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Hinkle resigns from councilCites personal issues for his departureFRED HIERS

Staff writer

After more than 18 years on the Inverness City Council dais, Councilman Ken Hinkle resigned at

the end of Tuesday’s regu-larly scheduled meeting, citing personal issues be-hind his decision.

The city’s mayor, Hin-kle’s fellow council mem-bers and the city manager lavished Hinkle with praise for his service on the council during the past 18 years. The remaining four council members unanimously voted to fill the vacancy with Inver-ness businessman and Re-altor Gene Davis. The

seat’s term expires No-vember 2022.

Hinkle submitted his resigna-tion letter to City Manager Eric Wil-liams just moments b e f o r e Tuesday’s meeting.

“I am retiring strictly for per-sonal reasons,” he wrote

in his resignation letter to Williams.

“It has been an honor and privilege to serve the city for the past 18 years,” Hinkle wrote. “It has been exciting to watch the city change during this time. I have been a part of several projects that (have) mod-ernized the city while still maintaining that small town feeling that we all love.”

“The growth in the busi-n e s s c o m m u n i t y

throughout Inverness in invigorating to watch and I hope to see it continue in time to come,” wrote the 71-year-old Hinkle. “My thoughts and prayers will be with each of you as you continue to serve the best city in the state.”

“We’ve got a great fu-ture,” Hinkle said after announcing his retirement to his fellow council mem-bers, and he applauded

Ken Hinkle

See HINKLE/Page A5

Road closures, detours for

Christmas ParadeThe Citrus County

Sheriff’s Office wants to remind motorists of road closures Saturday, Dec. 11, for the annual Inver-ness Christmas Parade.

The parade will be from noon - 2 p.m., but roads will be closed start-ing at 11 a.m. in prepara-tion of the parade, said Alexandria Perkins, CCSO spokeswoman.

Which roads will be affected?

West Main Street from U.S. 41 at the Inverness Publix to U.S. 41 South, just past McDonald’s restaurant.

Detours?West Highland Boulevard

to Montgomery Avenue.If you’re going to be

traveling, plan your “out and about” route accord-ingly, Perkins said. Try to avoid this area if possible and take an alternate route. The road closure is expected to last until about 2 p.m.

FDLE charges Homosassa man

with child pornography

One Homosassa man is in custody after agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) charged him with 12

counts of pos-session of child sexual abuse mate-rial and one count

of distribution of child sex-ual abuse material.

Agents from the Tampa Bay Regional Operations Center arrested Frederick Deckant, 59, of Homo-sassa, on Wednesday, ac-cording to a Facebook post on its social media account.

According to the post, after an undercover opera-tion identified an IP address that was sharing suspected child pornography, agents executed a search warrant at Deckant’s home and, based on the results of the search warrant, took him into custody.

Deckant was booked into Citrus County Jail. Bond was set at $195,000. The case will be prosecuted by the State Attorney’s Office, Fifth Judicial Circuit.

For more information, see Friday’s edition of the Citrus County Chronicle.

Floral City church offering

vaccinations Starting at 9 a.m. Dec.

10, Floral City United Methodist Church, in co-operation with the Citrus County Health Depart-ment, will hold the next round of COVID-19 vacci-nations in the church’s Hilton Hall, 8478 E. Mar-vin St. in Floral City.

Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vac-cines will be offered, in addition to all vaccine makers’ boosters. In addi-tion, the public can regis-ter for regular flu shots and hepatitis shots.

To schedule an ap-pointment, call the church office at 352-344-1771.

— From staff reports

Meal fit for manateesSeagrass from King’s Bay used for feeding

BUSTER THOMPSONStaff writer

Like cooked spaghetti leaving a strainer, the seagrass fell from buckets over the side of the Long River Bridge at the Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park.

Sounds of the vegetation hitting the clear, fresh water resonated toward four manatees waiting the afternoon of Wednesday, Dec. 8, on the other side of the park’s submerged enclosure.

Lunch was served.In less than a minute, the small herd of

marine mammals torpedoed the floating mat of seagrass, munching their way through below a crowd of park goers and news crews watching from atop the bridge.

Workers with aquatic restoration firm Sea & Shoreline LLC delivered the man-atees’ feast from a local source: King’s Bay, Crystal River.

“We’re here to witness a pretty neat project,” Ryan Brushwood, lead biologist at Sea & Shoreline, said before helping his colleagues wheelbarrow bushels of seagrass to the park’s bridge dividing the Homosassa River from its head spring.

These seagrass strands were once float-ing and pooling in King’s Bay — a side effect of the Save Crystal River Inc. King’s Bay Restoration Project, which has been transforming the bay’s bottom with lush seagrass beds for the past six years.

Sea & Shoreline contracted with Save Crystal River and the Homosassa River Restoration Project Inc. to help turn their similar environmental endeavors into realities.

Each year, like other plants, seagrass sheds around 80% of its biomass.

“It’s a normal part of the process,” Brushwood said, “but if they get caught in docks and dead-end canals, they can set-tle and become muck again. ... It’s kind of an eyesore.”

A lush bounty of seagrass isn’t some-thing every manatee living in Florida has been able to find in 2021, especially along the Sunshine State’s east coast in the In-dian River Lagoon.

There have been more than 1,000 re-ported manatee deaths during the year, according to preliminary findings from the Florida Fish and Wildlife

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MATTHEW BECK/ChronicleABOVE: Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park Ranger Jackie Gordon dumps a basket of seagrass clippings into the Homosassa River Wednesday, Dec. 8. The Sea & Shoreline aquatic restoration firm cleaning Crystal and Homosassa Rivers has collected hundreds of pounds of the clippings to feed the four captive West Indian manatees at the park. BELOW: A West Indian manatee munches on seagrass or eelgrass clippings fed to it and three other captive manatees inside Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park Wednesday, Dec. 8.

See MANATEES/Page A2

Mike Clemmer, ‘born to help others’NANCY KENNEDY

Staff writer

Every organization, every church, every neighborhood needs a Mike Clemmer.

He was the one who gave 1,000% to anything he did, the one who raised his hand to vol-unteer before the need was even presented.

He was the one who looked for ways to serve others, the one you could count on, the one who came early and stayed late.

The morning of Oct. 31, he had already been to his church, St. Benedict Catholic Church in Crystal River, to set out the

coffee and doughnuts before Sunday Mass, and went back home to take a quick shower, planning to return to church to help serve Mass as a Eucharistic minister.

The night before he had stayed up late working at a Hal-loween event he had helped plan and implement for FFRA, Friends and Families Reaching for Abilities, an organization that was dear to him.

He never made it to Mass that day.

Mike Clemmer died Oct. 31. He was 75.

“Serving others came natu-rally to him,” said his wife, Diane Clemmer.

As a young boy in Indiana, Mike delivered newspapers on his bicycle.

At one of the houses on his route, a developmentally

coffee and doughnuts before He never made it to Mass that

Special to the ChronicleMike Clemmer, who died Oct. 31 at age 75, loved serving others. In this photo, he’s at an FFRA, Friends and Family Reaching for Abilities, event.See CLEMMER/Page A5

Conservation Commis-sion, including 21 in Citrus County.

“Everyone’s aware of the pretty grim news of manatee die-offs state-wide,” Brushwood said, “and a lot of those die-offs have been due to starva-tion frankly because of seagrass die-off and habi-tat loss.”

Manatees eat 10% to 15% of their body weight in seagrass a day, or be-tween 80 and 150 pounds

of aquatic vegetation. In response to the fam-

ine facing manatees, Sea & Shoreline’s “Seagrass Saves Sea Life” campaign took action on a win-win solution.

Sea & Shoreline set forth on a weekly goal to bring between 400 and 700 pounds of seagrass clip-pings from the surface of King’s Bay to feed the local park’s manatees — Betsy, Ariel, Hines and Keeks.

“We’re not digging any-thing up; we’re only col-lecting stuff from the surface that’s already been floating,” Brushwood said. “…and bringing it

here where it can be used as food for the manatees.”

Brushwood said the feed-ings will also help offset costs for the park, which feeds 11 cases containing between 30 and 50 pounds of lettuce — either romaine or escarole — to its resident manatees each day.

“We’re able to feed them a natural food source that’s more nutritious, more calorie-rich for them,” Brushwood said.

Sea & Shoreline has enough funding for at least 26 weeks of seagrass feed-ings at the park thanks to contribution from the California-based Nancy P. And Richard K.

Robbins Foundation.“They saw this problem

with manatees dying, and they wanted to do some-thing,” Brushwood said. “Restoring seagrass in habitats is the long-term solution but it takes time, and, unfortunately, this problem that we’re deal-ing with is right now.”

Brushwood said Sea & Shoreline is also looking into if it can transport shed-ded seagrass to vulnerable manatee populations else-where in Florida.

“It’s absolutely some-thing worth exploring,” he said. “We’re fortunate enough to have an abun-dance of seagrass, and it would be great if we could share that around the state.”

Save Crystal River Board President Lisa Moore said Wednesday’s feeding was just another upside of the nonprofit’s restoration effort.

Along with reopening more than 700 clogged spring vents around King’s Bay, Sea & Shoreline’s 54 acres of planted

seagrass blossomed to over 200 acres.

“This project has had so many unexpected bene-fits,” Moore said. “why not feed the manatees the grass? It just seemed like a natural fit.”

Steve Minguy, board president of the Homo-sassa River Restoration Project, or HRRP, said he’s hopeful Sea & Shore-line can one day use the seagrass leftovers from the two-year-old project.

Minguy said Sea & Shore-line has done just under 14 acres of the project’s first phase of 25 acres in canals and coves next door to the park. A second phase of 34 acres is upcoming, tak-ing HRRP’s seagrass up to and beyond Halls River.

“The growth has been phenomenal and the back-ing from community has surprised me,” Minguy said, “…That amount of participation; I didn’t see that coming, and that’s been very awesome.”

HRRP also set up an ex-hibit at the park’s en-trance of waste its

members picked up from the nearby rivers.

Moore said Sea & Shore-line got permits for year-round in-water work in King’s Bay, and is on track to reach Save Crystal Riv-er’s goal to restore 90 acres of the bay by Crystal River’s 100th birthday in July 2023 if state funding remains stable.

Save Crystal River will also try to muster support for separate restoration initiatives to clean the Hunter Spring Run basin and the area of Cedar Cove where Crystal River’s Riv-erwalk is planned to go.

Moore said the organi-zation also wants to bring Parker Island back to its original size by using the earth from the unnatural land bridge to the north.

“We recognize those other problems,” she said, “and we’re trying to ad-dress them.”

Contact Chronicle re-porter Buster Thompson at 352-564-2916, [email protected] or visit tinyurl.com/yxn2ahso to see more of his stories.

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MATTHEW BECK/ChronicleSea & Shoreline employee Travis Vanavidez wheels seagrass towards the Long River Bridge at the Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park Wednesday, Dec. 8. The grass, collected from the surface of King’s Bay in Crystal River, was fed to waiting manatees in the park.

FRED HIERSStaff writer

An Inverness property code violation for four overgrown lots and with fines totaling m o r e t h a n $138,000 was set-tled this week by the Inverness City Council.

The council members agreed unanimously that with the four lots on Popular Street and Madison Street worth about $4,000 each, the fine against owner LEVEN-TURES LLC would pro-hibit development.

City Manager Eric Wil-liams told his council bosses that the city threat-ened to foreclose on the properties, and after years ignoring the city staff, the owners responded.

Williams also said that the potential value of the lots if developed was likely a motivating factor in re-solving the issue.

Williams said that with such a large fine con-nected with the proper-ties, they would not likely get developed and recom-mended the council ac-cept $3,000 from the owner.

“We believe this more

than covers” the cost to the city, Williams said. “We be-lieve it’s fair.”

Councilman Cabot Mc-Bride said of the deal that the city was being “very

gracious and generous.”

And, he said, the owners need to be more respon-sive when con-tacted by city staff.

The council ap-proved the deal 5-0 during its regu-larly scheduled meeting Tuesday.

The city first cited the property owners for an overgrown lot Oct. 7, 2019. Three weeks later the lots were still not in compliance, according to records. The city’s code enforcement special mag-istrate gave owners 30 days to comply or face a $50 per day fine. The fines

started Dec. 1, 2019.On Nov. 11, 2021, the

owners, through their law-yer, proposed a $3,000 settlement.

� Also in city council news, the council held off a vote on the final plat ap-proval for the Wyld Palms subdivision slated to be made up of 62 townhomes and 168 single family homes.

Williams told his council bosses Tuesday there had been a clerical error on the documents and that he would bring back the doc-uments during the coun-cil’s Dec. 21 meeting.

For more than a dozen years, the subdivision has been left mostly abandoned with buildings overgrown and mostly unmaintained save for the community clubhouse. The original de-velopers are no longer with the project.

On July 9, 2021, Garden Street Communities out of Gulf Breeze purchased the Wyld Palms property and provided the city with a final plat of the new

subdivision.In May, 2021, the council

approved a preliminary plan for the subdivision.

� Also in city business, Williams told the council members the city’s Light Up Liberty and Light Up the Lake had been suc-cesses with about 2,000 visitors. The events in-volved a boat parade with

lighted, decorated boats and decorated light poles in the park.

Mayor Bob Plaisted told the council that he had “not seen anything as beautiful as that in I don’t know how long.”

Contact Chronicle re-porter Fred Hiers at [email protected] or 352-397-5914.

Attend a sunset drum

circleThe Second Sunday

Sunset Drum Circle will meet at 4 p.m. Dec. 12 at the last picnic shelter on Fort Island Gulf Beach, 1600 W. Fort Island Trail in Crystal River. If it is raining at the start time, it is canceled.

This free monthly event has existed for 14 years. They embrace diversity and aim to help people “get in the groove by living in the present” by forgetting their worries for a couple of hours with the universal lan-guage of rhythm.

Bring drums, flutes, shak-ers and other small percus-sion instruments, along with your dancing feet, a chair, beverage and bug spray. Due to COVID, attendees are encouraged to distance themselves if it makes them feel safer. County park rules prohibit dogs, alcohol, smoking and ground fires.

For more information, visit Citrus County Drum-mers on FaceBook or call Charlotte at 352-344-8009.

Enjoy the lights at Fort Cooper

State ParkAttend “Nights of Lights”

at Fort Cooper State Park at 6 p.m. Dec. 10 and 11, 3100 S. Old Floral City Road in Inverness.

Enjoy the park with music, decorations and thousands of lights as you stroll along the walkways and through the buildings. There will also be free re-freshments and a visit with Santa.

Admission is a donation of nonperishable food or a new toy for Citrus United Basket (CUB) and/or a do-nation of pet food for Citrus County Animal Services. All proceeds from monetary donations will be used to fund this and future events.

This year’s challenge is “Fill CUB’s Truck!” During the two-day event, dona-tions will be loaded into the CUB truck by a local Boy Scout Troop. For more in-formation, visit thefriends offortcooper.com.

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liance will meet at 7 p.m. Dec. 9 at the Old Homo-sassa Civic Club, 5530 S. Mason Creek Road.

The guest speaker will be Josh Doctor of the Citrus County Sheriff’s Depart-ment, who will give an up-date on department activities.

Tennis courts to close for

improvementsThe Citrus Springs tennis

courts, 9940 N. Citrus Springs Blvd., will be closed for resurfacing improve-ments beginning Dec. 13. They will be closed for ap-proximately one week, weather permitting.

This project is funded through capital improve-ment funds in the amount of $14,688.

For more information, call the Citrus County Parks & Recreation’s administration office at 352-527-7540.


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Special to the Chronicle

The Citrus County Clerk of Courts wants to remind the public about enrolling in its free Recording Activ-ity Notice pro-gram to red flag fraudulent activity and help protect property.

“This fraud alert is important be-cause it gives the citizens of Citrus County, or those who own property here, the ability to track documents filed in the offi-cial records involving their name or business,” Clerk of Courts and County Re-corder Angela Vick said. “Property fraud alerts do not prevent fraud, but they

do allow the property owner to be notified and take appropriate legal ac-tion if something poten-tially illegal is filed.”

Property fraud occurs when a person fraudulently files d o c u m e n t s against property for financial gain or to take over ownership with-out the owner’s knowledge. Scam-mers target indi-v i d u a l s i n

multiple ways.One document targeted

and used by scammers is a recorded power of attor-ney because they grant ac-cess to information such as bank accounts and assets.

Scammers also watch obituaries and act quickly by forging the name of a deceased person on a deed to transfer the prop-erty and secure the title. Then the property is used to secure loans. The scam-mer defaults on the loans, and lenders seize the property.

“Fraud can happen to anyone,” Vick said, “but some are more vulnera-ble: senior citizens, immi-grants, those facing foreclosure, and those who have multiple proper-ties — second homes, va-cation property or investment property. Also at risk are those who own unoccupied homes, lots or businesses.”

Vick said her office

believes “it is important to offer this service to those who entrust their official records documents to us.”

Users can set up multi-ple alerts to monitor dif-ferent spellings of their name or business, if they are concerned that it might be missed. Even so, the alert is only as effec-tive as the correct spelling of the name that is being monitored.

Once registered for this service, users will receive an automatic email notifi-cation when a document is recorded in Citrus County specifically naming them or their business entity.

Notifications are gener-ated within 24 hours of a document being indexed into the official records,

providing users with prompt notification of any recordings.

Included in notifica-tions will be the document type, registered name and a direct link to view the re-corded document.

To sign up for this fraud alert protection, users can visit citrusclerk.org/ran and click on the “click here to sign up for alerts” button.

The online form re-quires a valid email ad-dress, as those who register will be immedi-ately notified by email should a document be re-corded that matches the criteria provided. Assis-tance is also available at 352-341-6424, option two for any questions.

Clerk’s office offers alert system

Angela Vick

BUSTER THOMPSONStaff writer

To curb the population of trou-blesome wild hogs across its local lands, the Southwest Florida Water Management District is opening another round to register for hunting permits.

Hunters can start applying at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14, to get $75 nonrefundable permits for three-day hunts running January through February 2022 in six dis-trict lands.

Registration ends either when all permits are sold or at midnight on Dec. 16, whichever comes first. Permits are transferable.

For more information, visit Wa-terMatters.org/HogHunts or call the district’s land management section at 800-423-1476.

District officials will contact whoever produces the most on each hunt during phase two to take part in feral hog hunts on as-needed basis, free of charge.

Citrus County is home to one of the district lands for hog hunting, the Flying Eagle Nature Center off East Boy Scout Road, east of

Inverness. Jan. 11-13 is slated to be when 20 permitted hunters can hunt hogs in the preserve.

North of Citrus County’s border with Marion County is the Hál-pata Tastanaki Preserve, which will host its hog hunt Jan 25-27 for 25 permitted hunters.

There will be no days to scout

the lands ahead of time.Invasive to Florida, feral hogs

were introduced to the Sunshine State as early as 1539 by explorer Hernando DeSoto.

Using their broad snouts to root out their meals, hogs destroy nat-ural habitats and leave them look-ing like plowed fields. When hogs

cause too much destruction in its lands, the water management dis-trict hosts a series of hunts to con-trol the animal’s population.

Contact Chronicle reporter Buster Thompson at 352-564-2916, [email protected] or visit tinyurl.com/yxn2ahso to see more of his stories.

FWCWild hogs eat a variety of plants and animals. They feed by rooting with their broad snouts, which can disturb the soil and ground cover vegetation, leaving an area looking like a plowed field.

District OKs second phase of hog hunts

Birthday: K indness and generosity will make you feel good, but don’t be gull-ible. Pick whom you help based on re-search, facts and your beliefs. You can make a difference this year, but you must protect your interests first.Sagittarius ( Nov. 23-Dec. 21) : An open mind will lead to new beginnings. Don’t get trapped in the past or by someone’s dilemma. Concentrate on what’s important to you and the best ways to achieve your goals. Speak up. Capricorn ( Dec. 22-J an. 19) : Reas-sess your financial situation and make adjustments that help ease budget stress. Aq uarius ( J an. 20-Feb. 19) : Emotions will flare up q uickly if you disagree with a peer, friend or loved one. Pay atten-tion to your appearance, personal growth and health.Pisces ( Feb. 20-March 20) : An open mind will help you overlook flaws. Offer support to others to boost your reputation.Aries ( March 21-April 19) : Take note of what others ask of you and decide what’s in your best interest before committing to anything.Taurus ( April 20-May 20) : Situations will get blown out of proportion if you can’t make up your mind.Gemini ( May 21-J une 20) : Don’t waste time on things you cannot change. Look beyond the moment and focus on what you can do to make your life better.Cancer ( J une 21-J uly 22) : You’ll out-maneuver any competition you en-counter if you offer options that are bound to capture interest.Leo ( J uly 23-Aug. 22) : You’ll be pulled in different directions if you let others take control. K now when to say no and when to speak up, and do your own thing.Virgo ( Aug. 23-Sept. 22) : Handle in-ternal problems diplomatically. G et along with those you live or work alongside. Embrace change and use your skills efficiently, and you will posi-tively influence others. You will excel. Libra ( Sept. 23-Oct. 23) : Take better care of yourself. G et involved in events that will push you toward a healthier lifestyle.Scorpio ( Oct. 24-Nov. 22) : Learn from your mistakes in order to avoid a prob-lematic situation. Honesty is the best policy when dealing with shared ex-penses, space or plans.

Today’s HOROSCOPES

Today is Thursday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2021. There are 22 days left in the year.

Today’s H ighlight: On Dec. 9, 2014, U .S. Senate in-

vestigators concluded the U nited States had brutalized scores of ter-ror suspects with interrogation tac-tics that turned secret CIA prisons into chambers of suffering and did nothing to make Americans safer after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

On this date: In 1917, British forces captured

Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks.In 1965, “ A Charlie Brown Christ-

mas,” the first animated TV special featuring characters from the “ Pea-nuts” comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, premiered on CBS.

In 2013, scientists revealed that NASA’s Curiosity rover had uncov-ered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars.

Ten years ago: The European U nion said 26 of its 27 member countries were open to joining a new treaty tying their finances to-gether to solve the euro crisis; Brit-ain remained opposed.

