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Sally Price Correspondent
Squawk Box
With Mike Moore
About Fay
I need to ask something.
Exactly how much warning does
someone in Citrus County need
to actually take affirmative ac-
tion in the face of an impending
storm? Three months? Three
weeks? Three days? I'm getting the impres-
sion today that it is more like three hours. I'm
out and about checking out what kinds of
activities people are up to while Tropical Storm
Fay is churning its way north towards us. It
seems simple enough, hang out out the local
building supply stores and see the trail of
hurricane and emergency supplies disappear
from the shelves.
Instead of lines of folks taking home
generators and plywood, I'm getting a whole
lot of shoulder shrugging and indifference
when I ask "what are you doing to prepare for
the storm coming?" Most folks were buying
Brian Fluegel of Inverness stocking up on flashlights, lanterns, and plenty of drinking water in the hours before Tropical Storm Fay is
run of the mill home improvement supplies...
predicted to make Florida landfall. When asked, many people shrugged off the many early warnings as just "scare tactics" by the media. Not
nothing that would prevent the kind of de-
Mr. Fluegel; his reply was, "I'm getting ready." Top rt:"Plywood going home to board up exposed windows", says Jim Echlin of Citrus Hills as
struction a Florida tropical storm would bring.
grandson Sam looks on. Lower rt: Matt Clement and Alex McCormic were stacking cartons of bottled water at the Food Ranch supermarket
One person I asked said, "Oh, we've lived here
in Inglis, Monday. Newscaster Photos by Mike Moore and Debbie Russell
for many many years, we've got everything
Hoping Fay Murder Suspect Extradited
we need already."
This general apathy makes me really angry.
Listen folks, I work for FEMA and I am
to Citrus County
employed by FEMA to specifically take pic-
Will Go
tures of the destruction and recovery after a
disaster. If you've wondered why my columns
A Beverly Hills man accused of mur-
officers with the Tift
are missing without explanation from time to
Away!
dering his mother in June was transported to
County Sheriff's Office
time, it is because I've been deployed off at a
the Citrus County Detention Facility, August
contacted the Citrus
moment's notice to document the after effects
18, from Thomas County, Georgia. Donald Carl
County Sheriff's Office to
of a disaster. I have a personal relationship
Wing, Jr., 49, was charged with first degree
inquire if they were famil-
By Deborah Russell
Continued on page 3 - Squawk Box
murder in the death of his 74-year-old mother,
Newscaster Editor
iar with Mr. Wing. Geor-
Janet Wing, whose body was discovered in
gia detectives learned
Hernando County, Florida on June 12th and
that Citrus detectives
Matt Clement and Alex McCormic (above
Primary Election
positively identified by dental records on June
were concerned about
rt) were stacking cartons of bottled water at
Donald Wing
14th. Wing is being held without bond.
Mrs. Wing’s well-being,
the Food Ranch supermarket in Inglis, Mon-
Reminder
According to the Thomasville, Geor-
as she had been reported missing on June
day. The men were doubling their usual
gia Times-Enterprise newspaper, the Tift
10th from the Jefferson St. home she shared
Tuesday August 26
Aquafina Water route in preparation for Tropi-
County Sheriff's Office responded to a com-
with her son (Donald Wing), her bed had been
cal Storm Fay, which never made a hurricane.
plaint on June 10th at the Motel 6 in Tifton,
burned, and blood was found in her house.
Review The
Food Ranch employee Stephanie
Georgia, that a man (Donald Wing) was talk-
During the trip to the state hospital, Wing
Creel said the store was unusually busy with
ing out of his head. Wing told officers that he
Candidates
told officers that the Secret Service and Presi-
shoppers stocking up for the storm, and she
had a bomb in his vehicle, a gray 2003
dent Bush were out to get him. He also com-
expected it to get busier as people dropped
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Chevrolet Impala with a New York tag. As
mented that he was alone and had no mother
by the store on their way home from work.
Wing was being transported to Southwest-
to give him money or take care of him. He said
The store was bustling, and all cash registers
ern State Hospital in Thomasville, Georgia,
Continued on page 4 - Suspect Extradited
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