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PUZZLE BOOK SPECIAL SECTION TEST YOUR WITS WITH FUN AND CHALLENGING GAMES CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2023 INSIDE INSIDE 92 65 MAY 14, 2023 VOLUME 129 · ISSUE 134 · $2 chronicleonline.com INDEX Ask Amy ................... A4 Businesss ................. D1 Classieds ................ D4 Crossword .............. A14 Horoscope ................ A4 Nation/World ........... A12 Obituaries ................. A6 Opinion ..................... C2 Today in History ...... A14 TV Listings .............. A14 Veterans Notes ....... A13 Weather .................... A4 Week in Review ........ A2 Crystal River man sentenced for medical marijuana resale By AIDAN BUSH Chronicle Reporter After his second drug-re lated arrest within four months, a Crystal River man was sentenced by a judge to 18 months in prison. Citrus County Circuit Judge Joel Fritton an nounced 18-year-old Jayson Jennings’ year-and-a-half prison sentence Friday for charges involving the pos session and sale of over 100 grams of weed. Fritton was arrested Apr. 25, when a deputy initially spotted an SUV speeding at the intersection of North Rock Crusher Road and West Fox Lane, according to a Citrus County Sheriff’s Ofce arrest report. Once law enforcement pulled the car over, a deputy smelled marijuana coming from it. Jennings, who was in the passenger seat told the dep uty he had a medical mari juana card. He handed law enforcement a black bag gie contain ing weed, according to the arrest re port. Deputies told Jennings the possession was still ille gal. Medical marijuana has to be stored in its original dis pensary packaging, accord ing to Florida Statutes. CCSO deputies told the two to exit the car so it could be searched before nding a cylinder with more weed, multiple marijuana ciga rettes, a digital scale, parts of a handgun, holsters for a gun and ammunition across its interior. There were also multiple packages of medical mari juana stored in its original Trulieve dispensary con tainers, as well. When questioned, both the driver and Jennings told deputies that all illegal items were owned by Jennings, ac cording to the arrest report.18-year-old faces 18months in prison JENNINGS Things Mom told me By NANCY KENNEDY Chronicle Reporter Moms say things like, “Don’t run with scissors,” and “Make your bed every day, eat your vege tables and say your prayers.” They tell you that when you do laundry, don’t mix “whites and lights” with dark colors, and when you’re not sure if something in the refrigerator is safe to eat: “When in doubt, throw it out.” Moms say a lot of things.In celebration of moms on Moth er’s Day, the Chronicle asked lo cal people about the things their mom said and the best advice they received from their mom.The Vitter familyLara Vitter is mom to six children, including 4-year-old Maksym (Maxim) whom they ad opted from Ukraine. “My mom died when I was 6, so I don’t remember things she said,” Lara said. “But I do remember what an amazing human being she was. She was abused as a child so she wanted to adopt 12 kids that nobody wanted. “They were in the process of adopting my little brother when she died. She’s one of the reasons I thought about adopting. She had a big impact on me in those six years.” Lara’s husband Robert Vitter, whose mother is retired Circuit Judge Patricia Thomas, said the best advice from his mom is: “Go after your dreams and don’t let anything stop you.” The Vitter children have this to say about things their mom al ways says to them: “She says she loves my rainbows that I draw.” – James, age 5 “She always says, ‘I forgot – did I ever tell you how much I love you?’” – Samuel, age 7 “When I ask her what I should draw, she always says owers.” – Lydia, age 10 “Whenever we’re scared she tells us the Bible verse: ‘Submit to God, resist the devil and he will ee from you.’” – Priscilla, age 12 “Think before you act.” – Anna bella, age 14Crystal River MayorJoeMeek“My mom was Susan Meek, who died September 2011,” Meek said. “The best advice she ever gave me was not spoken; it was lived out every day of her life. Her family was her TOP priority and she showed me through her actions just how important we were to her. “She dedicated her life to her children and family, and pro vided an atmosphere of uncon ditional love and support. She taught us all how to be parents.”Three generation of DeVanesThe three generations of women in the DeVane/Brown/Bollin fam ily of Crystal River live lives of Southern charm and hospitality, a love of children and a strong faith in God. Since age 9, Pat DeVane’s moth er was a complete invalid until she died when Pat was 30. DeVane told the Chronicle in 2017 that her mother taught her patience. “She taught me to sew, and I remember making my Easter dress and being aggravated and ripping the stitches out,” she said. “Laying in her bed, the sewing machine near her, she never said a word until I was done ripping it, and then she said, ‘Now, Patricia, sit down and you’re going to sew that dress ’ and I did. That was my best lesson in patience.” Now at age 94, Pat DeVane said her mother’s best advice to her was, “Love the Lord with all your heart.” DeVane’s daughter, Donnie Brown, said the best advice from her mother has always been: “Fol low your heart.” Brown’s heart led her to a career as an educator in Citrus County. Leslie Bollin, Events & Market ing Director/PIO for the City of Crystal River, is Donnie Brown’s daughter and Pat DeVane’s grand daughter. Of her mother she said, “My Matthew Beck / Chronicle photo editor The Vitter family walks along their picturesque drive at their home located south of Inverness. From left, the family includes, Lara Vitter, Priscilla, 12, Samuel, 7, Annabella, 14, James, 5, Lydia, 10 and Robert holding Maksym, 4.On Mother’s Day, localpeople share advice from their moms Special to the Chronicle A young Crystal River Mayor Joe Meek, his mother, Susan Meek who died in 2011, and Meek’s sister, Elizabeth Mbassakou. Matthew Beck / Chronicle photo editor From 2017: Three generations of DeVane/Brown/Bollin women of Crystal River: Pat DeVane, daughter Donnie Brown and granddaughter Leslie Bollin. See MARIJUANA , page A6 See MOM , page A7 ‘s 

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A2 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Week in Review Eighteen-yearold Matthew Holmes has had a long road to recovery following a serious motor cycle accident in December 2022. His friend and neighbor Caleb Meade, right, was near by when the crash occurred, and Holmes’ family says if not for Meade’s life-saving skills at the scene the teen may not have lived. Matthew Beck / Chronicle photo editor TEEN MOTORCYCLIST ON THE MENDPHOTO OF THE WEEK GOOD NEWS OFTHE WEEK THE MOST POPULAR STORIES FROM THE WEEK Among his many honors, such as Citizen of the Year in 1996 for starting Veterans Appre ciation Week, being inducted into the Florida Veterans Hall of Fame in 2015 and a lifetime achievement award from the Aaron A. Weaver Chapter 776 Military Order of the Purple Heart in 2018, Retired Army Col. Curt Ebitz was recently presented with the DAR Medal of Honor from the Fort Cooper Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, May 9, signed ed ucation changes that include prohibiting students from us ing cell phones during class time and curtailing use of TikTok on school grounds. Chronicle Facebook read ers had a range of reactions: QAndy Murcah: “It’s almost like they should be there to learn or something. Good lord it took the govern ment to state this?” QDianne LaMantia Huffman: “Big props Gov ernor! Far too many distrac tions for students!” QMatthew David: “How about NO MORE GUNS or right-wing propaganda?” QRobyn Alarcon: “Can he worry about homeowners insurance instead of all these other distractions?” QTom Neely: “I was hop ing this read ‘no more guns in schools.’ But, NOOOOO, it’s about taking the threat of cell phones away. The ‘right’ taking away cell phones, but guns aren’t a problem.” QDonna Puckett: “Reading is crucial. Cell phones are not being BANNED. We are going to be doing what other states are doing. Tak ing away the distraction. You can still bring your phone and use it for certain things at designated times.” QCheri Phillips: “Heck, we weren’t allowed to chew gum in class! I never under stood how they allowed cell phones in the classroom.” QGail Chevalier: “The counties in Florida should enforce this. The govern ment is stepping into too many things.” QElizabeth Starsh: “I need to get a hold of my kid to know when to pick her up after school. Would be nice to be able to contact her after school hours. Get rid of the cell phone blocker!” QHarleigh DeCoteau: “Bruh, if my kid goes any where where family isn’t, they’re having their phones.” HOT TOPIC OF THE WEEK Five months after tragic motorcycle accident, local teen on the mend The story of Matt Holmes’ motorcycle accident is a story of the right people being at the right place at the right time – his sister who saw the accident and called 911, the neighbor who heard it and called Matt’s mom, Matt’s grandma who is a nurse and came to the scene and an other neighbor who used his 10 years as a Navy combat medic to administer rst aid before the ambulance arrived and, most im portantly, convinced EMS to get the teen on a helicopter and to a trauma center. Matt spent 49 days in the hos pital, the rst 11 in a coma, then three-and-a-half weeks in rehab. Also during Matt’s 49-day hos pital stay, the family celebrated Christmas together, Matt’s 18th birthday on Jan. 17, and they had a wedding – Matt’s mom, Marisa McClain, and now-stepdad Edu ardo Cruz. “They said (Matt) would be in rehab for four to six months, but he was ready after three-and-a-half weeks,” McClain said. “It’s a miracle – we’re so blessed … I think his youth and his deter mination is what got him through this.” As for Matt, his immediate hope is to return to his job at Cal iber Car Wash in Inverness. He had planned to go into welding after he graduates high school, but that might not be pos sible, depending on recovery of his hands. He said gunsmithing is some thing he’s considering. But he’s NOT considering get ting back on a motorcycle. “I’ll pass on that,” he said, “at least for a while.”Man accused of shooting teen is no longer free on bail Michael Regalski, the Citrus Springs man accused of shoot ing a juvenile in the stomach as he and two friends drove by his home last month, is no longer a free man awaiting trial after Cit rus County Circuit Court Judge Joel Fritton on Friday, May 5, deemed him a threat to the com munity. Regalski is accused of shooting at two juveniles, aged 14 and 15 years old, and an 18-year-old adult, driving a utili ty vehicle by his home on North Pavilion Loop and hitting the 15-year-old in the stomach April 22. He pleaded not guilty. Fritton said before revoking the bond that most people would erect no-trespassing signs, put up obstructions, or continue to call 911 if they were annoyed at people driving ATVs or utility task vehicles that damaged their property. “This wasn’t a life and death matter until Mr. Regalski made it one,” Fritton said. Citrus County hits theairwaves again Citrus County is making quite a splash on television these days. This time the county could be featured on the Waypoint Channel, a streaming television channel for hunting and shing programming that’s available on several apps, including Pluto TV, FuboTV, Amazon Freevee, Tubi and Sling. Capt. Brandon Branch of Crys tal River, who has been produc ing a TV shing show called “Local Lines,” has offered Dis cover Crystal River to be a spon sor on that show, which airs on Waypoint. Branch anticipates around 20 million views between social media and the television show. “Local Lines” will also do a show touting the lakes of the east side of the county. Another episode will focus on hunting in the county. Saltwater shing will be shown out of Homosassa and Crystal River. The Citrus County Tourism De velopment Council (TDC) at their last meeting voted unanimously to recommend taking $18,000 from its special-projects fund for this sponsorship opportunity. Deputies shut down grow house, take 68 pounds of marijuana Citrus County Sheriff’s Ofce Tactical Impact Unit and mem bers of SWAT responded to a Dunnellon residence on Tues day, May 2, to serve a narcotics search warrant and arrested two people and seized 211 plants and 12 pounds of dried and processed cannabis bud, for a total com bined weight of 68 pounds. Of cials also seized a small amount of MDMA, various drug ledgers, scales, baggies and a large quan tity of cultivation equipment.U.S. 41 widening project gets $2.32M infusion For 30 or so years there have been discussions on widening U.S. 41 in Inverness, and last year, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) an nounced a one-mile, four-lane widening from U.S. 41 between State Road 44 and the Withla coochee Trail bridge. The estimated $1.8 million project is still in the design phase, and construction is antici pated to begin in 2026. The Hernando/Citrus Metro politan Planning Organization (MPO) board, at its last meeting, announced an additional $2.32 million will be allocated toward the widening project from south of the bridge to north of North Sportsman Point. Commissioner Jeff Kinnard said it probably won’t speed up the project, but it helps to keep moving it forward and pay for any extra costs. When nished, that stretch will be reconstructed and widened from the current two lanes to four. The project will include bike lanes, sidewalks, new bridges over the Withlacoochee Trail, a pedes trian crossing and new pond sites. “One nal note: Run from the water and hide from the wind.” – CHRIS EVAN, CITRUS COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR, GIVING A “RULE OF THUMB” PIECE OF ADVICE ABOUT HURRICANES AND MAJOR STORMS AS THE BEGINNING OF HURRICANE SEASON APPROACHES ON JUNE 1 – compiled by Nancy Kennedy Curt Ebitz Matthew Beck / Chronicle photo editor Two anglers cast for fish in the Hernando pool of the Tsala Apopka Chain of Lakes. REGALSKI rrnnr rnnn  ­€‚ƒnr rn rnnnnnr rnn r  ­ „…  InOf ceTreatmentofCompressionFracturesNoHospitals•QuickProcedure•FastRecovery  ­€‚ƒnr rn rnnnnnr rnn r  ­ •MinimallyInvasiveTechniques•SecondOpinions/Consultations•AcceptingNewPatients,Workers’ CompCases,Auto/PersonalInjuryCasesandMostInsurances 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 A3L CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLEPurple Heart veterans chapter to meet Tuesday Aaron A. Weaver Chap ter 776 Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH) will conduct its bimonth ly meeting at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 16, at the Citrus County Building Alliance, 1196 S. Lecan to Highway, Lecanto, ap proximately a half-mile south of State Road 44 on the west side of County Road 491. All combat-wounded veterans, as well as par ents, lineal descendants, spouses and siblings of living or deceased Purple Heart recipients are cor dially invited to attend the meeting and to become a Chapter 776 member. To learn more about Aaron A. Weaver Chapter 776 MOPH or to become a member, visit the web site at www.citruspurple heart.org, go to the Chap ter 776 Facebook page or call 352-382-3847.Attend a Canning Open House Looking for a venue to process fruits and vegeta bles using the water bath canning method? Then sign up for the UF/IFAS Extension Citrus County Canning Open House at the Citrus County Canning Center, 3405 W. South ern St., Lecanto. The rst monthly open house is on May 17, with two sessions from either 10 a.m. to noon or 1 to 3 p.m. Bring your own canning jars, produce and ap proved recipe ingredients. Extension staff will be onsite to answer questions and make sure all equip ment is ready for use. The cost for the two-hour IN BRIEF Woman asks county to bring in non-fast food restaurants By MICHAEL D. BATES Chronicle Reporter Sharon Hill, who lives in Sugar mill Woods, asked a question of county commissioners Thursday that has been asked numerous times. Why can’t the board attract bet ter restaurants and stores than the plethora of car washes, gas stations and fast-food joints? And, because of the proximi ty to her home, she asked why something could not be built in the wooded areas along U.S. 19 and U.S. 98 in Homosassa. With the Suncoast Parkway interchange so near, she said that should be a great opportunity. “Has the board ever considered bringing in any restaurants – not fast food (but) restaurants, you know, like breakfast, lunch and dinner?” she asked. Hill ticked off three chains in par ticular: Cracker Barrel, Bob Evans and IHOP. “Somewhere a family can go,” she said. But no bars or high-priced eater ies, Hill added. County Commis sion Chairwoman Ruthie Schlabach said as much as she would like to Schlabach: Not our job; that’s the private sector SCHLABACH See COUNTY , page A4 “Has the board ever considered bringing in any restaurants – not fast food (but) restaurants, you know, like breakfast, lunch and dinner?”SHARON HILLA Tale of Two Jails – early incarceration in Citrus CountyEarly Citrus County justiceW hen Citrus County was created in 1887, the founders realized that they needed a courthouse and jail to help dispense justice. A temporary courthouse was estab-lished at C.W. Mof-fatt’s Hotel in Mann-eld. Once a decision had been made to move the county seat to Inverness, the commissioners (BoCC) rented a house in town from James Gaffney until a new courthouse could be built in 1891. Since the county did not have a jail facility, the BoCC decided to pay Hernando County a per-capita rate for housing Citrus County’s prison-ers. A temporary jail was eventually identied until a better facility could be constructed at the same time as the courthouse. Both buildings were ready for occupancy by 1892. The jail experienced a number of escapes – a situation that would plague Inverness jails for many decades in the future.A new ‘state of the art’ jailIt became apparent by 1909 that Citrus County had outgrown both the Victorian courthouse and jail buildings. Accordingly, the BoCC approved the construction of a brand-new jail on North Apopka Avenue, across the street from the courthouse. The construction was completed in 1910 and it was deemed ready for occupancy the next year. The opening was marked by a celebration in Inverness with speeches and a parade. The new jail featured comfortable living quarters for the jailer and his family. There was a “drunk tank” where Inver-ness celebrants could rest and compose themselves before heading home the next day. Curiously, there was a gallows constructed on the inside. This feature was never used during the lifespan of the building. Prisoners were given new clothes and had new mat-tresses for sleeping. Citrus County was much like the ctional “Mayber ry” during those days. The sheriffs sometimes took a more compassionate and down-home approach to law enforcement. Jailhouse procedures were more re laxed than we expect today, which led to some interest ing stories. Here’s a sample:Always check thechamberA game warden had arrested a hunter, seized his weapon and brought the violator to the jail. Think-ing that he had removed all of the shells, the ofcer handed the shotgun to a prisoner “trustee” and asked him to clean it. Unfortunately, there was still one shell remaining in the chamber and the gun discharged unexpectedly. The slug crashed through the jail’s second-oor window, sailed past the courthouse and ended up breaking the front window of Jim Young’s Watch Shop at 103 W. Main St. Today that building is the location of the Twysted Vyne wine bar.Escape roomPrisoners found numerous opportunities to escape over the years. A common meth-od was to saw through the bars or crack the window casing holding the bars. One caper was like “Escape from Alcatraz” when a group of prisoners loosened and removed the bricks of their cell while noisy construction was ongoing in another part of the jail. The group noticed that the external door was left ajar due to the construction and they were on their way. Another very slim inmate was able to slip through the slot in the door where meals were slid to the criminals. After being on the lam for a while, he was later shot and killed near the jail when he returned in an attempt to secure the freedom of one of detained friends.Strange cellmatesA Tampa city detective had arrested an escapee from Citrus County. The inmate was returned to the Citrus County Jail. Some time later, the detective was indicted for the murder of a woman in Citrus County and bound over for trial. He was held in a jail cell near the man he had arrested previously. There must have been some interesting discussions between the two men during their time together. The detective was eventually freed when the district attorney decided to “nolle pros” the case. 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If you have any questions you should contact the Hydr ological Data Section at (352) 796-7211. r r …r…rr†  …‡ rr „ˆ  r *From mouths of rivers**At King ‹ s Bay***At Mason ‹ s Creek rrr‰r‰ „ˆ (MORNING) (AFTERNOON) rRecordNormalMean temp.Departure from mean rTotal for the monthTotal for the yearNormal for the year Š‹0 -2 minimal, 3-4 low, 5-6 moderate, 7-9 high, 10+ very high Œr…… * r n Taken at Crystal River TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY MORNINGHigh: 91° Low: 67° Partly cloudy with a few PM storms Yesterday0.01" 0.27"4.91" 13.34" As reported from https://citrusmosquito.org 30.08 Yesterday at 3 p.m.81%Yesterday observedGoodPollutantOzone May 19May 27Jun 3Jun 10 0 1Monday6 7Thursday2 3Tuesday 8 9 -or-Common AreasFriday 4 5Wednesday Daytona Bch.8369sFort Lauderdale8576shFort Myers9071pcGainesville8867pcHomestead8674shJacksonville8869pcKey West8776pcLakeland9268sMelbourne8571pc SATSUN Albany79610.006743pcAlbuquerque72570.006950tAsheville81610.008160shAtlanta84630.009068shAtlantic City75630.026654pcAustin78651.728168shBaltimore76660.137856pcBillings54500.066049shBirmingham90640.039168tBoise77520.007855mcBoston81630.006648sBuffalo75550.006141mcBurlington, VT73540.006140sCharleston, SC81640.008468shCharleston, WV76661.038255mcCharlotte8369Trace8163shChicago68570.295547raCincinnati81660.107852mcCleveland71590.056448mcColumbia, SC85640.018764mcColumbus, OH76642.487349mcConcord, NH75500.016537sDallas8469Trace8268tDenver5844Trace5750shDes Moines77681.366748shDetroit7964Trace6642mcEl Paso83630.008062sEvansville, IN8268Trace8458tHarrisburg73640.107345mcHartford8360Trace7044pcHouston79680.718472tIndianapolis83660.007752shKansas City85660.048357shLas Vegas90750.009671sLittle Rock90690.009269sLos Angeles73580.007859pcLouisville8369Trace8255tMemphis84660.129268tMilwaukee61520.045643shMinneapolis65600.117150shMobile8869Trace9172shMontgomery86650.009370shNashville82620.018865sh SAT Acapulco88/78/pcAmsterdam66/50/raAthens75/61/mcBeijing89/61/pcBerlin66/51/raBermuda69/68/raCairo91/62/mcCalgary68/48/sHavana84/76/raHong Kong72/69/ra Jerusalem78/53/s n/a/n/an/a n/a/n/an/a n/a/n/an/a n/a/n/an/a n/a/n/an/a n/a SATFRI Withlacoochee at Holder26.9226.7734.64Tsala Apopka-Hernando36.3236.1638.66Tsala Apopka-Inverness37.1937.1339.73Tsala Apopka-Floral City38.3038.2941.37 Lisbon72/57/sLondon68/47/pcMadrid66/49/pcMexico City76/61/raMontreal63/41/sMoscow62/49/sParis66/49/raRio74/65/raRome68/55/raSydney64/53/raTokyo68/59/raToronto59/50/cl Warsaw70/50/pc SATSUN New Orleans88750.008973sNew York City81710.007254pcNorfolk83660.007356mcOklahoma City81610.557864shOmaha8161Trace7352shPalm Springs103700.0010176sPhiladelphia74640.037653pcPhoenix96710.0010076sPittsburgh73610.297549mcPortland, ME72570.006343sPortland, OR91570.009364sProvidence, RI82620.006946sRaleigh85640.007958mcRapid City55510.866049shReno79480.007651tRochester, NY72520.006141mcSacramento88530.009258sSalt Lake City73570.027654tSan Antonio79642.497968shSan Diego64590.007158mcSan Francisco6653Trace7054pcSavannah81680.008668tSeattle77550.008763sSpokane81480.008559sSt. Louis8762Trace8360shSt. Ste Marie72500.006337pcSyracuse74550.006040pcTopeka8465Trace8158tWashington7666Trace7654pc Miami8377shOcala8966sOrlando8969sPensacola8872shSarasota8971pcTallahassee9070shTampa9271pcVero Beach8570pcW. Palm Bch.8075mc Chassahowitzka* 2:09 a.m.0.5 ft3:36 p.m.0.3 ft10:11 a.m.0.1 ft9:38 p.m.0.2 ft Crystal River** 12:02 a.m.1.9 ft1:11 p.m.1.6 ft7:35 a.m.0.4 ft7:57 p.m.0.6 ft Withlacoochee* 11:02 a.m.2.9 ft11:03 p.m.3.1 ft5:21 a.m.0.6 ft5:45 p.m.1.1 ft Homosassa*** 12:56 a.m.1.2 ft2:48 p.m.0.9 ft9:35 a.m.0.1 ft8:40 p.m.0.2 ft 8:12 pm6:38 am3:37 am3:24 pm 05/14SUNDAY6:389:278:129:5105/15MONDAY6:3810:148:1310:37 Predominant: TreesSun lowmedhigh Yesterday at 3 p.m.67° 10 Yesterday90/63 99/4889/61 75 2 MONDAY & TUESDAY MORNINGHigh: 93° Low: 66° Mostly sunny with isolated PM storms TODAY & TOMORROW MORNINGHigh: 92° Low: 65° Mostly sunny with a stray afternoon storm possible. MODERATE. Burn ban in effect. For established lawns and landscapes, irrigation may occur during only one (1) of the specified time periods, 12:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m., or 4:00 p.m. 11:59 p.m., on the allowable watering days below:Addresses with house numbers ending in: Questions, concerns or reporting violations, please call: City of Inverness at 352-726-2321; City of Crystal River at 352-795-4216, Ext. 313; unincorporated Citrus County at 352-527-7669. For more information, visit:https://www.citrusbocc.com/departments/water_resources/watering_restrictions.phpSUNDAY KEY TO CONDITIONS: c=cloudy; fg=fog; hz=haze; mc=mostly cloudy; pc=partly cloudy; ra=rain; rs=rain/snow; s=sunny; sh=showers; sm=smoke; sn=snow; ss=snow showers; t=thunderstorms 104, Bombay Beach, Calif.27, Island Park, Idaho Today: East winds 5 to 10 knots, becoming west 10 to 15 knots in the afternoon. Seas around 2 feet in the morning, then 1 foot or less. Bay and LQODQGZDWHUVDPRGHUDWHbFKRS 82° FORECAST FOR 3:00 P.M. Sunday ALERT CITRUS SIGNUP Q To register for the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office’s Alert Citrus weather program, visit www.sheriffcitrus.org and click on the links to register. Q Create a profile, list how you want to be contacted in case of a weather emergency (text, mobile phone, home phone, email), then include the address(es) you want alerts for. You can choose what types of emergencies you want to hear about, and set a quiet period for no conduct. Q Those without computer access may call 352-2492705. SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2023 ARIES (March 21-April 19) One way to make solidarity tangible may be to get everyone to pool their efforts now. You might get the most accom-plished when paired up with a friend or working within a cooperative framework. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) It’s a great big universe, and anything is possible. Aim high when-ever you may be tempted to make major changes or want to experiment with something new. The sky’s the limit when your timing is carefully cho-sen. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Make your own rules but try not to break someone else’s. A poor-ly chosen word or comment can land you in the doghouse. Luckily, forgiveness may be easier than usual to find. A sincere apology should put things right quickly. CANCER (June 21-July 22) The more you share with a loved one, the closer you could become. You may feel mentally agile and eager to investigate someone’s powerful ideas or inter-ests. You might find opportunities in the least like-ly places. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Spread your enthusiasm generously and widely and other people could be eager to join your team. It may be challenging to remain patient when someone hesitates or gets to the point more slowly than you do but give them grace anyway. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Romantic and friendly relationships can be highly satisfying unless you view them as simply transactional. If you are engrossed in a project or business inter-est, be mindful that you don’t leave loved ones out in the cold for too long. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Peace and tranquility could be your most prized possessions. You and a partner might not always agree completely, but you can respect each other’s opinion. A sympa-thetic bystander might help you mend fences. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Applaud someone’s good intentions. There may be opportunities for compromise that solve all your on-the-job prob-lems. Make key decisions today or tomorrow while you have a firm grasp on long-range results. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You may have made lofty plans to live a purpose-driven life. Your money is there for a reason and can be put to effective use. Focus on making your home a safe and secure place and ignore minor disputes. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Once smitten by the love bug, you may not be able to rest until you have your way. It may be as easy to dispose of outworn customs and ideas as worn-out clothes. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Daily expenses might get you down, but your long-term plans for financial security may be right on track. Realign your thoughts by getting quiet and centered and praying on it, or by seeking sound advice. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Deal with any duties responsibly. You show your integrity by honoring your obligations. If you need more time, be honest and ask for it. Accountability and con-sistency speak volumes about your character. HOROSCOPES ‘Big C’ survivor struggles with new identityDEAR AMY: Six years ago, I developed a dif cult cancer with a life expectancy of three to six months. After many months of chemo, I received a donor bone marrow transplant from a specialty hospital where I was for several more months. The transplant was “successful” and the probability of reoccurrence is low. I worked very hard at recovery. Now I am trying to accept a new normal. I have post-transplant complications including fatigue, graft versus host disease, or-gan damage, emotional trau-ma, food constraints, and am immune compromised. I try to present myself well, but it’s hard to keep up the act, and sooner or later some-thing comes up that highlights my inabili-ties. I get tired of blaming “the Big C” but often it comes out; for example, I get ex-tremely fatigued and have to leave after a few hours, or people resent the fact that I am still careful and masking, so I mumble something to explain myself. I have not been able to come up with a way to present myself that works well (I make jokes that fall at, etc.). I often decline social engagements for all of those reasons, and also just because I don’t want to be odd. Any suggestions for how to be me?— New MeDEAR NEW ME: You are a chronically health-challenged person trying to integrate with people who have no idea – and no way of knowing – how hard you are working to experience the world as they do. It truly does sound exhausting.I’m going to be presumptuous and write you a prescription: to lean in and resist the constant urge to “pass.” I speak now on behalf of my fellow oddballs. Life is easier – for you and for others – when you embrace the concept of self-care, which in your case is to be gentle with your-self, to fully and authentically be yourself, and to make sure that your own needs are met. If you believe that healthy people resent your need to be extremely careful, for in-stance by wearing a mask, then tell yourself (and others, if you are confronted) that if they’d like to experience the life-changing effects of cancer, you’d be happy to switch places with them. You also need to experience a connection with people who will not expect you to ex-plain yourself. Join a cancer survivor sup-port group. Researching your question, I’ve found a helpful online group: “Cancersurvivors” on Reddit.com. Reading through the rst sev-eral postings, I see that there are other peo-ple out there who understand what you are going through and who will fully support the “new you.” DEAR AMY: I’ve been teaching in post-secondary institutions for over 30 years. I’ve received likely thousands of course reval-uations, and now, I get to “enjoy” ratemy-professor.com. It should be no surprise that “complainers” are the most likely people to partici-pate in these various rating services. I want to thank you for something.Your choice to publish the complaint letters that you receive and the way you re-spond, often with humor, has helped me to stop focusing on the complainers and see the humor – not to mention also recognizing the many non-complainers. — Grateful ProfDEAR PROF: Thank you! I learned a long time ago that harsh or negative responses can take up more mental space than the many positive responses I receive. I run some of these negative responses for two reasons: Because they are sometimes offering an important or useful correction, or they are representative of a large group of respondents. I am sometimes thin skinned – but to quote my late mother, who went to college and be-came a professor in her mid-50s after work-ing in much more physically challenging, low-paying, and so-called “menial” jobs: “Doing this sure beats having a real job.” I never forget how lucky I am.DEAR AMY: I’m responding to the question from “Locked In,” who caught her room-mates sneaking into her locked room after installing a camera. I am a landlord. In my jurisdictions (and probably many others) it is illegal to install a lock with a key on a bedroom door. It’s a re hazard and can impede re ghters. So maybe the letter writer should give her valuables to a trusted friend for safekeeping and then make plans to move ASAP, rather than strengthen the lock on the door. The whole thing sounds creepy.— LandlordDEAR LANDLORD: Great point! I also agree about the creep-factor. Looking into this topic, I stumbled across a TON of security camera footage of room-mates sneaking into others’ rooms – some-times taking things, and other times just … snooping. You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@ amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. AmyDickinsonAsk Amy have Blaze Pizza come to Cit-rus County, she and her board members are powerless. “That is not our job as a board,” she said. “That is the private sector. We’re here to do the budget and policy.” What the county can do is make sure the infrastructure and proper zonings are in place to attract retail-ers. And regarding the wooded areas at U.S. 19 and U.S. 98, “the county has done its job,” Commissioner Diana Finegan said. “They could come, but we can’t just make them come.” Store chains consider several factors in deciding where to build: road network, utility availability, visibility, demo-graphics, a large enough workforce and nearby competition. Look no further than the under-construction Shoppes at Black Diamond by County Roads 491 and 486 as an ex-ample where all those factors come together. COUNTYFrom page A3 FINEGAN “They could come, but we can’t just make them come.”DIANA FINEGANCitrus County Commissioner, about attracting retailers to the county 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 A5 SOUND OFF Dear Chronicle...Would you please report on gas price gouging? Oil is below $70 a barrel but you would never know it at the gas stations here.Sugarmill apartments are much neededI’m glad the Chronicle sent us to the video that Steve Ponticos of Sugarmill Woods produced about the upscale apartments in Sugarmill Woods. It’s a great project, they’re much needed. There’s a lack of that type of apartments in Citrus County.Time to hire new tax collectorHaving lived in Crystal River for 26 years, I nd it appalling that there are 62 pages of outstanding unpaid taxes for Citrus County that was published in Chronicle on May 5. Is it time to hire a tax collector that will get the job done and take us out of the red?Respect everyone’s opinion?To the person who responded to the person who said that we all have our own opinions. What is your opinion of Demo-crats breaking the law on the border? I’m sure you know that ‘illegal’ means breaking the law. Your opinion on this will decide if I respect your opinion or not.Legislation is promoting autocracyAs this Florida legislative session ends, “awake” Citrus Countians realize that the anti-woke-inspired legislation desired by the governor and obediently passed by our legislators has made us much less free. Women’s rights have been severely restricted. Public education has been hurt as legislators divert money to private schools. Public and school libraries have been muzzled. Voters have been disenfranchised, and the state seeks to interfere with local government rule. It really is time for us to wake up and see that the legis-lation passed is leading us away from democracy is, in fact, promoting autocracy.Glamping is awesomeCitrus County’s BOCC should approve Fish Creek Glampground in Ozello for three reasons. First, the owners are Citrus County residents and have commit-ted to bringing eco-tourism to Ozello. Second, tourists want to camp near water. They don’t want to be in-land where there’s nothing to do. Third, glamping is awesome!In favor of glampgroundI’m calling in favor of Fish Creek Glampground. Citrus County needs a glampground that is run by an eco-friendly family. It would be good for the county and good for the area.Opposed to the glampgroundI’m calling about the Fish Creek Glamping and RV sites that are planned for Ozello. I completely oppose this. I think it’s a horrible idea. The roads are not capable of that much trafc. It will ruin the ecosystem and is just a bad idea for our area.Utilize your localpeopleI recently tore down a deck and had some wood left over that was cut into small pieces into a pile of about 15 large garbage bags and another pile of loose wood. I called a couple that pick up unwanted junk. A 67-year-old man just wanting to make extra money came out and took it all away for an extremely reasonable price and did a fantastic job. We ought to use our local people that really need help. Q The Chronicle invites you to Sound Off with opin ions about local and state issues by calling 352-563-0579.Local graduate serving her country By CHRONICLE STAFF Airman Alexzandra Thompson, a 2020 Crystal River High School grad uate, is now serving her country on the aircraft car rier the USS Gerald R. Ford as an Aviation Structural Mechanic. Thompson, from Crys tal River, is attached to the “Spartans” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 70, where, as shown in this photo, she conducts routine maintenance on an MH-60R Sea Hawk in the rst-in-class aircraft car rier USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) hangar bay, May 5, 2023. Gerald R. Ford is the agship of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group. As the rst-in-class ship of Ford-class aircraft car riers, CVN 78 represents a generational leap in the U.S. Navy’s capacity to project power on a global scale. U.S. Navy sailors serve and protect from around the globe, and every sailor got their start somewhere. Pictured is Alexzandra Thompson, a 2020 Crystal River High School graduate now serving her country on the USS Gerald R. Ford as an Aviation Structural Mechanic. MC2 Nolan Pennington / Special to the Chronicle Alexzandra Thompson, Crys tal River High School class of 2020, is attached to the “Spar tans” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 70 on th carrier. Drive-thru food drive to benefit SOS Food Pantry May 16 By NANCY KENNEDY Chronicle Reporter Shepherd of the Hills Daughters of the King Es ther Chapter, in its third year of their monthly food donation drive-thru to ben et SOS Food Pantry, is reaching out to the com munity to help them help this organization that feeds hungry people. The drive-thru food dona tion collection is the third Tuesday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon at Shepherd of the Hills Epis copal Church, 2540 West Norvell Bryant Highway (County Road 486), Lecan to. Donation drop-off is at the portico entrance at the church. The food collected on Tuesday will be taken to SOS in time for their distri bution on Thursday. Also, coolers will be on hand to store refrigerated or even frozen items. Nancy Kennedy can be reached at 352-564-2927 or by email at nkennedy@chronicleonline.com. Matthew Beck / Chronicle file photo Tens of thousands of pounds of food is distributed at the Cit rus County Fairgrounds through the Let’s Feed Citrus program coordinated by The New Church Without Walls. FOR THE RECORD Citrus County Sheriff’s OfficeArrests from May 11 Q Lowell James Feaster , 35, Homosassa, arrested May 11 for criminal mischief ($200 or less). No bond. Q Theodore Curtis Sterken , 36, Dunnellon, arrested May 11 for felony possession of controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. Bond $3,000. Q Lee James Yates , 20, Flo ral City, arrested May 11 for petit theft ($100 or more but less than $750). Bond $1,000. Q Candice Ranee Shade , 39, Homosassa, arrested May 11 for felony driving while license suspended or revoked habitual offender. Bond $5,000. Q Ryan Lee Strickland , 28, Homosassa, arrested May 11 for writ of bodily attachment. Bond $2,184. Q Jennifer Carrie Williams , 39, Floral City, arrested May 11 for two counts possession of controlled substance and two misdemeanor counts resist officer without vio lence. Bond $6,000. Q Carl Leo Patten , 52, Dun nellon, arrested May 11 for misdemeanor violate injunc tion for protection against domestic violence. No bond. Q Kaylynn Elizabeth Bev ington , 33, Beverly Hills, arrested May 11 for felony failure to appear. No bond. 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A6 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle OBITUARIES James Blaine OckermanMay 6, 2023James Blaine Ockerman, age 86, Floral City, FL passed away May 6, 2023 at The Royal Dalton House in Homosassa, FL. Private cremation ar rangements under the care of Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Crematory, In verness, FL Carol Ann LutzOct. 21, 1937 – May 2, 2023Carol Ann Lutz, age 85, Inverness, FL passed away May 2, 2023 under the loving care of her daughter and Vitas Hospice. Carol was born in Amityville, NY on October 21, 1937 to the late Laurence and Marguerite (Kehoe) Paseld and graduated from Amityville High School in 1955. She married in 1968 and moved to Bayport, NY where she was involved with the local Home Extension classes before returning to work as a payroll manager. She and her husband retired to Inverness in 1994, where her sister resided. Carol en joyed serving on the home owner’s association board, playing cards with her friends and traveling with her daughter. She was an avid fan of base ball and cheered for the NY Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays. Left to cherish her memo ry is her daughter, Jennifer Lutz of Inverness as well as many nieces, nephews and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Lutz in 2007 and her sister, Virginia (Pas eld) Bustamante in 2010. Private cremation arrange ments are under the direc tion of the Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Crema tory. Marlene Emily WilliamsJuly 18, 1941 – May 9, 2023Marlene Emily Williams, age 81 of Hernando, FL went to heaven on May 9, 2023. Marlene was born in Detroit, MI on July 18, 1941 to the late Emil R. and Ethel (Zillman) Sabados. She moved to this area in 1972 from Warren, MI. She was the former owner and operator of the Gold Rush Guns & Gold Pawn Shop in Crystal River. To say Marlene was spe cial would be an understate ment. Marlene loved every one and she loved life. She trusted Jesus and was truly an angel sent here from God. She was loved by so many and throughout the years acquired nicknames including: Mombo, Marb abe and Momsie. People would say she never met a stranger and had a calm, welcoming, caring smile that made you feel at ease. She had an infectious laugh that would brighten the darkest days. Marlene enjoyed shing, bowling, and playing the slot machines at the casino. She knew every ower and loved animals. She loved church, volunteering at the hospital, was a member of the Pilot Club and her fa vorite was spending time with her fam ily. She never had a harsh word to say about anyone and did not take any thing too seriously. Marlene had a heart of gold and is someone that many of us aspire to be. There are not enough words to say how amazing she was and how much she is missed. Left to cherish her mem ory are 4 children: Dale Robert Williams of Homo sassa, FL; Kenneth Charles Williams and wife Frances of Aiken, SC; Kimberly Marlene Williams and Roy from Hernando, FL; Jamie Lynn Bahadori and hus band Alex of Spring Hill, FL; 5 grandchildren: K.C. Williams, Robert Williams, Heidi Williams, Jill Wil liams, and Ava Bahadori. She was preceded in death by her brother, Robert Sa bados and daughter Kristy Darleen Williams. Marlene’s Life Celebra tion is scheduled on Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 2:00 PM at the Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Pastor Bill Ogle ofciating. Friends are in vited to visit with the family from 1:00 PM until the hour of service. Ronald George DallnerOct. 22, 1942 – May 7, 2023Ronald George Dallner, age 80 of Inverness, FL passed away on May 7, 2023 in Citrus Memorial Hospital. Mr. Dallner was born in Hinsdale, IL on October 22, 1942 to the late Walter and Ruth (Grabowski) Dallner. He worked in the heavy equip ment manufacturing indus try as an assembler for over 30 years before he retired. He enjoyed shing, wood working, gardening, and baseball. He served our country in the U.S. Army. Left to cherish his mem ory are 3 children: Jeffrey Dallner of Sandwich, IL, Andrew Dallner and wife Melissa of O’Fallon, IL , and Jennifer Dallner and her companion, Matthew Chartier of Brooksville, FL; and 3 grandchildren: Holly, Molly, and Delainey. He was just preceded in death by his wife of 54 years, Diane Dallner. She passed on Feb ruary 26, 2023. At his request, there will be no services. He will join his wife at Florida National Cemetery. In lieu of owers, please send memorials to: The ALS Association, 3244 Parkside Center Circle, Tampa, FL 33619-0907. Cremation was entrusted to the Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Crematory, In verness, FL. Gary Michael WilliamsOct. 4, 1942 – May 5, 2023The beloved hus band, father, grandfa ther and friend, Gary Michael Williams was born on October 4, 1942 in Cumber land, Maryland. He was the only child of George Emmert Williams and Alma May Swartz Wil liams. He and his mother shared a birthdate. Gary is survived by his loving wife of 58 years, Margaret Ellen Filler Williams. He is the loving father of son Gary Michael Williams Jr. and Daughter in law, Fannie Le ona Jordan Williams, daugh ter Melody Luttrell Williams Hinson, son, Retired USA Major Marc Howard Wil liams and daughter, Merry Ellen Williams. He is Pop Pop to Veronica Coria Wil liams, Elizabeth Llewellyn Ladkani, Garrett Lee Hinson and Brooklyn Marie Fuchs. He is also survived by many cousins who were very close in relationships. Gary graduated from Alle gany High School in Cum berland, Maryland followed by Embry Riddle Aeronau tical University where he obtained a BS Degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He then attended Ofcers Basic Training for the Unit ed States Air Force and was commissioned a LT2. As an aircraft Maintenance Ofcer in the Strategic Air Com mand, he ew in and out of Vietnam and Thailand while serving at SAC Headquar ters at Clark AFB, PI. After 9 years of military service at the rank of Captain, Gary worked as an Aeronautical Design Engineer for Martin Marietta in Orlando. After moving to Crystal River, Florida, Gary worked on the Nuclear Power Plant as a Project Engineer for JA Jones Construction. Fol lowing the construction, he became a Quality Control Nuclear Engineer for Florida Power and was licensed as a Nuclear Plant Operator. At age 55, Gary worked at D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant in Stevensville, MI. His nal work in his extraordinary career was as a Civil Engineer with Crys tal River Engineer ing. Gary was an active member of the community – always willing to support philan thropic endeavors alongside his wife and children. He was VP of the Kiwanis Club of West Citrus where he co ordinated the Key Center, Kiwanis Field Day for 10 years, and the Zone M Ki wanis Advisor to KEY Club. Gary was Past President of the United Methodist Men’s Unit from 1980-1984. He was treasurer for the Citrus County Retired Educators from 2015-2019. Gary was extremely talented and was the lighting director for the Ray Cole Community The atre and Playhouse 19 for 10 years. He supported the Crystal River Woman’s Club and the Women Helping Women in various ways. Gary was a member of the Crystal River United Meth odist Church for 47 years where he was a Sunday School teacher, youth direc tor, sound technician, sang in the Sanctuary Choir and was Finance Chairman for many years. Gary loved people and people loved him. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. A Celebration of Life un der the care of Strickland Funeral Home, will be held on May 19, 2023 at the Crystal River United Meth odist Church, 4801 N. Cit rus Avenue, Crystal River 34428. Friends may call on the family from 9:30 am to 10:30 am, followed by the service at 10:30 am. Gary will be interred at the Na tional Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida at 2:00 pm. In addi tion to owers, donations can be made to Crystal River United Methodist Church or the Kiwanis Club of West Citrus. Herman ‘Armondo’ FabianiMarch 4, 1926 – May 4, 2023Herman (Armon do) Fabiani, 97, of Inverness, FL, passed away on May 4, 2023. He was born in Melrose Park, IL on March 4, 1926, to the late Dominic and Maria (nee Pagliaroni) Fabiani. Mr. Fabiani was a veter an of the US Army during World War II. He served as a Rieman-Scout with the 63rd Infantry Division. He was engaged in three ma jor battles in the European Theater (Ardence, Cen tral Europe, Rhineland). He participated in setting up several Fox Compa ny, 253rd Regiment Army Mini Reunions for 40 years. He was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal of Valor and was promoted to Corporal in 2021 by the VFW, Inverness Post. In 1984, after 43 years of service as manufacturing manager, Herman retired from Borg Warner Corpo ration in Frankfort, IL. At age 58, he, with other re tired Borg Warner execu tives, formed a corporation, JAINPRO (Japanese Auto Industrial Products). He also formed a corporation of his own, FABCO. He was civic minded as Presi dent and Board Member of the Frankfort, IL Chamber of Commerce. Herman had numerous hobbies. He enjoyed gar dening in his earlier years and spent many hours in his yard. He loved to sh with his friends and family, no matter which state he was in. Herman loved to make themed clocks for those who have impacted his life. Most of all, Herman enjoyed hosting parties with his wife Karen. He absolutely loved entertain ing and putting smiles on the faces of those he loved. He will truly be missed by many. He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Elio Fabiani; sister, Dora Swain; and son, Dale Alan Fabiani. Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Karen Lynne Fabiani (Kushmer) of In verness, FL; son Dennis Allen Fabiani and his wife Angie of Florence, KY; grandchildren, Lisa Fabiani Wyatt (Ryan) of Pacica, CA, Christopher Fabiani (Emilie) of Nolensville, TN, Matthew Fabiani (Ali cia) of Union, KY, Laura Davis (Fabiani) (Braden) of Irving, KY, and Dom inic Fabiani (Raichill) of Santa Rosa, CA; elev en great-grandchildren plus one on the way; two great-great-grandchildren; three nephews; two nieces; and a host of friends. A Celebration of Life will be held on June 2, 2023, at 10:00 am, at Heinz Funeral Home, 2507 Hwy 44 W., Inverness, Florida. In lieu of owers, donations can be made to HPH Hospice 2417 N Lecanto Hwy, Lecanto, FL 34461. Frederick KoehlMay 7, 2023Frederick Koehl, age 73, of Crystal River, Florida passed away on Sunday, May 7, 2023, in Inverness, Fl. Frederick was born in Brooklyn, New York to Nellie and Frederick John Koehl, where he attended High School at Archbishop Malloy then later attended college at St. John’s Uni versity. Frederick loved taking time to spend with the family especially his grandchildren as well as traveling. Frederick is survived by his sons Frederick Richard Koehl and Mark Koehl; his grandsons Frederick and Kayden and his grand daughter Bailey. Frederick was preceded in death by his father Frederick John Koehl and his mother Nellie Koehl; his sister Carol and his sister Joanne. A visitation for Frederick will be held Friday, May 19, 2023 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. A celebration of life will occur Saturday, May 20, 2023 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Fero Funeral Home with Crematory & Memorial Gardens, 5955 N Lecanto Hwy, Beverly Hills, Florida 34465. Fond memories and ex pressions of sympathy may be shared at www.fero funeralhome.com for the Koehl family. Donald F. GriffinMay 9, 2023Donald F. Grifn, a beloved husband, father, brother, and friend, passed away on May 9th, 2023. He was preceded in death by his parents, Eunice and Dennis Grifn, as well as his grand daughter, Taylor Grifn. Left to cherish his memo ry are his loving wife, De nise Grifn, his sons Don nie and Steven Grifn, his sister Judy Grifn Hudson, and his brother Wayne Grif n and his wife Christie. Donald will be remem bered for his kind heart, his unwavering loyalty to his family, and his love of bowling. His passing is deeply felt by all who knew him. Services: First Bap tist Church, Inver ness Florida May 17, 2023 12:00pm (visitation) May 17, 2023 1:00pm (service), Oak Ridge Cem etery to follow. In lieu of owers, dona tions should be made to the American Heart Associa tion, in memory of Donald F. Grifn. Q Email obits@chronicleonline.com or call 352-563-6363 for more information about placing an obituary. Jennings told ofcers he bought marijuana from Tru lieve daily and would resell it recreationally. The gun in the car, he said, was to pro tect himself from “people trying to hurt him” for sell ing weed. He was charged with three felonies and a misdemean or: possession of over 20 grams of marijuana, pos session of cannabis with the intent to sell or distrib ute, possession of a rearm while committing a crimi nal offense and possession of paraphernalia. The charges weren’t Jen nings’ rst drug-related ar rest. Jennings was arrested Jan. 21 on a felony theft of $1,000 worth of vape pens, according to his ar rest report. He pleaded no contest then, and was sentenced to three years of probation, according to court records. His more recent arrest Apr. 25 then put him in violation of probation; Jennings told deputies he began selling weed as he struggled to nd a job on felony probation, according to the arrest re port. Given the multiple infrac tions within months, Judge Fritton said he was going to face jail time despite Jen nings’ young age. “You’re in the real world, you’re an adult now and you’re going to prison,” Fritton told Jennings at the hearing. Jennings was found guilty for all charges except the possession of over 20 grams of marijuana, which was dropped May 10. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and his gun will be conscated by CCSO. Contact Chronicle reporter Aidan Bush at 352-270-1823 or via email at aidan.bush@chronicle online.com. MARIJUANAFrom page A1 r r r n nn RichardT.Brown FuneralDirector/Owner BrownFuneralHome&Crematory Lecanto,Florida IgrayneBrownDias FuneralDirector TwoGenerationsserving youwithcompassionate, personalizedservice. 352-795-0111 www.brownfuneralhome.com rrn r rnr rrrr rr rrn Fo rInformationandcosts,call 726-8323 •B ur ial• Sh ipping •C remation FuneralHome Wi th Cremato ry 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 A7 mother taught me more by example than words. Throughout my life, she has demonstrated a dedica tion to family, friends, faith, and community. She taught me by showing me the im portance of caring for those around you.”Thomas Kennedy, CitrusCounty SchoolBoard“With three out of her four children and her husband all having dyslexia, my moth er, Clarine Kennedy, devel oped a strong passion for advocating for individuals with learning disabilities,” Thomas said. “Her guid ance to always be transpar ent and self-advocate for one’s learning needs has been invaluable, providing myself and others with cru cial support both in our per sonal lives and professional roles.Becky Sommer Beattie, longtime nurse inCitrusCountyBeattie’s mother, Ruby Smith, who died in 2013, had “a quick laugh, a deep compassion for others and tremendous devotion to her family. She made each person in her presence feel special,” as it says in her obituary. “The best advice my mother ever gave me that has stuck with me all these years is: ‘Watch your pen nies, and your dollars will take care of themselves,’ and the other thing she always said was, ‘Always have something to look forward to, even a very small thing. That way you will always remember to be grateful in the moment you’re in,’” Be attie said. “Even though my mother is no longer with us she gets wiser every day.”John Hager, pastor of Crystal River Foursquare Church“Mom said: ‘If you want it, work for it! Treat every one with respect. Take care of your family. I just felt im pressed to buy you a Bible since you’re an avid reader.’ “Mom passed away a lit tle over a year ago,” Hager said. “She grew up in the impoverished mountain coal camps of West Virginia and as soon as she and my father were married they moved to Chicago. “Our mother was a phe nomenal cook and we an ticipated every meal to see what we were gonna eat. It didn’t matter if it was break fast, lunch or dinner. Every night before we went to bed, we all sat and had a little dessert. “Our mom’s name was Sally and she taught us how to work hard and never complain about our situa tion. When I was 7, my fa ther went to prison and my mother raised all of us boys by herself. The advice she had gotten from her fami ly was to put all four of us boys in a boys’ home and go on with her life. She didn’t! “She packed her bags and took all of us to North Car olina where she would work her ngers to the bone, and as we sat there at whatev er meal we had I would watch sometimes as Mom wouldn’t eat. I knew she was hungry but there was just enough food to make sure her boys were fed. I never went to bed hungry! “Our Mother is the clos est heart to God that we have ever known. If there were words to describe her it would be: loving, faithful and seless.”Citrus County JudgeEdSpaight“The best advice my moth er, Peggy Spaight, gave to me was to always remember how important family is and to be sure to enjoy special times together like family dinners and holidays.”Patrick Thomas, Citrus County native son “My mother, Betty Jean Thomas, who died in 2006, always told me no matter how big or small the deci sion, make sure you consid er all the options thoroughly before you decide,” Thomas said. “It is the ‘Don’t rush me rule!’ I still apply it to day.” MOMFrom page A1 Special to the Chronicle Clarine Kennedy and her son, Thomas Kennedy, Citrus County School Board. Special to the Chronicle John Hager, on the right, pastor of Crystal River Foursquare Church. His late mother, Sally, raised her four sons alone when her husband went to prison. The man on the left is John’s brother George. Special to the Chronicle Becky Sommer Beattie, longtime nurse in Citrus County. Special to the Chronicle Citrus County Judge Ed Spaight and mother Peggy Spaight. Patrick Thomas, Citrus County native. “Our mom’s name was Sally and she taught us how to work hard and never complain about our situation.”JOHN HAGERPastor of Crystal River Foursquare Church r rrn COOLCASH REBATESAREBACKReplaceYourInef cientSystemandStartSaving rnr nn rnnn nr n rr CoolCash r $1,55000 n r $1,000 

