MICHAEL D. BATES Staff writer Shipyard Dog isn’t the only busi- ness owner doing a shirt fundraiser. Will Wilson, owner of Sports & Apparel in the Crystal River Mall, has a similar project — but this one is geared to high school seniors. Wilson said seniors got cheated out of many of the activities this year that make graduating so much fun. To make up for it, he has de- signed T-shirts for the class of 2020 to sell to students, their friends and families and the general public. The front of the shirt has the school’s logo, with wording that in- cludes “the quarantine class,” “alone together” and “Citrus Special to the Chronicle Will and Kelly Wilson, of Sports & Apparel in the Crystal River Mall, have a similar project to Shipyard Dog — but this one is geared to high school seniors. APRIL 23, 2020 www.chronicleonline.com HIGH Partly cloudy. Storms develop late. PAGE A4 TODAY & next morning THURSDAY 68 88 LOW Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community VOL. 125 ISSUE 198 50 ¢ Horoscope A4 INDEX Classifieds B4 Comics B3 Crossword B6 Editorial A8 Entertainment A4 Lottery Numbers A6 Lottery Payouts A6 Obituaries A5 Sports A6 TV Listings B2 INSIDE Flair for food / B1 Flour power! Run out of bread flour? There are other creative ways to make homemade loaves. CITRUS COUNTY MIKE WRIGHT Staff writer Some of Citrus Coun- ty’s most popular parks could be open to the pub- lic starting the middle of next week under a plan formulated Wednesday by a group of county gov- ernment leaders. The group will meet again in videoconference Friday to hammer out de- tails, such as hours of operation and the means to make sure the visiting public doesn’t violate the 6-foot social distancing rules or meet in large groups, county commis- sion Chairman Brian Coleman said. Coleman said he will take the group’s recom- mendations to the county commission for approval at its Tuesday meeting. If Citrus COVID-19 by the numbers n Number of Citrus County cases: 92 Ages of those infected range from 3-93 n Number of Citrus County deaths: 9 The latest death was reported Wednesday The age range of those who have died is 74-88 n Citrus recorded its first case on March 15 The single largest day of new cases was 8 on April 16 Eight days recorded no new cases In the last two weeks, the county has added 35 confirmed cases n Inverness has the most recorded cases at 35 The other locales are: Crystal River, 13; Homosassa 9; Citrus Springs, 8; Lecanto, 7; Hernando 6; Beverly Hills, 5; Dunnellon (Citrus County), 5; Floral City, 4 Source: Florida Department of Health (www.floridahealthcovid19.gov) County mulls park openings Plan calls for allowing limited activities at some facilities within a week He hit on a novel idea: why not use the re- sources of his own printing shop, Shipyard Dog, to not only help others but also his own place in Crystal River? “Many of our businesses are really hurting and may not make it through to the other side of this pandemic as a result of closures of their businesses and no tourism coming into the area,” Briley said. T-shirts to help local businesses MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle Jim Briley, left, and wife, Elaine, own Shipyard Dog, a screen printer, embroidery and laser engraving business in Crystal River. Their son David, center, also works at the business. Print shop owner puts his equipment to work helping other local firms MICHAEL D. BATES Staff writer J im Briley wanted to find a way to help struggling businesses in Citrus County stay alive during the economic shutdown from the coronavirus. See PARKS/Page A2 See SHIRTS/Page A5 Business creates shirts for graduating seniors See SENIORS/Page A5 FRED HIERS Staff writer The coronavirus pan- demic is different than other crises because it af- fects all of us. Regardless of our age, financial status or reli- gion, it has profoundly changed our lives. In a single day, government shutdown orders closed restaurants, public gath- erings, schools and visits with friends and families. Employers have shut- tered doors and handed many workers pink slips until the economy turns around. Meanwhile, mortgages and rent pay- ments are due and utility companies continue to send out their bills. Many become ever more stressed over the constant media flow of bad news, infection rates and death tolls. LifeStream Behavorial Center, which provides mental health and drug ad- diction services to Citrus County, is offering county residents a coronavirus hotline, manned 24 hours a day, where residents can speak with counselors about stresses, anxieties and fears stemming from the virus that has claimed nearly 45,000 victims in this country alone. “We’ve recognized the stresses the coronavirus has put on families,” said Lisa Woolston, associate vice president of Citrus County services for LifeStream. “We saw the need.” Stressed by the virus? LifeStream offers hotline See HOTLINE/Page A9 Latest figures as of 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 22. CITRUS COUNTY n Positive cases of COVID-19: 92 n Total tests: 1,330 n Negative results: 1,237 n Males (positive test): 47 n Females (positive test): 45 n Deaths: 9 n Hospitalizations: 24 STATE OF FLORIDA n Positive cases of COVID-19: 28,576 n Total tests: 290,476 n Deaths: 927 — Florida Department of Health VIRUS UPDATE FHP: Bicyclist killed in collision A 49-year-old bicyclist from Homosassa was struck and killed Tuesday night along U.S. 19 north of Warber Court, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. Arthur L. Nesbitt III was travel - ing south on U.S. 19 along the paved shoulder. According to the report, Nesbitt biked around sev- eral construction barrels posi - tioned on the shoulder and in doing so was struck by the out - side mirror of Sarah Fogel’s 2017 Dodge Ram. Nesbitt died at the scene of the crash. Alcohol was not a factor for Fogel, 35, of Lake Panaso- ffkee. A blood test for Nesbitt is pending, according to the FHP. Charges are pending. Chronicle launches ‘Front Porch Project’ The Chronicle is looking for families to participate in The Front Porch Project, document - ing families as they stay at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Chronicle will provide a list of days and times a photographer will be in areas throughout Citrus County. Let us know if you’d like to participate by emailing Jeff Bryan, manag- ing editor, at jeff.bryan@ chronicleonline.com. Food giveaway Friday at fairgrounds Beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, April 24, school employees with a school board ID can re- ceive food at the Citrus County Fairgrounds — drive-thru only — followed by a general public giveaway beginning at 11 a.m. School employees will use the county auditorium entrance and the general public will use the airport entrance. Follow the signs that will be posted. This week’s food distribution is courtesy of: Citrus United Way, the New Church Without Walls, Community Food Bank of Citrus County, We Care, Farm- Share, Lowe’s in Inverness, Rep. Ralph Massullo, Dr. Mike Bennett, Dr. Jeff Kinnard and Chas. Davis Funeral Home. Monetary donations are needed to continue feeding Cit - rus County residents. Please consider donating through Citrus United Way (www.citrusunited way.org), Community Food Bank of Citrus County (www. communityfoodbankof citruscounty.org) or the New Church Without Walls (www. newchurch withoutwalls.com). — From staff reports NEWS BRIEFS
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Michael D. BatesStaff writer
Shipyard Dog isn’t the only busi-ness owner doing a shirt fundraiser.
Will Wilson, owner of Sports & Apparel in the Crystal River Mall, has a similar project — but this one is geared to high school seniors.
Wilson said seniors got cheated out of many of the activities this year that make graduating so much fun. To make up for it, he has de-signed T-shirts for the class of 2020 to sell to students, their friends and families and the general public.
The front of the shirt has the school’s logo, with wording that in-cludes “the quarantine class,” “alone together” and “Citrus
Special to the ChronicleWill and Kelly Wilson, of Sports & Apparel in the Crystal River Mall, have a similar project to Shipyard Dog — but this one is geared to high school seniors.
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Some of Citrus Coun-ty’s most popular parks could be open to the pub-lic starting the middle of next week under a plan formulated Wednesday by a group of county gov-ernment leaders.
The group will meet again in videoconference Friday to hammer out de-tails, such as hours of
operation and the means to make sure the visiting public doesn’t violate the 6-foot social distancing rules or meet in large groups, county commis-sion Chairman Brian Coleman said.
Coleman said he will take the group’s recom-mendations to the county commission for approval at its Tuesday meeting. If
Citrus COVID-19 by the numbersn Number of Citrus County cases: 92 . Ages of those infected range from 3-93 .
n Number of Citrus County deaths: 9 . The latest death was reported Wednesday . The age range of those who have died is 74-88 .
n Citrus recorded its first case on March 15 . The single largest day of new cases was 8 on April 16 . Eight days recorded no new cases . In the last two weeks, the county has added 35 confirmed cases .
n Inverness has the most recorded cases at 35 . The other locales are: Crystal River, 13; Homosassa 9; Citrus Springs, 8; Lecanto, 7; Hernando 6; Beverly Hills, 5; Dunnellon (Citrus County), 5; Floral City, 4 .
Source: Florida Department of Health (www.floridahealthcovid19.gov)
County mulls park openingsPlan calls for allowing limited activities at some facilities within a week
He hit on a novel idea: why not use the re-sources of his own printing shop, Shipyard Dog, to not only help others but also his own place in Crystal River?
“Many of our businesses are really hurting and may not make it through to the other side of this pandemic as a result of closures of their businesses and no tourism coming into the area,” Briley said.
T-shirts to help local businesses
MATTHEW BECK/ChronicleJim Briley, left, and wife, Elaine, own Shipyard Dog, a screen printer, embroidery and laser engraving business in Crystal River. Their son David, center, also works at the business.
Print shop owner puts his equipment to work
helping other local firmsMichael D. Bates
Staff writer
Jim Briley wanted to find a way to help struggling businesses in Citrus
County stay alive during the economic shutdown from the coronavirus.
See PARKS/Page A2
See SHIRTS/Page A5
Business creates shirts for graduating seniors
See SENIORS/Page A5
FreD hiersStaff writer
The coronavirus pan-demic is different than other crises because it af-fects all of us.
Regardless of our age, financial status or reli-gion, it has profoundly changed our lives. In a
single day, government shutdown orders closed restaurants, public gath-erings, schools and visits with friends and families.
Employers have shut-tered doors and handed many workers pink slips until the economy turns around. Meanwhile,
mortgages and rent pay-ments are due and utility companies continue to send out their bills.
Many become ever more stressed over the constant media flow of bad news, infection rates and death tolls.
LifeStream Behavorial Center, which provides
mental health and drug ad-diction services to Citrus County, is offering county residents a coronavirus hotline, manned 24 hours a day, where residents can speak with counselors about stresses, anxieties and fears stemming from the virus that has claimed nearly 45,000 victims in
this country alone.“We’ve recognized the
stresses the coronavirus has put on families,” said Lisa Woolston, associate vice president of Citrus County services for LifeStream. “We saw the need.”
Stressed by the virus? LifeStream offers hotline
See HOTLINE/Page A9
Latest figures as of 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 22.
CITRUS COUNTYn Positive cases of
COVID-19: 92 .
n Total tests: 1,330 .
n Negative results: 1,237 .
n Males (positive test): 47 .
n Females (positive test): 45 .
n Deaths: 9 .
n Hospitalizations: 24 .
STATE OF FLORIDA
n Positive cases of COVID-19: 28,576 .
n Total tests: 290,476 .
n Deaths: 927 .
— Florida Department of Health
VIRUS UPDATE
FHP: Bicyclist killed in collisionA 49-year-old bicyclist from
Homosassa was struck and killed Tuesday night along U.S. 19 north of Warber Court, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
Arthur L. Nesbitt III was travel-ing south on U.S. 19 along the paved shoulder. According to the report, Nesbitt biked around sev-eral construction barrels posi-tioned on the shoulder and in doing so was struck by the out-side mirror of Sarah Fogel’s 2017 Dodge Ram. Nesbitt died at the scene of the crash.
Alcohol was not a factor for Fogel, 35, of Lake Panaso-ffkee. A blood test for Nesbitt is pending, according to the FHP.
Charges are pending.
Chronicle launches ‘Front Porch Project’
The Chronicle is looking for families to participate in The Front Porch Project, document-ing families as they stay at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Chronicle will provide a list of days and times a photographer will be in areas throughout Citrus County. Let us know if you’d like to participate by emailing Jeff Bryan, manag-ing editor, at jeff.bryan@ chronicleonline.com.
Food giveaway Friday at fairgrounds
Beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, April 24, school employees with a school board ID can re-ceive food at the Citrus County Fairgrounds — drive-thru only — followed by a general public giveaway beginning at 11 a.m.
School employees will use the county auditorium entrance and the general public will use the airport entrance. Follow the signs that will be posted.
This week’s food distribution is courtesy of: Citrus United Way, the New Church Without Walls, Community Food Bank of Citrus County, We Care, Farm-Share, Lowe’s in Inverness, Rep. Ralph Massullo, Dr. Mike Bennett, Dr. Jeff Kinnard and Chas. Davis Funeral Home.
Monetary donations are needed to continue feeding Cit-rus County residents. Please consider donating through Citrus United Way (www.citrusunited way.org), Community Food Bank of Citrus County (www.communityfoodbankof citruscounty.org) or the New Church Without Walls (www.newchurch withoutwalls.com).
— From staff reports
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approved, four county parks would reopen the next day.
The city of Inverness is prepared to open Whis-pering Pines Park on a limited basis, City Manager Eric Williams said.
The county parks are: Bicen-tennial Park in Crystal River; Flo-ral Park in Floral City; Homosassa Area Recreational Park in Homo-sassa; and the Central Ridge Dis-trict Park near Holder.
Also, the city of Crystal River plans to reopen kayak launches in Hunter Springs and Kings Bay parks Saturday, and open city parks Wednesday, Mayor Joe Meek said.
Park hours for the county and cities will be limited and the parks will be open for walking, jog-ging, running or bicycling.
“You can’t come to the park and have a barbecue,” Cole-man said.
Playgrounds, pools, splash pads, basketball and tennis courts within the parks will remain closed, as will Fort Island Gulf Beach and the lakefront beach at Her-nando Park.
Meek said he is unsure if swimming will be al-lowed at Hunter Springs when the park opens to limited use.
Coleman said Citrus Health Director Ernesto “Tito” Rubio, who partici-pated in the meeting, sup-ported the parks reopening plan.
Other participants of Wednesday’s meeting in-cluded representatives from the cities of Crystal River and Inverness, and Sheriff Mike Prendergast.
As the state and national discussion is focusing on reopening parts of a coun-try paralyzed by COVID-19, Citrus County and city officials say they want to take a methodical ap-proach to opening parks so that residents cooped up in self-isolation can get
outside for exercise.
As of Wednes-day, Citrus County has 92 COVID-19 cases, according to the Florida De-partment of Health. The re-ported numbers jumped by eight Tuesday, includ-ing four children ages 3-11.
County officials are also asking the Florida Depart-ment of Environmental Protection to reopen the Withlacoochee State Trail, popular with walkers, run-ners and cyclists.
Williams said the city will not reopen the new Depot District, which in-cludes Liberty and Wal-lace Brooks parks, until the state trail is open. Both parks sit alongside the
trail.He said Whis-
pering Pines Park will also have lim-ited access, re-stricting parking to the lot at the ballfields a short distance inside the entrance. From there, he said, visitors can walk trails or open
spaces; the ballfields themselves will remain closed.
Meek said the city ini-tially kept open kayak launches, but closed them to get a more orga-nized handle on how best to ensure kayakers were not gathering in parks be-fore or after being in the water.
He said when the kayak launches open Saturday at Kings Bay Park and Hunter Springs Park, the city will have park rangers on site to
ensure compliance.“You launch, go out,
come back and leave,” Meek said.
Rangers will also be on site when parks open next week, particularly at Hunter Springs, which is designed for visitors to lounge on chairs or blan-kets, and swim in the cool spring.
Meek said the group that met Wednesday will meet again Friday to dis-cuss details of how best to ensure social distancing in tight spaces.
One thing that officials want to avoid, Meek said, is providing the public too much access only to have to scale back should COVID-19 cases continue to climb, prompting a deci-sion on potentially closing parks again.
“We do not want to go backward,” he said. “We’re cautious as we move for-ward. We want to get them back open, but we want to do it in a responsible way.”
Contact Chronicle re-porter Mike Wright at 352-563-3228 or [email protected].
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Citrus County Restaurant Bingo
Support area restaurants with our new fun BINGO game. Introducing the #EatCitrusBingo card, cour-tesy of The Citrus County Chronicle.
