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Squawk Box
IRC Planning Big Festival
With Doug Johnston
This time of year
always brings fond memo-
ries of my childhood grow-
ing up in Inverness. Even
though we live in Florida,
October brings a hint of
cooler weather. The morn-
ings are cool and the days grow shorter,
turning the leaves brown. Shadows cover
the landscape earlier week after week. And
of course, we have Halloween.
Halloween in Inverness in the
1950 s and 60 s meant a parade down
Main Street with almost every child in
town decked out in a costume made by our
mothers, grandmothers, aunts or a combi-
nation thereof. Some were quite ingenious.
Very few children wore “store bought”
After examining an eye found on a south Florida beach last week, researchers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
costumes.
(FWC) believe the specimen came from a swordfish. Genetic testing will be done to confirm the identification. “Experts on site and remotely
After the parade, and before we
have viewed and analyzed the eye, and based on its color, size and structure, along with the presence of bone around it, we believe the eye
were turned loose on the city to trick or
Inglis Workshop
came from a swordfish,” said Joan Herrera, curator of collections at FWC. FWC Photo
Body Found Near Otter Creek:
treat, we gathered at the Citrus High School
softball field for the Halloween Carnival.
Set For Talks on
There we had, among other attractions, the
Missing UF Student
“Fish Pond”, where for a nickel you threw
Fire/Rescue
a line attached to a cane fishing pole over
From Gainesville Police Dept.
ing since Sept. 20. With the remains were
the counter. When you felt a tug you pulled
Merge
Around 2:00 p.m., Friday after-
blue Vans shoes, blue jeans, and duct tape.
up your prize. The girls often caught bean
noon (Oct. 12), two young men looking
Aguilar was last seen with his friend, Pedro
bag dolls made by my mother and Nell
for firewood discovered the remains of a
Bravo, 18, a student at Santa Fe College, at
Tyner. They were constructed from scraps
From Inglis Commission Meeting
human body, about six miles west of Otter
a Best Buy store on Sept. 20, wearing blue
of cloth and dried beans. Boys usually
by Doug Johnston
Creek and eight miles off State Rd. 24 on
shoes and jeans. A surveillance photograph
raked in a pack of comic books or bag of
The Commission heard David
Parker Blvd. near a dirt road on the property
was taken of the two youths leaving the
marbles, (remember them).
Knowles of the Levy County Emergency
of the Gulf Hammock Hunting Club. The
store.
Mike and Eloise Van Ness always
management Services report that $75,000
men smelled an odor of decomposition and
According to Officer Ben Tobias,
had pony rides for the children and a hay
dollars had been allotted for the construc-
thought they d stumbled onto the remains of
Public Information Officer with the Gaines-
ride for those too small to ride a pony. And
tion of living facilities to be added to the
a dead deer. They were hoping to get a set of
ville Police Department, the remains were
a treat I ll never forget is the delicious
Inglis fire station to accommodate an am-
antlers, but instead, found a decomposing,
identified on Monday (Oct. 15) as Chris-
chicken purlieu prepared by Wilma (Puck-
bulance unit for Emergency Management in
partially buried human body.
tian Aguilar, by way of dental records, and
ett) Steadman. Nobody made it better.
Inglis. He said he money is contingent on
Law Enforcement personnel with
an autopsy is scheduled to be performed on
The night always ended when
the town agreeing to merge the Inglis Fire
the Gainesville Police Department, Florida
Aguilar s body on Tuesday (Oct. 14).
when a group of older boys would sneak
Rescue Department with Levy County Fire
Fish and Wildlife Commission, 8th District
Aguilar s friend, Bravo, was in-
into the fire station and set off the fire
Rescue. Knowles said the fire station would
Medical Examiners Office, and Levy Coun-
dicted by a grand jury on first-degree mur-
alarm, which was loud enough to be heard
be manned by one full time fire fighter 12
ty Sheriff s Office recovered the remains
der and kidnapping charges, Oct. 8, after
all over Inverness. Thats when police and
hours a day, 7 days a week. There will also
and forensic specialists combed the area for
he reportedly admitted beating Aguilar
town officials would send everyone home
be a part time firefighter on duty during
evidence.
unconscious and leaving him injured in an
and Halloween was officially over. Hap-
those hours. If the commission decides not
Detectives believed the remains
undetermined area. Volunteers and law en-
pened that way every year.
to merge, the EMS station will be built be-
could be University of Florida student
forcement personnel pitched in to search
Continued on page 4 - Squawk Box
Christian Aguilar, 18, who had been miss-
Continued on page 3 - Missing Student
Continued on page 2 - Inglis Commission