Youth Ages 2 – 17
Science Classes at the Discovery Center
Ages 2 – 15
Classes start Sept. 15
?? These fun, hands-on learning classes range from ages 2 to 12 with topics like LEGO Robotics, Junior Zookeepers, Create Scientists and more!
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Start Smart T-Ball
Ages 4 – 5
Oct. 21 – Nov. 18
Wednesdays | 6 – 7 P.M.
Hey batter batter! Mini-athletes will learn to bat, catch, throw and run bases in a safe and encouraging environment.
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Mayor Kent Guinn was a guest speaker at Ocala Business Leaders August 5th breakfast meeting.
He shared information about the current state of affairs in the City of Ocala. A lot of discussion about the COVID-19 problem. Quinn speaks from the heart. He started a good conversation and supplied the business people with good information.
Kent Guinn assumed the office of Mayor in December 2011 after serving the City of Ocala for 12 years as the Councilman representing District 4.
Mayor Guinn is in the financial services business and is a representative of the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America as well as owner of the firm Guinn & Company, LLC.
Thank you for the good information Mayor Guinn.
Doctor Thomas Harter speaker at the Ocala Business Leader Breakfast was explaining how he can now help children with Sleep Apnea and Sleep Apnea in Grown ups.
Giant Cone Ginger Flower Photo by TomL
By TomL
Antonio West was the child who was shot and killed by two teens, who were attempting to rob his mother, his mother was also shot. Antonio’s murder and his mother wounding made the news for maybe a day, and then disappeared.
A Grand Jury from Brunswick, Georgia ruled the teens who murdered Antonio will not face the death penalty… it was Antonio who got the death penalty from his killers instead, because his mother didn’t have the money they demanded. They shot him in the face!
Murders from
June 1 thru July 10
7/10- Brittany Simpson, white
7/6- Sarah Goode, white
7/6- Jeffrey Westerfield, white
7/5- Perry Renn, white male
7/3- Laurey Kennedy, white
7/3 Eric Mollet, white
7/2 Rupert Anderson, white
7/2 Jennifer Kingeter, white
6/30 Jim Brennan, white
6/29 Paul Shephard, white Continue reading
If you see an American Flag that has anything changed or added? it violate the flag code! No color changes, why would you want a black and white flag? Why would you want a American Flag with a thin blue line? Another Style that is hitting the internet right now is half U.S. and half military… Most of those are made in China. Any changes of or on the American Flag violate the flag code! The only thing you can do is make it bigger or smaller!!!
By TomL
Dr. Paul Banerjee is the Medical Director for Polk County Fire Rescue, Polk County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, Dr. Banerjee is board certified in Emergency Medicine and is an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Central Florida School of Medicine, Mercer University School of Medicine and the University of South Florida School of Medicine. Dr. Banerjee was an EMS 10, 2017 Innovator of the year and the State of Florida Medical Director of the year in 2012. Dr Banerjee is also a member of the Metropolitan Collaboration of EMS Medical Directors……
What do you think of all those certifications? Dr. Paul Banerjee recently gave a talk on COVID-19. During his talk he gave facts about how long the virus could live on different surfaces. Plastics, stainless steel, cardboard box etc. Then he gave statistics about the outbreak itself and the fact that the virus is very similiar to other viruses that we have had around for years. Yes it’s bad but there are many good things being tested right now that is showing promise. He said he would not take a vaccine until it has been used for a year. Your chance of catching the COVID-19 is .24 of one percent. That means we have a 99.76 chance of not getting it. One of the questions ask is the COVID-19 numbers inflated. He said he had not seen signs of that. My estimation is if you are a Doctor and you get $10,000 for every patient of yours that is dialogist with COVID-19, what would you do? I’m only asking???
Dr. Paul Banerjee, Medical Director
Polk County Fire Rescue
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The Market is Open every Tuesday from 9am tom1 pm
106 Hwy 441 DownTown Lady Lake at the Log Cabin Park
Special prices for chamber members
Call Peggy at 352-537-4197
(Pictured: LaHacienda Catering serving a visitor a hotdog at the Farmers Market)
Apparently, many residents of ‘The Villages’ in Florida are concerned about their community moving away from building single-family homes and going full-on commercial and multi-family instead.
Seems that increasingly apartments, medical facilities, assisted living homes, shops, stores and businesses are the new focus.
The original ‘Orange Blossom Gardens’ started out as gated, Mobile Home Subdivision within the Town Of Lady Lake, back in the 70’s.
But they soon changed, first to ‘hybrids’; Mobile Home Construction installed on a concrete slab, and then to larger conventional homes.
The main selling approach was to promise ‘Free Golf For Life’ with access to numerous other ‘amenities’, clubhouses, Town Squares, softball, tennis and much more, all for a nominal monthly fee.
At the time, ‘officials’ from the Town Of Lady Lake freely admitted that they were approving
tax-free bonds to the now-renamed “Villages”.
‘High Finance’ is way beyond my understanding, but it seems that the Founder, Harold Schwartz and his son Gary Morse’s team, would borrow the Bond Money to be used for land purchases, and construction improvements, water, sewer, streets, golf courses etc; Then that ‘infrastructure’ and those amenities would be sold to another company they owned/controlled, thereby making a multi-million dollar cash profit, without risking a dime of their own money. Continue reading