Customers who get takeout orders from the participating restaurants and get a “bingo” earn themselves a chance to win a $25 gift card from a par-ticipating restaurant.
Restaurant BINGO runs through Saturday, May 9. Let the fun begin, take a break from cooking and earn some Bingo points!
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Burn ban lifted for Citrus County
The county has re-scinded the temporary burn ban that went into effect March 30.
Recent rains have reduced the chance for wildfires.
The fire danger in Citrus County as of Monday was deemed moderate, accord-ing to the Florida Fire Ser-vice (FFS).
“Recent rainfall has low-ered fire danger temporarily statewide,” FFS meteorolo-gist Bryan Williams said. “(The) state has generally caught up for monthly rainfall and is now mostly on par.”
The ban had included ev-erything from open burning and campfires to bonfires and fireworks.
Chronicle seeks photographs of
graduating home-schooled seniors
The Chronicle wants to in-clude graduating home-schooled seniors from Citrus County in the upcoming graduation tab for 2020. Also welcome are graduating se-niors from out-of-county schools who reside in Citrus County. Please email an at-tachment of the graduates’ photo and his/her name to [email protected] or mail the name and a photo to the Chronicle at 1624 N. Meadowcrest Blvd., Crystal River, FL 34429 no later than Tuesday, April 28. Information and photos can also be dropped off in the front entrance mail slot at the Meadowcrest office in Crys-tal River.
— From staff reports
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CorrectionDue to an editor’s error, a
story in Tuesday’s paper title, “Citrus facility on state list impacted by COVID-19,” contained a mistake. Crown Court owner Cary Jensen said, ““We were told, we’re the model example for how to prevent the spread of the virus,” Jensen said. “This is a positive.”
The Chronicle apologizes for the error.
Readers can alert the Citrus County Chronicle to any errors in news articles by emailing newsdesk@ chronicleonline.com or by calling 352-563-5660.
Around the COUNTY Inverness bracing for lost revenue
Fred HiersStaff writer
The economic toll of the coronavirus on Inverness’ 2020-2021 budget could be $1.5 million in lost tax and utility revenues, warned the city manager during the city council’s budget kick off Tuesday.
City Manager Eric Wil-liams told the city council that had there been no coronavirus, the city’s gen-eral fund would have been $10.45 million at the cur-rent millage rate. In addi-tion, the city’s utility revenues would have been an expected $3.96 million for 2020-2021.
But due to the coronavi-rus, Williams said non-ad valorem revenues, such as shared gasoline taxes with the state and permit reve-nues, would suffer and be about $5.52 million. That’s nearly $1 million less reve-nues due to the virus. Wil-liams predicts property taxes will not be affected by the virus. Utility reve-nues from water and wastewater treatment rev-enues and electricity taxes
is also expected to dip to about $3.37 million.
Utility revenues and non-ad valorem revenues are separate revenue streams and cannot be mingled
Williams told the board the prediction is based on warnings from financial an-alysts who esti-mate a loss of revenues to range from 8% to 20%.
The budget kick-off this week was meant only as an overview of the budget’s goals and where the city would likely put its financial emphasis. The city’s next budget meeting is May 14.
Losing at least $1.5 mil-lion will have a toll.
Williams said the city can do some things to ease the impact of the financial losses.
Capital improvements such as new street light-ing, sidewalks, park equip-ment and signage will have to wait and likely be pushed back a year or two, he said.
As for utility revenue, Williams predicts de-creases because even when businesses reopen, they are likely to use less water and other utilities. Worse, some businesses won’t open at all and that
will also be lost revenues for the city.
Williams is also hoping the ana-lysts are wrong about their 8% to 20% range in re-duced revenues. He thinks it will likely be closer to
5%.But council members
said while this was just the budget overview and spe-cifics are yet to be dis-cussed, they are bracing in order to do without.
“We’ve got to tighten our belts,” said council presi-dent Jacquie Hepfer after the budget meeting.
But the council won’t know what cuts or changes have to be made until fur-ther in the budget process and “we can get into the meat and potatoes of it,” she said.
Councilwoman Linda Bega said the budget will have to reflect the lost revenue.
“There will be cuts, but I don’t know yet (what changes the council will make),” she told the Chronicle.
One option for the council will be to dip into savings to make up some of the loss, she said.
Williams said in addition to post-poning capital im-p r o v e m e n t spending, the city can take other steps to save money.
Some of those steps in-clude eliminating city events, combining venues when possible, and ex-plore public/private part-nerships if it can shrink the city government’s spending.
That means such things as resurfacing the public pool at Whispering Pines Park Park rather than building a new pool, he said.
It also means introduc-ing new service lines that
could generate revenues for the city, such as refur-bishing a mountain bike trail at Whispering Pines Park.
Williams told the coun-cil he and his staff are also reviewing expanding the
city’s cemetery to make additional plots available and generate rev-enue. But the city also needs to de-velop a business model to ensure there is enough money to main-tain the burial
sites, he said.Councilman Cabot Mc-
Bride said the city will have to face challenges like none other in its history.
“We are dealing with tough times,” he said.
Due to the coronavirus, Williams cancelled the city’s annual March Big Bass Classic and the Taste of Inverness.
Contact Chronicle re-porter Fred Hiers at [email protected] or 352-397-5914.
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Community Food Bank of Citrus County responding to local needsSpecial to the Chronicle
First time users of food pantries and other com-munity resources continue to steadily increase as people are furloughed or laid off from their jobs.
The Community Food Bank of Citrus County (CFBCC) is ensuring the 50-plus local food agencies served are fully stocked thanks to both individual and corporate donations as well as its partnership with Feeding Tampa Bay/Feeding America.
The CFBCC is sourcing
food and picking it up daily. It is then sorted and packed for same or next day delivery to 53 agencies that serve those in need throughout Citrus County. Feeding Tampa Bay, a long-time partner of the CFBCC, is providing Cit-rus County with tens of thousands of pounds of food each week.
“The Community Food Bank of Citrus County is Feeding Tampa Bay’s larg-est partner in Citrus County and a fantastic one at that,” said Rhonda Gindlesperger, chief
operating officer for Feed-ing Tampa Bay. “Through our partnership we are able to get more food to Citrus County agencies and residents in need than either of us could do alone.
“The Community Food Bank of Citrus County has been working hard to route trucks to Tampa for additional product pick up and we are also working to send trucks up to them as well. Working together has never been more critical as we find solutions for the evolving and increasing needs of our communities
during this current crisis.”
“We are especially grateful to Feeding Tampa Bay as their support has played an integral role in helping us serve the needs of our community,” said Barbara Sprague, Execu-tive Director of the CFBCC.
CFBCC Board Chair Mike Orlito said “the need is only going to intensify. None of us really know what is coming down the pike. We’re preparing our-selves for sharp and long-term increases in people
needing help.”Those in need of food
assistance can visit www.feedcitrus.org and click “Find Help” to locate a nearby food agency.
The CFBCC is in need of ongoing financial support to continue meeting the growing needs of the com-munity. If you are able to donate, visit www.feed citrus.org and click “Do-nate” or mail a check to Community Food Bank of Citrus County, 5259 W. Car-dinal St., Building B, Ho-mosassa, FL 34446.
Road closure, lane changes coming
MicHael d. BatesStaff writer
West Green Acres Street will be closed at U.S. 19 through Friday, according to the Flor-ida Department of Transporta-tion (FDOT).
Traffic can use U.S. 19, South Suffolk Terrace, West Otter Street and South Memorial Drive to get around the closure.
The speed limit has been re-duced to 20 mph on U.S. 19 leading up to Homosassa Trail
while widening continues. For the next phase of construction, traffic is in a two-way traffic pattern on U.S. 19 from Jump Court to Homosassa Trail. All traffic is sharing the north-bound lanes — one lane in each direction.
Two lanes are open in each direction south of Homosassa Trail.
Contact Chronicle reporter Michael D. Bates at 352-563-3205 or mbates@chronicle online.com.
MATTHEW BECK/ChronicleThe southbound lanes on U.S. 19 in Homosassa, at right, are temporarily closed due to construction forcing southbound motorists into a detour onto the northbound lane of travel. The bottleneck has created a slow area for motorists along the busy section of highway.
MPO Citizen Advisory Committee to host virtual meetingSpecial to the Chronicle
The Hernando/Citrus Metropolitan Planning Or-ganization (MPO) Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) will conduct a virtual pub-lic meeting at 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, using Zoom webinar.
Due to these extraordi-nary times, the CAC com-mittee will not be meeting in person; rather, the meeting will be held via videoconference. Pursu-ant to Executive Order 20-69 issued on March 20 by Gov. Ron DeSantis, “Local government bodies may utilize communica-tions media technology, such as telephonic and
video conferencing, as provided in Section 120.54(5)(b)2, Florida Stat-utes.” Public input may be made in advance by email or during the meeting via video conference.
To participate in public comment, you can join Zoom webinar via any computer or smart device at: https://hernandoclerk.zoom.us/webinar/register/W N _ v e 8 N Z c g Q S -J6D-CPKBn1xhA. The we-binar will be recorded. Attendees will be required to register before they are connected to the meeting.
Items on the agenda in-clude but are not limited to:
•Adoption of the FY
2020/21-FY 2021/22 Uni-fied Planning Work Pro-gram (UPWP) and Associated Certifications and Assurances.
•Draft FY 2021-FY 2025 Transportation Improve-ment Plan (TIP), and begin 30 day public review pe-riod (April 29, 2020-May 29, 2020)
•Introduction of Draft List of Priority Projects (LOPP) for FY 2021/22
•Extension — Public Transportation Joint Par-ticipation Agreement GI178
Public engagement is very important to the Her-nando/Citrus MPO. In an effort to protect public health and to comply with
President Trump’s recom-mendations, and Gov. De-Santis’ Executive Order during this COVID-19 pan-demic, citizens are en-couraged to join the webinar, or submit their comments via email ([email protected]) to be entered into the record at the meeting. The deadline to submit comments via email for presentation to the CAC will be 5 p.m. April 28.
Additionally, in the event that the meeting is compromised or hacked into, the moderator will end the meeting with a no-tice to committee mem-bers that a follow-up meeting will be scheduled.
A new meeting will only be held if there are action items left on the agenda that need committee re-view/approval.
Any questions concern-ing this public meeting should be directed to Mr. Steve Diez, MPO Execu-tive Director, Hernando/Citrus MPO, 1661 Blaise Drive, Brooksville, FL, 34061, telephone 352-754-4082, extension 28013 or email mpo@hernando county.us. Approximately one week prior to the meeting, the meeting agenda may be viewed on-line at www.hernando citrusmpo.us.
Birthday — A steady balance will be required. Opportunities are building, and recognizing a good deal will be im-portant. Using your intuition and stay-ing on top of what’s doable and what isn’t will be crucial to your success.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Don’t get stressed over the inevitable. If you keep your thoughts to yourself, you’ll be able to work toward your goal with-out interference. Do your best. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Move forward regardless of what others do. Follow your heart, not someone else’s words. An important relationship should be a priority.Cancer (June 21-July 22) — An up-front attitude regarding what you are willing to give and what you expect in return is encouraged. It’s time to get things done. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Plan a trip that will benefit you personally, profes-sionally or educationally. Get back to doing the things you enjoy most.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — A per-sonal assessment will encourage you to let go of what’s no longer working and get on with your life. Don’t be afraid to invest time and money if the returns look promising. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Satisfy your curiosity, do things differently and make new acquaintances. The possi-bilities are endless. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Grudges and revenge are a waste of time. Free your mind and engage in activities that promote creativity instead of fear. Posi-tive thoughts change the way you live. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — An unexpected change at home will leave you wondering what to do next. Nur-ture meaningful relationships and dis-tance yourself from troublemakers. Put home and family, not work, first. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Let your wisdom and experience lead the way. Say no to an ultimatum or anyone trying to control your actions. Protect what you’ve worked to achieve. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Hone your skills and look for alternative ways to earn extra cash. You have a wealth of talent that you could be putting to good use. Don’t hold back when you have so much to gain.Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) — Take a new approach to an old idea. Don’t let fear set in when change is what you need. Aries (March 21-April 19) — A part-nership will face turmoil if you cannot agree. Consider the compromises as well as the gains before making a decision.
Today’s HOROSCOPES
Today is Thursday, April 23, the 114th day of 2020. There are 252 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight:On April 23, 1616 (Old Style cal-
endar), English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare died in Strat-ford-upon-Avon on what has tradi-tionally been regarded as the 52nd anniversary of his birth in 1564.
On this date:In 1954, Hank Aaron of the Mil-
waukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardi-nals. (The Braves won, 7-5.)
In 2005, the recently created video-sharing website YouTube up-loaded its first clip, “Me at the Zoo,” which showed YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.
Ten years ago: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the nation’s toughest illegal immigration law, saying “de-cades of inaction and misguided policy” had created a “dangerous and unacceptable situation”; oppo-nents said the law would encourage discrimination against Hispanics.
Five years ago: Blaming the “fog of war,” President Barack Obama revealed that U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan had inadvertently killed an American and an Italian, two hos-tages held by al-Qaida, as well as two other Americans who had lead-ership roles with the terror network.
One year ago: President Donald Trump met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, hours after bashing the company and accusing it of not treating him well because he’s a Republican.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Lee Majors is 81. Filmmaker-author Mi-chael Moore is 66. Actress Valerie Bertinelli is 60. Professional wres-tler/actor John Cena is 43. Model Gigi Hadid is 25.
Thought for Today: “For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/ When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/ Must give us pause.” — From “Hamlet.”
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Lawn watering is limited to twice-per-week unless your city or county has a different schedule or stricter hours.
Under the Southwest Florida Water Management District's year-round measures, even addresses may water on Thursday and/or Sunday before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m. and odd addresses may water on Wednesday and/or Saturday before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m. Hand watering or micro-irrigation of non-grass areas, such as vegetable gardens, flowers and shrubs, can take place any day at any time.
Questions, concerns or reporting violations, please call: City of Inverness at 352-726-2321; City of Crystal River at 352-795-4216, Ext. 313; unincorporated Citrus County at 352-527-7669.For more details, visit WaterMatters.org/Restrictions
Today: South winds 15 to 20 knots. Seas 2 to 4 feet. Bay and inland waters choppy. Tonight: South winds 15 to 20 knots increasing to around 20 knots after midnight. Seas 2 to 4 feet. Bay and inland waters choppy. 83°
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Today’s active pollen:Oak, bayberry, grasses
Today’s count: 6/12Friday’s count: 6.6
Saturday’s count: 7.5
EntErtainmEntA24 to auction
movie paraphernalia to benefit charitiesLOS ANGELES — How does
an indie film shop give back to its hometown in this crisis? If you’re A24, you start by mining your prop, wardrobe and set departments.
The studio behind films like “Midsommar” and “Uncut Gems” said Wednesday that it is auc-tioning off some of its most fa-mous movie paraphernalia, from the flowery May Queen dress that Florence Pugh wore in “Midsommar” to Kevin Gar-nett’s Boston Celtics jersey from “Uncut Gems.” All proceeds from A24 Auctions will go to one of four charities helping frontline workers and hard-hit communi-ties: The FDNY Foundation; The Food Bank For NYC; NYC Health + Hospitals; and the Queens Community House.
The first auction, which goes live at noon EST, includes items from films like “Eighth Grade,” and “Hereditary” (like that creepy handstitched doormat), as well as some things from the HBO show “Euphoria.”
People makes history with Hawn, Hudson on cover
LOS ANGELES — Three gen-erations will grace the cover of People magazine’s 30th anniver-sary “Beauty Issue.”
Goldie Hawn, her daughter Kate Hudson and granddaughter Rani Rose Fujikawa will appear on the cover of the issue, which will be released Friday. It’s the first time three generations will be the cover feature in the 30-year his-tory of the “Beauty Issue.”
The cover story touches on several topics, including Hawn
and Hudson’s style choices to parenting.
Hawn and Hudson talked about their family’s unbreakable bond, even during the lockdown prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Hawn, 74, said she has been getting through the crisis with her partner of 37 years, Kurt Russell, with “meditation, nurtur-ing, loving kindness for all in my heart and staying safe inside.”
