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Deborah Russell - Editor
A Publication of
Wednesday November 9, 2016
Inglis, FL 34449
Tom Russell - Publisher
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Permit No. 14
Sally Price - Historian
Friday November 11 is Veterans Day - Thank A Vet
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Community
Wildlife Park Honors Veterans
With Free Admission For All On
Veterans Day (Nov. 11)
Homosassa The Florida Department of
Environmental Protection's Ellie Schiller
Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park
will be honoring our veterans by offering
free admission for everyone on Veterans
Day, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016.
Carla Nicklas will be set up in the
Visitor Center on November 11 for Veter-
ans Day. She will be collecting items for
the Mission in Citrus Homeless Veterans.
Any contributions of non- perish-
able food items, cleaning supplies, person-
al grooming products or donations would
be greatly appreciated. Those who would
like to bring in items before November 11
may bring them to the park's Administra-
tive Office at the Visitor Center. Nicklas
will also have cards available on Veterans
Day for those who would like to send notes
and letters to the troops and returning vet-
erans. For more information, please call
It all started in 1980 and has been held every year except one. The Inglis Yankeetown Lions Club's 35th annual Yankeetown Art, Craft & Seafood
Carla Nicklas at (352) 257-1480.
Festival will take place on Riverside Drive in Yankeetown on Saturday and Sunday, Nov 19th and 20th, 2016. (Saturday 9am to 5pm -- Sunday
Red Wolves To Be Focus For
9am to 4pm). Free Parking- Free Admission -Free Live Entertainment. There will be a train ride and face painting for the children. For adults,
November At Wildlife Park
there will be a colorful extravaganza of arts and crafts. And everywhere there will be delicious seafood! This year's entertainment lineup
Homosassa
Springs
Wild-
includes - Nashville recording artist Pete Hunt lead singer from the "Southern Branded Band", Cajun Dave Becnel - Louisiana's hottest Cajun
life State Park will be highlighting Red
fiddler and a local favorite whose music, instrument skills and voice are so exhilarating you just can't get enough! Also appearing will be Jim Al-
wolves during the month of November.
len - solo artist who plays a wide range of music and Shema Shine who performs rhythm and blues. For more information call 352 505-7935.
Special events and exhibits are planned on
Home invasion
Internet Cafes Robbed at Gunpoint,
the endangered Red wolves in the park's
Visitor Center and in the Discovery Cen-
suspect/accomplice
Shots Exchanged
ter. The Red wolf (Canis rufus) is one of
the world's most endangered canids. Red
arrested
wolves are native to North America and
From the Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
at the busines that they were being robbed.
once ranged throughout the Southeast
Shots were exchanged between
United States including Florida. The Red
From the Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
Deputies looking for three men who
the suspect and an armed employee at the
wolf was designated as an endangered
"There's always more to the sto-
robbed internet cafes at gunpoint
Xtreme Internet Cafe, but no one was in-
species in 1967. Due to loss of habitat
ry than meets the eye," said Captain Brad
Dunnellon - On
jured. The suspect then fled the store, ran to
and human-caused mortalities the Red
Smith, with the Citrus County
Sat., Nov. 5, about 9:00
the Flamingo Internet Cafe where the other
wolf population nearly vanished when a
Sheriff s Office, Criminal In-
pm, three male suspects,
robbery was in progress, grabbed a patron
managed breeding program was started at
vestigations Division, after the
all wearing hoodies,
there, and drug her back to the Xtreme Inter-
Point Defiance Zoo; Aquarium in 1973.
arrest of Dustin Spangler, Nov.
masks and gloves, en-
net Cafe, using her as a human shield. Only
The goal was to conserve the remaining
3, in Sumter County. Spangler,
tered two different inter-
one person remained inside the Xtreme In-
Red wolves and increase their numbers.
30, of Hernando, was taken Spangler
net cafes on Dunnellon
Surveillance
ternet Cafe, and he was robbed by the sus-
As a result of the success of these breeding
into custody by Sumter County
Rd. and robbed the pa-
pect. The suspect then let the female hostage
programs, this species was reintroduced
Sheriff s Office deputies after a CCSO in-
trons, as well as the businesses, at gunpoint.
go. She took off running, as the suspect left
in the Alligator River National Wildlife
vestigation into a Citrus Hills home invasion
The men targeted the Flamingo Internet
the store.
Refuge in North Carolina in 1987.
led to him. Mandy Duncan, 27, of 8 N. Bar-
Cafe, located at 2814 W. Dunnellon Rd. and
Investigators are working to iden-
bour St., Beverly Hills, was also arrested in
the Xtreme Internet Cafe, next door.
tify all three men and determine the details
connection with the case.
According to the Citrus County
of what happened in each situation. "Sus-
According to the CCSO's Media
Sheriff s Office, two men entered the Fla-
pect 1" is a black male wearing a Halloween
Division, Duncan, a home health employee
mingo Internet Cafe and proceeded to rob
mask; "Suspect 2" is a male, of unknown
who had been to the victim's residence, pro-
those inside.
race, approximately 19 years-old, wearing a
vided Spangler with information about her
While that was happening, the third
camouflage handkerchief on his face; "Sus-
client and dropped him off at her residence.
suspect entered the Xtreme Internet Cafe,
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pointed a gun at a patron and told everyone