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Squawk Box
Why Pay For
Potting Soil?
With Connie Pickett
Although
we
typically think of autumn
as the time of year when
leaves fall, now is when
the live oaks are shedding
their leaves. Tree leaves
are an excellent source
of organic nutrients for
your landscape. It is amazing to me that
people rake leaves and bag them up to be
hauled away with the trash; and I suppose
they are equally perplexed when I excit-
edly ask “your not throwing those out,
are you? can I have them?”
A layer of leaf mulch will hold in
moisture and reduce watering needs, es-
pecially important in this drought we are
experiencing; it will also inhibit weed
growth. As the leaves break down they
produce bacteria and other naturally-
occurring organisms that slowly release
One way to beat gas prices and get in your exercise at the same time is the recumbent trike. John Harrington of Inglis can be seen all over town
valuable nutrients.
and even across the barge canal bridge on his trike. The trike makes the cycling trip not only easy but sit back on a cushy seat and relax. One
In the garden, leaves are an ex-
triker on the internet touts that she knits while pedaling along. Continued on page 2 - Biking/Triking.
cellent mulch between the rows; they can
Suspect nabbed in home invasion
Levy Fugitive,
be applied in a 4-6 inch lawyer around
trees and shrubs and when used around
robbery/battery of 90 year-old
Living in Mexico,
newly planted annuals it will increase
their likelihood of survival. Another
Arrested by U.S.
way to use this valuable gift from Moth-
unable to call 911 on his
From Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
er Nature is to compost. If you have a
phone, so he traveled to
Around 2:45 a.m., Jan. 31, a home
Marshals
lawnmower with a mulching bag the
the Circle K gas station
invasion with forceful entry was reported at
shredded leaves will accelerate the pro-
at the intersection of U.S.
a mobile home off of W. Cardinal Street near
- bond set at $1,000,000
cess. Compost piles need carbon and
Hwy. 19 and W. Cardinal
U.S. Hwy. 19 in Homosassa.
According to the Levy County
nitrogen, the leaves will provide your
St. to make the call. The
The 90-year-old victim told Citrus
Sheriff s Office, the United States Marshals
carbon component as will wood chips,
man described his assail-
County Sheriff s Office deputies that he was
Service arrested a violent Levy County fugi-
ant and said he would be
Continued on page 11- Squawk Box
sound asleep when a masked man woke him
tive, Stephen Ray Douglass, now 62, who
able to identify him if
up, demanding his wallet. The senior said,
McGlone
fled to Mexico in 2002.
Pigskin
he ever saw him again.
as he was disoriented when the invader
Douglass was convicted in 1989
Emergency Medical Ser-
awakened him, he did not produce his wal-
Predictors
for brutally raping a Florida woman. During
vices treated the victim at his home, but he
let quickly enough, and the home invader
the sexual assault, he intimidated his victim
refused to be transported to the hospital.
had placed him into a headlock and punched
A First...
and threatened her with retaliation if she dis-
On Feb. 2, the clerk at the Lil’
him, repeatedly, to his face and arms, leaving
closed the crime. Douglas served a fifteen-
Champ convenience store, located at 6241
Two winners!
numerous lacerations. The man showed the
year sentence with the Department of Cor-
W. Cardinal St., contacted the sheriff’s de-
invader the location of his safe. The invader
rections and was required by law to register
partment and asked them to review surveil-
See page 8
broke into it, removed some of the contents,
as a sex offender for life. Douglas failed to
lance footage related to the robbery. The
including cash, then left. The victim was
Continued on page 4 - Fugitive
Continued on page 3- Home Invasion