The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
PAGE 11 - February 10, 2010
Editorial - Opinion - Commentary
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From Yankeetown Town Hall
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A Guest Commentary by Mayor Dawn Clary
Truck for Sale - The Friends of the Withlacoochee Gulf Preserve have a 1996 Chevy,
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C2500, 2 door white Pick up truck and it has been 148,000 miles. Contact Ellen Klee of the
Friends of the WGP or Councilman Larry Feldhusen for more info or to arrange to view the
truck. The Friends help raise money for the park. They recently donated $5,000 which is to
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be used to build new stairs at the future museum building.
By the way, the Board of Trustees is now accepting bids to do the stair work. Bids will be
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accepted up until February 19th at noon at the town hall. Contact the Town hall for a copy
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of the bid specification and more information.
Other Park News - Councilman Feldhusen is working on organizing a controlled burn at
the WGP. This is a huge undertaking. Controlled burns are done to prevent wild fires due
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to an excessive build up of brush. Our Fire Department is too small to do this so we will be
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looking to the Forestry Department to help if possible.
Fight Winter Water Leaks - If you are planning to be away from your home, there may be
Levy County Health Dept. (call for appt.) - Feb. 10th 5pm - 7pm
a cold snap while you are gone. This year the cold snaps have been much longer than usual,
you may have noticed that. Without the home being heated you increase your chance of fro-
Chiefland Flea Market - Feb. 13th 8am - 11am
zen pipes and breaks which can be very expensive, if no one there to notice. The water loss
Cedar Key Fire Dept. - Feb. 15th 9am - 1pm
can get quite high if nothing else. Take steps to weatherize and protect your pipes whether
Inglis Town Hall - Feb. 17th 9am - 12pm
you are going to be home or not. We had so many leaks during the last big freeze that we
had a hard time keeping up with the water demand.
Levy County Health Dept. (call for appt.) - Feb. 17th 5pm - 7pm
Still an Election - Don’t forget that even though no candidates are on the ballot in this
Chiefland EMS Station - Feb. 18th 9am - 12pm & 4pm - 6:30pm
election there are still referendum questions. Absentee ballots are now available. Contact
Williston Community Center - Feb. 19th 9am - 12pm & 4pm - 6:30pm
town hall to request a ballot. The ballots are also posted on the town’s website.
Chiefland Flea Market - Feb. 20th 8am - 11am
Congratulations to Cedar Key who won the USDA Rural Community of the Year Award
for 2009, in recognition of their success in clam farming.
Thanx to Jack Schofield for doing the column on Yankeetown for the last few weeks.
For updated clinic locations visit: www.MyFluSafety.com
Good Night and Good Luck, Dawn Marie Clary, Mayor of Yankeetown
For more information contact:
Letter to the Editor:
Re: Have you looked at your Garden lately???
LEVY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
During the past year our Inglis elected Commissioners and Mayor managed to
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increase your tax burden.
Our Mayor wrote an article in January telling all of us what was accomplished last
year. Reading his article was like getting an artificial bouquet of flowers, but, what was not
disclosed was all of the added taxes they gave you. So let’s call them “Weeds” not “Artificial
flowers”.
·  You received A Storm Water Assessment of = $54.00 versus Zero $00.00 in Yankeetown.
·
Another Assessment for the Fire Department = $29.69 versus Zero $ 00.00 in Yan-
keetown.
·
Inglis taxes five cents $.05 on the assessed value of your property versus $.021355 in
Yankeetown. For example, if your taxes in Inglis are $300.00 by comparison you would
only pay $ 128.13 in Yankeetown. That’s $171.87 less. WHY???
I know you remember how the Mayor signed a Mandatory Trash Assessment based
on the Commissioners okay without a required hearing. When the ordinance failed the Com-
missioners had to do an about face. So, once again you had to pay more if you were an exist-
ing Waste Pro customer. More Weeds.
The Commissioners will not give you your Water Deposit back, BUT, insist on
keeping it in a non-interest bearing account. It’s like being punished without cause. More
Weeds.
How about the firing the Levy County Building Department. That’s what Inglis did
and why, so they could get more revenue from all of us with the hope we would not notice.
Without getting to technical they hired Florida Municipal Services to issue permits and ap-
prove construction between (2) two and (3) times the going Levy County fee schedule. A
new building (value $100,000) will now cost you $1,000.00 versus Levy County at $351.41
or $ 641.59 more. They (Commissioners and Mayor) are trying to hide the weeds while
presenting artificial flowers.
Kelly Owens, daughter of Mary Ann and Roger Crossman of Tuckaho (east of Inglis) shot these
Like any good gardener you have to rake and pull the weeds before you can be
two 40 pound hogs with one shot Saturday at the Chigger and Tick Hunting Club in Perry. Kelly,
proud of your landscape.
who used her pink gun named “Vera” is quite the shooter. The couple went to the Perry hunt
Sincerely, William A. Monteverde, Inglis
for a video being made called Black Hog Down. Photo by her husband Jason.
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