The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
PAGE 11 - May 22, 2013
From Dawn's Front Porch
“Searching for the Truth”
By Newscaster Contributor Dawn Clary
Wild Things – With summer coming on the wild kingdom gets more active and may get
Mouse Pyramids???
wilder. Since we live so close to the edge of the swamp where many wild things live, you
Many books have been written on the mystery
may have an encounter where you need assistance or the animal does. If you see an animal
of how the pyramids were constructed, but the Sahara
that you think is rabid, contact Florida Fish & Water Commission for obviously rabid wild
Desert has an even greater mystery. It is the mystery of
animals at 904-359-3883. If you encounter a dead or injured Manatee, contact the Manatee
mouse pyramids.
Hotline at 888-404-3922 or call #FWC or *FWC from your cell phone or use VHF Channel
The Sahara Desert is a strange place to find mice
16 on your marine radio. Contact Nature World Wildlife Rescue for injured or orphaned
building stone pyramids in front of their burrows, but that
birds, squirrels, bobcats, fox, deer, otters, rabbits, armadillos, opossums and raccoons at
is exactly what they do. These mice pile up round stones,
352-621-5575. Contact Squirrel Rescue for orphaned or injured squirrels at 352-486-6605
making small pyramid-like structures through which the
or 904-591-7791. Contact a local nuisance trapper for problems with wild animals (pigs,
air can flow. As the sun rises, the air heats up, but the rocks remain much cooler well
raccoons, etc). Call the YT Town Hall at 352-447-2511 for a list of local trappers. All of
into the day – having been chilled by the cold desert night. Water in the air begins to
condense on these cooler rocks, and the mice lick the water off of the rocks. This is how
the above numbers and organizations are listed on the YT web site so you can always look
mice get their water! Mice in Australia also build stone pyramid-like structures to catch
them up there. As of this writing, there seems to have been no change in animal control for
the morning dew. They make huge piles of round stones over their burrows; some may
domestic animals in YT.
be up to three feet across. Again, as the sun rises and heats the air, the dew collects on
Wars -Monday is Memorial Day, which was started after the Civil War to honor and
the cooler stones, providing the mice with water.
remember those lost in what is still the bloodiest war in our history. 620,000 soldiers died
How did mice “know” they could catch dew by building stone pyramids? How
in the Civil War, more than in World War II in which 405,399 died. The Civil War is also
did two species of mice, one from the Sahara Desert and one from Australia, come up
known as the birth of the prosthetics industry as 70,000 soldiers lost limbs. The vast need
with the same idea for getting water? This is only a mystery to those who want to ex-
for artificial limbs forced advancements in the technology. Memorial Day has since been
plain things without God (evolutionists). God knew what the mice would face and built
expanded to include all war dead. In our most recent war, Iraq, approximately 4500 were
such knowledge into their DNA, so they would be able to survive. God’s purposeful
killed and 32,000 wounded. 116,516 were killed in WWI, 58,209 in Vietnam, 36,574 in
programming is evident!
Korea, 13,283 in the Mexican War, 25,000 in the revolution, 15,000 in the War of 1812 and
He is before all things and in Him all things consist.
323 in the Gulf War. War touches and leaves scars on so many, Memorial Day is a day to
– Colossians 1:17
remember those who have sacrificed for their country. In Kansas City there is a 217 foot
tower with what was meant to be an eternal flame built into the top of it. It was built in
Based on, Inspired Evidence a book by Bruce Malone, 2011
the1920’s as a memorial to the dead of WWI. The flame is enormous and an impressive site
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at night. However with the energy crisis and budget cuts it was only lit on special occasions.
They had been raising money to keep it lit more. World War I was called the “war to end all
Letter to the Editor
wars”. It was a very nice dream. Good Night and Good Luck
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Re: Change
One should always be suspicious when others want change. I am not speaking of
small changes but life altering changes. Your current Inglis Town Commission is hell bent
on making drastic changes to the Town. First they want to take away your police and fire de-
partments and hand control of those agencies over to Levy County. You the people of Inglis
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will be at the mercy of the County. Now at a workshop the Mayor suggests that we sell off
our water plant. Once again taking control away from the good people of Inglis and putting
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it in the hands of a third party who care nothing about the people just how much money can
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they make.
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I feel the majority of the Commissioners and the Mayor really don’t care about you
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the citizens but they have their own agenda and it is not protecting you. One Commissioner
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has even said that she has two goals. One to get rid of the Police Department and the other
to do the same to the Fire Department and then she is going to move. So let me get this
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straight she wants to make these drastic changes and then leave so that she does not have to
suffer the consequences of her actions. If she wants to move fine but she should not want
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to destroy the town first. Another Commissioner has multiple traffic citations and wants the
police gone for personal reasons. It is time to tell your Commissioners and Mayor to stop.
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We like Inglis just the way it is.Change is not always for the better.
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Escaped Department of Corrections Inmate Fredrick W. Pinckney White Male
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5-8 200 lbs Hazel eyes and short brown hair was captured in the early morning hours of
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Wednesday last week by the Department of Corrections K-9 team, LCSO and Chiefland
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Police Department. An alert citizen called 911 and reported seeing a suspicious person run
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into a wooded area in southeast Chiefland. The K-9 tracked Pinckney to a residence located
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at 107 SE 4 Ave and took him into custody. Pinckney was transported to the Levy County
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Jail and charged with escape.
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