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Singing sensation: Susan SC I T R U- S , lll I l II.n.. IInll l ll ll,.,ll,,,I,,,lll, . .ln l,llnI *********AUTO**SCI-H 3-DIGIT 326 LIBRARY OF FLORIDA HISTORY1l2 kVI12 PO BOX 11t7007 ( GAINESVILLE FL 32611-7007 U N TY TODAY & Monday morning HICH Mostly sunny and nice 89 with a few afternoon LOVW clouds. 61 PAGE A Newspaper Serving Florida's Best Community s1 VOLUME 114 ISSUE 297 Water rising to near normal levels CHRIS VAN ORMER cvanormer@ chronicleonline.com Chronicle Two weeks of near-constant rain is finally paying off with healthier levels in district water measure- ments. "Citrus County had 9.93 inches of rain from May 1 to midnight May 28," said Robin Felix, spokes- woman for Southwest Florida Water Management District In its weekly report, which measures aquifers, rainfall and surface water, all three sections showed improvement over the measures of the previous week. The historic measure of rainfall for the month of May is only 3.56 inches for the northern region, which includes Citrus County. Rainfall seemed to be heavier in Citrus County than it was in the two other regions, with 8.94 inches recorded for the central region and 8.1 inches for the southern re- gion of the district. With the county suffering a three-year drought, the increase in the aquifer level was encourag- ing. At -0.07 foot in the northern region, it had risen more than a foot and a half from April's read- ing of -1.68 feet, putting it much closer to the normal range of 0 to 4 feet. One year ago, the May read- ing was 0.06 foot. "The rain has brought a half- foot increase in the lake levels," Felix said. In the northern region, the May level was -5.43 feet, an improve- ment over the previous month's -6.04 feet. On the same date last year, the measurement was -4.44/ feet. Each month, the district meas- ures the water in 76 lakes. The lake levels are compared to the lakes' adopted minimum low man- agement levels. Streamflow, also known as discharge, ON Tn is the volume of 1 waterman water passing a loca- tion in a certain amount of time. The slope of the watershed surrounding the stream or river, the permeability and water storage capacity of the surrounding soils and the rainfall pattern all affect streamflow. - In the northern region, meas- ures of the Withlacoochee River near Holder and Trilby showed improvements over last months measurements. At Holder, it was in the 11th percentile, compared to the previous month's fifth per- centile. At Trilby, it E NET was in the sixth per- tters.org centile, compared to the second percentile. The normal range percentile is 25 to 75 for both measurement sites. Felix said the figures for the Withlacoochee seemed low be- cause they are monitored down- stream. See WATER/Page A4 Shopping for her new image DAVE SIGLER/Cnronicle Rebecca Hodges, left, picks out some new clothes during a recent shopping spree at Beall's Outlet in Inverness with Catherine Holder, RN, right, and Adele Stordato, a medical assistant from Genesis Woman's Center. Hodges was the first patient to begin their weight- loss program and their "biggest success," for a lot of reasons, mostly her attitude and diligence. She has lost 75 pounds. Local woman drops weight, gets makeover NANCY KENNEDY nkennedy@ chronicleonline.com Chronicle It had been a long time since Rebecca Hodges had gone clothes shopping. After losing 75 pounds, she wasn't sure what size she wore and was almost afraid to find out. Plus she felt awkward having a fuss made over her, what with three staff members from Genesis Women's Center bringing pants and tops and shoes into the dressing room and a photographer snapping her picture when she emerged. As Jennifer Stricker, certified physical trainer from Genesis, coaxed Hodges to look at herself in the mirror and good- naturedly scolded her for wanting to go back to her baggy "fat clothes," she said, "We have two shows going on here - 'The Biggest Loser' and 'What Not to Wear."' Hodges, 54, is one of the first patients in the center's medical weight-loss pro- gram, which began August 2008. With a 75-pound weight loss, Hodges is almost at her goal. See IMAGE/Page A5 Rebecca Hodges shows her new clothes and her new attitude about her appearance while modeling for her biggest supporters. Through Genesis, local businesses have do- nated items to Rebecca's makeover. Genesis paid for some new outfits, taking Re- becca shopping at Beall's Outlet. Many medical programs proud to yield net loss NANCY KENNEDY nkennedy@ chronicleonline.com, Chronicle Google "gynecologist" and "weight-loss programs" and about 745.000 sites come up. Not all sites belong to gyne- cologists who offer medical weight-loss programs, but there are enough to deduce a trend. Two local obstretics/gynec- ogy facilities. Genesis Women's Center in Inverness and Sun- coast Obstetrics & Gynecology. currently offer medically su- pervised help with losing weight Suncoast, under the direc- tion of Dr. Scott Redrick, M.D., has about 400 weight-loss pa- tients' - men and women - and Genesis has about 200 men and women. Redrick said most of his weight-loss patients are not his regular gynecological patients. Both facilities began offer- ing weight-loss programs in 2008. Obesity is epidemic in the United States. More than a cos- metic issue, obesity con- tributes to a number of serious health hazards; such as high, blood pressure, diabetes, can- cer, gallbladder disease and gallstones, osteoarthritis, gout, breathing problems (such as sleep apnea, when people stop breathing for a short time dur- ing sleep), heart disease and stroke. According to information from WebMD, the more obese a person is, the more likely he or she is to have health prob- lems. Someone who is 40 per- cent overweight is twice as likely to die prematurely as someone of average weight People who are 20 percent or more overweight can gain significant health benefits from losing weight Even a weight loss of 10 to 20 pounds can bring significant health improvements, such as low- ered blood pressure and cho- lesterol levels. See LOSS/Page A5 Clerk of court sees budget cutbacks SHEMIR WILES swiles@chronicleonline.com Chronicle The recent legislative session has left several county clerks of court around the state figuring out how to survive as their budg- ets took serious hit Although their court duties did- n't shift to judges and court admi n- istrators, the Leg- islature now has control over the clerks' finances. Before, the state had no oversight Betty of the clerk of Striffler court-generated said her revenues, which budget would typically came be cut from $2.1 million from filing fees, $1.9 million. fines and other court costs. But a reworked bill (S.B. 2108), which was approved 7-0 by the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee, now moves the clerks' court-related income - which was used in performing their court-related duties -- under the state'sbudgeting process. In ad- dition, that income instead will be directed into a trust fund for the ailing state courts and out of each county clerk of courts' hands. This comes as a major blow with several filing fees set to increase June 1, which will result in additional annual revenue the clerks can't touch. Citrus County Clerk of Court Betty Strifler said her budget would be cut from $2.1 million to about $1.9 million. In the past, Strifler said her office would have anywhere from $200,000 to $450,000 in excess funds to return to the county commission, but this year there will be nothing. Before the news that clerk of- fices all over the state may have to trim their budgets, Strifler said her office had already' imple- mented cost-saving measures during the 2008-09 budget year A lot of what had to be done affects wages and benefits, Strifler said, because 85 percent of the budget consists of those two ele- ments. In an e-mail from Strifler's of- fice, these are the following ac- tions that have been taken during the current budget year: * Reduced staff by eight tfll- time positions. (Six became part- time and two were laid oft) * Effective April 1, one day per month of furlough without pay - office-wide. * Effective April 1, two days per month of furlough without See CLERK/Page A4 Annie's Mailbox ............A14 Classifieds ...................D5 Crossword ..................A14 Editorial..........................C2 Horoscope ............... A14 Lottery Numbers ............B4 M ovies ........................... A13 Obituaries ...................A6 Together...................... A13 Sunken treasure The'Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg opens to divers./Page A2 Isn't it romantic? Despite the economic dowturn, romance novels sell /Page B6 'HaW IO y' Dynamic Cay camp seeks campers /Page A4 Smart Money Bruce Williams has the answers / Page D1 Fear not Over 40 and out of work? There's hope / Page A6 I ,4 contest /B6 Recent rains boost aquifers 7l5 o ai It CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE A29 R A.., MA Al 2009 DAYAY In search of a bird feeder , In search of a bird feeder DAVE SIGLER/Chronicle Rainy weather has washed the trees, animals and countryside clean In preparation for flowers and wildlife to flourish. Lizards in are in abundance, baby birds are chirping and the squirrels are jumping from tree to wire looking for some food. County summer camp begins June 8 Special to the Chronicle day and to one other scheduled field N $25: one-time registration fee, re- trip each Wednesday. They will also be quired for each camper $20 daily fee Citrus County Parks and Recreation touring wildlife parks and learning for single-day campers. is hosting a 10-week camp called about Florida. Camp hours are: Camp Fusion for children from 6 to 12 The base cost is $60 per week plus Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 years of age from June 8 to Aug. 14 at registration, which includes all men- p.m., regular hours; 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 the Renaissance Center in Lecanto. tioned field trips. p.m., extended care hours. Campers will not only go swimming Camp prices are: For more information, call coordi- at Bicentennial Pool on Tuesdays and E $60: weekly fee per camper, nator Whitelaw at 527-7677 or visit the Thursday, but they will also go to the 0 $70: weekly feeper camper, in- division's Web site at www.bocc. movies at Regal Cinemas every Tues- cluding extended care. citrus.fl.us. Associated Press Divers explore the superstructure of the Gen. Hoyt S. Van- denberg artificial reef Friday in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off Key West. Vandenberg open to divers Associated Press KEY WEST - A retired Air Force missile-tracking ship intentionally sunk to create an artificial reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary opened to the public Saturday. The 523-foot-long Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg is situ- ated about seven miles south of Key West. The bot- tom of the ship's hull rests on sand in depths that av- erage 145 feet But the ship is so massive that the su- perstructure begins about 45 feet below the surface. "I've dove a lot of ships," said Tom Kanczuzewski of South Bend, Ind., after sur- facing,Saturday. "This is the ship of all ships. I'd love to come back in a year and see all the fishes." Saturday morning, a lone barracuda patrolled the su- perstructure of the ship that once tracked the U.S. space program's launches off Cape Canaveral, monitored U.S. defense missile test launches and eavesdropped on Russian missile launches during the Cold War. But project organizers think it's just a matter of days before .more marine life takes up residence. The wreck is already ful- filling its promise ofattracting visitors to the Florida Keys. . "We have calls coming in from as far as Germany and Norway from people planning tocomejusttodivethiswreck," said Bob Holston, owner of Dive Key West "We have more pre-bookings for the summer nowthanwe'vehadin38years ofbeinginbusiness." Forest Hills Water System rate case slated for Monday Special to the Chronicle At its Monday meeting, the Citrus County Water and Wastewater Authority will consider the second phase of an incremental increase in a staff assisted rate case for the Forest Hills Water System. The authority wi)l also get updates on various rate cases and petitions for reg- ulation, including Meadows Utility Co. in the former cat- egory and the Springhorn Water System in the latter. The authority will addition- ally discuss time limits of rate proceedings and get a Customer complaint sum- mary. The meeting will be at the Lecanto Government Building at 3600 W Sover- eign Path in Room 166. It will begin at 1 p.m. . Operations Director for Utilities Regulation Charles t Howard will also update the authority on current rates cases. In the Rolling Oaks Utilities case, the company - was issued a letter of defi- i ciencies on requested items on April 20. The company has submitted the majority. Interrogatories were sched- uled to be issued by May 29,, from Burton & Associates, the authority's rate consult- ant. Burton expected re- sponse from the utility no later than June 5, according to Howard. The consultant set dates of June 22 and June 26, re- spectively, for worse case delivery dates of its draft and final technical reports. The Utility Regulations,of- fice has tentatively sched- uled the public hearing for July 6. In another case, Tara- wood Utilities, Howard said the authority had not re- ceived responses to all of the interrogatories issued by Burton. In a third case, Meddows Utility Company has ap- proached the Citrus County Water Resources Depart- ment and is currently in ne- gotiations for a purchase by the county of that utility. The utility is still pursuing' the rate case until a new rate base is agreed upon or another utility purchases it At a meeting with Burton on May 13, issues that had been raised during the cus- tomer meeting and initial public hearing were dis- cussed and Burton said it expects to have a draft of a technical report no later than June 15 and a final re- port by June 19. The Utility Regulations office has ten- tatively scheduled the pub- lic hearing for July 6, 2009. In a separate case, Aqua Utilities of' Florida has scheduled a customer meet- ing for June 29. The initial review of Aqua Utilities sub- mittal found no deficien- cies. The consultant projects to have its analysis finished, a technical report issued, and work wrapped up within 60 days. The rate case is scheduled to be re- viewed by the Authority in July or August of 2009. Finally, the Forest Hills Water System is scheduled for a public hearing for its second phase incremental rate increase on Monday. Aneurysm repair without an incision. IL This procedure is typically done at large teaching , universities and now is exclusive to our area so - there is no need to travel. * Quicker recovery * No significant pain * Discharged 24 hours after surgery .N * Safe alternative for the majority of patients � More than 15,000 people die each year in the U.S. from rupture of an aortic aneurysm (AAA). * Vascular disease can impair circulation and lead to limb amputation. * Strokes remain the third leading cause of death in the U.S. . One in every 20 Americans over the age of 50 has peripheral arterial disease (PAD). 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The hearings are being held prior to a full rate hearing in September when the Florida Public Service Commission will make a decision on the rate increase application. If additional information is needed regarding the hearing locations and related issues, call state Sen. Mike Fasano's office at (727) 848-5885 or toll free at (800) 948-5885. Free rabies clinic slated for June 13 There will be a rabies clinic from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 13, at Paws-itively Pets in Inverness. The clinic is for those in need and will be sponsored by the Citrus County Board of County Com- missioners and the Humane Society of Citrus County. The store is located at 751 S. Smith Avenue, which is off State Road 44 just east of the Intersection with Croft Av- enue. The rabies vaccine and county tag will be free to those who need help with the fees. Interested pet owners should call for a reservation at 341-2222. Those without reservations can come in at 11 a.m., and they will be seen on a first come first served basis as long as supplies last. Sponsors include Room for One More Pet Rescue, Hu- manitarians of Florida, Inc. and Dan Rebman, DVM, of Floral City Animal Clinic.__ Dream Society hosts 5K benefit The Dream Society will host a 5K run/1-mile walk to benefit its programs. The Firecracker 5K will be in con- junction with Patriotic Evening on July 3 at Liberty Park in Inverness. Sign-up is available now at www.active.com or in person starting at 5:30 p.m. on race day. Early registration is $1.3 for CRR Members and $15 for non-members. Grab bags, pizza, drinks, and raffle prizes will be available to all run- ners. For information, visit www.citrusroadrunners.org or www.active.com. The Dream Society may be reached at (352) 400-4967 or info@ thedreamsociety.org for infor- mation or to volunteer for the event. The Dream Society is also selling tickets for the fifth annual Country Rocks the Canyon. Love Chevrolet is the gold sponsor and Ice Cream Doc- tor in Inverness is the silver sponsor. -From staff reports Clarification A recipe from The Amish Cook in Thursday's Flair for Food section omitted an in- struction in her Layered As- paragus Casserole: Chop the hard-boiled eggs. Layer half of the chopped hard-boiled eggs on top of the first layer of asparagus. Spread one can of cream of mushroom soup on top of the aspara- gus. Then layer asparagus on top of soup layer and then the last of the eggs. Spread next can of soup over the as- paragus. Place cheese slices over the mixture and then cover with cracker crumbs. For the complete recipe, visit the Food section at. www.chronicleonline.com. FWC talks manatee interaction Special to the Chronicle Environmentally minded people will have the oppor- tunity to find out more about manatee and human interaction at a "listening session" held by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conserva- tion Commission (FWC), in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The session is scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, at the Plantation Golf Resort & Spa, 9301 West Fort Island Trail, Crystal River. The public is invited. "Our goal is to gather in- formation on. human/mana- Our goal is to gather information on human/manatee interactions in the Crystal River area and review harassment laws as they aplpy to these interactions. IVMaj. Lee Beach regional commander for the FWC's North Central Region. tee interactions in the Crys- tal River area and review harassment laws as they apply to these interactions," said Maj. Lee Beach, re- gional commander for the FWC's North Central Re- gion. "Among other possible outcomes, we hope to gather ideas on ways to better man- age interactions between humans and manatees." The format for these ses- sions is a short overview of the current situation, fol- lowed by a facilitated dis- cussion. FWC and USFWS staff hope to learn more about users' perspectives on cur- rent human/manatee inter- actions in the Crystal River area, their recommenda- tions for changes, if any, and users' recommendations for long-term plans related to human/manatee interactions in the Crystal River area. "The sessions will be de- signed to explore these top- ics and other issues of inter- est to the participants," Beach said. "There are no pre-determined solutions." For a copy of the agenda, send an e-mail to manatee. interaction@MyFWC.com. Any person requiring spe- cial accommodations to participate in this work- shop/meeting is asked to ad- vise the agency at least five days before the work- shop/meeting by contacting the FWC at (850) 488-6411. If you are hearing or speech impaired, contact the agency using the Florida Relay Service, (800) 955-8771 (TDD) or (800) 955- 8770 (voice). K' .dog P, Y~*~ ~ . .. \ \ ' DAVE SIGLER/Chronicle Dentist Michelle Graham, left, talks to Norman Mitch, while Roxanne Dejesus assists Saturday at the Hunger and Homeless Coalition of Citrus County-sponsored "Have a Heart for the Homeless" fair at the Inverness Chapel of Christian Fellowship's Calvary Chapel. The event was held to those in need of assistance and had local aid. Local and governmental agencies were on hand to help people understand what is available for them in Citrus County. The medical equipped Mobile Service Center was provided from Volunteers for America and is based in Tampa. State BRIEFS South Florida beaches closed due to bacteria MIAMI - Five South Florida beaches are closed due'to a bacteria in the water. Samples of water taken at the beaches did not meet the criteria rec- ommended by the Florida Department of Health, which recommended Satur- day that swimmers stay away from the following beaches: Virginia Beach, Dog Beach; Key Biscayne Beach Club,, Cape Florida Park and Wading Beach at Matheson Hammock.. Health officials said contact with the water may pose an increased risk of ill- ness, particularly for susceptible individu- als. Firefighter who took foot sentenced to probation PORT ST. LUCIE -Aformer St. Lucie County firefighter who admitted taking a man's severed foot from.an In- terstate 95 rash scene last year has been sentenced to six months probation. Ajudge withheld adjudication Friday, so 38-year-old Cynthia "Cindy" Economou was not formally convicted of misdemeanor theft. Economou told the Florida Highway Patrol after the Sept. 19 crash that she took the remains to help train her ca- daver dog. She eventually resigned from the St. Lucie County Fire District. There's no law specifically dealing with the theft of a body part. She was charged with a misdemeanor because authorities couldn't determine the mon- etary value of the foot. Former commissioner released from jail FORT LAUDERDALE -A former Miramar city commissioner accused of pulling out a gun in a store is out of jail following an emergency hearing. Fitzroy Salesman was ordered re- leased on bond Friday afternoon. He had been sentenced to 30 days in jail and a year on probation. But his lawyer, Eric Schwartzreich, said the judge in the case did not allow a bond hearing. The appeals court decided Salesman was entitled to a bond hearing. At the emergency hearing, bond was set at $1,000. Salesman left the jail around 3 a.m. Friday. Salesman was convicted last month of a misdemeanor charge of improperly displaying a firearm. He said another shopper threatened him and used a racial slur while he was shopping at a store the night before Thanksgiving in 2007. Homeless man skips on bill to get arrested STUART - Authorities said a home- less man skipped out on the bill for a steak dinner so he could get sent to jail. Stuart police reported 40-year-old Bryan Keith Coley walked out on an $18 bill Thursday for a steak at an In- temational House of Pancakes. Officers found him just a few hundred feet from the restaurant and arrested him. According to a report, Coley told po- lice he didn't pay his check because he was hungry and wanted to go to jail for rehab. Coley was charged with defrauding an innkeeper and was being held on $250 bail. Bear in Broward may be there to stay WESTON - The bear spotted in Broward County may be there to stay. State wildlife officials had not captured the animal as of Saturday. It has been seen several times since April, even prompting a brief lock down at a South Florida elementary school this week. Mike Orlando with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said -the bear may have found himself a suit- able home in the wilderness along the city. Biologists have set out a bear trap, which will be checked daily. If the bear is captured, it would be taken to the Big Cy- press National Preserve in Collier County or the Picayune Strand State Forest. According to the wildlife commission, the last bear sighting in Broward County happened 30 years ago. -From wire reports Associated Press MIAMI - Being a barber was something that came natural to Giuseppe Guarihii, who's been cut- ting men's hair the past four years. The problem was he was practic- ing without-a license. Although he was never caught by state officials, he didn't like the stigma, either. "It made me feel really bad be- cause I don't think I should be has- sled on a profession I know how to do," the Homestead resident said. So the 26-year-old decided to prepare for the Florida State Board of Barbering Examination to become a licensed barber. He now attends Beauty Schools of America in the Hialeah campus, where he is learning about hair textures, sanitation, sterilization -and other safety measures. It's "a lot of things I didn't know," he said. A bill (S.B. 1566, H.B. 1415) that failed in the Florida Legislature's recently completed session would have allowed barber students to perform services for pay under the supervision of a licensed barber The students would have also been enrolled in a 1,200-hour training program. Current law prohibits anyone from.practicing barbering without a license - there are no barber- ing internships. Critics argue the program could discourage students from finishing their training and completing the state licensing examination. Some might even be tempted to practice without a license, they say. "Once these interns are out there, who is going to look out for the citi- zen?" asked Sam Farkas, spokesman for the Florida Associ- ation of Beauty Professionals. Under the proposed law, the student's barbering school would have been responsible for placing the eligible intern with a licensed professional. The sponsor would be required to post a notice in the salon indicating that a student in- tern is providing services on the premises, clearly informing the public that the intern is not li- censed. The sponsors would also have'to pay a registration fee of no more than $30. The state has a committee, called the Florida Barber's Board, which regulates barbers and bar- ber shops. There is also the Department of Business & Professional Regula- tion, which inspects each barber- shop in the state annually and every complaint about unlicensed activity, spokeswoman Jenn Meale said. For the fiscal year that ended last June 30, there were 262 re- ports of unlicensed ,barbering. Through March, the numbers were up slightly this fiscal year with 233 cases, on pace for 310. The department conducts unli- censed activity sweeps with local law enforcement to ensure every- one practicing in a salon is li- censed and bring violators into compliance. "We help them get a license and keep practicing in that profession legally. We don't want to get any- one out of business, but we do want to help," she said. Hiring an intern would be diffi- cult for Jim Jones of Cut Up's in St. Petersburg, who said every chair in his shop is being used by a licensed barber. "I would proba- bly let an intern work, but not right now. I'd rather have some- one graduated and already taken the test," he said. That was Guarini's decision after years of practicing without a license. "I did that for a long time. It's one of the best ways to learn, but not the safest way," he said. "You are putting your client at risk." Gentle dental work Can Florida's barber interns make the cut? CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE A4SUINflAYVMAY 31,2009) Dynamic Day Camp welcoming campers Games, educational activities highlight 'Harmony' Special to the Chronicle "Harmony in the Streets" is cele- brating more than 25 years of camping services. Created to promote better understanding and cooperation among youngsters, this action-packed, fun-filled, five-day camping experi- ence is being offered again this sum- mer at two Citrus Colunty school locations. A joint project of the Citrus County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Sher- iffs Youth Ranches Inc., Harmony in the Streets is open to the first 60 youngsters, ages 6 to 12, who register to attend. Organizers say there are still openings. The first camp is set for June 8 to 12 at Pleasant Grove Elementary School in Inverness, and the second is sched- uled for June 15 to 19 at Central Ridge Elementary School in Citrus Springs. The two sessions will run from 9 CLERK Continued from Page Al pay - management 0 Merit increases - sus- pended. * Training- suspended. * Travel - suspended. * Continuing education - suspended. * Educational reim- bursement - suspended.. M Cell phone stipends - reduced or suspended. * On-call injunction stipend - suspended. * Computer hardware and software rotations and upgrades - suspended. Several of these actions a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Enrollment is free of charge; however, parents or guardians are responsible for brown-bagging a lunch each day for their campers and making travel arrangements for their children to and from the campsites. Free drinks and snacks will be provided. Applications are available at 0 For more inforr the Sheriff's Oper- Hamony in the nations Center in call supervisor downtown Inver- at 249-2738, o ness, and com- and Sgt. Frink pleted forms may be turned in at the same location. Or download an application by going to the Sheriff's Office Web site at www.sheriffcitrus.org, and clicking on the Harmony in the Streets button on the home page. Because space is lim- ited, it's recommended that completed applications be dropped off as soon as possible. While attending Harmony in the Streets, youngsters should dress com- fortably in T-shirts and shorts, closed- toe shoes (no sandals), and bring with them a swimsuit (or a change of clothes to get wet in), towel, hat and sunscreen. Parents and guardians are re- will remain in place into the 2009-10 budget year, with the exception that fur- lough days for management were not listed and the sus- pension of non-mission- critical projects was added. Strifler said the change came at a time when her of- fice was already hurting. Expressing deep frustra- tions with the newest cuts, Strifler said there was one bright spot in her turbulent year - her staff. ."Without them, we wouldn't be able to con- tinue the level of service we do," Strifler said. . She said some of her em- ployees have taken on extra responsibilities and rn r minded that campers should not bring money, jewelry, radios, cell phones, electronic games or expensive recre- ational equipment with them to camp. Weapons of any kind, clothing with in- appropriate words or messages, to- bacco products, alcohol and illegal drugs of any kind are strictly prohib- ited at both camp- nation about sites. Streets, Outdoor activi- Lt. Dave DeCarlo ties abound at r Sgt. Purinton Harmony in the at 726 4488. Streets. Young- sters will enjoy games, team sports, arts & crafts, water activities, environmental edu- cation, group-building dynamics, workshops, plus law enforcement demonstrations and much, much more. According to Sergeants Kevin Pur- inton and Ron Frink, who oversee the ,agency's school resource officer pro- gram, SROs will once again join Youth Ranches staff to supervise the two camping sessions and work closely with the children. For more information about Har- mony in the Streets, call supervisor Lt. Dave DeCarlo at 249-2738, or Sgt. Purinton and Sgt. Frink at 726-4488. she is thankful to have a staff that is dedicated and willing to work hard. Be- . cause of them, she said her office continues to provide excellent customer service and work on expanding on- line access to court docu- ments. "They have been able to meet all their performance standards," Strifler said. She also expressed deep gratitude to the number of volunteers who come in and work at the clerk's of- fice. Many of them are stu- dents from Withlacoochee Technical Institute. Strifler said several of them have plans to eventually work in government or the court system and many just vol- unteer to receive a valuable experience. Since January, volunteers have dedicated more than 600 hours of services. Strifler said when she looks at other clerk offices around the state.she is con- fident that her office oper- ates very efficiently. She said she can't help but worry about the future of her office if cuts keep being made in Tallahassee; nev- ertheless, she remains opti- mistic and confident her office will weather the budgetary storm. "We are survivors and we will make it through," she said. Citrus County Sheriff's Office Arrests * Thomas Charles, 35, of 19920 SW 110 St., Dunnellon, at 3:22 a.m. Friday on a charge of driving while license sus- pended, canceled or revoked, knowingly. Bond $500. * David L. Stanley, 29, of 9375 N. Citrus Springs Blvd., Cit- rus Springs, at 11:51 a.m. Friday charges of possession of co- caine with intent to sell or deliver and selling cocaine. Bond $30,000. * Billy F. Steele, 47, of 6889 N. Marmoor Point, Hemando, at 12 p.m. Friday on a charge of felony violation of probation for an original charge of possession of methadone and oxycodone without a prescription. No bond.- * Kindi M. Donaldson, 29, at large, at 2:40 p.m. Friday on charges of grand theft and giving false information to a pawnbro- ker. Bond $1,000. * MatthewAron Murray, 27, WATER Continued from Page Al "It takes a long time for the levels to rise in these areas," she said. In the central region, the Hillsborough River was well above the normal range of 25 to 75 percentiles, with a score of 89 percent. "We see these as a very good improvement in the water resources in the past week," Felix said. "But we have a long way to go before recovering from the drought." Although the city of Tampa lifted its emergency watering restriction regard- ing lawns because of the improved streamflow level of the Hillsborough River, Felix said the district's ON THE NET * For more information about arrests made by the Pitrus County Sher- iff's Office, go to www.sheriffcitrus.org and click on the Public Information link, then on Arrest Reports. * Watch the "Arrested De- velopments" show from the Citrus County Sher- iff's Office at www.chronicleonline.tv. * For the Record reports are also archived online at www.chronicleon- line.com. of 4629 N. Mitchhum Point, Crys- tal River, at 2:41~a._ Satuirday, May 23 on a charge of felony vi- olation of probation for an origi- nal charge of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription (three counts). No bond. tight Phase IV restrictions would still apply to Tampa, which means watering the lawn only once a week from midnight to 4 a.m. Citrus County is still under Phase II restrictions, as it has been since Janu- ary 2007. In Phase II, home- owners can water lawns once a week before 8 a.m. or after 6 p.m. "To help recover from the drought, we're asking resi- dents to skip their watering days when it rains," Felix said. "On days when there is half an inch of rainfall, the water is ample for lawns." Current watering restric- tions will stay in effect until June30, Felix said. The dis- trict's board will meet June 23 to decide whether to lift the watering restrictions or keep them in effect YESTERDAY'S WEATHER HI LO PRO PR HILO PR g90 70 0.00 INA NA NA ) 89 70 0.00 FLORIDA TEMPERATURES City Daytona Bch. Ft. Lauderdale Fort Myers Gainesville Homestead Jacksonville Key West Lakeland Melbourne F'cast PC ts ts pc ts pc ts PC City Miami Ocala Orlando Pensacola Sarasota Tallahassee Tampa Vero Beach W. Palm Bch. MARINE OUTLOOK West winds from 5 to 10 knots. Seas 1 to 2 feet. Bay and inland waters will have a light'chop. Partly cloudy skies expected today. 89 71 0.00 86 72 0.00 THREE DAY OUTLOOK forecast by TODAY & TOMORROW MORNING High: 89 Low: 61 e4 Mostly sunny and nice MONDAY & TUESDAY MORNING High: 90 Low: 62 Mostly sunny TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY MORNING High: 90 Low: 63 Partly cloudy; 10% chance of a shower : ALM TEMPERATURE* Saturday 85/69 Record 97/59 Normal 89/68 Mean temp. 77 Departure from mean -1 PRECIPITATION* Saturday -0.00 in. Total for the month 13.94 in. Total for the year 18.72 in. Normal for the year 16.57 in. *As 6of 6 p.m. at Inverness UV INDEX: 11 0-2 minimal, 3-4 low, 5-6 moderate, 7-9 high, 10+ very high BAROMETRIC PRESSURE Saturday at 3 p.m. 29.91 in. DATE 5/31 6/1 IANAC DEW POINT Saturday at 3 p.m. 64 HUMIDITY Saturday at 3 p.m. 51�/% POLLEN COUNT** Trees, grasses and weeds were all light. " 'Light - only extreme allergic will show symp- toms, moderate - most allergic will experience symptoms, heavy - all allergic will experience symptoms: AIR QUALITY Saturday was good wit mainly ozone. SOLUNAR TABLES DAY MINOR MAJOR MI (MORNING) SUNDAY . 12:31 6:43 1 MONDAY 1:15 . 7:26 1 NOR (AFTEF 2:54 :38 CELESTIAL OUTLOOK "0 (1 C O SUNSET TONIGHT......... SUNRISE TOMORROW E MOONRISE TODAY. AJ 7 AM115 JAIE22 inllnE2B MOONSET TODAY......... j.. ."BURN CONDITIONS Today's Fire Danger Rating is: LOW. There is no burn For more information call Florida Division of Forestry at (352) 754- more information on drought conditions, please visit the Division o Web site: http://flame.fi-dof.com/fire weather/kbdi .e WATERING RULES' The current lawn watering restriction for the unincorporated areas of Citrus C allow residents to water once a week. For county, Crystal River and Invernes addresses ending in 0 or 1, or A through E can water. Monday; addresses e or F through J can water Tuesdays; addresses ending in 4 or 5, or K through Wednesday; addresses ending in 6 or 7, or P through U can water Thursday ending in 8or 9, orV through Z can water Fridays. Properties under two acres in size may only water before 8 a.m. or after 6 p.r and properties two acres or larger may only water before 10 a.m. or after 4 p. '.' TIDES *From mouths of rivers "At King's Bay Sunday City HighlLow- ---HighLow Chassalowltzka' 12:46 p/8:00 a - /8:38 p Crystal River" 11:07 a/5:22 a 11:11 p/6:00 p Withlacoochee* 8:54 a/3:10 a 8:58 p/3:48 p Homosassa*" 11:56 a/6:59 a -- /7:37 p *"At Mas Mond High/Low F'cast ts pc pc ts pc ts ts Gulf water temperature na Taken aM M"ipe LAKE LEVELS Location Fri. Sat. Full Withlacoochee at Holder 28.75 28.76 35.52 Tsala Apopka-Hernando 33.50 33.50 39.25 Tsala Apopka-lnverness 35.08 35.07 40.60 Tsala Apopka-Floral City 37.30 37.31 42.40 Levels reported in feet above sea level. Flood stage for lakes are based on 2.33-year flood, the mean- annual flood which has a 43-precent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any one year. This data is obtained from thie Southwest Florida Water Management District and is subject to revision. In no event will the District or the United States Geological Survey be liable for any damages arising out of the use of this data. If you have any questions you should contact the Hydrological Data Section at (352) 796-7211. THE NATION h pollutants City Albany Albuquerque Asheville Atlanta MAJOR Atlantic City RNOON) Austin 7:06 Baltimore 7:49 Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo ............8:24 P.M. Burlington, VT ............6:32 A.M. Charleston, SC . 2:01 P.M. Charleston, WV 1:50 A.M. Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbia, SC ban. Columbus, OH Concord, N.H. -6777. For Dallas )f Forestry's Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Evansville, IN Harrisburg county Hartford s residents, Houston ending in 2 or 3, Indianapolis O can water Jackson ys; addresses Las Vegas Little Rock n. on their day Los Angeles .m. on their day. Louisville Memphis Milwaukee Minneapolis son's Creek Mobile lay Montgomery High/Low Nashville 12:50 a/8:57 a 1:34 p/9:58 p 11:55 a/6:19 a -- 17:20 p 9:42 a/4:07 a 10:29 p/5:08 p 12:00 a/7:56 a 12:44 p/8:57 p Saturday H L Pcp. 71 50 80 56 78 54 83 60 79.59 92 63 78 55 88 57 84 58 90 64 78 55 .14 64 48 69 53 86 67 76 55 .02 83 59 79 50 *80 60 73 48 86 69 77 54 76 55 91 62 79 54 83 59 74 46 87 67 83 60 76 53 .03 79 58 .03 94 65 79 59 86 59 .02 89 74 91 61 65 59 80 62 88 62 76 50 72 56 .03 87 62 87 61 .06 85 54 Sunday Fcst H L sh 66 38 ts 83 58 s 81 52 pc 87 63 s 72 60 pc 92 62 s 80 51 pc 72 49 pc 88 64 ts 85 50 sh 73 47 s 59 43 sh 57 40 pc 89 69 pc 83 57 pc 88 60 pc 72 59 s 78 55 -pc 68 50 ts 91 63 pc 76 55 sh 69 32 s 92 67 pc 84 54 pc 83 64 pc 69 53 pc 92 64 s 86 67 s 75 48 sh 72 40 pc 92 67 s 78 59 pc 90 64 s 95 74 s 89 64 pc 67 60 s 81 63 pc 90 70 pc 73 54 ts 84 56 pc 91 63 pc 91 64 PC 84 59 KEY TO CONDITIONS: c=cloudy; dr=drizzle; f=fair, h=hazy; pc=partly cloudy; r=rain; rs=raln/snow mix; s=sunny; sh=showers; sn=snow; ts=thunderstorms; w=windy. 02009 Weather Central, Madison, Wi. 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Special to the Chronicle Numerous exhibitors will be taking part in the Florida friendly "Living Green Expo 2009" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, June 19, at the Citrus County Extension office in Lecanto. The University , of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Science (UF/IFAS) Citrus County Ex- tension is hosting the expo, which will focus on saving money while protecting the environment, protecting water quality, conserving water, and preventing pollu- tion. Admission and parking are free. Attendees will be able to visit green technology dis- plays, such as a pervious con- crete demonstration, and they can sign up for an energy audit They will be able to learn more about the new Water Star Program and saving water outdoors by using low volume irrigation equipment They. will be able to view a variety of composting bins for home projects and learn about Florida Friendly Land- scaping. They will also learn how to choose the least toxic chemicals for home cleanup jobs. The Family and Consumer Science division of the Ex- LOSS Continued from Page Al Both of the two local med- ical centers have similar programs involving a low- carbohydrate diet, plus reg- ular vitamin B injections, dietary supplements to boost metabolism and for some patients, appetite sup- pressants (amphetamines). The injections contain a combination of B vitamins, amino acids and other nu- trients; the oral supple- ments contain multi-vitamins and miner- als, including calcium pyru- vate. Simply put, these elements are believed to in- crease metabolism and burn fat more efficiently. Both programs also ,offer emotional support and en- couragement along the way, as well as education in por- tion control, making wise food choices and getting enough of the right kind of exercise. "I had a similar program when I had a practice in Georgia," Redrick said. He was also involved in an obe- sity study with Nature Coast Clinical Research in 2007 and 2008, evaluating new drugs. "They asked women who were interested to take part in the studies, and there were more women than spaces available, so I knew this was a need," he said. Education is primary Catherine Holder, RN, at Genesis Women's Center, said they spend time with their patients educating tension Office will have a dis- play, as will the Florida Yards and Neighbors program. The Extension's Horticulture pro- gram will feature rain har- vesting and rain garden, and the Natural Resources divi- sion will present an inte- grated pest management program with the least toxic effects. There will be many give- aways. Sponsors and ex- hibitors include: 4-H Youth Development, Chevy & Honda Hybrids, Citrus County Builder Association, Citrus County Canning Kitchen, Citrus County Envi- ronmental Health, Citrus County Sheriff's Office, Cit- rus County Solid Waste, Cit- rus County Transportation, Citrus County Water Re- sources, Division of Forestry, Florida Concrete Product As- sociation, Keep Citrus County Beautiful, Martin Federal Credit Union, Na- ture Coast Aquascapes, Nick Nicholas Ford, Progress En- ergy, S.E.C.O., Sea Grant, Water Star, SolarTex, South- west Florida Water Manage- ment District, Village Cadillac /Toyota and Master Gardener Plant questions/an- swers. Organizations interested in being sponsors or exhibitors should call the Citrus County Extension office at 527-5700. them about what happens chemically when certain foods are eaten, how blood sugar and insulin come into play She said many patients are able to come off their blood pressure and diabetes medicines after losing weight. Redrick said unlike some -programs with pre-pack- aged foods, the programs that have any lasting effect are the ones that use food you buy at the grocery store. Likewise, Holder said a diet needs to be realistic. "We teach our patients how to eyeball portions (such as a serving of lean meat being the size of a deck of cards). That's part of mak- ing things simple," she said. "We tell them not to get crazy with weighing stuff, because that's not realistic." Instead, both programs have a core list of low-car- bohydrate, low-fat foods and patients learn to choose wisely. Holder said most health insurances do not cover the cost of the program, and gro- cery c.psts generally in- crease as patients buy more fresh vegetables and lean protein-rich foods. "I tell them to look at it as preventative medicine," she said. "Hopefully, our goal is to get you to make that lifestyle change so that 10 years from now you're not having to spend money on blood pressure medicine or diabetes medicine or hospi- talization. "So, you're actually saving money in the long run,".she said. extension office On a recent Friday after- noon, Stricker, along with registered nurse Catherine Holder and medical assis- tant Adele Scordato, took Hodges shopping at Beall's Outlet in Inverness, courtesy of Genesis Women's Center Until then, the clothes in her closet ranged in size from extra-large to 3X. She now wears a size 12, maybe a 10, and a medium shirt In addition to the Genesis- sponsored shopping spree, Dr. James Muse of Museum Eyecare in , Ocala gave Hodges a free eye exam and a pair of updated glasses and Rapunzel's Hair in Lecanto gave her a haircut and color and an eyebrow tint. She went from a gray- haired matron in outdated, oversized glasses to a much- younger boomer with subtle, light reddish hair. For the shy and quiet for-, mer physical education teacher from Bluefield, Va., the fuss was a bit over- whelming. "My problem was por- tions," she said, Weigh regard- ing her patients le decades- I o n g a low-carl struggle with her diet, tailor weight. 'I pat stayed with my grandmother a lot when I was growing up, and Grandma was a good cook- and I liked to eat a lot" She said she was heavy in college and during her years teaching school, but it never bothered her until recently. She had been caring for her mother in Citrus Hills who noticed that Hodges had dif- ficulty breathing at night "Every time I bent over to tie my shoes I couldn't DAVE SIGLER/Chronide Jennifer Stricker, a certified personal trainer, give an inspirational talk to Rebbecca dur- ing her shopping spree. breathe," Hodges said, "and I couldn't walk in stores be- cause I couldn't breathe. So, I just sat on the couch and ate, and when you're eating a pint of chocolate ice cream with chocolate syrup and whipped t loss cream on it, it puts arn to eat weight on you." ohydrate s h e fit to each aideby she nmt. learned about the medical weight loss program at Gen- esis Women's Center she was ready for a change. The program consists of an initial visit with a physi- cian for an exam, electrocar- diogram reading and lab work, a consultation with Holder for nutritional coun- seling and a session with Stricker regarding fitness and exercise recommenda- tions. Weight loss patients learn to eat a low-carbohydrate diet, tailor-fit to each patient They also receive regular vi- tamin B injections and a nu- tritional supplement to boost metabolism. Some patients may receive an appetite sup- pressant. "We concentrate a lot on education - it's the whole knowledge is power thing," Holder said. "Our first goal is not weight loss, because we don't want the program to be about vanity; we want it to be about good health. "Our goal is to educate our patients on living a healthy lifestyle," she said. Hodges said her favorite things to eat now are broc- coli and cheese and cottage cheese and lean turkey. Her ultimate dessert is sugar-free gelatin with whipped top- ping. "My energy has gone through the roof," Hodges said. She exercises regularly. She said after her first trip to the gym, muscles she hadn't ! , . used in years "screamed." But her best Christmas gift wds a year's gym member- ship from her mother Now Hodges is working on coming out of her shell and not hiding beneath baggy "fat" clothes. She feels more confident to teach a Sunday school class at her church, Hernando United Methodist Church. "Before I was really em- barrassed about what I looked like," she said. She said she still feels self- conscious and "fat in her head," but that's something the staff at Genesis is helping her to work through. That's why they wanted to do a makeover for her After an hour and a half of shopping, Hodges walked away with a pair of jeans - her first in many years - a pair of dress pants, two shirts, a pair of shoes and an uplifted spirit "We're hoping this will be a start for her," Holder said. "She's done so well." .,.. I' ' ,CATARACT_& LASER INSTITUTE -_, " - "Excellence... with love" FREE HEALTH SCREENING In Association With: Thomas W. Dawson, OD Wednesday, June 10th Vision * Cataract Glaucoma Blood Pressure Eyeglass Adjustments I Crystal Eye Center 1124 N. 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Ii ,' F .,i 11 PF lTh ruverunfy R, Flunda Health Stem -~ ~ ---- ..Shaniilorg .f e wouenmemwlmmt3 SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2oog AS , CITRus Coumy (FL) CHRONICLE SflEJW YUU VVIldl Illt! IULUlt! IIUIUM. I fit It If-, I- L -11 11111- L CITRus CouN'TY (FL) CHRONICLE AS SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 Over 40 and out of work? There's hope Legislation inspired by Associated Press - Just because the job market is tough these days, BRAND YOURSELF ,imr attack NEW YORK- Trouble in thejob don't assume that the over40 crowd is going to be An employee with a recognizable Lttack market is bad news for all workersgoing to beil*L1 but those over 40 may be finding first to be let go. Believing that may affect one's job his nameorher a soindustry is hardpertio losein tymied by these days particularly unnerving because they fear younger employ- performance. In fact, older workers haven't necessarily Companies wantpeople like that ees with smaller paychecks could been singled out during the current recession. more apt to hold on to them. elep fa poach their puosiulo. That's the wrong way to think about the current job environment. Older workers, who make up nearly half of the 141 million U.S. work force, should play up their tal- ents and experience. After all, their background likely exceeds that of their younger colleagues, employ- ment experts say. They also should know their rights under the law, because that will help them watch for and fight any possible discrimination. Em- ployers can't terminate workers be- cause of their age. The workplace should be "gray blind," just like it is blind to race, religion and gender, said Martha Finney, an author specializing in workplace issues who wrote the new book "Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After AJob Loss." "You should never be judged by your age. It should always be about performance," Finney said. To help make that happen, here are some tips workers over 40 should keep in mind: REMAIN CONFIDENT Just because the job market is tough these days, don't assume that the over-40 crowd is going to be first to be let go. Believing that may af- fect one's job performance. In fact, older workers haven't necessarily been singled out during the current recession. The unem- ployment rate for those age 45 to 54 rose to a, high of 6.6 percent in March and was 6.4 percentin April, according to the Labor Department While that was the highest since the winter of 1983, it still trails the 8.9 percent unemployment rate in April for the total U.S. work force. The Age Discrimination in Em- ployment Act of 1967 protects indi- viduals who- are 40 years of age or older from employment discrimi- nation based on age. The ADEA's protections apply to both employ- ees and job applicants. That means it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because of his or her age during the hiring, firing, promoting, laying off, training or compensating of an individual. Discrimination can come in two forms. An employee can claim the employer treated him or her differ- ently than other employees or set standards that alienated certain age groups. That is known as "dis- parate treatment." The other form is known as "dis- parate impact" and that has to do with how an employer's practices may benefit one group over an- other, even if there was no intent for discrimination. In 2008, age discrimination com- plaints rose 30 percent from the year before, according to the Equal Em- ployment Opportunity Commission. But proving age discrimination isn't easy. Of the 24;582 cases of age discrimination the EEOC received last year, only 18 percent of those were resolved with outcomes fa- vorable to the plaintiff. "There is a direct correlation be- tween bad economic times and uptick in discrimination claims," said Paul Lopez, who chairs the labor and employment practice at the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., law firm Tripp Scott. "But they are difficult claims to pursue and prosecute." uun I unAMi YiUUK*Lr The worst thing for a worker over 40 to do is make their age an em- ployment issue. "It will only be a handicap if you make it a handi- cap," Finney said. That means older workers need to play up their strengths and high- light their skill set and experience as valued tools so that employers recognize why they are worth keep- ing around. Finney goes so far as to say employees should tactfully boast talents to supervisors if that is what's needed to get them noticed. "You won't be helping anyone by keeping your lips zipped," she said. "Then no one will know the pot of gold they might have." Older workers also should try to avoid dating themselves on their resume or in the course of their work For instance, they don't need to mention on their resume when .they graduated from college or note basic computer skills, said Myrtle Bell, an associate professor of man- agement at the University of Texas at Arlington. On the other hand, Bell thinks they should tout education that would bolster their job perform- ance, such as a masters of.business administration or foreign language proficiency. Also, workers could highlight if they have used new technologies in their work. For in- stance, a marketing manager could show how he used social network- ing Web sites to grab more cus- tomers. - - - -Gal - - - - - - Hormone pills may make lung cancer more deadly Associated Press ORLANDO - There's more troubling news about hormone therapy for menopause symptoms: Lung cancer seems more likely .to prove fatal. in women who are taking es- trogen-progestin pills, a study suggests. Hormone users who de- veloped lung cancer were more than twice as likely to die from the disease as women who weren't taking hormones, according to re- sults reported Saturday. The new findings mean that smokers should stop taking hormones, and those who have not yet started hormones should give . it careful thought, said Dr. Rowan Chlebowski of Har- bor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He led the analysis and presented re- sults at a meeting of the on- cology society in Florida. It's the latest finding from the Women's Health Initia- tive, a federal study that gave 16,608 women either Prempro or dummy pills. The study was stopped in 2002 when researchers saw more breast cancers in those on Prempro, the es- trogen-progestin pill made by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. They continue to follow what happens to women in the study. The new analysis looked at non-small-cell lung can- cer, by far the most common type. It found ho big differ- ence in the number of lung cancers that developed in hormone users after five years on the pills and more than two years of followup. However lung cancer proved fatal in 46 percent of hormone users who devel- oped it versus 27 percent of those given dummy pills. "It's another piece of evi- dence to suggest that hor- mone replacement therapy should be used with great caution," said Dr Richard Schilsky, a cancer specialist at the University of Chicago and president ofthe American So- ciety of Clinical Oncology. Women who take hor- mones already are advised to use the lowest dose for the shortest time possible, doc- tors said. "Women almost certainly shouldn't be using combined hormone therapy arid tobacco at the same time," Chlebowski said. Still, there have been only 106 lung cancer deaths in the study so far - too few to make sweeping conclu- sions about risk, said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld of the American Cancer Society. And most women no longer use hormones the way they used to, said Wyeth's Dr Joseph Ca- mardo. In the federal study, women started on them at an average age of 63 and .took; them for more than five years. Now,,the typical, age or starting .is 51 to 54, and average use is two years; Camardo said. The same risks may not apply with the new patterns of use, he said. Researchers have not yet analyzed lung cancer risk in another part of the federal study that tested estrogen alone without progestin. Lung cancer is the world's top cancer killer In the United States, there were more than 215,000 new cases and nearly 162,000 deaths from it last year KNOW YOUR RIGHTS EniPT &III -D"9 VnIDQIe I IC Obituaries Elizabeth 'Betty' Ogle, 94 FORMERLY OF CITRUS COUNTY Elizabeth (Betty) Ogle, age 94, passed away May 26, 2009 in Sun City Center, FL. Her graveside memorial service will be held in Eliz- abethton, TN. George Saronsen, 65 YANKEETOWN George D. Saronsen, 65, of Yankeetown, Florida, for- merly of Lakewood, New Jersey, passed away sud- denly on Tuesday, May 26th. Born in Lakewood, he lived there most of his life. He was a former member and Deacon of the First Baptist Church of Lakewood. He graduated from Lake- wood High School. George received an A.S. degree from Ocean County College, Toms River and earned a B.S. de- gree in Business Administra- tion from Richard Stockton State College, Pomona. Dur- ing the Vietnam War, he served as a Turret Mechanic in the U.S. Army His business careers in- cluded being a District Man- ager for Pezrow Company and Sarvis & Associates, Inc.; and Supervisor of New Rad Waste at.Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant, Lacey where he retired in 1996. George was a Third De- gree Mason of Lakewood Lodge No. 174 F & A.M. He was a Worshipful Master in 1996 and 2004. He belonged to the Shriners (Scottish Rite) and Knights Templar. An avid debater, he loved to engage people in spirited discussions about current events and politics. George had a love for animals and an array of interests that in- cluded biking, boating, ski- ing, photography, reading, music and history. He trav- eled extensively around the. .country and enjoyed his trips out to Sturgis, N.D. on his Harley. He was predeceased by his parents Gertrude M. Radford Saronsen and Alvie. J. Saronsen. He is sur- vived by his brother, J. Rad- ford Saronsen of Lakewood; his sister Lillian J. Manning, his niece Kathleen M. Man- ning and nephew Thomas D. Manning, Jr. all of Brick; and many relatives. George will be greatly missed by his family and friends in New Jersey and Florida. Visitation will be from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., Monday, June 1 at D'Elia Funeral. Home, Rte. 70 & Vermont Ave. Lakewood, NJ, (732) 363- 1987. A funeral service will be at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 2, at the First Baptist Church of Lakewood, 240 BROWN FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY 5430 W. 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"That could come by con- tributing to the leading conversa- tion about your business." And by being involved in activi- ties and groups related to work, employees also get to network with peers outside of their companies - something that could help them land new work if they were to lose their jobs. REMEMBER WHY YOU ARE DIFFERENT: In most states, workers over 40 are considered a different class of employees than those below 40. That not only means they can't be discriminated against during hir- ing or their employment, but there are different rules should they be terminated, too. For instance, if an older worker is laid off and severance is offered, the Age Discrimination in Employ- ment Act requires their employer to give them 21 days to review the agreement. That differs from younger workers who are only re- quired to get a "reasonable period of time," said Lopez, the labor at- torney. Here .is a link to more details about the ADEA: . http:// www.eeoc.gov/policy/adea.html. The new findings mean that smokers should stop taking hormones, and those who have not yet started hormones should give it careful thought, said Dr. Rowan Chlebowski. Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. - The Connecticut General As- sembly won't take up a bill this session banning a long list of wild and potentially dangerous animals as pets. The legislation stems from the February attack on a Stamford resident mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee. Rep. Richard Roy, co-chair- man of the legislature's Envi- ronment Committee, told the Connecticut Post on Friday the bill is being abandoned be- cause some lawmakers want to protect a family-owned ele- phant farm in Goshen. Many state politicians were outraged that poten- tially dangerous animals were allowed as pets after learning of the chimpanzee attack on Charla Nash, who lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids in the assault But Roy said Goshen-area lawmakers fought the bill. "It's dead because there's a piece that was put into the bill that would have not al- lowed the Commerford fam- ily to bring in any new elephants in the years ahead, thereby, essentially closing the business down," he said. The farm has several ele- phants, a petting zoo and a variety of exotic animals, in- cluding zebras and camels. Commerford brings the ani- mals to fairs and malls along" the East Coast "The Commerford Farm is a community fixture up in Goshen and it would be sad to see that business have to ter- minate what it does as it moves into the future," said Rep. Roberta Willis, D-Lakeville. Even though the legislative session ends on Wednesday, Roy said it won't be brought up because the debate will take up too much time. Sen. Andrew McDonald, D- Stamford, was surprised by the bill's demise. The legisla- tion has been supported by the Attorney General and the De- partment of Environmental Protection-which is hosting an exotic animal amnesty day in July to persuade residents to turn in their illegal and legal exotic pets. "The legislation is ex- traordinarily important and I understand that there were concerns expressed by some legislators, but there's cer- tainly no excuse for not com- ing up with a reasonable compromise that would as- sure the safety of the people of our state," McDonald said. CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHR SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 A7 RONIr fC Anticipated hurricanes leaving consumers exposed Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. - As the 2009 hurricane season arrives, many homeowners are finding insurance is ei- ther more expensive, or harder to get Homeowners from New York to Florida and in the Gulf Coast region are again seeing premiums rise and coverage change. And more are being dropped com- pletely by their carriers as insurers try to limit their exposure in high-risk areas. 'They just don't like being in the business ... too much risk," said Scott Hall of Mar- ket Street Advisers, a finan- cial advisory firm in Wilmington, N.C. Homeowners' insurance premiums are up about 3 percent nationwide and probably more in some coastal areas where the po- tential for -damage is greater, according to the In- surance Information Insti- tute, a New York-based industry group. The hurri- cane season starts Monday and runs until Nov. 30. Several factors are affect- ing premiums and cover- age, including the $26 billion insurers paid out on catastrophic losses last year and the impact of financial market turmoil on the com- panies' earnings. Changes in state regulations are also driving some premiums higher. Late last year, Allstate Corp. and State Farm Insur- ance Cos., two of the na- tion's top home and auto insurers, raised premiums in states including Texas, saying the increase was needed to offset a rising number of claims. Hurri- canes Gustav and Ike hit the U.S. in September. Northbrook, Ill.-based Allstate also implemented policy changes that raised deductibles and stopped of- fering coverage in high-risk coastal. areas including downstate New York "We continually review all those items and make the necessary adjustments," said Allstate spokesman Mike Siemienas. Meanwhile, State Farm Florida, a subsidiary of the Bloomington, Ill.-based in- surer, is trying to pull out of the Florida market after the state denied the company's request for a 47 percent rate hike. Company officials have said they need the in- crease to remain financially viable. Discussions with regulators are continuing. Shawna Ackerman, who co-chairs the American Academy of Actuaries' property and casualty ex- treme .events committee, said she has not heard of any mass non-renewals or existing policy changes that are in the works for 2009. But insurers are continuing a process that began after they paid out $23.7 billion in claims - a number ad- justed for inflation as of 2008 -4 on Hurricane An- drew in 1992, trying to limit their exposure, or vulnera- bility to losses, in coastal areas. Hurricanes Ivan in 2004 and Katrina in 2005 forced several to pull back further, with many companies re- evaluating policy coverages and raising rates. Ivan caused more than $8.1 bil- lion in losses after adjusting for inflation, while Katrina was the most costly, with losses now calculated at $45.2 billion, according to Insurance Information In- stitute data. "Over the last five years, where we've seen record catastrophe losses in coastal areas - Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas - the increases in (premiums in) those areas have outstripped what we have seen nationally," said Bob Hartwig, the Insurance Information Institute's president Insurers will raise premi- ums wherever state regula- tors allow them to, Hartwig said. "In' areas 'where they' are not given that opportu- nity, insurers are going to scale back their exposure." In 2007, Florida ranked as the state with the great- est hurricane exposure, fac- ing a potential $2.46 tril- lion, in losses, ac- cording ca- tastrophe risk-model- ing firm AIR World- wide Corp. A close sec- ond, NeW York had $2.:38 tril- lion in ex- posure; and third was Texas with $895.1 billion of exposure. Current forecasts suggest a less active season than was ex- pected last year, en- Cost of big At the start of the 2 season, homeowner hurricane insurance expensive or harde expensive storms o Costliest hurrica In 2008 dollars Katrina (2005) Andrew (1992) Ike (2008) Wilma (2005) Charley (2004) Ivan (2004) Hugo (1989) Rita (2005) Frances (2004) Jeanne (2004) SOURCE: Fitch Ratin couraging news for anyone with property or invest- ments that lie within hurri- cane-prone coastal areas. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- tration has predicted nine to 14 named tropical storms this year. The named storms are expected to include four to seven hurricanes, of which one to three are likely to be major storms. "Even though the forecast for storms this year seems to be down, those of us who are worried about this stuff are concerned that the East Coast is due," said Charles Williamson, president of AIU Holdings' Private Client Group, a unit of New York-based American Inter- national Group Inc. that of-' fers property casualty insurance. "The East Coast hurricane market, particu- larly Florida, is very volatile right iow." Rising prices and de- ductibles may lead some homeowners to question whether they're overpaying. "It is very difficult for consumers to figure out if they are being , storms gouged or :009 hurricane not," said J. ers are finding Rob e r t e either more Hunter, a r togetdueto former of the past. fo me r f the past. Texas State nes in the U.S. Insurance Commis- M sioner who 23.7- is now di- 23.7 ' rector of in- *11.5 surance at the Con- U 11.3 summer Fed- eration of *8.5 America, a I8..1 consumer advocacy 07.3 group. " Yo u M 6.2 have to trust your I 5.2 state regu- 4.2 lator," he i 4.2 said, refer- gs AP ring to the fact that state offi- cials limit how much insur- ers can charge. The $26 billion casualty insurers paid out last year for catastrophe losses was substantially more than they expected. The compa- nies also lost billions of dol- lars in the financial markets; they use invest- ments to supplement their premium income and cre- ate a cushion for when they're hit by big claims. For example, Allstate's catastrophic losses more than doubled in 2008 to $3.34 billion. This led the company to report a loss of $1.68 billion, or $3.07 per share, for the year, com- pared with net income of $4.64 billion, .or $7.77 a share, in 2007. During the first quarter of 2009, the insurer said, falling investment income contributed to a $274 mil- lion loss. Study: Drug combos may raise breast cancer risk Associated Press ORLANDO - Breast can- cer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepres- sants while also taking the cancer prevention drug ta- moxifen, worrisome new re- search shows. About 500,000 women in the United States take ta- moxifen, which cuts in half the chances of a breast can- cer recurrence. Many of them also take antidepres- sants for hot flashes, because hormone pills aren't consid- ered safe after breast cancer Doctors have long known that some antidepressants and other medicines can lower the amount of tamox- ifen's active form in the bloodstream. But whether this affects cancer risk is un- known. The new study, reported Saturday at a cancer confer- ence in Florida, is the largest, to look at the issue. It found that using these interfering drugs - including Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft - can virtu- ally wipe out the benefit ta- moxifen provides. Many doctors question the magnitude of harm from combining these medicines, and a second, smaller study suggests it may not be very large. But the bottom line is the same: Not all antidepres- sants pose this problem, and women should talk to their doctors about which ones are best "There are other alterna- tives we can consider" that are safer, said Dr. Eric Winer, breast cancer chief at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center in Boston. He had no role in the study, which was done by Medco Health Solutions Inc., a large insurance benefits manager. Researchers used members' medical records to identify 353 women taking tamoxifen plus other drugs that might interfere with it, and 945 women taking ta- moxifen alone. Those taking a drug combo did so for about a year on average. Next, researchers checked to see how many were treated for second can- cers in the following two years. Breast cancer re- curred in about 7 percent of women on tamoxifen alone, and in 14 percent of women also taking other drugs that could interfere - mainly the antidepressants Paxil and Prozac, and, to a lesser ex- tent, Zoloft. If women want to take an antidepressant, "you proba- bly want to stay away from those three," said Medco's chief medical officer, Dr. Robert Epstein. No greater breast cancer risk was seen in women tak- ing the antidepressants Celexa, Lexapro or Luvox with tamoxifen, and there are reasons to think that other antidepressants may be safe as well, Epstein said. A second study led by Dr. Vincent Dezentj6 of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands found little risk from combining tamox- ifen and popular antidepres- sants. However, only 150 women ,in the study took such combos for more than two months, and they were compared to women taking combos for a shorter time - not to women using tamox- ifen alone. The Dutch and Medco studies were presented at a meeting of the American So- ciety of Clinical Oncology The federal Food and Drug Administration has been considering a change to tamoxifen's label to warn about the antidepressants drugs and a gene variation some women have that can make tamoxifen less effec- tive. An advisory panel unanimously recommended a change in 2006, but: the agency is still considerihngit PAID ADVERTISEMENT Are You Living With Sciatica Or Back Pain .. When There Is A Non-Invasive, Drugless Solution? Having back and sciatic pain is a miserable - even crippling - condition. You might not be able to play golf, work, or even sit in the car for a 30- minute drive. It's almost impossible for anyone around you to understand how you feel. You can't remember the last time you even had a restful night's sleep. You may have a condition called "Sciatica" if you're suffering from any of these annoying conditions. 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Support for'Saudis angers families NEW YORK - Relatives' , 'of Sept. 11 victims say they're angry the Justice Department is supporting the Saudi royal family's bid to be removed from a 9/11 lawsuit. The Justice Department filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. It supports the Saudis' argu- ment that the royal family as a sovereign state cannot be sued in a U.S. court. World BRIEFS Young lust Associated Press Noemi Letizia poses for a photograph April 28 in her home in Naples, Italy. Pre- mier Silvio Berlusconi is fighting back in a scandal feeding on his fondness for young women, with his lawyer acknowledging Sat- urday Berlusconi has moved to block publication of hun- dreds of photos taken of guests at his sumptuous Sardinian villa. State televi- sion reported that among the photos were some taken last New Year's Eve, with the guests including Letizia at the heart of the political and personal scandal. Berlusconi moves to block topless shots ROME - Italian media say Premier Silvio Berlusconi has moved to block publication of hundreds of photos, including images of young women ei- ther topless or wearing bikinis at one of his Sardinian villas. TV and newspaper reports say Berlusconi wrote recently to the Italian watchdog for pri- vacy issues. Saturday's reports say some of the photos were taken during last New Year's vacation. Among those at the villa was a woman the heart of an alleged scandal. Berlusconi has denied any- thing "spicy" in his relation- ship with 18-year-old Noemi Letizia. His wife, Veronica Lario, cited what she called her 72-year-old husband's flir- tations with young women when she announced this month she wanted a divorce. The prime minister's lawyer was notq ediately available for comment. -From wire reports GM in secrecy mode as bondholder deadline passes Associated Press German Economy Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg, right, Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, cen- ter, and Hesse State Premier Roland Koch, left, talk to the media Friday night in front of the German Chancellery in Berlin. Germany's economy minister on Saturday said he thinks a plan by Magna In- ternational Inc. to acquire General Motors Corp.'s Opel unit carries high risks and that an "orderly in- 'solvency" could still be the best bet to save the German-based carmaker. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said in a statement that he came away from high-level talks that ended early Saturday with "a differ- ent risk assessment than my colleagues participating in the Opel negotiations." Treasury Department, GMsilent on developments Associated Press DETROIT - General Motors Corp.'s board of directors met for a second day Saturday to make the final decision on whether the automaker would complete its restructuring by filing for bankruptcy protection Monday. The outcome of the meeting could not immediately be de- termined. GM and the Treasury Department, which has been guiding the Detroit automaker toward a rescue plan that will give taxpayers nearly a three- fourths stake in the company, went into secrecy mode. GM's bondholders had a 5 p.m. Saturday deadline to ac- cept an offer to swap their $27 billion in debt for at least a 10 percent stake in a new GM. If the Treasury doesn't get the amount of support it wants, bondholders could wind up with far less in bankruptcy court. The Treasury Department had no immediate comment on the deadline passing, and GM. spokesman Tom Wilkinson said the automaker did not plan to makeany statements Saturday. GM took a huge restructuring step Friday when the United Auto Workers union agreed to a cost-cutting deal, and early Sat- urday, Germany's finance min- ister said a plan was approved for Canadian auto parts maker Magna International Inc. to move ahead with a rescue of GM's Opel unit But there was still much to do to beat the government's Mon- day deadline to qualify for. more aid. The company already has received about $20 billion in government loans and could get $30 billion more to make it through what is expected to be a 60- to 90-day reorganization in bankruptcy court. GM has yet to confirm it will seek bankruptcy protection, but it has scheduled a news confer- ence Monday morning in New York. The Treasury on Thursday GOP struggles Associated Press WASHINGTON - Re- publicans are divided over how aggressively to go after Sonia So- tomayor, a family feud about the tone of the de- bate over confirming the First Hispanic on the' Supreme Court There are concerns raised by an increasing number of GOP lawmak- ers and conservative leaders about the strident rhetoric that certain prominent Republicans have used to describe So- tormiayor Some are de- nouncing right-wing groups for their negative advertisements against the federal appeals judge. A grou conserval change tl discussion on Repu this comir to hold debate" President Obama's nee. The would fo Sotomayo tential el important court dec the differ how Dem publicans In a let GOP sen the Third ence adm licans GM has yet to confirm it will seek bankruptcy protection, but it has scheduled a news conference Monday morning in New York. offered bondholders 10 percent of a newly formed GM's stock, plus warrants to buy 15 percent more to erase the debt. Last week, GM withdrew an offer of 10 percent equity after only 15 percent of the thousands of bondholders signed up. It was unclear how many bondholders took the latest offer, although a group repre- senting large creditors who hold 20 percent of debt agreed to it \If the 15 percent who took the first offer are added in, that would make 35 percent Elliott Management Corp., a $13 billion hedge fund and major GM bondholder, also said it had decided to accept the new deal. But Spokesman Scott Tagliarino wouldn't say how much GM bond debt Elliott rep- resents. Getting as many bondholders as possible to, sign on to the offer in advance of a bank- ruptcy filing could help the au- tomaker get through the court process more quickly, said Robert Gordon, head of the cor- porate restructuring and bank- ruptcy group at Clark Hill PLC in Detroit. "The more consensus you have, the more likely it is you'll be able to move through the bankruptcy process in an expe- ditious fashion with less resist- ance," Gordon said. In a typical Chapter 11 bank- ruptcy case, the company files a plan of reorganization that must be voted on by creditors. In each class oF creditors, the plan would have to be approved by holders of two-thirds of the claims and a majority of the number of individual creditors who vote. But the GM case is anything but ordinary, and it appears the company will sell some or all of its assets to a new entity that would become the new GM, rather than submit a plan to re- organize the old company. Under a so-called Section 363 sale, the prospective buyer and seller present a fully negotiated asset purchase agreement for approval by the court Creditors still can lodge ob- jections, but GM could avoid the drawn-out fights between competing creditors, such as bondholders and workers, that often occur. Chrysler LLC, which filed for bankruptcy protection April 30, chose a similar path. A judge heard three days of testimony and arguments last week over the sale of most of Chrysler's as- sets to Italian carmaker Fiat SpA. U.S. Judge Arthur Gonzalez is expected to approve the sale Monday, pushing Chrysler closer to its goal of a speedy exit from bankruptcy, protection. But an appeal is likely from three Indiana state pension and construction funds, which in- vested in Chrysler debt and say the deal isn't fair. That may force Chrysler to further post- pone the deal's closing. Chrysler claims that any sub- .stantial delay could push Fiat to back out if the deal, since the Italian automaker has set a deadline of June 15 to wrap up a transition. GM's stock tumbled to the lowest price in the company's 100-year history on Friday, clos- ing at just 75 cents after trading as low as 74 cents. In a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, the shares would become virtu- ally worthless. with Sotomayor scrutinization p of prominent "slumbered" during con- edges that blocking a vote tives, seeking to firmation hearings for to confirm Sotomayor is he terms of the the last two Democratic unrealistic. But it urges n, plans to call nominees (Ruth Bader Republicans to use the de- iblicans Ginsburg .and bate as an "extraordinary ng week Stephen Breyer, educable moment" thai 'a great both by President makes it"crystal clearwhi over . 0 Bill Clinton), and Americans should believe tBarack concludes by say- that Republicans are in- nomi- ing, "We expect telligent defenders of the debate more from i" Constitution, or not" ocus on this time. For Republicans, op- 'r's po- The Assocyted posing Sotomayor is im- ffect on Sonia Press obtained a portantto core supporters, t high otomayor draft of the ltter, including social conserva- cisions and on signed by conservative tives who regard courts as fences between heavyweights including a battleground. But the nocrats and Re- Richard Viguerie of Con- party is strugglingtoreach s pick judges. servativeHQ.com,# avid beyond that base and ter to be sent to Keene of the Armrican draw more diversity - a Lators Monday, Conservative Union, and goal that could be frus- Branch Confer- Gary Bauer of American treated with a bitterly parti- onishes Repub- Values. san fight, especially given for having &e letter acknowl- Sotomayor's history. Geithner wields little leverage in China talks Associated Press WASHINGTON - Timothy Geith- ner's first trip to China as treasury secretary comes at a vulnerable time for the Obama administration. Mired in a brutal recession, the United States needs Beijing to buy more American goods, allow its cur- rency to rise and make other moves to narrow an enormous trade gap. The U.S. also needs China's help to con- front any military threat from North Korea. Yet Washington's leverage has waned just as China's power I over the U.S. has grown. Timothy China is now Amer- Geithner ica's biggest creditor left U.S. for As of March, it held China Saturday. $768 billion of Treasury securities - about 10 percent of publicly traded debt The U.S. needs China's money to fi- nance U.S. budget deficits, which are soaring 4s Washington tries to end the recession and bolster the banking sys- tem. The administration estimates the budget deficit'will hit $1.84 trillion this year That's four times lastyear's deficit Geithner, who left Saturday for meetings Monday and Tuesday with Chinese leaders, carried an' ambi- tious U.S. goal of persuading the Chi- nese government to adopt policies that would transform its nation of savers into spenders. Geithner spent the flight to Beijing working on a speech he planned to give at Peking University that was expected to lay out the administration's recovery program and its progress. He was also expected to talk about the administra- tion's determination to deal with the government's soaring expenditures once the U.S. economy is recovering. The current U.S. administration, just like the Clinton and Bush administra- tions, is convinced that the key to a prosperous global economy rests heav- ily with China. The U.S. wants Beijing to rely movie on domestic spending and less on its exports to power its owp economy - and the world's. That shift would uncork enormous buying power and help rebalance world trade. It could hasten an end to the global recession and narrow America's huge trade gap because the Chinese would buy more American products. China would benefit, too. "Beijing really wants Washington to be successful in bringing the U.S. economy out of this recession as fast as it can because it is critical to Bei- jing's own economic growth," said Kenneth Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution. For the Chinese, there is growing nervousness about the explosion of U.S. borrowing. Like any bank wor- ried about its loans, the Chinese have fretted over America's budget gap. In March, Premier Wen Jiabao said, "We've lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course, we are con- cerned about the safety of our assets." Those comments jolted financial markets. The administration insists it isn't worried that the mound of debt it's creating will jeopardize America's sterling AAA bond rating. But treas- ury officials said Geithner still in- tends to reassure the Chinese. Geithner plans to stress that the ad- ministration sees the $1 trillion-plus deficits for this and next year as tem- porary. The deficits are necessary to fund a stimulus plan to help lift America out of recession and invig- orate a wobbly U.S. banking system, officials say Once those needs are met, the administration says it will make deficit reduction a priority. In addition to talks with President Hu Jintao and other leaders, Geith- ner plans a speech Monday at Peking University, where he studied Man- darin Chinese during two summers when he was in college. American manufacturers see the undervalued yuan as the major culprit in the trade deficit with the Chinese, which last year hit $266 billion, the highest recorded with one country. The Chinese agreed in 2005 to begin letting their currency rise against the dollar, and it has risen about 20 percent But those gains stopped last summer China had begun to fear that a stronger yuan was reducing its export sales, al- ready hurt by the global downturn. Though the crisis has given Geith" ner a weak hand, treasury officials said he will seek to push this bargain: The U.S. will work to reduce its budget deficits once the crisis ends, urge Americans to save more and shrink the trade deficits. To replace diminished U.S. spending, the Chi- nese will be asked to step up spending and stop saving so much. The admin- istration says this can be done if Bei- jing improves pensions and health insurance so Chinese households don't feel pressured to save so much. e Is S y It y e F e e h d a I- n Page A9 -SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 EXCURSIONS CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE 0 Wisconsin chef teaches cooking in forests, fields M.L. JOHNSON Associated Press WEST BEND, Wis. - As more travelers show an interest in local cuisines, a Milwaukee chef is taking the trend a bit further with a cooking school that travels to the food's origins. The Braise Culinary School holds classes on farms and in forests during warm months. Most classes start with a farm tour - or recently, a walk in the woods - so students can see how food grows before they learn to prepare it. "The idea, basically, is to re- connect people to their food," chef and owner David Swanson said. He came up with the idea while working on a business plan, for a restaurant and attached cooking school. "One question that I would think that would come up is: 'Where is this food coming from?"' Swanson said. From there, it was a short jump to of- fering classes - sometimes liter- ally - in the field. Swanson, 39, worked in restau- rants in the Chicago area and Milwaukee for about 20 years be- fore opening the cooking school in 2006. Since then, he has cooked in apple orchards, wheat fields and breweries. This year's first class began with a mush- room hunt in woods near the University of Wisconsin-Washing- ton County. Swanson partnered on the class with Britt Bunyard, a my- cologist and editor of Fingi mag- azine. Bunyard led about two dozen people through woods and clearings he had scouted the day before. "There's no need to run from spot to spot," Bunyard said:, Dozens of morels were waiting to be picked. Gail Groenwoldt, 39, of Milwau- kee, signed up for the hunt after seeing morels priced at nearly $50 a pound in her grocery store. During the hunt, she also spotted ramps. A side order of the onion- like plant cost her more than $20 in a Milwaukee restaurant. "This is why we should learn to forage," Groenwoldt said. After the hunt, Swanson sauteed morels, ramps, aspara- gus and potatoes and then added veal stock to make a vegetable ragout The cooking lesson, Groenwoldt said, was "a treat." Sara Wong, 33, also from Mil- waukee, has taken Indian, sushi and Thai cooking classes. On a ' Associated Press Chef David Swanson teaches students how to make a spring vegetable ragout with morel mushrooms, ramps and asparagus, following a mush- room hunt May 16 in West Bend, Wis. Swanson runs the traveling Braise Culinary School. trip to Vietnam, she ate dog. "I'll try just about anything," Wong said. She'learned about Swanson's school at a community supported agriculture, or CSA, fair. "I like unique experiences in food, so I thought this would be fun." Many of Swanson's classes are taught on CSA farms. The farm- ers sell shares of their crop in the spring, often 'for $500 or $600, and then deliver boxes of produce weekly during the growing sea- son. Typically, about a third of Swanson's students are CSA members eager to learn how to prepare the food they're receiv- ing. Others are foodies, and some just want a new experience. "The farmer will talk about what they're growing, what their practices are," Swanson said. "People will ask questions about what they are growing in their garden, how it pertains to them." He varies the menu to reflect the season and the farms' spe- cialties. A previous class at Pine- hold Gardens, just outside Milwaukee, featured garlic, greens and fingerling potatoes. This year's class will be in August and focus on heirloom tomatoes. Swanson also plans classes at a creamery near Madison and a wheat field on Washington Island 0 BRAISE CULINARY SCHOOL * www.braiseculinaryschool .com or (414) 241-9577. Days and class times vary. i The 2009 season runs through the end of September. a Classes and dinners cost about $50, although all-day events may be more. in Lake Michigan. On the Wash- ington Island trip last year, he showcased the wheat with a pan- zanella salad made with wheat bread, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, olives and feta and scones made with granola from the hotel where students stayed. He also used locally-made Death's Door Vodka to create vodka-braced strawberries with cream fraiche. It was a great adventure, haul- ing cooking materials into the field in an old pick up truck, Swanson said. But, "wheat is just beautiful, just looking at the wheat in the wind is nice." For those more interested in See DINING/Page A12 A cooking class student unloads morel mushrooms found during a hunt in West Bend. Gaga for glaciers iN. .~' Special io me Crroncle Before their September 2008 marriage, Lecanto resident Alfonso Conti and his then-fl- ancee Kathleen Dalton took a seven-day cruise to Alaska in September 2007. They flew from Tampa to Anchorage, then sailed to College Fjord and Glacier Bay for scenic cruis- Ing. They then visited Skagway, Juneau and Ketchikan. Parts of Alaska are actually rainforest, Conti writes - Ketchikan measures its annual rainfall in feet, not Inches. The couple pose here In front of Marjorie Glacier in Glacier Bay. .i 'I . ", '. - I"*- . -~ .(~4~V~f~~ 41. ., Special to the Chronicle Dorothy Schwartz of Hernando explored the Icebergs of Antarctica In a Zodiac water- craft in January 2007. She's in the boat In this photo, dwarfed by the Ice. The Chionicle and The Accent Travel Group are sponsoring a photo contest for readers of the newspaper. Readers are invited to send a photo from their Dream Vacation with a brief description of the trip. If it's selected as a winner, it will be published in the Sunday Chronicle. At the end of the year, a panel of judges will select the best photo during the year and that photograph will win a prize. Please avoid photos with dates on the print. Photos should be sent to the Chronicle at 1624 N. Meadowcrest Blvd., Crystal River, FL 34429, e- mailed to community@chronicleonline.com or dropped off at the Chronicle office in Inverness, Crystal River or any Accent Travel Office. DREAM VACATIONS o1o Caffte CITRus COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE ruAJ U SNDAY, MVAY 31, 200 Veterans NOTES * American Legion Riders Post 155 Crystal River are serving breakfast from 8:30 to 11 a.m. today at the Ar'erican Legion Post 155, 6586 W. Gulf- to-Lake Highway, Crystal River. Cost is $5, which includes eggs, bacon, sausage, grits, home fries, biscuit and gravy, -orange juice, coffee and all you can eat pancakes. Public is welcome. Monies are raised to help military and community or- ganizations. Events for the week: Today: Dart tournament 6 p.m. Monday: Bingo, 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday: Lunch 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. SAL meeting, 7 p.m. Wednesday: Chicken "hot wings" noon to 3 p.m. Italian dinner night 6 to 7 p.m., $5. Live musit 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday: Lunch 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bingo 1 to 4 p.m. Show "'Me the Money 5 p.m. 40/8 Voiture 1219 and Cabane 1219 meeting, 7 p.m. m Friday: Dinner special, 5 to 7 p.m., $6. Live music 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday: Pool tournament 2 p.m. 4th District Constitutional Conference at Post 284 Belle- view, 9 a.m., blood drive noon to 5 p.m. Call Cmdr. Jim Woodman at 795-6526 or visit ) www.postl55.org. * Edward W. Penno VFW Post 4864 schedule of events for the week of May 31 through, June 6: Tuesday: Post meeting, 7 p.m. Wednesday: Shuffleboard tournament; 7 p.m. Friday: Friday night fish din- ner, 5 to 6:30 p.m., $8.r Saturday: Free shuffleboard all day.' Mark the calendars! Karaoke night is June 26 with J & S! For more information, call the post at (352) 465-4864. * Joe Nic Barco Memorial VFW Post 7122, 8191 S. Florida Ave., Floral City, 637- 0100. Today: Installation dinner and installation of new officers of VFW, Ladies Auxiliary and Men's Auxiliary 2 p.m. * VFW Post 7991, 3107 W. Dunnellon Road, Dunnellon, (352) 489-1772,, j;' i- Tuesday: Bingo, starts at 1 . p.m. Sandwiches or hot dogs. available. Open to the public. Friday: Bingo, starting at 1 p.m. Sandwiches or hot dogs are available. Open to the pub- lic. The post is now in the process of forming pool, darts, and horseshoe teams for tour- naments, Everyone interested should call the post after 1 p.m. Monday through Saturday, (352) 489-1772. Come join us for breakfast, served from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Sun- day of every month. Full break- fast menu, all for $5; children younger than 12, $3. This is open to the public. We are a non-smoking post, but we do have a large smok- ing patio, available. If you are considering joining the VFW and its auxiliaries, please come in or call the post. * Dumas-Hartson VFW .Post 8189 west on Veterans Drive across from Harley Davidson dealership an- nounces events for June. June 7, 3 p.m., mixed pool league. June 10, 2 p.m., bingo with light lunch, open to public; 7 p.m. women's pool league. June 12,5 p.m., Auxiliary dinner: Spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, dessert $6 donation. June 14, 3 p.m., mixed pool league. June 17, 2 p.m., bingo with light lunch, open to public; 7 Fleet Reserve Association donates Seabees honor teacher Special to the Chronicle Recently the Fleet Reserve Association Branch/Unit 186 presented a $500 donation to Cit- rus United Basket Executive Director Deborah Rossfeld. CUB provides food, financial and material assistance in emergencies to citizens of Citrus County. The FRA supports many community organizations and programs for both military and civilian families who may be Sin urgent need of assistance. From left are: Joan Huscher, Ladies Auxiliary 186; Deborah Rossfeld, CUB; Bob Huscher, secretary Branch 186. p.m., women's pool league. June 19, 5 p.m., chicken wings, macaroni salad, dessert. June 20, Convention in Or- lando. June 21, 3 p.m., mixed pool league. June 24, 2 p.m., bingo with light lunch, open to public; 7 p.m., women's pool league. June 26, 5 p.m., light supper: Pizzas. June 27, Welcome home party for Daniel Williams (DJ) returning home from Afghanistan, our young Marine on leave; 3 p.m. the party starts, 5 p.m. deep fried turkeys with trimmings, music by . Rhonda, open to all his friends I and family. June 28, 3 p.m., mixed pool. Note: Bingos and meals are open to the public. For more in- formation call 795-5012 after 1 p.m. * The American Legion Wall-Rives Post 58, 10730 U.S. 41, Dunnellon. Regular meetings of the Post and Auxiliary are at 7 p.m. on the first Wednesday monthly. Dunnellon Young Marines meet from 6 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday except for June, July and August. Bingo is every Thursday evening. Doors open at 4 p.m. Games start at 6 p.m. Food is available. \Third Saturday Outdoor Flea Market is every month on our premises. Vendors - $10. Call Larry Jones for details, 522-. 0177. Pancake breakfast the third Saturday of each month has been suspended for June, July and August. Will resume in September. All-you-can-eat for a $4 donation. * Eugene Quinn VFW Post 4337, 906 State Road 44 E., In- verness, phone 344-3495. Karaoke is presented each Sunday, Tuesday and Friday evenings. Bar Bingo is played Monday and Thursday afternoons and Wednesday evening. Wings are served each Tues- day evening and fish or chicken on Friday evenings. "Show Me The Money" is played each Saturday from 1 to 3p.m. * The Korean War Veter- ans Association, Citrus Chapter 192 meets at the VFW Post 10087, Beverly Hills, at 1 p.m. the first Tuesday monthly. Anyone who has honorably served within Korea or outside Korea from June 25, 1950, to Jan. 31, 1955, and anyone serving within Korea from 1955 to present is eligible to join the Korean War Veterans Associa- tion (KWVA). Call Hank Butler at 563-2496, Paul Salyer at 637-1161 or Neville Anderson at 344-2529. * Allen-Rawls American Legion' Post 77 and Auxiliary Unit 77 meet the first Thursday monthly at the Inverness High- lands Civic Center at 4375 Little Al Point Road, Inverness., Potluck dinner at 6 p.m., meet- ing starts at 7:15. Auxiliary Unit 77 meets at the same time and place. Call Post Cmdr. Norman Provencal at 726-4257 or Auxil- iary president Alice Brumett at 860-2981. * U.S. Submarine Veterans (USSVI)-Sturgepn Base meets at 11 a.m. the first Saturday monthly at the American Legion Post 155, 6585 W. Gulf-to-Lake Highway, Crystal River. Visitors and interested parties are al- ways welcome. Call Base Cmdr. Billy Wein at 726-5926. * American Legion Post 166 will meet 1:30 p.m., Satur- day, June 6 at the Dumas-Hart- son VFW Post 8189 Ladies Auxiliary facility located on Vet- erans Drive, Homosassa, on the west side of U.S. 19 at Dixon's Auto Sales across from Harley Davidson. All former and current post members, as well as all inter- ested veterans, are cordially in- vited to be a part of American Legion Post 166. * Hunger and Homeless Coalition -Anyone who knows of a homeless veteran in need of food, haircut, voter ID, food stamlis, medical assis- tance or more blankets is asked to call John Young at the Hunger and Homeless Coali- tion at 628-4357, or pass along this phone number to the vet- eran. * Disabled American Vet- erans Gerald A. Shonk Chap- ter 70 and Auxiliary 1039 N. Paul Drive, Inverness, at the in- tersection of Independence Highway and U.S. 41. DAV Chapter 70 and Auxil- iary-meetings are at 2 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month. The DAV Chapter is open from 9 a.m. to noon every Tuesday to assist disabled vet- erans. A service officer is avail- able by appointment. Contact Bill Geden at 341-6875. For the Chapter, call Richard* Floyd, adjutant at 726-5031. For the Auxiliary, call Lynn Ar- mitage, adjutant at 341-5334. * Citrus 40/8 Voiture 1219 and Cabane 1219 conducts its meetings at 7 p.m. the second Thursday monthly at the Ameri- can Legion Post 155 on State Road 44 in Crystal River (6585 E. Gulf-to-Lake Highway). For more about the 40/8, call the Chef De Gare Richard Gannon at 637-1236; for the Cabane, call La Presidente Debi Gan- non at 637-1236 or visit www.Postl55.org. 'i - * Seabee Veterans-of : America (SVA) Island X-23 welcomes all Seabees and Honeybees to its monthly meet- ing 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the third Tuesday monthly at Crys- tal Paradise Restaurant in , Crystal River. Have lunch after the meeting. Luncheons are held at 1 p.m. second Tuesdays at selected restaurants, all are welcome. June 9 will be at Cracker's , Restaurant on U.S. 19 in Crys- tal River; July 14 will be at La Luna on U.S. 41 South, Inver- ness. Breakfasts are held at 8 a.m. on the last Sunday monthly. Today's (and the June 28) breakfast will be at Joe's Restaurant in Inverness and July 26 at Crystal Paradise Restaurant in Crystal River. For information call John Kister at 527-3172. * The Dan Campbell Air- borne Association meets at 6:30 p.m. the third Wednesday monthly at American Legion Post 155, 6585 Gulf-to-Lake Highway (State Road 44), Crys- tal River. All current and previ- ous Airborne members and their wives are welcome to join us. Call Steve Leonard at 726- 3693. Special to the Chronicle The Navy Seabee Veterans of America Island X-23, Crystal River, recently surprised an Inverness Primary School first- grade teacher. They presented a Certificate of Appreciation that read: "Presented to Sandra Cross for her creative ef- forts with the students of Inverness Primary School to honor the Military Veterans of Citrus County." A check was also presented to IPS from the Seabees. Pictured are Sandra Cross and NSVA Island X-23 Commander John Lowe. * The Marine Corps, League, Samuel R. Wall De- tachment 1139 will conduct its regular meeting at 7 p.m. the third Wednesday monthly at DAV Post 70 in Inverness at the intersection of Independence Avenue and U.S.. 41 North. All former Marines are welcome. Call Tom Heron at 637-2724 or Joe Spoto at 746-3315. * Gilley-Long-Osteen VFW Post 8698, 520 State Road 40 East, Inglis (352) 447-3495. Men's meeting is at 7:30 p.m. the third Wednesday monthly. Ladies Auxiliary meets at 5 p.m. the third Wednesday monthly. Men's Auxiliary meets at 7 p.m. the second Monday monthly. House Committee meets at 6 p.m. the third Wednesday monthly. * Fleet Reserve Associa- tion, Branch 186 will meet at 3 p.m. the third Thursday monthly at the DAV Building, Independ- ence Highway and U.S. 41 North, Inverness. Call Bob Huscher, secretary, at 344- 0727. -, 0 Herbert Surber American Legion Post 225 meels the third Thursday monthly at the Floral City VFW Post 7122, call to order 7:30 p.m. The mem- tbership invites all eligible veter- ans to come and join us aswe plan for the future of our Post. * The Herbert Surber American Legion Auxiliary Unit 225 meets at 7:30 p.m. the third Thursday monthly at the Floral City VFW Post 7122 on U.S. 41, Floral City. Contact Marcia Gallagher, membership chairwoman, at 860-1629. Come and join this newly re- chartered unit and be a part of the great accomplishments and projects in the American Legion Auxiliary. * Beverly Hills Memorial American Legion Post 237, 4077 N. Lecanto Highway, in the Beverly Plaza invites inter- ested veterans to apply for membership or transfer. Sons of the American Legion and Ladies Auxiliary units are now forming. Membership meeting fourth Thursday at 7 p.m. Sun- day darts at 3 p.m. with karaoke following. Other activi- ties being planned. All sporting events available on five TVs. Visit, or phone the post at 746- 5018. * Marine Corps League, Citrus County Detachment 819 will meet at 7 p.m. the last Thursday monthly at VFW Post 10087 in Beverly Hills. Call Commandant Robert Deck at 527-1557. * Landing Ship Dock (LSD) Sailors meet at Denny's in Crystal River at 2 p.m. the fourth Thursday monthly. Call Jimmie at 621-0617. * The Red Tail Memorial Chapter 136 of the Air Force Association (AFA) will have its June meeting at 7 p.m. Thurs- day, June 25. The location will be the Landmark Aviation Build- ing, 1200 S.W. 60th Ave., Ocala. . Guest speaker will be chap- ter member Dave Suban. Dave is retired Senior Intelligence An- alyst HDQS, U.S. Special Oper- ations CMD. Guests are always welcome to the meetings. For more information, call Mike Emig (352) 854-8328. * Aaron A. Weaver Chap- ter 776 Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH) meets bimonthly at 1:15 p.m. on the third Tuesday of January, March, May, July, September and November at the Citrus County Resources Center/VA Clihic, 2804 W. Marc Knighton Court, Lecanto (west side of C.R. 491 approximately 1 mile north of C.R. 486). All combat wounded veter- ans and lineal descendants of Purple Heart recipients are in- vited to attend a meeting. Life memberships for combat wounded Veterans and lineal descendants of Purple Heart recipients are $50. There are no chapter dues. To learn more about Aaron A. Weaver Chap- ter 776 MOPH, visit www.cit- ruspurpleheart.org or call 382-3847. * VFW Post 4252 and Ladies Auxiliary: All eligible persons are invited to join. Stop in at the post or call for informa- tion. Post 4252 is at 3190 N. Carl G. Rose Highway, S.R. 200, Hemando; phone 726- 3339. Send e-mails to vfw4252@tampabay.rr.com. * The William Crow AmVets Post 447 is at 33 Risher Ave. in Inglis. For more information call 447-4473. * The H. F. Nesbitt VFW Post 10087 is in Beverly Hills off C.R. 491, across the street from ROC's 491 Sports Bar and directly behind the new Supe- rior Bank. Sunday's PUZZLER Puzzle is on Page A14. BLOIAIT C HIAIR SCRAP S AR A R A H OEUIGNE LUDRE CRAT ESPANAMA IBSEN AST[ I RUMOR WAKEN GTDASH GLAD MUSISETEND BREMYH EDNAML SOA ODm AF AID RWIEWER WHOLE O PAQ VOIDRUDALISARM LDE CM E L GA T GALE SE UN G FL IB M IAN W YN PAINADA ESAU ELAC I-d ENTI 2 nITED FE A O E ABOD E APIES ENG INE N P L LIMA INTO ARRAS IN ID B LA CREAM MEATS. 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During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fit- ness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemi- cal warfare and bayonet train- ing, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, mili- tary courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches and field training exer- cises. Hasbrouck is the son of De- lynn Johns of Homosassa. Tubman graduates BlackBerry* Pearl" smartphone *after $100 mail-in rebates & qualifying 2-yr. Smart Choice. Pack agreement on each line. considered one of the top edu- cational institutions in the coun- try. The Academy currently has 4,500 students comprising the Wing of Cadets who hail from every state in the union, plus several foreign allied countries. Admission to the Air Force Academy or any of the U.S. mil- itary academies is a full schol- arship. Graduates completed an in- tensive, four-year program bal- ancing academics focused on engineering, a full military regi- men and rigorous physical fit- ness to complement the needs of the U.S. Air Force. 'Their education is combined with strict, professional military training, emphasizing the devel- opment of leadership skills. Graduates will now fulfill their commitment to the U.S. Air Force in various capacities. Air Force Academy Wood graduates An area cadet is in the grad- uating class of 2009 from the U.S. Air Force Academy, Col- orado Springs, Colo. 2nd Lt. Wesley Tubman, a graduate of Seven Rivers Christian School, Lecanto, received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engi- neering. He will enter pilot train- ing at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Okla. Tubman was a soaring instructor pilot, compet- ing in many national com- petitions with aerobatic demonstra- Wesley tions at vari- Tubman * ous air shows graduate of across the Seven Rivers country. Christian cou School. He was a part of the 2009 Glider Aerobatic Team participating in numerous local and national soaring competi- tions. Tubman was involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters, and en- joys snow boarding as well as rock climbing. He looks forward to serving his country as a pilot in the Air Force. Graduation was May 27, with Vice President Joe Biden deliv- ering the commencement ad- dress. The U.S. Air Force Academy .(USAFA) in Colorado Springs is from Coast Guard COAST GUARD ACADEMY, New London, Conn. - Cadet First Class Stephanie Wood of Homosassa, was one of 225 cadets to graduate recently from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engi- neering. During commencement exer- cises, graduates of the Class of 2009 will receive their commis- sion as ensigns in the U.S. Coast Guard from Department of Homeland Security Secre- tary Janet Napolitano. A 2005 Lecanto High School graduate, Wood is the daughter of Rhonda and Douglas Wood of Sugarmill Woods.. Wood's first tour of duty will be as a student engineer on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sher- man in Alameda, Calif. "I'm excited about being grown up," said Wood. "I think living in California will be a memorable experience." The Coast Guard Academy offers an integrated life experi- ence which emphasizes aca- demics, physical fitness, character and leadership, in order to graduate officers of the highest caliber. Graduates go directly to posi- tions of leadership and are obli- gated to eight years service," five of which must be active duty. Worth NOTING Donate a flag for Fort Cooper Donations of U.S., Florida and military organizations' flags that are in good shape can be dropped off at the Ranger Station at Fort Cooper State Park. These will be used in our Flag Day Celebration on June 13. Call 726-0315. Summer gymnastics camps available Citrus Gymnastics Inc. an- nounces its Summer Tumble and Gymnastics Camps are scheduled for the weeks of: June 15to 19; June 22 to 26; June 29 to July 3; July 13 to 17; July 20 to 24; July 27 to 31; and Aug. 10 to 14. Time is noon to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday. Tumble Camp will be June 29 to July 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. The cost is $95 per week for one child. Pay by day is $20 per child. Call about prices for more than one week of camp or more than one child. Call Alana at 302-8175 or 746-7700 after 4 p.m. Citrus Gymnastics is in the Three Rivers Commerce Park on State Road 44 in Lecanto. www.citrusgyrnnastics.com. West Citrus Elks plan for June The West Citrus Elks Lodge 2963 offers the following for its members and their guests: Tuesday: Karaoke with "Debi G" entertaining 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Menu: fish baskets with fries or Reuben baskets with fries and coleslaw served from 5:30 to 7 p.m. $5. 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Wednesday and Friday evenings: Dinner in the lounge with two early-bird specials at $7 per person or $13 for two served from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Full menus from 4 to 8 p.m. with Chef Ken surprising us with his culinary talents. Please note: Dinner reserva- tions may be made for parties of six or more persons. Call the lodge at 628-1221. Learn yoga in Highlands New happenings at the In- verness Highlands Civic Asso- ciation, 4375 S. Little Al Court, Inverness, include Yoga at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday beginning June 2, at $7 per session. You're never too old to im- prove flexibility or improve pos- ture. Yoga can help relieve stiffness, tension, fatigue, etc. All are invited to come and meet Lace Blue-McLean, who is certified in yoga training and will conduct the yoga classes. 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Details of the challenge appear in Conde Nast Trav- eler's June issue and online at www.concierge.com/cn- traveler/articles/500791. The tech-assisted writers were both hampered by Moscow's slow data net- work, which made down- loading information tedious. This also caused their bat- teries to run low and some- times to go dead. Because the assignment was in Feb- ruary, the iPhone-assisted writer also complained of frozen fingers, since the gadget can't read a touch through a glove. In addition, he said, he could have left his hotel an hour earlier each day had he been plan- ning his itinerary on a lap- top "instead of zooming in and out of Web pages and te- diously typing on-screen." Staring at the tiny screen, he added, also cuts you off from the people around you, and makes it hard to fully appre- ciate your surroundings. The writer using the BlackBerry Bold did give the thumbs-up to an app called the Beiks Talking English-Russian Phrase Book, which let an auto- mated voice speak for him when asking directions from passers-by, "The clumsy ma- neuver earned plenty of laughs but nearly always got me where I needed to go and often led to interesting con- versations," he wrote. The writer using the guidebook, an Eyewitness Travel guide to Moscow, also relied extensively on the kindness of strangers and advice from her hotel concierge. She beat out the gadget guys in five of the magazine's nine challenges, including finding a hotel with no reservation for less than $300 a night (it took her 45 minutes compared to two hours for the BlackBerry user and more than three hours for the iPhone man); finding an affordable restau- rant beloved by locals (it took the guidebook user five minutes compared to a com- plete failure by the Black- Berry user, whose battery was dead, .and 45 minutes for the iPhone guy); and tak- ing the subway to a bazaar in search of a craft (the guide- book user completed the task in 90 minutes by asking people for help, while the BlackBerry user could not complete the task and the iPhone user took three hours). The guidebook gal also was the winner when it came to buying an aspirin at a pharmacy at midnight and finding a bar to hang out with the locals. But it did take her longer to find the home of a notable dead Russian, see a live perform- ance, and find the Diamond Vaults at the Kremlin. She came in second in finding the best pelmeni (a type of dumpling) in town for lunch. Travel BRIEFS Summer in Chattanooga CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Festi- vals, cruises and history are all part of the summer scene in Chattanooga. Here are some ideas for things to do if you're in the area: * Boating: The Tennessee Aquar- ium's new River Gorge Explorer offers eco-cruises. Other ways to get on the downtown riverfront and Tennessee River include a ride on the Blue Moon; a sightseeing, lunch or dinner cruise on the Southern Belle Riverboat or a scenic ride on the Chattanooga Water Taxi/Fat Cat Ferry or Chattanooga Ducks. '* Creatures: The aquarium's collec- tion includes sharks, stingrays and penguins, or visit the snow leopards, red pandas, jaguars and more at the Chattanooga Zoo. * Festivals: Summer festival sea- son kicks off with the Riverbend Festi- val, June 5-13, and winds down with the Southem Brewer's Festival Aug. 22, with plenty of outdoor concerts in between. * History: It's not a working depot any more, but Chattanooga's Terminal Station celebrates its centennial this year-The station is now a unique va- cation complex called the Chat- tanooga Choo Choo that includes a hotel, retail shops, gardens, conven- tion center and trolley car. Authentic Victorian sleeper cars have been re- stored and turned into hotel rooms. Just outside the city, Tennessee's largest mall, Hamilton Place, is 15 minutes from downtown, and Lookout Mountain, with Rock City Gardens, Ruby Falls and a passenger railway, is six miles away. Chattanooga is less than a two-hour drive from Atlanta, Nashville and Knoxville, Tenn., and Huntsville and Birmingham, Ala. For more information and things to do, visit http://summer.chattanooga Tours in Washington, D.C. Associated Press Old and new ways of transportation pass each other May 14 on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House in Washington, as visitors on Segways ride past U.S. Park Service mounted police officers and mounted po- lice officers from other states as they toured the White House grounds in Washington. The officers are in Wash- ington for National Police Week. fun.com/ or download a visitors guide from www.chattanoogafun.com/ visitors-guide. Des Moines revitalized DES MOINES - Like many cities around the country, Des Moines has experibriced a renaissance of its. downtown and riverfront, with historic structures preserved, new buildings, and public, spaces with art and parks. Consider a tour of these highlights,, part of a 10-year, $2 billion'revitaliza- tion: .. The Des Moines Public:Library, by British architect'David Chipperfield, has a simple linear design that resem- bles a cutout of an airplane and serves as a bridge between the city and surrounding park. The building features state-of-the-art energy con- servation systems and an exterior made of thin copper mesh sand- wiched between two layers of glass. The walls seem to disappear at dusk and artificial light within appears to glow. * The Temple for Performing Arts, an ornate Masonic temple built in 1913, Is now a recital hall with a ground-floor restaurant, Centro. * Riverwalk unites the east and west sides of town in a 1.2-mile loop with paths and bridges connecting more than 83 acres including public art, a civic garden and skating rink. * The Davis Brown Tower public art wall by Kansas City artist, STRETCH, called "Des Moines Color Field," uses recycled Maytag dryer glass windows and LED lighting programmed with dif- ferent colors and motion. N Other downtown attractions in- clude the Court Avenue District, the new Science Center of Iowa, the Iowa Events Center, and the Des Moines Botanical Gardens, with its centerpiece pagoda, brought over from China and rebuilt in Des Moines brick by brick. Photo contest and tips WASHINGTON - National Geo- graphic magazine is renowned for its beautiful photos of landscapes, wildlife and local culture around the world. Now the magazine is inviting the public to submit pictures to a photo contest with finalists judged by one of National Geographic's best photogra- phers, Jim Richardson. You can sub- mit photos to the Energizer Ultimate Photo Contest until June 30 in six cat- egories; prizes include publication in the magazine with a grand prize of a National Geographics Expeditions trip to the Galapagos Islands. But before you run out with your camera to get that perfect shot, con- sider trying these techniques from Richardson: * If water is in your shot, try to get a reflection. Bring the camera right down to water level (but still dry) where the reflections are most symmetrical. * Look for ways to frame the photo as you set up your picture: Doorways, arches, branches, rock formations. * Don't rely on your zoom lens when you should be using your feet to get in closer to your subject or find a better angle. Details on the photo contest at www.nationalgeographic.com/lithium. Social networking ATLANTA- The Georgia Depart- ment of Economic Development is using online social networking to pro- mote the state's tourist attractions. The department's tourism division has launched an "Explore Georgia" fan page on the popular social net- working site Facebook. The page is regularly updated and encourages fans to travel to various destinations ih the state. The state has also created a "Geor- gia Explorers" Facebook group. That's meant to be an online community for the state's travel industry to share and discuss ideas, questions, suggestions and industry updates, . The tourism division is also prepar- ing to launch a blog and a YouTube channel. Details at www.exploregeorgia.org. -From wire reports DINING Continued from Page A9 eating than cooking, Swan- son hosts a series of Sunday dinners at farms. Guests receive quick tours of greenhouses or strawberry patches before settling down to meals that may include roasted chicken, strawberry short- cake or grilled summer squash. Dress is casual, and "the big thing," Swanson said, is "breaking the bread, talking with the farmer about the ' things they are growing." In all cases, he tries to keep the food simple so stu- dents or dinner guests can make similar meals at . home. "The idea is to get more people to cook," Swanson Associated Press said, "and if they make the Edith Braeger, 39, of Mil- connection to the farmer, waukee, samples a frittata some of the best meals I've made by Swanson during the had are simple meals." school's mushroom hunt. DO YOU TW1ITER? 