtz mann, a future Mad editor. (His mother, meanwhile, remained in Lithuania and was apparently killed during the war). He had a long career be fore Mad. He drew for Timely Comics, which be came Marvel Comics; and for several years sketched the “Tall Tales” panel for the New York Herald Tri bune. Jaffee rst contribut ed to Mad in the mid-1950s. He left when Kurtzmann quit the magazine, but came back in 1964. Mad lost much of its read ership and edge after the 1970s, and Jaffee outlived virtually all of the maga zine’s stars. But he rarely lacked for ideas even as his method, drawing by hand, remained mostly unchanged in the digital era. “I’m so used to being involved in drawing and knowing so many people that do it, that I don’t see the magic of it,” Jaffee told the publication Graphic NYC in 2009. “If you reect and think about it, I’m sitting down and suddenly there’s a whole big illustration of people that appears. I’m astounded when I see ma gicians work; even though I know they’re all tricks. You can imagine what someone thinks when they see some one drawing freehand and it’s not a trick. It’s very im pressive.” Stephen Morton / AP Mad Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee attends an event to honor veteran contributors of MAD Magazine at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the National Cartoonists Society on Oct. 11, 2011 in Savannah, Ga. Jaffee died Monday at the age of 102. Richard T. Brown FuneralDirector/Owner Br ow n Fu neralHome&Crematory Le cant o, Fl orida IgrayneBrownDias FuneralDirector Tw oGener at ionsserving yo uwith co mpassiona te , personaliz ed servic e. 352-795-0111 www.br ow nfuneralhome.com rn rr r n r  n n nrn  ­  € n rn‚n ƒ  rn n  ƒ  APRI L IS DISTRACTEDDRIVING AW ARENESSMONTH.Howwillyou ch angeyourhabitstohelpendthis deadlysituation?Herearesomeeasyideas: Tu rn offyourphoneorensureit’soutof re ach beforeyoubeginyourdrive.Ifyoumusttakeacall,ensureit’shand’s-free. 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Citrus County Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 2023 A7Ozello is not a trash dumpA recent letter to the editor on April 7 implied that Ozello is unkempt, not pristine and that the former Fish Creek camp was a community trash dump. This was an insult to the residents of that community and was expressed only as an opinion from someone who doesn’t represent the people who reside in Ozello. Concerned citizens should take a ride into Ozello to enjoy the natural beauty that still exists.Nothing’s getting donePreviously the paper had stated that demolition at the mall would start in March. I haven’t seen a thing happening. While I’m at it, what about Betz Farms? Seems like ev-erybody has all these big grandiose ideas but nothing seems to get accomplished in this county. What’s the problem? Could it be our commissioners?Free my medicineOur republic is so politically engaged in democrat-ic ghting that it obscures a lack of leadership in total. We have medical taxes and medications that lag behind other civilized nations. We pay. Theirs is free. Wake up America.More important issues than drag queensI’m fairly sickened by Republicans using drag queens as a talking point where all these drag queens are destroying our coun-try. They act like they’re running up and down our streets hiding behind trees and peeking in windows at night. I’m 73 years old and don’t believe I’ve ever seen one of these people. It’s just another silly talking point Republicans are using to take our minds off the important issues. As an old school Republican, I nd it disgusting.So true: Watch them groom your petThis is in reference to Sunday’s sound off where a caller stated you need to watch them groom your pet. This is so true. I observed this in south Florida, they would pull on the dog ears just for no reason at all. Well, there you could watch through a window and they would abuse animals. So, can you believe what they would do if you’re not watching? I’m glad that person called in regarding that issue.Youth should make decent livingCounty commissioners should be more concerned with bringing high-paying jobs to the county than with making a few rich folks richer through tourism. I was told to get off my duff and go get a job. I got off my duff a long time ago – I’m a long-retired airline captain. My Sound Off is based on taking care of the youth in our county. They should be able to make a decent living and not be forced to work for the slave wages the tour ist industry provides.Hypocrisy in the churchThe article about church afliation was intriguing. It left out one thing, and included at least one piece of misinformation. Most professors are not atheists or agnostics, as Pastor Ber-tine suggested. The reporter could’ve asked the question “how do you know that?” The pastor used that accu-sation to scapegoat away from the fact that bigotry and hypocrisy are driving the loss of our young peo-ple from the church.Easter’s not about the eggsI’m looking at Easter Sunday’s front page Chronicle, and this “grab as many eggs as they can” and these celebrations that are held, to me, ies in the face of what Christianity is all about. There’s nothing wrong with the kids having fun, but why do we have to rush to grab as many as we can grab. Why not tell them, “Hey kids, just take your time and maybe even help your friend?” I think that would be a better way to celebrate.This litter is embarrassingEaster Sunday morning and I’m feeling uplifted as I head to church. The feeling didn’t last long as I’m driv-ing north on Highway 41 out of Hernando, litter once again covering both sides of the highway. This prob-lem in our county never seems to go away. People have been complaining since I moved here about 30 years ago and nothing ever seems to be done. If they can’t be enforced to make haulers secure their trash loads then, then county commissioners or whoever has the authority, please hire highway main-tenance to clean weekly. It’s such a disgrace. Aren’t you embarrassed living here sometimes? SOUND OFFFrom page A5 FOOD PROGRAMS FOOD PANTRIES QWe Care Food Pantry is closed. QSt. Elizabeth Ann Se ton Catholic Church: The church in Citrus Springs serves those in need with free boxes of food from its food pantry. Please call 352-465-6613. QRed Level Baptist Church: Living Bread Food Pantry at Red Level Baptist Church has a food distribu tion from 4-5 p.m. the sec ond Wednesday, and from 9-10 a.m. the last Wednes day each month for anyone who is in need of food in the community. The church also has toiletries and cloth ing. Items will be distribut ed at the Red Level Baptist Church parking lot, 11025 W. Dunnellon Road, Crys tal River, one mile off U.S. 19 on West Dunnellon Road (County Road 488). Those in need of emergency as sistance at other times may call the church at 352-795-2086. Visit redlevelchurch.com. QNorth Oak Church: Food and non-food items are available on the fourth Saturday of every month at North Oak Church in Citrus Springs, from 10 a.m. until noon. These two ministries are open to anyone who has a need and there is no charge. Enter the church property from North Cit rus Springs Boulevard and a supply of paper products, detergents, personal items and more will be brought to your car. Drive around, following the driveway, and food items will also be brought to the vehicle. Then exit onto North Elk cam Boulevard. Items vary based on availability while supplies last. More informa tion on the website: north oakbc.org. QCitrus County Family Resource Center: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (holiday hours vary), 3660 N. Carl G. Rose Highway, Hernan do. For more information, call 352-344-1001. QDaystar Life Center: 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), 6751 W. Gulf to Lake Highway, Crystal Riv er. 352-795-8668. Food for dogs and cats may also be available. Other assistance available. A community ser vice resource. QFirst Baptist Church of Homosassa Life Care Cen ter: 9 to 10:30 a.m. Mon days and Thursdays for bread distribution at 10540 W. Yulee Drive, Homosassa. Homosassa residents may receive a bag of canned and dry goods once a month. Call 352-628-3858. QSt. Timothy Luther an Church and Life Tree Church: provide a food pan try from 9:30 a.m. to noon every Tuesday at Life Tree Church at 1501 SE U.S. 19, Crystal River. Call 352-403-1498. QSt. Anne’s Episcopal Church: Food Pantry is now the rst four Wednesdays of the month from 2:30-4 p.m. in the parish hall (never on fth Wednesday), 9870 W. Fort Island Trail, Crystal River. Registration and ID are required. For informa tion, call 352-795-2176, xt. 101. 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A10 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Special to the Chronicle Two local retired educators recently joined a state contingent of Delta Kappa Gamma International Society of Key Woman Educators to meet with state leaders and advocate for our public schools. Shown in the office of State Sen. Dennis Baxley are Bonnie Ignico (seated in the Senator’s chair and invited by the senator to do so) and Ellie Esler (slightly obscured second row, second from left). For more about the local chapter of DKG, reach president Michelle Josey at 352-302-5946. TWO LOCAL EDUCATORS ADVOCATE FOR CITRUS SCHOOLS Special to the Chronicle Homosassa Lions Club presented Boy Scout Troop 418 with a check for $500 to help them get off to a great start. The troop meets at the Elks Lodge on Grover Cleveland on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. Pictured from left are: Lion Dan Fox, scout coordinator Pete Ward, scout John Westcamp and Lion Cheryl Fox. HOMOSASSA LIONS DONATE TO BOY SCOUTS Local dementia expert’s second book arrives SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Debbie Selsavage, a cer tied dementia practitioner whose ABC of Dementia workshops have been attend ed by more than a thousand people a year in west-central Florida, has just published a new book designed to help dementia care partners con tinue their learning experi ence at home. Entitled “The ABC of De mentia,” it replicates in print or digital formats the teach ings about person-centered compassionate care that are imparted in Selsavage’s pop ular workshops. At 298 pages, it is divided into two sections; the rst containing the content of the ABC of Dementia work shops, and the second being 28 additional chapters of facts, tips and statistics use ful for understanding Alzhei mer’s disease and the many other causes of dementia. Selsavage’s rst book, en titled “Coping with Demen tia,” contained 72 of her col umns that have appeared in the Citrus County Chronicle over a period of six years. Both books are available at Amazon. “The ABC of De mentia” is available in print for $24.95 and in Kindle digital format for $2.99. Selsavage reports that 50 copies of her new book will be given away at the ninth annual Coping with Demen tia Care Partner Conference in Beverly Hills on April 20. For more information about the book and the conference, call the author at 352-422-3663 or email deb@coping.today. Special to the Chronicle Debbie Selsavage, a certified dementia practitioner and train er/consultant in the Positive Approach to Care, displays her new book about the principles and practice of person-cen tered compassionate care. rnMo nda y-A pp tO nly Tu et hru Fr i9:30 -4 :30 r rn   r n 1657 W. GULFTOLAKEHWY(2MI.E.OFHWY.491&44)•LECANTO rrrn Faux Wo odBlinds, Shades,Shutters, Ve rticals,Cellular rnr rnr YO UARENOT ALONE!We offerafullspectrumoftrusted andprofessionalinhomecareservices tohelpourclientsmaintaintheir independenceinthecomfortof theirownhomes. We are celebrating ofserving seniorsinthe community 15 NOTICEOFINTENTTO CONSIDERANORDINANCE TOESTABLISHORCHANGE REGULATIONSAFFECTING THEUSEOFLANDTheCitrusCountyBoardofCountyCommissioners(BCC)proposestoadoptthefollowingbyordinance: ANORDINANCEOFCITRUSCOUNTY, FLORIDA,APOLITICALSUBDIVISIONOFTHEST AT EOFFLORIDA,AMENDINGTHE CITRUSCOUNTYLANDUSE AT LASMAP ANDTHESUGARMILLWOODSOAKVILLAGEMASTERPLANBYREDESIGNATINGAPPROXIMATELY49.2ACRESFROMTHEPLANNEDDEVELOPMENTRESIDENTIALDISTRICT(SINGLE-FAMILYDESIGNATION) TOTHEPLANNEDDEVELOPMENTRESIDENTIALDISTRICT(MULTI-FAMILY DESIGNATION).PROVIDINGFORMODIFICATIONSTHATMAYARISEFROM CONSIDERATION AT PUBLICHEARING; PROVIDINGFORCODIFICATION,ANDSCRIVENER’SERRORS;PROVIDINGFOR SEVERABILITY;ANDPROVIDINGFORAN EFFECTIVEDATE. AA-22-07Dr.MichaelWilburnforSweetwater HomesofCitrus,Inc.Requesttoamendthe LandDevelopmentCode(LDC)AtlasMapandthe Sugarmill Wo odsOakVillageMasterPlan. LOCATION: Section29, To wnship20South,Range 18East;morespeci cally,aportionof Tr actX-B, Sugarmill Wo odsOakVillage,lyingonVillage CenterCircleinHomosassa(AlternateKeyNumber 2222271).Acompletelegaldescriptionison le withtheLandDevelopmentDivision. TheCitrusCountyBoardofCounty Commissioners(BCC)willconducta PublicHearingonMay11,2023 AA-22-07Dr.MichaelWilburnfor SweetwaterHomesofCitrus,Inc. at5:01PMatthe CitrusCountyCourthouse 110N.Apopka Av enue,Room100 Inverness,Florida34450 AllcitizensenteringtheCitrusCountyCourthouse forthemeetingwillbescreened.Ifyouaresick, pleasestayhome.Acopyoftheproposedordinance(s)andsupporting materialsareavailableforpublicinspectionandcopyingbetweenthehoursof8:00A.M.and5:00P. M.,MondaythroughFriday,attheDepartment ofGrowthManagement,3600 We stSovereign Path,Lecanto,Florida34461.Formoreinformation aboutthisapplication,pleasecontacttheLandDevelopmentDivisionat(352)527-5239. Sinecesitauntraductordeespañolporfavorhaga arreglosconelCondadodentrodedosdíasde lanoti cacióndelapublicación(352-527-5370) Ifanypersondecidestoappealanydecisionmade bytheboardwith re spect toanymatterconsidered atthismeetingorhearing,heorshewillneeda re cordoftheproceedings,andforsuchpurpose,he orshemayneedtoinsurethataverbatim re cordof theproceedingsismade,which re cordincludesall testimonyandevidenceuponwhichtheappealisto bebased.Anyperson re quiring re asonableaccommodation atthismeetingbecauseofadisabilityor physicalimpairmentshouldcontacttheCounty Administrator’sOf ce,3600 W. SovereignPath, Suite267,Lecanto,FL34461,(352)527-5210, atleasttwodaysbeforethemeeting.Ifyouarehearingorspeechimpaired,dial7-1-1,1-800-9558771(TTY)or1-800-955-8770(v),viaFloridaRelay Service.ChairmanPlanningandDevelopmentCommission CitrusCounty,Florida r n r n    n       ­­ r r n r r r r r r r r r r € € ‚ NOTICEOFINTENTTO CONSIDERANORDINANCE TOESTABLISHORCHANGE REGULATIONSAFFECTING THEUSEOFLANDTheCitrusCountyBoardofCountyCommissioners (BCC)proposestoadoptthefollowingbyordinance:ANORDINANCEOFCITRUSCOUNTY,FLORIDA,APOLITICALSUBDIVISIONOFTHEST AT EOF FLORIDAAMENDINGTHECITRUSCOUNTY FUTURELANDUSEMAPBYREDESIGNATING APPROXIMATELY45.6ACRESFROMCL,LOWINTENSITYCOASTALANDLAKESDISTRICT; LDR,LOWDENSITYRESIDENTIALDISTRICT;ANDGNC,GENERALCOMMERCIALDISTRICT,TO RV P, RECREATIONALVEHICLE PA RK/ CAMPGROUNDDISTRICT,ANDONTHELAND DEVELOPMENTCODE AT LASMAPFROM CL,LOWINTENSITYCOASTALANDLAKESDISTRICT;LDR,LOWDENSITYRESIDENTIALDISTRICT;ANDGNC,GENERALCOMMERCIALDISTRICT,TO RV P, RECREATIONALVEHICLE PA RK/CAMPGROUNDDISTRICT,AND ADOPTAMASTERPLANFORAN RV PA RK; PROVIDINGFORCONFLICTS;PROVIDINGFORSEVERABILITY;PROVIDINGFORCODIFICATION,ANDSCRIVENER’SERRORS;PROVIDINGFORMODIFICATIONSTHATMAYARISEFROM CONSIDERATION AT PUBLICHEARING;AND PROVIDINGFORANEFFECTIVEDATE.CPA/AA/PUD-23-03MichaelWilburnfor Ve erReal EstateInc.Section22, To wnship19South,Range17East,Parcel 31400,AlternateKeyNumber1122830.Acomplete legaldescriptionison lewiththeLandDevelopment Division.TheCitrusCountyPlanningandDevelopmentCommission(PDC)willconductaPublicHearingon thefollowingapplicationon May4,2023 ,at9:00AMin theLecantoGovernmentBuilding,Room166,3600 W. So vereignPath,Lecanto,Florida .Pleasenotethat thePDCmeetingbeginsat9:00AM.Theactualtime thataparticularitemisdiscussedwillvarydependingonhowfastthePDCmovesthroughtheagenda.Interestedpartiesmayappearatthemeetingandbeheardwith re specttotheproposedapplication.Acopyoftheproposedordinance(s)andsupportingmaterialsareavailableforpublicinspectionandcopyingbetweenthehoursof8:00A.M.and5:00 P. M., MondaythroughFriday,attheDepartmentofGrowth Management,3600 We stSovereignPath,Lecanto,FL 34461.Formoreinformationaboutthisapplication,pleasecontacttheLandDevelopmentDivisionat(352) 527-5239.Ifanypersondecidestoappealanydecisionmade by theboardwith re specttoanymatterconsideredatthis meetingorhearing,heorshewillneeda re cordofthe proceedingsand,forsuchpurpose,heorshemayneed toensurethataverbatim re cordoftheproceedingsis made,which re cordincludesalltestimonyandevidence uponwhichtheappealistobebased. Anyperson re quiring re asonableaccommodationatthis meetingbecauseofadisabilityorphysicalimpairment shouldcontacttheCountyAdministrator’sOf ce,3600 W. SovereignPath,Suite267,Lecanto,FL34461,(352) 527-5210,atleasttwodaysbeforethemeeting.Ifyouare hearingorspeechimpaired,dial7-1-1,1-800-955-8771(TTY)or1-800-955-8770(v),viaFloridaRelayService. Sinecesitauntraductordeespañolporfavorhaga arreglosconelCondadodentrodedosdíasdela noti cacióndelapublicación(352-527-5370). ChairmanPlanningandDevelopmentCommissionCitrusCounty,Florida r r r n n n n r r   r n     ­   €‚­ ‚ r r n r r r r r r r r r r

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A12 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Citrus County ChronicleFlorida lawmakers pursue death penalty for child rapes By JIM SAUNDERS News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — In a move that likely would spur a constitutional ght, Florida lawmakers appear ready to pass a proposal that would allow the death pen alty for people who commit sexual batteries on children under age 12. The House is scheduled Thursday to take up its ver sion of the bill (HB 1297), while the Senate version (SB 1342) was approved Tuesday by the Rules Com mittee, positioning it to go to the full Senate. The proposal comes after decades of U.S. Supreme Court and Florida Supreme Court rulings that have said it is unconstitutional to exe cute defendants in rape cases. A Senate staff analysis said nobody has been executed for a non-murder crime in the United States since 1964. In a rebuke of the court precedents, the House and Senate bills say that a 1981 Florida Supreme Court case and a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court case were “wrongly decided,” with the Senate version saying “such cases are an egregious infringe ment of the states’ power to punish the most heinous of crimes.” Senate bill sponsor Jona than Martin, a Fort Myers Republican who is a for mer prosecutor, said the bill would create needed “constitutional boundaries by providing a sentencing procedure for those heinous crimes” that would be simi lar to death-penalty laws for murder. “If an individual rapes an 11-year-old, a 10-year-old, a 2-year-old or a 5-year-old, they should be subject to the death penalty,” Martin said Tuesday after the Rules Committee approved his bill. Aaron Wayt, who repre sented the Florida Associ ation of Criminal Defense Lawyers at Tuesday’s meet ing, said people want “ven geance” when children are victims of sexual batteries, but he pointed to U.S. Su preme Court precedent on the issue. “This bill invites a longer, costlier (legal) process for the victim and their family that they will endure,” Wayt said. “While this crime, anyone convicted of it is vile, heinous, the Constitu tion itself, the case law, the Supreme Court demands a maximum of life in prison. And so while it’s not the vengeance we all want, it’s the justice that the Constitu tion demands.” Under the bills, defen dants could receive death sentences based on the rec ommendations of at least eight of 12 jurors. Judges would have discretion to impose the death penalty or sentence defendants to life in prison. If fewer than eight jurors recommend death, defendants would receive life sentences.The proposal comes after decades of rulings that have said it is unconstitutional to execute defendants in rape casesProposed measure would defer prison time for pregnant women By RYAN DAILEY News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A measure that moved forward Tuesday in the House would allow pregnant women con victed of felonies to seek to delay going to prison for up to three months after giv ing birth – a move that one supporter said will “save ba bies.” The House Justice Appro priations Subcommittee vot ed 14-1 to approve the bill (HB 779), with Rep. Berny Jacques, R-Seminole, cast ing the lone dissenting vote. The proposal needs approval from the Judiciary Commit tee before it could be consid ered by the full House. Bill sponsor Dianne Hart, D-Tampa, said she drafted the bill, dubbed “Ava’s Law,” in response to the death of a baby born to a woman in the Alachua County Jail in 2021. Erica Thompson was booked into the jail after be ing arrested for a violation of probation. Thompson informed ofcers she was pregnant and having contrac tions. Thompson gave birth after she was processed into the facility. The baby, Ava, was born three months premature and died hours after being transported to a hospital. “Thompson gave birth alone in her cell,” Hart told the House panel. “The child, Ava, was then transferred to the hospital, but later died. We must think about all the other incarcerated mothers who have faced situations like this one, and we cannot continue to fail them.” Hart said the bill would give judges discretion in such situations. “Remember, only the judge has that discretion, based on certain charges, so it’s strictly up to (the judge) whether or not he will al low a woman to remain out while she gives birth to her baby,” Hart said. Rep. 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Citrus County Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 2023 A13 Money & Markets A click of the wrist gets you more at www.chronicleonline.com 3,400 3,600 3,800 4,000 4,200 OA ND JF M 3,920 4,040 4,160 S&P 500Close: 4,108.94Change: -0.17 (flat) 10 DAYS 29,000 30,000 31,000 32,000 33,000 34,000 35,000 OA ND JF M 32,280 33,040 33,800 Dow Jones industrialsClose: 33,684.79Change: 98.27 (0.3%) 10 DAYS Advanced 1808Declined 572New Highs 41 New Lows 12 Vol. (in mil.) 3,333 Pvs. Volume 3,088 4,3063,933 2078 1322 64 103 NYSE NASD DOW 33,781.29 33,586.75 33,684.79 +98.27 +0.29% +1.62% DOW Trans. 14,411.14 14,208.46 14,360.78 +163.12 +1.15% +7.23% DOW Util. 973.66 966.06 971.03 +1.00 +0.10% +0.38% NYSE Comp. 15,567.28 15,427.18 15,520.92 +93.74 +0.61% +2.22% NASDAQ 12,091.27 12,011.40 12,031.88 -52.48 -0.43% +14.96%S&P 500 4,124.26 4,102.61 4,108.94 -0.17 ...% +7.02% S&P 400 2,509.70 2,477.19 2,499.33 +22.14 +0.89% +2.84% Wilshire 5000 40,793.70 40,553.01 40,640.03 +44.07 +0.11% +6.74% Russell 2000 1,794.45 1,776.90 1,786.59 +14.15 +0.80% +1.44% HIGH LOW CLOSE CHG %CHG YTD Stocks Recap AT&T Inc T 14.46 22.84 19.69 +.12 +0.6 s s s +7.0 +16.0 1.11 Ametek Inc AME 106.17 148.06 137.02 +.24 +0.2 s t t -1.9 +3.2 27 1.00f Anheuser-Busch InBev BUD 44.51 67.09 65.11 +.15 +0.2 t s t +8.4 +11.9 26 1.10e Bank of America BAC 26.32 40.40 28.71 +.77 +2.8 s t s -13.3 -27.7 9 0.88 Capital City Bank CCBG 24.59 r 36.86 29.04 -.51 -1.7 t t t -10.6 +19.2 12 0.72f Citigroup C 40.01 54.56 47.20 +.68 +1.5 s t s +4.4 -5.2 6 2.04 Disney DIS 84.07 r 133.59 100.42 -.39 -0.4 s s s +15.6 -24.6 55 ... Duke Energy DUK 83.76 116.33 99.35 +.22 +0.2 t s s -3.5 -9.9 30 4.00f EPR Properties EPR 33.92 56.38 39.70 +.94 +2.4 s s s +5.2 -22.8 22 3.30 Equity Commonwealth EQC 19.41 r 23.57 20.90 -.06 -0.3 t s s +0.1 -5.4 80 5.25e Exxon Mobil Corp XOM 79.29 119.63 115.35 +.81 +0.7 s s s +4.6 +41.8 9 3.64 Ford Motor F 10.61 r 16.68 12.87 +.15 +1.2 s s s +10.7 -12.1 0.60a Gen Electric GE 46.55 97.87 93.91 -.45 -0.5 s s t +44.3 +33.9 0.32 HCA Holdings Inc HCA 164.47 279.02 271.59 +.60 +0.2 s s s +13.2 +8.9 14 2.40f Home Depot HD 264.51 r 347.25 293.77 +2.60 +0.9 s s t -7.0 -0.7 18 8.36f Intel Corp INTC 24.59 r 48.90 32.35 -.17 -0.5 t s t +22.4 -27.9 17 0.50m IBM IBM 115.55 r 153.21 130.42 -.61 -0.5 t s t -7.4 +6.0 74 6.60 LKQ Corporation LKQ 45.12 59.33 56.47 +.90 +1.6 s s t +5.7 +24.3 13 1.10 Lowes Cos LOW 170.12 223.31 201.34 +1.56 +0.8 s s s +1.1 +0.9 17 4.20 Lumen Technologies LUMN 2.37 n 12.54 2.57 +.12 +4.9 s t t -50.8 -74.1 ... McDonalds Corp MCD 228.34 284.98 284.48 +.70 +0.2 s s s +7.9 +14.8 34 6.08 Microsoft Corp MSFT 213.43 294.18 282.83 -6.56 -2.3 t s t +17.9 -1.8 31 2.72 Motorola Solutions MSI 195.18 286.24 283.50 -.12 ... r s t +10.0 +20.0 36 3.52 NextEra Energy NEE 67.22 91.35 78.34 -.09 -0.1 t s s -6.3 -6.7 37 1.87f Piedmont Office RT PDM 6.35 n 17.25 6.94 ... ... t t t -24.3 -51.7 6 0.84 Regions Fncl RF 13.94 24.33 18.50 +.09 +0.5 s t t -14.2 -8.1 8 0.80 Smucker, JM SJM 119.82 163.07 155.65 -.11 -0.1 t s t -1.8 +17.0 20 4.08 Texas Instru TXN 144.46 186.30 179.87 +.45 +0.3 s s t +8.9 +3.2 20 4.96 UniFirst Corp UNF 154.72 205.59 168.50 -1.33 -0.8 s t t -12.7 -2.5 21 1.24f Verizon Comm VZ 32.76 55.51 39.45 +.10 +0.3 t s s +0.1 -19.7 8 2.61 Vodafone Group VOD 9.94 17.68 11.43 +.06 +0.5 s t s +12.9 -27.4 cc 1.06e WalMart Strs WMT 117.27 160.77 150.07 -.44 -0.3 t s s +5.8 -1.3 35 2.28 Walgreen Boots Alli WBA 30.39 r 47.28 36.31 +.21 +0.6 s s s -2.8 -14.9 7 1.92 52-WK RANGE CLOSE YTD 1YR NAME TICKER LO HI CLOSE CHG %CHG WK MO QTR %CHG %RTN P/E DIV Stocks of Local Interest Dividend Footnotes: a Extra dividends were paid, but are not included. b Annual rate plus stock. c Liquidating dividend. e Amount declared or paid in last 12 months. f Current annual rate, which was increased by most recent dividend announcement. i Sum of dividends paid after stock split, no regular rate. j Sum of dividends paid this year. Most recent dividend was omitted or deferred. k Declared or paid this year, a cumulative issue with dividends in arrears. m Current annual rate, which was decreased by most recent dividend announcement. p Initial dividend, annual rate not known, yield not shown. r Declared or paid in preceding 12 months plus stock dividend. t Paid in stock, approximate cash value on ex-distribution date.PE Footnotes: q Stock is a closed-end fund no P/E ratio shown. cc P/E exceeds 99. dd Loss in last 12 months. Switzerland ’s parliament opened a special session to scrutinize the state-imposed takeover of Credit Suisse by rival UBS. American gold miner Newmont raised its offer to buy its Australian rival. The technology consultancy report-ed lower sales in its fiscal third quarter. The Idaho-based owner of Safeway , V ons and other grocery chains said its margins shrank in the fourth quarter . The COVID-19 vaccine developer said its potential flu vaccine needs more study in a late-stage clinical trial . 