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Wednesday January 6, 2010
A Publication of
Sally Price - Correspondent
Permit No. 14
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Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Squawk Box
With Sally Price
They call them
"Suicide Guard Rails"
The new guard rails installed on
Hwy 40 E have been the major topic of dis-
cussion everywhere I have gone recently.
If you have not been out Hwy 40 toward
Dunnellon lately, you might want to take a
ride out to know what I am talking about.
South Levy Fire Chief Roger
Crossman stopped me this weekend to
ask my thoughts on the newest Stimulus
money guard rails project. Having been a
volunteer fireman myself back probably 30
years ago in Crossman’s department, then
with Yankeetown Fire Department, I have
personally responded to many wrecks on
Hwy 40 over the years. In our discussion
going back years, Crossman nor I could
recall a wreck that involved a vehicle run-
ning off the road that involved a death in
the areas where the rails are now installed.
As Crossman said, the road edges slope,
the dips skid the car, the car goes off and
slides along even if on it’s roof. I recall one
man who walked away from 3 such wrecks
over the years.
As the temperature drops, Rev. Marvin Eiland and wife Lily, leave the water running on their orange tree in their backyard on the corner of Elm
Crossman, who drives Hwy 40
St and Hwy 40 E Inglis. It is an iced wonderland as the sun starts to hit the glittering ice and it starts to melt. Years ago, when orange groves
regularly in personal and fire vehicles,
dotted the Florida landscape, either water was put on the groves to protect them from the frost or smudge pots and fires were put in the
says there are dips in the road that cause
groves to save the trees. Many young people would look forward to the freezes as it was a way to make a little cash during the colder winter
your car to hydro plane throwing your
season doing the all night vigil to keep the pots or fires burning. The Eilands are longtime residents who founded the Inglis Baptist Church
car off the road. He said this happened to
from ground up and Marvin was the first preacher. The church was west of Kar Parts on the corner of Risher Ave and Hwy 40 W which at that
his daughter out by the Inglis Locks. The
time was the old Inglis Post Office. The church was eventually destroyed by fire and the property purchased by DAB. In days gone by you could
low areas around Buddy’s Lakeside Park
see Marvin in his yard with lines strung between trees making his own, now banned fish nets, which are not only outlawed but now making
have always held water and now the cars
them is almost a lost art. What always caught my eye in their yard was their small house boat named “Water Lily”, for his wife. Overnight
have no alternative but to collide with the
temperatures in the low 20's are forecast for the coming week. Photo by Sally Price.
rails instead of a soft landing as in the
Crystal River
Man Beats "Would Be" Burglar
past. Crossman can name every low spot
on Hwy 40 which is an accident waiting to
Shooting Under
happen. If you meet a car passing an on-
With a Wooden Stick
Continued on page 4- Squawk Box
Investigation
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alerted the others. The deputy found Gord-
Matthew Gregory Gordianeer, 19,
ianeer on the floor and
4149 E. Fort Apache Pl., Dunnellon, was
Citrus County dispatch received
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one of the residents hold-
arrested by the Citrus County Police De-
a call on Dec. 14th at 12:06 p.m. ref: shots
ing a wooden stick. One
partment, early on Sunday morning, Jan. 3,
fired at 2790 N. Reynolds Avenue in Crystal
of the residents had held
charged with burglary of an occupied resi-
River. A 30-year-old man – who lists his ad-
a crossbow, the victims
dence. His bond was set at $5000.
dress as Jacksonville, but has been staying
explained, but had put it
The sheriff’s office was contacted
at several locations around Citrus County –
away before the deputy
around 3:10 a.m. by a neighbor of Gordia-
was struck and was airlifted to Tampa Gen-
arrived.
neer, that a burglary was in progress. The
eral Hospital. Richard Carroll, 41, has been
The
deputy
residents met the deputy at the front door.
identified as the shooter. The shots fired
handcuffed Gordianeer,
Gordianeer
They told him that they were holding Gord-
were at his N. Reynolds Avenue residence.
and as he walked him to
ianeer in the master bedroom. They said that
The investigation is open and active.
the patrol vehicle, the report stated, Gordia-
Gordianeer had entered the house through
No charges have filed at this time. This case
neer told the deputy that one of the victims
the rear bathroom window. One of the resi-
dents had heard noises in the bathroom, and
Continued on page 2 - Shooting
Continued on page 2- Burglary