The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
PAGE 11 - April 20, 2016
Searching For The Truth
Editorial - Opinion - Commentary
Sometimes the Prey
Letter to the Editor:
Re: SHOULD REQUIRE CITIZEN INPUT, Pt. I
Serves the Predator
Once again, our Town government is acting on a HUGE project, one of great public
interests and yet not allowing citizens the opportunity to weigh in on the matter. At the April
As fish roam the ocean seek-
5 Town meeting, the decision was made to move ahead, seeking a grant to conduct a feasi-
ing smaller fish and shrimp to eat, their
bility study for a wastewater treatment plant in the amount of $175,00.00. Drinda Merritt,
mouths begin to accumulate food par-
our Mayor was so much in a hurry to get this done because it has to be done NOW or we
ticles. These fish need a toothbrush!
would miss the cutoff date for the Government grant.
So off to the cleaning station they go.
Let me refresh your memory or inform you if you are not aware of DMerritt's mode
Cleaning stations are often set up by
of operation over the years. The last time she held office as a Commissioner, she literally
the very shrimp these fish like to eat.
stormed out of a meeting and QUIT because she was not getting her way, and in the process
Fish will even line up and wait their
was throwing out verbal F-bombs to certain people. She was known for her F-bombs and
turn to have their teeth cleaned. When
being rude and nasty towards those who did not agree with her desired policies.
its turn comes, the fish will open his
The last big fiasco of a project she tried to get us involved in was The North Florida
The Newscaster
The
provide Orwell Pt., Homosassa, Floridaand the cleaner shrimp
mouth wide, 34446
Broadband Authority. They were a company who was supposed to 5093 S.high speed inter-
net, setting up towers, installing it into people's houses in small rural communities.489-4588  Fax:scuttle 362-4788 jaws of death.
will (727) inside these
Phone: (352) In turn,
The cleaner shrimp will eat the bits of
the Town of Inglis wouldail, Tom Russell, (Meaning another bill to the citizens) and pay
Em collect the money Publisher: thenewscaster1@gmail.comIEmail, Debbie Russell, Editor: debbienewscaster@gmail.com
the NFBA. Drinda was pushing ites: thenewscaster.com ·to do it NOW or we would · history.newscasterarchives.com · thehealthcaster.com  around on the fish's
food from between the fish's teeth. Imagine shrimp crawling
Websthis so hard, and that we had newscasterarchives.com
tongue and picking off parasites and food particles. The fish will even hold its gill
be left behind as a community, etc. Well, apparently, after taking out a grant from the Gov-
chambers open, so the shrimp can crawl around picking off parasites. At the end of the
ernment of 32 or $33,000,000.00 (that's million dollars), NFBA left people in other small
cleaning you would think, "Clean teeth, free meal". Snap. But no, when the cleaning
communities hung out to dry because they went bust. Had we gotten involved, the Town of
is finished, the big fish lets the cleaner shrimp back out.
Inglis would have also been left holding the bag.
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Throughout the years (18-20), when DMerritt has been a Commissioner, her whole
Who negotiated this truce? Who was the first brave shrimp? What if he
premise is that this Community , if we don't take action on this or that project that she is

was wrong and was eaten? How does evolution explain this symbiotic relationship?
pushing, Inglis is going to die. When Progress Energy was possibly going to build a nuclear
   
The fish and shrimp work with instincts. Where there are instincts, there must be an
plant down on Hwy 19, north of Inglis, she was constantly sounding the alarm that we had
to get ready and prepare or we were going to die as a Town and be unprepared the devel-   maker.   makerGod.
instinct
That instinct
is
 for   
  
   5093 S. Orwell Pt., Homosassa, Florida 34446
opment coming our way. And even once it was deemed the plant wasn't going to  built,     
  be 
Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and all that moveFax: (727)Psalm
in them. - 362-4788
Phone: (352) 489-4588
she kept saying it was. Now we know the end of that story--The nuclear plant will NOT be
built and instead, the Crystal River Plant is expanding to create a gas-powered       
 facility---IN
69:34 (NIV)
Email, Tom Russell, Publisher: thenewscaster1@gmail
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Email, Debbie Russell, Editor: debbienewscaster@gmai
CRYSTAL RIVER. Stay tuned for Part 2 next week.
Websites: thenewscaster.com · newscasterarchives.com · history.newscasterarch
Rhonda Kline, Inglis
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your backyard swimming pool is properly maintained. Repair leaky pipes and outside fau-
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stock ornamental ponds with fish.
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