Hudson, 41, has been home with musician Danny Fujikawa, Rani Rose and her sons Ryder and Bing, who are from previous relationships. She said watching her mother’s relationship with Russell, 69, inspires her.
‘Ratatouille’ director Brad Bird joins
TCM’s ‘Essentials’ LOS ANGELES — Turner
Classic Movies has enlisted “Ra-tatouille” and “The Iron Giant” di-rector Brad Bird to program the latest 20-episode season of “The
Essentials,” the channel said.Bird’s selections run the gamut
of classic film offerings. There are musicals like “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Guys and Dolls” and “The Music Man,” Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger master-pieces “The Red Shoes” and “A Matter of Life and Death,” some Stanley Kubrick fare, including “2001: A Space Odyssey,” epics, comedies, westerns and a few film noirs too.
Bird will help TCM host Ben Mankiewicz introduce each film as well as offer commentary and reflections every Saturday start-ing on May 2 at 8 p.m.
“His childlike enthusiasm for movies, animated and live ac-tion, is unparalleled and infec-tious,” Mankiewicz said. “He sees so many stories through the eyes of an animator, provid-ing a rare perspective on movies we think we know well, like “Casablanca,” “Dr. Strangelove” and “The Searchers.”
— From wire reports
A24 via Associated PressThis image released by A24 shows Florence Pugh in a scene from “Midsommar.” The studio behind films like “Midsommar” and “Uncut Gems” is auctioning off some of its most famous movie paraphernalia, from the flowery May Queen dress that Pugh wore in “Midsommar” to Kevin Garnett’s Boston Celtics jersey from “Uncut Gems,” to benefit charities helping frontline workers and hard-hit communities in New York City.
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So Briley started an on-line fundraiser that al-lows local businesses to design a T-shirt with the company’s logo and any other verbiage and allow Shipyard Dog to print and sell it. He fulfills the or-ders and sends them out to buyers.
The participating busi-ness is out nothing except for their time figuring out what they want their shirt to say, he said.
Shirts cost between $25 to $27, which includes free shipping to anywhere in the lower 48 states. Each business gets $10 from each shirt sold. A minimum order of 20 shirts is required.
Shipyard Dog handles every aspect of the trans-action and the business receives a check when their shirts are mailed.
Shirt buyers can wear the shirts in the commu-nity as a show of support and join what he’s calling the “Pandemic Support Team.”
“We wanted this to be about solidarity in the Cit-rus County business com-munity,” Briley said.
So far, he’s got about 20 local businesses on board and he’s approach-ing 200 shirts sold.
Briley’s own business suffered when restaurants and other venues closed, so this is also a shot in the arm for him and his wife Elaine, who opened the local business last December.
He partnered with the Citrus County Chamber of Commerce to help pro-mote the fundraiser.
Jamie Reeves, owner of Anchored Souls in down-town Crystal River, said she participated because it’s such a good cause. It not only helps keep awareness for her busi-ness alive, but shows sup-port and helps Shipyard Dog at the same time.
“This is a great idea,” she said. “I just thought it was a win-win.”
Reeves’ business is closed now, but she is con-fident she will survive this crisis and reopen as soon as the all-clear is given.
Briley said there has been a brisk response to Reeves’ shirt orders and hopes other businesses will participate.
For more details, visit www.shipyarddog.com.
Contact Chronicle re-porter Michael D. Bates at 352-563-3205 or [email protected].
County Strong.” On the back are logos of all three county high schools.
Wilson said he cleared this idea with the school district and all three high school principals and they enthusiastically sup-ported it.
“I’m also a parent to a graduating senior, (Blake Wilson),” he said. “He’s graduating Crystal River High School exactly 30 years after I did. I hate that he’s missing out on all the great experiences you get to have as a senior. I feel for him and all of these other kids.”
The shirts are $15 each and $10 of each sale goes to the representing school’s senior class to help pay for a senior trip, party or other activity once this virus cri-sis passes.
“This is a difficult time for our students, espe-cially our seniors who
have missed out on nearly every major event in 2020, with no word on gradua-tion yet,” said wife Kelly Wilson.
The Wilsons have also started a friendly compe-tition: the school that has the most shirts purchased will get a plaque for its
trophy case. Wilson said this fundraiser continues through May 1.
For information, visit w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m /CitrusSportsApparel.
Contact Chronicle re-porter Michael D. Bates at 352-563-3205 or [email protected].
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H E R N A N D O
William Emmet Blalock, 50, of Hernando, FL passed away April 17, 2020. He was born on De-cember 23, 1969 in Hilden-
h a l l , England to Thomas a n d W e n d y Blalock. Bill was a veteran of the US Army. He l o v e d
spending time outdoors boating and fishing or just floating down the river. He was a good friend to all who knew him.
Bill was preceded in death by his father and is survived by his mother Wendy E. Raulerson; sis-ters Deborah Horan and Samantha Coon; and his longtime girlfriend Dawn Teal. He will be missed by loving in-laws, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and a host of long-time friends.
He will be buried at the Florida National Ceme-tery in Bushnell, FL under the direction of Brown Fu-neral Home & Crematory in Lecanto, FL.
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MATTHEW BECK/ChronicleABOVE: Shipyard Dog owner Jim Briley and his wife, Elaine, own Shipyard Dog in Crystal River. The business specializes in screen printing, embroidery and laser engraving.
RIGHT: Once the shirt has been printed, each one is placed in a machine that subjects the shirt to high
heat, curing the ink permanently. Elaine Briley
places one of the shirts made for the Mertailor
into the machine.
BELOW: This automatic screen printer can print up to e i g ht s h i r t s simultaneously.
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
n Editor’s note: The Chronicle is asking local businesses to share their stories and photos of how they are adapting during the pandemic. Email your stories, photos and your phone number to Jeff Bryan, managing editor, at [email protected].
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Prolific actress Shirley Knight dead at 83
LOS ANGELES — Shirley Knight, the Kansas-born actress who was nom-inated for two Oscars early in her career and went on to play an astonishing
variety of roles in movies, TV and the stage, has died. She was 83. Knight passed away Wednesday in San Mar-cos, Texas, according to her daughter.
Knight’s career carried her from Kan-sas to Hollywood and then to the New York theater and London and back to
Hollywood. She was nominated for two Tonys, winning one. In recent years, she had a recurring role as Phyllis Van de Kamp (the mother-in-law of Marcia Cross’ character) in the long-running ABC show “Desperate Housewives.”
Knight earned her first Academy
Award nomination for best supporting actress for just her second screen role, as an Oklahoman in love with a Jewish man in the 1960 film version of William Inges’ play “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.”
— From wire reports
Chris Bernhardt Jr.
Staff writer
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RAINBOW RIVERS/LAKE ROUSSEAU — Captain Bob Jewett out of Angler’s Resort in Dun-nellon reports a lot of bluegill was caught up both rivers, using little jigs, wiggler worms and crickets. Bass are biting on wild and domestic shiners or plastic worms where the two rivers meet and up the Withlacoochee, or on Lake Rousseau with wild shiners. Big, fat cat-fish weighing as much as 25 pounds are being reeled in up the Withla-coochee and where the two rivers meet.
LAKE ROUSSEAU — Bill Burgess of Lake Rous-seau RV and Fishing said he and a few others caught bluegill, in good size and quantity, in 5-8 feet of water using wigglers and crickets. Shellcrackers in decent size were brought in, as well. Crappie are scattered and hard to find, but some have been caught trolling jigs tipped with minnows. Bass are in late spawn or post-spawn, try throwing out a Rapala in the topwater, let it set and then jerk it. Also try Devil’s Horses, poppers, or Texas-rigged Culprit worms in fire and ice.
SALTWATERWITHLACOOCHEE —
Captain Zack Lewis of Reputation Charters (352-302-7928), via Hook, Line and Sinker Bait and Tackle, said, “The inshore bite is strong, but the wind has made it a little tough
to get out several days. Don’t forget the last day to keep snook is April 30 till September.
“This coming month is a great month to catch cobia. They are a lot of fun to catch and even better to eat. You can find them around rocks, wrecks, pil-ings and free-swimming. Cobia will pretty much eat just about anything. I pre-fer a live pinfish, grass grunt or thread-fins. If I could find some live eels, that would be even better. If you can get live eels the artificial ones can work just as good. Flare hawk jigs are great, as well.
“I have caught a bunch of cobia while fishing for snook, redfish and trout. I like to use a 4-foot, 30-50-pound fluorocarbon leader. Sometimes they get finicky just like a lot of fish and might need to down-grade leader size. As well I like to use a 3/0-6/0 Owner circle hook. If you find
them on a marker just throw your bait past them or up current and let it drift back to them.
“Now if you are fishing on a rock pile or wreck and can’t see them throw a chum bag out and put a couple of baits on the bot-tom and free-line a bait, and have one ready to go if you see one come up. Al-ways, always, always make sure you let them get all their fight out of them-selves, as it is not a good idea to pull a green cobia in the boat. I have seen them come off the gaff and do a lot of damage.
“Hope this helps. Tight lines and calm seas.”
CRYSTAL RIVER/BARGE CANAL — Ed’s Tackle Shop reports trout are biting in 7-15 feet of water, use D.O.A. jerk shad or live shrimp. There have been a few Spanish mack-erel in 4-5 feet of water and a few snook around the mangrove islands and
spoil banks.KING’S BAY — Captain
Louie Argiro of Florida Fishing Adventures (352-601-1963, www.florida fishingadventures.com), based out of Pete’s Pier in Crystal River, said, “Red-fishing has been on fire on the outside islands of St. Martins and there have been some cobia starting to show up offshore.”
AROUND CITRUSCaptain William Toney
(352-422-4141) said, “Grow-ing up in a commercial fishing community some-time it’s easy to forget how hard men and women work to make a living from the Gulf waters. I’ve found that you will never get rich, the rewards are far between hardships, but this life is very fulfilling for those who will have it no other way.
“One of our local blue crabbers had a tough day this week and was caught in
the river during a tornado and had his boat picked up and flipped over. A local homeowner ran their boat out and picked him up and got him to the dock. A local shrimper helped him right the vessel and get it on the trailer. The crabber drained the outboard, got it running, replaced his safety gear and readied the vessel for work in the morning. Three boxes of blue crab were lost back to the river but with his
can-do spirit, it’s back to work.
“When you’re fishing for trout on the big tides the best spots are coastal bays and passes. If it is low water and calm conditions the near-shore waters out at 10 feet is a good choice. Redfish are eating live pinfish on high water and snook around the same western points. High in-coming tide will be in the afternoon this weekend.”
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Citrus County FISHING REPORTS
Last chance to bag your bird Sadly, all things must come to an end,
or so I’ve so often heard stated. But, this Sunday at sunset, ends this
year’s Spring Gobbler Season; and what a season it has been! My clients and I have enjoyed some remarkable success and witnessed some amazing sunrises and lots of beautiful wildlife. Wild turkeys have been abundant in each part of the state
I’ve traveled to, but none more so than right here in my home county.
Don’t worry though, even though the season is nearly over, there are still opportuni-ties through the coming weekend to invite mister gob-bler home. Now, if you haven’t en-joyed success yet this season and
have a yearning to take advantage of this final weekend, there are some things I’d like for you to bear in mind. Mostly, that the breeding activity is winding down and the excited calling we used during open-ing weekend will more than likely run your bird off rather than invite him home.
Tone it down. Soft breeding yelps will get your message across just fine, but don’t overdo it. The toms are still seeking company from the hens, but social calling, clucks and feeding purrs will be in your favor. Use multiple callers and scratch the leaf litter about your position to help sell the idea that there is a small gathering of hens feeding near you. You may want to include assembly yelps with a raspy call to imitate an old boss hen gathering the flock to feed; the toms will slowly drift in to check on the girls just in case one or two may still be feeling a bit frisky.
Don’t discount the use of gobbler yelp; deeper, slower and more drawn out than a hen’s. That can often spark his desire to reacquaint with the other bachelors in the area, bringing him to your set up and
hopefully onto your table. Know that the big toms have lost a lot of weight during the breeding period and will likely be fo-cusing on their bellies. Find the food sources where tom tracks are prevalent and begin your calling there. I’ve always been told, “it’s easier to call him in when he wants to be there anyway.”
Recently, my 5-year-old niece Payton scored her first gobbler taking advantage of a food source. Soft yelps and clucks melted away a big boss tom’s caution and he en-tered a rye field in the south end of our county to join the feeding flock he thought he’d been hearing. Her daddy was along for the hunt and was a great help in steadying up the tiny turkey hunter as she sent that big boss a dinner invitation he couldn’t re-fuse. Old Uncle Toby is mighty proud!
For any of you getting outdoors, I wish you the best of luck! And, if any of you would like to share a picture or a story of your success, feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]. God bless and good hunting!
Special to the ChronicleLittle Payton Geer proudly displaying her first wild turkey, a true trophy gobbler.
Toby BenoitREBEL YELL OUTDOORS
CCBA Family Fishing Tournament gets rescheduledSpecial to the Chronicle
The 25th annual CCBA Family Fishing Tourna-ment, presented by Apopka Marine, is alive and well and rescheduled for June 20-21. With its origi-nal April date being va-cated due to the governor’s order for shutdown, re-scheduling also means a new venue for this year’s tournament, which will now be based at MacRae’s of Homosassa.
Planning is back at full throttle for the tourna-ment and the early bird entry deadline has now been extended to May 15, with major sponsorship
deadlines also extended into May. Thanks in part to Purple Heart Sponsor Na-ture Coast Financial Ser-vices, this tournament has risen over $28,000 for the Aaron A. Weaver Chapter 776 Military Order of the Purple Heart to date.
CCBA’s tournament of-fers $15,000 in cash and prizes based on 150 paid boat entries, with a cap of 200 boats.
The 2020 Family Fishing Tournament will sail with a full boat of events, in-cluding the captain’s meet-ing on Friday, June 19, return of the favorite CCBA Youth Tournament (formerly known as the
Aaron Monier Memorial Youth Tournament) on Saturday, June 20, live en-tertainment on Saturday night featuring the Strutt Dance Band, courtesy of entertainment sponsor Crevalle Boats, and the popular firearm raffle to be drawn after the final City Electric Supply weigh-in on Sunday, June 21.
Register today for one of the biggest amateur tourna-ments on this coast of Flor-ida. For more information, sponsorships opportunities and angler registration, contact us at 352-746-9028 or visit www.CitrusBuilding Alliance.com.
Logistics share spotlightBarry Wilner
AP pro football writer
From his home in the New York City suburbs, Roger Goodell will han-dle perhaps his most visi-ble annual chore — announcing draft picks.
Visible, but this time virtual.
Not since the NFL draft became a televised event in 1980 has it been stripped to the basics like this year’s proceedings will be.
Beginning Thursday night, as a safeguard against the coronavirus pandemic, adhering to medical and governmen-tal advice and restric-tions, selectors will work from their homes. Pros-pects will be at their homes, too.
Goodell, who ordered all team facilities closed on March 26 and has ex-tended that ban indefi-nitely, won’t be sharing hugs with Joe Burrow or Chase Young or any of the other 32 first-rounders. He will offer congratula-tions remotely, but other-wise this will be the barest of drafts.
And certainly not the easiest.
“Everyone is really par-ticular about how they go through the drafts, right?” Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff said. “They want to have the draft rooms. They want to have all the technology. It takes a lot of people tak-ing a lot of deep breaths on it, as you can imagine.
“Again, I really believe most teams are quite set
and I would say from our standpoint, though tech-nology is going to have to switch and we’re going to be asked to work out of our own homes, I feel like we have such a really sound personnel depart-ment. ... We feel honestly if this was moved up 10 days ahead and we had to draft out of the back of a shed we’d be prepared to capitalize on it and do an adept job with it.”
Whoa! There were some teams that wanted the draft pushed back a few weeks. The main issue naturally, has been the collection of information.
With no in-person inter-views outside of the brief ones at the scouting com-bine, few pro days and, perhaps most essentially, no in-depth physical exams conducted by team doctors, the deep data dives have turned into snorkeling exercises.