Five years ago: The W hite House said President Barack Obama had ordered intelligence of-ficials to conduct a broad review of election-season cyberattacks, in-cluding the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign and raised fresh concerns about Rus-sia’s meddling in U .S. elections.

One year ago: The U .S. govern-ment and 48 states and districts sued Facebook, accusing it of abus-ing its market power in social net-working to crush smaller competitors. (A federal judge dismissed the law-suits in June 2021; federal regulators filed a revised complaint in August.)

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Dame Judi Dench is 87. Actor Beau Bridges is 80. Football Hall of Famer Dick Butkus is 79. Actor John Malkovich is 68. Singer Donny Osmond is 64. Actor Felicity Huff-man is 59. Olympic gold and silver medal gymnast McK ayla Maroney is 26.

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ENTERTAINMENTJussie Smollett case

in jurors’ hands at Chicago trial

CHICAG O — A prosecutor told jurors W ednesday there is “ overwhelming evidence” that J ussie Smollett lied to Chicago police about being the victim of an anti-gay, racist hate crime, while a defense attorney called the case a “ house of cards” built on testimony from two liars.

The lawyers’ closing arguments capped just over one week of tes-timony in the case against the for-mer “ Empire” actor. The jury deliberated for about two hours W ednesday but broke for the day without reaching a verdict. They are expected to resume delibera-tions Thursday.

In his closing, special prose-cutor Dan Webb said Smollett caused Chicago police to spend enormous resources investigat-ing an alleged crime that they now believe is fake. Smollett, who is Black and gay, told police someone put a noose around his neck and yelled racist and ho-mophobic slurs during the Janu-ary 2019 attack near his downtown Chicago home.

“ Besides being against the law, it is just plain wrong to outright deni-grate something as serious as a real hate crime and then make sure it involved words and symbols that have such historical significance in our country,” W ebb said.

He also accused Smollett of lying to jurors, saying surveil-lance video from before the al-leged attack and that night contradicts key moments of Smollett’s testimony.

“ At the end of the day, he lacks any credibility whatsoever,” W ebb said.

Defense attorney Nenye Uche said in his closing argu-ment that two brothers who

testified that Smollett orches-trated the attack and paid them to carry it out are “ sophisticated liars” out for money.

“ The entire prosecution’s case, including the foundation of the case, is built like a house of cards,” U che said.

Lawyer: Flavor Flav aims for sobriety,

battery case closedLAS V EG AS — Attorneys for

entertainer Flavor Flav said W ednesday he’s working to stay sober following dismissal of a misdemeanor domestic battery charge stemming from a scuffle with his girlfriend at home in sub-urban Las V egas.

The 62-year-old former rap-per, hip-hop and reality TV star, whose legal name is W illiam Jonathan Drayton Jr., pleaded

no contest in Henderson Munici-pal Court to a misdemeanor nonviolent coercion charge, ad-mitted he took a cellphone, and paid $640 in fines, a court official and his defense attorneys said.

“ Mr. Drayton and his family are grateful to bring an amicable close to this matter and appreci-ate everyone’s support as he continues his one-year journey of sobriety,” defense attorneys David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld said in a statement.

Drayton was arrested late Oct. 4 at home in Henderson. He was freed from jail the next day on $3,000 bond.

The alleged victim was identi-fied as a woman with whom he has a dating relationship and a minor child in common. Her name was redacted in court and police documents.

— From wire reports

Associated PressActor Jussie Smollett, second from right, departs the Leighton Criminal Courthouse Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, with his mother, Janet, center, and unidentified siblings after Cook County Judge James Linn gave the case to the jury in Chicago.

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disabled boy would sit out-side and Mike began stop-ping to talk to him.

“Mike would talk about this boy and about how the boy’s eyes would light up when he saw him,” Diane Clemmer said. “Even then he had a sense of being compassionate and want-ing to help others.”

After a varied career, in-cluding a stint in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves, Mike and Diane retired to Sugarmill Woods in Homosassa.

That’s when Mike had time to do the things that fueled his passion and com-passion for others, serving at church and with the Knights of Columbus Coun-cil 15225 St. Benedict, rais-ing money for charitable causes like purchasing a wheelchair-accessible van for a severely disabled boy.

He started Coats for Kids, collecting more than 1,000 coats and jackets that the Knights give to the Preg-nancy and Family Life Cen-ter and DayStar Life Center to give out for free, said fel-low Knight John Conroy.

“He really cared about people,” Conroy said.

Around his Sugarmill Woods neighborhood, Mike was a caretaker for his neighbors, from doing odd jobs around the house that they couldn’t do themselves to sealing all the driveways of the houses in the cul-de-sac every year so they all had uniform curb appeal.

One of Mike’s neighbors, Dave Deso, invited Mike to get involved with FFRA, the nonprofit support and social group for people with intel-lectual disabilities, their

caregivers and friends.“When I explained to

him what we do, he told me about the young man from his days delivering papers,” Deso said. “That had left a lasting impression on him, and FFRA reminded him of that relationship. He came aboard full-steam.”

At FFRA, Mike was the one who made everything happen.

In the past few years, the organization has been rais-ing money for a building where they can meet, and Mike was invaluable in their fundraising events such as the Abilities Art Gala, Top Hat Big Band concert and dance, and Halloween Haunted Drive-Thru.

“When I first met Mike, he was Santa Claus at a Christ-mas party — and he came in late,” said board member and friend Robert DeSimone. “He had on a frumpy-looking costume and beard, and I’m thinking, ‘This guy’s not going to work out,’ but it turned out that he was late because he was doing something for somebody.

“If we had a meeting and talked about needing some-thing done — boom! — he’d volunteer and then an hour later or the middle of the night you’d get a copy of a letter he’d written or an ad or something he’d done.

“Any idea or project I cooked up, he’d jump in with both feet,” DeSimone said. “I never had to worry about things getting done, because Mike did it.”

About five years ago, Mike joined Deso and DeSimone as mentors to a few men with developmental disabil-ities. They call their group the Brotherhood and go out to eat or do community ser-vice projects together, like cleaning up the area around the three tall roadside

crosses on Homosassa Trail.“We all have a compan-

ion, and Mike had several,” Deso said. “Sometimes we’d be in Walmart and Mike would be with three or four of our guys, like a mother hen with her chicks.”

At a recent gathering of the Brotherhood, the men took turns talking about Mike Clemmer.

“Mike was like a father or a brother to all of us,’ said Bruce McKinnell, Mike’s FFRA buddy. “I felt really close to Mike, deep down inside. ... He helped me get my job at the Key Training Center in the workshop.”

“We were there at his fu-neral; he was the greatest man ever,” said John Dol-lard. “He took us to the Y swimming and to work out. We loved it.

“And we helped build the obstacle course at the Y, moving logs and pulling weeds, and we did some planting at the wildlife park, and Mike was right there with us,” Dollard said.

John Thagard remem-bered how Mike helped them take lawnmowers apart, clean them and put them back together.

“They’d fire right up, then we’d sell them and make some money,” Thagard said. “Out at the Halloween drive-through, I played the red-neck chainsaw massacre guy with a long, shaggy beard. Before we did that, we had to have posts to put up signs and Mike helped us pound the posts in the ground. He was right there and always available.”

“Through thick and thin, Mike was there with us, and I miss him,” McKinnell said. “I know if he was here, he’d tell us, ‘Keep going.’ He’s looking down on us right now, and he’s very proud of all of us.”

CLEMMERContinued from Page A1

Williams for his leader-ship during the past two years.

Hinkle oversaw during his tenure renovations of the downtown, Depot Dis-trict, construction of city hall, the city’s wastewater treatment plant, and nu-merous road and infra-structure projects. He also initiated “Pioneer Moments” which includes city residents speaking during council meetings about growing up in In-verness. He was first elected in March, 2003.

“I’m just shocked, Ken,” said Mayor Bob Plaisted.

“What an outstanding time we’ve had together ... all the things we’ve been through,” said a solemn Plaisted. “I’m truly going to miss you.”

Plaisted said Hinkle had lived up to his com-mitment to leave the city better than he had found it and help make Inver-ness a place people would

want to live.Fighting back tears,

Councilwoman Jacquie Hepfer said during the meeting she was speechless.

Councilman Cabot Mc-Bride said the council and city accomplished great things during Hin-kle’s tenure and that Hin-kle “set the standard for us all.”

“Really and truly we’re going to miss you on the council,” McBride said.

“It’s been an absolute pleasure,” said Council President David Ryan about working with Hin-kle. “You definitely will be missed. Thank you for your service to the community.”

Williams said Hinkle had been the embodiment of the kind of leadership the city needed and was part of the “family” of staff and elected officials that operated the city.

“It truly was an honor to come into the role (of city manager) with you as (council) president,” Wil-liams said about becom-ing city manager two years ago.

After resigning, Hinkle recommended that the council appoint local Re-altor and businessman Gene Davis to the Council seat 3. Davis has sat on numerous county and city boards during the past several years. He was also born and grew up in In-verness. The remaining four council members voted unanimously to ap-point Davis to fill the seat. If the vote had not been unanimous, the city would have had to hold a special election. Davis will have to run for the of-fice in November if he wants to remain at the post. The job pays about $4,000 annually.

Hinkle moved to Inver-ness as a child. He would not elaborate to the Chronicle about his leav-ing the council.

Davis told Hinkle that “the city will miss you” and that he would accept the job “with humility and honor.”

Contact Chronicle re-porter Fred Hiers at [email protected] or 352-397-5914.

HINKLEContinued from Page A1

Toys for Tots registration open Citrus United Basket will

accept registration for the Toys for Tots program from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday through Dec. 10 at 1201 Parkside Ave.

in Inverness.Children must be 12 years

old or under. Bring a photo ID, an original birth certificate or school record and a piece of mail with a current address.

If you have custody of a child, you must bring proper

documentation. All applica-tions will be cross referenced with all Citrus County agen-cies to ensure no duplication of accounts.

Masks will be required to register. For more informa-tion, call 352-344-2242.


NEWS BRIEFS

ObituariesDiana Selee

Diana Selee passed away at home after a l e n g t h y illness on N o v e m -ber 23, 2021 with her loving husband G e o r g e Selee and h e r daughter Angelisa Jipson by her side.

A celebration of life will be held at their home on Saturday December 11, 2021 from 1pm to 4pm.

3826 S. Missouri DriveHomosassa, Florida

34448Sign the guestbook at

chronicleonline.com.

Peggy Wadhams, 93

I N V E R N E S S

Wadhams. Peggy (Schmidt) Wadhams, 93 of Inverness Florida, passed peacefully on Wednesday (October 20, 2021) at the Hospice House in Lecanto FL.

She was born in M a m a -r o n e c k NY, the daughter of the late John A. Schmidt and Adeline B. Schmidt. Peggy graduated from Manches-ter High School in Man-chester, CT and later settled in Bloomfield, CT. She worked for Cigna Life Insurance Company and volunteered for many local charities. She retired in Inverness, FL where she continued her volun-teer services. Peggy is sur-vived by her three children, James A. Wad-hams of Hebron, CT, Patri-cia W. Schnee of Collinsville, CT, and Wil-liam E. Wadhams of Inver-ness, FL., 6 grandchildren and two great granddaugh-ters. A memorial service and burial will be held at the convenience of the family.

There will be no calling hours. Memorial contribu-tions can be made in her honor to the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37839, Boone, IA 50037-0839 or Myasthenia Gravis Foun-dation of America, Inc., 290 Turnpike Road, Suite 5-315, Westborough, MA 01581.

Sign the guestbook at chronicleonline.com.

Earlene Williams, 80

I N V E R N E S S

Earlene Williams (née Sayward) passed away shortly before Thanksgiv-ing 2021 in Inverness, Florida. She was 80 years old. She is pre-ceded in death by her par-ents, her siblings, her hus-b a n d D a v i d , and her youngest son Steven. She is survived by her son Ed-ward Williams of Port-land, Oregon; her daughter Kristen (Alex) Panamaroff, and her grandchildren Ryan and Elinore, all of Fairbanks, Alaska. She has a wealth of friends in Florida and Maine.

She was devoted to her family and home. She loved to quilt and craft and became an expert quilter, enjoying chal-lenges and the thrill of a

new find of fabric. She was proud of her work and her enthusiasm was infec-tious. She added many homemade touches to her homes, and was actively sanding, painting, and fix-ing up her beloved cottage even into her later years. She was always looking forward to the next project and fully enjoyed life on the lake. After a lifetime in the cold and snow of Maine, her wish was fi-nally realized when they moved to Florida in 1994. She wintered in Florida and stayed summers in Maine.

She was a treasured member of a circle of friends in quilting as part of the Citrus Friendship Quilters Guild and the In-verness Quilters. She be-longed to widow groups in Florida and Maine where she could let loose a little and laugh. Her friends say she was the first to volun-teer to organize parties and gatherings. She volun-teered at the SOS Food Pantry food bank. She al-ways remembered birth-days, anniversaries, and holidays and you were cer-tain to get a carefully picked out card or gift. She was always sending care packages to her grandkids, full of silly treats they enjoyed even as teenagers. She was es-pecially proud of going back to school later in life and getting her Associates Degree in Business Ad-ministration. She never gave herself enough credit for how smart she was. Some may not know this, but she was a lovely singer and has been a member of different Sweet Adelines groups over the years Sail-ing was a way of life while her kids were still at home. She was a wonderful first mate and ran a tight ship, on our little 26 foot sail-boat we would sail up and down the coast of Maine.

Earlene enjoyed travel-ing and made several trips out west to see her kids and grandkids. Later in life, after David finally re-tired, they enjoyed taking cruises.

She never wanted any-one to make a fuss over her, but there will be one anyway.

There will be a church service and reception/cel-ebration of life on Tuesday December 14 at 1:00 pm at Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church, 2540 W. Norvell-Bryant Highway, Lecanto, FL. As it is the advent season, there will be no flowers in the church. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the SOS Food Pantry at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, or to the Shep-herd of the Hills Episco-pal Church. Cards can be sent to Kristen

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Michael Gallant, 73C I T R O N E L L E

Michael Joseph GallantBeloved Son, Brother,

Husband, Father, Grampy, Great- Grampy, Uncle, and Friend

11/20/1948-12/03/2021Michael “Mike” Gallant

unexpectedly passed away D e c e m -ber 3rd in his home. Mike was born in W a t e r -v i l l e , Maine, to J o s e p h and Doris Gal lant , but spent the last half of his life in Citronelle, Flor-ida with his beautiful bride of 38 years, Regina Gallant. He loved his wife just as much on his dying day, as he did the day they met. Anyone who could see them together, could attest to the incredible, one-of-a-kind, true love they shared. Mike also had an undeniable love for his family and friends. He was known by his loved ones as a man of many words, for giving the soundest advice but also having a whit un-like any other. He had a sense of humor that could make anyone laugh; some-thing he very much en-joyed doing. All it took was one look at his quirky smile with that glimmer in his eyes, and you couldn’t help but laugh, knowing he was up to no good.

Mike is survived by his wife Regina, his son Todd Gallant and his wife Terri, his daughters Angie Van Dee and her boyfriend Steve, Robin Dodge and her husband Anthony, Renee Leary and her part-ner Martina, and Ramona Dillahunty, siblings Sally Devine, Patrick Gallant and his wife Barbara, Sha-ron Gallant, Susan Gallant and her husband Steve, and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents, his first wife Jean Scripture, his sister Sandra Dearborn, his brother James Gallant, and many in-laws.

At Mike’s request, there will be no funeral ser-vices; however, a Celebra-tion of Life will be held at a later date. Please con-tact the family for details.


Shirley Hotelling, 79SHIRLEY M. HO-

TELLING MARCH 14, 1942- NOVEMEBER 26, 2021

“The greatest journey in life…is the one that brings you home.”

Shirley Mae Hotelling took her final journey home to heaven on November 26, 2021. She had spent 3 months in a trauma center, due to a serious accident. She was 79 years old.

Shirley was married to James Hotelling in 1961, and they were together 60 years as husband and wife. They lived in Michigan, and in the later 60’s with their daughter and son, they became fulltime mis-sionaries at Camp Barakel in Fairview, MI.

Later, Shirley received her nursing degree, and prior to her retirement, shared her heart with oth-ers as a nurse and care-giver in Baldwin, MI.

Upon retiring, the cou-ple became Florida Snow-birds in the winter months and, in 2014, became full-time FL residents.

Shirley was a great cook, she loved to guilt, she loved her family, she loved the lord, and her heart was devoted to a Ladies’ Bible Study group for years. She was a precious and be-loved friend to so many, who will always remem-ber her with love.

Shirley is survived by her husband, James, daughter Dawn and son David.

Also survived by grand-daughter, Stacy (Jacob) Reynolds, and great grand-son, Jaxon. She was pre-ceded in death by adopted son, Robert. Shirley will be missed most by those who loved her most-her family.

A celebration of life for Shirley Mae Hotelling will be held at the Trinity Inde-pendent Baptist Church lo-cated at 2840 E. Hayes Street (corner of croft ave) Inverness FL on December 18th at 1pm, with visitation at noon. Pastor Jerry Blox-ton will be officiating.


Tommy Hatcher, 66F L O R A L C I T Y

Tommy Hatcher, 66, of Floral City, FL passed away December 1, 2021. Visitation will be held from 12PM-2PM, Saturday December 11, 2021 at Tem-ple Church of the Living God in Floral City, FL with a funeral service begin-ning at 2PM. Burial with full military honors will be held at 10AM, Monday, De-cember 13, 2021 at the Florida National Ceme-tery in Bushnell, FL.

Norma Kopena, 75

Norma Kopena was born in Eustis Florida to Dewey Partridge and Eliz-abeth (Davis) Partridge on November 6,1946. She was currently living in Citrus County Florida for the past 20 years.

She lost a five year fight with cancer on December 1, 2020. Surviving are her l o v i n g husband of 34 y e a r s , David Ko-pena,and her son’s Jeff and Eric Meli and Chris and Ryan Kopena. Grandchil-dren Taylor and Lorelai, Meli and Olivia, Ellie and Vivian Kopena.

Norma was a quiet, de-mure private person. An avid reader sometimes reading 5 books a week. She worked for Aetna Health Insurance in cus-tomer relations. Florida HealthCare Daytona Beach in marketing cus-tomer relations. Mount Dora Chamber of Com-merce where she worked to begin the Mount Dora Annual International Art Show.

She attended the Uni-versity of Florida after graduating Sumter Col-lege and Mount Dora High School.


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The Mass of Christian Burial for Mrs. Esther L. Burney, age 102 years, of Beverly Hills, will be cele-brated 10:30 AM Friday, December 10, 2021 at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Beverly Hills. In-terment will follow at Me-morial Gardens, Beverly Hills. Online condolences for the family can be left at www.HooperFuneral-Home.com.

Mrs. Burney was born November 3, 1919 in Cuba, Illinois to Mose and Rose Williams and came to Bev-erly Hills in 1982 from Miami. She passed away Monday, December 6, 2021. Mrs. Burney was a retired Registered Nurse. She was a member of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church where she was in-volved with the Catholic Womens Club and the Wid-ows Club. She was also in-volved in the Beverly Hills VFW Aux. and United Cit-izens of Beverly Hills.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Alex M. Burney (Novem-ber 18, 1989) and her

sister: Dena Such. Surviv-ing are her grandchildren Theresa Palmer, Shanna, Sarah, and Summer Wilkins, and Hallie and Chris Palmer. Arrange-ments under the direction of the Beverly Hills Chapel of Hooper Funeral Homes.

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Arrests from Dec. 3

� Jessica La Moine De Meyer, 39, Inverness, arrested Dec. 3 for failure to appear. Bond $2,000.

� Steven J. Frymire, 30, ar-rested Dec. 3 for criminal mis-chief ($200 or less), burglary – residence – occupied and bur-glary with battery. Bond $40,500.

� Brittany-Ann Michelle Huff-man, 30, Inverness, arrested Dec. 3 for DUI. Bond $1,000.

� Joseph Anthony Diehm, 43, Inverness, arrested Dec. 3 for two counts of drug para-phernalia. Bond $2,000.

� Randall Hendrick Renes, 32, Homosassa, arrested Dec. 3 for possession with intent to sell con-trolled substance. Bond $5,000.

� Destiny Nichole Beasley, 35, Hernando, arrested Dec. 3 for possession with intent to sell con-trolled substance. Bond $5,000.

� Candice Sabonia Jackson, 37, Beverly Hills, arrested Dec. 3 for domestic battery. No bond.

� Derek Adam James, 34, Lecanto, arrested Dec. 3 for auto theft, fail to stop or fleeing LEO after ordered to stop and burglary — conveyance — un-occupied, two counts of leave scene/fail to remain at scene of crash with serious injuries, driv-ing while license suspended/revoked (knowingly – first

offense) and reckless driving. Bond $15,500.

� Tyler Zane Pennington, 28, Beverly Hills, arrested Dec. 3 for three counts of posses-sion with intent to sell controlled substance. Bond $15,000.

� Michael Allen Marz, 42, Floral City, arrested Dec. 3 for two counts of violation of pro-bation. No bond.

� Joseph Alyousius Ronald Singh, 41, Inverness, arrested Dec. 3 for passion with intent to sell a controlled substance, possession of controlled sub-stance, resist officer without violence, possession cannabis (less than 20 grams) and drug paraphernalia. Bond $10,000.

� Chealsey May Stringer, 25 Dunnellon, arrested Dec. 3 for DUI. Bond $1,000.

� David Randal Cheshire, 48, Citra, arrested Dec. 3 for

driving while license sus-pended/revoked (knowingly – second offense). Bond $1,000.

Arrests from Dec. 4

� Jenna Anne Ackerson, 32, Hernando, arrested Dec. 4 for driving while license suspended/revoked (knowingly – first of-fense) and DUI. Bond $1,500.

� Jamie Nicole Teti, 34, Ho-mosassa, arrested Dec. 4 for failure to appear. Bond $500.

� Ath Chuck Keo, 41, Bev-erly Hills, arrested Dec. 4 for possession of a firearm by con-victed felon, felony battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill. No bond.

� William James Blanken-berg, 38, Dunnellon, arrested Dec. 4 for exposure of sexual

organ. Bond $1,000.� Brent Phillip Flippo, 32,

Crystal River, arrested Dec. 4 for DUI with damage to property of person of another. Bond $500.