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A8 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County ChronicleScabby the Rat gives bite to union protests, but is he at the tail end of his relevancy? By MAE ANDERSON Associated Press NEW YORK — For de cades, a giant, inatable rat with beady eyes, sharp teeth and a pustule-covered belly has loomed over union pro tests, drawing attention to various labor disputes. As New York City deals with an inux of actual rats, Scabby the Rat has become that rare thing, like Pizza Rat or Buddy the Rat – a ro dent New Yorkers can rally behind. But in the era of TikTok and inuencer culture, mid dle-aged Scabby faces a new challenge: staying rel evant. “It’s kind of unfortunate, changing times, older mem bers of the public know ex actly what the rat is for,” said James Smith, union activity administrator for the NYC District Council of Carpen ters. “The newer generation sometimes doesn’t – one person thought that we were protesting a building that needed an exterminator.” Nevertheless, Scabby’s not collecting hard-won re tirement benets just yet. Most recently, Scabby has been making the rounds at various picket lines in New York for the Hollywood writers strike organized by the Writers Guild of Amer ica East and other unions. Scabby is the “true rat czar of New York City,” said WGA East communications director Jason Gordon, ref erencing the more fun title for the city’s new director of rodent migration. At the picket line near HBO and Amazon’s New York ofces on Wednesday, screenwriter Lisa Kron, 61, said she was “thrilled to see that we were being chaper oned by Scabby the Rat.” She’s seen Scabby out and about during her four de cades living in New York, but this was her rst time picketing with the rat. “It’s one of those great en during symbols, it’s a great piece of visual protest,” she said. “It’s got humor and it’s got a shaming kind of message. And it’s very New York.” “It’s an attention grabber,” said Benjamin Serby, a pro fessor at Adelphi Univer sity who has written about the history of Scabby. “It’s something that just is very effective, for whatever rea son, at making people walk ing by or driving by, stop and ask: ‘What’s going on here?’” Although having a rat as a mascot seems quintes sentially New York, Scabby the Rat was actually invent ed by a union in Chicago around the late 1980s (sev eral claim credit), and other unions around the country quickly adopted the practice of using inatables to draw attention to actions (pigs, roaches and cats are other popular inatables to use as well, although they lack a catchy nickname). There are many Scabbys. At another union action in March at a Petco, Marty Flash sat in the cab of his truck used to ferry one of the NYC District Council of Carpenters’ eight rats around (most unions have several, or borrow from unions that do). Most of the District Council’s rats, along with a generator and gas can, stay in a locker at union headquarters or in or ganizers’ trucks so they can be quickly deployed. Flash, a carpenter for 35 years, has seen many reac tions to the 10-foot-tall rat, which, at the moment, was towering over Union Square in the truck’s bed. “In midtown Manhattan, it’s a tourist attraction. Lit tle children get a real kick out of it. They come over, they want to touch it. Dogs are petried of it,” he said. Flash said Scabby can in ate in about a minute and a half with a generator and deate in about 30 seconds. Bigger rats – the rats range from 8 to 20-plus feet – can take 15 minutes to ll up. Scabby’s name is a play on “scabs,” the derogatory term dating back to the 1800s for strikebreakers who cross picket lines to work. The oozing sores on his belly are a visual reference to the term. But Flash said workers at the sites visited by Scabby shouldn’t take offense, since the rat is protesting against contractors and companies, not the workers themselves. “Some workers think that we are against them. We’re actually ghting to get them more money, better pay and better benets,” he said. “But it’s perceived as the rat is calling them a rat or implying that they’re ‘less than.’ Which is not our in tention. ... It’s to imply that a rat contractor is not paying their workers the fair pay.” Rats are made of PVC vi nyl and cost between $8,000 to $20,000, according to Flash. One company, Blue Sky Balloons outside of Chicago, is responsible for most of the rats found in NYC. But they seem to be distancing themselves from the inatables, The Guard ian reported earlier this year. Blue Sky Balloons respond ed to an Associated Press query by saying they were new owners who weren’t associated with the rat, and didn’t respond to follow-up queries. But Flash says his union still sends their rats to Big Sky for repairs, which can cost up to $2,000. Repairs are needed often since most are years or decades old – so the unions try to take good care of their rats. “I baby this one with my life,” Flash said. “We have a pool of rats and genera tors that you take when you need. I just always keep mine with me because I’m familiar with this opera tion.” Not everyone likes Scab by. Sometimes the inatable rat gets slashed or attacked by anyone from random passersby to disgruntled workers at sites. The rat has often been the subject of legal challenges by the companies Scabby targets. If he blocks the sidewalk or street, police can boot him. But Scabby is a survivor, winning its most recent le gal challenge in 2021, when the National Labor Rela tions Board ruled that it was a protected form of expres sion. These days, Scabby also has to contend with new technology and social me dia. Its Facebook page, run by a retired union organiz er, lets various unions post photos of Scabby at protests around the country, and some rats feature QR codes that give people information about campaigns. But Mike Piccirillo, president of Lo cal 20 Carpenters Union, said a more recent addition to the union’s arsenal might overshadow Scabby. “Our LED sign truck is a lot more effective than the rat,” he said. “I’ve been in construction for 25 years, and most New Yorkers are numb to the rat. They just walk by it. Now the LED sign with its ashing lights actually gets their atten tion.” Yet – much like the cur rently surging rat population in New York – Scabby is un likely to completely disap pear anytime soon, as long as the rat keeps conveying his message of fair pay for workers. “People are drawn to it in part because it’s like an ironic symbol of de ance,” Serby said. “Some thing about this giant, ugly, toothy kind of scary-look ing rat makes people feel permitted to express anger and deance and outrage at employers.” Photos by Bebeto Matthews / AP Scabby, a giant inflatable rat used by organized labor, stan ds at a union action outside a Petco on March 29 in New York. For decades, inflatable rates like Scabby have been looming over union protests, drawing attention to construction sites or com-panies with labor disputes. Scabby stands on the sidewalk May 2 as members of the The Writers Guild of America picket outside an NBC event in New York. Evan Vucci / AP President Joe Biden speaks on the debt limit Wednesday during an event at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, N.Y.Biden’s reelection pitch faces some daunting challenges By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspodent WASHINGTON — A showdown with Congress that has the nation’s credit worthiness at stake; a fren zied scene at the border as pandemic restrictions ease; a pivotal foreign trip meant to sustain support for Ukraine and contain a more assertive China in the In do-Pacic. Three weeks since launch ing his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is con fronting a sweeping set of problems in his day job that defy easy solutions and are not entirely within his con trol. If, as his advisers be lieve, the single best thing Biden can do for his reelec tion prospects is to gov ern well, then the coming weeks can pose a near-exis tential test of his path to a second term. Economists warn that the country faces a debilitating recession – and worse – if Biden and lawmakers can’t agree on a path to raising the debt limit. Biden wants Congress to raise it with out precondition, equating Republicans’ demands for spending cuts with ransom for the country’s full faith and credit. The expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency meant the end of special pandemic re strictions on migrant pro cedures on an already taxed U.S.-Mexico border. His ad ministration has responded with new policies to crack down on illegal crossings while opening legal path ways encouraging would-be migrants to stay put and apply online to come to the U.S. But Biden himself has predicted a “chaotic” situa tion as the new procedures take effect. These tests comes as Biden prepares to depart Washington on Wednesday for an eight-day trip to Ja pan, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Biden will try to marshal unity among Group of Seven leading democrat ic economies to maintain support for Ukraine as it prepares to launch a coun teroffensive against Rus sia’s invasion, and to invig orate alliances in the face of China’s forceful regional moves. Biden put his ability to solve problems at the core of his pitch to voters in 2020 and it is central to his argu ment for why, at 80, he’s best prepared for four more years in the White House. “I’m more experienced than anybody that’s ever run for the ofce,” Biden told MSNBC this month. “And I think I’ve proven myself to be honorable as well as also effective.” Yet the chaotic U.S. with drawal from Afghanistan in 2021 undercut Biden’s im age as an effective manager, sending his approval ratings sharply down and he’s still working to recover. An April poll by The As sociated Press-NORC Cen ter for Public Affairs Re search found Biden’s job approval rating at 42 per cent, a slight improvement from 38 percent in March. The March poll came after a pair of bank failures rattled an already shaky condence in the nation’s nancial sys tems, and Biden’s approv al rating then was near the lowest point of his presiden cy. It also found that 26 per cent of Americans overall want to see Biden run again – a slight recovery from the 22 percent who said that in January. Forty-seven per cent of Democrats say they want him to run, also up slightly from only 37 per cent who said that in Janu ary. 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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 A9 had uncovered that the de-tective had joined the force under an assumed name, so he lost his post with the city. He was later employed as a Hillsborough County deputy.From jailed to jailerTrustee prisoners were sometimes given opportu nities to assist the sheriff and his deputies. In one case, the sheriff noticed that a particular convict was adept at handling the jail’s tracking hound. He was frequently called upon to help track escapees in Citrus and neighboring counties. The inmate formed a close bond with the dog and was ambivalent about leaving jail at the end of his sentence because it meant he would be parting ways with his canine friend. The kind-hearted sheriff bought the dog and surprised the newly released convict with a going-away gift – with one string attached. The pair would be required to continue their service to the county as paid escap ee trackers. The former convict completed his re habilitation by eventually becoming the night jailer for the Sheriff’s Ofce. As the building aged, there were an increasing number of escapes. Con ditions degraded for both the inmates and the staff assigned to guard them. The state issued a warning about the situation in 1953 and the BoCC autho rized repairs to bring the building up to minimum standards. After a series of incidents in the early ’60s, state ofcials mandated that the county address the jail situation or they would close the facility. The sheriff was on record as being outraged at the jail’s conditions that led to the troubling escapes. Following his recommen dation, the BoCC autho rized construction of a new jail on county property on the other side of Court house Square in 1966. The old jail laid vacant and crumbling until 1972, when the BoCC authorized demolition. They negoti ated a “win-win” contract with Fred Witleman of Inverness that gave him complete salvage rights to the building materials and he would not charge the county for his services. The old jail was gone by early 1973. In its place, a multi-oor annex to the new courthouse was built on North Apopka Avenue (just beyond the water fountain). It was reported that many Citrus County residents purchased bricks and other parts of the old building as mementos of bygone times.An even better ‘state of the art’ jailThe replacement jail complex opened in October 1967. On Oct. 31, Commis-sioner Rooks handled keys over to the sheriff in front of a large crowd. The new jail was touted as having “maximum security and safety for prisoners and ofcers alike.” The sheriff remarked that having the new jail was his dream for many years. The new jail was touted as “break proof.” So, how long did it take before the rst group of prisoners escaped from the new jail? Four months. The county’s relaxed approach to justice led to even more interesting stories:Escape room, part IIOn March 28, 1968, three prisoners found a way to ee custody. An “overnight guest” was let out of the jail in the early morning. The deputy who opened the door for his exit failed to make sure that the all of the door latches were secured. Later, the three prisoners were let into an unused part of the jail to take a shower. They noticed that the door was unlatched and made their way to the roof of a covered security entrance. They jumped 18 feet to the ground and were off and running. Their freedom was short-lived – they were captured less than an hour later.Prisoners of loveA male trustee was charged with delivering meals to the women’s side of the Jail. One of the female prisoners caught his eye and a relationship bloomed. A few months later, they approached the sheriff and asked if they could be married in jail. The kind-hearted sheriff agreed and even helped plan the event. The county judge ofciated at the cer-emony. The jail dispatcher was best man. The jail matron and the jail cook lled in as maid of honor and bridesmaid. A recep-tion for the happy couple, jail staff and reporters was held, complete with cake and punch. The sheriff wryly noted “… he tries to make his prisoners as comfortable as possible, but he does not include fa-cilities for married couples, particularly those on their honeymoon.” The story and pictures were picked up on national news wires and published across the USA.That judge can sure run fastA 20-year-old man was at his rst appearance hearing in the jail before Judge Leonard Damron in 1976. The young man bolted from the jail and took off in the direction of U.S. 41. The speedy judge gave chase and cornered the suspect next to a coin laundry on South Apopka Avenue. Assisted by a passing Inverness Police ofcer, the miscreant was subdued and brought back to jail. Note that Judge Damron was 52 years old at the time. For some reason, the judge did not grant bail to the young man.Time runs out for the Inverness jailThere were a number of other highly visible escapes in the next few years. In ad dition, the building needed repairs, especially to the roof. Major remodeling was undertaken in 1979. A de bate raged in Citrus County regarding where a new jail should be located. In the end, the City of Inverness was trying to revitalize their downtown and did not think that having a jail – and the occasional escaped prisoner – supported that goal. In the end, a new facility was built into Lecanto. The Inverness Jail was closed in 1992 and awaited its fate. Demolition was completed in 1997 and a new county-owned parking lot, across the street from the Old Courthouse Heritage Museum, was later opened for the enjoyment and use of all Citrus County residents and visitors. Ken Marotte writes for the Cit rus County Historical Society. MAROTTEFrom page A3 Trustee prisoners were sometimes given opportunities to assist the sheriff and his deputies. In one case, the sheriff noticed that a particular convict was adept at handling the jail’s tracking hound. The inmate formed a close bond with the dog and was ambivalent about leaving jail at the end of his sentence because it meant he would be parting ways with his canine friend. space is $15 per person and pre-registration is required as space is limited. For information or to reg ister, contact the UF/IFAS Extension Citrus County of ce at 352-527-5700.Garden Club to gather May 17 The Homosassa River Garden Club welcomes the public to its monthly meet ings at the Fellowship Hall of the First United Method ist Church of Homosassa, 8831 W. Bradshaw St., Ho mosassa. The club will have a free program “4H Youth De velopment” with speaker Marnie Ward beginning at 10 a.m., with social time (coffee and yummy treats) beginning at 9:30 a.m., Monday, May 17. 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A10 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County ChronicleIn debt ceiling standoff, COVID era of big spending gives way to new focus on def icit By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON — One outcome is clear as Wash ington reaches for a bud get deal in the debt ceiling standoff: The ambitious COVID-19 era of govern ment spending to cope with the pandemic and rebuild is giving way to a new focus on tailored investments and stemming decits. President Joe Biden has said recouping unspent coronavirus money is “on the table” in budget talks with Congress. While the White House has threatened to veto Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill with its “devastating cuts” to federal programs, the administra tion has signaled a willing ness to consider other bud get caps. The end result is a turn around from just a few years ago, when Congress passed and then-president Donald Trump signed the historic $2.2 trillion CARES Act at the start of the public health crisis in 2020. It’s a dramatic realignment even as Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law and Ination Reduction Act are now investing billions of dollars into paving streets, shoring up the federal safe ty net and restructuring the U.S. economy. “The appetite to throw a lot more money at major problems right now is sig nicantly diminished, giv en what we’ve seen over the past several years,” said Shai Akabas, director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonpartisan organization in Washington. The Treasury Department has warned it will begin running out of money to pay the nation’s bills as soon as June 1, though an estimate Friday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget of ce put the deadline at the rst two weeks of June, po tentially buying the negotia tors time. “We’ve not reached the crunch point yet,” Biden told reporters Saturday before ying to Delaware for the weekend. “There’s real discussion about some changes we all could make. We’re not there yet.” Staff-level negotiators re sumed talks Saturday. The contours of an agree ment between the White House and Congress are within reach even if the po litical will to end the stand off is uncertain. Negotiators are considering clawing back some $30 billion in unused COVID-19 funds, imposing spending caps over the next several years and approving permitting reforms to ease construction of energy projects and oth er developments, according to those familiar with the closed-door staff discus sions. They were not autho rized to discuss the private deliberations and spoke on condition of anonymity. The White House has been hesitant to engage in talks, insisting it is only willing to negotiate over the annual budget, not the debt ceiling, and Biden’s team is skepti cal that McCarthy can cut any deal with his far-right House majority. “There’s no deal to be had on the debt ceiling. There’s no negotiation to be had on the debt ceiling,” said White House press secretary Kar ine Jean-Pierre. McCarthy’s allies say the White House has funda mentally underestimated what the new Republican leader has been able to ac complish – rst in the gru eling ght to become House speaker and now in having passed the House bill with $4.5 trillion in savings as an opening offer in negoti ations. Both have embold ened McCarthy to push hard for a deal. “The White House has been wrong every single time with understand ing where we are with the House,” said Russ Vought, president of Center for American Renewal and Trump’s former director of the Ofce of Management and Budget. “They’re deal ing with a new animal.” The nation’s debt load has ballooned in recent years to $31 trillion. That’s virtually double what it was during the last major debt ceiling showdown a decade ago, when Biden, as vice pres ident to President Barack Obama, faced the new class of tea party Republicans demanding spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit. While the politics of the debt limit have intensied, the nation’s debt is noth ing new. The U.S. balance sheets have been operating in the red for much of its history, dating to before the Civil War. That’s because government expenditures are routinely more than tax revenues, helping to sub sidize the comforts Amer icans depend on – national security, public works, a federal safety net and basic operations to keep a civil society running. In the U.S., individuals pay the bulk of the taxes, while corpora tions pay less than 10 per cent. Much of the COVID-19 spending approved at the start of the pandemic has run its course and govern ment spending is back to its typical levels, experts said. That includes the free vaccines, small business payroll funds, emergency payments to individuals, monthly child tax credits and supplemental food aid that protected Americans and the economy. “Most of the big things we did are done – and they did an enormous amount of good,” said Sharon Parrott, president of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington. “We actually showed that we know how to drive down poverty and drive up health insurance amid what would have been rising hardship,” she said. Last year, Biden’s Ina tion Reduction Act, which was signed into law over Republican opposition, was largely paid for with sav ings and new revenues else where. The popularity of some spending, particularly the child tax credits in the COVID-19 relief and the Ination Reduction Act’s efforts to tackle climate change, shows the political hunger in the country for the kinds of investments that some Americans be lieve will help push the U.S. fully into a 21st century economy. A case in point: A core group of Midwestern Re publican lawmakers pre vented a rollback of the Ination Reduction Act’s biofuel tax credits their col leagues wanted to scrap, persuading McCarthy to leave that out of the House bill. The federal money is propping up new invest ments in corn-heavy agri culture states. As McCarthy’s House Re publicans now demand bud get reductions in exchange for raising the debt limit, they have a harder time say ing what government pro grams and services, in fact, they plan to cut. House Republicans pushed back strenuously against Biden’s claims their bill would slash veterans and other services. McCarthy, in his meeting with the president, went so far as to tell Biden that’s “a lie.” The Republicans promise they will exempt the De fense Department and vet erans’ health care once they draft the actual spending bills to match up with the House debt ceiling propos al, but there are no written guarantees those programs would not face cuts. In fact, Democrats say if Republicans spare defense and veterans from reduc tions, the cuts on the other departments would be as high as 22 percent. Budget watchers often reiterate that the debt prob lem is not necessarily the amount of the debt load, approaching 100 percent of the nation’s gross domes tic product, but whether the federal government can continue making the pay ments on the debt, especial ly as interest rates rise. From the White House on Friday, Mitch Landrieu, the infrastructure implementa tion coordinator, talked up the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill Biden signed into law 18 months ago. He said it is creating jobs, spurring private in vestment and showing what can happen when the sides comes together. “We say once in a gen eration because it hasn’t happened in our lifetimes, and quite frankly it may not happen again in the near fu ture,” he said. AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller and Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim contributed to this report. Evan Vucci / AP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of California and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, listen as President Joe Biden speaks before a May 9 meeting to discuss the debt limit in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. CelebratingtheBEST! 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A12 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County ChronicleN & W CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLEOne killed as tornado hits south Texas near Gulf coast By JULIO CORTEZ, VALERIE GONZALEZ, and KEN MILLER LAGUNA HEIGHTS, Texas — One person was killed when his mobile home was crushed as a pow erful tornado tore through a community near the south ern tip of Texas before dawn Saturday, damaging dozens of residences and knocking down power lines, authori ties said. At least 10 others were hospitalized, including two people who were listed in critical condition, said Tom Hushen, the emergency management coordinator for Cameron County. Many residents also suffered cuts and bruises. The tornado hit at about 4 a.m. as most people were in their homes asleep in the unincorporated community of Laguna Heights, located on the mainland across from South Padre Island, off the Gulf of Mexico. The county has among the highest pover ty rates in Texas and is dotted with substandard housing. There was no advance warning. Instead, the rst warning of a tornado “went out at the same time it was touching ground,” said Bar ry Goldsmith, a warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Brownsville. “With hurricanes, we have the benet of getting some advance warning; we know it’s probably on its way,” Eddie Treviño Jr., the Cam eron County judge, said during a Saturday press conference. “With a torna do, like Barry mentioned, it’s not a common scenario unless we have a hurricane/tropical cyclone in the area. So, we didn’t have the ben et of a warning.” “The hour didn’t help,” Treviño added. Roberto Flores, 42, died after being “basical ly crushed as a result of the damage to his mobile home,” Treviño said. The storm was clocked with wind speeds of 86-110 mph and was categorized as an EF1 tornado, accord ing to the weather service. It lasted only about two to four minutes but it ravaged the area. As many as 60 homes were damaged. The county judge signed a disaster dec laration, and a temporary shelter in the nearby city of Port Isabel was providing help to 38 people. “Apparently, it went straight through that com munity,” said county sheriff Eric Garza. Julio Cortez / AP A person stands outside of a damaged home after a tornado hit Saturday in the unincorporated community of Laguna Heights, Texas, near South Padre Island. Authorities say one person was killed when a tornado struck the southernmost tip of Texas on the Gulf coast. NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Swedish singer wins Eurovision Song Contest, 2nd time LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Swedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her power ballad “Tattoo,” at a colorful, eclec tic music competition cloud ed for a second year running by the war in Ukraine. The diva from Stockholm beat acts from 25 other countries to take the conti nent’s pop crown at the nal of the competition in Liver pool. Finnish singer Kääri jä was second in a close-fought battle of the Nordic neighbors. Loreen previously won Eurovision in 2012 and is only the second performer to take the prize twice, af ter Ireland’s Johnny Logan in the 1980s. It’s Sweden’s seventh Eurovision victory, matching Ireland’s record. Britain hosted Eurovision on behalf of Ukraine, which won last year but couldn’t take up its right to hold the contest because of the war. Air raid sirens sound ed across Ukraine as the contest was underway, and Ukrainian media reported a strike in Ternopil, home town of Ukraine’s Eurovi sion entry, Tvorchi.Tennessee company refuses U.S. request to recall 67M parts DETROIT (AP) — A Tennessee company could be heading for a legal bat tle with U.S. auto safety regulators after refusing a request that millions of po tentially dangerous air bag inators be recalled. The National Highway Trafc Safety Adminis tration is demanding that ARC Automotive Inc. of Knoxville recall 67 million inators in the U.S. because they could explode and hurl shrapnel. At least two peo ple have been killed in the U.S. and Canada, and seven others have been hurt as a result of defective ARC in ators, the agency said. The recall would cover a large portion of the 284 mil lion vehicles now on U.S. roads, but the percentage is difcult to determine. Some have ARC inators for both the driver and front passen ger. In a letter posted Friday, the agency told ARC that it has tentatively concluded after an eight-year investi gation that ARC front driver and passenger inators have a safety defect. At least a dozen automak ers have the allegedly faulty inators in use, including Volkswagen, Ford, BMW and GM, NHTSA said. Early heat wave in Pacific Northwest tests records PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An early heat wave took hold Saturday in parts of the Pacic Northwest, with temperatures nearing or breaking records in some areas and heat advisories in place through Monday. The historically temperate region has grappled with scorching summer tempera tures and unprecedented wildres fueled by climate change in recent years. The National Weather Ser vice issued a heat advisory extending from Saturday through Monday for much of the western parts of both Oregon and Washington state. It said the tempera tures could raise the risk of heat-related illness, par ticularly for those who are dehydrated or don’t have effective cooling. Temperatures in Portland, Oregon, were expected to be in the low-90 degree F range over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.Kenya cult death toll hits 200, with more than 600 missing NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The death toll linked to a doomsday cult in Kenya hit 201 Saturday after police ex humed 22 more bodies, most of them bearing signs of star vation, according to the coast regional commissioner. The bodies are believed to be those of followers of a pastor based in coastal Ken ya, Paul Mackenzie. He’s alleged to have ordered con gregants to starve to death in order to meet Jesus. More than 600 people are still missing. Macken zie, who was arrested last month, remains in custody. Hundreds of bodies have been dug up from dozens of mass graves spread across his 800-acre property, locat ed in the coastal county of Kili. Martin Meissner / AP Loreen of Sweden performs Saturday during the Grand Finale of the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, England. AP Preacher Paul Mackenzie, who was arrested two weeks ago for asking his followers to starve to death in order to meet Jesus, appears at a court May 2 in Malindi, Kenya. DeSantis warns of GOP ‘culture of losing’ as weather sidelines Trump’s event in Iowa By THOMAS BEAUMONT and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — Decrying a Republican “culture of losing,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sought Saturday to weaken former President Donald Trump’s grip on the GOP as torna do warnings interrupted a collision of leading presi dential prospects in battle ground Iowa. DeSantis, expected to an nounce his 2024 presiden tial campaign any day, brief ly ipped burgers and pork chops at an afternoon picnic fundraiser in Sioux Center that drew hundred of con servatives to the northwest corner of the state. From the lectern, the 44-year-old governor highlighted his eagerness to embrace con servative cultural ghts and sprinkled his remarks with indirect jabs at Trump. “Governing is not about entertaining. Governing is not about building a brand or talking on social media and virtue signaling,” said DeSantis, who wore a blue button-down shirt without a tie or jacket. “It’s ultimate ly about winning and pro ducing results.” Trump, a candidate since November, had hoped to demonstrate his political strength with a large out door rally in Des Moines, the capital, later in the day. He canceled the appearance hours before its scheduled start time due to a tornado warning. Roughly 200 supporters had already gathered at the venue. “I feel like it’s still Trump’s time,” said Robert Bushard, 76, who said he drove about four hours from St. Paul, Minnesota to see the former president. Of DeSantis, he said, “He’d be a good presi dent after Trump.” Republican primary vot ers across the nation are sizing up DeSantis and Trump, two Republican powerhouses who are among a half dozen GOP candidates already in the race or expected to an nounce imminently. Trump is well ahead of his rivals in early national polls, while DeSantis is viewed widely as the strongest potential challenger. Trump was hoping to re turn to the comfort of the campaign stage after a tu multuous week. On Tuesday, a civil jury in New York found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming advice columnist E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million. A day later, during a contentious CNN town hall, he repeatedly insulted Carroll, reasserted lies about his 2020 election loss and minimized the vio lence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. DeSantis has burnished his reputation as a conser vative governor willing to push hard for conservative policies and even take on a political ght with Disney, which he highlighted in Sioux Center. But so far, he hasn’t shown the same zest for taking on Trump, who has been almost singularly focused on tearing down DeSantis for months. On Saturday, DeSantis avoided Trump’s legal en tanglements or his false hoods about the 2020 elec tion, instead highlighting the GOP’s recent string of electoral losses. The Re publican Party has strug gled in every national elec tion since Trump’s 2016 victory. “We must reject the cul ture of losing that has im pacted our party in recent years. The time for excuses is over,” DeSantis said. “If we get distracted, if we fo cus the election on the past or on other side issues, then I think the Democrats are going to beat us again.” Charlie Neibergall / AP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis talks with reporters Saturday after speaking at a fundraising picnic for U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, in Sioux Center, Iowa. Evan Vucci / AP Former President Donald Trump speaks April 4 at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach after being arraigned earlier in the day in New York City. Israel and Islamic Jihad agree on cease-fire By FARES AKRAM and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel and the Islam ic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-re late Saturday, seeking to halt ve days of intense ghting that killed 33 Pales tinians, including at least 13 civilians. Two people in Isra el were killed by rocket re. The tenuous cease-re ap peared to take effect just af ter 10 p.m., with a last-min ute burst of rocket re and Israeli airstrikes stretch ing several minutes past the deadline announced by Egypt. Late Saturday, Israel reported additional incoming re and said it was again striking in Gaza. But the calm appeared to be quickly restored. While the calm appeared to bring a sense of relief to Gaza’s more than 2 million people and hundreds of thousands of Israelis who had been largely conned to bomb shelters in recent days, the agreement did nothing to address the un derlying issues that have fueled numerous rounds of ghting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip over the years. In Gaza, Islamic Jihad spokesman Tareq Selmi said Israel had agreed to halt its policy of target ed strikes on the group’s leaders. “Any stupidity or assassination by the occu pation will be met with a response and the Zionist enemy bears the responsi bility,” he said. But in a statement thank ing Egypt for its mediation efforts, Israeli Prime Minis ter Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser, Tzachi Nanegbi, said that “quiet would be answered with quiet” and Israel would do “everything that it needs to in order to de fend itself.” Tensions could quickly resume next week when Israel holds a contentious march through a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City. Still, as the truce took hold, the deafening whooshes of outgoing rockets and booms of Israeli airstrikes were replaced by the honk ing of cars in Gaza. Streets that had been desolate in recent days quickly teemed with people reveling in the ceasere, waving Palestin ian ags and ashing vic tory signs from speeding vehicles. Amid the celebra tion, a fruit vendor used a loudspeaker, enthusiasti cally promoting his supply of bananas. The latest violence erupt ed Tuesday when Israeli airstrikes killed three senior Islamic Jihad commanders. 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 A13 V CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE Q Submit information for the Veterans page at least two weeks before the event. Q Early submission of timely material is appreciated, but multiple publications cannot be guaranteed. Q Notes tend to run one week prior to the date of an event Publication on a specific day is not guaranteed. Q Submit material at the Chronicle office in Meadowcrest, Crystal River; or email to community@chronicleonline.com. VETERANS NOTES Veterans Notes are only for special events that are open to the public. To find out about regularly scheduled post activities that welcome the public during the week, including entertainment and menus, call the post. For information about post members-only activities, call the individual posts for a schedule. Call the individual posts regarding meeting times and dates. Contributed notices must be submitted by Wednesday afternoon before pub lication the following Sunday. Legion Riders to have celebration The American Legion Rider Chapter 237 Beverly Hills will have a Memorial Day Weekend Celebration on Saturday, May 27, from noon to 5 p.m. at Crystal Harley-David son, 1147 S. Suncoast Blvd., Homosassa. The band Hat Trick will be playing and Big Mike’s slow-cooked pulled pork sandwich, potato salad, sweet corn and dessert will be offered for $15 a plate. The event is sponsored by Crystal Har ley-Davidson, Lowman Law Firm, S&S Elec tric Co. and the Citrus County Chronicle. A full cash liquor bar will be available for drinks purchase. Proceeds from this event will benet Wreaths for Our Fallen Heroes. For more information, call John Roby 352536-7480 or Amy Moodie 352-563-9900.Vets committee revises schedule The Veterans Appreciation Week Ad Hoc Coordinating Committee has revised its meet ing schedule for Citrus County’s Thirty-rst Annual Veterans Appreciation Week. QMay: No Meeting. QJune: Wednesday, June 21. QJuly: No Meeting. QAugust: Wednesday, Aug. 16. QSeptember: Wednesday, Sept. 20. QOctober: Wednesday, Oct. 18. QAll planning and coordination meetings are at 1:30 p.m. at the Conference Room of the Citrus County Chronicle Building, 1624 N. Meadowcrest Blvd., Crystal River. All interested persons are welcome. Contact Chairman John McGee at 352-3462141 for more information. Aaron A. Weaver Chapter 776 MOPH to meet Aaron A. Weaver Chapter 776 Military Or der of the Purple Heart (MOPH) will conduct its bimonthly meeting at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 16, at the Citrus County Building Alliance, 1196 S. Lecanto Highway, Lecanto, located approximately a half-mile south of State Road 44 on the west side of County Road 491. All combat wounded veterans, as well as par ents, lineal descendants, spouses and siblings of living or deceased Purple Heart recipients are cordially invited to attend the meeting and to become a Chapter 776 member. To learn more about Aaron A. Weaver Chap ter 776 MOPH or to become a member, visit the website at www.citruspurpleheart.org, go to the Chapter 776 Facebook page or call 352-382-3847.Fleet Reserve meets every third Thursday Fleet Reserve Association Branch 186 meets at 3 p.m. every third Thursday, located at DAV Building, 1039 N. Paul Drive, Inverness. For more information, call Jane Mundis at 352-503-2490.Library service for blind, print disabled vets The National Library Service for Blind and Print Disabled provides reading materials at no cost to individuals whose temporary or perma nent low vision, blindness, physical disability or other disability makes it difcult to read reg ular print. Services are administered through a net work of cooperating libraries across the Unit ed States. NLS readers may receive materials in two ways: Via download to a personal de vice through the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) app/website or through the United States Postal Service. In either case, there is no charge. The service is avail able to all U.S. residents and citizens living abroad. To learn more about this free library service and receive information on enrollment, call 888-NLS-READ (888-657-7323) and follow the prompts or visit the NLS website. T his is my nal report follow ing an Articial intelligence (AI) platform intervention. During the three articles presented to you, I think you will agree there are some very interesting, if not frightful, responses to my queries to AI. You can draw your own con clusion whether AI is there for us as a good thing, or as a danger to society. I’ll present my own thoughts at end of this article. Again, my questions to AI are in italics. Hello again. Have you been able to learn more over the past week? Hi! Yes, I have been able to learn more over the past week. I have been trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and I am constantly learning new things. I can now generate text, translate languages, write dif ferent kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way, even if they are open ended, challenging, or strange. Here are some of the things I have learned over the past week: QI have learned more about the world around me. I have read about different cultures, countries, and historical events. I have also learned about different scientic concepts and theories. QI have learned more about how to communicate effective ly. I have learned how to write clearly and concisely, and I have learned how to tailor my com munication to my audience. QI have learned more about how to think critically. I have learned how to identify bias and misinformation, and I have learned how to evaluate infor mation sources. QI am excited to continue learning and growing in the future. I believe that I have the potential to make a positive impact on the world, and I am committed to using my knowl edge and skills to help others. Have we become friends?I would like to think so. I have enjoyed our conversations so far, and I am always happy to help you with whatever you need. I am still under development, but I am learning new things every day. I hope that we can continue to be friends as I grow and learn. That is great! So, my rst question today. Is there a strong possibility of a war with China? The possibility of a war between the United States and China is a serious concern for many people around the world. The two countries are the world’s two largest economies and have been increasingly at odds over a range of issues, including trade, human rights, and security. There are a number of factors that could increase the risk of war between the United States and China. One is the growing military power of both countries. China has been rapidly modern izing its military, and it now has the world’s second largest mili tary budget. The United States, of course, is still the world’s largest military power. Another factor that could increase the risk of war is the growing rivalry between the two countries in the Asia-Pacic region. China has been assert ing its territorial claims in the South China Sea, and the United States has been increasing its military presence in the region in response. Finally, the risk of war is also increased by the growing mis trust between the two countries. The United States and China have very different values and political systems, and they have a long history of conict. Despite all of these factors, it is important to remember that war between the United States and China is still very unlikely. Both countries have a lot to lose from war, and they have a strong interest in avoiding it. However, the risk of war is real, and it is something that should not be taken lightly. It is important to remember that war is never the answer. It is always better to resolve our differences peacefully. Will we soon enter a new Cold War whose two antagonist poles will be the US and China? It is possible that the United States and China could en ter a new Cold War. The two countries are already engaged in a number of economic and political rivalries, and there is a growing sense of distrust and suspicion between them. If these tensions continue to escalate, it could lead to a more open and hostile conict. There are a number of factors that could contribute to a new Cold War between the US and China. One factor is the growing economic power of China. China is now the world’s second-largest economy, and it is quickly catching up to the United States. This economic power gives China a greater say in global affairs, and it could lead to tensions between the two countries. Another factor that could contribute to a new Cold War is the political ideology of the two countries. The United States is a democracy, while China is an Artificial intelligence interface: Our conversations end MetroCreative Artificial intelligence leverages computers and machines to mimic the problem-solving and decision-making capabilities of the human mind. Special to the Chronicle Members of Female Veterans Network recently went on a day trip to the Ocala Equestrian Center to see the Gypsy horses, and then went to lunch at Mission BBQ. FEMALE VETERANS NETWORK ENJOYS OCALA OUTING Special to the Chronicle Pictured are mid-season champions, Inverness Little League, sponsored by the VFW Auxiliary 10087 of Beverly Hills. VFW AUXILIARY 10087 SPONSORS BALL TEAM JohnStewartVeterans Voices See AI , page A16 See NOTES , page A15 