That didn’t hurt the likes of LSU quarterback Burrow, who barring a stunning move by the Ben-gals, will be the first name Goodell calls out Thurs-day. Same for Young, Ohio State’s dominant defender and probably the best player in this crop.
But guys carrying ques-tion marks? Guys who had medical issues and didn’t get the usual re-check fol-lowing the scouting com-bine? Or players who didn’t get invited to the combine? Or collegians with off-field issues?
“That’s what you miss out on,” Giants GM Dave Gettleman said of the lack of in-person encounters. “By not having pro days, you also miss that per-sonal contact. Watching guys among their peers and how they operate, how they’re received. That tells a lot when you just watch a kid in those circumstances.”
Red Sox stripped of pick, Cora bannedronald Blum and
Jimmy Golen AP sports writers
NEW YORK — The Boston Red Sox escaped major penalties in Major League Baseball’s cheat-ing investigation on Wednesday, with Commis-sioner Rob Manfred con-cluding that the 2018 World Series cham-pions’ sign-stealing efforts were less egregious than the Astros’ when they won it all the previous season.
Ex-manager Alex Cora was formally suspended for the coronavirus- delayed 2020 season — but only for his role as a
Houston bench coach; Manfred had held off a penalty for Cora despite fingering him as the ring-leader of the Astros’ sign-stealing operation. Cora did not immediately respond to a text message seeking comment.
The Red Sox upgraded the status of Ron Roe-nicke, who had been the interim manager pending the outcome of the investigation.
“That interim tag is re-moved,” Chief Baseball Of-ficer Chaim Bloom said. “Ron is now our manager.”
The only member of the Red Sox organization who was penalized was replay system operator J.T.
Watkins, who was sus-pended without pay for a year for violating the pro-hibition on in-game use of video to identify pitch sig-nals. Watkins, who denied the allegations, was also prohibited from serving as the replay room opera-tor through 2021.
Boston was also stripped of its second- round pick in this year’s amateur draft, No 52 overall.
“To be clear we’re not taking any victory laps. A violation was uncovered and that was wrong and we’re being punished for it,” Red Sox president Sam Kennedy said in a confer-ence call with reporters.
Associated PressLSU quarterback Joe Burrow (9) scrambles during the first half of a Nov. 30, 2019 game against Texas A&M in Baton Rouge, La.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Stock rose on Wednesday, and the S&P 500 recovered a chunk of this week’s sharp losses as a bit of ox-ygen pumped through markets around the world.
Even oil gained ground, pulling further away from zero after earlier getting turned upside down amid a collapse in demand. Stocks rose from Seoul to Spain, and winners out-numbered losers in New York by more than two to one. Treasury yields also pushed higher in a sign of a bit less pessimism among investors.
”This has been a tre-mendously good reminder that the stock market is a forward predictor,” said Andrew Slimmon, senior portfolio manager at Mor-gan Stanley Investment Management.
Investors are still brac-ing for a severe, painfully deep recession after busi-nesses shut down world-wide in hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavi-rus. But they had already sent U.S. stocks down by
roughly a third a month ago on that expectation. Now, even as depressing economic and health re-ports pile up, some inves-tors are looking ahead to the prospect of parts of the economy reopening as in-fections level off in some areas.
The S&P 500 rose 62.75 points, or 2.3%, to 2,799.31 and trimmed its loss for the week to 2.6%.
The Dow Jones Indus-trial Average climbed 456.94, or 2%, to 23,475.82, and the Nasdaq composite picked up 232.15, or 2.8%, to 8,495.38.
Energy stocks jumped to some of the market’s big-gest gains, riding the rip-ple of strengthening oil prices. Halliburton, Apache and Diamondback Energy all added at least 9%. All three, though, are still down more than 60% for the year so far.
The price of a barrel of U.S. oil to be delivered in June jumped 19% to settle at $13.78. It had zig-zagged in the morning before turning higher after Presi-dent Donald Trump threatened the destruc-tion of any Iranian
gunboats that harass U.S. Navy ships, raising the possibility of a disruption to oil supplies.
The big gain, though, means it’s recovered just a fraction of its steep losses. It was close to $30 at the start of last week and nearly $60 at the begin-ning of the year. A collapse in demand for energy com-bined with continued pro-duction in countries around the world means too much oil is sloshing around, depressing its price.
Brent crude, the inter-national standard, climbed 5.4% to $20.37 per barrel.
Other companies that have been hurt by the co-roanvirus pandemic also rose after offering some slight hints of hope.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, for example, said that a key sales figure plunged 16% in March on wide-spread stay-at-home or-ders. But it hit a bottom during the week of March 29, down 35%, and has since improved a bit. Declines the past week were “in the high teens.” Its shares rose 12.1%.
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Ametek Inc AME 54.82 5 102.31 75.89 +1.98 +2.7 t s s -23.9 -9.4 32 0.72f
Anheuser-Busch InBev BUD 32.58 2 102.70 41.61 -1.53 -3.5 t t t -49.3 -48.2 10 3.19e
Bank of America BAC 17.95 3 35.72 21.80 +.16 +0.7 t s s -38.1 -22.8 8 0.72
Capital City Bank CCBG 15.61 2 30.95 17.59 -.20 -1.1 t t t -42.3 -21.0 1 0.56f
CenturyLink Inc CTL 8.16 3 15.30 9.70 -.01 -0.1 t s s -26.6 -8.2 4 1.00
Citigroup C 32.00 3 83.11 42.24 +.67 +1.6 t s s -47.1 -34.0 6 2.04
Disney DIS 79.07 3 153.41 100.99 +.45 +0.4 t s s -30.2 -21.5 14 1.76
Duke Energy DUK 62.13 7 103.79 87.15 +1.71 +2.0 t s s -4.5 +1.4 22 3.78
EPR Properties EPR 12.56 2 80.75 23.01 -.34 -1.5 t t t -67.4 -63.2 7 4.32
Equity Commonwealth EQC 27.62 0 34.50 34.12 +1.11 +3.4 s s s +3.9 +15.9 34 2.50e
Exxon Mobil Corp XOM 30.11 3 80.53 42.13 +1.17 +2.9 t s s -39.6 -45.0 10 3.48
Ford Motor F 3.96 2 10.56 4.77 ... ... t t t -48.7 -41.6 4 ...
Gen Electric GE 5.90 1 13.26 6.43 -.05 -0.8 t t t -42.4 -30.0 dd 0.04
HCA Holdings Inc HCA 58.38 5 151.97 104.52 -.95 -0.9 t s s -29.3 -2.8 16 1.72f
Home Depot HD 140.63 6 247.12 204.17 +3.56 +1.8 t s s -6.5 +2.9 21 6.00f
Intel Corp INTC 42.86 7 69.29 60.10 +3.74 +6.6 t s s +0.4 +3.4 21 1.32
IBM IBM 90.56 5 158.75 119.31 +2.55 +2.2 t s s -11.0 -9.6 12 6.48
LKQ Corporation LKQ 13.31 3 36.63 20.15 +.22 +1.1 t s t -43.6 -33.9 12 ...
Lowes Cos LOW 60.00 6 126.73 94.95 +2.33 +2.5 t s s -20.7 -14.5 21 2.20
McDonalds Corp MCD 124.23 7 221.93 186.48 +8.90 +5.0 s s s -5.6 -4.3 28 5.00
Microsoft Corp MSFT 119.01 8 190.70 173.52 +5.70 +3.4 t s s +10.0 +43.5 34 2.04
Motorola Solutions MSI 120.77 5 187.49 151.59 +6.91 +4.8 t s s -5.9 +10.1 28 2.56
NextEra Energy NEE 174.80 7 283.35 247.17 +11.75 +5.0 s s s +2.1 +28.2 18 5.60f
Penney JC Co Inc JCP 0.20 1 1.37 .25 -.01 -3.8 t t t -77.7 -80.3 dd ...
Piedmont Office RT PDM 13.59 3 24.78 15.96 +.03 +0.2 t t t -28.2 -14.1 7 0.84
Regions Fncl RF 6.94 3 17.54 9.09 +.21 +2.4 t s s -47.0 -34.4 7 0.62
Smucker, JM SJM 91.88 8 128.43 118.56 +1.20 +1.0 t s s +13.9 +3.7 15 3.52
Texas Instru TXN 93.09 5 135.70 111.98 +5.14 +4.8 t s s -12.7 -0.6 20 3.60
UniFirst Corp UNF 121.89 4 217.90 158.72 +2.24 +1.4 t s s -21.4 +2.9 18 1.00
Verizon Comm VZ 48.84 7 62.22 57.99 +1.17 +2.1 t s s -5.6 +4.4 15 2.46
Vodafone Group VOD 11.46 2 21.72 13.26 +.20 +1.5 t t t -31.4 -20.9 0.96e
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Walgreen Boots Alli WBA 39.41 2 64.50 43.31 +.76 +1.8 t s t -26.5 -18.3 8 1.83
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The medical laboratory operator’s first-quarter profit and revenue beat Wall Street forecasts.
The Mexican food chain reported a surge in online orders and beat Wall Street’s first-quarter profit forecasts.
The airline priced a public offering of more than 39 million shares at a discount to its previous closing price.
The online travel company is in talks to sell $1 billion worth of stakes to private equity firms, ac-cording to media reports.
The social media and camera app company reported a surge in reve-nue that beat analysts’ forecasts.
The streaming entertainment ser-vice warned investors that its sub-scriber growth could slow after lock-downs are lifted.
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Stocks rose on Wednesday, recovering a chunk of this week’s sharp losses. Even oil gained ground, after earlier getting turned upside down amid a collapse in demand. Winners outnumbered losers in New York by more than two to one.
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Gov’t can’t relinquish responsibility
In regard to Commissioner Jimmie T. Smith’s April 21 column calling the creation of a county wide task force to deal with the reopening of local businesses.
The first part of your col-umn is a historical descrip-tion of events. You contrast countries that “locked their people indoors” with Sweden, which has been less strict and kept their business open with the intents of getting the pan-demic over quickly. This herd immunity strategy is a gamble with the lives of many people. The U.S. death rate of COVID-19 is about 3%. The United States population is over 300 million, so if we do nothing, about 1 million could die. The 1918 pandemic took three years and killed 700,000 Americans out of a popula-tion of 100 million. As we now have a population of 300 mil-lion, at the 1918 rate, we could lose 2 million people. So, is keeping businesses open worth the lives of a mil-lion or more Americas?
The second part of your ed-itorial calls for the creation of a task force. You said the Board of County Commission-ers (BOCC) should create a task force and then “turn over the leadership to business leaders. ...” While I have no problem with a task force, I do not think a governmental entity can relinquish respon-sibility or authority. Part of your motivation is because of inconsistent governmental management. Here I agree
with you. Our national leader-ship has surrendered its re-sponsibility and leadership and this has left the states to their own interpretations. Now, you want the BOCC to abdicate its authority and re-sponsibility to a task force.
The United States now has over 800,000 COVID-19 cases, which is four times the next-highest nation. We have 43,000 deaths, which is twice the next-highest country. However, our deaths per mil-lion are relatively low. We also have the highest rate of growth of infections. This would lead one to think that we have been doing some things right and wrong. I
would hope that this would be a good place for Commis-sioner Smith’s task force to start.
Regarding Sweden: Lately there have been efforts to portray Sweden as a counter example to extreme lockdown strategies. Some graphs show-ing a decline of Swedish deaths from COVID-19 are in circulation. I cannot find a credible source behind those graphs. Sweden’s COVID-19 fatalities per million are higher than the USA.
Chris ConklinInverness
Not every student has internet accessI have a friend who is a sin-
gle mother with a second grader but no internet. She worked a low-paying job and is now laid off. The cable company contacted her, through the school, and said they would give her six months free internet service, but she would have to sign a contract for two years. She cannot afford that. There is no place for her daughter to go for internet access; every place that had it free is now closed. So her daughter has gone with no school for over a month and now will be at a loss until the end of May. How many more students’ parents don’t have internet and can’t afford it? How have the schools addressed this problem?
Roxann McCormickBeverly Hills
I don’t know about you, but I am tired of hearing about the new normal, and I am
ready to get back to the same old boring routine. COVID-19 has had a more dramatic and widespread effect on us than we could have ever imagined. Stores are closing — hopefully temporar-ily — and millions of Americans are with-out work. We are liv-ing in a world of fear and uncertainty. But through all of this, there are multiple rays of hope and goodness all around us. Families are able to spend more time together, albeit virtually in some cases; we dyed our Easter eggs over a Zoom call. Many local businesses are finding ways to keep their doors open by reinventing themselves and providing services in a slightly different manner. Some people are finding new ways to work and make ends meet. Who would have ever thought Insta-cart or Doordash would be-come a booming industry in Citrus County?
I am a firm believer that the government is for the people. Local government needs to play a role in fostering the recovery
from this pandemic. As the country is navigating the na-tional response to COVID-19, the city of Crystal River is mak-ing noteworthy changes. I wholeheartedly believe we will
rebound from this crisis with a strong recovery, and the changes we are mak-ing within city hall will help facilitate that rebound. Start-ing April 24, the city’s building department will no longer be handled through a contract with a firm in Orlando. Our new full-time building of-ficial will take the reins and will vastly
improve our ability to provide positive customer service by being very accessible to the public, like never before.
A benefit of living in a munic-ipality is an enhanced standard for the way our community looks. The city’s code of ordi-nances that make us unique are enforced through a code en-forcement officer. The city is transitioning from an in-house code enforcement officer to a contractual arrangement with a firm specializing in code en-forcement. It is the city’s intent for the compliance of violations to be achieved in a positive,
customer-friendly manner. Having a third-party contractor provides unbiased enforce-ment that is based solely on compliance with the standards that our community values.
Planning efforts continue for future projects that will en-hance our quality of life, in-cluding the long-anticipated Riverwalk and a community splash pad. Construction most likely won’t start until after the recovery, but we want to be shovel-ready when it happens. The Town Square construction project is on schedule and an-ticipated to be ready for our downtown patrons to enjoy when this crisis is over. The project has also served to keep numerous local carpenters, ma-sons, plumbers and electrical contractors employed during these troubled times.
An old African proverb reads, “For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” One day soon, this crisis will come to an end, and we will return to normal. Only then will we be able to look back and re-flect on the decision we made and realize the positive im-pacts they had.
Ken Frink is the city manager of Crystal River.
“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
Crystal River making positive changes
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Medical community struggling
to stay afloatAmericans have come
to expect the most re-sponsive and highest
quality health care in the world. That expectation, however, could be in jeop-ardy because of the coronavirus’ deleterious im-pact on the fiscal health of our na-tion’s medical community.
One would think that the medical commu-nity would pros-per financially during a pan-demic. To the contrary, the coronavirus is sapping the fiscal health of our nation’s medical community with a double dose of bad financial circumstances — the medi-cal costs of combating the virus and the financial im-pact of leveling the curve.
To combat the virus, hospi-tals have taken extraordi-nary measures. Entire hospital wings have been transformed to care for in-fected patients. Vital reve-nue-producing elective surgeries and non-essential hospital services have been paused indefinitely. And available personal protec-tion equipment has been purchased at inflated prices in a high demand market.
Stay-at-home and social distancing restrictions have caused outpatient volume to plummet, necessitating the closure of hospital outpa-tient facilities, clinics, and departments. Compounding the revenue loss of outpa-tient services is a significant drop in emergency room vis-its that are a primary source of in-patient accessions.
The deleterious impact of the sharp reduction in pa-tient volume plaguing the nation’s hospitals has bled over to independent physi-cians of all specialties, re-sulting in most struggling to stay afloat in the coronavi-rus’ turbulent financial waters.
Losing untold millions of dollars daily, the financial pain of hospitals and
independent physicians has trickled down to health care workers. To manage the pain of employees as best as pos-sible, most hospitals and in-dependent physicians are
using furloughs, compensat ion cuts, reduced hours or rede-ployment oppor-tunities, with layoffs a last resort.