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The best man was Ernest Jones, groom's brother. The wedding reception will be announced and will be given by family. The groom attended Lecanto schools and is self- employed. The bride is a graduate of Huntsville High and is study- ing to be a registered nurse. The couple has seven chil- dren, Kenisha and Anthony Brooks of Ohio, Heaven and Jyniya Brooks of Inverness, Whitney Perkins, Adrian Williams and Al'ton Brooks of Crystal River. The couple went on a seven-day cruise for their honeymoon. They Will live in Crystal River New ARRIVALS Congratulations to the fol- lowing new parents: * To Joel and Selena Steele, Homosassa, a son, Joel Brian Steele II, born at 8:24 p.m. Monday, May 4, 2009, at Seven Rivers Com- munity Hospital, Crystal River. He weighed '7 pounds, 3 ounces. * To Felicia King and Christopher West, Homosas- sa, a daughter, Destiny Mi- chelle West, born at 4:54 p.m. Monday, May 18,2009, at Cit- rus Memorial Health Sys- tem, Inverness. She weighed 7 pounds, 14 3/4 ounces. * To Gabe and Amie Spooner, Gainesville, a son, Leland Gabriel Spooner, born at 2:53 p.m. Friday, April 24, 2009, at North Florida Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces, and was 20 inches long. Maternal grandparents: Tom and Judye Adams. Paternal grandparent: Suzi Ward. - .,f it e" Nick and Carol Calcanes, Calcanes of Charlotte, N.C., of Homosassa, celebrated 45 a daughter, Christine Cal- years of marriage ("45 glori- canes of Coral Springs, and ous years," Nick says), on three grandchildren. Saturday, May 30: They were Carol retired from Sears married on that date in 1964 in retail and Nick was self- at Glen Morris Presbyterian employed in the restaurant Church, Richmond Hill, industry. N.Y. They have lived in Citrus They have a son, Nick County 19 years. 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Retired Nurses gather for yearly conference Special to the Chronicle The Florida Society of Registered Nurses Retired had a fun seminar at the Embassy Suites of Altamonte Springs. The ladies and gentlemen from Citrus/Marion counties, Lake/Sumter counties, Orange/Semi- nole counties, Space Coast Chapter. and. Treasure Coast Chapter partici- pated in a very busy and accomplished business meeting. Valencia Commu- nity College of Orlando received an R.N. scholarship. The RNR State Me- morial Award was given to the Hospice of Comfort of Altamonte Springs. Citrus/Marion Chapter received a matching fund for one of its charities, Alzheimers/Dementia Alfiance for Ed- ucation and Support Inc. Matching funds were also awarded to Treasure Coast Chapter's charity: Our Father's Table, Space Coast Chapter's charity: Joe's Club and Lake/Sumter Chapter's charity: Homes. The morning speaker, Ann Singleton, a published lecturer, spoke on "Post Polio Syndrome." The afternoon speaker, Edgar J. EHeur- eux, spoke on Florida's Lighthouses. * Separately, the Citrus/Marion Chapter had an update on hearing loss and saluted the Charter Members. ' Denny Dingier, an atidioprothologist of Professional Hearing Centers of In- verness, kept the ladies smiling with his humorous presentation on the causes of hearing loss, the many approaches to care and the newest appliances. The Charter Members were hon- ored with roses and loud applause. These are the ladies who began the ac- tive, charitable group March 30, 1992: Evelyn Crabtree and Jeanne Loranger of Rainbow Lakes, Dunnellon; Thel- ma Champeau of Citrus Springs; Mar- tha McDonald of Oak Run, Ocala; Doris Hutchinson of Inverness; Helen Howlett of Belleview; and Joyce Boy- lan of Oak Run, Ocala. The meetings are open to retired or semi retired R.N.s. Don and Doris Risedorf of Inverness celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a family get-together. They were married on May 28, 1949, in South Orange, N.J. The Risedorfs have two daughters, Donna Need- ham, Inverness, and Sandy (Ken) lannarone, Aurora, Colo. They also have five grandchildren, Tracey, Corinne, Wendy, Michael and Cindy, and one great- grandson, Jayden, and an- other grandbaby on the way. Mr. Risedorf is a retired lineman for Public Service Electric & Gas of West Or- ange, N.J., and Mrs. Rise- dorf worked for the East t Jessica Marie Smith of Dunnellon married Trent Morgan Faragher of Bris- bane, Queensland, Aus- tralia, at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 7, 2009, "on the is- land" at Meadowcrest Park, Crystal River. The Rev. Dan Lyman officiated the cere- mony. The bride is the daughter of John and Darlene Smith of Dunnellon, who gave her away at the ceremony. She is a 2005 graduate of Crystal River High School. She was enrolled in the nursing pro- gram at CFCC in Ocala prior to her move to Australia. Her plans are to complete her schooling in Brisbane, Australia, and get a B.S. de- gree in nursing. The bridegroom is the son of Tam and Desleigh Faragher of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He graduated with honors in 2006 from the University of Queenslaid, St Lucia, where he received a B.S. de- gree in Mechanical Engi- neering. He is currently employed as a project engi- neer in Brisbane, Australia, with TFA Engineering. The wedding reception. followed the ceremony at -Hanover Township School System, East Hanover, N.J.- They have lived in Inver- ness for 22 years. Meadowcrest Clubhouse in Crystal River. Entertainment was pro- vided by Re-Mix Studio & DJ Services. The couple honeymoon in Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia; a small island in the South Pacific Ocean approxi- mately 360 miles off the coast of the Australian mainland between Brisbane and ,Sydney. The couple will live in Brisbane, Queensland,Aus- tralia. * ON TH1E NET: ww*.chronicleonline.com Today's MOVIES Citrus Cinemas 6 - Inverness; 637-3377 "Up" (PG) Noon, 2:30 p.m., 5:05 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m. No passes. "Drag Me To Hell" (PG-13) 12:10 p.m., 2:45. p.m., 5:10 p.m., 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. "Dance Flick" (PG-13) 12:10 p.m., 2:20 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 9:55 p.m. "Night at the Museum II" (PG) 11:50 a.m., 2:40 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 10:25 p.m. "Terminator Salvation" (PG-13) 11:45 a.m., 2:20 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10:20 p.m. "Angels & Demons" (PG-13) 12:30 p.m., 3:40 p.m., 7 p.m., 10:05 p.m. "Star Trek" (PG-13) 12:40 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 10:15 p.m. Crystal River Mall 9; 564-6864 "Up" (PG) 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. No passes. "Drag Me To Hell" (PG-13) 12:05 p.m., 2:50 p.m., 5:20 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10:35 p.m. "Dance Flick" (PG-13) 12:10 p.m., 2:20 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 9:55 p.m. "Night at the Museum II" (PG) Noon, 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m., 10 p.m., 10:30 p.m. No passes. "Terminator Salvation" (PG-13) 11:40 a.m., 2:15 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 10:10 p.m. No passes. "Angels & Demons" (PG-13) 11:50 a.m.,, 3:10 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 10:05 p.m. "Star Trek" (PG-13) 12:20 p.m., 3:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 10:15 p.m. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" (PG-13) 11:45 a.m. 2:40 p.m., 5:10 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 10:20 p.m. ..-- June 1 to 5 MENUS June 1 - 5: Manager's choice for all school menus. CONGREGATE DINING Monday: Meatballs with Ital- ian tomato sauce, Italian blend vegetables, carrots, whole wheat hot dog bun (for meatball sub), chocolate brownie, milk. Tuesday: Chicken quarter with Spanish sauce, fiesta rice, green beans, slice of whole wheat bread with margarine, fresh orange, low-fat milk. Wednesday: Orange juice, pork chop patty with brown gravy, broccoli cuts, corn, slice of whole wheat bread with mar- garine, fruited yogurt. Thursday: Chef salad (turkey, ham, cheese and boiled egg) with ranch dressing, 2 slices whole wheat bread with margarine, applesauce, milk. Friday: Macaroni and cheese casserole, garden green peas, stewed tomatoes, mixed fruit cup, low-fat.milk. Congregate dining sites in- clude: Lecanto, East Citrus, Crystal River, Homosassa Springs, Inverness and South Dunnellon. For information, call Support Services at 527-5975. (352) 628-4645 (352) 628-7473 4.55 S Suncoasi Bld IHu', I0' So I iHomosas.aj, Florida 34-44o FREE Varicose Vein Screening Varicose veins are not always a cosmetic issue. Varicose veins and heavy, painful legs can now be treated in the doctor's office with the VNUS Closure: procedure. To attend this FREE varicose vein screening, call now: (352) 291-2400 Wedding Smith/Faragher SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2oog A13 TOGETHER RTIC US COUNTY (FI E A14 SuNn~y.M.4Y3l. 2009 Cimus CouNm' (FL) CHRONICLE The Lower 47 states t was 20 years ago today that Texas se- ceded from the United States. At the time, many Texans thought things would get better if they jumped ship. And they did get better-- for the USA. When NASA moved its space center from Houston to Cape Canaveral, it robbed the for- mer state of thousands of high-paying jobs as well as a lot of much-needed brainpower The joke at the time was that the move dropped the average IQ of Texans 11 points. When the Defense Department closed all its Texas bases, the economy got even worse. At the time of secession there were 110,000 active military in Texas, with another 85,000 in the reserves. The money from their paychecks 'disappeared overnight Mail delivery stopped and tens of thousands of U.S. postal workers were suddenly un- employed. Even with all its oil; Texas still couldn't afford to main- tain highways and waterways. MUt FEMA stopped all work on Galve- ston, and the damage from subsequent hur- ricanes has not yet begun to be repaired. 'Crop support, Medicare and Medicaid stopped, as did unemployment insurance, food stamps and support for public housing. The country of Texas couldn't afford to pay high school football coaches $1 million dol- lars anymore. Many of them quit in disgust In the war with Mexico (see the War of Mexican Reunification, 2015, commonly called The Two Day War) the former state's only defense was a group called the Minute- men. Named after the original Minutemen of Lexington and Concord who fought against the best army in the world, the modern Min- utemen only fought unarmed day laborers who were trying to cross the then-border to get low-wage jobs. They were quite successful against undernourished women and chil-, dren, but the new Minutemen folded like a cheap cell phone when faced with the Mexi- canArmy. The Mexicans quickly passed "Spanish Only" legislation that forbade any signs or documents to be in any language other than Spanish. There are no bilingual classes in public schools, putting Anglo children at a great disadvantage. If an Anglo gets arrested, there is no requirement that he be provided with a lawyer or a translator. While many older Anglos still speak English at home, their children often pretend notto. understand it At best, they retain a word or two like "thanks" or "Merry Christmas." They are em- barrassed of their parents' poor command of the language. Public schools now have soccer teams, and football is nolonger played in Texas. The saddest part is that thou- M sands of Texans still wash up on the shores of Louisiana and .LEN Florida, malnourished and desti- tute, begging to be let back into the United States. What to do with these illegal aliens is still being discussed in Congress. Should they be sent back to where they came from or' should they be given some,kind of amnesty? The wall the United States built around Texas to protect the border states of Oklahoma and Louisiana from illegal Texans is expensive to maintain and not 100 percent secure. Each year, thousands of Texans either climb it or tunnel under it looking for m6re' lucrative jobs than they can get at home. Many Americans are afraid that if the wall comes down, the United States will be flooded \'ith uneducated, illegal Texans who refuse to assimilate into the American cul- ture. Reach author Jim Mullen at . jim_mullen@mywaycom. The Citrus County Animal Control Shelter has online list- ings of impounded animals at animal control.cltrus.fl.us. Select "Animal Type," etc. and search. The shelter is in Inverness near the airport. The shelter phone hours are 8 a.m. to clos- ing, and it is open for adoptions ,from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Fri- day, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. . For more information, call the Citrus County Animal Shel- ter at 726-7660. Financial assistance for spaying and neutering of an adopted pet is available through the Humanitarians of Florida at 563-2370 or from the Humane Society of Citrus County at 341-2222. Hurtful words remembered long after they're spoken Dear Annie: An old problem keeps popping up, and I would appreci- ate some advice. When I was in col- lege, I was good friends with "Carrie," another fairly liberal thinker. When Car- rie met my long-term boyfriend, she was rather intoxicated and said some hurtful things about him. He is a clean-cut, conservative- looking guy. Carrie went on and on about how she couldn't be- lieve I would date a frat boy, what did I see in him, that I was better than that, etc. Carrie apologized the next day, and I accepted and thought that was the end of it I married the boyfriend and still keep in touch with Carrie. But even after two years, I cannot shake the things she said. I know her ANIN well enough to realize that MAll while she was sorry, she meant every word. Carrie has asked to visit a couple of times, and I keep making excuses because it would be uncomfortable., (My husband, obviously, is not crazy about her.) I know her loose tongue was a result of the drink- ing and she did apologize, but I can't forget the incident. When she tries to "make nice" regarding I know hi my husband, it makes me cringe. What should I say tongue, when she tells me she'd like to come and stay with us? - result c Confused Since College rinking Dear Confused: A per-drinking son's opinion is not written did apo in concrete. Even if Carrie ,meant those words at the but I can time, it doesn't mean she still feels that way, and you the inc are not giving her the op- portunity to show you if she's had a change of heart: Before inviting Carrie to visit, have a frank discussion. Tell her you are still bothered by those comments about your husband and, because you value the friendship so highly, would like to clear the air. See what she says before checking her off your guest list. Dear Annie: My mom is going out with a nice guy. I respect him, but sometimes it feels like she hangs ,out with him and ig- nores my brother and me. Two weeks ago, she was out doing stuff .with him while my brother and I were at the house totally l i :i bored. She asked if we wanted to go with, but I was half-asleep because I had been to a dance and had to get up early. The next day, I brought it up, and she said she-knew how we felt and didn't care. That really hurt Then we started yelling at each other and got into the biggest fight we've had in a long time. I feel like the third wheel, and something needs to change. I don't know what I'm going to do if they get married. - Help- less Daughter Dear Daughter. Your mother shouldn't neglect you, but it is not her job to entertain you, ei- ther Kids who grow up in sin- gle-parent homes often feel proprietary toward their par- ents and become jealous of suit- IE'S ors. But one of these days, you .BOX and your brother will be out of the house, and it is rather self- ish to expect Mom to remain alone. She is trying to include you in her activities, and you should do your best to participate. If you find yourself fighting a lot with her, you might consider discussing it with your school counselor, favorite relative or best friend's mother. Dear Annie: Thanik you for' er loose informing "Grossed Out in Kentucky" that the chances of was a contracting genital herpes from a counter clerk at a fast- of the food restaurant were slim to and she none, and that he should stop and She treating her as a pariah. logize Perhaps the writer could let S Y' us know where he works so 't forget the rest of us can avoid the much more contagious and, se- ident. rious diseases of Misinforma- tionitis and Acute Bigotry Disorder (sometimes known as Holier Than Thou Syndrome). - Absolutely Amazed at the Audacity in Sarasota, Fla. Dear Amazed: Touche. Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. E-mail questions to anniesmailbox@ comcastnet, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, PO. Box 118190, Chicago, IL 60611. To find out more about Annie's Mailbox, visit the Web page at www.creators.com. SundayPUZZLER Puzzle answer is on Page A10. Name: (none) Name: (none) N- Serena Namne: Balto Name: Elliott Name: Piper AGE: '2-mo.. AGE: kitten AGE: n/a AGE: 6 mo. AGE: 3 mo. AGE: 4 mo. SEX: M SEX: F SEX: SF SEX: NM SEX: M SEX: F ID: 7341421 ID: 7621497 ID: 7713172 ID: 7045666 ID: 7443077 ID: 7474881 Today's HOROSCOPE Birthday: Conditions are likely to change for the bet- ter in the year ahead What you do with the improved climate will be up to you - if you choose, you can enhance both your career and private life., Gemini (May 21-June 20) - Domestic affairs are likely to occupy your attention, but this doesn't mean they have to be work-related. Simply relax and enjoy. your family; it will make you feel great. Cancer (June 21-July 22) -Although there is noth- ing you enjoy more than being with your kin, putting a few friends into the mix will bring something fresh and different to the normal Sunday get-togethers. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) - There is nothing cheap about you, but you're not foolish, either. If you're foot- ing the bill for the festivities, you'll be sensible about just how much is enough - and you'll be right. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -You have the potential to gain the upper hand in most competitive situations. But if you're playing just for fun, it won't be important to try to win every game. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -Although you usually enjoy being with lots of people, you might prefer 'sharing your day with just a few chosen friends. If you're doing the planning, keep things to a minimum. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Friends who are both fun and productive will be the ones with whom you would prefer to spend your day. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Having clearly de- fined aims and purposes will provide an edge in all that you do, whether your activities are for play or ca- reer purposes. Plan ahead. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - When it comes to handling a critical situation, keep things on an even keel by being both philosophical and realistic. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -An opportunity might arise to help out another and, in doing so, repay a debt you've been anxious to. reciprocate. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) - Not only will you fit neatly into an arrangement that requires teamwork; there's a good chance you may even derive some benefits from being part of it. It'll be just pure luck. Aries (March 21-April 19) - Just because it might be a day off doesn't mean you shouldn't do some- thing useful. This is a perfect day to fix those little, neglected things around the house. Taurus (April 20-May 20) - Plan a social activity with friends; it will do you a world of good to let your hair down and have some fun for a change. ACROSS 1 Make swollen 6 Blacken by burn- ing 1ODiscard 15Vaughan or Bern- hardt 20Baton - 21Something entic- ing 22Shipping con- tainer 23Straw hat 24"A Doll's House" writer 25- Spumante 26Hearsay 27Stop sleeping 28Acquired 29Recipe amount 31Cheerful 33Make untidy 35Watch over 36Hold tight 37Nail polish 39The' States (abbr.) 41Feafful 44Witches' concoc- tion . 45Pitcher 48Entire 53Cook a certain way 54Null and- 55Take weapons from 57Raze 58Endure 59Strong wind 60Mem. of Congress 61Smooth-talking 63Horse's hair 64Black or private 65Follow a sinuous path 66Zoo animal 68Birthright seller 70Fond du - 71 Discovery . 72Tooth doctor 74Best or Ferber 76Love 79Dwelling place 81Simians 83Locomotive 87Country in Asia 88Capital of 14 , Down 89Dividing 91Wall hanging 921Internal 94Lugosi of old films 96- of the crop 97Supermarket sec- tion 98Frond 100 The Motor City 102 Sword 104 Bad (prefix) 107 Apothecaries' weight 109 Cover with liquid 110 Earthen lump 111 Weep 114 Touch on 116 Entreaty . 118 Newspaper employees (abbr.) 119 Molt 120 Moderate (with "down") 121 Kind of race 123 Declines gradu- ally 125 Versifier 126 Tartar or tomato 127 Get away from 128 Wall pier 129 Plant genus - 130 Tank for hot water 131 Part of ASPCA 133 Certain aircraft 136. Influence ,137 Drill 141 Story of old 144 Cheese variety 145 Sal- 146 Peculiar 149 Impervious to light 151 Countrified 153 Date in March 155 Carved gem 157 Ringed planet 158 Century plant 159 Identical 160 Writer-Zola 161 Killed 162 Fonda or Sellers 163 Arab VIP 164 Appointments DOWN 1 Ship's prison 2 Timber wolf 3 Eject 4 Grow older 5 Climbing plant � part 6 Fastening device 7 Be quiet! 8 Skill 9 Ruled lOGet going! 11 Unrefined 12Male sheep 13Tiny particle 14Neighbor of Chile 15Viewed 16Bodily structure (abbr.) 17Libertine 18So be it! 19Cards received 23Go by 30Assistance 32Kind of clerk or court 34Infer 38French article 40'Pointed tool 41 Competent 42Wear away by rub- bing 43Ascended 44Courageous 46Funny fellow 47- Stanley Gard. ner 49Skirt border 50Rounded shape 51Horne the singer 52Energy type (abbr.) 54Graffiti "artist" 55Fender mishap 56- ink 59Liquor 60Rational 62Commanded 65Handled with skill 66Rode a bicycle 67Common medi- cine 69Not specified 71 Delicate 72Like the Capitol 73Doctrine 75Concur 76 Black cuckoo 77Lair 78Harvest goddess 80Best - and tucker 82 Depot (abbr.) 84Nest egg letters 85- King Cole 86Tee's predecessor 90Breakfast item 93Wyatt the lawman 95"-- Grows in Brooklyn" 96Bovines 99Misconception 101 Fishing poles 103 Seed vessel sis 106 Humdinger 108 Nasty 110 One of the sci- ences (abbr.) 111 Person 112 A single time 113 Lager 115 Little bit 117 Fitting . 119 Like spoiled milk 120 Follow 122 You bet! 124 Droop 125 Assumed truth 126 Comforted 129 Town in Okla- homa 130 Unopened flower 132 Portent 134 Time off 135 Lazy one 136 Baffling ques- tion 137 Foreman 138 Iridescent stone 139 Pro - 140 The same (pre- fix) 142 Pitfall 143 Mammoth 145 Partly (prefix) 146 Leave unmen- tioned 147 Remove 148 Performs 150 Samovar 152 Urban pest 154 Water barrier 156 Drs.' gp. 36Manner of walking 104 Foal's mother 37A Great Lake ' 105 Name in Gene- Pictured abfve Is Citrus Pest manage- ment's JJ' Cournoyer, representing owner Tony Winebrenner, and winner Carol Keys. Pictured at left is Smart Interior's salesperson Susan Zolnierz with winner Vienna Balemian. ' VIENNA BALEMIAN Winner of a gift certificate from Smart Interiors www.chronicleonline.com CITRUS COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL PET PROFILES A14 SuNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 CnRus CouNTY (FL) CHRONICLE 11 L 0 French Open/B2 0 Horse Racing/B2 N MLB/B3 0 TV, Lottery/B4 0 College Baseball/B4 0 NASCAR/B4 N Golf, Soccer/B5 S Serena calls player r a cheat./ Page B2 CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE Magic moment j Howard scores 40 as Orlando makes NBAfinals Associated Press ORLANDO - Overlooked and begging for respect all season, the Orlando Magic can no longer be ig- nored. After: 14 frustrating years, they've returned to the NBA finals. Dwight Howard dominated in- side for 40 points, Rashard Lewis added 18 and the Magic, a team that can make 3-pointers drop from thin air, hit 12 in a 103-90 vic- tory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Saturday night "Total domination,' Lewis said. "He totally dominated the game. He carried us on his back tonight" The Magic will be maki ng their first finals appearance since 1995, one year before Shaquille O'Neal bolted as a free agent for Los An- geles, leaving this Florida fran- chise in ruins. It's been a long, slow climb back, but Orlando has been rebuilt and will meet the Lakers on Thursday night at the. Staples Center in Game 1. Disney World vs. Disneyland. Oh, and memo to Nike execu- tives: It's time to break out the Howard puppet. LeBron's can go in summer storage. For now, the only matchup be- tween James and Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant will have to be lim- ited to those cute TV commercials. The Magic made them irrelevant With the city's most famous ath- lete, Tiger Woods, sitting court- side, Orlando made believers of See MAGIC/Page B4 Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard (12) shoots against Cleveland Cav- aliers' Zydrunas llgauskas,In the first quarter on Saturday in Orlando. Associated Press Marathon Man Photo illustration by JOHN COSCIA/Chronicle Hurricane Victor packs one powerful punch JOHN COSCIA jcoscia@chronicleonline.com Chronicle The world's No.1 ranked tennis .player,, Rafael Nadal, was re- cently dubbed one of the most fit athletes on the planet. He no doubt raised a lot of eyebrows fol- lowing his five-set thrilling victory over Roger Federer for the 2008 Wimbledon final which is now * considered by many as the "Best match of all time." You'll get no arguments from Citrus County's top tennis player Victor Espinoza. "I love watching him on TV He's got so much en- ergy. It's like he never gets tired." Espinoza ought to know. Be- cause he's not too shabby in his own right In fact, his performance at the Class 2A state tennis tour- nament two months ago left little doubt as to the Citrus senior's ath- leticism and made him an easy choice as one of our Chronicle Athlete of the Year nominees. While Espinoza's Herculean ef- fort of nearly nine hours of com- petitive tennis against some of the state's best may not have caught the attention of Nadal's performance, it was certainly no less impressive. Competing on the largest stage of his life to date, Espinoza did more than just survive. He won. Not once, not twice, but three times on the opening day of the tournament. But it's how he won that was of particular interest. Espinoza's day started at 8 a.m. when he faced off against Nature Coast's Phillip Watterson. It was the third meeting between two of the region's top players. His day would end 79 games and three matches later with two singles vic- tories that went the full three sets and a doubles match with his play- ing partner, Ryan Connor, which also went three-sets. By day's end Citrus head coach James Martone had labeled his 'Canes senior as "My marathon man. He's been amazing all sea- son. To watch his character, I've See VICTOR/Page B4 Red Wings top Penguins in Game 1 of Stanley Cup finals Associated Press DETROIT - The Stanley Cup fi- nals opener was full of flashbacks. Pittsburgh superstars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin were slowed down and the Detroit Red Wings scored some fortunate goals. Johan Franzen scored the go- ahead goal late in the second pe- riod and Chris Osgood made 31 saves, helping the defending champion Red Wings beat the Penguins 3-1 on Saturday night in Game 1. scored his first playoff goal early in Franzen and Brad Stuart had the third, providing a cushion. goals that went off Pittsburgh Game 2 is tonight in Detroit goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. The NHL and its TV partners whose sat on a shot that trick- li kely were happy with how the led in for Detroit's series- first Stanley Cup finals re- clinching goal last year. m watch in a quarter-century Crosby, though, didn't got. started. have such luck when his - The action, especially third-period shot went in the first period, off Osgood, a post and - matched the hype. landed in the middle of the End-to-end action, big hits goalie's back as lay on the ice. such as Crosby's left shoulder Detroit rookie Justin Abdelkader sending Henrik Zetterberg to the ice, scoring opportunities and a 1- 1 score had to hold nontraditional viewers giving hockey a chance. Detroit's first goal of the series brought back memories of its last Cup-clinching goal. Stuart simply dumped the puck behind Fleury and was rewarded with a fortunate carom that sent the puck off Fleury's right skate and across the goal line with 6:22 left in the first period. In Game 6 last year in Pitts- burgh, the goal that ended up being the difference was pushed in when Fleury squatted on the puck The Penguins didn't need good fortune to tie Saturday's game. Malkin baited Stuart into trying to clear a puck off the boards and took advantage of the turnover with a slap shot that Osgood couldn't control, leading to Rus- lan Fedotenko's backhander off the rebound. Pittsburgh had a breakaway and two power plays in the second pe- riod but had nothing to show for it -.' -, .. ............................... Associated Press NEW YORK - And on Belmont Stakes day, the filly will.rest. The latest episode of "How The Triple Crown Turns" resolved some major issues with the an- nouncement that leading lady Rachel Alexandra will not run in the Belmont next Saturday. "While she is in great shape ... we feel Rachel de- serves a well-earned vaca- tion," the Preakness -winning filly's co-owner Jess Jackson said a state- ment issued late Friday af- ternoon, about the same time most TV soaps had signed off with viewers wondering what new twists await next week In the Triple Crown's final installment, it is this: Leading man Calvin Borel will get back on Mine The Bird with a chance to be- come the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby, Preak- ness and the Belmont on different horses. Borel won the Derby aboard Mine That Bird at 50-1 odds, then jilted him for Rachel and beat the Derby winner in the Preak- ness by a length. Since Borel has ridden the filly to six straight wins, he said he'd be loyal if she ran in the Belmont But now he's free for Mine That Bird and ready to compete in his first Belmont with his- tory riding on the outcome. Mine That Bird, mean- while, will attempt to be- come the 12th horse to complete the Derby-Bel- mont double and first since Thunder Gulch in 1995. "Now that this decision is made, I am excited to come to New York and ride Mine That Bird in the Belmont Stakes," Borel said, thanking the geld- ing's trainer Chip Woolley and co-owners Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach for their patience before, nam- ing a rider. Even though a 31st con- secutive year will pass without a Triple Crown champion, this season has certainly captured the pub- lic's attention; TV ratings were up as Rachel Alexan- dra became the first filly in 85 years to win the Preak- ness, and that came two weeks after fans were still buzzing over Mine That Bird's incredible 6 3/4- length win in the Derby "It may not be a Triple Crown year, but it's as far .as you can get without hav- ing one," trainer Todd Pletcher said. "It just all adds up to a lot of great sto- ries going into the Belmont." The field for the 1 1/2- mile Belmont, the longest and most grueling of the three races, is just about set with as many as 10 3- year-olds challenging the Derby winner, including Peter Pan Stakes winner Charitable Man and sev- eral horses who ran in the Derby or the Preakness. * Jackson said it was a tough call, but he pointed out that Rachel Alexandra has had a tough schedule - five races and five wins since Feb. 15 - and added "we will always put her long-term well being first. And, of course, we want to run her when she is fresh." Pletcher, who will send out Dunkirk to take on Mine That Bird, knows all about running a filly in the Belmont. He won it two years ago with Rags to Riches, who became the first filly in 102 years to win the "Test of the Champion." "It could lose some of its luster if the filly doesn't run, but there's still Mine That Bird going for the third leg after winning the Derby and running so competitively in the Preakness when he had a question mark coming in," Pletcher said. So let's just call this Bel- mont one for the birds. Mine That Bird is a son of 2004 Belmont winner Birdstone, who spoiled Smarty Jones' Triple Crown bid with a dramatic come-from-behind, one- length upset. Also ex- pected to run is Summer Bird, another son of Bird- stone, who ran sixth in the Derby in only the fourth start of his career. "He's blossoming at the right time," Summer Bird's trainer Tim Ice said. "What I really liked about the Derby was the way he galloped out. I think the (Belmont) dis- tance will suit him." There's also the Nick Zito connection. The two- D joIo SUNDAY, M AY A5 atF Djokovic falls at French Open Roddick moves on to 4th round forfirst time Associated Press PARIS - Novak Djokovic became the first big-name player to be eliminated from the men's tourna- ment at the French Open, while Andy Roddick and Serena Williams managed to stick around. The fourth-seeded Djokovic was upset by No. 29 Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in the third round Saturday. Roddick reached the fourth round for the first time by beating Marc Gic- quel of France 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. Williams, the second seed, rallied to beat Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain 4-6,6-3, 64. Djokovic reached the semifinals at Roland Garros in each of the last two years, but could do little against Kohlschreiber while play- ing for the third time in three days. "What is disappointing was that I couldn't find the rhythm throughout the whole match," said Djokovic, who completed a suspended three-set win from the previous round Fri- day. "I was trying not to be frustrated with a lot of un- forced errors. Tried to be positive and just wait for the chances." Djokovic finished the match with 38 unforced er- rors, 16 more than Kohlschreiber. Second-seeded Roger Federer and No. 5 Juan Martin del Potro of Ar- gentina also reached the fourth round, as did No. 5 Jelena Jankovic. Federer was again stretched to four sets before beating Paul-Henri Math- ieu of France 4-6,6-1, 6-4, 6- 4. The Swiss star said the loss of Djokovic wasn't a big deal for him. The two were Associated Press Serbia's Novak Djokovic reacts after being defeated by Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber during their third round match on Saturday at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. in the same side of the draw and could have met in the semifinals. "Winning the semifinal is not winning the tournament, so it doesn't change any- thing," Federer said. Roddick is only the sec- ond American to advance this far at the clay-court major since Andre Agassi in 2003, the same year Rod- dick -won the U.S. Open. Robby Ginepri also made the fourth round in Paris last year. . "It's three matches," said Roddick, who had seven aces and only 11 unforced errors. "It's a lot better than I've done here before." Roddick has reached at least the semifinals at the other three majors. Besides winning the 2003 U.S. Open, he also is a two-time runner- up at Wimbledon. But at the French Open, Roddick's best performance before this year was the third round in his 2001:debut "I like my chances maybe more than the other years,'" Roddick said. "I feel like I'm moving a little bit better on this stuff. I'm able to kind of slide into my forehand." Del Potro beat Igor An- dreev of Russia 6-4, 7-5, 6-4, while No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France, No. 11 Gael Monfils of France, No. 16 Tommy Robredo of Spain and Tommy Haas of Germany also gained the fourth round. On the women's side, fourth-seeded Elena De- mentieva lost to No. 30 Samantha Stosur of Aus- tralia 6-3, 4-6, 6-1. Demen- tieva's exit came a day after No. 3 Venus Williams lost in straight sets. Stosur converted seven of her 15 break points against Dementieva, the 2004 run- ner-up at Roland Garros. "I just feel I'm far away from ... being in good shape," Dementieva said. "I feel like I couldn't perform any better" Stosur has never before reached the fourth round at the French. She made it that far at the 2006 Aus- tralian Open, but has never played in the quarterfinals at a major. "As that match went on today I knew I could get there because I was playing (well) enough and was han- dling the conditions and everything maybe a little bit better than her," Stosur said. Jankovic defeated 73rd- ranked Jarmila Groth of Australia 6-1,6-1. No. 7 Svet- lana Kuznetsova, the 2004 U.S. Open champion, beat Melinda Czink of Hungary 6-1, 6-3. "I cruised through the match and did my job, did what I had to do in order to win," said Jankovic, who started the season at No. 1 but has dropped to No. 5. Williams was broken once in the first set, but she com- plained about the final point, which she believed hit her opponent's arm. Martinez Sanchez said the ball hit her racket. "The ball did touch her 100 percent on her arm," Williams said. "The rules of tennis is when the ball hits your body, then it's out of play. You lose a point auto-, matically. So the ball hit her body, and therefore, she should have lost the point instead of cheating." No. 9 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus completed her comeback over No. 22 Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 5- 7, 7-5, 6-2. Suarez Navarro won the first set Friday and Azarenka took the second before play was suspended because of darkness. No. 12 Agnieszka Rad- wanska of Poland, No. 24 Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada and unseeded Vir- ginie Razzano of France also advanced, while No. 10 Car- oline Wozniacki of Denmark lost to Sorana Cristea of Ro- mania 7-6 (3), 7-5. Borel to get back on Mine That Bird mont. Luv Gov was eighth in the Preakness for trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Also expected are Chocolate Candy, Flying Private and Mr. Hot Stuff. The post position draw is Wednesday. Mine That Bird has been training "super" at Churchill Downs, said Woolley He breezed a half mile in 51 seconds under Borel on Monday, and will work again Monday before heading to New York. Rachel Alexandra cov- ered the same distance in 50.20, but Jackson was non- committal afterward. It's not hard to see why he opted to rest the filly he bought after she won the Kentucky Oaks on May 1 by an astonishing 201/4 lengths. She was entered in the Preakness for a supple- mental fee of $100,000 and led from the start before hanging on for a one-length victory over fast-closing Mine That Bird on May 16. "It's not necessary that she go in the Belmont, she's got a whole season ahead," Jackson said after Monday's workout. "She's been running the whole year so we have to monitor that very carefully." Meanwhile, Woolley is making a change in travel plans, but not in race strat- egy. The New Mexico cow- boy who hitched a horse trailer to his truck and drove Mine That Bird to Louisville, then to Balti- more and back to Louisville, will arrive in New York by plane. So will Mine That Bird. "We're not going to alter his race to try to fit a race because anything you change is going to change his closing kick," Woolley said. "We were the best horse in the Derby that day, but I felt like we were the best horse in the Preakness that given day. We had a pretty rough trip that day and still got right there. "And I feel going into this we're probably the best horse, so hopefully we can get a trip to win." - Associated Press Jockey Calvin Borel aboard Mine That Bird reacts after win- ning the 135th Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Associated Press Serena Williams returns the ball to Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez on Saturday in Paris. Williams accuses opponent of cheating Associated Press PARIS - Serena Williams was sure the ball went off her opponent's arm, a no-no in tennis. The opponent, Maria Jose Mar- tinez Sanchez, insisted the ball went off her racket Williams accused Mar- tinez Sanchez of "cheating." Martinez Sanchez thought that was a "stupid" thing for Williams to say. Then consider that the point in question helped Martinez Sanchez win.the first set of their French Open match Saturday. Oh, and that Williams had a coughing fit during a third- set changeover. All in all, what eventually became a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory for Williams stands as the lat- est example of the ath- lete/actress' penchant for theatrics. "I'm, like, drama. And I don't want to be drama," a hoarse Williams said, strain- ing to get the words out "I'm like one of-those girls on a reality show that has all the drama, and everyone in the house hates them because no matter what they do, like, drama follows them. I don't want to be that girl." Perhaps. But the 2002 French Open champion, who dabbles in acting, sure seems to find herself in the middle of unique on-court situations. Even Williams made pass- ing reference Saturday to two episodes by naming the opponents, if not mention- ing the details: a 2003 French Open semifinal loss marked by Justine Henin's gamesmanship and Williams' postmatch tears, and a 2004 U.S. Open quar- terfinal loss to Jennifer Capriati that contained enough questionable offici- ating to prompt the intro- duction of replay reviews in the sport Here's what happened in Saturday's third-round match: At 2-2 in the first set, Williams double-faulted to give a break point to Mar- tinez Sanchez, a Spaniard who is ranked 43rd and never has reached the fourth round at a major. On the next point, Martinez Sanchez raced to the net be- hind a drop shot that brought Williams forward, too. Williams ran up and smacked a backhand right at Martinez Sanchez. In what seemed to be an effort to protect herself, as much as to try to hit a volley, the left-handed Martinez Sanchez raised her racket, quick as could be. The ball ricocheted back - off her racket? off her arm? off both? - and past Williams. The point was awarded to Martinez Sanchez, giving her the game. NBC, which televised the match, showed The Associ- ated Press replays in which the ball appears to glance first off Martinez Sanchez's right forearm, then off her racket, before going over the net Tennis rules say ifa ball touches a player, the point is lost As the women headed to the ensuing changeover, Williams tried to say some- thing to Martinez Sanchez, who kept walking. Then Williamsspoke to the chair umpire, Emmanuel Joseph, saying, "I felt so bad. I didn't mean to hit her." Repeatedly pointing to her own forearm, Williams told Joseph, "I don't know why you gave her the game. That's totally not cool." "She better not come to the net again," Williams said. time Belmont winner, who trained Birdstone for owner Marylou Whitney, is pointing three horses to the race - Brave Victory, Miner's Escape and Nowhere to Hide. All will be long shots, but Zito isn't worried. Birdstone won at 36-1, Da' Tara won for him last year at 38-1. "We've done well in the Belmont, been consistent, so why not?" Zito said. "I don't have Secretariat with these, but I don't have to. You never know. Mine That Bird is definitely the horse to beat, no one can say he's not Anyway, there will be a lot of birds." Whitney isn't going to be left out, either. The 83-year- old Saratoga socialite has Luv Gov headed to the Bel- Jockey will go for personal Triple Crown at Belmont CiTRus CouN7y (FL) CHRoNicLE SPORTS B2 1 2009 CITRUS CbuN~Y (~FL) CHRONIcLE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 B3 AL New York Boston Toronto Tampa Bay Baltimore L Philadelphia New York Atlanta Florida Washington AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday's Games Texas 6, Oakland 3, 1st game Baltimore 7, Detroit 2 N.Y. Yankees 3, Cleveland 1 Toronto 6, Boston 3 Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 3 Chicago White Sox 11, Kansas City 2 t"4 Texas 5, Oakland 2, 2nd game Seattle 5, L.A. Angels 2 Saturday's Games Toronto 5, Boston 3 Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 2 Detroit 6, Baltimore 3 , N.Y. Yankees 10, Cleveland 5. Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 3 Texas 14, Oakland 1 Seattle at L.A. Angels, late Today's Games N.Y. Yankees (Hughes 3-2) at Cleveland (Pa- vano 5-4), 12:40 p.m. Boston (Lester 3-5) at Toronto (Romero 2-1), 1:07 p.m. Detroit (E.Jackson 4-3) at Baltimore (Berken 1- 0), 1:35 p.m. Minnesota (Blackburn 4-2) at Tampa Bay (Garza 4-3), 1:38p.m. . I , . , Chicago White Sox (Danks 4-3) at Kansas City" ': ' (Greinke 8-1), 2:10 p.m. Oakland (Braden 4-5) at Texas (Millwood 4-4),. ., *. - 3:05 p.m. ' . *' i Seattle (Olson 0-1) at LA. Angels (E.Santana ' 0-2), 3:35 p.m. Monday's Games N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. 'Minnesota Twins shortstop Oakland at Chicago White Sox, 8:11 p:m. out Tampa Bay Rays' Carl Baltimore at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. off first base and caught s NATIONAL LEAGUE Saturday in St. Petersburg Friday's Games Chicago Cubs 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 Rays 5, Twins 2 Houston 6, Pittsburgh 1, Philadelphia 5, Washington 4 ST. PETERSBURG - David Pri N.Y. Mets 2, Florida 1,11 innings struck out 11 to earn his first regular Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 2 Colorado 3, San Diego 0 season win in the majors, and Evan Atlanta 10, Arizona 6 Longoria got his 55th RBI of the sea san Francisco 4, St. Louis 2 to help the Tampa Bay Rays beat thi Florida 7, N.Y. Mts 3 Minnesota Twins 5-2 on Saturday." Arizona 3, Atlanta 2, 11 innings Price (1-0), who started the seas Chicago Cubs-7, L.A. Dodgers 0 at Triple-A Durham and was recalled Milwaukee 9,HCincinnati 5 Monday, gave up one run, five hits a Philadelphia 9, Washington 6 two walks over 5 2-3 innings in first San Diego at Colorado, late start at Tropicana Field. St. LouisatSan y'sc ate The first overall pick in the 2007 a Florida (Volstad 4-3) at N.Y. Mets (Maine 4-3), ateur draft was the winner out of the 1:10 p.m. bullpen in Game 2 and picked up th Houston (Hampton 2-4) at Pittsburgh (Maholm Game 7 save in last years AL cham 3-1), 1:35 p.m. Washington (Lannan 2-4) at Philadelphia onship series against Boston. (Moyer 3-5), 1:35 p.m. Longoria had an RBI single during Cincinnati (Owings 3-5) at Milwaukee (Gallardo four-run third for the Rays, who hav 4-2), 2:05 p.m.r-run third for the Rays, who have San Diego (Gaudin 1-3) at Colorado (De La won two in a row after a season-higl Rosa 0-5), 3:10 p.m. five-game skid. Carl Crawford had th St. Louis (Wainwright 5-2) at San Francisco RBIs, including a solo homer in the (J.Sanchez 2-4), 4:05 p.m. in s h i Atlanta (Medlen 0-2) at Arizona (Scherzer 2-3), enth, and Randy Choate earned his -4:10 p.m.' second save. 1lAIP Dodgeis'(Miltbh' f').at 'Chicag'rtubs Minnesota left-hander Francisco (Marshall 3-3); 8:05 p.m. .(Monday's Games ano (2-7) allowed four runs and sevt N.Y. Mets at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. hits in four innings. He has lasted jus Milwaukee at Florida, 7:10 p.m. four innings in three straight starts. Colorado at Houston, 8:05 p.m. The Twins are 5-16 on the road Cincinnati at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.season.Minnesota Philadelphia at San Diego, 10:05 p.m. this season. Minnesota was hitless Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. nine at-bats with runners in scoring Associated Pr p Brandon Harris, left, waits to tg Crawford (13) after he was picked stealing during the third inning g. The Rdys won, 5-2. ce r- son e on nd am- e pi- g a fI h vo sev- Liri- en st i in g position and are 1 of 20 overall the past two games. Joe Dillon hit a solo homer, Craw- ford had an RBI infield single, Longor hit a run-scoring single and Ben Zobr drove in a run on an infield single to give Tampa Bay a 4-1 lead in the their Minnesota Tampa Bay Blue Jays 5, Red Sox 3 TORONTO-- Alex Rios had four . hits and drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning, leading Brian Tallet and the Toronto Blue Jays to a 5-3 vic- tory over the Boston Red Sox. SToronto won its second straight after a nine-game losing streak and has now won six consecutive games at I home, where it is 18-6 overall. With the score tied 3-all, the Blue Jays went ahead with a two-run seventh against Ramon Ramirez (4-2). Marco Scutaro led off with an infield single, went to second on a wild pitch and scored when Rios singled to center. Ver- non Wells followed with an RBI double. Rios hit an RBI single in the first, doubled and scored in the third and doubled in the fifth before sparking the seventh-inning rally. He finished 4 for 4. Tallet (3-3) won for the first time in four starts, allowing three runs and ' three hits in seven innings. He walked A four and struck out six. ess Rocco Baldelli homered for Boston ag but left with an injured knee after slam- ed ming into the fence while trying to on catch a foul ball. Shaky early, Tallet gave up all his runs and walks in the first two innings. He settled down after that by retiring 13 of the next 14 batters and not allow- ria ing another hit until Nick Green's two- rist out double in the seventh. d. ab rhbi ab rhbi Span If 5 1 1 0 BUpton cf 4 1 1 0 Mauerc 3 0 1 0 Crwfrdlf 4 1 3 2 Mornealb 4 0 1 1 Longori3b 4 1 1 1 Cuddyrrf 4 00 0 C.Penalb 2 00 0 Crede3b 1 0 0 0 WAyar2b 3 0 0 0 Tolbertss 2 0 0 0 Zobristss 3 0 1 1 BHartsss3b 3 11 0 Dillon dh 4 12 1 DlmYndh 4 00 0 Kaplerrf 2 0 0 Gomezcf 4 01 0 MHrndc 3 1 1 0 ACasill 2b 4 0 1 1 Totals 34 2 6 2 Totals 29 59 5 Minnesota 001 000 001-2 Tampa Bay 004 000 1Ox-5 E-Price (1). DP-Minnesota 3. LOB-Min- nesota 8, Tampa Bay 5.2B-Mauer (7), B.Har- ris (7). HR-Crawford (3), Dillon (1). CS-Crawford (1). IP H RERBBSO Minnesota Liriano L,2-7 Dickey Tampa Bay Price W,1-0 Balfour H,5 Choate S,2-2 WP-Liriano 2. 4 7 4 4 3 3' 4 2 1 1 2 3 52-3 5 22-3 1 2-3 0 Umpires-Home, Jerry Meals; First, James Hoye; Second, Mikq*DiMuro; Third, Dale Scott. T-2:54. A-36,052 (36,973). Boston Toronto ab rhbi ab rh bi Ellsurycf 4 00 0 Scutaro ss 5 1 3 0 Pedroia2b 1 1 0 0 A.Hill2b 5 1 1 0 Youlilslb 4 00 0 Rios'rf 4 24 2 Bay If 3 0 0 0 V.Wellscf 4 0 1 1 Lowell3b 4 02 1 Linddh 3 1 2 2 D.Ortizdh 4 00 0 Bautist3b 4 00 0 Varitekc' 3 1 0 0 O0raylb 4 0 1 0 Baldellirf 2 1 1 2 RChavzc 3 0 1 0 J.Drewrf 2 0 00 JMcDnlpr 0 0 00 NGreen ss 3 0 1 0 Barajs.c 1 00 0 Inglett If 4 0.1 0 Totals 30 3 4 3 Totals 37 5145 Boston. 120 000 000-3 Toronto 101 001 20x-5 E-Baldelli (2). LOB-Boston 5, Toronto 9.2B- N.Green (9), Rios 2(14), V.Wells (14), Overbay (12). HR-Baldelli (2), Lind (8). SB-Pedroia (8). CS-Pedroia (4), Scutaro (3). IP H RERBBSO Boston Penny 6 10 3 2 0 5 R.Ramirez L,4-2 2-3 3 2 2 1 0 Okajima 1 1 0 9 0 0 Delcarmen 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 Toronto TalletW,3-3 7 3 3 3 4 6 League H,3 1 0 0 0 0 1 Downs S;7-8 1 1 0 0 0 0 HBP-by Tallet (Pedrola). WP-R.Ramirez. Umpires-Home, Tim McClelland; First, Andy Fletcher; Second, Scott Barry; Third, Ted Barrett. T-2:53. A-35,484 (49,539). , White Sox 5, Royals 3 KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- Jim Thome drove in two runs and Scott Podsednik and Alexei Ramirez delivered RBI sin- gles in the top of the ninth to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 5-3 victory over the Kansas City; Royals on Satur- day night. Chris Getz singled and Josh Fields walked with one out in the ninth off Juan Cruz (3-1). Podsednik then drove in the go-ahead run and Ramirez, with his third hit, made it 5-3 with another RBI hit. Scott Linebrink (2-2) threw six pitches and got two outs in relief of Mark Buehrle and got the win, the eighth in 11 games for the White Sox. Bobby Jenks pitched the ninth for his 10th save in 11 opportunities as the reeling Royals lost for the 15th time in 20 games. After the White Sox sent six men to the plate to score one run and go ahead 3-2 in the eighth, Miguel Olivo tied it again at 3-all when he hit Buehrle's first pitch of the bottom of the eighth for a home run. One out later, Linebrink came in. Willie Bloomquist tripled to lead off the game for the Royals and sped home when Mitch Maier hit a high chopper to the left side. Chicagod ab rhbi PdsdnkIf AIRmrz ss Dye rf Thome dh, Konerk lb Przyns c BrAndrcf Wise ph-cf Getz 2b Fields 3b Kansas City 5 1 2 1 Blmqstrf 5 0 3 1 Maiercf 3 1 1 0 Butler lb 3 0 0 2 JGuilln dh 3 1 1 0 Teahen 3b 3 0 1 0 Callasp 2b 3 0 0 0 Jacobsph 1 0 0 0 DeJess If 2 1 1 1 J.Buckc 3 1 1 0 Olivo ph-c LHrndz ss ab r h bi 422 0 4012 4 01 0 4 00 0 4 020 3 00 0 1000 3000 0000 3 1 11 3 0 1 0 Totals 31 5 10 5 Totals 33 3 8 3 Chicago 000 100 112-5 Kansas City 101 000 010-3 E-J.Buck (5). DP-Chicago 2, Kansas City 2. LOB-Chicago 6, Kansas City 3. 2B-Fields (5). 3B-Dye (1), Bloomquist (3), Maier (2). HR-Olivo (4). SB-Getz (5). CS-AI.Ramirez (2). SF-Thome, Getz. IP H RERBBSO Chicago Buehrle Linebrink W,2-2 Jenks S,11-12 Kansas City Meche Bale J.Cruz L,3-1 WP--Mche 71-37 2-3 0 1 1 Umpires-Home, Chad Fairchild; First, Paul Nauert; Second, Paul Schrieber; Third, Ed Rapuano. T-2:29. A-37,894 (38,177). Yankees 10, Indians 5 CLEVELAND - CC Sabathia won in his return to Cleveland, and the New York Yankees got home runs from Jorge Posada and Nick Swisher in a 10-5 victory over the Indians on Satur- day night. Sabathia (5-3) didn't allow a hit until the fifth and worked seven strong in- nings to beat his former team for the first time since signing a $161 million, seven-year contract with New York as a free agent in December. The left-hander is 4-0 with a 2.08 ERA in his last five starts. He allowed three runs, five hits and three walks, striking out eight. Robinson Cano drove in three runs, while Derek Jeter and Johnny Damon had two RBIs apiece as the Yankees opened a 1V2-game lead in the AL East over Boston with their 14th win in 17 games. New York also played its 16th straight errorless game, one short of the major league record set by the Red Sox in June-2006, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. As LeBron James and the Cleve- land Cavaliers tried to stave off elimi- nation in the NBA's Eastern Conference finals at Orlando, the last- place Indians lost their top hitter to an injury. NewYork Cleveland ab rhbi ab r h bl Jeter ss 5 0 2 2 ACarer ss 5 0 0 0 Damon if 5 1 1 2 Sizemrdh 4 1 1 1 Teixeirib 5 22 0 VMrtnzc 1 00 0 ARdrgz3b 3 0 1 0 Shppchc 3 0 0 0 R.Pena3b 0 00 0 JhPerlt3b 3 0 0 0 Cano2b 5 12 3 Choorf 3 22 1 Posada c 5 1 1 1 DeRosa If 3 2 1 0 HMatsudh 5 1 3 1 Garko 1b 3 0 1 1 Berroa pr-dh 0 0 00 BFrncscf 4 01 1 Swisherrf 4 2 1 1 JCarril 2b 3 0 1 1 Gardnrcf 3 2 0 0 Totals 401013 10 Totals .32 5 7 5 NewYork 020 501 002-10 Cleveland 000 021 002- 5 E-Choo (4), Garko (2). DP-New York 2. LOB-New York 7, Cleveland 5. 2B-Teixeira (11), H.Matsui 2 (11), B.Francisco (11). HR- Posada (6), Swisher (10), Sizemore (9), Choo (7). IP H RERBBSO NewYork Sabathia W,5-3 7 5 3 3 3 8 D.Robertson 1 0 0 0 0 1 Veras 1 2 2 2 0 1 Cleveland CarmonaL,2-5 4 8 7 4 3 2 Ohka , / 5 5 3 3 1 3 HBP-by Sabathia (Garko), by Veras (DeRosa). WP-Sabathia. Umpires-Home, Bob Davidson; First, Jeff Nel- son; Second, Mark Carlson; Third, Tim Tschida. T-3:16. A-34,396 (45,199). MLB LEADERS AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING-Bartlett, Tampa Bay, .373; MiCabr- era, Detroit, .355; VMartinez, Cleveland, .350; AdJones, Baltimore, .350; Morneau, Minnesota, .344; ISuzuki, Seattle, .344; AHill, Toronto, .338. RUNS-BRoberts, Baltimore, 43; Scutaro, Toronto, 42; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 40; AdJones, Baltimore, 40; Morneau, Minnesota, 40; Damon, New York, 38; Kinsler, Texas, 38; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 38; Markakis, Baltimore, 38; Pe- droia, Boston, 38. RBI-Longoria, Tampa Bay, 55; Bay, Boston, 48; Morneau, Minnesota, 46; TorHunter, Los An- geles, 40; Markakis, Baltimore, 40; CPena, Tampa Bay, 40;Teixeira, NewYork, 40. HITS-AHilI, Toronto, 77; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 69; VMartinez, Cleveland, 69; Morneau, Min- nesota, 66; MiCabrera, Detroit, 65; Cano, New York, 65; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 65. HOME RUNS-CPena, Tampa Bay, 16; Teix- eira, New York, 15; Bay, Boston, 14; NCruz, Texas, 14; Morneau, Minnesota, 14; Dye, Chicago, 13; Kinsler, Texas, 13; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 13. STOLEN BASES-Crawford, Tampa Bay, 30; Ellsbury, Boston, 21; Figgins, Los Angeles, 19; Abreu, Los Angeles, 15; BUpton, Tampa Bay, 15; Bartlett, Tampa Bay, 14; Crisp, Kansas City, 11; Span, Minnesota, 11. PITCHING (5 Decisions)-Palmer, Los Ange- les, 5-0, 1.000; Greinke, Kansas City, 8-1, .889; Halladay, Toronto, 8-1, .889. STRIKEOUTS-Verlander, Detroit, 90; Greinke, Kansas City, 81; Halladay, Toronto, 68; FHer- nandez, Seattle, 66. SAVES-Papelbon, Boston, 13; Fuentes, Los Angeles, 13; FFrancisco, Texas, 11; Jenks, Chicago, 11; MaRivera, New York, 10; Sherrill, Baltimore, 10; Rodney, Detroit, 9. NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING-Beltran, New York, .352; Tejada, Houston, .347; Pence,, Houston, .343; NJohn- son, Washington, .337; Hudson, Los Angeles, .335; DWright, NewYork, .335; FSanchez, Pitts- burgh, .333; Ibanez, Philadelphia, .333. RUNS-lbanez, Philadelphia, 39; Pujols, St. Louis, 39; Zimmerman, Washington, 39; Hud- son, Los Angeles, 37; ASoriano, Chicago, 36; AdGonzalez, San Diego, 35; Utley, Philadelphia, 34; Victorino, Philadelphia, 34; Werth, Philadel- phia, 34. RBI-Fielder, Milwaukee, 48; Ibanez, Philadel- phia, 46; Dunn, Washington, 42; Pujols, St. Louis, 40; Howard, Philadelphia, 39; Cantu, Florida, 37; Hawpe, Colorado, 36; Loney, Los Angeles, 36. HITS-Hudson, Los Angeles, 69; Tejada, Hous- ton, 67; Zimmerman, Washington, 66; FSanchez, Pittsburgh, 64; Beltran, New York, 62; Ibanez, Philadelphia, 61;Victorino, Philadel- phia, 60. HOME RUNS-AdGonzalez, San Diego, 18; Ibanez, Philadelphia, 17; Dunn, Washington, 16; Bruce, Cincinnati, 14; Howard, Philadelphia, 14; Pujols, St. Louis, 14; Reynolds, Arizona, 13. STOLEN BASES-Bourn, Houston, 16; Taveras, Cincinnati, 12; Burriss, San Francisco, 11; Fowler, Colorado,, 11; Kemp, Los Angeles, 11; JosReyes, New York, 11; DWright, New York, 11. PITCHING (5 Decisions)-Broxton, Los Ange- les, 5-0, 1.000; Cain, San Francisco, 6-1, .857; Martis, Washington, 5-1, .833 STRIKEOUTS-JSantana, New York, 86; JVazquez, Atlanta, 86; Peavy, San Diego, 84; Lincecum, San Francisco, 84. SAVES-Bell, San Diego, 14; Cordero, Cincin- nati, 13; FrRodriguez, NewYork, 13; Qualls, Ari- zona, 12; Hoffman, Milwaukee, 12. Phillies 9, Nationals 6 D-Backs 3, Braves 2, PHILADELPHIA- Ryan Howard hit his club-record eighth career grand slam and added a solo homer to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 9-6 victory over the Washington Nationals on Sat- urday night. Trailing 3-2 in the third, Howard con- nected on his slam to move past Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt. Howard had given the Phillies their first run with a solo shot in the second inning. It was the 19th multihomer game of Howard's career. Cole Hamels (3-2) gave up six runs and eight hits in six innings for the win. He struck out seven in his worst start this season since allowing seven against Colorado to open the season. Brad Lidge pitched a scoreless ninth for his 11th save. Washington ab rhbi AHrndz 2b NJhnsn lb Zmrmn 3b Dunn rf Wlngh If Kearns cf AIGnzlz ss Nieves c Martis p Brgmn p Bellird ph MacDgl p Villone p Tavarz p K.Wells p WHarrs ph Colome p Philadelphia 5 0 2 1 Rollins ss 5 0 2 0 Victorn of 5 0 0 0 Utley2b 4 01 0 Howard lb 4 1 1 0 Ibanezlf 3 21 0 Worth rf 3 1 2 1 Feliz3b 4 1 1 2 Ruiz c 2 0 0 0 Hamels p 0 0 0 0 Dobbs ph 1 1 1 2 S.Eyre p 0 00 0 Condryp 0 0 0 0 Stairs ph 0 0 0 0 Madson p 0 0 0 0 Lidge p 1 0 0 0 0000 Totals 37 611 6 Totals Washington 030 Philadelphia 015 ab r h bi 5 1 2 1 422 0 3 1 1 0 5 2-2 5 5 00 0 5 01 0 4000 2 21 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 00 1 00 0 0 00 0 0 00 0 359107 02 000-6 02 OOx-9 E-Dunn 2 (7), A.Hernandez (5), Rollins (3). DP-Philadelphia 2. LOB-Washington 6, Philadelphia 9. 2B-Nieves (3), Victorino (12), Werth (10), Ruiz (10), Hamels (1)..3B- Alb.Gonzalez (1). HR-Belliard (2), Howard 2 (14). SB-Rollins (9), Victorino (8), Utley (4), Werth (9), Ruiz (2). S-Hamels. IP H RERBBSO Washington MartisL,5-1 4 7 7 7 2 1 Bergmann 1 0 0 0 0 0 MacDougal 2-3 1 2 0 1 0 Villone 1-3 0 0 0 1 0 Tavarez 2-3 1 0 0 0 1 K.Wells 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 Colome 1 1 0 0 0 3 Philadelphia Hamels W,3-2 6 8 6 6 1 7 S.EyreH,9 1-3 2 0 0 0 0 CondreyH,4 2-3 0 0 0 0 1 MadsonH,11 1 0 0 0 0 2 .LidgeS,11-15 1 1 0 0 0 1 HBP-byTavarez (Ruiz), by Colome (Utley), by Hamels (Alb.Gonzalez). Umpires-Home, Brian Knight; First, Dana De- Muth; Second, Doug Eddings; Third, Hunter Wendelstedt. T-3:09. A-45,121 (43,647). 