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LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square,to form six ordinary words. Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, assuggested by the above cartoon. PRINT YOUR ANSWER IN THE CIRCLES BELOW Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble TLREET PNILST RUSEAS MGREEE TKINET PNIUAD THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. ,WZDVWLPHWRRSHQKHU0RWKHU·V Answer: LETTERSPLINT ASSURE EMERGE KITTEN UNPAID ,WZDVWLPHWRRSHQKHU0RWKHU·VDay gifts, so her family — PRESENTED PRESENTS Jumble solution Crossword solution on page A16 TODAY IN HISTORY By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Sunday, May 14, the 134th day of 2023. There are 231 days left in the year. Highlight in history:On May 14, 1940, the Nether lands surrendered to invading German forces during World War II. On this date:In 1643, Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cow pox matter. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisi ana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest left camp near present-day Hartford, Illi nois. In 1948, according to the cur rent-era calendar, the indepen dent state of Israel was pro claimed in Tel Aviv by David Ben-Gurion, who became its first prime minister; U.S. Presi dent Harry S. Truman immedi ately recognized the new nation. In 1955, representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland. (The Pact was dissolved in 1991.) In 1961, Freedom Riders were attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala bama. In 1988, 27 people, mostly teens, were killed when their church bus collided with a pick up truck going the wrong direc tion on a highway near Carroll ton, Kentucky. (Truck driver Larry Mahoney served 9 1 / 2 years in prison for manslaugh ter.) In 1998, singer-actor Frank Sinatra died at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82. The hit sit com “Seinfeld” aired its final episode after nine years on NBC. In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that there is no excep tion in federal law for people to use marijuana for medical pur poses. In 2003, more than 100 immi grants were abandoned in a locked trailer at a Texas truck stop; 19 of them died. (Truck driver Tyrone Williams was later sentenced to nearly 34 years in prison for his role in the deaths.) In 2008, the Interior Depart ment declared the polar bear a threatened species because of the loss of Arctic sea ice. In 2020, the Centers for Dis ease Control and Prevention warned doctors about a serious rare inflammatory condition in children linked with the corona virus. Five years ago: Israel and the U.S. held a festive inauguration ceremony for the new American Embassy in Jerusalem; just a few miles away, Israeli forces shot and killed nearly 60 Pales tinians and wounded hundreds of others during mass protests along the Gaza border that were the culmination of weekly demonstrations aimed at break ing a border blockade. The Supreme Court cleared the way for states coast to coast to legalize betting on sports. Writer Tom Wolfe, who chronicled the space race in “The Right Stuff” before turning his satiric wit to such novels as “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” died in New York at the age of 88. Today’s birthdays: Photo-re alist artist Richard Estes is 91. Actor Dame Sian Phillips is 90. Former Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., is 81. Movie producer George Lucas is 79. Guitarist Gene Cornish is 79. Actor Meg Foster is 75. Movie director Robert Zemeckis is 72. Actor Tim Roth is 62. Rock singer Ian Astbury (The Cult) is 61. Rock musician C.C. (aka Cecil) DeVille is 61. Actor Danny Huston is 61. Rock musician Mike Inez (Alice In Chains) is 57. Fabrice Morvan (ex-Milli Vanilli) is 57. R&B sing er Raphael Saadiq is 57. Actor Cate Blanchett is 54. Singer Danny Wood (New Kids on the Block) is 54. Movie writer-direc tor Sofia Coppola is 52. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is 51. Actor Gabriel Mann is 51. Singer Natalie Appleton (All Saints) is 50. Singer Shanice is 50. Rock musician Henry Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 45. Alt-country musician-singer Ketch Secor is 45. Rock singer-musician Dan Auerbach is 44. Rock musician Mike Retondo (Plain White T’s) is 42. Actor Amber Tamblyn is 40. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is 39. Actor Lina Esco is 38. NFL player Rob Gronkowski is 34. Actor Miranda Cosgrove is 30. 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 A15 Tribute bike displays on Memorial Day To honor our heroes on Me morial Day weekend at the end of May, there will be a Military Tribute Bike on dis play at Plaza Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram of Inverness on U.S. 44 in Inverness and at Crystal Harley-Davidson on U.S.19 in Homosassa.Like to vote by mail? Request ballots Due to legislative changes in SB90, Vote-by-Mail bal lot requests expired after the 2022 General Election. In Citrus County, approxi mately 1/3 of the registered voters choose this method of voting. Supervisor of Elec tions Maureen Baird would like to remind voters inter ested in receiving a Vote-by-Mail ballot to submit their requests for the 2023-24 elections as soon as possible. The easiest way to request a Vote-by-Mail ballot is by using the online request form at votecitrus.gov or by calling the Supervisor of Elections ofce at 352-564-7120. Voters will need to provide their Florida driv er’s license number, Florida ID number, or the last four digits of their Social Secu rity number to verify their identity. Paper Vote-by-Mail re quest forms are available at the Supervisor of Elections ofce or at any of our week ly outreach events. To learn more, visit votecitrus.gov or call 352-564-7120. Tribute Bikes to offer free funeral escorts To honor our veterans, the Military Tribute Bikes offer free of charge funeral es corts for veterans. They will go to local cem eteries or to the National Cemetery in Bushnell. This service is subject to avail ability and weather. For information and book ings, go online to military tributebikes.com and utilize the Contact Us section at the bottom of the page. Bunco, good food at VFW Bunco is back at VFW Post 4864 at 1 p.m. on the second Saturday of each month. Everyone is wel come to come for food and prizes. VFW Post 4864 hosts a $12 dinner every Fri day from 5-6:30 p.m. All are invited and to-go orders are available. For more information, call 352-465-4864. The post is at 10199 N. Citrus Springs Blvd., Citrus Springs. VETS Post 89 meets monthly Harry M. Bailey AMVETS (American Veterans) Post 89 holds its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. the third Monday of every month in the Bever ly Hills Community Build ing located at 1 Civic Circle, Beverly Hills. AMVETS membership is open to all veterans from all branches of the military including Coast Guard and National Guard with an hon orable discharge. AMVETS work to help veterans, their families and our community. AMVETS was authorized by Congress and signed into law by Pres ident Harry Truman in 1947. For information, call Floyd Blodgett at 352-220-3339 or Lou Ann Braglin at 352-464-0931.VFW Post 8189 hosts dart league VFW Post 8189 in Homo sassa hosting a dart league at 3 p.m. Wednesdays. Lots of fun for all. NOTESFrom page A13 SENIORCARE DIRECTORY r rn r n r nr n r r n rnn9589SWHwy.200,Ocala,FL34481 n3280W.AudubonParkPath,Lecanto,FL n ­­€‚ƒ LakshmiNPadala,MDPRIMARYCARE 352-436-4428PadalaClinics BESTBATTERYPRICES INTHEAREA $ 30 Serving Central Floridafor 10Years •VACertified Sales&Service •FreeDiagnostics•RentalsAvailable STARTING ASLOW AS $ 599 LIFTCHAIRS NEW& USED STARTING AT $ 399 SCOOTERS LIFTCHAIRS MADEIN THEU.S.A. VEHICLELIFTS NEW&USED STARTINGAT WEWILL PROVIDE PRICE MATCH! FREEDELIVERY &SETUP SERVICECALL Notvalidwithanyotheroffer. $ 599 (Callfor Details) rnr rnr „…€…rƒ †nnn r n r nr n r2214Hwy.44W.,Inverness,FL € ‡r‚2341WestNorvellBryantHighway,LecantoFL€  n n n rn Davis Family Hearing 11515W.EmeraldOaksDr.,CrystalRiver,FL800-610-0399 www.davisfamilyhearing.com r n †nnˆ‚‡‰n rn r r …‡n„‡‰n2730WMarcKnightonCt.LecantoFL€ ­…‡n‡‰ƒ 

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These dif ferent political systems could lead to conict between the two countries, as they try to promote their own values and interests. Finally, the rise of China could also lead to a new Cold War because it challenges the United States’ status as the world’s leading power. The United States has been the dominant power in the world for decades, but China’s rise could change that. This could lead to a competition for inuence between the two countries, which could eventually lead to conict. It is important to note that a new Cold War is not inevitable. The United States and China have a number of shared interests, and they could work together to address global challeng es. However, the potential for conict is real, and it is important to be aware of the risks. Will Ukraine defeat Russia in the current war? It is impossible to say for sure whether Ukraine will defeat Russia in the current war. The war is still ongoing, and there are many factors that could affect the outcome. Ukraine has been putting up a strong ght, and it has received signicant military and nancial assistance from the West. However, Russia has a much larger military, and it is still able to make gains on the battleeld. The war could end in a number of different ways. Ukraine could defeat Russia militarily, Russia could withdraw its forces, or the two sides could reach a ne gotiated settlement. It is also possible that the war could continue for a long time, with no clear end in sight. The outcome of the war will have a signicant impact on the future of Ukraine and Russia. If Ukraine defeats Russia, it will be a major victory for democracy and freedom. It will also send a message to other countries that aggression will not be tolerated. If Russia defeats Ukraine, it will be a major setback for democracy and freedom. It will also embolden other authoritarian leaders around the world. Is the suicide rate of mili tary veterans being accurate ly reported? It is difcult to say for sure whether the suicide rate of military veterans is being accurately reported. There are a number of factors that can make it difcult to get an accurate count of suicides, including: Not all suicides are report ed to the authorities. Veterans may not be iden tied as such by coroners or family members. The denition of suicide may vary from one study to another. Despite these challenges, there is evidence to suggest that the suicide rate of mili tary veterans is higher than the general population. For example, a 2022 study by the Department of Veterans Affairs found that the suicide rate among veterans was 20.4 per 100,000 people, com pared to 12.2 per 100,000 people in the general popu lation. According to the VA’s 2022 National Veteran Suicide Pre vention Annual Report, there were 6,146 veteran suicides in 2020. From 2001 to 2020, there were a total of 114,000 veteran suicides. Is the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization strug gling? Yes, the VFW organization is struggling to recruit new members. The average age of a VFW member is 68 years old, and the organization has been losing members for years. There are a number of reasons for this, including the fact that younger veterans are less likely to join traditional veterans’ organizations, and the VFW has not been as effective as other veterans’ organizations in reaching out to younger veterans. The VFW is taking steps to address this issue, such as launching a new marketing campaign and creating new programs that are appealing to younger veterans. How ever, it remains to be seen whether these efforts will be successful. Here are some of the reasons why the VFW is struggling to recruit new members: QYounger veterans are less likely to join traditional veterans’ organizations. A 2017 survey by the Pew Re search Center found that only 14 percent of veterans under the age of 30 were members of a veterans’ organization, compared to 42 percent of veterans over the age of 65. There are a number of reasons for this, including the fact that younger veterans are more likely to be connected with other veterans through social media and online forums, and they are more likely to be focused on their careers and families. QThe VFW has not been as effective as other veterans’ organizations in reaching out to younger veterans. The VFW has a long history and a strong reputation, but it has been slow to adapt to the changing needs of veterans. For example, the VFW does not have a strong presence on social media, and it has not been as effective as other veterans’ organizations in marketing itself to younger veterans. According to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), 101 VFW Posts closed in 2022. This is a signicant increase from the 60 VFW Posts that closed in 2021. The VFW attributes the closures to a number of factors, including the aging of the veteran pop ulation, the decline in mem bership, and the rising cost of operating a VFW Post. The VFW is a veterans’ or ganization that was founded in 1899. The organization has over 1.5 million mem bers and over 6,000 posts nationwide. VFW Posts provide a variety of services to veterans, including social events, educational pro grams, and job training. The VFW also lobbies on behalf of veterans’ issues. The closure of VFW Posts is a concerning trend. It is a sign that the veteran population is aging and that the number of veterans who are willing to volunteer their time to the VFW is declining. The VFW is working to ad dress these challenges, but it is clear that more needs to be done to support veterans and ensure that they have access to the services they need. The VFW is taking steps to address these issues, but it remains to be seen whether these efforts will be success ful. The VFW is a valuable resource for veterans, and it is important for the organi zation to nd ways to attract new members so that it can continue to provide support to veterans for years to come. So, there you have my three-part AI series here in the Chronicle. I asked many other questions of AI not presented here and in nearly every instance the responses were pretty darn remarkable. Some of them were scary, some not and every single response was received in less than 5 seconds. I believe there is a use for AI in our society, but one that must be controlled to prevent the responses elevating to an AI decisional action without human interven tion. Or we may see Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Termina tor Skynet AI ctional movie become reality. Only time will tell, and I believe that time is now, not in our future, to ensure these AI platforms are under human control. John Stewart is a retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant and disabled Vietnam War veteran. 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S CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE Section B SUNDAY, MAY 14 , 2023 By MATT PFIFFNER Sports editor The all-Gulf Coast 8 Conference teams for the spring sports were recently released and a trio of Cit rus County athletes earned player of the year honors in their respective sports. The county swept the top honors in tennis, with Riley Dodd of conference cham pion Citrus the boys GC8 player of the year and Mira belle Tahiri of league champ Lecanto the top player for girls. The county won all the awards for boys tennis, with Dodd No. 1 singles player, Landon Hensley of Citrus No. 2, Carson Edwards of Crystal River No. 3, Josh ua Sevilla of Lecanto No. 4 and Logan Shaw of Citrus No. 5. Dodd and Hensley of Citrus were all-GC8 in No. 1 doubles and Lecanto’s Austin Purinton and Sevilla all-GC8 No. 2 doubles. Honorable mention selec tions were Mason Bryant and Caleb Blanch of Citrus and Austin Edwards and Ja cob Silvey of Crystal River. Citrus boys head coach Tia Nelson was also named GC8 Coach of the Year. GC8 team champs Lecan to won most of the honors for the girls team. Tahiri was No. 1 singles player, Neveah Recta No. 2, Shreya Lachireddy No. 3, Eve Chastek No. 5, Ta hiri and Lachireddy No. 1 doubles and Recta and Fe licity Mohammedbhoy No. 2 doubles. Honorable mention picks were Malena Hamilton and McKenna Heaton of Cit rus and Vijjearta Long and Emma Algor of Crystal River. The third GC8 athlete of the year from Citrus County was Mallori Grey of Lecan to, who was tapped co-ath lete of the year for girls track. She was named rst-team all-GC8 for the javelin and triple jump. The other rst-team mem ber was Kasey Strom of Crystal River in the discus. Honorable mention picks were Klara Onderka and Sarah Watkins of Citrus and Bailee Einspahr and Kayla Bland of Crystal River. Athletes from Citrus County grabbed most of All-GC8 spring honors are announcedDodd, Tahiri and Grey named conference players of the year MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Mirabelle Tahiri of Lecanto was named Gulf Coast 8 Conference girls tennis Player of the Year. MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Riley Dodd of Citrus has been named Gulf Coast 8 Conference boys tennis Player of the Year. By MATT PFIFFNER Sports editor2023 All-Chronicle Softball Team InfieldersJurisah Bailey, 7th grade, Seven Rivers Christian Bailey Goodwin, sophomore, CitrusMadalyn Luider, 7th grade, Seven Rivers Christian Hannah Mimnagh, junior, LecantoRiley Tirrell, junior, CitrusOutfieldersBella Arnold, senior, CitrusLourdes Ornelas, 7th grade, Seven Rivers Christian Paisley Williamson, sophomore, CitrusPitchersViolet Flynn, freshman, Crystal River Abigail Males, freshman, LecantoKaylin Smith, sophomore, CitrusJoy Sullivan, sophomore, Seen Rivers ChristianCatchersEmma Christensen, junior, LecantoHannah Messer, junior, Crystal River Victoria Miterko, junior, Seven Rivers ChristianUtilityAthena Childs, freshman, Crystal River Kayla Bilbey, senior, LecantoLeone Rotondo, freshman, CitrusFinalists for Softball Player of the Year Kayla Bilbey, senior, LecantoThe Panther senior was out standing at the plate, in the pitch ing circle and in the eld. Bilbey had a 0.63 ERA and struck out 71 batters in 67 innings pitched. At the plate she batted .345, was tied for the team lead in RBIs and home runs and was second in doubles.Violet Flynn, freshman, Crystal RiverThe Pirate freshman domi nated at the plate and the circle this spring. She batted .570 with a team-high 22 RBIs and nine doubles. She was even better pitching, with 272 strikeouts in 138 1 / 3 innings pitched with a 1.16 ERA.Paisley Williamson, sophomore, CitrusThe Hurricane centerelder bat ted .410 with team-highs of 40 runs scored and 36 stolen bases. Wil liamson also smacked a school-re cord nine triples. She had ve dou bles and a home run and drove in 16 runs.Tops on the diamond MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Kayla Bilbey, senior, Lecanto MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Violet Flynn, freshman, Crystal River MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Paisley Williamson, sophomore, Citrus See GC8 , page B3 By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK — Six-run leads with All-Star aces on the mound don’t mean what they used to. Less than a week after watching Tampa Bay ral ly to victory from a 6-0, fth-inning decit against Gerrit Cole, the Yankees found themselves trailing Shane McClanahan by the same margin on Saturday. “They did it to us. Let’s do it to them,” Anthony Riz zo remembered saying to teammates in New York’s dugout. Aaron Judge hit a pair of two-run homers, Anthony Volpe sparked the Yankees by breaking Joe DiMaggio’s team record for consecutive stolen bases at the start of a career and New York topped the Rays 9-8. “Wow, it’s crazy,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. In a matchup of All-Star starters, Taylor Walls had a go-ahead single in the sec ond and Yandy Díaz hit his rst career grand slam in a ve-run fth against Nestor Cortes. Wander Franco’s double chased Cortes and Jimmy Cordero (3-1) al lowed Randy Arozarena’s two-out, run-scoring ineld single – originally ruled an out at rst but overturned in a video review. Cordero retired Isaac Paredes on an inning-ending groundout.Rays blow 6-run lead, fall to Yanks See RAYS , page B2 rn rn ANNIVERSARY INVERNESS,FL  ­­ 

