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Community
Summer Camps
Wildlife Park To Present
Wildlife Ranger Camps
HOMOSASSA - The Florida Depart-
ment of Environmental Protection's El-
lie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife
State Park will offer two weeklong Wild-
life Ranger Camps in June and July. The
Friends of Homosassa Springs Wildlife
Park sponsor the programs. June's Wild-
life Ranger Camp is for children ages 8
and 9 years old, and runs June 19 through
June 23. July's Wildlife Ranger Camp is
for children ages 10 through 12, and runs
from July 17 through July 21.
Applications for the Wildlife
Ranger Camp are available in the park of-
fice.
Levy County 4-H Day Camps
To register or find out about pricing,
deadlines, age limits or times please call
the 4-H office at 352-486-5131 or visit
our website at levy.ifas.ufl.edu.
4-H Grows Here: Gardening & Nutri-
tion, June 12 15. During this camp
youth will discover what it takes to be an
avid green thumb while adding color to
their palates. Youth will explore through
games and science-based activities. They
Boy Scout Troop 1457 enjoyed a visit on April 20 with aviation pilot Dave Galm who spoke with them about aviation pre-flight procedures,
will also learn some fun and tasty ways to
instrument identification and its purpose and how an airport works. After attending the class, at least 11 boys will be able to get their Aviation
include the produce they grown in their
Citrus County
Merit Badge, which is one more step toward the rank of Eagle Scout! Citrus County Sheriff's Office photo.
meals.
Traveling burglars from Orlando
Fishing FUNdamentals, June 12 15.
Youth will fish for knowledge as they
man pleads
discover the fun and exciting world of
nabbed in Citrus County
fishing sports. Youth will explore through
daily field trips and will learn some use-
guilty to bomb
From Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
detectives discussed the cases to work to-
ful and unique ways to be good stewards
gether on locating the suspects.
For more than a year now, Citrus
while enjoying the outdoors as budding
In one detective's second case, the
County businesses and homes have been in-
threats
anglers.
burglars were inside the home for more than
creasingly burglarized in a similar manner
4-H Globetrotters, June 19 22. 4-H is
two hours while a husband and wife were in-
- by three young black males, coming into
found in over 50 countries around the
side the home, asleep. ìI was extremely dis-
Citrus County in a rented or stolen car, forc-
world. Youth will find out what other
From U.S. Attorney's Office
turbed when I watched this video,î said Det.
ing their way into businesses or homes, usu-
youth around the world experience in 4-H
Ocala In a press release on April 18, act-
Farkas. ìIt made me angry...It motivated me
ally entering from the rear, stealing items,
through hands-on activities that connect
ing U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow an-
to catch them.î
and in some cases, loading up victims' ve-
you to their cultures.
nounced that 25 year-old David Wayne Will-
On April 23, with these crimes in
hicles with stolen items, and stealing the ve-
Call of the Wild: Exploring the Out-
mott, Jr. of Inverness had pleaded guilty, that
mind, Deputies Indorato and Laborda sta-
hicles, as well.
doors, June 19 22. During this camp
day, to three counts of making threats to use
tioned themselves near the Citrus/Sumter
"Other counties all over Flor-
youth will discover how to protect and
an explosive device. He faces a maximum
county line, on the lookout for anyone sus-
ida were experiencing these types of
enjoy our local wildlife and natural re-
penalty of 10 years in federal prison for each
picious entering Citrus County. When Dep.
burglaries,"said Captain Brad Smith of the
sources. Youth will explore through daily
count. A sentencing date has not yet been
Indorato noticed a car making an illegal turn
East Patrol District. "We learned about a net-
field trips to local state parks and wildlife
scheduled.
on Hwy 44 East, he attempted to make a
work coming out of Orlando that was highly
reserves. They will also learn some basic
According to court documents,
traffic stop, but the driver would not stop.
organized and pretty efficient at burglaries."
survival skills to stay safe while enjoying
Willmott sent e-mails containing bomb
The deputies pursued the vehicle into Sum-
The burglaries were usually in nice neigh-
the outdoors.
threats to various private and government
ter County and arrested all three occupants,
borhoods - even gated communities.
Farm to Fork Beef, June 26 29. Dis-
facilities on three separate dates: Nov. 25,
who matched the descriptions of the bur-
In several cases by two east side
cover how beef products make their way
2014; April 17 and April 23, 2015. The lo-
glary suspects, for fleeing and eluding a law
detectives, the victims were home during the
from the farm to your kitchen table.
cations targeted in the e-mails included the
enforcement officer.
burglaries. A westside detective had similar
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cases from the Riverhaven area. The three