100 150 200 $250 JA FM ModernaMRNA Close: $155.25 -4.90 or -3.1% $115.03$217.25 Vo l.: Mkt. Cap: 6.5m (1.8x avg.) $60.0 b 52-week range PE: Yield: 7.7 ... 19 20 21 $22 JA FM Albertsons Cos.ACI Close: $20.87 -0.34 or -1.6% $19.14$34.10 Vo l.: Mkt. Cap: 7.7m (1.9x avg.) $11.2 b 52-week range PE: Yi eld: 8.5 2.3% 6 8 10 $12 JA FM TSRTSRI Close: $7.86 -0.90 or -10.3% $6.52$11.49 Vo l.: Mkt. Cap: 12.0k (2.2x avg.) $16.7 m 52-week range PE: Yield: 14.3 ... 14 16 18 $20 JA FM Newcrest MiningNCMGY Close: $19.92 1.23 or 6.6% $10.03$21.94 Vo l.: Mkt. Cap: 542.3k (4.3x avg.) $17.8 b 52-week range PE: Yi eld: 20.0 0 2 $4 JA FM Credit Suisse GroupCS Close: $0.90 0.03 or 3.6% $0.82$7.90 Vo l.: Mkt. Cap: 22.7m (0.5x avg.) $3.6 b 52-week range PE: Yi eld: ... Wall Street drifted through a muted day of trading ahead of an anticipated update on consumer inflation and other reports later in the week. The S&P 500 dipped by less than 0.1%. The Dow was up a bit, while the Nasdaq slipped.1.3%4.3% The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.43%. Tuesday. Yields affect rates on mortgages and other consumer loans. NET 1YR TREASURIES LAST PVS CHG AGO 8.006.253.50 4.88 3.13 .38 PRIME RATE FED FUNDS 3-month T-bill 5.03 5.09 -0.06 .79 6-month T-bill 4.99 4.98 +0.01 1.24 52-wk T-bill 4.71 4.69 +0.02 1.80 2-year T-note 4.03 4.01 +0.02 2.50 5-year T-note 3.54 3.52 +0.02 2.79 7-year T-note 3.48 3.47 +0.01 2.84 10-year T-note 3.43 3.42 +0.01 2.77 30-year T-bond 3.62 3.63 -0.01 2.82 NAT'L WK 6MO 1YRCONSUMER RATES AVG AGO AGO AGO 48 month new car loan 6.92 r 6.92 6.75 5.99 Money market account 0.49 s 0.48 0.48 0.23 1 year CD 2.38 t 2.41 2.40 1.64 $30K Home equity loan 9.10 t 9.11 8.92 7.81 30 year xed mortgage 6.87 s 6.70 6.96 7.08 15 year xed mortgage 6.16 s 6.00 6.27 6.30 LAST 6 MO AGO 1 YR AGO Commodities U.S. crude oil and wholesale gasoline prices both rose about 2%, while natural gas closed up 0.6%. Heating oil fell. Gold and silver prices rose . Crude Oil (bbl) 81.53 79.74 +2.24 +1.6 Heating Oil (gal) 2.67 2.68 -0.49 -20.6 Natural Gas (mm btu) 2.19 2.17 +0.64 -51.2 Unleaded Gas (gal) 2.87 2.81 +2.04 +16.5 FUELS CLOSE PVS %CHG %YTD Gold (oz) 2,004.80 1,989.10 +0.79 +10.2 Silver (oz) 25.13 24.85 +1.15 +5.3 Platinum (oz) 995.60 993.10 +0.25 -7.3 Copper (lb) 4.02 3.99 +0.95 +5.8 Aluminum (ton) 2,295.25 2,324.75 -1.27 -4.8 Palladium (oz) 1,440.30 1,404.30 +2.56 -19.5 METALS CLOSE PVS %CHG %YTD Cattle (lb) 1.72 1.71 +0.54 +11.3 Coffee (lb) 1.88 1.81 +4.29 +12.6 Corn (bu) 6.51 6.54 -0.46 -4.1 Cotton (lb) 0.83 0.82 +0.36 -0.7 Lumber (1,000 bd ft) 385.20 382.80 +0.65 +3.1 Orange Juice (lb) 2.85 2.78 +2.67 +38.0 Soybeans (bu) 14.97 14.87 +0.67 -1.5 Wheat (bu) 6.74 6.79 -0.66 -14.9 AGRICULTURE CLOSE PVS %CHG %YTD American Funds AmrcnBalA m 29.66 +.06 +3.5 -3.9 +8.0 +6.4 CptWldGrIncA m 54.85 +.28 +6.7 -2.5 +11.7 +5.3 CptlIncBldrA m 64.49 +.22 +3.1 -2.2 +8.9 +4.8 FdmtlInvsA m 63.95 +.28 +6.4 -4.0 +13.9 +8.3 GrfAmrcA m 54.78 +.13 +10.7 -10.4 +12.0 +8.7 IncAmrcA m 22.89 +.08 +1.9 -3.2 +10.1 +6.1 InvCAmrcA m 43.78 +.02 +6.5 -3.7 +14.3 +8.7 NwPrspctvA m 51.99 +.16 +9.9 -5.8 +14.1 +8.8 WAMtInvsA m 52.86 +.11 +2.1 -3.9 +15.1 +9.7 Dodge & Cox IncI 12.51 +.02 +3.5 -0.6 -0.5 +2.0 StkI 218.78 +.95 +2.6 -5.3 +20.0 +9.6 Fidelity 500IdxInsPrm 142.61 ... +7.5 -5.3 +15.6 +11.2 Contrafund 13.37 -.02 +12.2 -7.4 +13.2 +10.3 TtlMktIdxInsPrm 113.50 +.11 +7.1 -6.2 +15.3 +10.3 USBdIdxInsPrm 10.46 +.01 +3.5 -1.9 -3.0 +1.0 Schwab SP500Idx 63.19 ... +7.5 -6.9 +15.6 +11.0 Vanguard 500IdxAdmrl 379.20 -.01 +7.5 -5.3 +15.6 +11.1 DivGrInv 35.56 +.08 +1.1 -1.9 +14.7 +12.2 EqIncAdmrl 83.50 +.40 -0.7 -2.3 +15.4 +9.3 GrIdxAdmrl 126.68 -.53 +15.7 -9.0 +14.4 +12.6 InTrTEAdmrl 13.71 +.02 +3.4 +2.9 +1.0 +2.3 MdCpIdxAdmrl 260.25 +1.91 +3.5 -8.3 +14.8 +8.1 PrmCpAdmrl 140.79 +.16 +7.6 -1.4 +15.9 +10.2 SmCpIdxAdmrl 90.32 +.77 +3.1 -6.7 +16.1 +6.5 TrgtRtr2025Fd 17.60 +.03 +5.5 -3.5 +6.9 +4.8 TrgtRtr2030Fd 33.22 +.06 +5.9 -3.8 +8.1 +5.2 TrgtRtr2035Fd 20.54 +.04 +6.1 -3.9 +9.3 +5.6 TrgtRtr2040Fd 36.18 +.08 +6.4 -4.1 +10.6 +6.1 TrgtRtr2045Fd 24.35 +.07 +6.7 -4.2 +11.9 +6.5 TrgtRtr2050Fd 40.39 +.12 +6.9 -4.2 +12.0 +6.6 TtBMIdxAdmrl 9.75 +.01 +3.7 -1.8 -2.9 +1.0 TtInSIdxAdmrl 29.86 +.21 +7.4 -2.1 +11.3 +2.5 TtInSIdxInv 17.85 +.12 +7.4 -2.2 +11.2 +2.4 TtlSMIdxAdmrl 99.24 +.10 +7.0 -6.3 +15.3 +10.3 WlngtnAdmrl 68.66 +.04 +4.1 -2.8 +9.1 +7.2 TOTAL RETURNFAMILY FUND NAV CHG YTD 1YR 3YR* 5YR* Mutual Funds *– Annualized; d Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee. m Multiple fees are charged, usually a marketing fee and either a sales or redemption fee. x fund paid a distribution during the week. Interest rates (Previous and change gures reect current contract.)Muted day for stocks ahead of inflation data By STAN CHOE Associated Press NEW YORK — Wall Street drifted through a muted day of trading Tues day, with stocks and bonds making modest moves ahead of reports later in the week with the potential to move markets. The S&P 500 had its smallest one-day move in more than a year, slipping 0.17 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 4,108.94. Most of the stocks in the index rose, as did the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which gained 98.27, or 0.3 percent, to 33,684.79. The Nasdaq composite slipped 52.48, or 0.4 percent, to 12,031.88. The biggest immediate question for Wall Street has been whether the Federal Reserve will keep hiking interest rates in its attempt to get high ination under control. It’s already raised rates at a furious pace over the last year, enough to slow some areas of the economy and for strains to appear in the banking system. That’s why markets are gearing up for Wednesday’s report on ination. Econo mists expect it to show in ation slowed to 5.2 percent in March from 6 percent in February. That would mean continued progress since in ation peaked last summer, but it would also still be well above the Fed’s target. A reading that’s higher than expected would likely bolster traders’ expecta tions that the Fed will raise rates by another quarter of a percentage point at its next meeting in May. Higher rates can undercut ination, but they also raise the risk of a recession later on and hurt prices for stocks and other investments. Traders in the bond market have been showing nervous ness about the Fed possibly going too far on rates and then having to cut them as soon as this summer in or der to prop up the economy. But the stock market has remained more resilient, helped by hopes the Fed could thread the needle and raise rates just enough to sti e ination without causing a severe recession. “While navigating the ckle market narrative isn’t easy, it helps that rates are pricing in a more pessimistic view compared to equities, which are leaning toward a more optimistic outlook,” said Mark Haefele, chief investment ofcer at UBS Global Wealth Manage ment. That’s one of the rea sons he prefers high-quality bonds over stocks. Still-high ination is one of the reasons analysts ex pect this upcoming earn ings reporting season to show the worst drop since the depths of the pandem ic in 2020. A bunch of banks will help kick off the earnings reporting season when they tell investors on Friday how much they earned during the rst three months of the year. Besides the back wards-looking numbers, in vestors say they’re also hun gry to hear what CEOs say about current and upcoming conditions. One fear is that banks in particular could pull back on their lending following all the turmoil in their sector, caused in part by the past year’s swift leap in interest rates. If they do cut off lending to businesses, that could fur ther slow the economy and raise the risk of a recession. CarMax jumped 9.6 per cent after reporting stronger prot than analysts expect ed for its latest scal quar ter, which ended Feb. 28. It had the biggest gain within the S&P 500, and stocks in industries whose prots are most closely tied to the economy’s strength general ly rose. On the losing end was Moderna, which fell 3.1 per cent after it said its potential u vaccine needs more study in a late-stage clinical trial. Big Tech stocks were also weak. They and other high-growth stocks are seen as the most hurt by rising in terest rates, and a 2.3 per cent drop for Microsoft was the heaviest drag on the S&P 500. In markets abroad, stocks rose modestly across much of Europe. 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A14 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle T he Florida Depart-ment of Transpor tation has given the “notice to proceed” to Citrus County to nish wid-ening the 1.9-mile stretch of CR 491 between the two four-laned sections. This will complete four-laning 491 from 44 to the other side of Beverly Hills. It is great news but long overdue. The County Comprehensive Plan encouraged central county development back in the 1980s. County Road 491 is a central road-way dividing the county in half running from Hernando County to SR 200. It is a major thoroughfare and a potential evacuation route for Southwest Florida in hurricane season. There has been much development along CR 491, including numerous medical facilities. Growth is taking over the intersection of 491 and 486 with more to come. Unfortunately, the estimated time to complete the roadway is two years, making the area a potential trafc nightmare. The concept of comprehensive planning is to prepare an area for develop-ment by ensuring roadways and other infrastructure are in place before the develop-ment occurs. Historically, Citrus County has been badly lagging. The 491 projects should have been completed sev-eral years ago but became a political football and were stalled unnecessarily due to politics. Then Commission er Dennis Damato, a plan-ner, presented an approach for 491 making it a medical corridor that included con-nection roadways between the various businesses and medical ofces. Unfortu-nately, complications devel-oped and new commission-ers killed the project and let it sit for some time with no action. There are several other concerns with County Road 491. It is still two lanes from Forest Ridge to State Road 200. State Road 41 from Inverness to Dunnellon should be widened. SR 200 is a primary route to Ocala and Interstate 75, with heavy ow of trafc from Inverness and CR 491. It needs to be four-laned from Inverness to CR 484 where it has already been four-laned. Additionally, the bridge on SR 200 that crosses the Withlacoochee at StumpKnockers is an antiquated two-lane road-way that is showing its age and is in desperate need of replacement. Another area of local con cern is the lack of a trafc light at Hampshire Blvd and 491 that is challenging to navigate due to heavy 491 trafc. The number of vehi cles has drastically increased on 491 and most likely will be getting even busier since SR 589 (Suncoast Parkway) opened on SR 44 and con struction has started for the extension to County Road 486. These issues are not new to anyone that drives around the county. The whole issue of the Comp Plan was to pre-pare for growth, but we are playing catch-up. The current County Commission appears to be proactive but they have major concerns not of their making and nancial challenges due to the county’s accelerated growth and inaction of past commissions. Planning is crucial when it comes to growth but even more important is imple-mentation, which has been sorely lacking in the past. Let’s hope we have a new day in Citrus County government where planning and action become one. T he year was 1934. The Great Depression ravaged the United States. Unemployment was only starting to turn around but was still at a painfully high rate of 22 percent. Nearly a quarter of Amer icans were out of work, and to make it worse, weather and drought in the Midwest de-stroyed 35 million acres of farmland. Hundreds of millions of acres were at risk, and many people were in danger of starvation, while others chose to take their own lives in increasing numbers. Things were not only terrible in the United States, but there was uncertainty abroad as well. Ger-many’s Adolf Hitler had declared himself the Fuhrer, Joseph Stalin was massacring people in Rus-sia, and Chairman Mao Zedong’s totalitarian Communist doctrine began to rise. America’s position in the world was uncertain. This was a time of chaos, change and desperation worldwide. We were on edge and terried of what could come, having already seen World War I and a global pandemic. While the Roaring Twenties brought the Gilded Age and exciting waves of innovation, the economy collapsed in 1929, leaving the American population in des peration and fear. Some of this rings eerily familiar and omi nous to us today as we wonder where the banking crisis, tech nological disruption, and war in Ukraine will lead. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in a challenging situa-tion as he tried to gure out how to rebuild America. He decided that the route to recovery was a series of programs he called the New Deal. In our history classes, many of us learned that this monolithic government program used brute force to throw money at infrastructure and employment programs to get the economy moving again. But in fact, a large part of the New Deal involved getting the private sector to start reinvesting and help reduce risks for investors by making them feel comfortable putting their money into building the future of America. FDR created the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation, which acted as an intermediary and a guarantor of loans from private lenders. Private companies and private investors put their money into the investments managed by the corporation, and these investors saw private returns with guarantees from the federal government. This brought back investors’ condence, created more jobs, and provided the capital needed for the entrepre neurs to create the jobs that built a path out of the Great Depression. The Rural Electrication Administration similarly helped reduce the risk for investors by bringing electricity to rural areas disconnected from the grid. There was little private nancial incentive for them to build the infrastructure to connect rural America to electricity, but be-cause of this program, they were able to reach them. Rural America joined the modern economy, creating opportunities for entre-preneurs and businesses to serve them through radio, television and household electronic goods and appliances, which they could now power with electricity. This is a virtuous cycle where the innovation and entrepreneur-ial class is empowered, driving progress forward. Whether within small businesses or big companies, they saw solutions to problems and created the prod-ucts and services to deliver those solutions. In this way, the effort to end the Great Depression became an era that transformed the way we live through enabling platforms and entrepreneurship. The New Deal was ultimately successful. The economy got moving again, it then doubled throughout World War II and continued growing to create long-term growth and innova-tion. It created an enormous middle class in the United States. The quality of life was unchallenged in the world, and the fruits of growth were shared more widely than before. Our opportunity is to create a better, more sustainable world for hu-manity rather than destroy what it has built through wars. Our task today – to make the peaceful transition to a sustain-able economy – is one that is full of abundance and opportunity for all. In many ways, we are still beneting from these efforts today, and we have many lessons we can take from this experience if we choose to remember what we learned. Justin Bean is the author of “What Could Go Right.” He wrote this for InsideSources.com. O Oppose the Ozello campground Please accept this letter in opposition to the proposed Land Use and Zoning change sub mitted by Sunshine RV Camp ground for property located in the St. Martins Estuary. The site currently is designated Low Intensity Coastal and Lakes Dis trict for good reason. This prop erty is very environmentally sen sitive in a flood zone and should not be overly developed. The proposed development of 48 RV and Tent pads is the most “harm ful” proposed zoning change that I have seen in my 45 years as an Ozello home owner. It will harm the wetlands; the wildlife; the people occupying the tents and the surrounding single-family residences. In addition, the Ozel lo infrastructure is inadequate to accommodate 24/7 traffic impact of RVs and camper vehicles as well as the storm and wastewater issues of such a larger develop ment. Yes, Citrus County residents are concerned about the impact of growth. Our job is to support the elected and administrative officials who know the dif ference between negative and positive growth. Approving a transit “party” campground in an estuary flood area with hundreds of people with boom boxes is not positive. We do not need to relocate the noise problem from Homosassa Springs to the St. Martins Estuary. The owner has the right to develop his property but not to the detriment of the Ozello community. He can develop single-family and mobile homes for rent or sale on elevated structures in compliance with the same building codes experi enced by all other Ozello prop erty owners. Gene Strickland Ozello The fight for freedom and our children The American version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution is now in full court press by the leftist communists. The Public Education system is the conduit for brainwashing our children to attack the underpinnings of our Republic which is based on Judeo-Christian values. Mao used the youth to attack anyone who stood for traditional family values by arming these kids. They had public executions to put fear in the populace so no one would resist. After the Cul tural Revolution ended, Mao sent these crazed youth leaders to the countryside and confiscated their guns for fear they would turn on him. This week we watched these indoctrinated youths take over the Tennessee Capitol building. Instead of pointing out that the shooter was unstable by the mainstream media, they made it an issue for gun confiscation to prevent anyone from defending themselves. The teen mob was not peaceful that descended on the capitol and was mobilized by leftist handlers to overwhelm the fact that this was a trans shooter to push the narrative to gun con trol legislation. The left has perfected the art of chaos to get their way. They have indoctrinated child soldiers to their cause through the American public education system. We the taxpayer must demand an end to funding any school or district that promotes these revolutionary communist ideas. The governor can only do so much to root out these anarchists, so it is up to us to vote in tough minded school board candidates who have our interests at stake. The communist march across American institu tions stops here in Citrus County. The key is vetting local candi dates that hold cultural commu nist ideas. They are embedded in our local institutions and non-profit organizations, and we need to get our heads out of the sand and challenge them in public. Children are now becoming the Red Guard of the progressive movement. Transgenderism is nothing more than the vehicle to confuse our children to subvert society. It is time we identify what children are learning by asking them directly to expose influencers they encounter. Par ents are the vanguard to keeping this nation whole and need a tool kit to identify if their children are being indoctrinated in changing gender and CRT. This fight for freedom starts on the local level by electing smart, qualified and tough patriotic people to local offices. Marge Tyson HomosassaWhen business and government worked together LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OPINIONS INVITED Q Viewpoints depicted in politi cal cartoons, columns or let ters do not necessarily repre sent the opinion of the editorial board. THE CHRONICLE invites you to call “Sound Off” with your opinions about local subjects. You do not need to leave your name, and have less than a minute to record. COMMENTS will be edited for length, libel, personal or political attacks and good taste. Editors will cut libelous material. OPINIONS expressed are purely those of the callers. CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE EDITORIAL CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE Founded by Albert M. Williamson “You may differ with my choice, but not my right to choose.” — David S. Arthurs publisher emeritus EDITORIAL BOARD Trina Murphy .................................................... publisher Jim Gouvellis ......................................................... editor Tiarra Alexander .................................. citizen member Curt Ebitz .............................................. citizen member Mac Harris ............................................. citizen member Rebecca Martin ................................... citizen member Don Hiers ............................................... citizen member Roger B. Krieger .................................. citizen member Trish Thomas ......................................... citizen member The opinions expressed in Chronicle editorials are the opinions of the newspaper’s editorial board. Gerard “Gerry” Mulligan publisher emeritusRoad planning and action need to become one YOUR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Q District 1 (Crystal River, Ozello, Citronelle, Red Level): Jeff Kinnard, jeff. kinnard@citrusbocc.com; Q District 2 (Homosassa, Sugarmill Woods): Diana Finegan, diana.fine gan@citrusbocc.com; Q District 3 (Beverly Hills, Pine Ridge, Citrus Springs): Ruthie Davis Schlabach, ruthie.schlabach@citrusbocc.com; Q District 4 (Floral City, part of Inverness): Rebecca Bays, rebecca.bays@ citrusbocc.com;Q District 5 (part of Inverness, Hernando, Arrowhead): Holly L. Davis, holly.davis@citrusbocc.com. Justin BeanVarying Voices Our Viewpoint The issue: State approval of 491 wideningOur opinion: Past planning delays has caused traffic prob lems, but new commission seems to be on the right track