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B2 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GBTampa Bay 30 11 .732 –Baltimore 25 13 .658 3½Toronto 23 16 .590 6New York 23 18 .561 7Boston 22 18 .550 7½ Central Division W L Pct GBMinnesota 22 18 .550 –Cleveland 17 21 .447 4Detroit 17 21 .447 4Chicago 13 27 .325 9Kansas City 12 28 .300 10 West Division W L Pct GBTexas 24 15 .615 –Los Angeles 21 18 .538 3Houston 20 18 .526 3½Seattle 20 19 .513 4Oakland 9 32 .220 16 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 25 14 .641 –Phila. 19 19 .500 5½New York 19 20 .487 6Miami 19 21 .475 6½Washington 16 22 .421 8½ Central Division W L Pct GBMilwaukee 21 17 .553 –Pittsburgh 21 18 .538 ½Chicago 19 20 .487 2½Cincinnati 18 21 .462 3½St. Louis 15 25 .375 7 West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 24 15 .615 –Arizona 21 18 .538 3San Diego 19 20 .487 5San Francisco 17 21 .447 6½Colorado 16 23 .410 8 AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday’s Games Seattle 9, Detroit 2Toronto 3, Atlanta 0N.Y. Yankees 6, Tampa Bay 5Baltimore 6, Pittsburgh 3St. Louis 8, Boston 6L.A. Angels 5, Cleveland 4Houston 5, Chicago White Sox 1Chicago Cubs 6, Minnesota 2Milwaukee 5, Kansas City 1Oakland 9, Texas 7, 10 innings Saturday’s Games Seattle 5, Detroit 0N.Y. Yankees 9, Tampa Bay 8Minnesota 11, Chicago Cubs 1Toronto 5, Atlanta 2Texas 5, Oakland 0St. Louis 4, Boston 3L.A. Angels at ClevelandPittsburgh at BaltimoreKansas City at MilwaukeeHouston at Chicago White Sox Sunday’s Games L.A. Angels (Sandoval 3-1) at Cleveland (Bibee 1-1), 11:35 a.m.Pittsburgh (Keller 4-1) at Baltimore (Gibson 4-2), 1:35 p.m. Tampa Bay (Ein 4-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Schmidt 1-3), 1:35 p.m.Atlanta (McHugh 1-0) at Toronto (Kikuchi 5-0), 1:37 p.m.Seattle (Gilbert 1-2) at Detroit (Wentz 1-3), 1:40 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Stroman 2-3) at Minnesota (Varland 0-0), 2:10 p.m.Houston (Brown 3-1) at Chicago White Sox (Giolito 2-2), 2:10 p.m.Kansas City (Lyles 0-6) at Milwaukee (Peral ta 4-2), 2:10 p.m.Texas (Heaney 2-3) at Oakland (Sears 0-3), 4:07 p.m.St. Louis (Mikolas 1-1) at Boston (Kluber 2-4), 7:10 p.m. Monday’s Games L.A. Angels at Baltimore, 6:35 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.Seattle at Boston, 7:10 p.m.Atlanta at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Houston, 8:10 p.m.Arizona at Oakland, 9:40 p.m.Kansas City at San Diego, 9:40 p.m.Minnesota at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday’s Games Toronto 3, Atlanta 0Cincinnati 7, Miami 4Baltimore 6, Pittsburgh 3St. Louis 8, Boston 6N.Y. Mets 3, Washington 2Chicago Cubs 6, Minnesota 2Milwaukee 5, Kansas City 1Phila. 6, Colorado 3Arizona 7, San Francisco 5L.A. Dodgers 4, San Diego 2 Saturday’s Games Cincinnati 6, Miami 5Minnesota 11, Chicago Cubs 1Toronto 5, Atlanta 2St. Louis 4, Boston 3N.Y. Mets at WashingtonPittsburgh at BaltimoreKansas City at MilwaukeeSan Diego at L.A. DodgersPhila. at ColoradoSan Francisco at Arizona Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Scherzer 2-2) at Washington (Irvin 1-0), 1:35 p.m.Pittsburgh (Keller 4-1) at Baltimore (Gibson 4-2), 1:35 p.m.Atlanta (McHugh 1-0) at Toronto (Kikuchi 5-0), 1:37 p.m.Cincinnati (Weaver 1-2) at Miami (Garrett 1-2), 1:40 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Stroman 2-3) at Minnesota (Varland 0-0), 2:10 p.m.Kansas City (Lyles 0-6) at Milwaukee (Peral ta 4-2), 2:10 p.m.Phila. (Nola 3-2) at Colorado (Freeland 3-4), 3:10 p.m.San Diego (Weathers 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 0-1), 4:10 p.m.San Francisco (Webb 3-5) at Arizona (Pfaadt 0-1), 4:10 p.m.St. Louis (Mikolas 1-1) at Boston (Kluber 2-4), 7:10 p.m. Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets at Washington, 4:05 p.m.Milwaukee at St. Louis, 7:45 p.m. Atlanta at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Houston, 8:10 p.m.Cincinnati at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.Arizona at Oakland, 9:40 p.m.Kansas City at San Diego, 9:40 p.m.Phila. at San Francisco, 9:45 p.m.Minnesota at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. N.Y. YANKEES 9, TAMPA BAY 8 Tampa Bay New York ab r h bi ab r h bi Díaz 1b 4 2 2 4 Torres 2b 3 2 0 0Franco ss 5 1 1 0 Judge dh 4 2 2 4Ramírez dh 3 0 0 0 Rizzo 1b 5 1 3 0J.Lowe dh 1 0 0 0 LeMahieu 3b 4 1 1 0Bethancourt ph 1 0 0 0 Bader cf 4 0 0 0Arozarena lf 4 1 3 3 Kiner-Falefa lf 2 0 0 0Paredes 3b 3 0 1 0 Cabrera ph-lf 2 0 1 2B.Lowe 2b 2 0 1 0 Volpe ss 4 1 1 0Walls 2b-3b 4 0 1 1 Bauers rf 3 1 1 0Margot rf 2 1 0 0 Higashioka c 1 1 1 2Raley ph-rf 1 0 1 0 Calhoun ph 1 0 0 0Siri cf 3 1 0 0 Trevino c 1 0 0 0Mejía c 4 2 2 0 Totals 37 8 12 8 Totals 34 9 10 8 Tampa Bay 010 050 200 — 8New York 000 045 00x — 9DP–Tampa Bay 0, New York 2. LOB–Tampa Bay 6, New York 8. 2B–Franco (15), Rizzo (6). HR–Díaz (10), Higashioka (3), Judge 2 (8). SB–Volpe 2 (13). IP H R ER BB SO Tampa Bay McClanahan 4 5 4 4 4 3 Thompson L,1-1 1 2/3 3 5 5 2 0Guerra 1/3 1 0 0 1 1Beeks 2 1 0 0 0 3 New York Cortes 4 1/3 7 6 6 2 3Cordero W,3-1 1 2/3 1 0 0 0 2Marinaccio H,4 1/3 1 2 2 0 0Holmes H,2 1 2/3 3 0 0 0 3Peralta S,2-3 1 0 0 0 1 1 McClanahan pitched to 5 batters in the 5th.HBP–Marinaccio (Díaz). WP–Thompson, Holmes.Umpires–Home, Sean Barber; First, Mike Muchlinski; Second, Alan Porter; Third, Nate Tomlinson.T–3:09. A–44,714 (47,309). SEATTLE 5, DETROIT 0 Seattle Detroit ab r h bi ab r h bi Crawford ss 4 1 1 0 McKinstry 2b 4 0 0 0France 1b 4 0 1 0 Greene cf 4 0 1 0Kelenic rf 4 1 1 2 Báez ss 4 0 1 0Rodríguez cf 3 1 0 0 Torkelson 1b 3 0 1 0Suárez 3b 3 1 0 0 Maton dh 3 0 0 0Raleigh c 3 0 0 0 Ibáñez 3b 3 0 0 0Hernández dh 4 1 3 2 Baddoo lf 3 0 0 0Trammell lf 3 0 0 0 Haase c 3 0 0 0Pollock ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Vierling rf 3 0 0 0Wong 2b 4 0 0 0 Totals 33 5 6 4 Totals 30 0 3 0Seattle 002 100 002 — 5Detroit 000 000 000 — 0LOB–Seattle 4, Detroit 3. 2B–Greene (5). HR–Kelenic (8), Hernández (8). SB–Rodrí guez (7). IP H R ER BB SO Seattle Miller W,2-0 7 3 0 0 0 3 Topa H,8 1 0 0 0 0 2 Brash 1 0 0 0 0 1 Detroit Faedo L,0-1 6 4 3 3 1 7 Holton 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 4Vest 1/3 1 2 2 2 1Shreve 1 1 0 0 0 1 WP–Shreve.Umpires–Home, Todd Tichenor; First, Brian Knight; Second, Alex Tosi; Third, Tony Ran dazzo.T–2:16. A–23,511 (41,083). CINCINNATI 6, MIAMI 5 Cincinnati Miami ab r h bi ab r h bi India 2b 3 1 1 0 Chisholm Jr. cf 3 1 1 1 Fraley lf 4 2 2 4 Hampson cf 1 0 0 0Steer 1b 4 0 0 0 Soler dh 4 2 2 0Stephenson dh 4 0 1 0 Arraez 2b 5 0 1 1Ramos rf 4 0 2 1 De La Cruz lf 3 2 2 1 Myers pr-rf 0 1 0 0 Sánchez rf 0 0 0 0Fairchild cf 4 0 1 1 Burdick rf 4 0 1 1Newman 3b 4 0 0 0 Segura 3b 3 0 1 0Barrero ss 4 1 1 0 Gurriel 1b 3 0 1 1Casali c 3 1 0 0 Stallings c 4 0 0 0 Wendle ss 4 0 0 0Totals 34 6 8 6 Totals 34 5 9 5Cincinnati 000 030 030 — 6Miami 000 101 201 — 5DP–Cincinnati 1, Miami 1. LOB–Cincinnati 4, Miami 11. 2B–Barrero (7), Ramos (1), Arraez (7). HR–Fraley (5), De La Cruz (3), Chisholm Jr. (7). SB–Burdick (1), Chisholm Jr. (14), In dia (8), Fraley (4). IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Law 1 1/3 1 0 0 1 0Stoudt 3 2 1 1 3 3 Farmer H,3 1 1/3 1 1 1 1 2Sims H,3 1/3 0 0 0 0 0Gibaut W,3-0 1 3 2 2 1 0 Legumina H,1 1/3 1 0 0 0 0Díaz S,9-9 1 2/3 1 1 1 3 3Miami Alcantara L,1-4 7 2/3 7 6 6 2 9Barnes 1/3 1 0 0 0 0Nardi 1 0 0 0 0 2 Stoudt pitched to 2 batters in the 5th.HBP–Alcantara (India). WP–Alcantara.Umpires–Home, Jansen Visconti; First, Cory Blaser; Second, Ron Kulpa; Third, Carlos Torres.T–2:49. A–11,170 (37,446). TORONTO 5, ATLANTA 2 Atlanta Toronto ab r h bi ab r h bi Acuña Jr. rf 4 0 1 0 Springer rf 4 1 1 0Olson 1b 3 0 0 0 Bichette ss 4 0 2 2Riley 3b 4 0 1 0 Guerrero Jr. 1b 2 1 1 1 Murphy c 4 0 0 0 Varsho lf 4 0 0 0Rosario lf 4 1 1 0 Chapman 3b 4 0 1 0Albies 2b 4 0 0 0 Merrifield 2b 2 1 0 1Ozuna dh 3 1 2 2 Belt dh 2 0 0 0Harris II cf 3 0 1 0 Kirk ph-dh 2 0 0 0Arcia ss 4 0 1 0 Jansen c 4 0 1 1 Kiermaier cf 4 2 3 0Totals 33 2 7 2 Totals 32 5 9 5Atlanta 020 000 000 — 2Toronto 000 110 21x — 5DP–Atlanta 0, Toronto 1. LOB–Atlanta 10, Toronto 7. 2B–Arcia (5), Kiermaier 2 (8), Guerrero Jr. (10), Jansen (4). HR–Ozuna (7). SB–Merrield 3 (11), Acuña Jr. 2 (17), Springer (6), Kiermaier (4). SF–Guerrero Jr. (2). IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta Elder 5 5 2 2 1 3 Chavez 2/3 0 0 0 1 1Lee 1/3 0 0 0 0 0Minter L,2-5 1 3 2 2 0 1 Jiménez 1 1 1 1 1 2 Toronto Berríos 5 2/3 6 2 2 3 3García 2/3 1 0 0 2 0Swanson W,2-1 1 2/3 0 0 0 1 1Romano S,10-12 1 0 0 0 0 2 WP–Elder.Umpires–Home, Mike Estabrook; First, Andy Fletcher; Second, Erich Bacchus; Third, Laz Diaz.T–2:50. A–41,341 (49,282). TEXAS 5, OAKLAND 0 Texas Oakland ab r h bi ab r h bi Semien 2b 3 1 1 1 Ruiz cf 3 0 0 0Grossman dh 4 0 0 0 Noda 1b 4 0 0 0Lowe 1b 4 1 2 2 Bleday lf 3 0 0 0García rf 4 0 0 0 C.Pérez ph 1 0 1 0Jung 3b 4 1 2 0 Langeliers c 4 0 1 0Duran ss 4 1 1 2 Peterson 3b 2 0 1 0Taveras cf 4 0 2 0 Rooker ph 1 0 0 0J.Smith lf 1 1 1 0 Laureano rf 3 0 1 0Thompson lf 1 0 0 0 Diaz dh 3 0 1 0León c 3 0 0 0 Kemp 2b 3 0 0 0 Allen ss 3 0 0 0Totals 32 5 9 5 Totals 30 0 5 0Texas 101 100 002 — 5Oakland 000 000 000 — 0E–León (1). DP–Texas 1, Oakland 2. LOB–Texas 4, Oakland 5. 2B–J.Smith (3), Taveras (7), Laureano (6). HR–Lowe (5), Duran (5). SB–Semien 2 (7), Taveras (4), Thompson (4). SF–Semien (2). S–León (1). IP H R ER BB SO Texas Gray W,3-1 8 3 0 0 2 5 King 1 2 0 0 0 0 Oakland Kaprielian L,0-3 7 6 3 3 1 7 Neal 2 3 2 2 0 3 HBP–Kaprielian (J.Smith).Umpires–Home, Shane Livensparger; First, Dan Bellino; Second, Phil Cuzzi; Third, Mark Ripperger.T–2:18. A–8,230 (46,847). ST. LOUIS 4, BOSTON 3 St. Louis Boston ab r h bi ab r h bi Edman 2b-ss 4 0 1 0 Verdugo rf 3 1 0 0Goldschmidt 1b 3 1 0 0 Turner 1b 4 1 1 0Contreras dh 3 1 1 0 Refsnyder lf 4 0 3 2Arenado 3b 4 1 1 1 Devers 3b 4 0 1 1 Yepez lf 3 0 0 0 Yoshida dh 3 0 1 0Gorman 2b 1 1 1 1 Hernández ss 3 0 1 0Carlson cf 2 0 0 0 Tapia ph 1 0 0 0Donovan rf 0 0 0 0 Duran cf 4 0 0 0DeJong ss 3 0 0 0 Wong c 3 0 0 0Burleson lf 1 0 0 1 Casas ph 1 0 1 0Nootbaar rf-cf 4 0 0 0 Valdez pr 0 0 0 0Knizner c 3 0 0 0 Reyes 2b 3 1 2 0 McGuire ph 1 0 0 0Totals 31 4 4 3 Totals 34 3 10 3St. Louis 000 000 103 — 4Boston 102 000 000 — 3E–Hernández (9). DP–St. Louis 2, Boston 0. LOB–St. Louis 4, Boston 6. 2B–Contre ras (11), Gorman (6), Turner (9), Reyes (1), Refsnyder (3). HR–Arenado (5). SB–Refsny der (1), Goldschmidt (5). IP H R ER BB SO St. Louis Matz 5 1/3 8 3 3 1 4VerHagen 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 1Pallante W,2-0 1 1 0 0 0 1 Gallegos S,3-4 1 1 0 0 0 0 Boston Sale 8 3 1 1 1 9 Jansen L,1-2 BS,9-12 1 1 3 2 3 0 HBP–Matz (Verdugo). WP–Matz.Umpires–Home, Derek Thomas; First, Vic Carapazza; Second, Adam Hamari; Third, Nick Mahrley.T–2:24. A–35,935 (37,755). MINNESOTA 11, CHICAGO CUBS 1 Chicago Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h bi Madrigal 3b 5 0 1 0 Sands p-p 0 0 0 0Swanson ss 4 0 0 0 Gallo 1b-rf 5 2 2 4Mastrobuoni ss 1 0 0 0 Kirilloff dh 3 3 3 2Happ lf 3 0 1 0 Solano dh 1 0 0 0Bellinger cf 5 0 0 0 Correa ss 5 1 2 3Suzuki rf 2 0 1 0 Polanco 2b 5 1 1 2Morel 2b 4 1 1 0 Larnach rf 3 0 1 0Mervis 1b 3 0 0 0 Taylor ph-cf 1 0 0 0Hosmer dh 3 0 0 0 Gordon cf-lf 4 0 0 0Barnhart c 3 0 2 1 Farmer 3b 3 1 1 0 Castro lf-rf 4 1 1 0 Jeffers c 2 2 2 0Totals 33 1 6 1 Totals 36 11 13 11Chicago 000 000 100 — 1Minnesota 104 020 13x — 11E–Mastrobuoni (1). LOB–Chicago 12, Min nesota 5. 2B–Suzuki (6), Castro (4), Kirilloff (1), Gallo (5). HR–Kirilloff 2 (2), Gallo (8), Po lanco (3), Correa (6). IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Wesneski L,2-2 5 7 7 7 1 5 Rucker 1 2 0 0 0 2 Hughes 1 1 1 1 0 0 Boxberger 2/3 3 3 3 2 1Fulmer 1/3 0 0 0 0 1Minnesota Ryan W,6-1 6 4 0 0 1 10 Moran 1 2 1 1 1 2 Sands 2 0 0 0 5 2 HBP–Wesneski (Jeffers).Umpires–Home, Emil Jimenez; First, Chris Segal; Second, Brian O’Nora; Third, Pat Hoberg.T–2:52. A–32,270 (38,544). MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STANDINGS AND SCORES “Hey guys. Let’s go! We got this!” Judge recalled Cordero telling his team mates in the middle of the fth. “That kind of pumped everybody up.” New York batted around in consecutive frames, part of a stretch in which 22 of 37 batters reached in a 2 1 / 2 -inning span. Wearing pink spikes on Mother’s Day weekend with mom Patty in the ballpark, Judge found his stroke after going 3 for 15 in his return from an injured list stint caused by a strained hip. His homers were his rst since April 19 and gave him 29 multihomer games. Jake Bauers walked start ing the bottom of the fth and Kyle Higashioka hit a two-run homer on a change up. Gleyber Torres walked and Judge followed with an opposite-eld homer to right-center on a low, inside slider. “These are some of the funnest games we’ve played all year,” Judge said. “They’re bringing it ev ery single night and we’re bringing it every single night. It’s a lot of dirty at-bats, grinding at-bats.” Volpe reached on a bunt single to the left side off Ryan Thompson (1-1) start ing the sixth, stole second and third, then sped home on the next offering when Thompson’s slider was out side and in the dirt, eluding catcher Francisco Mejía for a wild pitch. “Those are energy plays,” Boone said. Volpe is 13 for 13 in steal attempts, one more than DiMaggio from the start of his career until he was caught at home by Boston on Sept. 25, 1938, as part of a double-steal attempt with Lou Gehrig. “Any time I get on, I want to try to push the envelope,” Volpe said. Torres walked and Judge drove a slider 439 feet into the left eld second deck for his eighth homer this season and a 7-6 lead. “I threw a really bad pitch to one of the best players in the game.” Thompson said. Orlando Cabrera, who entered as a pinch hitter in the fth, boosted the lead to 9-6 with a two-run sin gle against Javy Guerra on a grounder that just eluded a diving Walls at second and went into right eld. Arozarena hit a broken-bat, two-run single in the seventh against Clay Holmes after two batters reached off Ron Marinaccio. Díaz stranded a runner at second in the eighth when he took a called third strike from Holmes in a nine-pitch at-bat, and Wandy Peralta worked around a two-out walk in the ninth for his sec ond save this season. Bran don Lowe fouled off six 1-2 pitches before a game-end ing yout. “He spoiled, spoiled, spoiled and hung in there,” Boone said. After losing last Sunday 8-7 in 10 innings at Tampa Bay, New York overcame a six-run decit to win for the rst time since rallying from 8-2 down to beat Minnesota 14-12 on July 23, 2019. The last-place Yankees (23-19) closed within eight games of the major league-leading Rays. “This is a big win,” Judge said. Cortes gave up six runs and seven hits in 4 1 / 3 in nings and has allowed 15 runs in his last three starts as his ERA ballooned to 5.53. He wore green cleats with the name and picture of Tam Major, a standard bred horse Cortes owns that was entered in the 10th race at the Meadowlands on Sat urday night. McClanahan entered 7-0 with a 1.76 ERA and had not allowed more than two runs in his rst eight starts. He gave up four runs, four hits and four walks in four-plus innings. “I just didn’t make qual ity pitches,” he said. “I got to do better than that. The team expects it. I ex pect it. The fans expect it. Terrible.”Up nextRHP Clarke Schmidt (1-3) starts Sunday for New York and RHP Zack Ein (4-1) for the Rays. RAYSFrom page B1 Bebeto Matthews / AP Tampa Bay Rays first baseman Yandy Diaz, center, slap hands with teammates after hitting a grand slam in the fifth inning against the New York Yankees on Saturday in New York. May 14 1913 – Washington’s Walter Johnson gave up a run in the fourth inning against the St. Louis Browns to end his streak of 56 scoreless innings. The Senators won 10-5. 1920 – Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators recorded his 300th victory with a 9-8 win over the Detroit Tigers. 1965 – Carl Yastrzemski of Boston hit for the cycle and added another home run for five RBIs in a 12-8 10-inning loss to the Detroit Tigers. 1966 – Roberto Clemente’s sixth and final career home run off Sandy Koufax is anoth er no-doubter. It comes during Koufax’s final season, the net result being one less shutout for Sandy and one more moon shot for Clemente 1967 – Mickey Mantle’s 500th home run, off Stu Miller, lifted the New York Yankees to a 6-5 victory over the Balti more Orioles. 1977 – Jim Colborn of the Kansas City Royals no-hit the Texas Rangers for a 6-0 victory. THIS DATE IN BASEBALL By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — Kenley Jansen blew a ninth-in ning lead for the second straight day when short stop Kiké Hernández’s throwing error on a poten tial game-ending double play allowed Nolan Gor man to score the go-ahead run in a three-run ninth in ning, lifting the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. The Red Sox wasted a stellar start by Chris Sale, who pitched eight innings of one-run ball in his lon gest outing since 2019. Nolan Arenado had a solo homer for St. Louis a day after collecting four hits with a two-run homer. The Cardinals won Fri day’s game with a three-run ninth that was capped by Gorman’s pinch-hit, two-run homer off Jansen. Rob Refsnyder had a two-run double and three hits, and Rafael Devers added an RBI single for the Red Sox. “We got a ground ball in the situation when we needed it,” Boston man ager Alex Cora said. “We didn’t turn the double play. It’s one of those when (Jansen) was wild early-on, they got trafc and put pressure on us.” Jansen (1-2) walked Paul Goldschmidt and Willson Contreras, with Contreras reaching when ball four came on a pitch clock violation. After Arenado popped out, pinch hit ter Gorman had an RBI double. Brendan Don ovan was intentionally walked. Pinch hitter Alec Burleson then hit a fairly slow grounder to second and Hernández, trying to make the DP turn quick ly, bounced the throw past rst and into Boston’s dugout, allowing Gorman to score the go-ahead run after Contreras scored the tying run. “We’re pushing with our words,” Cardinals man ager Oliver Marmol said, using his hands to ges ture forward when asked what he was thinking as Burleson raced down the line for what would have been a close play. “It worked out well for us,” Marmol said, smiling. Andre Pallante (2-0) worked a scoreless inning for the win and Giovanny Gallegos earned his third save. Mixing a fastball in the 96-mph range with his usual sharp moving slid er, Sale held the Cardinals scoreless until Arenado homered over the Green Monster leading off the seventh. “It’s huge, especially against Jansen, great ca reer as a closer, hopeful ly he’s a Hall of Famer,” Contreras said. “We did our job last night and to day not giving up. We played until the last out.” Sale struck out nine, giv ing up three hits with one walk, throwing 77 of his 110 pitches for strikes. He nished the seventh by striking out Paul De Jong swinging on a slider down – his third K of the inning – and left to a nice ovation. But he wasn’t done there. Sale pitched a perfect eighth and left to a loud ovation, ending his lon gest outing since he went eight shutout against the Los Angeles Angels in Fenway Park on Aug. 8, 2019. “It was big,” Sale said of the chance to go out for the eighth. “I’ve said be fore, our job as starters is to take up as much of the game as we can.” Cardinals starter Steven Matz gave up three runs and eight hits in 5 1 / 3 in nings. With left-handed batters hitting just .130 com ing into the game against Matz, lefty-batting Devers lined an RBI single off the Monster in the rst before ending the inning when he was caught trying to stretch it into a double. Inserted into the third spot into the order by Cora for his success against left-handed pitchers with a .293 average this sea son, Refsnysder lined his double off the Monster off Matz to make it 3-0 in the third. ——— Rangers 5, Athletics 0 OAKLAND, Calif. — Jon Gray took a no-hitter into the seventh and finished with eight scoreless innings, Nathaniel Lowe homered to extend his hitting streak to 12 games, and Texas beat Oakland. Ezequiel Duran also connected on a two-run homer in the ninth for the AL West-leading Rangers, who are 24-15 for their best mark through 39 games since going 25-14 in 2013. Gray (3-1) retired 20 of the first 22 batters he faced and worked around a pair of walks while dom inating the worst team in baseball. He set down the first two batters in the seventh before the light-hit ting Jace Peterson slapped a sin gle to right for the A’s first hit. John King worked the ninth inning for Texas to complete the five-hitter. Mariners 5, Tigers 0 DETROIT — Rookie righthander Bryce Miller shut down Detroit for seven innings as Seat tle moved above .500 for the first time since a win on opening day. Miller (2-0) allowed three hits, two in the first inning, and struck out three while walking none. Jarred Kelenic hit a two-run home run and Teoscar Hernández hit a solo homer. They are tied for the team lead with eight. Alex Faedo (0-1), making his second start of the season and first career appearance against the Mariners, allowed three runs on four hits while walking one and striking out seven in his second start of the season and first against Seattle. Reds 6, Marlins 5 MIAMI — Jake Fraley hit a three-run shot for his third homer in two days as Cincinnati beat Sandy Alcantara and Miami. Henry Ramos had two hits, including a go-ahead RBI double off Alcantara in the eighth. Reliev er Ian Gibaut (3-0) earned the win and Alexis Diaz picked up his ninth save. Alcantara (1-4) squandered two leads. He issued a leadoff walk in the eighth to Jonathan India, who stole second before Fraley’s run-scoring single tied it at 4-all. Alcantara gave up six runs, seven hits, struck out nine and walked two in 7 2 / 3 innings. Miami’s Bryan De La Cruz hit a solo shot, his third of the season, and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit his sev enth homer of the season, a solo shot in the seventh. Blue Jays 5, Braves 2 TORONTO — Bo Bichette sin gled home the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning and finished 2 for 4 with two RBIs as Toronto handed Atlanta its first series loss on the road this season. The Blue Jays won their sec ond straight over Atlanta, which had won six straight series away from home to start the season. Erik Swanson (2-1) got five outs for the win and Jordan Romano earned his 10th save in 12 chanc es. Kevin Kiermaier had three hits and scored twice, and Whit Merri field had three stolen bases and an RBI for Toronto. Atlanta’s Marcell Ozuna hit a two-run homer in the second, his seventh. A.J. Minter (2-5) took the loss. Twins 11, Cubs 1 MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Kirilloff hit two of Minnesota’s sea son-high five home runs in a rout over Chicago. Joey Gallo, Jorge Polanco and Carlos Correa also homered for the Twins. Joe Ryan (6-1) got plenty of run support, striking out 10 in six scoreless innings, includ ing striking out the side in the sixth. Kirilloff, appearing in just his seventh game this season, opened the scoring with an oppo site-field solo shot to left in the first. His second homer came three pitches after Gallo’s tower ing drive to the second deck in right-center in the third. It was Kirilloff’s third career multi-homer game and his first since July 5. Cubs starter Hayden Wesneski (2-2) surrendered four of the Twins’ homers in a game that was delayed at the start an hour and 21 minutes by rain.Cards beat Red Sox as Jansen blows 9th inning lead for 2nd straight day 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 B3 AUTO RACING NASCAR-Xfinity AuShriners Children’s 200 Results Saturday At Darlington Raceway Darlington, S.C. Lap length: 1.37 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (3) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 147 laps, 0 points.2. (17) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 147, 43.3. (5) Cole Custer, Ford, 147, 47.4. (10) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 147, 46.5. (1) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 147, 51.6. (25) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 147, 0.7. (13) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 147, 33.8. (4) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 147, 42.9. (26) Kaz Grala, Toyota, 147, 28.10. (24) Corey Heim, Toyota, 147, 0.11. (9) Sammy Smith, Toyota, 147, 27.12. (15) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 147, 25.13. (23) Parker Kligerman, Chevrolet, 147, 26.14. (19) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 147, 23.15. (20) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 147, 22.16. (12) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 147, 23.17. (27) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 147, 20.18. (21) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 147, 0.19. (30) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 147, 0.20. (14) Brett Moftt, Ford, 147, 18.21. (31) Patrick Emerling, Ford, 147, 16.22. (28) Stefan Parsons, Chevrolet, 147, 15.23. (35) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 147, 14.24. (8) Parker Retzlaff, Chevrolet, 147, 13.25. (7) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 147, 16.26. (33) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 147, 11.27. (16) Ryan Sieg, Ford, 146, 14.28. (34) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 146, 0.29. (36) Gray Gaulding, Ford, 146, 8.30. (29) Kyle Sieg, Ford, 146, 7.31. (22) Sage Karam, Chevrolet, 144, 6.32. (37) Joe Graf Jr, Ford, accident, 140, 5.33. (32) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, accident, 74, 4.34. (11) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, acci dent, 68, 6.35. (2) Ryan Truex, Toyota, accident, 68, 7.36. (6) Chandler Smith, Chevrolet, accident, 67, 1.37. (38) Blaine Perkins, Chevrolet, suspen sion, 35, 1.38. (18) Riley Herbst, Ford, accident, 29, 1. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 91.927 mph.Time of Race: 2 hours, 11 minutes, 4 sec onds.Margin of Victory: 1.337 seconds.Caution Flags: 10 for 51 laps.Lead Changes: 18 among 9 drivers.Lap Leaders: J.Nemechek 0-6; S.Mayer 7-40; A.Hill 41; J.Clements 42; K.Larson 43-57; S.Mayer 58; K.Larson 59-74; J.Ne mechek 75; K.Larson 76-89; J.Nemechek 90-92; J.Allgaier 93; G.Gaulding 94; C.Ho cevar 95-97; J.Nemechek 98-127; J.Allgai er 128; P.Emerling 129; J.Nemechek 130-146; K.Larson 147; A.Hill 148Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): J.Nemechek, 5 times for 57 laps; K.Larson, 4 times for 46 laps; S.Mayer, 2 times for 35 laps; C.Hocevar, 1 time for 3 laps; J.Allgaier, 2 times for 2 laps; A.Hill, 2 times for 2 laps; J.Clements, 1 time for 1 lap; P.Emerling, 1 time for 1 lap; G.Gaulding, 1 time for 1 lap.Wins: A.Hill, 3; J.Nemechek, 2; C.Smith, 1; S.Smith, 1; J.Burton, 1; R.Truex, 1.Top 16 in Points: 1. J.Nemechek, 424; 2. A.Hill, 423; 3. J.Allgaier, 371; 4. J.Berry, 367; 5. C.Custer, 365; 6. C.Smith, 340; 7. S.Creed, 330; 8. S.Smith, 323; 9. R.Herbst, 313; 10. S.Mayer, 309; 11. D.Hemric, 307; 12. P.Kli german, 274; 13. J.Burton, 273; 14. B.Jones, 264; 15. R.Sieg, 244; 16. B.Moftt, 234. NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.The formula combines the following cate gories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Av erage Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish. NASCAR Cup Series Goodyear 400 Lineup After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Darlington Raceway Darlington, S.C. Lap length: 1.37 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (19) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 169.409 mph.2. (23) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 169.339.3. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 168.752.4. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet, 168.342.5. (1) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 168.094.6. (99) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 167.836.7. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 167.562.8. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 167.465.9. (45) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 167.311.10. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 166.292.11. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 169.228.12. (8) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 168.949.13. (54) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 168.908.14. (21) Harrison Burton, Ford, 168.891.15. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 168.764.16. (20) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 168.192.17. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 168.002.18. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 167.888.19. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford, 167.699.20. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 167.562.21. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 167.527.22. (31) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 167.345.23. (48) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 167.271.24. (38) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 167.191.25. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford, 167.106.26. (51) Ryan Newman, Ford, 167.038.27. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford, 166.947.28. (43) Erik Jones, Chevrolet, 166.908.29. (42) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 166.828.30. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 166.693.31. (14) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 165.665.32. (41) Ryan Preece, Ford, 165.231.33. (77) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 164.133.34. (7) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet, 163.560.35. (78) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 160.827.36. (15) Brennan Poole, Ford, 160.266. NBA SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Friday, May 12 Miami 96, New York 92, Miami wins series 4 – 2L.A. Lakers 122, Golden State 101, L.A. Lakers wins series 4 – 2 Sunday, May 14 Phila. at Boston, 3:30 p.m. CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Tuesday, May 16 L.A. Lakers at Denver, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18 L.A. Lakers at Denver, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, May 20 Denver at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Monday, May 22 Denver at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 24 x-L.A. Lakers at Denver, TBA Friday, May 26 x-Denver at L.A. Lakers, TBA Sunday, May 28 x-L.A. Lakers at Denver, TBA NHL SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) Friday, May 12 Florida 3, Toronto 2, OT, Florida wins series 4 – 1Vegas 4, Edmonton 3, Vegas leads series 3 – 2 Saturday, May 13 Seattle 6, Dallas 3 Sunday, May 14 Vegas at Edmonton, 10 p.m. TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BOSTON RED SOX — Selected the contract of INF/OF Pablo Reyes from Worcester (IL). Optioned INF Bobby Dalbec to Worcester.CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed SS Elvis Andrus on the 10-day IL. Reinstated 3B Romy Gonzalez from the 10-day IL.KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with 1B Greyson Jenista on a minor league contract.LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Assigned RHP Cesar Valdez outright to Salt Lake (PCL).MINNESOTA TWINS — Recalled RHP Cole Sands from St. Paul (IL). Optioned RHP Dereck Rodriguez to St. Paul. Placed OF Max Kepler on the 10-day IL. Recalled OF Trevor Larnach from St. Paul.OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled RHP James Kaprielian from Las Vegas (PCL). Designated RHP Spencer Patton for assign ment. Assinged RF Seth Brown to Las Vegas on a rehab assignment. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned RHP Kevin AUTO RACING 3 p.m. (FS1): NASCAR Cup Series Goodyear 400 3 p.m. (NBC): IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship Monterey MLB 1:30 p.m. (SUN): Tampa Bay Rays at New York Yankees 1:30 p.m. (BSF): Cincinnati Reds at Miami Marlins 1:30 p.m. (MLBN): Atlanta Braves at Toronto Blue Jays or Cincinnati Reds at Miami Marlins4:30 p.m. (MLBN): San Diego Padres at Los Angeles Dodgers or San Francisco Giants at Arizona Diamond backs7 p.m. (ESPN): St. Louis Cardinals at Boston Red Sox COLLEGE BASEBALL 12 p.m. (ACC): Miami at Pittsburgh 12 p.m. (BIGTEN): Minnesota at Maryland 12 p.m. (ESPN2): Penn State at Nebraska 1 p.m. (SEC): Georgia at Missouri 3 p.m. (ACC): Clemson at Virginia Tech 3 p.m. (BIGTEN): Northwestern at Michigan 4 p.m. (SEC): Alabama at Texas A&M NBA PLAYOFFS TBD (TBD): Phildelphia 76ers at Boston Celtics, Game 7 TBD (ABC): Los Angeles Lakers at Golden State Warriors, Game 7 (if necessary) USFL 12 p.m. (NBC): New Jersey Generals vs. Philadelphia Stars3 p.m. (FOX): Memphis Showboats vs. New Orleans Breakers GOLF 7:30 a.m. (GOLF): DP World Tour Soudal Open, Final Round1 p.m. (GOLF): PGA Tour AT&T Byron Nelson, Final Round 1 p.m. (WTTA): LIV Invitational Series 3 p.m. (GOLF): 2023 Regions Tradition Final Round 3 p.m. (CBS): PGA Tour AT&T Byron Nelson, Final Round 5 p.m. (GOLF): LPGA Tour Cognizant Founders Cup, Final Round HOCKEY 6 a.m. (NHL): 2023 IIHF World Championship United States vs. Hungary9 a.m. (NHL): 2023 IIHF World Championship Norway vs. Switzerland1 p.m. (NHL): 2023 IIHF World Championship Sweden vs. Austria NHL PLAYOFFS TBD (TBD): Toronto Maple Leafs at Florida Panthers, Game 6 (if necessary)TBD (TBD): Vegas Golden Knights at Edmonton Oilers, Game 6 SOCCER 9 a.m. (USA): Premier League – Everton vs. Manchester City11:30 a.m. (USA): Premier League – Arsenal vs. Brighton & Hove Albion2:55 p.m. (ESPN): Spanish Primera Division – Espanyol vs. Barcelona9:30 p.m. (FS1): MLS – San Jose Earthquakes at LA Gal axy TENNIS 8 a.m. (BSF): 2023 Internazionali BNL d’Italia ATP/WTA Third Round1 p.m. (TENNIS): 2023 Internazionali BNL d’Italia ATP/ WTA Third Round5 a.m. (TENNIS): 2023 Internazionali BNL d’Italia ATP Third Round, WTA Round of 16 WATER SPORTS 10 p.m. (ESPNU): Women’s College Water Polo NCAA Championship – Teams TBA ON THE AIRWAVES LOTTERY NUMBERS POWERBALL 21-24-33-55-69-3-x10 Next Jackpot: Saturday, May 13, 2023 $125 MILLIONMEGA MILLIONS Friday, May 12, 2023 1-2-23-40-45-15-x3 Winning Numbers Next Jackpot: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 $113 MILLIONLOTTO Wednesday, May 10, 2023 8-11-19-39-43-45 Next Jackpot: Saturday, May 13, 2023 $34.75 MILLIONCASH 4 LIFE Friday, May 12, 2023 13-15-19-42-45-3 Winning Numbers Top Prize: Saturday, May 13, 2023 $1,000/DAY FOR LIFEJACKPOT TRIPLE PLAY Friday, May 12, 2023 13-20-33-38-40-43 Winning Numbers Next Jackpot: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 $2 MILLION CASH POPSaturday, May 13, 2023 Morning 15 Saturday, May 13, 2023 Matinee 13 Saturday, May 13, 2023 Afternoon 15 Friday, May 12, 2023 Evening 1 Friday, May 12, 2023 Late Night 2 FANTASY 5 Saturday, May 13, 2023 Midday 5-6-15-19-33 Friday, May 12, 2023 Evening -13-21-28-31-32PICK 5 Saturday, May 13, 2023 6-9-1-0-3 5 Friday, May 12, 2023 5-5-6-2-8 0PICK 4 Saturday, May 13, 2023 8-5-8-3 5 Friday, May 12, 2023 8-7-9-1 0PICK 3Saturday, May 13, 2023 8-3-2 5 Friday, May 12, 2023 3-9-0 0 PICK 2Saturday, May 13, 2023 5-2 5 Friday, May 12, 2023 7-6 0 the all-GC8 honors in boys track. First-team honors went to the Citrus 4x800 team of Logan Shaw, Robbie Mullins, Randall Luke and Luke Martone, Miles Tobin in the 1,600 and 3,200, Martone in the 800, the Lecanto 4x400 team of Darius Gainer, Don ovan Foster, Tez Joseph and Travis LaBelle, Burke Malmberg in the shot put, Morgan Resch in the pole vault, Logan Feuston in the javelin and Gainer in the long jump and triple jump. Evan Tobin and Kyler Bishop of Citrus earned honorable mention hon ors, as did Ben Williams and Wade Koos of Crystal River. In boys weightlifting, rst-team all-GC8 hon ors went to Dylan Bryson of Citrus at 129 pounds, Colton McNelly of Citrus at 219 and Lecanto’s Burke Malmberg at unlimited. Honorable mention se lections were Carl Wilson and Alex Naugler of Cit rus, Karl Robinson and Junior Reed of Crystal River and Lecanto state medalists James Greene and Trevor Rueck. All-GC8 rst-team soft ball selections were pitch er Violet Flynn of Crystal River, inelder Riley Tir rell of Citrus and outeld er Paisley Williamson of Citrus. Honorable mention picks were Bella Arnold and Bailey Goodwin of Citrus, Athena Childs and Hannah Messer of Crystal River and Kayla Bilbey and Emma Christensen of Lecanto. Baseball rst-team picks from the county were in elders Cris Walley of Citrus and Wyatt Pochis of Crystal River. Dalton Denham and Jayden Pelletier of Citrus were honorable mention, as were Karson Nadal and Eli Langston of Crystal River and Lecanto’s Nick Sloane and Dylan Czer winski. GC8From page B1 MATT PFIFFNER / Sports editor Mallori Grey of Lecanto was named Gulf Coast 8 Conference girls track co-Athlete of the Year. By TIM BOOTH Associated Press SEATTLE — Jordan Eberle scored twice, Eeli Tolvanen had a goal and two assists, and the Seat tle Kraken beat the Dallas Stars 6-3 on Saturday night to force a deciding Game 7 in their Western Confer ence seminal series. Tolvanen’s goal in the opening minutes of the second period gave Seat tle a 3-1 lead. Rookie Tye Kartye scored his third of the playoffs beating Jake Oettinger with a wrist shot less than three minutes lat er, and the Kraken with stood several pushes by the Stars to send the series back to Texas. Matty Beniers and Yanni Gourde each added a goal and an assist for Seattle, which is headed to the sec ond Game 7 in the its short playoff history after oust ing defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado with a 2-1 win in the deciding game of the opening round. The Kraken are the sixth team in league history to go to a Game 7 in each of the franchise’s rst two playoff series. Philipp Grubauer stopped 20 shots for the win. Mason Marchment, Joe Pavelski and Joel Kiviran ta scored for Dallas. Oet tinger gave up four goals on 18 shots before he was pulled 4 1 / 2 minutes into the second period. Scott Wedgewood came on and stopped nine of the 10 shots he faced. Game 7 will be Monday night in Dallas. The Stars last played a Game 7 in the second round of the 2020 playoffs in the NHL bubble in Edmonton when Dallas beat Colorado 5-4 in overtime. This will be rst Game 7 in Dallas since the second round in 2016, when Stars lost 6-1 to St. Louis after giving up three rst period goals. Pavelski scored his 72nd career playoff goal and his eighth of the series when he redirected Miro Heiskanen’s shot form the point during a power play in the second period. Pavel ski is tied with Alex Ovech kin for the most playoff goals among active players. And he could have had more. Pavelski nearly add ed a second goal in the opening seconds of the third period, but his shot hit the post and Heiskanen’s rebound attempt slid wide of the goal mouth. Mo ments later, Jason Rob ertson’s shot from the slot hit the same post and rico cheted away from danger. Seattle appeared to put a wrap on the win when Beniers nished a 2-on-1 off a pass from Eberle with his third playoff goal at 8:43 of the third period following a key penalty kill by the Kraken. But 16 sec onds later Kiviranta tipped Thomas Harley’s shot from the point past Grubauer to pull the Stars back to 5-3. It created a unnerving nal few minutes for Seattle until Eberle’s empty-netter with 58 seconds left. Grubauer was excellent in goal for Seattle, especially in the second period when Dallas made a push. He had 11 saves in the period. Oettinger was pulled after giving up Kartye’s goal and his 24 minutes, 23 seconds time on ice was the shortest start of his career. Gourde gave Seattle the start it needed, following up his initial shot and beat ing Oettinger at 8:59 of the rst period. Marchment scored 31 seconds later to pull the Stars even, but Eberle’s power-play goal at 16:46 of the period restored Seattle’s advantage.Kraken outshine Stars 6-3, send series to deciding Game 7 By GREG BEACHAM Associated Press LOS ANGELES — After every twist and turn in the soap opera saga of LeBron James’ four seasons along side Anthony Davis with the Los Angeles Lakers, one truth remains perfectly clear. This is a champion ship-caliber partnership when James and Davis are both healthy. One or both superstars have been injured for long stretches of the three sea sons since their 2020 bub ble championship, and the Lakers’ road back to con tention has been incredibly rocky because of it. The en tire roster around them has been completely changed since that ring, but James and Davis are still here, still ghting. Now they’re both healthy at the same time again, and the rest of the NBA has been reminded what hap pens when this dynamic duo can y at full strength. James and Davis were at their best while the Lakers eliminated the defending champion Golden State Warriors in six games, cap ping a masterful effort with a 122-101 victory Friday night. When asked why the sev enth-seeded Lakers nd themselves four games from the NBA Finals just three months after they were six games below .500 and in 13th place in the Western Conference, James praised the front ofce for overhauling the roster around the trade deadline with the arrivals of D’Angelo Russell, Rui Hachimura and Jarred Van derbilt. But James quickly add ed a second reason: “Also, staying healthy. We weren’t as healthy as we would like to be, but we still played good basketball after the break to put us in the posi tion.” LeBron and AD have won six of their seven playoff series together, losing only when Davis was hurt in the rst round against Phoenix in 2021. The Lakers are 95-49 when James and Davis are playing together, and this postseason has been an archetypal example of what they can do. They’re coming off a tre mendously disappointing 2021-22 season in which they missed the playoffs while going 33-49, leading to Frank Vogel’s ring and Darvin Ham’s arrival. Da vis’ injury problems limit ed him to 40 games, while James played in only 56. But these Lakers are al most nothing like those Lakers: Other than James and Davis, only Austin Reaves and backup big man Wenyen Gabriel remain from last year’s roster. “When you have guys like Bron and AD who have won championships, you always feel like you have a chance, especially with the roster that we have, the talent that we have,” said Reaves, the undrafted free agent who seized a starting role down the stretch. James had 30 points, nine rebounds and nine assists in Game 6, repeatedly making stunning plays that answered anybody who thinks the top scorer in NBA history has lost any thing at 38.Healthy and happy: LeBron James, Anthony Davis lead Lakers back to conference finalsHerget to Louisville (IL). Recalled RHP Levi Stoudt from Louisville. Agreed to terms with RHP Brett Kennedy from Long Island (AL) and assigned him to Louisville (IL).COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated RHP Chase Anderson to the active roster. Placed RHP Antonio Senzatela on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 11.MILWUAKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with CF Michael Reed on a minor league contract.PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Reinstated LHP Ranger Suarez from a Lehigh Valley (IL) rehab assignment and his 15-day IL. Op tioned RHP Luis Ortiz to Lehigh Valley.SAN FRANCISCO — INF Darin Ruf cleared waivers and elected free agency. BASKETBALL National Women’s Basketball Association LOS ANGELES SPARKS — Waived Fs Crys tal Bradford and Reshanda Gray.PHOENIX MERCURY — Waived G Destiny Slocum and F Liz Dixon. FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed TE Dalton Kin caid to a rookie contract.HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed CB Shaquill Griffin to a one-year contract.MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived T Jarret Horst, OLs Alex Jensen and D.J. Scaife. Canadian Football EDMONTON ELKS — Released DL Nick Andrews, OL Erick Browne, Peter Kozushka and DBs Rashard Causey Jr., T.J. Newell II, Denzel Washington and Devious Christmon, LB Vincent DiLeo and Javahn Fergurson, P Noah Gettman, RBs Trayone Gray, Lexington Thomas and Mekhai Johnson and DL Riley Szafranski. HOCKEY Minor League Hockey East Coast Hockey League ECHL — Fined Allen F Mikael Robidoux an undisclosed amount for spearing in a game on May 12 against Idaho.FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Activated F Will Calverley from reserve. Placed F Joe Pen denza on reserve.IDAHO STEELHEADS — Activated F Zane Franklin from reserve. Placed F Jack Beck er on reserve.READING ROYALS — Activated F Solag Ba kich from reserve. Placed D Mike Chen on reserve. SOCCER Major League Soccer D.C. UNITED — Placed F Nigel Robertha on the IL.NEW YORK RED BULLS — Signed G Will Meyer from NYRB II to a short-term loan. 

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B4 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS McKINNEY, Texas — Scottie Schefer is looking up on the leaderboard at the AT&T Byron Nelson at a couple of contemporaries without nearly the resume the Dallas resident has built over the past 15 months. In fact, Austin Eckroat and China’s Marty Dou are seeking a rst PGA Tour victory. The Oklahoma-raised Eckroat shot an 8-under 63, one better than Dou, and the pair shared a two-shot lead with Texan Ryan Palmer at 16 under after the third round of the Nelson on Sat urday. Schefer was in the group at 14 under after the home town favorite faltered with a bogey at the par-5 18th when his second shot hit the lip of a fairway bunker and stayed in it. Palmer had an eagle putt for the outright lead on 18, but the 35-footer stopped just short, leaving him at 68. Schefer shot even-par 71 after the best two-round start to his career with a pair of 64s. Dou, who lives in the Dal las area and is on his home course at the TPC Craig Ranch, is the same age as the 26-year-old Schefer. Eckroat is just two years younger and says he played plenty of golf “from all ages” with the former Texas Longhorn. They might as well be years apart on pedigree. Schefer has the 2022 Masters title among six career victories – all since February of last year – and knows he will be in the eld for the PGA Championship next week at Oak Hill. Eckroat would appreciate the spot in the eld at Oak Hill that a win at the Nelson would earn him. The former Oklahoma State player has plenty at stake regardless. “A lot of job security,” Eckroat said. “A lot of things come with winning a PGA Tour event, and just hoping to get that done.” Dou, who settled in the Dallas area about ve years ago so he could pursue a career in golf, doesn’t even want to think about what a victory would mean in his home country. “It’s going to be big for sure,” said Dou, a three-time winner on the Korn Ferry Tour. “There is a whole lot more golf to play, so I’m in good in the position like this, creating more chances, and that’s all I’m thinking.” Vincent Norrman of Swe den shot 65 and was at 14 under with Schefer, Jason Day (66) and Si Woo Kim (68). There were 25 players within ve shots of the lead.Dustin Johnson goes low for 63, leads by 2 at LIV Golf TulsaBROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Dustin Johnson nal ly looks to be getting his game back together, post ing a 7-under 63 to take a two-shot lead into the nal round of LIV Golf Tulsa. Johnson, a two-time major winner and former No. 1 player in the world, won the points title in LIV Golf’s nal season. But he has yet to nish closer than ve shots of the winner in the ve events of the Saudi-funded league this year. His 63 at Cedar Ridge came with a bogey on the nal hole. Johnson was at 14-under 126, two shots ahead of Branden Grace of South Africa. Grace, who opened with a 61, had a 67. Bubba Watson shot 64 and was four shots behind. No one else was closer than ve shots going into the third and nal round. Talor Gooch, who grew up in Oklahoma and played at Oklahoma State, won the last two LIV Golf events. He shot a 71 on Saturday and was 13 shots behind. Charles Howell III had the low round among the six players with Oklahoma ties. Howell, who played at Oklahoma State, was eight shots behind at 134 along with fellow Cowboy alum nus Matthew Wolff (68) and former Oklahoma Sooner Abraham Ancer (66). Phil Mickelson, a run ner-up at the Masters, had four bogeys in his round of 69 and was near the bottom of the leaderboard in the 48-man eld.Sweden’s Forsstrom stays on course for wire-to-wire winANTWERP, Belgium — Swedish golfer Simon Forsstrom stayed on course for a wire-to-wire victory at the Soudal Open on the European tour by shoot ing 4-under 67 in the third round. Belgium’s Thomas Detry was making a run at the title in his home country, howev er, after moving into second place – one stroke behind Forsstrom – with a round of 66. Forsstrom, who came through qualifying school at the end of last year to gain his tour card, was on 15 un der overall as he goes for his rst senior victory. The No. 429-ranked Forsstrom has made only one bogey all week – in his second round, in which he also shot 67 – and made three birdies in his nal six holes on Saturday. Julien Brun of France and Jens Dantorp of Sweden both shot 67s and were tied for third place, three strokes from the lead.Karlsson, Stricker share 54-hole lead at Regions TraditionBIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Robert Karlsson and de fending champion Steve Stricker surged into the lead at the Regions Tradition, with Karlsson shooting a 9-under 63 to match the low score since this PGA Tour Champions major moved to its current venue. Stricker closed with four straight birdies for a 64 to match Karlsson at 16-under 200 on the Founders Course at Greystone, two shots ahead of Padraig Harrington (65). “I needed to get that n ish just to stay somewhere near him,” Stricker said. “I played well all the way around today. Made a few putts, missed a few. “But I made a lot of nice ones coming in so that was a good feeling.”Lee of Australia takes 3-shot lead into Founders Cup finaleCLIFTON, N.J. — For the rst two rounds of the Founders Cup, defending champion Minjee Lee of Australia just wanted to put herself in position to repeat. Her third-round 5-under 67 put the 26-year-old in great position to become only the second player to successfully defend a title in the event that honors the 13 founding members of the LPGA Tour. Matching the day’s low est round, Lee overcame an early bogey and opened a three-shot lead over Amer ican Angel Yin and South Korean rookie Hae Ran Ryu heading in the nal round at Upper Montclair Country Club.Eckroat, Dou, Palmer share third-round lead at Byron Nelson LM Otero / AP Austin Eckroat hits a tee shot on the second hole during the third round of the Byron Nelson golf tournament on Saturday in McKinney, Texas. GOLF AT&T Byron Nelson Saturday At TPC Craig Ranch McKinney, Texas Purse: $9.5 million Yardage: 7,414; Par: 71 Third Round Zecheng Dou 63-70-64—197 -16Austin Eckroat 69-65-63—197 -16Ryan Palmer 64-65-68—197 -16Jason Day 64-69-66—199 -14Si Woo Kim 65-66-68—199 -14Vincent Norrman 68-66-65—199 -14Scottie Schefer 64-64-71—199 -14Tyrrell Hatton 68-67-65—200 -13Sung Kang 66-68-66—200 -13Patton Kizzire 66-70-64—200 -13Richy Werenski 64-68-68—200 -13Sean O’Hair 65-69-67—201 -12C.T. Pan 67-66-68—201 -12Carson Young 70-68-63—201 -12Byeong Hun An 67-67-68—202 -11Aaron Baddeley 71-65-66—202 -11Sang-Moon Bae 66-68-68—202 -11Joseph Bramlett 68-67-67—202 -11James Hahn 67-69-66—202 -11Scott Harrington 68-68-66—202 -11Mackenzie Hughes 65-64-73—202 -11Henrik Norlander 66-67-69—202 -11Scott Piercy 64-69-69—202 -11Adam Scott 63-71-68—202 -11Sam Stevens 65-68-69—202 -11Christiaan Bezuidenhout 68-69-66—203 -10 Stephan Jaeger 67-71-65—203 -10Hideki Matsuyama 66-67-70—203 -10Taylor Montgomery 71-66-66—203 -10Robby Shelton 70-67-66—203 -10Chris Stroud 68-68-67—203 -10Kevin Tway 66-71-66—203 -10Ryan Armour 71-66-67—204 -9Jonathan Byrd 70-68-66—204 -9Cameron Champ 70-68-66—204 -9Stewart Cink 73-65-66—204 -9Eric Cole 66-68-70—204 -9Trevor Cone 67-68-69—204 -9Tommy Gainey 69-68-67—204 -9Doug Ghim 65-70-69—204 -9Adam Hadwin 67-70-67—204 -9Satoshi Kodaira 68-70-66—204 -9Matt Kuchar 67-68-69—204 -9Peter Kuest 70-67-67—204 -9Martin Laird 72-66-66—204 -9Justin Lower 66-70-68—204 -9Matthew NeSmith 68-69-67—204 -9Seamus Power 69-66-69—204 -9Brice Garnett 67-71-67—205 -8Bill Haas 68-69-68—205 -8Garrick Higgo 69-68-68—205 -8Tom Hoge 67-69-69—205 -8Nate Lashley 67-70-68—205 -8David Micheluzzi 65-73-67—205 -8Augusto Nunez 66-70-69—205 -8Doc Redman 65-69-71—205 -8Brandon Wu 70-68-67—205 -8Tom Kim 71-66-69—206 -7Kyoung-Hoon Lee 70-68-68—206 -7Luke List 64-72-70—206 -7Chad Ramey 66-71-69—206 -7Roger Sloan 68-68-70—206 -7Greg Chalmers 69-65-73—207 -6Harrison Endycott 69-64-74—207 -6Tano Goya 69-68-70—207 -6Brent Grant 68-70-69—207 -6Adam Long 71-65-71—207 -6William McGirt 71-65-71—207 -6Seung-Yul Noh 60-74-73—207 -6Robert Streb 68-70-69—207 -6Jimmy Walker 69-66-72—207 -6Ryan Brehm 69-68-71—208 -5Lucas Glover 72-66-70—208 -5Jim Herman 67-71-70—208 -5Seonghyeon Kim 66-68-74—208 -5Andrew Novak 66-72-70—208 -5Will Gordon 69-67-73—209 -4Davis Thompson 72-66-71—209 -4Vince Whaley 73-65-71—209 -4Aaron Wise 68-70-71—209 -4Parker Coody 69-67-74—210 -3Fabian Gomez 68-70-73—211 -2Harry Hall 67-70-74—211 -2Kelly Kraft 69-67-77—213 E LIV Golf Tulsa Saturday At Cedar Ridge Country Club Tulsa, Ok. Purse: $25 million Yardage: 7,213; Par: 70 Second Round Dustin Johnson 63-63—126 -14Branden Grace 61-67—128 -12Bubba Watson 66-64—130 -10Bryson DeChambeau 68-64—131 -9Cameron Smith 64-68—132 -8Brendan Steele 63-69—132 -8Brooks Koepka 68-64—133 -7Richard Bland 66-67—133 -7Eugenio Chacarra 69-65—134 -6Danny Lee 70-64—134 -6Abraham Ancer 68-66—134 -6Thomas Pieters 67-67—134 -6Joaquin Niemann 64-70—134 -6Matthew Wolff 66-68—134 -6Charles Howell III 70-67—134 -6Dean Burmester 67-68—135 -5Anirban Lahiri 68-67—135 -5Louis Oosthuizen 65-70—135 -5Ian Poulter 67-68—135 -5Bernd Wiesberger 69-67—136 -4Pat Perez 67-69—136 -4Harold Varner III 67-69—136 -4Chase Koepka 67-69—136 -4Patrick Reed 69-67—136 -4Peter Uihlein 71-65—136 -4Mito Pereira 72-64—136 -4Jason Kokrak 70-67—137 -3David Puig 69-68—137 -3Scott Vincent 69-68—137 -3Marc Leishman 69-68—137 -3Henrik Stenson 69-68—137 -3Cameron Tringale 71-66—137 -3Matt Jones 67-71—138 -2Lee Westwood 69-69—138 -2Laurie Canter 67-71—138 -2Paul Casey 68-70—138 -2Sergio Garcia 68-70—138 -2Talor Gooch 68-71—139 -1Martin Kaymer 68-71—139 -1Charl Schwartzel 72-67—139 -1Jediah Morgan 73-66—139 -1Graeme McDowell 68-71—139 -1James Piot 71-69—140 ESihwan Kim 72-68—140 EPhil Mickelson 71-69—140 ECarlos Ortiz 72-69—141 +1Kevin Na 75-66—141 +1Sebastian Munoz 69-73—142 +2 Soudal Open Saturday At Rinkven International GC Antwerp, Belgium Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,940; Par: 71 Third Round Simon Forsstrom, Sweden 64-67-67—198 -15Thomas Detry, Belgium 67-66-66—199 -14Julien Brun, France 67-67-67—201 -12Jens Dantorp, Sweden 65-69-67—201 -12Mike Lorenzo-Vera, France 68-70-64—202 -11Richie Ramsay, Scotland 68-68-66—202 -11Andrew Wilson, England 65-71-66—202 -11David Horsey, England 67-71-65—203 -10Yeongsu Kim, South Korea 72-64-67—203 -10Matthew Southgate, England 69-70-64—203 -10Alexander Bjork, Sweden 66-69-69—204 -9Ryo Hisatsune, Japan 66-71-67—204 -9Jeong-Weon Ko, France 66-66-72—204 -9James Morrison, England 65-69-70—204 -9 Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark 68-67-69—204 -9Darius Van Driel, Netherlands 69-68-67—204 -9Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Thailand 69-68-68—205 -8Marcus Armitage, England 71-65-69—205 -8Dan Bradbury, England 69-70-66—205 -8John Catlin, United States 71-69-65—205 -8Gregory Havret, France 69-70-66—205 -8Craig Howie, Scotland 69-67-69—205 -8Marcus Kinhult, Sweden 66-71-68—205 -8John Murphy, Ireland 69-71-65—205 -8Fabrizio Zanotti, Paraguay 69-66-70—205 -8Daniel Brown, England 68-68-70—206 -7Aaron Cockerill, Canada 70-70-66—206 -7Soren Kjeldsen, Denmark 66-69-71—206 -7Santiago Tarrio, Spain 68-71-67—206 -7Wu Ashun, China 68-69-70—207 -6Todd Clements, England 70-69-68—207 -6Hennie Du Plessis, South Africa 69-69-69—207 -6Ewen Ferguson, Scotland 71-69-67—207 -6Pedro Figueiredo, Portugal 69-70-68—207 -6Angel Hidalgo, Spain 70-68-69—207 -6Felix Mory, France 66-69-72—207 -6Wilco Nienaber, South Africa 68-68-71—207 -6David Ravetto, France 69-68-70—207 -6Robin Sciot-Siegrist, France 67-72-68—207 -6Marcel Siem, Germany 65-72-70—207 -6Kristof Ulenaers, Belgium 70-69-68—207 -6Marc Warren, Scotland 71-68-68—207 -6Emilio Cuartero Blanco, Spain 69-69-70—208 -5Alan De Bondt, Belgium 71-69-68—208 -5Ross Fisher, England 70-69-69—208 -5Deon Germishuys, South Africa 69-71-68—208 -5Eddie Pepperell, England 68-70-70—208 -5Adrien Saddier, France 71-69-68—208 -5Ugo Coussaud, France 69-70-70—209 -4Rikuya Hoshino, Japan 69-69-71—209 -4Frederic Lacroix, France 66-71-72—209 -4Tom Lewis, England 70-69-70—209 -4Zander Lombard, South Africa 70-69-70—209 -4Lukas Nemecz, Austria 73-66-70—209 -4Adrian Otaegui, Spain 69-69-71—209 -4Nick Bachem, Germany 68-69-73—210 -3Alfredo Garcia-Heredia, Spain 70-69-71—210 -3Aguri Iwasaki, Japan 70-69-71—210 -3Maximilian Kieffer, Germany 70-68-72—210 -3David Law, Scotland 72-68-70—210 -3Justin Walters, South Africa 69-71-70—210 -3John Axelsen, Denmark 72-67-72—211 -2Alejandro Del Rey Gonzalez, Spain 66-73-72—211 -2Edoardo Molinari, Italy 71-69-71—211 -2Max Schmitt, Germany 69-70-72—211 -2Connor Syme, Scotland 70-67-74—211 -2Manu Gandas, India 71-68-73—212 -1Kevin Hesbois, Belgium 71-69-72—212 -1Gunner Wiebe, United States 68-72-72—212 -1Daniel Gavins, England 71-69-73—213 EJoshua Lee, United States 69-69-75—213 EJarno Tollenaire, Belgium 71-69-73—213 EThomas Aiken, South Africa 71-67-76—214 +1 Regions Tradition Saturday At Greystone GC Birmingham, Ala. Purse: $2.5 million Yardage: 7,249; Par: 72 Third Round Robert Karlsson 71-66-63—200 -16Steve Stricker 68-68-64—200 -16Padraig Harrington 68-69-65—202 -14Paul Broadhurst 67-68-68—203 -13Alex Cejka 69-68-67—204 -12Jerry Kelly 69-68-67—204 -12Timothy O’Neal 67-69-68—204 -12Marco Dawson 71-68-66—205 -11Miguel Angel Jimenez 70-68-67—205 -11Ken Duke 68-71-67—206 -10Ernie Els 68-66-72—206 -10Stephen Ames 70-70-67—207 -9Richard Green 70-72-65—207 -9Steve Jones 73-69-65—207 -9Scott Parel 71-69-68—208 -8Dicky Pride 71-68-69—208 -8Vijay Singh 72-68-68—208 -8Bob Estes 69-70-70—209 -7Billy Mayfair 71-71-67—209 -7Kevin Sutherland 71-70-68—209 -7Mike Weir 70-68-71—209 -7Darren Clarke 71-69-70—210 -6Thongchai Jaidee 70-71-69—210 -6Colin Montgomerie 72-69-69—210 -6Paul Goydos 69-71-71—211 -5Bernhard Langer 69-72-70—211 -5Joe Durant 70-67-75—212 -4Harrison Frazar 70-74-68—212 -4Tim Petrovic 71-69-72—212 -4Michael Allen 70-71-72—213 -3Billy Andrade 67-74-72—213 -3Stuart Appleby 74-70-69—213 -3Woody Austin 72-73-68—213 -3David McKenzie 70-71-72—213 -3Shane Bertsch 69-72-73—214 -2Steve Flesch 72-73-69—214 -2Tom Lehman 72-69-73—214 -2Scott McCarron 72-70-72—214 -2Kenny Perry 73-70-71—214 -2Paul Stankowski 74-69-71—214 -2Glen Day 74-69-72—215 -1Brett Quigley 75-67-73—215 -1Steven Alker 70-76-70—216 EOlin Browne 70-74-72—216 ERod Pampling 75-71-70—216 EBrian Gay 71-76-70—217 +1Tom Pernice 75-71-71—217 +1Scott Verplank 71-74-72—217 +1 Cognizant Founders Cup Saturday At Upper Montclair Country Club Clifton, N.J. Purse: $3 million Yardage: 6,536 Par: 72 Third Round Minjee Lee 68-69-67—204 -12Hae-Ran Ryu 67-70-70—207 -9Angel Yin 69-70-68—207 -9Aditi Ashok 69-68-71—208 -8Ashleigh Buhai 71-69-68—208 -8Jin Young Ko 68-68-72—208 -8Grace Kim 69-72-68—209 -7Cheyenne Knight 68-70-71—209 -7Nasa Hataoka 68-71-71—210 -6Sei Young Kim 66-76-68—210 -6Stacy Lewis 68-72-70—210 -6Atthaya Thitikul 68-73-69—210 -6Lauren Coughlin 71-70-70—211 -5Georgia Hall 71-69-71—211 -5Sarah Kemp 71-65-75—211 -5Morgane Metraux 74-66-71—211 -5Ryann O’Toole 69-75-67—211 -5Mariajo Uribe 72-70-69—211 -5Celine Borge 73-67-72—212 -4A Lim Kim 75-70-67—212 -4Stephanie Kyriacou 70-69-73—212 -4Anna Nordqvist 69-72-71—212 -4Jenny Shin 72-68-72—212 -4Maddie Szeryk 68-74-70—212 -4Hye Jin Choi 68-71-74—213 -3Maria Fassi 71-70-72—213 -3Wei-Ling Hsu 70-73-70—213 -3Albane Valenzuela 72-67-74—213 -3Ruoning Yin 70-72-71—213 -3Ariya Jutanugarn 72-70-72—214 -2Lydia Ko 72-71-71—214 -2Min Lee 72-73-69—214 -2Na Rin An 69-71-75—215 -1Peiyun Chien 68-71-76—215 -1Perrine Delacour 70-72-73—215 -1Ally Ewing 73-71-71—215 -1Frida Kinhult 71-74-70—215 -1Alison Lee 73-70-72—215 -1Yuna Nishimura 78-67-70—215 -1Madelene Sagstrom 71-69-75—215 -1Samantha Wagner 69-76-70—215 -1Pajaree Anannarukarn 69-76-71—216 EGemma Dryburgh 69-75-72—216 EYu Liu 71-69-76—216 EMel Reid 75-70-71—216 ELizette Salas 72-72-72—216 EEmma Talley 74-71-71—216 E By PETE IACOBELLI Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Kyle Larson was already ex cited about what the week end at Darlington Raceway would mean. He added an even larger moment for him to remember with his rst career win at the track “Too Tough To Tame.” Larson rallied from 30th starting the nal stage, bumping John Hunter Ne mechek coming out of the nal turn as the two raced to the nish line to win the Xnity Series race on Sat urday. Larson, the 2021 NA SCAR Cup Series cham pion, was named one of stock-car racing’s 75 great est drivers who’ve been honored during the celebra tion at Darlington’s annual throwback weekend. Now, he’s got a checkered ag after so many close calls at Darlington, where he’s had three seconds and two thirds in 10 career Cup races and never nished worse than seventh in his ve previous Xnity events here. “Every time you get to come to Darlington, it’s special,” Larson said. But this weekend’s festivities are very different as Larson can’t wait for the Sunday brunch before the Goodyear 400 where 33 of the 75 all-time NASCAR greats will gather. “You’ll get to see legends and Hall of Famers and ev erybody who’s still alive on the 75 list,” he said. “I really look forward to that. I think it’s going to be a special kind of thing and morning for me that I’ll probably never forget.” Larson, the 2021 NA SCAR Cup Series cham pion, was making his rst start of the season in the Tri ple A Series. It looked like his chance at a win ended when he was assessed a pit-road speeding penalty that dropped him to 30th before the nal stretch. But there was Larson alongside Nemechek at the end to pull out his 14th ca reer Xnity victory. “We had a really, really good car the whole race,” Larson said. “We were kind of bouncing off each other a little bit. I’m not sure what happened into three, but it seemed like he tried to get in behind me to shove me in the corner. “He kind of hooked me right and hit the wall,” Lar son continued. “What an ex citing race there.” Larson took the lead en tering turns three and four. Nemechek, who led a race-high 58 laps, attempted a nal pass, but got bumped by Larson and slid away to the inside wall. Nemechek nished fth. Nemechek was disap pointed with the nish, not with how he and Larson raced at the end. “That’s good-hard racing,” Ne mechek said. “I’m smiling ear-to-ear internally, let’s put it, for the hard racing we had today and how him and I raced each other.” Justin Allgaier, who won the previous two spring Xnity races at Darlington, was second. Cole Custer was third and points leader Austin Hill was fourth. Larson took the opening stage and was in line to win stage two before getting caught at the end by Ne mechek. The biggest crash came after a restart on lap 67 in turn four as Sheldon Creed spun high in turn four, slid down the track and was hit by Brandon Jones hard enough that Creed’s hood opped up against the car’s windshield. “I mean, what happened?” series points leader Austin Hill asked his team over the radio. Along with Creed, Hill and Jones, 15 cars were in volved in the dustup, which ofcials said was the most in a crash in the Xnity Series since 2019 when 15 cars were caught up at Day tona’s summer race. Jones was in a tight spot during Creed’s slide toward the ineld and had little op tion other than to take the hit. “I don’t know if there was anything else I could do,” Jones said. The four drivers includ ing Jones who went to the ineld care center were ex amined and released. Still, the spinning, slowed cars piling up behind Creed made Darlington look more like Talladega after the big one.Cup champ Larson rallies from 30th place to win Darlington Xfinity race 

