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Citrus County launches CodeRED

Pet Patrol

emergency notification system

The Citrus County Board of County Commissioners will be utilizing the CodeRED

Emergency Notification System on Friday, May 31 to call the entire community. The calls

will be at 1 p.m. and will continue until the entire database has been attempted. This call

will give BOCC personnel the chance to operate the system as if there has been a community

wide disaster.

The message that is being delivered directs recipients to the BOCC website to add

additional contact numbers, and also asks that recipients spread the word by mentioning the

system to family, friends and neighbors. Lindsay Ubinas, the Public Information Officer,

suggests that “all individuals and businesses should take the time to visit our website and

add contact information to include cellular phones and other non-traditional phones as well

as email and text addresses.” If your contact information is not in the database you will not

receive a call when an urgent message is sent. In particular, businesses should register, as

well as individuals who have unlisted phone numbers, who have changed their phone num-

ber recently, and those who use a cellular phone exclusively or have VoIP phones (such as

Vonage) as their primary numbers.

Citizens can log onto the BOCC website and follow the CodeRED link on the

left hand side of the page. Those without Internet access may call 352-527-5484 Monday

through Friday from 9am to 5pm. Required information includes a street address (physi-

cal address, no P.O. boxes) for location purposes and a primary phone number. Additional

phone numbers, email and text addresses may also be entered.

More information about the CodeRED system is on the website. If you have any

questions, please contact Lindsay Ubinas, Public Information Officer at 352-527-5484.

Home At Last (HAL) Pet Adoptions is a small, all-volunteer 501(c)(3) charitable

IPS Student Awarded College Scholarship

group in Homosassa, devoted to the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of homeless ani-

mals, mostly cats, and currently two small elderly dogs.

Last week Inverness Primary School fifth grade student Cheyenne Marie Perry

MEET our animals at our weekly Saturday Adopt-a-thon at the Petco located at

received some very unexpected news. The student received her first college scholarship.

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Citrus Memorial Health System s Chief Nursing Officer, Linda McCarthy, made the an-

Shopping Center on the north side of Hwy. 50) - from 11:00 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.

nouncement during the school s fifth grade graduation ceremony.

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don t have a shelter site and adopt out of our

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crime free, and demonstrating continued academic achievement.

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Pictured (from left to right): Kathleen Kennedy; Cheyenne Marie Perry, STEPS Award Winner;

and Linda McCarthy, Citrus Memorial Health System.

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