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Union Backs Bus Driver Think pink: Jaguars, rest of NFL, join breast cancer fight /B1 MONDAY CITRUS COUNTY TODAY & Tuesday morning HIGH Mostly sunny. North 83 winds around 5 mph. LOW Mostly clear tonight. 53 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com OCTOBER 3, 2011 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOLUME 117 ISSUE 57 COMING UP: CHS grad shot, killed Citrus County Sheriff ’s Office. been fired. 18-year-old dies Sunday morning “Deputies responded to find After detectives identified a the victim, Fredrick Drew, 18, suspect in Drew’s shooting, of Inverness, non-responsive,” deputies arrested the suspect during incident in Citrus Springs Yates said. “He was trans- without incident early Sunday ported to a local hospital where morning at his Crystal River CHRIS VAN ORMER was called because a man had he succumbed to his injuries.” home. As the suspect was ar- Staff Writer been shot in the chest. Yates said a preliminary in- rested as a juvenile, the Chron- Deputies were called to an vestigation revealed a large icle is withholding his identity. Frederick A crowd gathered late Satur- area near Citrus Springs gathering had occurred at the Drew was a graduate of Cit- Drew day night in Citrus Springs. Boulevard and East Noah site in Citrus Springs. She said rus High School. According to 2011 graduate Then, a fight broke out. At 1 Lane, according to Heather a fight broke out involving of Citrus High Pink paper a.m. Sunday, the sheriff’s office Yates, spokeswoman for the many people and shots had See KILLED/Page A2 School. Pick up the all-pink issue of the Citrus County Chronicle as we honor breast cancer awareness./Tuesday Union INSIDE OCCUPATION: Moving tributes backs bus driver Wall Street Protesters remain in New York./Page A10 School board NOT VACCINATED: vote Oct. 11 MIKE WRIGHT Staff Writer INVERNESS — Union officials are hoping to work with the Citrus County School District to save the job of a bus driver who did- n’t take a random drug test because, she said, she had to get her grandson to a Health study dental appointment. Teamsters Local 79 union A study finds 1 in 10 steward Kim Morrison said children do not get bus driver Gayle Bardsley vaccinations./Page A5 DAVE SIGLER/Chronicle filed a grievance after Motorcycles could be heard from miles away as they led a procession carrying the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall, school district officials rec- LOCAL EFFORTS: Purple Heart Memorial, Korean War Memorial and Some Gave All tribute of all who have fallen in the global war on terror from the fairgrounds to Holcim Ranch north of Crystal River. Sunday was the start of the inaugural Nature ommended she be fired Give blood Cost All Veterans Reunion. The event will run through Sunday, Oct. 9, at Holcim Ranch. Post American Legion Post after the Aug. 25 incident. Find out where the 225 in Floral City and the Aaron Weaver Chapter 776 Order of the Purple Heart sponsors of the event. Bardsley was suspended LifeSouth without pay at the school Bloodmobile board’s Sept. 13 meeting will be pending dismissal. That ac- parked for Veterans kick off reunion week with parade across county tion is tentatively scheduled donations for the Oct. 11 school board, during CHRIS VAN ORMER meeting though Bardsley upcoming Staff Writer could challenge the dis- weeks./Page A6 missal and receive a Like a family get-together, veter- hearing. Get food ans met people they knew. Morrison said he didn’t Area groups offer Citrus County Commissioner JJ know the status of the griev- low-cost food options Kenney bumped into his brother, ance. He said the case is not and free meals each which he expected, and told him set for arbitration because week./Page A6 he’d just talked to someone from Bardsley hasn’t lost her job his old unit, which he didn’t expect. yet. ONLINE POLL: For that kind of experience Bardsley, who was hired alone, the inaugural Nature Coast in 2004 and has a spotless Your choice? All Veterans Reunion on Sunday What’s your position on personnel record, said Sun- served a good purpose. It had other day she was called to a “separation of reasons to happen, too. church and meeting this Tuesday at the About 1,000 motorcycle riders school district administra- state”? were expected at the Citrus County A. For fair tive offices but she doesn’t Fairground in Inverness. The bikes government know why. representation kept roaring in from 7:30 a.m. to get “They told me they of all citizens, separa- into formation and grab coffee and wanted to see me before the tion is critical. a donut. Oct. 11 board meeting,” B. Separation isn’t nec- Veterans were forming an honor Bardsley said. essary provided all guard to escort four separate me- Bardsley