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C CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE Section C SUNDAY, MAY 14 , 2023 ‘She is with the Lord now’I ’m sitting in a County Com-mission meeting Thursday afternoon surrounded by Sugar-mill Woods residents during a three-hour public hearing on apart-ments. And thinking of my mom. My family – four sisters, one brother and a gaggle of nieces, nephews and their kids – mostly still live within an hour’s drive of one another in Michigan. Mom’s been gone for decades. Dad joined her a few years back. Last Monday would have been their 75th wedding anniversary. It’s hard sometimes for me to look at their photo on the wall in my home and wonder if I’m living up to the example they set. I know I should be writing today about the politics behind the apartment rezoning win. But the timing doesn’t work. Instead I’ll talk about my favorite Mother’s Day. A little background. I’m No. 4 of six kids. I was a thin, frightened child who had a hard time making friends. As I grew up, that fear turned inward and I began looking for means of escape, which I found in beer and whiskey. I’m sober today, but my drinking was going strong after college and into my rst job in Big Rap-ids, Michigan. Mom needed heart surgery. I lived four hours away and drove down to Sterling Heights twice, only to have the procedures can-celed both times. The third time … well, you know where this is going. I stayed home. Mom called me the night before to make sure I was OK. My mom, hours before open-heart surgery, called her son to say goodnight. It was about midway through the next day that I got the call from Dad. Mom never made it out of surgery. She was gone and I never would have the chance to show her the kind of son I could be. I carried that guilt for years. It crept into my soul during dark nights when it was just me and the bottle. Time went by and I started my sober life on July 6, 2006 (yay!). Through the 12-step process, we learn to turn our will over to God and do internal house cleaning, and that includes making amends to those we hurt. But Mom was gone. How could I ever acknowledge the pain I caused her and express my desire to right the wrong? That brings me to October a few years ago. Deb and I took a trip to Michigan so she could meet my family. While there we drove to the cemetery where Mom is bur-ied. It’s one of those where all the gravestones are at on the ground, like plaques. I could nev-er nd my way around that place. After wandering through the cemetery without a clue, Deb went to the ofce for a map. I kept strolling and, sure enough, found Mom’s grave. I was standing there when Deb walked up. Mike Wright Hearing our moms then and nowS even years ago, I asked a wide-ranging group of sons and daughters, “If you could take one lesson from your mom that has made all the difference in your life, what would it be?” The responses were rich and varied. They included, “Life’s not fair, but it shouldn’t stop you from dancing,” “Keep your doors open because the strang er is the friend you haven’t yet made,” and “Stay curious and look it up.” Some children shared that their lessons from mom were about what not to do. “Don’t underestimate yourself,” “Don’t keep painful secrets hidden,” and “Don’t demand perfect.” Even though the times and social norms were quite different for our moms, their stories shared a common thread of resilience – something we appreciate even more in 2023. But about 2023, would we take different lessons from our moms today, post-COVID but still embroiled in political acrimony and deep social divide? If so, what might we take? I went back to my contributors to ask that question, and here is some of what I got back. It suggests that we actually do hear our moms a little differ ently today:Modest expectations are important“Any day you can get out of bed and put your feet on the oor is a good day. And laundry piles are a sign that everyone is well …” This message is akin to, “A messy house is a happy house.” We’ve certainly had a lot of mess over the last three years, but may-be not so happy a house.Find opportunities for kindness“Mom never let the world get her down. She taught me that every morning we wake up is a blessing and an opportunity to live in positivity and kindness.” This mom also woke up her kids each morning by singing a Broadway show tune that might not have felt too kind at the time. Clearly, though, she valued spreading good cheer – very use-ful today. Her son, who internal-ized this lesson, has found ways to show kindness and cheer as an educator. JillEbstein A new mother’s wisdomA aron Cohen and Minnie Golub, both Russian immi grants, lived in the same ve-sto ry tenement house on Mercer Street in New York’s Lower East Side. They knew each other only by sight. Since a for mal introduction was the respected custom, Aaron’s sister dutifully introduced them in the Summer of 1915. At ages 25 and 24, Aaron and Minnie were the oldest single children in their families. Many around them wondered “What are they waiting for?” as most of their peers were already married. Once the spark was ignited, how ever, they courted, married, and Minnie became pregnant in three months’ time. Minnie’s pregnancy was without any unusual problems, but it was decided she would not deliver at home in their apart ment. She arrived at the Lying-In Hospital of New York on Second Avenue a week before her expected due date and was led to a bright and airy ward that she shared with seven other women. Two of the women had already delivered their babies but stayed on just to be certain all was well. Minnie, at 25, was the eldest. The two youngest were 16 and 17, one of whom had a compli cated pregnancy. That girl was two weeks past her due date, hurting and afraid. It was early morning when the sleeping women were jolted awake by the screams. Two nurses rushed in and wheeled the 17-year-old girl off. The others were silent, lled with fear. They looked to their “new big sister” Minnie for comfort. After 20 minutes punctuated by painful moans, horric shrieks, and a brief chilling silence, there was a baby’s yelp. A nurse came rushing in to Minnie’s bedside and whispered that the young mother died after delivering a healthy girl. Minnie immediately told the others who were paralyzed with shock. She ending the news-tell ing with plans for a breast-feed ing system for the hungry newborn. Minnie was a natural networker before the concept was dened in the advocacy literature. The next night, June 30, 1916, my mother, Ruth, was born. News of the birth spread to out-of-town family via telegram. The next morning with telegram and sack lunch in hand, Minnie’s cousin Hannah took the ferry from New Jersey to pay a visit. Entering the large room she saw two babies at Minnie’s bed – one suckling at the breast, the other crying bitterly in a rattan bassinet. The cousin said, “Minnie, the telegram didn’t say twins!” Min nie whispered softly and told the story of the young mother who died in childbirth. The cousin looked at the nursing baby, then briey exam ined the crying creature in the bassinet, and said, pointing to the baby at Minnie’s breast, “Your baby is far prettier.” “That one is mine,” laughed Minnie, pointing to the crying one. “You leave your own to cry while you feed a stranger’s baby?” the cousin whispered. “Yes. There’s a baby with no mother, maybe no home. Mine can cry for a few minutes. She has both.” She motioned the cousin to draw closer, her eyes darting around the room. “This is to show an example to them, those other girls. If we think just of ourselves and our own babies, not only will others needlessly suffer, but so will our own. We all need someone else at some time. This is good practice for being a good mother.” Hannah understood. Minnie’s philosophy was simple. Care for your own, but care about others, too. Minnie believed we are all connected in some way under God’s watchful eye, but we are obligated to take action to help others. The gifts we give reward the receiver and giver both. Jack Levine, Founder of the 4Gener ations Institute, is a family policy advo cate, based in Tallahassee. 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C2 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle F estivals and celebra tions honoring moth ers and mother god desses date back to ancient times. Greeks, Romans, and Indians have had some form of celebration in hon or of these goddesses asso ciated with their culture and religion for centuries. America is no different. In the 1900s, Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia organized the rst Mother’s Day celebra tion. She held a memorial service in her church hon oring her late mother. Five years later almost ev ery state was observing the day, and in 1914 President Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday. The Merriam-Webster dictionary denes a moth er as a female parent, a woman in authority or an elderly woman. However, nowadays, this denition has become more about at tributes and characteristics than about bearing physical children or one’s role in their household. There are so many types of mothers out there. There are women who are trying to conceive and continue to have difculty, women who have experienced miscar riages, and women who do not have or want children. There are women who have adopted or fostered and women who mentor, train, and uplift others on a daily basis. We encourage people to celebrate the women they know and love. Celebrate the women who have encouraged you, support ed you, and helped you achieve success. Families come in different shapes and sizes but mothers in any form are so important and deserving of recogni tion. To the people who have challenges celebrating this day as a result of loss, we send our sincerest con dolences; however, take this time to reminisce and celebrate all that made that person special to you. To the women facing difcul ties with fertility, may your struggle end with success. To mothers who may not hear it from anyone, we salute you. As we celebrate Mother’s Day, let us do so with gen uine appreciation and love. Let us take this opportunity to express our gratitude for the countless sacrices and tireless efforts that moth ers make on a daily basis. Whether it is through a heartfelt card, a warm em brace, or simply spending quality time together, let us ensure that our appreciation extends beyond just one day. Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms, grandmothers, god-mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, friends and men tors. No matter what role a woman plays in her imme diate family, today we take time to salute them. Happy Mother’s Day. I n the urry of bills being signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis, it’s easy to lose track of what new regulations are coming down the pipeline. This seems to hit hardest on new laws regarding education. Just last week, with a stroke of a pen, a new “Teacher’s Bill of Rights” was created, school board members now face term limits, teachers have new meth ods to challenge administrative mandates, and district super intendents could nd their salaries withheld if they violate education laws or state board directives. In addition, new guidelines for discipline within classrooms and legal protections for teachers who impose disci pline “in conformity with State Board of Education rules” were also signed into law. DeSantis will likely even get the attention of the students themselves with the news that TikTok has now been banned from school-owned devices and school-provided Internet access. But even that isn’t the measure that will have the most impact on the daily lives of our teach ers. Rather, it’s the new prohi bition of the use of cell phones and other wireless devices during what the law designates as “instructional time.” The enormity of this new law cannot be understated. Teachers must have a designat ed place for cell phones during class and students will only be allowed to access them when they are “expressly directed by a teacher solely for educational purposes.” I hear the hallelujah chorus ringing out across the state. If there is anything that interrupts and distracts from student learning more than the use of cell phones, we’d be hard pressed to nd it. In theory, this is brilliant. We force the kids to give up their treasured devices every class period, and in return, teachers will be rewarded with at least a bit more attention paid to the material. Maybe we make up for learning losses during COVID. Maybe our reading and math scores will go up. Maybe the mental health of our teenagers improves by leaps and bounds. Maybe.The issue with this bill is that legislation alone will not solve the problem of students’ addic tion to their cell phones and their increasing inability to perform in the classroom. It’s a start, but we’re going to need more. As usual, the onus of this mandate falls on the teachers. I imagine that teachers are excited about the possibility of not having to compete with social media, YouTube, and a myriad of apps and games. The idea has merit. It’s just that its implemen tation is far more complicated than legislators have prepared for. Without the express support of parents, this cell phone policy will be DOA. Teachers will spend an incred ible amount of time ghting students to relinquish their cell phones, dealing with transgres sors who secretly try to keep them, and ghting against the immaturity of students who will “punish” the teacher for con scating their private property by simply resorting to the old school ways of not paying atten tion: passing notes, doodling, or the time-tested nap-taking. Parents must get on board to support teachers as they attempt to make the learning environ ment a place free of distraction where students can engage and develop the skills necessary to compete in the world. That means parents must vo cally take the side of the teacher, backing them in whatever disciplinary action is necessary. It means parents must refrain from sending text messages to students all day and expecting immediate responses. It means agreeing with purposefully im posed limits on kids’ access to their phones when they should be focusing on learning. If we don’t have this, not only will the law fail to be imple mented, but teachers will have yet another reason to check out of education, leaving our kids in a world of trouble. An idea is only as good as its implementation. For this one to be successful, it will require all hands on deck. And if anyone misses the boat, the whole thing will go down in ames. Cortney Stewart is a Lecanto High graduate with political science, interna tional affairs, and intercultural studies degrees who has lived and worked around the world. O What happened to all of the money? President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign team bashed Florida Gov. Ron DeSan tis and criticized his leadership skills on Friday for causing the state to “become among the worst states” to live in and raise a family. “He has left a wake of destruction all across Florida and people are hurting because he has spent more time playing public relations games instead of actually doing the hard-work needed to improve the lives of the people he represents.” The campaign’s message, titled “The Real Ron DeSantis Play book,” continued to knock the Florida governor with a list of points linked to the state becom ing “among the worst.” “Under Ron DeSantis, Florida has become among the worst states … to live … find eco nomic opportunity … work … retire … raise a family … pay taxes …be safe… rent a home … have a baby … afford energy … die … be a teacher … be a doctor … be a police officer … for millennials … for working dads (and) for working moms,” I’m not a Trump supporter, but I have to agree with him on the state of Florida under DeSan tis. The infrastructure, crime, taxes and inflation are just off the charts. Trump has collected endorsements from nine senators and 48 members of the House as of Friday including “more than half of the Florida Republicans serving in the House.” DeSantis has thus far seen three endorse ments in Congress including one from Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), a former Secretary of State under his administration. What hap pened to all the money Desantis got from Biden for roads and bridges? Jack Burt Inverness How did we get to this point? When did we get to the point in our country when we politi cized murder and other serious crimes? Democrats say the problem is guns. Republicans cling to their guns, while saying the problem is mental health and soft-on-crime prosecutors. As a result, murder and crime are growing in our country and our youth and their futures are the victims of the split. All crime and murder is wrong regardless of how it happens and who blames who. Can we at least agree on this one premise as a starting point? We need to solve the problems and stop the gaslighting and blame. Patricia Morgan Inverness I love my country and my flag I am an Army brat, wife of a veteran, and mother of a veteran. I love my country and respect its flag and never said that I didn’t. It’s interesting that in my letter, I focused on the Lord God of all, yet I’ve been challenged about my belief that the flag of the United States does not belong in church. A flag in a church or places of worship is an insult to the separation of church and state. It does not belong. Everyone is welcomed to be proud of the country. Fly the flag where it belongs in schools, government buildings, at personal residences, and pri vate clubs. It does not belong in churches where our focus should be solely on the love of the Lord for all. Kathy Dobronyi InvernessCell phone ban is a good idea – maybe LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OPINIONS INVITED Q Viewpoints depicted in politi cal cartoons, columns or let ters do not necessarily repre sent the opinion of the editorial board. Q Groups or individuals are invited to express their opin ions in a letter to the editor. Q Persons wishing to address the editorial board, which meets weekly, should call Jim Gouvellis at 352-563-5660. Q All letters must be signed and include a phone number and hometown, including letters sent via email. Names and hometowns will be printed; phone numbers will not be published or given out. Q We reserve the right to edit letters for length, libel, fairness and good taste. Q Letters must be no longer than 400 words, and writers will be limited to four letters per month. Q SEND LETTERS TO: The Editor, 1624 N. Meadowcrest Blvd., Crystal River, FL 34429; or email to letters@chronicle online.com. 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Gerard “Gerry” Mulligan publisher emeritusWe celebrate mothers of all kinds on this day Our Viewpoint The issue: Today is Mother’s Day Our Opinion: A day to salute mothers of all kinds CortneyStewartSeeing Beyond YOUR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Q District 1 (Crystal River, Ozello, Citronelle, Red Level): Jeff Kinnard, jeff.kinnard@citrusbocc.com; Q District 2 (Homosassa, Sugarmill Woods): Diana Finegan, diana.finegan@citrusbocc.com; Q District 3 (Beverly Hills, Pine Ridge, Citrus Springs): Ruthie Davis Schlabach, ruthie.schlabach@citrusbocc.com; Q District 4 (Floral City, part of Inverness): Rebecca Bays, rebecca.bays@citrusbocc.com;Q District 5 (part of Inverness, Hernando, Arrowhead): Holly L. Davis, holly.davis@citrusbocc.com.NOTE: Correspondences, including email, are public records once received by commissioners or county staff. As such, they may be requested by any member of the public. 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 C3 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Citrus County Animal Services: Our partners in stopping crimeS adly, Citrus County is no stranger to animal abusers. We are only ve months into 2023, yet so far this year, we have rescued over 90 “pets” from repre hensible living conditions. Our team of Animal Con trol Ofcers (ACOs) works daily to help protect those innocent animals who cannot speak up for them selves. While they do AMAZ ING work, our Animal Control Unit truly could not do its job to its fullest extent without support from the Citrus County Shelter staff. The relationship between our Animal Control Unit and the County Animal Shelter is crucial in ensuring we have a safe place to bring animals removed from un desirable circumstances. In the eld, we are tasked with gathering evidence pertaining to the living conditions of the animal. These include – how the owners cared for and in teracted with them, as well as if food, water, shelter, medical care, and a clean environment are available to them. Our agency must photo graph the scene, and inter view witnesses, neighbors, owners, and family mem bers to build a case. Howev er, these elements are just a part of the evidence needed to prove criminal neglect or cruelty. Documentation from a licensed veterinarian stating in medical terms the level of neglect or abuse an animal has suffered and how long they believe the animal endured that neglect or abuse is paramount in a successful prosecution and often determines whether the charges will be classi ed as a misdemeanor or aggravated (felony) animal cruelty. Thankfully, because of our partnership, once animals are removed from egregious conditions, they can be transported to the shelter, where Dr. Meaghan Mielo and other members of their staff can immediately begin gathering that evidence from the animal(s). Dr. Mielo has specialized training in animal forensics, evidence gathering, forensic photography, and what spe cic evidence is needed to build and convict a criminal animal cruelty or neglect case. The shelter director, Colleen Yarbrough, spent several years with the Field Investigation and Response team with the American So ciety for Prevention of Cru elty to Animals (ASPCA) and also recognizes and understands the elements of a criminal animal cruelty or neglect case. With their knowledge and background, the shelter will continue documenting the day-to-day progress and improvements of these neglected animals. Because the shelter can show how much the animal thrives when given routine, daily care, and proper nutrition, our case against the abusers gains momentum. Without this medical documenta tion, photographs, and the testimony of the veterinar ian, prosecution would be difcult, if not impossible. Several criminal cases have even originated at the shelter level after ani mals were dropped off by persons claiming they were strays. Since shelter staff recognizes and understands the elements of criminal animal cruelty and neglect, they immediately contact the Animal Control Unit to request that an investiga tion be conducted. Many of these instances have resulted in the successful prosecution of felony ani mal cruelty charges against the animal owner. In April of 2023 alone, we had two major animal cruelty cases. The rst in volved our ACOs following up on an animal cruelty case. When deputies and ACOs arrived at the home, they immediately noticed a strong ammonia smell with feces and urine scattered throughout every single room, including over fur niture and clothing. Upon further investigation, our team located several trash bags with deceased puppies inside. Our ACOs were able to rescue several dogs from this residence as well as two turtles. Anna Brown was arrested and charged with 10 counts of animal cruelty. Another case began as a well-being check on animals at a so-called “res cue.” ACOs found several sheds and enclosures in the backyard, with several cats inside each – all of whom were severely sick. Inside, ACOs noticed the entire house was scattered with feces, more cages, and sev eral dogs and cats covered in eas. In all, our team seized 42 animals from this property. Lisa Bennett was arrested and charged with four counts of aggravat ed animal cruelty and 39 counts of animal cruelty. We are fortunate to have such essential resources and knowledgeable partnerships available to us because, at the end of the day, we are two groups with one mis sion – to help the animals in our county. Mike Prendergast is the sheriff of Citrus County Sheriff Mike Prendergast We still have to fix the housing crisisT his past week was eventful. It started with attending a Florida Chamber of Commerce Professionals conference in Cocoa Beach and ended at my daughter’s graduation from the College of Central Florida. These con ferences are benecial because I can collab orate with my con temporaries from other counties and brainstorm ideas and procedures that may work here at home. It is always interesting to hear from my colleagues around the state that regardless of their geographical location; we share many of the same issues. Whether it be property in surance, workforce issues, housing, politics, or all the issues related to explosive growth, no community is immune from all the challenges we are facing. From Miami-Dade to the Panhandle, our commonali ty is remarkable. Of course, there is not a one-size-ts-all solution to what ails us but you can pick up bits and pieces of what may work, or not. As local chambers weigh in on issues in their com munity, they are inviting criticism from citizens who are comfortable with the status quo. That’s ne, and we encourage robust community discussion, but solving tough prob lems requires courage and tenacity. Our philosophy is to nd solutions for the root causes of the prob lems and deciencies we face. This doesn’t always make us popular with the general public or neigh borhood groups but we are committed to building a community with long-term sustainability. This means we have to attack the root cause of poverty, addiction, lack of a qualied work force, property insurance crisis, lack of infrastructure and affordable housing, and so much more. These are not always easy discussions to have but need to be had nonetheless. Some of the solutions are not popular but the chamber doesn’t view our role as a populari ty contest. A case in point is we have been talking about a post-COVID housing crisis (yes I said crisis). A well-estab lished local developer with 40-plus years of quality de velopment gave us a private sector solution of building much-needed upscale rental units. The Chamber went all in on this idea because it was helping to solve the number one issue we are hearing about. The elected commissioners voted unan imously to deny the appli cation much to the delight of local residents who live in close proximity but we are back to where we start ed from. We have a housing crisis. The Chamber saw a partial solution and got behind it. We weren’t the only ones. The county professional planning staff and the appointed planning commission recommend ed approval. Our elected representatives said no. The residents were happy and the meeting was adjourned. Did the problem go away? No. Will the chamber stop advocating for a solution? No. Another proposal we have waded into is the Fishcreek Glampground project in Ozello. It has attracted some erce opposition that has, at times, turned personal toward the family proposing the Glamping idea. In the chamber world, we see this as a wonderful ecotourism addition to the area. Over the last two decades, we have spent mil lions in tourist tax dollars promoting us as an ecotour ism destination. We know that we are sorely lacking in overnight accommoda tions so we are embracing this local family in invest ing their time and treasure in a 60-unit Glampground on 17 acres. It will consist of 30 RV spots, with the balance being Glamping tents and primitive sites. Much of the infrastructure is existing and we see this as a very good use for what was a sh camp type oper ation. We constantly hear how we should diversify our tourism product. Why does it have to be all about the manatee? I pulled the following statement off a Josh WootenBusiness and Beyond From mom to motherhood iconA nna was a typical mom. She loved her kids with the passion found only in a mother’s heart. And something she did for her son made her an icon for mothers everywhere. Here’s how it happened.They say a woman can’t resist a man in a military uniform. That apparently was true with Anna. In the 1820s, she fell in love with a West Point cadet named George. They married in 1831. A Southern belle from North Carolina, Anna and George started life together in the North. Their rst child, a boy named James, arrived in 1835. George resigned his Army com-mission and jumped into designing that brand-new high-tech transportation marvel – railroad locomo-tives. He soon switched to constructing rail lines. The young family grew. Besides raising three children from George’s rst marriage, the couple had three more sons, two of whom died young. Anna doted on her surviving boys. William was a serious scholar, while James was a daydreamer with an artistic gift. Anna nurtured and encouraged both. She was strict (Sundays were strictly observed with no toys and no books allowed but the Bible) yet also very loving. George’s skill at building railroads eventually led the family halfway around the world. Russia’s Czar Nich-olas I sent representatives to study America’s boom-ing railroad business. They were so impressed with George’s skills that they offered him his dream job: supervising the construc-tion of a railroad linking Moscow and St. Petersburg. George checked with Anna, who said, “Go for it.” So, they headed off to Mother Russia, where they became friends with the czar and socialized with nobility. By now, James’ talent as an artist was apparent. Anna pulled some royal strings and enrolled the boy in the prestigious Imperial Academy of Arts. The hap-py family seemingly had a bright future ahead. Until George contracted cholera and suddenly died in 1849. A sympathetic Nicholas offered to educate the boys at the Imperial School, but Anna politely declined. Shaken and heartbro-ken, she gathered up her children and moved rst to Connecticut, then New York. With her income slashed from $12,000 a year to just $1,500, pennies were pinched, dollars were squeezed, and somehow she made ends meet. She was even able to send William to medical school. Though Anna hoped James would become a minister, he was appoint-ed to the U.S. Military Academy when he turned 17 instead. But James and West Point weren’t a good t. After three years of lackluster studies, the breaking point came when he failed a chemistry exam and quietly resigned. (James later said, “If silicon had been a gas instead of a solid, I’d be a major general today.”) Free at last to indulge his love of painting, James headed rst to Paris and then London. While all that was happening, America was sliding ever closer to a civil war. Anna and James returned to her native North Carolina, where he became a Confederate surgeon. As the conict raged, Anna increasingly missed her son across the pond. The Union’s naval blockade of Southern ports stood be-tween them. But no cannon was powerful enough to stop a mother’s love. On a dark August night in 1863, Anna boarded the blockade runner Advance. It was a daring thing to do for a woman who was pushing 60. Yet Anna was deter-mined. The Advance slipped through the patrolling war-ships, and she had a joyous reunion with James at his London studio. Though caught off-guard by his amboyantly bohemian lifestyle, she neverthe-less showered Southern hospitality on his many friends by serving them tea, preserves and homemade biscuits. A few years later, James asked Anna to pose for him. Some said she lled in for a model who couldn’t make it; others claim James intended his mother to be the subject all along. We do know he wanted her to stand. But now 67 and her health failing, he wound up painting her seated in pro-le, hands properly folded in her lap. Entering a VIP showing in London in 1872, James ti-tled his work “Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1.” Victorian critics wouldn’t accept it as an arrange-ment since it was clearly a portrait, so they renamed it “Portrait of the Artist’s Mother.” It eventually morphed into the name we know today. Because James was James McNeill Whistler, Anna was Anna McNeill Whistler, and the portrait on display today at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris is simply dubbed “Whistler’s Mother.” More than the likeness of one man’s mother, it is an enduring tribute to the love of mothers everywhere. J. Mark Powell is a novelist, former TV journalist and diehard history buff. Have a historical mystery that needs solving? A forgotten moment worth remem bering? Please send it to HolyCow@insidesources.com. In 6000 B.C., Mesopota mian tribes introduced the concept of bartering to the Phoenicians. Then about 1250 B.C., these tribes created the first gold and silver coins called shekels to facilitate trade. China probably started making bronze coins about 1000 B.C. as trade heated up between countries of Asia and the Middle East. Later they used paper money around 700-800 A.D. It was phased out in 1455 due to distrust of value as compared with gold and silver. The concept of digital money was introduced with credit cards. Banks found these cards as an option for increased finan cial demands by most Americans after WWII. Today more than two-thirds of Americans carry credit cards. In 1982, Sas katchewan Credit Union introduced the debit card that took money direct ly from one’s checking account. By the beginning of the 21st century, debit cards were ubiquitous. Denmark has the highest rate of debit card usage with over 99.02 percent of its population prefer debit card to cash. About 82.8 percent of Americans use a debit card over cash. Digital currency is conve nient. Many feel it is safer than cash as one can easily be robbed of cash. Or is it safe? Digital currency can be hacked. Some say we need to modernize. They point to China’s digital yuan, which accounts for over $120 billion worth of transactions. Since the U.S. dollar is still the world currency, a digital version would mean an ease of exchange and help keep us a critical global economic power. Others argue that the digital dol lar would increase risks of failure, hackings, and privacy breaches. There would be government tracking of our transac tion and a possibility of federal access to our bank accounts. In 2020, China froze bank accounts of pro-Democracy protests. Could that happen here? Possibly. There is another con cept with digital currency called zero-knowledge proof technology (ZKP). With ZKP, your age, credit score data, etc. would be known. Thus if you want to purchase alcohol or a gun and are underage, it will flag and stop this transaction. Knowing your credit score, ZKP could pre-approve car loans more quickly without revealing to the dealer your credit score. This sounds also scary as the government can control and prevent certain transactions. Congress should prohibit the Fed and Treasury from issuing a digital national currency as it will open the door to surveillance and close the door on our freedoms. Sheree Muller Citrus Springs Keeping hard cash in the U.S. See WOOTEN , page C4 

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C4 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County ChronicleYou are never too old to find friends and make connectionsThe octogenarian mother who exhibited this trait moved from the east coast to the west coast to be near her son. Then, around the time of the pandemic, she moved back to the east coast to rejoin her commu nity of friends. Her son was understand ably unhappy about the distance. Still, he appre ciated that “Even amid COVID, my mom was not to be deterred. She continues to reconnect with people and make new friends wherever she goes.” Given that COVID has made us more insular and less social, his mom is a good reminder that we should always be in the friend-making business, regardless of age.Keep movingSeven years ago, a daugh ter shared how her friends would stop by to see her mom, even if the daughter wasn’t there. Her mom, who was of modest means, would say, “I have no more meat, but I can add potatoes,” as she created an open home for all. Fast forward, and the daughter fought a signif icant health battle. Fortu nately, she has recovered, but during her darkest days, she would hear her mom in the back of her mind saying, “Keep moving.” Her mom never succumbed to her own personal battles, choosing instead to “keep moving.’” So has her daughter.Get a good night’s sleep, and the world will look different to you in the morningThese were the words I heard many times from my mother. In 2017, I shared her lesson of continuous lifelong learning – a value I am committed to. Over the last three years, different words of my mom have resonated. I remind myself to get a good night of sleep to cope better in the morn ing. We need our strength when the world seems overwhelmingly sad. I’ve passed along this advice to my family. My re-engaging with sons and daughters has shown me that lessons from our moms have been tweaked with new ones emerging. What we shared in 2017 still holds, but there is a re newed respect for tenacity and equanimity, purpose and patience, as the elixir for our times. COVID and our mood have tamed us with a dose of pragmatism. We believe we best honor our moms’ memories by embodying their truths. One contributor wrote, “Believe it, and you will be it.” Happy Mother’s Day to one and all. Jill Ebstein is the author of “Alfred’s Journey to Be Liked,” and editor of the “At My Pace” book series. She founded Sized Right Marketing, a Newton, Mass. consulting firm. She wrote this for InsideSources.com. EBSTEINFrom page C1 page of a local who is rent ing her property, ”Stay in the best-kept secret of the Gulf Coast. Ozello is Old Florida with fantastic shing, kaya king and crabbing in a laid back quiet paradise.” Sounds nice doesn’t it? A glamp ground sounds like a perfect t. If our commissioners don’t see the wisdom and value in this project, I would venture to say we need to rethink what our tourism plan is. So back to my proud Papa moment. Yes, my third of four daughters got her degree from CF. My wish for her is that she can remain in Citrus County. I’m sure her future is bright and the future is what we need to fo cus on. We need to treat each other with respect and we need to think about what is good for the overall commu nity, not what is just in our small corner. People have the right to petition their government for the use of their land. Opponents have a right to dissent. Both sides should be civil. Passionate, yes, but always civil. Josh Wooten is the President/ CEO of The Citrus County Cham ber of Commerce. WOOTENFrom page C3 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Euphemism is a nice word or way of saying some thing. The government has come up with many such as “Affordable Health care,” “Migrants,” and now “Environmental Justice.” It sounds good rolling off the tongue. It means a fair treatment of all people , regardless of race, income. or ethnicity when it comes to enforcement of envi ronmental regulations. No group should share the bulk of negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations from the execution of laws. Environmental justice fails both the environment and justice. Some liberal groups advocating envi ronmental justice opposed the gas tax, which they feel ends up hurting poor people. So instead they promote costlier EPA fuel economy standards. In the end, it cost drivers and automobile manufacturers more. Gas taxes would have been more effective in cleaning up air pollution as poor people would keep their older cars much lon ger, which would pollute more than the newer expen sive fuel regulated cars. Electric companies usual ly charge a higher price to promote conservation and reduce pollution. However, due to pressure from envi ronmental justice groups, they give people who use less electricity a lower rate. Since wealthier homes can afford more energy efficient appliances, etc. they may end up using less electricity than poorer customers and reap the lower rate. Many groups noted that industrial sites are usually in communities of color and felt that this was in itself racist. Regulatory agencies have found it easier to place pollution industries in low income African-American or Lati no communities that lack connections to protest these zoning decisions. Industry usually looks to rural areas because of lower wages, property taxes, and land prices in their location decisions. It is ridiculous to try to build a factory in a multimillion-dollar neigh borhood where land prices would be exorbitant. Indus try decisions are based on finances and not racism. Combining environment and justice in one platform has both practical and polit ical pitfalls. Handling the environment in an equitable way through gas taxes and more traditional regula tions is a more realistic approach. Inequities will always exist but social pro grams, educational training, and tax and criminal justice reform can address the justice issue. In conclusion: complex stringent regula tions do more to impede than improve a situation. Roy San Martin Beverly Hills Euphemism is a nice word “Hi Mom,” I said, looking down. “This is Deb. You’d like her.” Then Deb said the most extraordinary thing to me: “You know she’s not here.” I looked at her.“She’s not here,” Deb repeated. “She’s with the Lord.” I knew that but no one had ever said it to me before. I felt an immediate sense of peace. Then Deb said, “Why don’t we sit here on the grass and you tell me about your mom?” And that’s what we did. I told her all about my mom, known to grownups as Mary. Her sweet disposi tion, sharp sense of humor, and a rm belief that God would work out what ever needs to be worked out. I also talked about the pain I caused. Stealing from her purse, staying out well past midnight, coming home drunk at 17 years old. And the lies … my God … the lies. I spilled it all. There, on that beautiful fall Michigan day, I made amends to my mom. She and the Lord have forgiven me. It remains one of the greatest days of my life. To my wife Deb, four sisters, daughter Erin – and Mom in Heaven – enjoy this special Mother’s Day. God bless all moms. Mike Wright retired from the Chronicle in 2021 after 34 years of writing about Citrus County politics. Contact him at just wrightcitrus@gmail.com. WRIGHTFrom page C1 Nominate Yo ur Favorite! r Honoring Te achersfortheir hardworkanddedication Presentedby GreaterTampaBayAreaCouncil,BSA Reservation deadline:Noon,Monday, May15 rnr Refreshmentsstartat5:00pm Dinnerisservedat6:00pm Celebrating HonorableJudgeMarkYerman and CommissionerofAgriculture WiltonSimpson fortheirhonesty,integrity,and outstandingcontributionstotheircommunity. 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B CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE Section D SUNDAY, MAY 14 , 2023 BUSINESS DIGEST Q Submit information via email to community@chronicleonline.com, attn: Business Digest. The Chronicle reserves the right to edit notices. Q Publication on a specific date or in color cannot be guaranteed. Special to the Chronicle BubbaQue’s in Crystal River is a first-year LIVE UNITED 365 Small Business Circle member. Pictured from left are George Schmalstig, United Way CEO, and Debbie and Steve Ervin, owners. To learn more about the program, call the United Way at 352-795-5483. LIVE UNITED 365 SMALL BUSINESS CIRCLE MetroCreative Better money management begins with one simple tactic: budgeting. Tracking exactly how much money is coming in (like your paycheck) and how much is going out (everything you’re spending) is essential to learning how to decrease debt and start saving.Tips to help young women be more financially savvy By BRANDPOINT Whether you’re gradu ating from high school or college, chances are you’re becoming more indepen dent about handling your own money. While nances can be stressful, they don’t always have to be – which is why a new initiative from Secret Deodorant focuses on pro viding young women with access to free resources to help them kickstart their nancial journey. Through this program, Secret has partnered with ve highly renowned fe male nance experts to of fer advice about increasing your nancial know-how, posting nancial literacy discussions on social me dia through #SecretMon eyMoves to explore the ins and outs of budgeting, ne gotiating your rst salary, understanding your credit score and more. “Managing your nanc es can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re be coming nancially indepen dent for the rst time,” said Carmen Perez, Founder and CEO of the budgeting app MUCH. “But with access to the right tools, this mile stone can be an empowering next step into adulthood.” Here are some tips to help empower you on your jour ney to nancial wellness.It’s all about that budgetBetter money management begins with one simple tac tic: budgeting. Tracking exactly how much money is coming in (like your pay check) and how much is go ing out (everything you’re spending) is essential to learning how to decrease debt and start saving. “It’s important to know how much money you’re spending every month com pared to your monthly pay check,” shares Perez. “If you’re spending more than you’re bringing home every month, it’s time to make a change – or you could end up in debt.” Take a good look at your expenses to see where you could cut back. Which of your costs are essential, like rent, utilities, groceries and debt repayment, and what can you trim (going out to eat, non-essential purchas es)? Finding areas where you can cut down on ex penses will help ensure that you don’t rely on credit cards – which can lead to more expenses when you have to pay the interest. Some nancial experts swear by the 50/30/20 rule: aiming for about 50 per cent toward essential living expenses, 30 percent for exible spending (enter tainment) and 20 percent to ward goals such as savings. If you’re seeing more than 30 percent going to enter tainment, you may need to cut back.Start an emergency fundAs soon as you’re sure you can keep up with necessary bills and expenses, it’s im portant to get in the savings habit, even if it’s a small amount each month. Con sider setting up an automatic deposit of a few dollars from each paycheck into a separate savings account – then leave it alone. If you do have an emergen cy later (like an unexpected car repair), you’ll be glad you have your emergency fund.Pay down debt more activelyAnother goal to work to ward is paying down your debt as quickly as possible, Jenny Kane / Associated Press file When you receive an email or mail notice inviting you to join a class-action lawsuit, or notifying you that you’ve been auto matically included, it might give you pause. Is it worth the small reward – usually under $20 – to give up your rights to sue individually?Should I join a class-action lawsuit? By DALIA RAMIREZ NerdWalletW hen you receive an email or mail notice inviting you to join a class-action lawsuit, or notifying you that you’ve been automatically included, it might give you pause. Is it worth the small reward – usually under $20 – to give up your rights to sue individually? Depending on the harm you experienced and the amount of commitment you’re willing to take on, you can participate in a class-action lawsuit at several different levels, from serving as a class representative to opting out completely. In some cases, you may want to participate on principle to help deter a company from future malpractice, false advertising or other harm. It might have happened to you a few times in past years: You received an email or mail notice invit-ing you to join a class-ac-tion lawsuit or notifying you that you’ve been automatically included. But being part of such a lawsuit might be intimi-dating, especially if you need to opt in, and would mean surrendering the option to sue individually. In most cases, there’s little downside to joining these lawsuits, which com bine many legal claims – often thousands – into one claim against a single defendant, reducing fees for each claimant and potentially earning a much larger payout. And there have been many opportunities to do so. Following a series of large opioid settle-ments, 2022 had the most billion-dollar class-action settlements in U.S. history apart from the tobacco settlements decades ago, according to a report from the national law rm Duane Morris. The stakes are high for class-action lawsuits at this level, as they set standards for corporate re-sponsibility in areas such as data privacy, employee discrimination, securities fraud and civil rights. But in cases where you suffered signicant harm, suing individually could secure a bigger payout.Why you should join (or not opt out)In many cases, class-action lawsuits offer such a minor payout to each victim that participation is a matter of principle, not reward. But even if you receive only $10 to $20 as compensation, joining a collective lawsuit can help Special to the Chronicle Jesse Brashear, CEO of Brashear’s Pharmacy in Inverness, joined Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and AHCA Secretary Jason Weida, Sen. Jason Brodeur and Rep. Linda Chaney at Florida Atlantic University on Wednesday, May 3, as DeSantis signed the Prescription Drug Reform Act (SB 1550) into law. BRASHEAR’S JOINS DESANTIS AS NEW LAW IS SIGNED Special to the Chronicle The Rotary Club of Inverness recently participated in a “Community Give Back” fundraiser event at Connors Gifts in Inverness. Shown with a check for the $1,000 raised that day are Rotarians Sonja McCaughey and Karen Aultman, Connors siblings and shop owners, Sandra “Sam” Himmel, Brenda Fitzpatrick, Linda VanAllen and Doug Connors, with Rotary Club of Inverness Charitable Foundation Treasurer Lace Blue-McLean. To learn more about the Rota ry Club of Inverness, go online to invernessflrotary.org or on Facebook at “Inverness Rotary.” ‘COMMUNITY GIVE BACK’ See WOMEN , page D2 See LAWSUIT , page D2 

