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Permit No. 14
Sally Price - Correspondent
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Squawk Box
New Year's
Resolutions
With Connie Pickett
I have said that
I no longer make New
Year’s Resolutions. And
I don’t, at least not for
myself. So in the year
2012 I propose that the
rest of the world resolve
to:
1. Not Drive While Talking on
Cell Phones:  This will not only make
the world a safer place but will ensure
“quality” time while engaged in con-
versation with friends and/or business
associates. This resolution also extends
to talking on cell phones in restaurants
or grocery stores. It truly annoys me to
hear someone on the cell phone in the
produce isle discussing whether they
should buy the asparagus from peru or
the green beans from the USA. Or worse
discussing the sordid details from the
previous evening. This resolution in-
cludes also NO TEXTING while driving
We Care Food Pantry (Citrus County) warehouse manager Richard Wyckstrom loads up another pallet of chocolate milk for distribution. This
or socializing with friends and family.
load of food and milk is headed for Church Without Walls in Hernando. We Care president Diane Toto said, "We shared with lots of groups
2. Never Buy Magazines that
including The Boys & Girls Club, Key Training Center, CASA, CUB, Church Without Walls, Behind the Stone Mission. There were 3,300 cartons of
promise overnight weight loss, clear skin
milk on each pallet and there were 42 pallets." More about We Care Food Pantry on page 4 - Newscaster Photo
in 5 days, a flat belly in one week, you
Crystal River Men charged with home invasion,
get the idea. I think it would asking too
much to ask magazines and advertis-
ers to not publish this baloney but if we
one with other burglaries
Losing
don t buy it, it can t fly.
3. Stop putting bumper Stick-
From Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
residence. The victim phoned a neighbor
ers on Your Car. You are not going to
Sears Store
and told him about the robbery. After the
Two youths were arrested by the
change my religious or political views
victim hung up the phone, the robbers re-
Citrus County Sheriff s Office, Dec. 23,
Continued on page 3- Squawk Box
entered his home and informed they’d only
charged with the home invasion robbery
been given $20. They demanded more cash.
at gunpoint of two men at a W. Noble St.
Sears Holding Corp. announced on
Are You Ready
The victim gave the robbers the remainder
Lecanto residence. At the time the call came
Dec. 29 that it plans to close 79 Kmart and
of the cash from his wallet, $16. The neigh-
in, numerous patrol units were involved in
Sears stores during 2012, and the number
For Some
bor the victim had phoned entered the resi-
placing a perimeter around an area where
may eventually increase to 120 of the 3,560
dence. One of the robbers pointed the shot-
three men had fled from a white Chevro-
Kmart or Sears stores in America.
gun at him and threatened to shoot him. The
let truck when an officer had attempted to
Football?
On Friday, the list had increased to
neighbor ran for cover. The two robbers left
make a traffic stop on the vehicle. Two of
80. Florida will be hardest hit with 11 stores
the victim’s residence for the second time.
the three men involved in the search fit the
closing.
Pigskin
The man who had been taken into
description of the two home invaders. The
The Kmart in Crystal River will
custody initially denied any involvement in
third man was apprehended and taken into
stay, at least for now, but the Sears store in
Predictors
the home invasion, but later said that he’d
custody at the CCSO’s Emergency Opera-
Crystal River is on the projected list of store
asked to ride along to the store with Antho-
tions Center in Inverness.
closures. Each store employs roughly 40 to
Down the
ny E. Nero, 22, and Kyle C. Corriveau, 20,
The victim of the home invasion
80 people.
both of 5172 S. Thrasher Ave., Homosassa.
told deputies that two men wearing gray
The closings are expected to gener-
He said he noticed they were going in a dif-
hoodies, neither of whom he knew, had
Stretch
ate $140 million to $170 million in inven-
ferent direction and became curious. He said
entered his residence. One of the men had
tory sales. Additional cash proceeds are ex-
Nero was the driver and Corriveau was the
pointed a shotgun at him, and both had de-
pected from the sale of the real estate.
See page 8
front seat passenger. Nero drove to an area
manded prescription pills and cash. He com-
Read complete list on our website:
plied with their demands, and they left the
Continued on page 3- Home Invasion
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