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Media Availability on-site at Paddock Mall on Jan. 19, 2021 from Noon to 1 p.m.
OCALA, Fla.-The Department of Health in Marion County is moving its COVID-19 vaccination operations to the Paddock Mall (3100 SW College Road, Ocala) beginning Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. The site, a joint venture with AdventHealth Ocala, Marion County Emergency Management, and Paddock Mall, will be available for vaccinations by appointment only.
Process for vaccine recipients
The Paddock Mall vaccination site will be a walk-up operation, rather than a drive-through operation that other vaccination sites have used. People with vaccination appointments will park at the Paddock Mall entrance nearest the Belk department store entrance on Southwest College Road.
Residents with appointments will begin the vaccination process at the mall entrance appointment check-in table. They will then walk inside the mall to the registration area, where staff members will verify their information. Continue reading
By Kevin Yeo
The smoke is a rising on the horizon and gun oil is in the air. The Cowboy Fast Draw Club, “.45 SideKicks” of the First Baptist Church of Lady Lake hosted a bunch of cowboys and cowgirls in January for a Snow Bird Shoot Out. This year’s tournament marks not only the 3-year anniversary of the club’s creation. But also highlights a unique way that the Church outreach program’s shows the community that God’s family does more than just get together on Sundays!!
Shooting started at 9 am, ended at roughly 1pm each day and the public is welcome. A spectator will see participants dressed in cowboy and cowgirl garb from the 1880’s era while they compete in head-to-head duels. Each gun fighter attempting to draw and fire their single action .45 caliber pistols faster than a real-life adversary. For more information about the sport which has clubs across the United States. Check out the Cowboy Fast Draw Association website at www.Cowboyfastdraw.com
For more information about the shoot out or to come to one of the .45 Sidekicks Tuesday night weekly practices and see how fast you really are. Call Kevin at 605-999-7687
Stacy Cruz ARNP was speaker at Ocala Business Leaders one of last months Business Breakfast. During her talk she announced that she would become the soul owner of Magnolia Urgent Care LLC in 2021. She also discussed COVID-19 and the operation of her Urgent Care. It will soon become a COVID test sites (out doors) . Many of the people at then breakfast got up and gave testimony of the great care they received.
Rob Moffitt explains how Anytime Fitness is a totally different experience! Anytime Fitness has three locations in Marion County. Rob is located at ANYTIME FITNESS 3290 SE 58th Ave Ocala Florida 352-624-7393
By TomL
Where do I start well I did hear one person say his daughter got healthcare when she could not afford what they offered before Obama Care, she had a preexisting condition. I guess you could call it the perfect storm. You force everyone to pay for the insurance including the people who don’t want it that way the people who are not sick pay doff the people who are sick.
Where it gets sticky is who pays for the elderly who have paid in all their lives and the politicians have spent the money giving it to other country that don’t like us! I guess you could call it a “Like us fee”. Another sticky place is when half the people refused to pay for the healthcare it got really expensive. So not to have it fail the government subsidized people who could not afford Obama Care. Guess where that came from, yep the tax payers.
Gosh we came up with a shortage of nurses, the federal government subsidized that. I met a whole family that was being subsidized for going to nursing school. One of the four actually did some nursing but no RN’s. Guess where that came from, yep the tax payers.
They tell me that if you show up at the hospital for emergency care you will not be denied, so why is it so urgent to have a government run healthcare? Is it so we the Taxpayer will pay for the people who entered this country illegally? Is it because they are trying to dilute the vote of the American people?
Keep your hands out of my pocket…There is nothing there!
So I say keep your hands off my Healthcare!
Pictured here is a fine group of people made up of owners, employees, customers, friends and Lady Lake Chamber ambassadors. The ribbon cutting and Grand Opening was for the Tropical Cafe located at 13721 N. US Highway 441 Suite #1 Villages. Good Luck!
“Looking back and, looking forward”.
Here we are; “The Year Of Our Lord 2021”. . .
Based on recent elections, half of the American Population laments that 2020 marked the end of (former) President Donald Trump’s time in the ‘White House’.