� Justin Howard Little, 29, Inverness, arrested Dec. 4 for violation of probation. No bond.

� Candice Renee Shade, 37, Homosassa, arrested Dec. 4 for violation of probation. No bond.

� James Watson Twitty, 60, Inverness, arrested Dec. 4 for transmit or attempt to transmit to inmate of contraband item in state correctional facility. Bond $2,000.

� William David Gaither, 66, Hernando, arrested Dec. 4 for domestic battery. No bond.

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� Carol Ann Ayers, 63, Ho-mosassa, arrested Dec. 5 for

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Dunnellon, arrested Dec. 5 for failure to appear. Bond $513.

� Enrique Ayala, 40, Beverly Hills, arrested Dec. 5 for do-mestic battery. No bond.

� Daniel J. Hamman, 54, Lecanto, arrested Dec. 5 for violation of probation. No bond.

� Brittany Reve Rider, 32, Belleview, arrested Dec. 5 for violation of injunction. No bond.

� Joseph John Ross, 30, Lecanto, arrested Dec. 5 for failure to appear. No bond.

� Nichole Louise Bitter, 43, Lecanto, arrested Dec. 5 for possession of controlled sub-stance. Bond $4,000.

� William Christopher Wood, 40, Lecanto, arrested Dec. 5 for driving while license suspended/revoked (habitual). No bond.

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AT&T Inc T 22.22 1 33.88 23.17 +.09 +0.4 t t t -19.4 -14.2 cc 2.08

Ametek Inc AME 106.96 0 143.55 141.06 +.66 +0.5 s s s +16.6 +20.3 35 0.80

Anheuser-Busch InBev BUD 54.08 2 79.67 57.84 -.60 -1.0 s t s -17.3 -16.1 20 1.10e

Bank of America BAC 28.14 8 48.69 44.16 -.55 -1.2 s t s +45.7 +53.4 13 0.84

Capital City Bank CCBG 21.42 8 29.00 26.96 -.35 -1.3 t t s +9.7 +10.7 13 0.64f

Citigroup C 57.28 3 80.29 62.46 -.44 -0.7 t t t +1.3 +10.1 6 2.04

Disney DIS 142.04 2 203.02 153.34 +2.53 +1.7 s t t -15.4 -2.5 ...

Duke Energy DUK 85.56 7 108.38 100.85 -.32 -0.3 s t s +10.1 +15.3 57 3.94f

EPR Properties EPR 29.79 7 56.07 48.11 +.28 +0.6 s t t +48.0 +46.1 3.00

Equity Commonwealth EQC 25.12 2 29.29 25.70 +.27 +1.1 s t t -5.8 -2.6 2.50e

Exxon Mobil Corp XOM 40.44 9 66.38 62.45 +.18 +0.3 s t s +51.5 +56.1 3.52f

Ford Motor F 8.43 0 20.79 19.81 -.15 -0.8 s s s +125.4 +106.9 23 0.40

Gen Electric GE 82.88 5 116.17 98.28 +.73 +0.7 s t t +14.0 +10.7 0.32

HCA Holdings Inc HCA 153.75 8 263.92 240.51 +1.91 +0.8 s t t +46.2 +49.2 22 1.92

Home Depot HD 246.59 0 420.61 411.25 -4.93 -1.2 s s s +54.8 +60.0 29 6.60

Intel Corp INTC 45.24 3 68.49 51.75 -.82 -1.6 s s t +3.9 +0.8 10 1.39

IBM IBM 114.56 3 152.84 123.02 +1.44 +1.2 s s t -2.3 +4.1 21 6.56

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Microsoft Corp MSFT 209.11 9 349.67 334.97 +.05 ... s s s +50.6 +53.2 37 2.48f

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UniFirst Corp UNF 186.38 3 258.86 204.60 +1.08 +0.5 s s t -3.3 +7.3 26 1.00

Verizon Comm VZ 49.74 1 61.82 50.49 -.30 -0.6 t t t -14.1 -12.9 9 2.56f

Vodafone Group VOD 14.53 2 20.36 15.14 +.24 +1.6 s t t -8.1 -5.3 cc 1.06e

WalMart Strs WMT 126.28 5 152.57 137.15 -1.40 -1.0 t t t -4.9 -5.2 39 2.20

Walgreen Boots Alli WBA 39.03 6 57.05 48.50 +.27 +0.6 s t s +21.6 +15.6 18 1.91

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Stocks end modestly higherAfter a choppy day of tradingDamian J. Troise and Alex Veiga

AP business writers

Major stock indexes weathered a bout of choppy trading on Wall Street Wednesday and closed higher for the third day in a row.

The S&P 500 rose 0.3%, with 62% of the stocks within the benchmark index closing higher. The muted trading followed a strong start to the week that included the index’s biggest gain since March. With the latest gain, the S&P 500 has now recov-ered all of its losses from its two-week skid heading into this week.

The Dow Jones Indus-trial Average bounced back from an early drop to eke out a 0.1% gain, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.6%.

Markets had slipped the previous two weeks over several concerns, includ-ing rising inflation, the newest coronavirus vari-ant and how both issues could impact economic growth. Stocks steadied

this week following com-ments from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical adviser, who on Monday said early indi-cations suggested that the omicron variant may be less dangerous than delta.

“The generally more confident tone is a func-tion of omicron news,” said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab. “Re-gardless of what’s happen-ing, it’s still amazing to see all the flip-flopping hap-pening at the sector level.”

The choppiness in the market will likely persist through December, she said.

The S&P 500 rose 14.46 points to 4,701.21, and is now up 25.2% for the year. The Dow gained 35.32 points to 35,754.75. The blue chip index swung be-tween a loss of 116 and a gain of 121.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq had also been down in the early going before bounc-ing back to gain 100.07 points and end at 15,786.99.

Smaller company stocks outpaced the rest of the market. The Russell 2000 rose 17.92 points, or 0.8%, to 2,271.71.

A wide range of travel- related companies gained ground in a sign that inves-tors are confident that the

industry will continue its recovery despite the threat from the omicron variant of COVID-19.

Norwegian Cruise Line jumped 8.2% for the big-gest gain in the S&P 500, while rivals Carnival rose 5.5% and Royal Caribbean gained 5.2%. United Air-lines rose 4.2% and Las Vegas Sands added 4.4%.

Technology companies accounted for a big slice of the S&P 500’s gains, though Apple’s 2.3% rise did a lot of the heavy lift-ing as its weighting gives it a large influence on the sector. Other big tech com-panies fell, including chip-maker Nvidia, which dropped 1.9% and Intel, which closed 1.6% lower.

Communications and health care stocks made solid gains. Facebook par-ent Meta Platforms rose 2.4% and Twitter rose 2.8%. UnitedHealth Group rose 0.9%.

Financial stocks were the biggest laggards. JPMorgan Chase fell 1.1% and Bank of America slid 1.2%.

Energy futures rose. The price of U.S. crude oil gained 0.4%, though en-ergy stocks were mixed.

Bond yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Trea-sury rose to 1.52% from 1.48% late Tuesday.

OPINIONPage A9 - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2021

Hope verdict will put racism in the pastMany will find reason to be

happy that justice was served in the Ahmaud Arbery case. I do not think that happiness is good karma when we are sending three men to prison, likely for the rest of their life. I am certainly relieved that our judicial system is finally working in what was a strong racist situation.

I am also saddened that we still have those who will con-sider killing a man who was jogging, unarmed. Maybe it will discourage others from a similar crime. Maybe it will be a verdict that can actually help to move racism to history.

Maybe. If not, how long can it possibly take?

David VincentFloral City

St. Jude a worthy charity to give to

It first came to my atten-tion, when as a teenager I no-ticed that my father sent donations to the St. Jude Chil-dren’s Research Hospital regularly.

Later, when I lived close to the hospital in Memphis, Ten-nessee, I saw children with their parents in a local restaurant — the children had no hair and obviously were undergoing cancer treatments.

So then I knew my father was so concerned about chil-dren that he donated to St. Jude and so was Danny Thomas, the famous actor.

According to the internet, Thomas, before his fame, was married and his wife was with child. He was worried about future looming hospital bills. But while at church, without thought, gave his last $7 in the offering plate. He prayed for help financially;

soon, he received an offer for a small acting part that paid seven times what he gave in church. He experienced the power of prayer.

Soon, his acting career re-ally took off, even with a show named “Make Room For Daddy.” But every time his career slowed down, he prom-ised to honor God with a shrine to St. Jude.

One thing led to another and with the help of a priest who lived in Memphis, Ten-nessee, businessmen there and many from across the na-tion in 1962, the Jude Chil-dren’s Research Hospital was opened at Memphis. At that time, only 20% of children survived cancer, since then with the hospital’s research — the survival rate is 80%.

The families are not charged and all expenses are paid by the hospital. The hos-pital was the first integrated hospital in the South.

Well, I had better get my do-nation check in the mail,

because they just sent me free Christmas address la-bels! Don’t mind because it is a great cause!

Renee Christopher-McPheeters

Lecanto

Get vaccinated, slow inflation

According to Josh Bivens, Research Director for the Economic Policy Institute, the inflation spike we’re experi-encing in 2021 “is largely driven by COVID-related fac-tors — in particular, realloca-tion of spending away from face-to-face services (like eat-ing out) and toward goods (on-line product purchasing), combined with port shut-downs and other global supply-chain snarls.”

But the profits-over-people Gov. DeSantis and Fox fans blame Biden for the inflation, not COVID. But, wait, isn’t President Biden trying to mit-igate COVID? Instead, Ron DeSantis and our legislators, Massullo and Simpson are suing to protect the right to get infected, and they defend rejection of the science-based solutions — vaccines and masks.

This ideology is, at best, misguided (ask the 60,000 dead Floridians if it was dan-gerous). Folks, if you don’t care about human life, you can help your pocketbook by slowing inflation — get vacci-nated. It is free and safe — 200 million Americans have done their part already. Do your part, and then everyone can get past the fear of expo-sure to COVID and return to normal, mingling with each other face to face. That is the way to ease the horrible infla-tion you are complaining about. If you care about your pocketbook, get vaccinated!

Bertha D. BrooksCitrus Springs

“He who plants kindness gathers love.”St. Basil of Caesarea, 330-379

The homepage of the Salvation Army web-site exhorts that it “ex-

ists to meet need wherever, whenever and however we can.” That’s unless you are a homeless person or family in Citrus County, Florida.

For years, the local Salva-tion Army branch office com-passionately carried out the Salvation Army’s mission of meet-ing human needs without discrimi-nation by provid-ing an emergency cold weather shelter for indi-viduals and fami-lies with nowhere else to go when temperatures dropped below 40 degrees.

In October of this year, however, the local branch of-fice gave the cold shoulder to the county’s homeless with its decision to no longer offer its Lecanto facilities as an emergency cold weather shelter.

Citing a pandemic-induced decline of volunteers, fewer homeless persons using the shelter, and a liability re-quirement for regular volun-teers to be certified in its Safe From Harm program to guard against the potential abuse of children and vul-nerable adults, the county’s only cold weather shelter was shuttered.

Absent a cold weather shelter for the homeless, the burden, to their great credit, is being primarily carried by Vikki and Cliff Spiller with the nonprofit B.A.S.I.C.S. (Brothers and Sisters In Christ’s Service) United Homeless Outreach.

The Spillers, assisted by caring volunteers, are carry-ing around cold weather supplies in their vehicles, such as tarps, blankets, socks, sweaters, ponchos, jackets and hygiene

products to give to people they may meet in their ev-eryday travels who don’t have a warm place to sleep on a cold night.

In light of Citrus County’s well-earned reputation for being a caring and generous community, the fact that the homeless burden is being shouldered by B.A.S.I.C.S

begs the question as to where is the compassion for our county’s homeless when they are most vulnerable.

As such, it is extremely dis-heartening that finding a new

site appears to be an insur-mountable challenge for the local Salvation Army branch office, even though it pledged to be a strong advo-cate for a new shelter site.

Given that the Salvation Army website trumpets how its homeless shelters have evolved and innovated to serve the homeless, in spite of the ongoing challenges of the pandemic, the local branch office is urged to re-double its pledged efforts to find a new cold weather shelter site.

It is also disheartening that county government has been missing in action in the search for a new shelter site. While the homeless may not be property taxpayers, county government, in the interest of humanity, is strongly encouraged to work in concert with the Salvation Army and other interested parties to find a way to al-ways have a cold weather shelter available during the winter months.

As shown time and time again by our community, where there’s a will, there’s a way — no matter how in-s u r m o u n t a b l e t h e challenge.

THE ISSUE:Homeless cold weather shelter.

OUR OPINION:Where there’s a

will, there’s a way.

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Thanks to good hearted people

We have a lot of bad news around the world today, so I thought I needed to call in and let you know about some won-derful acts of kindness by many different people, such as opening the door to the store for us when we went shopping, getting shopping carts for us when people had planned to use it them-selves, inviting us to check out ahead of them at the store, somebody dropped croissants into our shopping cart on our way out of the store, and taking the empty shopping cart from the back of our car when we had emptied it out and put-ting it back where it belonged for us. So, thanks to a lot of goodhearted people. There is a lot of good news and a lot of nice people in the county and I thought we should just let you know about our one-day experi-ence. Thank you.

Pay fines with community serviceI’m responding to Sound Off

to all these unpaid court fines with these multimillions of dol-lars that just goes to collections and never gets paid. So why don’t we take all those people with outstanding fines and give them two choices: Either they pay their fines by community service, which means picking up all the litter and trash in Cit-rus County until their fine is paid off; or let them do jail time

in lieu of not paying their fines. You need to start to get tough and that’s the way it has to be, period. It’s ridiculous. It goes to collections. That’s a piece of paper blowing in the wind.

Don’t they get a Social Security check?

I’m trying to comment on the article in your Sound Off of

somebody who said there was a two-bed-room apartment avail-able in Inverness and that the low-income people have no good credit to get it (Friday, Dec. 3, Page A13, “Build the animal shel-ter”). Well, I would think that they get a Social Security check and that’s guaranteed

income. I’m just curious.

My water meter is faulty

Living in Arbor Lakes for over seven years, 365 days a year, I’ve always felt the water meters here were faulty. For three months straight, I was charged for 1,000 gallons. The following month, I was charged for 11,000 gallons. Go figure. This has been going on for over seven years. At one point, I reached out to the county commissioners and they were willing to send me a chart of when I was using water and charged me for the chart. This has been going on summer, win-ter, fall and spring. I’m not the only one experiencing this in Arbor Lakes, and, as we noticed, water and sewer is going up pen-nies every time — a penny here and a penny there.

Golf carts belong in The Villages

I’m responding to Sound Off and, you know, I really wish the police were doing their job, espe-cially by Citrus Hills. There’s this man on his golf cart coming out of Citrus Hills, driving down the walkway and zooming through the parking lot of CVS, going into the other part of Citrus Hills. Re-ally? If you want to use your golf cart, go to The Villages.

Keep trying to buy Pirate’s Cove

Commissioner Kinnard: You have one more time at bat for a piece of Old Florida waterfront for park expansion for future gen-erations of Citrus Countians and tourists. Years ago, the county commission voted to intervene and acquire the Homosassa Springs Attraction. That was eventually turned over to the state of Florida to become the Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park. All things are possi-ble. So let’s try to hit a homerun at this last time at bat. Go to the state Legislature for Pirate’s Cove. These are the same guys that didn’t want a new animal shelter or a traffic signal. You have the appraisals to present to our representatives.

Use headlights during fog

People please, please, please, when it’s really foggy out, you need to have your headlights on — not your high beams, but your headlights — because it makes it very difficult for people to see you coming. Please turn on your headlights when it’s foggy.

THE CHRONICLE invites you to call “Sound Off” with your opinions about local subjects. You do not need to leave your name, and have less than a minute to record. COMMENTS will be edited for length, libel, personal or political attacks and good taste. Editors will cut libelous material. OPINIONS expressed are purely those of the callers.

Hot Corner: GAS PRICES� I’m responding to Sound

Off to your article, “Gas prices may start dropping this week” (Tuesday, Dec. 7, Page A3). Re-ally? Well, they already dropped in Ocala. When I went shop-ping, it was $2.86. I don’t see no gas in Citrus County for $2.86, let alone $2.90. It’s all still $3 and above. Really?

� Yesterday, Dec. 7, I went to Brooksville. Gas was 20 cents cheaper. It was $3.07. The other day, I went to Ocala and almost anywhere, gas was 10 to 15 cents cheaper than it is in Citrus County where we’re paying $3.27. It’s laughable. It’s not laughable, actually — it’s a shame — and our

commissioners would like a 1% tax increase for gas? Fat chance!

� With gas averaging $3.20-something a gallon here in Citrus County, I was able to fill up my vehicle for $2.89 a gallon over in Ocala. Not sure why the big price discrepancy between the two counties, but there you go.


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YOUR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS � District 1 (Crystal River, Ozello, Citronelle, Red Level): Jeff

Kinnard, [email protected];

� District 2 (Homosassa, Sugarmill Woods): Ron Kitchen Jr., [email protected];

� District 3 (Beverly Hills, Pine Ridge, Citrus Springs): Ruthie Davis Schlabach, [email protected];

� District 4 (Floral City, part of Inverness): Scott Carnahan, [email protected];

� District 5 (part of Inverness, Hernando, Arrowhead): Holly L. Davis, [email protected].

DISHEARTENING SITUATION

County’s homeless given

the cold shoulder


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Prosecutor: Potter ‘failed’

WrightMINNEAPOLIS — A sub-

urban Minneapolis police offi-cer who said she mistakenly drew her gun instead of her Taser when she fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright went on trial on manslaugh-ter charges Wednesday, with a prosecutor saying Kim Pot-ter had been trained how to avoid such deadly mix-ups but still got it wrong.

Potter’s lawyer, though, ar-gued that she made an error, saying, “Police officers are human beings.” And he cast blame on Wright, saying all the 20-year-old had to do that day was surrender.

Potter, 49, killed Wright, who wasn’t armed, during a traffic stop April 11 in Brook-lyn Center in a shooting that was recorded by her body camera. The white officer re-signed two days later.

Father, son arrested in

wildfireSACRAMENTO, Calif. —

A father and son were ar-rested Wednesday on suspicion of starting a mas-sive California wildfire that destroyed many homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee Lake Tahoe communities earlier this year, authorities said.

David Scott Smith, 66, and his son, Travis Shane Smith, 32, are accused of reckless arson in a warrant issued be-fore formal charges are filed, the El Dorado County District Attorney’s office said.

Mark Reichel, the attorney for both men, said they were arrested Wednesday after-noon and that reckless arson means starting a blaze by accident but “to such a

degree that it was consid-ered reckless.”

Authorities allege they caused homes to burn and people to be seriously injured in the fire that began in Au-gust. The Caldor fire scorched more than 346 square miles from east of Sacramento to the Nevada border, threatening ski re-sorts and other prominent recreational areas.

Senate rejects Biden’s vaccine

mandateWASHINGTON — The

Senate narrowly approved a resolution Wednesday to nul-lify the Biden administration’s requirement that businesses with 100 or more workers have their employees be vaccinated against the coro-navirus or submit to weekly testing.

The vote was 52-48. The Democratic-led House is un-likely to take the measure up, which means the mandate would stand, though courts have put it on hold for now. Still, the vote gave senators a chance to voice opposition to a policy that they say has sparked fears back home from businesses and from unvacci-nated constituents who worry about losing their jobs should the rule go into effect.

“Every so often Washing-ton D.C. does something that lights up the phone lines. This is one of these mo-ments,” said Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont. At home, he said, “this issue is what I hear about. This issue is a top-of-mind issue.”

US : El Salvador gov’t negotiated

with gangsMEXICO CITY — El Salva-

doran President Nayib Bukele’s government secretly

negotiated a truce with leaders of the country’s powerful street gangs, the U.S. Treasury charged Wednesday, contra-dicting Bukele’s denials and raising tensions between the two nations.

The U.S government al-leges Bukele’s government bought the gangs’ support with financial benefits and privileges for their imprisoned leaders including prostitutes and cellphones. The explo-sive accusation cuts to the heart of one of Bukele’s most highly touted successes in office: a plunge in the coun-try’s homicide rate.

Bukele’s office did not im-mediately respond to a re-quest for comment, but the president responded sarcasti-cally via Twitter. “Cell phones and prostitutes in the prisons? Money to the gangs? When did that happen? Didn’t they even check the date? How can they put out a such an ob-vious lie without anyone ques-tioning them?”

Chinese boats spotted illegally

hauling tunaMIAMI — Chinese squid

vessels were documented using wide nets to illegally catch already overfished tuna as part of a surge in un-regulated activity in the In-dian Ocean, according to a new report by Norway-based watchdog group that high-lights growing concerns about the lack of international cooperation to protect marine species on the high seas.

The report, published Wednesday by Trygg Mat Tracking, found that the num-ber of squid vessels in the high seas of the Indian Ocean — where fishing of the species is not regulated — has ex-ploded six-fold since 2016.


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Darlene SupervilleAssociated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Joe Biden un-veiled a new slogan for his $1 trillion infrastruc-ture package on Wednes-day, but his overall message is staying largely the same.

Biden, trying to rebound from sagging poll num-bers, rebranded his Bipar-tisan Infrastructure Framework as “Building a Better America.” He spoke at the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, surrounded by buses and signs featuring the new slogan as he continued a weekslong tour to put greater focus on the planned spending for roads, bridges, water sys-tems, broadband and greater resilience against climate change.

The economy has re-vived since Biden took of-fice, but high inflation, political polarization and the inability to fully break free of the coronavirus pandemic have all hurt his popularity. The new slo-gan for his big, just-passed infrastructure package says the president’s bipar-tisan deal will improve the country in ways well

beyond repairing its aging roads and bridges.

“We’re talking about re-building America, invest-ing in America, building a better America,” Biden said.

The new slogan hews closely to Biden’s separate “Build Back Better” agenda of tax hikes on the wealthy and an expansion of education, family and environmental programs still pending in the Senate. That slogan, too, has its critics, who say it makes it challenging for people to easily grasp all that’s in the package.

