AUGUST 25, 2020 www.chronicleonline.com HIGH Hot, with a few showers and thunderstorms. PAGE A4 TODAY & next morning TUESDAY 72 95 LOW Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community VOL. 125 ISSUE 322 50 ¢ Football: Clemson No. 1 in AP preseason Top 25 poll /A6 Horoscope . . . . . . . . A4 INDEX Classifieds . . . . . . . . B5 Comics . . . . . . . . . . B4 Crossword . . . . . . . . B8 Editorial . . . . . . . . . A10 Entertainment . . . . . A4 Sports . . . . . . . . A6, A7 Lottery Numbers . . . A7 Lottery Payouts . . . . A7 Obituaries . . . . . A2, A8 TV Listings . . . . . . . . B3 CITRUS COUNTY Citrus County COVID-19 update One new positive case was re- ported in Citrus County since the latest FDOH update. One new hospitalization was reported; two new deaths were reported. To date in the county, 1,970 people have tested posi- tive (including five non- residents), 189 have been hos- pitalized and 48 have died. Driver who caused fatal wreck recovering The 66-year-old Clearwater woman who triggered a three-car wreck Sunday along U.S. 19 that killed a 19-year-old Crystal River teen continues to recover at an area hospital, according to a Flor- ida Highway Patrol spokesman. Sgt. Steve Gaskins said drugs/ alcohol were not believed to be an issue initially; however, a toxi- cology report is also pending. “The investigation will likely take several months as is typi- cal,” Gaskins told the Chronicle. That 19-year-old who died in the crash was Carson Guy, the son of Cindi Guy, Crystal River city councilwoman. FHP troopers noted in their report the 66-year-old Clearwa- ter woman was driving a sedan, driving northbound in the south- bound lanes of U.S. 19 at ap- proximately 6:30 a.m. when she struck Carson Guy’s truck. Following the initial crash, an SUV, driven by a 53-year-old Crystal River woman, was trav- eling southbound on U.S. 19 and the driver failed to observe the two crashed vehicles in the dark and collided head-on with the pick-up truck. The driver of the third vehicle was not injured, but a 33-year-old Crystal River woman had minor injuries, ac- cording to the FHP report. Due to Marsy’s Law, the FHP is not releasing the names of the victims. 11 district employees in quarantine Since Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, 11 employees with Citrus County School District transpor- tation or busing department have had to quarantine for 14 days because of exposure to COVID-19, according to school district spokeswoman Lindsay Blair on Monday, Aug. 24. Citing HIPAA and patient pri- vacy laws, Blair would not pro- vide specifics on if the employees were routine drivers or trainers, or which busing depot they work out of. Blair said student busing will not be im- pacted by the staff outages. County utilities warns citizens of scam Citrus County Water Utilities would like to inform residents that if they have recently re- ceived a postcard in the mail from a company stating they are working with the local utility to provide a 2020 water survey, this company is not in any way affiliated with the Citrus County Department of Water Resources or the County Water System. Stay alert to all suspicious door-to-door salespeople offer- ing to test your water, mailings, phone calls and emails, never give out personal information, and never allow someone with- out proper identification inside the property. If you have ques- tions please call Citrus County Public Information Officer Cyn- thia Oswald at 352-527-5484. If your residence is located in the Charles A. Black, Citrus Springs-Pine Ridge, or Sugarmill Woods County operated public water systems and you would like to participate in the lead and cop- per testing call 352-527-5427. — From staff reports NEWS BRIEFS TAMARA LUSH AND BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press TALLAHASSEE — A Florida judge temporar- ily blocked Gov. Ron De- Santis and top education officials from forcing public schools to reopen brick-and-mortar class- rooms amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, ruling that the state’s order “arbitrarily disre- gards safety.” But the temporary in- junction issued Monday by Leon County Judge Charles Dodson was im- mediately put on hold when the state appealed the ruling. In his ruling, Dodson said the mandate to re- open schools usurped local control from school districts in deciding for themselves whether it was safe for students, teachers and staffers to return. “The districts have no meaningful alternative,” the judge wrote in his opinion. “If an individual school district chooses safety, that is, delaying the start of schools until it individ- ually determines it is safe to do so for its county, it risks losing state funding, even though every stu- dent is being taught,” he ruled. The Florida Education Association had sued the state after Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an order earlier this summer Court blocks school rules Judge says districts can’t be forced to reopen; state usurped local control See COURT/Page A5 NANCY KENNEDY Staff writer O n a recent Saturday morning, Oysters Restaurant owner Wil- liam Bunch set up his equip- ment on the hallowed grounds of what is histori- cally known as “the Black cemetery” in Crystal River to fry some fish. People in the community had come out for, not just a cemetery clean up day, but a day to “restore the glory and heri- tage” of the final rest- ing place of their family members. It began with erect- ing a sign at the Gar- den Street entrance off Citrus Avenue near Turkey Oak Drive: “Crystal Memorial Gardens Cemetery: Our Com- munity Heritage.” “We hadn’t had a sign in 56 years,” said the Rev. Leon Thomas, organizer of the day of service. Thomas also owns New Serenity Memo- rial Funeral Home in Crystal River. ■ ■ ■ Before Bunch started cooking, he and long- time Crystal River resident Willie Joyner chatted about the place where many of the grave markers bear the names of their family members. “I think the oldest relative I have buried here is my grand- mother, Mary Gray Bunch,” William Bunch said. “She raised me. She was 102 when she died, and was in her right mind.” Mary Gray Bunch was born Restoring a community treasure Locals gather to bring back ‘glory and heritage’ of historic cemetery MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle Ray Davis uses shears early Saturday morning to clear vegetation from the historically black cemetery, Crystal Memorial Gardens Cemetery, in Crystal River. See HERITAGE/Page A8 MIKE WRIGHT Staff writer Citrus County’s two new commissioners- elect won’t take office until November, but the Sunshine Law applies today as if they already have. So says County Attor- ney Denise Dymond Lyn, who wrote in emails to District 3 win- ner Ruthie Davis Schla- bach and District 5’s Holly Davis that they should not be commu- nicating with sitting commissioners on is- sues that may come be- fore them for a vote after they take office the third week of November. Lyn based her opin- ion on a 1973 appeals court ruling in a North Miami case where newly elected council members met with the mayor in his house the day after the election. While the election re- sults had not yet been certified, the court said newly elected officials should conduct busi- ness in the public just as if they had taken office. Davis, who defeated incumbent Jimmie T. Smith, a critic of Lyn’s, said she had no issues with the email. “If that’s the rule, that’s the rule and I’ll abide by it,” she said. “I’m a freshman. I need to get my feet under me and figure out what I’m doing.” The Sunshine Law requires discussions between two or more commissioners to occur in public if the topic is something that could potentially be coming to the board for a vote. Attorney: Sunshine rules start right now See RULES/Page A11 MIKE WRIGHT Staff writer Citrus County’s CARES Act grant program would expand to provide more money for businesses and indi- viduals whose lives are upended by COVID-19. At their regular meeting Tuesday, Aug. 25, commissioners are expected to decide how to approach the second phase of one-time grants from the $6.5 million the county received in fed- eral funds. The first phase saw $2 million awarded in $7,500 grants to about 300 small businesses to assist with ex- penses after they were shuttered or re- stricted by government order in response to the pandemic. County Administrator Randy Oliver is proposing an expansion of the program for the next phase. Recommendations include: ■ $2,000 grants to beauticians, bar- bers, massage therapists and nail technicians. ■ $7,500 grants to nonprofit retail stores. ■ $2,000 grants to food trucks not parked in commercial areas. ■ $5,000 additional in grants to bars and restaurants that have already re- ceived a $7,500 grant in the first round. Bars remain closed and restaurants are still operating at 50% capacity. ■ $4,000 grants for businesses that qualified for the first round, but did not receive the grant because they lack county business licenses. The business would be eligible once obtaining the proper licensing. Commissioners to consider expanding CARES grants See GRANTS/Page A11 The Rev. Leon Thomas
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Citrus County COVID-19 update
One new positive case was re-ported in Citrus County since the latest FDOH update. One new hospitalization was reported; two new deaths were reported.
To date in the county, 1,970 people have tested posi-tive (including five non-residents), 189 have been hos-pitalized and 48 have died.
Driver who caused fatal
wreck recoveringThe 66-year-old Clearwater
woman who triggered a three-car wreck Sunday along U.S. 19 that killed a 19-year-old Crystal River teen continues to recover at an area hospital, according to a Flor-ida Highway Patrol spokesman.
Sgt. Steve Gaskins said drugs/alcohol were not believed to be an issue initially; however, a toxi-cology report is also pending.
“The investigation will likely take several months as is typi-cal,” Gaskins told the Chronicle.
That 19-year-old who died in the crash was Carson Guy, the son of Cindi Guy, Crystal River city councilwoman.
FHP troopers noted in their report the 66-year-old Clearwa-ter woman was driving a sedan, driving northbound in the south-bound lanes of U.S. 19 at ap-proximately 6:30 a.m. when she struck Carson Guy’s truck.
Following the initial crash, an SUV, driven by a 53-year-old Crystal River woman, was trav-eling southbound on U.S. 19 and the driver failed to observe the two crashed vehicles in the dark and collided head-on with the pick-up truck. The driver of the third vehicle was not injured, but a 33-year-old Crystal River woman had minor injuries, ac-cording to the FHP report.
Due to Marsy’s Law, the FHP is not releasing the names of the victims.
11 district employees
in quarantineSince Friday, Aug. 21, 2020,
11 employees with Citrus County School District transpor-tation or busing department have had to quarantine for 14 days because of exposure to COVID-19, according to school district spokeswoman Lindsay Blair on Monday, Aug. 24.
Citing HIPAA and patient pri-vacy laws, Blair would not pro-vide specifics on if the employees were routine drivers or trainers, or which busing depot they work out of. Blair said student busing will not be im-pacted by the staff outages.
County utilities warns citizens
of scamCitrus County Water Utilities
would like to inform residents that if they have recently re-ceived a postcard in the mail from a company stating they are working with the local utility to provide a 2020 water survey, this company is not in any way affiliated with the Citrus County Department of Water Resources or the County Water System.
Stay alert to all suspicious door-to-door salespeople offer-ing to test your water, mailings, phone calls and emails, never give out personal information, and never allow someone with-out proper identification inside the property. If you have ques-tions please call Citrus County Public Information Officer Cyn-thia Oswald at 352-527-5484.
If your residence is located in the Charles A. Black, Citrus Springs-Pine Ridge, or Sugarmill Woods County operated public water systems and you would like to participate in the lead and cop-per testing call 352-527-5427.
— From staff reports
NEWS BRIEFS
TAMARA LUSH AND BOBBY
CAINA CALVANAssociated Press
TALLAHASSEE — A Florida judge temporar-ily blocked Gov. Ron De-Santis and top education officials from forcing public schools to reopen
brick-and-mortar class-rooms amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, ruling that the state’s order “arbitrarily disre-gards safety.”
But the temporary in-junction issued Monday by Leon County Judge Charles Dodson was im-mediately put on hold
when the state appealed the ruling.
In his ruling, Dodson said the mandate to re-open schools usurped local control from school districts in deciding for themselves whether it was safe for students, teachers and staffers to return.
“The districts have no meaningful alternative,” the judge wrote in his opinion.
“If an individual school district chooses safety, that is, delaying the start of schools until it individ-ually determines it is safe to do so for its county, it risks losing state funding,
even though every stu-dent is being taught,” he ruled.
The Florida Education Association had sued the state after Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an order earlier this summer
Court blocks school rulesJudge says districts can’t be forced to reopen; state usurped local control
See COURT/Page A5
NANCY KENNEDYStaff writer
On a recent Saturday morning, Oysters Restaurant owner Wil-
liam Bunch set up his equip-ment on the hallowed grounds of what is histori-cally known as “the Black cemetery” in Crystal River to fry some fish.
People in the community had come out for, not just a
cemetery clean up day, but a day to “restore the glory and heri-tage” of the final rest-ing place of their family members.
It began with erect-ing a sign at the Gar-den Street entrance off Citrus Avenue near Turkey Oak Drive: “Crystal Memorial Gardens Cemetery: Our Com-munity Heritage.”
“We hadn’t had a sign in 56 years,” said the Rev. Leon Thomas, organizer of the day of service.
Thomas also owns New Serenity Memo-rial Funeral Home in Crystal River.
� � �Before Bunch
started cooking, he and long-time Crystal River resident Willie Joyner chatted about
the place where many of the grave markers bear the names of their family members.
“I think the oldest relative I have buried here is my grand-mother, Mary Gray Bunch,” William Bunch said. “She raised me. She was 102 when she died, and was in her right mind.”
Mary Gray Bunch was born
Restoring a community treasure
Locals gather to bring back ‘glory and heritage’ of historic cemetery
MATTHEW BECK/ChronicleRay Davis uses shears early Saturday morning to clear vegetation from the historically black cemetery, Crystal Memorial Gardens Cemetery, in Crystal River.
See HERITAGE/Page A8
MIKE WRIGHTStaff writer
Citrus County’s two new commissioners- elect won’t take office until November, but the Sunshine Law applies today as if they already have.
So says County Attor-ney Denise Dymond Lyn, who wrote in emails to District 3 win-ner Ruthie Davis Schla-bach and District 5’s Holly Davis that they should not be commu-nicating with sitting commissioners on is-sues that may come be-fore them for a vote after they take office the third week of November.
Lyn based her opin-ion on a 1973 appeals court ruling in a North Miami case where newly elected council members met with the mayor in his house the
day after the election. While the election re-sults had not yet been certified, the court said newly elected officials should conduct busi-ness in the public just as if they had taken office.
Davis, who defeated incumbent Jimmie T. Smith, a critic of Lyn’s, said she had no issues with the email.
“If that’s the rule, that’s the rule and I’ll abide by it,” she said. “I’m a freshman. I need to get my feet under me and figure out what I’m doing.”
The Sunshine Law requires discussions between two or more commissioners to occur in public if the topic is something that could potentially be coming to the board for a vote.
Attorney: Sunshine rules start right now
See RULES/Page A11
MIKE WRIGHTStaff writer
Citrus County’s CARES Act grant program would expand to provide more money for businesses and indi-viduals whose lives are upended by COVID-19.
At their regular meeting Tuesday, Aug. 25, commissioners are expected to decide how to approach the second phase of one-time grants from the $6.5 million the county received in fed-eral funds.
The first phase saw $2 million awarded in $7,500 grants to about 300 small businesses to assist with ex-penses after they were shuttered or re-stricted by government order in response to the pandemic.
County Administrator Randy Oliver is proposing an expansion of
the program for the next phase. Recommendations include:
� $2,000 grants to beauticians, bar-bers, massage therapists and nail technicians.
� $7,500 grants to nonprofit retail stores.
� $2,000 grants to food trucks not parked in commercial areas.
� $5,000 additional in grants to bars and restaurants that have already re-ceived a $7,500 grant in the first round. Bars remain closed and restaurants are still operating at 50% capacity.
� $4,000 grants for businesses that qualified for the first round, but did not receive the grant because they lack county business licenses. The business would be eligible once obtaining the proper licensing.
Commissioners to consider expanding CARES grants
See GRANTS/Page A11
The Rev. Leon
Thomas
Ronald Culver
H O M O S A S S A
Ronald A. CulverRonald Andrew Culver,
born in Birmingham, AL, d i e d p e a c e -fully on August 19, 2020. Ron spent his childhood and most of his pro-fessional life in At-
lanta, GA. Later, he retired to Homosassa, FL.
Most of his career was in commercial heating and air. He was recently hon-ored by the Atlanta Steam-fitters and Plumbing Union Local 72 for over 65 years of membership.
His parents were Kath-erine Emily Christianson and John Hartley Culver. Ron is survived by his daughter Diane Sewell Barnwell and his wife, Car-oline Pack. He is also, sur-vived by two grandchildren, Ryan Blake Sewell and Kristen Lynn Spurgeon and three great grandchil-dren, Reagan Brooke Sewell (age 10), Jackson Thomas Spurgeon (age 7) and Grayson Luke Spur-geon (age 2). He was a lov-ing father, grandfather and husband and he had many friends in the Atlanta area and in the Homosassa area. Ron enjoyed golf and sports, reading the paper and spending time with his loved ones.
Ron was born on October 3, 1935. In lieu of flowers, the family asked that you donate to your fa-vorite charity. The family has established a website www.rememberingronald.com which will be available beginning Wednesday, August 26, 2020 until August 26, 2021. Please visit the site to see photos and memori-als of his life. Arrangements are under the direction of Strickland Funeral Home and Crematory, Crystal River, Florida.
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Frederick Howard
FarnsworthD U N N E L L O N
Fred Farnsworth passed away on August 16, 2020. He was born in St. Peters-
burg, Flor-ida, to Dr. H o w a r d and Gene-v i e v e F a r n -s w o r t h . He is sur-vived by his wife, S h a r o n ,
and two daughters, Jody Crenshaw (Utah) and Les-lie Hatch (Idaho), nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
After serving 4 years in the Navy, he started his own dental lab and then discovered real estate. He was born to wheel and deal.
An avid hunter and fish-erman, he spent many years hunting and fishing in Alaska, Oregon, Wyo-ming and Colorado and of course, Florida. He loved his airboat and his Labra-dor Retrievers.
There will be no service or memorial. His wish is to be cremated and his ashes spread in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ottis ‘Bunky’ Leonard, 82H O M O S A S S A
Ottis Clifton Leonard, 82, passed away at home in
H o m -osassa, Fl on August 15, 2020 after a long and v a l i a n t fight with c a n c e r. He was born in Ash, N.C.
on June 4, 1938, the fourth of seven children and only son of Bedford and Madge Leonard. He was prede-ceased by his three older sisters, Marie Bellamy of Myrtle Beach, SC, Delores Ratcliff of Shallotte, NC and Celestial Hickman of Hickmans Crossroad, SC.
He leaves behind three younger sisters, Peggy Lewis of Wilmington, NC, Brenda White of Loris, SC and Gloria Larson (Ken) of Concord, NC. He was known as “Bunky” by fam-ily and friends alike in the Carolinas. Bunky was raised in Shallotte, N.C. where he graduated from Shallotte High School in 1955. He worked on the family farm and fished with his father until he en-listed in the U.S. Coast Guard where he began as an engineman. He later switched over to commu-nications under the guid-ance of his brother-in-law, W.C. Mintz. He served in numerous duty stations
around the country, Con-necticut, Florida, Hawaii, Virginia, Washington D.C. and Canada. After serving his country proudly, he re-tired as a Chief Warrant Officer after 25 years and moved to Calabash N.C. He and his wife, Faye moved to Homosassa, Fl in 1995. “OC” as he was known in his military ca-reer and by his friends in Florida became very ac-tive in the West Citrus Elks #2693 and was a lifetime member of the Elks. He served the Elks in many positions even being elected “Exalted Ruler”. If you were to ask anyone who knew him they would tell you he was fun loving, his laugh was contagious and he had a great sense of humor. He liked to dance and sing (as he had a wonderfully deep voice). He loved people, he en-joyed cooking and he was an avid reader. His mili-tary and historical knowl-edge was extensive. He loved nothing better than being with family and friends. He was a big “teddy bear” and few could resist his charm.
Bunky was married in 1955 to Dorothy “Faye” Mintz and they had three children: Clifton Barry Leonard (Janet) of Homo-sassa, Fl, Wiliford Larry Leonard of Calabash N. Carolina and Connie Leonard Svaleson (Mike) of Winona Mo. He has nine grandchildren; Leah Cox-sey of Middleburg Va., Zachary Leonard of Ho-mosassa Fl, Caleb Leon-ard of Homosassa Fl, Clifton Leonard of Hilo HI, Joshua Svaleson of Wi-nona Mo, Jonathan
Svaleson of Mansfield TX, Lance Svaleson of Fort Worth TX, Vanessa Svale-son of Fort Worth TX, Maria Svaleson of Fort Worth TX. He has one great grandchild; Andria Svaleson of Mansfield TX. Faye passed away in 2008 and OC married Judith “Susan” Hadley in 2010. OC and Susan remained in Citrus County after their marriage and she joined him in his service to the Elks Lodge. Susan came to the marriage with her son, Jeffrey C. Hadley along with his wife Deanna and two grandsons, Tyler Had-ley and Trent Hadley.