With hospitals and independent physicians finan-cially treading water, the Ameri-can Hospital As-
sociation successfully led the call for a lifeline in the recent Coronavirus Aid, Re-lief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Though it pro-vided hospitals $100 billion to recoup COVID-19 related losses and $349 billion in Small Business Administra-tion (SBA) Paycheck Protec-tion Program loans that eligible independent physi-cians can tap into, it has fallen short for two primary reasons.
While the CARES Act tem-porarily raises the reim-bursement rate by 20% for COVID-19 patients,hospitals still stand to conservatively lose $1,200 per COVID-19 pa-tient. As for the $349 billion in SBA loans, it has already been exhausted, leaving many independent physi-cians financially marooned.
As financial losses mount, most hospitals and indepen-dent physicians lack suffi-cient cash flow to stay afloat for several more months. As such, another round of fund-ing for hospitals and SBA loans for independent physi-cians in the second CARES iteration is an urgent imperative.
The medical community’s heroic frontline efforts and unprecedented sacrifices will win the battle against COVID-19. However, victory must not be allowed to come at the cost of severe damage to the fiscal soundness or our nation’s medical community.
THE ISSUE:COVID-19
financial impact on medical community.
OUR OPINION:Urgent care
needed to restore fiscal health.
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County slobs at faultI’d like to thank all the people,
the slobs in Citrus County around Floral City, for putting stuff in the dumpsters that they wasn’t supposed to be. Now we have no dump-sters. I don’t blame the county a bit. They had to clean everybody’s mess up every week. There was two or three guys picking up TVs and couches and rubber tires and so on. I even seen a couple
the other day throw bags of gar-bage in there with food still on the plates. It’s not right. All you peo-
ple that live like that, I don’t know how you can stand yourselves. I can imagine what your home looks like. This is a reply for all the honest people that went by the law and threw in only what they were supposed to put in. For God’s sake, it don’t take much of a brain to do the right thing. Evi-dently, some of you
don’t have a brain.
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Hot Corner: COVID-19 QUESTIONS
n Visiting relatives at Easter. I know the gover-nor has put in a stay-at-home program during this COVID-19 crisis. I would like to go down and visit my daughter in Tampa for Easter, her and her fiancé, and it’s going from my house here in Citrus to her house in Tampa. We’re not going to be stopping off. Is there a problem with this? There’s conflicting statements on the governor’s edict. We cannot go visiting, yet we are allowed to go to religious services. Most of the religious services have been canceled. But why would it be allowed that we can go to religious services if our church is offering them and not to visit a rel-ative one on one? There’s only four of us in-volved. So, hopefully, the Chronicle will post an advisory on this, if it is safe to do. Presently, my wife and I are home confined here. We are follow-ing all the other directives. OK, thank you and be safe.
n I have been trying to find out who is respon-sible for the tickertape that runs across the bot-tom of our TV sets regarding the coronavirus updates. Why isn’t Citrus County mentioned since they mention all the counties around us and the results of testing and how many have been infected? I would like to see Citrus County also represented.
n Why are the boat ramps open in our county when other counties are showing common sense and shutting them down? Instead we’re bringing folks in from these counties that obviously don’t believe in social distancing. And now we have to go to the grocery stores and pharmacies here and we really don’t appreciate having to share space with these guys. How many people in this county will have to die just because of a few tourist dollars? Our county commissioners are not protecting us.
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Citrus County Planning and Development Commission (PDC) hearings May 7 and May 21 have been moved to the County Courthouse Com-mission Chambers at 110 N. Apopka Ave., Inverness.
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To help staff the corona-virus help line, LifeStream is utilizing some of its counselors from its mobile response team and will continue the hot line until the pandemic is over or until there’s not enough of a need for it, said Sherry Olszanski, vice president of development and marketing.
LifeStream began the help line earlier this month. At the start, the service typically received less than half a dozen tele-phone calls a day asking for help. Counselors often now see twice that number daily.
“It’s mostly calls about anxiety and stress
(regarding coronavirus),” she told the Chronicle. “And fear of the unknown; fear of going out (and being infected).”
Sometimes people call because their friends or neighbors are having men-tal health problems associ-ated with stresses due to how the virus is effecting their lives, she said.
People often call be-cause they’re depressed because maybe they’ve lost their job and need help. They call asking about food banks or get-ting tested for the virus, Olszanski said.
Along with offering mental health counseling, counselors can also help people find local informa-tion about food banks, test-ing and information for the homeless.
Counselors are also
getting an increase in tele-phone calls from parents asking for help coping with children at home and not leaving for school.
After talking about their problems, Olszanski said some callers just want to chat with the staff and that’s OK.
“They just need some-one to talk to,” she said, but people are still adjust-ing to “this whole new world we’re living in.”
Call the coronavirus help line at 352-408-6625.
LifeStream also wants people to remember that its Citrus Access Center is also still open for counsel-ing at 6 Regina Blvd., Bev-erly Hills. That facility’s number is 352-270-8236.
Contact Chronicle re-porter Fred Hiers at [email protected] or 352-397-5914.
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n Tammy McCown, 58, of Homosassa, at 11:29 p.m. April 18 on a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery.
Other arrestsn Jessica Carrabotta, 33,
of South Gold Dust Terrace, Inverness, at 9:37 p.m. April 18 for felony petit theft with two or more convictions of any theft. According to her arrest affida-vit, Carrabotta is accused of
shoplifting tools, knives, and electronics valued at $232.95 from the Lecanto Walmart. Her bond was set at $2,000.
n Michael Jones, 28, of Hernando, at 7:30 p.m. April 18 on a misdemeanor charge of petit theft.
n Joseph Simmons, 53, of Beverly Hills, at 3:17 p.m. April 18 on a misdemeanor charge of petit theft. His bond was set at $500.
n Donald Johnson, 37, of Inverness, at 1:31 p.m. April 18 on a felony charge of posses-sion of a controlled substance. His bond was set at $2,000.
n Michael Lea II, 36, of Ho-mosassa, at 9:28 a.m. April 18 on a misdemeanor charge of petit theft. His bond was set at $500.
n Janice Groom, 26, of Beverly Hills, at 7:24 a.m. April 18 on felony charges of grand theft auto and escape, along with a misdemeanor charge of resisting an officer without violence. Her bond was set at $13,000.
n Dwight Neil, 42, of Dun-nellon, at 1:26 a.m. April 18 on a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance. His bond was set at $2,000.
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Numerous exemptions
Jill Colvin Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump claimed Wednes-day that he had signed an executive order “tem-porarily suspending im-migration into the United States.” But ex-perts say the order will merely delay the issu-ance of green cards for a minority of immigrants.
Trump said his move, announced in a Monday tweet, was necessary to help Americans get back to work in an economy ravaged by the coronavirus.
“This will ensure that unemployed Americans of all backgrounds will be first in line for jobs as our economy reopens,” he said.
But the order includes a long list of exemptions, including for those who are currently in the country and those seek-ing entry to work as phy-sicians and nurses, as well as the spouses and minor children of Amer-ican citizens. The 60-day pause also leaves un-touched the hundreds of thousands of temporary work visas the country issues each year.
That left partisans on both sides of the immi-gration battle suggesting the order was driven more by politics than policy during an elec-tion year.
Trump ran in 2016 on promising to crack down on both illegal and legal immigration, making the case — disputed by many — that foreign workers compete with Americans for jobs and drive down wages be-cause they are willing to accept lower pay. While many of Trump’s efforts to dramatically upend the nation’s immigration system, from travel bans to asylum restrictions, had been stymied by Congress and the courts, the pandemic has al-lowed him to move for-ward on certain changes.
Like other world lead-ers, Trump has restricted travel from much of the globe, including China and large swaths of Eu-rope. The borders with Mexico and Canada have been closed to all but “es-sential” travel.
With consulates closed, almost all visa processing by the State Department has been suspended for weeks. And Trump has used the virus to effectively end asylum at U.S. borders, turning away migrants, including children, by invoking a rarely used 1944 law aimed at pre-venting the spread of communicable diseases.
The green card mea-sure will limit the ability of current green card holders to sponsor their extended families — a practice Trump has de-rided as “chain immigra-tion” and tried to restrict.
The final version was far less drastic than ad-vocates on both sides of the issue had expected after Trump posted a tweet late Monday that sent businesses, would-be immigrants and administration offi-cials scrambling.
“In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend im-migration into the United States!” Trump wrote.
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Moving past ‘invisible enemy’Trump nudges
nation to reopenZeke Miller Associated Press
WASHINGTON — For weeks, the Trump administra-tion played up the dangers of the coronavirus as it sought to convince Americans to disrupt their lives and stay home. Now, as President Donald Trump aims for a swift nationwide re-opening, he faces a new chal-lenge: Convincing people it’s safe to come out and resume their normal lives.
It’s a defining question for a cloistered nation — and a po-litical imperative for Trump, whose reelection likely rides on the pace of an economic rebound.
Can the country move be-yond a crippling fear of the virus and return to some mod-ified version of its old routines, doing what’s possible to miti-gate the risk of COVID-19, but acknowledging that it may be a fact of life for years to come?
“We need to create the kind of confidence in America that makes it so that everybody goes back to work,” said Kevin Hassett, a White House ad-viser and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. “And that confidence is going to require testing and confi-dence that your workplace is a healthy place, but also confi-dence in the economy.”
At the White House, officials believe they’ve entered a new chapter of the pandemic re-sponse, moving from crisis mode to sustained mitigation and management.
It began last Thursday with the release of guidelines to governors for how to safely re-open their states. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence celebrated Americans for suc-cessfully “flattening the curve” of the epidemic.
A day later, a phalanx of the administration’s top medical officials sought to reassure the nation that there were plenty of tests available to safely begin easing restrictions.
Governors have been lifting restrictions each day since then, including aggressive moves announced Wednesday in Montana and Oklahoma. The Montana governor gave schools the green light to open their doors in early May, and Oklahoma will allow salons, barbershops, spas and pet groomers to reopen Friday.
Trump, in his evening press conference, did take issue with
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s bold reopening plans. “I disagree strongly,” he said. “I think it’s too soon.”
The governors’ moves coin-cided with lingering bleak news around the country. The death toll in Massachusetts eclipsed 2,000 on Wednesday, doubling from just a week ear-lier. About 16,000 people re-main hospitalized across New York. A meat plant in Iowa that is vital the nation’s pork supply is the latest slaughterhouse to shut down because of out-breaks. With the economy in for a long, brutal slump, Congress was on the verge of passing an almost $500 billion relief bill to bolster small businesses.
At his press briefing, Trump flatly promised Americans that there will no repeat of the national lockdown.
“We will not go through what we went through for the last two months,” Trump said.
It’s a sharp shift in rhetoric after Trump and allies stressed the threat of an “invisible enemy” to convince people to abide by social distancing rec-ommendations. The American people have also been scarred by the daunting death toll and images of body bags piled up in refrigerated trailers.
Moving from fear to accep-tance will take confidence in government, medical profes-sionals and businesses at a time when faith in those insti-tutions is low. White House
aides say restoring confidence will require the same “whole-of-America” approach that slowed the virus spread.
“It’s one thing for govern-ment to say, ‘OK, it’s safe to go out,’’’ New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said Tues-day. “If people don’t believe it’s safe, they’re not going to go.”
While there have been iso-lated protests in states aimed at lifting aggressive stay-at-home measures, most Ameri-cans don’t believe it will be safe to ease the restrictions anytime soon, according to a new survey from The Associ-ated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Trump predicted earlier this month that the economy would take off like a “rocket ship once we get back to business.” But experts say the recovery will be far slower.
“It’ll be a very gradual pro-cess regardless of what a gov-ernor says or the president says,” said Dr. Robert Blendon, a Harvard professor of health policy and political analysis. He said the history of lock-downs, particularly the quar-antine of more than 25,000 people around Toronto in 2003 to slow the spread of SARS, shows that it will take weeks, even months, for people to de-velop the confidence to re-sume normal activity.
Blendon also warned that a predicted second wave of COVID-19 could reverse any
gains made in the interim.It’s not just government, but
individual businesses that will need to persuade employees and consumers that it’s safe to return, once they decide to reopen.
Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bas-tian on Wednesday warned his employees to be prepared for a “choppy, sluggish recovery even after the virus is contained.”
The White House says it ex-pects businesses “will adver-tise to the public” about the safety measures they are put-ting in place when they reopen, said Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council. He said the White House is also considering ask-ing Congress to provide liabil-ity protection for employers in case their workers or custom-ers fall sick. “We want small businesses to have some confi-dence that if they do reopen, they’ll stay open,” Kudlow said.
The outbreak has infected over 2.5 million people and killed about 180,000 around the world, including more than 45,000 in the U.S., according to a tally compiled by Johns Hop-kins University from official government figures, though the true numbers are believed to be far higher.
Mark Schlesinger, a Yale pro-fessor of health policy, said it’s going to take time “for people to re-equilibrate emotionally, and it’s very hard to predict how long.”
Associated PressPresident Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, on Wednesday in Washington, as Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, listens.
Iran-US tensions rise with satellite launchPresident
makes threatrobert burns,
Darlene superville anD Jon GaMbrell
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Ten-sions between Washington and Tehran flared anew Wednesday as Iran’s Revo-lutionary Guard con-ducted a space launch that could advance the coun-try’s long-range missile program and President Donald Trump threatened to “shoot down and de-stroy” any Iranian gun-boats that harass Navy ships.
The launch was a first for the Guard, revealing what experts described as a secret military space program that could accel-erate Iran’s ballistic mis-sile development, which is a major source of U.S. and international criticism. American officials said it was too early to know whether an operational Iranian satellite was suc-cessfully placed into orbit. Trump’s top diplomat ac-cused Iran of violating U.N. resolutions.
A f t e r I r a n ’ s
announcement, Trump wrote on Twitter, without citing any specific inci-dent, “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gun-boats if they harass our ships at sea.”
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Navy reported that 11 Guard naval gunboats had carried out “dangerous
and harassing ap-proaches” to American Navy and Coast Guard ves-sels in the Persian Gulf. The Americans used a va-riety of nonlethal means to warn off the Iranian boats, and they eventually left. Such encounters were rel-atively common several years ago, but have been rare recently.
“We don’t want their
gunboats surrounding our boats, and traveling around our boats and hav-ing a good time,” Trump told reporters Wednesday evening at the White House. “We’re not going to stand for it. ... They’ll shoot them out of the water.”
Iran said the U.S. was to blame for last week’s incident.
Conflict between Iran
and the U.S. escalated after the Trump adminis-tration withdrew from the international nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers in 2018 and reimposed crippling sanc-tions. Last May, the U.S. sent thousands more troops, including long-range bombers and an air-craft carrier, to the Middle East in response to what it called a growing threat of Iranian attacks on U.S. in-terests in the region.
The tensions spiked when U.S. forces killed Iran’s most powerful gen-eral, Qassem Soleimani, in January. Iran responded with a ballistic missile at-tack on a base in western Iraq where U.S. troops were present. No Ameri-cans were killed but more than 100 suffered mild traumatic brain injuries from the blasts.
At the Pentagon on Wednesday, the vice chair-man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. John Hyten, a for-mer commander of Ameri-can nuclear and space forces, welcomed Trump’s tweet as a useful warning to Iran. He drew a parallel be-tween last week’s naval en-counter in the Gulf and Wednesday’s space launch, which said was “just an-other example of Iranian malign behavior.”
Associated PressIranian Revolutionary Guard vessels sail close to U.S. military ships on April 15 in the Persian Gulf near Kuwait. A group of 11 Iranian naval vessels made “dangerous and harassing” maneuvers near U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf near Kuwait on Wednesday, in one case passing within 10 yards of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, U.S. officials said. Iranian officials did not immediately acknowledge the incident.
Trump signs immigration
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LONDON
Are you struggling to find bread flour and fresh yeast at the moment? If so, you’re not alone.
With millions of people across the globe stuck at home due to lockdown measures imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, many people are choosing to make their own bread, rather than venturing to the local store to buy their weekly fix.
It’s early morning and outside the of-fice window where I do my writing the birds are singing full throttle, obvi-
ously not worried about the day ahead of them or of catching any viruses.
