Instant classic: Rookie wins PGA in dramatic fashion /B1 MONDAY CITRUS COUNTY TODAY & Tuesday morning HIGH Partly cloudy with scat- 89 tered showers. Heat LOW index readings 101 to 71 PAGE A4 106. www.chronicleonline.com AUGUST 15, 2011 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOLUME 117 ISSUE 8 INSIDE REGULAR FEATURE: New column Vets reunion set for October Staff NANCY KENNEDY Beginning Sunday, Oct. 2, Hollins property north of event features four sepa- the global war on terror. writer Nancy Staff Writer through Sunday, Oct. 9, all Crystal River. rate memorials: Vietnam “The purpose is to bring Ken - veterans, their family and Sponsored by the Ameri- Traveling Memorial Wall, veterans together and bring nedy Only another veteran un- friends and the public are can Legion Post 225 in Flo- Purple Heart Mural Memo- awareness to what veterans pens a derstands the rigors of mili- invited to the inaugural Na- ral City, with the Aaron rial, Korean War Memorial have done,” said Richard new tary life and the horrors of ture Coast All Veterans Re- Weaver Chapter 776 Order and The Moving Tribute, a col- war. union at the former Dixie of the Purple Heart, this list of all who have fallen in See REUNION/Page A9 umn, Stuff You Should Know./Page A3 PROPERTY NEWS: TRIM Notice Nuclear The Citrus County Property Appraiser’s Office issues annual tax plant notices./Page A2 United Way ENTERTAINMENT: fundraiser delays draws rankle dancers, fans Staff Report residents — CITRUS SPRINGS Associated Press he Citrus HBO show Springs ST. PETERSBURG — A Feminist icon Gloria Community state office that represents Steinem, now 77, Center was the consumers in utility matters appears in an HBO place to be Saturday will argue that because of documentary./Page B5 night, as more than 400 uncertainty over the future turned out to cheer their of a proposed Levy County GLOBAL CLIMATE: choice of five dancing nuclear plant, customers’ couples competing in advance payments should the “So You Think You be cut in half. Can Dance … Like a The St. Petersburg Times Star” reported Sunday that since competi- 2009, customers of North tion. Carolina-based Progress By the Energy have been paying time the for a nuclear plant that will night not generate a kilowatt for For a related ended, years. State consumer advo- video, click on $16,222 cates say they have evi- this story at was dence the plant won’t open www.chronicle raised until 2027. online.com. for the The state Office of Public United Counsel will argue that cus- Way of Citrus County via tomers should get some of contributions that ac- their money back. Ice puzzle companied votes in the “They’ve spent enough Researchers measure “People’s Choice” cate- money,” said deputy public the movement and gory. counsel Charles Rehwinkel. internal cracking of Thanks to the expert- DAVE SIGLER/Chronicle The company said it is Jakobshavn Glacier in ise of dancing partner Boots were scooting and costume dresses were flailing Saturday evening at the “So sticking to its estimated Greenland./Page A7 Vickie Humphrey, Sher- You Think You Can Dance ... Like a Star” fundraiser for United Way at the Citrus timeline for opening in iff ’s Lt. Phil Royal over- Springs Auditorium. Phil Royal and Vickie Humphrey boogied it up to take first place 2021. LOCAL EFFORTS: came a self-acknowledge on the judges’ ballots, also winning the People’s Choice award for their efforts. More “The company’s interest Give blood lack of rhythm, giving than $16,000 was raised by people voting for their favorites during the event. in the Levy project remains the couple first place in steady,” spokeswoman Find out where the both the People’s Choice LifeSouth Suzanne Grant said. and the Judges’ Choice Advance payments for Bloodmobile categories. will be the average Progress cus- The ratio of attendees parked for tomer are expected to donations was heavy on sheriff ’s of- reach $50 a month by 2020. during fice and school person- The current fee for the av- upcoming nel, with those groups erage Progress customer is weeks./Page A2 cheering in force for $4.99 a month, but that is ex- their couples for choice pected to rise significantly Get food — which, in the case of in coming years. the school system, in- Area groups offer The Public Service Com- low-cost food options cluded Superintendent mission will decide the dis- and free meals each Sandra “Sam” Himmel pute after listening to week./Page A5 and Patrick Simon, evidence this week in the regulatory equivalent of a See TWINKLE/Page A9 ONLINE POLL: trial. Because of the law, Your choice? Connie Lobel was Progress customers may not How are you responding swarmed with friends want to get their hopes up to the volatile offering her support after too