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Have A Safe & Happy Memorial Day
Sally Price Correspondent
Squawk Box
With Doug Johnston
On Mothers Day
As I often do on Mothers
Day I attended the 10:45 A.M.
church service with my mother
this past Sunday. Two of my
sisters, Carol and Connie also
attended the service at First United Method-
ist Church in Inverness.
I enjoyed the service and the church
is beautiful. The sermon was a lesson in the
power of the Pentecost and was well pre-
sented by Pastor Lois Wolfe. Although I was
quite interested in the Pastor's presentation,
my mind kept returning to the 1950's and 60's
and the old Methodist Church on Main Street.
That place and time was where I was intro-
duced to the church and I have memories that
are a part of me as a result of that experience.
As satisfying and spiritually rewarding as
Sunday's church experience was it was re-
served compared to the services I remember
in the old church.
Herbert "Clyde" Kirkland of Inglis, iis pictured in our Memorial Day 1999 issue, placing miniature U.S. flags on graves at an Inglis cemetery. Clyde, now
Francis "Cowboy" Williams was the
89, is the eldest of five remaining charter members of the Inglis Gilley-Long-Osteen VFW Post 8698. The post was chartered in April, 1977. Heartfelt
lay leader who conducted Sunday school and
appreciation is given for Clyde and all the other veterans who have given so much to us and our country. From The Newscaster 1999 Archives.
served to warm up the congregation prior to
Dunnellon youth charged with
Man Sought
the regular church service. A natural motiva-
tor, Williams would work the congregation into
armed home invasion, robbery
a frenzy with his humor and enthusiasm. I re-
in Early
member him imploring us to sing louder. He
would challenge us to make the Presbyteri-
ans hear us, (the Presbyterian Church was
A 19-year-old Dunnellon youth was
him where the money
Morning
abut 300 feet away). When he had managed
arrested by the Citrus County Sheriff's Of-
was. She said that
to elevate the sound to a louder pitch he would
fice, May 14, charged with home invasion and
Pryor took the money,
tell us that we needed to sing louder yet, loud
held on a $50,000 bond.
and she attempted to
Shooting
enough so that the Baptists could hear us.
According to the arrest report, the
take it from him. She
The Baptist Church was another 300
robbery occurred around 10:30-11:00 p.m. the
said that she at-
From the Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
feet or so beyond the Presbyterian Church.
previous night, when the two victims, both
tempted to struggle
The Baptists may not have heard us because
20-years-old, a male and a female, were in the
with Pryor for the
(Citrus Springs) Neighbors on a Citrus
they too had a charismatic young Pastor
garage of their residence that had been con-
money as he and the
Springs street reported hearing shots fired
named Thomas Channel who could ramp up a
verted into a bedroom and heard a knock on a
gunman backed out of
shortly after 2:20 a.m. today.
congregation pretty well too. Pastor Channel
side door. The girl said that she recognized
the bedroom into the
When deputies responded to N. San Jose
the person at the door, Marquice Levell Pryor,
laundry room. The
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Way, they came upon two women, 28 and 20
(1552 J Williams Ln., Dunnellon), because she
gunman, who was
years of age from Williston, who told them
Marquice Pryor
had been acquainted with him for 13 years
NRC Public
then standing at an
they'd been sitting in a vehicle with a man
and had attended school with him. She said,
exterior door, told her to get off, she said, then
they'd driven to see. The two women said an
about two minutes after Pryor had knocked
he fired a round into the ceiling. Startled, the
unknown black male came up to the car,
Meeting on
on the door, that two black males walked into
girl let go of the money, and both men left the
pointed a handgun at them and demanded
the residence, uninvited. She said that the one
residence.
the keys to the vehicle. The three victims
Levy Nuclear
she recognized as Pryor had a bandana cov-
Although, Pryor's face was partially
were then ordered out of the car and walked
ering his head, mouth and nose, while the
covered, the girl said she recognized him by
at gunpoint to a nearby residence at 9666 N.
other male, who was carrying a handgun, had
his eyes and gait, and she positively identi-
Plant
San Jose Way.
a bandanna covering his mouth and nose. She
fied him as one of the home invaders. When
Once inside, the male victim and suspect
said that Pryor briefly looked around the room,
the "BOLO" (be-on-the-lookout) was issued
went to a different part of the house while the
June 5, 2008
then went straight to a cabinet where her
for Pryor, a deputy had just seen him, accom-
two women went to a bedroom. They told
money and the male victim's money was lo-
panied by two other people, on C.R. 488. The
deputies they were able to climb out of a win-
cated. Meanwhile, she said, the gunman had
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deputy returned to the area and eventually
dow and make their way to a neighbor's house
pointed the gun at the male victim and asked
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