Bunky/OC will be missed by all who knew and loved him. Arrangements en-trusted to Wilder Funeral Home in Homosassa. A “Celebration of Life” will be held in North Carolina in the near future. Dona-tions can be made to Mof-fitt Cancer Center in his memory. www.wilder funeral.com.
Emma MastEmma A. Mast1937-2020Emma A. Mast passed
from this life into the arms of Jesus on Wednesday,
Aug 19. B o r n May 13, 1937 to Abe and F a n n i e We a v e r f r o m G e a u g a C o u n t y, Ohio. Her
husband of 63 years, Allen, preceded her in death by 12 days. Their youngest son Phillip R. Mast also
preceded them in death. Emma is survived by her brother Abe (Alta) Weaver of Chardon, Ohio. The other 6 surviving children are: Marie (David) Dingle, Allen (Brenda) Mast, Paul (Donna) Mast, Becky (Mike) Sanor, Jeff (Marcey) Mast, Judy (Bill) Webb. Allen and Emma have 27 grandchil-dren and 46 great- grandchildren.
Emma retired from her small cleaning business in 1991. They moved from Middlefield, OH to Citrus County, FL in 1991. Her lifelong interests were singing, gardening, cook-ing, and traveling. Emma loved being with her im-mediate and extended family, she also loved being with her church family at FBC Dunnellon.
Emma was always ac-tive in serving God at church through teaching Junior Church, Teaching After School Bible Club, Sunday School Teacher, AWANA Leader, singing in Choir and the praise team, and serving the Lord through any opportunity. Emma loved reading her Bible, and was a true prayer warrior. Her great love for God, and a heart to love and serve people, showed in her everyday life.
Arrangements are being made through Fero Fu-neral Home.
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homeownersThe 2020 Truth in Millage
(TRIM) notices were mailed Friday, Aug. 14. The TRIM notices contain proposed taxes, values, and non-ad valorem fees and are avail-able for review online at www.citruspa.org.
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Due to issues concerning COVID-19, the office is tak-ing in-person meetings by appointment only from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Contact the number above for an appointment.
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Find the prize scallop, win big to fight hungerWe Care has hidden a
second scallop and re-leased a second hint to help those searching for the prized scallop in their Scal-lop Treasure Hunt fund-raiser, which lasts through Sept. 24.
The latest hint is: “Unlike our first scallop, this new scallop went north to cool off west of the St. Martins Keys.”
A one-day ticket costs $25. Season tickets, good for July 1 through Sept. 24, cost $50, with a 10% dis-count for season tickets purchased prior to July 1.
A third time reaps $1,000.If no one finds it, there
will be a drawing of the names of all season ticket owners and the winner will get $2,500.
To join the treasure hunt, go online at www.wcscallop.eventbrite.com.
Proceeds from this event go toward fighting hunger in our community.
For more information about We Care, visit www.wecarefoodpantry.org, or facebook.com/wecarefoodpantry2.
Zoom outage doesn’t impact
online schoolingCitrus County’s online
schooling system was not halted by Zoom going of-fline the morning of Mon-day, Aug. 24, 2020.
County school district spokeswoman Lindsay Blair said the video-conferencing company’s outage did not impact Citrus Virtual classes, which use Florida Virtual School curriculum.
Zoom’s Twitter page stated the issues were fixed by early Monday afternoon.
Blair said there have been delays in getting com-pleted schedules to Citrus Virtual students because online enrollment continues to grow and requires addi-tional teachers.
Roughly 4,000 of the 16,000 district students began their 2020-21 school year online with Citrus Virtual.
— From staff reports
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Citrus COVID cases trickle downBUSTER
THOMPSONStaff writer
Citrus County’s rate of new COVID-19 cases over seven days continue to drip down.
In its Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, coronavirus update, the Florida Department of Health reported a total 1,970 cases for Citrus County.
It’s a 9.5% increase from the 1,799 cases recorded a week ago on Aug. 17, com-pared to the 16.2% jump the week prior from Aug. 10-17, and the 19.2% rise from Aug. 3-10.
Hospitalization rates for the contagious respiratory disease bumped back up over the week from 162 to 189, a 16.6% increase com-pared to the 9.5% raise be-tween Aug. 10 and Aug. 17.
Eight more people also died, bringing the COVID-19 death count to 48.
Current death demo-graphics are: ages 25-34 — 2 (4%); ages 45-54 – 1 (2%); ages 55-64 – 2 (4%); ages
65-74 – 8 (17%); ages 75-84 – 20 (42%); ages 85 and older 15 (31%).
Long-term care facilities in Citrus County reported 227 cases, a 9.1% increase from the 208 cases docu-mented Aug. 17, according to the health department.
There has been no change in the status of staff or inmate cases within the Citrus County Detention Facility, accord-ing to County Administra-tor Randy Oliver and CoreCivic spokesman Ryan Gustin on Aug. 24.
Since the onset of the pandemic, one non-county inmate at the jail had tested positive while they underwent a medical pro-cedure, and four Core-Civic staff members have since recovered from the virus and were cleared to return to work.
As of Aug. 20, according to the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, a total 13 staff and 24 inmates at the Cypress Creek Juvenile Offender Correctional and Treatment Center in Le-
canto have tested positive.Of those, seven Cypress
Creek employees were cleared to return to work, and all youth inmates left medical isolation.
However, the state health department docu-mented a total 55 cases within Citrus County’s cor-rectional facilities as of Aug. 23, leaving out 13 un-accounted cases.
Audrey Stasko, spokes-woman for the Florida De-partment of Health in Citrus County, said the re-port doesn’t just provide the number of inmate and staff cases within correc-tional facilities in the county.
It also, Stasko ex-plained, denotes the num-ber of cases of staff who live in the county but could work at an outside facility.
At 16.7% and 14.9%, re-spectively, local zip codes 34434 and 34465 reported the two highest surge in cases since last week.
Here are the number of COVID-19 cases ranked by
Citrus County’s 15 zip codes:
� 34452 (Inverness, Flo-ral City, Inverness High-lands North and Inverness Highlands South): 351, an increase of 15 (4.5% in-crease) since Aug. 17.
� 34465 (Beverly Hills, Black Diamond, Citrus Springs, Lecanto and Pine Ridge): 193, an increase of 25 (14.9%).
� 34461 (Black Dia-mond, Citrus Hills, Homo-sassa Springs, Lecanto, Pine Ridge and Sugarmill Woods): 185, an increase of 14 (8.2%).
� 34446 (Homosassa, Homosassa Springs, Le-canto and Sugarmill Woods): 178, an increase of 20 (12.7%).
� 34429: (Crystal River, Ozello, Homosassa Springs, Lecanto and Black Diamond): 165, an increase of 19 (13%).
� 34453 (Inverness, Cit-rus Hills, Hernando, In-verness Highlands North and Lecanto): 148, an in-crease of 18 (13.8%).
� 34428 (Crystal River,
Red Level and Inglis): 143, an increase of 15 (11.7%).
� 34442 (Citrus Hills, Cit-rus Springs, Hernando, Le-canto and Pine Ridge): 124, an increase of 10 (8.8%).
� 34434 (Dunnellon, Cit-rus Springs, Hernando and Pine Ridge): 119, an increase of 17 (16.7%).
� 34450 (Inverness and Inverness Highlands South): 98, an increase of 12 (14%).
� 34448 (Homosassa, Homosassa Springs, Sugarmill Woods, Lecanto and Crystal River): 91, an increase of 9 (11%).
� 34433 (Dunnellon, Cit-rus Springs and Pine Ridge): 77, an increase of 8 (11.6%).
� 34436 (Floral City): 77, an increase of 7 (10%).
� 34445 (Holder, Citrus Springs, Hernando and Pine Ridge): Less than five, no change.
� 34449 (Inglis and Yan-keetown): 0, no change.
Contact Chronicle re-porter Buster Thompson at 352-564-2916 or [email protected].
CR’s Little Springs Park pond gets restorationBUSTER
THOMPSONStaff writer
A little lake in Crystal River went through a big cleanup earlier in August.
Diving crews with Sea and Shoreline spent a week scrubbing rocks and sucking out vegetative muck from the bottom of the pond at Little Springs Park across from city hall off of Northwest Second Avenue.
Vacuumed water was fil-tered and returned via a miniaturized system of pumps and devices Sea and Shoreline has been using on a larger scale to rehabilitate several canals and coves in King’s Bay as part of Save Crystal Riv-er’s King’s Bay Resto-ration Project.
Roughly 10,000 native eelgrasses were then planted underwater, where they’ll grow to adulthood by the spring of 2021 and release more ox-ygen into the water.
“We’re going to have a whole ecosystem in there,” Sea and Shoreline Sales Manager Howard Miller said.
Miller said Sea and Shoreline worked on its own time and dime to com-plete the $20,000 endeavor for free after city officials asked for the cleanup and Save Crystal River mem-
bers propelled it.“Lo and behold they
showed up there and did it,” City Manager Ken Frink said.
Every year since a pilot project in 2015, Save
Crystal River has been re-storing King’s Bay with Sea and Shoreline’s work, total-ing roughly 40 acres so far.
It’s the nonprofit’s hope to bring a total 92.6 acres of the bay back to life by
Crystal River’s 100th birthday on July 2, 2023.
Contact Chronicle re-porter Buster Thompson at 3 5 2 - 5 6 4 - 2 9 1 6 o r [email protected].
Special to the ChronicleCrews with Sea and Shoreline work in early-August 2020 to restore the Little Springs Park pond in Crystal River. Dive crews used a handheld pump to suck the bottom clean before filtered water was returned.
County jobless rate hits 11.2% in July, up from 9.8% a month earlier
MICHAEL D. BATESStaff writer
Citrus County’s unemployment rate in July was 11.2%, higher than the previous month’s rate of 9.8%, ac-cording to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
One year ago, in July 2019, the county’s jobless rate was 5.3%.
Citrus County’s labor force shrank by 401 in July, to 45,131. The num-ber of employed de-creased by 982 to 40,066 and the number of unem-ployed rose by 581 to 5,065.
Compared to June 2019, the labor force has contracted by 1,541, the number of employed has dropped by 4,151 and the number of unemployed in-creased by 2,610.
“I don’t think we see any great surprises in this report,” said Rusty Skinner, chief executive
officer for CareerSource Citrus Levy Marion.
Skinner said it reflects sea-sonal influences that histori-cally affect employment during
the summer, as well as lingering impacts of COVID-19.
“Yes, we see an in-crease in unemploy-ment numbers, but we also see businesses that are hiring and hiring back,” he said.
Citrus County’s 11.2% rate in July was the ninth highest in the state.
Osceola County had the highest rate at 20.2% and Wakulla the lowest at 6.4%.
Florida’s unemployment rate increased to 11.3% in July, up from 10.3% in June. Florida was one of nine states to see upticks in unemployment in July.
Nationally, the unemploy-ment rate for July declined by 0.9 percentage points to 10.2%.
Traffic stop leads to drug arrestFRED HIERS
Staff writer
A Hernando man faces drug and violation of probation charges after a Thursday traffic stop.
The arresting Citrus County Sheriff ’s Office deputy reported he stopped 24-year-old James Evan Mentz, of 3714 East Eagle Trail about 1 a.m. Thurs-day, Aug. 20, 2020, ac-cording to the arrest report.
While the deputy ap-proached the white Chevrolet pickup he re-portedly smelled marijuana from inside the truck. Mentz was the driver and there were no passen-gers, according to the arrest report.
The deputy reported that Mentz told him the vehicle was his and there was nothing illegal inside. He also consented to a search by the deputy, according to the arrest report.
The deputy reported that he found 1.2 grams of a leafy
material in the vehicle’s open ashtray. The material later tested positive for marijuana, according to the arrest report. The deputy also reported finding loose mari-juana on the center console and it too tested positive for the ille-gal drug.
The deputy arrested Mentz and took him to the Citrus County jail. While there, the intake officer told the deputy he found more mari-juana in Mentz’ pants waistband.
In addition, Mentz was on probation beginning in 2019 for carrying a
concealed firearm. The posses-sion of drugs violated the terms of his probation.
Mentz was charged with pos-session of marijuana, less than 20 grams, drug paraphernalia, intro-ducing contraband into a deten-tion facility, and violating probation. His bond was set at $4,000.
Contact Chronicle reporter Fred Hiers at 352-563-5660 or [email protected].
James Mentz
Rusty Skinner
CareerSource Citrus Levy
Marion.
Birthday — Positive change is head-ing in your direction. Be open to sug-gestions, but only follow through with the ideas and plans that you feel pas-sionate about. You are in control. Love, romance and success are all waiting for you; follow your heart. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Speak your mind. You may not like every re-sponse you get, but it will help you put things in perspective. Romance is favored. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — If you shirk your responsibilities, someone will overreact and make life miserable. If you stretch the truth, expect to be caught and questioned. Play it safe. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Let your emotions dictate what you do next. Once you share your thoughts, you will have a better idea of where you stand and what’s possible.Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Keep moving, and do your best to avoid emotional situations that put you in a vulnerable position. Be prepared to part with bad influences.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Do what makes you happy, and enjoy spending time with friends and family. Strive to be healthier and more produc-tive. Romance is encouraged. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Re-membering the past will help you avoid making the same mistake twice. Make adjustments to counter any negativity. Focus on your strengths, and work on your weaknesses. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Stay mellow. If you overreact or let uncer-tainty get to you, it will be challenging to handle the emotional fallout. Focus on what you know and what you want.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Talk to a trusted friend about something that has been weighing on your mind. Assess your situation, and break away from whatever is holding you back. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Pay close attention to your relationships. Someone will disappoint you if you put too much faith in him or her. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Taking a risk or making an unexpected change will not go over well with the people close to you. Truth matters; don’t be-lieve everything you hear.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Use your persuasive powers to get others see things your way. A last-minute plan with a colleague will help you get ahead. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Plan to im-prove your surroundings or take care of unfinished chores. Set a strict bud-get and stick to it.
Today’s HOROSCOPES
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 25, the 238th day of 2020. There are 128 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight: On August 25, 1944, during
World War II, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
On this date: In 1718, hundreds of French col-
onists arrived in Louisiana, with some settling in present-day New Orleans.
In 2001, rhythm-and-blues singer Aaliyah was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas; she was 22.
In 2012, Neil Armstrong, 82, who commanded the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing and was the first man to set foot on the moon in July 1969, died in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ten years ago: North Korea wel-comed Jimmy Carter back to Pyongyang as the former U.S. president arrived to bring home Ai-jalon Mahli Gomes, an American jailed in the communist country since January 2010 for entering the country illegally from China.
Five years ago: French authori-ties formally opened a terrorism in-vestigation into a foiled attack four days earlier; a prosecutor said min-utes before he slung an assault rifle across his chest and walked through a high-speed train, suspect Ayoub El-Khazzani of Morocco had watched a jihadi video on his cellphone.
One year ago: Thousands turned out for a benefit hosted by comedian Dave Chappelle in Day-ton, Ohio, for victims’ families and survivors of a shooting rampage earlier in the month that killed nine people and left dozens injured.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Sean Connery is 90. Actor Tom Skerritt is 87. Rock singer-actor Gene Sim-mons is 71. Rock singer Rob Hal-ford is 69. Country singer Jo Dee Messina is 50. Model Claudia Schiffer is 50. Actor Alexander Skarsgard is 44. Actor Rachel Bil-son is 39. Actor Blake Lively is 33.
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LOW. 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:
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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.php
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ENTERTAINMENTJ Balvin, Roddy Ricch no longer
performing at MTV VMAs
NEW YORK — Grammy-win-ning rapper Roddy Ricch and Colombian superstar J Balvin will no longer perform at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Ricch announced his cancel-lation in a statement posted to Instagram Live, saying: “My team and I did everything in our power to make this work, due to COVID compliance issues at the last minute we had to call off the performance.”
The MTV VMAs will air on Sunday at 8 p.m. The show was originally supposed to take place at the Barclays Center in Brook-lyn and will now be held out-doors at various places in New York City in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“My team and I are safe and everyone’s health is a main pri-ority, as well as giving a quality performance,” Ricch said. “I ap-preciate MTV for the opportunity to perform and I hope I can see y’all next year. STAY SAFE.”
A representative for Balvin confirmed on Monday that he would no longer perform at the event, but no details were pro-vided. In a pre-taped video re-leased almost two weeks ago, Balvin revealed he contracted COVID-19 and that it impacted him heavily and made his life dif-ficult. While he accepted an award at Premios Juventud 2020, he told viewers: “This is not a joke ... It’s very dangerous. Take a lot of care of yourselves.”
Representatives for MTV didn’t immediately reply to an email seeking comment.
Others set to perform at the VMAs include Lady Gaga with
Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, BTS, Miley Cyrus, DaBaby, Black Eyed Peas, Maluma, Doja Cat and CNCO.
Gaga and Grande are the top contenders with nine nomina-tions apiece, most of them for their No. 1 collaboration “Rain on Me.” Ricch is up for three awards, including song of the year for his No. 1 hit “The Box.” And Balvin has four nominations, including three for best Latin.
Keke Palmer will host the VMAs. This year’s show intro-duces two new categories reflect-ing the current pandemic times: best music video from home and best quarantine performance.
Global ‘Black Joy Project’ to be
adapted into a bookNEW YORK — The author
and educator Kleaver Cruz has traveled the world asking the same question: “What does Black joy mean to you?”
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Mon-day that Cruz has adapted his “Black Joy Project” into a book of
the same name. “Black Joy Proj-ect,” which does not yet have a release date, will combine im-ages and essays into what Cruz has called the vital use of joy as a path to resistance.
“There is a necessity in ex-pressing and naming Black joy as a practice towards liberation and I want it for all Black people around the world,” Cruz said in a statement.
The Black Joy Project dates back to 2015 when Cruz felt over-whelmed by “Black death and pain,” as he writes on his website kleavercruz.com. He made a vow that for 30 days he would use so-cial media to post images of Black joy. He now has thousands of Facebook and Instagram follow-ers, and his work has been high-lighted in Vibe and Huffington Post among other publications.
Houghton senior editor Rakia Clark said in a statement that she was excited to “focus on joy as an ever-present but under-acknowl-edged force in the struggle for so-cial justice and to help shepherd a necessary addition into the current canon of books on race.”
— From wire reports
Associated PressJ Balvin, left, performs at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Aug. 3, 2019, and Roddy Ricch, right, performs at the 7th annual BET Experience in Los Angeles on June 21, 2019. Both artists have canceled their scheduled performances at the MTV VMAs on Sunday.
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mandating that schools re-open classrooms by Aug. 31 or risk losing funding.
“Local communities should have the freedom to make the best decisions for reopening or keeping open local schools. Our districts should not be ruled by reckless edicts from on high. Safety must come before politics,” FEA President Fedrick In-gram said.
Corcoran said he was confident that an appel-late court would affirm the state’s decision to reopen classrooms for in-person instruction.
“This fight has been, and will continue to be, about giving every parent, every teacher and every student a choice, regard-less of what educational option they choose,” Corcoran said in a state-ment noting that 1.6 mil-lion students of the state’s 2.9 million public school students had already returned.
Most of the state’s schools have already re-opened, but Monday’s rul-ing — should it be upheld by a state appellate court — will give local school boards more authority to control whether campuses stay open or closed.
