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The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
Rex Gruver, (right) owner of Falcon Fireworks, prepares the Fourth of July pyrotechnics which will fill the sky over Liberty Park in Inverness later in the
evening. Rex thinks of his pyrotechnic shows as "a twenty minute disappearing painting" and jokingly calls himself the "Picasso of Pyro." He and his assistants
have been showering Inverness with artistic and explosive beauty for the past seven years. In their grand finale fired three hundred shells into the sky in fifteen
seconds. Despite the light on and off rain the program blasted off as scheduled culminating a day of music and celebration. Newscaster Photos by Mike Moore
Sturgeon collision injures two teens
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Two Brevard County teenagers escaped serious injury Thursday when they collided
with a sturgeon in the Suwannee River while riding a personal watercraft.
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Alli Katirck, 14, of Mims, and Kori Snitker, 17, of Titusville, were riding with a group of
family and friends in the Suwannee when a 6-foot sturgeon dealt them a glancing blow,
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according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) officers.
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FWC Officer Dwain Mobley said the group on five personal watercraft approached his
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boat, asking for assistance. Mobley and Officer Matt Tyre provided basic first aid to the two
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girls, who said the sturgeon jumped in front of them around the Rock Bluff area.
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"The girls had sustained minor cuts and abrasions from the leaping fish," Mobley said.
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"The two girls were very upset and didn't want to get back on their personal water-
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craft," Mobley said. "So we put them on our patrol boat and led the group back to the
Branford boat ramp where they had put in."
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