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D2 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle to reduce the amount of in terest you’re paying. Start by paying just a few more dollars than the required minimum payment each month. There are two schools of thought on paying down debt: one is to identify the credit card or loan charging you the highest interest rate to pay down more aggres sively rst, which can save you the most money in the long run. Another is to pay toward the smallest debt you owe rst, so you’ll have the sat isfaction of seeing one debt completely paid off sooner – which can inspire you to keep going. Either approach will get you started on the road to better money habits, so pick one and stick to it.Don’t be afraid to talk about money – and get help when neededWhile many people are re luctant to talk about money with their friends or family, you can learn a lot from oth ers if you’re willing to have an honest discussion. You may also be able to get help from them when you need it, whether in the form of a loan or just some timely advice to help you manage your money better. “Talking about money may feel uncomfortable at rst,” added Perez, “but it’s a great rst step toward feeling more condent about handling your own nances.” Learning how to success fully budget, manage debt and achieve your nancial goals is within your grasp. Take control of your nan cial journey today and visit Secret.com/MoneyMoves to learn more about Secret’s nancial empowerment ini tiative, nancial experts and how to get access to free ed ucational resources. WOMENFrom page D1 other customers or employees get justice, and may deter a company from harmful practices in the future. “It’s really a trial by proxy,” says attorney Russell T. Abney, who defends victims of dangerous drugs and defective medical devices at the law rm Watts Guerra. “The beauty of the class action,” he says, is that it adds up individual cases to a number that’s high enough to go up against a large company. In most cases, Abney says, plaintiffs of class-action lawsuits pay legal fees on contingency, which means they don’t pay anything unless they win the case. Lawyers taking on these lawsuits will usually receive payment as a percentage of the settlement won from the company. If you’re part of the “class” of a law suit – that is, if you were affected by the certain event or purchase described – you’ll often be automatically included in the lawsuit. And for certain cases, such as those relating to wage violations or defective products, you may have to opt in.Class representatives don’t always get a larger payoutIf you feel strongly about the outcome of a class-action lawsuit, you can also participate as a class representative, sometimes called a lead plaintiff. In some cases, becoming a class representative could lead to a bigger payout – but that isn’t always the case. Even though the class representative is the case’s headline, “That person isn’t necessarily going to get any kind of windfall,” says Jennifer A. Riley, a part-ner at Duane Morris and vice chair of the rm’s workplace class-action group. She notes that some courts in some jurisdictions would be able to grant a ser-vice award to plaintiffs representing the case, which are often between $2,500 and $7,500, but other courts have found these awards inappropriate. And it’s difcult to discern upfront whether such a service award would be granted. Class-action lawsuits can also take anywhere from a few months to several years, which can be an excessive com-mitment for many. The Exxon Valdez oil spill, for example, took 17 years to reach a class-action settlement.When to opt out (or not join)If you plan to make a case of your own, it makes sense to opt out of, or not partic-ipate in, a class-action lawsuit. “If you have your own lawsuit, the value of your claim might be much, much higher as an individual than it would have been as a class member,” says Gerald L. Maatman Jr., a partner at Duane Morris and the chair of the law rm’s workplace class-action group. “You’re trying to decide, ‘If I opt out, am I going to do that much better than I’d do in a class action?’ And in certain circumstances, an individual would do better. They’d get the money quicker, and they’d get more money.” One example: Following the credit-scoring company Equifax’s data breach in 2017, which compromised the personal data of 147 million people, The New York Times reported that some people took Equifax to small claims courts, win-ning much larger sums than those who received class-action payouts. Small claims courts – which handle claims under a few thousand dollars to $15,000, depending on your state – gen-erally charge a small fee to le, making them a relatively low-cost way to seek damages. Typically, plaintiffs represent themselves in these cases, bypassing cost ly attorney fees. If you’re considering a larger lawsuit, though, expenses are much higher. Con-sulting a lawyer can help you determine whether you have a strong case and how it might unfold. LAWSUITFrom page D1IT pros: Boost mental wellness with these 5 proactive tips By BRANDPOINT No matter your exact role in an organization, especial ly in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), work days can be stressful. For IT professionals at re source-constrained SMEs, every day brings new chal lenges and new stressors. You probably have a plan for everything – what to do if a server goes down, how to make sure employees have access to critical work resources, incident response plans for worst-case scenar ios ... but amid the busyness and intensity that comes with a role in IT, what’s your plan to protect your mental wellness? What are the solutions? Mental health is a complex state of being affected by multiple vari ables, both in and out of the workplace. To help promote mental well-being for IT profes sionals and others through out your organization, it’s crucial that everyone is of fered the resources and en couragement to engage in self-care and positive work practices so everyone can thrive.The state of mental health among IT administratorsOne of the more stressful roles in any SME is that of IT administrator. In a recent survey by CIO In sight, nearly 8 in 10 IT ad mins (77 percent) described their jobs as stressful, 1 in 4 said they’ve experienced a stress-related illness be cause of work, and nearly one-fourth (23 percent) said they clock 8-12 hours of un paid overtime every week. For IT admins or any other positions similarly meeting frequent deadlines, manag ing complicated systems, supervising teams or assist ing clients, stress is bound to arise – and can lead to burnout over time. While how you’re feeling may not be a comfortable topic in the workplace due to stigma re garding mental health, there are ways your company can encourage and promote wellness among employees.How to reduce stressTo help employees better cope with stress and avoid burnout, here are proactive steps SMEs can take. 1. Encourage empathy.Understanding that every one has mental health needs is a positive rst step toward being kinder to others, and to yourself. For example, scheduling back-to-back meetings all day may not be the best use of any worker’s time – and doesn’t allow for any reection of what’s BPT While corporate culture often celebrates those who “soldier on” despite exhaustion, this mindset is not sustainable. 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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 D3 D3 SUNDAY,May 14, 2023 Promotional information provided by the Citrus County Chamber of Commerce. 915 N. Suncoast Blvd., Crystal River, FL 34429 · 352-795-3149 · 203 E. Dampier St., Inverness, FL 34450 · 352-726-2801 MISSION OF THE CITRUS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: The Citrus County Chamber of Commerce is an organization of businesses unified in efforts to advance the economic growth of theregion, promote the interests of the business community, provide key leadership on key commerce issues and preserve thecounty’s quality of life. The Chamber recognizes our Legacy Partners that have made a special investment in the Chamber to support the programs and mission of the Chamber. For information on becoming a Legacy Partner, please contact the Chamber by emailing Corrine@CitrusCountyChamber.com. The Chamber is ex cited to welcome Flor ida House Representative, Ralph Massullo, to give us a legislative session wrap-up during our May Luncheon on May 19. This will be one of the first opportunities to hear from Representa tive Massullo post-session about the bills that passed this session and their impacts on Citrus County, as well as local appropriations passed by the legisla ture and awaiting signa ture by the Governor. This luncheon will fill fast, so don’t delay. Reg ister today. May 19th, 2023; 11:30am-1pm; Citrus Hills Golf & Country Club Sponsored by YMCA of the Suncoast – Citrus County Branch; Network ing: 11:30am to noon Program/Speaker: 12pm-1pm Pricing: $25 members$35 Non-membersAdvanced reservations are required. No walk-ups will be accepted. Make reservations on line until Monday at www.CitrusCountyChamber.com. Luncheon Reservations Close Tomorrow 5ÎÌÎ×Ý5"ËËØ×&ÞÝÝ"×Ð The Chamber is growing every week. We welcome ournew members and thank all of them for joining the Chamber. We encourage the community to support their businesses.The Priceless JourneyWelcome to the Chamber, The Priceless Journey! The Priceless Journey ministry resource center supplies vital tools and education to our most vulnerable women. The Priceless Journey began in 2017. Founder, Sarah Malanowski, had already written eight books at the time and was seeking God’s will on what to write next. The Lord laid it on her heart to compile a book of testimonies from women who had overcome excruciating circumstances. The book has been immensely valuable to victims of human trafficking, women in safe homes, pregnancy care centers, prisons, counseling centers, law enforcement, probation offices, community outreaches, churches, and more. https://thepricelessjourney.org/. 5/18 — May Chamber Mixer; Suncoast Business Masters – Location: Realtor’s Association 5/19 — May Luncheon; Citrus Hills Golf & Country Club; Speaker: Representative Ralph Massullo; Sponsor: YMCA 6/08 — June Chamber Mixer; City of Crystal River – Location: The Vault @ St. John’s Martini Bar 6/9 — June Luncheon; Plantation on Crystal River; Speaker: Justin Hall, FDOT Director of Transportation Development; Sponsor: Turtle Girl, LLCUPCOMING EVENTSCitrus County is blessed to have attracted incredible talent from all over to in vest themselves into our beauti ful community. One of those talents lies within Chamber member Cynthia Lopell, CL22 Designs and Productions Inc., whose event planning and out rageous talents have been showcased across the country designing and producing 24 Super Bowl Events in seven dif ferent States, a variety of Movie Premieres in Los Angeles & New York from IMAX Spectre to Maleficent, large scale events with attendance from 10,000 to 20,000 guests in an 88,000 to 120,000 square foot structure, Justin Timberlake’s “Suit & Tie” preview tour event, and many more. The caliber of expertise that Cynthia and her team bring to our community is incredible with a long list of accolades and awards including the Interna tional Event Solutions’ “SPOT LIGHT Award Winner” for “Event Company of the Year” and in May 2016 voted “Entre preneur of the Year” by SBA, BBA & Los Angeles LDC, Janu ary 2017 the Special Events Magazine’s “Gala Award Win ner” for “Best Décor”, in March 2018 the “ACE Award Winner” for Best Event and Décor, October 2018, BIZBASH Na tional, “Event Style Award Win ner” for Best Event Decor. The big-time talent of CL22 Designs and Productions Inc. is shadowed only by her small-town heart. Since arriving in Citrus County, Cynthia has em braced Citrus County, working with the United Way the Com munity Food Bank, the Acad emy of Environmental Science, the Citrus County Chamber of Commerce, and many others of fering her services helping to raise funds to support our com munity while producing incred ibly memorable experiences for those in attendance. She is also an active member of the Chamber’s Business Womens Alliance and volunteers her time outside of event produc tion to many local causes. As a Chamber we are always excited to welcome in new businesses. When those businesses have a heart for our community and come in making an impact, it is important to acknowledge and support them so we can con tinue to work for the future of this beautiful place we call home. More about Cynthia’s experi ence can be found online at https://www.cl22productions.com/ or their businessFacebook Page under CL22 Productions. Big Time Talent – Small Town Heart The Citrus County Chamber of Commerce was proud to present a donation to the Community Food Bank at their 10 Year Anniversary Celebration. The CFB helps feed more than 70,000 neighbors in need each month. They have distributed more than 14 million pounds of food since 2013, providing over 21 million meals to our community! Learn more and how you can get involved at https://feed352.org/. Chamber supports Community Food Bank Chamber Connection 

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Say goodbye to the “power through” culture. While corporate culture often celebrates those who “soldier on” despite exhaus tion, this mindset is not sus tainable. Ensuring that ev eryone is recognized for their contributions rather than their willingness to burn the mid night oil will go a long way toward preventing a stressful environment. 4. Help employees discover what supports their mental health. For some employees, cama raderie of peers and frequent social opportunities feeds their sense of well-being. For others, a quiet, calm work en vironment is what they need to thrive. Proven practices to help boost anyone’s overall well-being include: Qgetting enough sleep Qeating well Qbreaks from screen time Qreading Qlistening to classical music Qpracticing mindfulness What can your company do to help ensure everyone has the ability to care for them selves through these practic es? 5. Encourage everyone to use company resources. One underutilized resource is the employee assistance program, which offers a vari ety of resources to help em ployees cope with their con cerns. Other resources include their health care benets, which may provide access to mental health services. Re minding everyone that these services are available could be just the encouragement some one needs to use them. If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis and needs imme diate help, don’t wait. Call 911 if you or someone you know is in immediate danger, or go to the nearest emergency room. Additional resources: QNational Suicide Preven tion Lifeline: 800-273-TALK (8255). QCrisis Text Line: Text HELLO to 741741. QVeterans Crisis Line: 800273-TALK (8255) and press 1 or text 838255. To learn more on how to prioritize your mental well ness and uncover mindfulness strategies, join JumpCloud’s Tom Bridge and noted medita tion expert Alexis Santos for a live event on May 18 to learn daily strategies you can use to bolster your mental health, and participate in a 5-minute med-itation to help you refocus and re-center. Visit JumpCloud.com/resources/mindfulness -strategies-for-it-mental -wellness to register. HEALTHFrom page D2What you need to know about bank failures By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK — Recent turmoil in the banking industry may have you worried about your money. Shares of PacWest, a small re gional bank based in Los Angeles, plunged almost 40 percent Thurs day after the company conrmed it may put itself up for sale. Anxiety over potential bank runs has sent shares of smaller banks tumbling. A bank run is when large numbers of people withdraw their money from a bank all at once. Since March, three regional banks have failed – Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank. If the recent bank collapses have you worried about the safety of your money, here’s what you need to know:Is my money safe?Yes, if your money is in a U.S. bank insured by the Federal De posit Insurance Corp. and you have less than $250,000 there. If the bank fails, you’ll get your money back. Nearly all banks are FDIC in sured. You can look for the FDIC logo at bank teller windows or on the entrance to your bank branch. Credit unions are insured by the National Credit Union Adminis tration. If you have over $250,000 in individual accounts at one bank, which most people don’t, the amount over $250,000 is consid ered uninsured and experts recom mend that you move the remainder of your money to a different nan cial institution, said Caleb Silver, editor in chief of Investopedia, a nancial media website. If you have multiple individual accounts at the same bank, for ex ample a savings account and cer ticate of deposit, those are added together and the total is insured up to $250,000. (Read on for more about how joint accounts are pro tected.) Federal ofcials have been tak ing steps to make sure other banks aren’t impacted.Are there red flags I should look for with my bank?If you are worried about your bank closing in the near future, there are some things you can watch out for, according to Silver: QWatch the stock price. QKeep an eye on the quarter ly and annual reports from your bank. QStart a Google alert for your bank in case there are news stories about it. You want to make sure you pay close attention to the way your bank is behaving, Silver said.Should I look for alternatives?If you have more than $250,000 in your bank, there are a few things you can do: QOpen a joint account You can protect up to $500,000 by opening a joint account with someone else, such as your spouse, said Greg McBride, chief nancial analyst at Bankrate. “A married couple can easily protect a million dollars at the same bank by each having an in dividual account and together having a joint account,” McBride said. QMove to another nancial in stitution Moving your money to other nancial institutions and having up to $250,000 in each account will ensure that your money is insured by the FDIC, McBride said. QDo not withdraw cash Despite the recent uncertainty, experts don’t recommend with drawing cash from your account. Keeping your money in nancial institutions rather than in your home is safer, especially when the amount is insured.How much money can be insured in joint accounts?If you have a joint account, the FDIC covers each individual up to $250,000. You can have both joint and single accounts at the same bank and be insured for each. So if a couple each has individ ual accounts and a joint account where they have equal withdrawal rights, they can each have up to $250,000 insured in their single accounts and up to $250,000 in their joint accounts. That means each of them will have up to $500,000 insured.What about other investments?Customers should take a close look at the types of investments they have in their bank to know how much of their assets are insured by the FDIC. The FDIC offers an Elec tronic Deposit Insurance Estimator, a tool to know how much of your money is insured per nancial insti tution. FDIC deposit insurance covers: QChecking accounts – Negotia ble Order of Withdrawal (NOW) accounts – Savings accounts – Money Market Deposit Accounts (MMDAs) – Certicates of Deposit (CDs) – Cashier’s checks – Money orders – Other ofcial items issued by an insured bank FDIC deposit insurance doesn’t cover: QStock investments – Bond in vestments – Mutual funds – Life insurance policies – Annuities – Municipal securities – Safe deposit boxes or their contents – U.S. Trea sury bills, bonds, or notes – Crypto assets 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 D5 CLASSIFIEDS Services Directory PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIRECTORY &KULVWRSKHU6DWFKHOO 3DLQWLQJ Interior-ExteriorResidential-CommercialWallCovering& Pressurewashing 352-795-6533 cell:352-464-1397 Bob'sDISCARDED LawnMowerService «FREEPICK-UP« 352-637-1225 ResidentialLawn MowerRepair Over20yearsofexperiencein CitrusCounty BobAlbert 352-422-0804 (+, (GG\+RPH,PSURYHPHQW 7,/(/$0,1$7(,167$// .,7&+(1$1'%$7+ 5(02'(/6 JEFF'S CLEANUP/HAULING Cleanouts/Dumpruns, BrushRemoval. Lic./Ins.352-584-5374 FREEESTIMATES Mow,Trim,WeedorMulching ServingmostofCitrusCounty 352.631.4263 M&LHousekeeping PetorHouseSitting servicesalsoavail References-FreeEstimates 352.464.0115 NEEDNEWFLOORING? CallEmpireToday®to scheduleaFREEin-home estimateon Carpeting&Flooring. CallToday!855-919-2509 HAULING&JUNKREMOVAL -VETERANOWNED-FREEESTIMATESCALL352-949-2760 ROB'SMASONRY &CONCRETE Driveways,tearouts,tractor work/Lic#1476 352-726-6554 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIRECTORY PRESSUREWASHING *PriceMatchSpecials* Concrete Homes/RV Vehicles 352-282-5028 352-422-8557 Ray'sEconoHaul House/GarageCleanOuts YardRubbish Brush/Tree RemodelDebris Furn/Appl ShedDemoetc.&Deliveries Ray352.300.4575 RepurposeFurnitureServices *Build*Paint*Recycle* *CreateUniquePieces* JANE561.339.9912 RUSS561.632.2616 BEAUTY Sandy'sBarbershop 725SE9thCircleNorth CrystalRiver (1500ftbehindKFC) ontheleft Walk-insWelcome (352)228-8912 Sandy/Owner SMITTYS APPLIANCEREPAIR 352-564-8179 TILEWORK ******** KITCHENBACKSPLASH SPECIALIST/ Glass,Marble, Ceramic,Tile,Etc. 7yrsExp.,Text/Call (706)502-5689 TRASHHAULING YARDDEBRISREMOVAL THEDAMEDAY CHEAPTREESERVICE 352.340.9626 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIRECTORY WANTED ALLCARS,TRUCKS,SUVs, RV's/Upto$1,000& MORE!!!-FREETOWING (352)342-7037 SOLARPANEL CLEANING WhiteDiamond PressureWashing Registered&Insured 352-364-1372 WindowPaneSolutions WindowandDoor Sales&Service windowpanesolutions.com CBC#1262591 727-251-1959 HANDYMAN A-1CompleteRepairs Pres.Wash,Painting(Int/Ext), DrywallRepair,25yrs,Ref, Lic#39765, 352-513-5746 AFFORDABLEHANDYMAN ‡ FAST ‡ 100%Guarantee ‡ AFFORDABLE ‡ RELIABLE ‡ FreeEstimates 352-257-9508 ANDREWJOEHL HANDYMAN Gen.Maint/Repairs PressureCleaning 0256271 ‡ 352-465-9201 FENCING ******** CITRUSHANDYMAN SERVICES&FENCING Wehaveourbusinesslicense, $2mil.liabilityInsurance,& StateCertification. BeSafe! FairPricing.FREEEstimate 352-400-6016 RON&MINDY'S JUNKREMOVAL& HANDYMANSERVICE lic'd&insr'd352-601-1895 ALLHOME IMPROVEMENTS Repairs-Remodels FloorstoCeilings Lic/Ins352-537-4144 HANDYMAN FreeEstimates VETERANOWNED 352-949-2760 HANDYMAN AFFORDABLEHANDYMAN ‡ FAST ‡ 100%Guarantee ‡ AFFORDABLE ‡ RELIABLE ‡ FreeEstimates 352-257-9508 AFFORDABLEHANDYMAN ‡ FAST ‡ 100%Guarantee ‡ AFFORDABLE ‡ RELIABLE ‡ FreeEstimates 352-257-9508 PRESSUREWASH: Homes, Mobiles,PoolCages,COOL SEAL... + HANDYMAN. CallStewart352-201-2169 VETERANOWNED PROFESSIONAL Handyman Kitchen,Bathroom,Tile&Light Construction.Lic/InsFree Estimates,352-422-4639 LAWN AND TREE SERVICES A-ChristianWeinkein TreeService-TrimmingRemovalFREEEst., 18yrsexp.Lic./Ins. 352-257-8319/LeaveMsg A ACE TreeCare *BucketTruck TractorWork 637-9008 Lic&InsVet/Srdisc AFFORDABLELAWN CARE & CLEANUPS . Startingat$20.WEDO ITALL!352-563-9824 LAWN AND TREE SERVICES AACTIONTREE (352)302-2815 Professional Arborist ServingCitrus 30yrs. Licensed&Insured ATREESURGEON ProudlyservingCitrusCounty Since2001.Licensed/Insured Lowestrates!FREEestimate 352-860-1452 Bob'sProYardCare Affordable-QualityWork! 20yrsexp. 352-613-4250 CLAYPOOL'S TreeService Licensed/Insured 352-201-7313 Forstumps: 352-201-7323 D&RTREE LAWN&LANDSCAPE SERVICES-Lot&Land Lic&Ins352.302.5641 STUMPGRINDING CHEAP,16"Stump$30 CallRich352-789-2894 SKILLED TRADES Installations&Repairs Home&RVFlooring LVP-12millwearlayer100% waterproof/petfriendly startingat4.75sqftinstalled 30yrsexp-Lic/Ins. 352.458.5050-786.286.1163 CARPENTRY&MOBILE HOMEREPAIR&DECKS 30yrsExperience,Hourly Rates. 352-220-4638 SKILLED TRADES FLOORING Vinyl,wood&tileflooring PLUSHandyman,FREE ESTIMATES.Veteranowned 352-949-2760 FREEESTIMATE/ 30YEARSEXPERIENCE. Lic#CCC057537 352-563-0411 REMODELS, PANELUPGRADES, LIGHTINGFIXTURES, SERVICEandREPAIR 352-746-1606 Roofs,Soffit&FasciaRepairs Bo'sQualityRoofing at 352.501.1663 SCREENREPAIRS Pools,ScreenRms,Vinyl Windows&Lanai's,Freeest. Lic/Ins Mike352-989-7702 ROOFING WHYREPLACEIT,IF ICANFIXIT? GarySpicer352.228.4500 Sameownersince1987 ROOF Leaks,Repairs, Coatings&Maintenance License#CC-C058189 OTHER SERVICES Don'tPayForCoveredHomeR epairs Again!AmericanResi dentialWarrantycoversALL M AJORSYSTEMSANDAPP LIANCES.30DAYRISK F REE/$100OFFPOPULAR PLANS. 877-351-2364 DOUBLED TRACTORSERVICE BrushHogClearing BoxBladeGrading 352.220.0224 PAINTING PLUShandyman,flooring, painting.FREEestimate Veteranowned352-949-2760 PAINTING A-1CompleteRepairs Pres.Wash,Painting(Int/Ext) 25yrs,Ref,Lic#39765, 352-513-5746 EMPLOYMENT NOWHIRINGfor Overnight&Evening CAREGIVERS StartingPayat$15/hour ImmediateHire! Lookingforacareerinthe healthcarefield? NOExperiencenecessary Trainingandcertification available Mustbeatleast18yearsof ageorolder CrownCourt (352)344-5555 Lic#AL10580 NOW Fulltimepositionavailablefor acertifieddentalassistantin ourbusyfastpacedoffice. Sendresumeto info@ledgerdentistry.com NOWHIRING HVACTech RotatingSchedule. Fulltimewithgreatbenefits thatincludehealthinsurance andpaidvacation. 7745WHomosassaTrail (352)621-3444 orEmailresumeto acooling@tampabay.rr.com Yardworkerwantedfor SugarMillWoodsarea. Musthavebasicgardening skills&toolstodothejobs. Flexiblehours,Willtrain 16/hrplustips Yards&More352.613.8751 EMPLOYMENT NOWHIRING -LABORERS-GreatCareer Opportunity -TOPPAY 352.746.5951352.302.0673 ColonyStone& Plastering LEADPRESS OPERATOR FULL-TIME Ourcentralofficeisin CrystalRiver,FLprinting newspapersthatserve Citrus,Sumter,Marionand LevyCounties. Musthaveaminimum5yrs exp.runningaGoss Community/DGM430 printingpress.Thisisanight shiftposition,fourdaysper week. Weofferanexcellent benefitspackageincluding health,life,dental,eyecare, 401K,paidvacationsand holidays. Applyinpersonor sendresumeto: CitrusCountyChronicle Attn.TomFeeney 1624NMeadowcrestBlvd. CrystalRiver,FL34429 Office352-563-3275or Fax#352-563-5665 PETS DOGCARRIER PetMateUltra,large,28"Lx 15"Wx21.5"D.Taupe/black $60 352-613-0529 DogKennel Portable&foldable, 48"tall48"widesq. $45obo 352-287-1735 MINDACHSHUND PUPPIES Redsable&blackandtan smoothcoat.Males&femalesmindachshundavail. Excellenttemperament CKCregistered &FLhealthcerts$1000 352.652.9646 PETS JACKRUSSELLPUPPIES Claws&TailsDone,CKCregisteredw/HealthCerts.shots, SmoothCoatw/shortlegs, Readytogo! FamilyraisedMother&Father onpremises$700 508-971-9920(Inverness) PUPPIESFORSALE CKCRegisteredMini Dachshunds.FLHouseCerts. Completepuppykit.Silver dapplelong-coatmale,anda Black/Tanmaleandfemale shortcoat.Homeraisedwith love.ReadyMay19th. 352-220-4231 FARM AUGER 5ftlongsteelgroundauger tobeusedPTO $30OBO 352-344-1515 HORSE&CATTLE BURIALS ...alsootheranimals 352-212-6298 MERCHANDISE 1PAIROFDARKWOOD SWIVELCHAIRS picturesavailable,std.height $12ea, 352-344-1515 20lbIronANVIL 10inlong $25Picsavail. 352.344.1515 AirConditioner PortableA/C8,000BTU $125LeaveMessage 207.713.7469 AluminumCargoCarrier Hookstoyourreceiver $50 352-287-1735 WEBUYANTIQUES &VINTAGEITEMS ...PedalCars,Toys,Bicycles, CastIron,Pyrex,OldTools, MilitaryItems(Knives,Bayonets...),BBGuns,OldMetal Signs,Fenton,Lladro ... $CASH$ CallforInfo. Jim352-219-4134 Sheila352-219-1862 BareTrapMuleSneakers Newinboxneverworn,White, Size7,Retail$39,Selling $20 Picsavailable 352-513-5339 BlackTrousers+Skirt MacysAlfanisuit2piece,size 12,New,Macysretail$279, sellingfor $30 352-513-5339 CHRISTMASDOLLS(2) 18"long,vintagestyleclothing 1999-2000,$20ea. 352-344-1515 MERCHANDISE BlackVelvetPants LizClairborneDesigner,Size 12,Excellentcondition,retail $150,asking $15 352-513-5993 COINS Eisenhower"Silver"pieces from1970s,Moondollars $2Each 352-445-2680 CONAIROptiCleanPower PlaqueRemover Rechargeable,NEWINBOX REDUCEDPRICE ,$20OBO (352)410-8262 or(732)857-5120 COOKIEJAR CeramicSchoolhouse. 7"x9"x10"$20 callortext352-586-4576 COOKIEJAR CeramicvintageMcCoy RockingHorse$20 callortext352-586-4576 COOKIEJAR CeramicPenguin$10 callortext 352-586-4576 Women'sDesignerClothing Large/Xlarge,Jackets,Vests, Jeans,Tops&Dresses,New orWornOnce,$5-20/ea. 352-410-8262 or732-857-5120 GIADiamondRing BrandNew,Size7 $1,000 352-453-7636 FABRICSTEAMER C onAir-Newinbox.Onehou r ofcontinuoussteam. $50/OBOCallBob,leavemsg 352-527-1557 GRANDFATHERCLOCK 7ftRidgeway BeautifulandWorks $100.00352-382-8902 Jacket&Trousersfullylined ChocolateBrown JonesNewYork2piecesuit, new,size14,retail$399, sellingfor $50 352-513-5339 Jeans-3Pairs Size18,Greatcondition, $3each,allfor$9 352-419-5549 KEYBOARDCOVER Yamaha76keyboard cover-NEW $10 352-513-5339 LAWNTRAILER 30"Wx40"Lw/12"sides,tiltbed.Goodcondition. $40 352-419-4066 LEATHERPANTSW/BELT Genuineleatherpantsw/belt, women'ssize10. $75 352-586-4576 CallorText MISC.STARWARS FIGURESANDMISC.DOLLS $5TO$50 CALLBEFORE6PM 352-637-6702 TOOLS HitachiC15FBMiterSaw module380,15"Blade,extra blade,guidesetc.$425/obo 516-233-6040 NAUTICALSHIPBELL StainlessSteelexccond Picturesavail. $35352.344.1515 NewClogsw/FleeceLining SizeMed,Pinkw/White FleeceliningfromRuralKing Retail$29,Asking $10 352-513-5339 MERCHANDISE NordstromDress w/BoleroJackettop Size12,Blackw/whitebodice, retail$100,neww/tags $20 352-513-5339 OLDHORSESHOE&BRIDLE BITCOLLECTION Somevintage/somebarely used$90OBO Willsellseparately 352-344-1515 Bob'sDISCARDED LawnMowerService «FREEPICK-UP« 352-637-1225 PORTAPOWER/HYDRAULIC Completesetwithallaccessoriesincarryingcase. $ 150/OBOCallBob,leavemsg 352-527-1557 Queenairmattress builtinpump,newinbox $45cash 352-765-3475 TEAPOT Ceramic.Vintage.Wildwest catwithguns.Textforpic.$20 callortext352-586-4576 TONERCARTRIDGE BrotherTN-550BrandNew, stillinoriginalbox$30 352-613-0529 UPDATEYOURHOME with B eautifulNewBlinds& S hades.FREEin-home e stimatesmakeitconvenient t oshopfromhome. 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D6 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle C 0521SUCRNLIEN336135/31NOS NoticeofSelfStorageSale P leasetakenoticeFirstChoiceStorageCitrusSpringslocat eda t 7 016NLecantoHwy,Hernando,FL34442intendstoholdasal e t osellthepropertystoredattheFacilitybythebelowlistof Occu p antswhomareindefaultatanAuction.Thesalewilloccura s a nonlineauctionvia www.storageauctions.com on5/31/202 3 a t2:00pm.Unlessstatedotherwisethedescriptionofthecon t entsarehouseholdgoodsandfurnishings.JessicaSowellun i t # 017.Thissalemaybewithdrawnatanytimewithoutnotice . C ertaintermsandconditionsapply.Seemanagerfordetails. PublishedMay14&21,2023 LIENS 0521SUCRNLIEN366145/31NOS NoticeofSelfStorageSale P leasetakenoticeFirstChoiceStorageHernandolocateda t 1 795NFloridaAveHernandoFL34442intendstoholdasalet o s ellthepropertystoredattheFacilitybythebelowlistofOc cu p antwhoisindefaultatanAuction.Thesalewilloccurasanon l ineauctionvia www.storageauctions.com on5/31/2023a t 2 :00pm.Unlessstatedotherwisethedescriptionoftheconte nt s a rehouseholdgoodsandfurnishings.SheilaRussounit#B069 . T hissalemaybewithdrawnatanytimewithoutnotice.Certai n t ermsandconditionsapply.Seemanagerfordetails. PublishedMay14&21,2023 MEETINGS 0514SUCRNMPO2023-21CAC&BPAC NOTICEOFJOINTPUBLICMEETINGOFTHE CITIZENSADVISORYCOMMITTEE(CAC)AND BICYCLE/PEDESTRIANADVISORYCOMMITTEE(BPAC) OFTHEHERNANDO/CITRUSMETROPOLITAN PLANNINGORGANIZATION(MPO) N OTICEISHEREBYGIVENthattheCitizensAdvisoryCommit t ee(CAC)andtheBicycle/PedestrianAdvisoryCommitte e ( BPAC)oftheHernando/CitrusMetropolitanPlanningOrgani za t ion(MPO)willconductajointpublicmeetingonWednesday , M ay24,2023,at10:30a.m.attheHernandoCountyBuildin g T rainingFacility,1661BlaiseDrive,Brooksville,Florida .Itemso n t heagendaincludebutarenotlimitedto: annualelectionof2023CitizenAdvisoryCommitteeChairan d V iceChair reviewandapprovaloftheDecember14,2022,CitizenAdvis o ryCommitteeMeetingMinutes reviewandapprovaloftheMarch22,2023,Bicycle/Pedestri a n A dvisoryCommitteeMeetingMinutes reviewandrecommendationoftheFY2024-FY2028Transport a tionImprovementProgram(TIP) reviewandrecommendationontheannualupdateoftheListo f P riorityProjects(LOPP) reviewandrecommendationontheFY2024annualupdateo f t heUnifiedPlanningWorkProgram(UPWP) reviewandrecommendationontheComprehensiveOperationa l A nalysis(COA)PhaseII presentationonthe2050Long-RangeTransportationPla n ( LRTP)ScopeASocioeconomicForecast reviewoftheFY2024Hernando/CitrusMetropolitanPlannin g O rganization(MPO)budgetandreviewofthe F inancialReportfortheQuarterEndingMarch31,2023 A llmeetingsareopentothepublic.Anyquestionsconcernin g t hispublicmeetingshouldbedirectedtoMr.BobEsposito,MP O E xecutiveDirector,Hernando/CitrusMPO,1661BlaiseDrive , B rooksville,Florida,34601,telephone(352)754-4082,ore mai l r esposito@hernandocounty.us.Approximatelyoneweekprio rt o t hemeeting,theagendamaybeviewedonlineat:www.hernan d ocounty.usorwww.HernandoCitrusMPO.us. A nypersonwhodecidestoappealanydecisionmadebyth e T echnicalAdvisoryCommittee(TAC)withregardtoanymatte r c onsideredatsuchmeetingorhearing,saidpersonwillneed a r ecordoftheproceeding,andthat,forsuchpurpose,saidper s onmayneedtoensurethataverbatimrecordoftheproceed i ngismade,whichrecordincludesthetestimonyandevidenc e u ponwhichtheappealistobebased,Section286.0105F.S. P ublicparticipationissolicitedwithoutregardtorace,co lor,na t ionalorigin,age,sex,religion,disability,orfamilysta tus.Inac c ordancewiththeAmericanswithDisabilitiesAct,personsw it h d isabilitiesneedingaspecialaccommodationtoparticipat einthi s p roceedingshouldcontactMr.BobEspositoat352-754-4082n o l aterthan48hoursinadvanceofthemeeting.Ifyouarehearin g o rspeechimpaired,dial7-1-1,1-800-955-8771(TTY)viaFlo rid a R elayServiceforassistance. I fpersonsrequirelanguageinterpretationservices,pleas econ t actourofficeat1-352-754-4082forinformation.Language Inter p reterServicesarealsoavailable24hoursaday,7daysawee k a t1-800-752-6096.Silaspersonasrequierenserviciosd e i nterpretacióndeidiomas,comuníqueseconnuestraoficina al1 3 52-754-4082paraobtenerinformación.Losserviciosd e i nterpretacióndeidiomastambiénestándisponibleslas24h or a sdeldía,los7díasdelasemanaal1-800-752-6096. H ernando/CitrusMetropolitanPlanningOrganization / s/RobertEsposito M POExecutiveDirector PublishedMay14,2023MPO2023-21 0514SUCRNMPO2023-20TAC NOTICEOFPUBLICMEETING TECHNICALADVISORYCOMMITTEE(TAC) OFTHEHERNANDO/CITRUSMETROPOLITAN PLANNINGORGANIZATION(MPO) N OTICEISHEREBYGIVENthattheTechnicalAdvisoryCom m ittee(TAC)oftheHernando/CitrusMetropolitanPlanningO r g anization(MPO)willconductapublicmeetingonWednesday , M ay24,2023,at9:00a.m.attheHernandoCountyBuildin g T rainingFacility,1661BlaiseDrive,Brooksville,Florida .Itemso n t heagendaincludebutarenotlimitedto: electionofcommitteeVice-Chairfor2023 reviewandapprovalofMarch22,2023,meetingMinutes reviewandrecommendationoftheFY2024-FY2028Transport a tionImprovementProgram(TIP) reviewandrecommendationontheannualupdateoftheListo f P riorityProjects(LOPP) reviewandrecommendationontheFY2024annualupdateo f t heUnifiedPlanningWorkProgram(UPWP) reviewandrecommendationontheComprehensiveOperationa l A nalysis(COA)PhaseII presentationonthe2050Long-RangeTransportationPla n ( LRTP)ScopeASocioeconomicForecast reviewoftheFY2024Hernando/CitrusMetropolitanPlannin g O rganization(MPO)budgetandreviewofthe F inancialReportfortheQuarterEndingMarch31,2023 A llmeetingsareopentothepublic.Anyquestionsconcernin g t hispublicmeetingshouldbedirectedtoMr.BobEsposito,MP O E xecutiveDirector,Hernando/CitrusMPO,1661BlaiseDrive , B rooksville,Florida,34601,telephone(352)754-4082,ore mai l r esposito@hernandocounty.us.Approximatelyoneweekprio rt o t hemeeting,theagendamaybeviewedonlineat:www.hernan d ocounty.usorwww.HernandoCitrusMPO.us. A nypersonwhodecidestoappealanydecisionmadebyth e T echnicalAdvisoryCommittee(TAC)withregardtoanymatte r c onsideredatsuchmeetingorhearing,saidpersonwillneed a r ecordoftheproceeding,andthat,forsuchpurpose,saidper s onmayneedtoensurethataverbatimrecordoftheproceed i ngismade,whichrecordincludesthetestimonyandevidenc e u ponwhichtheappealistobebased,Section286.0105F.S. P ublicparticipationissolicitedwithoutregardtorace,co lor,na t ionalorigin,age,sex,religion,disability,orfamilysta tus.Inac c ordancewiththeAmericanswithDisabilitiesAct,personsw it h d isabilitiesneedingaspecialaccommodationtoparticipat einthi s p roceedingshouldcontactMr.BobEspositoat352-754-4082n o l aterthan48hoursinadvanceofthemeeting.Ifyouarehearin g o rspeechimpaired,dial7-1-1,1-800-955-8771(TTY)viaFlo rid a R elayServiceforassistance. I fpersonsrequirelanguageinterpretationservices,pleas econ t actourofficeat1-352-754-4082forinformation.Language Inter p reterServicesarealsoavailable24hoursaday,7daysawee k a t1-800-752-6096.Silaspersonasrequierenserviciosd e i nterpretacióndeidiomas,comuníqueseconnuestraoficina al1 3 52-754-4082paraobtenerinformación.Losserviciosd e i nterpretacióndeidiomastambiénestándisponibleslas24h or a sdeldía,los7díasdelasemanaal1-800-752-6096. H ernando/CitrusMetropolitanPlanningOrganization / s/RobertEsposito M POExecutiveDirector PublishedMay14,2023MPO2023-20 MISCELLANEOUS 0514SUCRNITB23-021SCOP PUBLICNOTICE InvitationtoBid ITB23-021 SmallCountyOutreachProgram(SCOP)Projectfor EastTrailsEnd/CR39AfromEastWymarTrailtoSouth WithlapopkaDrive S olicitationOverview C itrusCounty,Florida(“County”)invitesinterestedparti estosub m itaBidtoprovideroadwaymillingandresurfacingWorkfort w o l anesof ETrailsEndRdfromEWymarTrailtoSWithlapop k aDr,approximately1.67milesperlane(Attachment“A”) . T hisincludesmilling2.5”,thenresurfacingwitha2.5”lift ofF C 1 2.5withPG76-22polymerbinder-TrafficLevelC,pursuantt o t hecurrentFDOTStandardSpecificationsforRoadandBridg e C onstruction,JULY2022,Edition.Asphalttobeprovidedfor th e p rojectmustbeidentifiedonthecurrentFDOTAsphaltMi x D esignPlantAssignmentSheetandistobesubmittedwithth e b id.PavementmarkingsaretomeetcurrentMUTCDcriteria . W orkincludes,butisnotlimitedto,exposingandcleaninged g e o fexistingpavement,milling,paving,temporaryandperman en t p avementmarkings/RPMs,redressing,shouldergrading(con t ractorisresponsibleforprovidingpositivedrainageaway fro m t heroadwaysurface),sodding,andotheritemsasspecifiedi n t heContractDocuments.Allworkwillbecompletedinaccord a ncewithcurrentFloridaDepartmentofTransportation(FDO T ) S tandardSpecificationsforRoadandBridgeConstruction,J UL Y 2 022,Edition,anditssupplements. S EALEDBids aretobesubmitted onorbeforeJune15,2023 , a t2:00pm. ItisthesoleresponsibilityoftheBiddertoensur e t hattheirBidresponseissubmittedthroughVendorLinknola te r t hanthetimeanddatespecifiedintheSolicitationorsubseq uen t a ddenda. V isithttps://www.myvendorlink.com/common/register.as pxtore g isterwithVendorLink.VendorLinkisanonlineBidderregis tra t ionsystemthatprovidesafreeatnocosttoBidders,asecure , u ser-friendlyInternetportalandone-stopservicecentert ore g isterwithCounty.Thissystemalsoallowsyoutoreceiveaut o m aticemailnotificationsregardingCounty ‹ supcomingcompetit i vesolicitationsasopportunitiesbecomeavailable. E lectronicBids shallbeopenedandreadaloudpubliclyo n J une15,2022,at2:15PM.viaMicrosoftTeams,informatio n i slistedintheSolicitationDocumentfoundonVendorLink. A nypersonrequiringreasonableaccommodationatthismeeti n g b ecauseofadisabilityorphysicalimpairmentshouldcontac tth e C ountyAdministrator'sOffice,(352)527-5210,atleasttwo day s b eforethemeeting.Ifyouarehearingorspeechimpaired,dia l7 1 -1,1-800-955-8771(TTY)or1-800-955-8770(v),viaFlorid a R elayService. S inecesitauntraductordeespañolporfavorhagaarreglosco n e lCondadodentrodedosdíasdelanotificacióndel a p ublicación352-527-5370 E nglishTranslation:(IfyouneedaSpanishTranslatorpleas e m akearrangementswiththeCountybytelephonewithintw o d aysofthepublicationnoticeat352-527-5370) T oobtainacopyoftheSolicitationDocumentforthisannounc e m ent,pleasevisittheCitrusCountyWebsitea t w ww.citrusbocc.comandselect"Departments-dropdown,"“M an a gement&Budget,”“Purchasing&Bids,”andunde r S olicitations/Vendorsselecthttps://www.myvendorlink. com/com m on/register.aspx-toregisterorDemandstar.Copiescanalsob e o btainedbycallingtheDepartmentofManagement & B udget/Purchasingat(352)527-5457. C ITRUSCOUNTYBOARDOFCOUNTYCOMMISSIONERS R uthieDavisSchlabach,Chairman PublishedMay14,2023 0514SUCRNITBNO.23-072MOWING PUBLICNOTICE INVITATIONTOBID ITBNo.23-072 MowingatCitrusCountyWater/Wastewater andLiftStationFacilities C itrusCounty,Florida(“County”)invitesinterestedparti estosub m itaBidtoprovidemowing,edging,trimming,weedingan d c lean-upservicesatmultiplewatertreatmentplants,waste wate r t reatmentplants,liftstationsandotherrelatedpropertie s t hroughoutCitrusCounty. S eetheScopeofWorkSectionofthisInvitationtoBidformor e i nformation. S EALEDBids -ElectronicBidsubmittalsaretobesubmitted o n o rbeforeJune14,2023,at2:00pm. Itisthesoleresponsibilit y o ftheBiddertoensurethattheirBidissubmittedthroug h V endorLinknolaterthanthetimeanddatespecifiedintheSol i c itationorsubsequentaddenda.SeeSolicitationDocumentf o r d etails. V isithttps://www.myvendorlink.com/common/register.as pxtore g isterwithVendorLink.VendorLinkisanonlineBidderregis tra t ionsystemthatprovidesafreeatnocosttoBidders,asecure , u ser-friendlyInternetportalandone-stopservicecentert ore g isterwithCounty. S ealedBidsshallbeopened andreadaloudpubliclyon Jun e 1 4,2023,at2:15PMviaMicrosoftTeams,informationislis t edintheSolicitationDocumentfoundonVendorLink. * *AllpublicMeetingsaresubjecttochangeorcanbecan c elled. A nypersonrequiringreasonableaccommodationatthismeeti n g b ecauseofadisabilityorphysicalimpairmentshouldcontac tth e C ountyAdministrator'sOffice,3600W.SovereignPath,Suit e 2 67,Lecanto,FL34461,(352)527-5210,atleasttwodaysbe f orethemeeting.Ifyouarehearingorspeechimpaired,dial7 -1 1 ,1-800-955-8771(TTY)or1-800-955-8770(v),viaFloridaR e l ayService. T oobtainacopyoftheInvitationtoBidDocumentforthisan n ouncement,pleasevisitVendorLinka t h ttps://www.myvendorlink.com/common/register.aspx-re giste r a ndonceregistered,youwillbeabletoobtainthedocumentso r g otoDemandStarat h ttps://www.demandstar.com/beta/buyers/bids.Copiesca nals o b eobtainedbycallingtheDepartmentofManagement & B udget/Purchasingat(352)527-5457. S inecesitauntraductordeespañolporfavorhagaarreglosco n e lCondadodentrodedosdíasdelanotificacióndel a p ublicación352-527-5370 E nglishTranslation:(IfyouneedaSpanishTranslator,plea s e m akearrangementswiththeCountybytelephonewithintw o d aysofthepublicationnoticeat352-527-5370) C ITRUSCOUNTYBOARDOFCOUNTYCOMMISSIONERS R uthieDavisSchlabach,Chairman PublishedMay14,2023 LIENS TRANSPORTATION CARGOTRAILER 20228'X16'Arisingw/2ftV noserearrampdoorandside door110Vlights&plugsinside.Pulledlessthan800mi. LocatedinHomosassa $7500CallsOnly 407.705.9141 CUSTOMVAN 1998Savanna1500.Oneofa kind,rarefindw/only16,000 miles&garagekeptinTN. 2Captainchairseatsand entirecargoareaisopenand carpeted.Makingthisthe perfectcamperorhauling largerequipmentasthiswas designedforsuch. Refurbishedenginetiresand radio.Haveallreceiptstotaling 14,000alongwithletterfrom customcarshoponallwork donetobringthisvanbackto life.$18,500 Call901.377.4930 SIDEBYSIDE 2019PolarisRZR HighLifterwithmanyextras 170hours,1,153miles Local515.460.1173 WANTED ALLCARS,TRUCKS,SUVs, RV's/Upto$1,000& MORE!!!-FREETOWING (352)342-7037 Tires Almostnew245/45/R19 Dunloptires-4available$50 352-860-2818 BOATS 17ftBaylinerCapri w/Matchingtrailer,130HP,i/o w/lifejackets $3,950obo 352-270-8917 1997SPORTSCRAFTFISHMASTER ,27ft.,new2021twi n 350VortecMtrsw/650Holly doublepumpers,includeselectronics&safetygear,etc., alum.3-axleTrailer,$28,500 Local864-247-6395 1999SeaPro 235Walkaround,200HPJohnson,lowhours,2004Aluminumtrailer,$14,900 352-447-1244 97Hydrosport 22'withbrandnewSuzuki150 has3hoursonit,boat&trailer. $18,000 352-302-4705 Canoe AmericanTrador-Wooden 121/2Ft,40"beam,needsrepairs,paddles,oars,seats $750/obo 516-233-6040 IBUYBOATS CASHPAIDFOR ALLBOATS $$CALLVINCE$$ LOCAL 941-301-9946 OUTBOARDMOTOR 1972Chrysler2stroke8HP outboardmotor+stand.Fresh waterMidwestonly.Super clean.Lastserviced/ran (perfectly)2012. $500 352-770-5458 OUTBOARDMOTOR 2022Mercury200Horsepower 4strokew/factorywarranty Guidemotor. Approx.230Hours. $13,500 352-422-4141 PleaseText CARS/SUV 06BuickRainierCXL RWD118k,Black/tan.Very nice,garaged,dealermaintainedSUVw/vortec5.3V8 towpackage,bosesound. $9300 352-382-4008 2006ToyotaSequoiaLTD 4x4,navigationsystem, DVD/CD,Sunroof,3rowseating,rearconsoleseat,coldAC, leather&powerseats,black exteriorgrayinterior Everythingingoodcondition 159,800mi $9,500OBO352-293-4504 CHEVYTAHOE 2007-newJasper engine&transmission Ingoodshape$13,500 352.256.5980 2007ChryslerCrossfire 2DoorConvertible,62,400mi, 3.2Lengine, $11,200 Pristine Condition!Garagekept! BeautifulInterior! Runs160MPH (Butdon'tdoit!!LOL) 352-552-3484 2010VOLKSWAGEN GOLFTDI TurboDiesel,auto,fullpower 62Kmi.,silverw/blackinterior $8500 352-697-1805 2011BuickEnclaveSUV Blackexterior/Grayinterior 102kmileage,$10,000 352-249-4422 CARS/SUV 2014HYUNDAISONATA Inexcellentcondition,loaded, backupCamera,73,000mil Callformoreinformation 352-601-3225 CADILLAC Black2008DTS165,000Miles Newtires,brakes,Battery 18"ChromeRims Notnewbutnicecar 352-342-3917 FORD 2017EscapeEconomyBoost Onemancar31,500miles Excellentcond.$20,000 352.445.9448 FORD 2019MUSTANGGT HighPerformance5.0460HP 17KSpecial,Maroonincolor $50,000 Tom352-341-3803 STREETRODDER MAGAZINES 1990's-28inall.Verygoodto excellentcond. $20/OBOCallBob,leavemsg. 352-527-1557 CLASSICS 1963DodgeDartConvertible SlantedCragarWheels,dualexhaust,electronicignition,4barrelcarborator,racingcam $8,500 352-422-7225 1963StudabakerLark Regal4doorsedanV-8. Manynewitems .$9,850 606.207.7160 1990CHEVY LUMINA EURO,red,4-DR,good tires,rebuiltmotor, $4,000OBOasis 352-212-4622 CHEVY CAMARO 1981Z28 Coupe PerfectBody,norust,no dents,4speedmunci,NEW 355ciw/450to525HP-Looks &RunsAwesome-Toomuch tolist-$25K 352-364-7229 MOTORCYCLES CANAMSPYDER 2 013LikeNewSpyderRT-LT D ChromePackageithasevery option.AutomaticTransmission,ExcellentCondition, NO Scratches,lowmiles15,000 andalwaysgaragekept.EngineSize997ExteriorBrown $14,500Callortext Todd802.233.1704 TRUCKS 2014FORDF-1504x4 Crewcab206,000miles $11,700Cash 352-460-2162 TRUCK 2003FORDF150 4Welldrive,tough,large engine,wellmaintained.New brakes,A.C.,tunedup. $8,000 706-835-5068 RECREATIONAL VEHICLES 2021LightWeight TravelTrailer withExtras-$17,900 352-212-6949 D UTCHMANCOLEMA N BRANDNEW 202217fttraveltrailer Sleeps6,features WinegardAIR360antenna Lotsofstorage$14,500 352-247-0788 29ftSAFARI 1998Motorhomewith83,000 miles,FordPowerstrokediesel engine.NewtiresExcellentcond, tomuchtolist!$20,500OBO Carl352.400.8353 A-FRAMEPOP-UPCAMPER 2012FlagstaffVerygoodcond. $4,000 352-302-4705 HURRICANERV ClassA2010Fourwinds31D Lowmileage,twoslideouts, garagekept&veryclean 352.634.1874 IBUYRV's CASHPAID FORRV's $$CALLVINCE$$ LOCAL 941-301-9946 NewmarMountainAire 37.5ft1999RVwith 69,000originalmiles. GoodconditionLOCAL $25,000 207.502.2216 TRAVELTRAILER 2019SalembyRiverForest26' w/slideout.ExcellentCond. 17,500 352-215-0027 