The ruling came as Flor-ida’s coronavirus spread appeared to be waning, al-though it still outpaces the ability of contact tracers to contain outbreaks. With several key metrics on the
decline, the Miami Dol-phins and the University of Miami Hurricanes were readying to welcome fans back to Hard Rock Sta-dium under social distanc-ing conditions.
State-provided statistics showed 4,655 people being treated for COVID-19 in Florida hospitals on Mon-day, less than half of the peaks above 9,500 a month ago.
A total of 72 new deaths were reported, bringing the seven day average down to 123, the lowest rate in a month. Average daily increases in cases over the past week have declined to a level not seen since late June.
DeSantis told a news conference Monday that emergency-room visits for COVID-19-like illnesses have declined about 75% since a statewide peak on July 7.
The situation has im-proved so much, DeSantis said, that the Miami Dol-phins football team can now have up to 13,000 so-cially distancing fans at-tend their home opener against Buffalo on Sept. 20.
“We have to have society function,” the governor said. “You can take the basic steps to make sure that’s done safely. But to just say, ‘No, we’re not going to do anything,’ I don’t think that’s a viable pathway for the state going forward.”
The University of Miami will follow the same coro-navirus mitigation plan for its home opener against UAB at the
Dolphins’ stadium on Sept. 10, officials said.
“We’re heading to a more normal kind of life,” said Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez.
Crowd size will be about 20% of the stadium’s 65,326-seat capacity, with each group of spectators spaced 6 feet apart. And guests will be required to wear masks. Dolphins authorities say guest services, stadium per-sonnel and law enforce-ment will enforce the mask rule.
“If that is your idea that you can’t be made to wear a mask, this is not the place for you. We view wearing a mask in public places as a contribution to the community, to our col-lective safety,” Miami Gar-dens Mayor Oliver G. Gilbert III said.
U.S. Rep. Donna Sha-lala, who served as the secretary of health and human services during the Clinton administration, expressed concern about bringing fans back into Hard Rock Stadium.
“So the kinds of precau-tions that need to be taken are extraordinary, and I think it’s going to be very difficult to do as long as we have community spread,” Shalala said during a Mon-day morning press call or-ganized by the Democratic Party of Florida.
“We’ve seen evidence that if you put everybody in a bubble, as the NBA has, they at least could prevent a lot of infections. But it is risky -- there is no question — that it’s risky when you have community spread,” Shalala said.
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MARK DIDTLERAssociated Press
ST. PETERSBURG — Randal Grichuk hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning before later leaving with lower back tightness and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-4 on Monday.
Reliever Aaron Loup (3-2) re-placed Edgar García with one on and one out. After Cavan Biggio reached on catcher’s interfer-ence, Grichuk gave Toronto a 5-3 lead with his seventh home run.
Grichuk soon had to exit his spot in center field.
“He deserves all the credit for starting the game and trying to play, and then we had to take him out because it got really tight after that,” Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo said. “He started the game with his back hurting a little bit but he said, ‘I want to play it’s a big game.’”
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. also hom-ered for the Blue Jays, and Thomas Hatch (2-1) worked two scoreless innings for the win. He got his first big league victory in
Friday’s game against the Rays.Jordan Romano worked the
ninth for his second save. The right-hander got his first career save preserving Hatch’s win on Friday.
Toronto is 14-13 and third in the AL East.
“Honestly I feel like today was the biggest win of the year,“ Mon-toyo said. ”I might be saying that for every game the rest of the year. But against that team ... to go 2-2 ... that’s why I felt like today was the biggest win of the year.”
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Clemson No. 1 in AP preseason Top 25Tigers followed by
Ohio State, Alabama RALPH D. RUSSO
AP college football writer
Clemson is the preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25, a poll featuring nine Big Ten and Pac-12 teams that gives a glimpse at what has already been taken by the pandemic from an uncertain col-lege football season.
Ohio State (1,504 points) was a close No. 2 behind Trevor Lawrence and Clem-son (1,520), which starts atop the rank-ings for the second straight season. The Tigers beat the Buckeyes in a thrilling College Football Playoff semifinal last season.
Alabama is No. 3, Southeastern Con-ference rival Georgia is No. 4 and de-fending Big 12 champion Oklahoma is No. 5. Defending national champion LSU is No. 6.
The 85th edition of the AP rankings will be like none before.
When the season starts — if the season starts — the Buckeyes and 53 other Bowl Subdivision teams will no longer be eligi-ble for inclusion in the Top 25 because they have postponed their seasons to the spring.
The Big Ten, where Ohio State and No. 7 Penn State play, and the Pac-12, home to No. 9 Oregon, canceled their fall sports seasons because of concerns about the coronavirus. The Mid-American and Mountain West conferences have also said they will try to play spring football.
The SEC, Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12, American Athletic, Conference USA and Sun Belt are forging ahead with fall sports, with changes: The three re-maining Power Five conferences, the SEC, ACC, and Big 12, have eliminated all or most nonconference games and de-layed the start of their seasons from one to three weeks.
Erased from the college football sched-ule this year were a host of tantalizing
nonconference matchups: No. 2 Ohio State at No. 9 Oregon; No. 10 Notre Dame vs. No. 12 Wisconsin at Lambeau field in Green Bay; No. 14 Texas at No. 6 LSU; No. 17 Southern California vs No. 3 Ala-bama in Arlington, Texas; No. 11 Auburn vs. No. 18 North Carolina in Atlanta.
For now, big conference games such as Ohio State-Michigan and Washington- Washington State could still be made up in the spring.
All Division I teams were eligible for the preseason AP Top 25, but after the season starts, only teams scheduled to
play in the fall are eligible. That leaves 76 FBS teams from which to choose.
If a spring season is played, the AP will consider doing rankings for those teams, too.
BACK-TO-BACKClemson had never been preseason
No. 1 until last season, and now starts there again. It’s the eighth time since the preseason poll started in 1950 that a team has been preseason No. 1 two straight seasons. Alabama had been preseason No. 1 from 2016-18, a
three-year run.The Tigers finished last season No. 2
after losing the championship game to LSU, snapping a remarkable run of nine seasons in which Clemson has finished with the same or better ranking than it started. That included the last five sea-sons in which Clemson outperformed its preseason ranking, twice finishing No. 1 after starting No. 2.
The ACC’s Tigers, who also welcome back star running back Travis Etienne, standout offensive tackle Jackson Car-man and sturdy defensive tackle Tyler Davis, will try to become the 12th presea-son No. 1 to finish No. 1. Only two teams have gone wire-to-wire as No. 1: Florida State in 1999 and USC in 2004.
DEFENDING CHAMPSLSU is the first defending national
champion to start the following season outisde the top five since Auburn in 2011 (post-Cam Newton, the Tigers were ranked No. 23 in the preseason poll). LSU lost a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback and No. 1 overall NFL draft pick, too, in Joe Burrow.
Myles Brennan is the new QB for the Tigers, who had 14 players selected in the last draft, including five in the first round. There is plenty of talent coming back with All-America receiver Ja’Marr Chase, cornerback Derek Stingley Jr., and nose tackle Tyler Shelvin.
The Tigers will try to become the first back-to-back national champions since Alabama in 2011 and ’12.
FANCY SEEING YOU HERE� No. 18 North Carolina is ranked in
the preseason for the first time since 2016.
� No. 19 Cincinnati makes its first ap-pearance in the AP preseason poll. The Bearcats have finished ranked each of the last two seasons.
� No. 20 Minnesota is making its first preseason poll appearance since 2004. The Gophers were one of the surprise teams of last season, starting unranked and ending up No. 10, their best finish since 1962.
Associated PressIn this Oct. 12, 2019, filer photo, Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence reacts after scoring a touchdown against Florida State, in Clemson, S.C. Clemson is preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25.
Bucks take 3-1 lead on Magic
Associated Press
LAKE BUENA VISTA — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 31 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists, Khris Middleton finally came alive with a huge fourth quar-ter and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Orlando Magic 121-106 on Monday to take a 3-1 lead in the first-round series.
Middleton scored 18 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter and finished with 10 rebounds after being held to one field goal in the first three quarters on 1-of-9 shooting.
Wesley Matthews added 12 points for the Bucks, who can close out the Magic on Wednesday.
“It’s just intensity and attention to detail,” Mat-thews said after the game. “Game 1 we came out a little flat. Credit the Magic, they made shots. ... We had to pick up our intensity.”
Nikola Vucevic continued his strong play for the Magic, finishing with 31 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists. Terrence Ross had 19 points and seven rebounds off the bench.
Milwaukee has now won three straight after losing the series opener to the eighth-seeded Magic.
Heat 99, Pacers 87LAKE BUENA VISTA — Goran Dragic scored 23 points
and the fifth-seeded Miami Heat completed a first-round sweep of the Indiana Pacers with a 99-87 victory.
Tyler Herro had 16 points and Bam Adebayo added 14 points and 19 rebounds for the Heat, who made it out of the first round for the first time since 2016.
Victor Oladipo had 25 points and Myles Turner added 22 points and 14 rebounds for the Pacers, who have dropped four straight postseason series to the Heat since 2012.
Thunder 117, Rockets 114LAKE BUENA VISTA — Dennis Schroder scored a career
playoff-high 30 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder ral-lied from 15 points down in the third quarter to beat the Houston Rockets 117-114 to even the first-round Western Conference playoff series at two wins apiece.
James Harden had 32 points, 15 assists and eight re-bounds for Houston.
Associated PressOrlando’s Nikola Vucevic (9) drives to the basket between Milwaukee’s Marvin Williams, left, and Brook Lopez (11) during the second half of an NBA first round playoff game Monday in Lake Buena Vista.
Late blast dooms Rays
Associated PressTampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Blake Snell reacts as he is taken out of the game Monday against the Toronto Blue Jays during the sixth inning in St. Petersburg.
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Grichuk hits 3-run homer in 7th, Jays beat Tampa Bay
On the AIRWAVESTODAY’S SPORTS
BASEBALL6:30 p.m. (FS1, SUN) Baltimore Orioles at Tampa Bay Rays7 p.m. (FSNFL) Miami Marlins at New York Mets8 p.m. (MLB) Cincinnatti Reds at Milwaukee Brewers or Kan-sas City Royals at St. Louis Cardinals9:30 p.m. (FS1) Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco Giants
NBA PLAYOFFS1:30 p.m. (NBA) First Round: Teams TBA4 p.m. (NBA) First Round: Teams TBA6:30 p.m. (TNT) Utah Jazz vs Denver Nuggets, Game 59 p.m. (TNT) Dallas Mavericks vs Los Angeles Clippers, Game 5
WNBA10 p.m. (ESPN2) Indiana Fever vs Seattle Storm
GOLF6 p.m. (GOLF) PGA Tour Champions Charles Schwab Series at Ozarks National, Second Round
NHL PLAYOFFS7 p.m. (NBCSPT) Boston Bruins vs Tampa Bay Lightning, Game 29:45 p.m. (NBCSPT) Vancouver Canucks vs Vegas Golden Knights, Game 2
TENNIS11 a.m. (ESPN2, TENNIS) ATP/WTA Western & Southern Open, Round of 167 p.m. (ESPN) ATP Western & Southern Open, Round of 169 p.m. (TENNIS) ATP/WTA Western & Southern Open, Early Rounds (Taped)
MLB/SCOREBOARD
Yoshi Tsutsugo and Willy Adames homered for Tampa Bay. Oft- injured Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier was hit on the right foot by a pitch in the sixth and left after the seventh.
X-rays were negative but Kiermaier is not expected to start Tuesday night against Baltimore.
The Rays reached the midway point of the regular season at 19-11 after winning 11 of 14 and are in a tight race with the New York Yankees in the AL East.
Tampa Bay is missing eight pitchers due to injuries, including ace Charlie Morton.
“Look, we’ve got to be pretty pleased with where we’re at 30 games given the injuries,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said.
Ji-Man Choi opened the Rays eighth
with a single off Rafael Dolis and went to second when Tsutsugo walked. Choi scored to make it 5-4 on shortstop San-tiago Espinal’s throwing error while attempting to complete a double play on a grounder by Joey Wendle.
Dolis avoided further damage by getting a double play grounder from Adames.
Toronto got the run back on Biggio’s RBI double in the ninth.
The Rays went up 3-1 on Adames’ opposite-field, two-run homer down the line in right off Tanner Roark in the fourth.
Adames also had an outstanding play at short in the sixth, sliding into the outfield to field a grounder and throw out Travis Shaw at first.
Gurriel ended Rays starter Blake Snell’s day with a solo homer with two outs in the sixth that got the Blue Jays within 3-2.
Snell allowed two runs, four hits and struck out nine.
“It’s definitely a tough loss,” Snell said. “It’s a game we need to win.”
AP Top 25The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college preseason football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, last season’s records, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:Team Record Pts Prv 1.Clemson (38) 14-1 1520 2 2.Ohio St. (21) 13-1 1504 3 3.Alabama (2) 11-2 1422 8 4.Georgia 12-2 1270 4 5.Oklahoma 12-2 1269 7 6.LSU (1) 15-0 1186 1 7.Penn St. 11-2 1147 9 8.Florida 11-2 1125 6 9.Oregon 12-2 1119 5 10.Notre Dame 11-2 995 12 11.Auburn 9-4 852 14 12.Wisconsin 10-4 840 11 13.Texas A&M 8-5 764 - 14.Texas 8-5 703 25 15.Oklahoma St. 8-5 672 - 16.Michigan 9-4 611 18 17.Southern Cal 8-5 534 - 18.North Carolina 7-6 496 - 19.Minnesota 11-2 451 10 20.Cincinnati 11-3 234 21 21.UCF 10-3 229 24 22.Utah 11-3 211 16 23.Iowa St. 7-6 199 - 24.Iowa 10-3 134 1525. Tennessee 8-5 133 -
Others receiving votes: Memphis 86, Virginia Tech 85, Boise St. 68, Arizona St. 66, Miami 42, Louisville 32, Appalachian St. 26, Washington 21, Kentucky 20, Indiana 19, Baylor 15, Califor-nia 11, TCU 9, Virginia 7, Navy 6, Florida St. 6, SMU 3, Mississippi St. 3, Air Force 3, North-western 1, UAB 1.
BASKETBALLNBA Playoffs
All games in Lake Buena Vista FIRST ROUND
(Best-of-7)Saturday, Aug. 22
Milwaukee 121, Orlando 107, Milwaukee leads series 2-1Miami 124, Indiana 115, Miami leads series 3-0Oklahoma City 119, Houston 107, OT, Houston leads series 2-1L.A. Lakers 116, Portland 108, L.A. Lakers leads series 2-1
Sunday, Aug. 23Boston 110, Philadelphia 106, Boston wins series 4-0Dallas 135, L.A. Clippers 133, OT, series tied 2-2Toronto 150, Brooklyn 122, Toronto wins series 4-0Utah 129, Denver 127, Utah leads series 3-1
Monday, Aug. 24Milwaukee 121, Orlando 106, Milwaukee leads series 3-1Oklahoma City 117, Houston 114, series tied 2-2Miami 99, Indiana 87, Miami wins series 4-0L.A. Lakers vs. Portland, late
TodayDenver vs. Utah, 6:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers vs. Dallas, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 26Milwaukee vs. Orlando, 4 p.m.Oklahoma City vs. Houston, 6:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers vs. Portland, 9 p.m.
HOCKEYNHL Playoffs
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7)
Sunday, Aug. 23 At Toronto
Boston 3, Tampa Bay 2, Boston leads series 1-0
At Edmonton, AlbertaLas Vegas 5, Vancouver 0, Las Vegas leads series 1-0
Monday, Aug. 24 At Toronto
N.Y. Islanders 4, Philadelphia 0At Edmonton, Alberta
Dallas vs. Colorado, lateToday
At TorontoBoston vs. Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
At Edmonton, AlbertaVancouver vs. Las Vegas, 9:45 p.m.
RAYSContinued from Page A6
FOOTBALL
Dolphins to allow up to 13,000 fans at opener
MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins will allow up to 13,000 socially distancing fans to attend their home opener against the Buffalo Bills on Sept. 20, a decision that divided political leaders and upset the visiting coach.
The same plan will be followed for the University of Miami’s home opener against UAB at the Dolphins’ stadium on Sept. 10.
Crowd size will be about 20% of the stadium’s 65,326-seat capacity, with the limitation imposed because of the coro-navirus pandemic. Groups of spectators will be spaced 6 feet apart.
Fifteen of the NFL’s 32 teams have ruled out spectators to start the season. The Dolphins are one of at least eight teams hoping to have a limited number of spectators, and many teams haven’t announced plans.
At a news conference, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez applauded the Dolphins’ plan and safety upgrades.
DeSantis said the state’s virus num-bers are trending in an encouraging di-rection. But South Florida remains a hot spot, and not all reaction to the Dolphins’ plan was favorable.
U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala, who served as the secretary of health and human services during the Clinton administra-tion, expressed concern about the safety of those attending games.
Bills coach Sean McDermott wasn’t happy that some NFL teams will have fans and others won’t. As of now, the Bills don’t plan to allow spectators at their home games.
76ers fire Brett Brown after being swept
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers fired coach Brett Brown on Mon-day, a day after his seventh season ended in a postseason sweep.
The 76ers were 43-30 this season and had woefully underachieved in a year when they were expected to be serious contenders in the Eastern Conference.
Instead, they weren’t close, and the move was expected after the sixth-seeded Sixers were swept by the Boston Celtics.
Islanders score 4-0 win over Flyers in opener
TORONTO — Semyon Varlamov stopped 29 shots, Andy Greene scored his first playoff goal in a decade and the New York Islanders opened their second-round series with a 4-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers Monday night.
The Islanders buzzed early in their first playoff meeting with the rival Flyers since 1987, withstood a second-period flurry and closed it out with three goals in the third.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Anders Lee and Devon Toews scored in the third period.
— From wire reports
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Sunday’s winning numbers and payouts:
Florida LOTTERY
Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 4
Toronto Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h bi Biggio 2b-rf 4 2 2 1 Meadows lf 4 0 0 0 Grichuk cf 4 1 2 3 Lowe rf 3 0 0 0 Drury 3b 1 0 0 0 Díaz 3b 4 0 0 0 Guerrero Jr. 1b 3 0 1 1 Choi 1b 4 1 1 0 Gurriel Jr. lf 4 1 1 1 Tsutsugo dh 1 2 1 1 Hernández rf 4 0 1 0 Wendle 2b 4 0 1 0 Shaw dh 4 0 0 0 Adames ss 4 1 2 2 Jansen c 3 0 0 0 Kiermaier cf 2 0 0 0 Panik 3b-2b 4 0 0 0 Margot cf 1 0 1 0 Espinal ss 3 2 0 0 Zunino c 3 0 2 0 Martínez ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 34 6 7 6 Totals 31 4 8 3Toronto 001 001 301 —6 Tampa Bay 010 200 010 —4E—Espinal (1), Zunino (1), Adames (5). DP—Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 1. LOB—Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 8. 2B—Grichuk (5), Guerrero Jr. (5), Biggio (7), Adames (10), Zunino 2 (3). HR—Gur-riel Jr. (4), Grichuk (7), Tsutsugo (4), Adames (3). IP H R ER BB SOTorontoRoark 5 6 3 3 3 2 Hatch, W, 2-1 2 0 0 0 2 2 Dolis, H, 5 1 1 1 0 1 0 Romano, S, 2-2 1 1 0 0 1 1Tampa BaySnell 5 2/3 4 2 2 1 9 Thompson, H, 2 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 García, H, 1 2/3 0 1 1 2 0 Loup, L, 3-2, BS, 0-1 1/3 1 2 1 1 0 Banda 2 1 1 0 0 1
HBP—Hatch (Kiermaier). T—3:29.