11 innings PHOENIX-- Eric Byrnes singled home Mark Reynolds in the 11th inning to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a 3- 2 victory over the Atlanta Braves in a testy game Saturday. Reynolds opened the 11th with a ground-rule double off Jeff Bennett (2- 2) that bounced into the Atlanta bullpen' down the right-field line. Reynolds moved to third on Miguel Montero's sacrifice bunt. With the infield playing in, Byrnes hit a dribbler up the middle. Tony Pena (5-2) pitched two perfect innings for the win. Javier Vazquez blanked the Dia- mondbacks through six innings but did- n't make it through the seventh. With one out and Arizona trailing 2- 0, Byrnes beat out an infield single, then Ryan Roberts brought him home with a double to left-center. Roberts, a' late addition to the starting lineup when Augie Ojeda was hurt in batting prac- tice, advanced to third on a passed ball and scored on a pinch-hit single on a 3- 2 pitch by Chris Young. Atlanta ab rhbi KJhnsn2b 5 1 1 1 Escoarss 4 0 00 GAndrs If 5 0 1 1 Prado 3b 5 01 0 M.Diazcf 3 0 00 Schafercf 2 0 1 0 Francr rf 5 01 0 Ktchm lb 4 01 0 D.Rossc 3 1 2 0 JVazqzp 1 00 0 OFIhrt p 0. 0 0 0 RSorin p 0 00 0 C.Jones ph 1 0 0 0 MGnzlz p 0 0 0 0 Bennettp 0 0 00 Totals ' 38 2 8 2 Atlanta Arizona Arizona FLopez 2b GParra cf J.Upton rf S.Drew ss Rynlds lb Monter c Byrnes If RRorts 3b DDavis p CYoung ph JGutrrz p Whitsll ph T.Pena p ab r h bi 5 0 1 0 5 01 0 4 00 0 5 0 1 0 5 1 2 0 4 01 0 3 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 2 000 0 00 0 1 00 0 0 00 0 Totals 38 310 3 002 000 000 00-2 000 000 200 01-3 One out when winning run scored. DP-Atlanta 1, Arizona 1. LOB-Atlanta 7, Ari- zona 9. 2B-K.Johnson (9), G.Anderson (7), S.Drew (6), Reynolds 2 (10), R.Roberts (6). SB-Schafer (2). CS-Byrnes (3). S- J.Vazquez 2, Montero, Byrnes. IP H RERBBSO Atlanta J.Vazquez 61-37 2 1 1 8 O'Flaherty 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 R.Soriano 1 0 0 0 0 1 M.Gonzalez 2 1 0 0 1 3 Bennett L,2-2 1-3 2 1 1 0 0 Arizona D.Davis 7 7 2 2 2 6 J.Gutierrez 2 1 0 0 0 3 T.PenaW,5-2 2 0 0 0 0 1 HBP-by J.Vazquez (Byrnes). WP-M.Gonza- lez. PB-D.Ross, Umpires-Home, Jerry Crawford; First, Angel Campos; Second, Phil Cuzzi; Third, Tom Hallion. T-3:06, A-35,039 (48,652). Cubs 7, Dodgers 0 CHICAGO-- Ryan Dempster bounced back from his worst start of the season, pitching seven sharp in- nings for the Chicago Cubs in a 7-0 ..victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday. ' Milton' Bradley had three hits and Reed Johnson homered for the Cubs, who have won four of five since losing a season-worst eight straight games. Mike Fontenot had two extra-base hits and two RBIs. Dempster (4-3) allowed just three hits with one walk, striking out five. It was Los Angeles' largest loss of the season. The Dodgers, who own the best ' record in the majors, have dropped two ,straight after winning four in a row. Los "Angeles has not lost more than two consecutive games all year. Dodgers starter Eric Stults (4-2) had, another short outing. After pitching 4 1- 3 innings in his previous start at Col- orado, he lasted three-plus innings against the Cubs, giving up four runs .and six hits. Los Angeles Chicago ab rhbi Pierre If 4 0 0 0 ASorin If Furcal ss 4 0 1 0 Theriot ss Hudson 2b 2 0 0 0 Bradly rf Loneylb 4 00 0 D.Leelb Ethier rf 4 0 1 0 RJhnsn cf Martin c 3 0 1 0 Soto c Loretta 3b 3 0 0 0 Scales 2b Kemp cf 3 0 ? 0 ABranc2b Stults p 1 0 0 0 Fontent 3b Mota p 0 0 0 0 Dmpstr p Ausms ph 1 00 0 AGzmn p JefWvrp 0 0 0 0 Hoffparph Leach p 0 0 0 0 Heilmn p Hffmnn ph 1 0 0 0 Wade p 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 0 5 0 Totals ab r h bi 5 00 0 2 1 1 1 4 1 3 0 3 1 1 0 3 23 2 2 00 1 3 1 0 0 0 00 0 3 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 00 0 0 070 0 29 7106 Los Angeles 000 000 000-0 Chicago 011 220 10x-7 DP-Los Angeles 3, Chicago 2. LOB-Los An- geles 5, Chicago 6.2B-Ethier (11), Martin (9), D.Lee (8), Fontenot (7). 3B-Fontenot (1). HR- Re.Johnson (3). SB-Re.Johnson (1). CS- Theriot (3). Los Angeles Stults L,4-2 Mota Jef.Weaver Leach Wade Chicago Dempster W,4-3 A.Guzman Heilman IP H RERBBSO 3 6 1 1 21-33 2-3 0 1 0 7 3 0 0 1 5 1 1 -0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 Stults pitched to 2 batters in the 4th. HBP-by Stults (Theriot). Umpires-Home, Jeff Kellogg; First, Rob Drake; Second, Mark Wegner; Third, Tim Timmons. T-2:46. A-41,153 (41,210). Associated Press New York Mets pitcher Ken Takahashi delivers during the eighth inning Saturday against the Florida Marlins in New York. Marlins 7, Mets 3. NEW YORK - Jeremy Hermida homered and drove in four runs, Josh Johnson put together another domi- nant start against New York, and the Florida Marlins beat the makeshift Mets 7-3 on Saturday. Jorge Cantu also drove in two runs for the Marlins, who battered starter Tim Redding in building a 7-1 lead by the fifth inning. The top of the Florida order did most of the damage, with leadoff hitter Chris Coghlan walking three times and the first five spots combining for nine hits. Johnson (4-1) didn't have nearly as much trouble with a Mets starting lineup missing most of its big boppers. David Wright, Gary Sheffield and Luis Castillo were given the day off, and Jose Reyes, Carlos Delgado and Ryan Church are still out with injuries. Johnson gave up two runs in seven innings and improved to 6-0 in eight career starts against the Mets, includ- ing the five-hitter he tossed in a 2-1 vic- tory over Johan Santana on April 12. The Marlins' big right-hander had been having trouble with a callus on the middle finger of his right hand, which had caused him to be erratic during his last three starts. Florida NewYork ab rhbi Coghln If 2 1 0 0 Pagan If-cf Meyer p 0 0 0 0 FMrtnz rf Lndstr p 0 0 0 0 Beltran cf Nunez p 0 0 0 0 Takhsh p Bonifac 3b 5 2 2 0 Santos ph HRmrzss 5 1 2 0 Stokes p Cantulb 5 2 2 2 Tatis3b Hermid rf-If 5 1 3 4 DnMrp lb Uggla2b 3 00 1 RMrtnz2b C.Rossc of 4 0 0 0 Schndrc RPaulnc 4 0 1 0 WValdzss JJhnsn p 3 00 0 Reddng p BCardl ph-rf 1 0 1 0 SGreen p Castillo ph Reed If ab r h bi 4 1 2 1 5 02 1 300 0 000 0 1 00 0 0 00 0 4 0 1 1 3 000 4000 3 1 1 0 4 01 0 1 00 0 0000 2000 Totals 37 711 7 Totals 35 3 7 3 Florida 202 030 000-7 NewYork 100 010 001-3 E-Meyer 2 (2), Tatis (1). DP-New York 1. LOB-Florida 7, New York 8. 2B-Bonitaclo 2 (5), Cantu (10), Hermida (6), R.Paulino (3), B.Carroll (1), Pagan (2), F.Martinez (1). HR- Hermida (5). SF-Uggla. IP H RERBBSO Florida Jo.Johnson W,4-1 7 5 2 2 2 5 Meyer 1 0 0 0 0 0 Lindstrom 2-3 2 1 1 1 1 NunezS,1-3 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 New York ReddingL,0-2 4 8 7 7 2 2 S.Green 1 1 0 0 0 2 Takahashi 3 1 0 0 1 2 Stokes 1 1 0 0 0 1 Redding pitched to 3 batters in the 5th. WP-Jo.Johnson, Takahashi. Umpires-Home, Bill Welke; First, Tim Welke; Second, Jim Reynolds; Third, Angel Hemandez. T-3:01. A-40,727 (41,800). East Division GB WCGB 1� - 11 -- 5� 4 6� 5 East Division GB WCGB � 1 4 4� 514� 6 144 15 Central Division GB WCGB 4 4 4� 412 41/2 41/ 7� 7� Detroit Chicago Minnesota Kansas City Cleveland Milwaukee St. Louis Cincinnati Chicago Pittsburgh Houston West Division GB WCGB 5 2� 7 4� 11 81� Home 18-8 13-11 12-12 11-13 Texas Los Angeles Seattle Oakland W Lo-:, Anr.joees 34 San Fran. 24 San Diego 24 Arizona 22 Colorado 19 Central Division GB WCGB � -- 2Y2 2 3� 3 7 61� 9 81� L10 .Str 4-6 W-2 7-3 L-1 6-4 L-2 4-6 W-2 4-6 ' W-1 2-8 L-1 West Division GB WCGB 8 3� 8� 4 11� 7 13 81 SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2oog B3 MMOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Onus Coumy (FL) CHRONICLE 1 1 B4 SUNDAY, MAY 5 , zu-- 21 2009 AUTOr :ING Sprint Cup Autism Speaks 400 At Dover International Speedway Dover, Del. Lap length: 1 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 156.794. 2. (9) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 156.542. 3. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevy, 156.02. 4. (43) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 155.952. 5. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 155.932. 6. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 155.885. 7. (44) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 155.689. 8. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 155.662. 9. (83) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 155.595. 10. (19) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 155.514. 11. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 155.447. 12. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 155.44. 13. (99) Cart Edwards, Ford, 155.42. 14. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 155.313. 15. (1) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 155.313. 16. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 155.152. 17. (07) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 155.086. 18. (26) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 155.065. 19. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 155.032. 20. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 154.919. 21. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 154.812. 22. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevy, 154.799. 23. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 154.706. 24. (71) David Gilliland, Chevrolet, 154.593. 25. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 154.573. 26. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 154.566. 27. (96) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 154.434. 28. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 154.328. 29. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 154.242. 30. (12) David Stremme, Dodge, 153.932. 31. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 153.675. 32. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 153.577. 33. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 153.446. 34. (36) Mike Skinner, Toyota, 153.368. 35. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 153.263. 36. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 153.133. * 37. (09) Mike Bliss, Dodge, 153.12. 38. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 152.853. 39. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 152.84. 40. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, Owner Points. 41. (34) John Andretti, Chevy, Owner Points. 42. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevy, Owner Points. 43. (37) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 152.491. Failed to Qualitfy 44. (25) Brad Keselowski, Chevy, 152.265. 47. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, 151.815. 48. (75) Derrike Cope, Dodge, 148.014. 49. (06) David Starr, Dodge. Nationwide Heluva Good! 200 By The Associated Press Saturday At Dover International Speedway Dover, Del. Lap length: 1 mile (Start position in parentheses) 1. (12) Brad Keselowski, Chevrolet, 200 laps, 122.2 rating, 190 points, $44,388. 2. (1) Joey Logano, Toyota, 200, 137.6, 175, $38,300. " 3. (17) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 200, 115.8, 165, $28,025. 4. (7) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 200,104.9, 160, $23,100. , 5. (8) Carl Edwards, Ford, 200, 103.5, 155, $20,275. 6. (10) Paul Menard, Ford, 200, 97.9, 150, $18,675. 7. (4) Scott Speed, Toyota, 200, 95.6, 146, $18,285. 8. (23) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 200, 87.3,,142, $26,113. 9. (13) Jason Keller, Ford, 200, 90.2, 138, $23,768. .. , lk,1(21T;JustirftAllgaier, Dodge, 200, 91,3j 134, $24,418 . . .. 11. (29) Michael McDowell, Toyota, 200,80.6, 130,.$23,893. '12. (9) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 200, 86.6,127, $23,018. 13. (5) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 200,103.8, 124, $16,850. For the record Flrd LOTTERY .. Due to technical difficulties Saturday's winning Florida Lottery numbers were not available. Please see Monday's Chronicle for winning numbers. -On the AIRWAVES-- TODAY'S SPORTS AUTO RACING 1:30 p.m. (13, 51 FOX) Sprint Cup - Dover 400 3:30 p.m. (9, 20, 28 ABC) IndyCar Racing - ABC Supply Co. Inc./A.J. Fdyt 225 4 p.m. (ESPN2) NHRA- O'Reilly Summer Nationals - Final Eliminations (Same-day Tape) MLB BASEBALL 12:30 p.m. (TBS) New York Yankees at Cleveland Indians 1 p.m. (FSNFL) Florida Marlins at New York Mets 1:30 p.m. (SUN) Minnesota Twins at Tampa Bay Rays 2 p.m. (WGN) Chicago White Sox at Kansas City Royals. 8 p.m. (ESPN) Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs GOLF 10 a.m. (GOLF) European PGA Tour - European Open - Final Round (Same-day Tape) 3 p.m. (6, 10 CBS) PGA Tour - Crowne Plaza Invitational - Final Round 7 p.m. (GOLF) PGA Tour - Champions - Principal Charity Classic - Final Round (Same-day Tape) NHL PLAYOFFS 8 p.m. (2, 8 NBC) Stanley Cup Final Game 2 Pittsburgh Penguins at Detroit Red Wings SOFTBALL - NCAA WORLD SERIES 1 p.m. (ESPN) Game 11 -Washington vs. Georgia, 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Game 12 - Florida vs. TBA 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Game 13 --Teams TBA. If necessary 9:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Game 14 - Teams TBA. If necessary TENNIS 3 p.m. (2 NBC) French Open - Men's Third and Women's Fourth Rounds (Same-day Tape) 14. (16) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 200, 79.7,121, $22,793. -- 15. (30) Bobby Hamilton Jr., Dodge, 200, 75.7,118, $23,468. 16. (39) Brian Keselowski, Dodge, 200, 67.1, 115, $22,943. 17. (3) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200, 128.4,122, $16,100. 18. (14) Sco "Wimmer, Chevrolet, 199,79.4, 109, $22,518. 19. (40) Michael .Annett, Toyota, 198, 59.2, 1 21 r2 6 " 20 '31) BrandonWhm, Ford, 198; 60.3,103, $23,268. f'"- ' 21. (38) Danny O'Quinn Jr., Chevrolet, 196, 49.7,100, $22,368. 22. (34) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet, 196, 51.6, 97, $22,268. 23. (18) Eric McClure, Ford, 196, 49, 94, $22,593. 24. (41) Kevin Conway, Toyota, 194,43.6, 91, $22,143. 25. (11) Greg Biffle, Ford, 191, 64.2, 88, $15,775. 26. (42) Mike Harmon, Chevrolet, too slow, 175, 39.9, 85, $22,043. 27. (33) Scott Lagasse Jr., Toyota, accident, 158,63.4,82, $21,993. 28. (37) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 151, 62.6, 79, $21,943. 29. (20) Steve Wallace, Chevrolet, accident, 145,70, 76, $21,868. 30. (2) David Ragan, Ford accieni. 143, 95.6, 73, $15,650. 31. (25) Peyton Sellers, Chevrolet, 128, 31.4, 70, $15,295. 32. (6) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, accident, 126, 79.6, 67, $15,235. 33. (28) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet, engine, 97, 60.5, 69, $24,143. 34. (22) Marc Davis, Toyota, accident, 83, 47.9, 61, $21,608. 35. (35) Kevin Lepage, Chevrolet, accident, 65, 35.5, 58, $15,110. 36. (43) Kertus Davis, Chevrolet, overheat- ing, 43, 39.7, 55, $15,085. 37. (36) Ken Butler, Chevrolet, accident, 26, 42, 52, $21,533. 38. (27) John Wes Townley, Ford, accident, 26, 38.1, 49, $21,468. 39. (19) Mark Green, Chevrolet, overheating, 14, 37.3, 46, $14,975. 40. (26) Johnny Chapman, Chevrolet, vibra- tion, 13, 37.4, 43, $14,920. 41. (15) Terry Cook, Chevrolet, overheating, 11, 35, 40, $14,895. 42. (24) Dennis Setzer, Dodge, vibration, 8, 30.8, 37, $14,860. 43. (32) Casey Atwood, Chevrolet, transmis- sion, 8, 31.4, 34, $21,272. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 93.168 mph. Time of Race: 2 hours, 8 minutes, 48 seconds. Margin of Victory: 0.299 seconds. Caution Flags: 9 for 50 laps. Lead Changes: 7 among 5 drivers. Lap Leaders: J.Logano 1-30; M.Annett 31; J.Logano 32-56; K.Busch 57-74; K.Wallace 75- 76; J.Logano 77-108; K.Busch 109-198; Bra.Ke- selowski 199-200. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Busch, 2 times for 108 laps; J.Logano, 3 times for 87 laps; Bra.Keselowski, 1 time for 2 laps; K.Wallace, 1 time for 2 laps; M.Annett, 1 time for 1 lap. Top 10 In Points: 1. K.Busch, 1,836; 2. C.Ed- wards, 1,796; 3. J.Leffler, 1,683; 4. J.Logano, 1,670; 5. Bra.Keselowski, 1,663; 6. J.Keller, 1,434; 7. B.Gaughan, 1,364; 8.D.Ragan, 1,358; 9. M.Bliss, 1,355; 10. J.AIIgaier, 1,344. French Open Results Saturday At Stade Roland Garros Paris Purse: $21.8 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles Men Third Round Tommy Haas, Germany, def. Jeremy Chardy, France, 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.. Andy Roddick (6), United States, def. Marc Gicquel, France, 6-1,6-4, 6-4. Juan Martin del Potro (5), Argentina, def. Igor Andreev (25), Russia, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (9), France, def. Christophe Rochus, Belgium, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. Gael Monfils (11), France, def. Jurgen Melzer (24), Austria, 6-2.4-6,16-3, 6-1. Tommy Robredo (16), Spain, def. Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-0. Philipp Kohlschreiber (29), Germany, def. Novak Djokovic (4), Serbia, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Paul- Henri Mathieu (32), France, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. Women Third Round Svetlana Kuznetsova (7), Russia, def. Melinda Czink, Hungary, 6-1, 6-3. Samantha Stosur (30), Australia, def. Elena Dementieva (4), Russia, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1. Agnieszka Radwanska (12), Poland, def. Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-4. Victoria Azarenka (9), Belarus, def. Carla Suarez Navarro (22), Spain, 5-7, 7-5,6-2. AleksandraWozniak (24), Canada, def. Lour- des Dominguez Lino, Spain, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Virginie Razzano, France, def. Tathiana Garbih, Italy, 7-5, 7-5. " Jelena Jankovic (5), Serbia, def. Jarmila Groth, Australia, 6-1, 6-1. Serena Williams (2), United States, def. Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, vs. Caroline Woz- niacki (10), Denmark, 7-643), 7-5. Gators beat 'Canes, 8-2 Associated Press GAINESVILLE - Stephen Locke pitched 7 1- 3 stellar innings, Jonathan Pigott drove in two runs and Florida beat Miami 8-2 in NCAA regional play Satur- day night. The Gators (41-20) de- feated the Hurricanes (37- 21) for just the fourth time in 16 postseason meetings, and this one might have been the biggest of all. After all, Florida is 0 for 10 when grouped in the same region as the four-time national champions. Now, Miami will play Jacksonville in an elimina- tion game Sunday, with the winner needing to beat the No. 8 national seed Gators twice to advance ,,to the super regional. Locke (5-2) deserved most of the credit The senior, left- harider scattered six hits and didn't allow an earned run. He struck out three and walked one, leading Florida to its first postseason win against the Hurricanes since 2003. Nick Maronde and closer Billy Bullock did the rest. Maronde struck out two with runners on first and second to end the eighth, and Bullock pitched a per- fect ninth. But the night belonged to Locke.. Although Locke had just one win in his last four starts coming into the game, the Gators felt good about him taking the mound at home. He improved to 8-0 in 12 starts at home the last two years. His latest outing was what the Gators ex- pected - but didn't get - all season. He injured his right knee following fall practice and wasn't ready when the sea- son began. Things got worse when he was charged with driving under the influence in January arid immediately kicked.off the team. He was reinstated two months later, but only because prosecu- tors dropped the charges. Still, he had fallen behind in his rehabilitation. He got back on track with three straight wins in mid- April, and his return gives Florida an experienced starter in postseason play. It helps when he gets the kind of run support he got against the Hurricanes. Florida scored four runs in the third - with just one ball leaving the infield. Teddy Foster and Mike Mooney drew consecutive walks to start the inning, then Avery Barnes loaded the bases with a sacrifice bunt. Left-hander Chris Hernandez field the ball and failed to get Foster at third. Pigott followed with an in- field single, and Preston Tucker added an RBI single to right. Miami minimized the damage with a run-scor- ing double play, but Matt den Dekker capped the in- ning with a bunt single that scored Pigott. The Gators added two, runs in the sixth and an- other in the seventh on Pigott's solo homer. Bran- don McArthur had an RBI double in the sixth, and Teddy Foster - the hero of Friday night's come-from- behind victory against Bethune-Cookman - added an RBI single. Barnes made it 8-2 with an RBI single in the eighth. Miami's Chris Hernandez (7-5) allowed six runs in 51/3 innings. Locke was much better. Miami's lone runs were unearned, the result of a rare error by Tucker. He dropped a perfect throw to first on Nathan Melendres' sacrifice bunt. Bth runners advanced on Scott Lawson's sacrifice, then Ted Black- ,man scored on a fly ball to center. Jason Hagerty fol- lowed with an infield single, scoring Melendres. MAGIC Continued from Page 1l all those who wondered if they were better than the Cavaliers, a team that won 66\games in the regular sea- son, or the defending cham- pion Boston Celtics. The Magic made both dis- appear in the postseason. "I just think this team all year long has shown an in- credible amount of heart," Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said. "This team just keeps fighting back. They deserve it." James scored 25 in his worst game of the series, but VICTOR Continued from Page B1 read some stuff on personal fortitude but today I saw it demonstrated first hand."' But Espinoza wasn't through. He would return the next day for another full day of tennis. The effects of the previ- ous day were evident early as Espinoza fought to keep his feet moving. But the Cit- rus Hurricanes senior never quit. He just finally wore down. And even when the 18- year old was sapped of most of his energy he refused to go down without a fight. This was after all the Class 2A state tournament It was the pinnacle moment of what had been an illustrious prep career. He had waited his whole life for this. He wasn't going to go quietly. Therefore, it was no sur- prise that Espinoza, even after falling behind 3-1, love-30 in the first set of his state semifinal champi- onship match against Sara.- sota's Cody Gusto, somehow found a way to dig deep to find one extra gear. He had one last rally left The district's best tennis player showed the heart he had demonstrated all sea- son and won four of the the 24-year-old was magnifi- cent for most of it, adding to a legacy still in its infancy. But the league MVP had to do most of it alone, as Mo Williams lost his shooting touch and Cleveland's bench was badly outplayed by Orlando's reserves. Delonte West added 22 and Williams 17 for Cleve- land, which went 0-5 in Or- lando. During the closing min- utes, James was mocked by Orlando's crowd singing "M- V-P" as Howard shot free throws. And after Superman mus- cled underneath for a thun- derous dunk with 2:21 left,' the crowd moved into finals mode chanting, "Beat L.A.!" next six games to take a 5-4 lead. His opponent, how-' ever, on much fresher legs, then regrouped! and. won the next three games to close out the set It was Espinoza's last hur-' rah. Completely gassed from more than 10 hours of tennis in the past 26 hours, the re- gion's best player fell 6-2 in the second set Distraught, wore ought and thinking about what might have been, Espinoza planted himself on the bench reserved for the play- ers during changeovers. His face buried in the white towel soaked in his own sweat. The grueling two days of tennis had finally taken its toll. The seconds grew into minutes, but still Espinoza remained seated. And then he felt the soft, warmth that only a mother's touch can provide. Maritza Espinoza then capped it off with a tender kiss to her son's head. The gesture spoke louder than any words could. The message was clear as the Peruvian mother hugged her son. Te quiero much ... I love you. It didn't make things right again for Victor, but it cer- tainly went a long way in getting the healing process started. Although it would be sev- Howard's one flaw has been his free-throw shoot- ing, but he made 12 of 16 in Game 6. The Magic's season hasn't been without its share of turmoil. Point guard Jameer Nelson sustained a season- ending shoulder injury in early February, a setback that at the time seemed as if it would prevent Orlando from doing anything special this year. But general manager Otis Smith acquired guard Rafer Alston in a trade with Hous- ton. Alston, a former play- ground legend, fit in perfectly. In the opening round against Philadelphia; the Magic lost the opener before rebounding and win- eral more minutes before Espinoza left the court, when he did, the warrior mentality had once again taken over him. He knew he wasn't through. Espinoza was fully aware that his teammate, Connors, would need him at full strength if they were going to come off victorious in their quarterfinal dou- bles match. And win they did ... in the most convincing of fashions. After dropping the first two games of the first set to Luke Burton and Bradley Carver, the Citrus duo won 12 of the next 16 games for a 6-4, 6-2 victory. They had done it again. Espinoza was back in the semifinals and this time he had brought his playing partner along for the ride. In the semifinal match, the two friends met up with a buzz-saw Christopher Jannsen, who only an hour earlier had won the individ- ual state title. Along with his playing partner Jason Berry, from North Broward, the private school, academy- trained athletes, outlasted Connors and Espinoza 6-2, 6-2, to win the match. But even in defeat the Citrus duo never stopped fighting. "We may have been a lit- tle overmatched by the last two kids, but we weren't out- ning a close-out-Game 6 on the road. Then, following Game 5 of the Boston series, Howard called out Van Gundy for not getting him the ball enough and challenged his substitu- tion patterns. The Magic shook off that spat, too, winning two straight, including Game 7 on Boston's parquet. In the conference finals, they beat Cleveland with a devastating mix of inside power and outside fire- power. When the final horn sounded, James could only pull out his jersey and walk slowly off the floor just as he did last year after losing Game 7 in Boston. classed," Martone said. "These two young men rep- resented their school and their county with a lot of pride. To go deep into the second day of the state tour- nament is very satisfying. "Victor never com- plained, not once, about how tired he was. That goes to the kind of competitor he is," Martone recalled. "Ob- viously, there's no filling Victor's shoes. He'll be sorely missed. What a great conclusion to a remarkable year. It's been an awesome journey." This fall Espinoza will begin a new journey when he enters the University of South Florida where he hopes to play on the school's tennis team. "I'm going to try out and see what happens," ,Es- pinoza explained. "It would be great to make the team. I'm pretty confident I can but those guys are really good so I'll have to work hard. But I'm ready to give it' my all." The.Peruvian-born gradu- ating senior may be no match for his Spaniard idol on the hard court but after his performance at this year's state tournament one thing is for sure, Victor Es- pinoza has one thing in com- mon with Rafael Nadal... both marathon men have the heart of a champion. Associated Press Brad Keselowski drives to Victory Lane as a crew member carries the checkered flag after Keselowski won the NASCAR Heluva Good! 200 Nationwide series auto race on Saturday in Dover, Del. Keselowski wins Nationwide race Associated Press DOVER, Del. - Brad Ke-, selowski raced to his first NASCAR Nationwide Se- ries victory of the season on Saturday, taking the lead during a restart with two laps left at Dover Interna- tional Speedway. Kyle Busch led most of the second half of race and appeared on the way to his third win of the season. But he seemed to have tire trou- ble off the restart that came after the caution with seven laps left. Busch also was nudged from behind byJoey Logano and both cars went up the track, giving Ke- selowski space to pass. Keselowski's victory per- haps took away some of the sting of failing to qualify for Sunday's Cup race. He led only one lap in his first career Cup win at Tal- ladega in April, giving him three laps led total in his two NASCAR victories this season. "We caught a break," Ke- selowski said. Logano was second on the first anniversary of his Na- tionwide debut. He took the blame for pushing Busch too hard. "I was trying to stay right up on him," he said. "I was going to stay with him through the first corner. I got right up on his bumper. I got in the back of him. Com- pletely my fault." Clint Bowyer, Brian Vick- ers and Carl Edwards rounded out the top five. Busch ended up 17th after leading the most laps for the fifth straight race. He has only one win over that span. Fourth-generation Earn- hardt driver Jeffrey Earn- hardt failed to qualify for what he was hoping would be his debut race in the Na- tionwide Series. He was the lone driver who did not crack the 43-car field Scott takes trucks race at Dover DOVER, Del. - Brian Scott won the Camping World Trucks race at Dover International Speedway on Saturday for his first career victory in any NASCAR series. Dennis Setzer had a season- best second-place finish in the caution-filled race, while Ron Homanday Jr. and Kyle Busch were derailed by tire woes. David Starr was third, fol- lowed by Jason White and Johnny Sauter. CiTRus CouNTY (FL) Ci-momcu SPORTS Jt-Il,z) t CfljN,.t.-F)CROIL,/or UDAMY31 09 Associated Press Tim Clark watches his shot from the sixth tee during the third round of the Colonial golf tournament Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas. Clark finished the day in the lead at 17-under par 193. Tim Clark grabs lead Three players sitting 2-back 'Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas With $12.7 million in career earnings on the PGA Tour, Tim Clark has the dubious distinction of winning the most money without win- ning an event. Now he's got a great chance to let someone else carry that burden. Clark shot a 4-under 66 on Saturday in the third round of the Crowne Plaza Invitational to take a two- stroke lead into the final round. The 33-year-old South African has been near the top of the leaderboard all week, then finally moved into first place all by him- self with a birdie on 11. After a string of pars, he birdied 18 to dip to 17- under 193 and stretch his lead. That kind of finish' also might be the momen- tum-extender to help him snap his 0-for-183 skid. "It's tough to win out here; everyone knows it," said Clark, 63rd on the tour's career money list. "Hopefully, I do get that win sometime and it makes things easier. That's all I can hope for." Reason to believe he can do it starts with his streak of eight straight rounds in the 60s at the Colonial Country Club. That in- cludes all of last year's event, when he walked off the course tied for first but wound up second, when Phil Mickelson birdied the final hole. It was the sixth runner-up finish of Clark's career; another came at the 2006 Masters. That giant 0-fer is reason enough to question whether Clark can do it. There's also this nugget: Clark's only other 54-hole lead was at the 2008 St. Jude Classic. He opened that final round with a triple bogey, shot 6 over and finished 18th. "It's never easy being the front-runner. It's a little bit tougher than coming from a few shots back," he said. "But I have led a few tour- naments on the European tour going into the last round and have been able to shoot a good score. It's about staying calm and not getting too far ahead of yourself. "This is a great course for doing that, too. You still have to come out and play good golf. If someone is going to catch me tomorrow they have to play really good, so that's good to knoww" Well, that brings. up an- other problem. Lots of peo- *ple are playing really good this-week Wind is the only defense this old course has against modern players and their technological advances, and there's yet to be any- thing more than a gentle breeze. Making things even easier, many greens are new and soaked by a rainy spring, leaving them nice and soft - just the way players like it. Jason Day has capital- ized with three straight rounds of 65, and Steve Marino shot a tournament- best 62 on Saturday, moving them into a tie for second place at 15 under with Steve Stricker (69). Price takes 1-shot lead in lowa Associated Press WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - Nick Price took a one-stroke lead into the final day of the Principal Charity Classic for the sec- ond straight year After finally winning on the Champions Tour in April at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am, the three-time major champion liked his chances to wrap up the title that eluded .him last year when he faded to a third- place finish at Glen Oaks. "This year's a little differ- ent. I'm obviously a little more comfortable, having had the win under my belt," Price said after shooting a 4- under 67 on Saturday. "But it's going to be a shootout to- morrow. This field is so bunched up." Price had a 7-under 135 total. Joey Sindelar (67) and Mark Wiebe (68) were 6 under, and Fred Funk (69) and Mark McNulty (69) were 5 under. Mike Reid had a 66, the best round of the day, to top a six-player group at 4 under Two-time defending champion Jay Haas was 3 under after a 67. Price overcame two early bogeys Saturday with an eagle on No. 9, then nearly made a hole-in-one on .the par-3 14th. Sindelar and Wiebe both three-putted 18 to miss a chance to tie Price. Wiebe, who has just one top-10 finish this season, is shooting for his first title since the Cap Cana Champi- onship in April 2008. "I like the way I'm swing- ing, for sure, and my attitude is pretty good," Wiebe said. "Obviously the last hole is frustrating, to end that way, but I've played good. I like the way I'm playing, I like being in the hunt" Three players entered the second round with a share of the lead for the first time in the tournament's nine- year history They all shot over par Saturday -to fall back into the pack Native Iowan Lonnie Nielsen had double bogeys on the par-4 10th and par-3 14th and finished with a 72. Nielsen, who also held a share of lead after last year's first round before faltering, was tied for 12th at 3 under Bruce Vaughan's day dis- integrated after an opening birdie. Vaughan- went through a stretch with four bogeys in eight holes - all on par 4s. He had a 74 to drop into a tie for 23rd at 1 under Tour newcomer Olin Browne bogeyed his final two holes for a 73. Chelsea tops Everton in FA Cup final Associated Press WEMBLEY, England - Chelsea recovered after conceding the fastest goal in FA Cup final history, beating Evertonx 2-1 Saturday to win the trophy a fifth time. Louis Saha put Everton ahead after 25 seconds at Wembley, but Didier Drogba tied the score in the 21st minute and Frank Lampard delivered the winner with 18 minutes left. Chelsea won its first tro- phy in two years, giving manager Guus Hiddink the perfect farewell before he resumes his job as coach of the Russian national team. "We were very tough and the team has showed after a- setback they react al- ways, which is what I like," Hiddink said. "It was one of the biggest, a big achievement: winning in the Mecca of world foot- ball. The FA Cup is some- thing you cannot believe." On the record goal, a header by Chelsea mid- fielder John Obi Mikel was- n't cleared properly and Marouane Fellaini headed to Saha just inside the penalty area. The France striker turned and smashed a shot past goal- keeper Petr Cech. Saha beat the previous quickest goal in a Wembley final by 18 seconds and was Associated Press Chelsea's Didier Drogba, center, kicks the ball during the Eng- lish FA Cup final Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London. five seconds quicker than the winner Bob Chatt scored for Aston Villa in the 1895 FA Cup final, which was played at Crystal Palace in south London. U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard of Everton sug- gested that the goal had come too early for his team. "It was going to be tough whether we scored in the. first minute or the last," he said. "It's 90 minutes and we had to refocus and get our shape and get back to the game plan, so it was a bit like coming down off Cloud Nine." The goal gave Everton hope of a first trophy since the 1995 FA Cup. But Flo- rent Malouda collected Lampard's looping pass out of a crowd and sent in a curl- ing cross that the unmarked Drogba met with a header into the back of the net It was Drogba's second FA Cup final - he scored the extra-time winner in Chelsea's 2007 victory over Manchester United. Lampard made it 2-1 from just outside the penalty area with a firm shot past Howard, whose view was blocked by play- ers in front of him. "I thought we were hav- ing our best spell when they got their goal from. Frank Lampard," Everton man- ager David Moyes said. "He's a big player and he scores goals, and that's what he did." The victory could have been more convincing had Malouda been awarded a goal in the 78th minute. His 30-yard shot hit the bar and bounced down, but the ref- eree could not tell whether the ball had gone over the line as television replays indicated. Chelsea and Everton played to scoreless draws in both their Premier League games this season. Chelsea finished 20 points and two places above Everton. "It's been a great season, finishing fifth in the Pre- mier League and reaching the final, but it leaves a bit- ter taste," Everton mid- fielder Tim Cahill said. "But it's an experience I can take forward in the coming years." The Chelsea fans cheered each player as he lifted the famous cup. The loudest cheers were for Hiddink, who filled in as coach for four months. "You can better say good- bye with what has been achieved," Hiddink said. "Some sadness but some joy. It was emotional in the dressing room. I gathered the players, just the players and the technical staff, be- cause I won't get the oppor- tunity in the morning to speak to them. GOLF SCORES Colonial Crowne Plaza Invitational Saturday At Colonial Country Club Fort Worth, Texas Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,204; Par 70 Third Round Tim Clark 63-64-66-193 -17 Steve Marino 66-67-62-195 -15 Jason Day 65-65-65--195 -15 Steve Stricker ' 63-63-69-195 -15 Vijay Singh 64-64-69-197 -13 Justin Leonard 66-68-64-198 -12 Woody Austin 63-68-67-198 -12 Paul Casey 66-67-66-199 -11 Sean O'Hair 65-64-70-199 -11 Zach Johnson 69-67-64-200 -10 lan Poulter 66-69-65-200 -10 Kevin Na 66-68-66-200 -10 Ted Purdy 69-65-66-200 -10 Luke Donald 68-65-67-200 -10 Jeff Overton 69-67-65-201 -9 Lucas Glover 70-65-66-201 -9 Kevin Sutherland 66-67-68-201 -9 Tim Herron 71-65-66-202 -8 Harrison Frazar 67-69-66-202 -8 John Senden 68-67-67-202 -8 Jason Bohn 69-65-68-202 -8 Ryan Palmer A 69-63-70-202 -8 Matt Kuchar 70-68-65-203 -7 Tom Lehman 68-69-66-203 -7 Charlie Wi 67-70-66-203 -7 Stephen Ames 68-68-67-203 -7 James Driscoll 69-64-70-203 -7 David Toms 67-72-65-204 -6 Kevin Streelman 68-70-66-204 -6 Mark Wilson 67-71-66-204 -6 Fredrik Jacobson 68-70-66-204 -6 Nick O'Hern 69-69-66-204 -6 Jim Furyk 68-69-67-204 -6 Geoff Ogilvy 70-67-67-204 -6 Hunter Mahan 69-67-68-204 -6 Kenny Perry, 64-72-68-204 -6 Jason Dufner 69-71-65-205 -5 Charley Hoffman 73-67-65-205 -5 Bart Bryant 70-68-67-205 -5 Anthony Kim 69-68-68-205 -5 Stewart Cink 71-66-68-205 -5 Bob Estes 71-66-68-205 -5 James Nitties 67-68-70-205 -5 Corey Pavin 71-69-66-206 -4 Brandt Jobe 71-69-66-206 -4 J.J. Henry 71-68-67-206 -4 Rod Pampling 73-66-67-206 -4 Scott Verplank 70-68-68-206 -4 George McNeill 68-70-68-206 -4 Rocco Mediate 67-70-69-206 -4 Greg Owen 68-69-69-206 -4 Tom Pernice, Jr. 69-67-70-206 -4 Chris DiMarco 69-71-67-207 -3 Matt Bettencourt 69-70-68-207 -3 Tommy Armour III 67-72-68-207 -3 Derek Fathauer 68-69-70-207 -3 Brian Davis 69-68-70-207 -3 Danny Lee 69-67-71-207 -3 Heath Slocum 69-71-68-208 -2 Dudley Hart 74-66-68-208 -2 Adam Scott 68-71-69-208 -2 Carl Pettersson 71-68-69-208 -2 Justin Rose 69-69-70-208 -2 John Rollins 70-67-71-208 -2 Mike Weir 69-67-72-208 -2 Rory Sabbatini 71-69-69-209 '-1 Bo Van Pelt 71-69-69-209 -1 Brian Gay-....- . .ti0-iI-2309. -.1 Ben Crane 71-68-70-209 ..-1 Richard S.Johnson 71-69-70-210 E Chez Reavie 72-68-70-210 E John Merrick 71-68-71-210 E Michael Bradley 70-67-73-210 E Ryuji Imada 69-68-73-210 E Failed to make final round Ken Duke 71-69-71-211 +1 Mark Brooks 71-69-72-212 +2 Aron Price 67-72-73-212 +2 Joe Ogilvie 67-73-73-213 +3 Mark Calcavecchia 68-72-74--214 +4 Champions-Principal Charity Classic Saturday At Glen Oaks Country Club Course West Des Moines, Iowa Purse: $1.725 million Yardage: 6,679; Par: 71 Second Round Nick Price Joey Sindelar Mark Wiebe Fred Funk Mark McNulty Mike Reid Hal Sutton Keith Fergus Tim Simpson David Eger Tom Kite Bruce Summerhays Jay Haas Craig Stadler John Harris Hale Irwin Jeff Sluman Larry Nelson Lonnie Nielsen -Tom Jenkins- Brad Bryant Olin Browne Gene Jones Loren Roberts Dan Forsman Jay Don Blake Fuzzy Zoeller Bruce Fleisher Bruce Vaughan Russ Cochran Mark W. Johnson Bob Gilder Morris Hatalsky Ken Green Phil Blackmar Jim Colbert Vicente Femandez Jerry Pate Gary Hallberg Ronnie Black Bruce Lietzke Jim Thorpe John Cook 68-67-135 69-67-136 68-68-136 68-69-137 68-69-137 72-66-138 70-68-138 70-68-138 68-70-138 69-69-138 68-70-138 72-67-139 72-67-139 72-67-139 72-67-139 70-69-139 68-71-139 68-71-139 67-72-139 72-68-140 71-69-140 67-73-140 72-69-141 71-70-141 71-70--141 70-71-141 70-71-141 68-73-141 67-74-141 74-68-142 73-69-142 72-70-142 72-70-142 71-71-142 71-71-142 70-72-142 70-72-142 70-72-142 � 69-73-142 68-74-142 72-71-143 72-71-143 70-73-143 ' Robert LThompson 69-74-143 Tom Wargo LeonardThompson Denis Watson Mark James Gil Morgan John Morse Mike Hulbert Sandy Lyle Tom Purtzer Ian Woosnam R.W. Eaks Allen Doyle Dave Stockton Ken Schall Mike Goodes 75-69-144 74-70-144 72-72-144 72-72-144 71-73-144 70-74-144 74-71-145 74-71-145 72-73-145 69-76-145 75-71-146 75-71-146 73-73-146 73-73-146 73-73-146 -7 -6 -6 -5 -5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 . -2 -2 -2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 E E E E E E E E E E E +1 +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +3 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 Wayne Grady Tom McKnight Chip Beck Blaine McCallister Ben Crenshaw Steve Thomas Walter Hall Joe Ozaki Bobby Wadkins John Adams Tim Conley James Mason Mark O'Meara Dick Mast 73-73-146 73-73-146 71-75--146 71-75-146 70-76-146 70-76-146 76-71-147 74-73-147 74-73-147 74-73-147 73-74-147 72-75-147 70-77-147 76-72-148 Mike San Filippo 77-71-148 +6 Graham Marsh 74-74-148 +6 Isao Aoki 75-74-149 +7 Dave Eichelberger 75-75-150 +8 Mike McCullough 76-77-153 +11 Andy Bean 68-WD Nationwide Tour The Rex Hospital Open Saturday At TPC Wakefield Plantation Raleigh, N.C. Purse: $525,000 Yardage: 7,257; Par: 71 Third Round Kevin Johnson 65-69-65-199 Rich Barcelo 65-70-65--200 Jim McGovem 70-66-65-201 Chris Baryla 72-67-63--202 Chad Collins 68-70-64-202 Josh Teater 67-71-64-202 Adam Bland 66-70-66-202 Cameron Percy Grant Waite David Mathis Josh Broadaway Jeff Gallagher Jeff Gove David Branshaw Brad Fritsch Gary Christian D.J. Brigman Chad Ginn Justin Hicks Andrew Svoboda Tom Gillis Justin Bolli Hunter Haas Garth Mulroy Fabian Gomez Craig Bowden Skip Kendall Bradley lies Jeff Brehaut 70-66-66--202 68-67-67-202 66-69-67-202 64-70-68-202 64-69-69-202 71-67-65-203 70-68-65---203 68-68-67-203 67-68-68-203 68-67-68-203 66-68-69-203 69-65-69-203 68-71-65-204 66-71-67-204 69-68-67-204 67-68-69-204 72-67-66-205 72-66-67-205 70-67-68-205 65-70-70-205 64-69-72-205 68-70-68-206 Roger Tambellini 69-69-68-206 lan Leggatt 72-66-68-206 Geoffrey Sisk 65-72-69-206 Marco Dawson 67-70-69-206 Craig Barlow 67-70-69-206 Todd Demsey 69-67-70-206 Jason Gore. 70-66-70-206 Michael Sim 66-69-71-206 Major Manning 72-63-71-206 Jim Rutledge 68-70-69-207 Chris Tidland 71-68-68-207 B.J. Staten 70-67-70-207 Esteban Toledo 70-67-70-207 Henrik Bjomstad 68-68-71-207 Seung-su Han 69-67-71-207' Jeff Curl 68-65-74-207 Paul Stankowski 70-69-69-208 Chris Anderson 66-72-70-208 *Bob May 69-69-70-208 Matthew BorcheOt 70-67-71-208 David McKenzie 69-68-71-208 Willie Wood '-: - .` 67-69-7�-208 Steve Wheatcroft 69-67-72-.:26'8'1 Tommy Gainey 69-70-70-209 Won Joon Lee 69-70-70-209 Darron Stiles 71-68-70-209 Fran Quinn 71-68-70-209 Greg Sonnier 71-67-71-209 Alex Prugh 69-69-71-209 Ryan Armour 71-67-71-209 Scott Gardiner 70-63-76-209 Brendon de Jonge 70-69-71-210 Brendon Todd 70-69-71-210 Andrew Buckle 70-69-71-210 John Kimbell 71-68-71-210 Garrett Willis 71-68-71-210 David Robinson 68-70-73-211 Scott Dunlap 67-71-73-211 Blake Adams 67-70-74-211 Len Mattiace 68-67-76-211 Scott Medlin 72-67-73-212 Brian Stuard 69-69-75-213 Matt Every 67-71-78-216 European PGA Saturday At The London Golf Club, Heritage Course Ash, England Purse: $2.86 million Yardage: 7,257; Par: 72 Third Round, Leading Scores Jeev Milkha Singh, India 67-69-71-207 Christian Cevaer, France 67-70-70-207 Chris Wood, England 69-73-68-210 . Rory Mcllroy, N. Ireland 69-73-68-210 Alvaro Quiros, Spain 71-70-69-210 Soren Hansen, Denmark 69-75-67-211 Gary Orr, Scotland 71-72-68--211 Steve Webster, England 69-72-70-211 Marcus Fraser, Australia 69-70-72-211 Richie Ramsey, Scotland 74-70-68--212 Jamie Donaldson, Wales 68-70-74-212 Jose Manuel Lara, Spain 70-68.74-212 - Chapchai Nirat, Thailand 69-76-68-213 Magnus Carlsson, Sweden 71-74-68-213 Louis Oosthuizen, S. Afripa 68-75-70-213 Gregory Bourdy, France 71-70-72-213 Anthony Wall, England 68-69-76-213 M.Lorenzo-Vera, France 67-69-77-213 Callum Macaulay, Scotland 71-72-71-214 Stephen Dodd, Wales 75-70-70-215 Martin Kaymer, Germany 71-72-72-215 David Drysdale, Scotland 72-71-72-215 Ricardo Gonzalez, Argentina 69-73-73-215 Also Anders Hansen, Denmark 65-73-78-216 G. McDowell, N. Ireland 70-73-74-217 Robert Karlasson, Sweden 68-74-75-217 Paul Lawrie,.Scotland 73-71-73-217 C. Montgomerie, Scotland 70-74-74-218 Serglo Garcia, Spain 69-75-74-218 Lee Westwood, England 70-75-74-219 Thomas Bjom, Denmark 70-74-76-220 NCAA Men's Dv. I Championship Saturday At Inverness Club Toledo, Ohio Yardage: 7,255; Par 71 Match Play Championship Texas A&M (7) 3, Arkansas (4) 2 Bronson Burgoon, Texas A&M, def. Andrew Landry, Arkansas, 1 up. Andrea Pavan, Texas A&M, def. David Ling- merth, Arkansas, 7 and 6. John Hurley, Texas A&M, def. Ethan Tracy, Arkansas, 6 and 4. Jason Cuthbertson, Arkansas, def. Matt Van Zandt, Texas A&M, 3 and 1. Jamie Marshall, Arkansas, def. Conrad Shindler, Texas A&M, 3 and 2. SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 B5 SPORTS CrrRUS COUNTY (FL E . E Page B6- SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 ENTERTAINMENT CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE otlight on PEOPLE - Prince Harry plays polo in N.Y. NEW YORK-- Prince Harry followed in his mother's footsteps Satur- day by raising money for a charity that supports AIDS orphans as he played polo in a city Princess Diana loved. Her 24-year-old son was on' Governors Island in New York Harbor to play in the Veuve Clic- quot Manhattan Polo Classic. The match will benefit the Sentebale charity that Harry set up with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho for impoverished chil- dren in that African na- tion. "The prince and I both lost our mothers when we were very young," Harry told a pre-match VIP gathering. "We set up Sentebale in their mem- ory, and because my mother loved this city, it makes this occasion all the more poignant for me." Osbourne sues in NYC over name NEW YORK - Ozzy Osbourne has accused former Black Sabbath band mate Tonylomnumi of taking over the heavy metal titans' name and costing him royalties from merchandise sales. Osbourne, who sued the guitarist earlier this week, issued a statement Friday imploring him to "do the right thing." S"Tony, I am so sorry it's had to get to this point by me having to take this ac- tion against you," the singer-turned-reality - show star said. . But, he added, "we've all worked too hard and long in our careers to allow you to sell mer- chandise that features all our faces, old Black Sab- bath album covers and band logos, and then you tell us that you own the copyright." Osbourne, who lives in California, filed suit Tuesday in a federal court in New York, saying lommi falsely claimed to have sole rights to Black Sabbath's trademark in, negotiations over the last year with'a company that sells the band's merchan- dise.' -From wire reports NEW YORK - With an out-of-work husband and two children to support, Christine Mead needs a cheap - and uplifting - break from life. So lately she's been escaping into sweet and heartening stories of love and passion, where heroines over- come insurmountable obstacles to find their happiness. "I am left with a satisfied feeling at the end of a good book, a feeling of hope that all can, and will, be OK," said Mead, who lives in the small town of Festus, Mo., and suffers from fi- bromyalgia and osteoarthritis. Mead, 41, rarely goes anywhere be- cause of the price of gas, and the fam- ily has been relying on a food pantry. Romance novels, she said, are "a dis- traction from not knowing what's going to happen next" Love may not conquer all in real life, but its power in relatively inex- pensive books is quite a comfort in this economy. Publishers are seeing strong sales in the romance genre as other categories decline and con- sumers cut back on spending. Harlequin Enterprises Ltd., a global giant in women's fiction, re- ported fourth-quarter earnings up 32 percent over the same period a year earlier, with U.S. retail sales up 9 per- cent in 2008. For the week of May 10, romance book sales overall were up nearly 2.4 percent compared with the same week last year, according to Nielsen BookScan, which covers 75 percent of retail sales. Travel book sales were down 16 percent, detective/mystery and self-he'lp were each down 17 per- cent and adult fiction overall, of which romance is a subgenre, was.up 1 percent. Jennifer Enderlin, associate pub- lisher for St. Martin's Press, said ro- mance is doing so well, the publisher is releasing 32 titles this year (more could be added), compared to 26 last year. Books from notable authors, in- cluding Lora Leigh,Lisa Kleypas and Sherrilyn Kenyon, are experiencing healthy sales, she said. Enderlin and other publishers said they're not surprised by the genre's success. "If you really think about it, there is a little romance in virtually every book," said Laurie Parkin, vice presi- dent and publisher of Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington has seen a 5 percent increase in sales for mass market paperback romances for its fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, she said. "But especially when business is bad or business is down, people want to escape a little bit," Parkin added. "I think romance offers that in a won- iderful, wonderful way." When life is more stressful, people need that escape even more, said Associated Press This photo released by Kensington Publishing shows a row of romance books, Nancy Molitor, a clinical psychologist, in Wilmette, Ill. She said movie atten- dance and alcohol sales are also up. Romance novels are affordable and you can easily get them from the li- brary or purchase them used. "It's a healthy and positive coping mechanism," said Judith Orloff, a medical doctor and author of "Emo- tional Freedom." She said the stories help people find an oasis of calm. Christine Dionne, 38, of Cloverdale, Ore., said romance was the soothing balm -after one of her two sons died playing an asphyxiation game in 2004 at age 10. Now, she's reaching for more lighthearted fun romances as a distraction from financial and family troubles. Her husband, a truck driver, has had his hours cut and the farm where she works has taken a hit. She said the books make her feel like she's something bigger than her tiny town and the small house that she rarely leaves. With little money to go out (she doesn't drive), she shops at Goodwill. Ramen has become a staple in the house. "It's my connection to the world and I can visit other places and be some- body else - for just, a little while," said Dionne, whose surviving son is 12. Katherine Petersen, 43, of Menlo Park, Calif., said she feels more ener- gized to resume her job search after she finishes a good romance. Petersen is blind and has been looking for work for about a year. Before, reading was a hobby. Now, it's her saving grace. She said it's something she can do in braille or by listening without the company of oth- ers and without spending a lot of money. "When I'm reading, I'm thinking about something else," said Petersen, whose background is in public rela- tions. "I'min certainly not worrying about that job letter I just sent out or who I have to call or how I am going to pay the electric bill. It's kind of a freedom from that." But escapism is only part of the at- traction, said best-selling author Janet Evanovich, who started out writing romance and then morphed into mystery. She likes romance be- cause the characters are quirky, vi- brant women who take charge, are tenacious and are able to overcome crises in their lives - characters women can identify with. The books are a feel-good read, En- derlin said. The'endings may be pre- dictable, but there's solace in knowing that things are going to turn out like they should. Dream over: Boyle finishes 2nd in UK reality show Associated Press LONDON - She dreamed a dream, and it very nearly came true. But Susan Boyle's reality show journey finished Saturday with a second-place finish in the finals of "Britain's Got Talent," an ending that didn't fit the fairy tale. Instead of the 48-year-old internet sensa- tion, an exuberant dance troupe called "Diversity" took the 100,000- pound ($159,000) prize and will perform for Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Variety Show. Boyle paced around the stage as the hosts named the top three of the ten final acts, and looked al- most relieved when her name was called as the runner-up. She recovered in time to graciously praise the dancers. "The best people won," Boyle said. "They're very entertaining. Lads, I wish you all the best" Boyle then curtsied several times to the audience, gave them her signature shimmy, and strolled offstage. It had been a tumultuous week for Boyle, a woman previously un- used to the limelight. She lost her cool during a confrontation with two reporters, and the police inter- vened. One contest judge said Boyle had contemplated pulling out of the competition to soothe her frazzled nerves. But when she stepped into the. spotlight Saturday, Boyle seemed more polished - and animated - than in previous appearances. She wore a modest, but glam- orous, floor-length gown, and chose to go back to the song | that rocketed her into the in- ternational spotlight: "I *I Dreamed a Dream," from the musical "Les Miser- ables." Her hometown of Black- burn, Scot- . land - a small, working class village about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of Edinburgh - rallied round her, stringing up posters and signs in her support. Friends and neigh- . bors gathered at a local pub to watch the performance. "I've known her for many years,"*said 72-year- old neighbor Margaret ONiT -Yule. "She's a lovely lassie and she will do * www.ta well whatever hap- pens. Susan is about the singing, and fame and fortune won't change her." Millions tuned in to the live pro- gram and voted by telephone af- terward. Boyle was up against a host of, everyman acts determined to find stardom on reality television, in- cluding Shaheen Jafargholi, a 12- year-old whose voice has been compared to Michael Jackson's, Hollie Steel, a 10-year-old who turned in a solid performance , after a tearful . . semifinal meltdown, and a grand- father- Sgrandaughter singing duo. And then there -H was "Stavros Flat- ley," a father-son act who parodied "The Lord of the Dance" by romping around the stage shirtless, in blond wigs and leather pants, combining Greek and Irish le dancing and music. But it was Boyle whom people tuned in to watch. After her first appearance in April, Boyle became the favorite to win the competition. As she stepped on stage during auditions, her frumpy appearance drew con- descending looks from the studio audi- HE NOE ence and the judges, ent.itv.com. but her soaring, evocative voice si- lenced the doubters and turned her into an Internet sensation. The .first moment Boyle sang was one that has been viewed millions of times, the fifth-most watched clip in history on YouTube. It was a moment that went down in reality- show history. As Boyle hit a high note at the end of the song's first line, judge Simon Cowell's eyebrows rose along with her voice. The audience went mad. And a star was born. She has since appeared on the "Oprah Winfrey Show." Demi Moore tweeted about Boyle on her Twitter feed. Boyle dominated Britain's tabloids - but there were signs she was feeling the heat. She acknowledged Saturday that it had been a stressful few weeks, but said onstage that it had been "well worth it." Cowell said.that she'd been given a rough ride, but that she was "a nice, shy person who wants a break" Susan Boyle, whose performance on the television show "Britain's Got Tal- ent" wowed the judges, poses singing with a hairbrush at her home in Black- bum, Scotland. Associated Press SUMMER LOVIN' Romance novels -perfect beach reading - thrive in tough times Associated Press F musician Andy Hurley (Fall Out Boy) is 29. Actor Jonathan Tucker is 27. Actor Curtis Williams Jr. is 22. Thought for Today: "One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, noth- ing but suffering." - Jane Austen, British novelist (1775- 1817). Florida LOTTERIES SO YOU KNOW * Last night's winning numbers, Page B134. 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Today's Highlight in His- tory: On May 31, 1889, more than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing through Johnstown, Pa. On this date: In 1809, composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna at-age 77. In 1910, the Union of South Africa was founded. In 1949, former State De- partment official Alger Hiss went on trial in New York, charged with perjury. (The jury ended up deadlocked, but Hiss was convicted in a sec- ond trial.) Ten years ago: During a Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery, President Bill Clinton asked Americans to reconsider their ambiva- lence about Kosovo, calling it "a very small province in a small country. But it is a big test of what we believe in." Five years ago: Alberta Martin, one of the last widows of a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, died in Enter- prise, Ala., at age 97. One year ago: Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven blasted into orbit, carrying a giant Japanese lab addition to the international space station. Today's Birthdays: Ac- tress Elaine Stewart is 80. Actor-director Clint Eastwood is 79. Singer Peter Yarrow is 71. FormerAnglican Church envoy Terry Waite is.70. Singer-musician Augie Mey- ers is 69. Actress Sharon Gless is 66. Football Hall of Famer Joe Namath is 66. Actor Tom Berenger is 59. Actor Gregory Harrison is 59. Actress Roma Maffia is 51. Comedian Chris Elliott is 49. Actor Kyle Secor is 49. Ac- tress Lea Thompson is 48. Singer Corey Hart is 47. Actor Hugh Dillon is 46. Rapper DMC is 45. Actress Brooke Shields is 44. Country musi- cian Ed Adkins (The Derail- ers) is 42. Jazz musician Christian McBride is 37. Actor Colin Farrell is 33. Rock musi- cian Scott Klopfenstein (Reel Big Fish) is 32. Actor Eric Christian Olsen is 32. Rock Section C - SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 O M M CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE Gerry Mulligan OUT THE WINDOW Associated Press A "for sale" sign hangs in front of a Homestead home on March 24. *f 6 ORLANDO - We first heard the term decades ago: T2e "Sun Belt" was just starting a run of phenomenal growth - and no wonder. It conjured a sunny state of mind as well as a balmy place on the map. I Everybody, it seemed, wanted a spot in the sun. � Induries such as aerospace, defense and oil set up shop across America's southernmost tier, capitalizing on the low involvementQf labor imons and the proximity of military bases that paid handsomely, and reliably, for their products and services. Later, San Jose, Calif., and Austin, Texas, developed into high-tech nerve centers; Houston grew into a hub for the oil industry; Nashville became a mecca for music record- ing and production; Charlotte, N.C., trans- formed itself into a center for low-cost banking and finance; and then there were the new Dixie Detroits, places like Canton, Miss., Georgetown, Ky., and Spartanburg, S.C., that began rolling out Titans, Camrys and BMWs. Meanwhile, other warm-weather havens of- fered their own variants of the Sun Belt dream - as Fountains of Youth for 60-and-up duffers, as Magic Kingdoms for fun-seekers, as Cape Canaverals for middle-aged north- erners looking to launch their second acts. Air conditioning, bug spray and drainage canals that transformed marshes into golf- course subdivisions --these innovations, plus the availability of flat, low-taxed land at- tracted migrants from Brooklyn and Cleve- land, Havana and Mexico City to locales once dismissed as too hot, too swampy, too dry, too backwater-ish. "We Give Years to Your Life and Life to Your Years!" That was the sort of slogan you'd hear from developers pitching the promise that a new start in the Sun Belt might even, in the best of circumstances, extend one's-time on Earth. In this way, for a generation or more, the TODD LEWAN Associated Press Sun Belt thrived like no other region in Amer- ica - a growth so steady it felt as though the boom would never end. But now it has, re- placed by a bust that has left some swaths of the region suffering as s verelas anywhere in the current recesslW . . What brought the dark clouds to the Sun Belt, and are they here to stay? Interviews with economists and demogra- phers across the region, and data from The Associated Press Economic Stress Index, a month-by-month analysis of foreclosure, bankruptcy and unemployment rates in more than 3,000 U.S. counties, suggest that the an4 swers are not all encouraging. Some cities - Las Vegas, Phoenix, Fort Myers are good examples - hitched their floats to housing bubbles and got caught up in development that depended largely on, well, development itself, rather than sustainable, scalable, productive industry, economic ana- lysts say. It's in these places where the economic meltdown "will likely find its fullest bloom," Richard Florida, the urbanist and author, wrote recently in an Atlantic Monthly article titled "How the Crash Will Reshape Amer- ica." AP Stress Index figures, which calculate the economic impact of the recession on a scale ofl to 100, illustrate how the downturn has plated out in some of these communities: * In Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, the Stress Index more than doubled from 5.12 at the beginning of the recession in Decem- ber 2007 to 12.67 in March 2009, worsened by a foreclosure rate that nearly tripled. * Mounting foreclosures in Las Vegas' Clark County drove up its Stress Index score from 10.5 at the start of the recession to 19.3 in March 2009. * In Lee County, home to Fort Myers, un- employment has doubled and foreclosures have soared 75 percent since the recession began, lifting its Stress Index from 10.5 to 19.98. The boom in parts of the Sun Belt was, Florida wrote in the Atlantic, a "giant Ponzi scheme".