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Citrus County Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 2023 A15DeSantis flexes executive powers while eyeing White House By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE — Sus pending an elected Demo cratic prosecutor. Forbidding gender-afrming treatments for minors. Expanding the “Don’t Say Gay” law to high schools. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has exercised his executive powers to advance elements of his aggressive conserva tive agenda, drawing on ap pointees, boards and the state Constitution in a deliberate manner as he builds toward an expected presidential can didacy. The approach displays the Republican’s willingness to leverage his ofce to notch political wins and punish political enemies, even as the GOP-dominated Legis lature has sped his proposals through the statehouse. It also signals the meticulous style that underpins his brash pub lic persona and offers hints about how he could govern if elected president. For DeSantis, the unilat eral moves are part of his broad mandate as the elected chief executive of Florida. He is coming off a dominant reelection victory last fall where he campaigned on a host of conservative policies that energized the state’s Re publican base and helped ip reliably Democratic counties such as Miami-Dade. “November’s election re sults represent a vindication of our joint efforts over these past four years. The results also vest in us the respon sibility to lead and provide us the opportunity to shoot for the stars,” DeSantis told lawmakers in his annual ad dress to begin the legislative session this year. “Boldness be our friend in this endeavor. We have a lot we need to ac complish.” A spokesman for the gover nor said DeSantis compiled a full accounting of his pow ers after he won ofce so he could effectively execute his agenda and added that many of his policies have been adopted by the Legislature. DeSantis gained a national following through his resis tance to extensive corona virus lockdowns, and has since bolstered his place as a Republican rebrand by positioning himself on the front lines of the nation’s culture wars. He’s expected to formally launch his White House bid after the state Leg islature nishes its regular session in early May. In the meantime DeSan tis has been ramping up his out-of-state travel with visits to presidential battleground states. Statehouse Republi cans, who have a superma jority, are already moving quickly to deliver on several of DeSantis’ conservative priorities, which will give him an additional boost be fore he announces his candi dacy. While DeSantis is seen as former President Donald Trump’s most formidable Republican rival, his path to the presidential nomina tion may not be easy. Trump maintains wide support in the Republican Party, which is largely rallying around him after he became the rst for mer president to face crim inal charges. The move by a district attorney in New York has put Republicans eyeing a challenge to Trump, includ ing DeSantis, in the awkward position of defending him against what they argue are politically motivated charges. Those headwinds make DeSantis’ activity in Flori da all the more important as they bolster the argument by his supporters that the gover nor would advance the same policy agenda as Trump, but without the constant turmoil. One of his signature poli cies bans classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in kinder garten through third grade or in a manner that isn’t age appropriate, a law opponents have labeled “Don’t Say Gay.” DeSantis did not ini tially push for the law but has since championed it in Flori da and beyond as part of his ght against what he calls the “woke” indoctrination. This year, as lawmakers seem ready to expand the pro hibition to the eighth grade, the DeSantis administration quietly led an administra tive proposal with state edu cation regulators that would ban the subjects from being taught in all grades. The measure led by the state Education Department, which is led by a DeSantis appointee, will be considered later this month by the state Board of Education, a body appointed by the governor. It does not need legislative approval. DeSantis has not commented on the proposal and directed questions to Ed ucation Commissioner Man ny Diaz Jr., who said it was meant to clarify confusion around the existing law and reinforce that teachers should not deviate from existing cur riculums. The governor took a simi lar approach last year, when he and his administration’s Health Department cam paigned against gender-af rming care for minors and pushed state health regulators to ban the treatments. The prohibition, which was approved by two state boards and took effect this year, bans sex reassignment surgeries and puberty blocking thera pies for minors. Florida Sur geon General Joseph Lada po, a DeSantis appointee, has said the treatments are experimental and risky for children. 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A16 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Citrus County ChronicleN & W CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLEDems tap Chicago for 2024 convention, cite critical Midwest By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON — Dem ocrats announced Tuesday that they will hold their par ty’s 2024 national conven tion in Chicago, choosing the biggest liberal city in the Midwest as they try to keep the momentum going after a strong midterm elec tion performance in the key battleground region. Organizers from Chicago, Atlanta and New York spent months lobbying to be the site of the convention, but the nal decision lay with President Joe Biden, who is expected to formally launch his reelection campaign in the coming weeks. “Chicago is a great choice,” Biden, who was ying to Northern Ireland, said in a statement. “Dem ocrats will gather to show case our historic progress including building an econ omy from the middle out and bottom up, not from the top down.” The Democratic National Committee said its conven tion would be held Aug. 19-22 and noted that Illi nois, along with Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, was part of the critical Mid western “blue wall,” which was key to Democrats’ suc cess in the 2020 and 2022 elections. That rosy lan guage omits the fact that Michigan and Wisconsin narrowly broke for Donald Trump in 2016, helping the Republican win the White House. Chicago is solidly Dem ocratic, as is Illinois. But holding the party’s presi dential nominating gather ing in such a pro-union city demonstrates Biden’s com mitment to organized labor. The move also could count er Republicans, who are holding their 2024 conven tion in Milwaukee, located in another swing Midwest ern state, Wisconsin. Republican National Committee Chairman Ron na McDaniel blasted Dem ocrats’ “radical agenda” and predicted that voters “will soundly reject which ever out-of-touch liberal the Democrats nominate in Chicago.” The convention will be held at the United Center, home to the NBA’s Chica go Bulls and the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL. Chicago made sense for lo gistical reasons, with plenty of hotel space and public transportation. The city is also home to major Democratic donors who can help with raising money to cover costs of a convention. That includes Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire businessman and heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune who has contribut ed millions to Democratic causes and candidates, and was a major proponent for his city getting the conven tion. The DNC said that Chi cago represents the party’s diversity and “formida ble coalition” and that the Midwest will “showcase President Biden’s economic agenda” including spending on public works as part of a sweeping bipartisan in frastructure package that cleared Congress in 2021. Kiichiro Sato / AP The Chicago skyline is seen along Chicago River Nov. 28, 2022.Leaked U.S. intel: Russia operatives claimed new ties with UAE By NOMAAN MERCHANT, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. spies caught Russian intelli gence ofcers boasting that they had convinced the oil-rich United Arab Emirates “to work together against US and UK intelligence agencies,” according to a purported American docu ment posted online as part of a major U.S. intelligence breach. U.S. ofcials declined to comment on the document, which bore known top-se cret markings and was viewed by The Associated Press. The Emirati govern ment on Monday dismissed any accusation that the UAE had deepened ties with Rus sian intelligence as “cate gorically false.” But the U.S. has had grow ing concerns that the UAE was allowing Russia and Russians to thwart sanc tions imposed over the inva sion of Ukraine. The document viewed by the AP includes an item citing research from March 9 with the title: “Russia/UAE: Intelligence Rela tionship Deepening.” U.S. ofcials declined to conrm the document’s authenticity, which the AP could not in dependently do. However, it resembled other documents released as part of the recent leak. The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the possible release of Pentagon documents that were posted on sever al social media sites. They appear to detail U.S. and NATO aid to Ukraine and U.S. intelligence assess ments regarding U.S. allies that could strain ties with those nations. Some of the documents may have been altered or used as part of a misinfor mation campaign, U.S. of cials said. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Monday urged caution, “since we know at least in some cases that in formation was doctored.” Referring to the main suc cessor agency of the Sovi et-era KGB, the document seen by the AP says: “In mid-January, FSB ofcials claimed UAE security ser vice ofcials and Russia had agreed to work together against US and UK Intelli gence agencies, according to newly acquired signals intelligence.” Signals intel ligence refers to intercepted communications, whether telephone calls or electronic messages. “The UAE probably views engagement with Russian intelligence as an opportu nity to strengthen growing ties between Abu Dhabi and Moscow and diversify intel ligence partnerships amid concerns of US disengage ment from the region,” the assessment concluded, re ferring to the UAE capital. It’s not clear if there was any such agreement as de scribed in the UAE-Russia document, or whether the alleged FSB claims were in tentionally or unintentional ly misleading. But American ofcials are speaking out increasingly about a surge in dealings be tween the UAE and Russia. A U.S. Treasury ofcial, Assistant Secretary Eliza beth Rosenberg, in March singled out the UAE as a “country of focus.” She said businesses there were helping Russia evade inter national sanctions to obtain more than $5 million in U.S. semiconductors and other export-controlled parts, in cluding components with battleeld uses. Kamran Jebreili / AP Luxury towers dominate the skyline in the Marina district, center, and the new Dubai Harbour development, right, are seen from the observation deck of “The View at The Palm Jumeirah” in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 6, 2021.Probe targets school where boy, 6, shot teacher By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Prosecutors in the Virginia city where a 6-year-old shot his teacher in an elemen tary school classroom are investigating whether the “actions or omissions” of any school employees could lead to criminal charges, ac cording to court documents released Tuesday. Howard Gwynn, the com monwealth’s attorney in Newport News, led a pe tition for a special grand jury to probe if any “secu rity failures” contributed to the shooting at Richneck Elementary in January that seriously wounded teacher Abby Zwerner. Gwynn wrote that an in vestigation could also lead to recommendations “in the hopes that such a situation never occurs again.” Gwynn’s petition was re leased a day after his ofce charged the boy’s mother with felony child neglect and a misdemeanor count of endangering a child by reckless storage of a re arm. The child used his mother’s 9mm handgun to shoot Zwerner. Police say the weapon was legally pur chased. Last week, Zwerner led a $40 million lawsuit against the school system, accus ing school ofcials of gross negligence and of ignoring multiple warnings from teachers and other school employees that the boy had taken a gun to school on the day of the shooting. Zwerner also alleges that school ofcials knew the boy “had a history of ran dom violence” at school and at home, including that he “strangled and choked” his kindergarten teacher. “Our lawsuit makes clear that we believe the school division violated state law, and we are pursuing this in civil court,” Diane Toscano, an attorney for Zwerner, said Monday. The prosecutor’s decision to investigate school employ ees for any criminal activity is the latest fallout from the shooting, which sent shock waves through Newport News, a shipbuilding city of about 185,000 people near the Chesapeake Bay. Days after the shooting, school ofcials revealed that Richneck administra tors suspected the child may have had a weapon, but they didn’t nd it despite search ing his backpack. Parents and teachers lam basted administrators, say ing students who assault classmates and staff rarely face consequences, and that Zwerner’s shooting could have been prevented if not for a toxic environment in which teachers’ concerns are ignored. It is not the rst school shooting to spark a crimi nal investigation into school ofcials, although they are quite rare, experts said. Civ il suits are far more com mon, but have varying de grees of success. For instance, authorities in Florida accused a former school resource ofcer of hiding during the Parkland school massacre in 2018. Scot Peterson was charged with negligence for not en tering the building during the rampage that left 17 people dead. Billy Schuerman / The Virginian-Pilot Police look on as students return to Richneck Elementary on Jan. 30, 2023, in Newport News, Va.Four in 10 say their next vehicle may be electric By TOM KRISHER, MATTHEW DALY and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON — Many Americans aren’t yet sold on going electric for their next cars, a new poll shows, with high prices and too few charging sta tions the main deterrents. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults are at least somewhat like ly to switch, but the his tory-making shift from the country’s century-plus love affair with gas-driven vehicles still has a ways to travel. The poll by The Associat ed Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chi cago shows that the Biden administration’s plans to dramatically raise U.S. EV sales could run into resistance from consum ers. Only 8 percent of U.S. adults say they or someone in their household owns or leases an electric vehicle, and just 8 percent say their household has a plug-in hy brid vehicle. Even with tax credits of up to $7,500 to buy a new EV, it could be difcult to persuade drivers to ditch their gas-burning cars and trucks for vehicles without tailpipe emissions. Auto companies are in vesting billions in factories and battery technology in an effort to speed up the switch to EVs to cut pol lution and ght climate change. Under a green house gas emissions pro posal from the Environ mental Protection Agency, about two-thirds of all new vehicle sales could have to be EVs by 2032. President Joe Biden has set a goal that up to half of all new vehicle sales be electric by 2030 to cut emissions and ght climate change. But only 19 percent of U.S. adults say it’s “very” or “extremely” likely they would purchase an electric vehicle the next time they buy a car, according to the poll, and 22 percent say it’s somewhat likely. About half – 47 percent – say it’s not likely they would go electric. Six in 10 said the high cost is a major reason they wouldn’t and about a quar ter cited it as a minor rea son. Only 16 percent said the high cost would not be a factor in rejecting the EV. New electric vehicles now cost an average of more than $58,000, ac cording to Kelley Blue Book, a price that’s beyond the reach of many U.S. households. (The average vehicle sold in the U.S. costs just under $46,000.) Tax credits approved under last year’s Ination Reduc tion Act are designed to bring EV prices down and attract more buyers. But new rules proposed by the U.S. Treasury De partment could result in fewer electric vehicles qualifying for a full $7,500 federal tax credit later. Many vehicles will only be eligible for half the full credit, $3,750, an amount that may not be enough to entice them away from less-costly gasoline-pow ered vehicles. About three-quarters say too few charging stations is a reason they wouldn’t go electric, including half who call it a major reason. Two-thirds cite a prefer ence for gasoline vehicles as a major or minor reason they won’t go electric. AP-NORC/EPIC POLLEPA acts, finding cancer risk from sterilization chemical By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Environmental Pro tection Agency proposed Tuesday to limit the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after nding higher than expected cancer risk at facilities that use it to sterilize billions of medical devices each year. The EPA says its pro posal will reduce ethylene oxide emissions by rough ly 80 percent by targeting 86 medical sterilization facilities across the United States. The companies will also have to measure the antimicrobial chemical in the air. “EPA’s number one pri ority is protecting people’s health and safety,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement. “Together they would sig nicantly reduce worker and community exposure to harmful levels of eth ylene oxide.” Darya Minovi, a senior research analyst with the Union of Concerned Sci entists, called the action overdue by “almost a de cade” and said it should have gone further to re quire monitoring at a facil ity property line so people know what is entering their neighborhoods. “I’m relieved and pleased that the EPA has nally issued proposed standards that are based on their own scientists’ recommenda tions on an updated, high er cancer risk value,” said Minovi in a statement. The tightened safeguards are driven by a better un derstanding by EPA that ethylene oxide’s threat can be severe. The chemical is classied as a pesticide. A medical sterilization worker over the course of a career could see their risk shoot up by as much as one extra case of can cer for every ten people exposed. The EPA’s gener ally acceptable increase in lifetime cancer risk is 1 in 10,000. Ethylene oxide is a gas used to sterilize roughly half of all medical devices and is also used to ensure the safety of certain spices and other food products. It is used to clean everything from catheters to syringes, pacemakers and plastic sur gical gowns. Brief exposure isn’t considered a danger, but breathing it long-term elevates the risk of breast cancer and lymphoma, ac cording to the agency. The EPA said many facil ities have already sharply reduced emissions, but those that haven’t will now have to meet stricter re quirements. Scott Whitaker, president and CEO of Advanced Medical Technology Asso ciation, said that medical sterilizers provide a vital service and that many de vices “cannot be sterilized by another method.” He said the EPA’s risk assess ment overstates the threat employees face and the protections they are al ready provided. He added that these facil ities are already at capac ity and the industry can’t afford shutdowns. The 18-month timeframe for installing technology to re duce emissions after the nal rule is issued is “much too short.”

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S CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE Section B WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 , 2023 By MATT PFIFFNER Sports editor CRYSTAL RIVER — The Citrus boys tennis team wasn’t quite perfect this year at districts, but the Hurricanes were more than good enough to roll to the team title once again. After winning districts a year ago with a perfect record, Citrus won all but one match it played in this year’s two-day postseason event to nish the District 2A-6 Tournament with 20 points. Crystal River also played very well at home and was the district run ner-up with 13 points. Her nando and Weeki Wachee tied for third way back with 4 points each. As the top two teams, both Citrus and Crystal River ad vance to the regional semi nals next Tuesday. The Hur ricanes will host the District 2A-5 runner-up, while the Pirates will travel to the District 2A-5 champion. That tournament will not conclude until Wednesday at the earliest, so the oppo nents are unknown. “We’re bringing home some hardware today and that’s always good,” Citrus coach Tia Nelson said. “It was a really good district Citrus, CR finish 1-2 in district tennis meetDodd qualifies for state in singles, doubles with Hensley MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Riley Dodd of Citrus gets set to play a shot during doubles action Tuesday at th e District 2A-6 boys tennis tournament at Crystal River High School. Dodd won district titles in singles and doubles to qualify for state in both for the third year in a row. MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Devon Hicks of Crystal River keeps an eye on his shot during a doubles match Tuesday at districts. Hicks and playing partner Carson Edwards won the No. 2 doubles district title. By MATT PFIFFNER Sports editor INVERNESS — Out standing bunting, baserun ning, pitching and defense led the Citrus softball team to a 2-1 10-inning victory over Crystal River Tuesday night at home in a classic pitcher’s duel. The Hurricanes (12-4) loaded the bass with no outs in the bottom of the 10th on a leadoff walk to Alicia Demott and consecutive perfectly placed bunts by Kelsey Burke and Paisley Williamson. Bella Arnold followed with a third perfect bunt in a row that went out in front of the plate. Demott slid home for the winning run just before a diving Ath ena Childs could tag her. “Small ball comes in clutch, especially facing a good pitcher like that,” Cit rus winning pitcher Kaylin Smith said. Williamson said of the late-inning bunting display by the Hurricanes, “It was very impressive. It was nice for everyone to come together as a team and just ght for each other to beat this team.” The Hurricanes didn’t put the ball in play through ve innings, as all 15 outs recorded by Violet Flynn were strikeouts. In the sixth, Citrus changed its approach at the plate, going to a lot of bunts to just put balls in play. “When you haven’t had baserunners all game and it’s getting late in the game, you have to get baserunners. We tried that and it worked for us, so we just kept doing it,” Citrus head coach Larry Bishop said. Crystal River fell to 14-6 with the loss. Trailing 1-0 after a Flynn double to the fence scored Savannah Hinde in the top of the fourth, the Hurricanes knotted the score in the bot tom of the sixth. Williamson reached on an error on a bunt and went all the way around to third on a sacrice bunt by Ar nold. A Riley Tirrell bunt was caught on a great div ing grab by Pirate catcher Childs, but Williamson saw no one was watching her, so she tagged up and beat the play at the plate. “I am so positive in my self on the bases. We were struggling at the plate, ev eryone knows that. It was either I get stuck on base or who knows what could have happened,” she said. “I saw them getting hyped up and no one was looking at me or was by me. I know my speed and I knew I could make it. I just gave it every thing I had and just went for it and it turned out good. It was just my instinct.” Bishop said of William son’s gamble, “Her softball ’Canes edge CR in pitcher’s duel Smith, Flynn combine for 33 strikeouts in 2-1 Citrus victory MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Citrus’ Alicia Demott, left, slides home with the winning run just ahead of the tag by Crystal River catcher Athena Childs in the bottom of the 10th inning Tuesday night in Inverness. The Hurricanes won a thriller, 2-1. MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Kaylin Smith of Citrus delivers a pitch home during Tuesday night’s softball game at home against Crystal River. Smith struck out 15 batters in the 2-1 10-inning victory. By DICK SCANLON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG — The Tampa Bay Rays ran their season-opening win streak to 11 games, using another homer for Brandon Lowe and a strong perfor mance by Shane McClana han to beat the Boston Red Sox 7-2 on Tuesday night. Yandy Díaz and Lowe hit back-to-back solo shots with two out in the fth inning. Lowe extended his homer streak to four straight games. Isaac Paredes and Josh Lowe also connected for the Rays, and McClanahan (3-0) struck out nine while pitching ve-plus innings of one-run ball. The four homers brought Tampa Bay’s total to 29, matching the major league record through 11 games set by the 2000 St. Louis Cardinals. It was the Rays’ third four-homer game of the young season. Tampa Bay’s win streak is one game short of the fran chise record set in 2004. McClanahan surrendered two hits, but he walked four. The left-hander has 21 strikeouts in 17 innings so far this season. Rafael Devers opened the Boston sixth with a lead off walk. He advanced to third on Justin Turner’s single before McClanahan was replaced by Garrett Cleavinger. Devers then scored when Masataka Yoshida bounced into a double play. It was the rst run allowed by the Rays since the ninth on Friday, a franchise-record streak of 32 scoreless in nings. Paredes’ third homer of the season made it 3-0 in the fourth. Josh Lowe led off the seventh with a drive to right-center against Ka leb Ort for his second ho mer. Garrett Whitlock (0-1) permitted ve runs and eight hits in ve innings in his season debut for Bos ton. The right-hander had hip surgery in September.Rays beat Red Sox for 11th straight win By MARK LONG Associated Press GAINESVILLE — Three months after losing blue-chip quarterback Jaden Ra shada over a failed name, image and likeness deal worth nearly $14 million, the University of Florida is taking advantage of a new state law that allows col leges and coaches to facili tate NIL opportunities. A fundraising collective launched Tuesday, called Florida Victorious, will be able to work with the uni versity to raise money and fund NIL deals for stu dent-athletes. The state law passed in February gives Florida colleges a step up on some of the competition around the country, allow ing universities to work di rectly with booster-run and nanced collectives that have mostly been operating as third parties. That was the case for the Gator Collective, the third-party NIL group that had been working with Rashada on his now-failed deal. The Gator Collective was consolidated into Flor ida Victorious, along with the more exclusive Gator Guard, which had required a $1 million contribution annually. The university hopes the new NIL collective will bring the Gators back to their winning ways. Florida was one of six Power Five programs (along with Boston College, Cal, Georgia Tech, Oklaho ma and Stanford) to nish below .500 in both reve nue-generating sports, foot ball and men’s basketball. Most alarming, the Gators endured consecutive losing seasons in football for the rst time since 1978-79. The nonprot organiza tion will work closely with the school’s University Ath letic Association to raise money that should assist all 19 sports, but most notably football. “The NIL space is con stantly evolving around the country, and we’ve seen the impact of strong NIL programs,” Florida Victori ous CEO Nate Barbera told The Associated Press. “And now it’s time for us to unify Gators launch ‘Florida Victorious’ to revamp, streamline NIL See CITRUS , page B5 See DISTRICT , page B3 See RAYS , page B3 See GATORS , page B3