had completed faiths be provided equal morials: Vietnam Traveling Memo- her single run the morning opportunity. rial Wall, Purple Heart Mural of Aug. 25 and returned to Memorial, Korean War Memorial American flags waved as residents along with Gabe Donovan and his dog C. Separation isn’t nec- Hunter waited Sunday for the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall and other the Crystal River bus essary provided it’s lim- and Some Gave All Inc., for those memorials to make their way through Inverness. Every branch of service, in- garage. Supervisor Vickie ited to the majority lost in Iraq, Afghanistan and 9/11. Strickland told her she had faith. cluding U.S. Coast Guard and Disabled American Veterans, had represen- been selected that morning D. Separation is neces- See TRIBUTES/Page A2 tatives present in the parade. sary because striking a See DRIVER/Page A5 happy balance is impossible. To vote, visit www. chronicleonline.com. Click on the word “Opin- ‘Dixie doggers’ know where to go for tasty treats ion” in the menu to see the poll. o hear Gene Christie tell it, Foster Jr. offered. Results will appear a must-stop diversion in his Foster said the recipe has next Monday. Find last regular trips to Hernando been in the Foster family for week’s online poll T results./Page A4 County is for a little piece of more than 70 years, unchanged Dixie. and an apparent lure for ad- The Pennsylvania transplant dicted Dixie doggers. INDEX discovered Foster’s Dixie Dog Jim Burns recently made a Comics ....................B7 stand in Howard’s Flea Market 31 quick dash for his regular long Crossword ................B6 years ago when he moved here to dog, bathed in mustard with Editorial....................A8 work at the nuclear plant. glass of lemonade during his Entertainment ..........B5 “I would say I go at least a cou- A.B. Sidibe lunch break. The dogs come in Horoscope ................B5 ple of times a month,” Christie OFF THE two sizes — long or short and can Lottery Numbers ......B4 said. be slathered with your choice of Lottery Payouts ........B5 Dixie Dog has somewhat of a BEATEN ketchup or mustard. For Burns’ Movies ......................B7 cult-like following for those who PATH order, the bill came to $3. Obituaries ................A6 love the long and the short of it. “This is a great place. I come TV Listings................B6 The owners swear there is a distinction every opportunity I get. The food is good Classifieds ................B8 between the Dixie dog and its cousin the and it’s affordable,” Burns added. corn dog and it’s all in the batter and a well- Frank Foster Jr., 38, co-manages the busi- guarded family secret recipe. ness with his brother, Robert Foster, 35. A.B. SIDIBE/For the Chronicle “The batter is made out of flour and that Their father, Frank Foster Sr. — who Jim Burns gets his regular — a long Dixie dog with fresh is all I am going to say,” co-manager Frank See PATH/Page A5 lemonade — during a lunch break. A2 MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011 LOCAL CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE Honor Flight Committee works to fund Honor Flights for WWII veterans DOUG LOBEL County Honor Flight — headed by event a success Special to the Chronicle Operation Welcome Home founder Barbara Mills of RE/MAX Realty During World War II, from 1942 to One and includes County Commis- NANCY KENNEDY ping by before they were to 1945, Army Air Corp B-17 Bomber sioner Winn Webb, Inverness Mayor Staff Writer meet at the county Pilot Iric Emerson flew 35 missions Bob Plaisted, New Church Without fairgrounds. over Germany and only had to ditch Walls Pastor Doug Alexander, Crys- INVERNESS — At 6 a.m., Mills said $9,000 is one aircraft in the ocean when they tal River City Councilman Mike people were waiting at the needed to cover the costs of could not get the flack-damaged Guidis and Inverness Rotarian Doug door of Beef ‘O’ Brady’s in the World War II veterans’ plane back to home base. Now Iric is Lobel — committed to raise the $400 Inverness on Sunday to eat Honor Flight expenses com- going on another mission, but he will per veteran to pay for any Citrus pancakes and sausage to ing up Oct. 27 and 29. be flying as a passenger rather than County WWII veteran to make help support the upcoming By 9:30 a.m. Sunday, she the pilot. the flight to Washington, D.C., which Honor Flights — and they estimated they raised about Iric, 94, is scheduled to fly to Wash- includes paying for the buses rented kept on coming. $2,000. ington, D.C., as one of the 70 World to tour the capital and ultimately to “Wow,” said Barbara Tamara Berry, Beef ‘O’ War II veterans who was selected to take the veterans to see the World Mills, event organizer.
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