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Deborah Russell - Editor/Publisher
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Wednesday June 13, 2007
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Permit No. 4
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Newscaster Publishing
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Hometown News for the Nature Coast
Hometown
Squawk Box
With Doug Johnston
Globalization not working to
Americans benefit
Big business and
agribusiness industries in the
United States viewed global-
ization in its infancy as an op-
portunity to expand our own
export market. What has happened has not
only threatened American industry, but the
health of American consumers as well.
The current trend that our geniuses in
Washington have embraced is to open the
market for free trade, but at the same time cut
those pesky government expenditures like
Federal Drug Administration inspectors. This
is a recipe for disaster and we have already
seen the hard evidence of this with the mas-
sive pet food recalls this year. It seems that
the Chinese government sold many of our
The Surber family grieves. The casket containing the body of Sgt. Robert Surber is surrounded one last time by his surviving family in Inverness Monday.
pet food companies an ingredient commonly
Sgt. Surber was killed in action last week by a roadside bomb in Iraq. After a three volley salute, the flag draping his casket was folded and presented
used in dog and cat food that was harmful,
to Mrs. Surber who is seen here clutching it tightly. Sgt. Surber was laid to rest at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Inverness. Newscaster Photo by Mike Moore
indeed deadly to those animals.
Body of Boater Found Near Ozello
Inglis man
The pet food fiasco was followed last
week by a massive recall on toothpaste made
in China. The toothpaste contained an in-
Ozello_ Just before 6 p.m. Sunday evening, a man operating a personal watercraft in the
arrested after
gredient that is suspected as the cause of
waters off Ozello notified the Citrus County Sheriff's Office that he had run aground, possibly
death of dozens of children in Panama. This
on an oyster bar. He was advised to stay with his watercraft, put on his personal flotation
should not come as a surprise. It is estimated
device, and that help was on the way.
early morning
that less than one percent of China's goods
The Sheriff's Office marine unit, assisted by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Florida
are being checked by our government. There
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), went in search of the missing watercraft
simply aren't enough inspectors to check the
and operator. Just before 8 p.m., a marine deputy discovered the watercraft adrift, along with
scuffle
increasing number of imported products com-
the operator's PFD. The Sheriff's Office air unit was still searching for the man at 9 p.m., but his
ing into our ports.
body was ultimately discovered floating in the water by the U.S. Coast Guard's helicopter. It's
It is unlikely that China is out to poison
suspected that the man may have panicked and started swimming. The operator has been
A 20 year-old Inglis man was arrested
or do harm to the citizens of the United States.
identified as Jesus Manuel Mezquita, 39, of Gainesville. Next of kin has been notified.
by the Citrus County
We are a cash cow to the Chinese and they
Mezquita's body was transported to the medical examiner's office in Leesburg for autopsy.
Sheriff's Office, early in
Continued on page 3- Squawk Box
7th Lawsuit Filed Against Yankeetown
the morning hours of
June 6, when deputies
Location of
Sherwood Partners, LLC filed an
also claims that a series of requests for public
were dispatched to an
emergency motion for a temporary injunction
records through May 2007 have been delib-
Inglis residence by a
Levy Co.
June 6th to prevent a June 8th public hearing
erately refused.
complaint of a distur-
on the development agreement involving the
Thursday a Levy County judge de-
bance
that
was
Wickman property (Saxon Oil).
Nuclear Plant
nied the request for an injunction blocking
ammended to a report of
two males involved in aNicholas R. Latraberse
If you are counting this would be
the Friday meeting and it was held.
the 7th in a string of lawsuits filed against the
Mayor Dawn Clary said no progress
physical altercation. When deputies arrived
Revealed
town of Yankeetown. On May 30th Izaak
was made in negotiating the Wickman prop-
at the residence around 2:00 a.m., they saw
Walton Investors, LLC filed suit in Levy
erty development. Mayor Clary also said the
the trailer door was wide open with the door's
see map on pg. 8
County Circuit court complaining that the
requests for public records have all been filled
window shattered, and clothing was strewn
town has not responded to a March, 2006 re-
except for the most recent which was very
Continued on page 4 - Scuffle
Continued on page 2 - Yankeetown
quest for copies of public records. The suit