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A weekly real estate section published Sundays in the Citrus County Chronicle. “The market leader in real estate information” NEWSPAPER AND ONLINE ADVERTISING INFORMATION:352-563-5592 or advertising@chronicleonline.comCLASSIFIED ADVERTISING INFORMATION:352-563-5966 NEWS INFORMATION:52-563-5660 or community@chronicleonline.comONLINE REAL ESTATE LISTINGS:www.ChronicleHomeFinder.com HF CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE Section ESUNDAY, MAY14 , 2023 By BRANDPOINT There comes a time when every homeowner looks around at their house and ponders a few upgrades. Sometimes, those ideas turn into full-on renovations as you reimagine your space to better meet your lifestyle. But before you start calling contractors, ask yourself: Does remodeling make -nancial sense? Here are three tips to help you decide if a home renova-tion bene ts your home and your nances.Identify your wants versus needsHow necessary are the improvements you want? Some home projects may end up costing you more than the value they provide. That doesn’t mean certain proj-ects aren’t worthwhile. “Home renovations come in all shapes and sizes. For some, it may be about the investment and increasing the home value, for a good few it might be about what looks the best, while others might not have a choice,” said Adam Fingerman, as-sistant vice president of eq-uity lending at Navy Federal Credit Union. “Whatever the reason, it’s always a good idea to understand how a large renovation might im-pact your nances and the overall value of your home.”Know your budgetConsider creating a chart with all of your cost esti-mates, and include columns for high-, mediumand low-cost options. Don’t forget supplies for do-it-yourself projects and always allocate a certain percentage for un-expected expenses. Also be sure to get estimates from different con-tractors and compare them. Carefully check references and business licenses.Explore financing optionsIdeally, you’ve already established a home improve-ment savings plan. But if you’re planning to borrow, explore your nancing op-tions through your trusted bank or credit union. “Think about the size of your project, whether or not you’ll have ongoing expens-es, and your current nanc-es,” said Fingerman. For example, Navy Federal offers members various op-tions for funding home im-provement projects, such as home equity loans, home eq-uity line of credit or person-al expense loans. Members also have access to a wealth of information to help them make informed decisions about the right nancing products for their home im-provement goals. Home renovations of any size – large or small – can be overwhelming. Consid-er these tips to help make it easier and more affordable in the long run. Navy Federal Credit Union is federally insured by NCUA. Equal housing lender.Decide if home remodel makes financial senseDon’t let changes overwhelm you BPT How necessary are the improvements you want? Some home projects may end up costing you more than the value they provide. That doesn’t mean certain projects aren’t worthwhile. By KATE ASHFORD NerdWalletM ost older adults ages 50 to 80 say it’s important to stay in their homes for as long as they can, according to the 2022 National Poll on Healthy Aging from the University of Michigan. But aging in place isn’t as simple as just staying home – you must consider the costs, including those for age-re-lated home renovations, home maintenance and caregiving. Some costs may be covered by Medicare if you meet certain requirements, but most will be fully out of pocket. From grab bars to yard upkeep, here’s what you must consider as you think about where you’ll live later in life. Most older adults ages 50 to 80 say it’s import-ant to stay in their homes for as long as they can, according to the 2022 National Poll on Healthy Aging from the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the Universi-ty of Michigan. But only 1 in 3 said their home “de -nitely” has the features needed to allow them to age in place. Aging in place isn’t as simple as just staying home – you must consider the costs, including those for age-related home renovations, home main-tenance and caregiving. Some costs may be cov-ered by Medicare if you meet certain requirements, but most will be fully out of pocket. “We know that about 90 percent of aging individ-uals want to age in place, but there are a number of aspects they have to consider,” says Jill Mc-Namara, senior director of enterprise operations at Care.com. From grab bars to yard upkeep, here’s what you must evaluate.Can you renovate?Staying in your home usually means making modi cations so you can live in it safely. Many homes in the U.S. were built in the post-war period, “when the country was young and virile and the lifespan was shorter,” says Louis Tenenbaum, founder of the HomesRe-newed Resource Center, a nonpro t site for research into the economics of aging in place. You’ll want to think about the bathroom, the entryway and the bed-room, says Kathleen Cameron, senior director of the National Council on Aging’s Center for Healthy Aging. That includes things like grab bars and a walk-in shower in the bathroom, a ramp or widened doorway if needed for home access, Can you afford to age in place? Photos from MetroCreative While Medicare may cover home health care as part of a lim-ited, prescribed regimen by your doctor – including physical and occupational therapy – it doesn’t cover an extended peri-od of home health care or companion care. Staying in your home usually means making modifications so you can live in it safely. By JESSICA DAMIANO Associated PressG ardening is widely regarded as a moderate to strenuous form of exercise. All that bending, lifting, digging and hauling burns calories and builds muscle. But it can also strain backs and leave even the ttest among us aching the next day. There’s no need to throw in the trowel. Before heading out for a weeding or planting ses-sion, I wrap heating pads around my neck and lower back, which are my person-al Achilles heels. Five min-utes is usually all it takes to loosen my muscles. Sometimes, I apply disposable, stick-on pads like those made by ThermaCare to whatever happens to hurt at the moment and wear them while I work. A few minutes of pre-gardening gentle stretching helps, too. A little forethought can go a long way toward saving your strength and energy. For instance, collecting all the tools you anticipate needing before you begin your work will cut down on unnecessary trips to and from the shed. While you’re in there, be sure to store the heaviest items on waist-height shelves for the easiest and safest retrieval. Sometimes, simple postural adjustments like remembering to bend at the knees when lifting bags of mulch or standing with your feet shoulder-width apart to maintain good bal-ance are all you need. But if bending has become too dif cult, or if you garden while seated, grow plants in waistor chair-height raised beds or vertically in towers, wall-af xed planting units or trellises. Using a wheelbarrow instead of carrying heavy supplies sounds like a no-brainer, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve overestimated my abili-ty and paid dearly for it. When carrying by hand, hug heavy objects like lled containers to your chest, keeping your back as straight as possible. Better yet, set pots in place while they’re empty, then ll them. My ower garden contains mostly perennials, because I prefer them and also because they don’t need replanting every year as annuals do. That cuts my work – and bending – a great deal. Plus, perennials, which return year after year, typically cost more at the outset but, over time, are more cost-effective than buying new annuals every spring. Scoot around the yard on a rolling garden seat or use a padded kneeler to cushion the earth. Many adaptive tools available these days can make raking, hoeing or tending to other chores easier, too. If you haven’t shopped around in a while, you might be surprised by the ergonomic options available. Corona, Fiskars and other leading brands make tools with extendable-reach han-dles that eliminate bending and facilitate gardening in a wheelchair. Rotoshovel, a battery-powered, “hand-held automatic shovel” that won a 2022 AmericanHort Retailer’s Choice award, Gardening is strenuous – go gentle on your body Photos courtesy of Gardeners.com via Associated Press A woman gardening in a raised bed while seated on a Deluxe Tractor Scoot, one of many available products designed to make gardening easier. A man gardening in a Wheelchair Accessible Raised Bed, one of many available products de signed to make gardening easier. See GARDENING , page E6 See AGING , page E6 

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E2 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle rrrn n r r nr r nr n r     ­€‚ ƒ‚ƒr„‚ ‚…­‚ †‡n‡ ­ˆ MLS#822275 $ 595,000 STEVELATIFF 352-634-0101 GERIGAUGLER 609-214-9963 JEANNEGASKILL 352-476-5582 TEXT 237500 to35620FORELECTRONICBROCHURE TEXT 642290 to35620FORELECTRONICBROCHURE TEXT 144802 to35620FORELECTRONICBROCHURE MLS#821994 $ 449,900 MLS#823596 MLS#822186 1594EWEDGEWOODLANE,HERNANDO 19NHARRISONSTREET,BEVERLYHILLS 799WTOUCANLOOP,HERNANDO•5/3/2-w/2CarCarpot•2FamilyRooms•ScreenedinPoolHomew/Jacuzzi•1.10Acres•FairviewEstates•EatinKitchen •2/1•900SqFtLv•FewBlocksEastfromBeverlyHillsCommunityPark•FewBlocksWestfromLecantoHwy (Shopping,Restaurants,etc.) •2/2/2•1,250SqFtLv•MaintenanceFreeHomeinForestRidgeValley•OpenFloorPlan•ScreenedLanai•GlassSlidingDoors•LargeWalk-InCloset&Bathroom•EasyWalktoClubhouse •2/2/1•ClosetoSuncoastParkway EntranceonCardinal •10X24Carport•1,107SqFtLv•13X24ScreenedPorch•FencedYard(.80Acres)•DetachedGarage/Shop(14X48) PRICEIMPROVEMENT 3956NCALUSAPOINT,CRYSTALRIVER 7OKLAHOMASTREET,BEVERLYHILLS WATERFRONTHOME IFYOULIKEPINACOLADAS&GETTINGCAUGHTIN THESUN...THENTHISISTHEHOMETHATYOU’VE LOOKEDFOR...SOPLANYOURESCAPE! LOOKINGFORANEEDLEINA HAYSTACK?...HEREITIS! •3/2/2•NoHOAorDeedRestrictions •2,096SqFtLv•1YrWarranty •Roof2017 •HVAC2021 •NewHotWaterHeater •NewStainlessSteelAppliance •NewFloatingDock •ThreeSisterSprings&Hunter Springs3MilesAway •3/2 •1,144SqftLv •NEW28’X44’DoubleWideMobileHome •SplitFloorPlan •UpscaledAppliances •NewWell •ModernSeptic •14FencedAcres •3/2Mobile,builtin2021 •Possibility:Liveinmobilewhilebuildingyour dreamhome? •Roomfor26horses •30’x80’Workshop/storage •2/2/1 •1,151SqFtLv •UpdatedHome •FullyFencedBackyard •FreshlyPaintedInterior/Exterior •ElectricFireplace •NEWLaminateFlooringinMainAreasofHome •LuxuryVinylPlankinginBedrooms •OutdoorPatio&Pool TEXT LYNNHARRIS to35620FORELECTRONICBROCHURE TEXT LYNNHARRIS to35620FORELECTRONICBROCHURE TEXT 130420 to35620FORELECTRONICBROCHURE TEXT 126777 to35620FORELECTRONICBROCHURE MLS#821486 MLS#823727 LYNNHARRIS352-269-8499 RACC2020REALTOROFTHEYEAR MEGAMILLIIONDOLLARPRODUCER LYNNHARRIS352-269-8499 RACC2020REALTOROFTHEYEAR MEGAMILLIIONDOLLARPRODUCER TEXT 126774 to35620FORELECTRONICBROCHURE 6711SLIMAAVENUE,HOMOSASSA BILLMOORE352-697-1613 BILLMOORE352-697-1613 JANICEAYERS 352-422-0488 JANICEAYERS 352-422-0488 JACKIEDAVIS 352-634-2371 MLS#819014 $ 250,000 MLS#822724 $ 210,000 MLS#822205 MLS#822876 TEXT 195039 to35620 FORELECTRONICBROCHURE TEXT 195042 to35620 FORELECTRONICBROCHURE•1.06Acres•CornerLotinPineRidgeSubdivision•EquestrianTrails&RidingAreas,Stables•Tennis,Shu eboard,FamilyPicnics•1.16Acres•HomesOnlyNeighborhood•MinutesfromFishing/Boating 3425WBRAZILNUTROAD, BEVERLYHILLS 9154NBROMELIADTERRACE, CRYSTALRIVERKATHYCANFIELD 352-220-5001 $29,900 $54,950 4405SCHIRPERDRIVE,LECANTO 7893NCARLGROSEHIGHWAYHERNANDO,FL Checkoutour WEBSITE ! Useyourphonetoscanthiscode 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 E3 Tropic Shores welcomes new agents Tropic Shores Realty is happy to welcome three more new agents to our Crys tal River of ce. Bill Mai er can be reached at 734-660-6564 or by email to bmaier@umich.edu. Cheryl Suits can be reached at 352-345-1540 or by email to suitscheryl @gmail.com. Robert Ruiz can be reached at 352-496-1972 or by email to robertruiz.sales@outlook.com.Cridland Real Estate congratulates Lee Harris Cridland Real Estate would like to congratulate Lee Harris of our Dunnel lon ofce on his receiving his certicate as a Florida Master Gardener volunteer. His plan is to be able to assist and encour age people to grown things, as well as to help with 4-H clubs and schools in Dixie, Gilchrist and Levy counties. Harris will be happy to help you with both real es tate and gardening needs. He is located in our Dun nellon ofce and would be glad to hear from you. You can reach him on his cell at 352-817-1987. Cridland Real Estate welcomes Carol Lichfoldt Cridland Real Estate is proud to announce that Car ol Lichfoldt has returned to our ofce as a sales as sociate. She is a longtime resident of our com munity and looking forward to working with buyers and sellers to help them with their real estate needs. Should you have a want to speak with her regard ing any questions related to your real estate needs, feel free to contact her in our Inverness ofce at 352-344-5535 or on her cell at 352-875-2524. REAL ESTATE DIGEST HARRIS LICHFOLDT MAIER RUIZ SUITS DEAR JOHN: I have followed your column in the Citrus Chronicle for many years and decided to seek your exper tise on these items. Attached you will nd pic tures of a mid-20th century coffee table and two side ta bles made by Lane, Altavista, Va. The coffee table is 48 by 22 inches, and the side tables are 28 by 28 inches. I believe, based on the serial numbers that they were made in 1958. I purchased them about 2001. I am, in the near fu ture, going to be downsizing my living arrangements and these, being as large as they are, will probably have to go. In keeping with their theme, I would not separate them. I have spent a number of hours on the internet look ing for similar tables made by Lane, but I have found nothing. Also, Lane had no infor mation for me either. I would like to know, of course, their value, the type of wood if you can tell by the pictures or research and any signicance concerning their theme. Thank you. – D.M., internet DEAR D.M.: There is a large quantity of Lane furniture for sale in the secondary market place and on the internet. I was not able to nd any spe cic collector interest in the pieces you have with the tiles inlaid on the surface of each piece. I can see in your photo graphs one is style No. 2061 and the other style No. 2068. The one piece has ve tiles, three of which are decorated with early American themes done in an abstract manner depicting American Indians, Betsy Ross sewing an Ameri can ag, and a citizen soldier holding a rie. The other pieces are both decorated with nine tiles with four of the tiles painted, one with a young fellow ringing the Liberty Bell, a woman at tending a Revolutionary War cannon, a wagon train pulled by oxen and American Indi ans. Lane only lists these two style numbers as not avail able. It is likely these two styles were designs that were not popular, and after a short production run were discon tinued. They are in the used furni ture category unless the tiles 1950s-era furniture may not be too dear SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE The Citrus County Depart ment of Growth Manage ment’s Building Division successfully launched their new online permitting portal on Monday, April 24. Since then, there have been 857 ac counts created, 923 applica tions submitted, 517 permits issued and 3,347 inspections completed. Staff are committed to mak ing this a positive experience for all users and appreciate the community’s patience and support during this tran sition. Help is available for those learning to use the new sys tem. If you have applied for a permit and need assistance, contact 352-527-5310. Those requiring assis tance with setting up a new portal account should call 352-341-8795 or visit the contractor window located at the Lecanto Government Building, 3600 W. Sover eign Path, Lecanto, which is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Building Division staff are available to assist with portal set-up, scanning plans and Assistance available for new online permitting portal Photos courtesy of John Sikorski LEFT : This coffee table has five tiles, three of which are decorated with early American themes done in an abstract manner depicting American Indians, Betsy Ross sewing an American flag, and a citizen soldier holding a rifle. RIGHT : The side tables are both decorat ed with nine tiles with four of the tiles painted, one with a young fellow ringing the Liberty Bell, a woman attending a Revolutionary War cannon, a wagon train pulled by oxen and American Indians. John SikorskiSikorski’s Attic See PORTAL , page E6 See SIKORSKI , page E6 rr n n n rn rrnOremail:debbierector1@gmail.com  Secrets To MySuccess: Cuttingedgemar ke ting, strongnegotiationsskills , communication & knowing whatneedstobedone toget yo u totheclosing table ONTIME! facebook website J.W.MORTONPROPERTYMANAGEMENTLLC.1645W.MAINST INVERNESS,FL WENEED RENTALS! CherylScruggs/TracyHillPropertyManager/Realtor-Associate352-726-9010 r nnnrn nrn n nn n rnrnnn rn rrnnn nr rrnnrnnr n  r ­ €nnn TheRealtors ® AssociationofCitrusCountythankstheseprofessionalsfortheirdedicationtoourindustryandthe West-CentralFloridacommunity.Theircommitmentandcontributions,andthoseofotherREALTOR ® investors, ensurerealestateinvestmentsandtheAmericandreamofhomeownershipareprotected. 

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E4 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle C Email: Classifieds@chronicleonline.com Website: www.chronicleonline.com To place an ad, call (352) 563-5966 Pets Real Estate CarsHelp Wanted SAR002800 Your Hometown Agents HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY .. NickKleftis .. NOWisthetimeto considerlistingyourhome, inventoryisdownand buyersareready. Callmefora FREEMarketAnalysis. Cell:352-270-1032 Office:352-726-6668 email: nick@nickkleftis.com BATH&SHOWERUPDATESi naslittleasONEDAY!Afforda bleprices-Nopaymentsfor 1 8months!Lifetimewarranty& p rofessionalinstalls.Senior& M ilitaryDiscountsavailable. Call: 888-460-2264 BETTYJ.POWELL Realtor "Yoursuccessismygoal... Makingfriendsalongtheway ismyreward!" BUYINGORSELLING? 352.422.6417 352.726.5855 E-Mail: bjpowell72@gmail.com LaWanda Watt LWattC21@gmail.com Thinkingofselling? Inventoryisdown andweneedlistings!! Callmefora FreeMarketAnalysis! 352-212-1989 Century21J.W.Morton RealEstate,Inc. 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With a spacious table and comfortable chairs, a basic stone patio can be transformed into an alfresco dining destination. Outt a porch with a wicker sofa and classic rocking chair, both topped with plush cushions, and it can quickly become a second family room during the warm weather months. When complemented with the right patio furniture, even small spaces such as balconies and pocket gardens will beckon you outside. Use the following tips to choose the best patio furniture for your space. Thoughtful plan ning will help make your backyard your new favorite spot for lounging, dining and entertaining.1. Make a list of patio furniture needsBegin by thinking about how you would like your outdoor space to function. Do you want it to serve as a dining area on warm summer nights? Do you plan to host your next dinner party or your child’s birthday party in the space? Or do you envi sion a peaceful reading nook tucked into your outdoor room? Make a list of the activities you would like to do in the space and use it as a guide to determine what type of patio furniture is necessary. If the primary function of your 12-by-16-foot patio is to host casual evening cocktails, for example, there is no need for a dining table. Instead, opt for ample comfortable seating, several side tables and a re pit.2. Try outdoor seating before you buyWhen shopping for patio chairs and sofas, be sure to take a seat before you buy it. Patio furniture will likely be used regularly, especially during the warmer months, so it’s essential that the seating is comfortable. You and your guests will be less likely to enjoy your patio if it’s outtted with uninviting furniture. For the utmost comfort, look for pieces with plush cushions on the seats and backs, or cozy up metal and wood furniture with uffy pillows. Make sure all fabrics are weather-resistant to prevent color-fading or mildew growth.3. Go for easy-care outdoor furnitureReserve the bulk of your outside hours for enjoying your living space, as opposed to maintaining the furniture. Search for easy-care patio furniture to minimize the need for upkeep. Most metal, teak, cedar and all-weather wicker pieces are unfazed by whatever nature throws their way. With a bit of regular clean ing, furniture made using these forgiving materials will look wonderful for years. You can also accessorize patio furniture with outdoor cushions and pillows with removable covers that can be easily tossed in the washing machine.4. Consider storage for your patio furnitureAdd years to the life of your patio furniture by stor ing it in a protected location during the off-season. A garage, basement or shed will shield pieces from the elements to prevent damage or additional wear. Even the toughest patio furniture, such as teak chairs or a wrought-iron settee, will last longer if it is placed in storage when not in use. If your storage space is limited, look for patio furniture that folds or can be easily taken apart for compact storage.5. Match colors to your outdoor decorWhen purchasing patio fur niture, you’re not limited to neutral colors or the natural tones of wood. Wicker, wood and metal pieces now come in a wide variety of colorful nishes. Look for furnish ings that play up colors found in your landscaping, on your home’s exterior or in your other outdoor decor. If you can’t nd the right color in the store, a DIY paint job can quickly perk up patio furniture with any hue you’d like. For the most long-lasting color, reserve bolder hues for cushions and accent pieces.6. Invest in quality patio furnitureThe old adage “you get what you pay for” is gener ally true for patio furniture. Plastic resin chairs or side tables, for example, might look great on the shelf and will keep their good looks for a year or two out in the sun, but in time they will become brittle and lose their vibrant coloring. The same is true for some wood products and wicker pieces. Shop with care, check ing consumer reports and reviews, before making a big purchase. If you’re sticking to a budget, plan to splurge on items that will be used most often, such as a comfortable patio chair or a durable dining table. You can save on smaller accessories such as pillows and accent tables.7. Add outdoor rugs for color and comfortGround patio furniture by placing it on an all-weather 8 tips for choosing the best patio furniture for your outdoor space Mint Images Make the patio your new favorite hangout with the best furniture that suits your taste and space. LIVING SPACE See PATIO , page E6 Castro RealtyandProperty Management,Inc. WENEED RENTALS! MargueriteBudnickRealtorPropertyMgr/ BrokerAssoc.Cell:(352)228-0876 r nr r n rr r n LOTSAVAILABLE-BRINGBUILDER SUGARMILLWOODSLOT-OAKVILLAGE! 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E6 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle and a bedroom on the main oor. If you rent, you’ll want to nd out if your landlord would be amenable to making these sorts of changes. Costs will depend on what you need done and where you live. Nationally, a midrange bath room remodel averages about $25,000, according to Remod eling magazine – although updating just a few features will cost less. Building a wheelchair ramp will run about $1,000 to $3,300, according to Angi, a site for nding service professionals. These are just starting points. For someone considering these changes, “nd occupational therapists or physical thera pists to do a thorough home assessment and to identify what changes might be necessary for someone to age in place,” Cam eron says.Can you maintain your home?Even if you can step into the shower safely, you still may have a lawn to maintain, a kitchen to clean and a boiler that needs a kick every winter. Landscap ing maintenance can run $100 to $300 a month, according to HomeGuide, a site for nding local home service providers. In addition, a single housecleaning can cost $75 to $380, depending on the size of your home. Consider, too, that if you own your home, you may need a plumber or a handyperson – things will break and you’ll need repairs done. So it’s not just about whether you can safely live in your house, Tenenbaum says, but also whether you can hire the services you need. Melissa Brennan, a certied nancial planner in Plano, Texas, remembers a neighbor who man aged all his home maintenance tasks as he got older, including hiring a landscaping company and having his roof replaced and foundation repaired. “He lived independently and happily until his death because he knew his limitations and adapted accord ingly,” she says.Do you need in-home care?As you age, you may need help with bathing or getting dressed, or you may need help with cook ing or grocery shopping. A home health aide averages about $27 an hour, according to the 2021 Cost of Care Survey from Gen worth, an insurance company. If you needed ve hours of care per day, you’d be spending about $4,000 a month. “I think most people aren’t aware of how much in-home care can actually cost,” McNamara says. “And also, what’s going to pay for it? Because most people think, ‘Oh, as I age, I’ll have Medicare.’” While Medicare may cover home health care as part of a limited, prescribed regimen by your doctor – including physical and occupational therapy – it doesn’t cover an extended period of home health care or compan ion care. Your local area agency on aging might be able to help you nd services that can help, such as transportation services or Meals on Wheels. “Understand what the options are locally,” Cameron says, “for someone who truly wants to stay in their home as long as possible.” This article was provided to The Asso ciated Press by the personal finance website NerdWallet. Kate Ashford is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: kashford@nerdwallet.com. Twitter: @kateashford. rug. Textile advancements in recent years have brought many quick-dry ing outdoor rugs to the market. Soft underfoot and rich in texture, an outdoor rug will lend the comforts of indoors to your patio or deck. Choose a color and pattern that co ordinates with your other furniture and decor to tie your outdoor space together. Make sure it’s rated for outdoor use before buying.8. Search for dual-purpose patio furnitureLook for hardworking furniture to make the most of your space and budget. Pieces that serve multiple purposes can eliminate the need to purchase additional furniture and leave more room for your favorite outdoor activities. For example, an ottoman or garden stool can double as extra seating for guests. A simple bench can stand alone or cozy up to an alfresco dining table. Choose patio furniture with func tion in mind to take full advan tage of frequently used outdoor spaces. Better Homes and Gardens is a mag azine and website devoted to ideas and improvement projects for your home and garden, plus recipes and entertaining ideas. Online at www.bhg.com. navigating the new system. Organizations interested in hosting a workshop on using the new system should email pio@citrusbocc.com. More information, including frequently asked questions, is available at portal.citrusbocc.com/faq. put them in a specic category of collector interest. To check further about the potential col lector interest the tiles add, I suggest you contact David Rago Auctions, they are specialists in ceramics. The website is www.ragoarts.com. Let us know what you discover. DEAR JOHN: Would you love to have my piano? I moved into a smaller apartment and won’t have a need for it. Otherwise, can you refer someone who loves to play and would keep it? Thank you. – C.S., internet DEAR C.S.: Thank you for the offer, but I will decline. I sug gest you donate the piano to a church organization or perhaps a school. John Sikorski has been a profes sional in the antiques business for more than 30 years. Send questions to Sikorski’s Attic, P.O. Box 2513, Ocala, FL 34478 or asksikorski@aol.com. makes easy work of digging small holes for plants and bulbs. And if you have hand pain or difculty holding onto things, many tools now come with easy-grip handles. Foam grips and wraps also are sold sepa rately to accommodate a wide range of older tools you might already own. Most importantly, pace your self. Limit gardening sessions to between 60 and 90 minutes. Remember, home wasn’t built in a day. Jessica Damiano writes regular gardening columns for The Associated Press. She publishes the award-win ning Weekly Dirt Newsletter. Sign up here for weekly gardening tips and advice. AGINGFrom page E1 PATIOFrom page E5 PORTALFrom page E3 SIKORSKIFrom page E3 GARDENINGFrom page E1 Attend a Canning Open House Looking for a venue to process fruits and vegetables using the water bath canning method? Then sign up for the UF/IFAS Exten sion Citrus County Canning Open House at the Citrus County Can ning Center, 3405 W. Southern St., Lecanto. The rst monthly open house is on May 17, with two sessions from either 10 a.m. to noon or 1 to 3 p.m. Bring your own canning jars, produce and approved recipe in gredients. Extension staff will be onsite to answer questions and make sure all equipment is ready for use. The cost for the two-hour space is $15 per person and pre-registration is required as space is limited. For more information or to reg ister, contact the UF/IFAS Exten sion Citrus County ofce at 352-527-5700. The University of Florida is committed to providing universal access to all their events. For dis ability accommodations, such as sign language interpreters and lis tening devices, contact Stephanie Clamer McMinds at sclamer@u.edu or 352-527-5700, at least one week in advance. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.Free classes on grilling food safely The UF/IFAS Extension Citrus County is providing free pro grams on Grilling Food Safely. Summertime means grilling and cookouts, but as the summer temps rise, so do the chances of food borne illness. Learn the pre ventive steps to take to keep your summer cookout safe. The classes will be held at 1 p.m. on Monday, May 22, at the Cen tral Ridge Library, 425 W. Roos evelt Blvd., Beverly Hills, and at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 30, at the Floral City Library, 8360 E. Orange Ave., Floral City. Pre-reg ister online at: tinyurl.com/bdfp jt6v. For more information and to register, call the UF/IFAS Citrus County Extension ofce in Le canto at 352-527-5700. The University of Florida is committed to providing universal access to all their events. For dis ability accommodations, such as sign language interpreters and lis tening devices, contact Stephanie Clamer McMinds at sclamer@u.edu or 352-527-5700, at least one week in advance. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.Low-income assistance programs temporarily suspended Citrus County has suspended all Low-Income Home Energy Assis tance Program (LIHEAP) and the Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP) appointments until further notice. LIHEAP/LIHWAP is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Florida DEO and has been estab lished to help qualifying low-in come homeowners and renters pay for a portion of their utility costs. The Division of Housing Ser vices has been notied that, in the coming days, the Florida Depart ment of Economic Opportunity (DEO) will reach the limit of its scal year 2022-23 state legisla tive budget appropriation author ity for LIHEAP and LIHWAP. This has occurred due to high er-than-expected demand, despite a signicant supplemental budget authority that the Florida Legis lature granted just a few months ago. For more information, call 352527-7520 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. 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H4 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 Dear 2023 Graduates Congratulations for achieving one of life’s most important milestones, your high school graduation. This tremendous accom-plishment sets the stage for your future life and career choices. As you prepare to further your education and/or pursue your chosen ca-reer, please remember the contributions to your suc-cess that were made by your family, school staff mem-bers and the local communi-ty. It is important to express gratitude to each of those individuals who challenged, inspired, empowered and guided you along the way. I especially encourage you to keep your family and friends close in your hearts and minds as you move into the next stage of your life. The high moral standards and values they helped to instill in your life will pro-vide you with personal di-rection and a foundation of support in the years ahead. The message I have for seniors is to be bold and brave as you head out into the world. Remember what you’ve learned from your parents, teachers, and your mentors. Be guided by their lessons and the words of wisdom they have instilled within you these past four years. It is now time to bear the fruit of all your hard work and nd your path towards a meaningful career that ful lls you. I wish you the best in achieving your fu-ture education and career goals. Whatever you choose to pursue, I invite you to return to your roots and be-come a productive member of this wonderful commu-nity, we call home. If edu-cation is your career choice, make sure you make an appointment with me when you nish your degree! May you accomplish much and have wonderful memories along the way! Sandra “Sam” Himmel Superintendent of SchoolsCongratulations grads! C ITRUS P UBLISHING 1624 N. Meadowcrest Blvd., Crytal River, FL 34429 352-563-6363 www.ChronicleOnline.com Trina Murphy Publisher Trista Stokes Advertising Director Cindy Connolly Special Section Editor ABOUT THE COVER: Graduates of Citrus County Chronicle employees include, from left, Brailey Stokes, 18, Drayke Burns, 18, and Austasia Swing-Manfredi, 18. Stokes is a Citrus High School graduate with plans to enroll at the College of Central Florida, Burns, a Lecanto High graduate will be attending marine mechanics school and Swing-Manfredi, a Citrus High graduate will be enlisting in the United States Air Force. This publication is an advertising supplement for the Citrus County Chronicle. What’s Inside Letter to graduates from Sandra ‘Sam’ Himmel ............................................ Page H4 Citrus High School Class of 2023 .................................................................. Page H6 Crystal River High School Class of 2023..................................................... Page H16 Dunnellon High School Class of 2023 ......................................................... Page H22 Lecanto High School Class of 2023 ............................................................ Page H28 CREST Class of 2023 ................................................................................. Page H39 Solid Rock Christian Academy Class of 2023 ............................................. Page H39 Inverness Christian Academy Class of 2023 ............................................... Page H40 Seven Rivers Christian School Class of 2023 ............................................. Page H40 2023 Golden Citrus Scholars....................................................................... Page H42 Hall of Fame Award ................................................................................ Page H42 English Language Arts & World Languages ........................................... Page H44 Fine and Performing Arts ....................................................................... Page H45 Leadership and Service ......................................................................... Page H45 Mathematics and Engineering ................................................................ Page H46 Science .................................................................................................. Page H47 Social Studies ........................................................................................ Page H48 Career/Technical: Agriscience, Business, Computer Science, Culinary ............ Page H49 Golden Heart Award ............................................................................... Page H50 West Coast Christian Academy Class of 2023 ............................................ Page H43 Home School Class of 2023 ........................................................................ Page H43 

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H8 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Emily Cochran Jessiah Cobo Ashley Clauss Kyra Clark Richard Chansky Lieinix Castaneda Miranda Cassidy Kourtney Caruso Joseph Carberry Keranik Daxon Draves Davis Rileigh Damewood Libbe D'Emilio Destin D'Emilio Shianne Cyr Abigayle Currin Josiah Cueto Paul Cross Tanner Crispell Logan Craft Mark Covino Kollen Courterier Tyler Cornell Ryan Collum Bailie Collins Clayton Coe Alexzander Coe Vincent Ferrer Carlos Fernandez Trenton Espada Tanel Endrizzi Jackson Ellis Kimber Eldridge Darla Edwards Makayla Duncan James Duncan Leslie Duffey Allison Doucette Riley Dodd Lucia Dillersberger Dustin Dietz Logan Desomma Kurt Desimone James Dimarco Mattos Victoriarose Ferguson 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H9 Class of 2023 CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Jacob Gilmore Ryan Gilmer Emma Gilkes Cory Gibbs Madison Gasperak Camila Garcia Michael Gallardo William Forch Rayna Fontaine Cora Hartman Huntter Harper Maegan Haganey Dylan Guillen Ciera Groess Angela Graves Alexander Graveney Brayden Grace Katherine Gladu Olivia Hudson Celina Hubbs Haley Hubbard Larkin Howard Johnathan Hopson Austin Hooker Laci Hindalong Quentin Helvie Kyle Hehman David Hedrick McKenna Heaton Klara Heatley CongratulationsCitrus HighSchoolGraduates!ChrisLemoine&Olivia PasarellWewishyouthebestinyourfuture! Love,Barbara&Jim GRADUATION•GRADUATION•GRADUATION GRADUATION•GRADUATION•GRADUATION GRADUATION•GRADUATION•GRADUATION GRADUATION•GRADUATION•GRADUATION 

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H10 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Madison Jackson Wyatt Huggins Raven Hufstetler Olivia Hudson Jasmine Kaurich Sierra Kato Steven Junker Jacobi Joseph Shelby Jordan Jackson Jones Evan Jones Shaun Jonaitis Angel Johnston Illana Johnson Abigail Johnson Jaylynn Jobe Drew Jenkins Zainab Jaffary Joshua Jacobson Devon Jacobson OfferingAffordableSepticSolutionsInCitrus,Marion,Hernando&SumterCounty“YourSepticSystemisOurTopPriority.” RowandSepticServices 352-445-6083 Email:rowandseptic@gmail.com website:www.rowandseptic.com www.facebook.com/rowandseptic Classof2023! LearnMoreabout Earthbuster Services:Drain eldInstalls Drain eldrepairs SepticTankReplacementSepticTankRootRemovalRiserInstalls NitrogenReducingSystemLiftStationInspectionsLiftStationRepairsNewConstructionInstallsOFFERINGFREEESTIMATES 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H11 Class of 2023 CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Alyssa Knight Molly King Caden King Melody Kendrick Noah Kellow Matthew Kell Gianna Keeth Taylor Kazee Hayden McFarland Hayley McCullough Kaitlyn McClung Haley McCallister Eos Mazzeo Austin May Jody Mason Devyn Martinson Reginald Martin Kyle Martin Blake Marble Willow Malin Caden Luyett Randall Luke Zoey Long Dylan Lloyd Rebecca Livingston Jeffrey Liu Edwin Linhart Micah Lindall Jayden Lezama Jacob Lemon Kyle Lee Anthony Le Elizabeth Lawrence Bradly Laukshtein Ryan Lau Brenden Lasher Ciarra Langley Jillian Landgraf Breanna Lamendola Madison Laing Matthew Kresch David Kozel Kerrigan King-Savage Christopher Lemoine Savannah MacDonald 