Miami 11, Washington 8
Miami Washington ab r h bi ab r h bi Berti cf 5 1 2 2 Turner ss 4 2 1 0 Joyce dh 6 1 3 2 Eaton rf 5 2 2 4 Aguilar 1b 5 1 3 3 Soto lf 5 1 4 1 Dickerson lf 6 1 3 1 Kendrick dh 4 0 1 1
West Division
W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away
Oakland 20 9 .690 — — 7-3 W-1 13-4 7-5
Houston 15 13 .536 4½ 1½ 7-3 L-3 10-4 5-9
Texas 10 17 .370 9 6 2-8 L-8 7-6 3-11
Seattle 11 19 .367 9½ 6½ 4-6 W-3 7-8 4-11
Los Angeles 9 20 .310 11 8 2-8 L-1 5-9 4-11
East Division
W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away
Tampa Bay 19 11 .633 — — 7-3 L-1 10-5 9-6
New York 16 9 .640 ½ — 6-4 L-3 10-4 6-5
Toronto 14 13 .519 3½ 2 7-3 W-1 4-5 10-8
Baltimore 14 14 .500 4 2½ 3-7 W-2 6-11 8-3
Boston 9 20 .310 9½ 8 3-7 L-2 4-10 5-10
East Division
W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away
Atlanta 16 12 .571 — — 5-5 L-1 10-4 6-8
Miami 12 11 .522 1½ — 3-7 W-1 4-5 8-6
New York 12 14 .462 3 1½ 5-5 W-3 5-7 7-7
Washington 11 15 .423 4 2½ 5-5 L-1 4-10 7-5
Philadelphia 10 14 .417 4 2½ 5-5 W-1 7-8 3-6
Central Division
W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away
Chicago 18 10 .643 — — 5-5 W-2 10-8 8-2
St. Louis 9 8 .529 3½ — 5-5 W-2 5-4 4-4
Cincinnati 11 15 .423 6 2½ 4-6 L-2 5-7 6-8
Milwaukee 11 15 .423 6 2½ 4-6 L-4 2-6 9-9
Pittsburgh 7 17 .292 9 5½ 4-6 W-3 5-9 2-8
West Division
W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away
Los Angeles 22 8 .733 — — 9-1 W-4 11-5 11-3
San Diego 18 12 .600 4 — 7-3 W-7 11-4 7-8
San Fran. 14 16 .467 8 1½ 6-4 W-6 8-6 6-10
Colorado 13 15 .464 8 1½ 1-9 L-7 7-8 6-7
Arizona 13 16 .448 8½ 2 5-5 L-5 8-4 5-12
Central Division
W L Pct GB WC L10 Str Home Away
Minnesota 20 10 .667 — — 7-3 W-3 12-3 8-7
Chicago 17 12 .586 2½ — 7-3 L-1 7-8 10-4
Cleveland 17 12 .586 2½ — 7-3 L-2 7-7 10-5
Detroit 11 16 .407 7½ 5 2-8 L-1 4-10 7-6
Kansas City 11 17 .393 8 5½ 4-6 L-2 6-7 5-10
AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE ROUNDUP/MATCHUPSMarlins 11, Nationals 8: Jesús Agu-ilar drove in three runs and the Miami Marlins defeated the Washington Na-tionals 11-8 on Monday night, taking three of the five games in the series. Miami entered the series on a five-game losing streak. They now exit Nationals Park just above .500 at 12-11. Aguilar’s two-run double was part of a huge third inning for Miami off Nationals starter Austin Voth (0-3).Cubs 9, Tigers 3: Javier Báez hit two home runs and the Chicago Cubs became the second franchise in major league history to post 11,000 wins, beating the Detroit Tigers 9-3. Only the Giants have won more, with 11,179 victories after starting in New York in 1883 and later moving to San Francisco. The Cubs, who earned their first victory in 1876, improved to 11,000-10,414. The Brooklyn/Los An-geles Dodgers are close behind with 10,996 wins.
Twins 3, Indians 2: Miguel Sanó hit a two-run homer and Nelson Cruz connected for a solo shot to lead the injury-riddled Twins over the Indians in the opener of a three-game series between the AL Central’s top teams. Sanó homered in the sixth inning off Aaron Civale (3-3) as the Twins hit the halfway point of this 60-game season in the same place they ended 2019.LATEOakland at TexasKansas City at St. LouisL.A. Angels at HoustonCincinnati at MilwaukeeColorado at ArizonaTODAY’S GAMESPhiladelphia (Arrieta 1-3) at Washing-ton (Fedde 1-1), 6:05 p.m. Boston (Hart 0-1) at Toronto (Anderson 0-0), 6:37 p.m. Baltimore (Milone 1-3) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 6:40 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (TBD) at Detroit (Turnbull 2-2), 7:10 p.m. Miami (TBD) at N.Y. Mets (Gsellman 0-0), 7:10 p.m. Minnesota (Hill 1-1) at Cleveland (Bieber 5-0), 7:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Cole 4-0) at Atlanta (Toussaint 0-1), 7:10 p.m. Oakland (Manaea 1-2) at Texas (Gibson 1-2), 8:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Brault 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Giolito 2-2), 8:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Castillo 0-3) at Milwaukee (Woodruff 1-2), 8:10 p.m. Kansas City (Harvey 0-1) at St. Louis (Wainwright 2-0), 8:15 p.m. L.A. Angels (TBD) at Houston (Javier 2-1), 9:10 p.m. Seattle (Gonzales 2-2) at San Diego (Paddack 2-2), 9:10 p.m. Colorado (Márquez 2-4) at Arizona (Young 1-1), 9:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Urías 2-0) at San Francisco (Cueto 2-0), 9:45 p.m.
BOX SCORES Anderson 3b 6 1 2 0 Cabrera 3b 3 0 0 0 J.Sánchez rf 4 1 0 0 García 2b 5 0 1 1 Alfaro c 4 1 1 1 Gomes c 5 1 1 0 Villar 2b 5 2 2 1 Thames 1b 4 1 1 0 Rojas ss 2 2 1 1 Robles cf 2 1 0 1 Totals 43 11 17 11 Totals 37 8 11 8Miami 001 600 220 —11 Washington 000 030 230 —8E—Anderson (4), Aguilar (2). DP—Miami 1, Washington 1. LOB—Miami 12, Washington 9. 2B—Aguilar (5), Alfaro (1), Soto 2 (6), Thames (3), Gomes (2), Turner (6). HR—Berti (1), Eaton (2). SB—Villar (8). SF—Robles (2). IP H R ER BB SOMiamiLópez, W, 3-1 5 6 3 0 2 3 Vincent 1 1 0 0 0 1 Bleier 1/3 2 2 2 0 0 Hoyt 2/3 1 0 0 1 0 Eibner 1/3 1 3 3 2 0 Boxberger, H, 4 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 Kintzler, S, 6-6 1 0 0 0 1 1WashingtonVoth, L, 0-3 3 2/3 6 6 6 3 3 Guerra 1 1/3 5 1 1 1 1 Suero 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 3 Bacus 2/3 4 4 4 2 1 Harper 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 Finnegan 1 1 0 0 0 0
HBP—Voth (Alfaro). T—4:02.
Chicago Cubs 9, Detroit 3
Chicago Detroit ab r h bi ab r h bi Happ cf-lf 3 0 0 0 Reyes rf 4 0 1 0 Rizzo 1b 5 1 1 1 Schoop 2b 4 0 2 0 Báez ss 5 2 3 3 Cabrera dh 3 0 1 0 Schwarber lf 5 0 1 0 Candelario 1b 4 0 0 1 Almora Jr. pr 0 1 0 0 Goodrum ss 4 0 0 0 Contreras c 5 1 1 0 Jones cf 4 1 1 0 Heyward rf 4 1 2 0 Stewart lf 4 1 1 2 Caratini dh 2 1 0 0 Romine c 4 0 0 0 Bote 3b 5 1 3 4 Castro 3b 3 1 1 0 Hoerner 2b 4 1 1 1 Totals 38 9 12 9 Totals 34 3 7 3Chicago 020 400 003 —9 Detroit 001 000 200 —3E—Candelario (1), Castro (2). DP—Chicago 0, Detroit 3. LOB—Chicago 9, Detroit 5. 2B—Hey-ward 2 (4). HR—Bote (4), Báez 2 (5), Stewart
(2). SB—Hoerner 2 (2). IP H R ER BB SOChicagoMills W,3-2 7 7 3 3 1 7 Tepera H,1 1 0 0 0 0 2 Rea 1 0 0 0 0 1DetroitMize L,0-1 3 1/3 5 4 3 2 2 Alexander 3 2/3 3 2 2 1 3 Funkhouser 1 0 0 0 0 2 Schreiber 1/3 3 3 3 1 1 García 2/3 1 0 0 0 0
T—3:01.
Minnesota 3, Cleveland 2
Minnesota Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h bi Kepler rf 4 0 2 0 Hernández 2b 5 1 2 1 Polanco ss 4 0 1 0 Ramírez 3b 5 0 0 0 Cruz dh 4 1 1 1 Lindor ss 4 0 2 0 Rosario lf 3 1 1 0 C.Santana 1b 5 0 3 1 Sanó 1b 4 1 1 2 Reyes dh 4 0 0 0 Cave cf 4 0 1 0 Naquin rf 4 0 2 0 Gonzalez 3b 4 0 0 0 Freeman lf 2 0 1 0 Arraez 2b 4 0 1 0 Luplow ph-lf 2 0 1 0 Avila c 2 0 0 0 R.Pérez c 4 0 0 0 Adrianza ph 1 0 0 0 Allen cf 4 1 1 0 Jeffers c 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 3 8 3 Totals 39 2 12 2Minnesota 000 102 000 —3 Cleveland 100 000 100 —2
E—Polanco (1), Freeman (2). DP—Minnesota 0, Cleveland 1. LOB—Minnesota 5, Cleveland 11. 2B—Polanco (4), Rosario (4), Hernández (11), Naquin (3). HR—Cruz (11), Sanó (6), Hernán-dez (2). SB—Rosario (2). IP H R ER BB SOMinnesotaMaeda, W, 4-0 5 5 1 1 1 7 Thielbar, H, 1 1 2 0 0 0 3 May, H, 6 1 3 1 1 0 2 Romo, H, 8 1 1 0 0 0 1 Rogers, S, 7-9 1 1 0 0 0 1ClevelandCivale, L, 3-3 6 7 3 3 1 8 O.Pérez 1 1 0 0 0 0 Karinchak 1 0 0 0 0 2 Wittgren 1 0 0 0 0 0
T—3:14.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
STATISTICAL LEADERSAMERICAN LEAGUE
BATTING—LeMahieu, New York, .411; Lewis, Seattle, .368; Cruz, Minnesota, .343; Severino, Baltimore, .333; J.Abreu, Chicago, .322; Rendon, Los Angeles, .319; Merri-field, Kansas City, .312; Voit, New York, .311; S.Perez, Kan-sas City, .307; D.Fletcher, Los Angeles, .306.
RUNS—Lowe, Tampa Bay, 25; Lewis, Seattle, 24; T.Ander-son, Chicago, 23; J.Abreu, Chicago, 22; Biggio, Toronto, 22; Cruz, Minnesota, 22; Tucker, Houston, 22; M.Chapman, Oakland, 21; Santander, Baltimore, 21; Ramírez, Cleveland, 20; E.Rosario, Minnesota, 20.
RBI—J.Abreu, Chicago, 28; Santander, Baltimore, 27; Cruz, Minnesota, 26; Trout, Los Angeles, 25; Lowe, Tampa Bay, 25; Seager, Seattle, 23; E.Rosario, Minnesota, 23; M.Chapman, Oakland, 22; Piscotty, Oakland, 21; 6 tied at 20.
HITS—Lewis, Seattle, 39; J.Abreu, Chicago, 38; D.Fletcher, Los Angeles, 37; Alberto, Baltimore, 35; Cruz, Min-nesota, 34; Merrifield, Kansas City, 34; Santander, Baltimore, 33; C.Hernández, Cleveland, 32; Polanco, Minnesota, 32; E.Jiménez, Chicago, 31; Lowe, Tampa Bay, 31.
DOUBLES—Alberto, Baltimore, 12; C.Hernández, Cleve-land, 11; Santander, Baltimore, 11; Adames, Tampa Bay, 10; Sanó, Minnesota, 10; Bregman, Houston, 9; M.Chapman, Oakland, 9; D.Fletcher, Los Angeles, 9; Iglesias, Baltimore, 9; Martinez, Boston, 9; Reddick, Houston, 9.
TRIPLES—Tucker, Houston, 4; Candelario, Detroit, 3; M.Chapman, Oakland, 2; Chavis, Boston, 2; Crawford, Seattle, 2; Grossman, Oakland, 2; Kiermaier, Tampa Bay, 2; Kiner-Falefa, Texas, 2; Lowe, Tampa Bay, 2; Wendle, Tampa Bay, 2.
HOME RUNS—J.Abreu, Chicago, 11; Voit, New York, 10; Cruz, Minnesota, 10; Trout, Los Angeles, 10; T.Hernández, Toronto, 10; Santander, Baltimore, 10; Judge, New York, 9; Lowe, Tampa Bay, 9; E.Jiménez, Chicago, 9; Olson, Oak-land, 9; M.Chapman, Oakland, 9.
STOLEN BASES—Merrifield, Kansas City, 6; Mondesi, Kansas City, 6; Moore, Seattle, 6; Ramírez, Cleveland, 6; Kiermaier, Tampa Bay, 5; Kiner-Falefa, Texas, 5; Lopes, Se-attle, 5; V.Reyes, Detroit, 5; Straw, Houston, 5; Tauchman, New York, 5.
PITCHING—Bieber, Cleveland, 5-0; Dobnak, Minnesota, 5-1; G.Cole, New York, 4-0; Maeda, Minnesota, 4-0; Keuchel, Chicago, 4-2; Cease, Chicago, 4-2; Lynn, Texas, 3-0; B.Keller, Kansas City, 3-0; J.Hernández, Texas, 3-0; Fiers, Oak-land, 3-1; Bielak, Houston, 3-1; Fairbanks, Tampa Bay, 3-1.
ERA—Bieber, Cleveland, 1.11; Lynn, Texas, 1.37; F.Val-dez, Houston, 1.72; Dobnak, Minnesota, 1.78; Maeda, Min-nesota, 2.21; Greinke, Houston, 2.29; Bundy, Los Angeles, 2.58; Keuchel, Chicago, 2.65; G.Cole, New York, 2.75; Bas-sitt, Oakland, 2.97.
STRIKEOUTS—Bieber, Cleveland, 65; Giolito, Chicago, 45; Bundy, Los Angeles, 44; G.Cole, New York, 44; Lynn,
Texas, 42; Civale, Cleveland, 40; Maeda, Minnesota, 40; Carrasco, Cleveland, 39; Glasnow, Tampa Bay, 35; Duffy, Kansas City, 34.
NATIONAL LEAGUEBATTING—Blackmon, Colorado, .405; Solano, San Fran-
cisco, .363; Goldschmidt, St. Louis, .340; K.Marte, Arizona, .336; B.Harper, Philadelphia, .320; S.Marte, Arizona, .320; Swanson, Atlanta, .319; Tatis Jr., San Diego, .314; T.Turner, Washington, .314; Winker, Cincinnati, .314.
RUNS—Tatis Jr., San Diego, 29; Yastrzemski, San Fran-cisco, 28; Betts, Los Angeles, 25; Story, Colorado, 25; Swan-son, Atlanta, 25; F.Freeman, Atlanta, 22; B.Harper, Philadelphia, 22; Machado, San Diego, 22; Bellinger, Los Angeles, 21; T.Turner, Washington, 21.
RBI—Tatis Jr., San Diego, 29; Betts, Los Angeles, 24; Blackmon, Colorado, 24; Yastrzemski, San Francisco, 23; Realmuto, Philadelphia, 22; Machado, San Diego, 22; Do.Smith, New York, 21; Seager, Los Angeles, 20; Castellanos, Cincinnati, 20; D.Peralta, Arizona, 20.
HITS—Blackmon, Colorado, 45; K.Marte, Arizona, 38; Tatis Jr., San Diego, 37; Swanson, Atlanta, 36; Story, Colo-rado, 34; Yastrzemski, San Francisco, 34; Betts, Los Angeles, 33; Solano, San Francisco, 33; T.Turner, Washington, 32; S.Marte, Arizona, 31; D.Peralta, Arizona, 31.
DOUBLES—C.Walker, Arizona, 12; Do.Smith, New York, 10; Swanson, Atlanta, 10; Yastrzemski, San Francisco, 10; F.Freeman, Atlanta, 9; K.Marte, Arizona, 9; Solano, San Francisco, 9; Cronenworth, San Diego, 8; 8 tied at 7.
TRIPLES—Yastrzemski, San Francisco, 3; Bruce, Phila-delphia, 2; Cronenworth, San Diego, 2; Giménez, New York, 2; Hampson, Colorado, 2; Nimmo, New York, 2; Reynolds, Pittsburgh, 2; T.Turner, Washington, 2; 17 tied at 1.
HOME RUNS—Tatis Jr., San Diego, 12; Betts, Los Ange-les, 11; Castellanos, Cincinnati, 9; Realmuto, Philadelphia, 8; Machado, San Diego, 8; Bellinger, Los Angeles, 8; Story, Colorado, 8; 13 tied at 7.
STOLEN BASES—Villar, Miami, 8; Giménez, New York, 6; Pham, San Diego, 6; Slater, San Francisco, 6; Tatis Jr., San Diego, 6; Berti, Miami, 5; Betts, Los Angeles, 5; S.Marte, Arizona, 5; Story, Colorado, 5; 5 tied at 4.
PITCHING—Darvish, Chicago, 5-1; Fried, Atlanta, 4-0; S.Gray, Cincinnati, 4-1; Davies, San Diego, 4-2; Wheeler, Philadelphia, 3-0; Bauer, Cincinnati, 3-0; Senzatela, Colo-rado, 3-1; Stripling, Los Angeles, 3-1; P.López, Miami, 3-1; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 3-1; D.Peterson, New York, 3-1; Stammen, San Diego, 3-1; Baragar, San Francisco, 3-1.
ERA—Bauer, Cincinnati, 0.68; Fried, Atlanta, 1.32; Dar-vish, Chicago, 1.70; Lamet, San Diego, 1.89; deGrom, New York, 1.93; P.López, Miami, 1.98; Wainwright, St. Louis, 2.00; S.Gray, Cincinnati, 2.21; Gallen, Arizona, 2.25; M.Kelly, Ari-zona, 2.59.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2020 A7CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE
in 1886 and died in 1987.“I’ve got a sister here,
Donnett — she was run over by a drunk driver in 2003, and I just buried an-other sister, Joyce Ann Ford, two weeks ago,” Bunch said.
Among the Joyner an-cestors, one of the matri-archs, “Mother Diana Joyner,” was born in 1872 and died in 1942.
Carl H. Joyner fought in the Vietnam War. Clifford Joyner died on Sept. 11, 2007.
The dates of the deaths of Roosevelt and Annie Joyner are not recorded on their grave marker, only their names.
“This is a place of soli-tude for me,” Willie Joyner said. “It’s a place of reverence and peace. This place honors the souls of the past, who they were and what they’ve done, and we need to keep those memories alive.”
� � �The 3.67-acre cemetery
dates back to the early 1900s, although some of the people may have been buried before the turn of the century.
Mose McQueen, daugh-ter of Robert and Hattie Coston, died at age 18 on Oct. 29, 1918. Her grave is one of the earliest dated gravesites.
A number of the graves only have names, no dates, hand-carved into the stone: Ida Mae Brooks, Louise
Brooks, Katherine Walker.“The Brooks family and
the Smiths are two of the largest families buried here, also Hopkins and Joyner,” Rev. Thomas said. “My family is Smith.”
As Thomas explained, many cemeteries across the nation are owned by corporations or even counties or cities. But in small, rural areas there are still community- owned cemeteries, such as Crystal Memorial Gar-dens Cemetery in Crystal River.
