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THE NEWSCASTER-Nature Coast News
CFCC Announces A Major Donor
Money Found to Keep Boys & Girls Club Open
Citrus County officials announced that the county has found a Florida Department
for New Levy Campus
of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) program to help the Boys and Girls Club of Citrus County. The
money will come for one of the agency’s delinquency prevention demonstration projects,
Tuesday Central Florida Community College and its District Board of Trustees
and those are normally funded up to $35,000 or 40,000, according to DJJ. The grant is ex-
announced a major gift in the Promise for the Future campaign to build a new Levy Cam-
pected to help the Boys and Girls Club run its programs. That will be helpful not only for
pus. The gift by a longtime Levy County educator will help bring construction of the Levy
funding programs, but some of the club’s money that would have been spent for programs
Campus to fruition and includes an unprecedented naming opportunity.
can be used to do the necessary renovations to get the old Inverness Police Department
The Levy Campus will be located on a 35-acre parcel along U.S. 19 north of
building up to state fire code regulations so it can house the Boys and Girls Club there.
Chiefland. Construction is expected to begin in 2010.
The city of Inverness had offered the building for use by the club, but the building,
For information about the Levy Promise for the Future campaign, contact Lisa
which has been vacant for about five years, did not meet state fire code for such day care/day
Lombardo at 352-854-2322, ext. 1427.
Special Needs Registry Available
camp- type activities, which would include a state requirement that calls, for example, for a
monitored fire alarm system. Boys and Girls Club officials recently toured the building and
asked county fire officials to do a courtesy check of the building to give them some idea of
To Levy Residents
what would have to be done to the building to bring it up to state fire code so they could use
it. County Administrator Brad Thorpe said that when the county learned this week that the
In January of 2009 the Levy County Sheriff’s Office implemented a new program
building didn’t meet state fire code requirements for such activities, it began searching for a
designed to assist citizens of Levy County who have special needs. The program includes
way to help the club. He said Assistant County Administrator Eber Brown had already been
a database of special needs citizens of all ages such as Alzheimer’s patents, autistic persons
talking to DJJ officials over recent months to see if there was any funding available for the
and others with special needs.
club. Brown had been given tentative indication the county could very likely be picked for
This database is accessible from the dispatch center and includes individual spe-
a demonstration project but that the sites would not be announced until July. After Brown
cific information on each entered person such as type of special need, contact person, home
discussed the situation this week with Greg Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Prevention &
address, and specific instructions for first responders on how to best assist that person. The
Victim Service for the Department of Juvenile Justice, Johnson told him the county would
database also includes a photograph of the special needs citizen that can be distributed im-
be one of the 16 project sites chosen. Johnson also said that some of the projects could
mediately to first responders if need be. The database is integrated with the 911 and CAD
qualify for a second year funding if they met certain criteria in the review of the first year’s
dispatching systems so that the special needs citizen’s residence is flagged within the 911
program.
mapping system.
Johnson noted that DJJ has worked with the Boys and Girls Club on such projects
This allows dispatchers to immediately notify first responders that they are
before and so it should be a good fit. He said a scope of services for the project would be
responding to a special needs residence and will also help first responders in returning
ter Stercreatednin July. Thorpe said the money should allow the club to pursue its plans for the
ilizatio
special needs citizens to their residences if they are located away from home and require
Inverness site, which was good news. He said county officials were very glad to be able to
Fanning Springs Man Registers as Sexual Predator
have helped.
Woman Accused of Offering "Sexual Favors" In Exchange For Drugs
Fanning Springs-On June 10, 2009 David Darius Hale has registered with
Bronson_On June 8, 2009 Deputy Joseph Sabbag arrested Deborah Hart for disorderly
the Levy County Sheriff’s Office as a sexual predator. Hale was previously
intoxication, possession of drug paraphernalia and solicitation to commit lewd acts.
residing at 11790 NE 107 Terrace Archer, Florida and has moved to 17210
Deputy Sabbag responded to the Bronson Motel in reference to a white female
NW Highway 19 in Room # 3 Fanning Springs, Florida.
intoxicated and was offering the migrant workers sexual favors for the exchange of drugs.
Hale was convicted in 2005 for lewd and lascivious molestation of
The Bronson Motel manager told the female to leave the property or she would call the
a child less than 12 years of age.
Sheriff’s Office. Hart yelled obscenities to the manager and stated that the cops would not
Hale
Inglis Man Arrested for Non Payment
do anything to her.
Deputy Sabbag located Hart walking and extremely intoxicated. Hart was in
A 51-year-old Inglis man was arrested by the Levy County Sheriff’s Office, June
possession of a homemade pipe and inside the tin foil was marijuana residue. Hart was
4, on a writ of bodily attachment for non payment of child support in the amount of $4800.
arrested for the listed charges and she was transported to the Levy County Jail.
Wayne Moore, 18831 S.E. 74 Ave., Inglis, was arrested on the Citrus County warrant, after
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