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Wednesday April 21, 2010
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Permit No. 14
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Squawk Box
With Doug Johnston
Thinking about food
Have you taken a look in
the cereal aisle at your gro-
cery store lately? I mean, re-
ally looked. There are more
kinds of cereal than Carter
has liver pills. I can remember a time
when choosing a cereal was deciding if
you wanted Kellogg’s corn flakes or Post
Toasties. Oh sure there was raisin bran and
a few, and I do mean a few, kids cereals,
but nothing like the plethora of cold cere-
als that clutter the grocer’s shelves today.
Our eating habits are a reflection of who
we are and just looking at the inventory on
our supermarket shelves tells me we have
become preoccupied with food. My father
used to say that some people eat to live,
others live to eat. I never truly understood
what he meant by that until now. With all
the variety of foods that are available to
the consumer today you would think that
anyone could walk into a store and find
something that would satisfy their hunger,
but that’s not always the case.
I recall being hungry as a youngster
growing up in the 1950’s. Mama usually
bought groceries on Saturday, which was
payday for Daddy. By Tuesday the cup-
Up with the new, Down with the old - Without any fanfare Friday afternoon traffic was routed onto the new bridge over the Cross Florida Barge
boards were starting to look a little bare.
Canal on U.S. 19 Inglis. Immediately work began to dismantle the old bridge used to cross the ill fated barge canal built almost a half century
By Friday we were wondering what Mama
ago. The other half of the bridge will be finished after the old span is down. With that completion, the only two lane section of Hwy 19 will
was going to find to put on the supper ta-
finally become a four lane highway. Continued on page 4 - Bridge Opening
Crystal River Levy Commissioner Sentenced
ble. I can say that my three sisters and I
never missed a meal. Mama could always
come up with something tasty and nour-
woman dies in to House Arrest, Probation
ishing.
Dried beans were a staple in our house.
When I left home after graduating from
high school and junior college I vowed to
boating
Tony Parker, former Levy County
receive his sentencing on May 5. The men
never eat another lima bean as long as I
Commissioner who was
were convicted during an FBI investigation
lived. I held that vow until one day a few
convicted in federal court in
where FBI agents posed as developers with
accident
Continued on page 4 - Squawk Box
December of soliciting and
a the fictitious Gideon Development Corpo-
accepting a $10,000 bribe
ration out of New Jersey, seeking to build a
Adopt A Pet
from an FBI agent, was
high density development in the area. The
According to investigators with
sentenced by Chief Judge
investigation started in Dixie County, result-
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the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Stephan P. Mickle of the
ing in several convictions and jail sentences
Commission, a Crystal River woman died
U.S. District Court, North-
there, and spread into Levy County when
in a single-vessel boating accident in Cit-
ern District of Florida, on
Dixie County Commissioner Alton Land
rus County on Saturday afternoon, April 17.
Wed. Afternoon (April 14). Parker was sen-
told the FBI of Sammy Yearty’s influence in
Carla D. Faul, 25, died when she fell off the
tenced to six months house arrest, five years
Levy County, according to court records.
bow of a boat. She went under the vessel,
probation and 500 hours of community ser-
Pamela Blair, the former executive
and the outboard motor propeller struck her.
vice. Parker had faced a recommended sen-
director of the Nature Coast Business De-
Seven other people were aboard
tence of 27 to 33 months.
velopment Council, was charged with lying
the 2005 20-foot Sweetwater pontoon boat
Sammy Yearty, former Levy Coun-
to a federal agent during an interview in the
on which Faul was a passenger. The ves-
ty Commissioner who was convicted of the
same case, and is scheduled to go to trial in
sel, operated by Jeffrey Ryan Lamb, 31, of
same charge, and also of lying to a federal
early June.
Wildwood, was approximately four miles
agent during an interview, is scheduled to
Continued on page 3- Sentencing
Continued on page 3 - Fatal Accident