Biden mixed together

talk of “Build Back Better” with the new infrastruc-ture law on Wednesday, declaring that the risks of climate change mean roads need to be con-structed higher and that costs more money.

The White House launched a website Wednesday that asks Americans to record vid-eos about how the infra-structure spending will help their own communi-ties, part of a search for grassroots support as the administration seeks greater recognition for its achievements ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

WH has new slogan

California to become ‘abortion sanctuary’ if Roe reversedAdam BeamAssociated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With more than two dozen states poised to ban abor-tion if the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the OK next year, California clin-ics and their allies in the state Legislature on Wednesday revealed a plan to make the state a “sanctuary” for those seeking reproductive care, including possibly paying for travel, lodging and pro-cedures for people from other states.

The California Future of Abortion Council, made up of more than 40 abor-tion providers and advo-cacy groups, released a list of 45 recommendations for the state to consider if the high court overturns Roe v. Wade — the 48-year-old decision that forbids states from outlawing abortion.

The recommendations are not just a liberal fan-tasy. Some of the state’s most important policy-makers helped write them, including Toni Atkins, the San Diego Democrat who leads the state Senate and

attended multiple meetings.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom started the group himself and in an interview last week with The Associ-ated Press said some of the report’s details will be in-cluded in his budget pro-posal in January.

“We’ll be a sanctuary,” Newsom said, adding he’s aware patients will likely travel to California from other states to seek abor-tions. “We are looking at ways to support that inevi-tability and looking at ways to expand our protections.”

Abortion, perhaps more than any other issue, has divided the country for de-cades along mostly tradi-tional partisan lines. A new decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which could come next summer, would be the culmination of more than 40 years of con-servative activism. But Wednesday’s report offers a first glimpse of how Democratic-dominated states could respond and how the debate over abor-tion access would change.

California already pays

for abortions for many low-income residents through the state’s Medic-aid program. And Califor-nia is one of six states that require private insurance companies to cover abor-tions, although many pa-tients still end up paying d e d u c t i b l e s a n d co-payments.

But money won’t be a problem for state-funded abortion services for pa-tients from other states. California’s coffers have soared throughout the pandemic, fueling a re-cord budget surplus this year. Next year, the state’s independent Legislative Analyst’s Office predicts California will have a sur-plus of about $31 billion.

California’s affiliates of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, got a sneak pre-view of how people might seek abortions outside their home states this year when a Texas law that out-lawed abortion after six weeks of pregnancy was allowed to take effect. Cal-ifornia clinics reported a slight increase in patients from Texas.

Manchin says he wouldn’t defy

parliamentarian on immigrationWASHINGTON — Pivotal

Sen. Joe Manchin said Wednesday he’d vote to up-hold the Senate parliamen-tarian’s decision if she rules that immigration or other provisions should fall from Democrats’ huge social and environment bill, underscor-ing the party’s uphill fight to keep some top priorities in the legislation.

Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber’s nonpartisan rules referee, is expected to decide shortly whether lan-guage letting millions of mi-grants remain temporarily in the U.S. can stay in the 10-year, roughly $2 trillion measure. She’s also consid-ering the fate of other initia-tives, including parts of Democrats’ plan to curb

pharmaceutical prices.MacDonough’s decisions

can be ignored by which-ever Democrat is presiding over the chamber during de-bate, but Republicans could force votes challenging that. Ultimately, Democrats would likely need all their votes to defeat such GOP moves in the 50-50 chamber, where Vice President Kamala Har-ris can break ties. All Repub-licans oppose the legislation.

The moderate Manchin, D-W.Va., has spent months forcing Democrats to reduce the size and scope of the legislation, which the House approved last month. The Senate is all but certain to make significant changes to the bill, one of President Joe Biden’s top domestic priori-ties. Party leaders hope Congress can approve a final version by Christmas.


New COVID drug OK’dMatthew Perrone

AP health writer

WASHINGTON — Fed-eral health officials on Wednesday authorized a new COVID-19 antibody drug for people with seri-ous health problems or al-lergies who can’t get adequate protection from vaccination.

Antibody drugs have been a standard treatment for treating COVID-19 in-fections for over a year. But the AstraZeneca antibody drug cleared by the Food and Drug Administration is different. It’s the first in-tended for long-term pre-vention against COVID-19 infection, rather than a short-term treatment.

People who could benefit

from the antibody drug in-clude cancer patients, organ transplant recipients and people taking immune-suppressing drugs for conditions like rheuma-toid arthritis. Health ex-perts estimate about 2% to 3% of the U.S. population falls into that group.

“These people still have to shelter in place because they’re at really high risk of severe disease and death,” said Dr. David Boulware of the University of Minne-sota, ahead of the an-nouncement. “So having this therapy will enable a lot of them to get back to their normal lives.”

Specifically, the FDA authorized the AstraZeneca drug called Evusheld for adults and children 12 and older

whose immune systems haven’t responded ade-quately to COVID-19 vac-cines or have a history of severe allergic reactions to the shots. Regulators said the required two anti-body injections may be ef-fective at preventing COVID-19 infections for six months.

Like similar drugs, Astra-Zeneca’s delivers laboratory-made versions of human antibody proteins, which help the immune sys-tem fight off viruses and other infections.

The FDA and other health authorities have stressed that antibody drugs are not a substitute for vaccines, which are the most effective, long-lasting and economical form of virus protection.

Bill now billed as ‘Building

a Better America’

Mark KennedyAP entertainment writer

NEW YORK — Putting together an entire nation’s distinctive dishes is a daunting process for any-one. Then imagine doing it for 22 countries and you get a sense of what went into creating “The Latin American Cookbook.”

Just a single dish — say garlic shrimp or grilled street corn — can vary in assembly from neighbor-hood to neighborhood, re-gion to region and nation to nation.

“How to capture this in one dish and say, like, ‘This is the recipe’ has been one of the toughest things I’ve done in my life,” says Vir-gilio Martinez, a Michelin star-winning chef whose restaurants include Cen-tral in Lima, Peru.

What Martinez and his collaborators have created is a beautiful and thor-oughly researched book with 600 iconic recipes that offer a snapshot of the spirit of Latin American cuisine.

There is a dazzling array of dishes, from sea urchins in salsa verde from Chile and a black turkey stew from Belize and Mexico, to a Venezuelan pasta casse-role and Ecuadorian po-tato pancakes. There are recipes for several mole sauces, the classic Pisco Sour, a Dulche de Leche Thousand Layer Cake and the wonderfully named Chilean Disco Fries.

The book is broken down not by nation but by ingredients, including veg-etables, corn, pork, lamb and goat, roots and tubers, and fish and seafood. It celebrates such regionally distinctive ingredients as the edible flower loroco, the bluish fungus huitlaco-che and unripe bananas known as guineos.

Martinez and the vol-ume’s co-writer, food and travel writer Nicholas Gill, consulted home chefs, farmers, food journalists, village elders, bakers and restaurant owners across

Latin America. Martinez took what he’d learned at his Mater Iniciativa — an interdisciplinary gastro-nomic and cultural re-search organization dedicated to conserving and sharing Peru’s biodi-versity — and applied it throughout Latin America.

“The process was abso-lutely daunting,” says Gill. “The landscape stretches from the Rio Grande to the tip of Patagonia. That’s a massive swath of the Earth.”

But it meant often deli-cious field work, from sam-pling hot bowls of beef soup in Bogota to downing a dish of fish and acai berry beside the Amazon River. “The Latin Ameri-can Cookbook,” from Phaidon Press, is stuffed with fascinating dishes that expand the food vo-cabulary beyond the conti-nent’s more famous offerings like empanadas, arepas, tamales and caipirinhas.

The authors celebrate

the diversity of ingredients and what makes one dish different from a sister rec-ipe, often spotlighting its quirks and the stories be-hind it. While most Latin American countries do em-brace common ingredients like corn and beans, the vastness is hard to simplify.

“I’m from Peru, and I’m very different to a Brazil-ian. I mean, we have things in common. I have more in common with a Mexican than a German, right?” said Martinez. “The idea is

not to try to push one Latin American identity because there are too many.”

Martinez says Latin Americans tend to impro-vise in the kitchen, per-haps a reflection of many regions going through tough economic times, with some ingredients un-available and others too expensive.

“Improvising them, mak-ing what you can with what you have, is part of Latin American culture,” he says.

The authors know that home chefs may substitute some of the more hard-to-find ingredients with more common ones and they en-courage it. What they wanted to do was codify the most authentic version of the dish.

“We tried to specify the ingredients as much as possible. We tried not to dumb them down,” says Gill. “For instance, if there was a special tuber that re-ally gives it a different

flavor, we tried to name that specific tuber, even though someone in an-other part of the world probably isn’t going to find it.”

In addition to his restau-rants, Martinez is dedi-cated to documenting Peru’s bountiful produce and experimenting with nature’s gifts to discover culinary uses. In many ways, the new cookbook is also a way to preserve the past.

“We need to support our farmers and support peo-ple that are producing the food. And we need to pro-mote some ingredients that probably will be forgotten in a few years time,” he says.

Gill hopes the book can also be a guide for people — post-pandemic, of course — to visit the continent and embolden them to try new dishes. “We wanted to in-spire travel, and for people to go to these places and understand them,” he says.

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Cookbook celebrates Latin America’s vast cuisine

Associated PressVirgilio Martinez, a Michelin star-winning chef, and his collaborators have created a beautiful and thoroughly researched book with 600 iconic recipes that offer a snapshot of the spirit of Latin American cuisine.

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Very minty ChristmasThese damp, chilly days leave us extra

thankful for occasional sunshine. I had promised the children I’d help

them rake leaves in the woods, making winding trails uphill and down like I did when I was a little girl.

I can still feel the freedom of all my little worries melting away, as I breathed the cool air laden with the smell of crisp maple

leaves, run-ning hither and yon through our maze of paths.

On our to-do list for this au-tumn, there are also a dozen chickens to cook over a fire in the big iron

skillet and put in the freezer and some to can.

Then there were our 10 bushels of ap-ples. We found a nice day to make apple-sauce in the backyard while the children played on the swing and trampoline.

The Golden Delicious apples were turned to what we call regular applesauce. It’s a shiny yellow sauce with a bit of salt and a pinch of stevia to sweeten. A few bushels of Jona-golds were used to make my favorite sauce: chunky apple with a dash of cinnamon and a bit of stevia.

This type of sauce may be served hot or cold or is yummy when adding a handful of red hots. The rest of the apples are used in baking or enjoyed fresh.

Now we’re on the last peck of apples; that is, besides the bushel, we put in our neigh-bor’s root cellar to keep for this winter.

The children prefer having their own whole apple, rather than having them sliced up in wedges like I usually did when I was a girl. If you know me, you under-stand the note-worthy tidbit that the chil-dren have all learned to enjoy eating fresh apples with peelings. (After they’ve been washed.)

I’ve always idealized having little chil-dren chop down fruits, peelings and all. I have found memories of when I was 4 or 5 years old, standing next to Mom and eating peach peelings as fast as she peeled them to can.

Well, you know how it goes, despite of my best ambition and sweet talks of the peel-ings having more nutrients than the rest of the fruit, I thought it would never happen. Today as I handed out shiny red apples with the peelings, they all gratefully ac-cepted it, and never mentioned the peel-ings (besides 1-year-old Joshua).

Mama smiled. Maybe my efforts are pay-ing off, after all?

I’ve learned that having them ripe enough, yet not overripe helps, and also that it’s not worth coaching them to eat the peelings of plasticy grocery store-bought apples. For some time we compromised; I’d run my little peeler around each apple, peeling about half of them, then with an optimistic, “OK here you go, you may eat this with some peelings on, and some off.”

Yes, apples do make a perfect afternoon snack, yet I’ve been racking my brain for some more healthy snack ideas. As the old saying goes, “An apple a day should keep the doctor away,” but who doesn’t like variety?

Baked goods between meals are also off the list. It’s way too easy to eat way too much sugar- Though I enjoy discussions about healthy eating, I’ll hang on to that subject for later; after all, Christmastime just doesn’t seem like the best time to dwell too much into healthy diets!

Let’s dig into the sugar barrel and scoop out some old-fashioned goodness crafted into these amazing Christmas candies. Daniel recalls his dad helping them as children make these candies on Christmas Eve!

Homemade Christmas Mints

� 4 ounces cream cheese, softened� 1 pound powdered sugar� Peppermint oil to taste� Several drops food coloringof your choice (opt)Mix cream cheese which has been softened

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Now roll into small balls and dip into melted chocolate OR roll in granulated sugar. If desired, the sugar-coated version may be pressed into molds. They will not need to dry in molds, as they will keep the shape as soon as formed.

Chill and enjoy!The amounts of peppermint oil and coloring

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Gloria Yoder is a young Amish mother, writer and homemaker in rural Illinois. The Yoders travel primarily by horse-drawn buggy and live next to the settlement’s one-room schoolhouse. 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.

Gloria YoderTHE AMISH COOK

Katie WorkmanAssociated Press

It’s one of my favorite parts of the holiday season: thinking of all the people I’d like to give a little package to, mulling over what

that right present should be. This year, perhaps more than any other, it feels pleasurable to treat all of your people to something thoughtful and cheery, and it doesn’t have to break the bank.

The kitchen is a great place for in-spiration in choosing perfect-lit-tle-something gifts. Maybe it’s a treat that recognizes a friend’s sweet tooth. An ingredient that inspires a budding chef. A kitchen utensil to brighten their cooking.

The gift ideas below are $30 or less, so you can bring a bit of holiday joy to everyone on your list, from the teacher who went above and beyond to the neighbor who shared her flour to the niece or nephew just getting into cooking.

Many of these items have beautiful packaging too; add a little card and skip the wrapping.

� � �Vermont-based Runomok makes in-

fused organic maple syrups that not only beg to be drizzled over pancakes and waffles this winter, but can also be incorporated into recipes and cocktails. Choose from varieties like banana rum, WhistlePig Rye, coffee and hibiscus. Note that some of these limited-edition syrups sell out fast. There is even a maple syrup with edi-ble sparkles. The lovely bottles sell for about $18 each.

� � �Can you ever go wrong with a top-of-

the-line chocolate bar? That was clearly a trick question.

There is a dazzling array of attrac-tively packaged, high-quality, fair-trade chocolates. Choose from classic chocolate bars with varying levels of pure cacao; chocolate with creative add-ins; chocolate from a particular place with personal meaning; or just the most eye-catching labels in the store.

Chocolove of Boulder, Colorado, has

choices including Salted Almond But-ter in Dark Chocolate, and Pink Grapefruit in Ruby Chocolate. Chicago-based Vosges Haut Chocolat has their own classic bars, and also options like Pink Salt Caramel and Turmeric Ginger. Dandelion Choco-late in San Francisco makes single- origin bars, like the ones from Camino Verde, Ecuador, or Anamali, India.

� � �Yes, gifting a bottle of wine might

seem uninspired at first, but not if it comes from a winemaker or region that means something to the recipi-ent. For instance, Sonoma Cutrer in the Russian River Valley is led by an all-female winemaking team (from vineyards, to cellars and lab) and pro-duces sustainable certified wines.

Or think about supporting Black-owned wineries like The Guilty Grape (also woman-owned; $30 for their Cab-ernet Sauvignon), or the burgeoning natural and eco-friendly wine indus-try. Pick a wine that geographically connects with the receiver, like a bot-tle of Cabernet Franc from Bulgaria,

to remind them of a destination on their travel bucket list.

Other inexpensive gifts for the oeno-philes in your life: wine coasters, a pair of vintage wine glasses, a wine cooler sleeve and a wine bottle stopper.

� � �A cute new set of measuring cups

and spoons is always welcome for the bakers in your life. Sustainability- focused Bamboozle makes durable, colorful products from natural bam-boo fiber in three pretty, muted color-ways. $28 for the cups and spoons together.

� � �For the experimental cook, give a

few tins of hand-picked spices or spice blends. The world of spices has come a long way in recent years, with much more attention to origin, pro-cess, freshness, authenticity.

James Beard Award-winning chef Meherwan Irani founded Spicewalla with an eye towards bringing his ex-periences with buying and using spices in India to a broader market. He offers 100 herbs and spices plus 30 house-made blends to date, and the tins are brilliantly designed. The Mas-ala collection includes garam masala, tandoori masala and Madras curry powder. Or pick up a few tins of indi-vidual herbs and spices like fenu-greek, sumac or smoked paprika.

Penzeys and Burlap and Barrel are two other brands to look for, for qual-ity and attractive packaging.

� � �Help a pal elevate her tabletop by

gifting a small stack of cloth napkins; Williams-Sonoma has a range of linen ones. Pick a color that will click with the recipient, stack them, roll them and tie them with a pretty ribbon.

Keep your eyes open, as you might find these perfect little thinking-of-you food gifts anywhere from on on-line store to a supermarket to a kitchenware store.

Katie Workman writes regularly about food for The Associated Press. She has written two cookbooks focused on family-friendly cooking, “Dinner Solved!” and “The Mom 100 Cookbook.”

Stocking stuffers

KATIE WORKMAN/Via Associated PressThis combination of photos shows, from left, a variety of spices by Burlap and Barrel, a variety of chocolate bars by Chocolove of Boulder, Colorado, and a variety of maple syrup products by Vermont-based Runomok.

For food lovers, clever little Christmas gifts can dress up the kitchen

A sweet coffee treat for family or companyCulinary.net

Do you know that moment when something sweet hits your taste buds and a smile instantly

spreads across your face? It’s almost magic to some. To others it’s just sim-ply bliss. This holiday season, try something that’s simple yet sophisti-cated for an easy way to ensure smiles all around.

Try an easy tiramisu dip because whether you’re relaxing at home, hav-ing a small get-together with friends or joining your annual family gather-ing virtually, this dip is sure to spread culinary cheer.

The recipe starts with “easy,” and it holds true to its name. With a short list of ingredients and only a handful of instructions, this is something you can whip up (literally) in just a few moments. Also, using minimal tools in the kitchen is always a plus for at-home chefs. The only appliance needed to make this recipe is a mixer.

The outcome is fluffy, rich and sweet with a hint of espresso. It’s not overpowering, however, so little ones or non-coffee lovers can still enjoy this delicious dip.

This is also a unique dessert be-cause it can be served cool or chilled. If you are planning to take a sweet treat to a party this holiday season, this is nearly perfect. No oven time needed and simple to serve to kids and adults alike.

Serve with ladyfingers or fruit to bring that sweetness to a whole new level, and it’s topped with a final sprinkle of cocoa powder to give it that extra appeal. You do eat with your eyes first after all.

Give this one a try and see the faces of your loved ones light up with joy

this season. This creamy, tasty dip is sure to impress.

For more easy dessert recipes, visit culinary.Net.

Easy Tiramisu DipServings: 4� 1 cup heavy whipping cream� 1 tablespoon espresso powder� 4 ounces cream cheese, softened� 8 ounces mascarpone cheese� 1/2 cup powdered sugar� 1 teaspoon vanilla extract� 2 teaspoons cocoa powder� Wafers or fruit, for dippingIn medium bowl, whisk heavy whipping

cream and espresso powder until blended.In large bowl, use hand mixer to beat

cream cheese until smooth. Add mascarpone cheese and beat until combined. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating after each addition. Add vanilla extract; beat mixture. Add espresso mixture; beat until soft peaks form.

Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.Spoon mixture into serving bowl.

Sprinkle with cocoa powder. Serve with wafers or fruit.

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The Number: 19Consecutive home wins for the Wiscon-sin men’s basketball team over Indiana after a 64-59 victory by the Badgers on Wednesday.

Associated PressFlorida guard Myreon Jones (0) steals the ball from North Florida guard Chaz Lanier (2) during the first half Wednesday in Gainesville. The Gators rebounded from two straight losses with an 85-55 victory.

Named SEC football players of the year

John ZenorAP sports writer

Alabama once again collected a South-eastern Conference title and two big league-wide individual awards.

Quarterback Bryce Young is the SEC’s of-fensive player of the year and linebacker Will Anderson Jr. is the top defensive player, as voted on by a panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the league. The vot-ing was released on Wednesday.

Georgia’s Kirby Smart was the pick as coach of the year after leading the Bulldogs to a 12-0 regular season and into the College Football Playoffs. Bulldogs freshman tight end Brock Bowers is the selection as top newcomer after leading the team

in receiving.Missouri tailback Tyler Badie, Anderson

and Alabama wide receiver Jameson Wil-liams were the only unanimous picks. An-derson, the Bronco Nagurski winner as the nation’s top defensive player, was named on some ballots as a defensive lineman/edge rusher.

He’s leading the nation in sacks and tack-les for loss. Young is the Heisman Trophy favorite after leading a 41-24 victory over Smart’s Bulldogs in the SEC Championship Game.

It was the second straight year Alabama had the offensive and defensive players of the year, with Heisman-winning wide re-ceiver DeVonta Smith and cornerback

Alabama quarterback Bryce Young runs the ball against Tennessee on Oct. 23 in

Tuscaloosa, Ala. Young was selected to The Associated Press All-SEC team Wednesday.

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Ralph D. RussoAP college football writer

Miami is hiring Dan Radakovich as its athletic director, luring him away from Clemson after nearly a decade of enor-mous success there, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The person spoke on condition of ano-nymity because the school was still final-izing an agreement with its new AD and an announcement was planned for Thursday.

The 63-year-old Radakovich will re-place Blake James, who Miami let go last month, two days after the Hurricanes’ football team lost to Florida State. That was the precursor to another move, the firing of Manny Diaz as football coach earlier this week and replacing him with Miami alum Mario Cristobal.

With Radakovich, the Hurricanes are bringing another alum back to Coral Ga-bles. He got a master’s degree in busi-ness administration from Miami in 1982.

Miami becomes the third ACC school to have Radakovich as athletic director.

He was at Georgia Tech from 2006 through 2012 and Clemson for the last nine years. During his stint at Clemson, the Tigers played for the national title in football four times, winning two.

“Everybody that I’ve spoken to that knows Dan raves about him,” Miami men’s basketball coach Jim Larrañaga said earlier this month as it was becom-ing clear that Radakovich was the Hurri-canes’ top target for the job.

