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Community
Bald Eagles Featured Topic In July
At Wildlife Park
Educational exhibits about the
Bald eagle will be on display in the Ho-
mosassa Wildlife Park's Visitor Center
and Discovery Center during the month of
July. An outlook on Bald eagles and the
use of ambassador animals in conserva-
tion on Thursday, July 20, 2017, starting
at 1:00 pm in the Florida Room.
Good Grief Workshop
in Homosassa
HOMOSASSA, Fla. Good Grief, an
overview of grief and loss which offers
helpful hints for coping more effective-
ly and navigating the grief journey, will
be presented by Hospice of Citrus and
the Nature Coast from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
on Wednesday, July 26, at the Wings
Education Center, 8471 W. Periwinkle
Lane in Homosassa.
Provided as a community ser-
vice, this workshop is open to the entire
community and is offered to all at no
Fire Cadets Foster, Barr, Baum, Hunter, and Coleman, along with several deputies with the Citrus County Sheriff's Office, reached Food Ranch
charge. To register, call Jonathan Beard
supermarket in Inglis on Friday, July 14. The group met again at the same location, early Saturday morning, to continue on their trek via U.S.
at 352-527- 2020 or 866-642- 0962.
Hwy. 19. The group was participating in the Key Training Center's `Run for the Money,' an annual journey from the State Capitol Building in
Citrus FREE JAM, concert for teens,
Tallahassee to the Key Training Center in Lecanto. The run averages 30 miles per day over 6 days, a distance equal to seven Boston Marathons!
to be held in Lecanto, Aug. 26
The race originated in 1976 to bring awareness to the battles and triumphs of the developmentally disabled and to also advocate that all
people deserve to live their lives with dignity and respect. Proceeds from the Run for the Money fundraising activities are used to provide over
The Youth Concert Series
50 scholarships for needed services to those who receive no state funding and to deliver year-round services to over 300 developmentally
and Friday Night Done Right (FNDR)
disabled adults. CCSO Photo.
LSCO Resolves Former worship director charged
- which empowers middle and high
school students by giving them positive
14 Year old
alternatives as to how they spend Fri-
with internet sex crimes
day nights and other times, as well - is
presentiong Citrus FREE JAM on Sat.,
Cold Case
Aug. 26, 7:00-10:00 pm, at Lecanto
From Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
tacted the CCSO's Major Crimes Unit, and
Community Park, located at 3505 W.
Robison's employment at the church was
Early Thursday morn-
Educational Path in Lecanto. Admission
terminated.
ing, July 13, a former worship
is FREE! Local acts to perform are Trin-
From Levy County Sheriff Dept.
Utilizing special equipment from
director at Seven Rivers Pres-
ity Ann and 3-Fifty-2, featuring Sophie
the Internet Crimes Against Children, Cen-
Investigators with the
byterian Church in Lecanto, 36
Noelle. The concert is an alcohol, drug
tral Florida Task Force, a detective with the
Levy County Sheriff s Office
year-old Chad Robison of Her-
and tobacco free event for teens, pre-
CCSO's High Tech Crimes Unit, began to
(LCSO) resolved a `Cold Case'
nando, was arrested on several
sented by Citrus County Parks & Rec-
scour through Robison's laptop, which con-
crime, last week, 14 years and
internet sex charges which in- Robison
reation, Anti-Drug Coalition of Citrus
tained thousands of videos and pictures.
4 days after the warrant was
clude 3 counts of video voyeur-
County and the Citrus County Sheriff's
Since May, detectives have been sorting
issued for the suspect's arrest!
ism for personal use, 3 counts of lewd and
Office. For additional information, call
through more than 3,000 videos, ranging
Nixon
The allegations against Nathan
lascivious exhibition, and 1 count of know-
352-527-7540 or 352-601-6620.
from several years back to just a couple of
Nixon were reported to the
ingly promoting sexual performance by a
Easier Than eBay
months ago, and over 350,000 photographs
agency on July 8, 2003, and involved the
child. His bond was set at $26,000.
found on Robison's laptop. Hundreds of
sexual abuse of a minor.
According to a press release by the
items featured young girls performing vir-
The then-9 year-old victim told
You can now place classified ads at the Food
Citrus County Sheriff s Office (CCSO), Ro-
tual sex acts with Robison. Robison also
investigators, that over a period of several
Ranch Service Desk - 25 words/$12. New
bison worked at Seven Rivers Presbyterian
filmed young girls who visited his home,
weeks, a person whom she trusted the most,
Church as the worship director from 2011 to
deadline: Monday 12 noon at the Inglis Food
without their knowledge, while they were
did sexual things to her that she said were
May, 2017. Detectives started the Robison
Ranch service Desk. Cash or Check.
using his restroom.
difficult for her to talk about, because they
investigation in May, when a coworker at
No refunds for early cancellations
CCSO detectives have already
were "gross."
the church discovered inappropriate videos
discovered victims from Canada and New
on Robison's laptop computer he'd left at
work. Church personnel immediately con-
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