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Wednesday December 3, 2008
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A Publication of
Permit No. 14
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Newscaster Publishing
Sally Price Correspondent
Rescuers
searching
Gulf for
missing plane
with two
aboard
The Coast Guard is continuing a search
for two people in the Gulf of Mexico, after
learning that a private aircraft had possibly
crashed into the Gulf, about 20-miles south-
west of Yankeetown, around 6:45 p.m, Nov.
30.
Darien Peckham, 35, and Zachary Schlitt,
28, of West Palm Beach, Florida, were flying
from Tallahassee to Vandenberg Airport in
Tampa, when air-traffic controllers in Jackson-
ville reported to the Coast Guard that their
single-engine, fixed-wing Beechcraft aircraft
had dropped off radar and possibly crashed
into the Gulf.
Several agencies were involved in the
search, including rescue boat crews from the
Yankeetown Coast Guard Station and the Sand
Key Coast Guard Station in Clearwater; a 47-
Helen Spivey of Crystal Manor, Crystal River looks over the family shed that a Sunday storm Flattened.This was added to the pile of
foot response boat from Coast Guard Station
destruction on the neighbor's property. Photo by Sally Price, see story below.
Sand Key in Clearwater, an HH-60 Jayhawk
CCSO nabs
Quick Hitting Storm Damages
rescue helicopter from Air Station Clearwater,
an HC-130 Hercules search plane from Air Sta-
tion Clearwater; and the Coast Guard Cutter,
Homosassa
Continued on page 4 - Search
Properties in Citrus & Levy
Food Ranch
CVS Pharmacy
By Newscaster Correspondent
he heard snapping trees and ran for the house.
The Newscaster
Sally Price
He said in less than a minute all the trees
14th Annual Holiday
around his year old home were either snapped
Robber
With the end of hurricane season this
off or twisted and still dangling from their
Window Painting Contest
weekend came a surprise to residents of Crys-
trunks. His wife Sarah said she gathered their
Saturday Dec. 13,2008
tal Manor south of the Barge Canal in north-
two kids and their 3 guest and ran for the
The Citrus County
ern Citrus County. An unconfirmed tornado
center of the house.
8am-12pm
Sheriff's Office made an arrest
jumped across Hwy 19 at Holcim Mine en-
The front lawn was scattered with
in the CVS Pharmacy robbery
trance and danced across the subdivision ran-
Christmas decorations and roofing shingles
that took place in Homosassa
domly picking touchdown points. Some of
along with the toppled forest of trees. Envi-
Fun
on Nov. 28. Melissa Lynn
those with destruction, mainly to all the oaks
ronmentalist Helen Spivey, who lives next
&
Dumal, 21, 6019 W. Holiday St.,
that scatter through the area, did not hear the
door with her family, did a walk through the
Homosassa, confessed to the
Cash Prizes
typical freight train sound usually associated
yard with me showing their family shed
Melissa Dumal
robbery, around 7:00 p.m., Dec.
with an oncoming tornado.
for
wrapped over the Capodieci's storage build-
1.
The residents said their warning was
ing which also sustained damage. Helen said
All Ages
According to the sheriff's office, noise of trees snapping off, running several
she had been told that the weather service
Dumal was driven to the CVS Pharmacy, lo- residents to shelter to escape the trees drop-
said it was not a tornado but a straight line
cated at 3959 S. Suncoast Blvd., Homosassa, ping all around their homes. On a ride through
wind. Helen then pointed out that all the trees
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by her sister and her sister's boyfriend, but the neighborhood, Sarah and Pete Capodieci
did not fall the same way but in different ar-
they were not aware that she planned to rob at 9076 North Cacalia Dr appeared to get hard-
eas the trees leaned different directions. Trees
by Cemex
est hit. Pete said he was in the back yard when
Continued on page 10 - Robbery Charges
Continued on page 3 - Storm Damage