“He’s a heck of a businessman. He’s got tremendous experience,” Larrañaga added.

Radakovich’s career in sports adminis-tration began in 1983 at Miami, so his hir-ing by the Hurricanes has his career coming full circle.

Radakovich, then 25, left an account-ing firm to take a job working for legend-ary Miami athletic director Sam Jankovich as the Hurricanes’ director of athletic financial affairs. He arrived about 2 1/2 months before the football team won its first national championship.

His task now is to help Miami get back to that level.

AP source: Miami to hire Clemson’s Radakovich as AD

Alabama QB Young, LB Anderson honored

Gators roll Ospreys

No. 20 Florida bounces back from stunner, handles UNF 85-55

Tiger to return

With son at PNC ChampionshipDoug Ferguson

AP golf writer

Ten months after his right leg was badly damaged in a car crash, Tiger Woods is returning to competition next week with 12-year-old son Charlie in the PNC Championship.

“A l t h o u g h it’s been a long and challeng-ing year, I am very excited to close it out by competing in the PNC Cham-pionship with my son Char-lie,” Woods tweeted. “I’m playing as a Dad and couldn’t be more excited and proud.”

It will be his first competi-tion, even in a tournament Woods described last week as the “hit-and-giggle” variety that he can play, since he and his son tied for seventh a year ago in the unofficial event that pairs family members.

The tournament was holding a spot for Woods, and he fueled speculation he might play the Dec. 18-19 event at the Ritz Carlton Golf Club Orlando when he took full swings with driver on Saturday and Sunday during his Hero World Chal-lenge in the Bahamas.

“We have been liaising with Tiger and his team for some time and are delighted that he has now decided to make his return to competitive golf at the PNC Championship,” said Alastair Johnston of IMG, the executive chairman of the event.

Woods was driving to a Los Angeles course for a television shoot on Feb. 23 when police say he was driving about 85 mph along a winding, coastal suburban road. The SUV crashed through a median and plunged down a hill.

Doctors said he shattered the tibia and fibula bones in his right leg in multiple locations. Those were stabilized by a rod in the tibia. A combination of screws and pins were used to stabilize additional injuries in the ankle and foot.

The PNC Championship was formerly known as the

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Tiger Woods

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Mark LongAP sports writer

GAINESVILLE — Colin Castleton barely slept after Florida’s humbling loss to Texas Southern. He couldn’t stop thinking about everything the Gators did wrong — turnovers, defensive lapses, less-than-ideal shots.

He surely will get a better night’s rest now.

Castleton had a career-high 26 points to go along with eight rebounds, Myreon

Jones added 14 points and No. 20 Flor-ida ended a two-game skid with an 85-55 victory against North Florida on Wednesday night.

Coming off a stunning home loss to previously winless Texas Southern on Monday, the Gators (7-2) dominated from the opening tip and improved to 27-0 all time against the Ospreys (2-9).

Castleton was a key contributor in the latest one. He was 9-of-17 shooting and made 8 of 11 from the free-throw line. He chipped in two assists, two steals

and a blocked shot. “Colin was really good,” coach Mike

White said. “He was aggressive. He im-posed his will on the interior. It started with the way he approached his defen-sive effort.”

It really started two night earlier with one of the biggest upsets in school his-tory. The Gators held a lengthy team meeting Tuesday in which players spoke, took ownership and even offered constructive criticism to one another.

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Martin leads Heat past Bucks 113-104

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MIAMI — Caleb Martin scored a career-high 28 points and the Miami Heat beat the Milwaukee Bucks 113-104 on Wednes-day night.

Starting for the injured Jimmy Butler, Martin shot 9 of 12 from the field, in-cluding 6 for 8 on 3-point-ers, as the Heat tied a franchise record with 22 3s against the defend-ing NBA champions.

Jrue Holiday scored 27 points for the Bucks.

Pacers 122, Knicks 102

INDIANAPOLIS — Chris Duarte scored 23 points, Myles Turner had 22 and the Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks 122-102.

RJ Barrett led the Knicks with 19 points.

Wizards 119, Pistons 116, OTDETROIT — Kyle Kuzma

hit a 3 with 0.6 seconds left in overtime and the Washington Wizards handed the Detroit Pistons their 10th straight loss, 119-116.

Jeremi Grant scored 28 points for the Pistons.

76ers 110, Hornets 106

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Joel Embiid had 32 points, Seth Curry added 23 points and eight assists, and the Phila-delphia 76ers beat the Char-lotte Hornets for the second time in three nights, 110-106.

Gordon Hayward had a season-high 31 points and seven assists for the Hornets.

Cavaliers 115, Bulls 92

CLEVELAND — Darius Garland scored 24 points and rookie power forward Evan Mobley had 16 points and

nine rebounds, sending the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 115-92 win over the Chicago Bulls.

Zach LaVine scored 23 points with nine assists for Chicago, which had its four-game win streak snapped.

Thunder 110, Raptors 109

TORONTO — Mike Mus-cala made a go-ahead 3-pointer with nine seconds remaining, Shai Gilgeous-Al-exander scored 16 of his 26 points in the third quarter, and the Oklahoma City Thunder held on late to win their sec-ond straight game, rallying from a 13-point deficit to beat the shorthanded Toronto Rap-tors 110-109.

Jazz 136, Timberwolves 104

MINNEAPOLIS — Dono-van Mitchell scored 36 points and the sharp-shooting Utah Jazz beat the Minnesota Tim-berwolves 136-104 for their fifth straight win.

Rockets 114, Nets 104

HOUSTON — Eric Gordon scored 21 points before being ejected in the fourth quarter as the Houston Rockets extended their winning streak to seven games with a 114-104 win over the Brooklyn Nets.

Mavericks 104, Grizzlies 96

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Luka Doncic scored 26 points and Kristaps Porzingis added 19 as Dallas used a fourth- quarter rally to defeat the Memphis Grizzlies 104-96.

Nuggets 120, Pelicans 114

NEW ORLEANS — Nikola Jokic scored 11 of his season-high 39 points in over-time to go with his 11 assists and 11 rebounds, and the Denver Nuggets pulled out a 120-114 victory over the mistake-prone New Orleans Pelicans.

Associated PressMilwaukee guard Javonte Smart, right, jumps in front of Miami guard Kyle Lowry during the first half Wednesday in Miami. The Heat defeated the Bucks 113-104.

’Canes top Lipscomb 76-59Miami’s McGusty has career-high 29 points

Associated Press

CORAL GABLES — Kameron McGusty scored a career-high 29 points, Isaiah Wong added 20 and Miami de-feated Lipscomb 76-59 on Wednesday night.

McGusty and Wong combined for 29 of Miami’s 41 second-half points when the Hurricanes extended a nine-point half-time lead to as many as 19.

McGusty was 12-of-19 shooting with four 3-pointers and Wong shot 9 of 13. Jordan Miller added 12 points.

McGusty hit two 3-pointers and scored the first eight points in a 14-5 run that put Miami (7-3) up by double fig-ures for good midway through the sec-ond half.

Lipscomb’s Kaleb Coleman hit a cou-ple of 3-pointers and scored 10 straight points for a one-point lead midway through the first half before Miami went on a 14-0 run bookended by 3-pointers from Wooga Poplar and McGusty. The Hurricanes led 35-26 at halftime.

The Bisons (5-5) came in 12th nation-ally at 40.8% 3-point shooting but were only 7 of 28 for 25% against the Hurricanes.

Coleman led the Bisons with 12 points.

West Virginia 56, No. 15 UConn 53

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Taz Sherman

scored 23 points and West Virginia held on for a 56-53 victory over No. 15 UConn.

The Mountaineers (8-1) were terrible at the free throw line but made enough in the closing minute to beat a ranked opponent in their first try this season.

Sean McNeil, who missed West Virginia’s last game with a sore back, added 16 points for the Mountaineers.

Short-handed UConn (8-2) was held to a season low in points in its first true road game. Isaiah Whaley led the Huskies with 15 points. R.J. Cole added 14 and Andre Jackson scored 10.

West Virginia went 12 of 27 (44%) from the free-throw line, its worst performance of the season.

No. 22 Wisconsin 64, Indiana 59

MADISON, Wis. — Johnny Davis scored 23 points and made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:18 left to help No. 22 Wisconsin erase a 22-point deficit and beat Indiana 64-59 to extend its home domination in the series.

Wisconsin (8-1, 1-0 Big Ten) has won 19 straight home games over Indiana, which hasn’t beaten the Badgers in Madison since a 69-59 decision on Jan. 25, 1998. The Hoo-siers nearly ended the streak last year, but fell 80-73 at Wisconsin in double overtime.

This Indiana (7-2, 1-1) loss proved even more painful.

Wisconsin trailed 42-20 late in the first half and was down 42-25 at the intermission, but scored the game’s final 11 points. The Bad-gers outscored Indiana 16-2 over the last 5 minutes, 50 seconds.

Indiana missed 14 of its last 15 shots.

On the AIRWAVESTODAY’S SPORTS

AUTO RACING4:25 a.m. (ESPNU) Formula 1 Racing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Practice 1 (Same-day Tape)

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL6:30 p.m. (BSFL) Bethune-Cookman at NC State6:30 p.m. (FS1) Texas at Seton Hall7 p.m. (BTN) Purdue at Rutgers8 p.m. (ACCN) Colgate at Pittsburgh8:30 p.m. (FS1) Monmouth at St. John’s9 p.m. (ESPN2) Iowa at Iowa State

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL7 p.m. (ESPN2) Connecticut at Georgia Tech7 p.m. (SEC) DePaul at Kentucky9 p.m. (BTN) Michigan at Wisconsin

NBA7 p.m. (NBA) Utah Jazz at Philadelphia 76ers

NFL8 p.m. (FOX, NFL) Pittsburgh Steelers at Minnesota Vikings

GOLF7 p.m. (GOLF) 2021 Spirit International (Same-day Tape)

NHL7 p.m. (SUN) Tampa Bay Lightning at Toronto Maple Leafs

TENNIS6 a.m. (TENNIS) Florianopolis-ATP Challenger, Maia-ATP Challenger2:30 p.m. (TENNIS) Florianopolis-ATP ChallengerWOMEN’S COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL NCAA TOURNAMENT11 a.m. (ESPNU) BYU at Purdue1 p.m. (ESPNU) Florida at Louisville3 p.m. (ESPNU) Minnesota at Baylor5 p.m. (ESPNU) UCLA at Wisconsin7:30 p.m. (ESPNU) Washington at Texas9:30 p.m. (ESPNU) Illinois at Nebraska

Prep CALENDAR

TODAY’S PREP SPORTSGIRLS SOCCER

6 p.m. Citrus at Central7:30 p.m. Weeki Wachee at Lecanto

BOYS SOCCER7:30 p.m. Lecanto at Weeki Wachee

GIRLS BASKETBALL5 p.m. Seven Rivers at Lakeside Christian6 p.m. Lake Minneola at Citrus7:30 p.m. Lecanto at Dunnellon

BOYS BASKETBALL6:30 p.m. Seven Rivers at Lakeside Christian

SCOREBOARD

“Just beating ourselves up,” said Castleton, who admittedly took the loss personally. “We just didn’t do what we’re supposed to. But that’s in the past. We got to stop talking about that loss. We got to move on.”

It’ll be a lot easier now.“It helped a lot just to get that bad

feeling out of us, just to get back on this winning streak that we started and just to show people like that wasn’t us on Monday,” Jones said.

The Gators opened the second half with a 12-0 run that turned an 18-point lead into a laugher. Florida’s press forced turnovers early and often that led to easy baskets and free throws. White’s team ended the night with a season-high 21 steals.

“We were back in character, played to our identity,” White said.

It was a much different perfor-mance than the Gators showed two nights earlier in the O’Connell Center, where a lackluster effort led to an em-barrassing loss against a 23 1/2-point underdog that could drop them from the rankings. White thought there was some carryover from losing at Okla-homa last week.

Florida responded Wednesday with crisper passes, better shots and cleaner possessions on both ends.

Austin Appleby finished with 13 points for Florida.

Jarius Hicklen led North Florida with 16 points. Jadyn Parker added 12 points and nine rebounds.

BIG PICTURENorth Florida: The Ospreys fell to

0-31 against ranked teams in their 17-year history of playing Division I basketball.

Florida: White rebuilt his roster with five transfers and two freshmen and expected some growing pains. Back-to-back losses to Oklahoma and Texas Southern could prove beneficial in the long run as they Gators learn how to win and how to handle losing.

JITOBOH RETURNSFlorida big man Jason Jitoboh, who

sat out Monday’s loss because of a coach’s decision, returned to the rota-tion and had three points, a rebound and a block before fouling out in seven minutes of action. He got two rousing ovations: one for a dunk mid-way through the second half and an-other when he grabbed a cheerleader’s megaphone and used it to knock down a ball wedged between the rim and the backboard.

NBA standingsEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division W L Pct GBBrooklyn 17 8 .680 —Philadelphia 14 11 .560 3Boston 13 12 .520 4New York 12 13 .480 5Toronto 11 14 .440 6

Southeast Division W L Pct GBMiami 15 11 .577 —Washington 15 11 .577 —Atlanta 13 12 .520 1½Charlotte 14 13 .519 1½Orlando 5 20 .200 9½

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 17 9 .654 —Milwaukee 16 10 .615 1Cleveland 14 12 .538 3Indiana 11 16 .407 6½Detroit 4 20 .167 12

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBMemphis 14 11 .560 —Dallas 12 12 .500 1½San Antonio 8 15 .348 5Houston 8 16 .333 5½New Orleans 7 20 .259 8

Northwest Division W L Pct GBUtah 17 7 .708 —Denver 12 12 .500 5Portland 11 14 .440 6½Minnesota 11 14 .440 6½Oklahoma City 8 16 .333 9

Pacific Division W L Pct GBGolden State 20 4 .833 —Phoenix 20 4 .833 —L.A. Clippers 13 12 .520 7½L.A. Lakers 13 12 .520 7½Sacramento 10 14 .417 10

Wednesday’s GamesIndiana 122, New York 102Cleveland 115, Chicago 92Philadelphia 110, Charlotte 106Oklahoma City 110, Toronto 109Washington 119, Detroit 116, OTMiami 113, Milwaukee 104Utah 136, Minnesota 104Dallas 104, Memphis 96Denver 120, New Orleans 114, OTHouston 114, Brooklyn 104Orlando at Sacramento, latePortland at Golden State, lateBoston at L.A. Clippers, late

Today’s GamesUtah at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Memphis, 8 p.m.Denver at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

FOOTBALLBowl games

Friday, Dec. 17Bahamas Bowl

Nassau, BahamasToledo (7-5) vs. Middle Tennessee (6-6), Noon (ESPN)

Cure BowlOrlando, Fla.

N. Illinois (9-4) vs. Coastal Carolina (10-2), 6 p.m. (ESPN2)

Saturday, Dec. 18Boca Raton BowlBoca Raton, Fla.

W. Kentucky (8-5) vs. Appalachian St. (10-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN)

Celebration BowlAtlanta

SC State (6-5) vs. Jackson St. (11-1), Noon (ABC)

New Mexico BowlAlbuquerque

Fresno St. (9-3) vs. UTEP (7-5), 2:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Independence BowlShreveport, La.

No. 12 BYU (10-2) vs. UAB (8-4), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)

LendingTree BowlMobile, Ala.

E. Michigan (7-5) vs. Liberty (7-5), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN)

LA BowlInglewood, Calif.

Oregon St. (7-5) vs. Utah St. (10-3), 7:30 p.m. (ABC)

New Orleans BowlNew Orleans

No. 16 Louisiana-Lafayette (12-2) vs. Marshall (7-5), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Monday, Dec. 20Myrtle Beach Bowl

Conway, S.C.Old Dominion (6-6) vs. Tulsa (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Tuesday, Dec. 21Famous Idaho Potato Bowl

Boise, IdahoKent State (7-6) vs. Wyoming (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Frisco BowlFrisco, Texas

No. 24 UTSA (12-1) vs. San Diego St. (11-2), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Wednesday, Dec. 22Armed Forces Bowl

Fort Worth, TexasMissouri (6-6) vs. Army (8-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

Thursday, Dec. 23Frisco Football Classic

Frisco, TexasMiami (7-5) vs. North Texas (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Gasparilla BowlTampa, Fla.

UCF (8-4) vs. Florida (6-6), 7 p.m. (ESPN)Friday, Dec. 24Hawaii Bowl

HonoluluMemphis (6-6) vs. Hawaii (6-7), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

Saturday, Dec. 25Camellia Bowl

Montgomery, Ala.Ball St. (6-6) vs. Georgia St. (7-5), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Monday, Dec. 27Quick Lane Bowl

Nevada (8-4) vs. W. Michigan (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN)

Military BowlAnnapolis, Md.

Boston College (6-6) vs. East Carolina (7-5), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Tuesday, Dec. 28Birmingham BowlBirmingham, Ala.

No. 21 Houston (11-2) vs. Auburn (6-6), Noon (ESPN)

SERVPRO First Responder BowlDallas

Air Force (9-3) vs. Louisville (6-6), 3:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Liberty BowlMemphis, Tenn.

Mississippi St. (7-5) vs. Texas Tech (6-6), 6:45 p.m. (ESPN)

Holiday BowlSan Diego

UCLA (8-4) vs. NC State (9-3), 8 p.m. (FOX)Guaranteed Rate Bowl

PhoenixMinnesota (8-4) vs. West Virginia (6-6), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Wednesday, Dec. 29Fenway Bowl

BostonVirginia (6-6) vs. SMU (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN)

Pinstripe BowlNew York

Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Maryland (6-6), 2:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Cheez-It BowlOrlando, Fla.

No. 19 Clemson (9-3) vs. Iowa St. (7-5), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN)

Alamo BowlSan Antonio

No. 14 Oklahoma (10-2) vs. No. 15 Oregon (10-3), 9:15 a.m. (ESPN)

Thursday, Dec. 30Duke’s Mayo Bowl

Charlotte, N.C.South Carolina (6-6) vs. North Carolina (6-6),

11:30 a.m. (ESPN)Music City Bowl

NashvillePurdue (8-4) vs. Tennessee (7-5), 3 p.m. (ESPN)

Peach BowlAtlanta

No. 11 Michigan St. (10-2) vs. No. 13 Pittsburgh (11-2), 7 p.m. (ESPN)

Las Vegas BowlLas Vegas

Wisconsin (8-4) vs. Arizona St. (8-4), 10:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Friday, Dec. 31College Football Playoff Semifinal

(Orange Bowl)Miami Gardens, Fla.

No. 2 Michigan (12-1) vs. No. 3 Georgia (12-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

College Football Playoff Semifinal (Cotton Bowl Classic)

Arlington, TexasNo. 1 Alabama (12-1) vs. No. 4 Cincinnati (13-0), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Gator BowlJacksonville, Fla.

No. 20 Wake Forest (10-3) vs. No. 23 Texas A&M (8-4), 10 a.m. (ESPN)

Sun BowlEl Paso, Texas

Washington St. (7-5) vs. Miami (7-5), Noon (CBS)

Arizona BowlTucson, Ariz.

Cent. Michigan (8-4) vs. Boise St. (7-5), 4:30 p.m. (TBD)

Saturday, Jan. 1Outback Bowl

Tampa, Fla.No. 22 Arkansas (8-4) vs. Penn St. (7-5), Noon (ESPN2)

Citrus BowlOrlando, Fla.

No. 17 Iowa (10-3) vs. No. 25 Kentucky (9-3), 1 p.m. (ABC)

Fiesta BowlGlendale, Ariz.

No. 5 Notre Dame (11-1) vs. No. 9 Oklahoma St. (11-2), 1 p.m. (ESPN)

Rose BowlPasadena, Calif.

No. 7 Ohio St. (10-2) vs. No. 10 Utah (10-3), 5 p.m. (ESPN)

Sugar BowlNew Orleans

No. 6 Baylor (11-2) vs. No. 8 Mississippi (10-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Tuesday, Jan. 4Texas Bowl

HoustonLSU (6-6) vs. Kansas St. (7-5), 9 p.m. (ESPN)Monday, Jan. 8

College Football ChampionshipIndianapolis

Semifinal winners, 8 p.m. (ESPN)

HOCKEYNHL standings

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAFlorida 25 17 4 4 38 96 71Toronto 27 18 7 2 38 85 66Tampa Bay 25 16 5 4 36 84 67Detroit 26 13 10 3 29 73 83Boston 21 12 8 1 25 61 56Buffalo 25 8 14 3 19 70 92Ottawa 24 7 16 1 15 63 93Montreal 27 6 18 3 15 61 96

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 26 16 4 6 38 92 65N.Y. Rangers 25 17 5 3 37 77 66Carolina 24 17 6 1 35 79 54Pittsburgh 25 12 8 5 29 75 68Columbus 24 13 11 0 26 80 80New Jersey 24 10 9 5 25 70 79Philadelphia 24 8 12 4 20 56 82N.Y. Islanders 21 6 10 5 17 43 64

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAMinnesota 25 18 6 1 37 96 72Colorado 23 14 7 2 30 99 79St. Louis 25 13 8 4 30 84 73Nashville 25 14 10 1 29 73 70Dallas 22 13 7 2 28 64 59Winnipeg 25 12 9 4 28 76 72Chicago 25 9 14 2 20 56 81Arizona 25 5 18 2 12 44 93

Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GACalgary 26 15 6 5 35 84 56Anaheim 27 14 8 5 33 89 78Edmonton 24 16 8 0 32 87 74San Jose 26 14 11 1 29 71 71Vegas 24 14 10 0 28 81 73Los Angeles 24 10 10 4 24 64 67Seattle 25 9 14 2 20 73 90Vancouver 26 9 15 2 20 64 80

Wednesday’s GamesColorado 7, N.Y. Rangers 3New Jersey 3, Philadelphia 0Boston at Vancouver, lateDallas at Vegas, late

Today’s GamesAnaheim at Columbus, 7 p.m.Chicago at Montreal, 7 p.m.Tampa Bay at Toronto, 7 p.m.Nashville at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.Detroit at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Boston at Edmonton, 9 p.m.Carolina at Calgary, 9 p.m.Winnipeg at Seattle, 10 p.m.Dallas at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.Minnesota at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

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BASKETBALL

Panthers top Hornets for fourth straight victory

The Lecanto girls basketball team won their fourth straight game Tuesday night, defeating Weeki Wachee 47-42.