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B2 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GBTampa Bay 11 0 1.000 -New York 7 4 .636 4Toronto 7 4 .636 4Baltimore 6 5 .545 5Boston 5 6 .455 6 Central Division W L Pct GBMinnesota 7 4 .636 -Cleveland 7 5 .583 ½Chicago 5 7 .417 2½Kansas City 3 8 .273 4Detroit 2 8 .200 4½ West Division W L Pct GBTexas 6 4 .600 -Los Angeles 5 5 .500 1Houston 5 7 .417 2Seattle 4 7 .364 2½Oakland 2 9 .182 4½ NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 8 4 .667 -New York 6 6 .500 2Miami 5 7 .417 3Phila. 4 7 .364 3½Washington 4 7 .364 3½ Central Division W L Pct GBMilwaukee 7 3 .700 -Pittsburgh 7 4 .636 ½Chicago 5 4 .556 1½Cincinnati 4 6 .400 3St. Louis 3 7 .300 4 West Division W L Pct GBArizona 7 4 .636 -San Diego 7 5 .583 ½Los Angeles 6 5 .545 1Colorado 5 6 .455 2San Francisco 4 6 .400 2½ AMERICAN LEAGUE Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox 4, Minnesota 3Cleveland 3, N.Y. Yankees 2Tampa Bay 1, Boston 0Houston 8, Pittsburgh 2Baltimore 5, Oakland 1Chicago Cubs 3, Seattle 2, 10 inningsTexas 11, Kansas City 2Washington 6, L.A. Angels 4 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 11, Cleveland 2Pittsburgh 7, Houston 4Tampa Bay 7, Boston 2Toronto 9, Detroit 3Baltimore 12, Oakland 8Minnesota 4, Chicago White Sox 3, 10 in ningsSeattle at Chicago CubsKansas City at TexasWashington at L.A. Angels Wednesday’s Games Houston (Urquidy 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Hill 0-1), 12:35 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Giolito 0-0) at Minnesota (Gray 1-0), 1:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Schmidt 0-0) at Cleveland (TBD), 1:10 p.m.Seattle (Gilbert 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Stro man 2-0), 2:20 p.m.Washington (Gore 2-0) at L.A. Angels (TBD), 4:07 p.m.Oakland (Waldichuk 0-2) at Baltimore (Kremer 0-0), 6:35 p.m.Boston (Sale 1-0) at Tampa Bay (Bradley 0-0), 6:40 p.m.Detroit (Rodriguez 0-2) at Toronto (Gausman 1-1), 7:07 p.m.Kansas City (Keller 1-1) at Texas (Eovaldi 1-1), 8:05 p.m. Thursday’s Games Oakland at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m.Boston at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.Detroit at Toronto, 7:07 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Monday’s Games Phila. 15, Miami 3Houston 8, Pittsburgh 2N.Y. Mets 5, San Diego 0Atlanta 5, Cincinnati 4, 10 inningsChicago Cubs 3, Seattle 2, 10 inningsColorado 7, St. Louis 4Arizona 3, Milwaukee 0L.A. Dodgers 9, San Francisco 1Washington 6, L.A. Angels 4 Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 7, Houston 4Miami 8, Phila. 4San Diego 4, N.Y. Mets 2Atlanta 7, Cincinnati 6Seattle at Chicago CubsSt. Louis at ColoradoWashington at L.A. AngelsMilwaukee at ArizonaL.A. Dodgers at San Francisco Wednesday’s Games Houston (Urquidy 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Hill 0-1), 12:35 p.m.San Diego (Snell 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (Megill 2-0), 1:10 p.m.Seattle (Gilbert 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Stro man 2-0), 2:20 p.m.St. Louis (Flaherty 1-1) at Colorado (Ureña 0-2), 3:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Woodruff 1-0) at Arizona (Jameson 2-0), 3:40 p.m.Miami (Cabrera 0-1) at Phila. (Wheeler 0-1), 4:05 p.m.Washington (Gore 2-0) at L.A. Angels (TBD), 4:07 p.m.Cincinnati (Greene 0-0) at Atlanta (Strider 1-0), 7:20 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 1-1) at San Francis co (Cobb 0-1), 9:45 p.m. Thursday’s Games Phila. at Cincinnati, 6:40 p.m.Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 7:45 p.m.Milwaukee at San Diego, 9:40 p.m. TAMPA BAY 7, BOSTON 2 Boston Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h bi Hernández ss 5 0 0 0 Díaz 1b 3 3 3 1Devers 3b 3 1 0 0 Margot rf 0 0 0 0Turner dh 2 0 1 0 B.Lowe dh 4 1 2 1Yoshida lf 3 0 0 0 Arozarena lf 4 0 0 0Refsnyder cf 4 0 0 0 Franco ss 4 0 1 1Verdugo rf 4 1 1 0 Raley rf-1b 4 0 0 0Arroyo 2b 3 0 0 0 Paredes 3b 4 1 2 1Tapia ph 1 0 1 0 Mejía c 4 0 0 0Dalbec 1b 1 0 1 0 J.Lowe cf 4 2 2 1Casas ph-1b 2 0 0 0 Bruján 2b 3 0 1 1Wong c 2 0 0 0 McGuire ph-c 2 0 2 1 Totals 32 2 6 1 Totals 34 7 11 6Boston 000 001 001 — 2Tampa Bay 110 120 20x — 7E-Casas (1). DP-Boston 0, Tampa Bay 1. LOB-Boston 8, Tampa Bay 4. 2B-McGuire (3), Franco (4), B.Lowe (1). HR-Paredes (3), Díaz (3), B.Lowe (4), J.Lowe (2). SB-J.Lowe (1), Dalbec (1). IP H R ER BB SO Boston Whitlock L,0-1 5 8 5 5 0 5 Bleier 1 1 0 0 0 1 Ort 1 2 2 1 1 2 Brasier 1 0 0 0 0 1 Tampa Bay McClanahan W,3-0 5 2 1 1 4 9 Cleavinger 1 0 0 0 0 0 Adam 1 0 0 0 0 0 Thompson 1 1 0 0 1 0 Faucher 1 3 1 1 0 1 McClanahan pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.Umpires-Home, Paul Emmel; First, Chad Fairchild; Second, Nic Lentz; Third, Jeremie Rehak.T-2:35. A-12,649 (25,025). MIAMI 8, PHILADELPHIA 4 Miami Philadelphia ab r h bi ab r h biChisholm Jr. cf 5 1 2 1 Turner ss 5 0 0 0 Cooper dh 4 0 0 0 Schwarber dh 4 1 1 1Sánchez ph-dh 0 0 0 0 Realmuto c 5 0 1 1 Arraez 2b 5 2 4 2 Castellanos rf 4 1 2 0Soler rf 5 1 1 1 Bohm 1b 4 0 1 0Hampson rf 0 0 0 0 Harrison lf 3 1 2 0De La Cruz lf 4 0 0 0 Sosa 3b 3 0 0 0 Gurriel 1b 5 2 2 1 Stott 2b 4 0 2 2Segura 3b 5 0 2 0 Pache cf 2 0 1 0Fortes c 4 0 1 1 Marsh ph-cf 1 1 1 0Berti ss 3 2 2 2 Totals 40 8 14 8 Totals 35 4 11 4 Miami 001 003 130 — 8 Philadelphia 000 003 001 — 4 E-Sosa (1). DP-Miami 2, Philadelphia 1. LOB-Miami 8, Philadelphia 9. 2B-Arraez (3), Soler (4), Gurriel (1), Pache (2), Realmuto (2). 3B-Arraez (1), Chisholm Jr. (1). HR-Berti (1), Arraez (1), Schwarber (3). SB-Chisholm Jr. (3), Berti (2). IP H R ER BB SOMiami Luzardo W,2-0 6 8 3 3 1 5Floro H,2 1 0 0 0 2 0Brazoban 2 3 1 1 1 4Philadelphia Nola L,0-2 5 2 / 3 9 4 4 0 6 Soto 1 / 3 0 0 0 1 0 Brogdon 1 1 1 1 0 1Bellatti 1 4 3 3 1 2Kimbrel 1 0 0 0 1 1HBP-Luzardo (Sosa).Umpires-Home, Nate Tomlinson; First, James Hoye; Second, D.J. Reyburn; Third, John Libka.T-2:57. A-43,444 (42,901). N.Y. YANKEES 11, CLEVELAND 2 New York Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h bi LeMahieu 3b 4 2 2 0 Kwan lf 4 1 1 0Judge cf 5 1 2 0 Giménez 2b 4 1 2 0 Kiner-Falefa cf 0 0 0 0 Ramírez 3b 4 0 2 1 Rizzo 1b 3 2 2 2 Naylor 1b 3 0 0 1Torres 2b 4 1 1 0 Bell dh 4 0 1 0Volpe ss 0 0 0 0 Brennan cf 4 0 1 0Calhoun dh 5 1 1 1 Gonzalez rf 3 0 0 0 Cabrera ss-2b 4 1 1 1 Zunino c 1 0 0 0 F.Cordero rf 4 1 1 3 Viloria c 1 0 0 0Trevino c 4 0 1 1 Arias ss 3 0 0 0Hicks lf 4 2 2 0 Totals 37 11 13 8 Totals 31 2 7 2New York 015 202 001 — 11Cleveland 200 000 000 — 2E-Ramírez (1). DP-New York 2, Cleveland 3. LOB-New York 4, Cleveland 5. 2B-LeMahieu (4), Ramírez (5), Brennan (2), Bell (1). HR-F.Cordero (3). SF-Cabrera (1), Naylor (2). IP H R ER BB SONew York Cole W,3-0 7 5 2 2 2 3 Abreu 2 2 0 0 0 1 Cleveland Gaddis L,0-1 3 8 8 8 2 3 Herrin 2 1 0 0 0 1 Curry 4 4 3 3 1 3 Gaddis pitched to 3 batters in the 4th.HBP-Gaddis (Rizzo). WP-Abreu, Curry. Umpires-Home, Edwin Moscoso; First, Chris Guccione; Second, David Rackley; Third, Larry Vanover.T-2:24. A-20,164 (34,788). PITTSBURGH 7, HOUSTON 4 Houston Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h biMcCormick lf-cf 5 0 1 2 Bae 2b 5 1 1 3 Bregman 3b 5 1 2 1 Reynolds lf 4 0 1 0Alvarez dh 4 0 0 0 Choi dh 4 1 2 1J.Abreu 1b 5 0 1 0 Santana 1b 4 0 0 0Tucker rf 3 1 2 1 Hayes 3b 4 1 2 0Peña ss 4 0 1 0 Smith-Njigba rf 3 0 0 1 Meyers cf 3 0 0 0 Castro ss 3 2 2 0Julks ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Suwinski cf 4 1 1 2Dubón 2b 3 1 1 0 Delay c 2 0 0 0Maldonado c 3 0 0 0 McCutchen ph 1 1 1 0 Hensley ph 1 1 1 0 Salazar c 0 0 0 0 Totals 37 4 9 4 Totals 34 7 10 7Houston 110 000 002 — 4Pittsburgh 020 002 003 — 7E-Castro (2). LOB-Houston 9, Pittsburgh 5. 2B-Bregman (1), McCormick (3), Choi (1), Hayes (3). HR-Bregman (1), Tucker (4), Su winski (1), Choi (2), Bae (2). SB-Tucker (3), Hayes (1). SF-Smith-Njigba (1). IP H R ER BB SOHouston Javier 6 5 4 4 1 3 Stanek 1 0 0 0 0 1 Montero 1 2 0 0 0 2 Pressly L,0-2 1 / 3 3 3 3 0 1 Pittsburgh Keller 6 6 2 2 2 7 Underwood Jr. H,1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Holderman H,5 1 1 0 0 0 1 Bednar W,1-0 1 2 2 1 1 1 HBP-Javier (Castro).Umpires-Home, Adam Hamari; First, Jerry Layne; Second, Brock Ballou; Third, Nick Mahrley.T-2:30. A-9,996 (38,753). BALTIMORE 12, OAKLAND 8 Oakland Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h bi Kemp 2b 4 1 1 0 Hays lf 5 4 4 2Noda 1b 4 2 1 0 Rutschman c 3 2 2 0Aguilar dh 5 1 1 0 Mountcastle 1b 4 2 3 9 Rooker rf 4 1 2 1 Santander rf 3 0 0 0Peterson 3b 4 1 2 2 Urías 2b 4 1 1 0Smith ss 5 1 2 1 McCann dh 2 0 1 1Capel lf 5 0 1 1 Vavra ph-dh 1 0 0 0Langeliers c 4 1 1 3 McKenna ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Ruiz cf 4 0 1 0 Frazier ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Henderson 3b 4 1 0 0 Mateo ss 3 2 1 0 Mullins cf 3 0 0 0Totals 39 8 12 8 Totals 34 12 12 12Oakland 101 050 001 — 8Baltimore 101 131 50x — 12LOB-Oakland 8, Baltimore 7. 2B-Peterson (2), Hays (5), McCann (1), Rutschman (1). HR-Langeliers (2), Mountcastle 2 (5), Hays (3). SB-Mateo (6), Capel (3). SF-Mountcastle (2). S-Mullins (1). IP H R ER BB SOOakland Muller 4 7 6 6 3 3 Jackson 1 1 0 0 0 1 May BS,0-1 1 2 1 1 1 2 Moll L,0-1 2 / 3 0 2 2 1 1 Jiménez 1 1 / 3 2 3 3 1 2 Baltimore Rodriguez 4 1 / 3 6 5 5 4 6 Voth 1 2 / 3 4 2 2 0 1 Baker W,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 1 Coulombe 1 0 0 0 0 3 Gillaspie 1 2 1 1 0 2 Muller pitched to 4 batters in the 5th.HBP-Moll (Mateo). WP-Muller.Umpires-Home, Mark Wegner; First, Bruce Dreckman; Second, Stu Scheuwater; Third, Malachi Moore.T-3:08. A-12,305 (45,971). TORONTO 9, DETROIT 3 Detroit Toronto ab r h bi ab r h bi Baddoo lf 4 0 0 0 Springer rf 4 1 1 1 Greene cf 4 0 0 0 Bichette ss 4 1 1 1 Vierling rf 3 0 1 0 Guerrero Jr. 1b 4 0 0 0 Carpenter dh 3 0 0 0 Varsho lf 2 2 0 0 Báez ss 3 1 0 0 Chapman 3b 4 2 2 1 Torkelson 1b 4 1 2 0 Belt dh 4 0 3 1 Maton 3b 3 1 1 3 Luplow pr-dh 0 1 0 0 Schoop 2b 4 0 1 0 Kirk c 4 1 2 4 Rogers c 3 0 0 0 Biggio 2b 4 0 0 0 Kiermaier cf 4 1 1 1 Totals 31 3 5 3 Totals 34 9 10 9 Detroit 030 000 000 — 3Toronto 010 120 05x — 9LOB-Detroit 7, Toronto 3. 2B-Torkelson (2), Belt (2). HR-Maton (1), Chapman (3), Kier maier (1), Springer (2), Bichette (4), Kirk (1). SB-Varsho (2). IP H R ER BB SODetroit Manning L,1-1 6 6 4 4 1 3 Englert 2 4 5 5 1 4 Toronto Manoah 4 1 / 3 4 3 3 5 3 Pop W,1-0 1 2 / 3 0 0 0 0 2 Swanson H,4 1 0 0 0 1 2 García H,4 1 1 0 0 0 2 Bass 1 0 0 0 0 0 Umpires-Home, Erich Bacchus; First, Ryan Wills; Second, Mike Estabrook; Third, Laz Diaz.T-2:29. A-42,053 (49,282). MINNESOTA 4, CHICAGO WHITE SOX 3 Chicago Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h bi Benintendi lf 4 1 1 0 Solano 1b 4 1 2 0 Robert Jr. cf 4 2 2 1 Buxton dh 4 1 1 2 Sheets dh 3 0 0 0 Larnach lf 3 0 1 0 Vaughn 1b 4 0 1 2 Miranda 3b 4 0 0 0Grandal c 4 0 0 0 Gordon 2b 4 0 2 0 Sosa pr 0 0 0 0 Farmer ss 4 0 0 0 Zavala c 0 0 0 0 Wallner rf 4 0 0 0 Burger 3b 3 0 0 0 Vázquez c 4 0 1 0 Alberto ph-3b 1 0 0 0 Castro pr 0 1 0 0 Colás rf 4 0 0 0 Taylor cf 4 1 2 1 González 2b 4 0 0 0 Andrus ss 3 0 0 0 Totals 34 3 4 3 Totals 35 4 9 3 Chicago 200 000 001 0 — 3Minnesota 210 000 000 1 — 4E-Alberto (1), P.López (1). LOB-Chicago 3, Minnesota 6. 2B-Vaughn (6), Gordon (1), Vázquez (1). HR-Robert Jr. (5), Buxton (2), Taylor (1). IP H R ER BB SOChicago Lynn 6 7 3 3 0 10 Middleton 1 1 / 3 0 0 0 0 3 Diekman 2 / 3 0 0 0 1 0 R.López 1 1 0 0 0 2 Scholtens L,0-1 0 1 1 0 0 0 Minnesota P.López 7 2 / 3 3 2 2 1 10 Thielbar H,3 1 / 3 0 0 0 0 1 Duran BS,2-3 1 1 1 1 0 3 Jax W,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Scholtens pitched to 1 batter in the 10th.Umpires-Home, Sean Barber; First, Alan Porter; Second, Jim Wolf; Third, Mike Much linski.T-2:23. A-16,153 (38,544). SAN DIEGO 4, N.Y. METS 2 San Diego New York ab r h bi ab r h bi Bogaerts ss 5 1 2 2 Nimmo cf 2 0 0 0 Machado 3b 5 0 1 2 Marte rf 4 0 1 0 Soto lf 3 0 0 0 Lindor ss 3 1 1 0 Cruz dh 4 0 0 0 Alonso 1b 3 1 1 0 Cronenworth 1b 2 0 1 0 Canha dh 3 0 0 1 Kim 2b 3 0 1 0 McNeil 2b 3 0 1 0 Campusano c 4 2 3 0 Pham lf 4 0 1 1 Grisham cf 4 0 0 0 Escobar 3b 2 0 0 0 Dixon rf 3 1 1 0 Locastro pr 0 0 0 0 Azocar rf 1 0 0 0 Guillorme 3b 0 0 0 0 Nido ph 1 0 0 0 Álvarez c 4 0 0 0Totals 34 4 9 4 Totals 29 2 5 2 San Diego 000 020 002 — 4New York 000 100 001 — 2DP-San Diego 1, New York 1. LOB-San Diego 7, New York 7. 2B-Machado (3), Campusano (1). HR-Bogaerts (4). SB-Kim (1), Locastro (2). SF-Canha (1). S-Kim (1). IP H R ER BB SOSan Diego Weathers W,1-0 5 3 1 1 2 3 Honeywell Jr. H,1 1 0 0 0 0 1 García H,4 1 1 0 0 0 0 Wilson H,3 1 0 0 0 2 2 Hader S,4-4 1 1 1 1 2 2 New York Peterson L,0-2 5 2 / 3 6 2 2 2 6 Reyes 1 1 / 3 1 0 0 0 2 Raley 1 0 0 0 0 0 Santana 1 2 2 2 0 1 HBP-Raley (Cronenworth).Umpires-Home, Will Little; First, Ryan Ad diton; Second, Dan Merzel; Third, Lance Barksdale.T-2:51. A-30,769 (42,136). ATLANTA 7, CINCINNATI 6 Cincinnati Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h biIndia 2b 4 1 1 0 Acuña Jr. rf 3 0 1 1 Friedl cf 4 1 1 0 Olson 1b 5 1 1 1 Fairchild ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Riley 3b 4 1 2 0 Fraley lf 2 1 2 0 Murphy c 3 2 0 0 Newman ph-ss 1 0 0 0 Rosario lf 4 0 2 0 Stephenson dh 3 1 0 1 Albies 2b 4 1 1 2 Myers rf 5 0 0 0 Arcia ss 4 0 1 2 Vosler 1b 5 0 0 0 Ozuna dh 4 1 1 0 Steer 3b 4 1 3 2 Hilliard cf 3 1 2 1 Casali c 3 0 0 0 Barrero ss-cf 3 1 1 3 Totals 35 6 8 6 Totals 34 7 11 7 Cincinnati 004 000 020 — 6Atlanta 101 310 10x — 7DP-Cincinnati 1, Atlanta 0. LOB-Cincinnati 9, Atlanta 9. 2B-Friedl (2), Steer (4), Hilliard 2 (3). HR-Barrero (1), Olson (4), Albies (2). SB-Fraley 2 (2), India (2). IP H R ER BB SOCincinnati Cessa L,0-1 3 2 / 3 7 5 5 2 1 A.Young 2 / 3 2 1 1 0 1 Cruz 1 2 / 3 1 0 0 0 2 Herget 1 1 1 1 2 0Law 1 0 0 0 2 2Atlanta Wright 3 4 4 4 4 3Tonkin W,1-1 3 1 0 0 0 3Chavez H,4 1 1 0 0 0 1Jiménez H,2 1 / 3 2 2 2 1 1 Lee H,3 2 / 3 0 0 0 0 1 Anderson S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 1HBP-Wright 2 (Stephenson,Stephenson). WP-Cessa.Umpires-Home, Ryan Blakney; First, Marvin Hudson; Second, Hunter Wendelstedt; Third, John Tumpane.T-2:44. A-33,559 (41,149). MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STANDINGS AND SCORES THIS DATE IN BASEBALL By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1906 – Johnny Bates of Boston became the first mod ern player to hit a home run in his first major league at bat. Irv Young allowed one hit as Boston beat Brooklyn 2-0. 1909 – The Philadelphia Ath letics opened Shibe Park with an 8-1 win over the Boston Red Sox. Shibe Park was the first concrete and steel stadium. 1911 – The Washington Senators opened Griffith Sta dium with an 8-5 win over the Boston Red Sox. 1912 – The Chicago Cubs’ Tinker-Evers-Chance double play combination played its final major league game together. 1927 – Bill Terry of the New York Giants hit the first grand slam ever hit on opening day. The Giants beat the Philadel phia Phillies 15-7. 1955 – In their first game in Kansas City, the transplanted Athletics defeated the Detroit Tigers 6-2 at Municipal Stadi um. The standing-room crowd of 32,147 was the largest paid crowd for any event in Kansas City. 1960 – The San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Car dinals 3-1 in the first game at Candlestick Park. 1965 – The first National League home run in the Hous ton Astrodome was hit by Richie Allen of the Philadel phia Phillies off Bob Bruce in a 2-0 victory over the Astros. 1966 – A crowd of 50,671 welcomed the Braves to Atlanta, but Willie Stargell spoiled the occasion with a two-run homer in the 13th inning to give the Pirates a 3-2 victory. 1970 – Plaques honoring Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle are dedicated at Yan kee Stadium. 1980 – In an awesome dis play of power, Cecil Cooper and Don Money each hit grand slams in the second inning of Milwaukee’s 18-1 rout of the Boston Red Sox. 1992 – Boston’s Matt Young pitched eight no-hit innings at Cleveland but lost 2-1. In the second game, the Indians managed only two hits off Roger Clemens to set a major league record for fewest hits (2) in a doubleheader. 1994 – Scott Cooper hit for the cycle and drove in five runs to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 22-11 rout of the Kansas City Royals. Cooper went 5-for-6 with two doubles and completed the cycle with a single in the ninth.Luis Arraez hits for the cycle in Marlins’ 8-4 win over Phillies ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — Luis Arraez became the rst Mi ami Marlins player to hit for the cycle, going 4-for-5 with a homer, two runs scored and two RBIs in an 8-4 victory over the Phila delphia Phillies on Tuesday night. Before Tuesday, the Mar lins were the only active major league team to not have a cycle in their history. Miami entered the National League as the Florida Mar lins back in 1992. “I had a lot of people who helped me work hard every day,” Arraez said. “I want to give this to my family and my wife, who is expecting our baby.” Arraez won the American League batting title with a .316 average as a member of the Minnesota Twins in 2022 before being traded to the Marlins in a four-play er deal on Jan. 20. He’s 22 for 41 (.537) in 12 games to start the 2023 season. That is the highest batting aver age for any player through the rst 12 games of a sea son since Frank Cattalanato hit .600 in 2000. “I feel healthy and I’ve felt that if I was healthy this year, I could do a lot of things,” Arraez said. After doubling in the rst inning and connecting on a triple to the right eld cor ner in the sixth, Arraez’s solo homer in the seventh inning helped provide the Marlins some cushion after a four-run lead was cut to one in the Phillies’ half of the sixth inning. “It’s pretty special to be a part of it and to watch him go about his business,” Marlins manager Skip Schumaker said. “He’s using the whole eld and grinding out at-bats. It’s been an incredible pickup.” Arraez singled to left eld in the eighth off Philadel phia reliever Andrew Bel latti, scoring Jazz Chisholm with the nal run of the night. ——— Y ankees 11, Guardians 2 CLEVELAND – Gerrit Cole pitched seven effective innings and Franchy Cordero hit a three-run homer, powering the Yankees to the victory. Cole (3-0) gave up two runs and three hits in the first before locking in and improving to 5-0 against Cleveland over the past two seasons. The right-hander beat the Guardians twice in last year’s AL Division Series. Cordero’s homer in New York’s five-run third off Hunter Gaddis (0-1) gave Cole a big cushion and helped the Yankees even the series after dropping the opener. Anthony Rizzo had two RBIs for the Yankees, and superstar Aaron Judge extended his on-base streak to 44 games. Orioles 12, Athletics 8 BALTIMORE – Ryan Mountcas tle homered twice and tied a team record with nine RBIs, helping Bal timore rally for the victory. Mountcastle hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning and added a grand slam in the seventh as the Orioles overcame a difficult home debut for right-hander Grayson Rodriguez. Austin Hays homered and had four hits for Baltimore, which handed the A’s their sixth straight loss. Mountcastle tied the franchise’s single-game mark for RBIs set by Jim Gentile in 1961 and matched by Eddie Murray in 1985. He became the first player anywhere in the majors to drive in nine runs since Adam Duvall in 2020. Shea Langeliers capped Oak land’s five-run fifth with a threerun homer off Austin Voth that gave the A’s a 7-3 lead. Sam Moll (0-1) got the loss. Bryan Baker (1-0) pitched a scoreless seventh to earn the win. Blue Jays 9, Tigers 3 TORONTO – Kevin Kiermaier hit a solo home run and made a sen sational leaping catch at the wall, leading Toronto to the win. The Blue Jays belted five hom ers in their home opener in front of a sellout crowd of 42,053. Alejan dro Kirk hit a three-run shot, and George Springer, Matt Chapman and Bo Bichette each hit a solo homer. Nick Maton hit a three-run homer for Detroit in its fifth straight loss. Matt Manning (1-1) allowed four runs and six hits in six innings. Zach Pop (1-0) worked 1 2 / 3 innings for the win. Braves 7, Reds 6 ATLANTA – Matt Olson and Ozzie Albies homered, and Atlanta overcame a rocky season debut by Kyle Wright. Michael Tonkin (1-1) earned his first win since 2016 by pitching three scoreless innings in relief of Wright. The Braves led 7-4 before Jose Barrero’s two-run homer off Joe Jiménez in the eighth. Barrero had three RBIs. Nick Anderson pitched a per fect ninth for his first save since 2021. Reds right-hander Luis Cessa (0-1) allowed five runs in 3 2 / 3 innings. Albies’ homer was the 100th of his career. Padres 4, Mets 2 NEW YORK – Ryan Weathers got his first big league win in two years, and Manny Machado hit a key two-run double for San Diego. Weathers (1-0), the son of for mer major league pitcher David Weathers, allowed one run and three hits in five innings. With his father watching from a sec ond-row seat, the young left-hander struck out three and walked two. Xander Bogaerts boosted San Diego’s lead to 4-1 with a two-run homer in the ninth. Josh Hader got three outs for his fourth save. New York’s David Peterson (0-2) was charged with two runs in 5 2 / 3 innings. Pirates 7, Astros 4 PITTSBURGH – Rookie Ji-Hwan Bae hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning, lifting Pittsburgh to the victory. Pittsburgh led 4-2 entering the ninth, but Houston’s Chas McCor mick hit a tying two-run double off closer David Bednar (1-0), who blew his first save opportunity in five chances. Rodolfo Castro led off the bot tom of the ninth with a single against Ryan Pressly (0-2). Pinch-hitter Andrew McCutchen singled with one out before Bae drove a 2-2 changeup deep to right-center for his second career homer. Ji-Man Choi and Jack Suwinski also homered for the Pirates, who have won six of eight. Alex Bregman homered in the first inning for the Astros, and Kyle Tucker went deep in the sec ond. Twins 4, White Sox 3, 10 innings MINNEAPOLIS – Hanser Alber to’s throwing error allowed the automatic runner to score from second base, sending the Twins to the extra-inning victory. With pinch-runner Willi Castro on second in the 10th, Michael Taylor put down a sacrifice bunt. Alberto’s throw to first sailed wide and Castro scored to give Minne sota the win. Twins reliever Griffin Jax (1-1) worked a perfect top of the 10th, standing Chicago’s automatic run ner at third. Jesse Scholtens (0-1) was on the mound in the 10th for the White Sox, who got the game into extras after Luis Robert Jr. hom ered on the first pitch he saw from Jhoan Duran in the ninth. Taylor and Byron Buxton went deep for Minnesota. It was Bux ton’s 100th career homer. Matt Rourke / AP Miami Marlins second baseman Luis Arraez scores past Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto after hitting a home run off of Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Connor Brogdon during the seventh inning of Tuesday’s game in Philadelphia.