My mind flips to a little poem I mem-orized in school of the robin talking with a spar-row about all the fretful human beings rushing about and worry-ing, and if perhaps they don’t have a heav-enly father watching over them.
Ouch. Did they just say that I’m acting like I have no heavenly father when I worry?
Though I don’t want to be a worrywart, I don’t have any brag stories of not being tempted with this crippling perspective. Then I wonder, how much has worry re-ally boosted my life?
Really now, I’m not going to worry about a thing anymore, I resolve once more. But a few days later, I’m thinking of baby dear and start wandering the paths of “what ifs” again. I start fretting that the baby just may be born preterm or other dreadful things that can happen.
In moments, I find my spark for life dis-solving and without meaning to, I used an impatient tone of voice to a child without meaning to. What happened to my grand plans of being the kind gentle mother I’ve idealized all my life? Why do I feel a bit uptight when I think of baby?
Then it dawns on me: It’s the monster of worry gnawing within me. But surely not, because I wasn’t going to worry any-more. Now what? Try harder?
And then, as I seek a quiet spot in a house filled with childish chatter, I fall on my knees, telling my Lord and Savior that I am sorry for having failed in trusting my own efforts not to worry. I tell him all about my worries and ask if He would like to carry them for me.
I begin feeling lighter as I rise from my knees and purposefully make the choice of trusting my daddy in heaven; after all, he created me and understands the deep-est yearnings of my heart.
As I return to the dishes I’ve been try-ing to wash all forenoon, Julia and I are soon busy planning our next camping trip. She purposes she can make a list of all the things we can take along, such as bikes, special snacks she could help make and her beloved little puppy, which I’ll be filling you in on later.
Austin listens in on our conversations and has more ideas of what he’d like to take along and offers to help write things on the list as well. Then I notice the three little ones playing nicely and actually tak-ing turns with their loader and tractor on their own.
What happened? How can things change so much in the home when Mama has a song in her heart? I don’t know. I just don’t know. I’ve tried to figure it out, but can’t fathom it all. I do know this, with God’s hand leading mine things simply change.
COVID-19 has taken the lives of many, left many more miserable with sickness and millions off work, and leaves all of us wondering how all this will affect our country in years to come. How can we process it all without worrying? Really, how?
Yesterday I heard of a doctor that made the statement that those who worry about getting the virus are much more suscepti-ble to it. Hmm ... could worry also do something to something to our immune system, or perhaps God simply blesses faith in ways we hardly think about?
Now for winding up with a good recipe. I’ll share Daniel’s latest crush, Fruit Cobbler.
DANIEL’S FAVORITE FRUIT COBBLER
n 3 cups pie filling such as blueberry, cherry, raspberry or peachCrust:n 1/2 cup sugarn 1/4 cup butter, meltedn 1 cup flourn 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powdern 1/2 cup milkPour filling in the bottom of an 8-inch pie
pan. Mix crust ingredients in order given and spread on top.
Next, mix 2 tablespoons sugar, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon salt and sprinkle on top.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until crust is done. Delicious warm with ice cream, or if you ask our family, with fresh cow’s milk!
Gloria Yoder is a young Amish mother, writer and homemaker in rural Illinois. Readers with culinary or culture questions or stories to share may write Gloria directly at: Gloria Yoder, 10510 E. 350th Ave., Flat Rock, IL 62427.
A favorite: Fruit cobbler
Gloria YoderTHE AMISH COOK
Baking techniques are fun, varied
But how does one make a loaf a bakery when yeast and bread flour seem as precious and rare as gold dust?
The first option to consider, if you have a stash of bread flour but only a small amount of yeast, is a slow-rise loaf. This needs less than quarter of a teaspoon of instant dried yeast to make a stunning offering.
Ken Forkish’s white bread with 80% biga recipe, from his 2012 book “Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast,” is perfect for these testing times. It uses a mixture of flour, warm water and a tiny sprinkling of dried yeast as a 14-hour pre-fermented base for a larger loaf, which is bound to impress your family.
It’s worth noting that Forkish’s recipes use all-purpose flour, rather than bread flour, meaning that — hopefully — you might be able to locate supplies online or in grocery stores.
If your search for both bread and all-pur-pose flour proves fruitless but you have yeast at hand, Chris Young — the co-ordinator of England’s Real Bread Campaign, which champions independent bakeries across the United Kingdom — has posted a recipe on-line which uses plain flour — roughly equiv-alent to pastry flour in the United States.
“It has less protein than bread flour, but a combination of more water and a longer ris-ing time than home bakers might be used to makes the most of it for great results,” says Young, adding: ”Even if your first loaves ar-en’t pretty, they’ll still taste delicious and, like everything, you’ll get better with experience.”
Rather than kneading the dough, Young promotes the “stretch and fold” technique, whereby flour, water and a small amount of yeast are mixed together in a bowl and then, once every hour, the home baker lifts one section of the dough at a time and folds it over to the opposite side. This is a more
delicate technique than pounding the mix-ture on a kitchen surface and allows the car-bon dioxide created by the yeast to remain in the loaf, creating more air bubbles and mak-ing the final product less dense.
Finally, if you’re out of both instant dry yeast and all-purpose flour, French baker Richard Bertinet has some handy hints about sourdough — a method which dis-penses with shop-bought yeast entirely in favor of a natural fermenting “starter” — made solely of flour and water.
While whole-wheat or rye flour are prefer-able to create a starter, Bertinet says that you can use anything you have in your cupboard — just mix equal quantities of flour and warm water in a container, store in a warm place and repeat the process every day for around five days, until the mixture is bub-bling and full of life.
The main point? Don’t be intimidated by people who try to complicate the process.
“Sourdough is not a bread, it’s a way of using a different type of yeast. It’s a slow pro-cess — that’s all it is. It’s become a fashion thing, which I despise. It’s not. It’s a way of baking. You need to simplify it in your head a bit more,” explains the baker.
Instead of constructing the loaf using the stretch-and-fold technique, Bertinet recom-mends his own “slap and fold” method, where the dough is lifted into the air, slammed down onto the workbench, then folded over itself — strengthening gluten bonds in the flour and increasing air in the finished loaf.
The secret, again, is plenty of water and a long, slow fermentation.
All three bakers encourage people to con-tinue supporting and ordering from their local bakeries during the pandemic. But in the meantime, Bertinet says, “If you’ve got some flour — you can do something with it.”
elizabeth KarMelAssociated Press
Unless you are like me and grill year-round, the warmer weather sig-nals the start of the grilling season.
This spring, especially, as millions of us are told to stay home, a trip outside to the backyard or patio is a welcome change.
If you have a new grill or have taken one out of winter hibernation, you’ll need to clean and season it before you cook.
Remember, outdoor grills are like cast-iron skillets: They get better and more seasoned the more you use them. When food cooks on the grill, the fats and juices are vaporized by the heat and create the smoke that flavors the food.
The smoke accumulates on the in-side of the grill and is “seasoned,” making your food “sing” with grilled flavor. For this reason, you don’t want to over-clean your grill.
If you’ve had your grill for a year or two and use it frequently, you may no-tice that the inside of the lid looks like the “paint” is peeling. This is simply the accumulation of layers of smoke, and not paint at all.
You will want to remove this build-up so it doesn’t flake off and fall into your food. Scrape the inside of the lid first. If the grill still has layers of left-on food on the grill grates, turn all the burners on high for 30-45 minutes, or until everything has burned into a white-gray ash. Brush the grates with a grill brush while they
are still hot, and let the grill cool be-fore continuing to clean.
Warm soapy water, a scrubbie and a little elbow grease will take the excess grime off easily. Don’t scrub so hard that the grill becomes shiny again. Be sure to leave the first layer of season-ing on the grill, but get rid of any ex-cess soot and ash.
If you’ve had any flare-ups, you may want to clean the outside lip of your grill as well, the part of the lid that meets the rest of the grill. Be sure to rinse with cool clean water.
Once the grill is clean, it’s time to season or re-season it. My favorite way is to fill the cooking grate with un-cooked sausages such as bratwurst or Italian sausage — not the bulk break-fast variety.
You don’t want to waste good sau-sage, so make it a meal. Smoked Sau-sage with Apple Fennel Sauerkraut is the recipe I make most often, and it is perfect for people who think they don’t like sauerkraut. The “sauerkraut” is made with aromatic fennel and tart apple, and seasoned with caraway seed.
Normally, I grill raw sausages slowly on a low-medium indirect heat, but when I am seasoning the grill, I opt for a medium-low direct heat to get more of the juices rendering and releasing on all the surfaces of the cooking grates. Turn the sausages a couple of times to make sure they don’t burn, and let them cook until very brown and bubbling hot. Remove the sau-sages and re-set the burners to high, letting the grill burn off any residue
until it turns ashy white, or about for 20-30 minutes.
Meanwhile, you can enjoy the sau-sages. When you’re done eating, clean the cooking grates with a grill brush, turn off the gas, or close all the vents on a charcoal grill to extinguish the coals — and you are ready for the season!
If you are someone who forgets to clean your grill regularly throughout the season, print this out and put it on your refrigerator or somewhere close to remind you:
Cleaning Your Grill (Follow these steps and grill mainte-
nance will never be a big job.) Preheat every time you use the grill. After removing cooked food from
the cooking grate, allow residue to burn off for 10 minutes.
Before and after each use, use a grill brush or crumpled aluminum foil to loosen and clean residue on the cook-ing grate.
Remove accumulated ashes from charcoal grills each time you cook out.
Check the drip pan and clean and replace it when it is half full.
Clean your grill once a year with warm soapy water but no harsh abrasives.
And, remember, a grill is like a cast-iron pan: The more you grill, the bet-ter your food will taste!
Elizabeth Karmel is a grilling, barbe-cue and Southern foods expert, and the author of four cookbooks, including the newly released “Steak and Cake.” Her website is www.elizabethkarmel.com.
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Clean up now for some great grilling
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C S D/I F H 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 (WESH) NBC 19 19 News News ET Holly Super Brooklyn Will Will Law & Order: SVU News J. Fallon
#(WEDU) PBS 3 3 14 6 World News
BBC News PBS NewsHour (N) (In Stereo) Å
WEDU Arts Plus
Up Close Doc Martin “It’s Good to Talk” ‘PG’
Death in Paradise (In Stereo) ‘PG’ Å
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries ‘PG’ Å
%(WUFT) PBS 5 5 DW News BBC PBS NewsHour (N) This Old House Hr The Roosevelts: An Intimate History ‘PG’ BBC House
((WFLA) NBC 8 8 8 8 8 News Nightly News
NewsChannel 8
Extra (N) ‘PG’
Superstore ‘14’
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Will & Grace
Will & Grace (N)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ‘14’
NewsChannel 8
Tonight Show
)(WFTV) ABC 20 7 20 News at 6pm
World News
Jeopardy! (N) ‘G’
Wheel of Fortune
2020 NFL Draft Interviews and highlights with the players selected in the first round by NFL teams. (N) (Live) Å
WFTV Tonight:
*(WTSP) CBS 10 10 10 10 10 10 Tampa Bay
Evening News
Wheel of Fortune
Jeopardy! (N) ‘G’
Young Sheldon
Man With a Plan (N)
Mom ‘14’ Å
Broke (N) ‘PG’
Tommy (In Stereo) ‘14’ Å
10 Tampa Bay
Late-Colbert
(WTVT) FOX 13 13 13 13 News News Ac. Hollywood
TMZ (N) ‘PG’
Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing
Mental Samurai “Week Four” ‘PG’
FOX13 10:00 News (N) (In Stereo) Å
FOX13 11:00 News (N) (In Stereo) Å
4(WCJB) ABC 11 News ABC ET Inside Ed. 2020 NFL Draft (N) (Live) Å News
6 (WCLF) IND 2 2 2 22 22 Christian Fitness
Joyce Meyer
Bay Focus Great Awakening with Joseph Prince
Quiet Brain Andrew Wom
Abundant Life
Sound of Awak
Phil Driscoll ‘G’
Great
8(WYKE) FAM 16 16 16 15 America Trends INN News Citrus Today
Sully’s Biz Brew Positively Paula ‘G’
The Chef’s America Trends Citrus Court
Citrus Today
< (WFTS) ABC 11 11 11 11 ABC Action News
World News
Inside Edition
The List (N) ‘PG’
2020 NFL Draft Interviews and highlights with the players selected in the first round by NFL teams. (N) (Live) Å
ABC Action News
@(WMOR) IND 12 12 5 The Goldbergs
The Goldbergs
Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory
Mom ‘14’ Å
Mom ‘14’ Å
Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing
Big Bang Theory
How I Met Family Guy ‘14’
Family Guy ‘14’
F(WTTA) MNT 6 6 6 9 9 Extra ‘PG’ ET FamFeud FamFeud NewsChannel 8 Law Order: CI Law Order: CI Seinfeld SeinfeldH(WACX) TBN 21 21 S.Channel The 700 Club Å Involved Impact Paid Prg. Power Jeffress S.Channel S.Channel Faith Prince
L(WTOG) CW 4 4 4 12 12 Mike & Molly ‘14’
Mike & Molly ‘14’
Two and Half Men
Two and Half Men
Katy Keene “Chapter Ten: Gloria” (N) ‘PG’
In the Dark (N) (In Stereo) ‘14’ Å
CW44 News (N)
CW44 News (N)
2 Broke Girls ‘14’
2 Broke Girls ‘14’
R(WVEA) UNI 15 15 15 15 14 Noticias Noticiero Rosa de Guadalupe Ringo (N) ‘14’ Amor eterno (N) ‘PG’ Sin miedo a la Noticias NoticieroS(WOGX) FOX 13 7 7 Fox 51 Fox 51 Big Bang Big Bang Last Man Last Man Mental Samurai ‘PG’ FOX 51 News Dateline ‘PG’ Å≤(WXPX) ION 17 Chicago P.D. ‘14’ Chicago P.D. ‘14’ Chicago P.D. ‘14’ Chicago P.D. ‘14’ Chicago P.D. ‘14’ Chicago P.D. ‘14’
(A&E) 54 48 54 25 27 The First 48 “M.I.A.” (In Stereo) ‘14’ Å
The First 48 “The Visitor” ‘14’ Å
The First 48 “The Standoff” (N) ‘PG’
The First 48: Catching a Killer (N) ‘14’
60 Days In (N) (In Stereo) ‘14’ Å
Accused: Guilty or Innocent? ‘14’ Å
(ACCN) 99 Women’s College Basketball Women’s College Basketball All ACC All ACC All ACC All ACC
(AMC) 55 64 55 ›››“Top Gun” (1986, Action) Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis. ‘PG’ Å
›››‡“Gladiator” (2000, Historical Drama) Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix. A fugi-tive general becomes a gladiator in ancient Rome. ‘R’ Å
››‡“Blade”
(ANI) 52 35 52 19 31 The Last Alaskans (In Stereo) ‘PG’
The Last Alaskans (In Stereo) ‘PG’
The Last Alaskans: Arctic Refuge “Under Pressure” (N) (In Stereo) ‘14’ Yukon Men (In Stereo) ‘PG’ Å
(BET) 96 71 96 ›‡“Baggage Claim” (2013) Paula Patton. A woman sets out on a cross-country quest to find a husband. ‘PG-13’ Å
››‡“This Christmas” (2007, Comedy-Drama) Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba. A reunion at the holidays tests family ties. ‘PG-13’ Å
(BIGTEN) 742 809 BTN Basketball in 60 Å
BTN Basketball in 60 Å
BTN Basketball in 60 Å
The Journey: Big Ten Basketball Å
BTN Basketball in 60 Å
The Journey
BTN in 60
(BRAVO) 254 51 254 Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Housewives/NYC Top Chef (N) ‘14’ Watch NYC
(CC) 27 61 27 33 The Office ‘14’ Å
The Office ‘14’ Å
The Daily Show
The Office ‘14’ Å
The Office ‘14’ Å
The Office ‘14’ Å
The Office ‘14’ Å
The Office ‘14’ Å
The Office ‘14’ Å
The Office ‘14’ Å
The Daily Show
The Office ‘14’ Å
(CMT) 98 45 98 28 37 Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
(CNN) 40 29 40 41 46 Situation Room Erin Burnett OutFront Anderson Cooper Cuomo Prime Time CNN Tonight CNN Tonight (ESPN) 33 27 33 21 17 College GameDay Countdown 2020 NFL Draft (N) (Live) Å SportsC. (ESPN2) 37 28 34 43 49 SportsCenter (N) SportsCenter (N) UFC Reloaded 2019 WSOP (FBN) 106 149 106 99 41 The Evening Edit (N) Lou Dobbs Tonight The Evening Edit Strange Strange Lou Dobbs Tonight The Evening Edit
(FLIX) 118 170 ››“Faster” (2010, Action) Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton. (In Stereo) ‘R’ Å
››‡“From Dusk Till Dawn” (1996, Horror) Harvey Keitel. (In Stereo) ‘R’ Å
›‡“From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money” (1999) ‘R’
“From Dusk-3”
(FNC) 44 37 44 32 Special Report The Story Tucker Carlson Hannity (N) Å The Ingraham Angle Fox News at Night (FOOD) 26 56 26 Guy’s Games Guy’s Games Guy’s Games Food Truck Race Restaurant: Im. Restaurant: Im.