The Panthers fell behind 37-32, but key 3-point shooting by Zay Rome, Page Harrison and Peyton Spaulding helped erase the deficit. Abby Rome, along with sister Zay and Spaulding, iced the game from the free throw line.

The leading scorer was Abby Rome with 16, Peyton Spaulding added 10 and Paige Harrison had eight.

The Panthers (5-3, 4-1 in GC8) travel to Dunnellon tonight.

Blackwood blanks Flyers as Devils end 4-game skid

NEWARK, N.J. — Mackenzie Black-wood made 25 saves and the New Jer-sey Devils snapped a four-game skid and sent the reeling Philadelphia Flyers to their 10th straight loss, 3-0 on Wednesday night.

Jesper Bratt had a second-period goal and assisted on a power-play goal by rookie Dawson Mercer later in the period.

Michael McLeod scored into an empty net late as the Devils beat the Flyers for the second time in 10 days.

Carter Hart had 24 saves for the Fly-ers, who fell to 0-2 under interim coach Mike Yeo. He took over on Monday after Alain Vigneault was fired.

The Flyers’ 10-game skid (0-8-2) is two shy of the team’s longest winless streak. The record of 12 games (0-8-4) was set from Feb. 24-March 16, 1999.

O’Connor leads Avalanche past NY Rangers 7-3

NEW YORK — Logan O’Connor scored twice in a 22-second span in a five-goal second period, and the Colo-rado Avalanche beat the Rangers 7-3 on Wednesday night, ending New York’s seven-game winning streak.

Mikko Rantanen also scored twice for Colarado. Nathan MacKinnon, Nazem Kadri and Alex Newhook added goals, and Darcy Kuemper made 26 saves. Kadri, Devon Toews and Samuel Girard each had two assists as the Avalanche improved to 8-2-1 in their last 11 games.

— From staff and wire reports

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Father-Son Challenge until it changed the title to be more inclusive of family members. For the first time in its 24 years, the tournament has a cur-rent No. 1 player in the field, Nelly Korda, who will be playing with her father Petr, a former Australian Open tennis champion.

Lee Trevino is playing again and has never missed the tournament since it began in 1995. Justin Thomas returns as the defending champion with his father, Mike, a longtime PGA professional.

Still, this becomes all about Woods inside the ropes, hitting shots that count toward a score. A year ago, it was his last event before a fifth back surgery, not as serious as the previous ones. Toward the end of the second round, he was not hitting some tee shots because his son played from a forward tee and was getting it out there farther than Woods could have hit it.

Fans are returning to the Florida course, and it already is close to a sellout because organizers limit ticket

sales to preserve the intimate nature of the event.

The next question will be when Woods, who shares the career PGA Tour record with 82 victories, will play in an official event.

He had said last week that was a long way off, dousing hopes of a re-turn by suggesting his leg wouldn’t allow him to practice as much, he was at peace with that and “I’ve made the climb enough times.” He also said he hadn’t reached a point of deciding whether to complete a full comeback from his latest injuries.

“I’ll play a round here or there, a little hit and giggle, I can do some-thing like that,” he said. “To see some of my shots fall out of the sky a lot shorter than they used to is a little eye-opening, but at least I’m able to do it again. That’s something that for a while there it didn’t look like I was going to. Now I’m able to participate in the sport of golf.

“Now, to what level? I do not know that.”

The first level is with his son at his side in a 36-hole event where he doesn’t have to hit every shot and can ride in a cart. But the score will count, and that hasn’t happened since the PNC Championship last year.

TIGERContinued from Page B1

Patrick Surtain taking the awards in 2020.

The 2021 AP All-SEC teamFIRST TEAM

OffenseQB — Bryce Young, Alabama, 6-0, 194, So., Pasadena, CaliforniaRB — u-Tyler Badie, Missouri, 5-8, 194, Sr., New OrleansRB — Chris Rodriguez, Kentucky, 5-11, 224, Jr., McDonough, GeorgiaOL — Darian Kinnard, Kentucky, 6-5, 345, Sr., Knoxville, TennesseeOL — Charles Cross, Mississippi St., 6-5, 310, R-So., Laurel, MississippiOL — Kenyon Green, Texas A&M, 6-4, 325, Jr., Humble, TexasOL — Evan Neal, Alabama, 6-7, 360, Jr., Okeechobee, FloridaC — Michael Maietti, Missouri, 6-1, 290, Grad., West Orange, N.J.TE — Brock Bowers, Georgia, 6-4, 230, Fr., Napa, California.WR — Jameson Williams, Alabama, 6-1, 175, Jr., St. Louis, MissouriWR — Treylon Burks, Arkansas, 6-3, 225, Jr., Warren, ArkansasK — Harrison Mevis, Missouri, 5-11, 236, So., Warsaw, IndianaAP — Velus Jones, Tennessee, 6-0, 200, Sr., Saraland, Alabama.

DefenseDE — Sam Williams, Mississippi, 6-4, 265, Sr., Montgomery, AlabamaDE — Josh Paschal, Kentucky, 6-3, 278, Sr., Prince George’s County, MarylandDT — DeMarvin Leal, 6-4, 290, Jr., San Antonio, TexasDT — Jordan Davis, Georgia, 6-6, 340, Sr., Charlotte, North CarolinaLB — Will Anderson, Alabama, 6-4, 243, So., Hampton GeorgiaLB — Nakobe Dean, Georgia, 6-0, 225, Jr., Horn Lake, MississippiLB — Damone Clark, LSU, 6-3, 240, Sr., Baton RougeDB — Roger McCreary, Auburn, 6-0, 190, Sr., Mobile, AlabamaDB — Lewis Cine, Georgia, 6-1, 200, Jr., Cedar Hill, TexasDB — Jaylan Foster, South Carolina, 5-10, 195, Sr., Duncan, South CarolinaDB — Jordan Battle, Alabama, 6-1, 210, Jr., Fort Lauderdale,

FloridaP — Nik Constantinou, Texas A&M, 6-3, 230, So., Melbourne, AustraliaSEC Offensive Player of the Year — Bryce Young, QB, AlabamaSEC Defensive Player of the Year — Will Anderson, LB, AlabamaSEC Coach of the Year — Kirby Smart, GeorgiaSEC Newcomer of the Year — Brock Browers, TE, Georgia

SECOND TEAMOffense

QB — Matt Corral, Mississippi, 6-2, 205, Jr., Ventura, CaliforniaRB — Isaiah Spiller, Texas A&M, 6-1, 215, Jr., Spring, TexasRB — Brian Robinson, Alabama, 6-0, 204, Sr., Tuscaloosa, AlabamaOL — Jamaree Salyer, Georgia, 6-4, 325, Sr., AtlantaOL — Layden Robinson, Texas A&M, 6-4, 320, So., Manuel, TexasOL — Justin Shaffer, Georgia, 6-4, 330, Sr., Ellenwood, GeorgiaOL —Cade Mays, Tennessee, 6-6, 325, Knoxville, Tennessee C — Ricky Stromberg, Arkansas, 6-4, 310, Jr., Tulsa, OklahomaTE — Jalen Wydermyer, Texas A&M, 6-5, 255, Jr., Dickinson, TexasWR — Wan’Dale Robinson, Kentucky, 5-11, 185, Jr., Frankfort, KentuckyWR — John Metchie III, Alabama, 6-0, 195, Jr., Brampton, CanadaPK — Cade York, LSU, 6-1, 198, Jr., McKinney, Texas

DefenseDE — Derick Hall, Auburn, 6-3, 251, Jr., Gulfport, MississippiDE — Tyree Johnson, Texas A&M, 6-4, 240, Sr., Washington, D.C. DT — Devonte Wyatt, Georgia, 6-3, 315, Sr., Decatur, GeorgiaDT — Neal Farrell Jr., LSU, 6-4, 325, Grad., Mobile, AlabamaLB — Channing Tindall, Georgia, 6-2, 230, Sr., Columbia, South CarolinaLB — Zakoby McClain, Auburn, 6-0, 219, Sr., Valdosta, GeorgiaLB — Bumper Pool, Arkansas, 6-2, 230, Sr., Lucas, TexasDB — Derion Kendrick, Georgia, 6-0, 190, Sr., Rock Hill, South CarolinaDB_Cam Smith, South Carolina, 6-1, 187, So., Blythewood, South CarolinaDB_AJ Finley, Mississippi, 6-2, 210, Jr., Mobile, AlabamaDB_Antonio Johnson, Texas A&M, 6-3, 200, So., East St. Louis, IllinoisP— Jake Camarda, Georgia, 6-2, 180, Sr., Norcross, GeorgiaAP — Jameson Williams, Alabama, 6-2, 189, Jr., St. Louis, Missouri(u- unanimous selection)

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Annie offers adviceDear Annie: I have been

in a friend group that plays board games

nearly every month for 25 years. We all know one an-other from working at a startup in Colorado nearly 30 years ago. We don’t work together anymore, but we still play games together fre-quently. It has been tough during COVID-19, but we have played a f e w g a m e s o n l i n e h e r e a n d there.

C a u -tiously, we are starting to get back to-gether in per-son. The rub is, I’m fed up with one of our friends. He was the boss all those years ago, and he still feels self-im-portant and controlling. He does not seem to know how to behave in social situations. We put up with it when he was the boss, and then, 20 years ago, he found out that he suf-fers from bipolar disorder and depression. My own son has these same conditions, and I have taken the National Alliance on Mental Illness training and I have a special place in my heart for people who suffer from mental illness.

Since that discovery and di-agnosis, we have put up with his behaviors. Over the years, it has become easy to tell when he is truly suffering and when he’s just using it as an excuse to behave badly. He started this games group, and we always play at his house. That’s not really a problem, but he just uses this and ev-erything as a controlling behavior.

Online, it gets worse. I have now endured 18 months of in-sults, contempt and name-calling. I admit that it’s mild. He is not super abusive, but it is annoying, and it is not how friends treat one another. I do not do this to him. He knows I don’t want to cut him out of my life, and he uses that to manipulate me and others in the group.

During his last blow-up, which was only two weeks ago, I stopped talking with him for a while. This is all on-line, and I ghosted him for only 24 hours. He says in the group chat that he has apolo-gized profusely (he apolo-gized one time) and then started pushing the blame onto me saying that I was now punishing him.

I’m fed up. We have openly discussed his poor behavior, and he is aware. He has never modified his behavior longer than a week or two. For 30 years, I have been a good friend, and for the last 10-20, I have actively tried to forgive and forget. — Can’t Forget Anymore

Dear Can’t Forget: I believe it was Albert Einstein who said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

You have tried subtle con-frontation, and you admit his behavior has not changed for longer than a week or two. Time to try something new.

The next time he blows up — even if it’s mild — tell him that you’ll be hosting the next game night and that he’s not invited. If others are similarly fed up with his attitude, they’ll surely be on board.

The concept is really quite simple: If he can play nice with others, he gets an invite. If not, the games will go on without him.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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John Adams said, “Facts are stub-born things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

Sometimes, though, recognizing the evidence is the hard part. Against

four hearts, West leads a club to East’s ace, and East shifts to a spade: jack, queen, ace. What now?

North’s three-club rebid was fourth-suit game-forcing. His jump to four hearts was a mild slam-try. (If he was interested only in game, he would have rebid four hearts, not three clubs. If wishing to make a seri-ous slam-try, he would have bid three hearts over three diamonds.)

Declarer should crossruff. He dis-cards a diamond on the club queen, ruffs a spade, pitches a spade on the diamond ace, ruffs a diamond, ruffs a club, ruffs a diamond and ruffs a spade. When West cannot overruff, South ruffs his last diamond and takes one more trump trick. He loses only one club and two hearts.

However, our opponent adopted a slightly different approach. After a club to the ace, a spade to the ace, the club queen, a spade ruff and the diamond ace, South played a heart to the queen. My wife (East) defended beautifully by playing low smoothly. Declarer was deceived. He ruffed a spade and led another heart, but East took her two trump tricks and returned a club. Now the contract went down two because I collected both the diamond king and club jack.

What evidence did South miss?When West didn’t overruff at trick

seven, surely he did not have a trump.

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(HBO) 302 201 302 ››‡ “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” (1997) Music Box “Mr. Saturday Night” ‘MA’ Landscapers ‘MA’ Å ››‡ “The Campaign” (2012) ‘R’ (HBO2) 303 202 303 ››› “Inside Man” (2006) Denzel Washington. ‘R’ Black and Missing ‘MA’ Black and Missing ‘MA’ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction (HGTV) 23 57 23 Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Flip or Flop Hunters Hunters Int’l Hunters Hunters Int’l (HIST) 51 54 51 Pawn Stars ‘PG’ Å Pawn Stars ‘PG’ Å Pawn Stars ‘PG’ Å Pawn Stars (N) ‘PG’ Å Pawn Stars ‘PG’ Å Pawn Stars ‘PG’ Å (LIFE) 24 38 24 “The Road Home for Christmas” (2019) ‘NR’ Å “A Fiancé for Christmas” (2021) Marie Osmond. ‘NR’ “The Christmas Edition” (2020) Carly Hughes. ‘NR’ (LMN) 119 50 119 “Psycho Yoga Instructor” (2020) Ashley Wood. ‘NR’ “Psycho Intern” (2021) Emmanuelle Vaugier. ‘NR’ “Deceitful Dating” (2021) Christine Chatelain. ‘NR’ (MSNBC) 42 41 42 The Beat With Ari Melber The ReidOut (N) Å All In With Chris Hayes Rachel Maddow Show The Last Word The 11th Hour (NBCSN) 448 26 730 American Ninja Warrior “Venice Beach Finals” ‘PG’ Triathlon American Ninja Warrior “Dallas Finals” ‘PG’ Å Chess Chess (NGEO) 109 65 109 Life Below Zero ‘PG’ Life Below Zero ‘PG’ Life Below Zero ‘PG’ Life Below Zero (N) ‘14’ Called to the Wild ‘PG’ Called to the Wild (N) ‘14’ (NICK) 28 36 28 ››› “Despicable Me” Dylan Lay Lay Lay Lay Loud House “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” ‘PG’ Friends ‘14’ Friends ‘14’ (NWSNTN) 18 18 18 The Donlon Report (N) On Balance Dan Abrams Live (N) NewsNation Prime (N) Banfield (N) Å On Balance (OWN) 125 24 103 20/20 on OWN ‘14’ 20/20 on OWN ‘14’ 48 Hours: Hard Evidence 20/20 on OWN ‘14’ 20/20 on OWN ‘14’ 20/20 on OWN ‘14’ Å (OXY) 123 44 123 Homicide for the Holidays Homicide for the Holidays Homicide for the Holidays Dateline: Secrets Dateline: Secrets Dateline: Secrets (PARMT) 37 43 37 Two Men Two Men ›››› “Forrest Gump” (1994, Comedy-Drama) Tom Hanks. (In Stereo) ‘PG-13’ Å “The Shawshank Redemption” (1994) (SEC) 745 72 The Paul Finebaum Show Women’s College Basketball DePaul at Kentucky. (N) SEC Storied ‘G’ SEC Storied ‘G’ AFCA (SHOW) 340 241 340 ›››‡ “The Descendants” (2011) ‘R’ Å “My Salinger Year” (2020) Margaret Qualley. ‘R’ Å Dexter: New Blood ‘MA’ Desus Smoke (SUN) 36 31 36 Lightning Pregame NHL Hockey Tampa Bay Lightning at Toronto Maple Leafs. (N) Postgame Lightning Lightning Life Lightning (SYFY) 31 59 31 ››‡ “2012” (2009) John Cusack. ‘PG-13’ Å ››› “Twister” (1996, Action) Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton. ‘PG-13’ › “Wild Wild West” (1999) Will Smith. (TBS) 49 23 49 Sheldon Sheldon Sheldon Sheldon Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Last O.G. Sheldon (TCM) 169 53 169 Tarzan “Tarzan’s New York Adventure” (1942) ››‡ “Man of the World” (1931) ›› “Today We Live” (1933) Joan Crawford. ‘NR’ All About (TDC) 53 34 53 Homestead Rescue ‘PG’ Homestead Rescue ‘PG’ Homestead Rescue “It Takes a Village” ‘PG’ Å Homestead Rescue (In Stereo) ‘PG’ Å (TLC) 50 46 50 Untold Stories of the E.R. Untold Stories of the E.R. My 600-Lb. Life “Supersized: Lacey’s Journey” ‘14’ 1000-Lb. Sisters (N) ‘14’ Hoarding: Buried Alive (TMC) 350 261 350 ›››‡ “The Big Lebowski” (1998) Jeff Bridges. ››› “Frank Miller’s Sin City” (2005) Jessica Alba. ››› “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” ‘R’ Climax ‘R’ (TNT) 48 33 48 Godzilla ››› “Kong: Skull Island” (2017) Tom Hiddleston. ‘PG-13’ Shaq Life Shaq Life Shaq Life Shaq Life ››› “Knocked Up” ‘R’ (TOON) 38 58 38 Total Drama Total Drama Total Drama Total Drama Total Drama Total Drama King of Hill King of Hill Burgers Burgers Amer. Dad Amer. Dad (TRAV) 9 106 9 Paranormal Ca. Paranormal Ca. Paranormal Caught on Camera (N) ‘14’ Å Fright Club (N) ‘PG’ Å Paranormal Ca. (truTV) 25 55 25 Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Imp. Jokers Tacoma FD Jokes Jokes Jokes (TVL) 32 49 32 Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond King King (USA) 47 32 47 Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Chrisley Chrisley America’s Big Deal ‘PG’ Chrisley Chrisley Chrisley Chrisley (WE) 117 69 117 Criminal Minds ‘14’ Å Criminal Minds ‘14’ Å Marriage- Reality Stars Marriage- Reality Stars A House Divided (N) ‘14’ A House Divided ‘14’

BESTTONIGHT’S

8 p.m. on (HBO)

Music BoxJohn Maggio’s music documentary “Mr. Saturday Night” chronicles the meteoric career ascent of Australian entrepreneur Robert Stigwood, who was so inspired by a magazine article on the Brooklyn night club scene that he made a movie about it. That movie, “Saturday Night Fever,” became nothing less than a cultural touchstone for 1977, turning actor John Travolta into a global superstar in the process. The platinum-selling soundtrack also gave a shot of adren-aline to disco, thanks to four num-ber-one hits from the Bee Gees.

8 p.m. on (LIFE)

Movie: A Fiancé for ChristmasAs the holidays approach, Sawyer (Amanda Payton) is so depressed to find herself with no romantic prospects that she makes a fake on-line wedding registry, hoping that a vigorous session of retail therapy — preferably with a scan gun — will boost her spirits. Unfortunately, her make-believe registry soon attracts notice, followed by well-wishers who start planning a big bridal shower for her. Marie Osmond and Adam Gregory also star.

9 p.m. on (FOOD)

Christmas Cookie ChallengeFive festive cookie makers use their imaginations to decorate cookies that feature the perfect Christmas gift for jolly old St. Nick in the new episode “Present for Santa Claus.” Later, the cookie wizards fashion sweet-treat ver-sions of the ultimate Christmas party-starter: life-size ugly Christ-mas sweaters! Eddie Jackson and Ree Drummond are the co-hosts.

Robert Stigwood

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“ M Y S V T C O B B O O T D A S T R B M O . Z Y O U

B O O T R L R C O B Z Z E Y O V L R B T D A S T O

Z Y O F. Z Y O U R V H E B O O T R I C S O B T. Z Y O U

B O O T R M E B I S T R B Z . ” — T E B B U E H F E B T

Previous Solution: “I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don’t need millions of dollars.” — Sinead O’Connor

(c) 2021 by NEA, Inc., dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndication 12-9

Today’s clue: D equals G

WJUF-FM 90.1 National PublicWHGN-FM 91.9 ReligiousWXCV-FM 95.3 Adult Mix.WXOF-FM 96.7 Classic HitsWEKJ FM 96.3, 103.9 Religious

WSKY 97.3 FM News TalkWXJB 99.9 FM News TalkWXCZ 103.3 Country

WYKE-FM 104.3 Sports TalkWDUV 105.5 FM HudsonWJQB-FM 106.3 OldiesWFJV-FM 107.5 Classic RockWRZN-AM 720 Adult Mix

Local RADIO

Peanuts

Pickles

Sally Forth

Dilbert

The Born Loser

Doonesbury Flashbacks

Big Nate

Arlo and Janis

Moderately Confused

Dennis the Menace

Rubes

The Family Circus

Garfield

For Better or For Worse

Beetle Bailey

The Grizzwells

Blondie

Betty

Frank & Earnest

Today’s MOVIES

Citrus Cinemas 6 Inverness; 844-462-7342 Code 187

Thursday, Dec. 9“Encanto” PG — noon, 4, 7:30 p.m.“House of Gucci” R — 11:15 a.m., 2:45, 6:45 p.m.“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” PG13 — 11:45 a.m., 3:15, 7:15, 10:25 p.m.“King Richard” PG13 — 11:30 a.m., 3, 6:30 p.m.“Clifford The Big Red Dog” PG — 12:15, 3:30, 7:45 p.m.“Eternals” PG-13 — 11 a.m., 2:30, 7 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 10“Encanto” PG — noon, 4, 7:30, 10:35 p.m.“House of Gucci” R — 11:15 a.m., 2:45, 6:45, 10:15 p.m.

“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” PG13 — 11:45 a.m., 3:15, 7:15 p.m.“King Richard” PG13 — 11:30 a.m., 3, 6:30, 9:50 p.m.“Clifford The Big Red Dog” PG — 12:15, 3:30, 7:45, 10:30 p.m.“Eternals” PG-13 — 11 a.m., 2:30, 7, 10:10 p.m.

Valerie Theatre, Inverness; 352-341-7850Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10 and 11

“The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge” live perfor-mance — 7-9 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 12“The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge” live perfor-mance — 2-4 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 13“White Christmas” (1954) NR — 3 p.m.

Times provided by Regal Cinemas and are subject to chage; call ahead.

