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Wednesday January 25, 2012

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Permit No. 14

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Squawk Box

Water, Our Most

Valuable Resource

With Connie Pickett

Our most valu-

able resource is water; the

middle east and Africa

have contended with the

problem of water supply

for centuries but America

is just beginning to see the

effects of squandering this

resource. While living aboard a sailboat

in the Caribbean which is beautiful but

basically arid, the reality of not having an

endless supply of fresh water was harsh

and gave me a whole new perspective on

water usage. We each used one gallon

to shower, washed our dishes in salt wa-

ter and rinsed them in fresh and panicked

when our capacity of 60 gallons became

low. One of my family members was a

massage therapist in an international hotel

in a city where a mouse is the star and an

icon. Travelers to that destination from

Three Sisters Springs on Saturday took boat tours along with boaters, swimmers and kayakers Sunday and jammed the canal to this pristine

the middle east took home cases and

group of springs hoping for an “encounter of the manatee kind.” Up above the crowd with an eagle eye view was National Geographic filming

trunks of bottled water.

for hopefully a documentary that will draw more attention to the need for preserving the amount and quality of water flowing from our aquifer.

Florida has 33 charted 1st magnitude

Newscaster/Sally Price photo, more on page 2.

springs (a spring that pumps a minimum

After traffic crash Eight Arrested In Methamphetamine

of 64 million gallons of water per day) and

hundreds of smaller springs and spring

Manufacturing Home

man flips Deputies From Citrus County Sheriff Dept.

sheds: a spring is where water flows from

the aquifer to the surface and the area of

possession of drug paraphernalia (bond

land that replenishes that spring is the

"the bird"

A search warrant executed at a $250,500). The seven visitors to the home

springshed. Our lifestyles contribute di-

3048 E. Anderson Street, Inverness resi- were (1) Tammy Bryant, 43, homeless,

rectly to the health of this water supply

charged with manufacturing meth, con-

The Levy County Sheriff s Office

dence, Jan. 19, led to the arrests of eight

and I ve always felt that small actions

spiracy to manufacture meth and posses-

received a call, Jan . 18, that a man driving a

people who were in the home. The seven

make a big difference: such as Florida-

sion of drug paraphernalia (bond $100,500);

gray truck had left the scene of a hit and run

people who did not live in the home all ad-

friendly landscaping, correct fertilizing

(2) Chris Christlieb, 26, homeless, charged

accident and was traveling west on County

mitted to conspiring to manufacture meth-

Continued on page 4- Squawk Box

with manufacturing meth, conspiracy to

Road 316, driving erratically.

amphetamine (“meth”) and to either pur-

manufacture meth and possession of drug

Major Sullivan and Lt. Mullins

chasing ephedrine or chemicals used in the

Pigskin

paraphernalia (bond $100,500); (3) Beverly

were in the area and began looking for the

manufacturing process or directly assisting

Whitlock, 23, homeless, charged with man-

man - who was later identified as 62 year-old

Predictors

with the manufacturing process with the

ufacturing meth and conspiracy to manufac-

Roy Thomas Willard of 13750 SE 54th St.,

homeowner, 38 year-old Brandie Kapiton.

We Have a

ture meth (bond $200,000); (4) Christopher

Morriston - at the intersection of State Rd.

All seven named Kapiton as being the main

Schuler, 24, homeless, charged with manu-

121 and Highway 41.

meth cook who paid for their services with

tie!

facturing meth, conspiracy to manufacture

Willard was located driving a gray

either cash and/or meth.

meth and possession of drug paraphernalia

Nissan Titan truck with front end damage

Kapiton was charged with manu-

See page 8

(bond $200,500); (5) Darlene Woods, 30,

from the crash. He made an illegal U-turn

facturing meth, conspiracy to manufacture

Continued on page4- Meth Bust

Continued on page 3 - Traffic Crash

meth, possession of listed chemicals and