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THE NEWSCASTER-Nature Coast News
Sea Cadets Clean Up Yankeetown
Community Events
Boat Ramp Area
South Levy Little League Sign Ups
South Levy Little League is starting to wrap up sign ups. Next Sign up Saturday
at Food Ranch 10 to 12. Then 2 to 5 at the Music festival at Inglis Community Center.
Practices are going to be starting very soon so if you haven't signed up yet please do. South
Levy Little League next board meeting is Thursday at Town Hall at 6:30.
Do You Have Questions About Medicare?
Do you have questions about your options for Medicare, Medicare/Medicaid, Dis-
ability, Supplemental Insurance, Part D Prescription Drug Plans, Low Income Programs
or Medicare Billings? If you do, come see SHINE, a volunteer program with the Florida
Department of Elder Affairs, for one-on-one counseling. SHINE provides free, unbiased
and confidential assistance. If you cannot come to a site call the Elder Helpline at 1-800-
262-2243 to be referred to a SHINE Volunteer near you. SHINE will be at: Wed, Janu-
ary 9th 10:00am-Noon AF Knotts Library (Yankeetown) All Citrus Co sites By appt
only. Call (352) 527-5956 Citrus Co Resource Ctr.
Withlacoochee Gulf Preserve Evening With the Stars
January 18 – Friday – 6:00 P.M. evening with the Stars (as in our heavens) and planets -
Chiefland Stargazing Team will return with their powerful telescopes aimed at the WGP
sky.
1st Annual Inglis Music Festival Saturday, January 19
The 1st Annual Inglis Music Festival will start at 10 am at Inglis Central Park (behind
Town Hall) with open mic local band Ang & the Drifters’ (50’s music). The first workshop
starts at 11 am, with Mark Johnson for basic frailing banjo instruction (bring your 5 string
U.S. Naval Sea Cadets from Manatee Division spent time cleaning up the boat
banjo) followed by a noon workshop by Steve Thomas for fiddle, mandolin, and guitar
ramp at the end of CR 40 in Yankeetown recently. Small groups picked their way along the
(bring your instrument).
shore line, over the rocks and in the bushes to extract several bulging bags of trash and a
The open mic showcase for local talent will run until 2 pm at which time the scheduled
couple of tires. As kids do, the cadets made their work fun by jumping from rock to rock
concert will begin with Ron Pearson, followed by Treble Hook, West Coast Bluegrass
seeing who could spot the next piece of garbage. Beer bottles were everywhere, along with
Band, Wry Whiskey, and Black Water (with special guest Mark Johnson). The featured
food wrappers, plastic bottles and cardboard.
performance will begin at 6:20 pm with Mark Newton and Steve Thomas.
“Wow! How does someone loose one sock?” Seaman Apprentice Pickard asked.
The event is FREE, parking is $2. There will be food, and arts and crafts vendors. Bring
“Another tire? We’ll get it” said Seaman Recruit Gilstrap and Seaman Apprentice Stamper.
your lawn chairs or a blanket to sit on and get ready for some great music!
The newest member of the unit who just joined that weekend wasn’t ready to
We’re looking for Super Soup Makers!
leave. “Can I just get this last piece? It’s big and it’s just right there” Seaman Recruit
The Yankeetown-Inglis Woman’s Club annual Soup-A-Thon and Bake Sale will
Fowler said.
be held Saturday, January 19th from 11am-1pm. Everyone is invited to enter their favorite
Even through looks of repulsion and gasps of disgust this effort in team work
soup to vie for the title of “Souper Chef”. Call now to reserve your spot to win a cash
brought the cadets closer as a unit and afforded them a “feel good” community service
prize...$50 for 1st place, $25 for 2nd and $10 for 3rd. Space is limited to the first 30 soups
opportunity. Manatee Division drills at Coast Guard Station Yankeetown, in Yankeetown,
registered.
Florida, on the second weekend of each month. To learn more about Sea Cadets, call LTJG
The Soup-A-Thon will be your last chance to purchase tickets for the Sweet Mag-
Dunn at 352-212-5473.
nolia Gift Basket. The basket, valued at over $100, is full of wonderful beauty products
and sweet treats just in time for Valentine’s Day. Get your tickets, $2.00 each or 3 for
$5.00 starting Jan. 2nd at The Second To None Thrift Shoppe, Thursday Bingo or at the
Soup-A-Thon on January 19th. The drawing will be held at 1pm after the “Souper Chef”
is crowned. Call the club at 352-447-2057
Arts & Crafts Vendors Wanted
On January 19, 2013. We still have spaces for Arts and Crafts Vendors at out
upcoming Inglis Music Festival. The price per space is $10.00. We expect to have a great
turnout up to 1000 or more and this is an opportunity to make some money and have a
wonderful day of great music, food and fun. Inglis Recreation Committee, Please contact
us for information: Marian Matchette 352-897-6472 marian4712@comcast.net.
Annual Meeting Open to the Public
Withlacoochee Area Residents, Inc annual meeting will be Saturday, January 26,
2013 at the Yankeetown-Inglis Woman’s Club, 56th Street, Yankeetown. The meeting is
open to the public with light refreshments served at 6:30pm and the meeting at 7:00pm.
Guest speaker will be Dr. Robert L. Knight, founder and director of Florida Springs Insti-
tute, a nonprofit program dedicated to supporting springs science and education necessary
for restoration and wise management. Dr. Knight is a consulting environmental scientist
with over 30 years of professional work experience in Florida’s springs and wetlands.
Flea Market, Breakfast and Bake Sale
Inglis Yankeetown Lions are asking the community to donate items –large or
Yankeetown Inglis Woman’s Club members turned out fashionably dressed for the first meet-
small – for their Outdoor Flea Market ,Saturday February 2nd, at the clubhouse on 59th
ing of the year. The yearly event “Tacky Day” was just that as women put together outfits to
Street. Call 1-352-505-7936 for donated item pick-up or to reserve a space to sell your own
see who could be the tackiest. After the meeting some of those best dressed ladies appeared
new or used items for only $10.00. Come early to have breakfast for $5.00 (pancakes,
in the club’s newly remodeled Second to None Thrift Shoppe for a group photo shoot. Sat-
bacon, sausage, eggs, juice and coffee). Purchase homemade items from the bake sale also
urday Jan 19 is the annual Soup-A-Thon and Bake Sale. The last Saturday of the month (Jan
26) is Flea Market Day and you can rent a table from 9-2 for $5. Thursday is always Bingo
planned for Feb. 2nd ! 100% of net profit is used to benefit the charitable activities of the
with dinners (eat in or take out) starting at 5PM.
Lions.
Inglis Super Stop Restaurant
Randy Alumbaugh
Brandell Campbell
Cafe-Deli Open 5 am - 8 pm
Subs and Fried Chicken
Quarry Mgr.
Construction, Inc.
50
Stop a visit the "Beer Cave"
New Homes - Renovations - Additions
HOURS:
Serving Marion, Levy & Citrus Counties
St. Catherine Quarry
Store open 5 a.m. - 10pm.
www.alumbaughconstruction.com
Now Open
Aggregates Division
Office (352)793-4526
Licensed & Insured CRC058012
Florida Region
Dine-In
or Call-Ahead
Fax (352)793-5682
Bushnell, FL. 33513
Office: 352-447-0655 - Inglis
Randy Alumbaugh
50
U.S. Hwy. 19
for Take-Out
447-4464
(at C.R. 40)
Cell (352)427-6664
brcampbell@cemexusa.com
Fax: 352-447-3013
Shell Gas
Cell: 352-266-7113
352-
Inglis, Florida