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Citrus County Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 2023 B3 NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB y-Boston 57 25 .695 —x-Phila. 54 28 .659 3x-New York 47 35 .573 10x-Brooklyn 45 37 .549 12Toronto 41 41 .500 16 Southeast Division W L Pct GB y-Miami 44 38 .537 —Atlanta 41 41 .500 3Washington 35 47 .427 9Orlando 34 48 .415 10Charlotte 27 55 .329 17 Central Division W L Pct GB z-Milwaukee 58 24 .707 —x-Cleveland 51 31 .622 7Chicago 40 42 .488 18Indiana 35 47 .427 23Detroit 17 65 .207 41 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB y-Memphis 51 31 .622 —New Orleans 42 40 .512 9Dallas 38 44 .463 13Houston 22 60 .268 29San Antonio 22 60 .268 29 Northwest Division W L Pct GB z-Denver 53 29 .646 —Minnesota 42 40 .512 11Oklahoma City 40 42 .488 13Utah 37 45 .451 16Portland 33 49 .402 20 Pacific Division W L Pct GB y-Sacramento 48 34 .585 —x-Phoenix 45 37 .549 3x-L.A. Clippers 44 38 .537 4x-Golden State 44 38 .537 4L.A. Lakers 43 39 .524 5x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched divisionz-clinched conference Tuesday’s Games Atlanta 116, Miami 105 (Eastern Confer ence Play-in Round)Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, (Western Confer ence Play-in Round) Wednesday’s Games Chicago at Toronto, 7 p.m. (Eastern Confer ence Play-in Round)Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 9:30 p.m. (Western Conference Play-in Round) NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Boston 81 64 12 5 133 300 173x-Toronto 81 49 21 11 109 276 220x-Tampa Bay 81 45 30 6 96 278 254x-Florida 81 42 31 8 92 286 267Buffalo 80 40 33 7 87 287 295Ottawa 81 39 35 7 85 258 267Detroit 81 35 36 10 80 240 274Montreal 80 31 43 6 68 226 298 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Carolina 81 51 21 9 111 260 209x-New Jersey 81 51 22 8 110 286 222x-N.Y. Rangers 81 47 21 13 107 275 216N.Y. Islanders 81 41 31 9 91 239 220Pittsburgh 81 40 31 10 90 260 261Washington 81 35 37 9 79 251 260Philadelphia 81 30 38 13 73 217 273Columbus 80 24 47 9 57 209 323 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Colorado 79 49 24 6 104 271 219x-Dallas 80 45 21 14 104 279 216x-Minnesota 81 46 25 10 102 243 221Winnipeg 81 46 32 3 95 246 221Nashville 80 41 31 8 90 222 231St. Louis 80 37 36 7 81 261 295Arizona 81 28 40 13 69 224 294Chicago 81 26 49 6 58 200 296 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Vegas 80 49 22 9 107 265 227x-Edmonton 80 48 23 9 105 318 258x-Los Angeles 81 46 25 10 102 275 254x-Seattle 80 46 26 8 100 287 249Calgary 81 37 27 17 91 260 252Vancouver 80 36 37 7 79 269 295San Jose 80 22 42 16 60 231 313Anaheim 80 23 45 12 58 204 330x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched divisionz-clinched conference Monday’s Games Dallas 6, Detroit 1Winnipeg 6, San Jose 2Toronto 2, Florida 1, OTWashington 5, N.Y. Islanders 2Ottawa 3, Carolina 2Buffalo 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, SOMinnesota 4, Chicago 2Nashville 3, Calgary 2, SOSeattle 4, Arizona 1Los Angeles 3, Vancouver 0 Tuesday’s Games Carolina 4, Detroit 1New Jersey 6, Buffalo 2Philadelphia 4, Columbus 3, OTBoston 5, Washington 2Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 3Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 2Winnipeg 3, Minnesota 1Edmonton at ColoradoSeattle at VegasVancouver at Anaheim Wednesday’s Games Montreal at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.Dallas at St. Louis, 7:30 p.m.San Jose at Calgary, 10 p.m. TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BOSTON RED SOX — Reinstated RHP Gar rett Whitlock from the 15-day IL. Optioned RHP Kutter Crawford to Worcester (IL). Sent RHP Brayan Bello to Worcester on a rehab assignment.CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed SS Tim An derson on the 10-day IL. Recalled INF Lenyn Sosa from Charlotte (IL).HOUSON ASTROS — Reinstated LHP Blake Taylor from the 15-day IL and optioned him to Sugar Land (PCL).MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent OF Alex Kirilloff to Fort Myers (FSL) on a rehab assignment. Placed OF Joey Gallo on the 10-day IL, ret roactive to April 8.OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Sent RHP Paul Blackburn to Las Vegas (PCL) on a rehab assignment.TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed RHP Zach Ef lin on the 15-day IL, retroactive to April 8. Recalled RHP Taj Radley from Durham (IL).TEXAS RANGERS — Sent OF Leody Taveras to Round Rock (PCL) on a rehab assign ment. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Reinstated MLB 1 p.m. (MLBN): San Diego Padres at New York Mets or Chicago White Sox at Minnesota Twins4 p.m. (BSF): Miami Marlins at Philadelphia Phillies 4 p.m. (MLBN): Milwaukee Brewers at San Diego Padres or Pittsburgh Pirates at St. Louis Cardinals6:30 p.m. (SUN): Boston Red Sox at Tampa Bay Rays 7 p.m. (MLBN): Detroit Tigers at Toronto Blue Jays or Cin cinnati Reds at Atlanta Braves10 p.m. (MLBN): Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco Giants or Cincinnati Reds at Atlanta Braves COLLEGE SOFTBALL 5 p.m. (BIGTEN): Illinois at Northwestern 7 p.m. (ACC): East Carolina at Duke NBA PLAYOFFS PLAY-IN GAMES 7 p.m. (ESPN): Chicago Bulls at Toronto Raptors 9:30 p.m. (ESPN): Oklahoma City Thunder at New Orle ans Pelicans GOLF 4 p.m. (GOLF): 2023 Western Intercollegiate, Final Round 7 p.m. (GOLF): LPGA Tour LOTTE Championship, First Round NHL 7:30 p.m. (TNT): Dallas Stars at St. Louis Blues 10 p.m. (TNT): San Jose Sharks at Calgary Flames SOCCER 2:30 p.m. (UNI): UEFA Champions League – Real Madrid vs. Chelsea3 p.m. (CBS): UEFA Champions League – Teams TBA 10 p.m. (FS1): CONCACAF Champions League – Club Atlas vs. Philadelphia Union. Quarterfinal, 2nd Leg TENNIS 8 a.m. (BSF): 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters ATP Second Round & Round of 16 TRACK AND FIELD 3:30 p.m.: GC8 Meet at Weeki Wachee FLAG FOOTBALL 7:15 p.m.: The Villages at Lecanto BOYS AND GIRLS TENNIS District 3A-4 in GainesvilleTBD: Lecanto GIRLS TENNIS District 2A-6 at Crystal River9 a.m.: Citrus and Crystal River BASEBALL 6:30 p.m.: Vanguard at Crystal River ON THE AIRWAVES PREP CALENDAR LOTTERY NUMBERS POWERBALL Monday, April 10, 2023 9-10-36-46-52-14-x2 Next Jackpot: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 $202 MILLIONMEGA MILLIONS Friday, April 7, 2023 12-32-49-51-66-21-x2 Winning Numbers Next Jackpot: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 $441 MILLIONLOTTO Saturday, April 8, 2023 1-3-9-34-35-42 Next Jackpot: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 $26.25 MILLIONCASH 4 LIFE Monday, April 10, 2023 29-30-35-48-55-2 Winning Numbers Top Prize: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 $1,000/DAY FOR LIFEJACKPOT TRIPLE PLAY Friday, April 7, 2023 4-8-18-24-29-41 Winning Numbers Next Jackpot: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 $1.3 MILLION CASH POPTuesday, April 11, 2023 Morning -2 Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Matinee -2 Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Afternoon -10 Monday, April 10, 2023 Evening -12 Monday, April 10, 2023 Late Night -15 FANTASY 5 Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Midday -1-7-10-12-15 Monday, April 10, 2023 Evening -4-17-18-19-29PICK 5 Tuesday, April 11, 2023 6-8-4-9-6 1 Monday, April 10, 2023 8-4-5-7-9 0PICK 4 Tuesday, April 11, 2023 3-4-3-5 1 Monday, April 10, 2023 7-9-6-5 0PICK 3Tuesday, April 11, 2023 3-6-7 1 Monday, April 10, 2023 8-0-3 0 PICK 2Tuesday, April 11, 2023 3-9 1 Monday, April 10, 2023 1-9 0 meet. I’d like to thank Crystal River for being such great hosts.” Crystal River rst-year head coach Mike Williams was very pleased with how his team played. “The boys all the way one through ve and both doubles played extremely well,” he said. Among the district cham pions for Citrus were Riley Dodd in No. 1 singles and the No. 1 doubles team of Dodd and Landon Hensley, which earned them auto matic berths into the state tournament. Dodd won his singles matches 6-0, 6-0 in the seminals and 6-0, 6-1 in the nals over Rafferty Lay of Hernando. Dodd and Hensley won in dou bles 6-0, 6-0 in the semi nals and 6-4, 6-1 in the nals over Austin Edwards and Jacob Silvey of Crystal River. Dodd is now a three-time district singles and doubles champion. “It means a lot. I love being out here with all the teams. It’s enjoyable,” Dodd said. “It’s super nice knowing we get an auto matic bid. I wanted to go for singles, but we both wanted a shot at doubles. We played a lot of doubles to get to this match today.” Hensley said it’s nice knowing he is going to state for sure, but wants the team to win regionals next week and everyone make the trip together. “It denitely takes pres sure off knowing you’ve made it through to states, but now we’re playing to get the team with us, which makes it more fun,” he said. Dodd and Hensley really got rolling in the second set of the title match to claim the district crown. “We were just connected. We were communicating perfect, moving perfect, without even telling each other. Just hitting our win ners,” Hensley said of the second set. The wind was a big fac tor on the day, which Dodd said made serving an ad venture. “We all kind of had a tough time with our serve. The wind was really tough,” he said. “You don’t have much control over your toss. But we got the games back that they got from us on our serve.” The day started with the singles championship matches and the Hurricanes won all ve. Joining Dodd as district champs were teammates Hensley at No. 2 singles, 6-2, 6-2 over Silvey of Crystal River, Mason Bry ant in No. 3 singles, 1-6, 7-6 (7-5), 10-8 over Carson Edwards of Crystal Riv er, Caleb Blanch in No. 4 singles, 6-2, 6-1 over Dev on Hicks of Crystal River, and Logan Shaw in No. 5 singles, 6-0, 6-2 over Brad Caulkins of Weeki Wachee. “That sweep in singles was really great for those individuals. That was very nice,” coach Nelson said. “We’re very happy. The wind was an obstacle for most of us, but the Hurri canes, we like that wind. They really played great. I can’t complain with how any of them played.” The nal match out on the courts was the No. 2 doubles title bout between Carson Edwards and Hicks of Crystal River and Citrus’ Bryant and Blanch. After dropping the rst set, the Pirate duo rallied to take the second set and pulled away in the third-set tiebreaker for a 5-7, 6-2, 10-5 triumph to pre vent another Citrus district sweep. “We played some good teams at this district and came up against Citrus quite a few times and our No. 2 doubles pulled it out,” coach Williams said. “They really came together and pulled it out in that tie breaker.” The girls’ District 2A-6 tournament began Tuesday and will conclude Wednes day at Crystal River High School. DISTRICTFrom page B1 CHRONICLEPanthers blank Pirates The Lecanto ag football team avenged one of its loss es this season with a 21-0 victory Tuesday night at home over Crystal River. The Panthers improved to 9-2, while the Pirates dropped to 5-5. The Lecanto defense was led by Olivia Rojas with six ag pulls and Chloe Tsacri os with ve ag pulls. Mya Connor sealed the game with an interception in the nal two minutes. The Panther offense was led by quarterback Peyton Dison with three touchdown passes to three different re ceivers – Kayla Negron, Eli sha Bluford and Julia Parker.Strong first day for Panthers The Lecanto boys and girls tennis teams began District 3A-4 play Tuesday in Gainesville and it was a good day for both squads. The Lecanto girls didn’t lose a match all day and will have all ve players in the singles nals Wednes day and both doubles teams in the seminals. The Panthers and Gaines ville are battling for the team title. The Lecanto boys still have three singles play ers alive and one doubles team battling for a district crown. The Panthers are battling with Gainesville and Fleming Island for the top-two spots to earn a berth in next week’s re gionals. Hurricanes blank Sharks The Citrus baseball tam won its fth game in a row Tuesday night, 4-0 at Na ture Coast Tech. The Hur ricanes improved to 9-10 with the Gulf Coast 8 Con ference victory. Cris Walley had two hits and scored a run, Jayden Pelletier also had two hits, Dalton Denham drove in a pair of runs and Tristan Beck had an RBI. Will Linhart scattered six hits and struck out three in the complete-game shutout win. Warriors whip OCA The Seven Rivers Chris tian baseball team only needed three innings Tues day night in a 21-0 rout of Ocala Christian Academy. The Warriors (8-7) scored nine runs in the rst, seven in the second and ve in the third to end the contest. Nathan Tidwell and Mikey Lemar drove in four runs each, Palmer Looper added three RBIs and Had don Sullivan and Logan Moore each drove in two runs. LOCAL SPORTS BRIEFS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TAMPA — Minor league call-up Joseph Woll made 46 saves, William Nylander had a goal and two assists, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Tuesday night in a preview of an opening round playoff se ries next week. Woll, recalled on an emer gency basis from the AHL Toronto Marlies, stopped Nikita Kucherov from the low right circle during a 6-on-4 with 1:31 to play. After ying into Tampa on Tuesday, Woll was in formed around six hours before faceoff that the NHL approved the transaction. Over several stints this sea son with the Maple Leafs, he has won ve in a row af ter losing his debut. “It’s been a little crazy,” Woll said. “Pretty special to come out here and get the win.” Tampa Bay beat Toron to in the rst round of last season’s playoffs en route to its third straight trip to the Stanley Cup Final. The Maple Leafs rested forwards Auston Matthews and Mitchell Marner, and defenseman Mark Gior dano. Matt Onuska from Windsor of the OHL served as the backup goalie due to salary cap issues. Toronto also got goals from Luke Schenn, Calle Jarnkrok and Ryan O’Reil ly. Alex Killorn, Nick Per bix and Mikhail Sergachev scored for the Lightning, who have lost four in a row. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 20 shots. “It was a weird game,” Lightning coach Jon Coo per said. “I don’t know if anybody got anything out of that game. Clearly there was mandate to call some penalties. It was a lot them.” ——— Bruins 5, Capitals 2 BOSTON — Brad Marchand and Tyler Bertuzzi had power play goals and the Boston Bruins broke the NHL points record with a vic tory over the Washington Capitals in their regular-season home fina le. Under chants of “We want the Cup!” the Bruins’ won their sev enth straight to push their points total to 133, one more than the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens. Those Canadiens played in an era with regulation ties, with the Bru ins getting 11 points this season for overtime and shootout victo ries. Hurricanes 4, Red Wings 1 RALEIGH, N.C. — Stefan Noesen and Jordan Martinook scored early and Carolina main tained its hold on first place in the Metropolitan Division with one game remaining in the regular season. Brent Burns and Jesperi Kot kaniemi also scored and Antti Raanta made 20 saves as the Hurricanes shed a slump that included the team’s only three-game stretch without a point this season. Devils 6, Sabres 2 NEWARK, N.J. Tomas Tatar had two goals and an assist and New Jersey clinched home ice advan tage for the first round of the play offs and ended Buffalo’s postsea son hopes. Jack Hughes scored a late empty-net goal for his 97th point this season, breaking the fran chise record of 96 set by Patrik Elias in 2000-2001. Jets 3, Wild 1 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Mark Scheifele scored his 42nd goal, Connor Hellebuyck made 33 saves and Winnipeg clinched the last spot in the Western Confer ence playoffs. Adam Lowry and Mason Apple ton also scored goals in Hellebuy ck’s 13th consecutive start for the Jets, who won for the fifth time in six games to secure the second wild card and eliminate Nashville. Blackhawks 5, Penguins 2 PITTSBURGH — Buddy Robin son and Andres Athanasiou scored 26 seconds apart in the third peri od and Chicago dealt Pittsburgh’s playoff chances a significant blow. Pittsburgh began the night needing wins in its last two games over Chicago and Colum bus to extend the longest active playoff streak in major North American professional sports to 17 years. Flyers 4, Blue Jackets 3, OT PHILADELPHIA — Owen Tip pett scored his second goal of the game with 15.5 seconds left in overtime and Philadelphia snapped a seven-game losing streak. James van Riemsdyk scored his 300th career goal and Joel Farabee added a score for the Fly ers. Carter Hart made 28 saves.Call-up Woll makes 46 saves, Maple Leafs beat Lightning 4-3these efforts.” Other schools, including Notre Dame, Ohio State, Texas and UCF, have made similar consolidating moves in recent months. Florida Victorious, found ed by Miami businessman and UF alum Jose Costa of horticultural grower Costa Farms, plans to raise money from the school’s 450,000 alumni. Membership op tions range from $15 to $250 a month, with more than 90 percent of revenues going to student-athletes. Offerings GATORSFrom page B1 Reese McGuire hit an RBI single in the ninth for Boston.Trainer’s roomRays: RHP Zach Ein was placed on the 15-day injured list with lower back tightness. ... Díaz, who had three hits and scored three runs, left in the eighth inning with an apparent injury. ... INF Taylor Walls, who has missed two games with left elbow tendinitis, ex pects to return Wednes day. RAYSFrom page B1 By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI — Quin Snyder’s bags were packed in Feb ruary for an overseas trip. He was going to spend time with some friends and fam ily, see some coaches he’s gotten to know over the years. Then the Atlanta Hawks called with a job offer, to bring him on as coach. And now Snyder’s bags are packed again – for the playoffs, starting with a trip to Boston. Trae Young scored 25 points, Clint Capela grabbed 21 rebounds and the Hawks earned the No. 7 in the East ern Conference playoffs by beating the Miami Heat 116-105 in a play-in tourna ment game Tuesday night. “Our guys are trying to be the best version of ourselves at the end of the year,” Sny der said. “The year’s not over. So hopefully we can take this and continue to build on it. It’s one game – but it was our game.” Dejounte Murray added 18 points for the Hawks, who avenged a ve-game Round 1 loss to Miami last season and earned an East rst-round matchup with Boston that will start Sat urday. Kyle Lowry scored 33 points – his highest-scor ing game in his two Miami seasons – for the Heat, who will host either Toronto or Chicago on Friday to de cide the No. 8 seed and a spot against top overall seed Milwaukee in Round 1. The Raptors and Bulls play Wednesday; the winner of Friday’s game opens the series against the Bucks on Sunday. Tyler Herro scored 26 for Miami, and Jimmy Butler nished with 21. “Come Friday, we have to play the legit exact opposite of how we played tonight,” Butler said.Hawks grab No. 7 in East, hold off Heat RHP Jose Ruiz from the 15-day IL. Placed RHP Scott McGough on the patenity sitATLANTA BRAVES — Reinstated RHP Kyle Wright from the 15-day IL. Optioned LHP Dylan Dodd to Gwinnett (IL).MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed RHP Brandon Woodruff on the 15-day IL, retro active to April 8. Recalled RHP Janson Junk from Nashville (IL).NEW YORK METS — Acquired RHP Seth Elledge off waivers from Atlanta and op tioned him to Syracuse (IL). Transferred LHP Jose Quintana from the 15-day IL to the 60-day IL.

