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NEWS BRIEFS Honoring the flag BBQ nets Half of Citrus received at least one dose of vaccine 0 C $27,000 C C -1 - 11 for teen Funds will help pay for boy’s 1 - - surgery for Tourette syndrome NANCY KENNEDY from 2 to 6 a.m., cooked, 3 Staff writer carved and packaged 1,425 pounds of brisket, It’s amazing what 1,000 pounds of pork butt - smoked meat and dedi- and 600 pounds of ribs. 11 01 cated people can The meat was paid for C -1 accomplish. by a $4,400 cash donation 1 On Saturday, Jeremy’s from the Kiwanis Club of 0 0 Journey fundraising bar- Inverness, and Cavallo becue at M&B Dairy in Winery donated $1,800 Lecanto raised $26,935 to- worth of meat. -10 ward the medical costs for In the two weeks prior Rep. urges an experimental brain to the day of the barbecue, surgery for 18-year-old they received so many or- ‘endangered’ Jeremy Schreifels, who ders that they purchased status for hopes this surgery will an additional $4,300 give him relief from a se- worth of meat, Leon Mc- manatees vere case of Tourette Clellan said Monday. syndrome. “It got big quick,” he - Because it’s experi- said. - mental, the surgery is not To date, $178,374 has covered by Jeremy’s been raised, which will go into a trust fund that is in - health insurance. the process of being - At Saturday’s barbecue, hosted by M&B Dairy vice established. The money will be used president Leon McClel- lan, 38 volunteers work- for the surgery and all the ing a total of 267 hours, required pre-surgery and including three people post-surgery therapies who worked the smokers See BBQ/Page A5 - - 1 0 Planners will 01 consider request - for RV resort C - MIKE WRIGHT MATTHEW BECK C I WHAT: Citrus County Nature Coast Young Marines member Tyler Cook unfurls the American flag Staff writer Planning and Monday morning, June 14, at the beginning of a Flag Day service to honor the - Development Stars and Stripes. A Miami developer is Commission. - proposing a 600-space recreational vehicle re- - I WHEN: 9 a.m. Inverness marks Flag Day with ceremony sort on Citrus Avenue just Thursday, June 17. north of Crystal River. MATTHEW BECK I WHERE: Lecanto Photo editor Jaymelday Holdings - LLC is requesting a zon- Government nverness cele- ing change from low-den- Building, 3600 W. brated Flag Day sity residential on Sovereign Path, IMonday, June 14, at 61 acres across the street Lecanto. The Depot District. from the Crystal River According to the 2021 United Methodist intense for their rural community. Farmer’s Almanac Church. Monday, June 14 is Crystal River Luxury “This area is one of the few areas close to Crystal 01 Flag Day, a day of na- RV Resort would include tional observance for River that has homes only up to 600 spaces, plus a all Americans, but it is and acreage lots,” one un- - American flags of all shapes and sizes were handed bar/grill, gym, pool, dog not a federal holiday. park and pickleball signed letter reads. Each year, the presi- out Monday, June 14, during the Flag Day ceremony Gail Easley, a retired in Inverness. courts. dent proclaims the The property is bor- city planner who was lead commemoration and flag is flown from all public ceremonies dered by Citrus Avenue author of Citrus County’s encourages all Ameri- public buildings, that honored the flag and two residential first land development cans in the country to speeches are made in until June 14, 1877, streets, West Tom Mason code, lives in the adjacent display the flag out- public places, and cer- when it was flown Drive and North Ladybug community with her hus- side their homes and emonies take place in from every Drive. band William Farrell. Ea- businesses. Usually, towns or cities. Neighbors who con- sley wrote that the RV during Flag Day, the There were few See FLAG/Page A5 tacted the county said the resort is incompatible planned RV park is too See RESORT/Page A7
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