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Community
12th Annual Citrus County Veterans
Benefit Golf Tournament
The Twelfth Annual Citrus
County Veterans Golf Tournament will
be held September 10, 2016 at the Citrus
Hills Golf and Country Club Course for
the benefit of the Citrus County Veterans
Foundation, Inc.
Check-in for the four-person
scramble will be at 7:30 a.m. at the Tiki
Bar with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. In-
dividuals and groups short of four per-
sons will be combined to make a team.
You do not need to be a veteran to par-
ticipate.
Registration form and donation
of $55.00 per person must be received
no later than August 31. Each partici-
pant's donation includes golf and cart,
beverages on the course and lunch at the
country club. The tournament features a
Hole-in-One prizes and door prizes.
Charitable tax-deductible con-
tributions for door prizes and hole spon-
sorships for $425, $325, $225 or $125
are greatly welcome.
Participating golfers should
Citrus Springs man dies following July 6 crash - A two-vehicle traffic crash in Citrus Springs (Dunnellon) at 11:08 am, July 6, resulted in life-
make their check or money order pay-
threatening injuries to a Citrus Springs man, 87 year-old year-old Robert Lynn Chandler, who was transported to Ocala Regional Medical Center
able to Citrus County Veterans Founda-
in Ocala where he later expired from his injuries. Newscaster photo. Continued on page 4 - Fatal Crash.
tion and send it with their registration
Two arrested after
Woman arrested
form to Citrus County Veterans Founda-
tion, c/o Citrus County Veterans Servic-
es, 2804 W. Marc Knighton Court, Key
Little League investigation
on one count of
#13, Lecanto, FL 34461-7718 no later
than August 31.
From The Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
animal cruelty
The Foundation is a 501 (c)
(3) not for profit entity that has provides
Former Inverness Little League
nization claims that Ms. Goocher spent
grant emergency financial assistance
President Heidi M. Goocher, 37, and
$6,995.37 for personal items, including
From the CCSO
to local honorably discharged veterans
former Treasurer Zora William McKin-
cell phones, hair dye and automobile
Tina Pappalardo, 60, 15 Oak Knoll
and their surviving spouses. Since the
ley Gregory (Zeke), 51, were arrested,
parts using money from the Inverness
St. Beverly Hills, was arrested on a misde-
Foundation's inception in 2004, over a
meanor animal cruelty charge by the Citrus
July 9, on charges of grand theft and
Little League.
quarter of a million dollars have been
County Sheriff s Office, July 9, when of-
criminal use of personal information.
Zora Gregory (Zeke) is accused
provided.
ficers went to her home and observed her
Their bonds were each set at $4,000.
of stealing approximately $1,563.34
For more information or a reg-
treating her dog in a cruel manner.
This investigation began in late
from the Inverness Little League to pur-
istration form, please visit the Citrus
An animal control officer went to
County Veterans Foundation Web site
Aug., 2015, when the Citrus County
chase homeowners insurance and pay
the home to check on the possibility of ani-
at www.citrusvf.org or contact Janet
Sheriff s Office received a report of
his 2011 taxes.
mals living in deplorable conditions there,
Gramann at 352-527-5915.
fraud involving the In-
For this investigation, Detective
the report stated. It also said that a deputy
verness Little League.
Lee Carey reviewed records from 14 dif-
assisted the animal control officer, as Pap-
The
complain-
ferent businesses to obtain bank records
palardo had allegedly made previous threats
ant charged that Heidi
and sales receipts. He also reviewed
to kill law enforcement officers.
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The dog in question was a male
Goocher misappropriated
the league's monthly bank statements,
brown standard poodle. The report stated,
funds during her term as
meeting minutes and purchase histories
You can now place classified ads at the
that although the collar was properly placed
president of the Inverness
since 2013.
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around the dog's neck, Pappalardo lifted
Goocher
Little League. She was
Inverness Little League has now
New deadline: Monday 12 noon at the Inglis
the dog in the air by pulling on it's leash,
provided with two little
implemented new checks and balances
causing the choke collar to tighten around
Food Ranch service Desk. Cash or Check.
league credit cards to use for the sole
to ensure a higher level of accountability
the dog's neck, completely lifting the dog in
No refunds for early cancellations
benefit of the organization, but the orga-
within the organization.