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B4 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle r rnr n nr r r r r r ( 2 ) (WESH)  ­€‚ƒ ­„…­† ­€‚ƒrn‡„…‚ˆ (3) (WEDU) rr ‰†­€‚ Š‹Œ ‹†‚Œ‹†r Šr r ‚†Œ  Œ†­Ž‚Œ‹†r (5) (WUFT) ‘‘ ‹†‚Œ‹†Š…†­‚’Š‹ (8) (WFLA)  ‚ˆˆ‚Œn­ƒ Œ ‚ˆˆ‚ŒˆŒ†Œ‚­ˆ‰ˆŒˆ­ƒ Œ ­€‚ƒ n  ­­­€r‚ƒ„ ­€‚ƒ…­†  ­€‚ƒ„„r n ‚“ˆˆˆ­ƒ Œ   (9) (WFTV) ‚Œn”‰ †‡”‚†• –…†Œ‹ˆ ˆˆ†—†ƒ——ŒŒ  Œ‚Œ ­­ˆ­ŒŒ ­ˆƒ ‡­‰‰ ’­‰‰­˜• (10) (WTSP) ‚‰”‚‚˜ˆ­ˆƒ –…†Œ‹ˆ‡”‚†•‹†˜­˜†… †…†‹­†‡ ‚‡‚‰”‚‚—†Œ (13) (WTVT) …Š™rr …Š™rn…Š™rnrš ‚›­ˆƒ† n r‡…‚†‰†‚ˆŒ‚­– ˆƒ…Š™r…Š™rr…Š™r…Š™rr (20) (WCJB) †ˆ­„ ˆˆ†—†ƒ ——ŒŒŒ‚­­ˆ­ŒŒ ­ˆƒ‚Œ‡„’­‰‰ (22) (WCLF)  †­Œ­‚ˆ†­ƒ‹”‚ˆŒ­†‚Œ‚›ˆ­ˆƒ­Œ ­­‚‰ˆ†‰‰‰…Œ †‚ (24) (WYKE) nnn †‚ˆ–†‰œ‹­Œ†‚­ˆ‡” †‚Œ‚›ˆ­ˆƒ­ Œ ‹Œ­ˆ ‰‰’ˆ‚‹†­ƒ†‚Œ (28) (WFTS) †ˆ­„ ˆˆ†—†ƒ ——ŒŒŒ‚­­ˆ­ŒŒ ­ˆƒ‡„’­‰‰ (32) (WMOR)  ˆ ˆ­ƒ‚ˆƒ­ƒ‚ˆƒ‰‰‚Œ‚ˆ‚Œ‚ˆ­ƒ —†­ƒ —†­ƒ‚ˆƒ ˆ (38) (WTTA) nnn žŒ†‚…‚‰­…‹…‚‰­ …‹ ‚ˆˆŒ­€­‚‚‰”‚‚Œ­ˆrƒr‚Œ­ˆ (40) (WACX) „† ‹—‚ƒƒ‚†Œ˜‚ ­’­Œ  †ˆŒ­‰‚“‚Œ†‚­† ƒ„„†…‚­Œ †­ˆ€ (44) (WTOG) ŸŸŸ ‰†­€‚ˆ‹­– ‰†­€‚ˆ‹­– ‚ˆ‚‚–ˆ ‚ˆ‚‚–ˆ  …‚  n ‰‚Š‹rŒ­˜†‚‚‰”‚‚‚ŒˆŸŸ‚¡Š††¢‡ ‹rŽ (50) (WVEA) ¢‘‘‘ Œ­€­‚Œ­€­†‚†‚‹‚‚‹”‚ †ˆ€­‚†­€Œ‚‰—­£ˆ†‚ˆ‚‰‚†‚Œ†‚Œ­€­‚Œ­€­† (51) (WOGX) …Š™r …ž‘ƒ‚Œn­ƒ‚ˆƒ­ƒ‚ˆƒ ‚›­ˆƒ†…‚†‰†‚ˆŒ‚­–…Š™‘‘‚“¢ (66) (WXPX) Š ‹‹rˆ‹‹‹‹Žr (A&E) ‘ŸŸ‘Ÿ  …­†ŒŸ…­†ŒŸr† …­†ŒŸ…­†ŒŸ‚‚r …­†ŒŸ‘ …­†ŒŸˆ (ACCN) ’‘‘Žƒ–Œ—‚r‚nŽ†‚­Œƒ…Œ—‚ rƒŒŽ­‚n (AMC) ‘‘nŸ‘‘ ‘‘<+++Œ¤‹­€ <+++ Œ—‹Œ†…“’‚ƒnrƒŠr‰Š rrƒ­ < + + Œ—‹Œ†…“”‚ƒnrƒŠrƒŽrŠ rrƒ­ (ANI) ‘r‘‘ Œ†­–Œ ”Œ†­–Œ ”ˆŒ† n rˆŒ†r…‚­˜†ˆŒ†ˆŒ†rrr (BET) nn ‚ˆ‚ˆ‚ˆ‚ˆ­ƒ —†­ƒ —†‚ˆ„­˜­ˆƒ „‚Œ˜¢‚ˆ„­˜­ˆƒ (BIGTEN) Ÿ‘‘ƒ–Œ—‚‰„‚€†ƒrn‰rŽ‰ˆ‚Œ­€‡r•– ŠrŠŠ€n (BRAVO) ‘Ÿ‘‘Ÿ ‚ˆ†”‹‰”—˜rn‚ˆ†”‹‰”‚r‚ˆ†”‹‰”‹‚ˆ†”‹‰”‹‚Œ€  ‚Œ’‚ˆ†”‹‰”‹ (BSFL) r‘rr‘’‘‘‚—‚Œƒ‚‰  ‚†›†‹†”Œ­ƒ Œ…€‹ˆ­†›†‹† (CC) n ‹Œ ‚† › ‹Œ ‚† › ‹Œ ‚† › ‹Œ ‚† › ‹Œ ‚† › ‹Œ ‚† › †rƒ­ƒ‰‚ˆ•‹Œ ‚† › ‹Œ ‚† › ­ƒ‰‚ˆ• (CMT) Ÿ‘ ‚Œ‚ˆ‚Œ‚ˆ‚Œ‚ˆ‚Œ‚ˆ‰‰‰‰‰‰‰‰ (CNN) ŸŸ ­Œ‹‚Œ­ˆ‰Ž„„Š‹Œ…†ˆŒŽ”†rnŽˆ­ƒ ŒŽˆ­ƒ ŒŽˆ­ƒ ŒŽ (ESPN) rrrr ”†ŒˆŒ†Ž‚›Œ—‚Ž‚›Œ—‚Ž (ESPN2) rrŸ ‚­‚ƒ†Ž‚†ˆ‚›Œ—‚‹ƒ™†rŽ…­‰”†ŒˆŒ†Ž (FBN) nŸn  ŒŒ‰­ˆŽ’ˆˆŽ‚ˆ­ˆ‚ˆ­ˆ‚ˆ­ˆ‚ˆ­ˆ‚ˆ ­ˆ‚ˆ­ˆ†‚‰‰†‚‰‰ (FLIX) ’<+++…‚ƒ–Š‹†…‚Œ †…‘–‰ƒ‹‡‡­ < + ++ ‹ˆŒ–†Š€Œ—†…”‘rƒ­ •<+++‚Œ†­Œ‚‰…”šrrr­ (FNC) ŸŸrŸŸ ”€­‚”†ŒŽ‡‚ŒŒ†Ž‹€›†‚†ˆŽ‚ˆˆ­ŒŽˆƒ†‚ ‚‰Ž‹Œ–• (FOOD) n‘nn ‹•†€†‚‰‹•†€†‚‰‹•†€†‚‰†€†ƒ‹•†€†‚‰‹•†€†‚‰ (FREEFORM) ‘  Š––­€ Š––­€ Š ––­€ Š––­€ Š––­€ Š––­€ Š––­€ Š––­€­ˆƒ‹­ˆƒ ‹— (FS1) rr ‹—ŽŒ‰­ˆŒ†ƒ ‚ƒšrƒr rrƒŒŠ­›­€€†Ž­‹‡Ž (FX) rnr ‘‘<++‚•‰ <++…‚Œ¡…‹†­‹†ˆŒ——¡ ‚…•”—Š‚Œƒ—­ˆ–‚rˆ–‚r (GOLF) n’‘‘ƒ–‹†–€‡‡Šr‰rnrƒŒŠŒ­ ŽˆŒ†‚ƒ– (HALL) ‘nr <˜†­­ˆƒ…š•rn‚…€rƒ­ < €†Œˆƒ†­ˆŒ…š‘r‹ƒŠr­­†­†­†­† (HBO) rr ’‘<++‹ˆŒ†’­†‚ˆ‡rr < + +˜‚ˆ‰­ƒ Œ…‘œŽr­’‘‚­ˆƒ•‘‹­€ž ‘<˜­ (HBO2) rrrr •<++‡ˆˆ­–†•…‘” ˜­‚ˆ‡rr‚­ˆƒ‹€€­ˆ < + +ˆ•Œ††‚†­ˆƒ…šš (HGTV) r‘r ‚†‚‰‰†”†Œ†Œ ††”†Œ†Œ †‚Œ¡‡†‰­‚ ‚†Œ—‚Œ‹ˆŒ†‘‹ˆŒˆŒ‹ˆŒˆŒ (HIST) ‘‘Ÿ‘ ‚ˆŒ‚†‚ˆŒ‚†‰n…‚ˆŒ‚†‚ˆŒ‚†‘‚ˆŒ‚†‘‚ˆŒ‚† (LIFE) ŸrŸ ‚††­‚††­“¢ ’ œŠ‡••‚††­‚Œ…­†Œ­ƒ Œnƒ™‘‚††­“­ƒ Œ‘‚††­‚Œ…­†Œ­ƒ Œ (LMN) ‘ <‹†ˆ­ˆƒ­ŒŒ­…š•ƒ›Šnr­ <€ Œ†‰ ‚†…š•‰Šrrn­ <‚ˆƒ†‹ˆ‚…š•ƒ­ (MSNBC) ŸŸŸ  ‚Œ­Œ Ž ­Š‹ŒŽˆ­Œ Ž‚ƒˆ†Ž‚Œ†ŽŒ ‹†Ž (NBATV) r‘‘‚„‚––‚–– ‚¦Œ­ˆ•r†‚–Œ ‚¦Œ­ˆ•‚––ˆŒ†‚‹ƒ™†‹ˆ (NGEO) n‘ ‚Œ€ ‚‰‹ƒƒ††‹‚Œ€ ‚‰‹ƒƒ† †‹‚†­‚ˆ‚˜‚ˆ‚†­‚ˆ‚˜‚ˆ‚†­‚ˆ‚˜‚ˆ‚†­‚ˆ‚˜‚ˆ‚†­‚ˆ‚˜‚ˆ‚†­‚ˆ‚˜‚ˆ‚Œ€ ‚ ‰‹ƒƒ††‹ (NICK) rn ‹‹‹‹ <+++ ”ˆƒ—˜­”ˆƒŠ‹Œ–‚Œ†…•…†­ˆ…†­ˆ…†­ˆ…†­ˆ…†­ˆ…†­ˆ (NWSNTN) ‚†ƒ‚”†ŒŠˆ‚‚ˆ€‹‰‚ˆ—†‚‰­˜Ž‚ˆ–­‹‰ (OWN) ‘Ÿr ˆŠˆŠ˜Œ†­ŒŒ ˜Œ†­ŒŒ˜Œ†­ŒŒ˜“­Œ r n (OXY) rŸŸr ‚Œ­ˆ€†Œ‚Œ­ˆr‚Œ­ˆ€†Œ‚Œ­ˆ€†Œ¢ˆ€˜†r‚Œ­ˆ€†Œ (PARMT) rŸrr ˆˆˆˆ < + + ­Œ‹ˆ…•—˜˜Š ˆƒŠ­ < ‚–Œ†‰†† (SEC) Ÿ‘‘‘…­ˆ—‚‹‰Žƒ…Œ—‚r™‚ƒ‡rˆƒ…Œ—‚žrnˆ‡rˆƒ…Œ—‚ (SHOW) rŸŸrŸ €€ <+++‚†‚ˆ†ˆŒ‚ˆƒ†…”’‚Šrrr­ < + +­­ˆ‰”­—…”–—žŠr­‚Œ€ ­ˆƒ­ƒ Œˆ­ˆƒ‹r• (SUN) rnrrn ˆ­”†Œ„†ƒ‚‰‚›Œ—‚ Œƒ‚‰‚›Œ—‚ (SYFY) r‘r ’‘‘< ‹ˆƒ†‚‰ <+++ ‹ˆƒ†‚‰‚Œ€ ­ˆƒ…­†…•—rŠ—rŒr­ † ›  ­­ƒ Œšˆ (TBS) ŸrŸ ­ƒ‚ˆƒ­ƒ‚ˆƒ­ƒ‚ˆƒ­ƒ‚ˆƒ­Œ†Œ­ˆƒˆ‚‰­ŒŽ†Œ­ˆƒˆr†Œ­ˆƒˆr (TCM) n‘rn •<+++†„›––­ˆƒŒˆ…’’‚Ž­ < + ++ ­Œ‚Œ…’”žr ƒŠ€…rŠ—ƒ­ < + +++‚ˆ›‚ˆ…’š (TDC) ‘rrŸ‘r ˆ ­ˆ†ˆ ­ˆ†ˆ ­ˆ††­ˆƒ‹ ­‘ˆ ­ˆ†‘‚Œ†­Œ­† (TLC) ‘Ÿn‘ †„­‰”””††„­‰”””††„­‰”””††„­‰”””†‚›‹†ƒ††„†€ (TMC) r‘nr‘ <Œ­ˆŒ ‚Œ †‰…šš—­ < + ++ƒ­ˆƒ‚­ˆ…•ŸrŸƒ­ ’< + +‹‰—ˆ…•—nŠ‰­ ˜­ (TNT) ŸrrŸ ‹€­–†ˆ €›‚r­Ž€›—rnrƒŽ (TOON) r‘r ˆˆ€—“€—“’­ˆƒ­’­ˆƒ­’­ ˆƒ­‹†ƒ†‹†ƒ†‰†­€‚ˆ‰†­€‚ˆ‰†­€‚ˆ (TRAV) n ‚†‚ˆ†‰‚‚‚†‚ˆ†‰‚‚‚†‚ˆ†‰‚‚‚†‚ˆ†‰‚‚‚†‚ˆ†‰‚‚‚†‚ˆ†‰‚‚ (truTV) ‘‘‘‘ ‡›‡›‡›‡›‡›†‡›†‡›†‡›† <+++ †•‰Œ ­ˆƒ—‹Œ‚†…”“ (TVL) rŸr †­––­Œ †­––­Œ †­––­Œ  †­––­Œ ‚‰ˆ‚‰ˆ‚‰ˆ‚‰ˆ‚‰ˆ‚‰ˆ’­ˆƒ’­ˆƒ (USA) ŸrŸ ‚¡Š††¢‚¡Š††¢‚¡Š††¢ ‚¡Š††¢‚¡Š††¢‚¡Š††¢ (WE) n ‡€rŽ rrš­‘r‚n E Why are there so many good TV shows now? By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Picture May 17, 2001. In the nal seconds of the season seven nale of “Friends,” Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel reveals she’s pregnant – but who’s the father? This was a clas sic May sweeps cliffhanger, luring viewers and reaping advertising dollars for NBC. Most shows used to kick off in the fall, air big episodes in November and February, and go out with a bang in May. Baby announcements, mar riage proposals and sudden deaths were just a few of the popular plot twists used in spring season nales to hook viewers and build anticipa tion for the fall season. Network television still largely follows that model, but the stream ers and premium cable competitors of the new guard tend to operate with different goals. Rather than angling for ratings, those compa nies are releasing new seasons of popular TV shows – “Ted Lasso,” “Succession,” “The Mandalorian,” “The Last of Us,” and “Yellow jackets” – with an eye to Primetime Emmy Award recognition. Everyone wants to be fresh in the minds of voters, said Joyce Eng, a senior editor of the Hollywood awards-centric website Gold Derby. “A lot of networks, streamers and campaigners will capitalize on re cency bias,” she said. For a TV series to be eligible for a Primetime Emmy, it must air between June 1 and May 31 of the following year. Six episodes of a returning season need to air by May 31 to qualify for a series category. The cast and crew then cross their ngers for nominations, which this year will be announced July 12, followed by the Emmy telecast on September 18, when the awards are handed out. Limited series have to air all their episodes by May 31 in order to be eligible for nomination. In March, Amazon Prime’s highly anticipated “Daisy Jones & The Six” dropped its 10 episodes in four batches. It can be a scramble for show to nish by the end of May: “Ted Lasso” on Apple TV+ drops its nal episode of season three, and maybe the entire series, on May 31. The fth and nal season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” returns on Amazon on April 14 and swiftly wraps by May 26. If a returning series does not re lease six episodes of its season by the May 31 deadline, the remain ing “hanging” episodes can be nominated in categories that only require a single episode to enter, such as guest actor. Season three of “The Handmaid’s Tale” premiered June 5, 2019 – which was too late for Emmy el igibility that year. Rather than sit the year out though, “they found a loophole,” Eng said. They submit ted three episodes that had aired in 2018 during the previous season for individual achievement catego ries, and earned 11 nominations. When it comes to scheduling, network and streamer executives maintain tight control over the re lease-date calendar. “They choose when we go,” said Rob Eric, chief creative ofcer and executive producer of Scout Pro ductions, behind the Emmy-win ning reality series “Queer Eye.” This year, he has four series pre miering right before the deadline. “We can make suggestions, but really they’re in charge of how that rollout looks,” he said of the platforms. Release dates are not always en tirely about potential accolades. “Sometimes a series is released because it’s timely and speaks to what’s happening in the world,” said Tony Phelan, who created “A Small Light” with Joan Rater. The NatGeo series tells the story of Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family. “It’s in direct response to what’s happening in the world, specically in America in terms of division and the rise in nationalism and antisemi tism,” Phelan said of the show. Still, to end the show in time for award eligibility, “A Small Light” will release two episodes each week on National Geographic, pre miering May 1 and ending May 31. “How did that happen?” Phelan asked in mock surprise of the rea son behind the show’s timeline. It should be noted that shows re leased in late summer and fall can still garner attention from awards committees – just a little later. Net ix dropped all nine episodes of “Squid Game” in September 2021 – and it was still nominated for last year’s Emmy Awards, including best drama series. Lee Jung-jae also won best actor in a drama se ries, making history as the rst per son to win in the drama category for a non-English speaking role. The critically acclaimed and pop ular series “The Bear” debuted its rst season last June, but it was too late for the 2022 Emmy Awards. By premiering in the summer though, the Hulu show shined and wasn’t drowned out by competitors. And the Emmy Awards aren’t every thing: Star Jeremy Allen White cleaned up at the Golden Globes, where he won best actor in a musi cal or comedy series. “There are just so many shows, so many streaming services, and people don’t have the time,” Eng said. “From the studio and network standpoint, maybe you should pull something like ‘The Bear’ and drop it in the summer and build that momentum because that was a word-of-mouth hit.” Still, some award shows reign su preme. Eric Korsh, the president of Scout Productions, distilled the value of award recognition: The Emmys, he said, “are about dening the best in television.” By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Wednesday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2023. There are 263 days left in the year. Highlight in history:On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began as Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. On this date:In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cere bral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, at age 63; he was succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman. In 1955, the Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective. In 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the earth once before making a safe landing. In 1963, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and jailed in Birming ham, Alabama, charged with contempt of court and parad ing without a permit. (During his time behind bars, King wrote his “Letter from Bir mingham Jail.”) In 1981, former world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis, 66, died in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1990, in its first meeting, East Germany’s first demo cratically elected parliament acknowledged responsibility for the Nazi Holocaust, and asked the forgiveness of Jews and others who had suffered. Ten years ago: U.S. Secre tary of State John Kerry, visit ing South Korea, delivered a stark warning to North Korea not to test-fire a mid-range missile while tamping down anxiety caused by a new U.S. intelligence report suggesting significant progress in the communist regime’s nuclear weapons program. Five years ago: Police in Philadelphia arrested two black men at a Starbucks; the men had been asked to leave after one of them was denied access to the restroom. (Star bucks apologized and, weeks later, closed thousands of stores for part of the day to conduct anti-bias training.) One year ago: Vladimir Putin vowed that Russia’s bloody offensive in Ukraine would continue until its goals are fulfilled and insisted the campaign was going as planned, despite a major withdrawal in the face of stiff Ukrainian opposition and sig nificant losses. A gunman in a gas mask and a construction vest set off a smoke canister on a rush-hour subway train in Brooklyn and shot and wounded 10 people. (Frank James, 62, would later be arrested and plead guilty to the shooting.) Federal data confirmed that 2021 had been the deadliest year in U.S. his tory, brought on by COVID-19 and an unprecedented spike in adolescent drug overdoses. Actor and standup comic Gil bert Gottfried died at age 67. Today’s birthdays: Play wright Alan Ayckbourn is 84. Jazz musician Herbie Han cock is 83. Rock singer John Kay (Steppenwolf) is 79. Actor Ed O’Neill is 77. Actor Dan Lauria is 76. Talk show host David Letterman is 76. Author Scott Turow is 74. Actor-play wright Tom Noonan is 72. R&B singer JD Nicholas (The Com modores) is 71. Singer Pat Travers is 69. Actor Andy Gar cia is 67. Movie director Wal ter Salles is 67. Country sing er Vince Gill is 66. Model/TV personality J Alexander is 65. Rock musician Will Sergeant (Echo & the Bunnymen) is 65. Rock singer Art Alexakis (Everclear) is 61. Country singer Deryl Dodd is 59. Folk-pop singer Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) is 59. Actor Alicia Cop pola is 55. Rock singer Nicho las Hexum (311) is 53. Actor Retta is 53. Actor Nicholas Brendon is 52. Actor Shannen Doherty is 52. Actor Marley Shelton is 49. Actor Sarah Jane Morris is 46. Actor Jor dana Spiro is 46. Rock musi cian Guy Berryman (Coldplay) is 45. Actor Riley Smith is 45. Actor Claire Danes is 44. Actor Jennifer Morrison is 44. Actor Matt McGorry is 37. Actor Brooklyn Decker is 36. Con temporary Christian musician Joe Rickard (Red) is 36. Rock singer-musician Brendon Urie (Panic! at the Disco) is 36. Actor Saoirse Ronan is 29. TODAY IN HISTORY Colin Hutton / Apple TV+ via AP Jason Sudeikis, from left, James Lance, Brendan Hunt and Brett Goldstein in a scene from “Ted Lasso.”

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Bishop, T. Fluri,B. PowellSecondR. Zeigler, A. Zeigler,J. Cummings, D. TalbotClosest to the pin:No. 2 B. PowellNo. 4 D. Ressler50/50 winner: R. PearsonThe Brentwood Men’s Golf Group begins play at 8 a.m. Tuesday mornings at Brent wood Farms Golf Club. All men are welcome to join the group in a friendly round of hand icapped golf. Results of the April 11 game are as follows:First 35Ken GeigerSecond 36Chuck ClarkThird 37Al MortonClosest to the pin:No. 2 Chuck ClarkNo. 4 Don HunterNo. 8 Steve Sullivan (in 2) CITRUS HILLS WOMEN On Tuesday, April 4, the Citrus Hills Ladies Golf Association (CHLGA) held its annual season-end “Ace of Aces” Championship. The winners of this low gross, low net indi vidual tournament were as follows: Flight 1 1st Low Gross 78Helene Reed1st Low Net 70Peg Crowley Flight 2 1st Low Gross 90Jackie Dziekan1st Low Net 76Janice Henderson Flight 3 1st Low Gross 96Sherry Robertson1st Low Net 73Lily KimBirdies:No. 18 Helene ReedNo. 13 Ivalee LawrenceNo. 3 Marti JonesNo. 12 Cheryl MasseyNo. 16 Paula WalkerNo. 5 Candy Agnew MEN Twenty members of the Casdia Quota Points Men’s League played on the Citrus Hills Oaks course on Wednesday, April 5. The results are as follows:Frank Stutzman +7Chuck Clark +3Lee McCalla +2Frank Wormwood +2Scott Cook +1Dick Jowett +1Closest to the pin:Nos. 3 & 10 Stan ShankapotmisNo. 5 Tim HendersonNo. 12 Matt PetisceThis men’s league is looking for new mem bers and is open to all levels of golfers, snowbirds, beginners, and novices or ex perienced. For more information or to join the league, contact John Casdia at 352-746-9370. CITRUS NATIONALS On Wednesday, April 5, the Citrus National Men’s Golf Association (CNMGA) played a “2 Man Best Ball Game.” Results follow: Flight 1 First 65Mike Cristofono & Jim BrownSecond (tie) 67William Butterworth & David OpalaFrank Sova & Blind Flight 2 First (tie) 62Anthony Chillura & Steve TeskaFrank Mlinek & Ronald BollmanSecond 65Terry Nutt & Dennis Weeks Flight 3 First 66Tony Valente & Kyle MuzinaSecond (tie) 68Rich Fodor & Jeffery KnollMark Campbell & Rich PerryClosest to the pin:No. 4 William ButterworthNo. 8 Frank SovaNo. 13 Rick OdellNo. 17 Mike Cristofono WOMEN On April 6, the Citrus Nationals Ladies Golf Association (CNLGA) had its year-end shootout. The top 10 women who qualied during the year played a match format. Congratulations to Bonnie Demianczyk, who won the year-long “Match Play vs. Par” event. Bonnie prevailed over Suki Schatten berg on the ninth hole to take this year’s title! CITRUS SPRINGS On Thursday, April 6, the Citrus Springs Men’s Golf Association played a game of “2 Best 2 of 3.” Results follow:First 144Frank Tyo, Jerry Feher,Tony PackerSecond 145Paul Koch, Greg Wood,Tom Mazzola, Walt NortonClosest to the pin:No. 4 Paul KochNo. 8 Phil ShaferNo. 11 Jerry FeherNo. 14 Tony PackerNo. 16 Greg WoodOn Saturday, April 8, the Citrus Springs Men’s Golf Association played a game of “1-Front, 2-Back.” Results follow:First 100Bill Curry, Pete King,Tom MazzolaClosest to the pin:No. 4 Jeff RossyNo. 8 Jerry FeherNo. 11 Tony PackerNo. 14 Bill Curry (69 feet!)No. 16 Greg Wood LAKESIDE Forty golfers (including the Easter Bunny) played at Lakeside Country Club in the “Fri day Fun 9 Hole Scramble” at 2:30 p.m. on Good Friday, April 7. We welcome players at all skill levels to join. Sign up in the Pro Shop (352-726-1461) by Thursday and be at the course by 2 p.m. on Friday. Winners on April 7 were as follows:First -7Dottie Mattioni, Victor Mattioni,Patrick Fisher, Fran LawlessSecond -6Pam Miller, Don Miller,John West, Patty MiddlebrookThird -5Sally Gawlinski, Tom Gawlinski,Sharon Middleton, Mark MiddletonFourth -3Coke Smith, Rick Smith,Chuck Suchecki, Don MollardFifth -2Tammy Woodburn, Larry Ovitt,Rick Reese, Scott DeMasterSixth -2Linda Heelan, Ron Titter,Yvonne Boyle, John BoyleSeventh -1Cheryl Beaudet, Al Beaudet,Ian Wiliams, Easter BunnyEighth +1Dodi Stuart, Andy Stockwell,Barkley Martin, Rick RiechNinth (tie) +1Shirley Renfrow, Bob Renfrow,Rita Wilson, John Wilson10th (tie) +1Connie Fornaciari, Tom Fornaciari,Patty Kennedy, Ed KennedyClosest to the pin:No. 2 Tammy Woodburn & Don MillerNo. 8 Cheryl Beaudet & Tom GawlinskiLakeside Country Club Sunday Scramble League results for April 9:First -5Pam Miller, Don Miller,Art HagenSecond -3Dick Rohde, Jean Rohde,Rich Rohde, Tony LongoThird -2 (MOC)Marc Brandstradter, Anne McDanel, Jon VilumsClosest to the pin:No 13 Dick RohdeNo 15 Pam MillerNo 15 Dick Rohde50/50 winner:Faye Bessette MARINO GROUP The Marino Group plays a weekly 9-hole co-ed Monday scramble at local courses. The scramble is open to golfers of all levels and is golfer friendly. If interested, contact Bob and Debbie Marino at dmarino7@tam pabay.rr.com. The “Marino Group’s Monday 9-Hole Scramble” on April 10 was played at Rainbow’s End Golf Course. Results follow:First 31Joe Vargo, Jim Sparano,Jim Mayer, Sr.Second 31Ian Williams, Denise Mullen,Jim Mayer, Jr., Dean StraussThird 33Kevin Kaye, Dottie Mattioni,Bob MontgomeryFourth 33Bob & Debbie Marino,Paul VolmarFifth 34Randy Robbins, Dan McMullen,George Law, Darrell CreechSixth 34Ken Desleth, Cookie Long,Victor Mattioni, Randy BetscherSeventh 34Jean LeBlanc, Rod Aldrich,Brian Suzik, Milt PetersEighth 34Denny & Suzan Zimmerman,Ray Shawl, Charlie WigginsNinth 34Rick Levins, Charlie Kowalski,Mike Weimer, Dallas Sayre10th 34Doc Freer, Dale Trinrud,Richard Reese, John Condray11th 34Jack Mullen, Jane Kennedy,Tom Mott, Bud Yaroch12th 35Scott DeMaster, Barb Yaroch,Jim F., Jerry V.13th 37Ken Anderson, Dayle Montgomery,Jerry Finner, Bob WaltersClosest to the pin:No. 3 Joe, Jim, JimNo. 4 (Women) Debbie MarinoNo. 4 (Men) Richard ReeseNo. 6 Joe, Jim, JimNo. 7 Ian, Denise, Jim, DeanNo. 9 (Women) Suzan ZimmermanNo. 9 (Men) Jean LeBlancBirdie points w/16: Joe, Jim, Jim PLANTATION Monday, April 3, 9-hole points game results:Ed Watson +5Dave Tyson +3Tim Hume +3Denish Patel +2Wednesday, April 5, Ladies 9-hole points game results:Deb St. Onge +3Diane Elmhirst +2Thursday, April 6, 9-hole points game re sults:Diane Maher +7Linda Kraeft +5Reed Callahan +4Judy McGonigle +4Brenda Ferrell +4Jimmy Brothers, Sr. +4Sean McDougall +3 Barry Reynolds +3Chuck Demicoli +2Mark Zorn +2Jay Morelli +2Tom Kraeft +1Bob Thurmbuchler +1Craig Young +1Saturday, April 8, 18-hole points game re sults:Brenda Ferrell +13Tom Kraeft +9Tim Hume +7Denish Patel +6Jeff Dominey +5J. Trippel +4R. Mitchell +1Don Perrin +1Chuck Harvey +1Cathy Moreton +1Bob Thurmbuchler +1Tuesday, April 4, Ladies 9-Hole “Breakfast Club” – “Pick Six” Format Game results:Lola McCarthy 28Sue McHugh 29Pat Swartout 29Nancy Sullivan 29Helen McIntyre 30Marilyn Swenson 30Carolyn McNeil 31Connie Pickle 31Nancy Parrish 32Patsy Salsbury 32Kim Sells 33Rita Silvers 33Claire Moran 33Sonya Meistreli 34Charlotte Couris 34Birdie:No. 9 Lola McCarthyClosest to the hole:No. 8 Nancy SullivanOn Thursday, April 6, at Plantation On Crystal River Golf Course, the MGA-GreenT played a “Points” game. The results were as follows:First +6Clayton JeckSecond +5Scott ElliottThird EvenSam McMechan RAINBOW’S END The Rainbow’s End Men’s Golf League plays a weekly 18-hole stroke game on Thursdays. Tee time is at 8 a.m. All men are welcome for fun and friendly handi cap play; those age 64 and under tee from white, 65 and over from gold. For informa tion, call Dave Ross at 386-295-4714 or Dean Strauss at 561-531-2543. Results for Thursday, April 6, are as follows:Low Gross 78Jim SheldonLow Net (tie) 70Mario Palermo & Dean StraussClosest to hole:No 4 Jim SheldonNo. 9 Cal Goering SKYVIEW On Thursday, April 6, the Skyview Ladies Golf Association (SLGA) played its “Sky view Cup” competition. In this monthly, season-long, individual point quota event, players earn points based on their gross score: bogey equals 1 point, par equals 2 points, birdie equals 4 points, eagle equals 8 points, hole-in-one equals 12 points. Each player is required to make a number of points based on her handicap subtracted from 36, with a minimum of 4 points required per player. Anything over each player’s required number of points is a “plus.” Thursday’s leaders by ight were as follows: Flight 1 Lisa Haas -1 Flight 2 Clare Paro +1 Flight 3 Lily Kim +1 Flight 4 Deborah Taverna +3Birdies:No. 9 Ginny WelchNo. 7 Lisa HaasNo. 7 Eva TrosborgNo. 12 Nan O’Connor-Roys SUGARMILL WOODS On Friday, April 7, the Sugarmill Woods Men’s Golf Association played the rst round of its “Spring Tournament – 36-Hole Point Quota” game. First-round leaders are as follows: Gold Flight Frank Mlinek +10Bill Mostyn +4Lou Beradino -2Gary Girard -2 Black Flight Dick Tuxbury +2Howard Watson -1Bruce Whewell -3 Green Flight Will Young +5Jim Turner +3Bob Stausser +1Bill Williamson 0Low Gross 78Frank MlinekLow Net 69Will YoungClosest to the pin:No. 3 George LentowiczNo. 6 Rich BinghamNo. 13 Greg HartwigNo. 16 Dick Tuxbury TWISTED OAKS WOMEN On Tuesday, April 4, the Twisted Oaks La dies’ Association played their usual golf game on the “rst Tuesday of each month” – a “Low Gross, Low Net” game. Here are the results by ight: Flight A Low Gross 81Kuniko AonoLow Net 74Mary Fama Flight B Low Gross 89Connie LeipsLow Net 73Kelly Geisel Flight C Low Gross 93Ann SnowdenLow Net 73Carol TurnquistOverall Low Net for the Month:Ann Snowden 71. MEN On Saturday, April 8, the Twisted Oaks Ba hamas Group played. Results follow:FirstHorneSecondWydickThirdSnowdenMcFaddenPetisceClosest to the pin:No. 4 FamaNo. 8 MilfordNo. 11 AmdurNo. 16 Horne LOCAL LEADERS IQ is off that charts. She’s a really smart softball player. She’s just one of those special players and we couldn’t be more proud of her. She took the oppor tunity. We talk about that, we want to put ourselves in a situation where we have an opportunity and then make the most of the opportunity and she did that.” And while Citrus’ bun ting and baserunning was key, the real story of the game was Smith and Flynn in the circle. Smith nished the night with 15 strikeouts in 10 innings and scattered four hits. Flynn struck out 18 and allowed three hits in nine-plus innings of work. “It was denitely a pitch er’s duel tonight. Both of us did really good,” Smith said. “But this was kind of my revenge, because last time we played them I didn’t pitch my best. I had to come back against them.” Crystal River acting head coach Alyssa Hamilton said after the game, “Both sides did great. Violet did a phenomenal job. To be able to gas up from pitch No. 1, I thought she was great. She dominated in the circle for us. She kept them off balance when they were swinging. “Unfortunately, the dif ference between us to night was they could consecutively lay the bunt down and we couldn’t.” Bishop said win or lose, both teams will get a lot out of a game like this. “That was a great pitch er’s duel. Their pitcher and our pitcher back and forth. Those are the type of games you like to be a part of, because they will prepare you for later in the season,” he said. “Our girls executed when they had to and put the ball in play.” The Hurricanes played errorless ball for 10 in nings, something that wasn’t lost on center elder Williamson, who made a great diving catch in the top of the 10th. “I have to give it to Kay lin. She was on tonight and I’m so thankful for her,” she said. “And our defense did whatever they needed to, to help her out.” CITRUSFrom page B1 MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Citrus second baseman Alyssa Turner, center, gets set to throw to first after forcing out Violet Flynn of Crystal River, left, on a throw from shortstop Riley Tirrell, right, during the second inning Tuesday night in Inverness.