›››“Pretty Woman” (1990) Richard Gere. A corporate raider hires a hooker to act as a business escort.
Siren Ryn returns to land to explore. ‘14’
The 700 Club (In Stereo) Å
(FS1) 732 112 732 Greatest: NFL NASCAR Race Hub Greatest Races: NASCAR From Nov. 14, 1999. (N Taped) ‘PG’ WWE Backstage (FSNFL) 35 39 35 Inside the Panthers Inside the Magic Orlando Magic Classics (N) In Magic In Magic World Poker
(FX) 30 60 30 51 ››‡“The Fate of the Furious” (2017) Vin Diesel. ‘PG-13’
›››“Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” (2017, Adventure) Dwayne Johnson. (In Stereo) ‘PG-13’ Å
Better Things
Breeders ‘MA’
Better Things
“Jumanji: Jungle”
(GOLF) 727 67 727 PGA Tour LPGA Tour Golf PGA Tour Golf Å
(HALL) 59 68 39 45 54 “Yes, I Do” (2018, Romance) Jen Lilley, Marcus Rosner, Jessica Lowndes. ‘NR’ Å
“Love and Sunshine” (2019, Romance) Danica McKellar, Mark Deklin. ‘NR’ Å
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
Golden Girls
(HBO) 302 201 302 2 2 ››‡“Quantum of Solace” (2008) Daniel Craig. ‘PG-13’ Å
›››“American Pie” (1999) Jason Biggs. (In Stereo) ‘R’ Å
We’re Here (Series Premiere) (N) ‘MA’
Westworld “Decoherence” Therapy. ‘MA’
We’re Here (In Stereo) ‘MA’ Å
(HBO2) 303 202 303 ››“Glass” (2019) Bruce Willis. (In Stereo) ‘PG-13’ Å
Run ‘MA’ Å
››“Gamer” (2009) Gerard Butler. (In Stereo) ‘R’ Å
››“The Predator” (2018, Science Fiction) Boyd Holbrook. (In Stereo) ‘R’ Å
Westworld
(HGTV) 23 57 23 42 52 Home Town “An Old Familiar Place” ‘G’
Home Town ‘G’ Å (DVS)
Flip or Flop ‘G’
Flip or Flop ‘G’
Flipping 101
Flipping 101
House Hunters
Hunters Int’l
House Hunters
Hunters Int’l
(HIST) 51 54 51 32 42 American Pickers “Rat Rod Rolls” ‘PG’
American Pickers ‘PG’ Å (DVS)
American Pickers ‘PG’ Å (DVS)
American Pickers ‘PG’ Å (DVS)
American Pickers “Mr. Whizzer” ‘PG’
American Pickers (In Stereo) ‘PG’ Å
(LIFE) 24 38 24 21 King of Queens
King of Queens
King of Queens
King of Queens
Married at First Sight “Couples Couch: Reunion” The five couples reunite. (N) ‘14’
King of Queens
King of Queens
King of Queens
King of Queens
(LMN) 119 50 119 “Adopted in Danger” (2019, Suspense) Allison Paige, Sarah Aldrich. ‘NR’ Å
“You Can’t Take My Daughter” (2020, Suspense) Lyndsy Fonseca. ‘NR’ Å
“Her Secret Family Killer” (2020, Suspense) Brooke Nevin, Diora Baird. ‘NR’ Å
(MSNBC) 42 41 42 The Beat With Decision 2020 All In With Rachel Maddow The Last Word The 11th Hour
22 April 19 - 25, 2020 Viewfinder Citrus County (FL) ChroniCLe
Outside a London nightclub, there was a poster proclaiming: “Six beautiful dancing girls! Five beautiful costumes!”
There is a bridge equivalent to this: the revealing pre-emptive bid. You have a two-way guess for a queen. If an opponent has opened with a high-level pre-empt, the nat-ural reaction is to play his partner for the queen. But sometimes you don’t need to guess; you can find
out — as in today’s deal.Against four spades, West leads
the heart king: four, ace, three. East returns the heart five: eight, 10, nine. Now West shifts to the club jack: queen, ace, seven. Back comes the club six, which South carefully ruffs high.
After drawing trumps, South has to find the diamond queen. A com-puter would know that with nine cards missing the queen, the a pri-ori percentage play is to cash the ace and king. When the queen doesn’t drop, it complains about bad luck.
The automaton assumes that, be-cause West pre-empted, East must have the diamond queen. It cashes dummy’s ace and leads the jack, preparing to finesse, but East’s dis-card puts paid to that plan.
The thoughtful player tries to get a complete count of the deal. After drawing trumps, he cashes dum-my’s club king, discarding a dia-mond. When West fails to follow suit, South knows that West started with one spade, two clubs and at least six hearts, probably seven. This means he must have three or four diamonds.
Smilingly inwardly, South plays the diamond jack to his king, then runs the diamond nine when West plays low. The finesse is sure to win.
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C S D/I F H 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 (NBCSN) 448 26 730 NHL Top
10 ‘G’To Be Announced American Ninja Warrior
(In Stereo) ‘PG’
(NGEO) 109 65 109 Alaska State Troopers ‘14’ Å
Alaska State Troopers ‘14’ Å
Alaska State Troopers ‘14’ Å
Alaska State Troopers ‘14’ Å
Alaska State Troopers ‘14’ Å
Alaska State Troopers ‘14’ Å
(NICK) 28 36 28 35 25 Casagran Casagran Sponge. Sponge. “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” ‘PG’ Friends Friends Friends Friends (OWN) 125 24 103 20/20 on OWN ‘14’ 20/20 on OWN ‘14’ 20/20 on OWN ‘14’ 20/20 on OWN ‘14’ 20/20 on OWN ‘14’ 20/20 on OWN ‘PG’ (OXY) 123 44 123 Mark of a Killer ‘14’ Deadly Cults ‘14’ Mark of a Killer ‘14’ Snapped ‘PG’ Å Snapped ‘PG’ Å Snapped ‘PG’ Å
(PARMT) 37 43 37 27 36 Two and Half Men
Two and Half Men
Two and Half Men
Two and Half Men
›››‡“Shrek” (2001, Children’s) Voices of Mike Myers. (In Stereo) ‘PG’ Å
››‡“Shrek Forever After” (2010) Voices of Mike Myers. (In Stereo) ‘PG’ Å
(SEC) 745 72 The Paul Finebaum Show (N) (Live)
To Be Announced SEC Inside SEC Inside SEC Inside SEC Now (N) (Live)
(SHOW) 340 241 340 ››“The Upside” (2017, Comedy-Drama) Kevin Hart. (In Stereo) ‘PG-13’ Å
Shameless “Pilot” ‘MA’ Å
Homeland “The English Teacher” ‘MA’
Desus & Mero
Californication Desus & Mero (N)
VICE ‘MA’ Å
(SUN) 36 31 36 Sports Stars
Sport Fishing
Florida Insider Fishing Report (N) (In Stereo)
To Be Announced Florida Insider Fishing Report (In Stereo)
(SYFY) 31 59 31 26 29 ›››“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (2007) Daniel Radcliffe. Harry prepares a group of students to fight Voldemort.
›››“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (2009, Children’s) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint. ‘PG’ Å (DVS)
(TBS) 49 23 49 16 19 Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Seinfeld Seinfeld Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Conan Brooklyn
(TCM) 169 53 169 30 35 ››››“Seven Days in May” (1964, Suspense) Burt Lancaster. ‘NR’ Å
›››‡“The Goodbye Girl” (1977) Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason. ‘PG’ Å
›››‡“The Sunshine Boys” (1975, Comedy) Walter Matthau. ‘PG’ Å (DVS)
(TDC) 53 34 53 24 26 Moonshiners (In Stereo) ‘14’ Å
Moonshiners (In Stereo) ‘14’ Å
Naked and Afraid (N) (In Stereo) ‘14’ Å
Rob Riggle: Global Investigator (N) ‘14’
Naked and Afraid (In Stereo) ‘14’ Å
Naked and Afraid (In Stereo) ‘14’ Å
(TLC) 50 46 50 29 30 My 600-Lb. Life (In Stereo) ‘PG’ My 600-Lb. Life (N) (In Stereo) ‘PG’ Dr. Pimple Popper Feet-Killing Me
(TMC) 350 261 350 ››“Against the Ropes” (2004, Drama) Meg Ryan. (In Stereo) ‘PG-13’ Å
››“Mile 22” (2018) Mark Wahlberg. (In Stereo) ‘R’ Å
››‡“The Hummingbird Project” (2018) Jesse Eisenberg. (In Stereo) ‘R’ Å
››‡“Central Intelligence” (2016, Action) Dwayne Johnson. ‘PG-13’ Å (DVS)
Shaq Life (N) ‘14’
Shaq Life (N) ‘14’
››‡“Central Intelligence” (2016, Action) Dwayne Johnson. ‘PG-13’ Å (DVS)
(TOON) 38 58 38 33 Teen Teen Apple Gumball Home Burgers Burgers Rick American American Fam. Guy Fam. Guy (TRAV) 9 106 9 44 Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures The Dead Files ‘PG’ The Dead Files ‘PG’ (truTV) 25 55 25 98 55 Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokers Jokes Tacoma Tacoma Jokes Jokes (TVL) 32 49 32 34 24 Andy G. Andy G. Andy G. Andy G. Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Two Men Two Men King King
(USA) 47 32 47 17 18 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ‘14’
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ‘14’
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ‘14’
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ‘14’
NCIS “Dressed to Kill” (In Stereo) ‘PG’
NCIS “Rock and a Hard Place” ‘PG’
(WE) 117 69 117 Growing Up Hip Hop “Popping Off” ‘14’
With social distancing restric-tions in place, NFL Commis-sioner Roger Goodell has given the annual draft of college players to the pros the go-ahead to proceed as planned, albeit with “innovative options for how the process will be conducted” — meaning via broadcast rather than in person and no live audience. LSU
quarterback (and 2019 Heisman Trophy winner) Joe Burrow is projected to go first overall to the Cincinnati Bengals, with Ohio State defensive end Chase Young, Alabama QB Tua Ta-govailoa and Oregon QB Justin Herbert likely top-10 picks.
9 p.m. on ^ (Will & Grace
The first time this Emmy-win-ning sitcom ended its NBC run after eight seasons in 2006, it did so with a very bittersweet finale that left a sour taste for several fans. Luckily, the writ-ers get a chance for a do-over tonight as this reboot rings down the curtain with a finale called “It’s Time,” which finds Will (Eric McCormack) strug-gling to shake off past disap-pointments and Grace (Debra Messing) experiencing false labor pains. Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally also star. A half-hour retrospective hosted by McCormack follows.
9 p.m. on (FOOD)The Great Food Truck Race
In the Season 12 finale, “Holly-wood Homecoming,” the final two food truck teams return to
this edition’s starting point in Los Angeles for an ultimate face-off. Host Tyler Florence brings the trucks to an upscale winery, where the teams must pull out all the stops, since only one of them can walk away with the $50,000 grand prize.
9 p.m. on (HBO)We’re Here
This new six-episode unscript-ed series follows a group of small-town residents as they’re recruited for, then trained to participate in, a one-night-only drag performance. Acting as mentors to these drag newbies are three former contestants of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”: Bob the Drag Queen (Caldwell Tid-icue), Eureka O’Hara (David Huggard) and Shangela Laquifa Wadley (D.J. Pierce) — who spend each episode preparing their new “drag daughters” for their show by teaching them how to step outside their usual comfort zones.
9 p.m. on (TRAV)Ghost Adventures
In the new episode “Industrial District of the Damned,” Zak Bagans and his team of para-
normal investigators explore a 120-year-old building in the industrial district of Salt Lake City. Several local business owners swear that paranormal activity on the premises, which once was only sporadic, has ramped up dramatically since a break-in turned up evidence that a dark ritual had been per-formed in the basement.
10 p.m. on ^ (Law & Order:
Special Victims UnitPublic anticipation is building as assistant district attorney Carisi (Peter Scanavino) begins the eagerly awaited and tab-loid-ready trial of movie mogul Sir Toby Moore (returning guest star Ian McShane), but there’s little joy in the squad room, where the detectives struggle to deal with setbacks in several other cases in the new episode “The Things We Have to Lose.” Mariska Hargi-tay, Ice-T and Kelli Giddish also star.
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classified pages, along with Sudoku, Wordy Gurdy and a word puzzle.
Dear Annie: I was won-dering how the man with a short fuse was
functioning in the work situa-tion. I had a friend years ago who had anger issues that caused disastrous results in his family, professional life and social life. His license was revoked, and he was ordered to get help, which he did as an inpatient in a psychiatric facil-ity. He was dis-charged on medi-cations, and he became a t o t a l l y different p e r s o n , c o m -p l e t e l y restoring those as-pects of his life. — F r i e n d Reinvented Life
Dear Friend Reinvented Life: I am printing your letter because it shows that recovery is possible. If you have prob-lems and seek the help of trained professionals, you can improve. Congratulations to your friend. I’m glad his loved ones have him back.
Dear Annie: Mama wrote to say that Papa was “mad as a hornet” because he said she is encouraging feminine tenden-cies in their grandson, “Ernie,” by allowing him to sew with her and her granddaughter. Don’t panic, Papa. Not only can little boys show they are creative but sewing is also be-coming a lost skill. Imagine a sailor not knowing how to re-pair his sail because he never learned how to make minor sewing repairs. And with Me-morial Day coming soon, let’s not forget all the World War II soldiers whose mamas sent them off to war with a sewing kit for mending. — Sewing Is Self-Sufficient
Dear Sewing Is Self-Suffi-cient: You bring up some great points about how sewing is a practical life skill, and why boys should learn to sew. The following reader added to your point.
Dear Annie: If it’s any com-fort to Ernie’s grandpa, Boy Scouts are required to sew on their own badges. — Sewing Is for Life
Dear Readers: Below is a poem submitted by a reader named Dennis who is a poet in Hawaii. It is a sweet tribute to true love, something the world needs a lot of.
YOUR ONLY ONE“Some are lucky, some are not“to find in life what can’t be
bought,“the precious one to make you
laugh“True Love, dear one, your other
half.“Your other half of you that’s lost“you’ll search for him at every
cost.“Behind the clouds and under
stone“you’ll find that you must
search alone.“Your search will take you
through many lands“to touch and hold so many
hands,“you’ll turn to kiss but while
you’re kissing“a pretty miss but something’s
missing.“You leave him or he leaves you“your search continues for
something new,“what you thought was love was
only laughter —“love that’s real is what you’re
after.“What sometimes happens after
awhile“you mistake love for a pretty
smile,“you’re so lonely and they’re all
you got“so you build him into some-
thing he’s not.“You leave him like all the rest“or he leaves you, whatever’s best“You walk on and kick the dirt“so terrible tired of being hurt.“You turn off your heart and
turn off your mind,“you left too much of your heart
behind“you say, ‘I’ve searched til I don’t
know how“a little older and colder now.’“You see love waits for you to say
‘give’“and comes to you when you’re
ready to live,“the precious one to make you
laugh,“True Love, dear one, your other
half.“The other half of you that’s lost“after you searched at every
cost — “only when your search is done
“will you find your only one.”