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Nature Coast Hair Salon,Homosassa's local hair salonfor many years, closed theirdoors due to severe shoulderinjuries to the owner Kim andseasoned Hair technician,Brooke. Hopefully in 3-4months both Kim and Brookewill return to what is their newhome now at Changes HairSalon! While recovering fromthe shoulder surgery, Kim,made sure that most ofNature Coast's loyal clientswere taken care of for theirhair color, cut and style needsat the Changes Hair Salon.

Changes Hair Salon owners,Sheryl and Neil ensured thatthey have the appropriate haircolor cards and the productsfor Nature Coast Hair clientsso there is seamless trans-ition for all the clients.

Changes Hair Salon islocated in the HomosassaPublix Plaza and has won theNeighborhood Favorite Awardfor three years in a row.Changes Hair Salon offers aclean, healthy and friendlyenvironment along with adelicious cup of beverage withcookies!! We are openMonday through Friday8:30am - 4:30pm, Saturday8:30am-3:30pm. Please callus at 352-382-HAIR(4247)for an appointment and ourfriendly experienced hairexperts will be happy to makeyour hair the best look itdeserves.

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EMPLOYMENT

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MEDICALRECEPTIONIST

Citrus CountyFull-Time 36 to 40 hrs

Starting at $15 to $18 per hrdepending on experience.

Paid time off and holiday paywill be available after 60 day

probation period expires.

Requires a caringindividual to work withpatients on the phone,

at the front desk inscheduling appointments,

taking payments, and filinginsurance claims in a busy

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- We prefer experienceworking in a medical office.- Computer literacy working

with Windows basedprograms required.

- Vaccination is Required

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The successful candidatewill have a strong focus onnew business developmentand be charged with growingrevenue through a consultat-ive selling approach. You willhave a vast array of digitaland print products so that youcan meet the advertising andmarketing needs of everyclient.

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FORECLOSURE

5023-1216 THCRN Loretta E. Heyboer 21-00156709-2021-CA-000296 Notice of Action

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUITIN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA

CIVIL ACTIONCASE NO.: 09-2021-CA-000296

DIVISION:AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP,

Plaintiff,vs.THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGN-EES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, OR OTHERCLAIMANTS CLAIMING BY, THROUGH, UNDER, ORAGAINST, LORETTA E. HEYBOER, DECEASED, et al,

Defendant(s).NOTICE OF ACTION

To:THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGN-

EES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, OR OTHERCLAIMANTS CLAIMING BY, THROUGH, UNDER, OR

AGAINST, LORETTA E. HEYBOER, DECEASEDLast Known Address: UnknownCurrent Address: Unknown

ROSENNA MAE RITCHIE A/K/A ROSEANNA MAY SANDERSLast Known Address: 832 CRICKLEWOOD ST SW

WYOMING, MI 49509Current Address: Unknown

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose a mortgage onthe following property in Citrus County, Florida:

LOTS 9 AND 10, BLOCK 202, INVERNESS HIGHLANDSSOUTH, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDEDIN PLAT BOOK 3, PAGE(S) 51 THROUGH 66 OF THE PUB-LIC RECORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.

A/K/A 122 CABOT ST INVERNESS FL 34452

has been filed against you and you are required to file written de-fenses with the clerk of court and to serve a copy within 30 daysafter the first publication of the Notice of Action, on Albertelli Law,Plaintiffʼs attorney, whose address is P.O. Box 23028, Tampa, FL33623; otherwise, a default will be entered against you for the re-lief demanded in the Complaint or petition.

This notice shall be published once a week for two consecut-ive weeks in the Citrus County Chronicle.

WITNESS my hand and the seal of this court on this 12th dayof November, 2021.

ANGELA VICKClerk of the Circuit Court

{{County Court Seal}}By:/s/ Amy Holmes

Deputy Clerk**See the Americans with Disabilities ActIf you are a person with a disability who needs an accommoda-tion in order to participate in a proceeding, you are entitled, at nocost to you, the provision of certain assistance. Please contactthe ADA Coordinator for the Courts within 2 working days of yourreceipt of your notice to appear in Court at:Citrus CountyJohn Sullivan(352) 341-6700

Published December 9 & 16, 2021

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Transport ChairNEW with or without Footrest

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5013-1209 THCRNPUBLIC NOTICEStorage Unit Sale

Public Notice Notice is hereby given that Gulf Storage, LLC Loc-ated at 1426 N. Gulf Ave, Crystal River, FL. 34429 Intends todispose of personal property/goods stored in Building D, byMyrna Hunter whose last known mailing address is 1544 Lav-ern St., Clearwater, FL 33755 and Bill Hunter whose last knownmailing address is 2251 N. Pilot Point, Crystal River, FL 34429for the purpose of satisfying delinquent rents and related collec-tion costs accruing since 07/26/2019. Tenant stored goods if sal-able, will be sold on site after this public notice has been pub-lished two times in accordance with Florida Statues #83-806. Thesale of stored goods if not redeemed by payment in full of all de-linquent rents and related costs, may be sold 15 days from thepublication of the first notice in accordance with the above.

Chuck Tabacchi, Agent


FORECLOSURE

5993-1209 THCRN William & Judy Baker2021-CA-585 Notice of Action

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIALCIRCUIT IN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA

CASE NO.: 2021-CA-585WILLIAM BAKER and JUDY BAKER,

Plaintiffs,v.CHARLES C. TAYLOR and YVONNE E. TAYLOR, their un-known, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trust-ees or other claimants whose exact legai status is unknown,claiming by, through, under or against the above-named or de-scribed Defendant, or parties claiming to have any right, title orinterest in and to the lands hereinafter described,

Defendants.NOTICE OF ACTION

TO: CHARLES C. TAYLOR and YVONNE E. TAYLOR5411 E. Frances Rd.Mount Morris MI 48458

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for Quiet Title to the follow-ing described real properties located in Citrus County, Florida:

Lot 146Situate and being in Section 15, Township 19 South, Range 16East, Citrus County, Florida, and being further described as fol-lows: Beginning at a point in the Southwesterly right of way lineof a Citrus County Road, as recorded in Official Records Book115, Page 64, of the Public Records of Citrus County, Florida,found by measuring from the point of intersection of the West lineof the Northeast 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4 of said Section 15, andthe said Southwesterly right of way line of said County Road,South 30 degrees 54'14" East, 100.48 feet; thence South 73 de-grees 04'21" East, 224.61 feet; thence South 61 degrees 40'34"East, 47.83 feet to the aforementioned Beginning Point: thenceleaving said road right of way line, South 11 degrees 55'50"West, 98.57 feet, more or less to a point hereinafter referred toas Point "A"; return to the Beginning Point; thence South 61 de-grees 40'34" East, 64.44 feet; thence South 9 degrees 45ʼ05”West, 116.72 feet to the center line of a canal that is 25.0 feetwide and in common use with others; thence along the centerline of said canal. North 49 degrees 16ʼ05" West, 74.84 feet,more or less to the aforesaid Point "A"; thence North 11 degrees55'50" East, 98.57 feet, more or less to the aforementioned Be-ginning Point.

14172 W. Ozello Trail, Crystal River, FL

Lot 147Situate and being in Section 15, Township 19 South, Range 16East, Citrus County, Florida, and being further described as fol-lows: Beginning at a point in the Southwesterly right of way lineof a Citrus County Road, as recorded in Official Records Book115, Page 64, of the Public Records of Citrus County, Florida,found by measuring from the point of intersection of the West lineof the Northeast 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4 of said Section 15, andthe said Southwesterly right of way line of said County Road,South 30 degrees 54'14" East, 100.48 feet; thence South 73 de-grees 04'21 ” East. 202.54 feet to the aforementioned BeginningPoint; thence continuing South 73 degrees 04'21" East, 22.07feet; thence South 61 degrees 40'34" East, 47.83 feet; thenceleaving said County Road right of way line South 11 degrees55'50" West, 84.13 feet, more or less to the waters edge of acanal; thence continuing South 11 degrees 55'50" West, alongthe waters edge of said canal, 28.87 feet; thence South 89 de-grees 29'30" West, parallel to the South line of said Northeast 1/4of the Northeast 1/4 of Sect ion 15, a distance of 40.10 feet;thence North 0 degrees 29'50" West, parallel to the West line ofsaid Northeast 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4, 140.0 feet to the afore-mentioned Beginning Point.

2097 S. Appletree Pt., Crystal River, FL

Lot 148Situate and being in Section 15, Township 19 South, Range 16East, Citrus County, Florida, and being further described as fol-lows: Beginning at a point in the Southwesterly right of way lineof a Citrus County Road, as recorded in Official Records Book115, Page 64, of the Public Records of Citrus County, Florida,found by measuring from the point of intersection of the West lineof the Northeast 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4 of said Section 15 andthe Southwesterly right of way line of said County Road line.South 30 degrees 54'14" East, 100.48 feet; thence South 73 de-grees 64'21" East, 204.54 feet to a point of intersection with theSoutherly right of way iine of W. Ozello Trail and the East right ofway line of Appletree Point; thence along said East right of wayline, South 00 degrees 29'50" East, 140.00 feet to the Point ofBeginning; thence leaving said right of way line, from the Point ofBeginning, North 89 degrees 29'30" East, 40.10 feet, more orless to a point hereinafter referred to as Point "A"; thence South49 degrees 16'05" East, along the center line of the canal that is25 feet wide and in common use with others, 74.84 feet, more orless; thence South 00 degrees 29'50" East, 24.12 feet, more orless; thence South 89 degrees 29'30" West, 99.13 feet, more orless to said East right of way line; thence along said East right ofway line; thence along said East right of way line, North 00 de-grees 29'50" West. 59.74 feet, more or less to the Point of Begin-ning.

2109 S. Appletree Pt., Crystal River, FL

Has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copyof your written defense, if any, to it on Plaintiffs' attorney,ROBERT S. CHRISTENSEN, PO Box 415, Homosassa, FL34447 within THIRTY (30) days of the first publication, and filethe original with the Clerk of Court, 110 N. Apopka Ave, In-verness, FL, 34450, either before service on the Plaintiffsʼ Attor-ney or immediately thereafter: otherwise a Default will be enteredagainst you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

DATED November 5, 2021.ANGELA VICK, CLERK OF COURT

{{County Court Seal}}By: /s/ Jennifer L. Steelfox

Deputy ClerkPublished November 18, 25 and December 2 & 9, 2021.

5016-1216 THCRN Barbara E. Jacobs 58341.0888/JSchwartz2020 CA 000449 A Notice of Foreclosure Sale

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 5TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, INAND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.

CASE No. 2020 CA 000449 AREVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC,

Plaintiff,vs.UNKNOWN SPOUSE, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, AS-SIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, AND ALLOTHER PARTIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST BY, THROUGH,UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF BARBARA E. JACOBSAKA BARBARA EILEEN JACOBS, DECEASED, et al.

Defendants.NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to an Order or Final Judg-ment entered in Case No. 2020 CA 000449 A of the Circuit Courtof the 5TH Judicial Circuit in and for CITRUS County, Florida,wherein, REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC, Plaintiff, and,UNKNOWN SPOUSE, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, AS-SIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, AND ALLOTHER PARTIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST BY, THROUGH,UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF BARBARA E. JACOBSAKA BARBARA EILEEN JACOBS, DECEASED, et al., are De-fendants, Clerk of Court, Angela Vick, will sell to the highest bid-der for cash at, WWW.CITRUS.REALFORECLOSE.COM, at thehour of 10:00 a.m., on the 6th day of January, 2022, the follow-ing described property:

ALL THAT CERTAIN LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING INCITRUS COUNTY, STATE OF FLORIDA, VIZ:

TRACT 26, A TRACT OF LAND IN SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP18 SOUTH, RANGE 20 EAST, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 38, PLAT OF C.BUCK TURNER CAMP SITES, ACCORDING TO A PLATTHEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 2 PAGE 29, PUBLICRECORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA; AND RUNTHENCE EAST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT 38,1329 FEET FOR A POINT OF BEGINNING;THENCE SOUTH PARALLEL TO THE WEST LINE OF SAIDLOT 38, 184 FEET;THENCE EAST, 60 FEET;THENCE NORTH 184 FEET;THENCE WEST 60 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.SUBJECT TO AN EASEMENT OVER THE SOUTH 40 FEETFOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AND SUBJECT TO AN EASE-MENT OVER THE NORTH 40 FEET FOR A BOAT BASIN.

Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, ifany, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pen-dens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.

DATED this 3rd day of December, 2021.GREENSPOON MARDER LLP

TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309Telephone: (954) 343 6273

Hearing Line: (888) 491-1120Facsimile: (954) 343 6982

Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]

By: /s/ Karissa Chin-Duncan, Esq.Florida Bar No. 98472

IMPORTANT

If you are a person with a disability who needs any accom-modation in order to participate in this proceeding, you areentitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assist-ance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator for Citrus County,John Sullivan, at (352) 341-6700 at least 7 days before yourscheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receivingthis notification if the time before the scheduled appearanceis less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call711.


FORECLOSURE

5010-1209 THCRN Faye Marie Junta2018 CA 001058 A Notice of Foreclosure Sale


CASE NO.: 2018 CA 001058 AFORETHOUGHT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,Plaintiff,VS.FAYE MARIE JUNTA A/K/A FAYE JUNTA; et al.,Defendant(s).

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALEPURSUANT TO CHAPTER 45

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sale will be made pursuant toan Order or Final Judgment. Final Judgment was awarded onNovember 9, 2021 in Civil Case No. 2018 CA 001058 A, of theCircuit Court of the FIFTH Judicial Circuit in and for CitrusCounty, Florida, wherein, FORETHOUGHT LIFE INSURANCECOMPANY is the Plaintiff, and FAYE MARIE JUNTA A/K/AFAYE JUNTA; UNKNOWN HEIRS BENEFICIARIES, DE-VISEES, SURVIVING SPOUSE, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEE, LIEN-ORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, AND ALL OTHER PARTIESCLAIMING AN INTEREST BY THROUGH UNDER OR AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF HENRY L. KUNISKI A.K.A HENRY LINCOLNKUNISKI, DECEASED; HELEN SCHUNK; UNKNOWN SPOUSEOF FAYE MARIE JUNTA A/K/A FAYE JUNTA; UNKNOWN TEN-ANT 1 N/K/A MIKE BAILLO; UNKNOWN TENANT 2; BARBARAANN KUNISKI A/K/A BARBARA ANN GRAVER; are Defendants.

The Clerk of the Court, Angela Vick will sell to the highest bid-der for cash at www.citrus.realforeclose.com on December 30,2021 at 10:00:00 AM EST the following described real propertyas set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit:

LOTS 26 AND 27, BLOCK 21, PARSONS POINT ADDITIONTO HERNANDO, ACCORDING TO THE MAP OR PLATTHEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 2, PAGES 19THROUGH 23, INCLUSIVE, PUBLIC RECORDS OF CITRUSCOUNTY, FLORIDA. TOGETHER WITH A 1971 NO-BIDOUBLEWIDE MOBILE HOME VIN #: N2531A AND VIN #:N2531B

Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, ifany, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pen-dens must file a claim before the clerk reports the surplus as un-claimed.

Dated this 23rd day of November, 2021.ALDRIDGE PITE, LLP

Attorney for Plaintiff1615 South Congress Avenue

Suite 200Delray Beach, FL 33445

Telephone: 561-392-6391Facsimile: 561-392-6965By: /s/ Jennifer Traviesco

FBN: 641065Primary E-Mail: [email protected]

IMPORTANT

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: If you are a personwith a disability who needs any accommodation in order toparticipate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost toyou, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contactthe ADA Coordinator for Citrus County, John Sullivan, at(352) 341-6700 at least 7 days before your scheduled courtappearance, or immediately upon receiving this notificationif the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.


FORECLOSURE

5021-1216 THCRN Jack Edward Stollard 10000046972019 CA 000534 A Notice of Sale

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTHJUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA

CASE NO. 2019 CA 000534 AMIDFIRST BANK

Plaintiff,v.THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, GRANTEES, DEVISEES, LIENORS,TRUSTEES, AND CREDITORS OF JACK EDWARD STOLLARDA/K/A JACK E. STOLLARD A/K/A JACK STOLLARD, DE-CEASED; SAMANTHA DAWN STOLLARD A/K/A SAMANTHASTOLLARD; UNKNOWN TENANT 2; UNKNOWN TENANT 1;CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA;ELITE ROOFING & GUTTERS, INC.; ONEMAIN FINANCIAL OFAMERICA, INC. F/K/A SPRINGLEAF FINANCIAL SERVICESOF AMERICA, INC., A CORPORATION

Defendants.NOTICE OF SALE

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Final Judgment ofForeclosure entered on November 04, 2021, in this cause, in theCircuit Court of Citrus County, Florida, the office of Angela Vick,Clerk of the Circuit Court, shall sell the property situated in CitrusCounty, Florida, described as:

LOT 24, BLOCK 148, BEVERLY HILLS UNIT NUMBER SIXSECTION TWO, AS PER PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED INPLAT BOOK 11, PAGES 132-134, PUBLIC RECORDS OF CIT-RUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.

a/k/a 508 S JACKSON ST, BEVERLY HILLS, FL 34465-0435

at public sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, Online atwww.citrus.realforeclose.com, on January 06, 2022 beginning at10:00 AM.


Dated at St. Petersburg, Florida this 3rd day of December,2021.

eXL Legal, PLLCDesignated Email Address: [email protected]

12425 28th Street North, Suite 200St. Petersburg, FL 33716

Telephone No. (727) 536-4911Attorney for the Plaintiff/s/ Isabel López Rivera

FL Bar: 1015906If you are a person with a disability who needs any accom-modation in order to participate in this proceeding, you areentitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assist-ance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Office ofthe Trial Court Administrator, Citrus County Courthouse, 110North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, Florida 34450, Telephone(352) 341-6700, at least 7 days before your scheduled courtappearance, or immediately upon receiving this notificationif the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7days; if you arc hearing or voice impaired, call 711.


5020-1216 THCRN Daykin & Roark v. Arnold 00287626-12019CA000779A Notice of Sale


CIVIL DIVISIONCASE NO: 2019CA000779A

JASON EDWARD DAYKIN ANDAMANDA MARIE ROARK

Plaintiffs/Counter-Defendantsv.PATRICIA GRIFFIN ARNOLD,

Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to an Order of Final Judg-ment of Foreclosure dated September 1, 2021, and entered inCase No. 2019CA000779A of the Circuit Court of the Fifth Judi-cial Circuit in and for Citrus County, Florida wherein JASON ED-WARD DAYKIN and AMANDA MARIE ROARK arePlaintiffs/Counter-Defendants, and Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff,PATRICIA GRIFFIN ARNOLD, will sell to the highest and bestbidder for cash at https://citrus.realforeclose.com, the Clerkʼswebsite for online auctions, at 10:00 AM on the 30th day ofDecember, 2021, the following described property located at6919 Sorrell Avenue, Homosassa, FL 34446, and more fully setforth in the Order of Final Judgment, to wit:

BEG AT THE NW COR OF LT 84 GREEN ACRES ADD NO 5UNIT NO 3 PB5 PG 86, TH S 89D 37M 47S E AL THE N BDRY OF SD LOT 84,222.32 FT, TH S 0D 03M 34S E 196.07 FT TO A PT ON THE SBDRYOF SD LOT 84, TH N 89D 36M 04S W AL SD S BDRY 222.29FT TOTHE SW COR OF SD LOT 84, TH N 0D 04M 01S W 195.96 FTTO THEPOB

Dated in Hillsborough County, Florida, this 6th day of December,2021.

Attorney for Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff, PATRICIA GRIFFINARNOLD

Cassidy J. Fordiani, EsquireFlorida Bar No.: 1019352Primary email: [email protected]: [email protected], Alvarez, Jones, Russo & Guyton, P.A.302 Knights Run Ave., Suite 1000Tampa, FL 33602(Tel) 813-229-7007 / (Fax) 813-223-6544

If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommoda-tion in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, atno cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please con-tact ADA Coordinator, Room 470, 201 S.E. Sixth Street, FortLauderdale, FL 33301, 954-831-7721 at least 7 days before yourscheduled appearance, or immediately upon receiving this noti-fication if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.


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5017-1216 THCRN Jennifer Farmer Schwarz 10000057472020 CA 000021 A Notice of Sale


CASE NO. 2020 CA 000021 AREGIONS BANK D/B/A REGIONS MORTGAGE

Plaintiff,v.JENNIFER FARMER SCHWARZ A/K/A JENNIFER SCHWARZA/K/A JENNIFER J FARMER A/K/A JENNIFER JILL SCHWARZA/K/A JENNIFER FARMER A/K/A JENNI FARMER; ZEEVSCHWARZ; UNKNOWN TENANT 1; UNKNOWN TENANT 2;



LOT 26 OF BROOKWOOD ACRES, AN UNRECORDED SUBDI-VISION BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOL-LOWS: COMMENCE AT THE S 1/4 CORNER OF SECTION 26,TOWNSHIP 19 SOUTH, RANGE 20 EAST, CITRUS COUNTY,FLORIDA, THENCE N. 0° 37` 46" W. ALONG THE WEST LINEOF GOVERNMENT LOT 2 A DISTANCE OF 2250.53 FEET,THENCE N. 89° 22` 14" E. A DISTANCE OF 330.00 FEET,THENCE S. 53° 32` 06" E. A DISTANCE OF 559.44 FEET,THENCE S. 3° 04` 46` E, A DISTANCE OF 708.29 FEET TOTHE P.C. OF A CURVE CONCAVED NORTHWESTERLY, HAV-ING A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 16° 02` 15" AND A RADIUS OF311.39 FEET, THENCE CONTINUE ALONG THE ARC OF SAIDCURVE A DISTANCE OF 87.16 FEET TO THE POINT OF BE-GINNING (CHORD BEARING AND DISTANCE BETWEEN SAIDPOINTS BEING S. 4° 56` 22" W. 86.88 FEET), THENCE CON-TINUE ALONG THE ARC OF SAID CURVE A DISTANCE OF231.71 FEET TO THE P.T. OF SAID CURVE (CHORD BEARD-ING AND DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID POINTS BEING S. 34°16` 32" W. A DISTANCE OF 226.40 FEET), THENCE S.55°35`34" W. A DISTANCE OF 29.83 FEET, THENCE N.34°24`26" W. A DISTANCE OF 300.00 FEET, THENCE N.55°35`34" E. A DISTANCE OF 36.23 FEET, THENCE S.77°37`06" E. 298.69 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.

