Rays: Tampa Bay beats Cleveland for series win /B1 MONDAY TODAY CITRUS COUNTY & next morning HIGH 87 Showers and LOW storms; rain chance 60%. 71 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com JUNE 3, 2013 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOL. 118 ISSUE 300 QUESTION OF THE WEEK 2003 returns, united ERYN WORTHINGTON make our dreams come true,” Manny Coimbre and Phil ■ WHAT: Staff writer she said. Price — are reaching out to Citrus County Reunion Weekend. Years have passed, dreams the class of 2003’s unforget- ■ WHO: 2003 graduates from Citrus, Ten years ago, summa cum have been chased and table friends. Lecanto and Crystal River high schools. laude high school graduate Whitelaw has continued to When they began sketching Amanda Whitelaw stood be- live by her school’s motto: out their own 10-year reunion, ■ WHEN: 8 p.m. to midnight June 21 and fore her class, encouraging “Good friends are hard to they realized the three sepa- 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. June 22. Contribute! fellow graduates to follow find, difficult to leave and im- rate classes are essentially ■ INFO: RSVP and purchase tickets at Like us at their dreams. possible to forget.” https://cc2003reunion.trstickets.com/ facebook.com/ “We each have the ability to Today, she — along with See 2003/ Page A5 citruscounty chronicle and Monday CONVERSATION respond to our Question of the Week. Have you ever read/sent a ‘It was never just a road project’ text message CHRIS VAN ORMER while driving? Staff writer Mary Johnson Definitely have. Now LECANTO — Under a I use voice to text if county contract, attorney needed. But I try not to use Fred Busack has led a team either. Great law! of subcontractors for 18 Peggy L. Gause months in a program of vol- Not often but I have. untary property acquisition Usually wait when to gain right of way to widen get to red traffic light or my three miles of County Road destination. 491 between State Road 44 Marie Pettibone and County Road 486, pro- I can barely answer mote the area as a medical my new phone let corridor and connect it to alone text on it. How it is the yet-to-be-built Suncoast done is beyond me. Parkway extension. Busack Becky G. Klinkhamer sat down with the Chronicle Never have, never to talk about the scope of will. You’re appar- ently in the car because you work and costs, and how res- are going somewhere. Pay idents could expect benefits attention and DRIVE. from the whole concept of Erin Ewing the project. I used to all the time CHRONICLE: How long with my old phone have you been a contractor because I could text without with the county? looking at it. Now I wait until BUSACK: I was first en- stop lights to look at mes- sages and answer them. I gaged with Citrus County think it’s a hard law to en- about a decade ago to do to force, and what’s next? No the east end of County Road eating, talking, or changing 486. That project had al- the radio channel? ready started under the Kelley B. DeMaio standard eminent domain Never have. Never type of property acquisition. will. I see to many Our team was picked up and /Chronicle accidents caused by the cell MATTHEW BECK they wanted to start con- phone. And talk to text is no Attorney Fred Busack, under contract with the county, holds one of many maps he and his team have struction in about eight better than the other. Those put together with property owners along County Road 491 in Lecanto, where Busack stands, to create who do it all the time should months, so we brought go on a few emergency calls a plan to widen the road next year, allowing for future connector roads to the Suncoast Parkway exten- and see it in person. sion and encouraging the development of a medical corridor. See MONDAY/ Page A7 Cynthia Montgomery Read them but I have voice text. But I don’t like to at all, not at all now. POLL Loose llama captured Ocala police: ONLINE POLL: Your choice? Unclaimed Man fatally shot Will the new state law banning texting kangaroo while driving three due to prank be effective? A. Yes. The law nabbed in will be heeded Associated Press three counts of first- by most motorists. Pasco degree felony murder. He B.No. Since a ticket can OCALA — A man was being held in jail only be issued in con- Associated Press charged with murder told without bond. It was not nection with another in- police he shot three immediately known if he fraction, the law will be TALLAHASSEE — bouncers he had worked has an attorney. ignored. with for teasing him, Witnesses told police C. Yes, When Scooter the llama but not until mo- busted out of his penned- Ocala police said Sunday. they saw Lobban pull a torists become con- in yard in Tallahassee, it One of the victims played black handgun from his vinced police are a prank on Andrew Joseph pants and point the gun to- serious about writing took three county sher- iff ’s deputies and a Taser Lobban, 31, when they ward one of the bouncers texting tickets. went shooting one time and standing outside a bar. Sev- D. No. gun to get him back in Ticketing for tex- took a video of it, police eral shots were fired and ting will be too burden- again. The 6-foot-tall, 7-year- said. The victim then Lobban was seen running some for law shared the video with the from the scene, according enforcement personnel. old llama outran the au- other victims, who laughed to an arrest affidavit. To vote, visit www. thorities in Tallahassee Police found Lobban at chronicleonline.com. for a while, even leaping and teased Lobban. It ap- Click on the word over a 4-foot fence to Associated Press pears to have upset Lobban his girlfriend’s house a “Opinion” in the menu avoid capture, Leon Leon County officials work Saturday to corner Scooter, quite a bit, police said in a short time later and took to see the poll. County Lt. Tony a 7-year-old llama that was on the loose in north statement. him to the police Results will appear Florida. Scooter had to be subdued with a Taser, au- Lobban was arrested next Monday. See LLAMA/ Page A5 thorities said Sunday. 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