- a growth machine that banked on wishful thinking, on the hope that an unend- ing stream of new arrivals.would forever in- ject their money into construction and real estate. See SN BELT/Page C3 Ten things that won't make you grumpy I m often accused of being grumpy around the office, so let me share 10 things with you that make me happy. 1. My dog Duffy has made a complete recovery from his power-washer in- cident in the Crystal River and is back to barking at the neighbors. 2. It is raining in Florida and you can almost hear the aquifer filling up. 3. Brad Thorpe is the new Citrus County admin- istrator and he appears to be positive and hopeful about making some real progress with county gov- ernment. County commis- sioners are behaving themselves, which in itself is worth recording. 4. Home sales are im- proving in Citrus,County (and Florida) and that might mean that we are actually climbing out of this awful recession. Just about every person I come ip contact with caWishare a story of woe generated by this economic catastro- phe. If there is a positive outcome to this, it may be that greed finally goes out of style. 5. The unemployment rate in the county is drop- ping. That means more people are finding jobs and are able to support their families. 6. Marla Chancey, the new head of the Citrus County Tourist Develop- ment Council, is really plugged in to helping peo- ple enjoy their vacation time in our community. She has gotten focused on telling that story to Citrus County residqets who may not remember that lots of inexpensive fun is avail- able right here. 7. Josh Wooten, the new CEO of the Citrus County Chamber of Commerce, is doing an excellent job of extending services to the many struggling busi- nesses in the community. Wooten, who served a term as a county commis- sioner, has brought some new excitement and pur- pose back to the chamber. Wooten showed some ex- cellent leadership in his new role by immediately hiring the soriidoplace .candidate for his job - See WINDOW/Page C4 Congratulatio Editor's note: The following column is by Jim Clark, editor of the Williston Pio- neer, based in Levy County. The Williston Pioneer is a sister paper of the Citrus County Chronicle. e JIM CLARK Special to the Chronicle his is a big weekend for many young people, as they leave high school and move on to the next phase of their lives. Graduation is a landmark day for these young adults who are ready to venture out into the world. This graduating class has been through a little more than many of us. These young people were fourth-graders on Sept 11, 2001, when two planes smashed into the World Trade Center in New York, one hit the Pentagon and another crashed in Pennsyl- vania, changing the face of America forever They are venturing into an uncertain world, one filled with the fear of terror- ism, one filled with eroding freedoms in the name of security. Those of us who have lived through many years of strife and conflict - and ns and advice many years of prosperity and peace - can give some words of advice to the young graduates. Whether they pay attention is up to them, and whether they agree is also up to them. Bt at least it's a point of view that they can se to steer them in what- ever direction they want to go. Here we go: 1. If you have a chance to continue your education, by all means do so. In this era, it is almost impossible to advance yourself in the job market without some sort of post- secondary education. It can be college, junior college, trade school or specialized classes, but make sure you learn as much as you can. You've made it through one im- portant period - you've got your high school diploma. Now look to see what else you can do to learn. Your brains are still relatively young; you have a better capac- ity to learn than many of us old dogs, who find it hard to learn new tricks. 2. If you go to college, learn the differ-. ence between opinion and fact from your professors. The good ones will make it clear for you, but there are some who will ram their thoughts down your throat, See ADVICE/Page C4 Adulthood requires sacrifice Jim Clark, the editor of the Chroni- cle's sister paper up the road in Williston, offers a column in today's section with some excellent advice for high school graduates. He lists seven points for graduates to ponder as they step into the world. Here's some observations I have about this pivotal point in life. * I was getting my Saturday coffee a couple of weeks ago when I overheard a young man ask the clerk if the store was hir- ing. Curious, I looked or and saw that this guy had his l cap on sideways, was wearina jer- -, sey and his shorts were slung low. Charlie There's nothing wrong with SHA any of that, except ?st impres- sions are every ng. The OF C working world requires some sacrifices and one of those is often ap- pearance. In general, one should dress for interviews in a fashion those who will be doing the interviewing are dressed. At most, the clerk was humored by the young man, but not interested in taking an application. I u a< * For my high school graduation re- hearsal, the students rode busses into the city where the ceremony took place. As we drove by a 7-Eleven store, one student pointed and said, "There's Frank's alma mater." That was sarcasm. The classmate Frank and another dolt decided they'd hold up the 7-Eleven a week or two before graduation. They got caught and Frank didn't gradu- ate, at least not with us. Frank was popular and a good athlete, but stupid decisions have very real consequences. N Two or three months after u gluation, I was lucky enough 3rennan enrolled in junior college. DES s living a long distance where I grew up and thor- RAY t ly thrived on the inde- pendence, -socially anyway I don't remember his name anym4 but there was another freshman who s equally thriving on iglependence. Inhis dogm rpom, he kept the little refrigerator constantly stocked with Heinekens. )HADES/Page C4 C\ ]"" mmvm.. I - I- Page C2 SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 PINION C "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars I But in ourselves, that we are underlings." William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" ITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD *Gerry Mulligan......................................... publisher Charlie Brennan ............................................editor Neale Brennan ........promotions/community affairs Mike Arnold ..............................managing editor Cheri Harris.................... .....features editor - Curt Ebitz... ..................... citizen member Founded Mac Harris ..................................citizen member by Albert M. Williamson Cliff Pierson ................................guest member "You may differ with my choice, but not my right to choose." - David S. Arthurs publisher emeritus POLICIES AND OVERSIGHT Broader issues require attention at CREST school L ogically, the Citrus County School Board fired a CREST School teacher after learning she had had a parental signature su- perimposed on a form re- quired to place a child in an isolation room. It's regrettable that the school's Teacher of the -Year made the decision to have the signa- THE IS ture falsified, THE I since her record CREST prior to the inci- and teact dent was stellar. It's also regret- OUR OP1 table that the challenges and Huge ch bureaucracy in- unfort volved with edu- circums eating and supervising autistic children and others with special needs. is staggering. But that's the re- ality at the school with an acronym that stands for Citrus Resources for Exceptional Stu- dents in Transition. Even had the teacher pro- duced a consent form signed by the parents to allow their child to be secluded for behavioral reasons, there can be no excus- ing the falsified document. De- spite the teacher's contention to the contrary, the parents say they never signed the form, would not sign such a form and that they oppose seclusion as an option for when their child acts out. To compound the problem, the child was injured during the incident. It's troubling to note, how- ever, that the child had been put in the isolation room in the past and that other school offi- cials were aware of that fact. To that end, the teacher likely felt taking whatever action was necessary to safeguard other students, and herself, was ap- propriate. While the fault for h a s falsifying the form lands squarely on the teacher, it's clear that there are broader is- sues and policies that need to be addressed. A lawyer for the parents has made accusations of insuffi- cient documentation for use of the isolation room. The super- intendent of schools, in a letter of reprimand to the , principal, SSUE: noted, "... the fol- School low-up proce- ier firing. dures for placement into INION: this isolation time-out setting illenges, have not been unate monitored on a dances. constant basis. Ad- ministration and appropriate personnel should be involved in the oversight of these processes...In reviewing your procedures, there was. a log for the students who were placed in the (isolation room), but continued follow-up is needed for oversight of this log." The superintendent also stated, "Further, no cross check was completed to ensure par- ent permission forms, etc., had been received." Clearly, there's fault to share, but it's critical to remember that those teachers and admin- istrators at the CREST School willingly take on monumental educational challenges fraught with complexity and peril. In the wake of recent events, procedures have been scruti- nized by district officials. Such scrutiny must be ongoing with every effort made to simplify bureaucracy, protect all con- cerned and to provide parents with confidence that their child will be treated as agreed upon when enrolled at the school. , / -Hot Corner: ADMINISTRATOR'S PAY' Same ol' boss? Would someone please tell me what the new county administra- tion will do for $122,500 plus perks per year? Could this be the well-known good-ol'-boy problem in Citrus County? Another mistake Well, it looks like we've got a new county administrator, Brad Thorpe. I think that's an excellent selection, but give me a break on the benefits. He's going in at a good salary level, but these perks - four weeks annual sick leave, four weeks annual vacation? We didn't hire a new president. This is just obscene. I think it's time for our commissioners to go. They're the problem. It hasn't been our prior county administrators. Our commissioners have cost us prob- ably millions of dollars in the past with their foolish mistakes, and this is another one. Excessive benefits I am questioning Brad Thorpe's benefits. Why does he start out with four weeks annual sick leave and four weeks annual vacation? How many jobs provide that un- less you're a CEO of a big corpo- ration? But why does our county government provide such gener- ous benefits to a county adminis- trator? I think that's excessive and I think that we need to make some serious changes in our county government. Too high I was reading the Chronicle today on the front page that $122,500 a year (is going to be) paid (to. the) man Brad Thorpe (for) being the county administrator. This is ab- solutely absurd to pay a man this kind of money (with) perks,. whatever else goes, benefits, medical; that the county commission has to have an- other person to have an opinion to comingle with theirs. My God, what's this world, this country coming to? To. pay these high-falutin' officials this kind-of money when they can't even get their own house in order when they argue among themselves on issues for months going into years. Outrageous Brad Thorpe making $122,000 a year and we're letting people go in Citrus County because of the economy. Simply outrageous. Slap in the face Well, a'hother slap in the face to the poor taxpayer who has to pay for the new county administrator. He's going to be making about $1,000 a day to implement the board's wishes. This is in a county with 10 percent unem- ployment Did you see the tax rolls? Thick volumes of unpaid taxes. Peo- ple cannot afford to pay for the fat government that this county has. They couldn't find somebody to work for $60,000 a year? Anybody who makes money from the taxpayer should pay their own health benefits. How much would that save us? Gingric DOUGLAS COHN AND ELEANOR CLIFT F ormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he'll decide in 2011 whether to run for president in 2012. That's a long way off, and the voters aren't exactly clamoring for him to enter the race, but the prospect of his candidacy is not as implau- sible as it seems. Granted he left the House under a cloud, and his hyper-partisan rhetoric seems out of tune with the civility and bipartisanship that President Barack Obama's election symbol- izes. The main reason he has a shot at the nomination is because in today's radicalized i'right-wing Republican Party, Gingrich looks like a moderate., .Rush Limbaugh and former Vice President Dick Cheney have opened up a path for Gingrich. Next to them, he looks like the, voice of reason. The other advan- tage he brings is ideas. Gingrich generates ideas with an ease that few people have, and while not all of them are worthy, his ability to advance them in an otherwise parched Republican landscape sets him apart from those whose intellectual depth doesn't go be- yond sound bites. The GOP is des- perate for contenders who can elevate the argument above name-calling. The Republican Party needs fresh thinking and new faces, and Gingrich, by virtue of having first been elected to the House in the late 1970s, is hardly new to the Helping communities The National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger food drive on May 9 was a huge success. In spite of economic hard times, the caring people of Cit- rus County reached out and helped their more unfortunate neighbors by donating a total of 62,136 pounds of food! Donations were distributed to an assortment of assistance foundations throughout the county: in Inverness, 22,753 pounds to Citrus United Basket; in Crystal River (9,976 pounds), Lecanto (13,079 pounds) and Beverly Hills (1,212 pounds) to Daystar. In Hernando (8,330 pounds) and Holder (100 pounds) of food was sent to the Family Resource Center. Floral City's 2,456 pounds was split be- tween Floral City Church of Christ and the Floral City First Baptist Church. In Homosassa, 50 pounds went to the Ho- mosassa Civic Club. In Ho- mosassa Springs, 4,180 pounds was given to the Salvation Army We would like to thank all city, rural, highway contract carriers, clerks and maintenance person- nel for their hard work. Thank you to our sponsors: National Association of Letter Carriers, U.S. Postal Service, Campbell Soup Co., America's Second Har- vest, AFL-CIO, United Way, Val- pak, Publix and the Citrus County Chronicle. Thank you to Debbie Lattin and her tireless crew of volunteers. This was the 17th annual NALC National Food Drive, the largest one-day food drive in the nation. Through the efforts by members of the National Associ- 1 the moderate Other VOICES scene. But he has a way of re-in- venting himself to embrace the 21st century while still holding on to the conservatism that made him such a firebrand when he led the Republican Revolution to gain majority control of the House in 1994 for the first time in 40 years. He found the way out of the wilderness then and he has the intellectual heft and the bravado to at least claim he can do it again. Like Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, both major political fig- ures, Gingrich's flaws are evident His personal life is hardly a model, and when he wielded power in the House, he did it in such a dictatorial fashion that Saturday Night Live parodied him slamming down the gavel to declare law after law passed from his beloved Contract With Amer- ica. For all his talk about Jeffer- sonian democracy, he ruled in an extremely autocratic fashion. When the health care debate heats up this summer, Gingrich will be the man to watch. He has founded a non-partisan think tank, American Solutions, and he understands that it's not enough to just oppose what the Democ- rats together with President Obama develop to extend univer- sal health care to Americans. Pollster Frank Luntz, who worked with Gingrich to develop the Contract in '94, has written a memo advising Republicans how to counter the Democrats on health care by calling whatever plan they settle on "a Washington takeover." Gingrich's counter- proposal will rely more on pri- vate markets, and he will probably lead the charge against any public plan that could be- come a forerunner to a single- payer plan that would make it harder for insurance companies to compete. . There are lots of reasons to run' for president short of thinking you can win the nomination, or ultimately the White House. All those debates before even the first vote is cast are a platform for debating ideas, which is Gin- grich's strong suit. Plus, his con- servative .credentials are still intact and he would have an eas- ier time than, say, former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., convincing the Right they should vote for him in the primaries. At the same time, the GOP has positioned it- self so far to the Right that Gin- grich looks like a moderate alternative to, say, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, or former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark. So when Gingrich says he'll make up his mind in 2011 about the presi- dency, don't dismiss him. He may have found his calling. Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift author the Washington Merry- Go-Round column, founded in 1932 by Drew Pearson. S OPINIONS INVITE M The opinions expressed in cle editorials are the opini the editorial board of the per. * Viewpoints depicted in po cartoons, columns or letter not necessarily represent t opinion of the editorial bo * Groups or individuals are to express their opinions ir ter to the editor. N Persons wishing to address editorial board, which mee weekly, should call Mike A (352) 563-5660. 0 All letters must be signed elude a phone number ann town, including letters ser e-mail. 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Citrus County can be vei of its caring and generous Again, the National Ass tion of Letter Carriers wi say thank you to all who 1 us help our communities Rick Meyer, pi Inverness Bran 'National Association of Lette to the Editor ED Give us more Chroni- I am sending this letter to ons of the editor to let you know that newspa- the recent concert with Blood, Sweat and Tears, and Check litical Negron, formerly of Three Dog ars do Night at Inverness Speedway ard. on May 15 at 7:30 p.m. was a invited huge-success. I also need to n a let- greatly compliment the Inver- ness Rotary for all of their ss the hard work in putting this great ets show together. In fact, I really rnold at hope that there will be more shows like this one in which and in- big-name rock groups like d home- Blood Sweat and Tears could owns perform. This would be a great -bers help to Citrus County and the ven out. city of Inverness with regard to it let- helping boost community ess and awareness, as well as provid- ing a great source of entertain- r than ment for the area rather than Smonth. making it necessary for resi- dents to have to drive to Editor, s- Gainesville or Tampa to see x to these great performances. I to The show went very well and om. the Speedway was left as clean and neat as it was upon the be- AFL- ginning of the show. I also send s, a thanks and my compliments to f 73.1 all of the volunteer security and a total staff members who attended the r his- show. They did a wonderful job )unds of of helping everyone to their nity seats, etc. The crowd greatly ap- preciated the performers, as ry proud well as the venue. citizens. In this manner, again, I sin- socia- cerely hope that there will be shes to more shows like this one to fol- helped low at the Speedway and I re- spectfully am making this request. resident ch 6013 Richard K. Palais r Carriers Hernando Beach THE CHRONICLE invites you to call "Sound Off" with your opinions about any subject. You do not need to leave your name, and have less than a minute to record. COMMENTS will be edited for length, libel, personal attacks and good taste. Editors will cut libelous material. OPINIONS expressed are purely those of the callers.. lu Ghtl ~PIC ~1K OW QY/ FARAQK OBNAM TTLr= LETTERS CITRus COuNT7 (FL) CHRONICa C Shedding light o A surprising number of of some of my still employed people have inquired friends, I don't always have as to how I'm enjoy- time to do everything as ing retirement It's been six quickly as I'd like. For ex- months and some had sug- ample, one such friend - gested once the new had Frank, a friend who's been worn off, I might not find on- my friend since our days at going leisure as wonderful Pasco High School; a soldier as I expected it to be. But the with whom I shared a pup truth, the whole truth and tent when we were army re- nothing but the truth is I'm servists; a comrade in many still loving it It's sort of like adventures while we were when I was a kid and school bank examiners; and, for was out for the summer - I the past several years, once feel free. It's as though I'm more, a valued coworker - again allowed to roam the guffawed (he laughed in my riverbank barefooted during face) when I complained I the middle of the day. hadn't yet found time to Even so, I don't always do clean out and replant flow- what I want to do when I ers in my window boxes. want to do it. I don't live in a I'm now doing those vacuum. I still have a sched- things I'd pretty much given ule; and, to the amusement up for the last several years. the current state of retirement I've written a couple of wants what's best for me thousand more words of my and she encouraged mie to very own version of the find relaxation wherever I great American could, including novel and I'm painting in her painting up a . kitchen. I, on the storm. (Painting -' other hand, with tremors? couldn't put up That's another with an ongoing column for an- mess. So, each other day.) time I finished a On the subject session, I'd clean of painting - up, including smearing oil 'Fred Brannen putting away all paints on canvas A SLICE of the parapher- - it didn't take nalia. Painting is long to realize OF LIFE fun, cleaning up using the kitchen isn't. was going to be more diffi- I began to look for a more cult than I initially thought, suitable space. Why? The kitchen was the best Cheryl hadn't com- place inside the house and it plained. She loves me, she had already been ruled out. The garage wouldn't work - Cheryl loves me enough to let me paint in her kitchen, but her love would have been sorely tested had I smudged paint or splashed paint thinner on her car. But there is a happy end- ing. While evaluating the garage, I had an epiphany: I spied a window air condi- tioner which, along with a small generator, we'd bought as a part of a hurri- cane survival package; and, adjacent to the garage stands an 8 by 10 feet tool shed which has always housed very few tools and a lot of junk. Shazam! An air- conditioned shed would make a fine art studio! As it is for me with virtually all such projects, it took much more effort than I thought it would, but eventually, the ex- cess junk was removed and the shed was transformed into a studio - an air-condi- tioned studio, carpeted, out- fitted with fluorescent lighting and fully equipped with easels, brushes paints, a drawing board, a cute little adjustable stool, and even a mini-refrigerator! And there you have it - thanks for allowing me to share, shedding some light on the current state of my retirement. Fred Brannen is an Inverness resident and Chronicle columnist Deterrent Death row: With 390 prisoners on death row costing the state of Florida $8 million to $10 million a year, boy, could the state find better use of that money now. All per- sons on death row should have one appeal per year and be executed in two years, (with) a maximum of two appeals. To keep a person longer-than that is cruel and un- usual punishment and it only helps to make money for the lawyers. Execution of murderers has been proven to be a deterrent to crime. Over and out. Shame on Hello I don't know how people can think that Helio Castroneves is such a great athlete and star. He screwed this country out of several thou- sands of dollars of tax money that was kind of hidden somewhere and it probably still is hidden some- CAL where. And the jury couldn't make a 6 decision on it, so they dismissed J5"- the case. So this guy is going scot- free and they're applauding him like he's a hero. He won a race. He's really stuck it to the citizens of this country by what he's done to them, and we're trying to laud him out as being a big hero. I don't understand that ... I don't understand how a selected jury can't even make a good decision based on the fact that he did take money. It was basically proven he took money, but they couldn't come up with the unanimous vote to put him in jail, so they let him go. Tough enough I am calling in about the Sound Off on Sunday,, May 24, about the bus driver. I feel these bus drivers have a tough enough job without people complaining about them.and what- they're doing. tJimagine that these people (were) doing after-work, after-school programs and they have to go ( to the far corners of the county to get these children home safe and sound. I think these people need to realize that people are trying to do their jobs and they shouldn't complain about it when they're trying to get their children home safe and sound. Need fresh troops The time is here to start a draft. We need fresh soldiers, fresh Marines and fresh sailors. We have to build up our Navy, our Army, our Air Force because JiND (of) what's going on in North Korea, Iran and Pakistan. They f|C -are definitely threatening us, and EI" unless we protect ourselves like f we did in World War II after we were attacked, we're going to be goners. We have to start forget- ting these people who are weep- ing about having people drafted. It worked in World War II and it 5 r79 has to work now. We need fresh 57) troops, not the ones that are reused and reused and reused. Meat from North This is in response to the person who wrote in "No good steaks in Florida be- cause they don't keep the animals off grazing." I'm a meat cutter at one of the major markets in Inverness, and most of our meat comes from up North. I think you ought to get your story straight. All the .meat that's sold in these markets does not come from Florida. We buy our meat from up North where the Black Angus are. No sidewalks This is for the Sound Off person who said people should not walk their dogs on the road: It is legal for people to walk on the road:c There's usually no sidewalks on the road and it's illegal'to harass pedestri- ans on the road. Letters Kindness of strange -My family and I were recently ti ents of "a random act of kindness," hard to describe how blessed that you feel. Last Sunday morning, my and I,and my two sons were having fast at Cockadoodle's, when, right had ordered, the waitress said tha the other customers had paid for I suspect that our benefactor mi been influenced by the fact that m sons are obviously physically and challenged and I believe this wasa of support from a Citrus County ne for my sons and family as part of t munity But, whatever the reason, kindness was especially welcome all the news about a very few nega tions to a Key Center home being i a gated community. My boys have 1 of the Key Center for years and we and love many of the other clients also met hundreds of people who the Key, my sons, and all of their fi just through the goodness of their Citrus County is home to many of caring neighbors on Earth. . Thanks, again, to those unkno wonderful, people who gave us t minder last Sunday. Larry and Stephani Working the wat< East Citrus County waterfront h owners are pleased that SWFWM the sinkhole problem. I also want all the east Citrus folks that push with me to get it done. Without th tance of BOCC Chairman John TI it would not have been accomplish 's to C7 n.:T 0R ers While the lakes seem to be improving a little and we are waiting to get some of the he recipi- water from the Green Swamp, it would "and it is seem to me to be an ideal time for the makes county and SWFWMD to clean out, y husband deepen and widen the two main sources of g break- water that would come into our lake sys- after we tem from the Withlacoochee River. it one of The Heffner Canal and the Orange our meal. State Canal are in sad shape and would eight have not be able to handle a large amount of y two water. Much of it would end up over or mentally around the Wysong Coogler Dam. Repair- a gesture ing the two inlets would allow more water neighbor to get in and less to go toward the Gulf. he com- I have talked to several persons in posi- this act of tions of authority, and they agree that the following dam could be raised another foot and there itive reac- could be an opening into the Flying Eagle opened in management area from the river between been part the dam and the outfall river that would save e know much of the water coming out of Lake Pana- We have soffkee. Also, it would allow water from the support river to flow into the marshes of the Flying lends, Eagle and cleanse itself as it flows through. hearts. I know that there are persons in the most SWFWMD that agree with me. It does not take a scholar to see that the opening wn, but from the outfall river and the water from his re- it all is going north to the dam and not running back up to the two canals that feed our river inlets (Heffner and Orange e Hopper State). An opening into the management Inverness area would capture that for the lakes. I propose that the BOCC and er SWFWMD take a look at these items and direct the persons that have the re- home- sources and manpower to get it done to tD fixed take the necessary actions. Hard work tto thank now would certainly ease the situation ed along when the water comes our way. ,, e assis- hrumston, Jim Adkins shed. Inverness SUN BELT Continued from Page C1 But as often is the case with such schemes, there comes a day when the engine sputters, gasps, and conks out. A day when the faithful stop turning up. In the Sun Belt's newer, shallow- rooted communities, the roadkill is most evident: Where once there were "boomburbs," there now stand "ghostdivisions." Where property- flipping was once almost a middle- class sport, joblessness and "For Sale by Owner" signs reign. The fallout is traceable in other Ways, too. Nevada -the only state with a lower proportion of native residents than Florida-- has seen net migratiorrplunge-61 percent in two years; Arizona, 55 percent. Were it not for immigrants, many of them from Latin America, and for fertility, the Sunshine State would actually have lost population last year - an "as- tounding development in the Florida experience," says Bill Frey, a senior fellow and demog- rapher at the Brookings Institu- tion in Washington, D.C. He said the end of steady move- ment of people into the Sun Belt' is part of a broader trend of cur- tailed migration during this down- turn. "The merry-go-round has stopped, in terms of people mov- ing from place to place." Does this mean we've witnessed the Rise and Fall of the Sun Belt? Will those who swept into these Miracle-Gro states get swept out just as quickly, leaving behind a sprawl of hollow houses; cul-de- sac moonscapes and mosquito-in- fested pools - the stucco ghettos of the 21st century? Or will the latest downturn merely force the Sun Belt to rein- vent itself again? The housing bubble in many places revealed an obsolescent model of economic life, in which cheap real estate encouraged low- density sprawl and created a work force "stuck in place, anchored by houses that cannot be profitably sold," Florida wrote in his March article. These places, he says, include older, factory towns/across the northern Rust Belt but also count- less communities ij the Sun Belt whose prosperity was built on "fic- titious wealth." What to do? Scrap policies that encourage homebuying, he sug- gests, and give incentives to more mobile renters who can go where the jobs are. In the digital age, he says, indus- tries will likely cluster in "mega-re- gions" of multiple cities and their surrounding suburban rings (e.g., the Boston-New York-Washington corridor). These areas will surge, lifted by the brainpower of edu- cated professionals and creative thinkers that turn out "products and services faster than talented people in other places can." In short: Those that can draw talented, young people with high- quality, higher education will reap the spoils. There is some evidence to sug- gest an- imbalance -in American educational achievement across regions. According to research by two Harvard economists, Edward Glaeser and Christopher Berry, educational attainment is no longer as evenly spread across America as it was in the '70s. Places such as San Francisco, Boston and Seattle now turn out two to three times the college graduates of, say, Akron or Buf- falo. When examining postgradu- ate achievement, the researchers found even greater disparities. If locales that boast premium uni- versities will be able to more quicldy pick themselves off the mat, a ques- tion arises. In the Sun Belt's "sand cities," their expansion now halted, where will the tax money come from to pay for college upgrades? Parts of Arizona, Nevada and the Los Angeles exurb of River- side overbuilt and overstretched, said Anthony Sanders, a professor of finance and economics at Ari- zona State University. Like Looney Toons characters who, suspended in mid-air, look down to behold they've run off a cliff, officials are scrambling to reverse course -- either by scrapping gov- ernment services they'd promised or, at the very least, by hiking taxes to pay for services created in expec- tation of bigger suburbs, exurbs. Phoenix is in this fix. Shocked by a 33 percent plunge in home values between October 2007 and October 2008 alone, the city is run- ning a $200 million budget deficit, a shortfall that's only expected to grow. (It has petitioned the federal government for funds.) California has an even wider hole in its battered canoe. That state "went on a spending spree that was- incredible," said Sanders. Now, at a time when many resident retirees are in no mood, or shape, for tax increases, "they're having to raise taxes or cut back services, both of which are making moving to California a lot less desirable than it has been in previous decades." Other Sun Belt states are mak- ing similar "mistakes," Sanders said, adding: "Unless we lower the tax burden, making it simpler for businesses to do more operations, and freeing up the ability to at- tract workers, the economy here is not going to come back." The challenges don't end there. Even before the Crash of '08, the Sun Belt was being buffeted by out- migration of factory jobs abroad. In ..the Carolinas, for example, indus- tries that linked up the economy, society and culture for more than a century - furniture making, to- bacco and textiles - had been gut- ted by a decade of decline. And although the overall expan- sion of the Sun Belt's economy has been dramatic, the distribution of the region's prosperity has been un- even; of the 25 metropolitan areas with the lowest per capital income in 1990,23 were in the Sun Belt That has to change, said Warren Brown, a demographer at the Uni- versity of Georgia, although he noted that the Sun Belt's unbri- dled growth in the '80s and '90s was "unsustainable, bound to cool off," and not just because of burst- ing housing or migration bubbles. The limits of natural resources were poised to put the brakes on development in the Land of Sunny Dreams anyway, he said. Two big- gies: oil and water. "Long before we run out of land, we'll be running out of water;" he said. "Water is a major issue right now." - Doomsaying pundits have played the Sun Belt dirge before. In 1981, for example, Time maga- zine declared Florida a "Paradise Lost" The state then embarked on an epic boom, in which the Miami- Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach corridor ballooned into the seventh- largest metro area in America. Granted, today's news from the Sunshine State is hardly cheery: It ranks near the top in foreclosures and near the bottom in high- school'graduation rates. There's a water crisis, an insurance crisis, a budget crisis. So why do some experts caution that talk of Florida's demise - and the Sun Belt's - is exaggerated? Among other things, Frey, the Brookings demographer, notes that outmigration from metro Miami ac-' tually fell last year, and in years to come "we're going to have large numbers of immigrants in the United States who are going to help us in all kinds of ways," he says. Stan Smith, a professor of eco- nomics and director of the Bureau of Economic and Business Re- search at the University of Florida, says tourism, the "momentum" of decades of population growth, and already extensive networks of per- sonal connections will again draw more migrants to Florida. Frozen credit won't last, he says. Real estate price declines - as much as 70 percent in some Sun Belt counties - will encourage buy- ers. And with home heating costs in the "Frost Belt" only expected to rise, Smith says, the attraction of warm weather to retiring Baby Boomers can't be overestimated. Florida is one of only nine states without an income tax. Cou- ple that with the fact that its taxes on corporations and financial transactions have many exemp- tions, he says, and "the effects of the positive factors will continue to outweigh the negative." Recovery will take time, though, and few economists see any sig- nificant growth in the Sun Belt be- fore 2010. Steve Malanga, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York City, agrees that states that have piled up surplus housing "are not going to solve it in this budget cycle or the next budget cycle. It's going to be with them for five, six, seven years, no doubt about it." And yet, to say all areas across the Sun Belt are in for long-term decline is simplistic, he says. Scanning the most recent employ- ment maps put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals "a 'belt' in the middle of the country - Texas is part of it - that is doing quite well." (The AP Stress Map backs up that finding, revealing a swath of comparatively unscathed counties starting in North Dakota, stretching through South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas and ending in Oklahoma and Texas.) Out of the nation's 100 fastest- growing counties, the majority were in Texas (19), Georgia (14), North Carolina (11) or Utah (nine), according to U.S. Census figures last year. Raleigh-Cary, N.C., and Austin-Round Rock, Texas, were the nation's fastest-growing metro areas, registering growth rates of 4.3 percent and 3.8 percent, re- spectively. Both high-tech centers, the two metros are also sites of major college campuses that helped cushion them. Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston registered the biggest numerical gains, the census figures show. Phoenix and Atlanta ranked third and fourth in growth, respectively, followed by Los Angeles, despite the housing slump. "Obviously, the best situation is a state that hasn't had a residen- tial meltdown, still has a low-cost advantage, and has a weather ad- vantage," Malanga says. High-tax states, such as California, are going to take longer to rebound. And yet, Sun Belt states will have to offer more than tax incentives to reel in companies in the new, global economy, says Keith Schwer, executive director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada. Quality health care, quality recre- ation, quality education - compa- nies and individuals consider the caliber of amenities before relocat- ing. Cosmetic fixes don't help, he says. "You can't hide your warts." Does all of this mean the Sun Belt will have to reinvent itself to grow again? Rethink may be a better term. As an example, Caron St John, director of the Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurship at Clemson Uni- versity in South Carolina, says Sun Belt states now rationing funds ought to consider returning to "First Principles" - that is, channeling what little money they have toward elementary and high schools rather than higher education. "Elementary and high school children - we can't scar their lives because of a budget crisis. That has to be the first priority." The question is whether the Sun Belt will show the rest of the nation how to retool schools, save water and energy, and better plan its sub- urbs and exurbs in an era of less. "By necessity, we're already being forced to address these is- sues," says Schwer, of the Univer- sity of Nevada. "This crisis is an opportunity, more than anything else, to reset things, to put some balance back into our lives." SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 C3 COMMENTARY Do we deserve to be Americans? History confirms that bondage or enslave- ment is the normal human condition. Our American "experiment" is an exception. Our founders proclaimed the rights of the individual to be derived from "Na- ture's Creator" rather than granted by any ruler. They limited our government so that it served the people and was responsible to them. They derived the rights of the government from the consent of the gov- erned. Each individual was set free to seek his fortune and, should he fail, to try again or throw himself upon the charity of his neighbors. Our founders, in their let- ters, expressed concern that corrupt politicians aided by apathetic citizens would lead the nation back to human bondage. Were they to rise up from their hal- lowed graves and view America today, they would be shocked and greatly sad- dened. Freedom and indi- vidual liberties, as they knew them, have given way to dependency, ignorance and apathy Individual re- sponsibility, discipline and ambition have given way to a sense of entitlement for a large segment of voters who feel victimized by competi- tion and freedom itself. The founders might rue- fully ask: Do Americans of 2009 deserve to be citizens of this exceptional nation we founded? Do they no longer appreciate its greatness, their freedoms and opportu- nities denied citizens else- where? Why have they not defended their rights against serfdom to the federal gov- ernment? What became of their courage and self-suffi- ciency? What became of ac- cepting responsibility for one's choices and actions? Has America become a na- tion of self-indulgent, whin- ing cowards? Maybe President Obama and his cult-like supporters. have it right after all. Perhaps we have become a nation of losers and incompe- tents. Poorly edu- cated by our public schools, lacking in confi- dence, discipline and courage, Dr. Willia many no longer OTI believe they can, work hard, corn- VOI pete and be suc- cessful. To them it makes sense, as Obama suggests, to have the government take money from productive citi- zens (the ones who are de- rided as greedy, uncaring and immoral) and use it to help out the rest fl IH 1 One wonders what will happen when Congress raises taxes on the producers of wealth to the level where they no longer have an in- centive to work and support the country. Many will retire. Some will relocate busi- nesses to wher- ever there is more economic free- dom. Those who must remain in America and have not accumulated am Dixon the wealth to re- 4sER tire will find ways to spend less and CES work less. The American stan- dard of living will fall. As al- ways, those on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder (clamoring for "hope" and -"change") will suffer the most Unless the laws governing economics - unchanged over the past two thousand years - are wrong, this ad- ministration's move to man- age the economy will fail. Miserably The nation and the people will be the worse for it There will be more poverty, more pain and re- newed calls for "change." Historically, the "change" is ultimately to dictatorship of some sort with loss of indi- vidual freedoms. Germany, for example, was an intellec- tually vibrant nation with representative government before socialism and eco- nomic collapse gave rise to national socialism (Nazism). We delude ourselves who think this cannot happen in America. Can seizure of the economy and most other aspects of so- ciety by the "governing class" be reversed? Is there a Ronald Reagan out there who can speakthe truth about gov- ernment in a fashion under- stood by all as he did in the dismal Carter years? Proba- bly not The task falls, on lesser talents, yours and mine. We must speak out and fight against the taking of our freedoms. Those who will not defend the country do not de- serve its citizenship. William Dixon graduated from Columbia College in New York City, from New York Medical College and from the College ofBusi- ness Administration at the University of South Florida. He was an assistant profes- sor at the University of Georgia and he has worked in the veterans administra- tion system. He served 11 years in the Army as a sur- geon and as special forces officer, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. Dr Dixon can be reached at Wdixonl6@yahoo.com. 9TARLERv �i4e ctgs CCgil ~SIpATCH- . 2W9. ITH-IN1K I FOUN D SOME~THING! WINDOW Continued from Page C1 Meredith Linley. Meredith, whose dad was once in charge of the Homosassa Springs at- traction, grew up here and is a great addition to the staff. 8. The YMCA has offi- cially opened up an office in Citrus County and has a full schedule of programs being offered. Summer camps are planned at both Whispering Pines Park in Inverness and Bicentennial Park in Crys- tal River. Citrus residents have been talking about get- ting a YMCA started here for more than 20 years - it's nice to finally see it happen. 9. If you want to feel good about our future as a country, take a look atJ.T Hutcherson of Crystal River High School. This young man, a student leader at the high school and a 2009 graduate, was named If you want to feel good about our future as a country, take a look at J.T. Hutcherson of Crystal River High School.... A student like this gives me confidence about the future. a Gates Millennium Scholar (as in Bill Gates). J.T has won a full scholarship to college and graduate school. He plans on studying medicine and returning to Crystal River as a doctor A student like this gives me confidence about the future. 10. It was two years ago that a young lady close to many of us at the paper died in a tragic auto accident Melissa Hess had just gradu- ated from Citrus High School when she and her friend Molly were killed while driv- ing back from a shopping trip in Ocala. While the sorrow is still so strong, the positive side of the story is that Tim Hess, the former operations director at the Chronicle and Melissa's dad, was back at Citrus High School last week handing out two scholarships from contributions made at the time. Tim and his wife, . Lori, have dealt with the tragedy by making a positive impact on the dreams of other young people. Their strength makes us all a little stronger. Gerry Mulligan is the pub- lisher of the Chronicle. His e-mail address is gmulligan @chronicleonline.com. ADVICE Continued from Page C1 without making it clear that it's what they think, not what the world accepts as truth. 3. If you haven't already, develop a good work ethic. When it comes to studying and school assignments, the days of someone looking over your shoulder to make sure you are doing what you are supposed to are over You're on your own. Your educa- tion, or your job, are what you make it. Take a look at employment ads in almost every major field. They'll say things like "self-starter" or "must work well without supervision." Managers in the business world don't want to have to watch every step that you do. Learn to work by yourself with maximum effort. Remember, the world doesn't owe you a living - you have to go out and make your own mark. 4. Choose your friends wisely. Hang around with people who have good goals, who want to make a decent mark in this world. There was a great commercial on TV (I can't remember what product it was for) where one guy in a group of wild young people gets a suit-and-tie job, so the others always want him to buy dinner, because they aren't doing a thing. You will undoubt- edly encounter some of these students - steer clear and be your own person. Some years later, these will be the students who will come to you begging for a job. 5. Stay active. There will come a time in your life when you can't exercise like you used to, but that day isn't here yet for most of you. I'm afraid that we are producing a generation of computer-chair potatoes (as opposed to couch potatoes), those who do nothing but sit in front of a computer screen for all their free time. Get out and do something. You can walk, you can run, you can play a sport, you can swim - just do something. It's good for your mind and your body. 6. Volunteer in the community. There are all sorts of things that need doing. Some involve some physical work, others involve using your brains to help people. Give something back to the community; show that you care. You never know, some- day you may be one of the people who needs help, and maybe there will be folks around who will recall what you did for others, and you'll get some help in return. And don't do it for the glory and the recog- nition. The best volunteers are those who work behind the scenes, who get nothing out of it but personal satisfaction. 7. Finally, keep the faith, and not just re- ligious faith. If you are a religious person, you will be tested. Most of those who are religious find great solace in that faith, so don't let yourself get tempted away from it But there is another kind of faith, faith in your fellow human beings, faith in the country Be aware of the times you live in, for sure, but realize there are so many places in the world that are worse off than we are. While we live in the fear that ,there could be another attack on us somewhere in the United States, there are people who live with the very real fear of being blown up every day. While we have medical care available to us when we get sick, there are people who succumb to the least little ill- ness because their bodies can't fight dis- eases, or they have no access to things as simple as an aspirin. As you depart from high school, thank your teachers, your counselors, your school employees. They surely don't get rich doing what they do, but almost all of them love their profession. Someday you will realize how good the days of high school were. But for now, you've reached your goal of getting your diploma, which is a job well done. Congratulations! Jim Clark can be reached at editor@willistonpioneercom or at 528-3343. SHADES Continued from Page C1 Time for classes would come and go and, morning, afternoon and evening, you could find this guy in his room and share a cold one with him. It was a short friendship, though. He was gone after th'e first semester, and by the time the second semester ended, he was off in Southeast Asia serving his country in the Monel Army Had that been his initial everythil plan I'd be praising him, but happiness he landed there because he P had no self-discipline. be. It's u * One of my best friends hated high school but made greatly th it through, barely. While he didn't enjoy the classroom between learning process, he was teens an smart enough to realize that he'd get nowhere with- mid-20s c out hard work. I When he landed a job in rest of C a factory at age 18,1 Iwas en- vious because he was making three times what I was pulling in as a car-washer/odd- job-guy at the local Chevy dealership. When I got a job after junior college, he was making three times what I made work- ing in the citrus biz in Sarasota. When I graduated from state college and started working for newspapers, he was making nearly four times my salary. In my mid-40s, when I was looking at two decades until retirement, he was retiring. I don't envy his life in the factory, but he has a great pension, handsome house, nice vehicles and time to pursue his second ca- reer as a flight instructor * Most of my high school friends were happy to stay where they were, and sev- eral worked in supermarkets. I wouldn't have guessed it at the time, but a couple of them made a very wise choice of staying y r I1 )[ with a particular supermarket and what started as a job out of high school became a good career. * Perhaps the smartest guy in my high school went on to get a college degree, moved to California and now writes poetry, and washes dishes (professionally). He's an excellent poet and his dedication to the art is commendable. It's not for me to say or second guess, still I've wondered if someone who could have been a nuclear physicist is happy with his day job. Money's not everything ('s not ' - and happiness just may be. It's unreal how greatly g - and that window between the just may late teens and early to mid-20s steers the rest of,- ireal how one's life. One need not sell their soul to make sac- at window rifices that'll be beneficial for a lifetime. the late Wear that ball cap side- I early to ways, but not to a job in-. terview. teers the ' Don't blow an opportu- nity like graduating from ne's life. high school on an idiotic move like committing a crime. That'll haunt you for years. Don't invest in college if you're not will- ing to invest in your brain. If you latch onto a solid job, don't dis- count its potential. Dedicate yourself to your greatest inter- ests, butthat doesn'thave tobe at the expense of a career or furthering your education. Don't be defeated by setbacks - they're inevitable. Be yourself but challenge yourself and, in the long haul, it'll be a "self" you can be proud of - just like the pride felt when clutching that new, well-deserved diploma. Charlie Brennani,.s editor of the Citrus County Chronicle.Ie can be e-mailed at cbrennan@chrnicleonline.com. tC4SUINflAY.MAY 31.2009 MOT KK K WSVICACWGION 'MW K WAM M" VW %WA*T f r:z: Cmus CouNTY (FL) CHRoNicLE, COMMENTARY Cimus COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE COMMENTARY SUNDAY MAY 31, 2009C5 Sound OFF Good people I'm calling in regard to the caller who called in on the "Key Center home" Hot Corner in Floral City. I un- derstand you're defending the rights of the mentally handicapped, but yet you put them down by stating that they're helpless and you stereotype them as, you know, saying, "Are you afraid that you'd wake up one morning and find them drooling over your front porch?" If you're going to defend these people, defend them. Don't put them down. They are not helpless and they don't all drool. Love them and care for them. These are some of the best people you would ever, ever meet in your entire life. A sin So, little rich girl kills a person with her car and drives away and goes free without even a traffic ticket. Money will buy anything if you have enough. It's a sin. Twice bitten I just witnessed a pit bull dog jump a fence, jump onto a lady, an elderly lady, 73 years old. She called the sheriff's office and was in- formed that since she was not badly hurt or badly bit- ten, it was not against the law. This is a crying shame.' Does the elderly have to be really hurt before the law will address these prob- lems? Have a good day. The one bitten I just got through walking my dog down the street on a leash and a pit bull - which there are two, in their yard that are not tied - jumped right over the fence and come after me. It hit me with two paws on my chest and almost knocked me over. I was petrified. I picked up my dog, who's only a little shih tzu. I thought he was going to get eaten up. I don't even re- � member what I said. I just stood there and screamed, "Help!" I come home and I called up the police station and they said I had to.call Animal Controlt. called Ani- mal Control and they told me that it wasn't an emer- gency. They asked me if' I was bleeding or if I got bit or whatever ... I couldn't even get anyone to come up and put it on record, what happened. I'm 73 years old. This is how they treat senior citizens? I don't know what's going to become of any- thankful we have real Ameri- cans who want the best for the United States, no mat- ter who proposed the plans. What are you? ABC's fault couple of other incidents. However, the commercials were always in English.' My indicator was set to the English language on the TV. I have Bright House, so it's not the cable company. body around here. It's just I'm having the same Logic rules it to be the ABC -disgusting. problem as "Dishing it," in station. Real Americans? the May 25 Sound Off. og time ago Watching the programs I Maybe you should look at taped in March, an entire In the letter to the editor it this way: First, we have episode of "Lost" was in "Proud to share," (written by) Republicans who want all Spanish, but the program Lauri Gist of Inverness, she other programs aimed at following it was in English. wrote a great letter and lap- Ssuccess to fail. Also,-there- -An episode of '"Desperate prove. The only thing is, Chet are the Democrats who Housewives" was in Span- Cole 'was not the-founder of want to totally dominate the ish, but the programs be- the Key Training Center. The governmental decisions at fore and after it were in Van Nortwicks were. That any cost. We should be English. And there were a goes back a long time. A joke The "Buy American" slo- gan is a joke. As long as health care is tied to em- ployment, American com- panies can't compete. Polls show that individual Ameri- cans prefer the single- payer national health care, but Congress rejects it be- cause politicians receive money from the health in- surance industry. Our legis- lators are not representing their constituents. Manu- facturing has died in the U.S. because, unlike the other industrial nations, we refuse to have national health care and we cripple manufacturers with health care costs. Why call? Why do I call Sen. Dean's office? I call his of- fice because he is our Sen- ate representative here in Citrus County. I call him to let him know we haven't forgotten the Progress En- ergy bill he voted for origi- nally. I call him to let him know I vote in every elec- tion. 1 call him to hopefully keep up the pressure on him to do the right thing for the people he repre- sents, not just the special interest groups. That's why I call Sen. Dean. Love Dr. Dixon I want to thank the Chron- icle for publishing the arti- cles written by Dr. William Dixon. 