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Project1:Layout 1 6/10/2014 1:13 PM Page 1 MLB: Rays rout Orioles to complete sweep on the road /B2 FRIDAY TODAY C I T R U S C O U N T Y & next morning HIGH 90 Mostly sunny; LOW gusty east winds. 62 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com MAY 21, 2021 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community $1 VOL. 126 ISSUE 225 NEWS BRIEFS Bonus scammers a risk Citrus County COVID-19 cases Official: No way to stop people According to the Florida Department of Health, 10 Here’s how the $1,000 positive cases were reported from quitting after 90 days in Citrus County since the latest update. MICHAEL D. BATES bigger gov- One new death was re- Staff writer ernment,” said Com- ported, for a total of 456. To bonus program works Last week, county com- missioner date in the county, 11,271 missioners voted 4-1 to R o n people have tested positive greenlight a federal program Kitchen Jr., MICHAEL D. BATES I CareerSource will contact the (including 99 non-residents). that pays out $1,000 bonuses who cast Staff writer business and discuss other incen- One new hospitalization to people who sign on to the sole tives it can offer, such as an on-the- was reported, for a total of work 90 days for employers Rusty dissenting CareerSource Citrus Levy Mar- job contract where the agency 730 hospitalized. seeking workers. Skinner vote. ion has written the following rules reimburses to the business a per- Totals reflect preliminary Almost immediately, the CEO of And and regulations of the “Citrus centage of the wages it pays while reports received by the state, plan caused two camps to CareerSource what’s to County Sign on Bonus.” training a qualified person. and are subject to revision. weigh in: those who are glad Citrus Marion prevent job I Employers must list their jobs I Hired persons must be re- the board is helping Levy. applicants with CareerSource. ferred through Career Source. The Vaccines for small-business owners find from telling their boss after I Qualifying jobs must pay agency then sends a referral “in- homebound workers and those who ques- 90 days they quit after re- $15-per hour or less. voice” the employer can fill out tion why the government ceiving their $1,000 bonus? I CareerSource takes the job upon completion of the retention now available must pay unmotivated people Short answer: There’s no listing and determines if it is period. Homebound Citrus to return to work after being guarantee. “bonus-eligible” and posts it with Employ Florida. County residents will now furloughed for over a year. See PROGRAM/Page A5 find it easier to get COVID- “This is just building See BONUS/Page A5 19 vaccinations. Due to a lesser demand of the Department of Health in Citrus County for onsite vac- cinations, agency spokes- woman Audrey Stasko said the local DOH will be offering CREST grads mark milestone vaccines to the homebound. The program allows for DOH-Citrus staff to visit and Pandemic, vaccinate people 18 years old and older who are un- able to leave their home due disabilities are to lack of transportation, mo- bility or other issues, she no obstacle said. If interested, call 352-527- MICHAEL D. 0068, menu option nine and BATES then press three to speak Staff writer with staff. Call center staff he CREST school will collect some information in Lecanto kicked and relay the information to Toff the 2021 slate of the outreach team who will county graduations, and be in touch to set up a date several staffers said this and time to visit your home. one is always special be- For more information about cause it honors students DOH-Citrus, visit www.Citrus who must overcome emo- CountyHealth.org. tional and physical dis- abilities and still meet Students their academic to stage meal challenges. And this year, given the effort for India COVID-19 pandemic, Lecanto High School’s those challenges were nonprofit Hands on Hunger heightened. Some of the will have a meal-packing students attended event from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at in-person classes at the the school on Friday, Citrus Resources for Ex- ceptional Students in May 21. The meals will be Transition School while shipped to India to help feed others chose to learn vir- people during the pandemic, tually from home. said organizer Perie Shah. So when Exceptional Students from other area Student Education (ESE) high schools will also partici- specialist Paul Heinze pate and other volunteers asked the nine graduates are welcome. For more infor- to turn their tassel at the mation, call 352-441-5613 or end of the ceremony, the email perieshah03@gmail. cheers from the family com. and friends in the audi- ence were loud. Join the first “It’s been very chal- ‘Third Friday’ lenging,” Assistant Prin- cipal Melanie Howard event said. “Our teachers went The city of Inverness will above and beyond.” have their first Third Friday The students, she said, from 5 to 8 p.m. today, de- “have worked very hard.” Many of these stu- signed to boost downtown dents will transition to businesses. the Key Training Center, At 5 p.m., the Citrus others will attend a Vettes and Camaros Car work program and learn Club will be at the Valerie a trade. Plaza for a first responder “They’ve just perse- recognition ceremony. Kids vered (and) worked very are welcome to check out hard with staff to be able to get to this point,” ESE the fire trucks and police ve- /Chronicle MATTHEW BECK Director Lynne Kirby hicles on display. Following Dreama Hodge hugs one of her former teachers, Eleanor Macias, Thursday afternoon, May 20, minutes prior said of the grads. the ceremony, Operation to graduating from CREST. Dreama is a non-verbal student at the school but has excelled at many of the Welcome Home will ask the skills needed to communicate her needs, according to the school. See CREST/Page A7 public to join in a send-off to new U.S. military recruits. Road closure in downtown will begin at 3 p.m. Show cars are welcome after 4 p.m. and must be parked Inverness sizes up Liberty Park beach project in a legal parking spot at 8 p.m. At 7 p.m., the Valerie The- FRED HIERS whether a beach would Czerwinski said the time put an estimated well as the city, a destina- atre will host a free movie Staff writer be appropriate at the site next step would be to in- price tag on the project: tion for local residents after he gave the council vite Florida water regu- $350,000 to $500,000. and tourists, he said. showing of “Backdraft.” To The Inverness City a presentation about the lators to the park and He wouldn’t speculate There is a “pretty loud reserve a seat, visit tinyurl. Council will move for- issue. lake to get some prelimi- as to what the mainte- voice from people want- com/2ts597vp or go to the ward with its hopes to Czerwinski told the nary suggestions and dis- nance costs would be, but ing access to the water,” box office an hour prior to build a Lake Henderson council a beach, as well cuss some of the ideas reminded the council the he said, citing the city’s the movie show time. beach at Liberty Park. as a plan to better man- the city has for the site. city already had mainte- problem with swimmers For more information, visit City council members age watercraft by the But the project will not nance workers at the and boaters eroding the inverness.gov or call voted 5-0 to ask its con- shore and shoreline pro- come cheap. park. shoreline. 352-341-7820. sultant, Mike Czerwinski, tection, would fit into the City Manager Eric Wil- But beaches are popu- — From staff reports to continue investigating existing park design. liams also for the first lar and make the park, as See BEACH/Page A8 Classifieds . .C6 Crossword . .C9 INDEX Scene . .C1 Obituaries . 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