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Finally: Murray ends Britain’s Wimbledon futility /B1 MONDAY TODAY CITRUS COUNTY & next morning HIGH 92 Few evening LOW storms near the coast. 72 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com JULY 8, 2013 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOL. 118 ISSUE 335 QUESTION OF THE WEEK Choices: Subsidize, sell or shut down the Central Ridge Community enue fund through membership BOCC to decide community center fate Center in Beverly Hills, and will dues, special events and programs. be asked to make recommenda- The 36-acre site includes a CHRIS VAN ORMER March fire at the central landfill tions about its future. lake, an 82,000-gallon swimming Staff writer are just three of the business The BOCC took over the opera- pool, tennis courts, 24 horseshoe items on Tuesday’s agenda for the tion of the facility Nov. 1, 2011, be- pits, shuffleboard courts, an ex- The future of Central Ridge Citrus County Board of County cause the Beverly Hills ercise room, a game room, a bil- Community Center, the bids to Commissioners (BOCC). Recreation Association became liard room, classrooms, a banquet buy Citrus Memorial hospital and At 3:15 p.m., the BOCC will be insolvent. The community center Contribute! the damage estimate for the updated about the operations of was to operate as a special rev- See BOCC/ Page A5 Like us at facebook.com/ CONVERSATION citruscounty Monday chronicle and respond to our Question of the Week. How aware are you of the Natural woman health risks to your heart? What bad habits Helen Spivey are you willing still fighting to give up? to preserve the Stephanie H. Waters I am very aware of my heart risks. Being 44, environment I take it pretty seriously. I re- cently lost 36 pounds and I A.B. SIDIBE feel like that is definitely going to reduce my risk. Now I just Staff writer wish we could all go back and correct those bad habits from elen Spivey our teens, 20s and 30s. could very well Kelly D. Hanick be character- ... I work on the com- Hized as the puter a majority of paragon of the environ- my day, so I have incorporated mentalist in this neck of a schedule of walking briskly, moving my arms while I do so the woods. 30 minutes a day, and also The silver-haired weight-bearing exercises every other day. It’s making a differ- Spivey, at 85, imbues a ence — more energy, alert- vigor and passion that ness, and better breathing. belies her advanced age. Ashley Myers Barrett She still drives, is ... I do believe genet- highly alert, smart, is ics can play a role but present at every civic I totally agree, it’s how you treat your body as you age. meeting dealing with en- vironmental issues and Tricia M. Marble MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle is full of stories from her II went in for a sick visit two years ago Longtime environmental activist Helen Spivey has fought for decades to protect King’s Bay and the marine long and dogged political and was told I had high blood life that lives in it. Many know Spivey, a former state representative and Crystal River city councilwoman, and environmental pressure! ... Granted, it is as the “manatee lady.” résumé. hereditary but I have never had a problem with it before. A native of Orlando It has finally clicked that I need BATHROOM SENSE and a widow, Spivey to make lifestyle changes not Spivey floats ideas for composting moved to Crystal River just “diet.” Older toilets use between with her husband, POLL A.B. SIDIBE nation’s potable water use — or 6 3.5 and 7 gallons of water William, a Navy veteran Staff writer billion gallons of water — is used per flush. and avid fisherman, in ONLINE POLL: per day for toilet flushing. A leaky toilet can waste the early 1970s. Your choice? Longtime environmental ac- According to the Environmen- about 200 gallons of water She soon jumped into tivist Helen Spivey is sounding tal Protection Agency (EPA), an Do you support the every day. the environmental move- the alarm about how finite average family of four can use up ment after learning state law A bathroom faucet generally requiring potable, or drinking, water re- to 400 gallons of water every day about the horrors visited sources are. indoors alone. That is roughly 70 runs at 2 gallons of water victims of per minute. By turning off upon one of the most One of the ideas she has to percent of all water usage. theft to pay the tap while brushing your docile and non- help alleviate the quickly dwin- The bathroom is the largest for towing teeth or shaving, a person threatening mammals in dling resource is composting consumer of indoor water, says and storage of can save more than 200 the world — manatees. property held as toilets. gallons of water per month. evidence? Spivey said one-quarter of the See COMPOSTING/ Page A7 See MONDAY/ Page A5 A. Yes. It’s not the greatest law, but taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the bill. B. No. It’s inexcusable to penalize crime victims. Change the law Military study: MIA work ‘acutely dysfunctional’ to require public dollars to cover the costs. ROBERT BURNS decades-old pursuit of achieving a uniquely the boy soldier who went C. No, but the cost AP national security bones and other MIA evi- FULL STORY American mission — ac- to war and never returned. shouldn’t be covered by writer dence is sluggish, often Read details of the counting for the estimated She was 2 months old tax dollars. A fund duplicative and subjected study online at www. 83,348 service members when heartbreaking word should be established WASHINGTON — The to too little scientific rigor, chronicleonline.com. still listed as missing from landed at her grand- from the sale of Pentagon’s effort to ac- the report says. World War II, Korea and mother’s door a week be- vehicles and other count for tens of thou- The Associated Press fully inept and even cor- Vietnam. fore Christmas 1950 that expensive items sands of Americans obtained a copy of the in- rupt. The command is dig- This is about more than Pfc. Kenneth F. Reese, a confiscated then sold by ging up too few clues on tidying up the historical 19-year-old artilleryman, law enforcement. missing in action from for- ternal study after Free- former battlefields, rely- To vote, visit www. eign wars is so inept, mis- dom of Information Act record. It is about fulfill- was missing in action in chronicleonline.com. managed and wasteful requests for it by others ing on inaccurate data- ing a promise to the moth- North Korea. To this day, Click on the word that it risks descending were denied. bases and engaging in ers and fathers, sisters the military can’t tell her if “Opinion” in the menu from “dysfunction to total The report paints a pic- expensive “boondoggles” and brothers and sons and he was killed in action or to see the poll. failure,” according to an ture of a Joint POW/MIA in Europe, the study daughters of the missing. died in captivity. His body Results will appear internal study suppressed Accounting Command, a concludes. Daughters like Shelia has never been found. next Monday. Find last by military officials. military-run group known The failings cited by the Reese, 62, of Chapel Hill, “It changed my whole week’s online poll Largely beyond the as JPAC and headed by a report reflect one aspect N.C., who still yearns for life. I’ve missed this man results./Page A3 public spotlight, the two-star general, as woe- of a broader challenge to the father she never met, my whole life,” she says. 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