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MALIBU !�l B Section D SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 CITRUS COUNTY CHRONICLE Real estate agents help you stay put CHRIS VAN ORMER have undergone. training about cvanormer@chronicleonline.com short sale and foreclosure transac- Chronicle tions through the Distressed Prop- erty Institute to gain the When the pre-foreclosure notice designation of a Certified Dis- arrives after a few missed mortgage tressed Property Expert (CDPE). payments, many people Founded last year by don't know where to 0 For information real estate professionals turn. call 637-6200 in Texas, the Distressed "About 70 percent of Property Institute an- people never contact nounced in a recent the bank after they have been statement that it has trained more served," said Karen Cunningham of than 7,500 real estate agents nation- ReMax Realty One: wide in methods for helping home- Cunningham and many of her col- owners in distress. leagues have been working to keep Although the designation is not people in their homes. She said that affiliated with the National Associ- 26 of the 45 agents at her agency ation of Realtors, which offers its own training in dealing with fore- closures and short sales, ReMax In- ternational, the parent company of Cunningham's agency, has launched a national training tour for more of its agents to gain the CDPE designation. What this means is that these real estate agents offer advice to owners of distressed homes, houses that may be in some stage of the foreclo- sure process, and, if possible, try to keep the homeowner in their house, and the house off the market. According to Cunningham, this makes good business sense. "It lowers the number of houses on the market, and helps raise the values of homes for sale," she said. In statistics Cunningham pro- vided, the number of active listings is just starting to decrease from 3,403 in May 2008 to 3,013 in May 2009, but the average sale price has dropped, too, from $148,930 to $122,061. Prices depreciated by 12 percent in 2008, and are showing a decline of 18 percent in 2009. One way for real estate to recover from the recession is to help home- owners hang onto their homes, Cun- ningham said. Through their training, the agents can evaluate whether a property really needs to See AGENTS/Page D3 Small business boom .i , KEITH SRlAKO"OClalTed Prs Chuck Minerd, an edge prep technician at Slem Tool, treats a rack of ddrill bts recently using Conicity Technologies' driE preparation machine at Slem Tool In Latrobe, Pa. Slem Tool vice president of manufacturing Jim Gray credits Conicity, a company that offers a high-tech way of preserving the Ife of manufacturing tools, with helping his company grow since then from just four tool-making machines to 14 today. Some small companies grow as large firms cut costs RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI Associated Press LATROBE, Pa. - For 10 years, Conicity Tech- nology has been trying to convince the nation's largest manufacturers - from auto companies to Caterpillar that its products could save them millions of dollars. The technology that extends the life of manufacturing tools was a tough sale when the econ- omy was growing. But since the recession began, Conicity's rev- enue is up 75 percent. Welcome to another side ofthe new frugality sweeping the coun- try from individual consumers to global conglomerates: Small companies that offer unique ways to cut costs or help big com- panies retain customers are see- ing their businesses blossom. "That's the beauty of a small business," said Lynn Vos, the Sa- vannah-area director of the Uni- versity of Georgia's Small Business Development Center. Small businesses are able to roll out products quicker than corpo- rate behemoths. "They can re- spond quickly to changing market forces and they're not afraid to try." Conicity has perfected a tech- nique known' as microgeometry - a process that gives tool blades a unique shape, extend- See BOOM/Page D3 Upcoming job fair on CFCC campus Special to the Chronicle Workforce Connection is hosting the Ocala/Marion Job & Career Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the CFCC Klein Conference Center in Ocala, across from the Pad- dock Mall. Area companies and educational providers are expected to attend. Job candidates have the opportunity to gather infor- mation and apply for jobs with employers from vari- ous industries including health care, corrections ca- reers, government, call cen- ters and staffing services. A full list of exhibitors and job fair tips for resumes and more can be found at www.clmworkforce.com by clicking on "job fair" under the calendar of events sec- tion. National Emergency Grant (NEG) staff will be on hand to answer questions about scholarship opportu- County, or toll free (800)434- nities. Former employees 5627 and speak to a work- ' from the following 12 manu- force representative. facturing companies may be Workforce Connection is a eligible for member of NEG grant ON THE NET the Employ assistance. Florida net- The compa- 0 clmworkforce.com. work ofwork- nies include, force services Closet-maid, Emergency One, Fluid Routing Systems, American Panel, Golden Flake, Hamilton Products, Homette Corporation (Sky- line), Masco (Merillat), Mon- terey Boats, Pro-line Boats, Seminole Foods, and Uni- versal Forest Products. The NEG grant provides train- ing scholarships for quali- fied job candidates, relocation assistance and support services. Those who cannot attend but would like more infor- mation about Workforce and the services available can call (352) 840-5700 in Marion and re- sources. Workforce Connec- tion is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxil- iary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabili- ties. All voice telephone numbers listed above may be reached by persons using TTY/TDD equipment via the Florida Relay Service at 711. If you need accommo- dations, please call (352) 840-5700, ext. 1278, or e-mail accommoda- tions@clmworkforce.com. Please make request at least three business days in ad- vance. Bl Shafer, owner of Conicity Technologes talks recently about edge preparation machines that can be leased to clients, at the company's headquarters Latobe, Pa. Whie the economy may continue to slog through the worst recession i more than two decades, sales at Consl- Ity Technology, which offers a hlightech way of preserving the We of manufacturing tools, are up 75 percent hi the past year. Business DIGEST Local accountant Olde Towne board attends seminar . fills vacancies Citrus County C Phillip W. Price, MBA, CPA, with the firm Price & Company, P.A. in Crystal River, recently at- tended the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants FSU Spring Accounting Con- ference in Tallahassee, on May 14 and 15. This seminar highlighted such topics as AAccounting for Functional Al- locations and Special Events@, 'The New Form 990" and AFiduciary Account- ing@. Also, the Auditor Gen- eral covered their responsibility for all government accounting in Florida. The FICPA is a pro- fessional association repre- senting the interests of more than 18,400 CPAs with approx- imately 4,400 offices through- out Florida. Price can be reached at 795-6118 or via the firm Web site at www.pwprice.com. At a recent membership meeting of the Inverness Olde Towne Association, Ellie Smith, vice president and branch manager of the Inver- ness Superior Bank, and Leslie Baker, owner of Baker Financial Group, were elected to serve unexpired terms of two board members who re- signed because of a change in business circumstances. Network announces speaker Eric Tidwell, of the Stake- holder Liaison, division of the IRS, will speak to the Citrus Business Network on June 5. The Stakeholder Liaison was organized for the benefit of small business. Along with disaster assistance and emer- gency relief, the Stakeholder Liaison delivers information on See DIGEST/Page D4 Bruce Williams SMART MONEY Where there's a will... DEAR BRUCE: Our grandfather left a substantial amount of money to his six kids, about $100,000 each, but he died without a will, thinking the kids would live by his wishes. One of his sisters (my aunt) took the entire $600,000 out of the bank after his death and never divided it Is there any legal recourse that can be taken, as none of the other siblings ever made her administrator of his estate? -- D.E, via e- DEAR D.E: You say your grandfather left a substantial amount of money to his kids, but that is not true. Since he died without a will, the state will decide to whom and in what amounts the residual of his estate, after his obligations have been settled, will go. How your aunt took the money out of the bank is another question. She may have been on the account - and if she was, the money, in most cases, would be- long to her. Furthermore, someone should apply to the surrogate's office in the county where your grandfather lived to be named administrator of his estate to settle the legal matters. Should this application be made, all of his children will be asked to sign off. The likelihood is that' your aunt would object to someone else's being appointed adminis- trator. If it gets to that, there would be legal mo- tions made on the part of both parties, and the sur- rogate would have to set- tle the matter. This is just another example of how having 4 properly drawn will would obviate all of these difficulties. A few dollars spent on a will would have saved a great many dollars that will now have to be expended. DEAR BRUCE: A fam- ily member bought a house, which was over- priced. The house has a mortgage of about $200,000 at a 6 percent. fixed-rate loan for 30 years. They made pay- ments on the loan over the course of a year. The fam- ily member and spouse both recently lost their jobs. Because my husband and I are retired, we have income and some savings. Would it be wise to help the family make' their house payments in the hope that they can find work? If they are unable to find jobs equivalent to what they were paid, can the house be refinanced at a later date at a lower rate of interest? - LO., via e-mail DEAR LO.: It would ap- pear that the $200,000 pur- chased value has diminished rather consid- erably You didn't indicate the amount they may have put down, but I'm guess- ing it was a modest amount. If these supposi- tions are correct, then the family involved is very much under water. They both have no income, and the question of when their income will resume is im- possible to answer. While I must congratulate you on your generous offer, it is unlikely to be a smart move. They have no. eq- uity in the home and little * See MONEY/Page D3 - *.*" . -, ~. .. ,..~. * -: .. . I - i: .. . D2 SUNDAY MAY 31, 2009 Promotional information provided by the Citrus Chamber of Commerce Chamber Connection 7 Rivers Chiropractic Center Sugarmill Diagnostic Imaging The Citrus County Chamber of Commerce would like to welcome 7 Rivers Chiropractic Cen- ter as new members. Above, representing 7 Rivers is Dr. David Kreinbrook, Lisa Kreinbrook & Ann Gosdeck. Pictured, representing the Citrus County Chamber of Commerce Ambas- sador program is Tammy LaVelle, Wendy Hall, Rhonda Lestinsky, Janet Mayo, Megan Ennis, Bonnie Hardiman, Dan Pushee, Jackie Marx, Nancy Hautop & John Porter. 7 Rivers Chiro- practic Center and Dr. David Kreinbrook are thrilled to announce the opening of the prac- tice located at 927 N. Citrus Ave., Crystal River. Dr. Kreinbtook graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic and has been in practice for over 15 years. The office is open on Monday, Tuesday & Thursday from 9:00am-5:30pm and can be reached at 794-3824. Cattle Dog Coffee Roasters * A great crowd came out to welcome Cattle Dog Coffee Roasters with a ribbon cutting cer- emony hosted by the Citrus County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors. Present were Owners Heather & James Cook, Linda Allam, Pastor Steve, Sue, Juan, Dennis Allam, Amy Castro, Nick And Amelia, Paul & Roe, Janet & George, Linda, Heather and James Cook, Linda Allam, Sharon & Steve, Ronnie, Nancy & Keith, Mr and Mrs. Fogarty, John & Gloria, Jim Heavrin, Robert and Karen Fero. Also there were Ambassadors Lillian Smith, Jacqueline Marx, Jamet Mayo, Megan Ennis, Rhonda Lestinsky and John Porter. Here at Cattle Dog Cof- fee Roasters, we get green coffee beans from all over the world and roast them daily in our store. Below are some items we have available at our store. We offer: Coffee Roasted Fresh Daily, Coffee Roaster on Site - Personalized Roasting Available, Ground or Whole Bean Cof- fees from Around the World, Espresso, Cappuccino, Hot, Cold & Frozen Coffee Drinks, Fresh Made Pastries, Cookies, Brownies & More, Outside Seating, FREE Wi-Fi, daily specials and much more! For more information or to place a coffee order, please feel free to call us at 249-3166 or send us an email to cattledogcoffeeroasters@embarqmail.com. We also have a web site: www.cattledogcoffeeroasters.embarqspace.com Granny Nannies The Citrus County Chamber of Commerce would liketo welcome Sugarmill Diagnostic Im- aging as new members. Above, representing Sugarmill Diagnostic Imaging is Shawn Mc- Carthy, Julie Vaughan, Dr. Michael Herron, Vivian Humphries, Tammy Futrell, Caryl Perry, Molly Manuel, Gall Rogers, Janifer Carlson & Eileen Quinn. Also present were Ambassadors Rhonda Lestinsky, Bonnie Hardiman, Dan Pushee, Nancy Hautop, Janet Mayo & John Porter. Sugar Mill Diagnostic Imaging (SMDI) is located on US 19 Just South of the Sugarmill Woods residential community. SMDI is independently owned and operated by a local board certified radiologist. Fees for service are billed globally and we accept most insurances. The focus is on quality and comfort.. SMDI is dedicated to providing you and your physician the most accurate diagnostic information while ensuring you the best possible exam experi- ence. We successfully combine first-class technology with highly trained board-certified ra- diologists and staff to give patients the highest level of medical care. For more information, give us a call at 628-9900 or come by our office, located at 8303 S. Suncoast Blvd in Ho- mosassa. Dee Dee's Cookies & Cinnamon Buns The Citrus County Chamber of Commerce would like to welcome new members, Dee Dee's Cookies & Cinnamon Buns, as new members. Representing Dee Dee's, pictured above, is Gary Blum, Daniel Corrao & Diana Blum. Those present, representing the Chamber Am- bassador.program are Rhonda Lestinsky, Janet Mayo, Pete Burrell, Wendy Hall, Jennifer Duca and John Porter. Dee Dee's Cookies & Cinnamon Buns is located at the Stokes Flea Market on Hwy 44 in Crystal River. Stop by for a great treat! For business hours, call them today at 4004912. Cyndie Ford Purdy, LMHC A helping hand and a gently heart is exactly what Granny Nannies provides. Representing Granny Nannies is Jenny Vacca, Marketing Rep., Karen Addison, Office Manager, Cyndi Wil- son, Owner, Administrator, Ken Wilson, Owner, President. Also present are. Ambassadors' Jennifer Duca, Rhonda Lestinksy, Jackie Marx, Janety Mayo, Wendy Hall and David Heinz. Granny NANNIES is a nursing agency that specializes in Certified Nursing Aides (CNA's) and Home Health Aides (HHA"S) level of care for the elderly, couples, or individuals with spe- cial needs. Our highly qualified personal caregivers are available up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week and can provide personal care at affordable prices. Give us a call today at 352- 5604229. You can also visit our website at www.grannynannies.com Recently, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held by the Citrus County Chamber of Commerce, welcoming Cyndie Ford Purdy, LMHC as new members of the Chamber. Pictured above, representing the member is Cyndie Ford Purdy, Eugene Ford, Debbie Priest, Betty Ford and Tom Ford. Ambassadors present were Jennifer Duca, Wendy Hall, Lillian Smith and John Porter. Hello, my name is Cyndie Ford Purdy. I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida and a Licensed Professional Counselor in Alaska. I am a National Certified Counselor (NCC) through the National Board for Certified Counselors, a Master Addictions Counselor (MAC) and a Certified Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) through NAADAC, The Associ- ation for Addiction Professionals. I am a state-approved clinical supervisor in Florida and Alaska. My areas of special interest include personal growth and development, relation- ship issues, adjustment disorders, depression, stress and anxiety, grief and loss, and re- covery and relapse prevention from chemical abuse and dependency. I am located at 470 Pleasant Grove Rd. in Inverness. Give me a call today at 341.0435. You can also visit my website at www.fordpurdy.com --Member NEWS Phillip W. Price, MBA, CPA, with the firm Price & Company, P.A. in Crystal River, FL, re- cently attended the Florida In- stitute of Certified Public Accountants FSU Spring Ac- * counting Conference in Talla- hassee, Florida on May 14 & 15, 2009. This seminar high- lighted such topics as AAc- counting for Functional Allocations anq Special Events@, "The New Form 990" and AFiduciary'Accounting@. Also, the Auditor General cov- ered their responsibility for all government accounting in Florida. The FICPA is a profes- sional association representing the interests of more than 18,400 CPAs with approxi- mately 4,400 offices throughout Florida. Phil takes courses such as these to insure a con- tinued high level of service to the firms clients in accounting, consulting and tax issues. If you have any questions, Phil can be reached at 795-6118 or via the firm website at www.pw- price.comrn Hospice of Citrus County will provide Orientation Training for individuals who are interested in learning more about Hospice and Hospice volunteer oppor- tunities. The class will be held on Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at the Hospice of Citrus County Inverness Office, 326 S. Line Ave., Inverness, Florida from 9:00am to 12:00pm. The class provides an overview of Hos- pice philosophy and history. Participants will become ac- quainted with services provided by Hospice of Citrus County for patients and their families. They will also become familiar with the concept of palliative care and learn the importance of confidentiality. At the end of this session, those wishing to volunteer in specific areas will be qualified to do so. To regis- ter for this class or to request training for your group, contact Marcey Mast, Hospice of Citrus County Volunteer Program Manager, at 352-527-6613 or email mmast@hospiceofcitr- uscounty.org. MEN What's going on at the store? All of our One of a Kind, pre- made, custom Jewelry is 20% off for May. So hurry in Gentle- man and get your special lady a great new gift. Or Ladies, come in a buy yourself a well earned "Sparkly" just for you. All pre-strung Gemstones are also on Sale for 20% as well, a great savings on our already low prices. Don't forget Sum- mer is almost here and we now June7, 2009 at 1:00pm at the carry Sculpy III and Primo Poly- Citrus Hills Golf and County mer Clay for Big and Little Kids. Club hosted by the Citrus An inexpensive way to have County Center Theater for the great family fun. As always, Performing Arts Foundation. classes are still going on. Call The business community is in- the store for more info. We look vited to attend and learn more forward to seeing you soon. about the Foundation's exciting Rock On and Bead Happy!! Cir- project with its International cle of Fire Art & Bead Shop is Cultural Arts Center's presenta- located at 1813 US 41 North in tions to our County and the Inverness. Call us today at 344- World. For Luncheon reserva- 3473. tions please call 352-382-1929. nE. mu. Gary Maidoff and Josh Doctor Vitamin's Store Na- Wooten will be the guest tional Representative, will be at speakers for "Business is good Doctor Vitamin Store, Saturday, for the Arts and the Arts are June 6th at 11:00 am.. good for Business" luncheon on Call now as there is limited BUSINESS SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 D3 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE AGENT Continued from Page Dl go onto the market, or whether the agent should offer to help the homeowner renegotiate the loan. "We have arranged it so that the bank has wrapped the missed mortgage payments into the back end of the loan," Back il Cunning- ham said. banks If refi- worker nancing work can't be people arranged, Cunning- when ham said, the agents found it try to get a ak short sale make II rather than payn let the r house go into foreclosure. "People don't realize that with a foreclosure their security clearance can lie taken away," Cun- ningham said. "They could lose their job or it could affect their future employment." Many employers will run a credit check on a prospective employee. If the job requires security clearance, a defatilted mortgage raises the pos- sibility that a ,deficiency judgment could be placed on the job candi- date. The employer might assume that the job candidate could be compromised by a need for money to pay off the judgment. Cunningham and her fellow agent, Cheryl Lambert, started train- ing in dealing with dis- tressed properties about two years ago. "We are as educated as much as we can be," Cun- ningham said, "but things are constantly changing." Back in 2007, banks were not working with people ,as much when they found it hard to make mortgage pay- ments. "Between 2006 and 2,009, there was a 40-per- cent deficit in the market value of the house from when the mortgage was written," Lambert said. r L Whether overcome with fear or not compre- hending the importance of acting quickly, many homeowners have ig- nored the initiation of foreclosure proceedings. "People have come in when they are past the point of panic," Cunning- ham-said. Lambert agreed: "A lot of people didn't truly un- derstand the mortgage it- self." n 2007, While it helps the Vere not real estate I Wih industry g with o vera ll, as much Lambert they s h ows ReMax is t hard to trying to reach out mortgage and help ients. people who see a fore- closure looming. "I have a couple who didn't understand how they got into this prob- lem," Lambert said. "Now they have a 10-year loan modification. They have been telling other people about how we helped them." Cunningham said to get help, the homeowner has to prove hardship. But first the homeowner has to face the situation. "People have their pride," Cunningham said. "It's human nature to not want others to know their problems." Real estate agents, Cunningham said, are in , a good position to rene- gotiate mortgages with banks because they know the people who work at banks from their many transactions. Real estate agents can make the case that foreclosing on a home and taking back the property is not in the best interest of the bank. Having helped a num- ber of people stay in their homes, Lambert said she liked the feeling it gave her. "It's paying it for- ward," Lambert - said; "Citrus County is a small area where everybody knows everybody." "The important thing is to talk to your bank and stay in your home," Cunningham said. BOOM Continued from Page Dl ing their life. Car manufacturers, for example, use a $200 carbide drill to make boltholes on crankshafts. Typi- cally, the drill bores about 600 holes be- fore breaking. With the Conicity edge, the same drill can make 2,400 holes. Companies such as Ford, Chrysler and GM. spend upward of $200 million a year on drills and other tools. When the economy is booming, "it's easy to step over a small company," said Bill Shaffer, Conicity's executive vice president "But now they can't look away." Shaffer estimates his technology could save them upward of $60,000 a year on each tool. That's the equiva- lent of bne autoworker's salary, with- out bonus or overtime. That adds up when manufacturers have reached the point where they have laid off as many people as they can without halting pro- duction. "When you get to that point, then you have to look someplace else for cost saving," Shaffer said. Until late 2007, companies that wanted to add Conicity's edge to their' tools had to ship them to Latrobe to have them fitted in large, energy-hun- gry machines. Now, Conicity offers a vending-style machine that can be leased or bought by manufacturers.. With 15 minutes of training, the 20-sec- ond process can be done in-house. Since then, Conicity has delivered 30 machines to companies nationwide, their placement noted by colorful thumbtacks on a U.S. map behind Shaffer's desk Companies'that never let him past the reception area now seek his assistance. Recently he gave his spiel to corporate bigwigs at John Deere in Waterloo, Iowa. Other industries are also seeking Shaffer est help to cut costs. Allegiance, a technology software company them up in South Jordan, Utah, has enjoyed $60,000 triple-digit sales growth in the past each 18 months and has hired 14 people in the past year, said Chris Cottle, the company's vice president of marketing. The reason: Allegiance software al- lows companies to survey customers and respond to feedback through a sin- gle, Web-based platform. Besides increasing customer reten- tion, Cottle says Allegiance software al- lows companies to meld their surveys. For example, rather than human re- sources and marketing surveying sepa- rately, they can both use Allegiance software, at an average cost of $100,000 a year, saving money, manpower and time. Corporate frugality is so trendy now that Allegiance's Cottle said even some of the biggest corporations are moving away from their traditional $2 million- a-year Gallup polls and using his soft- ware instead. Melanie Jones, e-commerce man- ager for Ultradent, a dental equip- ment company also based in South Jordan, said Allegiance allowed it to streamline how it gathers feedback, making it easier to find and respond to customers who were unhappy. And in this economy, customer retention is key, Jones said. inmates his u lt r a d e n t started using Alle- could save giance software in ward of 2006 and esti- )ward of mates it saved a year on about $330,000 in sales in the first tool. year - and more every year since. So while Ultra- dent, a company of almost 800 em- ployees and m6re than $100 million in annual sales, has made significant cuts - including halting 401(k) matches, stopping subsidized lunches and eliminating the practice of cash- ing out ou sick and vacation days - it has only had to lay off five people, Jones said. Melissa Wegner, market research manager at Dallas, Texas-based Tex- ans Credit Union, said all the com- pany's departments were charged with cutting spending to avoid layoffs. So she began using Allegiance software in January, cutting her department's re- search budget by 60 percent. "Economic times are difficult; we need to cut costs," she said. "We've avoided layoffs and plan to." MONEY Continued from Page Dl prospect of having equity for a long period of time. A vol- untary repossession would very likely be in their best -interest. If you choose to help them get into, a rental property, that would be very generous. I would not con- tinue to pay the mortgage on a house that is very under- valued and has little chance of recovery for considerable period of time. DEAR BRUCE: If some-' one had $3 million, they could put $250,000 in savings and checking accounts, and. the FDIC would protect them. Where is a safe place to put the balance while they are contemplating where to spend or invest it? - S.Z., via e-mail DEAR S.Z.: The current FDIC maximum per account is $250,000, as you have stated. However, there are ways to construct the other accounts in that institution so that you may have several accounts covered. Your mar- ital status is a factor here. Further, your bank probably has associations with others that would allow it to act as an agent, opening accounts in other FDIC-insured de- positories. You don't need to use that - you can go to any number of institutions in your community - but it is generally easier to . go through your own bank and have them make the arrangements. It's not a dif- ficult thing to accomplish. DEAR BRUCE: Should I continue to invest in my 403(b), my Roth, my IRA or all three? Currently, I invest in my 403(b) bi-weekly. Like many, I have lost a lot of value. I am 56, a school- teacher and can retire with 80 percent benefits next year I am single, have one home with a mortgage, own my car and have no credit- card debt. My children have grown and are out of the house. I do not want to have to find myself a part-time job to make ends meet! I can live nicely on my retirement pension, but my 403(b) - and other investments I was counting on when I turn 59- 1/2 or later--just may not be there for me when I need it, since I am older with less time to recoup investments. What is the best way to go for a person retiring at 57 years old? Should I stop investing at this point? - R.M., via e- DEAR R.M.: You have done all the right things, consistently saved and be- cause of the sharp deterio- ration in the investment world, you have lost a good deal of money As you point out, you are a bit older and you may not have as much time to recoup your invest- ments. You also raise an in- teresting point - that you can retire with 80 percent benefits next year. Or put an- other way, if you continue to' work you'll be working for 20 cents on the dollar - and the other 80 cents you would have received anyway, if I'm correctly interpreting what you have said. While you say you don't want to find your- self with a part-time job to make ends meet, as young as you are you might consider some type of part-time em- ployment either inside or outside the area of educa- tion. Given that you will not, be eligible for Social Secu- rity for several years and your nest egg has shrunk, it would seem to me that put- ting off actual retirement for a few years would be your best course of action. You also didn't indicate whether your. benefits would in- crease if you stayed on. Since you do have debts and you didn't indicate what other assets you have, I be- lieve that you and many like you should reconsider the total retirement area. Look at it as an unavoidable con- sequence of the market con- ditions, and continue to bring some money in. DEAR BRUCE: My hus- band and I are separated. He was in prison for 18 years and then came home. He has not had a job since but has credit cards. I don't know how many credit cards or what the charges are. My name is not on any of his cards. Am I responsible-for the debts he incurs? My credit rating is very high, and I do not want to have it damaged. - J.E Allentown, Pa. DEAR J.E: In that you have not signed for 'any of these cards, the responsibil- ity is his. Congratulations on maintaining a very good credit rating. I'm wondering why you. welcomed him home after 18 years and have continued with him, since he has shown behavior that is very anti-social. Af- fairs of the heart are some- times hard to understand. DEAR BRUCE: I recently received a phone solipita- tion from a well-known fi- nancial institution wanting to consolidate my debt and refinance. Here is what the salesperson said, to para- 'phrase: "I ran your credit re- port and saw that you had outstanding balances on a couple of credit cards." Can they run credit reports solely to solicit new busi- ness? I thought the purpose of running credit reports was to see if you were credit- worthy when you had ap- plied for a loan of some kind, not to solicit someone. This seems unethical at the leas t-J Lexiigton, Ky DEAR J.S.: You are cor- rect when you say that the basic reason for credit re- ports is to help businesses select whom they choose to do business with based on their credit-worthiness. The reality is that many compa- nies pull credit reports prior to making an offer. Whether using the information as you've described is ethical is an area that I'm not pre- pared to comment upon. However, the offer to help you consolidate your debt leaves me very nervous about their proposal. There are so many of these debt consolidation/negotiation firms that it leaves one ques- tioning their motives and ethics. I would tread very carefully. DEAR BRUCE: My son lives in Carmichael, Calif. An existing mortuary (not a cemetery) added a crema- tory that is 70 feet from his back-patio door. There is a Catholic school within 1,000 feet of the crematory stack My son and his neighbors took the issue to court on code violations and lost (they did not appeal the building permit in the al- lowable 10 days) but are going to try court again based on public nuisance. This is a modest-income neighborhood. The crema- tory can afford to keep this in court until the neighbors run out of money. Do you have any .suggestions that would help the neighbor- hood proceed with their case? - N.R., Elk Grove, Calif. DEAR N.R.: I hate to be. the bearer of bad news, but unless the mortuary violates specific codes, it would seem that they have a right to do what they're doing. While your son missed the appeal process' 10-day re- quirement, there is nothing to say that the appeal would have been looked upon fa- .vorably You mentioned that there is a school and a cre- matory stack; I take it your son objects to the smoke and odor. Whether either of these things is in violation is another matter. 'Your son and his neighbors will dis- cuss this matter with coun- sel. I suspect that you will be told that there is nothing more than an outside chance of being successful. Whether the mortuary could be persuaded to add some type of filter on their stack should be explored. If that would clear up most of the problem, this would be a sat- isfactory answer and a great deal less expensive for all sides. DEAR BRUCE: My sister lives in North Carolina. Her boyfriend passed away a year ago, dying without a will. He has a daughter and ex-wife who live in the same state. Both of them are mar- ried and to date have not had themselves appointed to administrate his estate. He did not own a home. He has two trucks and an old car that he planned to re- store. He also has a car trailer and some tools. His credit cards certainly are in excess of his assets. His life insurance has gone to the beneficiary, my sister, who had to pay the funeral ex- penses and cemetery costs. My sister's name was not on any of his possessions. The problem is, his possessions are at my sister's home, and she does not want to get her- self appointed administra- tor of his estate to dissolve his assets and apply any of the proceeds to the credi- tors, as this would be a mess. My sister prefers not to deal with his daughter, who ini- tially wanted to handle things, as she is immature and not pleasant to deal with. My guess is the daugh- ter realizes now that his un- paid bills far exceed the assets and has given up on this matter The ex-wife has not shown any interest ei- ther. How does my sister get rid of his trucks, etc., from her property, so she can get on with her life? --A.L, via DEAR A.L: Brought down to its essence, nobody wants this stuff-- it's all junk, with the possible exception of the tools. Your sister may be for- tunate and find a yard that will take the trucks, the car, etc., without bills of sale, which are required. In the absence of that, have her call the city or community and tell them that there are abandoned vehicles on her property and that she would like assistance in having them removed. Most cities recognize this problem and have a mechanism in place to handle this. The fact that he didn't have a will doesn't mean a whole lot, since he didn't have any assets. DEAR BRUCE: I lost my job at the age of 48. I am now pursuing new employment I have from my previous em- ployer a guaranteed pension of $43,000 per year, which will start June 1 and go on for the rest of my life. I know I am fortunate to have that My question pertains to the distribution of the funds. The first option would be to take the whole amount per month and no surviving- 4 spouse benefit upon my death. This would mean that, upon my death, the benefit would stop and my spouse would have no in- come from this for the rest of her life. The second option is to take a reduced amount with a 50-percent surviving- spouse benefit, which would pay the spouse upon my death $1,500 for the rest of her life should she outlive me. To accept this option, our initial benefit would be reduced to $2,875 per month. The third option would be to take a 75-per- cent surviving-spouse bene- fit, and her income would be $2,000 per month upon my death. It would seem to me that a better option would be to take out an additional re- newable term-life policy for, say, $500,000, which, since I am in good health, would only cost about $200 to $300 per year. Then, should I pass before my spouse, it would give her an additional half- million, and, even if not in- vested, would give her the same $2,000 per month for more than 20 years. Am I right in my thoughts that the term will be a better deal? - R.S., via e-mail DEAR RS.: It seems to me that you have thought this out very well. The term in- surance option is far and away the best. If you pass away, your wife, and not the insurance company, will have the cash. If you survive, which is very likely for a long period of time, the cost is modest and certainly a whole lot less than taking the reduced-pension bene- fit When I was reading your letter, I was already thinking about recommending the term insurance, and, at the very end, you answered your own questions. Send your questions to: Smart Money, PO. Box 2095, Elfers, FL 34680. E-mail to: bruce@brucewilliams. com. Questions of general inter- est will be answered in fu- ture columns. Owing to the volume of mail, personal replies cannot be provided. SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2oog D3 BUSINESS KEITH SRAKOCIC/Associated Press In this recent photo, a series of pushpins on a map at the company headquarters in Latrobe, Pa. represent the-locations in the northeast region of the country where Conicity Technologies has its machines in place. ti F BUSNES CIRU CONTY(,)ZCRONCL D4UN AY. MAY l 200 Small businesses plan to hire unpaid interns this summer NEW YORK- The idea of hiring unpaid interns this summer has become very appealing to small business owners contend- ing with a difficult econ- omy. An extra worker, even an inexperienced one, can be a big help to a company that can't afford to hire a Joyce R( regular staffer. But busi- SMALL ness owners need to be sure they don't take on in- terns only to -save money. Federal labor laws are fairly direct in saying that internships should be for the benefit of the interns, not their em- ployers. Paula Slotkin knew back in Janu- ary she couldn't afford to pay an in- tern as she has in the past. "We're having the same issues our clients are," said Slotkin, a partner in Topaz Partners, a Woburn, Mass.- based public relations firm. "I can't take on someone for $350 a week in. the summer." But Slotkin started getting resumes from would-be interns who were happy to work for nothing, just so they could get the experience of being at a PR agency She hired a young woman who will be earning college credit for her work this summer., Summer interns are common at public relations firms. Interns who are in school want hands-on experi- ence before they graduate, while re- cent grads are looking to build their resumes. Company owners often look at in- ternships as tryouts for a permanent job in the future. "I would never hire someone who wasn't first an intern," said Kellee Johnson, a principal with The Ballast Group, a PR firm in Chicago. Her company is doing well this year, and will have three paid interns who have finished school. A fourth intern who's o 0 still in school won't be paid. Johnson also likes hav- ing interns because "I've W': been mentored very well in my career and I believe it's time to give back" O'Connell & Goldberg, a PR firm in Fort Laud- erdale, Fla., hasn't been senberg able to hire full-time L TALK staffers the past few months, so having two un- paid interns this summer will help fill the gap. If the interns do well, "when the economy turns around, obviously they'll be my first picks" for permanent jobs, co-owner Barbara Goldberg said. Nancy Shenker has just hired her first unpaid interns for her Thorn- wood, N.Y.-based marketing firm, theONswitch. The economy was a factor in her deciding to have unpaid interns, but she also is impressed by students' commitment to the job even if it doesn't have a paycheck. "They are passionate about the business and are comfortable with making sacrifices to get the experi- ence they need," she said. Owners who take on unpaid interns should be familiar with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, which de- tails the criteria that an internship must meet in order for the intern to not be paid. The law regards an in- ternship as a training program. Under the FLSA, an intern must re- ceive training similar to that offered in a vocational school. The training must be for the benefit of the intern. The intern must not displace, or do the work of, a regular employee. The law also states, that an em- ployer must receive no immediate ad- vantage from what an intern does. That might jeopardize the unpaid sta- tus of many internships - if an in-. tern, say, stuffs envelopes for mailing, helps to manufacture products or per- forms other services that benefit an employer. The FSLA also says an unpaid in- tern is not necessarily entitled to a job at the end of the internship. And, fi- nally, both the intern and the em- ployer understand the intern is not entitled to wages. The Department of Labor's Web site has more information about the criteria that must be met for an intern to be unpaid: It can be accessed at www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/scope/erl 5.asp. Interns who get college credit but not pay are covered by the School-to- Work Opportunities Act of 1994, which generally requires that an in- tern be in a planned program of job training that's coordinated with school-based learning. He or she should perform tasks and activities that build upon one another, increase in complexity and help the intern to learn and master basic skills. The in- tern must be exposed to all aspects of the industry. As with the.FLSA, an intern under the School-to-Work act cannot dis- place a regular employee. - Julie Talenfeld, president of Board- room Communications Inc., based in Plantation, Fla., worked with the Uni- versity of Florida in hiring two un- paid interns who will earn college credit for the summer. The interns will be doing public relations work such as writing press releases, but the work is intended to help them learn, Talenfeld said. "They get to have a lot of great ex- perience," she said. "They realize that experience is valuable, and even more valuable than money right now." The Labor Department also has a page describing the criteria for un- paid internships under the School- to-Work programs. You can find it at www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/scope/erl 5astw.asp. Experts see rebound this year DAVID PITTrr APpersonal finance writer CHICAGO - The U.S. economy may be on track for recovery later this year but growth is likely to be inuted, unemployment ele- vated and government reg- ulation of markets on the rise. Those are the predictions of some of the nation's lead- ing mutual fund managers and financial advisers gath- ering this' week in Chicago to swap stories, share strategies and look ahead to the coming months. The financial industry professionals are trying to sort through the conflicting economic indicators and the resulting rallies and re- treats in the stock market at the Morningstar Investment Conference, one of the largest such gatherings held each year. The conference itself has seen the impact of eco- nomic pressures. Atten- dance this year is down about 25 percent from last year, with about 1,000 fund managers and financial ad- visers and product vendors attending, Morningstar said. One expert who said he believes recovery will be slow is bond fund manager Bill Gross, who oversees $720 billion in fixed securi- ties for California-based PIMCO.' He said the nation's total output of goods and serv- ices, the gross domestic product, will grow only at 1 percent to 2 percent instead of the usual 2 percent to 3 percent for the next several years. He also predicted unemployment will retreat from the anticipated high of 10 percent but will remain higher than average at around 7 percent to 8 per- cent for years to come.. Reasons for those long- term changes are rooted in the complexity of the eco- nomic meltdown that has swept through financial * Follow these guidelines to help ensure timely publication of sub mitted material..The earlier Chronicle editors receive submis- sions, the better chance of notes running more than once. l Community notes: At least one week in advance of the event. * Veterans Notes: 4 p.m. Wednes- day for publication Sunday. services, housing and- auto- motive industries. The situ- ation is made worse by excessive borrowing by fi- nancial services companies and consumers. As that in- debtedness is unwound in the economy, it will take years to get back to the point where consumers can spend as freely again.- "Our inclination to shop and to consume basically was exaggerated to an ex- treme proportion," he said. . The mood of conference attendees appears mostly upbeat considering the beating fund managers have taken in the market and financial advisers have taken from their clients, who wonder why the pro- fessional investors couldn't avoid the 20 percent to 30 percent losses many portfo- lios suffered. Many fund managers are talking about investment opportunities found in un- dervalued stocks of finan- cially sound companies. Others, however, 'con- tinue to say all the talk about a significant recovery this year may be greatly ex- aggerated and it could be too soon to jump fully'back in the market. The conference con- vened at a time when stock volatility, which has be- come all too common, re- turned. The Dow Jones industri- .als climbed 196 points 'on Tuesday on news that con- sumer confidence was pointing to a possible eco- nomic rebound 'later this year. It all reversed course on Wednesday, however, and the Dow lost 173 points, on news that borrowing costs may increase. The Dow is still 26.8 per- cent above the lows it reached in early March, but 41.4 percent below the record high it hit in October' 2007. Thursday saw the mar- kets bounce around a bit more with the Dow ending up about 104 points. Conference participants have had some tough ques- tions for fund 'managers and other investment ex- perts about why some of them, considered the lead- ing economic minds of our time, didn't foresee the home mortgage meltdown, the banking crisis and the resulting, stock , market crash.' In one session Wednes- day, a question was raised about who was at fault for failing to see the downturn coming. The result caused investors, including many with 401(k) retirement funds invested in mutual funds, to lose large chunks of their portfolios. "I think this sort of blame game going on is an out- come of the fact that it is a very much of an emotional experience for people and nobody really likes to take the blame on themselves," said Karen Dolan, director of fund analysis for Morn- ingstar. "I think when you let emotion enter the pic- ture, that's when it gets a lit-' tle dangerous." The discussion continued into Thursday with speak- ers explaining why they were caught off-guard by the depth and breadth of the market meltdown. Gross, the PIMCO fund manager, said 401(k) bal- ances are not likely to bounce back to levels of 18 months ago anytime in the next few years. Things have changed for investment professionals, too, who are likely to see their compensation change significantly as investors push for lower fees and more accountability in the profession. Don Phillips, managing director of Morningstar Inc. said some of the issues re- garding the public percep- tion of fund managers can be traced to inadequate fund information. He called the accounting measures used by mutual funds a mess, lacking a sim- ple procedure in which sales and distribution costs SUBMISSION DEADUNES * Together page: 4 p.m. Wednes- day for publication Sunday. * Business Digest: 4 p.m. Wednes- day for publication Sunday. * Chalk Talk- 4 p.m. Monday for publication Wednesday. * Health Notes: 4 p.m. Friday for publication Tuesday. 0. Religious events : 4 p.m. Tuesday for publication Saturday. are clearly outlined. "I don't know why we can't get to that place and it seems to me that's some- thing as investors that we should be demanding," he said. Investors have the right to know how much a bond, company is spending on marketing and research and how efficiently they're running the fund, he said. "It's just beyond me why an industry that's as impor- tant to the American econ- omy and to investors' well-being doesn't have that simple straightforward ac- counting." David Winters, chief ex- ecutive of Wintergreen Ad- visers and portfolio manager. for Wintergreen Fund, said much of the country's corporate trou- bles could be blamed on a lack of accountable corpo- rate boards. Investors should take an active roll in demanding corporate board accounta- bility, he said. People like him:probably should have foreseen some of the sub-prime lending woes, but some of it was simply not revealed by com- 'panies and should have been, he said. He singled out insurance companies in particular for failing to disclose some of the liabilities they held on their books in bad real es- tate and other investments. Rajeev Bhamann, senior vice president and portfolio manager of the Oppen- heimer Global Fund, agreed. He said at times it's nec- essary for investors to band together and get someone put on a corporate board. "That's the only way we're going to get any sig- nificant dissension when it really matters," he said. Bhamann said board members are often friends and frequently serve to- gether for years, reducing the likelihood that they will challenge one another when necessary. * Real Estate Digest: 4 p.m. Thurs- day for publication Sunday. * Photos and stories are published as space is available. The Chroni- cle cannot guarantee placement on color pages. * Submit material at Chronicle of- fices in Inverness or Crystal River; by fax at 563-3280; or by e-mail to newsdesk@ chronicleonline.com. DIGEST Continued from Page Dl creates opportunities for dia- logue, solicits feedback and re- sponds to the concerns of small business. The Stakeholder Liaison is a little known division of the IRS, and all business people in the area are invited to hear Eric Tidwell on June 5, at the regu- lar meeting of the Citrus Busi- ness Network. The Citrus Business Net- work meets each Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at Tus- cany On The Meadow, Citrus Hills Lodge. The breakfast bar is open and guests who wish to help themselves to break- fast are asked to arrive in time to have served themselves and be seated before the meeting is called to order. The Citrus Business Net- work is a group of local busi- nesses providing a wide range of quality goods and services. Each member strives to main- tain the highest level of profes- sional integrity and customer satisfaction. For more information, con- tact Ron Radford, president, 795-0003 or Liz Koehlinger, membership director, 527- 9790, or visit www.CitrusBusi- nessNetwork.com. Companies needed .to host youth Job sites are critically needed in Citrus and Levy Counties to host area youth for Recovery Act funded 2009 Summer Youth Employment Program. - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Recovery Act, provides $918,869 for youth, ages 14 to 24, for summer job training programs in Citrus, Levy and Marion Counties. Marion County job sites have been se- cured, but Levy and Citrus Counties companies are still needed to host the Recovery Act funded jobs. This is a chance for busi- nesses to prepare the future workforce at no expense to their company. Area youth, age 17 to24, have a chance to ex- plore careers in a variety of in- dustries while businesses, including for-profit, non-profit and governmental agencies," provide a pipeline for the future workforce. Youth under the age of 17 will participate in non-worksite training pro- grams. The summer program runs June 22 to Sept. 30. Youth are placed for five weeks at the job site with a 20 hour a week training allowance paid by Workforce Connection. The program will include intem- ships or job shadowing as they leam about prospective ca- reers. The on-the-job training will give students a chance to explore sustainable and grow- ing careers for the future job - market. Prospective Summer Youth Employment Program busi- ness Partner can visit www.clmworkforce.com or call Workforce at (352) 873-7939, ext. 4444 for more information, Learn more about services at Workforce Connection, contact (352) 840-5700 in Marion County, or Toll Free 1-800-434 JOBS and speak to a work- force representative. Workforce Connection is a member of the Employ Florida network of workforce services and resources. Workforce Connection is an equal oppor- tunity employer/program. Auxil iary aids and services are available upon request to indi- viduals with disabilities. All voice telephone numbers liste( above may be reached by per- sons using TTY/TDD equip- ment via the Florida Relay Service at 711. If you need ac- commodations, call (352) 840- 5700, ext. 1278 or e-mail accommodations@clmwork- force.com. Please make re- quest at least three business days in advance. CFCC meetings open to public The CFCC Foundation meetings listed below are open to the public. 0 CFCC Founda- tion Executive Committee Meet-. ing, 4:30 p.m. Monday, June 8, at Central Florida Community College (CFCC) Enterprise Center, 2nd Floor Board Room, 3001 SW College Rd, Ocala, FL 34474. Purpose: General business of the CFCC Executive Committee. * CFCC Foundation Board of Directors Meeting, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, at Cen- tral Florida Community College (CFCC) Founders Hall Board Room, 3001 SW College Rd, Ocala, FL 34474. Purpose: General business of the CFCC Foundation Board of Directors. * CFCC Foundation Invest- ment Committee Meeting, 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, at Cen- tral Florida Community College -tCFCC)-Enterp-is Center, _. Foundation Office, 3001-SW College Rd, Ocala, FL 34474. Purpose: General business of the CFCC Foundation Invest- ment Committees. * CFCC Foundation Invest- ment Committee Meeting at 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 24, at Central Florida Community College (CFCC) Enterprise Center, Foundation Office, 3001 SW College Rd, Ocala, FL 34474. Purpose: General business of the CFCC Founda- tion Investment Committees. A copy of the agenda will be available at each meeting. For further information, contact the CFCC Foundation office, P.O. Box 1388, Ocala, FL 34478. Network welcomes new members The most, recent member of the Citrus Business Network is Jacqui Watkins, new owner of John C. Meyers, Sr. Locksmith company. Tara Briggs is the new representative for Care- givers for Seniors. Both Jacqui and Tara have been welcomed into membership. 'The Citrus Business Net- work meets every Friday mom- ing at Tuscany On The Meadow, Citrus Hills Lodge, 350 E. Norvell Bryant Highway, Hemando. Breakfast starts at 7 a.m., and the meeting is con- ducted from 7:30 to 8:30. Mem- bers benefit by exchanging information and referrals with other business owners. For more information call Liz Koehlinger, membership direc- tor, 527-9790 or Ron Radford, president, 795-0003, or visit wwwv.citrusbusinessnetwork.com. Young Farmers & Ranchers to meet Florida Farm Bureau's Young Farmers.& Ranchers will gather July 18 and 19 at The Planta- tion Golf Resort & Spa, Crystal River. "The Farm. Bureau-Young-- Farmer & Ranch-erprograms at t both the state and national lev- els are aimed at building future Leaders for the industry and Farm Bureau," said Florida Farm Bureau President John L. Hoblick. "As an alumnus of both programs, I can attest to the programs' effectiveness." More information about the conference, including the reg- - istration form and agenda, can be found on the Florida Farm Bureau's Web site www.FloridaFarmBureau.org. d The registration deadline is June 19. The conference reg- istration fee is $75. C i ITRUS ."''_ COUNTY ' www.chronicleontine.comn Advertising Sales Representative The Citrus County Chronicle is now accepting applications for an Advertising Sales Representative. Must have minimum of 2 years sales experience with proven results for new and existing customers. Computer proficiency a must. Excellent organizational and customer service skills are required. Fax cover letter and resume to HR at:, 352-564-2935 or e-mail: dkamlot@chronicleonline.com Qualified applications must undergo drug screenings. 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Apopka Ave Inverness Fl. 34450 People Systems is Seeking SOCIAL WORKERS Needed in Marion and Citrus To work w/ developmentally disabled consumers in the community, Flexible schedule, competitive salary, fringe benefits. 4 yr. degree w/ a min. of 2 ,rs, exp. in the Human Services Field, Fax Resume: 352-620-2232 Programmer Analyst The Citrus County School District is seeking a highly qualified individual to assist in the support and maintenance of our financial information systems. IBM System I5 and COBOL experience desired. For more . information go to www.citrus.kl 12.fl.us or call 352-746-3437. EOE NEW YEAR/ NEW CAREER The best opportunity in Citrus County. Average income for 2008 was $56.000. Our 15 representatives enjoy company trips, bonuses, and many other incentives. Qualifications: * Self-motivated * Team Player * Outgoing Personality and the * Willingness to Learn 2 POSITIONS AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY Mon. through Fri. No late evenings, weekends or holidays. No experience necessary, training available. Fax Resumes to Atten: Joe 352-726-6813 SALES HELP Licensed Real Estate person needed for busy.office. Confidential Interview Call 352-464-1515 SGN Wireless AT&T Authorized Retailer .store in Citrus County it looking to fill full time sales position Please E-mail resume to: resume @sgnwireless.com WANTED Highly self motivated Sale's people Company truck is provided. Yearly paid vacation.. Holidays paid. Benefits available. Positions open in Citrus, Hernando, and Sumter Counties. Apply in Person ONLY, from 9 am to 4 pm Mon-Fri, At A-I Termite & Pest Control, 1840 Hwy 44 West, Inverness, FL 34453. Located across from Applebee's. Only well groomed and properly dressed applicants will be considered. EXP. LAWN SPRAYING TECH. Call 352-527-9373 HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR SCHOOL IN LECANTO IS NOW ACCEPTING APPS. FOR INSTRUCTOR'S. 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Call Steve @ 352-628-0254 Experienced Only VPK TEACHERS CDA TEACHERS (352) 201-2770 HELP WANTED SELLING CATHERINE ROSE SKIN CARE. To family & friends. 50% comm. Great for quick cash! 1-800-314-2945 INVERNESS DOMINO'S PIZZA NOW HIRING DRIVERS Flexible eve. hrs. avail. (352) 637-5300 TEACHER NEEDED F/T P/T, call (352) 341-1559 CLEANING HELP Call 352-637-0585 After 7pm 746-4202 HOSTIHOSTESS Are you people person w/computer skills looking for evening work. (352) 817.4461 Key Training Center has F/T & P/T positions available in group home/apartment setting. Assist Developmentally Disabled adults with daily living skills. HS DIploma/GED required. Call 352-341-4633 for more info. Apply in person at 130 Heights Ave., Inverness. *E.O.E.' 2-9x7 Garage Doors, 1 Entry Door, 2 Vents, 4" Concrete Slab. $13.795. INSTALLED 30x30x9(3:12 pitch) Roof Overhang, . 2-9x7 Garage Doors, 2 Vents. 1 Entry Door, 4" Concrete Slab $S 14995. INSTALLED 35x50x12(3:12 pitch) Roof overhang, 2-10x10 Rollup Doors, 2 Vents. 