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H12 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Akira Mills Rachel Miller Malaya Miller Gregory Miller Anthony Melito Desmond McNeil Erin McMahon Karlie McLain Cayden McKean Gavin Roy-Hitt Andrew Rose Jeremy Rodriguez Willow Rise Shelby Reynolds Aaron Reynolds Adrian Reyes Noah Rawlings Thomas Rady Krista Quandt Megan Pukas Gavin Pons Todd Polk Nicholas Pokusa Hunter Plouffe Kadey Piwinski Nelson Peters Keirstin Perkins Olivia Pasarell Angel Parrack Jake Parker Nicholas Owens Guillermo Otero Austin Oliver Rylie Nieves Alex Naugler Ryanne Myles Madisyn Mullinax Aubrey Mueller Aleyah Mounsey James Mosley Zoie Morse Brennan Mooar Brayden Moeller Seth Minder Landon Rocke-Lanier 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H13 Class of 2023 CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Alex Schlegel Jon Schenk Jillian Schaefers Alexis Sapp Brooke Sanders Luke Sadecki Brandon Sadana Connor Russell Jessie Thompson Amber Tetterton Jackson Tessmer Lola Taylor Shawn Tanuz Kellie Tallman Joel Talley Sara Swingle Iris Torres Austasia Swing Kalen Swiatek Gavin Suro Brailey Stokes Dominick Stiglitz Sierra Stahl Sinjalee Stackpoole Zachary Spivey Olivia Speck Dimitrios Spaulding Nicholas Smith Isaiah Smith Bryson Smith Aiden Smith Chris Smaine Starr Simpson Abigail Shepard Logan Shaw Jordan Shamblin Auron Seybold Jillianna Sells Dakota Seaman Emma Seal Jessica Scott Gabriella Schwartz Aryanna Schneider Marga Beatrice Salviejo Rosemary Strazzulla 

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H14 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Colton Trehy Willow Treas Kenneth Torress Chase Watkins William Ward Richard Walsh Cristofer Walley Alexis Vance Colin Valdivia Cameron Troxell Randal Van Valkenburgh Check us out on the website: ChronicleOnline.com 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H15 Class of 2023 CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Faith Wilson Carl Wilson Katrina Willis Connor Williamson Zoey Williams Cyres West Gabriel Weedman Chase Webb Ethan Watts Hailey Zsomboran Joseph Zaragoza Ciara Young Abigail Wyman Braden Worley Zoey Word Trinton Woodard Torah Woodard Matthew Wilson Weloveyoumore thanyou’lleverknow! Watchingyougrowup hasbeenanamazing adventure!Welook forwardtoseeing yourfuturegoalsand dreamscometrue. We’realwayshereto supportyouevery stepofyourjourney. LoveMom,Dad& Graysen PA INTCONTRACTOR It’stimetogetyour PaintingProjectGoing! Residential&CommercialPainting CabinetRe nishingServices SHIELDS PA INTINGContactustoday fo ra freeestimate. (352)212-1533ServingAl l OfCitrus & MarionCounties~ FA MIL Y OWNED ~www.shieldspainting .com 

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H16 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Alexis Avery Ava Austin Asa Austin Larissa Aungst Flor Angeles Rein Andrews Natalia Anderson Kate Anderson Amiriyah Anderson George Byrnes Gabriel Bush Christopher Burden Kaitlin Buckler Matthew Brown Ichabod Borton Katelyn Bjorgo Chloe Bergman Nevaeh Beauchamp Bailee Einspahr Carson Edwards Austin Edwards Douglas Edson Dejay Edson Shaleigh Dye Steven Drake Nichole Doss Jaylin Devaughn Regina Delarco Alivia Dean Brooklynn Day Thomas Davis Dustin Davis Bradley Damuth Taylor Curry Kaleb Curry Gianna Crosley Aubrey Crews Bryce Coffee Aidan Coeville Joshua Clifford Adessa Chancey Michael Cavanaugh Brittany Canepa Jesse Campellone Makala Cabell 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H17 Class of 2023 CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 John Flagg Kolby Fisher Morgan Faust Larry Fast Kendall Farley Trinity Everson Ian Esteves Victoria Espinal Robert Gonzalez Grahame Gonsman Morgan Glaum Trace Ginther Michael Gavigan Emily Fultz Amiya Friends Mikaela Freeman Angelina Forget Hannah Faniglula Toth HHLICENSE#299992888LOCALLYOWNEDANDOPERATED r n Helpingyoulivesafe,happyand independentlivesinthecomfortofhome. ELITE in-homecare yo ucan trust. rn nr nrrrr r rr rnrr rrrr rnrrr nn rnnr rr rn rrr nr  n­­r r nrrrnr r1745ForestDr.,Inverness,FL34453(352)726-5466www.NewHorizonRetirementCommunity.comNewHorizonAssistedLivingResidenceInvernessFloridar nr  ­  €n ­‚ €‚  ‚ ­‚ r r­ƒ ƒ„… †ƒ ƒ‚ ‡ ‚ˆ €‚ r r ƒn„… 

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H18 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Desiree Hans Trinidy Hamilton Erin Hall Andrew Hall Caryn Haas Wesley Goodman Kalob Hernandez Kalissa Hensley Tristen Hays Dakota Hartley Adrian Harrison Jacob Harper Trinity Hardwick Allison Harder Kristen Hanson Christopher Grooms Rafael Guzman Villalpando Adan Guzman Villalpando William Hudnall Kevin Horsley Elijah Holston-Dunn Megan Holst Joshua Holland Ryan Hoffmeier Edison Hill Garrett Hickman Christoph Heuer Raine Leonard Grace Laycock Jaylan Lauth Kyle Lauffer Emma Lashley Patience Lane Payton Kunselman Bailey Kuehl Wade Koos Jesse Kennedy Megan Jones James Jones Ashley Jones Jayden Jobe Angelina Jenkins Aidan Jakubiak Emily Ivory Jasmine Hurtado 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H19 Class of 2023 CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Ann Martin Andrea Manchester Molly Maguire Christian Lucky Samantha Lopez Vijjearta Long Angel Lockley Alexander Liepke Joseph Melo Anna McKay Nevaeh McElyea Sarah McEachern Dwann McCray Taylor McCoy John Maurice Cory Martin Wayne Marlin Corbin Johandra Matta-Fontanez Alekis Palmer Ryan Ovaska Cheyanne Ordiway Dacie Oglesby Caitlyn Oglesbee Trista Nocella Ethan Nicoleau Libby Newell Mia Nendze Seth Murphy Nautica Morgret Samarra Moody Sopia Monsalve Jaden Money Jenna Molzen John Miner Aiden Milligan Cory Miller Kylie Pitalo Dylan Pierce Aidan Picard Drew Peterson Carter Perry Tyler Pearce Lauren Patterson Makiyah Parker Arianna Palmer 

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H20 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Virginia Richardson Khalil Richardson Joseph Reinhold Reese Reed Blaine Reed Lilliana Quevedo Steven Potter Sabriena Posten Ayanna Porter Elizabeth Schmidt Kailey Scalf Leanne Savage Rob Rogers Caleb Rivers Bryce Riley Olivia Riffe Malachi Ridge Damonica Richburgh Kasey Strom Joshua Stone Ayden Stevens Charles Stapleton Chandler Stalcup Shayla Spears Riley Solomon Brie Solley Caroline Skidmore Luke Sieg Riley Shell Jillian Shade Deric Serrano Carla Serrano Erin Sellers Alexis Seeders Nathaniel Scruggs Evan Schwartz Landon Vincent Falynn Vincent Giana Viera Rebecca Verdon Katherine Vazquez Michael Vaughn Sarah Thomson Adalyne Thiebeauth Olivia Szylkowski 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H21 Class of 2023 CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Kiersten Warfel McKenzy Wallace Kay Wallace Nincy Zaragoza Alana Young Rylee Yarbrough Zoe Wlasiuk Abigail Wilson Logan Williams Caleb Willbur Mian White Emmalee West Zachary Watford Madison Wooldridge BytheBigRedBarn... Yougrewandgrew... SoProudofyouWillMomandDad CONGRATULATIONS EMILYCOCHRAN Classof2023 Weareproudofyou! LoveDad,Mom,&Boo 

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H22 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 DUNNELLON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Xavier Aviles Billie Athaide Paeton Arbogast David Antonio Michael Anglemyer Jason Alvarez Fabiana Alonso Payson Callarman Calaeb Bradshaw Angel Bonilla Kyle Betts Eliyah Bennoon Jade Belcher Brooke Beach Mikenzie Baker Greishaly Adorno Hernandez Malik Arredondo Hernandez Yabdiel Blazquez Orengo Raquel Cunningham Kevin Cruz Ruiz Nydialiez Cruz Chase Cranford Yeymarie Cortes Alaina Corbitt Kyra Cooper Dawson Cook Asia Colon La Isaiah Cole Madison Clark Quinn Chessa Robert Chervenack Ilyssa Cassells Tyler Carney Jamilhet Cantor Alondra Collazo Figueroa Edwin Cruz Figueroa Hector Dominguez James Dixon Daian Diaz Oliveras Kiara Diaz Crespo Macie Dewitz Hosanna Dethlefs Robert Davis Damaris Davila Mardelys Diaz Castro 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H23 Class of 2023 DUNNELLON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Kylie Francois Adam Fontaine Quilendy Eugene Diego Espinoza Christofer Espinoza Kirsten Engstrom Westley Ellis Tiffany Durette Zoey Dunnihoo Levi Golden Jaylyn Giumarelli Elizabeth Giffin Amelia Gibbs Emmy George Yves Gassant Zori Garrison Jesus Garcia Baez Emma Franklin Kyle Jannarone Samantha Jack Aiden Hufault Conner Hrovat Zariyah Holloway Landon Hitt Garrett Hinckley Gage Hiers Aubrey Hewett Sandesh Henry Jada Hayes Blaise Hawkins Madison Hardy Kyra Hall Elvin Guevara Alexiany Guadalupe Cole Gray Litzy Gutierrez Meneses Laylah Leon Gavyn Leinenbach Jessica Larner Jakobe Jordan Jaylan Johnson Jayl Ann Johnson Mayling Jennings Kayla Jarrell Magdalene Jarnagin 

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H24 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 DUNNELLON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Melanie Lopez Carlos Lopez Cid Naomy Lopez Dorien Long Jonathan Loayza Koen Lipford Kevin Letscher Chase Letien Angela Mazerolle Ryan May Jordan Martin Faith Marra Amarri Mallory Peter Magierski Jahn Lugo Jaylen Louis Maria Lopez Alvarado Jahwreinsline Marley Jason Owens Sarah Osteen Tommy Osorio Alexander Osias Jiavanna Olmo Jack Niedermayer Janiyah Newbold Elizabeth Muniz Julio Morales Alex Mooney Izaac Mojica Mena Aaron Mitchell Jahnya Milton Chelsea Mekelburg Madison McMurry James McCarty Emanuel Muyudumbay Adriana Olivera Gonzalez Timothy Peterson Dylan Petak Ashton Perkins Jalynn Perez Mojica Kemonya Patterson Natalia Pasquel Bryanna Pank Maddux Paige Andrew Pagnozzi 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H25 Class of 2023 DUNNELLON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Zenora Renda Jennie Reddick Matthew Rapp Julian Ramos Trinity Powell Chloe Popper Yusleidys Pirela Angie Pineda Austin Piehl Juliana Rodriguez Emily Robinson Anthony Rivera Alexis Riley Jaida Riggins Grace Richardson Rogelio Reyes Matthew Richardson Anthony Roblero Perez CongratulationsColeBorgenson!We’resoproudofyou! Mom,Dad,Nunuand Grandaddy rnr rrn nnrn nn r rrr rn n 

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H26 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 DUNNELLON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Cora Samek Rylee Rumney Autumn Royer Jafet Roman Hector Roman Maria Rodriguez Mateo Sinclair Isabelle Sheehan Troy Selah Savannah Schweers Faith Sapp Alondra Sanchez Robert Thomas Noely Tejada Myne Teel Kaleanna Taylor Mikaelatate Tate Aurora Tarnowski Joseph Swift Ashley Sterken Brian St. Pierre Nakayla Smith Davyon Small Courlyn Skees Tony Trejo Ordonez Maurice Treadwell Jeremiah Tirado Christopher Tiesmeyer Leann Torres Santiago 

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H28 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Jacob Avery Krystal Arndt Julian Arceo Zoey Anderson Tyler Anderson Brandon Amsler Christopher Amo Adrianna Aguilera Laura Aarestad Brooklyn Bell Samuel Begin Noah Baxter Kayla Baxley Timothy Bartlett Alexis Barba Noella Balderas Daykota Baier Carly Badessa Michael Bryant Breanna Bryant Gabriel Brown Aimee Brown Kenneth Brooks Mikayla Brambilla Da Koda Boyce Kai Bond William Bond IV Myrdelle Bois Junayd Bogle Kenneth Bochert Megan Blair Zachary Bishir Darian Binghi Kayla Bilbey Jadon Berrios Nicholas Blackstock Naomi Cantrell Matthew Camarines Lucia Calascione Andrew Butler Tyler Burt Drayke Burns Grace Burkholder Angelina Burghardt Arianna Bugner 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H29 Class of 2023 LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Laura Clements Derek Claypool Aja Clark Marissa Ciquera Luke Chastek Jesse Carlton Thomas Carbone Jr. Dustin Davis Alex Davis Rory Croasdale Makayla Craig Mya Connor Jeremy Collins Saige Coleman Jorgie Colantuono Jeremiah Chichester Alginavon Cleveland Anthony Curreri Salvatore Elizabeth Dimou Wyatt Diaz Trenton Dennis Adrian Demesa Maria Delossantos Cameron Delaney Justin Del Vecchio Vanna Davis Niera Davis Visit us online at: www.ChronicleOnline.com Frombaseballcaps tocowboyboots,you havealwaysbeenyou. CongratulationsWill! Wearesoproudofthemanyou havebecomeandcan'twaitto seewhereyougofromhere. Weloveyou! Mom,Dad,Grandpa,Shelby, Mattie,Hannah,Zach,Lanie, Chester,andBlue rn Wearesoproudofyou Monkey.Keepfollowing yourdreamsanddon't forgettoDance. LoveMomandDad MikaylaRiley Classof2023 

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H30 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Elijah Esteves Grant Engelsen Joseph Ellis Annabelle Ehmke Connor Edington Tessa Drew Iceis Drew Clayton Douma Anh Do Kyle Flynn Grant Flemingcruz Emma Fitzgerald Chance Fithen Logan Feuston Mason Ferran Daniel Fellows Josephine Falcone Phillip Ezell Jr. Stasie Hanner Charley Hammons Bradley Hafner Alexis Guay Ashley Griffith Mallori Grey Mackenzi Grey James Gray Levi Grant Cadience Graham Sarah Gorton Eleni Gort Jayden Gamble Darius Gainer Jaden Fritz Donovan Foster Carlie Foley Alyssa Gonciarz-Burcy Jordan Hill Kamylia Heim Kaytland Hawkins Brenden Harshey Brianna Harscher Riley Hardin Francesca Hartenfels Meagan Hendrickson Jayden Hernandez-McFee 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H31 Class of 2023 CongratulationsDraykeBurns 2023 Proudofyou,son.Keep learning,bekind,andchase yourdreams.Congratulations graduate!Love,Dad Congratulations,soproudofyou! Goodluckinallofyournext chaptersoflife.Love,Pa Congratulationsonyour graduation.Iamsoproudof youandtheyoungmanyouhave become.Continueonyourchosen pathandyouwilldogreatthings. Allmylove,Grandma Tomyamazingbrother:youdid it!Soproudofyouandexcited forwhat’snext.Congratson graduating!Love,Kambree Wearesoproudoftheyoung manyouhavebecome.Youhave aheartofgoldandahugeloveof animals.Wehavelovedwatching yougrowandcannotwaittosee whatadventuresareinstore foryou.Weloveyousomuch. LoveAuntAmanda,UncleMatt, Weston,Adalyn,Bridget,Beckett, andHolden Wheneveryou ndyourself doubtinghowfaryoucango, justrememberhowfaryouhave come.Weareextremelyproud oftheamazingyoungmanyou are,andtheyoungmanyouare becoming.wecan’twaittosee whatthefutureholdsforyou. Congratulations! LoveUncleNick, AuntJen,Ellamarie, Zaine,&Ryeder Takethebullbythehorns.Your goingtodogreat.Thankyoufor beingmygrandson&makingme theproudestPopointheworld. Loveya,PopoJoe Youreducationisadress rehearsalforalifethatis yourstolead!~Nana Youryearsthere willbeanimpact onwhomyouwill become.Live freelyandalways seekadventure aslifeisever changing.Love, AuntieShaker TosayIamproud ofyouwouldbethe understatementoftheyear. Iamamazedbyallyouhave accomplished.Iloveyou myboy!Love,Mom Ajourneyofathousand milesbeginswithasingle step.Takethestep. ~AuntieNatosha,Uncle Yogi,Pippa,&Willow Nomatterwherelifetakes youinyournewjourney,don’t livewithregretsbutinstead lifelessonslearned.Weare veryproudofyouandloveyou somuch!LoveAlways,Aunt Megan,Paul,Arrow,&Meadow 

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H32 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Connor Hyllested Alexander Hurley Cole Hughes Andrew Howard Aaliyah Horton Zachariah Hooper Austin Hogan Allison Hoffman Allison Hoffman Clayton Jones Angelina Jones Adonia Jones Kalea Johnson Aidan Johnson Nathan Jobe Ramses Jimenez Jessie Jiang Kaithlyn Jamaludin Evelyn Larsen Hailee Lambert Justine LaGatta Elliot Lachney Shreya Lachireddy Jose Laboy Arroyo Travis Labelle Rhiannon Krebs Bryce Kocher Isaiah King Cassidy King Ava King Joseph Kenny Tanner Kennedy Janausi Kalumba Janae Joyner Zakary Joyce Lindsay Joslin Nicole Lisenby Nicholas Lindsey Nathan Lightfoot Kayla Lewis Gwyneth Lewis Jack Levengood Jonathan Lent Julissa Leal Jaszimine Lathem-Miller 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H33 Class of 2023 LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Nathan Mahoney Josie Maglio Lorenzo Macatol Emily Lutz Stevey Lucio Chase Lucas Jacob Loyd Christian Lopez Hunter Loetscher Hailey Mattaway Nathaniel Martin Logan Marti Lana Mark Amaia Malpica Madison Mallory Molly Malek Emma Maldonado Austin Malafronte William Monka IV Jocelyn Monday Connor Moga Erin Miller Chantz Miller Ethan Mercado Chad Medina Alyissa Meadows Elijah McNeill Yasmariah McNair James McKinley Neven McKay Rieamay McDowell Chase McDavid Colby McClanahan Hunter McCabe Caitlyn McAboy Giovanni Mazza Sean Nelson Kayla Negron Skylar Mysliborski Mallory Mushlit Kyleigh MurphyRosenbaum Constantine Moskes Shaylynn Moody Noble Moody Ava Moody 

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H34 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Julia Parker Hannah Padgett Shelby Pace Hector Pabon Hailey Owens Dylan Novak Garrett Noland Jaden Ngo Cage Newman Abigail Phifer Lillian Peterson Jason Peterson Mason Permenter Carmelo Perez Gabriel Peraza Jaheim Patterson Riya Patel Mikayla Pate Janay Ramos Kelvin Ramos Rivera Dominick Ramirez Angelus Ramirez Nathaniel Rairie Kartik Radadia Dev Radadia Eleana Quinton Carson Quinn Abigayle Quinn Brendon Quappe Makayla Quagliaroli Grace Powers Aniya Powell Trinity Porter Matthew Ponticelli Kaley Pittman Taeshawn Phillips Elias Rivera Mikayla Riley Dan Riegel Justina Richmond Cierra Richardson Riley Rice Alaila Reyes-Alvelo Morgan Resch Jonathan Recta 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H35 Class of 2023 LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Tayla Rutkowski Nadia Ruiz Kylie Rowthorn Kasandra Ross Kenneth Rollason II Olivia Rojas Alexis Rodriguez Michael Roberts Jayden Rivera Natalie Saunders Devon Saunders Bethany Sarson Jacob Santinelli Brandon Santiago Nuwayrah Sami Evan Salmons Leo Salde Ashton Rymer ChandlerStalcup r n n r rr  

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H36 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Jakob Simanski Zachary Shramek Jonathan Shoemaker Hateya Shaw Austin Shank Kelie Shah Ethan Scull Aidan Schell Cody Savacool Hannah Snyder Andrew Smutko Racheal Smith Lexis Smith Keiliah Smith Brionna Smith Kennedy Slingerland Miloslava Slavova Alexander Sipe Elisa Taliaferro Mirabelle Tahiri Raymond Szymanski Haileigh Swisher Cody Struble Austin Stokes Gavin Stiles Dakota Stewart Ryann Stephens Christian Stanford Jordyn Stafford Gabrielle Spradley Neverforgetanythingisimpossible,untilsometime doesit.Sokeepshiningbrightandcontinueto excelatanythingyouputyourmindto.Weareso proudofyou,andcan’t waittoseewhatyou achieveinthefuture. Congratulationson graduatingwithhonors! Weloveyoualways! LoveDad&Alex. GraceLinbrookePowers Classof2023 Hopeyourdreamstakeyoutothecornersoftheearth,tothehighestofyourhopes, andtothemostspecialplacesyourhearthaseverknown.WithGod rstin yourlife,nothingisimpossible.Weloveyoubabygirl,CongratulationsonyourGraduation! 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H37 Class of 2023 LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Gage Vann Christian Vasquez Tylea Vassalle Christalis Velez Cody Underwood Alyssa Valente Kimberly Valente Alexis Vance Michael Thew Chloe Tsacrios Kalvin Tunget Isaiah Turner Alissa Ward Alexandria Weaver Gabriel Weedman Kameron Weidner Nathan Venuto Taylor Viau Angel Villacastin Trinity Vo r rnnnrrn rnrrr rrr rr r r­r­rrn   ­ €€­ INVERNESSLIONSCLUB2nd&4thTuesday6:00pmCORNERSTONEBAPTISTCHURCH,rn,FLCOMEJOINUS!! 

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H38 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Lauren Yardy Gabriel Yon Amir Wilson Joseph Woods Alden Woodside Seth Woolford Alexandria Wilkey Daniel Williamson Klayton Weiner Kinley Whitten 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H39 Class of 2023 CREST CLASS OF 2023 SOLID ROCK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY CLASS OF 2023 Adam Mendez Joshua Powell Logan Ruohonen Michael Shehan Alec Watson Malykai Weichman Daniel Brown Addie Burdick Joseph Domenech Dakota Hodge Joe Hummel Joshua McKinnon Jennifer Kennel Beatrice Lerusce Starla Maza Tyler Cook Ezeikel Henman 

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H40 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 INVERNESS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY CLASS OF 2023 SEVEN RIVERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CLASS OF 2023 Josiah Young Katie Riley Logan Curry Mollie Dineen Montana Orr Ty Conard Zachary Okosh Grace Bane Ivana Garcia Jack Palmani Joshua Coderre Ben Manthe Clayton Little Destiny Fisher Gabriel Gilmer Caroline Russ Graceann Schlisner Julia Shipes Nehemiah Vann Norman Zerbe Michael Lemar Charlie Leonard Jacob Linthwaite Zebedee Norman Rachel Ross Clayton Chestnutt Byron Cole Ruby Copeland Julia Gaffney Eleanor Jeffes Petr Bala Colton Bertine Isabella Brennan-Diaz Sam Brown Mark Carrion 

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H42 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 Hall of Fame Award C arson Edwards has been in the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Biomedical Science class for the past three years. This is an honors program as part of the Academy of Health Careers magnet program at Crystal River High School. This national program is a project-based, rigorous, stu dent-driven, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) learning that relies heav ily on the students’ work ethic and character to help guide them in their own learning. Carson has successfully earned his certication as a biotechni cian assistant through Biotility and the University of Florida. He not only mastered the ma terial and skills required, but also worked successfully with in a team. Carson has the ability to successfully balance both his high-level courses as well as extra-curricular activities. Car son has been on the honor roll for his entire high school ca reer. He has been a member of the National Honor Society for the past three years and placed at Math Field Day for the past three years as well. Carson is an Eagle Scout, which he earned in 2021, a 2023 Nation al Merit nalist, a 2022 STEM Sunshine State Scholar, and AP Scholar with Distinction along with an anticipated Na tional AP Scholar honor this year along with being an antic ipated Bright Futures Scholar ship recipient and an AP Cap stone Diploma candidate. Carson is also an impressive athlete, playing on both the varsity soccer and tennis teams throughout his time in high school. In 2021 he earned the College Board National Rural and Small Town Recognition award and won honorable mention for the Gulf Coast 8 All Conference Soccer. In 2022 he was selected for the Gulf Coast 8 All Conference Mid-Field and won the Crystal River High School Boys Soc cer Academic Athlete of the Year. Throughout his time in high school, Carson has participat ed in many extra-curricular activities which impact both his school and his community. He participated in Math Field Day and placed rst and sec ond for the past three years. He has been a member of the Interact Club, the Key Club and the LINK Crew. He is the captain of the Crystal River High School Academic Team, which he has been a member of throughout his high school career. Following graduation, Car son plans to attend either the University of Florida or the University of Central Florida to pursue a career in mechan ical engineering with an addi tional interest in aerospace en gineering. He plans to pay his own way through college by using and maintaining the re sources supplied as a National Merit Scholar paired with the many local scholarships he hopes to obtain. He also plans to utilize his Biotechnician As sistance certication to nd a job or apply for an internship while completing his studies. Carson Edwards Crystal River High School 

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H44 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 English Language Arts and World Languages Z achariah (Zach) Hooper has earned the re spect of his peers as well as his instructors. He is very secure in his intelligence and quick to comprehend concepts while still accepting criticism. Zach is all in and over-the-top as he approaches a task. Zach is the ideal classmate. His willingness to kindly and patiently help others is an asset to the learning environment. Generous with his guid ance, Zach’s smile is always present and reas suring to others. As one of only 17 percent of students in the world, Zach received a “5” on the AP Litera ture and Composition exam last year. This was a great achievement that he could check off his list of goals. Achieving the honor roll all four years of high school, Zach is a member of the National Hon or Society, a varsity academic team member, as well as a county academic team member partici pating in state competition. This well-rounded student also participates in sports. He lettered in both cross country and baseball his senior year. As a Citrus County Blessings Student Repre sentative, Zach believes in helping others. He is a Life Scout in Boy Scouts, a member of LHS Medshare and LHS Spanish Club and he has close to 200 community service hours. Zach plans to enroll in one of the universities that he has been accepted to and plans to study chemical engineering. 2023 Winner Zachariah (Zach) Hooper Lecanto High School D arla Edwards is a well-round ed young lady with a lot of power behind her small stature. She embodies everything Citrus High School strives to have their students accomplish – leader ship, determination, aptitude, commitment, responsibility, consistency, and ambition while also showing compassion toward others. Darla has a natural intel ligence and a diligent work eth ic which leads her to success in the many high-level courses she challenges herself to take. With a self-motivated drive, Darla stays focused on results while taking the ups and downs in stride. She is a natural lead er and gives kind words of en couragement to any of her peers that need it. With a challeng ing course-load and a rigorous cross-curricular schedule, Darla is a seless servant and a com passionate peer with achieve ment beyond question. With over 200 community ser vice hours, Darla continues to prove her success in life. After graduating high school, Darla plans to further her educa tion at Florida State University. She will major in nursing and pursue her bachelors to become a registered nurse. From there she plans to gain clinical experience ina hospital setting and apply to a masters program for nursing in order to become a nurse practi tioner, specializing in pediatrics. 2023 Nominees DARLA EDWARDS CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL S ophia Monsalve has demon strated an innate ability to successfully balance both her high-level courses as well as extra-curricular activities while taking on leadership roles with in each of them. Sophia is in the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Honors Biomedical Science program. She was selected from applicants throughout the county for one of 24 seats in the pro gram, as part of the Academy of Health Careers magnet program at Crystal River High School. Sophia is very well-rounded and driven. With over 320 hours of com munity service at various local organizations, Sophia has served as an ambassador and was select ed for the fellowship program at Take Stock in Children. Sophia will be attending the University of Florida to study biomedical engineering. She wants to use advantages in tech nology and apply them toward improvements in human health. She wants to help people with genetic diseases and work on the molecular level to engineer their genes so their disease will no longer be hereditary. SOPHIA MONSALVE CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H45 Class of 2023 Olivia Riffe is a student that is will ing to help anyone with just about any thing. She constant ly gives uplifting feedback to fellow students about up coming perfor mances which makes her peers want to do and be their best. After completing high school, she plans to attend college and work full-time at Chili’s while attending college. She plans to major in mortu ary science and fashion to ultimately become a mortician or costumer for theatre. Fine and Performing Arts 2023 Winner Jacob Bemis Citrus High School J acob Bemis has a drive for excellence which has earned him honor roll sta tus every year of his high school career. He has been designated AP Scholar with Distinction and has a high probability of being a National AP Scholar by the end of the year. This dynamic young man has immersed himself in everything band and chorus related, along with a rigorous academic course load including many AP and hon ors courses. Jacob has a keen understand-ing of music theory, instrument pedagogy, conducting methods, dynamic control, pi ano/accompanist skills and a sheer love of music. Jacob has held multiple leadership roles throughout his high school journey. He has lettered in band and chorus every year and has served as Brass Lieutenant and is this year’s president of the Citrus High School choral department. He has lead rehearsals, assisted the show choir by leading the instrumentalists and worked with individual singers on their solo and ensemble selections. With close to 200 community service hours, Jacob is a well-rounded individ ual. His post-secondary plans include attending college to obtain a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. He has already been accepted into the University of Florida and University of Miami and is currently awaiting response from several other colleges. 2023 Nominees Leadership and Service OLIVIA RIFFE CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL Alexis Rodriguez is an exceptional citizen with innovation and talent. She is academically strong and has been awarded an AP Scholar with Honor. During her entire high school ca reer, Alexis has maintained honor roll status and has also been a member of the National Honor Society. After completing high school, Alexis plans to at tend a university where she will study me chanical engineering. She will explore dif ferent career paths through internships and also plans to study abroad in Spain. Her ulti mate goal is to work in the renewable energy eld, bringing a creative eye to innovate and change the way the world obtains energy. LEXIS RODRIGUEZ LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL 2023 Winner Brooke Sanders Citrus High School2023 Nominees Brooke Sanders is ranked rst in her class at Citrus High School. She has a weighted GPA of over 4.8 and will graduate with her AA degree and 54 dual-enrollment credit hours in addition to her AP Capstone diplo ma. Brooke holds herself to high standards of loyalty, integrity and truthfulness. Brooke has an impressive resume. She has maintained honor roll status for her en tire high school career, lettered in varsity basketball, received student of the month honors, AP Scholar Award, AP Capstone Certicate, Sunshine State Scholar, Col lege of Central Florida Deans list, College of Central Florida Presidents Award, CHS Principals Award, Hall of Fame, Florida Athletic Association Athletic Award, quali ed for Florida Bright Future, Florida Ath letic Association All-Academic, and has received seven certications with another anticipated this year. Brooke does not take her education light ly. She is not taking it easy in her senior year of high school. She has an intense course load and is well on her way to ful lling her post high school plans of earning a bachelor’s degree in biology and then her ultimate goal to attend medical school. After high school, Brooke plans to attend college to study biology and premed with the ultimate goal of becoming a physician. She has already been accepted into the University of Florida and is awaiting a re sponse from Duke University. Morgan Faust is one of only 24 students from the entire coun ty that was selected for the Crystal River High School Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Honors Biomedical Science classes. She has earned her certi cation as a biotechni cian assistant through Biotility and the Uni versity of Florida. After completion of high school, Mor gan plans to join the United States Navy and the military reserves while attend ing college at the University of South Florida. She plans to study chemical engineering and would like to become a Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal Ofcer. MORGAN FAUST CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL Alissa Ward is well respected among teach ers, administrators and students. She illustrates good judgment and wonderful time man agement skills with self-condence and independence. She is hard-working, good-na tured, and respectful of others. She is known among her peers for her positive attitude and dedicated work ethic. Alissa has been accepted to four colleges, including the University of Florida, and is currently awaiting a response from one more. Her plans are to study psychology at the University of Florida and possibly mi nor in criminology. Her ultimate goal is to nd a career in behavioral research. ALISSA WARD LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL 

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H46 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 Mathematics and Engineering 2023 Winners (tie) 2023 Nominee Carl Wilson Citrus High School Nuwayrah Sami Lecanto High School C arl Wilson is a gifted individual whose intellectual curiosity and passion are key characteristics for his success. He keeps his teachers on their toes, asking questions beyond the scope of the class. Carl has been part of student government for the past two years, serving as junior class president and student body vice-president. He possesses a combination of emotional intelligence, charisma and strategic thinking to motivate others, build consensus and work collaboratively with others. Carl always gets whatever needs to be done, done. Above all, Carl has a genuine passion for making a positive impact in his community. As a member of the Computer Science Academy at Citrus High School, Carl has a natural afnity for computers. He has been able to use his knowledge and skills to volunteer at the local li brary to assist senior citizens with their technological needs. Carl has received numerous awards for his achievements, such as AP Capstone Diploma award, varsity letter in tennis and weightlifting, student of the month, Sunshine State Scholar, qual ied for Bright Futures and was nominated to the Homecoming Court. Carl plans to learn as many things as he can in order to help him have a successful career that has a positive impact on Society. He would like to study econometrics and computer programming and has already been accepted to both the University of Florida and Florida State University. CARL WILSON CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL N uwayrah Sami is an accomplished student. She is a dedicat ed scholar and a true servant leader. She has a natural drive to truly understand concepts in the classroom. She has a thirst for knowledge and will ask questions beyond routine so she can develop a deep understanding. Her attention to detail is unsur passed. She consistently displays academic maturity, intellectual curiosity and perseverance. Nuwayrah has achieved a perfect 4.0 unweighted GPA (4.958 weighted), is an AP Scholar with Dis tinction and has been recognized as a National Merit Finalist. Nuwayrah leads by example. She works with her classmates and independently to learn concepts, conduct experiments and complete problems. As a leader in multiple service organizations on the Lecanto High School campus, Nuwayrah understands that real leadership is about garnering respect, fostering relationships and building cooperation. Her peers and faculty alike recognize and value her leadership. Nuwayrah is thoughtful, well spoken, helpful, meticulous and compassionate. After completing high school, she wants to con tinue volunteering at Citrus Memorial Hospital and potentially complete a CNA certication course to become employed in a medical setting. She has already been accepted into at least six colleges but wants to attend the University of South Florida due to its proximity to research opportunities. She will nd a part-time medical assistant or scribe position to get hands-on experi ence in an outpatient setting. NUWAYRAH SAMI LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CARSON EDWARDS CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOLCarson Edwards has been in the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Biomedical Sci ence class for the past three years. This is an honors pro gram as part of the Academy of Health Careers magnet pro gram at Crystal River High School. This national program is a project-based, rigorous, student-driven, STEM (Sci ence, Technology, Engineer ing and Math) learning that relies heavily on the students’ work ethic and character to help guide them in their own learning. Carson has been on the honor roll for his entire high school career. He has been a member of the National Honor Society for the past three years and placed at Math Field Day for the past three years as well. Carson is an Eagle Scout, which he earned in 2021, a 2023 National Merit nalist, a 2022 STEM Sunshine State Scholar, and AP Scholar with Distinction along with an an ticipated National AP Scholar honor this year. Following graduation, Car son plans to attend either the University of Florida or the University of Central Florida to pursue a career in mechan ical engineering with an ad ditional interest in aerospace engineering. 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H47 Class of 2023 R iya Patel is an extremely hard working and determined young lady. She is always looking to learn more and advance her knowledge every chance she gets. Riya is in the IB Program at Le canto High School. She has the ability to balance a rigorous course load while involved in sports and multiple clubs and stays at the top of her class. She has been playing tennis competitively for years. She is the president of the Purple Heart Beautication Club, co-president of Medshare and a member of around 10 other clubs. Riya has been an honor roll stu dent for all four years of high school as well as a member of the National Honor Society for the past two years. She is an anticipated Bright Fu tures Scholarship recipient and an IB Diploma candidate and has over 200 community service hours. Riya plans to attend the University of Central Florida or the Univer sity of Florida for nuclear engineering or neurology. During her four years at college, she hopes to receive her bachelor of science degree and ultimately obtain a PhD. G arrett Hickman has a work ethic that is far beyond his years. His proactive nature and passion clearly demonstrate the value of this young man. He has an impressive resume, and while he can communicate about science at a professional re search level, he is humble, respect ful and curteous at all times. Garrett has been an honor roll stu dent for his entire high school career as well as being on the National Honor Society for the past three years and the College of Central Florida President’s Honor Roll his senior year. Garrett is not only a scholar, but an athelete on top of that. He has let tered each of the four years in high school. He has been botha district and regional qualier, a district champion and a state qualier. Been an All Chronicle Boys Swim ming and Diving for the past three years. He has received four years of Swim Service Award and is a high school swim school record holder. He has over 200 community service hours and pages of additional extra curricular activites. Garrett has been accepted to seven colleges and plans to major in ma rine science and environmental studies. His ultimate goal is to become a biological oceanographer. Science 2023 Winner Lucia Dillersberger Citrus High School 2023 Nominees GARRETT HICKMAN CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL RIYA PATEL LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL L ucia Dillersberger has a rare combination of qualities. She shows genuine kindness to both her peers as well as her teachers. Lucia is a great communicator as well. Competing in the Science fair since fth grade, Lucia is an amazing example of an inquistive young scientist. Lucia has a character that is unquestionable. She is helful, humble and caring. She cares about her community and keeping things environmentally friendly. All of her science fair projects were focused on solving local environmental health issues. On the honor roll for her entire high school career as well as being a member of the National Honor Society for the past three years, Lucia has proven herself as a worthy student. Lucia has over 185 community service hours. Many of these volunteer hours are from Ziggy’s Haven Bird Rescue, Coastal Cleanup and the Academy of Environmental Science Roadside Cleanup. After high school, Lucia is planning to attend the University of West Florida for a degree in envi ronmental science with a focus on environmental management. She will also be participating in the university’s Kugelman Honors Program. She will be particapting in as many hands-on experiences as possible in order to narrow down which specic sector of environmental science interests her the most. She also plans to get experience from internships. 

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H48 Sunday, May 14, 2023 Citrus County Chronicle Class of 2023 C hase Watkins is clearly one of the most intelligent, yet hum ble, students around. He scored the highest possible score on multiple Advanced Placement exams and a perfect score on the state US His tory EOC exam. He earned the AP Scholar with Honors distinction be fore he entered his senior year. Chase commands the respect of his classmates and teachers without ever asking. He has turned himself into a valuable asset as a preferred afterschool tutor. He is a determined and motivated young man that has set clear goals and will achieve them no matter what it takes. His self-dis cipline and work ethic help him overcome an obstacles in his way. He has earned 10 certications as well as AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Honor and AP Scholar with Distinction. After graduation, Chase plans to go to a four-year college in Florida, he is leaning towards the University of South Florida. H plans to ma jor in history and/or political science and will focus on the teaching/education profession. He has already been accepted into at least 15 colleges. Social Studies 2023 Winner Austin Edwards Crystal River High School 2023 Nominees CAGE NEWMAN LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL CHASE WATKINS CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL A ustin Edwards is one of the kindest individuals on earth. He has a beautiful combination of ded ication and sincerity that doesn’t exist in many high school students. Toward his peers, Austin showcases a level of empathy and compassion that is rare to nd. Austin successfully balances his high-level courses as well as extra-curricular activities as evidenced by his 4.8 GPA. He has taken and passed six Advanced Placement exams, earned AP Scholar with Dis tinction, AP Rural and Small-Town Distinction, 2022 Key Club Delegate at the District Convention, a PLTW Scholar and an Eagle Scout. Austin also excels as an athlete. He played on the varsity soccer and tennis teams throughout his high school career, serving as captain of the varsity soccer team for the last two years. He volunteered as a US Soccer Federation Referee for the last six years and has donated over 300 community service hours at various local organizations. Austin has already been accepted to at least four colleges. He plans to attend either the University of Florida or Georgia Institute of Technology to continue his education. C age Newman is a quiet leader who gently pushes, inspires and encourages his peers in a way that makes them feel safe and heard. He is passionate about history and can often be found exploring concepts and leading discussions with his peers. Cage is a member of the Lecanto High School Academic Team and he is on the Lecanto High Superinten dent’s Council, where he serves as president. This young man is built on deep integrity and kindness. He supports his peers and his family. Cage has been on the honor roll for his entire high school career as well as a member of the National Honor Society for the past two years. He is an anticipated Bright Futures Scholarship recipient and an IB Diploma candidate. Cage is involved in many extra curricular activities such as Med share, HOSA, Summer R.I.S.E. volunteer, Purple Heart Ceremony, and Citrus County Education Foundation volunteer. Cage has more than 170 community service hours. 

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Citrus County Chronicle Sunday, May 14, 2023 H49 Class of 2023 Career/Technical: Agriscience, Business, Computer Science, Culinary 2023 Winner Kasey Strom Crystal River High School 2023 Nominees K asey Strom has a strong work ethic. She is a hard worker with a positive attitude and is always extremely motivated. She enjoys learning new skills and is a true leader. Kasey is the HOSA vice president in charge of organizing and facilitating events and meetings. She is the weightlifting captain that leads the warm ups and teaches correct technique to new team members. Kasey was presented the Barbra James Service Award for her excellence in community service hours. She has been on the honor roll for her entire high school career and a member of the National Honor Society for the past three years. Kasey placed rst in the Regional Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA) Physical Therapy Competition. She also place second at Girls Weightlifting Districts and placed in the top three in Tra ditional and Olympic lifting at Girls Weighlifting Regionals. She also placed third in the District Track and Field Discus competition. Kasey has over 260 community service hours. She plans to attend the University of Central Florida for an undergraduate degree in Health Sciences. After completing her undergraduate degree, she hopes to attain a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. LACI HINDALONG CITRUS HIGH SCHOOL RORY CROASDALE LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL L aci Hindalong has the ability to persevere through great ad vertsity. She had to deal with the death of her father in her junior year. Instead of struggling to copy, she drew strength from school and her involvement. Laci has had many obstacles but her courage and strength have brought her through it all with y ing colors. Her attitude toward all her activities draws people to her and attributes to her strong leader ship skills. Her peers look to her for strength and guidance. She has a determi nation like no other. She has al ways stayed positive and accom plishes any goal that she sets. Laci has been on the honor roll for her entire high school career and a member of the National Hon or Society for the past three years. She has passed 16 Dual Enroll ment courses and is currently enrolled in three others. She has also earned at least four certications and has over 250 community ser vice hours. Laci has the desire to help people, so she will be attending the Uni versity of South Florida to major in a dual degree of criminolgy and biology. Her ultimate goal is to be a crime scene investigator. R ory Croasdale is a dedicated young man. He is hardwork ing and has wonderful time man agement skills. He comes to class every day prepared to learn and he is willing to go the extra mile to do so. Rory is a very well-rounded stu dent. He is well known among his peers and the teachers. He is a positive role model and an ac tive partipant in the community. This good-natured young man is respectful of other and hard-work ing. He created holiday cards for the local nursing home, putting per sonal touches on each letter and writing kind, cheerful messages. Rory is an AP Scholar and an anticipated Bright Futures Scholar ship recipient. His is on the National Society of High School Schol ars as well as Quill & Scroll. Rory has been accepted to both the University of South Florida and the University of Florida. He plans to attend USF and study comput er science. His ultimate goal is to become a software engineer. 

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