“This place belongs to the community — all paid for,” he said. “What we’re doing now is trying to re-store it and upgrade it and make it a beautiful place for the community.”
He said their theme, “Restoring the glory and heritage of Citrus County,” is something dear to his heart.
“We have become so re-laxed in our community that we’ve lost much of our heritage,” he said, “and unless we become intricately involved in re-storing it, we’ll have noth-ing. Our loved ones, our parents and grandparents are just laying in the weeds and bushes as we just go one with life.
“When I think about
those words, ‘restoring the glory,’ it does some-thing to me; it motivates me,” he said. “It’s time. This is our time and
season for restoration.”Contact Chronicle re-
porter Nancy Kennedy at 352-564-2927 or nkennedy @chronicleonline.com.
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Laurence Thomson, 79B E V E R LY H I L L S
Laurence R Thomson, 79, of Beverly Hills, FL, passed away August 21, 2020 at his home from
complica-tions of dementia.
L a r r y was born in Gar-diner, ME on April 22, 1941. He was a Veteran of
the US Navy Submarine Force. He retired from EMC in Hopkinton, MA as Vice President of Product Marketing in August 1999.
Preceded in death by his parents, James L Thomson and Isabelle Smith, Gar-diner, ME. Sisters Linda Carver, Richmond, ME and Donna Lawrence, Gardiner, ME.
Larry is survived by his loving wife of 56 years, Pau-line Thomson; daughters, Carol Thomson of Her-nando, FL, Deborah Filer (David) of Hopedale, MA; son, David Thomson (Jenni-fer) of Crystal River, FL; granddaughters, Jessica, Lauren and Sarah Thom-son of Crystal River, FL; grandsons, Derek Filer of Gainesville, FL, and Jordan Filer of Lexington Park, MD; brother, Richard Smith of Jefferson, ME; nieces, nephew, brothers and sisters-in-law.
Larry enjoyed many hob-bies, boating, collecting and restoring antique cars, mo-torcycle riding and target shooting. He loved vaca-tioning and cruising with family and friends through-out his life.
Private cremation will take place under the direc-tion of Brown Funeral Home and Crematory in Lecanto, FL. A private fu-neral mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Au-gust 26, 2020 at St. Scholas-tica Catholic Church and will be live streamed on the funeral home face book page www.facebook.com/brownfuneralhomeand crematory.
Larry will be laid to rest at Augusta, ME at a later date. In lieu of flowers please send a donation in honor of Larry’s memory to the Alzheimer’s Family Organization.
Vivien Johnson, 93O C E A N V I E W, N E W J E R S E Y
Johnson, Vivien Bucher, 93 – of Ocean View, NJ went to be with Jesus, whom she loved very much, on August 22, 2020. She was born in Lima, OH
to the late Royal and R o w e n a B a b e r . V i v i e n w o r k e d for the American Red Cross as Direc-tor of Ser-
vice to Military Families in Lima. She later served as Supervisor of Volun-teers at Seven Rivers Hos-pital in Crystal River, FL. She moved to Ocean View, NJ in 2014 and was a mem-ber of the Seashore Com-munity Church of the Nazarene in Erma.
Vivien is predeceased by her first husband of 55 years, Richard Bucher, her second husband Rob-ert Johnson, son Kenneth R. Bucher; and her sib-lings: Kenneth Baber and Juanita Wilcox.
She is survived by her children: Susan (Randy) Morvay of Elida, OH, Ste-phen (Patra) Bucher of Mt. Pleasant, SC, Jane (Don) Chew of Ocean View, NJ, and Rand (Melinda) Bu-cher of Findlay, OH; grandchildren: Joshua Morvay, Rachel Dawson, Sarah Coleman, Adam Morvay, Beau Bucher, Jackson Bucher, Bennett Bucher, Megan Jones, Jason Chew, Matthew Bu-cher and Nate Bucher. She is also survived by 18 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren. A graveside service will be private at a later time.
A special thanks to Au-tumn Lake Health Care Facility at which she re-cently resided. The staff treated her and us with amazing care and compas-sion. We are thankful and blessed. Condolences at www.radzieta.com.
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MATTHEW BECK/ChronicleGraves dating back into the 1800s are found in the cemetery. Many of the grave markers at the cemetery have names hand-carved into the headstones.
A handful of workers showed up Saturday to clean the Crystal Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Crystal River.
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The 3.67-acre cemetery dates back to the early 1900s, although some of the people may have been
buried before the turn of the century. Mose McQueen, daughter of Robert and Hattie Coston, died at
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NEW YORK — Stocks plowed higher on Wall Street Monday, as hopes for a COVID-19 treatment and vaccine had investors looking ahead to the possi-bility of a healthier econ-omy that has shed the virus.
The S&P 500 rallied 34.12, or 1%, to 3,431.28 and added to the all-time high it set last week, when it erased the last of its losses from the coronavi-rus pandemic. It followed up on solid gains for stock markets across much of Europe and Asia.
The Dow Jones Indus-trial Average rose 378.13, or 1.4%, to 28,308.46, and the Nasdaq composite added 67.92, or 0.6%, to 11,379.72.
Hope was rising as phar-maceutical companies continue to work toward a possible vaccine for COVID-19 and after the U.S. government on Sun-day approved an emer-gency authorization to allow the use of convales-cent plasma to treat pa-tients. The plasma comes from patients who have recovered from the coro-navirus, and it may help people battling the dis-ease, though global health officials say the therapy is
still experimental.Such hopes helped invig-
orate shares of industries that have been badly beaten down by what’s become the new normal of pandemic life. Airlines climbed, for example, amid the possibil-ity that people may feel safe enough to travel again in the future. Delta Air Lines rose 9.3%, and American Airlines Group added 10.5%.
One winner of the new normal, Zoom Video Com-munications, stumbled. Its shares fell 2.6% after it re-ported partial outages in its Zoom Meetings service, which has become the de-fault way for classrooms and businesses around the world to communicate. By midday on the East Coast, it said it had resolved the issue.
The market’s gains were relatively broad, and more than 80% of the stocks in the S&P 500 were higher. Financial companies, en-ergy producers and other areas of the market closely tied to the economy’s strength helped lead the way.
The moves come as in-vestors hope the virus’ spread continues to slow and the economy continues to improve, said Keith Bu-chanan, portfolio manager at Globalt Investments.
“We’re just making sure that the trends we’ve seen as of late from the virus continue to materialize,” he said. “We want to start to see marginal, steady improvement.”
Whether the stock mar-ket’s gains continue to broaden out is an import-ant marker for analysts, because much of its gains in its return to a record have come from only a handful of Big Tech com-panies. Apple, Amazon and other tech giants have benefited from the pan-demic because it’s accel-erated work-from-home, shop-from-home and other trends that are very profit-able for them. But all that concentration of gains in a small cadre of companies can increase risk for the market.
Last week, the S&P 500 would have been down if not for the performance of a single stock: Apple, whose 8.2% spurt also made it the first U.S. stock to be worth a total of $2 trillion. And the domi-nance for Big Tech in the stock market has been stretching back for years.
“This is not new news nor is it likely, in our view, to derail the new bull mar-ket,” Morgan Stanley eq-uity strategist Michael Wilson wrote in a report.
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Exxon Mobil Corp XOM 30.11 3 75.18 42.22 +1.21 +3.0 s t t -39.5 -35.1 10 3.48
Ford Motor F 3.96 6 9.65 6.98 +.32 +4.8 s s s -24.9 -20.3 6 ...
Gen Electric GE 5.48 2 13.26 6.63 +.32 +5.1 s t t -40.6 -24.7 dd 0.04
HCA Holdings Inc HCA 58.38 9 151.97 134.38 +1.87 +1.4 s s s -9.1 +7.5 20 1.72f
Home Depot HD 140.63 0 290.58 286.75 +3.52 +1.2 s s s +31.3 +31.9 29 6.00
Intel Corp INTC 43.63 3 69.29 49.14 -.14 -0.3 t t t -17.9 +8.3 17 1.32
IBM IBM 90.56 6 158.75 125.68 +2.52 +2.0 s t s -6.2 -2.5 13 6.52
LKQ Corporation LKQ 13.31 8 36.63 31.65 +.73 +2.4 s s s -11.3 +18.7 18 ...
Lowes Cos LOW 60.00 0 162.89 165.63 +3.91 +2.4 s s s +38.3 +64.3 37 2.20
McDonalds Corp MCD 124.23 0 221.02 212.62 +1.05 +0.5 s s s +7.6 -1.7 32 5.00
Microsoft Corp MSFT 132.52 0 217.64 213.69 +.67 +0.3 s s s +35.5 +57.8 42 2.04
Motorola Solutions MSI 120.77 5 187.49 153.97 +2.05 +1.3 s s s -4.4 -12.1 29 2.56
NextEra Energy NEE 174.80 0 289.41 282.63 +.22 +0.1 s s s +16.7 +31.2 21 5.60
Piedmont Office RT PDM 12.86 3 24.78 15.88 +.37 +2.4 s s t -28.6 -18.3 7 0.84
Regions Fncl RF 6.94 5 17.54 11.54 +.57 +5.2 s s s -32.8 -16.4 8 0.62
Smucker, JM SJM 91.88 7 125.62 112.99 +.90 +0.8 s s s +8.5 +0.8 14 3.60f
Texas Instru TXN 93.09 0 140.88 141.02 +.69 +0.5 s s s +9.9 +14.4 25 3.60
UniFirst Corp UNF 121.89 8 217.90 194.78 +4.52 +2.4 s s s -3.6 -5.4 22 1.00
Verizon Comm VZ 48.84 9 62.22 59.57 +.58 +1.0 s s s -3.0 +9.2 13 2.46
Vodafone Group VOD 11.46 4 21.72 15.39 +.40 +2.7 s t t -20.4 -9.4 0.97e
WalMart Strs WMT 102.00 9 137.63 131.33 -.30 -0.2 t s s +10.5 +18.5 75 2.16f
Walgreen Boots Alli WBA 36.65 2 64.50 39.74 +.28 +0.7 s t t -32.6 -18.0 7 1.87f
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Airlines made gains as hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine raised the possi-bility that demand for travel will re-cover.
Banks made broad gains as global markets rallied around hopes for a coronavirus vaccine and continued economic recovery.
The U.S. is considering fast-tracking the drug developer’s potential COVID-19 vaccine, according to media reports.
The racetrack operator and gam-bling company will run the 146th Kentucky Derby without fans in at-tendance.
The maker of drug delivery systems expanded its manufacturing support deal with AstraZeneca for a poten-tial COVID-19 vaccine.
The drugmaker’s antibody screen-ing technology will benefit from the FDA’s emergency authorization of plasma for COVID-19 patients.
SOURCE: FIS AP
Stocks pushed higher Monday, as hopes for a COVID-19 treat-ment had investors looking ahead to the possibility of a post-virus economy. The U.S. government approved an au-thorization to use an experi-mental convalescent plasma to treat patients.
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Barclays Glob Agg Bd .87 .87 ... 1.26Barclays USAggregate 1.13 1.14 -0.01 2.24Barclays US Corp 1.93 1.96 -0.03 2.89Barclays US High Yield 6.36 6.37 -0.01 5.78Moodys AAA Corp Idx 2.30 2.33 -0.03 2.8910-Yr. TIPS 0 0 ... .01
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Norwegian pension fund Storebrand is divesting over $47 million from 27 companies, including Exxon and Chevron, as part of its commitment to combating climate change.
Storebrand, which manages assets worth $91 billion, had over $12 million invested in Exxon and more than $10 million in Chevron. It’s also selling its stocks in U.K.-based mining company Rio Tinto and German chemicals maker BASF.
“The Exxons and Chevrons of the world are
holding us back,” said Storebrand’s chief executive, Jan Erik Saugestad. “We need to accelerate away from oil and
gas without deflecting attention onto carbon offsetting and carbon capture and storage.”
Saugestad called on other investors to help speed the transition away from fossil fuels, and warned that the Oslo-based company could still drop other major oil and gas companies.
Shares in Exxon and Chevron both rose more than 2% on Monday.
^Based on past 12-month results *annualized Source: FactSetAP
Fund shuns big oilIndustrySpotlight
Chevron (CVX) $87.20 $52 125 Lost money -20.4% -2.9% 6.0%Exxon Mobil (XOM) 42.22 30 $75 25 -33.2 -13.9 -6.8
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OPINIONPage A10 - TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2020
Re-electing Trump a move forward
Interesting Democrat con-vention. Two items stand out. There is plenty more, but ap-parently the Democrat lead-ers missed the unrest in our Democrat run cities or they approve of it. There was not a single mention of it in the four days. They must have blinders on.
The other issue is the sys-temic racism issue. If racism is really festering in our country, they are the champi-ons of it; otherwise it would have been eliminated already. They have controlled most of our country as long as I can remember and I was born in the depth of the great depres-sion. Racism has been one of their talking points all these years and it seems to only get worse year by year.
At the same time, whenever conservatives try to help re-lieve the problem they are immediately attacked. How dare they interfere with one of our main campaign issues.
Good government can only be achieved when the general public really wants it. So far, the political class only works to retain elective office.
Sadly, on Election Day, most voters re-elect them, and few politicians have the decency to say enough already and go home. Term limits anyone!
Unrest in our cities encour-aged by liberal leaders and racial unrest egged on by those same leaders will keep us in turmoil.
Re-electing President Trump and a Republican Congress should help. It will require enough backbone for them to do the right thing rather than looking to the next election.
Robert E. HagamanHomosassa
A blue and red state
In response to Mr. Lovell and his red state letter, I am a Florida native, and this is only a red state now because of all of the red state people that moved here to escape the cold and snow. Many years ago, before we were inun-dated with people from the cold north, Florida was a blue state. Citrus County was so blue that if you wanted to vote in the primary, you had to change your status to blue just to vote.
I was red when I moved to Citrus County in 1979, and changed from red to blue in approximately 1981 or 1982, just so I could vote in a pri-mary. I stayed blue. If Mr. Lovell is correct, why vote at all? We should just take Mr. Lovell’s “fact” that this is a red state and donate all of our Electoral College electors and votes to the red guys. What Mr. Lovell is afraid of is that his red state may turn blue once again.
The reason it may turn blue is that those governments he says are so “responsible and responsive” have shown little or no leadership during the current crisis. They have been slow to react and don’t listen to the experts, afraid that if they do what is re-quired they will not be re-elected, and getting re-elected is the most import-ant goal of the current batch of politicians, red or blue. Our red leaders have had the idea that this virus will go away by itself. Our red presi-dent stated on Feb 26, “You have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero,” and on Feb 27, “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will dis-appear.” Well Mr. red presi-dent, not only is this not disappearing, and not a hoax, but 3 million people have got-ten the virus and 170,000 peo-ple have died.
Our “responsible and re-sponsive” leaders have been thinking that this is a joke. I think the joke is on them. And most of us blue voters, some purple voters, and I am sure
some red voters will try to turn this state blue come November.
Once this happens, Mr. Lovell, you should not vote red in a blue state.
Jim GilbertCrystal River
Voting against the president
Here’s why my family and our friends are voting for Joe Biden: We are tired of the nasty tweets, the pettiness, the self-interest, the disre-gard for the rule of law and constitution from President Trump. We all thought he was a businessman; he’s not. He can’t make a deal with the other party. He can’t make a deal with China or North Korea. He can’t handle the pandemic or the economy.
The economy was decent during the last administration, and I did very well. Now it’s a disaster because Trump can’t accept responsibility and put forth a national plan for the country and just wishes it away. That’s not leadership. We need a grownup, not a man-child who attacks anyone who disagrees with him. You have to accept mistakes, say you’re sorry and do what’s best for the country.
Trump has no Christian val-ues and is no way a role model for our children. It’s bad enough they’ve been ex-posed to his meanness, name calling and trash talking for four years. Another four? Devastating to the moral fab-ric of our youth, who are re-belling against his type ot authoritarianism. We don’t need a dictator, we need a compassionate, responsible president. We conservatives believe in fiscal responsibil-ity, patriotism, lower deficits and family values. This presi-dent doesn’t check any of these boxes and has ruined the Reagan/Bush Republican Party we all knew. He’s trashed it for his own brand of nationalism. He dissed the Kurds who got rid of ISIS, pulled our troops out of Ger-many, weakening NATO. He destroyed the Iran deal and Paris Accord, made enemies around the world allows Putin to kill American troops.
He was impeached for abuse of power, and trying to get Ukraine involved in our elections. He’s said he wel-comes foreign help in the election. We don’t want for-eigners messing in our elec-tions! Now he’s sabotaging the post office; that hurts ev-eryone. This isn’t right, OK? You don’t do stuff like this.
Republicans and Demo-crats vote by mail. Trying to scare people or silence our voice is what dictators do. Lay off our post office! If any-thing, provide the funds to improve it. If Trump’s willing to sabotage democracy, I’m terrified what he’ll do in the next four years. We are voting against Trump, not for Biden. It’s going to take years of trust to bring back the party.
Megan HowardInverness
Children the new infantry
If you look up the definition of infantry, could it be ap-plied to President Trump’s and Gov. DeSantis’ attitude towards our children and the opening of schools.
Infantry comes from the French infanterie, and the Italian infanteria, both mean-ing youth. Again the foot sol-diers were the young, inexperienced ones, easily expendable, so that’s proba-bly how they got the name.
Why are our leaders so will-ing to risk the life and health of our children. They know the disease is easily spread. They appear so desperate to reopen the economy that they are unwilling to heed warn-ings from true health experts.
So, as in any war, the chil-dren are offered to go risk their lives against a deadly enemy.
How sad are we that our new infantry is actually made up by true infants.
Barry StineHomosassa Springs
We need better representation
Is anyone mad? I am, and I’m mad as hell. Why, you may ask? Consider that in the pri-vate sector when you have an absolute deadline to meet, you consider options such as overtime, cancel any vaca-tions or even hire temps. You utilize these options, because it affects the bottom line, the soul of your enterprise. Guess what happens if you can’t meet deadlines? Recall that I just mentioned it affects the bottom line. Pretty soon your clients and the reason for your business go elsewhere. You’re the boss, so you call the shots!
Well, our elected officials in Washington cannot seem to get the job done. Instead of focusing on the needs of their clients, the American public, they are focusing on personal and party interest. In this dire time when this pandemic is affecting so many Ameri-cans with loss of jobs, closure of businesses, and loss of ben-efits; some are even in peril of being evicted since they cannot afford to pay rent.
All the while our Congress-men and Congresswomen, who are immune to these eco-nomic hardships, are bicker-ing over minutia. Yes, they talk a good talk. But are they as concerned as the regular family on the street that is being impacted by this pan-demic, wondering if they’re going to have to sleep in their car tonight? No, I think not. And why should they, their paycheck isn’t affected, their health benefits aren’t af-fected. And to make matters worse, right in the middle of the deadline, they take off for break. This is inexcusable! This, in the private sector, is failure to perform and is cause for termination.
We need better representa-tion! We need to have our voices heard that this type of incompetence will not be tol-erated. Time to vote the in-cumbents out. If we do not lose our determination and focus and vote out the incum-bents at every cycle, I can guarantee that our officials will become more responsive. Isn’t that what they are get-ting paid to do in the first place!
Joe AcostaFloral City
Use priority mail for ballots
We should pass a bill that will pay the post office for each ballot shipped by using the priority mail two-day, flat rate envelope. $7.75 x 50 mil-lion votes. Fifty million dol-lars times $ 7.75 equals $387.5 million. Not only do we save billions, there’s tracking of each vote sent in.
Wayne WillsCrystal River
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BE COUNTED
Complete 2020 census: It is quick, easy,
safe, importantThe once-every-10-years
U.S. Census letters were mailed in early April,
just about the time people were starting to deal with COVID-19. Did you respond already? Great! You’re part of the 66% of Citrus County residents who did. Did you forget? Please make time to re-spond, and quickly. The September deadline is fast approaching.