1 Entry Door, 4" Concrete Slab $29.995 Installed * Fl. Engineered Plans * A local FI Manufact. * Meets or exceeds Florida wind codes. * Conc/Inst by others. * Many sizes available * We specialize in Commercial Buildings METAL Structures LLC 866-624-9100 Lic # CBC1256991 www. metal structuresllc.com Classifieds In Print and Online All The Time 19' COMPAQ CRT MONITOR with matching JBL speakers. 352 382-2591 $30.00 COMPUTER DOCTORS 1/2 MI. S.E. Inv. Walmart Computer sales/repair X-Box 360(352)344-4839 DIESTLER COMPUTERS New & Used systems upgrades. Visa/ MCard 352-637-5469 www.rdeell.com FLIP VIDEO MINI CAMCORDER.BRAND NEW! $150 OBO 352-746-3668 HP WIRED KEYBOARD AND MOUSE In good condition.Colour silver. $20.00 352 560 3677 r Sheds & Garages I of Any Size I * -SHEDS NOW* We Move & Buy Used I Sheds I lndependence/41 * (35)860-0111 PRECIOUS MOMENTS Assorted Figurines. $200 352-419-4272 4 Person Dream Maker Spa Excellent Condition $650. obo (352) 287-2510 A/C & HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS. 13th SEER & UP. New Units at Wholesale Prices 4 2 Ton $780.00 4 2-1h Ton $814.00 4 3 Ton $882.00 *Installation kits; *Prof. Installation; *Pool Heat Pumps Free Del. Uc.#CAC 057914 746-4394 A/C WINDOW UNIT 10,000 BTU's w/remote. Only used a few mths. $175. 352-613-4249 FRIGIDAIRE FREEZER 21cuft. Upright, used 2 years. Excellent cond. $175. 352-637-3376 GE WASHER white, excellent condition, $75. Like new aueen WATERBED mattress, liner, heater $25, 352-637-4779 MAYTAG WASHER $100 & WHIRLPOOL DRYER $50 BOTH RUN WELL 746-5453 REFRIGERATOR Good condition-$50.00 Call (352) 795-7057 after 5 p.m. Refrigerator Whirlpool 25.5 Cu. ft. s ide, white. $850. Flat Top Range $300.(352) 302-3179 WASHING MACHINE Kenmore, heavy duty, large capacity washer. Works good. $100 obo 352-637-1488 Whirlpool washer & dryer, $75 each. Cash � (352) 344-2752 WHIRLPOOL WASHER Excellent condition. 2 years old. $145. 352-795-6650 WINDOW AIR CONDI- TIONER HAIER 5000BTU.LIKE NEW! $50 OBO 352-746-3668 COIN Auction Tues 6 PM 6/2 101 S Main St. WILD WOOD Estate Collection Morgan & Peace Dollars-Key Dates High Grade Cond, Silver Proof Sets & GOLDI Pesco Auctions AB2164 AU2959 13%BP 0%Tax Proxibld.Com/Pesco COMPLETE LIQUIDATION OF LALUNA RESTAURANT Mon. June 1 Preview: 8 AM Auction: 10 AM Hwy. 41-S, Inverness all equip. & access. Also 1986 BMW 325 dudleysauction.com AB1667-AU2246 10%BP 18 + foot aluminum extension ladder $80; McClain Edger $65 (352) 746-4734 Craftsman 10" radial arm saw with table, $125. (352) 637-4865 Hitachi 50" HD TV $500. (352) 746-3323 SONY 25" TV w/4 Door Corner Pine Cabinet. 68"H. $100. 352-465-9186 . TV. & ENTERTAIN- MENT CENTER 56" JVC Projection HDTV & 10ft. wide expandable Pine Entertainment Cen- . ter. $650 for both! Call 352-270-3200 TV RCA 60" Projection Excellent condition and works fine. Local delivery possible $300 (352)270-1775 Carpet Padding Felt 32 oz., 9 rolls, 360 yrds, Half Offi $432. (352) 586-1728 Floor Grade Pine 1 X 8 up to 1 X 12 inch width. 8' to 16' length. Bargain while It lasts. (352) 621-0778 I Storage 1 SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 DS CLASSIFIED S D6 SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 SOFT TAIL '88 Just broke in 113 cubic inch S&S Stroker motor w/Staggered Hooker headers. New Gangster white walls, seat in all leather blk os- trich skin, Paint by Jesse James painter of Calf., w/Double Damon signa- ture, House of Color paint, BIk w/colored ghost flames on all sheet metal. 2" Carlini handle bars. Chrome to max, This bad bov is not for the faint of heart. $30k in- vested, may trade for nice tractor w/bucket or bobcat etc. Call for more info. 352-3Q2-2815 42" TILE & CEMENT Table w/3 benches, $400. 23" Cement Table w/2 benches, $150 or both for $500. 352-796-9350 Table & 4 chairs, love seat glider chaise � lounger & small table, all w/cushions $100 (352) 270-3189 Vinyl Table w/6 chairs, 2 bench seats, 2 small talbes, $60 (352) 270-3189 2 Twin Beds complete w/ mattress & box springs, $150. or $75 ea (352) 726-0312 * THIS OUT! 1950S TABLE & CHAIRS 1930S DINING TABLE &CHAIRS 1950sPedestal table 35x35size Four chrome burgundy vinylchairs $150.00 1930sDuncan Phyfe drop leaf table & chairs $450.00 352,746 0513 BASSETT MAHOGANY Convex Glass Breakfront $800. obo (352) 628-0505 BLUE SOFA, LOVESEAT & CHAIR Excellent condition $350/obo 352-502-2664 Cannonball Queen Sz. Head & Foot & Rails HugePine Post $150 Coffee Table & 2 end tables, glass on orna- mental Iron, real nice $100. 352-860-1885 Couch w/recliners on each end, blue. $150. Futon Wood & metal $50. (352) 795-7513 Day Bed, Cream Color, Rattan , $125 3 Covers, blue, green pink $25. ea (352) 344-4852 Dining Room Set . w/leaf, 8 chairs, buff. & serve. cabinet. $1,800.(352) 795-3334 Citrus County Home Inspections $75. Any house In June. (352) 978-8403 DAVE'S MOBILE REPAIR , Repairing gas & diesel engines. No job too big or small. 352-228-2067 A TREE SURGEON Lic. & Ins. Exp'd friendly serve. Lowest rates Free est. 352-860-1452 All Tractor/Dirt Service - Land clear, bushhog, tree/debris removal. 352-302-6955 / us out zoomcitrus.com COLEMAN TREE SERV. Trim & Removal. Lic. Ins. FREE EST. Lowest rates. 352-270-8462 check out zoomcitrus.com DOUBLE J STUMP GRINDING, Mowing, Hauling,Cleanup, Mulch, Dirt. 302-8852 D's Landscape & Expert Tree Svc Personalized design. , Bobcatwork fill/rock & sod 352-563-0272 OSBORNE'S Lawn/Tree/Shrub Quality Work Free Est. LOWEST RATES GUARANTEED! Lic (352) 400-6016 Ins R WRIGHT TreeService Tree removal, stump grind, trim, Ins.& Lic 0256879 352-341-6827 Richard Mills Tree Serv Trim, haul, top, removal, Free Est Reasonable Rates (352).398-9881 Richard Mills Tree Serv Trim, haul, top, removal, Free Est Reasonable Rates (352) 398-9881 At Home Computer Repairs & custom computers. Call (352)228-7823 ON-SITE COMPUTER SERVICE 352-341-4150 Dining Room set, med. brown wood. inlc. 4 chairs, leaf, glass top, excel, cond. $195. obo (352) 489-2953 DINING ROOM TABLE Solid wood w/6/chalrs $350. solid wood buffet $250. round wood kit table w/4 chs $200 (352) 795-1339 601-0656 ENT CTR Cherry,3 pc, 76"x 5 feet, dovetail draws, 31" tv incl. 99e sold as set 352-410-0891 Entertainment Center, Lowrey Organ, 1929 Dining room table & buffet, 5HP go cart (352) 860-0534 FULL SIZE WHITE WITH PALE PASTEL COLORS TWEED COUC Great Condition! $110.00 464-0316 GERMAN WEIGHT DRIVEN GRANpFATHER" CLOCK $600. OBO (352) 628-0505 Handmade drop leaf Desk, many cubby holes shelves & draw- ers, built in chair, $135. Glass top & side curio cab. doors-on ea. end white $85., 860-1885 Hide A Bed Queensize, floral design, w/bamboo arms. $150. (352) 628-0147 LANE BEDROOM SET (2) Twin beds, 6 drawer dresser, 3 drawer bu- reau, 2-night tables. Cream lacquer finish. Very good condition, $300. 352-746-9206 LEATHER LOVESEAT AND SWIVEL ROCKER cream color, barely used. $395.00. Two Palm Paint- ings, large,matted,framed orig.$300 each $125.00 � both 352-697-5779 LIV, DIN, KIT FURNITURE (813)300-7929 Sugarmill Woods Living Room Set w/4 chairs. $400. 2 Curio Cabinets w/lights. $600. (352) 795-3334 MAHOGANY DUNCAN PHYFE Dining Table w/ 8 matching shelld back chairs org $3800 sacricific $1500 obo(352) 628-0505 PORTABLE AIR CONDITIONER on wheels. Maytag 8000 BTU. Like new, works great any room. $299, 352-410-0891 Preowned Mattress Sets from Twin $30; Full $40.Qn $50; Kg $75. 628-0808 Room Divider 35 i/2"w x14"d x 4q"h w/4 shelves, dark wood tone, Like new $45; (352) 563-2926 SOFA new w/matching 2 chairs & 2 ottoman, solid taupe color $550 (352) 795-1339 352-601-0656 1/2 Mi. S.E. Inv. Walmart Computer sales/repair iX-Box 360(352)344-4839 ' REPAIR SPECIALIST Restretch * Installation Call for Fast Service C & R SERVICES Sr. Discount 586-1728 Chris Satchell Painting & Wallcovering. work fully coated. 30 yrs. Exp. Exc. Ref. Ins. 352-795-6533 352-464-1397 CALL STELLAR BLUE All Int./ Ext. Painting Needs. Lic. & Ins. FREE EST (352) 586-2996 FERRARO'S. Painting Service Int/Ext. Free Est. Press Cleanin 352 465-6631 INTERIOR/EXTERIOR & ODD JOBS. 30 yrs J. Hupchick Lic./lns. (352) 726-9998 Mike Anderson i Painting Int/Ext & Pressure Washing Call a Professional, (352) 464-4418 / Us out zoomcitrus.com PHIL'S MOBILE MARINE 27 yrs. exp. Certified Best prices/guaranteed 352-220-9435 check out zoomcitrus.com AT YOUR HOME Mower & Generator Repair. 352-220-4244 Lic#99990001273 DAVE'S MOBILE REPAIR Gas / Diesel Engines No iob too bia or small. 352-228-2067 Mower Repair, Hernando. Pick up & delivery, Don Mead 352- 400-1483 The Tile Man Bathroom remodel Specializing in handi- cap. Lic/Ins. #2441. 352-634-1584 certified caregivers/sitters 20 + yrs exp, Trans. Avail Lisa 352-422-4765, Dee Dee 352-422-1267 $150. 352-527-8529: 352-302-2668 Sofa, dark green $165. (352) 382-1502 TIFFANY LAMPS 1 Table - $50 1 Floor - $150 352-419-4272 UNIQUE BED. HEAD- BOARD CAN FIT ANY MATTRESSI$200OBO. 352-746-3668 Used office desk $145 OBO. Call 352.201.2073 YOUR FURNITURE DONATIONS SUPPORTS THE PATH HOMELESS SHELTER Call (352) 746-9084 CRAFTMEN"S RIDING Lawn Mower 19.5 hp 42" deck $550. (352) 746-7357 DESK w/chair, glass top,$70 Pullon chainsaw w/new 18' chain $75.obo (352) 601-3654 KAWASAKI WEED TRIMMER Low hours. Paid $285,-selling for $100. Extras. 352-527-1882 LAWN TRACTOR '08 42 In Craftsman. Auto transmission. w/broadcast spreader. $1125. 352-489-2421 RIDING MOWER w/bagger & trailer. $200/obo. AUTOMATIC POOL VAC $100. 352-726-4048 RIDING MOWER '08 Cub Cadet 46" cut, used little Paid $1800, will take $1100 firm (352) 563-0818 Riding Mower Yard Machine, 18.5 hp. 8 speeds. 42" cut, lights, newly serviced. $450. (352) 601-3654 TRIMMER MOWER, EDGER AND POWER WASHER Craftsman 5.5 Horsepower, Highwheel Trimmer mower.-$125.00 Karcher power washer-$125.00 and Black and decker edger-$35.00. All in very good condition. Call (352) 795-7057 After 5 p.m. WEEDEATER LAWN MOWER 500 SERIES Excellent Condition used only 3 times asking $100.00 OBO 352-465-8841 BLOW OUT SALE! Sat & Sun 7-5 - Hom. Across from Neffer's CITRUS SPRINGS Sat & Sun 8-5 8126 N. Pitcairn Way Near middle school Lots of kids items, Barble jeep & morel OUTREACH SENIOR COMPANION SERVICES Affordable, quality Senior Care. Companions, Homemakers, Sitters. Ucenced, Bonded & Insured Call toll free 1-877-803-1608 www.outreachsenior companlon.com Uc #231103 PRIVATE DUTY CARE Specialty: Quality of life' Fl. St. Lic./Bonded, Ref. .Lee (352) 201-4565. * SEE THROUGH Window Washing All Aspects (352) 489-4189; 322-0962' V us out zoomcitrus.com A Reg. Home Daycare in Beverly Hills. Very Reasonable Rates. Call Tara *220-8086 , Reg'd HOME DAYCARE Citrus Springs - Summer Program/Planned Cur- riculum. 352-422-7904 /us out @ zoomcitrus.com Affordable CABINETS & COUNTER TOPS New & Remodel 352-586-8415 QUALITY CRAFTED BUILDERS New, RenoVa- tions & Commerciial IS Yrs In Citrus County 352-726-5507 ROGERS Construction New Homes & All Construction (352) 637-4373 CRC1326872 Schnettler Construction, LLC. Renovations,room additions,decks, bams, garages,various home repairs. (352)637-4629 cell 352-266-6756 Uc, & Ins CBC1253348 SUBURBAN IND. INC. Screen rms, rescreens, siding, carports, rovers, wood decks, fia rms, windows, garage scms (CBC1257141) 628-52 CALL STELLAR BLUE All Int./ Ext. Painting Needs. Lic. & Ins. FREE EST (352) 586-2996 Mike Anderson Painting Int/Ext Pressure Washing Ca/ll a Professional, (352) 464-4418 2 GIRLS SCOOTERS ONE BARBIE AND ONE PRINCESS BOTH FOR 25.00 OR 15.00 EACH 601-4882 AFTER 2PM 4 Manavox DTV Digital too Analog Converters , $100 for all (352)795-3764 95 MERCURY TRACER good body, motor needs work, $175 obo. call 352-613-6020 Air Compressor $100. Refrigerator Kenmore $50. (352) 795-3334 BABY HIGH CHAIR SWIVELROCKER CHAIR Baby high chair Evenflo$20.00 Swivel rocker chair like new in light coral $25.00 352 746 0513 Boat NIV-haul 12'fiberglass, new oars, life jackets incl. $450. Sonic Scooter, motor- ized, w/basket, . easy load, exc. oond. needs battery. $375.(352) 726-5584 CAR FLOODLIGHT 15 foot cord very powerful chrome15.00 3523821191 COMPUTER MONITOR BRAND NEW 15.00 601-4882 AFTER 2PM CONAIR ELECTRIC HAIR CUTTING SET. Used twice. With all ac- cessories. $10.00 352 560 3677 Copier Xerox Work Center Pro. 4165021 used once. $600. IBM Typewriter $50. (352) 795-3334 DINETTE 27" round glass top table 4 chairs steel frame/cane 746-1186 DODGE RIMS 15" Shark style 5 lug $100. White porcelain bath sink 19 3/4" round has faucet $40. S 563-1073 Exterior solid wood door, 32x79, $50 Wardrobe closet, 31x74, $40 (352) 746-2932 FREE ADORABLE 2 .'YR.OLD CAT! MY CAT IS ANGRY! NEED GOOD HOME! 352-746-3668 FREEZER SMALL 20"DEEP X 33.5" HIGH X 20" WIDE�$99.00 ONE YEAR OLD CALL352-382-3110 Futon couch, great condition, $40.00. Medium upright GE freezer, $35.00. 352.726.4480 "HOME REPAIRS" Painting, power wash jobs big & small (Eng./ Spanish)746-3720 ' us at zoomcltrus.com #1 A+TECHNOLOGIES All Home Repairs. Also Phone, Cable, Lan & Plasma TV's Installed, pressure wash & gutters Uc. 5863 (352) 746-0141 #1 HOME SOLUTIONS Press Wash, paint, repairs, ceilings, baths, low rates, exc: refs. Uc# 260098 Call Don, (352) 634-0171 Andrew Joehl Handyman. Gen/Maint/Repairs Pressure cleaning. Lawns/Gutters. No job too smalllReli able ,ins. 0256271 352-465-9201 _.-.. q NATURE COAST HOME REPAIR & MAINT. INC. Offering a Full I Range of Services www.naturecoast homereoalr.com Lic, 2776/lns., 352-634-5499 Vlsa/MC/Dlscover ALL HOME REPAIR painting, drywall Malley's Home Maint 220-9486 (lic0259169) / out zoomcitrus.com FASTI AFFORDABLE! RELIABLE Most repairs Free Est., Lic#0256374 * (352) 257-9508 * Senior Saviours . Monthly Maintenance Service. A must for ONLY $40.00 a Month! Call 352-342-9911 www.SeniorSaviours.co S sed Garages O Any Size S*SHEDSNOW* We Move & Buy (352) B60-0111 ! All Home Repairs. Also Phone, Cable. Lan & Plasma TV's Installed, pressure wash & gutters Uc. 5863 (352) 746-0141 SANNIE'S ELECTRIC Res./Commercial Beverly Hills Area. Husband & Wife Team.(352) 341-5952 EC-13002696 CLASSIFIED Generator 1500 Watts, Brand New, Cost $434. Will Sell For $330. (352) 746-7127 GLASS COFFEE TABLE IN GOOD SHAPE 20.00 601-4882 AFTER 2PM GT EXPRESS 101 IN- DOOR COOKER AS Seen On TV,Works good with lots of extras,$30.00 (352)465-2459 HOOVER STEAM VAC, works and looks like new,instruction book,extras $75.00 (352)465-2459 ITS FREE Place any General Mer- chandise Ad for FREE on our all new CLASSIFIED SITE. 5 Days, 5 Lines. 2 Items totaling less than $100.00 each. Go to: chronicleonline.com and click place an Ad in the top right hand corner. KENMORE Washer/Dryer $200; Complete double bed - box spring/matt/frame $100 (352)249-7670 KIDS RAZOR BUMPER, CAR NO CHARGER 25.00 601-4882 AFTER 2PM KITCHEN TABLE SET, Butcher Block type $65; Men's Bike $40 (352) 621-0896 LAWN EDGER-COLOR TV lawn edger,gas,$30 19" sanyo color tv $35 352-503-3446 MICHELIN TIRES TWO 295/30ZR18 & TWO 345/30ZR18 Good cond. $100 for all (352) 476-1896 NEW 18 IN GRIDS for your pool filter paid 289 yours 99.00 3523821191 QUEEN ANNE CHAIR mahogny legs, never sat in tan cloth 99.00 3523821191 RUNNER RUGS indoor outdoor 27inx20ft. new15.00 3523821191 * SEGO PALMS, two ready to plant $50 ea.; 1/2 Box of NFL - Eagles - low ball drinking glasses $40 After 1 lam (352)637-2881 SINGER BUTTONHOLE SET for the one who sews 10.00 3523821191 SLENDERTONE AB- DOMINAL TONER. GOOD CONDITION. $20.00 352 560 3677 SMALL DRESSER LAMPS real nice, cute 15.00 pair 3523821191 SMALL FLAG POE STAND use in your f. driveway 10.00 3523821191 DUN-RITE ELECTRIC INC. Elec/Serv/Repairs New const. Remodel Free Est 726-2907 EC13002699 SALTMARSH ELECTRIC Comm/Resid. & Sign Lighting. CR13012391 352-344-3810 / us out zoomcitrus.comrn FASTI AFFORDABLE! * RELIABLE! Most repairs Free Est., Llc#0256374 * (352) 257-9508 * C.J.'S Sm.Local Moves Furniture, clean-outs, Dump runs & Brush 726-2264 /201-1422 PAVING & SEAL COAT VIGLIONE LLC-/ic'Ins www. TAR-MAX.com Free Est(3521726-3093 ROCKY'S Fencing WORKING IN CITRUS COUNTY FOR 26 YRS. Free Est., Lic. & Ins., * 352 422-7279 A 5 STAR COMPANY Go Owens Fencinga. All Types. Free Est. Comm/Res. 628-4002 OSBORNE'S 'lawn/Tree/Shrub Quality Fence Work Free Est. LOWEST RATES GUARANTEED Lic (352) 400-6016 Ins AAA ROOFING Free est. 30 yrs exp. 352-563-04IJ John Gordon Roofing For a hole in your roof or a whole new roof. Free est. 352-795-7003 BIANCHI CONCRETE Driveways-Patios- Sidewalks. Estimates Lic#2579/ins, 257-0078 Decorative concrete, Landscape curbing River rock resealing 344-4209 (Lic.6960) Father & Son Decorative Concrete textures, Stamp,spray crack repair,staining & Garage Floors 352-527-1097 POOL BOY SERVICES Total Pool Care Decorative Concrete r 352-464-3967 m ROB'S MASONRY & CONCRETE Slabs, Driveways & tear outs Tractor work, All kinds Uc. #1476, 726-6554 Stereo/Cassette Fischer, w/2 spks. $200. Oriental Wall Plaques $75.00(352) 795-3334 The Citrus County Mosquito Control Is disposing of Surplus Property. A 1000 gallon (Con Vault) double walled above ground fuel tank. Very good cond. fuel pump not incl. This tank was purchased in '03 & has never been used. A min. bid of $5,000. This tank is avail, at our facility for inspection. Mon. thru Fri. 7:00. a.m. til 5:30 p.m. If you have any further questions or would like additional information, email to: citruscountv.orq or call Joel Jacobson at (352)527-7478. Citrus County Mosquito Control District 968 North Lecanto Hwy. Lecanto Fl. 34461 TRIPLE DRESSER all wood, white, 72Wx 30H x 19D. $50. 527-2553 Twin Bed New Craftmatic adjusta- ble, $425. Refrigerator 18 cu. ft. w/icemaker Bisque colored, $275. , (352) 726-5584 WEIGHT BENCH + , WEIGHTS weiderpro weight bench with weights $150.00 352-628-1669 ALAN NUSSO INSURANCE AGENT $$ SAVE $$ * LIFE INSURANCE 4 HEALTH * ANNUITIES *-DISABILITY 352-422-6956 www.ANUSSO.com 2 MANUAL WHEEL CHAIRS Good Condition No Foot Rests Only $40.00 464-0316 4 WHEEL WALKER WITH SEAT & BRAKES New In Box $85.00 464-0316 AMEGO 3 WHEEL SCOOTER New 12 Volt Battery Comes Apart $200.00 464-0316 AUTOGO SCOOTER Good condition w/charger, $400/obo 352-746-1433 e Remodeling, kitchens baths, ceramic tile & tops. Decks, Garages Handyman Services 40 Yrs Exp. crc058140 344-3536; 563-9768 W. F. GILLESPIE CONST. Lic. #CRC1327902 (352) 344-0009 www.wfgillesple.com A Cutting Edge Tile Job Showers. Firs etc (352) 422-2019 Lic. #2713, Insured. Affordable Top Soil, Dirt, Rock, Stone Drive- ways & Tractor work 341-2019 or 257-1562 All AROUND TRACTOR Landclearing, Hauling, Site Prep, Driveways. Uc. & Ins. (352) 795-5755 *TOP SOIL SPECIAL* 3 Yd -$60/ 5 Yd $85 10Yd $175/20Yd $275 Red Mulch $22.yd 352-302-6436 All Tractor/Dirt Service - Land clear, bushhog, tree/debris removal. 352-302-6955 /us out zoomcitrus.com All AROUND TRACTOR Landclearing, HaulingSite Prep, Driveways Lic/lns795-5755 Ck out zoomcitrus.com Pasture mowing, lots acreage, commercial. $18. per acre & up. (352) 978-8403 D's Landscape & Expert Tree Svc Personalized design. Bobcatwork fill/rock & sod 352-563-0272 SERVICEC #1 Absolute � Lowest Price I Guaranteed I Barker's Lawn Service.Monthly or I S Per cut rate (352) 232-8166 #1 AGAIN Pro Tech Lawn Service. Family owned & operated. Serving central Citrus Cty since 1999. Call for free estimate 302-7800 - Uc/Ins. CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE ARMAN Auto lift 750; Invacare Power Chair $800; Invacare Walker $50 (352) 795-4421 Incline Board adjustable, like new $95. (352) 637-4273 Power Chair Jazzi 1113, cover, cup holder, nice cond. will deliver $850. Wheel Chair/lnvacare, $50.(352) 220-0075 " Wheelchair, paid $450 Used 1 mo. all leather, exc. cond. sell for $150 Power chair, used 2 wks, like new. $650 (352) 726-2425 "THE REVENUER" Buy & Sell Vintage coins/currency 352- 302-8159 BUYING US COINS Beating all Written offers. Top $$$$ Paid (352) 228-7676 Guitar Fender Squire, w/case & beginner music book. Exc. cond. $100. (352) 465-7139 Piano Baldwin Spinet, Walnut finish, Pd. $2,200, very good cond. asking $500. Hernando n (239) 877-1027 TWO ALTO SAXAPHONES with cases $250 each (352) 621-6606 F Finess^ Equipment GAZELLE PERFORMANCE 300 Exerciser as seen on HSN, new & assembled willIncis basic DVD player $100 firm 352-527-2456 Nordic Trac, Heavy Duty Frame Inversion Table, Asking $200 obo (352) 794-3085 PRECOR EFX 544 Elliptical, like new org. price $2400 price $850. Body Solid Weight Lifting Rack $450 (352) 746-3323 STAIR STEPPER WITH LARGE DIGITAL READOUT Great Condition!Works Arms Too! $100.00 464-0316 (2) HUFFY BICYCLES 26" girls. Good condition. $50 each. 352-563-5386 4 SALE- GUNS & AMMO AR-15's - AK-47's - Shot Guns - Pistols. WE BUY SOLD. 352-489-4870 AMMO, 9mm brass case, FMJ, 500,rounds, $200 (813) 789-0592 Crystal River Area Landscape Main. "Complete Lawn Care" �(352) 489-3070 Conner Lawn & Landscaping Ask about our Specials Free Est (352) 341-3930 check out zoomcitrus.com DUN-RITE LAWN SERV Lic & Ins Clean up,, Full Service (352) 344-2681 check zoomcitrus.com HALLOCK & Son Lawncare/Landscaping Covering all your lawn care needs. Detailed work. 746-6410 Lic/Ins. HARRY EVERSON'S LAWN & MAINTENANCE Uc. & Ins. Free Est. (352) 302-2585 V us at zoomcltrus.com HEDGE TRIMMING, HAULING(ANY KIND), LAWN MOWING, MULCH. FREE ESTI- MATES. 352-344-9273 OR 352-201-9371 INVERNESS AREA Mow,trim, beds, Fast Reonse since 1991 352- 422-5978 I zoomcitrus.com Lawn Care 'N' More Mow, clean up brushes, beds Friendly Service since 1991 Residential/Commrl (352) 726-9570 out zoomcitrus.com MOWING & TRIMMING Residential/ East citrus county area. 352-302-1511;341-5182 Over 3 000 Homes and Properties listed at www.naturecoast homefront.com Uonea e Uepons Permit Course DAN'S GUN ROOM (352) 726-5238 FOOTBALL TABLE Hvy Duty $100. (352) 746-3323 GOLF CART Exc. cond, like new. Fold down windsheild, curtains, baskets, buckets, mirror. $1950 352-795-5146 GUN AK47 Rifle w/colapsable stock,100 rounds ammo, w/access. $800; trade 45 cal pistol.(813) 789-0592 Crystal River High Standard Derringer 22 magnum, exc. cond. $200. (352) 464-0926 MENS' DRYJOY OXFORDS 81/2 Extra wide White w/Brown $40 (352) 341-0523 PRIVATE COLLECTOR Buying Guns, Ammunition& reloading supplies (352) 586-7516 R580XD TAYLOR MADE GOLF DRIVER R580XD Taylor made driver, stiff shaft,9.5 loft,used only a few times,excellent condi- tion. $100.00 352-503-5030 WE BUY GUNS On Site Gun Smithing (352) 726-5238 CAR HAULER '06, 32 Ft. Dominator XT. By Classic C. Trpl. axels. $14,200. 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Anytime, 344-2556, Richard WEL PUP EPI &FLE SERIC Installations by I Brian CBC1253s53 7ee M4 rod 4 fimiM 352-628-7519 Siding,.Soffit & Fascia. Skirting ,Roofovcrs, Carports.& Screen Rooms. wwwwadvancedaluminum info u^.0 -r 1st Choice PEST CONTROL, INC. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LAWN GOT PROBLEMS?.. Call 503-68;1 Owner/Operators . Uoyd Smith * Bill Bledenstein * Jim C'rr 7 ,2 5340W. Glenbrook.St. $5001 Police Impounds for sale Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 Adorable Chihuahua Puppy smooth coat, 9 wk. old male. & 1 Male Long Coat CKC/REG., Health Certs. $225. (352) 726-1843 ALL BREED RESCUE Now available; Westle, Schnauzer, Shlhtzu, Maltese mix, 352-553-2604 CHIHUAHUA'S CKC Reg. Current shots, $195.Health cert (352) 406-7123 FREE MALE CATloves to be held and petted, needs loving home cell 352-586-4428 German Shepherd Puppies, 21,Wks. 2 males, 2 fems.,1 is blue all the rest black & tan. papers, & health certs. $300.(352) 201-0111 GERMAN SHEPHERD puppies. 8 wks, 6 Fern. 3 males. All black & tan. Health cert. $300 (352) 795-7897 (561)324-3151 KITTENS & CATS many breeds, all neutered micro chip, tested, shots some declawed $85-$150 352-476-6832 Poodles, Mini pups, males, AKC reg. Choco- late, blue, silver, beautiful & well socialized.$300. (352) 527-1920 PUGGLE PUPS (pug/beagle); Sheltie, Paplllon & maltepoo pups $375-$450 (352)216-1481 Pure Bred Collies 2/both 1 year old. $350. for both, obo. Must go together. (352) 795-7513 ROTWEILLER PUPPIES Absolutely Beautiful, 8wks, AKC, big boned, shots, wormed. Parents, $650 + (352) 503-6316 Shih-Tzu Puppies 2 New Liters Home raised w/ love. All shots Includ'd. $300+ 3902 N. Lecanto Hwy Beverly Hills, FL (352) 270-8827 (305) 872-8099 Mini Horse Stud, 5 yrs. old. White & brown. $250. Obo.(352) 628-1277 Summer Horse Camp (352) 382-5400 www.rymarranch.com BABY GOATS SHEEPs & Pigeons For nets only. Mini Farm off 495 (863) 843-2495 cell arb * Ma1 totqograph9 Specializing in: Children, families pets. Business Portraits. Indoor � or natural outdoor settings Call for great pricing 352-212-2439 Satisfaction guaranteed ELITE PAVING & SEAL COATING All types - Res/Comm 352-302-3030 LIc/Ins Circle T Sod Farms. Inc. Tired of your dead lawn? Replace it with Bahia. Delivery Avail (352)400-2221 LAWN RESTORATION All types of Grasses Low maint Lawns Avail. J & J Sod 352-302-6049 BATHFITTER "One Day Bath Remodeling" In Just One Day, We will Install A Beautiful New Bathtub or Shower "Right Over"Your Old One!!! Tub to Shower Conversions Too!!! Call now for a FREE In-Home Estimate 1-866-585-8827 BATHFITTER.COM PO.OLS/PA.JJ:S Proessona CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE Assorted Bantams, Polish, Ducks & Quail , Starting at $2. 352-795-6381 1993 17' Sylvan Bow rider bimini top Boat & trailer 85h.p. Yamaha motor Good cond. $3,500 (352) 344-0457 15ft. SHOAL WATER '05, Cat Hull, 50HP Evinrude, CC, extremely shallow for Flats, w/ trailer $10,950. (352)621-0848 16FT CAR. SKIFF '96, like new, $5,500 40HP Evinrude, center console, trolling motor, b-top, many extras (352) 344-5858 AIR BOAT Big 13 Ft. haul, 2 seats. Approx. 375-400 HP. 8 blade warp drive. 2-1 reduction gear box. Used 100 hrs.+ Trl. $18,500 invest. Sell for $10,000 firm. (352) 302-4535 AIRBOAT 1996, 15', 500cubik inch, Cadillac engine completely rebuilt (352) 560-3019 AQUA SPORT '05 175 Osprey , 90hp Yam, VHF, depth finder, dual bait. w/switch, bimini, easy load trailer. Low hours. $9,990 352-860-0277 AQUA SPORT 190 Osprey, 2001 115 hp Johnson w/warranty & trailer. Ready to fish. Reduced .00Lt352-746-5856 AQUA SPORT 2000; 225 Explorer 24' Cuddy cabin. 225 Johnson Ocean Pro. Loadmaster tandem axle - trailer. Exc. cond. $14,500.352-493-7377; 352-221-5230 AQUA SPORT '86 25FT.Cuddy Cabin. W/twin '06 Optimax 150hp & double axle trailer. $16,900 (352)257-1355 Bass Stream Boat 1999, 15 ft., boat, motor & trailer, starter heeds fly wheel $1,200. obo (352) 287-2510 - BOSTON WHALER 14 ' w/40 hp Johnson, Everything works good $1800 (352) 302-0033 Cabin Cruiser - 24 ft. Owner died, 6 cyl.,10, 'alpha orie/OD, used in fresh water, tan: gal. trl Incl.'d $2,100 464-0316 CENTURY '01-. Bay, 21ft. '02, 150HP Yamaha w/ trir., custom cover dep/find, VHF, Iw hrs., like hew, $13,950. (352) 442-7772 � Deck Boat 95'19 Ft. Slyvan, w/ra- dio & fishfinder. New Bat- tery switch. 2 batteries, power pk. prop./hub.$6,000 (352) 726-0838 DONZI '90 23ft, OAL 25ft, open fish- ermen, C-console, Twin 140HP Johnsons. Trailer, Many extras! $14,500/obo. (352) 489-9640: 220-6508 HURRICANE '01, Deckboat, 20ft., 115HP, 4strke Yamaha," w/ trr. $11,200. will . trade (352) 503-3778 OSPREY 1994 -'16ft, CC, bay boat. 88 HP Evinrude, Garmin GPS/recorder $4500. 352-621-4711 PONTOON '08 Sweetwater 21ft. 25 hours. 90hp Yamaha. $16,500. Many Extras 352-503-6797 PONTOON 22' Palm Beach 2002 60hp Yamaha $4800 (239) 571-2628 PONTOON BOAT 08' 20 Ft. To many options to. list. $13,000 Call for Info. 628-7926 PONTOON Sylvan 20' Yamaha T50 TLRC Engine'Like New 40hrs. Playpen Cover Sport-o-potty, extras $12,000 (352) 628-0281 PRO-LINE 221 WALKAROUND 1999 200 HP Mercury w/9.9 HP Johnson kicker,$12k obo. Call Kurt at Pete's Pier 352-795-6067 SEA PRO '00 19 FT. C/C. Loaded. Elec. Pkg. 115 FI 4 Strk. Yam. 100 hrs. Bim. top. Best offer(352)533-3093 SEADOO 15FT '97 Runs great, looks great. 135HP Inboard Boat cover, trailer. $4200. 352-484-9854 SUNDANCE SKIFF r 02- 16ft. 30HP Mercury. Center Console, trolling motor., B-top, trailer. S $4500. 352-422-7765 is T-CRAFT 23'L, 6'W,.'02 150H Evin. mtr. w fuel enj. like new, trir. w/brks $7750 352-489-3661 Ultimate Scalklop Boat 03, 25' Sun Tracker, 05 Merc 90hp, to hrs. tandem-tril. like new exc. value $11,500. 352-586-1676 WELLCRAFT 1987, 250 Sportsman, 25', Gas eng., 30" draft, 260 hp I/O, alum. trailer.$8,000 (352) 344-9651 22 FT. Minnie Winnie 1993, Class C, 16 mpg, dependable, like new small V-8, sleeps 6 $7,300 (352) 563-9964 5 Th Wheel, 28E33SB 1 slide. 1000 Wets. ' Inverted, central van. 261nch. TV.$30;500. Or reasonable offer. (352) 489-6835 '07 NEW MAR Cypress 32ft 5th wheel. 2 slides. Separate bath. Extras. 3 yr ext. warr. $35,900/obo 352-794-3534 38FT BOUNDER '96 Class-A - basement model. 49K mi. 14mpg, new tires & brakes. (4) TV's. Ready for long trip. "$2LQQ. 352-563-0615 $5001 Police Impounds for sale Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 '98 ENDEAVOR 38 Ft. W/ Slide. 36 K Mi. Dual air. $37,700 Obo. 352-637-5149 or 352-586-3090 * AUTO. BOAT * *&RV* DONATIONS 43 year old Non-reporting 501-C-3 Charity. Maritime Ministries (352) 795-9621 * Tax Deductible * CARS, TRUCKS, RV'S, BOATS Cash or Consign CONSIGNMENT USA US19, Across Airport (352) 461-4518 conslgnmentusa.org CHEVY '86 Class C Very good cond. Needs tires. $4,000. Call anytime. (352) 446-6329 CRUISE AIR '94, Class A, Wide' body. Diesel pusher. Alison Trans. & more. $34,000. 352 835-4273 FOUR WINDS '03, Hurricane New deal. 30Q, class A motor home, 31% ft., 22k mi. V10 gas, ducted rf. air, onan 4K gen., qn bed, etc. Saturn tow incl. $35,000. (352) 397-5007 GEORGIE BOY '05, Pursuit, Class A, 30ft. Excel. cond. 8k mi., 2 slide outs, 2 TV's, back up camera, all the bells and whistles and much more, must see this coach, Asking $50,000. obo (352) 746-7626 -GULF STREAM BT Cruiser 03, 22' fully loaded, ready to travel $27,500.... (352) 341-1297 HAMPTON BAY 43ft. 2008 Completely furnished. In great RV Park, pool, . clubhouse etc. Can be moved $29,900/obo (352) 464-2722 Holiday Rambler '03, By Monico, 300 Cummins, 2 slides, under warranty mint cond. $69,900. (352) 302-7073 Holiday Rambler Admiral Motor Home 36' 2 slides, 340hp, gas eng. all options transf ext. warr..$51,900 352 795-3970 ITASCA NAVION '06 24FT, Mercedes die- sel, Class C. Good mpg, low mi, 1, slide, loaded. $52,995. 352-464-0371 Keystone 07 Big Sky 5th Wheel Prem. Pkg 340RLQ every option. Center Island Kit. incis sep.W/D, added 2nd a/c in bedroom Price to Sale $52K firm 352-794-3068 PACE ARROW 04, 38' 3 SLIDES 21k mi fully loaded 3 tv's $92,500 obo 352-302-0743 BONAIR '01 19FT. 5th wheel. Qn bed, ' microwave, Irg refrig. Like new. $9,995. 352-489-3661 COLEMAN NIAGRA 2002, 15FT, opens to *26FT, 1 slide, $5,500 obo (352) 302-1322 I BUY RV'S, Travel Trailers, 5th Wheels, Motor Homes Call Glenn (352) 302-0778 I BUY RV'S, Travel Trailers, 5th Wheels, Motor Homes Call Glenn (352) 302-0778 JAYCO 07 Jay Flight 28' used twice, smells & looks new, green clean, sips 6 $16,800 (352) 503-7431 MEADOWBROOK 5th Wheel, 2000 Excel- lent. Photos at http:l/picasaweb.google.c onCmeadowbook.Glenn - $13,995.00 (352)302-6055 or (727)692-9045 PROWLER '9921', self contained, sleeps 6, new tires, AC, bath, etc. $5,300 (352) 795-1417 SSKYLINE 04 32' sleeps 8, used once $11,500 (352) 586-9614 TRAIL CRUISER '04 17F"T, light weight, fully loaded. Used 10 times. $6800. 352-628-4522 $5001 Police Impounds for sale Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 $$CASH PAID$$ Wanted Vehicles Dead or Alive, Dale's Auto Parts 352-628-4144 $$ TOP DOLLAR $$ Paid for Junk Vehicles, J.W. 352-228-9645 " CARS, TRUCKS, RV'S, BOATS Cash or Consign CONSIGNMENT USA US19, Across Airport (352) 461-4518 consignmentusa.org Buvina Used Cars Trucks & Vans For used car lot LARRY'S AUTO SALES Hwy 19 S. Crystal River Since 1973 564-8333 LRecreation ! 1 j = , �j Vehicles PONTIAC '96 BONNEVILLE Looks Goodl Runs GoodI Asking $1275. 352-637-5394 ' SATURN '02, SC2, Silver 3-DR coupe-automatic clean & sporty runs great, I owner, pwr. WDL, cold air, well maint. 31mpg, 188k, $2,400 (352) 795-7180 SUZUKI '07 Forenza. 30K mi, w/1OOk warr. LOADED w/touch scrn nav. $12,800. 352-613-6613 TOYOTA '06, Highlander, Hybrid,, 100,000 mi. warranty. $19,995. (352) 382-1857 TOYOTA '07 Camry, silver, 4dr., - loaded, leather int., $15.000 Obo. (352) 637-1276 1-800-714-9813 NISSAN 2005, Frontier Low Mi., Great Little Trucki $8990 Jenkins Mazda 1-800.714-9813 TOYOTA 2003, Tacoma Crew Cab, Beauty! 45k Orig Miles Loaded - Call for Deal Jenkins Mazda 1-800-714-9813 $5001 Police Impounds for sale Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 BUICK '03 Rendezvous. $8,995 Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 Running or Not Cash Paid, $150 & Up (352) 771-6191 1997 MAZDA MIATA Convertable, Fun & dependable, Porche Red, new top, 36mpg, 5-speed, A/C, new tires. Mint $5,700 352) 563-9964 2000 Buick LeSabre Beautiful car - all the extras. 128k ml. $4500 Call (352) 697-2333 '06 TOYOTA Corolla LE Sport, 48k ml, Silver, pwr roof, win- dows, dr locks. Cruise, auto, 6 disc CD, 40mpg. Senior owned. New tires. Garage kept $11,900 352-860-1106:201-4499 $5001 Police Impounds for sale Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 BMW '03, 745 Li, NAV, black, sun roof. all options $29K Mint (352) 746-2696 BUICK '07 Lacrosse CX. - 9,500 Mi. Ruby red, like new. Must see. $12,900 Wooten's(352) 637-7117 CADILLAC '99 DeVille, 39 K. Mi. Car Fax avail. Light gold,, exc. cond. $7,500 (352) 382-2715 . CHEVY '05, Impala, All Pwr, CD, sunrf., new batt. good cord., 46K ml. $7,600 (352) 527-3735 COMPLETE LIQUIDATION OF LALUNA RESTAURANT Man. June 1 Preview: 8 AM Auction: 10 AM Hwy. 41-S, Inverness all equip. & access.. Also 1986 BMW 325 dudleysauction.com AB1667-AU2246 10%BP CONSIGNMENT USA *Clean Safe Auto's* . Financing Avail. US19, Across Airport (352) 461-4518 consigpmentusa.org CORVETTE 02, Z06, Black, low mi., over 30 mpg hwy. $24,400. (352) 613-5355 CORVETTE 2007 convertible corvette,only 4,076 mi- les on this rare silver on silver on silver vette, power convertible top, 6 sp auto, paddle shift, heads up display, mag- netic F55 suspension, navigation system, all options available are on this gorgeous vette, Over $2,000 in aftermarket parts included, Your's for only , $48,000. 352- 270-3193 CORVETTE 4-speed,1978 Silver Anniversary w/air, t-top, 350 Chevy motor. Works good. $12,500 (352) 212-5526 ' CORVETTE '80, Stingray, white, auto, SHOW CARI $11,500 or will trade for truck. 352-563-6428 FORD '05 Taurus SE, V-6 Loaded, 43K. mi. extra clean. Must see. $7,880. Wooten's (352)637-7117 HONDA '08 Civic, $17,995 Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 * KIA RIO 2001 88K mi. New tim- ing belt, good cond. Well maint. $2,100 obo (352) 637-5816 LINCOLN '94 2-dr, sun roof, 131k mi, white. Well maintained. $2650. (352) 628-7410: 628-6370 LINCOLN '96, Towncar, garage kept, 88K miles, loaded $3,650 abo (352) 344-5555 ext. 101 MAZDA 1999, MIata Only 60k Orig MI Fun In the Sun! $7990 Jenkins Mazda 1-800-714-9813 MAZDA 2006, 3 Automatic, Sunroof, 30K Miles Bal. of Warranty, $229 mo, wac Jenkins Mazda 1-800-714-9813 MAZDA 2007, 6, V-6 Power, Low Miles Only $12,990 Jenkins Mazda , 1-800-714-9813 MERCEDES '05 SLK, $24,995. 2 avail. Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 MERCEDES '05 SLK, $24,995. 2 avail. Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 MERCEDES '08 C- CLASS,$29,995 Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 MERCURY '03 Grand Marquis LS, 1-owner, garage kept. 54K ml, Exc. cond. $10,495. 352-560-7386 MGB Convertible 1977, 57k mi. Blue, many xtras Excellent Condition $10,500 (352)628-0281 MITSUBISHI '03, Diamante LS, excel. cond. Always serviced. Fully equip. Priced be- , low Kelly BB. $7,900.. 352-382-5702 NISSAN 2003, Altlma Low Miles, Loaded Only $249 mo, WAC Jenkins Mazda 1-800-714-9813 '06 Corolla, $11,995 Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 TOYOTA SUPRA '89 All original, red, 79k ml., 6 cylinder, all power, targa roof. Original owner. Garaged, $7,695 (352) 726-3427 VOLVO '05 S60, $15,995 Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 VOLVO '06 S40, $15,995 Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 VOLVO '06 S60, $17,995. Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 VOLVO '06 S80, $17,995 Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 VOLVO '08 S 40, $17,995. 2 avail. Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 VOLVO '08 S60, $19,995 Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 VW Beetle 2004,Convy, Leather & Loaded, Low Miles Only $10,990 Jenkins Mazda 1-800-714-9813 1954 CHRYSLER Imperial, Restorer's Dream. $3500/obo 352-228-0597 $5001 Police Impounds for sale Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 '53 MERCURY 2-Dr hardtop, 350 V-8, auto, May trade in part. 352-621-0182; 727-422-4433 '56 FORD Custom line 4 door se- dan. 6 cyl'auto. $9,500. Will consider trade foa travel trailer of equal value.(352) 628-4053 ALFA ROMEO '76, Spider. Project car. � $2300 obo 352-382-5702 AMC Gremlin $600 (352) 637-1074 BUICK 67 RIVIERA, 430 wildcat motor, 86k mi. amfm, a/c, titi whl. elect seats, very good cond. $8000 (352) 527-3961 CHEVY '69 Classic C10 SHT BD , 350/350 AC, PS, $15K or trade (352) 746-9212 EL CAMINO '81 305 Auto, All new. interior, & paint. Cragpr mags & tires 4" raised hood. $3,250. (352)341-3613. GM El Camino '84, 1-owner, low miles. $5,000/obo or will consider trade. 352-628-7077 GTO 1967, The real deal, older restoration, just out of storage $25K or trade (352) 621-0666 JAGUAR '76 XJ6C Rare coupe! Silver, new paint; 63K mi., $8,900 obo (352) 527-4221 (908) 763-8384 MERCEDES BENZ 1985 380SL, 2 top road- ster. Drives, looks great. Many new Mercedes parts. New A/C. Must see! REDUCEDI $7,900. David 352-637-6443. THUNDERBIRD -'73, New paint, tires. 38K. Mi. Like New. $12,900 Obo. Will trade. (352) 795-0122 $5001 Policee Impounds for sale Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 '94 CHEVY Ext. cab, 8 ft bed. New motor, good cond. 2 wheel drive Z71 pkg. $3,900. 352-563-1518 Iv msg CHEVROLET 1994, 1500 W/T. runs great, new A/C, top- per, $2,000 obo (352) 302-1322 CONSIGNMENT USA *Clean Safe Auto's* Financing Avail. US 19, Across Airport (352) 461-4518 consignmentusa.org DODGE '05, Quad Cab, Awe- some Hemi-pwrd, special "Rodeo-Edit." Loaded every special feature. Sr. own, gar. kept., 27K ml, $40K invested Sale $21,750 See online ad photos www.autotrader.comlatca rid/at-f3fd39f John (352)726-1076 FORD '02 F-150 XLT, Ext. cab, 4dr, auto, loaded black & silver, extra clean, sharp. * $7,995 Wooten's (352) 637-7117 FORD 04 Ranger, X-cab. Exc. cond 38k mi. SLASHED THE PRICE$97K to $8,500 (352)746-3919 FORD '06 E 350, Cutaway, serve. van. 41K Mi./5.4 L. Eng. Auto.Knapheide Serve. body/dble lock drs. $20,000 Obo. (352) 726-9397 (678) 617-3767 FORD F-150 1995, 4x4, cold a/c, ' new tires, runs good $2500 obo(352) 564-0530 GMC 2003, Sierra, 40k Miles, 1 owner Loaded, $13,990 Jenkins Mazda SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 D7 CLASSIFIED '05 Escalade, low mi. all power, sun roof, exc. cond. $28,000 (347) 266-9328 CHEVY '06 Trailblazer $12,995. 2 avail. Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 CHEVY BLAZER '99 LS 4dr. 126k mi. loaded, great cond. sunroof, $4k obo 352-422-0065 DODGE 99, DURANGO 4x4, 80K mi., loaded, dual air & exhaust, Exc. Cond. $6,000 obo (352) 344-0505 FORD '03 Escape, 89kmi, 4whi drive, class 3 hitch, Orig owner. Great shape & price. $8,750. 352-564-1128: 703-338-7177 FORD 2006 Explorer - Eddie Bauer 4dr. Leather interior. Exc. cond. Asking $19,000. 352-489-2421 GMC ENVOY Red,'03, 60k ml., On-Star, tow package 5-passenger, $10,500 obo (352) 527-3445 HYUNDAI '04 Santa Fe, $8,995. Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 ISUZU 2005, Ascender 30K ml., Great SUV,1 Owner Loaded - $13,990 Jenkins Mazda 1-800-714-9813 LEXUS '07 RX 350, Black, tan leather Int. Navigation, back up cam, blue tooth, very clean, 75K.mi. $25,000.(352) 527-8372 MERCEDES BENZ '01 ML. 55 AMG. Silver W/black int. Loaded, 57K.Mi. New $64K.Ask $20K. (352)489-7674 VOLVO '06 XC90, $20,995 3 avail. Ocala Volvo (352) 629-7299 $500! Police Impounds for sale! Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 FORD '06 F-150 Crew cab XLT. Tow pkg &topper, 51K mi; Exc cond.'LOADEDL $18,500/obo. (352) 634-1378; 795-2053 $5001 Police Impounds for sale Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 CHEVY '94 Handicapped Van. Low Mi. $4,000 Obo. (352) 726-8996 CHRYSLER '03 Town & Country LXI, 75K. Mi. All power, Leather, rear air, new ti- res, & brakes. $7,495. (352) 467-0872 DODGE '03 Grand Caravan SE. low mi. 53K. ,dual air, sun screen, CD & cass. New tires. Looks & drives like new. White, $6,800. (352) 860-1106 DODGE 2005, Grand Caravan Pwr Drs. Tailgate, , loaded family van only $219 mo, wac Jenkins Mazda 1-800-714-9813 ECONOLINE VAN '01 White, regular or hand . controls, Wheelchair acc., w/lift, $4200 (352) 341-7798 FORD E250 V-8 '2002, Work Van, inside tool boxes, good cond. $3,800 (352) 564-4598 HONDA ODYSSEY-EX MINI-VAN 2002, GREEN, 1 Owner, DVD, $7,900 obo- (352)422-3735 ALAN NUSSO INSURANCE AGENT $$ SAVE $$ ' LIFE INSURANCE * HEALTH * ANNUITIES * DISABILITY 352-422-6956 www.ANUSSO.com $5001 Police Impounds for sale! Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 1973 HARLEY DAVIDSON GOLF CART. Gas engine, AM/FM, light. Good cond. $500 (352) 220-2374 2007 HARLEY DAVIDSON DYNA WIDEGLIDE 2900mi. HD custom. wheels, mustang seat, plus HD access. $15,500 (352) 489-6237 . 1970's HONDA MINI TRAIL - Classic, 3-spd auto clutch. Excellent condition. $795. 352-228-3285 352-419-4553 $5001 Police Impounds for sale Cars from $500 800-366-9813 x 7374 HARLEY DAVIDSON Electraglide Ultra Classic 2006 HD Ultra Classic like new. Fully loaded, in- cludes Drivers Backrest, V&H Mufflers, 2 Helmets with Head sets, AM/FM/CB/Intercom, HD cover, Panacia Lighting, New Battery LESS than 3500 miles. 18,500 Seri- ous Inquires only please 344-2491 HD 1200L '07, 1000 ml. loaded w/chrome $7200 Fin avail. We Rent Bikes Lucky U Cycles (352) 330-0047 HD HERITAGE '06, low miles, Bik finance avail $12,700. Lucky U Cycles (352) 330-0047 H-D, SOFTAIL '02 6 Spd. 8,700 Mi. 124 S & S EVO. Lots of chrome. $12,000 (352) 746-3069 HONDA "99 Valkyre 30K ml. Blk, C Clean $8k, Lucky U Cycles (352) 330-0047 HONDA 04 1300 VTX, . thousands in options. mint condition $5900 obo (352) 302-7073 HONDA 06 Goldwing Trike, loaded 14k, ml. $27,500 Lucky U Cycles (352) 330-0047 HONDA 1976 550cc. 4 cyc. Super sport, complete, runs good, ride/restore $650,(352) 628-5606 HONDA Aero 2006 wlndsheild V & H pipes, 2nd seat, sissy bar $5200 obo 352-302-4320 SOFT TAIL '88 Just broke in 113 cubic , inch S&S Stroker motor w/Staggered Hooker headers. New Gangster white walls, seat in all leather blk os- trich skin, Paint by Jesse James painter of Calf., w/Double Damon signa- ture, House of Color paint, Blk w/colored ghost flames on all sheet metal. 2" Carlini handle bars. Chrome to max, This bad boy is not for the faint of heart. $30k invested, may trade for nice tractor w/bucket or bobcat etc. Call for more info. 352-302-2815 977-0611 DAILY CRN Surplus Prop, Citrus County Fleet Management PUBLIC NOTICE The Citrus County Board of County Commissioners will be selling surplus property & equipment via the Internet at govdeals.com from May 28, 2009 - June 11, 2009. Published seven (7) days consecutively in the Citrus County Chronicle May 28 thru June 11, 2009. 976-0531 DAILYCRN PUBLIC NOTICE Warning: as of this date the grounds and facilities owned by the Moorings @ Point 0' Woods Homeowners Assoc. located on Gospel Island Rd and all contiguous properties on Pelican Cove Ct, Heron Creek Loop, White Egret Path, Golf Harbor Path, E. Pebble Creek Ct. are for the exclusive use of the HOA owners only. Trespassers will be prosecuted. The Board of Directors, Moorings @ POW, HOA Published five (5) times in the Citrus County Chronicle, Mary 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31,2009. 359-0531 SUCRN Elig. To Vote Notice- Kennedy & Cassldy PUBLIC NOTICE Notice Is hereby given: Michael A. Kennedy Last Known Address of 6461 West Goldenleaf Lane Crystal River, Florida 34429 Shane J. Cassidy Last Known Address of 6 Michael Drive Beverly Hills, Florida 34465 You are hereby notified that your eligibility to vote Is In question. You are required to contact the Supervisor of Elections, In Inverness, Florida, no later than thirty (30) days after the date of this publishing. Failure to respond will result In a determination of Inellgibility by the Super- visor and your name will be removed from the state- wide voter registration system. If further assistance Is needed, contact the Supervisor of Elections at the below listed address or call 352-341-6747. Susan Gill Citrus County Supervisor of Elections 120 North Apopka Avenue Inverness, Florida, 34450 Published one (1) time In the Citrus County Chronicle May 31,2009. 978-0601 SU/MCRN 6/4 Emergency meeting- Citrus County Transit PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Transportation Disad- vantaged Coordinating Board will hold ,a Special Emer- gency Meeting at 10:30 A.M. on the 4th day of June. 2009 at the Lecdnto Government Building at 3600 W. Sovereign Path, Room 280,. Lecanto, FL 34461. Any person requiring special accommodations or desir- Ing further Information regarding this meeting may contact the Transportation Supervisor of Citrus County Transit, 1300 S. Lecanto Highway, Building #22, Lecanto, FL 34461. Telephone: (352) 527-7630 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: any person who decides to ap- peal any decision of the governing body with respect to any matter considered at this meeting will need a record of the proceedings and for such purposes may need to provide that a verbatim record of the pro- ceeding Is made, which Includes testimony and evi- dence upon which the appeal Is based. (Section 286.0101, Florida Statutes) JOHN THRUMSTON BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA Published one (1) time In the Citrus County Chronicle, May 31 and June 1, 2009. 361-0621 SUCRN 2008-CP-747 Estate Llese-Lotte Hildebrandt Notice of Action PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION UCN: 092008CP000747 CASE NUMBER: 2008-CP-747 DIVISION: Probate IN RE: THE ESTATE OF LESE-LOTTE HILDEBRANDT .(A/K/A UESE-LOTTE HILDEBRAND), Deceased Kemp & Associates, Inc., as Owner and Holder of a Partial Assignment of Interest of MARTA BOPZIN, et al., Petitioner, v. HENRY L. STAUFFER. as Personal Representative of the Estate of LIESE-LOTTE HILDEBRANDT (A/K/A LIESE-LOTTE HILDEBRAND), et al,, Respondents. NOTICE OF ACTION TO: ANY UNKNOWN OR UNASCERTAINED BENEFICIARIES, CLAIMANTS OR HEIRS OF LIESE-LOTTE HILDEBRANDT (a/k/a LIESE LOTTE HILDEBRAND) AND ALL OTHER PERSONS CLAIMING BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THEM. YOU ARE NOTIFIED that a Petition for Determination of Heirs & Their Respective Shares has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your writ- ten defenses, if any, to It on Sherri M. Stinson, Petition- ers' attorney, whose address Is 1239 S. Myrtle Avenue, Clearwater, Florida 33756, on or before June 30, 2009, and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on Petitioners' attorney or Immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded In the complaint or peti- tion. Dated May 27, 2009, BETTY STRIFLER As Clerk of the Court HONDA Shadow Arrow 06, garage kept, not in rain, floorboard $6200 obo (347)223-7269 aft 3:30 KAWASKI '00, ZRX 1100 CC,15K. Mi. Very fast, many extra's. $4k aobo. (352)621-3764 SUZUKI '04 Katana 600, Low miles. Incls. helmet & jacket. Asking $3,500. (352) 527-0679 SUZUKI '77, 750 CC, $1,100 Firm. (352) 563-5688 SUZUKI S40 '05, 650cc, 6K miles, Only $2000. Lucky U - Cycles (352) 330-0047 YAMAHA '05 YZ125 DIRT BIKE Race ready. Many ex- tras. $2500. 352- 586-1683: 586-9349 362-0607 SUCRN Unit A08 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned . In- tends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien Imposed on said property under the Florida Self Storage Facility Act (Section 83.801-83.809). The undersigned will sell at Public Sale by com- petitive bidding on the 16th day of June, 2009 at 11:00 a.m., being on the premises where said property has been stored and which Is located at Acorn Self Storage, 3710 E. Gulf To Lake Hwy, Inverness, County of Citrus, State of Florida, the following: Dominique Rigos, Unit A08 Household Goods Purchases must be paid for at the time of pur- chase In cash only. All purchased Items sold as Is where Is and must be re- moved at the time of sale. Sale subject to can- cellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Dated this day: 5/27/09 Call Acorn Self Storage for details 352-341-1622 Published two (2) times In Citrus County Chronicle, May 31 & June 7, 2009. 354-0607 SUCRN 2007-DP-722 Term. of Parental Rights (To: Jonathan Harris) Notice of Action PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION . CASE NO.: 2007-DP-722 IN THE INTEREST OF: A.F. DOB: 02/23/96 K.H. DOB: 02/19/98 A.W. DOB: 03/30/04 Minor Clld(ren) NOTICE OF ACTION. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AND GUARDIANSHIP THE STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Jonathan Harris L/K/A Unknown You are hereby notified that a petition under oath has been filed in the above-styled court for the termi- nation of your parental rights as to K.H. a male child born on 19th day of February, 1998 in Citrus County, Florida, and for placement of the child with the Florida Department of Children and Families for subsequent adoption, and you are hereby commanded to be and appear before General Magistrate Keith Schenck of the Circuit Court or any judge assigned to hear the above cause, at the Advisory Hearing on June 15. 2009 at 1:30 PM. at the Citrus County Courthouse, 110 N. Apopka Avenue. 3rd floor,.Inverness, FL 34450. YOU MUST PERSONALLY APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING OR THE ADJUDICATORY TRIAL FOR THE TERMI- NATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THESE . CHILDREN. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILDREN NAMED IN THE PETITION. YOU ARE ENTITLED TO HAVE AN ATTORNEY PRESENT TO REPRESENT YOU IN THIS MATTER. IF YOU WANT AN ATTOR- NEY, BUT ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD ONE, YOU MUST NOTIFY THE COURT, AND THE COURT WILL DETERMINE WHETHER YOU QUALIFY FOR AN ATTORNEY TO BE APPOINTED TO REPRESENT YOU IN THIS MATTER. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABI1UTIES ACT, if you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation In order to participate In this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact John Sullivan at the Citrus County Courthouse, 110 N. Apopka Avenue, Inverness, FL 34450 or phone (352) 341-6700 within two working days of your receipt of Notice of Advisory Hearing for Termination of Parental Rights. If you are hearing Impaired or voice impaired, call 1-800-955-8771. THIS NOTICE shall be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in the Citrus County Chronicle's Classified Section. 'Dated this 13th day of May, 2009, at Inverness. Citrus County, Florida. BETTY STRIFLER, Clerk of Courts (CIRCUIT COUR1 SEAL) By: /s/ Kelly Carpenter Deputy Clerk Published four (4) times In the Citrus County Chronicle, May 17, 24, 31 and June 7, 2009. 1---MlK I Legals (Court Seal) By /s/ P. Hendrickson As Deputy Clerk Published four (4) times In the Citrus County Chronicle, May 31, June 7, 14 and 21,2009. 363-0531 SUCRN PUBUC NOTICE NOTICE OF FINAL AGENCY ACTION BY THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT Notice is given that the District has granted an exemp- tion from Environmental Resource Permit pursuant to Subsection 40D-4.051 (9) (a) Florida Administrative Code. (F.A.C.) for activities on N/A to serve Govern- ment known as City of Crystal RIvec- NE 6th Ave., Cul- vert Replacement. The project Is located In Citrus County. Section(s) 22, Township 18S South, Range 17E East. The Exemption Is granted to City of Crystal River, whose address Is 123 NW Hwy 19, Crystal River, FL 34428, The Exemption no. Is EX 6304. The file(s) pertaining to the project referred to above Is available for Inspection Monday through Friday except for legal holidays, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, at the Southwest Florida Water Management District (District) 2379 Broad Street, Brooksville, FL 34604-6899 Notice of Rights Any person whose substantial Interests are affected by the District's action regarding this exemption may re- quest an administrative hearing In accordance with Sections 120.569 and 120.57, Florida Statutes (F.S.), and Chapter 28-106, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.), of the Uniform Rules of Procedure. A request for hearing must (1) explain how the substantial Interests of each person reauestina the hearing will be affected by the District's action, or final action: (2) state all material facts disputed by each person requesting the hearing or state that there are no disputed facts: and (3) other- wise comply with Chapter 28-106. F.A.C. A request for hearing must be filed with and received by the Agency Clerk of the District at the District's Brooksvlle address, 2379 Broad Street. Brooksville. FL 34604-6899 within 21 days of publication of this notice. Failure to file a request for hearing within this time period shall consti- tute a waiver of any right such person may have to re- quest a hearing under Sections 120.569 and 120.57. F.S. Because the administrative hearing process is designed to formulate final agency action, the filing of a petition means that the District's final action may be different from the position taken by It in this notice of final agency action. Persons whose substantial Interests will be affected by any such final decision of the District on the application have the right to petition to become a party to the proceeding, In accordance with the re- quirements set forth above. Mediation pursuant to Section 120.573, F.S., to settle an administrative dispute regarding the District's final ac- tion in this matter Is not available prior to the filing of a request for hearing. Published one (1) time In the Citrus County Chronicle, May 31,2009, 360-0531 SUCRN Bid 09-B-1 I Restroom modifications PUBLIC NOTICE INVITATION TO BID RESTROOM MODIFICATIONS FOR CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF SUBSTATION IN CRYSTAL RIVER Bid # 09-B-11 The City of Crystal River will receive sealed bids for RESTROOM MODIFICATIONS FOR CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF SUBSTATION IN CRYSTAL RIVER. You are hereby Invited to submit,a bid on the above referenced proj- ect. OWNER: City of Crystal River 123 NW Highway 19 Crystal River, FL 34428 Bids will be received until 10:00 AM, on June 9, 2009. BIDS will be opened and read aloud on June 9, 2009 at 10:05 AM in the Council Chambers at Crystal River City Hall. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Perform all work and furnish all necessary labor, equipment, materlpls and transporta- tion for demolition of exiting two restrooms and create a one unisex restroom. The unisex restroom shall meet ADA compliance. This Is a project-design to be as built and approved by City. The unisex restroom shall In- clude a Shower. Laboratory, Urinal, Sink, Stall Dividers, Wallboard, Exhaust Fan, Mirror, Electrical Outlets, Tile, Hot Water Heater, Grab Bars and extend A/C .duct If needed, etc. The work Included shall meet current building, electri- cal and plumbing code. All work shall be Inspected by the license building Inspector, from the City of Crystal River. ALl BIDDERS-must be State Ucensed Contractor for'the t, p or ..c.rk i.,r ir.,i:h rr.e BID is :.u .rnea BIDS ImusT . . �b- e r,.o.- a I'. a'r. .:paque r eic.pe ar,- d rar- eo "BID FOR RESTROOM MODIFICATIONS FOR CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF SUBSTATION NAME OF THE BIDDER BIDDER'S ADDRESS BIDS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO: CITY OF CRYSTAL RIVER CAROL A. HARRINGTON, CITY CLERK 123 NW HIGHWAY 19 CRYSTAL RIVER, FL 34428 Once opened, all contract documents may be exam- Ined at City Hall. The City of Crystal River ("OWNER") reserves the right to reject any and all BIDS for any reason whatsoever. THE OWNER ALSO RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SELECT THE BIDDER THAT IN ITS SOLE DETERMINATION BEST RESPONDS TO ITS BUSINESS NEEDS AS OUTLINED IN THE INVITATION TO BID. Hard copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS .may be obtained at: City of Crystal River 123 NW Hwy. 19 Crystal River, FL 34428 Public Works Department 352-795-6149 x 314 Published one (1) time In th6 Citrus County Chronicle, May 31,2009. '85 HONDA GOLDWING United Edition, $3,200 (352) 212-5526 ELECTRIC SCOOTER Street legal. 20mph. No license read. $250. .352-419-4553 or 228-3285 HARLEY '96 Sporster 1200, Cus- tom. 15K. Scream Eagle pipes,chro. Ex. clean $4,850.(352) 637-5143 Harley Davidson '06. Road King Classic low mi., blk cherry, incl. helmets/trvl luggage $14,000 (352) 382-0907 Harley Davidson '81 Shovelhead, 80", completely serviced, good shape. Ex. access. $5,395. obo 352-746-7655; 726-4109 HARLEY DAVIDSON 96 Heritage Soft tail, red many extras $9600 call evenings (352) 746-3613 ~'II. I EI II "You must know what your trade is worth, no matter where you plan to buy..." 118C.1 1k i:Z k'lkI l'.JhJ;flkllIhII .11114 2008 MALIBU. FREE 24 HRRECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO ANDSPECIALPRICING '8005848755 Ext. 2144 $8,988 or '59*mo. 2006 T BLAZER, FREE 24 HRRECORDED MESSAGE WITHINFO AND SPECIAL PRICING 800.584.8755 Ext. 2143 $9,988 ors176 mom. 2006 TAURUS FREE 24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO AND SPECIAL PRICING 800584.8755 Ext. 2142 S 6,988 or123 mo. 2005 EQUINOX FREE 24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO AND SPECIAL PRICING 800-584.8755 Ext.2135 $8,988 or$1t68* mo 2004 ODYSSEY FREE 24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO AND SPECIAL PRICING 800-584-8755 Ext. 2132 |10,988* or $208 mo. CRYSTAL 937 S. SUNCOAST BLVD. HOMOSASSA 800-584-8755 Ext. 1 * __crystalautos.com ' 2006 ECLIPSE FREE 24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFOAND SPECIAL PRICING 800.584.8755 Ext.2140 $10,988* or'194* mo. 200 IMA FREE24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO AND SPECIALPRICING 800-584.8755 Ext. 2138 S0,988 or$ ,94* mo. 2006 ACCORD FREE 24 HRRECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFOAND SPECIALPRICING 800.584.8755 Ext. 2169 $10,988 or $194 mo. 2005 XTERRA FREE 24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO AND SPECIAL PRICING 800-584-8755 Ext. 2137 $9,988 or 1 88*M. 2004 LIBERTY FREE 24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO AND SPECIAL PRICING 800-584.8755 Ext. 2131 $7,988 or$148'mo. CRYSTAL Jeep- C3-4''S- V 1005 S. SUNCOAST BLVD. HOMOSASSA 2077 HWY. 44 W. INVERNESS 800-584-8755 Ext. 1, S5crystalautos.com -2006 COLORADO FREE24HR RECORDED MESSAGE NTH INFOANDSPECAPRICING 800-5848755 Ext. 2139 $6,988 or 123* mo. 2006 RUISER FREE24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO AND SPECIAL PRICING 800.584.8755 Ext.2141 5,988 VorS105mo. 2005 PACIFICA FREE24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO AND SPECIAL PRICING 800.584.8755 Ext.2136 $8,988 or $168* mo. 2004 TOWN & COUNTRY *^ ^ ^ ., *-' ;* __ FREE 24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO AND SPECIAL PRICING 800.5848755 Ext. 2134 '6,988' or'1l31'o. 2004 SEBRING FREE 24 HR RECORDED MESSAGE WITH INFO AND SPECIAL PRICING 800-584-8755 Ext. 2133 '5,988 or 111 mo. CRYSTAL REVOLUTION 1035 S. SUNCOAST BLVD. HOMOSASSA 800-584-8755 Ext. 1 crystalautos.com ,All Prices/Payments exclude tax, tag, title, dealer ads and dealer fee ($599.50). Price/Payments include $2000 down (Cash or Trade Equity), owner loyalty, rebates and all factory incentives (must Qualify). Payments are at 7.99 A.P.R. for 72 Months for model years 2006-2009 and 7.70 A.P.R. for66 months for model years 2002-2005 W.A.C. Cannot be combined with other offers. All prior sales excluded and may restrict stock. Not responsible for typographical errors. Vehicles are pre-owned and pictures are for illustration purposes only. UIS SNDAY, MVAY 31, 2009~ A ,w CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE IG nit M . i., .. -ZI O &O '~5 V [ .4 A- .-4 *~**,** j IN r.