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eXL Legal, PLLCDesignated Email Address: [email protected]

12425 28th Street North, Suite 200St. Petersburg, FL 33716

Telephone No. (727) 536-4911Attorney for the Plaintiff/s/ Isabel López Rivera

FL Bar: 1015906If you are a person with a disability who needs any accom-modation in order to participate in this proceeding, you areentitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assist-ance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Office ofthe Trial Court Administrator, Citrus County Courthouse, 110North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, Florida 34450, Telephone(352) 341-6700, at least 7 days before your scheduled courtappearance, or immediately upon receiving this notificationif the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711.


FORECLOSURE

5009-1209 THCRN Erna Stanton2021-CA-000527 A Notice of Action


CASE NO.: 2021-CA-000527 APHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION,

Plaintiff,v.KARYN CAPELLA AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OFTHE ESTATE OF ERNA STANTON, et al.,


TO: Unknown Heir, Beneficiary and Devisee 1 of the Estate ofErna Stanton,Deceased8405 North Pine Haven PointCrystal River, FL 34428

Unknown Heir, Beneficiary and Devisee 2 of the Estate of ErnaStanton,Deceased8405 North Pine Haven PointCrystal River, FL 34428



YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose amortgage on the following described property in Citrus County,Florida:

Lot 2, THE PINES, according to the map or plat thereof, asrecorded in Plat Book 11, Page 87 and 88, of the Public Re-cord of Citrus County, Florida.

has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copyof your written defenses, if any, on Anthony R. Smith, Esquire,the Plaintiffʼs attorney, whose address is Tiffany & Bosco, P.A.,1201 S. Orlando Ave, Suite 430, Winter Park, FL 32789, on orbefore thirty (30) days from the date of first publication of this No-tice, and file the original with the Clerk of this Court either beforeservice on the Plaintiffʼs attorney or immediately thereafter; or adefault will be entered against you for the relief demanded in thecomplaint.

If you are a person with a disability who needs any accom-modation in order to participate in this proceeding, you areentitled, at no cost to you, the provision of certain assist-ance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Office ofthe Trial Court Administrator, Citrus County Courthouse, 110North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, Florida 34450, , Tele-phone (352) 341-6700, at least 7 days before your scheduledcourt appearance, or immediately upon receiving this noti-fication if the time before the scheduled appearance is lessthan 7 days; If you are hearing or voice impaired, call 771.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand andaffixed the official seal of said Court at Citrus County, Florida, this18th day of November, 2021.

Angela Vickas Clerk of the Circuit Court of

Citrus County, Florida{{County Court Seal}}

By: /s/ Amy HolmesPublished December 2 & 9, 2021

5015-1216 THCRN Mildred Mainwaring 58341.0785/JSchwartz2020 CA 000414 A Notice of Foreclosure Sale

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 5TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, INAND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.

CASE No. 2020 CA 000414 AREVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC,

Plaintiff,vs.MILDRED MAINWARING AKA MILDREDALLEN MAINWARING, et. al.,


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to an Order or Final Judg-ment entered in Case No. 2020 CA 000414 A of the Circuit Courtof the 5TH Judicial Circuit in and for CITRUS County, Florida,wherein, REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC, Plaintiff, and,MILDRED MAINWARING AKA MILDRED ALLEN MAINWAR-ING, et. al., are Defendants, Clerk of Court, Angela Vick, will sellto the highest bidder for cash at, WWW.CITRUS.REALFORE-CLOSE.COM, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., on the 6th day of Janu-ary, 2022, the following described property:

THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED INTHE COUNTY OF CITRUS, STATE OF FLORIDA, AND IS DE-SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

N 1/2 OF NE 1/4 OF SE 1/4 OF NE 1/4 OF SECTION 24,TOWNSHIP 18 SOUTH, RANGE 18 EAST, BEING LOT 17,SKYLAND MEADOWS, AN UNRECORDED SUBDIVISION.

SUBJECT TO A 50 FOOT WIDE POWER LINE EASEMENTACROSS THE EAST BOUNDARY THEREOF AND

SUBJECT TO A 25 FOOT WIDE EASEMENTS ACROSS THEWEST BOUNDARY THEREOF FOR ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY.

TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR INGRESS ANDEGRESS TO BE USED IN COMMON WITH OTHER AS DE-SCRIBED IN OFFICIAL RECORD BOOK 540, PAGE 485, PUB-LIC RECORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.

Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, ifany, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pen-dens must file a claim within 60 days after the sale.

DATED this 3rd day of December, 2021.GREENSPOON MARDER LLP

TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309Telephone: (954) 343 6273

Hearing Line: (888) 491-1120Facsimile: (954) 343 6982

Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]

By: /s/ Karissa Chin-Duncan, Esq.Florida Bar No. 98472

IMPORTANT

If you are a person with a disability who needs any accom-modation in order to participate in this proceeding, you areentitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assist-ance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator for Citrus County,John Sullivan, at (352) 341-6700 at least 7 days before yourscheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receivingthis notification if the time before the scheduled appearanceis less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call711.


5999-1209 THCRN Gregoria S. DeRivera & Myrna I. Rivera2021-CA-0741 Notice of Action 20211102


CASE NO.: 2021-CA-0741DIVISION:

KING STAR INVESTMENTS,Plaintiff(s),

vs.GREGORIA S. DE RIVERA; and MYRNA I. RIVERA,


To: GREGORIA S. DE RIVERA; and MYRNA I. RIVERA:

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to Quiet Title toreal property described as:

Lot 21, Block 1584, Citrus Springs Unit 22, according to the mapor plat thereof, as recorded in Plat Book 7, Page(s) 93 through109, of the Public Records of Citrus County, Florida.

has been filed by Plaintiff, KING STAR INVESTMENTS, and youare required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, onAlisa Wilkes, Esq., 13400 Sutton Park Dr. S., Suite 1204, Jack-sonville, FL 32224, (904)620-9545 on or before December 18,2021 and file the original with the Clerk of Court and Plaintiffʼs at-torney, otherwise a default and judgment will be entered againstyou for the relief demanded.

Witness my hand and the seal of this court on this 12th day ofNovember, 2021.

ANGELA VICKClerk of the Circuit Court

{{County Court Seal}}By: /s/ Amy Holmes

Deputy ClerkPublished November 18 & 25 and December 2 & 9, 2021

FORECLOSURE

5005-1216 THCRN Leo J. Bukowinski2021 CA 473 Notice of Action

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THEFIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

IN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDACASE NO.: 2021 CA 473

UNDERWOOD RESIDENTIAL GC, LLC,Plaintiff,

vs.LEO J. BUKOWINSKI; UNKNOWN HEIRS OF LEO J. BUKOW-INSKI, if any; ALBIN J. BUKOWINSKI; UNKNOWN HEIRS OFALBIN J. BUKOWINSKI, if any; CITRUS SPRINGS CIVIC ASSO-CIATION, INC.; and UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES,GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUST-EES OR OTHER CLAIMAINTS CLAIMING BY, THROUGH, UN-DER OR AGAINST SAID DEFENDANTS

DefendantsNOTICE OF ACTION:

CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE OF PROCESS - PROPERTY

NOTICE OF ACTION TO ALBIN J. BUKOWINSKI, if any, whoseresidences are unknown.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to quiet title hasbeen commenced on the following property in Citrus County,Florida:

PARCEL NO. 14-CITRUS SPRINGS UNIT 4 PLAT BK 5 PG 133 LOT 20 BLK349 DESCR IN O R BK 555 PG 535 OF THE PUBLIC RE-CORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.

PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NO: 18E17S100040 03490 0200

And has been filed against you and you are required to serve acopy of your written defenses, if any, to it on RICHARDMUTARELLI, JR., ESQ., the Plaintiffs attorney, whose address isSchatt, McGraw, Rauba & Mutarelli, P.A., 328 N.E. 1st Avenue,Suite 100, Ocala, Florida 34470, on or before December 25,2021 and file the original with the clerk of this court either beforeservice on Plaintiffs attorney or immediately thereafter, otherwisea default will be entered against you for the relief demanded inthe complaint or petition.

Dated on 19th of November, 2021.ANGELA VICK

As Clerk of the Court{{County Court Seal}}

By: /s/ Hanora N. CasselsAs Deputy Clerk

Richard Mutarelli, Jr., Esq.Schatt, Mcgraw, Rauba & Mutarelli, PA328 N.E. 1st AvenueSuite 100Ocala, FL 34470352-789-6520Published November 25 and December 2, 9 & 16, 2021

5011-1209 THCRN William B. Cooper2021 CA 000620 A Notice of Action


CASE NO. 2021 CA 000620 AMIDFIRST BANK

Plaintiff,v.THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, GRANTEES, DEVISEES, LIENORS,TRUSTEES, AND CREDITORS OF WILLIAM B. COOPER, SR.,DECEASED, ET AL.


TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, GRANTEES, DEVISEES, LIEN-ORS, TRUSTEES, AND CREDITORS OF WILLIAM B.COOPER, SR. , DECEASED-and-THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, GRANTEES, DEVISEES, LIENORS,TRUSTEES, AND CREDITORS OF WILLIAM BRUCECOOPER, JR . , DECEASEDCurrent Residence Unknown, but whose last known addresswas:2636 W PATTERSON CT, LECANTO, FL 34461-8340-and-UNITED CAPITAL MORTGAGE CORPORATIONwhose last known principal place of business was:101 S SPRING ST STE 220, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72201

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose a mortgageon the following property in Citrus County, Florida, to-wit:

COMMENCE AT THE NW CORNER OF LOT 3, CARDINALACRES, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 6, PAGE 109, OFTHE PUBLIC RECORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA,THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 12 MINUTES 46 SECONDSEAST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 3 A DISTANCEOF 162.57 FEET, THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 59 MINUTES04 SECONDS EAST PARALLEL TO THE SOUTH LINE OFSAID LOT 3, A DISTANCE OF 385.14 FEET TO THE POINT OFBEGINNING, THENCE CONTINUE NORTH 88 DEGREES 59MINUTES 04 SECONDS EAST PARALLEL TO SAID SOUTHLINE A DISTANCE OF 128.38 FEET, THENCE SOUTH 01 DE-GREES 11 MINUTES 45 SECONDS EAST 169.69 FEET TO APOINT ON SAID SOUTH LINE, THENCE SOUTH 88 DE-GREES 59 MINUTES 04 SECONDS WEST ALONG SAIDSOUTH LINE A DISTANCE OF 128.37 FEET, THENCE NORTH01 DEGREES 12 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST 169.69 FEETTO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, BEING LOT 8 OF AN UNRE-CORDED SUBDIVISION. SUBJECT TO A 15 FOOT WIDEEASEMENT ACROSS THE NORTH BOUNDARY THEREOFFOR ROAD RIGHT OF WAY. TOGETHER WITH AN EASE-MENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS TO BE USED IN COM-MON WITH OTHERS OVER AND ACROSS THE FOLLOWINGDESCRIBED LAND: THE NORTH 30 FEET OF THE SOUTH184.69 FEET OF LOT 3, CARDINAL ACRES, AS RECORDEDIN PLAT BOOK 6, PAGE 109, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OFCITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.

TOGETHER WITH A MOBILE HOME LOCATED THEREON ASA PERMANENT FIXTURE AND APPURTENANCE THERETO,DESCRIBED AS: A 1984 MANA DOUBLEWIDE MOBILEHOME BEARING IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS 064434S8407AAND 064434S8407B AND TITLE NUMBERS 20806622 AND20852814.

has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copyof your written defenses, if any, to it on eXL Legal, PLLC,Plaintiff's attorney, whose address is 12425 28th Street North,Suite 200, St. Petersburg, FL 33716, on or before January 1,2022 and file the original with the Clerk of this Court at 110 NApopka Ave, Inverness, FL 34450, either before service onPlaintiff's attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise, a defaultwill be entered against you for the relief demanded in the com-plaint petition.

WITNESS my hand and seal of the Court on this 22nd day ofNovember, 2021.

Angela VickClerk of the Circuit Court

(SEAL)By: /s/ Hanora N. Cassels

Deputy ClerkIf you are a person with a disability who needs any accom-modation in order to participate in this proceeding, you areentitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assist-ance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Office ofthe Trial Court Administrator, Citrus County Courthouse, 110North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, Florida 34450, Telephone(352) 341-6700, at least 7 days before your scheduled courtappearance, or immediately upon receiving this notificationif the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7days; if you arc hearing or voice impaired, call 711.


5019-1216 THCRN Michael A. Castroro2018-CA-000485 Notice of Foreclosure Sale

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUITOF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR CITRUS COUNTY,

CIVIL DIVISIONCASE NO.: 2018-CA-000485

FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION,Plaintiff,

vs.THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGN-EES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, OR OTHERCLAIMANTS CLAIMING BY, THROUGH, UNDER, ORAGAINST, MICHAEL A. CASTORO, DECEASED, et al.,


NOTICE OF SALE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the Con-sent Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered on November 24,2021, in Case No. 2018-CA-000485 of the Circuit Court of theFifth Judicial Circuit, in and for Citrus County, Florida, whereinFREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, is Plaintiff, and THEUNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LI-ENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, OR OTHER CLAIMANTSCLAIMING BY, THROUGH, UNDER, OR AGAINST, MICHAELA. CASTORO, DECEASED, PETER CASTRO, PHYLLISCASTORO, CITRUS SPRINGS CIVIC ASSOCIATION, INC.,CARLO CASTORO, PHILLIP CASTORO and MICHAELCASTORO, JR., are Defendants, the Office of Angela Vick, Cit-rus County Clerk of the Court, will sell to the highest and bestbidder for cash beginning at 10:00 A.M. on- l ine atwww.citrus.realforeclose.com on the 6th day of January,2022, in accordance with Section 45.031, Florida Statutes, thefollowing described property as set forth in said Final Judgment,to wit:

Lot 14, Block 405, CITRUS SPRINGS UNIT 4, according toPlat thereof as recorded in Plat Book 5, pages 133 through152, inclusive, Public Records of Citrus County, Florida.

Property Address: 1841 W. Beach Plum Dr., Citrus Springs, FL34434.

together with all existing or subsequently erected or affixed build-ings, improvements and fixtures.

Any person claiming an interest in the surplus funds from thesale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lispendens, must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the sale.

IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDSANY ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE INTHIS PROCEEDING, YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TOYOU, TO THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN ASSISTANCE.PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE OF THE ADA COORDINAT-OR, 110 N APOPKA AVENUE, IVERNESS, FL 34450, (352)341-6700, AT LEAST SEVEN DAYS BEFORE YOUR SCHED-ULED COURT APPEARANCE, OR IMMEDIATELY UPON RE-CEIVING THIS NOTIFICATION IF THE TIME BEFORE THESCHEDULED APPEARANCE IS LESS THAN SEVEN DAYS; IFYOU ARE HEARING OR VOICE IMPAIRED, CALL 1-800-955-8771 OR DIAL 711.

Dated this 3rd day of December, 2021.

Sokolof Remtulla, PLLC

By:_/s/ Benjamin D. Ladouceur, Esq.___Benjamin D. Ladouceur, Esq.

Bar No: 73863SOKOLOF REMTULLA, PLLC224 Datura Street, Suite 515West Palm Beach, Florida 33401Telephone: 561-507-5252Facsimile: 561-342-4842E-mail: [email protected] for Plaintiff


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5022-1216 THCRN James E. O'Neill 1496-178821/ASF092021CA000165XXXAXX Notice of Action

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT INAND FOR CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.

CIVIL DIVISIONCASE NO. 092021CA000165XXXAXX

MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P.,Plaintiff,

vs.THE UNKNOWN SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES,CREDITORS, AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIMING BY,THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF JAMES E.O'NEILL A/K/A JAMES EDWARD O'NEILL A/K/A JAMES ED-WARD O'NEILL, JR., DECEASED, et al


TO: THE UNKNOWN SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES,GRANTEES, CREDITORS, AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIM-ING BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OFJAMES E. O'NEILL A/K/A JAMES EDWARD O'NEILL A/K/AJAMES EDWARD O'NEILL, JR., DECEASEDRESIDENCES UNKNOWN

YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose a mortgage onthe following described property in Citrus County, Florida:

LOT 11, BLOCK 412, CITRUS SPRINGS, UNIT 4, ACCORDINGTO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 5,AT PAGE(S) 133 THROUGH 152, INCLUSIVE, OF THE PUB-LIC RECORDS OF CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA.

has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copyof your written defenses, if any, to it on Diaz Anselmo & Asso-ciates, P.A., Plaintiff's attorneys, whose address is PO BOX19519, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33318, (954) 564-0071,[email protected], within 30 days from first date of publica-tion, and file the original with the Clerk of this Court either beforeservice on Plaintiff's attorneys or immediately thereafter; other-wise a default will be entered against you for the relief deman-ded in the complaint or petition.

DATED on 19th of November, 2021.Angela Vick, Clerk of Court and Comptroller

{{County Court Seal}}By: /s/ Hanora N. Cassels

As Clerk of the CourtIn accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of1990, persons needing special accommodation to particip-ate in this proceeding should contact the Clerk of the Courtnot later than five business days prior to the proceeding atthe Citrus County Courthouse. Telephone 352-637-9400 or 1-800-955-8770 via Florida Relay Service.


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7432-1229 WCRN TXD 0717PUBLIC NOTICE

APPLICATION: 2021-0717TDNOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: SAVVY FL LLCThe holder of the following certificate has filed said certificate fora tax deed to be issued thereon. The certificate number and yearof issuance, the description of the property, and the names inwhich it was assessed are as follows:CERTIFICATE NO: 19-8712 YEAR OF ISSUANCE: 2019DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:OSCEOLA HILLS UNREC SUB LOTS 11B-1 & 11B-2 IN SEC32-17-18 DESC AS FOLLOWS: 11B-1; W 1/2 OF NW 1/4 OFNW 1/4 OF NE 1/4 OF SW 1/4 & 11B-2; E 1/2 OF NW 1/4 OFNW 1/4 OF NE 1/4 OF SW 1/4 --- TOG WITH A NON EXCLUS-IVE EASE FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS OVER THE FOLDESC LANDS; COM AT THE NW COR OF THE NW1/4 OFTHE SW1/4 OF SEC 32-17-18, TH N 88D 23M 15S E AL THE SLN OF SD NW1/4 OF THE SW1/4 260 FT TO THE POB, THCONT N 88D 23M 15S E AL SD S LN 60 FT, TH N 01D 10M12S W 621.24 FT, TH N88D 13M 34S E 1682.26 FT, TH S 01D06M 18S E 626.37 FT TO A PT ON THE S LN OF THE NE1/4OF THE SW 1/4 OF SD SEC 32, TH N 88D 23M 15S E AL SD SLN 60 FT, TH N 01D 06M 18S W 686.57 FT, TH S 88D 13M 34DW 1742.36 FT, TH N 01D 10M 12S W 621.63 FT TO A PT ONTHE N LN OF SD NW1/4 OF THE SW1/4, TH S 88D 03M 53S WAL SD N LN 320.02 FT TO THE NW COR OF SD NW1/4 OFTHE SW1/4, TH S 01D 10M 12S E AL THE W LN OF SD NW1/4OF THE SW1/4 25 FT, TH N 88D 03M 53S E PARALLEL TOSD N LN 260.02 FT, TH S 01D 10M 12S E PARALLEL TO SDW LN 1277.93 FT TO THE POBNAME IN WHICH ASSESSED: JOSE VLADIMIR ABELLO,JOSE VLADIMIR ABELLO AS TRUSTEE OF THE JOSEVLADIMIR ABELLO REVOCABLE TRUST UNDER AGREE-MENT DATED AUGUST 19 2015, JOSE VLADIMIR ABELLOTRUSTEE, JOSE VLADIMIR ABELO, JOSE VLADIMIR ABELOREVOCABLE TRUST U A D 8 19 15Said property being in the County of Citrus, State of Florida.Unless such certificate shall be redeemed according to law, theproperty described in such certificate shall be sold to the highestbidder on line, on January 12, 2022 at 10:00 am atwww.citrus.realtaxdeed.com.Dated November 29, 2021ANGELA VICKClerk of the Circuit Court, Citrus County, FloridaBy: Tifani L. White, Deputy ClerkPublished December 9, 15, 22 & 29, 2021

FORECLOSURE

5018-1216 THCRN Kimberly Gardner 100000448109-2019-CA-000783 A Notice of Sale


CASE NO. 09-2019-CA-000783 AUNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING THROUGH RURALHOUSING SERVICE OR SUCCESSOR AGENCY, UNITEDSTATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Plaintiff,v.KIMBERLY GARDNER A/K/A KIMBERLY ANN GARDNERA/K/A KIMBER A. GARDNER; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF KIM-BERLY GARDNER A/K/A KIMBERLY ANN GARDNER A/K/AKIMBER A. GARDNER; UNKNOWN TENANT 1; UNKNOWNTENANT 2; CITRUS SPRINGS CIVIC ASSOCIATION, INC.;CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT CITRUS COUNTY, FLORIDA



LOT 6, BLOCK 951, CITRUS SPRINGS UNIT 13, ACCORDINGTO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 6,PAGES 98 THROUGH 108, PUBLIC RECORDS OF CITRUSCOUNTY, FLORIDA.

a/k/a 409 W OBERLIN PL, CITRUS SPRINGS, FL 34434-8022




If you are a person with a disability who needs any accom-modation in order to participate in this proceeding, you areentitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assist-ance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Office ofthe Trial Court Administrator, Citrus County Courthouse, 110North Apopka Avenue, Inverness, Florida 34450, Telephone(352) 341-6700, at least 7 days before your scheduled courtappearance, or immediately upon receiving this notificationif the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7days; if you arc hearing or voice impaired, call 711.



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