Why is respond-ing to the census questionnaire so important? The short answer is, if we’re undercounted, we lose repre-sentation and funding. Flor-ida likely failed to capture an additional Congressional seat because of undercount-ing in the 2010 census. In ad-dition, the list of services that federal money fuels is lengthy — nearly five pages of single-spaced listings in a report prepared before the 2020 Census. Those services are critical for counties like Citrus. We mustn’t cheat our-selves out of it all due to fear or laziness.
There’s nothing to be afraid of in the census. As the website says — bold letters — there is no citizenship question on the 2020 Census. No one will come looking for you (including, as one wag recently noted, the FBI or your ex-spouse). The Census Bureau is required by Title 13 of the U.S. Code to keep confidential any identifi-able information about you, even from law enforcement agencies. Legally, your private data are protected and your answers cannot be used against you by any government agency or court.
It’s a quick, 12-question sur-vey, and will take just a couple of minutes to answer. This year, for the first time, it can be done online. If you prefer, return the questionnaire by mail, or phone the Census Bu-reau to answer that way.
Concerned about the ques-tions? You can review them ahead of time on the Census website: https://2020census.gov. Each question is ex-plained in detail, and each has a section on “Why we ask this question.”
Federal funding will be al-located over the next decade based on 2020 Census data. A report on recent years showed that hundreds of billions of dollars supported more than 130 programs, including many familiar to us in Citrus County.
For example, in the educa-tion sphere think about school
breakfasts and lunches, Pell grants, and a variety of other school-agency-related grants including special education, and career/technical educa-
tion grants. There were the Chil-dren’s Health In-surance Program, maternal and child health ser-vices, Head Start, Medicare and Medicaid, mental health services grants, supple-mental nutrition assistance, foster care and adoption
grants, housing grants, low- income energy assistance, un-employment insurance, voca-tional rehabilitation, Small Business Development Cen-ters, Community Develop-ment Block Grants, water system grants and so much more. A big one is transporta-tion and roadway planning, funding and construction — and you know what a hot topic roads are here.
The list goes on. This quick snapshot shows how much communities such as ours de-pend on federal funding, which flows to us in part based on Census data.
There are even more rea-sons to respond to the U.S. Census. First, it’s the law —our Constitution mandates that the country count its pop-ulation every 10 years. The 2020 Census counts everyone living in the United States and its five territories (Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the North-ern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands).
Within Florida, census data will be considered when Con-gressional districts are re-drawn. Also, businesses rely on the results to make deci-sions including where to ex-pand operations and recruit employees.
If no Census response was received from your home, a door-knocker may be sent to contact you. Avoid this stranger-on-the-doorstep situ-ation by responding now. There’s still time, but only a few weeks remain. Be part of the history that began in 1790.
THE ISSUE:Deadline for
census responses will be here soon.
OUR OPINION:Please respond
— our community is depending
on you.
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Oliver is also proposing $150,000 in assistance for individuals not associated with businesses to help paying rent, mortgage or utility bills. The funding would be paid directly to the company that is owed, not the individual.
Plus, Oliver is
recommending the county set aside $500,000 for COVID-19 related expenses by the county and cities of Crystal River and Inver-ness. Oliver said Friday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, will not reimburse local governments for those expenses unless they are tied to public safety.
Commissioners meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the courthouse, 110 N. Apopka
Ave., Inverness. The CARES grant discussion is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
The agenda includes a 1:50 p.m. scheduled pre-sentation regarding board approval for installation of a new basketball court surface and backboards at Alexander Park in Hernando.
Contact Chronicle re-porter Mike Wright at 352-563-3228 or [email protected].
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Schlabach, who bested a field of six candidates, re-sponded to Lyn’s email by saying she didn’t think the law would apply until the primary election results are officially certified. Su-pervisor of Elections Susan Gill says that will happen Aug. 25.
In an interview, though, Schlabach said she had no plans to discuss county business with any of the sitting commissioners be-fore she takes office.
“I won’t do anything to cross that line,” she said.
Still, both said they would have liked to talk with commissioners to get an idea of what to expect.
“I would never have any intention to talk about anything to do with a vote,” Davis said. “I
believe in the Sunshine Law and the reason it ex-ists. I play straight pool.”
Schlabach said she called Smith on primary night to offer her condo-lences for his losing the District 5 race, and she had a talk with Davis that didn’t go beyond congratulations.
Schlabach said she re-spects Lyn’s legal opinion.
“Of course I’m going to listen to Denise,” she said. “I’m going to err in her direction.”
Contact Chronicle re-porter Mike Wright at 352-563-3228 or [email protected].
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Dems attack ex-lawmaker elected to GOP board
MIAMI — Democrats are sharpening attacks on a former congressman who was quietly elected to the Miami GOP’s executive commit-tee despite a federal investigation into a $50 mil-lion lobbying contract with a favorite Republican target in South Florida: Venezuela’s socialist government. David Rivera’s election to the 160-member committee was largely overlooked
amid the results of Miami’s Aug. 18 primaries.Rivera, who lost his reelection attempt in
2012 but retains strong name recognition, won 35% of the ballots cast by Republicans in the 23rd District of Miami-Dade County.
Democrats are hopeful the scandal-plagued politician’s comeback attempt could undermine the Trump campaign, which compares Demo-crat nominee Joe Biden’s policies to those of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
— From wire reports
National Guard called out after
police shoot Black man
KENOSHA, Wis. — Wis-consin’s governor sum-moned the National Guard for fear of another round of violent protests Monday after the police shooting of a Black man under murky circumstances turned Keno-sha into the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said 125 members of the National Guard would be in Kenosha by night with responsibility for “guarding infrastructure and making sure our firefighters and others involved are pro-tected.” County authorities also announced an 8 p.m. curfew.
The move came after protesters set cars on fire, smashed windows and clashed with officers in riot gear Sunday night over the wounding of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, who was hos-pitalized in serious condi-tion. In a widely seen cellphone video made by an onlooker, he was shot, apparently in the back, as he leaned into his SUV while his three children sat in the vehicle.
Police in the former auto manufacturing center of 100,000 people midway be-tween Milwaukee and Chi-cago said they were responding to a call about a domestic dispute.
They did not immediately disclose the race of the three officers at the scene or say whether Blake was armed or why police opened fire, and they re-leased no details on the do-mestic dispute.
The officers were placed on administrative leave, standard practice in a shooting by police.
— From wire reports
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Trump questions election integrity in surprise visitRenominated
during first day of GOP convention
STEVE PEOPLES, JILL COLVVIN AND
DARLENE SUPERVILLEAssociated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Presi-dent Donald Trump turned a sur-prise opening-day appearance at his party’s scaled-down national convention into an opportunity to question the integrity of the fall election, even as his aides prom-ised a diverse and uplifting mes-sage once the evening program shifted back to Washington, D.C. for prime time.
Trump, who was not scheduled to deliver his keynote convention address until later in the week, nevertheless made multiple pub-lic appearances throughout the first day of the four-day conven-tion. And while the evening pro-gramming was carefully scripted, Trump was not.
“The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election,” Trump told hundreds of Repub-lican delegates gathered in North Carolina, raising anew his unsupported concerns about Americans’ expected re-liance on mail voting during the pandemic. Experts say mail voting has proven remarkably secure.
The GOP convention marks a crucial moment for Trump, a first-term Republican president tasked with reshaping a cam-paign he is losing by all accounts, at least for now.
A deep sense of pessimism has settled over the electorate 10 weeks before Election Day. Just 23% of Americans think the country is heading in the right di-rection, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The evening program high-lighted the tension within
Trump’s Republican Party. His harsh attacks against Democrats who are trying to expand mail voting and demonstrators pro-testing deaths in police custody, for example, often delight his die-hard loyalists. Yet convention organizers are also featuring a diverse lineup with a more inclu-sive message designed to expand Trump’s political coalition be-yond his white, working-class base.
Two of the three coveted final speaking slots Monday night went to people of color who have been openly critical of Trump in the past, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The lineup also featured Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple arrested after pointing guns at Black Lives Mat-ter protesters marching past
their home. “Democrats no longer view the
government’s job as protecting honest citizens from criminals, but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens,” the McClo-skeys said in prepared remarks that broke from the optimistic vi-sion for America organizers promised.
They added: “Make no mis-take: No matter where you live, your family will not be safe in the radical Democrats’ America.”
Besides formally awarding Trump the Republican nomina-tion, delegates gathered in North Carolina also approved a handful of new resolutions, including one to keep Columbus Day as a fed-eral holiday and one that labels the Southern Poverty Law Cen-ter, which catalogs the country’s hate groups, as a “radical organization.”
Marco collapses
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NEW ORLEANS — Tropical Storm Marco began falling apart Monday, easing one threat to the Gulf Coast but setting the stage for the arrival of Laura as a po-tentially supercharged Category 3 hurricane with winds topping 110 mph and a storm surge that could swamp entire towns.
The two-storm combination could bring a history-making onslaught of wind and coastal flooding from Texas to Alabama, all complicated by the coronavi-rus pandemic, forecasters said.
Still a tropical storm for now, Laura churned just south of Cuba after killing at least 11 people in the Dominican Re-public and Haiti, where it knocked out power and caused flooding in the two nations that share the island of Hispaniola. The deaths reportedly included a 10-year-old girl whose home was hit by a tree and a mother and young son who were crushed by a collapsing wall.
Laura was not expected to weaken over land before mov-ing into warm, deep Gulf waters that forecasters said could bring rapid intensification.
“We’re only going to dodge the bullet so many times. And the current forecast for Laura has it focused intently on Louisiana,” Gov. John Bel Edwards told a news briefing.
While Marco weakened, Lau-ra’s potential got stronger, and forecasters raised the possibil-ity of a major hurricane that would pummel western Louisi-ana and eastern Texas from late Wednesday into Thursday.
Once Laura passes Cuba, the system could quickly strengthen over warm water, which acts as fuel to supercharge the storm.
Associated PressPresident Donald Trump stands on stage Monday after speaking during the first day of the Republican National Committee convention in Charlotte.
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Section B - TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2020
n So you know: The information contained in the Health & Life section is not intended to cover all possible directions, precautions, warnings, drug interactions, allergic reactions or adverse effects and is not intended to replace consultation with a physician.
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M illions of parents dropped their children off on college campuses for the start of a new school year in August. While that might not
stand out in a normal year, 2020 has proven to be anything but normal.
Many colleges and universities grap-pled with how to approach the 2020-21 academic year as the world continued to battle the COVID-19 outbreak. Some schools chose to offer only remote learn-ing and keep kids off campus entirely, while others offered in person classes and welcomed students back to campus. Still others created hybrid learning plans that combined remote learning with in person sessions.
Regardless of which option schools ul-timately chose, it’s fair to say that many recognized the potential that the pan-demic could once again upset the aca-demic apple cart after the semester began, forcing students and educators to adjust to fully remote learning in much the same way they did back in March.
In addition to that potential outcome, students who returned to campus must be prepared to enter quarantine if they or a friend, classmate or roommate tests posi-tive for COVID-19. In anticipation of that, it pays for students to prepare quarantine bags in case they need to isolate them-selves at any point during the semester.
ClothingFew college students have exclusive
access to washers and dryers in their dorm rooms or apartments. Shared laundry rooms will likely be off limits while students are under quarantine, so make sure to pack enough clothing to get through two weeks of isolation. Take in-ventory of your supply of pajamas, un-derwear and socks and purchase more if necessary.
Food and cooking suppliesCollege students accustomed to eating
their meals at the dining hall food may need to prepare their own meals while in quarantine. Stock up on nonperish-able items, such as pasta, soup, rice, and cereal, that can be stored in your room for long periods of time without expiring.
Bottled water can help you stay hy-drated should you feel ill, while decaf-feinated tea can help you stay warm should you feel chills. Bring along a mini refrigerator, a toaster or toaster oven, a tea kettle, some pots and pans, bowls and plates, and utensils as well.
Medical suppliesExtra masks are a must-have when re-
turning to campus, and they can help students make it through quarantine as well. Masks can be worn when using re-strooms or showers, even if students are attending schools that plan to isolate people who test positive in buildings that cannot be accessed by non-infected community members.
In addition to extra masks, make sure you have enough daily medical supplies, such as toothpaste, shampoo, body lo-tion or soap, deodorant, tissues, and dis-infectant, to last through quarantine, which is typically no less than two weeks.
TechnologyWhile in quarantine, students will
want to stay connected to the outside world and parents will no doubt want to check in as often as possible to see how their children are faring. A reliable lap-top, desktop or tablet can ensure stu-dents can chat with family and friends and even stay up-to-date with their schoolwork via the Zoom conferencing app.
A backup phone charger also can make sure students stay connected throughout their quarantine period.
Quarantine bags can help students re-turning to college campuses this fall safely navigate their time in isolation.
GARRETT ADKINSSpecial to the Chronicle
Children are our fu-ture, and there is no question that educat-
ing these future leaders is vital to the continued growth and survival of our country and world.
There are few times in history that the necessity of our school systems has been as apparent as it is today. Regardless of personal opin-ions on distanced learning verses brick-and-mortar classrooms, there are a number of concerns relating to the mental health of chil-dren and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As was brought up in prior articles, humans crave social interaction and our children are no excep-tion. School-age children usually develop these skills with one another in a tradi-tional school setting. With that said, the potential ex-posure to COVID-19 leaves many parents, especially older caretakers, worried.
While it is difficult to weigh the safety of our chil-dren in schools with the long-term effects of contin-ued social isolation, it is a consideration that parents around the country now have to make. Understand-ing the perspective of par-ents who feel safer by enrolling their children in virtual learning, the Citrus County YMCA has devel-oped a program to help keep social interaction pos-sible for those learning from home. The Citrus Y’s “Home School Enrichment Program,” will offer chil-dren fun extracurricular and social activities at the Y. These sessions will in-clude art, outdoor activities, swimming and physical fit-ness. This program may not be right for every family, but we hope it can help pro-vide some of the same so-cial benefits a school setting can provide, in a safe and regulated environment.
It’s also important to re-member that teachers, school administrators and other support personnel are facing an unprece-dented concern and may not be sure how to react to these new challenges. These individuals want suc-cess for those in their care, but also want to ensure their own safety. This con-flict can generate a great deal of new stress. This is where our local communi-ty’s mental health profes-sionals can help.
LifeStream Behavioral Health Center, a partner in the Y’s work surrounding mental health, is now offer-ing a 24-hour helpline for teachers — or any other adult — experiencing symp-toms of stress, anxiety, sad-ness and depression due to COVID-19. They can call and receive coping skills and support from a professional without committing to long-term therapeutic support.
For assistance, call the Lifestream 24-hour Help-line at 352-408-6625.
Have an idea to help the mental health of our com-munity? Feel free to send feedback to gadkins@ suncoastymca.org.
Garrett Adkins is Citrus YMCA aquatics director/YMCA Mental Health Task Force chairman.
YMCA keeps kids
socially connected
Special to the Chronicle
This school year is begin-ning in much the way the last one ended, with many
districts opting for virtual learn-ing, which means children sit at home in front of computer screens rather than in a class-room in front of teachers.
But that extra screen time — mixed with the screen time many children and teenagers spend on their own — brings with it the potential for serious eye strain, says Dr. Jeff Kegarise, an optom-etrist, clinical management ex-pert, and co-author with his wife, Susan, of “One Patient at a Time:
The K2 Way Playbook for Health-care and Business Success.”
“Spending too much time in front of screens on computers, phones and tablets can lead to headaches, blurry vision, dry eyes and more,” Kegarise says. “Gritty, scratchy, watery, or irri-tated eyes can be common be-cause of all the digital devices people use these days.”
And if things aren’t bad enough, even without this added time staring at computers, about one-fourth of children in the U.S. have a vision problem signifi-cant enough to affect their
Alleviate eye strain
MetroCreativeAs screen time increases with virtual schooling, so does eye strain. Keep children’s eyes in good health with some simple tips and techniques.
Virtual learning increases screen time
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Student supplies for safety
MetroCreativeIt pays for students to prepare quarantine bags in case they need to isolate themselves at any point during the semester.
Items to include in college quarantine bags
How to clean, sanitize a backpack
MetroCreativeBackpacks can get grimy quickly. Routine washing can freshen them right up.
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Backpacks are useful tools for stu-dents and adults alike. From hiking supplies to school books to sports equipment, backpacks can store just about anything. As veritable work-horses, they’re bound to get dirty and can benefit from periodic cleaning.
While it may be tempting to simply throw a backpack into the washing machine, it is important to check the care instructions first. Some canvas, nylon and fabric backpacks can go in the wash, but those made of leather or those with intricate details should not. Backpack manufacturers also advise against putting backpacks in a dryer.
Here are steps to cleaning a backpack.
1. To get started, begin by remov-ing any items from the backpack, in-cluding all of the pockets. If necessary, use a vacuum to get crumbs out of the backpack.
See CLEAN/Page B2
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As the world continues to confront the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, it’s imperative that people ev-erywhere take every step necessary to protect them-selves and others. The Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention notes that a flu vaccine will not protect people against COVID-19. However, flu vaccines have been shown to reduce the risk of ill-ness related to the flu. Those illnesses weaken people’s immune systems, making them more vul-nerable to other viruses, including COVID-19.
Flu vaccines have also
been shown to reduce the risk of hospitaliza-tion. That’s a significant benefit of being vacci-nated, as people who get their flu shots can indi-rectly help hospitals con-serve potentially scarce resources. As the COVID-19 virus rapidly spread late in the winter of 2019-20, many hospi-tals across the country and even the globe were stretched incredibly thin. So anything ordinary cit-izens can do to alleviate such burdens can help save lives while also making hospital workers’ jobs easier and less stressful.
Many people may be concerned about going out and getting a flu shot in 2020. However, the CDC notes that getting a flu shot in 2020 is an es-sential part of protecting your health and the health of your family.
Many doctor’s offices are now insisting patients wait in their cars until doctors are ready to see them, and masks may be required when entering the doctor’s office. Such measures can reduce the risk of getting the COVID-19 virus when vis-iting a doctor’s office for a flu shot or another visit, so
patients should not be hesitant to receive their vaccinations in 2020.
Flu shots are vital to individual and public health every year, but the importance of being vac-cinated against influenza in 2020 is heightened as the world continues to confront the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus.
performance in school, Kegarise says.
It’s not unusual for some children to spend hours staring at a video game screen, perhaps so caught up in the game’s action that they fail to notice or care about any eye dis-comfort that results.
Add several hours of on-line school, though, and eye strain becomes more difficult to ignore.
Kegarise says parents
can help their children al-leviate some of the eye strain by making sure they do the following:
� Take breaks. To a cer-tain extent, students won’t have control over this be-cause teachers will decide when breaks happen during the school day. But ideally, they should take a break from the screen every 30 minutes, Keg-arise says.
� Choose the right light-ing. The type of lighting used in the student’s work space can make a differ-ence. Incandescent lights work better than
fluorescent lights because they give off less glare, Ke-garise says. “It’s also bet-ter if the light is placed over your shoulder than if it’s shining straight down on the screen because that will cause fewer reflec-tions,” he says.
� Adjust the position of the computer. The com-puter monitor and the key-board should be positioned to conform with the child’s size. Make sure the screen isn’t too high in the child’s field of view. A report by the Na-tional Institutes of Health suggests an adjustable
chair is the best option to get height just right.
� Remind them to blink. Parents should remind children to blink when they spend a lot of time in front of a screen. That helps spread tears across the eyes, keeping the eyes lubricated and aiding in the prevention of dry eyes, Kegarise says.
Even without all this added screen time, chil-dren often develop vision issues that hurt their per-formance in school and sports, Kegarise says. Forty percent of children develop nearsightedness,
he says, and it’s an even higher percentage for those who have a parent who is nearsighted.