- Z wl , w 1% ~ Ii, ~7r - 'I W m1' $ S:i w ILI ! a . . . - . , / .lk k l/l l,7 :1 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE E2 SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 Real Estate DIGEST = Charlotte G. names top agents Charlotte G. Realty & Investments LLC proudly "ecog- iizes Re- 3Itor Michelle barker for achieving op-listing tatuss for he months of akreke vlarch Charlotte G. and April. Realty. barker continues o excel is top- isting agent. Realtor 3eth En- sing achieved - Beth op-sales Ensing status for Charlotte G. vlarch, . Realty. and Bon- lie Peter- son, GRI, TRC, Re- altor, ." achieved - .. .op-sales status for April. In Bonnie an effort Peterson :o expand Charlotte G. ner inter- Realty. -ational knowledge , Peterson re- cently earned her TRC (Trans International Referral Certification) designation. All these agents can be reached at the downtown Crystal River office at 425 N. Citrus Ave., or by phone at 795-9123. ERA gives props to Rodrick ERA Suncoast Realty is proud to announce . that Real- tor De- anna Rodrick Deanna has Rodrick achieved ERA Suncoast $1 million Realty. in closed sales. She can be reached at the office at 795-6811 or 302-6213. Keller Williams taps Reulen What is a Culture Icon? A Culture Icon is someone Swho makes decisions that are right for the market cen- ter and community regard- less of individual impact. Doing something right with- out wanting to be recog- nized or acknowledged for it. Being part of the solution and not part of the problem. Who is this person? Pat Kennedy, team leader, Keller Williams Realty of Citrus - County, is pleased to an- nounce our Cul- Myriamn ture Icon Reulen for June Keller Williams is Myrialti Realty. Reulen. She can be reached at 613- 2644 or at the Keller Williams office at 746-7113 for all your real estate needs. REAL ESTATE DIGEST DEADULINES * Submit information for the Real Estate Digest by 4 p.m. Thursday for public cation Sunday. * News notes are published as space is available. * Submit material, attn: HomeFront, at Chronicle offices in Inverness or Crystal River; fax to 563- 3280; or e-mail to newsdesk@ chroni- cleonline.com. * We reserve the right to edit notes for style, grammar, or space. viA,=. relkyll 4-'ill -U1g SUARM WOOD2 5 ~ ~ BOXOO CT 1 LC IL POO HO E3251u TD PO O Ee/,1 Directions: US 19 to Cypress Blvd. W. to Left on Cypress Blvd. E. to Left on Corkwood Blvd. to Left on Boxwood Ct. House on Right of cul-de-sac. Directions: US 19 to Cypress Blvd. W. to Left on Cypress Blvd. E. to Left on Black Willow st. to Left on Black Willow Ct. N. House on Right. 'Pr I Single Family I 4Bd-3.5Bath- Detached Villa I 3Bd-2Bath- 3Car I/ Hillside'South 2Car I Woodview Villas Spacious home features upgraded Kitchen Oversized garage, enclosed lanai and select & Heated Pool. tile floors. TVRG# 1014 $549,000. TVRG# 1041 . $259,900. I J(352) 688-6864 * www.vanordenhome uil er.com 1 (352) 688-6864 e www.vanordenhomeb'uilder.com Terra Vista & Brendwood Rentals.' Terms- 6 Months or More "ii-'f'l CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICIJE Crystal River 794-0888 Inverness 3 I EST .LEADERS 41-1233 Beverly Hills 527- I112 BARBARA STONE dstone34@tampabay.rr.com AUSON (352) 697-0761 STE W352-586-3072 MARIKAM (352) 422-3998 MCCWlORY www.naturecoastltving.com info@naturecoastlivMng.com . - A 1 NW , ~~~~6~ OAKWOOD VILLAE _ *. Spacious 2/2/1 with newly painted interior and new flooring. MLS#323381 Directions: Rte. 491 or 486 to Forest Ridge Blvd., Lincoln St., to house on right after stop sign. EST VALUE IN CRYSTAL OAKS. Motivated sellers. Located on circle of cul-de-sac. Move- i ready, 4BR, 3BA home beautifully appointed with new flooring and interior & exterior newly painted. Features include luxurious master uite, wood-buming fireplace, oversized kit. cabinets, 3 car garage, built-in bookcases, and ots of storage-space. Crystal Oaks also offers residents the added benefit of a private creation center including clubhouse, swimming pool, shuffleboard and tennis. Secured boat/RV storage area is available. ntry doors welcome you into a everywhere including granite, double trayed Room boasting 10' ceilings. The ceilings, exterior rail trim, side entry am suite Is a "must see" with oversized 2 car garage, siM.t.. i his/hers walk-in closets, dual hardwood cabinets w/crown .,iai,., snail shower. Think of the arched doorways and hallways, e. .rtainin you'll do on the paved arched d oorways and hall ays, u ai. ,. , s d a i, aen ea heot lighting fixtures. Details this special rarely .he phone, it's time to see this seen at this price. Treat yourself -o tie -. I -~ . -... MAKE US AN OFFER fr'- L r..-j r or. Eu ;-. Current tenant through Ji separate entrance to s( situation for roommates! children and/or pets. ML5 - _ -. . A..-- ONEt L0.: r1 i dciEl r Nri~:r' LARGE KICHENA, flit floor plan with family room add vi Room - perfect super clean home. ed backyard for Ready for your im H your toothbrush! ML t l-n=: . I! ..__ .. A PRIVATE ARD orff i tme D 2 bedroom 2 bathroom i furnishing may be yours. ite occupancy, just bring w Village. s-free enj( paint, in s and mar W LISTEN TO THE BIRDS -..r,'-, lI r., ,r., n b ,ajI i'ui Fc.. charming detached villa offers "", ,.;, .... '^-^ '"^ a-1 .. . ,4 ODEL.. I.: .il a 1i Sprc.�i ai"'i"L J ri ire r ic7', 0,., I1 and all it.- v'ir 5-p'.. erilh Ihr .na l -: a . : both tIne kicrien ana m.as,3 i [hwrOrjr.T i. so.' ,.:... I" r,- Er., 4-.;i . ,'A FI.:.''3 .3 .':,T.',3.n Ar. rcln I_ 5.3 ,.:.J Ir,,L, I. Itr back door to relax on the screen-enclosed wood deckl The kitchen has a built-in desk and bright and open . space. New A/C n May '08! You'll want to call THIS one: YOUR new home MLS#331408. Nancy Ayres 352-279-5058 YOU REAL MUST SEE THIS ONE1! Totally renovated. updated kitchen with stainless appliances, rch ceramic tile, and decorator lighting. This inviting detached villa is spacious and beautifully maintained. It-is in "move in" condition. Furnishings are negotiable. Enjoy the community pool, tennis courts and maintenance-free living. MLS#334116. Mary Gulling 352-422-2994 PRISTINE AND SERE! r.: i .-r maintenance-free villa in desirable Fox Hollow. It fe, an open kitchen as well as 3 bedrooms plus a den. pantry. This roomy floor plan is warm, inviting and e love. Enjoy the wonderful view of the lush lands from the back patio as well as two community pools and tennis'courts and much more. MLS#333732. Mary Gulling 352-422-2994 on a nice cul-de-sac. Large master bedroom suite. GREAT CUSTOM BUILT TWO STORY family All bedrooms have lots of closets. Electric range, water access home featuring boat slip at end-of dishwasher, disposal, ceiling fan, garage door street, solid oak floors, hickory cabinets, stainless openers, lawn sprinkler system, and TV satellite appliances, wraparound porch, fenced comer 10o dish. This will be a short sale. MLS#326389. and much more. MLS#331348: Mike Stokley 352-206-9096 Brendai Hannigan 352-257-9135 WONDERFUL COUNTRY ESTATE .:...- I ' -o,:: Living room, dining room with real wood flooring & kitchenn enjoy 3-sided stone fireplace. Great room has stone fireplace and views of pool/lanaj area. Gourmet kitchen features Corian countertops, stainless steel appliances, eat at bar for 6 with adjoining dining area with table for 5. Summer kitchen on lanai. MLS#333061. Mike Stokley 352-206-9096 BUGARMILL WOODS IS THE PLACE TO BET! Thi 10 -i. rr , *l, - ' .. . .l rr..riul. 1:. ... Ju.. . C. . . 'O :.3sir, .:. .._ l i.T t .. i. . 'i,, a s', A.i i r r fa.c a iAcK.1 irue picE and ir.in Corne ara L .a 0a 'pK aL (our next home! Highly desired Lecanto School District. rhis is a short sale. MLS#329171. Peggy Price 352-302-5633 N r nr - _ -9 l 'r locleae or, a6 p ~ , al tnai r4 'r.,ty ot ri I r.,.an ar. n t' 't*r. NEW A' C. NEV i " tol River an.ch laake- ou c. IMe Cy't.-Ial Ri-er Access appl,3,nce Nt rgo -,a 110 o a'3 a n an the Gulf of Mexico. Live the waterfront dream!! pleasing view. Be sure to check this one out before 2. MLS#333806. - making a decision! MLS#333563 Peggy Price 352-302-5633 Barbara Stone 352-586-3072 r- . www.exitreal SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2oog E3 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE E4 SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 Taking care of toy clutter It's time to spring clean. One over- whelming, task can be organizing toys. It can be next to impossi- ble if your child knows what you're up to. Sud- denly, toys that have been long since forgotten become precious novelties. And, as Sara .Vi a parent, you don't want to be the meanie who threw away a childhood favorite toy and hear about it for years to come. 'Here are a few. sugges- tions. GATHER AND SORT: Get all the toys in one room. Use boxes or totes, and put like items together. Arrange by type and age ranges. Sepa- rate any dirty or broken toys or any that are missing pieces. If any are missing pieces, call the manufacturer * and see whether you can get re- placement pieces. Check online auc- tions, thrift stores and garage sales, too. When visiting these secondhand sources, take notes on prices Noel they charge for " A : the toys you have ,.. so you have an idea on pricing if you want to sell any. Identify which toys can be cleaned easily and which are at the end of their useful life. STORAGE SOLUTIONS: Floor space is'prime real estate, so look for space on walls, ceilings, closets and doors. Toy nets, shelves, hooks, door and closet or- ganizers, and hanging chains work well. Floor space is often best utilized with shelving units, toy bins and rolling-drawer caddies. You can use a picture- or text-label system to make it easy for kids to know exactly where a toy belongs. PURGE: The toys your child has outgrown are an opportunity to teach him or her. about money or giving. Let them learn as you sell of donate toys. This can be a motivator for them to let go of some of the toys they might be clinging on to. There are multiple, places that will take them. See .. .. Page E5 OBITUARIES * The Citrus Countyr Chronicle's policy permits both free and paid obituaries. E mail obits@chronicle online.com or phone 563-5660 for details and pricing options. CY L E BEHIND ON YOUR PAYMENT CAROLYN LISTEhR FACING AN ECONOMIC HARSH a Multi-Million Dollar Realtor ... . .1. Office: 382-1700 ,".: - View virtual tours @ www.isterlistings.com SUNDAY, MAY 31, 109 ANTON CT. 2/2 Springwood condo End unit - 2nd floor #331042 $125,900 13 BEVERLY CT. 2/312 w/fam rm & FL rm Eat-in kitchen & new roof #328484 $135,000 6 DOUGLAS CT S. 3/212 pool home w/fam rm Hurricane resistant windows #333138 $193,000 TS?. Stress, frustration, worry, lIP? uncertairity... Families are trying to survive on barely one salary or S..less while losing income, the day to day demands and bills do not halt. It is insane,like walking on a b tightrope! We understand and have Short Sale Specialists with the right tools to help you. What is a Short Sale? Are you a short sale candidate? Someone you know facing economic hardship? H For help visit our website at www.CitrusSold.comlShortSale We can help' WF-,,-.-- . Jackie & Bob Davis American Realty & Investments 117 S. Hwy. 41 Inverness, FL (352) 634-2371 Cell (800) 476-2590 Toll Free E R A For a Visual Tour of our listings REAL ESTATE and all MLS: bjdavis.com . HERE'S A HOME THAT BOLDLY FACES THE WORLD LOOKING DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT. It's 3 bedrooms and 2 baths enjoy a very open and h., ir.- ,4,.11 (vu . La,, ,: i l.,, i' .. ,,, ir,., ,'b ,r,.,, T.: r I,.:, . Tl r-. ,, : .. .. r . , I .' i, , l.' . , l.J'-. f Ii,' l ii ,,l b , 4 ,,'j, in ,li..,' Ti, jt.,:,n|I 11334559 $155.000 HERE'S A CAREFREE VILLA WITH A __.,' JAW.DROPPING VIEW OF OPEN LAKE "" - -, , sproxim ir. , ,.' , . : ,I " rc : ' i: .' 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IContinued from Page E4 M y producer, Brad many unconventional prod- Staggs, and I put to- ucts now available to con- gether for tractors for installation in HGTVPro.com a five-part residential homes. One - look at the latest home-re- . such product: personal modeling trends that qual- , wind generator. I've. had ify for the new tax-credit some experience with per- package. And we thought it sonal wind generation, and would be a good idea to also I'd like to share-with you a share this information here. few of my opinions of what This third part of "Ed Del Ed Del Grande is real about wind power as Grande's Commonsense ASK THE opposed to what may be Guide" focuses on wind - . just a lot of hot air. power: 0 For the most part, it's New tax credits to home- widely accepted that in- owners for "energy-efficient products" stalling a personal wind generator for- have generated a lot of interest in a home in most cases will not remove you from the electrical grid. Realisti- .cally, you can expect to generate about 25 percent to 30, percent of a home's electrical power with wind power. That's important to know since the av- erage base price installation costs for a small wind turbine system can be around $5,000 and up, depending on where you live. The generation figure is based on a residential wind turbine installed 30 to 40 feet above the ground. Now, this brings up a very important considera- tion. Building a 30-foot-plus wind tower in 'the "back yard" of most See' . Page E14 Here are a few sugges- tions. SCHOOLS: Ask teachers whether they wait toys for their classroom,, treasure boxes or as rewards. TOY LENDING LI- BRARIES: Sometimes, even if they can't use them to lend out, they'll accept them to resell to buy toys they need. CHILDREN IN NEED: You can donate books, toys and other much-needed ma- terials to children in the Philippines. Visit Books foi the Barrios (www.books- forthebarrios.com) for more information. You can even donate stuffed animals. Visit SAFE (Stuffed Animals for Emergencies, at www. stuffedanimalsforemergen- cies.org), which gives them to emergency organizations to dispense as needed. SECOND USE: Reuse toys for crafts, as ornaments or as gift embellishments. Organize a toy swap with friends, create activity boxes for the car or a rainy day, or make story sacks with toys, printable work- sheets, craft supplies and a book See i: -,.AL/Page Ell POOL HOME ON DOUBLE LOT * 3/2/2, LIVING & FAMILY ROOM * Enclosed Lanai to POOL * Lots of Ceramic Tile * SHOWS GREAT! KELLY GODDARD 476-8536 ELLIE SUTTON 287-3997 Email: kellyg@remax.net 11004 W. COVE HARBOR DR., CRYSTAL RIVER * 2BD/2BA/Carport * Waterfront w/Dock * Pelican Cove Condo * 1 159 SF Living * Screened porch * Maintenance Free PETER & MARVIA KOROL [7T- Realtors@ - (352) 527-7842 (352) 422-3875 8826 N, GOLFVIEW DR. 6045 N. OAKMONT DR. SUGARMILL WOODS CITRUS SPRINGS PINE RIDGE GOLF COURSE HOME 2BD/2.5BNA/2CG New Roof &A/C * 3BD/2BA/2+CG Lg. Screened Patio *Sits o 2 lots, .66 ac. * Solar Heated Pool, Great Room Office or Den 3/2/2 w/htd pool, new roof & A/C. * Close to Golf Course * Fam. Room/3rdBD Garage Workshop Pristine Condition 19 Priced to sell. Garage Workshop .n Din. US 19 S. L Cypress Blvd., R Pin PETER & MARVIA KOROL [ PETER & MARVIA KOROL | Inkapl Or. to s34 Realtors@ -Realtors NANCY BOWDISH * (3521628-7800 (352) 527-7842 (352) 527-7842 Direct: (3521 422-0296 (352) 422-3875 (352) 422-3875 Wsn 11Tol at www.1n,,nc4aer 1 Sugarmill Woods heated, salt, pool home New tile, freshly painted, 3/2/3 w/den. DIR: SMW Cypress W, R on Cypress E to Corkwoa I oan Hadcberry oe on the left NANCY BOWDISH * (352 628-7800 Dired: (352) 422-0296 Visuaa ToWs at www1dm. OWNER'S TOUCH SHOWS! 3/2/3 WITH OFFICE S2005 BUILT Ceramic tile/granite SDream kitchen/great DR Large lanai & POOL * Circle Drive-corner lot KELLY GODDARD 476-8536 ELLIE SUTTON 287-3997 Email: kellyg@remax.net NEW AC CITRUS SPRINGS SOwn your PLACE IN THE SUN! CT U S N VERY NICE HALF ACRE LOT Almost new... Great location of 2BR/2 bath - screened porch newer homes. 3/2/2 with covered Split plan - lots of storage ' * Rootfver lanai to quiet, private backyard I * Pavpd 1ret NNOT A SHORT SALE! KELLY GODDARD 476-8536 L .. ELLIE SUTTON 287-3997 VICKI LOVE 352-697-0712 Email: kellyg remanx.nel www.ladkioveffomes.com Meadowcrest!! Arbor Court Villa'! 2 Bedroom, 2 bath, 1 car garage, corner location, handicapped shower, new hurricane garage door and laminate flooring, double glazed glassed in lanai DIANNE MACDONALD 212-9682 Emaild dill fahoo.com LOVELY 4/3/2 W/HEATED POOL IN GATED COMMUNITY Open family room & kitchen w/ breakfast nook. Great flowing plan for entertaining. Many extras at this greai price CHERYL NADAL (352) 302-3555 fEmmt wadal.earthrm.nel fl S",0 5 sq. U -ieny apace. SHome InspectionAppraisal 4/09 Deepgreen belt Screened lanai w/shower/gas hookup Split/open floor plan *Water softener * Solar tube lighting DANNY UNDERWOOD (352) 586-1743 Integrity Selling Speciaist t Emaihtorie.ULifeStyk4e(otm fMAcom LAUREL RIDGE * Near TWISTED OAK COURSE LOVELY SETTING S3/2/2 w/Ig. Family rm. SScreened porch & lanai * Laminate & tile PRICE REDUCED AGAIN KELLY GODDARD 476-8536 ELLIE SUTTON 287-3997 Email: kellyg@remax.net CITRUS SPRINGS * 3BR/2BA/2CG * Granite kitchen countertops * 42 inHickory cabinets * Heated pool * Detached 30 x 40 garage/ workshop/heated & cooled LEN PALMER (352) 212-2611i Emalk lenpalmer@remax.net BRING YOUR HORSES!!! 4/3, 1993 doublewide (1,728 sq. ft liv.) Split floor plan * Large master suite * Large eat-in kitchen * 2.5 Acres * Huge liv. rm. w/fpl. * Near riding trails * Beautiful Pasture with 2-stall barn in back CHERYL LAMBERT 352-637-6200 Email: cheryiamnber remaxnaet CYTRus CouNTY (FL) CHRoNicm SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2oog ES E6 Sunday, May 31, 2009 HomeFront is a weekly real estate section published Sundays in the Citrus County Chronicle. It is also distributed to approximately 300 business locations throughout Citrus County. 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Others will not be accepted. - Please include your address and phone number on any photos or negatives submitted. - Photos or negatives submitted will be returned if supplied with a return envelope and postage. - When identifying persons in your photo, please do so from left to right, front to back,- - For more information, please contact Matt Beck, photo team leader, at 563-5660. Pavement poses issues for rainwater runoff Our nation has come a long way since early cobblestone streets kept our feet out of the muck While we may have managed to keep our feet dry, we have also succeeded in keeping stormwater from percolating into the soil. Conventional paving materials are imperme- able to the passage of water and have resulted in some serious problems like stormwater / -. runoff. If rain water cannot soak into the ground where it falls, it will run downhill, pick- ing up particles as it goes. Joan B: On a small scale, we can see FLOg this at home when water runs off the driveway onto the lawn, FRIE maybe leaving a small eroded LIV area. Multiply this effect over the expanse of a shopping center or an en- tire metropolitan area and you begin to understand the size of the problem. As water'collects downstream, every- thing from soil and fertilizer to cigarette butts and oil spills are carried along, in- creasing the potential for pollution of our water bodies. In recent years, efforts have been made t9 develop a permeable concrete that mimics the way nature drains. Permeable paving materials have been in existence since the racsnaw RIDA- NDLY ING ' 1970s, but widespread use has been slow due to unfamiliarity with correct procedure, leading to faulty installation, and a sub- sequently high rate of failure. However, with proper installa- tion and maintenance, these systems can be very effective and long-lasting. Designers developed perme- able paving systems that allow runoff to pass through the pave- ment into a stone reservoir, be- fore infiltrating the soil below to recharge the groundwater supply With proper installation and maintenance, porous paving allows for infiltration of up to 80 percent of annual runoff volume. Addi- tionally, studies indicate that permeable concrete systems can remove up to 65 per- cent of undissolved nutrients from runoff and up to 95 percent of sediment in runoff. To learn more about this environmen- tally friendly paving material that offers See PAVING/Page E10 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE Inside... Seed swaps PAGE E9 Ask the Plumber PAGE E5 Real Estate Digest PAGE E2 WHERE'S JANE? N Gardening columnist Jane Weber is taking a break from her column, Jane's Garden. It will re- turn later this year. For current property transac- tions, use the search features on the Web site for the Citws County Property Appraiser's Of- fice, www.pa.citrus.fl.us. Clear photograph helps with positive ID on ceramic plate D ear John: Please the unglazed platter, which posed of scrolls topped find attached pic- was then fired in the kiln. with a fan-shaped shade tures of an old plat- The transfer print process upon a rounded base, ter given to me by my allowed for mass produc- which resembles a lantern. grandfather. I would like to tion. There are covered urns know the value ofthis piece The category of collect- and some stone steps in the both for insur- ing is called Eng- foreground. ance and what it lish Transfer- In the background, seen would bring in ware. Your plat- through, the arch, there is . . the antiques ter is in the sub an imposing columned world. .- M.O., , category Ro- building with a wide pedi-. ; Internet - . mantic Scenes meant surmounted by a Dear M.O.: and the pattern Your platter was name is. Vene- See ATTIC/Page E7 ... . S-, _ made in the .- tian Gardens. 1 Thanks to this impressively .. Staffordshire found your Ve- detailed photograph, this district of Eng- netian Gardens plate can be positively- � land during the John Sikorski pattern in' identified as a piece of Eng- early to mid 19th SIKORSKI S Williams & We- lish Transferware from the century. The de- ATTIC bers' definitive Staffordshire district of . sign on the plat- _..book "Stafford- England. It was manufac- ter is a transfer. shire Romantic tqred In the early to mid- print The designs were en- Transfer Patterns." It accu- 19th century, and the grayed by artists on copper rately describes the center . pattem-rn style is called plates. After inking the as follows: 'A wreath of "Venetian Gardens." plate, tissue paper was ap- beads surrounds the cen- The maker is'unknown, plied and the design trans- tral scene. The garden of however. It might sell for " ferred onto the paper. The the title is depicted by a about $200. p per-was then laid onto., flowerlade arch,- om-r�, . i."s, _tuechroiWl - CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE SUNDAY, M~ 31, 2009 El ATTIC Continued-from Page E6 statue." The authors list the pattern as "maker un- known." I appreciate the good clear photograph, making it possible to com- pare the description. Poten- tial dollar value currently is in the $200 range. Dear John: I read your column in the Homefront every Sunday. I really like it I am sending a photo of a painting that we found 25 years ago. I though it was beautiful. Can you tell me anything about it or if it is worth anything? - M. Y, Dunnellon Dear M.Y.: I am glad you included a good clear pho- .tograph of the artist's signa- ture. I can see the name is Stevens; however, there is no first name or initial. There are numerous listings for the name, but without a first name or initial it is not possible to identify the painter. Considering the artist is unknown, and as- suming it is a painting not a print, it perhaps would sell for about $100. Dear John: I read your column in the Chronicle every Sunday. You have helped a lot of people and I hope you can help me. En- closed are pictures of a chair I think is quite beauti- ful. There are no markings underneath, but the designs on the chair are either Chi- nese or Japanese. All the white flowers are mother of pearl and all in perfect con- dition. I am sorry there are no markings to tell you about, but I hope you can still tell me something about it. It was purchased at a flea market about 12 to 13 years ago. -B.M., Inverness Dear B.M.: I think your decorative chair with fancy mother of pearl floral inlays was made within the last 25 to 30 years. It was likely made in Indonesia. There is no collector interest Poten- tial dollar value is catch-as- catch-can. John Sikorski has been a professional in the an- tiques business for more than 20 years. He hosts a call-in radio show, Siko- rski's Attic, on WJUF (90.1 FM) Saturdays from 11 a.m. to noon. Send questions to Sikorski's Attic, c/o The Cit- rus County Chronicle, 1624 N. Meadowcrest Blvd., Crystal River, FL 34429, or e-mail asksikorski@ - ol.om. ' " . . ... . ;-- Spectacular r-. water view at .: " - The Landings ;: : . , .-. of Inverness .. ..3/2/2 w/private, heated pool. Paradise Found! S , , .- , . ' Priced to sell fast View 50 plc slideshow at ghrealty.com at $229,900 * The Chronicle has forms available for wedding and en- gagerent announ,:ements, anniversaries, birth an- nouncerents rind lirst birthdays. ww cirsigerelt.com I PIERIG PO HO .,,SS I NE OE I NWHM I NWHM I PIE..D �a w wctub stbyS0 PINE FUDGE I SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2oog E7 CYTRus CouNTY (FL) CHRoNxLE PINE FUDGE I 1 2 ACRES I CANTEMURY [AKE EST. 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See as beauty ted $84,000 9 Pd..... .......... $6,900.o CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE 352-795-7357 888-795-7356 wwwxhemarealty .com PROPERTIES FOR SALE & RENT 2 LOTS IN SOUTH OAK VILLAGE! * 3/+ large office/2/2 w/heated pool * 2248 living area - custom design * Corian island kitchen - walk-in pantry * Vaulted ceilings - well for yard * Crown molding- 16" tile #331055 $285,000 NEW ROOF IN 20091 * 2/2/2 with room for a pool! * Remodeled kitchen w/wood cabinets * Glass enclosed FL room wheat & air * Beautiful landscaping w/ well for yard * 15' easement on west side of home #312133 $139,900 I Se Vita Tor @ w wr saleom suco 785605 (u Prudential CITRUS HILLS OFFICE Florida Showcase Properties PINE RIDGE OFFICE 962 W. Sun Valley Ct. 3779 w. Northcrest Ct. 1123 W. Hampshire Blvd. 2285 N. Hardee Pt. $499,000 $192,900 $119,900 $118,o500 Majestic large villa w/desirable side load 3/2.5/2 in Crystal Glen near community 3 Bedroom, 2 bath, 2-car garage Fully furished Meadowview patio home garage on comer lot. Courtyard home with dub house/pool tennis courts. Impressive home built in 2008. Close to with a Citrus Hills Sodal Membership. Well- foyer, hardwood floors, crown molding, dining & great rooms with 12' ceilings, large MBR/bath, SS appl., custom painted fireplace & marble flooring thru-out. Lanai shopping, split floor plan, great for cared for one owner; has a nice screened with sunny southern exposure view from (under air)/family room with sliders to a. first time home buyer, ready for lanai overlooking a pretty backyard and lanai. 21x37 patio. immediate occupancy. greenbelt. 352-746-0744 MLS#334525 352-746-0744 MLS#334463 352-746-0744 . MLS#334481 352-746-0744 MLS#334532 3 Polk St. 3563 W. Blossom Dr. 261 E. Hartford St. 5-6B .7121 N. Outrigger Terr. $64,900 $369,000 $149,500 $149,000 Completely remodeled 2 bedroom, 2 bath Beautiful 3/3/3 pool home. Office/den has 3/3.5 tri-level townhouse w/2-glass 4 BEDROOMS, 2300 L/A in a nice home In nice setting. This home has 2 computer stations &'Murphy bed. Large enclosed porches, mirrored dining area, central heat & air, a separate laundry/ great rm. w/gas fireplace, pool w/spa, wet bar, new appliances, spiral stairway to -area of Citrus Springs with newer utility room and fenced in yard. Perfect for summer kitchen in lanai, hurricane bottom' level, tile & carpet, fans, great homes all around. **THIS IS A a.. /fit time home ubg#. p,. " shutters & whole house generator, clrZL^ fdlly rurnsreda SHORT SALE ** *{ ... 352-746-4 #334482 352-527-1820 MLS#328144 35 46-0744. LS#327730 3525i2%1i20 'LS#333r,89 7 Davs Foryour Ivenlence Gardeners trade tips, seeds 'Seed swaps' becomingpopular with green thumbs IMELISSA KOSSLER . DUTTON Associated Press goF athy Tinius is growing some Suniusual sunflowers in her Syard this summer, and has good reason to believe the vari- eties will thrive. Another gardener in her area grew the flowers successfully, and gave Tinius the seeds during a seed swap that drew people from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Tinius, of Ashton, Md., has dab- bled with growing from seed for years, and likes swaps because attendees exchange information as well as seeds. "I try and get some tips," the 54-year-old said. "You can get seeds in hand-written packages. You can get different varieties. I really like that" Seed swaps, or exchanges where gardeners bring their ex- tras to share, give people access to plants and varieties not typi- cally found in stores. Although the Internet can connect garden- ers with seeds from around the DAMIAN DOVARGANESIAssociated Press world, seed swaps put them in Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne work in their sidewalk garden that they've grown from seeds at their Echo Park home in Los Angeles. touch with local growers. They are often organized by gardening For some, the plants are a clubs, neighborhood associations touchstone to the flavors and or enthusiasts of the ancient scents of their youth. practice of collecting seeds from "They're looking to recreate plants., whatever taste or whatever flow- Check gardening newsletters, ers they saw in their child hood." Craigslist or Jentz said. www.foodnotlawns.net for local Increased interest in organic swaps. Organizations or Web sites and locally grown food also is dedicated to living green or grow- drawing people to seeds. Jentz ing heirloom plants also are good said. Others see seed saving as a ..- sources for seeds. wayto save money while garden- Growing from seed has gained ing. momentum recently as gardeners Erik Knutzen, who grows much seek out unusual or particular of his own food, recently picked varieties of flowers and vegeta- up some pepper and eggplant bles, said Kathy Jentz, editor of seeds at an organized seed swap. .. - Washington Gardener Magazine See SEEPS/Page E11 in Silver Spring, Md. Gardeners are looking for "very specific va- Exchanged okra, cosmos, rieties or experiences - not and mystery seeds are seen at what ypu get from big boxstores," Eric Jutn's Echo Park home in she q .:-.. . ,... ,os fgeis.- 0TRus CouNTY (FL) CHRoNicLE SUNDAY, Mxv 31, 2oog E9 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE E10 SUNDAY. MAY 31. 2009 PAVING Continued from Page E6 the durability of standard concrete while retaining stormwater runoff and re- plenishing local watershed systems, attend a demon- stration at the Florida- friendly Living Green Expo at from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 19 at UF/IFAS Citrus County Extension, at 3650 West Sovereign Path, Suite 1, Lecanto, FL 34461. The Green Expo will feature green technology displays, water and energy saving de- vices, as well as a showcase of the latest hybrid cards. Plan to tour the learning landscape and participate in the butterfly and ladybug release. For more informa- tion, contact Citrus County Extension at 527-5700. DOUBLEE DIGIT SAVINGS" SAVE THOUSANDS WITH US AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE $8,000 TAX CREDIT TODAY! ~~ Laiidiciped li. .3 c utfi.ro , 2 baIi, 2 hicar Iga at1 kt ~Iuich /r ! 'hq Pt I VIMI OUR WEBSITI: www~.gihsbuildemnline~com Citrus County Extension links the public with the University of Florida/IFAS's knowledge, research, and resources to address youth, family, community, and agri- cultural needs. Programs and activities offered by the Extension Service are avail- able to all persons without regard to race, color, handi- cap, sex, religion, or na- tional origin. Dr Joan Bradshaw is the natural resource conserva- tion faculty for specialized programs and the County Director for Citrus County University of Florida/IFAS Extension. the link between plans and reality / Dennis amato State C ,hJ CGC-004344 GENERAL CONTRACTOR, INC. A TRADITION OF QUALITY SINCE 1972 * Consultation & Project/Plan Review * Design Services * Cost Estimating * Design-Build Construction * Custom Crafted Homes * Waterfront Homes * "Cracker-Style" Homes & Buildings k Residential Renovations . 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COMMERCIAL BUILDING & BUSINESS <4M Sale includes established, lucrative sign business and all equipment, " l also stay on after the sale to assist in running the business. .S9lo OOS&^ TuMi rECAiOtW , ,:i : NSI I CraRUS.,u. ; .x I"M LOT ON C AL. . .. . -- ait0M 2 COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS ZONED GNC FOR SALE OR LEASE .JALL3-2aU9, OWNER/AGENT E10 suNDAY, MAY 3 1 2009 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE MY3,20El Protecting trees from lightning strikes W while observing the lightning this past week, thoughts of this week's article came to mind: The need for light- j ning protection. , Some tree species in -. Florida shade and beautify our landscape for hundreds - -, of years. They provide shel- ter for wildlife, produce Kerry oxygen for the environment Ty and perform many other ARB beneficial duties. These majestic assets to our environment could be destroyed in less than a second by a bolt of light- ning. Trees that stand in the open land- scape or are the tallest tree in an area are likely candidates for lighting strikes. There are many circumstances that Kreider g1E MRIST warrant protecting a tree from a lightning strike - historic trees, trees of great economical value,- large trees 10 feet from a struc- ture, trees on a golf course, in a park, trees that are used to aid shelter from weather or trees in our own front or back yard. These should be quipped with lightning protection sys-- tems. A lightning protection system entails a series of copper conductors that extend from the top of the tree down the main stems and trunk, past the tree's drip line, and that are then grounded. All lightning protection hardware should be approved by NFAA and LPI. See TREES/Page E14 FRUGAI other toy has to leave. You can cessity, you make the most of FRUGmAL tuck some away and rotate the your hard-earned money and toys they play with to get best waste less, too. When you strip Continued from Page E5 use from them all. away the excess in your life, you M E discover a sense of truth and NEW RULES: Set new rules, Frugality isn't cheap living or authenticity. Your identity is such as for each new toy that voluntary poverty. Whether enters the house at least one you're frugal by choice or ne- See '- ' ..Page E15 a - SEEDS Continued from Page E9 asm for sav the final stb "There's Hill, 32. "To watching The Los Angeles resident also There's a l swaps casually with fellow gardeners Swappin and neighbors. He particularly enjoys between g exchanging seeds with his mother's the seeds b neighbor, who brings them to Califor- reminders nia from his native Greece. - times. "You can access things that you can't, "I always buy," said Knutzen, coauthor of "The from some Urban Homestead" (Process Media, she enjoys 2008). "You can grow things you can't her seeds get in the supermarket" - yard. "The Swaps are good places to find seeds plants." from thriving plants that grew near your home; gardeners typically save -, -' seeds from their healthiest, most pro- ductive plants, said Knutzen. ..... "You're selecting varieties that are website: www well adapted to a particular place," he 352 79C said. "It's like Darwin. There's a higher 352-527 probability it will be successful." 'S-52 'Just throw a party and invite peo- ple who do gardening," he said. "It will -be fine." Paige Hill did just that when she re- alized she had more basil seeds than she could ever use. She rightly figured many of her gardening friends had a "wealth of knowledge and a wealth of ". seeds" to share. She also invited Beautfuy cra and breaKfast friends who had never saved seeds to woodworking the swap. .,.r, ,, , ,e t/Ol ..r - ,o , "Everybody.got so excited," said Withlacoochee Hill, ofAustin, Texas. "It was so fun." (Really, just.the S e yourself encha She hoped to pass on he enthusi- ..... ing seeds, which she sees as ep in successful gardening. a completeness to it," said o be out working in the soil, the plant grow and die. )t of life in that dead plant." .g seeds also creates a bond ardeners, she said. When become plants they serve as of friendships and good s know which plants came body else," she said. And seeing plants grown from flourishing in a neighbor's re'ss a connection to these HERRI C. PARKER& ASSOCIATES 626 N Citrus Ave., Realtors, LLC Crystal Rir, FL 34428s I .SherriCParker.com usreaftor@aol.comrn i-3322 office -8090 cell Mff :17!'51 2t1 OULOOKING iEY NK '," -!,.Y UNIQUE? ted, lovingly d(ecoratud and a bit like a bed near the river? Do you appreciate fine with natural Tne ".i1 an.3 dft.=iri . 1,:4. IT -. : ', , 4ni4, ]I '5 I c o ,:Il,"aA - .r -.ul ;i-p *,. from the boat ramp and River. 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(352) 7264744 11-15 mi to Pwr Plant INVERNESS 1 BR Mobile, 55+ water- front park, Incl. water $475 352-476-4964 BEVERLY HILLS Proaress Enerayv Contractors 111, fully furn avail now $825. includes all util- ities, 100 channel TV/linternet. 2/1 also available (352) 220-2666 Citrus Hills Townhouse 2/212/1. Terra Vista Club incl. $1,000 Mo + util. (516) 991-5747 CRYSTAL RIVER 312/2 Waterfront Furn. 8 rm. house on Lake Russo, boat ramp & private dock. $1,200 Mo. RV. sight also avail. $350.Mo. (850) 566-4195 FLORAL CITY Lakefront,- 3/2/1, scrn. porch, fruit trees;,dock Lovely area. $1,600. incl. all util. & yrd. care, ref. req. 1st last, sec. 352-860-1885, 697-2290 HOMOSASSA 3/2/1 Nearly new. Off of Rock Crusher Road, near school. Well furn. & clean. Great cond. Lease with Option to purchase. $950. Month. + electric 5640 Irving Court (352) 563-2776 INVERNESS 1BD w/2 bd loft. W/D, $600 + sec. 352-726-1882 2 Masters/2 2, (large) SUGARMILL Woods Screen lanai, oversized gar. new appl.-& A/C $850 mo. j (352)302-4057 2 or 3 Bedrooms RENT TO OWN- NO CREDIT CHECK!! Low Down! 352-484-0866 jademission.com BEV. HILLS/Cit. Sprg 2/1, Bev. Hills $650. mo. 4/1, Cit. Sprgs $700. mo 352-746-0330. BEVERLY HILLS 15 S. Desoto 2/1/1 w/fl rm. $625 mo. (352) 697-1907; 527-8432 BEVERLY HILLS 2/1 + fi rm, renovated 5 S. Lincoln Av. $600. (352) 422-2798 BEVERLY HILLS 2/1 ,C/H/A, ceiling fans,; W/D, ready now $575. mo. 352-422-7794 BEVERLY HILLS , 2/1/1 Fl. Rm., W/D, CHA New: Paint, Carpet, refrig., blinds, 795-9060 BEVERLY HILLS 2/2/1. new kitchen, Lrg BD rms, Fl rm. $725.mo 845-282-3504 BEVERLY HILLS Oakwood Village 2/2/2 $650mo +sec. 422-0139 BEVERLY HILLS Very Nice 2/1, $575/ mo. (352) 220-0740 www.letaj.com/lemon BRENTWOOD At Terra Vista 3/2 Pool Home $1,100 Incl. soc. memb. (352) 422-4086 CITRUS HILLS 3/2 Pool Home 1 Acre, $975 (352)746-4821 CITRUS SPRINGS 3/2/1 $825=mo- sec. 352-746-9436 CITRUS SPRINGS 3/2/2 Newer Home. Washer & dryer. Sprinkler system. Quiet neighborhood. $795. Monthly. (352) 812-1414 CITRUS-SPRINGS Nice 3/2/2, Near Sch. $875. mo 352-628-0731 CRYSTAL RIVER 3/1 Near hosp. $695 (727) 631-2680 CRYSTAL RIVER Lovely, Spacious 3/2/1, Unfurnished $850 mo. or $1000 mo. furnished 352-628-1149 CRYSTAL RIVER Rent or Rent to Own Copeland PK Beauty 3/2, Lrg Fam. Rm. Tiled, gorgeous -spotless, fenced, Pets OK, $750mo. 352-527-0493 352-427-7644 DUNNELLON 3/112/2, Fire Place, $895. mo. 1st lost, sec. (352) 489-9239 GOLFER'S DREAM Home 3/2/2 3000 sf $850 (908) 322-6529 HOMOSASSA $350.... 1/1, Duplex $525/up..2/1 Duplex $700..2/2/2 SMW Villa $1000. WF 3/2/2 Home River Lnks Realty Call 352-628-1616 HOMOSASSA 2/1 CHA, No-pets $550/mo. st + sec (352) 628-4210 HOMOSASSA 2/2 off Cardinal Lane $600 mo Ist + dep. Lease option (352) 628-7682 INVERNESS 2/2, $650mo. 1st/last $300 sec.(352) 860-2055 INVERNESS 2/2/1, City Water No Pets $650+ sec 352-344-4192; 613-6364 INVERNESS 2/2/2 New kitchen, fam. rm., fire place, fen'cd. yd., close to schools & shop. $700. mo.+sec.(845) 313-3992 INVERNESS 3/2/2 Split plan, extra clean, newer carpet, wood floors; GREAT AREA! $750. 352-476-4896 INVERNESS. 610 Independence Hwy 3/2/2 Fenced yard., Rent w/option to buy. $750/mo. 1st +Sec. 352-422-3670 INVERNESS HIGHLANDS 4/2/2 or 3/2/2 Starting at $790 (352) 341-1 142 (352) 601-2615 INVERNESS Very nice quiet neighborhood, close to Ft. Cooper Park. 3/2 w/oversized garage enclosed porch, fenced in back yard, all appliances. Lots of closet space. Very clean. Ready to move in. Only $825 per. month. 1st, Lst, Sec. For appointment call (352) 726-3258 INVERNESS Waterfront Townhouse 2/2-'/, with 3 decks & balconies, private community pool, very quick access to Lake Henderson, less than 3 min. drive to downtown Inv. & access to Rails to Trails. $700 mo + sec. dep. (352) 817-3185 appt LECANTO Crystal Oaks. 4/3/2 Remod.new appis. granite c/tops, tile, carpet, scrn'd pool. on culdesac. $1,300 Mo.727-492-6679 OLD HOMOSASSA 3/2, Like New, Modern Kit. w/ D/W & Microwve Indoor laun. rm. $795 (352) 697-5708 PINE RIDGE 3/2/2, $1,000 mo. 1st last sec. 352-527-0635 SOUTHERN WOODS 4/3/2 Luxury executive home on golf course, great views, $1,300/Mo. (813) 390-7109 SUGAR MILL WOODS 3/2/2 widen, scm 'd porch. $875. Mo. + Sec. (352) 597-5221 Sugarmill Woods NEW 4/2/2', Huge lot! $950/mo 786-402-9748 CRYSTAL RIVER 3/2/2.5 $1,200 Mo. Garbage and lawn maintence included. 1st & Sec; Lease, Pets? (352) 795-0207 (352) 212-4981 INV. LAKEFRONT 2/2/2, Large home, great area, tiled. New carpets/.'City water. $700 mo. 352-476-4896 POWER PLANT & Seasonal - Waterfront homes, Wkly priv. rms, RV lots. 352-628-0011 Inverness 1 bedroom. 1 Private bath. Smokers Welcome 352-560-7334 AlValueinn.com Inverness Hemando - Citrus Nw Efficiencies $235wk. Free internet/long dist. Trailers $175wk. 3Br Luxury Homes furnished $450wk. (352) 726-4744 11-15 mi toPwr Plant CRYSTAL RIVER $75 wkly/lst/L. Incls utils. & satellite. (352) 563-1465: 212-1960; HOME TO SHARE Widow would like person to share lovely home on 2 acres. Dog okay. 1/2 utils only. 352-220-6100 2/1, FURN MH Homosassa, Util. incl. clean, quiet park. short/long term. $695 (352) 628-9759 OFFICE 600 SQ FT AND 10X20 UNITS Hwy 44 East of Inv. 352-726-5507 AlValueinn.com Inverness Hernando - Citrus New Efficiencies $235wk. Free intemet/long dist. Traders $175wk. 3Br Luxury Homes furnished $450wk. (352) 7264744 11-15 mi to Pwr Plant AGENT ADs Advertise your services for 30 days for only$54.50 Ad includes 20 lines of copy Sw/ photo. U- Lakefront 7 Acres, Flo- ral City Lake Tsala Apopka 2-dwellings 2 barns see , pictures/details floralcitylakefront.com skyetraveler@att.net Picture Perfect Homes NEW HOMES START- INHSAt $75,000 On Your Lot Atklnson Construction 352-637-4138 Lic.# CBC059685 Get Results in the homefront classified! PUBLISHER'S NOTICE: All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make such preference, limitation or , discrimination. " Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777. The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275. 100% MORTGAGE LOAN NO DOWN PAYMENT *Low income applicants can quality FIRST TIME HOMEBUYER'S UP TO 100% Little or No credit OKAY *recent bankruptcy OKAY' CAll TIM OR CANDY Premier Mortgage Group 352-563-2661 local 866-785-3604 toll free *Credit and income restriction apply* Florida licensed mort- . gage lender LEASE/SALE 3870 Sqft building on 1.6ac. Zone GNC Hwy 200, high traffic count. w/prking.352-502-3970 8420 N Sarazen Dr Citrus Springs FL 34434 4bd-2ba in .29 lot spacious w/great golf course right around the comer. Built in 2005 and in excellent conditions. 126,700.00 (OBO) For info. call 352-489-7851, 352-322-5323 or e-mail to hector@harroyo.net 3/2/2 For Sale or Rent Citrus Springs Newer Home, low/dn, easy terms 352-840-3324 ATTENTION!! , BRAND NEW DOUBLEWIDE $39,900. Delivered and Set, $0-Down Land/Home $650. mo. Repos Available Kinder Mobile Home (352) 622-2460 BEAUTIFUL LOCATION 3/2/2 w/garden room. By Owner. Lots of upgrades. Like new. Oversized prime lot. A must to see. Asking $179,900 (352) 527-4488 Commercial 6goema 11" E s t a t ei] CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2oog E13 E14 SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 FOR SALE BY OWNER 88 SJ Kellner, Bev. Hills 2/2/2/2, FP, Call Anytime OPEN HOUSE on SUNDAYS 11A-3P $118K, 352-746-6093 3/2/2, POOL HOME, 1 acre, membership avail. to Cit. Hills C.C. $189,900 (352)860-0766 REDUCED! POOL HOME 4/3/Ext. 2 Car Garage on 1 Acre. Membership Available $277,900.352-527-7856 4+Acres, Canal front G uest house, Senous 3/2 large garage/ Inquires only! $320,000. workshop +bonus (352) 726-0477 efficiency apt. REDUCED TO $175K I. (352) 560-0019 Ho [e YOU'LL THIS! 2 or 3 Bedrooms For Sale By Owner 2 RENT TO OWN- NO bedroom. 2 bath. 1 car CREDIT CHECKI! garage home at 9260 E. Low Down! Alvada Lane in beautiful 352-484-0866 Inverness Golf & Coun- iademission.com try Club Community. Features skylight, lanai & sprinkler system. 3/2/2, Living Rm. Din- Asking $145,000. Call ing & Fam. Rm., eat in (352)637-5876. Kit., scm. back porch, fenced back yrd., Lrg. For Sale, By Owner 15 x 30 above ground 3BR 3BA, Pool, 16x24 pool w/attach. deck. workshop, close to new roof, insulated school, hosp., library, windows, $139,500 WTI, 518 Poinsettia, Ave. 5901 W WOODSIDE DR (352) 860-0878 (352) 563-0093 - ACNON= 352-795-RENT (1hI,141UM Wu92n, I C) www.CtrusCountyHomeRRetals.cor HOMES a MOBILES * APARTMENTS BEVERLY HILLS .............................StartingA $600 CITRUS SPRINGS 3/2/1 ................. ...............$725 CRYSTAL RIVER ..............................StartingAt $475 CRYSTAL RIVER WATERFRONT 3/2/2.....$1300 ROCK CRUSHER AREA W2/2 House ...............$800 SUGARMILL WOODS...................Starting At $750 Call for more information. OVER 40 TO CHOOSE FROM Pine Bid BY OWNER -3/2 Super.nice! Less than 1 yr old, approx 1 acre. Incis most turn. Beautiful lot, close to town. $128,500. Call Dan 312-343-8329; Moving out 6f state. 7289 W.Pompey Ln Homosassa,. FL 34446 Inverness Homes Plantation Realty. Inc 1352) 795-0784 Cell 422-7925 Lisa VanDeboe Broker (R)/Owner See all of the listings in Citrus County at www.lantation realtvinc.com BONNIE PETERSON Realtor, GRI Your SATISFACTION Is Mv Futurel! (352) 586-6921 or (352)795-9123 Charlotte G Realty & Investments LLC CONNELL HEIGHTS 2/2, Great Rm, vaulted ceil. open kit. b/bar, fenced back yrd. scrn. por., new apple's, 1600 sf,(mol) 6172 W. Pine Cir IC.R. Priced tQ Sell (352) 795-9603 Crystal River Mini Ranch 4/2.512 on 2 acres, up to 5 homrses allowed, $29,000 down, owner financing @ 6%. Will trade for equity.Realty -USA (800) 5594231 RealtySelect Citrus.comrn Citrus County I Homes VIC MCDONALD (352) 637-6200 ;-.f ' N'." *. Realtor My Goal is Satisfied Customers REALTY ONE ' Outsitanding Agents I Outstanding Reslts For Sale By Owner 3 BR, 2 BA, 2-car gar., Cement block, north Dunnellon Low down, EZ terms w/$3,500 down $595 mo. (352) 726-9369 OWNER FINANCING 4/2/office, 2.5 ac, 2005 Doublewide Like new. 1800sqft, $9,700/dn, $882/mo. or $23,700 down, $582/mo. 727-992-1372 River Oaks East 4/2.5/2 Custom Pool Home on 1.5 acres. Office bonus rm, green house, & boat slip. $449,900 (352) 274-1594 Price Reduced Crystal River 1/1 fully fum. $69,800. Buy Owner.com. 34429 (352) 563-5844 Call About Saving Your Home We Have Ideasl HOMOSASSA 3-story stilt. 3/3. Next to head spring. 163' wfrt, dock/slip. Brand new/unoccupied. 2 frpls, granite. $579K - 727-808-5229 must sell! Inverness MUST SELL QUICK! UNIQUE CUSTOM HOME ON 1 ACRE ON CANAL TO LAKE TSALA POPKA. 3,323 sq. ft LIVING! 30' ATRIUM. 3 BED/2.5 BATH. 2-CAR GAR- AGE. LIVE OAKS. NEEDS TLC. PRICED TO SELL! ONLY $194,500. CALL MYRIAM @ KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY of CITRUS COUNTY. 352-613-2644 RealtySelect Citrus.com TREES Continued from Page Ell The tallest point of a sys- tem is called the air termi- nal. Copper or copper bronze is used for this pur- pose. These are attached to the tree using copper nails. The number of grounds de- pends on the'girth of the tree. Lightning protection systems should be inspected annually to maintain a con- tinuous flow of current. Florida is the lightning. capital of the world. Unfor- tunately, a tree struck by WIND Continued from Page E5 neighborhoods may not fly well with local inspectors and neighbors. So, before you even look into wind power for a residential home, make sure it's even possible to do the project. Also, keep in mind that if your area is too windy, most units may have to shut down in high-wind conditions to - prevent damage. So after spending all that money on a wind system, you may be frustrated from time to time when you see a still propeller on a very windy day. On a positive note, though; when a wind turbine is working, it's a very uplifting feeling to know you've captured the wind just like an ocean sailor! Speaking of which, from what I've seen, small cabins and large boats seem to be the most "commonsense" small wind-generator appli- cations, to be used along with backup fuel-fired gen- erators. The good news is that prices for smaller wind turbines are not that bad. lightning cannot be re- placed as easily as televi- sions, answering machines, telephones, etc. Science, re- search and the skills of an arborist can help protect our historical old friends. Kerry Kreider is a practic- ing arborist, a member of the International Society of Arboriculture, a tree preservationist and presi- dent ofAction Tree Serv- ice. Ifyou have any questions he can be reached at 302-2815 or email actionpro arborist@yahoo.com. MEET AND GREET * Clubs are invited to submit information about regular meetings for publication in The Meeting Place each Thursday. * Send in information attn: The Meeting Place, 1624 N. Meadowcrest Blvd, Crystal River, FL 34429, or fax to 563-3280, attention: The Meeting Place. E mail to community@chronicleonline.com. Include "The Meet- ing Place" in the subject line. Couch SRealty & Investments, Inc. For All Your Real Estate Needs. Richard (Rick) Couch Lic. Real Estate Broker 1045 E. Norvell Bryant Hwy., Hernando, FL 34442 | Office: 352 344-8018 * Cell: 352 212-3559. www.Rcouch.com CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE Equipment specially made for marine use and hunting camps can start at about $700 and go up from there. Bottom line, the future of wind power should be stronger on the industrial end, with the boom in wind farms being planned and built across the country. Wind technology does have a lot of room to grow and is a force to be reckoned with. Right now, though, re- garding residential home use, I basically see selected installations, with contrac- tors picking and choosing only homes that can fully take advantage of both the tax credits and the condi- tions to make wind power a residential reality. Master Contractor/Plumber Ed Del Grande is known in- ternationally as the author of the book "Ed Del Grande's House Call" and for hosting TV shows on Scripps Networks and HGTVPro.com. For more information, visit eddel grande.com or write eddel- grande@hgtvpro.com. Al- ways consult local contractors and codes. BETTY MORTON 2.8% COMMISSION RetySelect (352) 795-1555 LOOKING FOR HOMES OR MOBILES & LAND Purchase, lease, mort- gage assumptions, take over payments + cash. Any location, price, con- dition, foreclosure, late on payments okay. 1-727-992-1372 Business/Home 3/2 Great location on Trout Ave. Inver- ness $165,000. Rhema Realty 228-1301 7 Rivers Golf & C.C. priv. member owned. corner lot 1 ac (mol) $30K (813) 766-9354 or sweetscaoeauestt(M verizon.net Floral City Homes I Cimus COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 E15 FRUGAL Continued from Page Ell less involved. It can be an eye-opener to realize how much emotion is wrapped up in the items you buy and own. There's freedom and inner peace from living within or even below your means, and plenty of other reasons to love frugal living. Here are a few. KNOWLEDGE: Learn at your own pace. Find one frugal strategy to focus on that you can apply to your life. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Some people find an interest in dehydrating food, upcycling or refashioning what someone else tosses, making home- made cleaners or growing sprouts. Once this one area becomes a habit and you've mastered it, add another frugal strategy. Plus, some frugal tips work only in certain situations. When your situation changes, you wind up learning more or using tips you might have merely glossed over before. One reader, Anne Marie in Texas, shares: "Sometimes, I truly learn something new. Sometimes, I simply hear or read something again, but this time it res- onates with me. Maybe it's something I'm finally ready to try, or I actually un- derstand it better this time. It varies." A part of frugality is doing things that many people have simply stopped doing through the generations or never did or tried at all. It's empower- ing to know how to do many things yourself. It's rewarding to share and teach others, too. It's even better when they ask you how to do something. GOAL SETTING: Wishes and dreams become realistic goals. An- other reader shares: "My favorite thing about frugal living is having money in the bank, being able to pay bills as soon as they come in the door and not after they are due, and having a fully stocked pantry. Not at all like my nonfrugal Uri" WARM AND UIARMING 2003 3/2 home located in Citrs Springs. Screened lanai and separate covered patio. This is a mustsee. Wonl asong. SAR0Alif352-52-11842 manaM~mrUL days." You create a road map and work toward your goals in manageable steps. You're accountable for your financial actions and pinpoint money leaks. You know the actual numbers in your budget and have a plan instead of sit- ting like a frog in boiling water. TRUE COST ANfD VALUE; You have a greater respect for your money and time and appreciate everything more. It takes less to make you happy when you're creative and open to pos- sibilities. You not only prioritize what is most important to you but you also discover the true value of things. And because you're more organized, plan ahead, and are satisfied with less, you have more time to do things you enjoy, too. Think of it as proactive living in- stead of reactive. HOPE, RESILIENCE - AND CHANGE: While others around you might be struggling or even if you are, you have the tools and skills to ride out tough times. Frugality gives you added confidence, too. You utilize these skills not only during the recession but as a complete lifestyle change. It's making consistent decisions. You know that a setback is just that. You aren't devas- tated by it: It's nothing more than a temporary situation. You know your efforts will continue to make a differ- ence. People are frugal for various reasons, but there's a light-bulb mo- ment when you realize there are op- tions. There are many things you have complete control over, too. Good things happen when you're open to them happening. And the best ,part isn't when it actually happens. It's right before. It's the moment you take action and know that things are going to change for the better. The key is knowing what it is that you want And frugality helps you sort that out MEN DEAR SARA. I read an article, and it discussed "shampoo bars." What is this? - Christine B., e-mail VACANT LOTS OAKS GOLF COURSE -,r l 1/2 AcreLot ............$69,900 -C I; CITRUS HILLS 1 Acre with Central Water . . . $29,900 GOSPEL ISLAND LOCALE LECANTO 3BR/2BA home situated on 1 acre. 5 Aces, Pved St. , Nice Oak Ins $58,000 Firepla central water & well, fenced yard. cAaes Paved St. & Nce Oak ees $58,000 1i152,500 MLS#326641 CALL Roy Bass TODAY (352) 726-2471 Email: royboss@tompaboy.rr.com www.alldtrusreolty.com After Hours (352) 302-6714 F l DEAR CHRISTINE: It's shampoo in bar form instead of liquid. Many peo- ple who make soaps make shampoo bars, too. They consist of natural in- gredients - typically, glycerin, essen- tial oils, fruit extracts and a vegetable protein. I recommend checking out www.chagrinvalleysoapandcraftcom/s hambar.htm. It's nice that they're not only all-natural but they're sold in less packaging than shampoo, too. Sara Noel is the owner of Frugal Vil- lage (www.frugalvillage.com), a Web site that offers practical, money-sav- ing strategies for everyday living. To send tips, comments or questions, write to Sara Noel, c/o United Media, 200 Madison Ave.,-4th Floor,. New York, NY 10016, or e-mail sara@frugalvillage.com. Email: cent21@infionline.net www. jwmortonrealestate.com 3 BR, 2 BA, 2 CAR GARAGE 2120,900 on your lot www.encorehomesofcitrus.com Building homes in CGius County since 1986 ( Monday-Friday 10:m00 =4:pm .2271 South Olympic Hills Terrace (352) 726-2179 Directions: Hwy. 41 S. of Inverness, turn left on Eden Drive, take 1st right at South Olympic Hills. J.W. MORTON REAL ESTATE, INC. 1645 W. Main St., Inverness, FL SALES: (352) 726-6668 * 1-800-543-9163 Property Management (352) 726-9010 1"'..2." LOVELY SPLIT PLAN. 2 bedroom, .2 bath home with nice -- - .. screened porch, fenced yard, in area on hornes only. Close to all MOBILE IN 55+ PARK. 2/1, 1982. Lot rent $235.00. Water shopping, hospital, restaurants and more. #318750. $89,000: and sewer, eat-in kitchen. Thunderbird Mobile Park. $32,500. Call Martha Snyder today 352-476-8727 Call Emil Lupu 302-1713 SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2oog E15 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE E1i STrNDAV MAY 1. 2009 SFPALIUUb UUL naum. with huge kichen &, bonus family room $129,000 Code (3566) VAULTED CEILINGS make this line house have big soul 211 5 w/screened room BANK SAYS ... $70,000 Code (3567) BELOW MARKET VALUE This REDUCED -4BR/2.5BA home, on 1 acre ITS A STEAL! $149,900 Code (3580) ABANDONED GIANT wlh 4 bedrooms, 3 balhs and a pool. on oter I acre Bank REO & Jusi Reduced. $180,900 Code (3575) ELEGANT & STUNNING 4BRs. 3BAs w/gourmel ka. pool. spa. on I acre $499,000 Code (3584) GORGEOUS REMODEL on this Kings Bay Dr. home. Stainless steel appliances. $139,900 Code (3591) BEAUTIFUL 5 ACRE HOMESITE OF ROLLING HILLS AND BIG TREES IN THE COUNTRY Over 1800 sq. ft. with 3/2. $136,900 Code (3568) TREE-LINED STREET IN MANICURED HILLCiESTI Open great room to kitchen & lanai make for casual living. $139,900 Code (3592) uI Luwn IlVi1v1 ill watieIumII area for non-waterfront price. $359,000 Code (3582) THIS REMODELED 4BR/2BA home on cul-de-sac is ready for new family $107,900 Code (3569) ENF-7MMM� 3BR/2BA and 2-car garage Shows like new' $129,000 Code (3600) SPACIOUS NEW HOME with 3BR/2BA, built in 2006 and near boat ramp & mall. $149,000 Code (3586) IT DOESN'T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS 3BR/2BA w/carport - EXCEPT this home comes w/extra lot! $79,900 Code (3581) WATERFRONT SHORT SALE! 3BR, 2BA, over 2300 sq. ftl $269,000 Code (3576) NICE 3 BEDROOM ON FENCED DOUBLE LOT. Owner financing/little down. $59,900 Code (3585) LARGE 41R, ZBA Built in 2004 on 2.2 acres. Bonus workshop w/elec.. $145,000 Code (3601) BEAUTIFUL VIEW DOWN CANAL FROM 2/2 W/DOCK & LIFT Minutes io Ihe Gull $144,900 Code (3577) SHORT SALE! Huge 4-1 bedroom/2 balh on I 4 acres $89,900 Code (3643) GREAT FAMILY HOME *ilh new roof and srylish delail3 $99,000 Code (3641) ANOTHER BANK REO - NEEDS TLC. Giant 4!3 w/almooa 2300 sq fh $99,900 Code (3597) U~~~$ - A-- 00000 IS TIME RUNNING OUT? Is Your ARM Set To Adjust In 3-6 Months? t Don't Wait A Until It's Too Late... * Kim DeVane Certified Distressed Property Expert ,I l SUPER COOL VALUE on 2.5 acres, $298,000 Code (3572) mflc#'u i'ilr m'I', BRAND NEW UtAU IT AND BANK-OWNED! 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, over 2400 sq. ft. $189,900 Code (3570) BANK OWNED WITH NEW KITCHEN and laminate hardwood floors, over 2000 sq. ft.I $69,900 Code (3642) on 2/2 POOL home. $111,000 Code (3578) BEAUTIFUL HARDWOOD FLOORS, New kitchen, updated baths & great landscaping. Unbelievable good buyl $120,000 Code (3602) k GRANITE KITCHEN, with double oven and 6 burner grill make every gourmet melt. 4BRs/3.5BAs, pool, in Cypress Village $289,000 Code (3583) ENJOY MAINTENANCE- FREE LIVING & MORE TEE TIME! Vaulted ceilings & 3BRs/2BAs. $129,000 Code (3594) GORGEOUS COUNTRY HOME ON 10 ACRES! 4BRs/3.5BAs, pool, gourmet kitchen w/SS apples. $639,000 Code (3590) ROMANTIC STONE FPL graces liv. rm. in this 3/2/2 pool home w/2 master suites. $199,000 Code (3595) THIS IS YOUR MONEY l1 TRANQUIL SETTING ON RIVER with 1lt home that sleeps 8 Tin Roof, loft & screened rm $269,000 Code (3574) THIS MAJESTIC 3BR/2BA pool home backs up to open acreage JUST REDUCED $199,000 Code (3587) GET IT BEFORE THE BANK TAKES ITII 4 Bedroom 2 bath block home with bnck wall fireplace on 2 acres $119,000 Code (3589) MAGNIFICENT 4BR/3BA WITH FRENCH DOORS TO STUDY, TOO! Solid, poured concrete walls SAVE ON INSURANCEo $229,000 Code (3588) GREAT STARTER HOME with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths. $46,900 Code (3596) Contact JUST RIGHT! 3/2/2 on 1 acre. Close lo shopping and Ratls 1o Trails $129,000 Code (3573) TERRIFIC STARTER HOME with 2BRs 2BAs1 $69,900 Code (3644) CUL-DE-SAC ON CANAL boasts newer renovations. Over 19 go00 sq. ft. 3BR/2BA. $178,000 Code'(3603) CRACKER HOUSE BUILT IN 1952 3BRs/2BAs, on Gospel Island $54,900 Code(3579) Kim DeVane i Broker Associate 352-257-5353 Receive a FREE ASSESSMENT of your personal position in this market! Kim@KimDeVane.com N KimDeVane.com 'MW MWuREALTY ONE S504 ml Hw,. 18, Crystl Riwve 7 795-2441 .-b, E16 suN. MAY 31 2009 \ \ ppij FiLI - .1PZ 1011 t LECANTO F_ INVERNESS |