The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
PAGE 11 - December 12, 2007
Editorial - Opinion - Commentary
13th Annual Window Painting Contest
- Continued from page 4
Yankeetown Mayor's Report
#61-Hannah Roof, 8, Inglis * #64-Tucker Hale, 8, Dunnellon * #70-Rebecca Brazwell, 6, Crys-
A Guest Commentary by Mayor Dawn Clary
tal River * #72-Alex Wildey, 8, Inglis * #74-Chloe Allen, 7, Inglis * #75-Caleb Stamper 7, Inglis
The big news this week was the loss of confidence in an investment pool used by
* #76-Dreama Hughes, 6, Inglis * #81-Raven Hoculock, 8, Inglis* # 82-Shane Wisnewski, 7,
municipalities across Florida called the Local Government Investment Pool (LGIP).
Crystal River * and #100-Jared Barnes, 8, Inglis.
The pool is run by the Trustees of State Board of Administration and its objective is
Twenty-three children participated in the 9 to 11 age category: #2-Seth Myers, 9,
to provide local governments with a short-term, very liquid, high quality investment vehicle.
Inglis * #10-Mariah Bell, 10, Inglis * #11-Shannon Lind, 11, Inglis (3rd place) * #18-Vanessa
Yankeetown is invested in this pool. This past week the pool experienced a loss of confidence
Samples, 9, Inglis * #21-Brennen Nichells, 9, Inglis * #32-Rachael Cooper, 10, Inglis * #33-Kari
due to concerns over the percentage of its portfolio which may have been risky investments,
Millen, 11, Inglis * #35-Sydney Allen, 9, Inglis * #36-Deandra Allen, 10, Inglis * #38-Megan
mainly the troubled mortgage market. The pool was frozen for approximately a week while an
Stamper, 10, Inglis * #39-Logan Jones, 11, Inglis * #47-Wyatt Royal, 10 Lecanto * #58-Emily
advisory committee of pool participants was set up to analyze and make recommendations for
White, 11, Inglis * #60-Liam Simonds, 11, Inglis (1st place)* #62-Jacob Litman, 11, Inglis *
short term operations of the pool and its long term sustainability.
#67-Payton Whitsel, 10, Crystal River (3rd place) * #79-Crystal Risher, 9, Inglis * #80-Scotty
The fund was unfrozen on Thursday and Yankeetown was able to withdraw 86
Lind, 9, Inglis * #88-Cassandra Chestnut, 9, Inglis * #92-Devin Penrod, 11, Yankeetown * #96-
percent of its funds without any penalty. The vehicle for reinvestment of these funds has not
Dominique Yarbrough, 10, Inglis * #97-Haley Willis, 11, Inglis* and # 98-Rebecka Millikin, 11,
yet been determined. The portion of the funds remaining in the pool is being managed by
Inglis.
LGIP to minimize risk. We will have a better picture of the status of remaining funds by the
Twenty "tweens" and teens participated in the 12 to 16 age category: #6-Lindsay
February or March time frame.
Hall, 14, Inglis (1st place) * #9-Brittney LeClair, 12, Inglis * #24-Kimberly Ramirez, 12, Inglis *
A meeting was held last week with Florida Rural Water Association which is a sup-
#28-Cameron Simonds, 13, Inglis (2nd place) * #30-Billy Stevenson, 12, Inglis * #37-Charlene
port group offering help to rural governments. Yankeetown is a member of this group. The
Panks, 15, Inglis * #40-Michelle Toomey, 13, Inglis * #43-Adam Porambo, 12, Inglis (3rd place)
town council held a workshop with three members of the association to discuss the town's
* #44-Aeriel Toomey, 15, Inglis (honorable mention) * #48-Nichole Zarkowski, 16, Inglis *
water distribution system. The meeting, organized by Infrastructure Liaison Doug Dame and
#49-Anna Zarkowski, 13, Inglis * #54-Ida Robertson, 15, Crystal River * #55-Sean Wisnewski,
Water Department employee Paul Shearer, was designed to bring the council and FRW up to
12, Eustis * #56-Cliff Guyette, 13, Eustis * #65-Garrett Johnson, 12, Inglis * #66-Michael
speed on the issues of concern and covered a list of areas where the town distribution system
Martinex, 12, Inglis * #84-Lindy Gilbert, 12, Inglis * #87-Richelle Porambo, 16, Inglis * #90-
could possibly be improved, or which need study. The list included ideas such as increasing
Lianna O'Bry, 13, Inglis * and #91-Rachel Surber, 13, Inglis.
our service area with possible extension of the water system to the area of Yankeetown in-
Twenty-three entrants, ages 17 and older, competed in the window painting contest:
between CR 40 and 40A was discussed. This idea has been kicked around for years but never
#3-Tina Myers, Inglis * #7-Lora Hall, Inglis * #13-Tanya Berecz, Inglis * #22-Maria Goddard,
pursued. This would also be helpful to the fire department as water must now be essentially
Inglis * #23-Juan Ramirez, Inglis * #26-Mary Cooper, Inglis * #27-Ron Mercandino, Homo-
trucked into areas were there are no fire hydrants. Other items were reliability issues such as
sassa * #42-Kim Millen, Inglis (1st place) * #45-Rachel Wildey, Inglis * #46-Christina Bell,
an interconnect with Inglis to be used in an emergency, and installing a redundant loop to
Inglis * #50-Darrell Phillips, Inglis * #51-Lori Bohrer, Yankeetown * #52-Tiffiani Stamper,
reduce outages in certain parts of town. Maintenance items were the need for additional
Inglis (2nd place) * #53-Tracy Robertson, Crystal River * #57-Jennie Burt, Inglis * #69-Jaclyn
isolation valves and a discussion of our ongoing leakage loss. This leak loss rate appears to
Johnson, Dunnellon * #77-Tessa Holdren, Inglis * #83-Linda Heinzman, Inglis (honorable
not have changed over years but the percentage is higher as our water consumption has
mention) * #85-Esther Hanlon, Inglis* #86-Jay Kim, Inglis (3rd place) * #89-Lewis Barnes,
decreased a bit. The really good news this week is that we have received our permit from the
Inglis * #93-Tammy Yarbrough, Inglis *and #94-Scott Lessig. Photos on page 12
Florida Department of Environmental Protection to construct our new water plant!!!!!
Good Night and Good Luck, Dawn Marie Clary, Mayor of Yankeetown
Cedar Key School Recognized as one of top high schools
U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report, the well-known national
news magazine, has included Cedar Key School in its ranking of outstanding high schools
throughout the nation. According to the magazine's website, Cedar Key School has been
designated a Bronze Medal School. The Levy County school was one of the nearly 1,600 high
schools that received Gold, Silver, or Bronze Medal ranking in the survey. The top 100 high
schools were designated Gold Medal schools, while 405 received Silver Medal status, and
1,086 were named Bronze Medal schools. A total of 18,970 high schools were included.
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Photo by Sally Price, more photos on page 12.
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