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Dessie Smith Prescott, pioneering woman with an unmatched love for hunting and fishing, ran

her famous Withlacoochee River Lodge from 1947 for thirty years before selling it in 1977.

The rustic lodge and cabins set on two lane Hwy 19 and the south east side of the Withla-

coochee River in Inglis. Dessie, a 1999 inductee into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame, ran a

The Citrus County Sheriff's Office, Division of Fire Rescue is pictured while loading

fishing and hunting lodge with a Special State Permit for the first pay as you shoot game lodge

up the 108 smoke alarms donated to fire rescue by The Home Depot of Crystal River. Left to

where she furnished cabins, dogs, game and gourmet food after a days hunting. This 1948

right: Captain Chase Hurst, Home Depot assistant manager Julie Shutt, Fire Marshal Kenneth

picture shows her original office and cabins with the large hanging fish on the post advertising

Clamer and Driver/Engineer Nicholas Faso.The smoke alarms will be distributed to families

dinners. Dessie could not only out hunt or fish most men, but she could cook a meal out of

in the community who don't have them in their home and do not have the financial means to

this world. Fresh grown vegetables and yard chickens complimented the customers catch. This

remarkable woman was always curious about what was around the next bend and found out in

If you qualify to receive a smoke alarm, please call the Fire Marshal's Office at (352)

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2002 when she made that final turn. Fire destroyed the last of the lodge and only a wood wall

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794-5505. If there is no answer, please leave a message with your name, physical address

sign remains today to symbolize history made and gone. History by Sally Price.

and telephone number. A Fire Rescue staff member will return your call and schedule an ap-

Duke Energy to Sell Nuclear Fuel

5093 S. Orwell Pt., Homosassa, Florida 34446

pointment to install the smoke alarm.

Phone: (352) 489-4588 Fax: (727) 362-4788

mail, Tom Russell, Publisher: thenewscaster1@gmail.com

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Assemblies From Retired C.R. Plant

mail, Debbie Russell, Editor: debbienewscaster@gmail.com

om · newscasterarchives.com · history.newscasterarchives.com sell 76 unused nuclear Eli was. The parents started looking for him. Mr. Brecheen went outside and found Eli ly-

Duke Energy Florida announced on March 26 that it will · thehealthcaster.com

ing unresponsive in Lake Rousseau, at the back of the property. Eli was placed on the dock,

fuel assemblies from its retired Crystal River Nuclear Plant (CR3 unit) in Crystal River, FL

and his dad started CPR. DeRosa Fire Rescue Station 9 was first on the scene and took over

through a request for proposals (RFP) process.

resuscitation efforts. Firefighters continued Basic Life Support resuscitation efforts until

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Selling and transferring nuclear fuel assemblies is heavily regulated and considered

Nature Coast Emergency Medical Services arrived to take over the care of the child with

safe in the U.S., according to Duke Energy. Federally licensed U.S. nuclear power plants

firefighters assisting with care while en route to Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center in

and nuclear fuel fabricators are the only entities receiving Duke Energy

Crystal River where efforts to save the child continued for about two hours after the initial

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call. The child was pronounced deceased. Autopsy results are pending, but no foul play is

Head-on collisioninjuresonMarch26 resulted in inca-

          both drivers

Acrash U.S. · 41 inInverness  

 two vehicle · on  Hwy.  

pacit  one ofthe drivers, David 55, Ray St., Hernando,

ta ing injuries to       Paul Jordan,   21410 E.

 Shand'sCare transportinghim OcalaRgionalHospitalandalso with possible inju-

with      to       

ries to the other driver, Gerald Vince Giles, 52, 5056 N. Redwood Ave., Hernando, who was

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transported to Citrus Memorial Hospital by Citrus Rescue.

The Florida Highway Patrol determined that Mr. Jordan, in his Deltona Corpora-

t Ford   truck,traveling northbound on U.S. Hwy. 41, approaching

ion 2006  F150 pickup  was 

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U.S. Hwy. 41,   0.25 mile south of Arlington St. For an

ingsouthbound on approximately 

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unknown reason, Mr. Jordan failed to maintain his vehicle in the northbound lane and drove

acrossdouble yellowcenterlineon U.S. Hwy. 41 into the path of Mr. Giles' oncoming

 the    

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Isuzu truck. The     Corp.  F150 truck collided with the front of the

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FordF150wasapproximately 56 feet and rotated clockwise

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to a final rest position against the right side of the Isuzu truck, and facing southeast on the

westedgeof U.S.

    Hwy. 41. The Isuzu was at final rest, facing south in the southbound lane

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on U.S. Hwy. 41. No skid marks were present from either vehicle. The report stated that both

drivers were wearing harness-type seat restraints. According to Sgt. Steve Gaskins, Public

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Information Officer with the FHP, unspecified charges will be made in the crash.

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