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Tom Russell - Consulting Editor
A Publication of
Sally Price - Correspondent
Permit No. 14
Newscaster Publishing
Squawk Box
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
With Mike Moore
Weisure Time
There is a very
interesting experiment that
might just give you a sur-
prise if you should want
to try it. It’s really simple:
get a stopwatch and tell
someone that when one minute has gone
by they say, “stop”. Choose an older
person, and then choose a young person.
After you click the start button, don’t
say anything that would give them an
indication of how much time has elapsed.
You will find the difference in percep-
tion between old and young fascinating.
It turns out that feeling like
time flies by as we get older is more
than just an old wives tale; there is
some scientific evidence that it is actu-
ally a fact. When you do the stopwatch
test, older people will usually tell you to
stop way short of a minute, and young
people will stop the clock at more of a
minute or even longer. The perception
that time goes by faster as we age is true.
There is a huge complicated
theory about why this is the case, which
is far beyond the scope of this column.
The technical name is called, “The Loga-
rithmic Aging” theory. Without going into
New vs. Old-Scheduled for demolition in February of 2010 is the old barge canal bridge pictured on the left and the new bridge southbound
too much detail let me try to explain it like
lanes expected complete by December 2009 on the right.- Photo by Sally Price
this: when we are one year old, one year
U.S. 19 Crash Southbound Canal Bridge
of our life increases it 100%. When we are
10 years old, one year of our life increases
Fatal For
it by 10%. And when we are 70, one year
Expected Complete By
increases our life 1.4%. This decreas-
ing percentage of additional life means
Crystal River
it seems like it is going by like crazy.
December
By Newscaster Correspondent
Personally,
at
Sally Price
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every
additional
year
Woman
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According to John W Criss lll,
This project will also make some
P.E., Senior Project Engineer of PBS&J,
modification to the existing median on US
Adopt A
tentative dates of major construction mile-
19. Particularly north of the bridge, this
From Florida Highway Patrol
stones for the Cross State Barge Canal
project will be adding a left turn lane (north-
A head on collision in the Brooks-
Pet-Page 2
Bridge project south of Inglis are set. The
bound) into Hollinswood trail as well as a
ville-Spring Hill area of Hernando County,
first new southbound bridge will open in
left turn lane southbound at Hollinswood
around 11:07 p.m., June 1st, resulted in the
December of 2009. Demolition of the first
Trail. This will allow for U-turns to be made
deaths of both drivers. According to the
bridge built in 1966 will be February 2010.
at this median opening. Additionally as a
Florida Highway Patrol, the accident oc-
The new bridge (north bound) replacing
part of this project, a right turn/deceleration
cured on U.S. Hwy. 19 (Commercial Way),
the 1966 bridge will be open in December
lane will be added at Foss Grove Path.
south of Seville Parkway. A 1997 Ford
of 2010. (Note that these dates are only
driven by Tracy A Schroeder, 44 of Spring
approximations and subject to change):
Hill, was traveling south in the inside, north-
The new construction will al-
bound ane, and a 2005 Nissan driven by
low for 2 lanes going north and 2 going
Jaimin Patel of Crystal River was traveling
south with a sidewalk on each bridge,
north in the inside, northbound lane.
eliminating the bottleneck that has been
The front of Schroeder’s vehicle
there for years on the two lane bridge.
struck the front of Patel’s vehicle.
"Signature" of the old bridge completed
The vertical clearance (height to wa-
in 1966-Photo by Sally Price
Continued on page 3 - Fatal Crash
ter) will be reduced from 65’ to 40’.