“In addition, reading difficulties and attention problems are often the re-sult of eye muscle, visual processing, and function problems.” Kegarise said. “Parents who feel that their child has a tougher time reading and compre-hending than others should consider an eye exam for them. It’s possi-ble through vision ther-apy to make life-changing and long-lasting improve-ments to their learning
and confidence.”
Dr. Jeff Kegarise, a board-certified optometrist and clinical management expert, is co-author with his wife, Dr. Susan Kegarise, of “One Patient at a Time: The K2 Way Playbook for Healthcare and Business Success” (www.theK2Way.com). He has lectured for many years on clinical dis-ease, and his management methods were recognized by The Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Kegarise is a graduate of The Ohio State University College of Optometry.
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2. Check the care label to see if there are washing in-structions. This will deter-mine if you should wash it by hand or if it can be put in the machine.
3. If the bag can be machine-washed, turn it in-side out first or place it in a pillowcase so that the straps and zippers will not be caught. Then wash it on a gentle setting with a mild detergent and lukewarm water.
If the bag should be hand-washed, use lukewarm water and a soft sponge or a gentle bristle brush. The outdoor retailer REI says you do not want to harm any protective coatings on the pack.
4. Zippers need occa-sional cleaning to remove dirt, sand or crumbs. Many zippers have water-resistant coatings so do not scrub them. Use a lubricant made for zippers to help them
slide smoothly.5. Hang the bag to air dry
upside down. It likely will dry more quickly outdoors, but avoid direct sunlight, which can compromise the integrity of the fabric or dis-color the backpack.
6. Do not store or use the backpack until it is com-pletely dry.
7. Sometimes a backpack may need to be disinfected to prevent the growth of fun-gus or bacteria. Athlete’s foot fungus can easily trans-fer from socks and shoes to the backpack if gym clothes are left in the bag.
The Spruce says to skip chlorine bleach and use a pine oil or phenolic disin-fectant or a disinfectant wipe, such as Pine Sol or Spic-n-Span. Lysol brand disinfectant also can be used and is available in liq-uid formula or spray.
If a backpack is water-proof, only wash it once or twice per year; otherwise, you may reduce the pack’s ability to repel water. Use cleansing wipes to spot clean when necessary.
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Why the flu shot is so important in 2020
MetroCreativeFlu shots protect people against influenza, but they might provide even greater benefits in 2020.
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(FX) 30 60 30 51 ››‡ “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” (2016) James Badge Dale. ‘R’
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›› “xXx: Return of Xander Cage” (2017) Vin Diesel. ‘PG-13’
(GOLF) 727 67 727 PGA Champions Central Central Golf’s Greatest Rounds ‘G’ Å PGA PGA
(HALL) 59 68 39 45 54 “Love at the Shore” (2017, Romance) Amanda Righetti, Peter Porte. ‘NR’ Å
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Golden Girls
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(HBO) 302 201 302 2 2 Real, Bill Maher
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›››‡ “Ford v Ferrari” (2019) Matt Damon. A designer builds a car to race against the Ferrari in 1966.
Hard Knocks: Los Angeles (N) ‘MA’
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(HIST) 51 54 51 32 42 The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch ‘PG’
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America’s Book of Secrets: Special Edition Training of U.S. Army Special Forces. ‘PG’
America’s Book of Secrets: Special
(LIFE) 24 38 24 21 Rizzoli & Isles “All for One” ‘14’ Å
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Rizzoli & Isles ‘14’ Å Rizzoli & Isles “Built for Speed” ‘14’ Å
Rizzoli & Isles ‘14’ Å Rizzoli & Isles “Partners in Crime” ‘14’
(LMN) 119 50 119 “My Husband’s Secret Twin” (2019, Suspense) Sofia Mattsson. ‘NR’ Å
“His Double Life” (2016, Suspense) Emmanuelle Vaugier, Brian Krause. ‘NR’ Å
“My Wife’s Secret Life” (2019, Suspense) Jason Cermak, Blake Williams. ‘NR’ Å
(MSNBC) 42 41 42 The Beat With Republican Republican Republican National Convention Republican
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John Kenneth Galbraith, writing in 1989 in The Guardian newspa-per in England, claimed, “In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, con-tentedly, even happily wrong.”
Look only at the West and North hands. Defending against four hearts, West leads the club queen: nine, ace, eight. East shifts to the
spade eight. Should West win with the ace and give him a spade ruff, or should he signal enthusiastically with the nine, playing East for a doubleton spade and a quick trump entry?
This was one of the deals Jeff Rubens set for the 1988 Intercolle-giate Championship, in the days before transfer bids were ubiquitous.
The first trick marked South with the club king. (When going third hand high, play the bottom of equal cards.) If declarer has the heart ace as well, the contract is impregna-ble. So, place the trump ace with East. Then comes the hard part. At the highest level, if East has a sin-gleton spade, verily he should cash the heart ace before leading his spade. (He knows that if South has the spade ace, the contract is un-beatable.) As East didn’t do that, West should assume that East has a doubleton spade. So, West plays an encouraging nine. His trust is veri-fied when East wins the first round of hearts with his ace, leads his sec-ond spade to West’s ace and re-ceives a ruff for down one.
Do you have that much confi-dence in your partner’s ability? If so, lucky you!
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(NGEO) 109 65 109 Lost Treasures of Egypt ‘PG’ Å
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(SEC) 745 72 The Paul Finebaum Show (N) (Live)
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(SHOW) 340 241 340 ›‡ “Peppermint” (2018, Action) Jennifer Garner, John Ortiz. (In Stereo) ‘R’ Å
Ray Donovan “Walk This Way” ‘MA’
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›› “Woman Walks Ahead” (2017) Jessica Chastain. ‘R’ Å
“Most Violent”
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MLB Baseball Baltimore Orioles at Tampa Bay Rays. From Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla. (N) (Live)
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(SYFY) 31 59 31 26 29 ›‡ “Halloween” (2007, Horror) Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane. ‘R’ Å
›‡ “The Host” (2013) Saoirse Ronan. Human bodies serve as vessels for alien invaders. ‘PG-13’ Å
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››› “Anne of Green Gables” (1934, Drama) Anne Shirley. ‘NR’
››‡ “Steamboat ’Round the Bend” (1935) Will Rogers.
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››› “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999) Tom Cruise. A doctor explores a sensual underworld. (In Stereo) ‘R’ Å
(TNT) 48 33 48 31 34 “Lone Survivor”
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Dear Annie: My wife and I are a retired elderly couple living in a ranch-
style home. Over the last four years, my wife has had some health issues and is limited in what she can do. I have been more or less a caregiver, doing all the chores around the house, such as cleaning, wash-ing clothes, cooking and shopping.
Her daughter, who is my stepdaughter and over 50 years old, has been asking to help us with the h o u s e -work. So, this past week, we asked her to clean a d i n i n g room for us by dusting; washing windows; cleaning woodwork, a china closet, a buffet and a dining table; and sweeping the floor. I noticed this morning that the buffet looked unclean. I took a baby wipe and just went along the edges, and it was not clean, and the baby wipe was very dirty.
I asked my wife if her daugh-ter had cleaned the buffet. She said yes and that she applied Pledge. Should I approach my stepdaughter, who has a tem-per? I paid $50 for her work. Should I ignore it or tell her about my finding? Maybe I should just do the work myself. — Dusty Buffet Table
Dear Dusty: It sounds like your stepdaughter might not be the best housekeeper in the world. At the same time, you sound very particular about how cleaning is done. Don’t say anything to your step-daughter. She obviously tried, and her mom is not doing well. Just don’t have her clean again.
Dear Annie: This is an open letter to the women’s night-wear industry. Give us femi-nine pajamas. By us, I mean petite women under size 5.
You make beautiful femi-nine nightgowns — that could go on the dance floor — but pa-jamas that look like we are going to work in the mines (or sleep in them). They have the same old men’s shirts with pip-ing around and down the but-ton front and patch pocket. Where are the laces, ribbons, bows, baby buttons, ruffles and frills? Anything that shows we are female and sexy?
We want necklines that are imaginative and decorative, that show we are women but not sluts. We want sleeves that keep us warm and are pretty, not just serviceable. We want bottoms to keep our thighs from sticking together when it’s hot, and to keep us warm when it’s cold. And do camou-flage the bigness of them — maybe just below the knee to mid-calf with lace or ribbons. And enough fabric to span big-ger bellies comfortably. Even at 77, I want to look feminine and sexy for ME, let alone a partner.
Use your imagination, and provide us pajamas we will be proud to wear. — Petite Lace and Bows
Dear Petite Lace and Bows: Perhaps a quick online search could help you find spe-cial-sized, feminine PJ’s. If you still can’t find them, well, here is an opportunity to start your own business of sexy, feminine PJ’s for petite women. Yes, even at 77!
Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read fea-tures by other Creators Syndi-cate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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DEAR ANNIE
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B4 TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2020 COMICS CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE
Peanuts
Pickles
Garfield
For Better or For Worse
Sally ForthBeetle Bailey
Dilbert The Grizzwells
The Born Loser Blondie
Doonesbury Flashbacks
Moderately Confused Rubes Dennis the Menace The Family Circus
Betty
Big Nate
Arlo and Janis
Frank & Ernest
Times provided by Regal Cinemas and are subject to change; call ahead.
Today’s MOVIES
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R H M X A X B P A A L E O . M X B C R J S N T D P
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P r e v i o u s S o l u t i o n : “ I m a g i n a t i o n i s t h e k e y t o m y l y r i c s . T h e r e s t i s p a i n t e d w i t h a l i t t l e s c i e n c e f i c t i o n . ” — J i m i
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WJUF-FM 90.1 National PublicWHGN-FM 91.9 ReligiousWXCV-FM 95.3 Adult Mix.WXOF-FM 96.7 Classic HitsWEKJ FM 96.3, 103.9 Religious
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WYKE-FM 104.3 Sports TalkWDUV 105.5 FM HudsonWJQB-FM 106.3 OldiesWFJV-FM 107.5 Classic RockWRZN-AM 720 Adult Mix
Local RADIO
LOCAL THEATER INFORMATIONRegal Cinemas in Crystal River and Inverness are scheduled at this time to reopen Sept. 3, 2020. For more information, visit online at www.fandango.
com. Fandango also provides some movie trailers, movie news, photographs and editorial features.
VALERIE THEATRE CULTURAL CENTERThe Valerie Theatre is closed during the coronavirus outbreak. For more in-
formation, visit online at www.valerietheatre.org.
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You will work on some really creative projects that will include print, digital, contesting, email
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TV 38” INSIGNIA flat screen 3 HDMI ports & remote good cond.
delivery available $100. 352-613-0529
3 BATHROOM SINKSRound, Almond
with ALL Hardware$25 each or all for $65
352-201-0876
MEDICINE CABINETS 2 recessed mirrored
cabinets $8 each or both for $10. 352-201-0876
MEDICINE CABINETS2 Recessed Mirrored
Cabinets $8 eachor both for $10. 352-201-0876
**STUMP GRINDER**35HP RAYCO
Great Condition!$8000 OBO
(352) 302-8852
PRESSURE WASHER HONDA / DEWALT
ENGINE. 3000 psi, exc cond. Pd $655, sell
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Dining RM SETETHAN ALLEN SETincludes Table, China Cabinet, and 6 chairs.Excellent Condition!
$400 obo 352-586-1933
Living RM SETCouch, Loveseat and3 Glass Top Tables.
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$300 obo 352-586-1933
OUTDOORFURNITUREFour Chairs -
Two Lounge- PVC -Cushioned - $250
352-382-3159
PATIO SETTable w/ 4 cushioned
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ADJ. TWIN BEDAdjustable oversized
Twin Sz bed w/Mattress - Remote
controls, BackMassager. $475 -CallWalter- 352-527-3552
Antique BuffetPerfect Condition
We are remodeling, no longer fits $200
(352) 628-5355
BAR STOOLSset of 3 solid wood maple brown 29”excellent condition $60 352-613-0529
BED FRAME KING SIZE metal in good
condition $60 352-613-0529
BIRD CAGEBrand NEW - LG White Flight Cage. QUALITY, on wheels, 30X20X53. Call for pic & info. $100
352-746-1486
BOX SPRINGS set of 2 for king size bed in ex-cellent condition $100
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BUSINESS FOR SALEBusy 3 chair Barber Shop for sale. Been in business 18 years. Call 352-209-60359:00 am - 5:00 pm
FRAMED FLOWERPORTRAIT Very nice measuring 17x14.Only asking for $5
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Antique BottleCollection
Old Soda Pop and other Vintage pieces $40 obo
(352) 344-1515
DOUBLE EAGLE STATUENEW 60.00
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GE STACKEDLAUNDRY CENTER
W/D - Model GUD24ESSJOWW
Looks and Runs Nice.Perfect for limited space. $350/BO.
SMITTYSAPPLIANCE REPAIR
352-564-8179
Battery ChargerDieHard
275 Amp, $150(513) 502-0206
LEAF BLOWERSTIHL, model B6B6C
$150(513) 502-0206
TOOL KART For Work-shop or garage. On
wheels need ph num-ber for pictures only 50.00 352 464 0316
SONY STEREOSYSTEM - Stereo has
AM/FM, 5 Disc CD Player, Cassette Tape Players, 2 large speak-ers, 2 small speakers.
Excellent condition, works great. Asking
$125.00 352-476-3146
TV 25” VIZIO flat screen has HDMI port & remote good condi-tion delivery available
$80. 352-613-0529
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Maintenance WorkerPlease respond to
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3001 SW College Road, Ocala, FL
34474CF is an Equal
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3001 SW College Road, Ocala, FL
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3001 SW College Road, Ocala, FL
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Grounds Keeper - Citrus
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3001 SW College Road, Ocala, FL
34474CF is an Equal
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Two cat buddies need a home. One B/W, one yellow/white, 2 yrs old,
Spayed, Neutered Papers & Shots(352) 423-4163
Rock Shrimp are here $5.99/lbor 5 lbs/$25BIG Local boat run SHRIMP $7.99 lb.
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352-344-4496
ChihuahuaF, 3½ lb, chestnut
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Missing since 7/10/19(352) 651-2001, LM
MANS LOST RINGSentimental Value
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352-697-2583
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Man in his 60’slooking to meet lady
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Professional Long Time Local seeking
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in return for working on your property.
Please Email [email protected]
or Mail to 1624 N. Meadowcrest Blvd, Box 1977, Crystal River, FL 34429
NOW HIRING!
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Great WorkEnvironment
Mail Resume to:BOX 1979 1624 N.Meadowcrest Blvd.,
Crystal River, FL34429
or email Resume w/ Box #1979 in
Subject Line totknight@
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Institute240 N Lecanto Hwy Lecanto FL 34461 Questions can be
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OUTDOORFURNITUREFour Chairs -
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PONTOON2012 Sweetwater,
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(727) 422-4433
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Carpentry & Mobile Home Repair- Decks
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JEFF’SCLEANUP / HAULING
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PLUS handyman, floor-ing, painting. Pressure wash.free est. Veteran owned 352-949-2760
ROB’S MASONRY & CONCRETE Driveways tear outs, tractor work Lic#1476 726-6554
BIANCHI CONCRETEINC.COM Lic/Ins #2579Reputable for 21 yrs.
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CURB APPEALDecorative Landscape Curbing, Epoxy River
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Danny Works ConcreteAll type of concrete work Resurfacing & PaintingCredit Cards accepted.Lic/Ins 352-302-2606
ALL Tractor & Tree Work Land Cleared, Deliver dirt & rock,
1 time cleanup, Drive-ways (352) 302-6955
A-1 RepairsPress. Wash, Painting
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COUNTY WIDEDRY-WALL 30 Yrs
Exp. Lic. #2875. All your drywall needs!! Ceiling
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DUN-RITE ELECTRICSince 1978 � Free Est.
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CITRUS HANDYMANSERVICES & FENCING
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Alex’ FlooringHome & RV. Install,
repair, restretch. Dust-less tile removal. Lic/Ins. 30 yrs ex. 352-458-5050
Vinyl, wood & tilePLUS Handyman,
Pressure Wash, FREE EST. Veteran owned
352-949-2760
Get your mind out of the gutter! Cleaning
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M&W INTERIORSBath, kitchen, floors,
walls, ceilings.Lic/Ins 352-537-4144
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PLUS Handyman, Flooring, Painting.
interior doors, FREE EST. Veteran owned
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EXPERIENCEDHousekeeper - Home or Office - Ref’s Avail.
352-212-1067
Two Hags & A HooverCleaning SVC / Carpet
Cleaning & Pressure Washing / Res. &
Comm. 606-733-5268 or 352-564-2060
Tile Bathroom Remodel & Repair specializing in no curb role in showers
352-794-1799
Heavy Bush-HoggingLand Clearing, Fill DirtSeeding,Tree Removal Lic/Ins 352-563-1873
CURB APPEALDecorative Landscape Curbing, Epoxy River
Rock, Reseals & Repair352-364-2120
AFFORDABLE LAWN CARE & CLEAN UPS.
Starting at $20. WE DO IT ALL! 352-563-9824
F&S Lawn Main.Landscaping, Tree Trimming, Sprinklers,
Sod InstallationLic/Ins (352) 560-1546
Gails Landscapingthe Lady Landscaper
Mow, trim, blowPlus Other ServicesGail 352-436-7604
GREENLADY CUTS LLC
mow, edge, blow,weeding & trim. Call
Crystal (352) 400-3672
H & H Lawn Care PlusRegistered & Insured. Reliable & Prof. (352)796-8517 or 453-7278
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Wesley 352-364-2917
A-1 Complete RepairsPres. Wash, Painting
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PLUS handyman, floor-ing, painting. Pressure wash.free est. Veteran owned 352-949-2760
SANDERS PAINTING Quality Craftsmanship40 yrs exp, Sr.Citz Disc.,
Lic/Ins 352-423-0116
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Pressure Wash, Coolseal, general handy-
man, Call Stewart(352) 201-2169
FREE Estimate/30 yrs Experience.Lic# CCC057537
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Re-Roofs & Repairs,All Types 1. Call the
Owner/Contractor Keith Hayes 352-895-4476 toSchedule your free noobligation, No Contact
inspection. 2. Weinspect & price the job. 3. Work is performed to your Satisfaction at your conv. LIC/INS 1331389
Home of the“Attitude of Gratitude!”
WHY REPLACE IT, IFI CAN FIX IT?
Same owner since 1987 ROOF Leaks, Repairs, Coating & Maintenance
Lic. #CC-C058189Gary : 352-228-4500
Bob’s DISCARDEDLawn Mower Service � FREE PICK-UP �
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small. Ask about our Disc: Vet, Vol., & Sr’s.Free Est. Cheapest price guaranteed.
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� A ACTION TREE(352) 726-9724
ProfessionalArborist
Serving Citrus 30 yrs.
Licensed & Insured
A TREE SURGEON Proudly serving Citrus
Co. Since 2001. Lic/Ins. Lowest rates! Free est.
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ALL Tractor & Tree Work Land Cleared, Deliver dirt & rock,
1 time cleanup, Drive-ways (352) 302-6955
CLAYPOOL’S Tree Service - Lic/Ins.
352-201-7313For stumps:
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Heavy Bush-HoggingLand Clearing, Fill DirtSeeding, Tree removal
& Debris removal.Lic/Ins 352-563-1873
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AttentionConsumers!The Citrus County
Chronicle wants toensure that our ads meet the require-ments of the law.
Beware of any service advertiser that cannot
provide proof ofoccupational
license or insurance. For questions about
business require-ments, please
call your city or countygovernment offices.
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‘95 CadillacSedan Deville
Survivor- BEAUTIFULPoppy Blue w/ Navy Brocade Interior- Mint Condition inside & out-
55,250 documentedmiles - Perfect Carfax-
MUST SELL due to health & moving. $7,775
352-212-4775
CADILLAC2009 DTS, **LOADED** 136K mi/1 Owner, Gar.