soon. stock her performance. After- Florida lawmakers in market? ward, her husband, Doug spring 2006 passed a law al- A. I’m riding Lobel, gave her roses. Bill lowing advance charges as a it out and Bocaro, left, offered his way to meet increasing won’t make kind word to Lobel for her power needs and speed up drastic changes in my performance. the process of getting a investments. plant online. By compari- B. I’m cashing out my stocks and bonds and son, North Carolina, where going no-risk to low-risk. Progress also operates, C. I’m going to buy doesn’t allow advance stocks with abandon. charges for nuclear plants. D. Hah! Like I have A cool business: The initial plans for the enough money to do nuclear plant called for a $4 anything more than pay billion project on a 3,000- bills! acre site in Levy County To vote, visit www. Machines make ice about 8 miles north of the chronicleonline.com. utility’s Crystal River nu- SHEMIR WILES Click on the word “Opin- resident, is co-owner of an clear and coal energy ion” in the menu to see Staff Writer ice vending machine on complex. the poll. State Road 44 located in the The initial target was for Results will appear During a time when some Taylor Rental parking lot. the plant to be ready by next Monday. Find last industries are struggling, He and his two business 2016. week’s online poll one quirky business is partners have had the ma- Regulatory and other is- results./Page A4 booming, easily becoming a chine for three years. sues have caused delays. favorite among anglers and Rusaw said it was the third And the latest cost projec- INDEX construction workers look- machine installed in the tion has soared to around ing for a way to keep things county. $20 billion. Comics ....................B7 cool during the hot summer Crossword ................B6 As an appraiser of com- There has been some Editorial....................A8 months. mercial properties, Rusaw good news recently for Entertainment ..........B5 Ice vending machines are said he has seen the ice plant supporters. Horoscope ................B5 popping up all over the vending business take off, The Westinghouse Lottery Numbers ......B4 place and in some most un- spotting machines from AP1000 reactor that will be Lottery Payouts ........B5 usual locations. Whether Gainesville all the way to installed at the Levy plant Movies ......................B7 it’s sitting in the middle of a Tampa Bay and as far east cleared a crucial safety re- Obituaries ................A6 barren parking lot or hiding as Orlando. view from regulators. How- TV Listings................B6 in the shade next to a local “They’re everywhere,” he ever, a group of public Classifieds ................B8 business, these machines said. SHEMIR WILES/Chronicle interest and environmental are proving to be a good way The idea to buy the ma- Wanda Grey grabs a 16-pound bag of ice Saturday morn- groups have challenged the to make money. chine came from his ing at an ice vending machine on U.S. 19 in Crystal River. review, saying it was inade- Rex Rusaw, a real estate brother-in-law, Rusaw said Grey said she likes use the machines because she can fill quate in light of the disaster appraiser and Crystal River See COOL/Page A9 up her cooler. in Japan. A2 MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011 LOCAL/STATE CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE Property appraiser issues TRIM Notices page format for the TRIM available under Florida common question we receive in stands ready to answer the pub- Sept. 6 is deadline notice. law affecting assessed and my office,” Greene said. lic’s questions on values. “Page one presents taxable values today such “The voters will have an oppor- Millage rates are the responsi- for petitions three tax scenarios to our as caps, exemptions, clas- tunity to weigh in on this practice bility of each of the taxing author- citizens,” Greene said, sifications and portability of recapture, when a constitu- ities. Detailed value questions can “while page two provides transfers, values for simi- tional amendment appears on the be answered by the appraiser for Special to the Chronicle a complete explanation of lar properties can vary sig- 2012 ballot. They will get to decide the location in question by calling values, exemptions, classi- nificantly. This makes the whether or not to continue recap- the phone number located midway Citrus County Property Ap- fications and other factors Geoffrey explanation of values all ture,” Greene said. on page two of the TRIM Notice. praiser Geoffrey Greene an- affecting value under the Greene the more complicated. This does not alter or affect the nounced Thursday the issuance of For 25 days from the issuance of provisions of state law.