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Be EXCITED tocometowork! Learnabout holistic integrativevetcare ? VETERINARY TECH w/1yearexp,FTorPT Startingpay$13-15 dependingonqualifications withmanygreatbenefits!! TheHealingPlace in CrystalRiver,FL 352.795.0250 Submitresumeto admin@dr-trish.com PARTTIME ASSOCIATE Parttimeassociatefor funeralhome,guaranteed27 hours,liftingrequired,light insideandoutsideduties, needverifiable drivingrecord,hourlywage wellaboveminimum, trainingprovided. Interviewappointment required,call 352-726-8323 (askforhumanresources) EMPLOYMENT YourHolisticSource OurMassageand WellnessCenter wantstoadd2 (LMTs)withconnective tissue/medicalmassage training/experience NewgradorExperienced. "Beyondjustamassage" Startingat$25-$30/hrwith downtimepayandbenefits Wewillprovidetrainingin bodywraps,percusser massageandanyofour otherservicesifneeded. Sendresumeto admin@dr-trish.com AND KITCHENSTAFF AND SERVERS Wewilltrain motivatedpeople! Applyinpersonat 114WestMainSt Inverness,FL34450 orsendresumeto erica.springer@ chronicleonline.com -EOESeekingSiteManager/ MaintenanceManagerTeam WeareseekingaSite Manager/Maintenance ManagerTeamforour37unit complexdesignatedforelderly,disabledandhandicapped.ThisislocatedinInglis,Florida.TheSiteManager shouldbeproficientinMicrosoftOfficeandgoodCustomerServiceSkillsare required.TheMaintenance Managershouldbeskilledin allaspectsofday-to-day maintenanceandableto supervisecontractors.HVAC Certifiedpreferred. Compensationincludes Salary,apartmentwith utilities,medicalinsurance andpaidvacation.Send inquiriesandresumesto applicant2023@aol.com orfaxto941-365-0807.We areanEqualOpportunity EmployerandProvider. EMPLOYMENT ADVERTISINGSALES REPRESENTATIVE Areyouahunterwithan entrepreneurialspirit? Wearegrowingtheteamand lookingforanadvertising salesrepresentative.Our teammembersworkwithnew andexistingclientstopurchaseadvertisinginourfamilyofnewspapersandahost ofdigitalsolutions. Requirements: HSdiplomaorGED BAorAAdegreein advertising,communications,orrelatedfieldispreferred.--Provenexperienceworkingasasalesrepresentative.--ProficientinallMicrosoftOfficeapplications.--Soundknowledgeof marketingprinciplesandtechniques.--Excellentorganizationalandanalyticalskills.--Strongnegotiationandconsultativesalesskills.--Effectivecommunicationskills.--Exceptionalcustomerserviceskills. SendResumeto JohnMurphy: jmurphy@ chronicleonline.com Experienced Electrician -Must beproficientinstallingrigidEMTconduitand motorcontrols,PLCandVFD knowledgewiththeabilityto install,repairandmaintain electricalandelectronic equipment,andmechanical componentsofindustrial equipmentusingschematics, blueprintsandelectrical meters. -Must beabletoassistwith automationandintegrationof newmachinesand equipmentandassistthe maintenanceteamasneeded. Applyinperson Mon-Fribetweenthehours of8:00amto3:00pm. MetalIndustries, 400WalkerAve., Bushnell,FL33513. WEWILLBECLOSEDON FRIDAYAPRIL7 Excellentbenefitspackage, 401k.DFW,EOE NowHiringPrivate DutyCNA's for 8am-8pm&8pm-8am Startingat$20/hr 352.476.4202 or 352.476.1276 EMPLOYMENT Experienced Maintenance -Must beabletoperform variousactivitiesrelativeto theinstallationonrelocation ofexistingmachinesand equipmenttoinvolve dismantling,leveling, fittingandaligningoperations. -Must beabletodiagnose machinemalfunctionsand operatingdifficultiesand makerepairsoradjustments tokeepequipment inproduction. -Must have knowledgeofhydraulics, pneumatics,electricaland weldingcapabilities. Priorexperienceinan industrialatmosphere preferred Applyinperson Mon-Fribetweenthehours of8:00amto3:00pm. MetalIndustries, 400WalkerAve., Bushnell,FL33513. WEWILLBECLOSEDON FRIDAYAPRIL7 Excellentbenefitspackage, 401k.DFW,EOE Experienced Plumbers StartingPay$25/hr 4/10Monday/Thursday LocalCitrus& HernandoCounty Musthave: -experienceintrac homeplumbing -1strough -2ndrough -ValidDriversLicense SteveSmithPlumbing Call352.302.6073or sendresumeto BillyRHooker@gmail.com EXPRENCED BREAKFASTCOOK Applywithin Kim'sCafé 352-628-3225 PromoBikeRider Slowlyride3wheelbikewith ads3hrsday-5dayswk. FlexibleSchedule!Call EverybodyHears 352.726.4327 WANTED ALLCARS,TRUCKS,SUVs, RV's/Upto$1,000& MORE!!!-FREETOWING (352)342-7037 EMPLOYMENT LEADPRESS OPERATOR FULL-TIME OurcentralofficeisinCrystalRiver,FLprinting newspapersthatserve Citrus,Sumter,Marionand LevyCounties. Musthaveaminimum5yrs exp.runningaGossCommunity/DGM430printing press.Thisisanightshift position,fourdaysperweek. Weofferanexcellentbenefitspackageincludinghealth, life,dental,eyecare,401K, paidvacationsandholidays. Applyinpersonor sendresumeto: CitrusCountyChronicle Attn.TomFeeney 1624NMeadowcrestBlvd. CrystalRiver,FL34429 Office352-563-3275or Fax#352-563-5665 EMPLOYMENT NowHiring CustomerService Representative Youwillbegreetingour customerswhentheycall. Theroleisabouthaving excellentphoneetiquette andprovidingexceptional customerserviceina professionalmanner.Handle incomingcallswiththe objectiveofone-call resolution.Youmustbe highlymotivatedandresults oriented. RequiredQualifications: Customerservice experience Strongorganizationalskills withtheabilitytomulti-task Writtenandverbal communicationskills Problemsolvingskillsand attentiontodetail ProficientwithMicrosoft OfficeandExcel ThispositionisinDunnellon, FL.Wehavebeeninthe HVACManufacturing businessforover40years. Youwillneedtohavegood workreferencesandbe DRUG-FREE alongwithgood transportation. Monday-FridayWeekends off.8am-4pmwithanhourly startingrateof$13.00and canimprovewith experience.Weofferpaid holidaysafter6months.After oneyearofemployment,you areeligibleforoneweek ‹ s paidvacation.Healthinsuranceisavailableafter120 daysofemployment. Applyinpersonat: 2541WDunnellonRd orsendresumeto: wendy@metalshop.org

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Citrus County Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 2023 B7 CLASSIFIEDS Your Hometown Agents HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY .. NickKleftis .. NOWisthetimeto considerlistingyourhome, inventoryisdownand buyersareready. Callmefora FREEMarketAnalysis. Cell:352-270-1032 Office:352-726-6668 email: nick@nickkleftis.com BETTYJ.POWELL Realtor "Yoursuccessismygoal... Makingfriendsalongtheway ismyreward!" BUYINGORSELLING? 352.422.6417 352.726.5855 E-Mail: bjpowell72@gmail.com DEB THOMPSON *Onecallawayforyour buyingandsellingneeds. *Realtorthatyoucanrefer toyourfamilyandfriends. *Servicewithasmile sevendaysaweek.ParsleyRealEstate DebThompson 352-634-2656 resdeb@yahoo.com TIMETOBUY ORSELL YOURMOBILE InALeasedLandPark? CALL LORELIELEBRUN LicensedRealtor&Mobile HomeBroker Century21 NatureCoast, 835NEHighway19, CrystalRiverFl. 352-613-3988 HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY FRANKJ.YUELLING,JR. Lic.RealEstateBroker VETERANOWNED Callmeifyouare lookingto buyorsellyourhome orvacantlot, residentialorcommercial. Over30yearsexperience. Cell:352-212-5222 GARY&KAREN BAXLEY GRIRealtors YourChristianRealtor connectiontoyour nexttransaction 352-212-4678Gary352-212-3937Karen kbbaxley@yahoo.com TropicShoresRealty Idonotstrivetobethe#1 AgentinCitrusCounty.I strivetomakeYOU#1 DOUGLASLINDSEY REALTOR 352.212.7056 ServingCitrusCounty forover18years. LaWanda Watt LWattC21@gmail.com Thinkingofselling? Inventoryisdown andweneedlistings!! Callmefora FreeMarketAnalysis! 352-212-1989 Century21J.W.Morton RealEstate,Inc. HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY Iputthe REAL in REALESTATE! JIMTHE"REAL" MCCOY I'mattentiveto yourrealestate needs! CALL&GET RESULTS! (352)232-8971 ISAMOVEIN YOURFUTURE? Foryournextmove,you deservetheBEST! Phyllishas SOLD realestate insixstatessince1994. Nowworkingexclusively inFL,youcanput HER experiencetowork for YOU bycontacting her TODAY ! PhyllisEGarrett, Realtor, ListingSpecialist 352-445-1393 PhyllisGarrett.sites.cbmoxi .com ColdwellBankerInvestors RealtyofCitrusCounty MakingRealty DreamsaReality Mypassionandcommitment istohelpyoumake yourRealEstatedreams cometrue. CALLME forallyour RealEstateneeds!! LandmarkRealty KimberlyRetzer DirectLine 352-634-2904 38Clientsservedin2022 8.3 MILLION inSales 40yearsintheBusiness MayIhelpyounext? CALL(352)302-8046 DebInfantine-Realtor TropicShoresRealty HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY MICHELEROSE Realtor "Simplyput I'llworkharder" 352-212-5097 isellcitruscounty @yahoo.com CravenRealty,Inc. 352-726-1515 MikeCzerwinski Specializingin *GOPHERTORTOISE SURVEYS&RELOCATIONS *WETLANDSETBACKLINES *ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS MichaelG.Czerwinski,P.A ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS 352-249-1012 mgcenvironmental.com 30+Yrs.Experience NADEENEHORAK Broker/Owner Serving Buyers&Sellers WaterfrontProperties Residential&VacantLand Ourofficecoversallof CITRUSandPINELLAS Counties! **FREE** MarketAnalysis PLANTATIONREALTY LISAVANDEBOE BROKER(R)OWNER 352-634-0129 www.plantation realtylistings.com HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY PickJeanne Pickrelforall yourReal Estateneeds! CertifiedResidential Specialist. GraduateofReal EstateInstitute. 352-212-3410 Callfora FREE MarketAnalysis. pickjean@gmail.com Century21JWMorton RealEstateInc. Debra"Debbie"Cleary Professional Representation IstheKEYtoSuccess! PROVENPRODUCER! MeadowcrestSpecialist ServingALLofCitrusCounty (352)601-6664 TROPICSHORESREALTY SharonMiddleton Whetherbuyingorselling, contactmetoday. "It'sYOURMOVE!" Over38yrsofexperience asarealestatebrokerin bothNYandFL.Putmy experience,knowledge,and professionalismtoworkfor you!You'llbegladyoudid! Freehomemarketanalysis. Cell:518-755-3232 SharonMidd75@gmail.com TropicShoresRealty HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY Century21JWMorton RealEstate,Inc StefanStuart Realtor 352.212.0211 Honest Experienced HardWorking ForAwardWinning CustomerServicecontact StefanStuartC21@gmail.com SUGARMILLWOODS AGENTONLY Sellers&Buyers FRUSTRATED? NEEDINGHELP? CALLME,NOW. HelloI'm WayneCormier KeyOne 352-422-0751 wayne@waynecormier.com "Haveagreatday andGodBless" THINKINGOFSELLING YOURHOME? LETMY25YEARSOF EXPERIENCEHELPYOU SELLYOURHOME! EXPERIENCECOUNTS! CALLMETODAYFORALL YOURREALESTATE NEEDS! *FreeHomeMarketAnalysis MARTHASATHER Realtor (352)212-3929 Martha.sather@gmail.com TropicShoresRealty Unique&HistoricHomes, CommercialWaterfront& Land SMALLTOWNCOUNTRY LIFESTYLEOUR SPECIALTYSINCE1989 www.crosslandrealty.com "LETUSFINDYOU AVIEWTOLOVE" (352)726-6644 CrosslandRealty Inc. PETS DOGCARRIER PetMateUltra,large,28"Lx 15"Wx21.5"D.Taupe/black $60 352-613-0529 FOUNDFEMALETABBYCAT Foundaveryyoungfemale tabbycatinInvernessnearthe VFWon44 352-419-3730 FREECATAngel 5yearoldcattogoodhome. FREE206-496-4700 UseItchNoMore®Shampoo ondogs&catstorelieve irritationfromflea&grass allergies:eliminatedoggy odor.AtTractorSupply®. (www.fleabeacon.com) PETS Westley islookingforhisFOREVER HOME!Wesleybarelymadeit outalivefromtheBainbridge shelterhewaslivinginfor2 years.Westleyisa3yearold blackmouthcurmixand weighs61lbs.Heisneutered, microchippedanduptodate withshots.Heispottytrained andcratetrained.Heisdog, catandkidfriendly.Heisa totalsweetheartandloves everyonehemeets.Ifyouare interestedinmeetingthis sweetheart,pleasego toourwebsiteat rescuedogsdream.com andcompletean applicationorcontact Deana at 813-928-3991 Backgroundcheck,reference andvetcheckswillbe completedpriortomeeting. FARM CHICKENBROODERLAMP CLAMP With10"Reflector,6'cord,and 2RedBulbs $25 352-621-7586 HANGINGWILDFLOWER POTw/Dahlia&Zinnia incoconutshells,$10ea. 352-746-4160 LOOFAHSEEDS Togrowyourownloofah sponges $3.00 352-746-4160 SAGOPALMS(PUS) babyplants,$5ea., 352-746-4160 SEEDS MultiColoredannualseeds $3perbag. 352-746-4160 MERCHANDISE 2MIRRORS Plasticframes20x50&wood frame38.5x24.5 $15each 352-344-9391 24ft.FiberglassExtension Ladder type1A$150 717-421-3051 65"VizioT.V. GoodCondition$50 352-232-7527 7Piecesettingw/ Sangostonedishes oven&dishwashersafe $30 352-422-4802 MERCHANDISE 8PieceFourCrownChina w/6martinglasses$35 352-422-4802 AGamecalledRummy-o Inacasealltogether Excellentcondition$8 352-220-1692 ANTIQUESILVER COMB/BRUSH/MIRRORSET $75.352-560-3019 BCIWalkInTubs arenowonSALE!Beoneof thefirst50callersandsave $1,500!CALL 888-687-0415 forafree in-homeconsultation. CHARCOALGRILL W/COVER Rarelyused-Includesbriquettes&starterfluid. Greatcond./Hardlyused $30 314-791-6789TextOnly CONAIROptiCleanPower PlaqueRemover Rechargeable,NEWINBOX $25OBO (352)410-8262 or(732)857-5120 Women'sDenimClothing Designer,Large/Xlarge,Jackets,VestsJeans,&Dresses, NeworWornOnce,$10-20/ea. 352-410-8262 or732-857-5120 MERCHANDISE WEBUYANTIQUES &VINTAGEITEMS ...PedalCars,Toys,Bicycles, CastIron,Pyrex,OldTools, MilitaryItems(Knives,Bayonets...),BBGuns,OldMetal Signs,Fenton,Lladro ... $CASH$ CallforInfo. Jim352-219-4134 Sheila352-219-1862 ANTONIOMELANI DESIGNERBRUSHED LEATHERPURSE $50.00 352-560-3019 BlackWheelbarrow $10 717-421-3051 MERCHANDISE BIRDCAGE Olderstyle2doors,dometop, 4ftHx17inW $100OBO,865.201.6579 BlackVelvetPants LizClairborneSize12, $20 352-513-5339 CHANDELIER 6lights,frostedglobes, $40352-560-3019 DesignerClothes BlouseNEWSizeL$10 352-513-5339 Dressw/BoleroJacketTop New,Size12,Sellingfor$25 352-513-5339 DUSTCOVER foraC-4Corvette $50 352.563.9810 EXTENSIONLADDER 28ft.,alum.,goodcond. $90; 352-254-0425 Phonecallsonly FINECHINA-PORCELAIN madeinJapan 14pieces, $35 AskforBill 352-503-9200 Full50GallonTank DieselorGas hashose,Polytank $150 864-247-6395 GorillatowbehindCart GardenCart$125 717-421-3051

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B8 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle C CREDITORS 0412WCRNNTCNEYHART INTHEFIFTHJUDICIALCIRCUITCOURT INANDFORCITRUSCOUNTY,FLORIDA PROBATEDIVISION CASENUMBER:2023-CP-00015 2 I NRE:ESTATEOF G RETCHENM.NEYHART, Deceased. NOTICETOCREDITORS TheadministrationoftheestateofGRETCHENM.NEY H ART,deceased,whosedateofdeathwasOctober25,2022,i s p endingintheCircuitCourtforCitrusCounty,Florida,Prob at e D ivision,theaddressofwhichis110N.ApopkaAve.,Invernes s , F lorida34450.Thenamesandaddressesofthepersonalrepres e ntativeandthepersonalrepresentative'sattorneyareset fort h b elow. Allcreditorsofthedecedentandotherpersonshavingclaim s o rdemandsagainstthedecedent'sestateonwhomacopyo f t hisnoticehasbeenservedmustfiletheirclaimswiththisCo ur t O NORBEFORETHELATEROF3MONTHSAFTERTH E D ATEOFTHEFIRSTPUBLICATIONOFTHISNOTICEor3 0 D AYSAFTERTHETIMEOFSERVICEOFACOPYOFTHI S N OTICEONTHEM. Allothercreditorsofthedecedentandotherpersonshavin g c laimsordemandsagainstdecedent'sestatemustfilethei r c laimswiththisCourtWITHIN3MONTHSAFTERTHEDAT E O FTHEFIRSTPUBLICATIONOFTHISNOTICE. ALLCLAIMSNOTFILEDWITHINTHETIMEPERIODSSE T F ORTHINFLORIDASTATUESSECTION733.702WILLB E F OREVERBARRED. NOTWITHSTANDINGTHETIMEPERIODSETFORT H A BOVE,ANYCLAIMFILEDTWO(2)ORMOREYEARSAFTE R D ECEDENT'SDATEOFDEATHISBARRED. ThedateoffirstpublicationofthisnoticeisApril5,2023. PersonRepresentative : JANICESTEEL E 1710WeepingElmCircl e PortOrange,FL3212 8 A ttorneyforPersonalRepresentative: R obertD.Hines,Esq.,FloridaBarNumber:0413550 H inesNormanHines,P.L. 1 312W.FletcherAvenue,SuiteB T ampa,FL33612 T elephone:(813)265-0100 E -Mail:rhines@hnh-law.com S econdaryEmail:hballinger@hnh-law.com PublishedApril4&12,2023 MEETINGS 0412WCRNMTG4/19AFFHOUSADCOMM PUBLICNOTICE N OTICEISHEREBYGIVEN thattheAFFORDABLEHOUSIN G A DVISORYCOMMITTEEwillmeetonWednesday,April19 , 2 023,at5:00pm,atthe CitrusCountyResourceCenter,inth e c afé,2804WestMarcKnightonCourt,Lecanto,Florida . A nypersondesiringfurtherinformationregardingthismeet in g m aycontactCitrusCountyHousingServices,2804W.Mar c K nightonCourt,Lecanto,FL34461(352)527-7520. A nypersonwhorequiresaspecialaccommodation(ADA)mus t p rovideatleast72hoursnotice. S inecesitauntraductordeespañolporfavorhagaarreglosco n e lCondadodentrodedosdíasdelanotificacióndel a p ublicación352-527-5370. N OTICETOTHEPUBLIC: Anypersonwhodecidestoappea l a nydecisionoftheGoverningBodywithrespecttoanymatte r c onsideredatthismeetingwillneedarecordoftheproceedin g s a ndforsuchpurposemayneedtoprovidethataverbatimre c ordoftheproceedingismade,whichrecordincludestestimo n y a ndevidenceuponwhichtheappealistobebased(Sectio n 2 86.001,FloridaStatute) PublishedApril12,2023 000PF68 1624 Meadowcrest Blvd. 352-563-6363 E n d R o s E n d R o s End Ro s Packing Projects Pets… $ 5 D o n a t i o n t o $ 5 D o n a t i o n t o $ 5 Donation to W h i l e S u p p l i e s L a s t ! 000VDV6 MERCHANDISE GUITARAMPLIFIER CRATE-Model#DX15R Likenewcondition. $65 352-621-7586 IRONMANTIRE SingleIronmanTire 22550ZR18 Asking$50 352-549-0603 JewelryCabinet 3.5ft.high,1.5ftwide, 8Drawers,2side,topopento mirror$45 352-220-1692 JewelryforSale GoodJewelrynotcostume. Ifinterestedgivemeacall 352-229-2319 JonesNewYork 2PieceSuit New,Size14,Chocolate Brown,$40 352-513-5339 KewpieDoll $20obo 352-422-1467 LADDER 3stepfoldingladder, verystrong,$22OBO 352-382-3280 Macy'sAlfani SuitTrousers&Skirt New,Size12,$40 352-513-5339 MITERSAW Ryobi10"mitersaww/laser. New,unused, inunopenedbox. $100 352-586-0469 NEW RECHARGEABLE TOOTHBRUSH INTERPLAK Inbox$10 727-247-3025 NorthFaceJacket Oliveblackw/hood,sizeM, Newneverbeenworn, Tag$85,selling $50 352-422-4802 Bob'sDISCARDED LawnMowerService «FREEPICK-UP« 352-637-1225 RVSHOWER&ASSEMBLY wholeshowertakenoutofRV, ingreatcondition,$100 352-698-0443 SEQUENTIAL COMPRESSIONDEVICE CircuFlow.Model5150with smallleggings.Usedverylittle. $50 352-302-3463 SUVCarCover O riginallypurchasedfora201 6 NissanJukecrossoversuv $100obo 352-419-5723 T.V.TRAYS 3T.V.Trayswithholder $20 352-560-3019 TONERCARTRIDGE BrotherTN-550BrandNew, stillinoriginalbox$30 352-613-0529 UPDATEYOURHOME with B eautifulNewBlinds& S hades.FREEin-home e stimatesmakeitconvenient t oshopfromhome. P rofessionalinstallation.Top q uality-MadeintheUSA.Call f orfreeconsultation: 866-6361910 .Askaboutourspecials! APPLIANCES BissellBaglessVacuum barelyused,runsgreat PowerForce$30 352-560-3019 CHARBROILEDGRILL 5BURNERWITHASIDE BURNERNEVERBEEN USED..$95.00 727-698-9582 COMMERCIALMIXER GLOBESP20Commercial 20QuartPlanetaryMixer AllAccessoriesincluded! ExcellentCond.!$1100OBO 352-212-4622LeaveMsg ElectricRange 4prongsupplycable$25 352-341-0302 SMITTYS APPLIANCEREPAIR 352-564-8179 WASHER&DRYER Maytagbrand,white,good workingcondition. PICKUPONLY. $125forboth.Picturesavail. Pleasetext 321-750-6203 FURNITURE 5PCPATIOFURNITURE Toudewickersetwithglass toppedtable.Likenew $150845-701-6023 AIRMATTRESS OZARKTRAILbrand fullsize,greatforcompany $40 865-201-6579 BLACKLSHAPEDDESK WITHOFFICECHAIR ASKINGPRICE$55.00 727-698-9582 BoxSpring&Mattress Excellentcondition,Double wide,togoodtothrowout Free 352-247-4491 CURIOCABINET 82"Hx40"Wx13"Dwith shelves-Whitewashed$100 352-613-0529 FURNITURE KingMattress VeryCleanCondition,8"thick, Highquality$1,500OBO 352-209-3177 or516-769-2136 QueenSizeBed Box,Mattress,LikeNew paid$1,500-Sell $900 352-422-3905 MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SURELIFEARMBLOOD PRESSUREMONITOR MACHINEBRANDNEW $20 352-410-8262 or732-857-5120 EQUATESHOWER&BATH CHAIR blackw/back,newin box,neverbeenopened,$30 352-410-8262 FannyPack forINOGENOneG4Portable OxygenConcentrators Brandnewstillinpackage $45727-247-3025 PRIDEGOCHAIR ElectricWheelchair $275FIRM Seriousinquiresonly 352.382.0772 SPORTING GOODS 20in.MongooseBike $45 864-247-6395 BICYCLES 2MoboTritonBikesKidsupto 200lbs.Excellentcond. $150 352-419-9119 BOATOAR Alum.,$30.00 352-560-3019 BowlingBallBags 3BallBag$502BallBag$301BallBag$20 352-245-4233 INABOVEPOOLLADDER $20 352-560-3019 REDPHILIPSBIKE MadeinEngland usedfordisplayonly $85OBO 865-201-6579 SPORTINGGOODS 2SmallBikesfor$90.00 352-220-4695 STATIONARYSKIER $10, 352-422-4802 REAL ESTATE FOR RENT CRYSTALRIVER 3/2/1locatedinTropic Terrace$1,600permonth first-last-security smallpetwithonetimefee of$500backgroundcheck 352.453.7432 RoomforRent Privatebath,nopets,no smoking$595 Call 352-476-3598 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 10210NSabreDrive CITRUSSPRINGS$315K Bigpool,largeeatinkitchen, familyroom,2large bedrooms,2cargarage& RVParking, NOHOA . 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Citrus County Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 2023 B9 CLASSIFIEDS Fun By The NumbersLike puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked fromthe moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! 4/12/23 CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS 1. Egyptian bull-god 5. America7\SHRI¿HOGDEEU11. Reagan’s Deputy AG13. Negative14. Mother of Hermes15. Summer and Winter Olympics goldmedal winner 16. In shape17. Oh my goodness!18. People of Guinea or Sierra Leone 20. A form of “to be”21. Succulent plant22. Estranges25. Honest30. Showing conviction31. High schoolers’ test32. Implant33. Acknowledgment38. Cash dispenser41. Transferred to another 43. Superhero group45. Photographers48. Small, rich sponge cake49. Power to perceive50. Heavy cavalry sword,VUDHO¶V¿UVWSHUPDQHQW UN delegate 56. Everything$IÀLFWHG59. Language spoken in Chad 60. Pioneering MC Kool Moe __ 61. Jewish spiritual leader62. Keyboard key63. Soviet Socialist Republic 64. Impudence CLUES DOWN 1. Type of degree 2. Expression of sorrow or pity 3. Large, predatory lizard 4. River in Romania 5. Biased 6. Parties 7. TV’s used to need one 8. Philly football player 9. Recognized ethnic group of China 10. Gradually disappear12. Large, dark antelope14. Vegetarians won’t eat it19. Takes the energy out of 23. Body part24. Succeed in achieving25. Where golfers begin26. Computer memory27. One who buys and sells securities 28. Midway between north and northeast 29. Quiet and rather dull34. A limb on which to walk35. It precedes two36. Of she37. Commercials39. Necessary for sewing40. Infectious viral disease41. Expression of good wishes 42. Some are contact44. More plentiful45. Secret political clique46. Behind the stern of a ship47. Supernatural force48. Altar in Orthodox churches 51. Swiss river52. Impartiality53. “Luther” actor Idris54. They resist authority VODQJ 58. Criticize rn rrr  r­€‚­ ƒn„‚­…† ‡ †rˆn‰r„ rn nn ƒr rƒn„‰ ‚nŠ…‹† SOLUTIONSPeanuts Siding Sof t Fa scia Skirting Ro of ov ers Ca rp orts Screen Roo ms De cks Wi ndo ws Do ors Ad ditions Pe rmi t An d En gineering Fe es Al lofour structures withstand 120mph winds 352-628-7519 WILLCONSTRUCTIONCORP. 352-628-2291 We alsoofferSafetyGrabBars, We atherStripping,InsuranceInspections r LEGALS 0415WCRNVACATEPLATHAYES NOTICEOFPETITIONTOVACATEPLAT T hePetitioners,GlennandKimberlyHayes,onbehalfofthem s elves,herebygivenoticeoftheirintentiontopetitionthe Citru s C ountyBoardofCountyCommissionerstovacatetheplatte d u tilityeasementalonglyingSouthofLot21,ANDNorthofLot2 0 , B lock164,CRYSTALMANORUNIT3,asdescribedinExhibi t " A"attachedheretoandmadeaparthereof. BY:/s/GlennandKimberlyHaye s PETITIONER S Exhibit"A" P LATTEDEASEMENTLYINGSOUTHOFLOT21,AN D N ORTHOFLOT20,BLOCK164,CYRSTALMANORUNIT3 , A SRECORDEDINPLATBOOK8,PAGE136,OFTHEPUB L ICRECORDSOFCITRUSCOUNTY,FLORIDA. PublishedApril5&12,2023 0412WCRNNTCRUSSELL INTHECIRCUITCOURTOFTHEFIFTHJUDICIALCIRCUIT INANDFORCITRUSCOUNTY,FLORIDA PROBATECASENO.2023-CP-248 I NRE:THEESTATEOF F REDE.RUSSELL, Deceased. NOTICETOCREDITORS TheadministrationoftheestateofFredE.Russell,decease d , w hosedateofdeathwasDecember19,2022,ispendinginth e C ircuitCourtforCitrusCounty,Florida,ProbateDivision, thead d ressofwhichis110NorthApopkaAvenue,Inverness,F L 3 4450.Thenamesandaddressesofthepersonalrepresentativ e a ndthepersonalrepresentative'sattorneyaresetforthbel ow. Allcreditorsofthedecedentandotherpersonshavingclaim s o rdemandsagainstdecedent'sestateonwhomacopyofthi s n oticeisrequiredtobeservedmustfiletheirclaimswiththi s c ourtONORBEFORETHELATEROF3MONTHSAFTERTH E T IMEOFTHEFIRSTPUBLICATIONOFTHISNOTICEOR3 0 D AYSAFTERTHEDATEOFSERVICEOFACOPYOFTHI S N OTICEONTHEM. Allothercreditorsofthedecedentandotherpersonshavin g c laimsordemandsagainstdecedent'sestatemustfilethei r c laimswiththiscourtWITHIN3MONTHSAFTERTHEDATEO F T HEFIRSTPUBLICATIONOFTHISNOTICE. ALLCLAIMSNOTFILEDWITHINTHETIMEPERIODSSE T F ORTHINFLORIDASTATUTESSECTION733.702WILLB E F OREVERBARRED. NOTWITHSTANDINGTHETIMEPERIODSSETFORT H A BOVE,ANYCLAIMFILEDTWO(2)YEARSORMOREAFTE R T HEDECEDENT'SDATEOFDEATHISBARRED. T hedateoffirstpublicationofthisNoticeisApril5,2023. PersonalRepresentative : RobertBrianRussel l 11275W.PoolCour t CrystalRiver,FL3442 9 A ttorneyforPersonalRepresentative: D eniseVanNess,Esq. F loridaBarNo.0845050 V anNess&VanNess,P.A. 3 52-795-1444 1 205NorthMeetingTreeBlvd. C rystalRiver,FL34429 d vn@vannesspa.commls@vannesspa.com PublishedApril5&12,2023 0412WCRNNTCSIMMONS INTHECIRCUITCOURTFORCITRUSCOUNTY,FLORIDA PROBATEDIVISION . FILENO: 19-2022-CP-118 0 I NRE:Estateof: M ARYLYNDASIMMONS , deceased. NOTICETOCREDITORS Theadministrationoftheestateof MARYLYNDASIMMONS , d eceased,whosedateofdeathwasJuly23,2021,ispendingi n t heCircuitCourtforCitrusCounty,Florida,ProbateDivisi on,th e a ddressofwhichis110NApopkaAvenue,Inverness,FL34450 . T henamesandaddressesofthepersonalrepresentativeando f t hepersonalrepresentative'sattorneyaresetforthbelow. Allcreditorsofthedecedentandotherpersonshavingclaim s o rdemandsagainstdecedent ‹ sestateonwhomacopyofthi s n oticeisrequiredtobeservedmustfiletheirclaimwiththis Cour t W ITHINTHELATEROF3MONTHSAFTERTHETIMEO F T HEFIRSTPUBLICATIONOFTHISNOTICEOR30DAY S A FTERTHEDATEOFSERVICEOFACOPYOFTHISNO T ICEONTHEM. Allothercreditorsofthedecedentandotherpersonshavin g c laimsordemandsagainstthedecedent ‹ sestate,mustfilethei r c laimswiththisCourt WITHIN3MONTHSAFTERTHEDAT E O FTHEFIRSTPUBLICATIONOFTHISNOTICE. ALLCLAIMSNOTSOFILEDWITHINTHETIMEPERIOD S S ETFORTHINSECTION733.702OFTHEFLORIDAPRO B ATECODEWILLBEFOREVERBARRED. NOTWITHSTANDINGTHETIMEPERIODSSETFORT H A BOVE,ANYCLAIMFILEDTWO(2)YEARSORMOR E A FTERTHEDECEDENT ‹ SDATEOFDEATHISBARRED . ThedateoffirstpublicationofthisNoticeis:April5,2023.SignedonSejptember30th,2022. PersonalRepresentative : /s/ MelvinLamarSimmons,Sr . MELVINLAMARSIMMONS,SR . 2502NCalomondenTerrac e Hernando,FL3444 2 A ttorneyforPersonalRepresentative F RANKC.LAWSON,P.A. / s/ FrankC.Lawson F RANKC.LAWSON F loridaBarNo:441627 F RANKC.LAWSON,P.A. 1 266E.SilverSpringsBlvd. O cala,Florida34470-6806 ( TELEPHONE)352-351-5510(FAX)352-351-9540 E -mail:frankclawsonpa@yahoo.com PublishedApril5&12,2023 CREDITORS 0412WCRNNTCLAWRENCE INTHECIRCUITCOURTOFTHEFIFTHJUDICIALCIRCUIT INANDFORCITRUSCOUNTY,FLORIDA PROBATEDIVISION CASENO.:23-CP-00000 5 I NRE:TheEstateof L OISE.LAWRENCE, A /K/ALOISLAWRENCE, Deceased. NOTICETOCREDITORS TheadministrationoftheestateofLOISE.LAWRENCE , A /K/ALOISLAWRENCE,deceased,whosedateofdeathwa s J uly27,2022,ispendingintheCircuitCourtforCitrusCount y , F lorida,ProbateDivision,theaddressofwhichis1540N.Mea d o wcrestBlvd.,CrystalRiver,FL34429.Thenamesandad d ressesofthepersonalrepresentativeandthepersonalrepr es e ntative ‹ sattorneyaresetforthbelow. Allcreditorsofthedecedentandotherpersonshavingclaim s o rdemandsagainstdecedent ‹ sestateonwhomacopyofthi s n oticeisrequiredtobeservedmustfiletheirclaimswiththi s c ourtWITHINTHELATEROFTHREE(3)MONTHSAFTE R T HETIMEOFTHEFIRSTPUBLICATIONOFTHISNOTICEO R T HIRTY(30)DAYSAFTERTHEDATEOFSERVICEOF A C OPYOFTHISNOTICEONTHEM. Allothercreditorsofthedecedentandotherpersonshavin g c laimsordemandsagainstdecedent ‹ sestatemustfilethei r c laimswiththiscourtWITHINTHREE(3)MONTHSAFTERTH E D ATEOFTHEFIRSTPUBLICATIONOFTHISNOTICE. 