Kept, Call for info: $7,000 352-364-6460
CHEVROLET1991Corvette, 94k mi, targa top, good cond
new injectors & fuel pump. $7,000
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IN THE
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$19.95for 7 days
$29.95for 14 days
$49.95for 30 days
$69.95Run ‘til it sells!!
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352-563-5966
FIFTH WHEEL2017 Heartland PioneerPI 276 -32ft./ 2 slides, Auto Leveling, Rear
Bunks, $24,500352-634-2247
Chevrolet 5 window coup 1934-1940’s
Complete Front Seat Asking $250
352-302-6979
Make your T-Bird 2-Tone! White Hardtop w/ Port Holes. For ‘02 -’05 T-Bird - In storage 17 yrs. $1500 OBO
352-212-4775
POWERFUL ENGINEMust sell due to age
& health. Briggs &Stratton, twin cycl., flat-head, low mile-
age, runs great 18-1/2 HP, 694 CC Very
strong, fast, powerful. $325 firm! John
352 726-1076 home353-220-4173 cell
~$69.95~
Run ‘til it sells
Applies to all vehicles, boats, RV’s, campers & motorcycles.
Call yourClassified
Representativefor details.
352-563-5966
CASH FOR CARS & TRUCKS Running or Not TOP $$$$$ PAID� 352-771-6191 �
WANTEDJUNK & ESTATE
CARSUp to $1,000 & MORE
(352) 342-7037
~$69.95~
Run ‘til it sells
Applies to all vehicles, boats, RV’s, campers & motorcycles.
Call yourClassified
Representativefor details.
352-563-5966
5th WHEEL2012 Winslow
Model #34RLS, $24,995Solid Wood Cabinetry
352-795-7820
DAMON2011 Tuscany - 43 footBath & a half, King size bed. 44K mi. Exc cond
MUST SEE !!352-601-0310
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Newer tires/ Loveseat/T.V.
Must See toAppreciate!
36’ Travel Trailerin Excellent Cond!
NEW reclining loveseat,dining table, QN sz
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in Natures Resort Campground w/ all the
amenities of Homosassa right off the
river. Will only sell alltogether. Listed at
$13,900 734-634-9835 or 352-442-0764
HOMOSASSA100 x 150 vacant loton Homosassa Trailacross from Payless
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(813) 469-4267
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98 LOWE 172075hp Evenrude, trolling motor, fish finder, life
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CANOE -17’ FIBER-GLASS -HEAVY DUTY!Great Condition! Seats 3
comfortably $500 352-212-4775
JOHNSON1990, Fiberglass, 14’10”
CC,25 HP Evinrude +trolling mtr; galv. trailer.
$2375 OBO
MONTEREY2000 MONTURA
23½’, VG cond, too many extra’s to list, $9,000 or best offer
(352) 563-0074
PONTOON2012 Sweetwater,
25hp Yamaha, with Road King trailer $9900
(727) 422-4433
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YAMAHA17 FT, 2004 G3, 60 hp Yamaha, 4 stroke, Troll-ing, Hummingbird Fish
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Gulf Stream2018 motor home,
model 6238, 4500 mi self contained, slide out $47,500 352- 212-6949
Holiday Rambler1991 / 27ft “C” Very
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DUNNELLONNorth Williams St
3000 SF MOL;Commercial building
on .042 acre**For sale or lease**
Call for detailsContact: Al Isnetto,Palmwood Realty.352-597-2500 x202
3/2/2 Princeton LaneHighlands Home
$119K Can be seen onSundays Only! Please Call (352) 637-1173
Remodeled Villa inInverness Landing1431 Longboat Pt.
Lg end unit on priv st. 1471 sf; 3BR, 2BA.
New kit cab. & applis. New flooring and paint throughout. Many amenities indevelopment. Priv boat launchwith
docks, heated pool,& club house. Call to
view this gem. 980-621-8227
2/1, 1972 Single Wide in Homosassa 55+
Park. Furn., carport, storage shed, Nice,
CLEAN & QUIET$12.5K 352-564-0201
Mike Czerwinski
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Housewares, No kitchen.By the prison.
Must have references. 352-569-9441 or
305-815-9371
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which makes it illegal to advertise “any
preference, limitation or discrimination
based on race, color, religion, sex, handi-
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intention,to make such prefer-ence, limitation or
discrimination. “ Fa-milial status includes
children under the age of 18 living with
parents or legal cus-todians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.
This newspaper will not knowingly accept
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violation of the law.Our readers are
hereby informed that all dwellings adver-
tised in this newspa-per are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of
discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777.
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call for email pic 352-423-4163 Linda
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RECUMBENT EXERCISE BIKE Nordic trac
no electronicsonly 60.00
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CAR SEATSAFETY 1ST
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CAR SEATSAFETY 1ST
Brown and beige $25 352-201-0876
DRESSER/CHANGING TABLE blonde finish has storage area in
good condition $100. 352-613-0529
JEWELRY BOXUpright Jewelry Box $25
352-382-3159
I buy, jewelry, silver, gold, paintings, instru-
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& MORE! 352-454-0068
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CARSUp to $1,000. & MORE
(352) 342-7037
Wanted Model Trains $ INSTANT CASH $For old Lionel & other
model trains, anyquantity- one piece
or a house full! 330-554-7089
Galaxyis a beautiful
4-year-old neutered male Terrier mix, whose weight isapproximately 60
pounds, a good size for a family. He is crate-trained and
leash-trained, walking great on a leash. He
also loves to go on car rides. He does need to be the only pet in the family. For more
information please call
or text Loren at 352-201-6777.
2/1, 1972 Single Wide in Homosassa 55+
Park. Furn., carport, storage shed, Nice,
CLEAN & QUIET$12.5K 352-564-0201
BATHROOM VANITYLIGHTS 4 chrome 34” shaded lights in good
condition $30. 352-613-0529
BONE CHINA CUPS AND SAUCERS
Different patterns.3 sets for $8.00.239-404-8589
Dog Kennel10’ x 10’ x 6’
Good Condition!$200
(352) 613-3688
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352-628-4210
GLASS GOBLET SETComes in a set of 10, can send pictures,
asking $5 352-547-6479
GOLF CART TIRE WITH RIM brand new
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$100 352-613-0529
Gun SafeHolds 8 long guns
$80352-586-1933
HOLIDAY BARBIE DOLLS 1989 THRU 1998 Dolls in original boxes, never opened. Very good condition.
Asking $225.00 for all. 352-476-3146
Nascar Style Floor Jack, 4 Jack Stands& some Hand Tools -
ALL for $100(352) 513-5600
PLATES AND BOWLS SET 15 pcs total, no
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$5 (352)547-6479
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tire and jack kit for Kia soul. Paid $165 $100
352-465-6619
TOW BARDraw-Tite / factory
made in USA/ FIXED Triangular Shape $65
352-464-0316
V W BUS HUBCAPS For a bus - good shape -
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SHOWER CHAIR LARGE/ Aluminum
and fiberglass- Strad-dles the tub — slide in.
$35 352-464-0316
TOILET SEAT RISERSElongated With
handles VERY NICE! $35 each
352-464-0316
TRANSPORT CHAIR (SMALL WHEELS)
with Footrests.NEARLY NEW! ONLY $75 352-464-0316
TREADMILLall digital lights up
belt won’t turncould be a fuse 40.00
352-464-0316
WHEELCHAIR$50
(513) 502-0206
WHEELCHAIRGood Condition!
Seat 20” Wide $75.352-419-4066
WHEELCHAIRlike new, seat 20”
high $75352-419-4066
WHEELCHAIRMANUAL
with footrests.Used little only
$100 352-464-0316
WHEELCHAIRVERY LARGE - 24”
seat- good shape,some surface rust
only $75 352-464-0316
Baby Grand PianoKAWAI - PolishedMahogany -Barley
Used - *BEAUTIFUL*$8200 FIRM
(352) 382-2279
Pioneer SpeakersTwo 30 Watt Speakers
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China Cabinet1 Glass Front Wood
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COMPUTER DESKOld, must get rid of
soon, willing to send pictures, $5
(352)547-6479
CURIO CABINET large white wash finish 82”HX40”WX13”D
needs door replaced. $100 352-613-0529
Glass and RattanDining Table w/ 4
Chairs. Good Condition $150 (586) 904-0011
Mattress twin size with box spring, frame &
headboard maple fin-ish in good cond.
$100. 352-613-0529
METAL BED FRAMEDOUBLE SIZEEXCELLENT
CONDITION! $15(352) 341-1709
Rattan TallBureau
Excellent Condition! $100
(586) 904-0011
RECLINERVERY GOODCONDITION!
Fabric Brownish Color $95 352- 513-4311
ROLL TOP DESKExcellent Condition!
$200352-795-3732
TRUNDLE BEDMetal frame,
slightly used, one mat-tress never used. $175
Call (352) 301-4410
TRUNDLE BEDMetal w/ Mattress inExcellent Condition $100 - Inverness(352) 727-9542
TWIN BED SETwith frame, good condition, $55.00
352- 423-4163 Linda
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4 Tempered Safety Glass Patio Doors
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TUESDAY,AUGUST 25, 2020 B7CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE CLASSIFIEDS
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3445-0901 TUCRNNOTICE OF PETITION TO VACATE PLAT
The Petitioner, Guy Newman, hereby gives notice of their intention to petition the Citrus County Board of County Commissioners to vacate a portion of that certain plat of Unit 20, Lot 14 BLK 1340, as de-scribed in Exhibit “A” attached hereto and made a part hereof.
PETITIONTO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA:
The undersigned, hereby petitions this Board to close, vacate, aban-don, and discontinue (that, those) certain street(s), road(s), alleyway(s) delineated on the recorded plat of Lot 14, Block 1340 Unit 20, recorded in Plat Book 7, Pages 52-66, public records of Cit-rus County, Florida, described on the attached Exhibit “A”, which is hereby made a part hereof by reference; that petitioner would not in-convenience anyone for the same to be closed, that Petitioner recog-nizes, acknowledges and accepts the reservation by said County, the right to create any easements upon said vacated lands as may be necessary to further and/or preserve the public health, safety, and welfare, and that Petitioner will pay the expense of public notice of the hearing to determine the advisability of closing the same.
WHEREFORE, the undersigned petitions this Board to call a pub-lic hearing at Petitioner’s expense to determine the viability of closing said street(s), road(s), alleyway(s) and that, upon such a hearing, this Board will determine that the same should be closed and adopt an appropriate Resolution closing, vacating, abandoning and discontinu-ing the same, and renouncing and disclaiming any right of Citrus County and the public in and to any land delineated on the recorded plat of said, except for the reservation of the right to any easements as may be found necessary, by the Board of County Commissioners, to further and/or preserve the public health, safety, and welfare.
/s/ Guy Newman, Petitioner
EXHIBIT “A”Short Legal: Lot 14, Block 1340, Unit 20 in Plat Book 7 on page 52-66Property Address: 11564 N Kenlake Circle, Citrus Springs Fl34434Altkey: 1435625 Parcel ID: 18E17S100200 13400 0140
Published August 25 & September 1, 2020
3436-0901 TUCRNUnknown Father 2019-DP-124 Notice of Action
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT,IN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA
Case No.: 2019-DP-124Division: Juvenile
IN THE INTEREST OF:P.K.L.C-M (F) D.O.B.: 05/25/2017
A Child.
NOTICE OF ACTION, SUMMONS AND NOTICE OFADVISORY HEARING AS TO THE UNKNOWN FATHER FOR
MANIFEST BEST INTEREST AND ADVISORY HEARING
THE STATE OF FLORIDA
TO: Unknown Father of P.K.L.C-M.
You are hereby notified that a petition under oath has been filed in the above-styled court for the termination of your parental rights as to P.K.L.C-M., a female child born on May 25, 2017, in the State of Florida, for placement of the child with the Florida Depart-ment of Children and Families for subsequent adoption, and you are hereby commanded to be and appear before THE HONORABLE PE-TER M. BRIGHAM of the Circuit Court or any judge assigned to hear the above cause, at the Manifest Best Interest and Advisory Hear-ing on September 11, 2020 at 9:00 AM via THE “ZOOM” APPLI-CATION, 110 North Apopka Avenue, 3rd floor, Inverness, FL34450.
ALL PARTIES SHALL APPEAR BY ELECTRONIC MEANS, ONLY. UNLESS OTHERWISE ARRANGED BY A PARTY, THE HEARING WILL OCCUR BY VIDEO/TELEPHONE USING THE ZOOM APPLI-CATION.
To appear by video: Please click on the hyperlink you received via email (best method), or type https://zoom.us in your web browser, click on Join Meeting, then enter the Meeting ID (929 3086 6975) and Password (748240) per the prompts. You will be admitted to the hearing by the Magistrate.
To appear by phone: Please call (786) 635 1003 US (Miami) or (646) 558 8656 US (New York) and enter the Meeting ID (929 3086 6975) and Password (748240) when prompted. You will be ad-
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mitted to the hearing by the Magistrate.
*PLEASE EMAIL THE MAGISTRATE [email protected] IF YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO ATTEND BY TELEPHONE OR VIDEO ON THE ZOOM APPLICATION.
YOU MUST PERSONALLY APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED.
FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORYHEARING OR THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TRIALCONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTALRIGHTS TO THIS CHILD, IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION.
YOU ARE ENTITLED TO HAVE AN ATTORNEY PRESENT TO REPRESENT YOU IN THIS MATTER. IF YOU WANT AN ATTOR-NEY, BUT ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD ONE, YOU MUST NOTIFYTHE COURT, AND THE COURT WILL DETERMINE WHETHER YOU QUALIFY FOR AN ATTORNEY TO BE APPOINTED TO REP-RESENT YOU IN THIS MATTER.
If you are a person with a disability who needs any accom-modation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are enti-tled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Office of the Trial Court Administrator, Citrus County Courthouse, 110 North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, FL 34450, Telephone (352) 341-6700 within seven (7) working days of your receipt of this notice; If you are hearing or voice impaired call 1-800-955-8771, Florida Relay Service 711.
THIS NOTICE shall be published once a week for four consecu-tive weeks in the Citrus County Chronicle’s Classified Section.
Dated this 6th day of August, 2020, at Inverness, Citrus County, Florida.
ANGELA VICK, Clerk of Courts{{ COURT SEAL }}
By: Lindsey C Thomas, Deputy Clerk
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352-270-8089
HONDA2009 Shadow 750 Exc. con. 1 owner, garage kept, Very low mi 3514$3600 561-777-6014
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352-489-4129
Can-Am Spyder2016, White, 4,705 mi,
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Excellent Condition!$7000 (352) 410-1725
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can be towed behind RV, blue Ox hitch incl.$11,900 Can be seen @ Letgo. 352-613-2620
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3447-0825 TUCRNCITRUS SPRINGS MSBU ADVISORY COUNCIL
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Citrus Springs Advisory Council will meet on Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 9:00 o’clock A.M., at the Citrus Springs Community Center, 1570 W. Citrus Springs Boulevard, Building “B”, Citrus Springs, Florida, to conduct business of the Citrus Springs Municipal Service Benefit Unit.
Any person requiring reasonable accommodation at this meeting because of a disability or physical impairment should contact the County Administrator’s Office, 110 North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, FL 34450, (352) 341-6560, at least two (2) days before the meeting. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please call 7-1-1 for assis-tance.
3448-0825 TUCRNBEVERLY HILLS MSBU ADVISORY COUNCIL
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Beverly Hills Advisory Coun-
3450-0825 TUCRNNature Coast Emergency Medical Foundation
PUBLIC NOTICE OF MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Nature Coast Emergency Medi-cal Foundation, Inc. Board of Director By-Laws and Articles of Incor-poration Committee will be holding a meeting on Thursday, Septem-ber 2nd, 2020 at 10:00 am for the purpose of discussing updating By-Laws and Articles of Incorporation matters. Due to the continued state of emergency regarding COVID-19 the meeting will be held vir-tually via Zoom. Those interested in attending can contact Karla Hockert at (352) 249-4741 to obtain a copy of the agenda and/or meeting invitation information.
Any person(s) requiring reasonable accommodations at this meet-ing because of a disability or physical impairment should contact Karla Hockert at least 5 days prior to the scheduled meeting.
If a person decides to appeal any decision made by the Board of Directors with respect to any matter considered at this meeting, he/she will need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which shall be the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
Published August 25, 2020
cil will meet on Monday, September 14, 2020 at 10:00 o’clock A.M.at the Beverly Hills Civic Center, One Civic Circle, Beverly Hills, Flor-ida, 34465, to conduct business of the Beverly Hills Municipal Service Benefit Unit.
Any person requiring reasonable accommodation at this meeting because of a disability or physical impairment should contact the County Administrator’s Office, 110 North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, FL 34450, (352) 341-6560, at least two (2) days before the meeting. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please call 7-1-1 for assis-tance.
If you need a Spanish Translator please make arrangements with the County by telephone within two days of the meeting at (352-527-5370).
Si necesita un traductor de español por favor haga arreglos con el Condado dentro de dos días de la notificación de la publicación (352-527-5370).
If a person decides to appeal any decision made by the Advisory Council with respect to any matter considered at this meeting, he/she will need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made which record shall include the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
By: Donald Osterhoudt, Chair
BEVERLY HILLS ADVISORY COUNCIL
Published August 25, 2020
3449-0825 TUCRN
Notice of Public Sale: FLORAL CITY AUTO SALES gives notice of foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles at 81095 S Flor-ida Ave, Floral City, Fl 34436, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. Floral City Auto Sales reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all bids.
Date and time of sale: Vin: Year/Model9/21/2020 at 9:00am 1G1JC5SHXG4182734 2016/Chev Sonic9/21/2020 9:00am 3GNEC12T14G108808 2004/ChevAvalanche
Purchase must be paid for at time of sale in cash only. Sale is sub-ject to cancellation in the event of settlement, between owner & obli-gated party.
Published: August 25, 2020
If you need a Spanish Translator please make arrangements with the County by telephone within two days of the meeting at (352-527-5370).
Si necesita un traductor de español por favor haga arreglos con el Condado dentro de dos días de la notificación de la publicación (352-527-5370).
If a person decides to appeal any decision made by the Advisory Council with respect to any matter considered at this meeting, he/she will need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made which record shall include the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
By:Joan Dias, Chair
CITRUS SPRINGS ADVISORY COUNCIL
Published August 25, 2020
3446-0825 TUCRNPermit Application #808497
Notice is hereby given that the Southwest Florida Water Manage-ment District has received Environmental Resource permit applica-tion number 808497 from Signet Investment Holdings, LLLP, 3500 E. Oak Trace Path, Inverness, FL 34452. Application received: August 3, 2020. Proposed activity: Commercial. Project name: Nick Nicholas Ford West Storage Lot. Project size: 1.87 Acres Location: Section(s) 11 Township 19 South, Range 19 East, inCitrus County. Outstanding Florida Water: no. Aquatic preserve: no. The application is available for public inspection Monday through Fri-day at 7601 U.S. Highway 301 North, Tampa, Florida 33637 or through the “Application & Permit Search Tools” function on the District’s website at www.watermatters.org/permits/. Interested per-sons may inspect a copy of the application and submit written com-ments concerning the application. Comments must include the permit application number and be received within 14 days from the date of this notice. If you wish to be notified of intended agency action or an opportunity to request an administrative hearing regarding the appli-cation, you must send a written request referencing the permit appli-cation number to the Southwest Florida Water Management District, Regulation Bureau, 7601 U.S. Highway 301 North, Tampa, Florida 33637 or submit your request through the District’s website at www.watermatters.org. The District does not discriminate based on disability. Anyone requiring accommodation under the ADA should contact the Regulation Bureau at (813)985-7481 or 1(800)836-0797, TDD only 1(800)231-6103.
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