The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
PAGE 11 - October 2, 2013
From Dawn's Front Porch
CENTRAL FLORIDA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.
By Newscaster Contributor Dawn Clary
ANNUAL MEETING
Cool People in Yankeetown – Sometimes you take people who live in your little
town for granted and assume that people who do really neat stuff live in some other magi-
OCTOBER 5, 2013
cal place, but cool people are all around you. Last week at the library, the Book Talk Club
featured one of those people Lynn Sholes, an accomplished writer who has published many
The event will have “Early Bird Drawings”, free door prizes and soft drinks.
many books. .Her themes tend towards mystery thrillers which are sometimes referred to as
Entertainment by the “Big Cypress Band” will highlight Central Florida Electric Coopera-
historical mysteries. She says that she became interested in the prehistoric people of Florida
tive’s Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held at the Cooperative’s Operation Center
and that sparked her first six novels. One of her recent books, “The Blade”, has a plot about
located at 11497 NW 50th Ave, in Chiefland. (Please follow the signs)
the investigation of the theft of a 4000 year old biblical artifact. A federal agent hunts down
an international fugitive who is threatening Las Vegas with a nuclear device. Lynn has given
Member registration & information booths will open at 8:00 a.m. and close at the
writing workshops and also been a writing coach and trainer for schools in Broward and
end of the business meeting. You may register at any table.
Citrus County.
Although she started out writing by herself under the name of Lynn Armistead
Entertainment will begin at 8:30 a.m. The business session will begin at 10:00
McKee, she now writes with a co-author named Joe Moore and uses the name Lynn
a.m. and drawings for cash and prizes will begin at the end of the business session.
Sholes. Mr. Moore has a marketing and communications background and has also worked
in the television industry. He’s written articles in national and international trade magazines
The business meeting will include proposed by-law amendments, presentation
on the subject of sound recording and video. He is currently living in Pensacola Florida
of reports from President Randy Mikell, General Manager Mike Campbell and Secretary/
on the Blackwater river. Their books are available for purchase from on line companies
Treasurer Kenneth O’Steen.
such as Amazon as printed hard copy and also as electronic books. Some are distributed
internationally being translated into as many as 24 languages, even languages as exotic as
Attorney Greg Beauchamp will announce the Trustee election results from Dis-
Estonian, Serbian and Thai. They have a good web site which list the copious amount of
tricts 4, 6, and 8.
books and has a through synopsis of them. Also check out the AF Knotts Library.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT YOUR 2013 ANNUAL MEETING
Lynn is a native Floridian, something not many people can say, I know I can’t because my
A Partial List of Prizes is Shown Below:
mother married a Yankee. Lynn’s married to former YT Council member Tommy Sholes
(2) Free Lube, Oil & Filter Certificates
Scoggins Chevrolet Buick
who is also YT’s new Emergency Management Coordinator. Tommy was her high school
(2) Gatorade Watercoolers & Flashlights
Hillman Supply Company
sweetheart and they have a very romantic story themsleves. They have lived in Yankeetown
George Foreman Grill & Panini
Langdale Forest Products Co.
for years after moving up from up from south Florida.
(2) $25.00 Gift Cards
AXIS Data Solutions
Our area has been the home to other accomplished authors such as Seeth Miko
$100.00 Gift Card
MDF HR Consulting
Trimpert who wrote “Bear Crossing”, also available at Amazon. She was from Inglis but is
$50.00 Gift Card
Aclara Technologies
now living in Hawaii.
$50.00 Gift Card
Transformer Maintenance & Service, Inc.
Book Talk – The group meets weekly at 1:30 pm on Wednesdays at the li-
(5) $35.00 Gift Certificates
Hudson Foods
brary. They discuss what they are currently “reading watching and thinking”. They will
(7) $25.00 Gift Cards
Milsoft Utility Solutions
select a book, everyone reads it and then they all discuss it. Good Night and Good Luck
$50.00 Gift Card
ATS
Book Review - Paid Advertisement
“Searching for the Truth”
(2) $25.00 Gift Cards
Mauldin International Trucks, Inc.
Mr. Coffee
McLean Engineering Co., Inc.
Griddle
HD Supply Utilities
Why Doesn’t Your Heart Burn Up?
Gift Certificate
Riverside Manufacturing Co.
A sac called the pericardium is a tough, thin, fibrous
(2) $25.00 Gift Cards
Progressive Power Products, Inc.
membrane which surrounds and protects your heart. Imag-
Camo Chair, Field Bag, Gun Case & Gear Bag
GEIGER
ine it this way; your heart is in a plastic sandwich bag with
(8) $25.00 Cash Prizes
Drummond Community Bank
another sandwich bag surrounding it, and between the two
(8) $25.00 Cash Prizes
Purvis, Gray & Company
bags is an oily lubricating fluid. Your heart is essentially
Cleaning Goodie Bag
The Clean Team of Levy County
encased in this tough sac with the lubricant fluid between the
$50.00 Gift Card
Tri-State Utility Products
heart and the sac. The pericardium must also beat in rhythm
1 - $500.00 Cash Prize………………......Central Florida Electric Cooperative, Inc.
with the heart. Heart palpitations occur when this is out of sync. Often the pericardium
6 - $100.00 Cash Prizes.…………….......Central Florida Electric Cooperative, Inc.
are electrical
is beating at twice the rate of the heart. One cause of such palpitations
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problems created by a shortage of magnesium. But why is there this oily fluid surround-
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ing the heart?
Letter to the Editor: Re: To the Citizens of the Town of Inglis
When the heart beats, it can now slide around in the fluid without creating fric-
your hands, produces heat. A heart without
tion. Friction, like the rubbing together of
It is now 4:00 pm on Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, and it has been a very busy day at the Inglis
soon
produce enough heat to kill us. How do
this marvelous sac (pericardium) would
Police Department. As many of you know, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, will be the last day the Inglis
evolutionistsexplain this?ofevolution, many hearts would
During the process how
Police Department will be in existence.
have died from over-heating because the sac had not yet evolved? What about the fluid
I began my adventure with the police department on Feb. 7, 2005. My previous 20-year
in-between? When would that have evolved? A heart without a fluid-filled sac is an
career with Florida Power Corporation (now Duke Energy), as a cost analyst at the nuclear plant,
overheated heart. Both had to have appeared at the same time. These kinds of details are
in no way prepared me for my new occupation. But, with a lot of hands-on training and help from
Hometown News for the Nature Coast
ignored by the evolution believers. They just wave a magic wand and say, “Evolution
everyone who was willing to train me, in my 8 and 1/2 years, I learned a lot about police work.
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did it.”
The best part of these years has been the people I have come to love and appreciate. It
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God designed the lubricated sac (pericardium) to be fully functioning from the
will be a very sad time, to leave the wonderful officers I have worked with. As each of us goes
beginning in order for the heart to survive.
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our separate ways, there will always be a bond that cannot be broken. There are a lot of outstand-
My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so
Ethatil, Tom Russell, Publisher: thenewscaster1@gmail.com
ma
ing citizens in our town that I have had the pleasure to meet and call friends. I will continue
they may have the full riches of complete understanding… - Colossians 2:2 (NIV)
Email, Debbie these relationships. In closing, I just want to say THANK YOU to our town for my years of
with Russell, Editor: debbienewscaster@gmail.com
employment and a chance to help some people along the way.
Based on, Inspired Evidence a book by WebsiMalone, 2011
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Miss Lorraine’ Barber,Administrative Assistant, Inglis Police Department
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