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L & L CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE EDUCATION & HOMETOWN COMMUNITY NEWS FOR OUR AREA Section C WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 , 2023 WHAT’S INSIDE TODAY?Chalk Talk ........... C3 Pet Rescue Adoptables . C2 Mini Page ............ C4 Puzzles .............. C5Comics .............. C6Artists’ Lecture Series to launch at gallery By MARGO WILSON Chronicle Correspondent The Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon gallery would like to become a cultural hub of the community. Its artists know much about the arts and would like to share their knowledge with the public. They’d also like to have some fun along the way. They are launching an Artists’ Lecture Series, opening April 23 at 2 p.m. when gallery member, watercolorist and mixed media artist Sue Primeau talks about the art tours she leads around the globe. She’ll discuss the cuisine, history, culture, and people she’s encountered in her talk, “An Artist’s Adventures in Traveling Abroad.” A donation of $10 is requested. Next in the series, on May 12 at 7 p.m., is “Writing on the Rain bow,” when three area authors, including the gallery’s President Amy Peters Wood, discuss the books they’ve written and offer writing tips they’ve picked up. Wood will talk about the book she wrote after sailing around the world with her husband in a hand-built boat. Also speaking is Betty Jean Steinshouer, an author, actress, and literary historian. She toured many years on the Chautauqua circuit, portraying women writ ers. Her book, “Long Road to Red Cloud,” is a study of author Willa Cather that won an Inter national Book Award. She’s also published collections of essays and poems. And Mary Lu Scholl is an au thor of cozy mysteries – myster ies in which the violence is min imal, the sleuth is an amateur, and the setting is a small town or other socially “cozy” setting. She’s branched out to “brozies,” which have a male sleuth. Moderating the session is Mar go Wilson, Citrus County Chron icle freelance correspondent and author of the novel, “The Main Ingredient.” A donation of $5 is requested.On May 26 at 11 a.m., the gal lery’s Executive Director Brid get Hanley talks about what to do with that art that’s piling up at home in “The Big Leap: Where To Go Now With Your Art.” Artists will learn how to dis play their art at galleries and on social media. Hanley will dis cuss how to keep an inventory of one’s work, how to price it and how to promote the art and the artist. A donation of $10 is requested. Those who’d like to attend one or more of the talks should reg ister in advance at the gallery, 20804 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Dunnellon. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Registration also can be done by phone during business hours at 352-445-8547, or online at www.rainbowspringsart.com.Talks to begin April 23 with Sue Primeau Photos Special to the Chronicle On April 23 at 2 p.m., gallery member, watercolorist and mixed media artist Sue Primeau talks about the art tours she leads around the globe in “An Art ist’s Adventures in Traveling Abroad.” On May 12 at 7 p.m., is “Writing on the Rainbow,” when three area authors, including the gallery’s Presi dent Amy Peters Wood. Also speaking May 12 is Betty Jean Steinshouer, an author, actress and literary historian. Mary Lu Scholl is an author of cozy mysteries – mysteries in which the violence is minimal, the sleuth is an amateur and the setting is a small town or other socially “cozy” set ting. She’s branched out to “brozies,” which have a male sleuth. She will also speak on May 12. On May 26 at 11 a.m., the gallery’s Executive Director Bridget Hanley talks about what to do with that art that’s piling up at home in “The Big Leap: Where To Go Now With Your Art.”Inverness Woman’s Club member gets district honor SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Barbara Cooper, a member of the GFWC Woman’s Club of Inverness since 2009, was recently named Volunteer of the Year for District 5, Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs, a district that includes clubs in Marion, Levy, Citrus and Alach ua counties. Cooper has long been a leader in her local club, heading up theme dinner parties for fundraisers, assur ing a club presence in local tributes to veterans and working in almost every project the club has undertak en. A few years ago, as chairman of the club’s Civic Engagement and Outreach committee, she undertook recycling plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless, working closely with the late Ginger West and the Family Resource Center. In addition to members who were involved in the project, she recruit ed people from throughout the com munity that she met to help. More than 100 mats were made. When she found that the homeless could use other supplies, she accepted do nations for tarps, coolers and other items that West suggested. During 2022, working again as chairman of the Civic Engagement Committee, she led outreach to local rst responders. She had the club sign Valentine’s cards and de livered them, along with cookies, to local remen. She found local veterans were col lecting large vases and asked for do nations and kept the club apprised of other needs of veterans. Because of her efforts, the club has been Special to the Chronicle Barbara Cooper, center, was recognized at the March meeting of the GFWC Woman’s Club of Inverness for her outstanding work as a club member. She was recently named as the District 5 GFWC Volunteer of the Year and will now compete with 12 others across the state for the top award that will be given at the state convention of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in Orlando. A plaque with her name engraved is shown by co-presidents Sandy Olson, left, and Sandy Boyette, right.Barbara Cooper tapped for serviceSinging songs of peaceW ell, hello again. The Cit rus Community Concert Choir’s Spring Concert was held last weekend at Faith Luther an Church in Lecanto and at First Presbyterian Church in Inver ness. The “Sing Peace” concert was directed by Karen Medrano with the accom panist, Sally Smith-Adams. Director Medra no, in her notes in the playbill, asked us how we describe peace. How do we achieve it? Researching “peace,” Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony and Yuri Kochiyama come to mind. All were courageously leading the way to peace. Jesus, Moham mad and Buddha promoted harmony and peace with others and nature. Still, we lack peace, and Medrano suggests that we read about those highly inuential people and pray for peace. As for the choir, they sang for peace, and we were blessed. Opening with cellist Stephen Lane’s “The Swan,” from “Carnival of the Animals,” it was a peaceful, calming selection which set the mood for us to listen and reect on peace. Clearly, Lane enjoyed the opportunity to perform with the choir. Accompanist Sally Ann Smith-Adams added her magic ngertips to complete the moment of peace for us. Throughout the concert, there was the constancy of softly and quietly beating drums in the background and we heard the choir’s spokesperson’s message, “Music truly is the universal language.” It builds bridges of harmony, understanding and peace. Inside the program’s listing of the choir’s selection of music on peace was a beautiful denition of “peace” written by Natalia Leeper, a third-grade student at the Clayton B. Wire Elementary School in Sacramento, Cali fornia: “Peace is like freedom, rainbows and a dove. Give Peace to all the land. Love the world as you love your Country. That’s how to get Peace.” The rst selection was “Umo ja Tunaimba” (“United We Stand”), composed by Victor Johnson in 2022. Vibrantly, the choir delivered the message of peace. Next we heard “A Call For Peace,” a combination of Latin and English composition, writ ten by Jerry Estes, featuring the male choir members’ voices leading with the female voices echoing their proclamation of peace and a call for unity of purpose. It concluded with a solemn a capella, which gave us time to ponder their message. The third selection was “Words Apart,” with music by Alisa Blair and words by Dina Gregory and featuring Beth Evans’ solo descant. Described as an unknown stranger speak ing out of fear being welcomed at our table even though words apart. The choir performed this mag nicently in staccato “we-are-words-apart,” emphasizing their plea for peace. The sincerity in their voices was self-evident: “Our father, our neighbor, we welcome you to our table.” As Beth Evans sang, “We are all the same echoes of peace,” it seemed to echo throughout the hall of the church. It was a RuthLevinsAround the Community All about Southern wisdom and wordsL et’s talk Southern ... I’m pretty sure by now you know that I’m proud of the fact that I’m Southern. I think that everyone should be proud of their heritage. Recently, I tried to clarify the meaning of certain words, like xin. No, not xing. It’s xin, as in, “I’m xin to write this column.” That means that I’m getting ready to write this column. Used in this sentence, it means I’m getting ready to do something, but it can also be used as a verb, as in, “I’m xin a mess of collards for you,” or “I’m xin your car,” or “I’m xin to x your car.” A very versatile word for sure. Oh yes, and if a Southerner tells you he’s xin to do something, it may take him a while to actually start work ing on the project. Also, the part about the “mess,” I’m asked how much is a mess. A “mess” of some thing varies greatly depending on how much you need for your needs. One thing for sure, you don’t want the giver to “disfurnish” themselves. Meaning don’t give me so much that you don’t have enough for yourself. Another good word. But I digress. Back to the “mess.” Mess is often used to describe a person or personality. If someone says, “She’s a mess!” then that is similar to “Bless her heart!” However, if you are described as a mess, you are usually in pretty good standing. They are just letting you know that you are funny or entertaining. Then again, it could mean you are a “mess.” Meaning, well, your life is a mess. It could go either way. One has to put it in the context of the moment. Oh, and, if a southern mamma says “Don’t mess with my kids!”, then it’s a good idea to leave those kids alone! The aforementioned usage should be a public service announcement. Come on now, I know that up North, ya’ll say a lot of funny stuff, too. A while back I heard someone say that they were going to “ret” out their desk drawers? What? Actually, I said “Whut?”What does that mean? This person was from Pennsylvania and she explained that it meant that she was going to clean out her desk drawers. I had never heard that word before. My Northern friends also eat funny stuff. I’ve never had an egg cream, or pickled herring or matzo balls and a lot of other stuff. Speaking of food, we eat South ern things with certain meat dishes. Like, how can you have fried chicken without mashed potatoes and gravy? And, I promise you, I have never heard a Southern man say, “Pass me some more of the hummus, please,” or “Let’s have Mary Alice TillmanLet’s Talk See TILLMAN , page C2 See LEVINS , page C8 See WOMAN’S CLUB , page C8

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C2 Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Dexter is about 5 years old. He is social, good with other cats, likes to snuggle and is not crazy about riding in the car. He is ready for his special, loving fam ily. To meet Dexter, call 352-726-4700 and leave a message, as he is not at our adoption center. The Precious Paws Adoption Center is at 3768 W. Gulf-to-Lake Highway in Lecanto and we are open daily from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Huey is a handsome brown and gray male tabby. Shy at first, he’s gained con fidence and is friendly, inquisitive and sweet. Huey will need time to become confident in his new home. He likes his cat tower to relax on. He’ll make a nice companion and just needs a chance to settle in and feel safe. To meet Huey, call Hardin Haven at 352422-5525. Louey is a good-looking brown and gray male tabby. He’s shy upon first meet ing, but he’s gained confidence and is friendly. He’ll need time to become set tled in his new home, so be patient. He loves the cat tower and watching things outside the window. Louey will make a devoted companion. To make arrange ments to meet Louey, call Hardin Haven at 352-422-5525.Shelter and rescue ADOPTABLES Dewey is an especially handsome black male with a shiny coat and a long, lanky body. He’s a little shy at first, but once he gets to know you, he’s all in! He warms up quickly; just a little time in his new home to become confident. He’s a friendly and loving fellow who will be a great companion. A cat tower will be a must for him! To meet Dewey, call Hardin Haven at 352-422-5525. Several Hardin Haven cats may be in residence at Pet Supermarket in Inverness, and Hardin Haven also does an adoption event at Pet Supermarket in Inverness from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Citrus County Ani mal Services, 4030 S. Airport Road, Inverness, behind the fairgrounds. View adoptable pets at citruscritters.com. Call 352-746-8400. Unless otherwise noted, all dogs are spayed/neutered, micro chipped, heartworm tested and current on vaccinations. For information on Precious Paws Rescue pets, call 352-726-4700. For Hardin Haven pets, call Donna at 352-422-5525. For Adopt a Res cued Pet, cal 352-795-9550 and leave your name, number and pet’s name. some more of that tofu tonight!” Uh-uh. Nope. Not going to happen. We generally do not put sugar in our cornbread; how ever, there are exceptions. My friends the Brannens put a spoonful or two in theirs. (I must admit, I do use Jiffy mix and I’m pretty sure it has sugar in it, just sayin.) Anyway, it doesn’t mean they are, as Lewis Grizzard said, unAmerican. They just like theirs that way. But, enough for now about the vocabulary and move on to Southern Wisdom: some quotes from Lewis Grizzard and some from my own family’s eternal opinions.PoliticsMy grandmother, if she were still with us, would agree, “I’d rather have a bad case of ground itch than listen to a bunch of politi cians!” Love this one from LG: “I think President Carter would have been a much better president if he’d told his brother, Billy, to wait in the truck!” “I think we ought to keep the rich as rich as possible for as long as we can, be cause nobody poor was ever able to give somebody else a job!”Southern menSpeaking of jobs, my mother once said of a man she knew that “You couldn’t run fast enough to give that man a job!” It’s been said that if we didn’t have Southern men, who would change your oil and clean out your carburetor (if we had them any more)? Most Southern men know that if you can’t repair a piece of equipment and all else fails, cursing at it in a very loud voice or kicking and slapping said piece of equipment seems to help. Never when women are around though. OK, so your wife might be around, but knows to disappear at this point. Recently, my husband gave a light xture a good tongue lashing. I don’t know if it helped, but the deed did get done.Southern womenWe still like it when men open doors for us. Most of us still think it is the gentleman ly thing to do. We like shoes. We can have 300 pairs (I don’t have that many) and still think we could use one more pair. This is possibly a gender trait all over the world! Don’t mess with our chil dren. On the other hand, a Southern mom will “Snatch a knot”in their child’s head. I’ve never actually seen that done; however, my mother did have me cut a switch or two if we were behaving “ugly.” That’s like choos ing your weapon to torture yourself with. “Ugly” is another word that we use a lot down here. In this context, “ugly,” doesn’t mean you are not pretty to look at. It means you are misbehaving, as in “Johnny, that was an ugly thing to do to pull little Susie’s pigtail. Don’t be ugly or I will snatch a knot in your head!” At this point in time, little Johnny has a choice to make. Believe me, if he’s thinking anything at all, he will think that it is better to quit being “ugly” than to get “a knot snatched in his head!” You can bet a Southern mom will be true to her word. No pigs were harmed in the telling of this story.Religion in the SouthBaptists and Pentecostals are usually the best cooks. Methodists are right up there. You haven’t really eaten good food until you’ve been to a good old-fashioned din ner on the ground followed by a Southern gospel sing. Hmm ... I can still hear those good old harmonies. When I was very young, I thought that if I took a drink of anything stronger than Coke or sweet tea, Jesus would come down in person and send me directly to hell where I would burn forev er and ever! Actually, I’ve thought this to be true for most of my life. Yes, I know all about mercy and grace now, but just in case ... I know that people say they don’t like the fact that some people come into the fold because they are scared by all of those revival preach ers that preach hell re and brimstone. But my thinking is – whatever it takes. If people these days were still afraid, we might not be acting so “ugly.” But that’s just me talking.Until next time, remember to keep laughing because laughter is the best medicine! Mary Alice Tillman is a Hernan do County native. She and her husband, Billy, now live in Dun nellon. 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Citrus County Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 2023 C3USCG Auxiliary: Need sure cure for boredom? By WILBUR B. SCOTT USCG Auxiliary, retiredA re you looking for something interesting and exciting to do while at the same time providing a valuable service to your community and to your country? Then look no further. No matter what your area of in terest is, you will nd it with Homosassa Flotilla 15-4 of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary. For those of you who love boats – you don’t have to own one to be a member – and being on the water, we have room for you as a member of one of our boat crews, participating in sur face patrols, exciting search and rescue operations as well as interesting training missions with the USCG. Perhaps your interest is in the environment. Our boat crews are also patrolling our beautiful waterways for signs of pollution, oil leaks and other signs of toxic waste. How about becoming a “Courtesy Vessel Examiner,” providing a very important service to both recreational boaters as well as some commercial vessels as well. Do you enjoy teaching? Homosassa Flotilla 15-4 would love to have you join us, teaching a variety of sub jects to the boating public as well as training your fellow U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary members. Perhaps you are someone who has always wanted to be a reporter or writer. If so, the public affairs ofcer would sure like to have you come on board. Your duties may have you covering exciting surface patrols and search and rescue missions on the Gulf of Mexico. Then, too, there are the joint training exercises with both USCG air and surface vessels as well as with Aux iliary boat crews from other area otillas – all working together, honing their skills that are necessary for any number of missions or situations they may encoun ter as they patrol our area waterways. If you are one who enjoys photography, then you, too, will enjoy working with our public affairs people where you will nd numerous photo opportunities covering various otilla functions. Perhaps you are an amateur radio operator or someone else who has an interest in radio commu nications. If so, then you will love becoming one of our “communications specialists,” standing radio watches (you really don’t have to stand), monitoring and participating in exciting search and rescue operations and patrols! If that isn’t exciting enough for you, then per haps you will want to stand radio watches at USCG Station Yankeetown as well. These are just some of the interesting and exciting activities of Homosassa Flotilla 15-4 that you can become a part of, and there are many more. Fellowship, too, plays a large role in our otilla. Here you will meet new friends and nd a common bond with others who enjoy the out of doors and our beautiful waterways. Men, women, young and senior citizen alike, Flotilla 15-4 invites you to join us and wear our uniform proudly as you become a part of the U.S. Coast Guard family. For membership informa tion, email George Dooris at george.dooris@saintleo.edu. I know he will be pleased to hear from you and answer any questions you may have regarding Homosassa Flotilla 15-4. Please visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/groups/uscgaux154. Wilbur B. Scott / Special to the Chronicle In this file photo, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary members from Homosassa Flotilla 15-4 prepare their patrol vessel prior to embarking on patrol of the Homosassa River and the Gulf of Mexico. Shown, from left, are Patricia Dooris and George Dooris in the boat, and boat crew member Robert Currie and off-duty Flotilla 15-4 member William Schultz. CHALK TALKWANT YOUR NEWS IN CHALK TALK? Email community@chronicleonline.com and include the name of the event, the time, date and place, information such as ticket prices, a contact person’s name, phone number and email address and any other pertinent information. In the subject line of the email, type “Attention Chalk Talk.” Photos need to be high resolution. Identify the people in the photo and the event. Include a contact name, phone number and email address. Deadlines for Chalk Talk submission are 5 p.m. Wednesday for the following Wednesday’s edition. The Chronicle reserves the right to edit notices. For more information, call features editor Sarah Gatling at 352-564-2997.Chronicle seeks photos of graduating home-schooled seniors The Chronicle wants to include graduating home-schooled seniors from Cit rus County in the upcoming graduation tab for 2023. Also welcome are gradu ating seniors from out-of-county schools who reside in Citrus County. Please email an attach ment of the graduates’ photo and his/her name to cconnolly@chronicleonline.com or mail the name and a photo to the Chronicle at 1624 N. Meadowcrest Blvd., Crystal River, FL 34429 no later than Friday, April 14. Information and photos can also be dropped off at the front desk or in the front entrance mail slot at the Meadowcrest ofce in Crystal River.Citrus eSchool to hold Preview Night Citrus eSchool, Citrus County’s free K-12 virtual learning school, is having a Preview Night from 4 to 6 p.m. April 20. Learn about culinary arts, digital information technol ogy, creative writing class es and more, including the exibility Citrus ESchool provides with full, part time or home education classes online. Meet Citrus eSchool teachers and staff and register your child at Preview Night at Withla coochee Technical College, building 700, located at 1201 W. Main St., Inver ness. For more information, call 352-726-1931, ext. 6450. Library hosting free technology classes The Homosassa Public Library will feature a Sat urday technology class each month through June. If you are unable to attend during the week, be sure to sign-up for a spot in one of the technology classes starting in April. Upcoming topics are: Resume Building 101 at 10:30 a.m. on April 22; Facebook: Getting Started at 10:30 a.m. on May 20; and Buying and Selling on eBay at 10:30 a.m. on June 17. These Saturday technol ogy classes are free and registration is required. To register for a class, use the online calendar, speak to a staff member at the branch or call the library at 352-628-5626. To stay up-to-date on all of the classes and programs being offered at the library, follow @CitrusLibraries on Facebook and Instagram or view the online calendar at citruslibraries.org.LHS Drama Club’s Spring play on tap Lecanto High School’s drama club is holding their Spring play, “Exposed! Eight 10-minute Scenes About What Really Hap pened,” on April 14 and 15 in the Curtis Peterson Audi torium. The play will begin at 7 p.m. on April 14, and there will be a show at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on April 15. Tickets are $10 and are available now online at: citrusschools.org. Scroll down to ‘tickets’ and it will be listed under ‘LHS Dra ma Club Spring Produc tion.’ They are no longer selling event tickets at the gate. Exposed! is a comedy show that reveals the truth behind famous people, characters and stories. Did Rumpelstiltskin real ly try to steal the princess’ baby? Was Mr. Hyde really Miss Hyde? Was Charles Dickens really a frustrat ed stand-up comic? Was Robin Hood’s sister real ly responsible for all that theft? Exposed! examines these stories plus Hansel and Gretel, Peter Pan, Wil ly Wonka, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Written to be either a full evening’s worth of enter tainment, or each scene broken out for drama festi vals and competitions, Ex posed! has something for everyone, both on stage and in the audience.Courthouse Museum presents free Kids’ Crafternoon The Old Courthouse Her itage Museum will host a free Kids’ Crafternoon, where children will create their own “Illustration Cre ations” at 1 p.m. on April 15. Staff will teach them how to create a 3D image from their favorite illustrated children’s book. All mate rials will be provided, just bring the best book in your bookcase. See CHALK TALK , page C7 Ticketsare $25 pp for4hoursofunlimitedcraftbeertasting.DesignatedDriver Ti cket$10(Includeswaterandsoda)Homebrewsandlocal fa voritessuchas:•NineStateBrewery•COPPBrewery....andmanymore!Food Tr ucksavailableforfoodpurchase. LiveMusic by TheStruttDanceBandAuctionProceedstoBene t:LHSAlumniAssociation Sat.,April15,2023 4pm-8pmatNineStateBrewery 200 To mpkinsSt.,Inverness,FL34450 HostedBy: r nr n rr      r r    r   ­ € n ‚ ‚ ƒ „  r  r r r r   r …  r r † ­ r ‡ r ˆ † r „ r ‡  r r  r „ r ‚ † r ‰ IllustrationCreations Saturday,April15,2023•1pmto3pm AFreeKids’Crafternoon. To coincidewithour “YoungatArt” ExhibitofPictureBooks. Bringyourfavoritechildren’sbookwithyourfavoritepictures. We ’llshowyouhowtoturnitintoa3Dimage. Allmaterialsprovided.Limitedspaces.Pleasepreregister:(352)341-6428. TheOldCourthouseHeritageMuseumPresent: 1CourthouseSquare,Inverness,FL•www.CCcourthouse.org r nn rn rn     StevieWonder 

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