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Marlins: Youthful club enjoying more victories /B1 WEDNESDAY TODAY CITRUS COUNTY & next morning HIGH 86 Mostly cloudy, LOW 70 percent chance of showers. 74 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com JULY 3, 2013 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOL. 118 ISSUE 330 INSIDE INVERNESS: Rain won’t fizzle Fourth of July Inverness, Crystal River say local celebrations slated to go ahead despite weather NANCY KENNEDY must go on.” ally this time of year we’re As for rain, with a 60 to today at Liberty and Wal- A.B. SIDIBE “This is our 15th consec- in a severe drought and 70 percent chance of show- lace Brooks parks. The Staff writers utive year for fireworks in people are questioning ers during the daytime low- fireworks are expected to Inverness, and every year whether we should shoot ering to 30 to 40 percent in start around 9 p.m. Rain? What’s a little we’ve got our eye on the the fireworks at all.” the evening, there’s more “There’s a lot that goes rain? weather,” Inverness City This year’s fireworks than a good chance that the into this event,” DiGio- When it comes to the two Manager Frank DiGio- display is costing the city skies will be clear for the vanni said. “It’s not just local cities’ scheduled fire- vanni said Tuesday. “This about $15,000 for a 35 to 40 annual Patriotic Evening Road work works events, the “show is July in Florida — usu- minute show. events beginning at 5 p.m. See FOURTH/ Page A5 Construction on North Apopka Avenue not done in time for city’s festivities./Page A3 LOCAL NEWS: No fans Act two for hyacinths Animal shelter gets fans but needs money to cool canines./Page A3 ENTERTAINMENT: Jimmy awards Top performers are honored at the National High School Musical Theater Awards in New York./Page A4 OPINION: It’s clear from survey “results that local leaders need to do a “ better job of communicating. MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle Maxine Connor, one of several volunteers tapped to harvest hyacinth Friday morning, loads some of the aquatic vegetation into a tub to be transported to King’s Bay. The aquatic plants have a long root system that make a perfect home for small aquatic creatures. EDITORIAL, PAGE A8 WILDFIRE: Once viewed as an invasive exotic, scientists now giving plant a second look A.B. SIDIBE can be circular to ellipti- along undeveloped por- Staff writer cal and flowers that are a tions of the King’s Bay cross between periwin- shoreline. CRYSTAL RIVER kle and violet. “Water hyacinths are or years, water hy- On a recent morning, well known to provide acinths were seen volunteers launched shade for fish and other F as a highly perni- what is being called the aquatic life, but they’re cious exotic aquatic second phase of a three- also able to shade out the plant responsible for year study of the ability bad algae by depriving it choking Florida’s water- of floating plants to im- of sunlight,” Knight said. ways, but recent re- prove water quality in “They are also good at search has revealed King’s Bay and the Crys- sucking up the nitrogen many beneficial traits of tal River. pollution in the water.” the fast-growing floaters. The Kings Bay Adap- The hope, Knight said, The Kings Bay Springs tive Management is if enough hyacinths Investigation Alliance (KBSA) and the (KBAM) Phytoremedia- are introduced into cer- Answers sought why 19 Howard T. Odum Florida tion Demonstration Proj- tain areas of the bay in a firefighters perished Springs Institute (FSI) ect volunteers were controlled manner, the Sunday night in Arizona are hoping to tap into transferring hyacinths floating plants will purify wildfires./Page A10 those beneficial traits as and water lettuce from a the water and filter the AFGHANISTAN: they tackle pollution and retention pond along nitrates out and perhaps water clarity issues in Cutler Spur Boulevard to help restore the water- the county’s shimmering a corral behind the U.S. way to its previous jewel — King’s Bay. Fish and Wildlife Refuge clarity. Water hyacinth is a Complex. The project hopes to free-floating perennial There, according to Dr. answer the following plant with a fibrous root Bob Knight of the questions: system that can grow to a Florida Springs Insti- ■ Can water hyacinths height of 3 feet. When tute, scientists hope to adapted to fresh water fully grown, it has dark test the efficacy of grow- green leaf blades that ing water hyacinths See PLANTS/ Page A2 The hyacinth’s bloom is a colorful, purple flower. Taliban attack A suicide truck bomber followed by heavily armed men storm NATO Keys warily eye Showdown starts to supplier’s compound. /Page A10 INDEX rising sea levels take shape in Egypt Classifieds . .C7 Comics . .C6 Associated Press building a new Stock Is- Opponents Associated Press Community . .C4 land fire station, county of Egypt’s Crossword . .C5 KEY WEST — Hurri- authorities went ahead Islamist Editorial . .A8 CAIRO — His fate hang- cane storm surge can in- and added a foot and a President ing in the balance, embat- Entertainment . .A4 undate the narrow, half over federal flood Mohammed Horoscope . .A4 tled President Mohammed low-lying Florida Keys, but planning directives that Morsi bang Lottery Numbers . .B3 Morsi vowed not to resign that is far from the only the ground floor be built drums Tues- Tuesday, hours before a Lottery Payouts . .B3 water worry for officials. up 9 feet. Movies . .C6 day during a deadline to yield to the de- A tidal gauge operating Seasonal tidal flooding protest mands of millions of pro- Obituaries . .A6 since before the Civil War that was once a rare in- TV Listings . .C5 outside the testers or see the military has documented a sea convenience is now so pre- presidential suspend the constitution, level rise of 9 inches in the dictable that some palace, in disband parliament and last century, and officials businesses at the end of Cairo, install a new leadership. expect that to double over Egypt. the next 50 years. So when See KEYS/ Page A9 Associated Press See EGYPT/ Page A5 A2 WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 LOCAL CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE of once-lovely King’s Bay. This project does PLANTS have the potential to re- Continued from Page A1 store improved water clarity and lower nutri- thrive in the salty water ent levels in the bay to now entering King’s enhance aesthetics and Bay from springflow? allow greater growth of ■ What portion of the desirable submerged shoreline of King’s Bay vegetation at very low will need to be covered cost to the taxpayers.” with water hyacinths to Helen Spivey, a long- significantly increase time local environmental water clarity and allow advocate, said the effort for colonization by de- would do a lot of good in sirable submerged the bay and pointed to aquatic vegetation, in- the crystal-clear waters cluding eelgrass? of the retention pond as ■ What additional evidence of the benefits water quality benefits of hyacinths. occur with the controlled “Remember, they (hy- presence of water hy- acinths) used to be all acinths in King’s Bay? over King’s Bay until “The environmental the fishermen com- problems resulting in plained it clogged their the deterioration of engines and they were King’s Bay and the Crys- mitigated out of the bay. tal River are the result They used to help keep of excessive water con- a nice balance in King’s sumption and fertilizer Bay’s habitat and they use over an area that in- also provide food for the cludes much of Citrus manatees,” Spivey said. County,” Knight said. Contact Chronicle re- “This project will not di- porter A.B. Sidibe at rectly address those 352-564-2925 or asidibe MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle sources of impairment @chronicleonline.com. A large PVC enclosure on the surface of King’s Bay is used to corral the hyacinth. FREE FISH FRY Our Goal Is A Healthier You New Patients & Walk-ins Are Always Welcome Humana, Medicare, United Health Care assignment accepted B.K. Patel, M.D . H. 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