The other half is celebrating his departure from Washington and hoping for ‘better things’ from, ‘eventual’ President Kamala Harris.
‘Temporary’ President-Elect Joe Biden, is calling for ‘unity’ between Democrats and Republicans.
So, I looked up ‘naïve’, ‘ingenuous’ and ‘oblivious’.
Perhaps they all apply, does Biden think there is any chance at all of ‘reconciliation’ between our current warring factions?
Seems like the right of ‘Free Speech’ means that each of us has the ‘right’ to say anything we want to, about anything we want to!
Unfortunately, the is no ‘constitutional’ obligation, for anyone to ‘listen’!
As I See It, it’s a waste of time talking with people who agree. Who learns what?
For example, we all agree that the earth is flat.
But would listening to some ‘crackpot’ explain why they think the earth is ’round’ enlighten us? Continue reading
Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! We hope that each of you enjoyed a blessed and safe holiday season with your loved ones. 2020 was quite the ride and many things have not turned out the way we would like, but God is still good and we know that he is in control.
The second week of January brings our first week of committee meetings in the Florida Senate and we are excited to be back in Tallahassee on your behalf to advocate for the principles that we hold dear. Faith, Family, Freedom, Opportunity, and Life. These principles are worth fighting for and we will not quit.
We are very excited that we have won a big fight on behalf of Life in Florida. Just a few weeks ago, Ocala, Florida become the first city in the state to receive a Safe Haven Baby Box. This “box” or “bassinette” as we call it is located on the outside wall of a building such as a fire station or hospital, with one outside facing door for someone to place the infant in, and an inside door for staff or personnel to accept surrendered children under Florida’s Safe Haven Law. The device has a dual alarm system that activates once an infant is placed inside, and staff is required to periodically check the device and ensure that the alarm system is operable at all times. This will save lives and is one more tool to be used to help someone in distress who feels that they have no other option. The message that we can send with this is that we do care about every life, and every little baby deserves a chance to live. We are continuing to work on legislation to expand our safe haven law and promote these safety devices so that every community in Florida has this option. Every life matters and we can make a difference! Continue reading
The Ocala Chamber & Economic Partnership is pleased to welcome two new primary employers the local business community: ZT Polygel and Big Daddy Unlimited.
ZT Polygel
ZT Polygel LLC has signed a lease on a 55,000 sq. ft. facility in Ocala to allow the company to manufacture its industry leading algae-based organic polymers used in hand sanitizers and surface sprays which are the only polymers third party certified and FDA lab proven to sequester and kill COVID-19.
The Ocala facility located at 500 NW 27th Ave, will eventually employ 90 people and will begin limited operations before the end of the year. This is ZT Polymer’s second location in Florida and when fully operational will have the capacity to manufacture enough polymer to produce over 50 mm gallons per month of personal sanitizer products. ZT Polygel is used in its sister company’s line of sanitizer products under the VARIGARD™ name.
When ZT Polygel is used in any hand sanitizer formula, the patented polymers create a three-layer barrier of protection that lasts for more than two hours. Pathogens are sequestered in the middle layer, which does not allow the transfer of the germ to another individual or surface. ZT Polygel has been lab-proven at one of the country’s top COVID-19 testing labs.
To learn more about the unique attributes of ZT Polygel and its sister company VARIGARD™, visit them at www.varigard.com Continue reading
2019: Stay away from negative people. 2020: Stay away from positive people.
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The world has turned upside down. Old folks are sneaking out of the house & their kids are yelling at them to stay indoors!
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This morning I saw a neighbor talking to her dog. It was obvious she thought her dog understood her. I came into my house & told my cat. We had a good laughed.
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The nicest place to be is in someone’s thoughts, the safest place to be is in someone’s prayers, and the best place to be is in GOD’S hands.
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Poor Children of every color picked cotton. Open a book and read about the cotton plantations. Children worked in the cotton fields all day barefooted and they were of all colors white, black, all minority’s. Everyone worked to get the job done! Continue reading