Annie offersadvice
DEAR ANNIE
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Garfield
For Better or For Worse
Sally ForthBeetle Bailey
Dilbert The Grizzwells
The Born Loser Blondie
Doonesbury Flashbacks
Moderately Confused Rubes Dennis the Menace The Family Circus
Betty
Big Nate
Arlo and Janis
Frank & Ernest
Today’s MOVIES
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I E K E O Y F C . ” — T V P Y F R P V T O G K
P r e v i o u s S o l u t i o n : “ W e d o n o t i n h e r i t t h e E a r t h f r o m o u r a n c e s t o r s ; w e b o r r o w i t f r o m o u r c h i l d r e n . ” — C h i e f
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5644-0430 THCRNChopko, Stephen A. 2020-CA-58 Notice of ActionIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDACASE NO.: 2020-CA-58
UNDERWOOD RESIDENTIAL LLC,Plaintiff,
vs.STEPHEN A. CHOPKO, et al
Defendant.
NOTICE OF ACTION; CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE OF PROCESS - PROPERTY
NOTICE OF ACTION TO STEPHEN A. CHOPKO; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF STEPHEN A. CHOPKO, if any; STEPHEN A. CHOPKO AND HELEN K. CHOPKO, Trustees, UTD June 17, 1988; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF HELEN K. CHOPKO, if any; ESTATE OF HELEN K. CHOPKO; UNKNOWN HEIRS, BENEFICIARIES, and TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN K. CHOPKO, if any; DANIEL CHOPKO; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF DANIEL CHOPKO, if any; INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE VENTURES, LLC; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF KEVIN S. WATLING, if any. Defend-ants’ current residence is unknown.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to quiet title has been commenced on the following property in Citrus County, Florida:
SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT “A”
And has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on RICHARD MUTARELLI, JR., ESQ., the Plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is Schatt & Hesser, P.A., 328 N.E. 1st Avenue, Suite 100, Ocala, Florida 34470, on or before 30 days from first date of publication and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on Plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter, otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the com-plaint or petition.
Dated on April 7, 2020.
Richard Mutarelli, Jr., Esq.Schatt & McGraw, Rauba, Mutarelli, PA328 N.E. 1st Avenue Suite 100 Ocala, FL 34470(352) 789-6520
ANGELA VICK As Clerk of the Court{{ COURT SEAL }}
By: Amy Holmes, Deputy Clerk
EXHIBIT “A”
PARCEL NO. 1-LOT 4, BLOCK 958, OF CITRUS SPRINGS, UNIT SIXTEEN, A SUBDIVISION ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 6, PAGE 145-150, OF THE PUBLIC REC-ORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.
PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NO: 18E17S100160095800040
PARCEL NO. 4-LOT 5, BLOCK 958, OF CITRUS SPRINGS, UNIT SIXTEEN, A SUBDIVISION ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 6, PAGE 145-150, OF THE PUBLIC REC-ORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.
PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NO: 18E17S100160095800050
PARCEL NO. 6-LOT 23, BLOCK 751, CITRUS SPRINGS, UNIT 8, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 6, PAGES 43 THROUGH 49, INCLUSIVE, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.
PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NO: 18E17S100080075100230
PARCEL NO. 8-LOT 3, BLOCK 466 OF CITRUS SPRINGS, UNIT FIVE, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 6, PAGES 1 THROUGH 14, OF THE PUBLIC REC-ORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.
PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NO: 18E17S100050046600030
Published April 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2020
5655-0430 THCRNGorley, JR, Leander J. 2020-CA-000026 Notice of Action
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT,IN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA
CASE NO. 2020-CA-000026
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUNDSOCIETY, FSB, DOING BUSINESS ASCHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITSINDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELYAS TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 2018-20TT
Plaintiff,vs.LEANDER J. GORLEY, JR; ET AL,
Defendant(s)
NOTICE OF ACTION
TO: LEANDER J. GORLEY, JRLast Known Address: 10415 NORTH CASABA POINT, DUNNELLON, FL 34434
UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF LEANDER J. GORLEY, JRLast Known Address: 10415 NORTH CASABA POINT, DUNNELLON, FL 34434
UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF LAWRENCE L. FINLEY AKA LAWRENCE LEE FINLEYLast Known Address: 10415 NORTH CASABA POINT, DUNNELLON, FL 34434
You are notified of an action to foreclose a mortgage on the following property in Citrus County:
COMMENCE AT THE NW CORNER OF THE E 1/2 OF THE SW 1/4 OF SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 17 SOUTH, RANGE 19 EAST, THENCE N. 89°54’57”E. ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SW 1/4 A DISTANCE OF 759.11 FEET, THENCE S. 0°16’47”E. A DISTANCE OF 304 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, THENCE CONTINUE S. 0°16’47”E. 304 FEET, THENCE N. 89°54’57”E. 300 FEET; THENCE N. 0°16’47”W. A DISTANCE OF 304 FEET, THENCE S. 89°54’57”W. A DIS-TANCE OF 300 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, BEING PARCEL 5-B OF AN UNRE-CORDED SUBDIVISION. SUBJECT TO AN EASEMENT ACROSS THE WEST 30 FEET THEREOF. LESS THE SOUTHERLY PORTION THEREOF AS DEED IN O.R. BOOK 823, PAGE 1280 AND BEING DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
COMMENCE AT THE NW CORNER OF THE E 1/2 OF SW 1/4 OF SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 17 SOUTH, RANGE 19 EAST, CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA, THENCE ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF THE SW 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 7, N. 89°54’57”E. 759.11 FEET, THENCE S. 00°16’47”E. 521.80 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, THENCE CONTINUE S. 00°16’47”E. 463.09 FEET TO THE NORTHEASTERLY RIGHT OF WAY OF STATE ROAD NO. 39, THENCE ALONG SAID
5656-0430 THCRNDavey, Terrence John 2019 CA 001066 A Notice of Sale
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN ANDFOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION
CASE NO. 2019 CA 001066 ADITECH FINANCIAL LLC,
Plaintiff,vs.THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, BENEFICIARIES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHERS WHO MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF TERRENCE JOHN DAVEY, DECEASED, et al.
Defendant(s).
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 11, 2020, and entered in 2019 CA 001066 A of the Circuit Court of the FIFTH Ju-dicial Circuit in and for Citrus County, Florida, wherein DITECH FINANCIAL LLC is the Plaintiff and THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, BENEFICIARIES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHERS WHO MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE ESTATE OF TERRENCE JOHN DAVEY, DECEASED; MEADOWS OF CITRUS COUNTY HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.; LINDA ROSE DAVEY; CHRISTINE DAVEY; KEVIN DAVEY; COLLIN DAVEY are the Defendant(s). Angela Vick as the Clerk of the Circuit Court will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at www.citrus.realforeclose.com, at 10:00 AM, on May 14, 2020, the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit:
LOT 6, OF DEXTER PARK VILLAS, AN UNRECORDED SUBDIVISION, FURTHER DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
COMMENCE AT THE SE CORNER OF THE SE 1/4 OF THE SW 1/4 OF SECTION 24, TOWN-SHIP 19 SOUTH, RANGE 17 EAST; THENCE N. 89 DEGREES 17’ 53” W. ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF THE SE 1/4 OF THE SW 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 24, A DISTANCE OF 999.93 FEET TO THE SW CORNER OF THE E 3/4 OF THE SE 1/4 OF THE SW 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 24; THENCE N. 0° 34’ 12” E. ALONG THE WEST LINE OF THE E 3/4 OF THE SE 1/4 OF THE SW 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 24, A DISTANCE OF 57.75 FEET; THENCE S. 89 DEGREES 26’ 35” E., 409 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUE S. 89 DEGREES 26’ 35” E., 73.5 FEET; THENCE N. 0° 34’ 12” E. PARALLEL TO THE WEST LINE OF THE E 3/4 OF THE SE 1/4 OF THE SW 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 24, A DISTANCE OF 105.0 FEET; THENCE N. 89 DE-GREES 26’ 35” W., 73.5 FEET; THENCE S. 0° 34’ 12” W. PARALLEL TO SAID WEST LINE, A DIS-TANCE OF 105.0 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
SUBJECT TO AN EASEMENT ALONG THE SOUTH 10 FEET THEREOF.
TOGETHER WITH 1/153RD INTEREST IN ALL STREETS AND COMMON AREAS AS DESCRIBED IN OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 588, PAGE 1872, PUBLIC RECORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Property Address: 6606 W PELICAN LN, HOMOSASSA, FL 34448
Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim in accordance with Florida Statutes, Section 45.031.
Dated this 6 day of April, 2020.
ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ & SCHNEID, P.L. Attorney for Plaintiff6409 Congress Ave., Suite 100, Boca Raton, FL 33487
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IMPORTANTAMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordi-nator for Citrus County, Kathy Rector, at (352) 341-6700 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.
Published April 23 & 30, 2020.
RIGHT OF WAY LINE S. 57°19’23”E. 357.53 FEET, THENCE N. 00°16’47”W. 656.56 FEET, THENCE S. 89°54’57”W. 300.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING SUBJECT TO AN EASE-MENT ACROSS THE WEST 30 FEET THEREOF.
Property Address: 10415 North Casaba Point, Dunnellon, FL 34434
The action was instituted in the Circuit Court, Fifth Judicial Circuit in and for Citrus County, Florida; Case No. 2017-CA-000484; and is styled WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, DOING BUSINESS AS CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPAC-ITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 2018-20TT vs. LEANDER J. GORLEY, JR; UN-KNOWN SPOUSE OF LEANDER J. GORLEY, JR; LAWRENCE L. FINLEY AKA LAWRENCE LEE FINLEY (Served 01/30/2020); UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF LAWRENCE L. FINLEY AKA LAW-RENCE LEE FINLEY; UNKNOWN TENANT IN POSSESSION 1; UNKNOWN TENANT IN POS-SESSION 2. You are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to the action on Kelley L. Church, Esq., Plaintiffs attorney, whose address is 255S. Orange Ave., Ste. 900, Orlando, FL 32801, on or before ? (or 30 days fromthefirst date of publication) and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on Plaintiffs attorney or immediately after service; otherwise, a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.
The Court has authority in this suit to enter a judgment or decree in the Plaintiff’s best interest which will be binding upon you.
Dated April 1, 2020.ANGELA VICK, Clerk of the Court and Comptroller
{{ Court Seal }}By: J. Steelfox, As Deputy Clerk
Published April 23 & 30, 2020 138325
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5648-0423 THCRNGiesbrecht, Abe 2020 CP 232 Notice to Creditors
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDAPROBATE DIVISION File No. 2020-CP-232
IN RE: ESTATE OF ABE GIESBRECHT,Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The administration of the estate of ABE GIESBRECHT, deceased, whose date of death was December 14, 2018, is pending in the Circuit Court for CITRUS County, Florida, Pro-bate Division, the address of which is 110 N. Apopka Ave., Inverness, FL 34450. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below.
All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERV-ICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.
All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE.
ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDASTATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.
The date of first publication of this Notice is April 16, 2020.Personal Representative:
Katherina Giesbrecht PO Box 361 Leamington, Ontario N8H 3W3, FloridaAttorney for Personal Representative:ROBERT S. CHRISTENSEN, ESQ. Florida Bar Number: 0075272PO Box 415 Homosassa Springs, Florida 34447Telephone: 352-382-7934 Fax: 352-382-7936 E-mail: [email protected]
Published April 16 & 23, 2020
5641-0430 THCRNHerrera, Diane 2019-CC-1007 Notice of Action
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUITIN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA
Case No.: 2019-CC-1007
ANGELA VICK, AS CITRUS COUNTY CLERK OF COURT AND COMPTROLLERPlaintiff,
v.
5649-0507 THCRNKuntz, Doris E. 2020-CC-187 Notice of Action
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUITIN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA
Case No.: 2020-CC-187
ANGELA VICK, AS CITRUS COUNTY CLERK OF COURT AND COMPTROLLERPlaintiff,
v.DORIS E. KUNTZ; PAUL DRAGON; U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE IN TRUST FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF CITIGROUP MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-AHL2, ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007; CACH, LLC; DARVIN ASSET RECOVERY, LLC, and SELECT PORTFOLIO SERVICING, INC.,Defendants.
NOTICE OF ACTION
TO: Doris E. Kuntz, whose last known address is Cedar Creek ALF, 231 NW US High-way 19, Crystal River, FL 34428 and Paul Dragon whose last known address is Cedar Creek ALF, 231 NW US Highway 19, Crystal River , FL 34428
YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for Interpleader has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on CITRUS COUNTY
CLERK OF COURT AND COMPTROLLER, whose address is Keith Taylor Law Group, P.A., P.O. Box 2016, Lecanto FL, 34460, within 30 days of the 1st publication date, and file the original with the Clerk of this Court at Clerk of the Court, 110 N. Apopka Ave., Inverness, FL, 34450, before service on Plaintiff or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.
The action is asking the Court to decide how the following real or personal property should be divided: The overbid funds in the amount of $11,189.50 resulting from the tax deed sale that occurred on or around May 15, 2019 and referenced as Tax Deed #2019—0064TD.
Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request.
WITNESS my hand and seal of the Court on the 9th day of April, 2020.
CLERK OF COURT{{ COURT SEAL }}
By Amy Holmes, Deputy Clerk
Published April 16, 23, 30, 2020 and May 7, 2020
DIANE HERRERA, individually and as Administratrix of the ESTATE OF BETTY J. POLAK, deceased; PAUL A. JESPERSON, individually; and DINA E. JESPERSON, individually,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF ACTION
TO: Paul A. Jesperson and Dina E. Jesperson, last known address: 215 Grand Ave-nue #126, Merrill, WI 54452
YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for Interpleader has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on CITRUS COUNTY CLERK OF COURT AND COMPTROLLER, whose address is Keith Taylor Law Group, P.A., P.O. Box 2016, Lecanto FL, 34460, within 30 days of the 1st publication date, and file the original with the Clerk of this Court at Clerk of the Court, 110 N. Apopka Ave., Inverness, FL, 34450, before service on Plaintiff or immediately thereaf-ter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.
The action is asking the Court to decide how the following real or personal prop-erty should be divided: The overbid funds in the amount of $10,132.94 resulting from the tax deed sale that occurred on or around August 18, 2019 and referenced as Tax Deed #2019—0303TD.
Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request.
WITNESS my hand and seal of the Court on the 3rd day of April, 2020.
CLERK OF COURT{{ COURT SEAL }}
By Amy Holmes, Deputy Clerk
Published April 9, 16, 23, 30, 2020
5652-0423 THCRN
Notice under Fictitious Name Law, pursuant to Section 865.09, Florida Statutes.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of:
THE RYAN TEAM RElocated at 7310 E SHADYWOODS CT in the County of, MULTIPLE, in the City of FLORAL CITY: Florida, 34436-5732 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corpo-rations of the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, FL.
Dated at FLORAL CITY Florida, this April: day of 20, 2020.RYAN REBECCA GAIL
Published April 23, 2020
5653-0423 THCRN
Notice under Fictitious Name Law, pursuant to Section 865.09, Florida Statutes.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of:
BM PHOTOGRAPHY 063located at 207 E HARVARD ST in the County of, CITRUS, in the City of INVERNESS: Flor-ida, 34452-6716 intends to register the said name with the Division of Corporations of the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, FL.
Dated at INVERNESS Florida, this April: day of 20, 2020.HIXSON, MICHAEL RAY
Published April 23, 2020
5654-0423 THCRN
Notice under Fictitious Name Law, pursuant to Section 865.09, Florida Statutes.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of:
LITTLE VILLAGE SERVICE’Slocated at 3827 N BLAZINGSTAR WAYin the County of, CITRUS, in the City of BEVERLY HILLS: Florida, 34465-3390 intends to register the said name with the Division of Cor-porations of the Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, FL.
Dated at BEVERLY HILLS Florida, this April: day of 20, 2020.YORK, DINAH LEE
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