Boomtown Days biggest event was Crowning Queen of the Rainbow. This tradition has gone for many years. Town people dress up like the olden days, grow beards and celebrate. This year’s Queen is Christine Adams and the King of the Rainbow was Jonas Duncan.
I was captured by the very youngest of the Boom Town Babies, the two, three and four year olds. It was a hoot. The theme was The Wizard of Oz. The mothers went all out to dress their children as one of the characters. The children had fun and I also watched the expression of the faces in the audience. It was a great event. Pictured above is all the little Baby Kings and Queens. They all got a crown.
by TomL
School bus driver resigns after being accused of Child Abuse. I am sure it is very humiliating and embarrassing for the school bus driver of 30 years to be charged with such a crime and of course the media got them another headline and plays it up.
As I understand what happened, the child has the problem. The day this incident happens a school teacher / (employee) struggled to escort the student from the containment unit to the bus. The law states all students must be seat belted in. This is a bus for challenged students. The student would not let the aide seatbelt him in. The student punched the aide in the face and struck her in the head with the buckle of the seat belt. The bus driver went to assist the aide, they struggled with him for a few seconds and the bus driver was charged with child abuse.
This child should not be in the school system if he is violent. He was certainly out of control that day. I ask, how much abuse does a school bus driver and their aide have to take before the school system will acknowledge there is a problem and support them. Continue reading
First let’s talk a little bit about the Sheriff
Billy Woods was born and raised in Marion County. Sheriff Woods has devoted his life to serving his community. Prior to being Sheriff he was with the Ocala Police Department for 26 years. During that time he held various positions. Billy Woods years of service he received multiple commendations, including the Medal of Valor and Medal of Distinction.
At the breakfast Sheriff Woods explained the changes he has made and some of their successes busting the bad guys. The Ocala Business Leaders audience had a lot of questions and Sheriff Woods answered every one of them. The morning was a success.
Thank You Billy Woods for being the speaker.
At TomL Publishing we have 4 monthly Newspapers: two in Ocala (Ocala DownTown which covers Silver Springs Blvd & Seniors Voice of Ocala which covers HWY 200). In and near the Villages we have the Lady Lake Magazine which covers Lady Lake Villages & North of 466 we have Village Spectator covering where Lake & Sumter & Marion county come together.
Our Newspapers are print and thrown to the yards, but we are also online at TomLpublishing.com, VillageSpectator.com and OcalaDownTown.com, which are all mobile friendly. On the sites’ Home page we have rotating banners and quick links to the latest news, events, columns. On the sites we also publish advertising rates and circulation. For our customers we will put your thirty second video on our Facebook free. Continue reading
Nothing But Networking is a great event. Business people meet other business people to discuss what they do. Often they do business with each other or pass on the information to others that might do business with you. It’s a great event hosted by the Chamber almost every month at a great restaurant. Lately there has been over fifty attending and once in a while the one hundred mark will be broke. This Nothing But Networking was held at Texas Road House Grill and will be held there again on May 2nd 11:30. Call Sue Kelley to RSVP at 352-753-6029. Tell her Tom sent you!
For some reason we are getting everything backward. Is it Politics??? Let’s put everyone we don’t like under oath and ask questions and see if they incriminate anyone, then they scare them with prison time, and offer them immunity to turn on others they want to imprison.
“In this country, if you cheat to get into college you go to jail. But if you cheat to get into this country, you go to college for free. Make sense?”
Instead of investigating a crime we swear people into the Grand Jury and ask them gotcha questions. We try to create a crime. If they lie they go to jail, if they do not find anything they investigate their spouses and their children. In this country we are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. In case of investigating the President and many others, they have it backwards. For some reason Congress thinks they have the authority to demand to see what they had not been privileged to see in the past. Continue reading
The Ocala Metro is Moving Forward. That means we are working steadily toward creating 4,500 new jobs in the next five years. Those jobs on average will pay 15 percent more than the county’s average wage and result in a capital investment of $400 million. We are accomplishing these goals through the strength of our partnerships. The College of Central Florida plays a vital role in helping meet our business attraction and retention goals by providing a competent, high-skilled workforce ready to meet the needs of current and future employers in high-demand jobs.
From certificates to associates and bachelor’s degrees in agribusiness, engineering technology, health information, computer information technology, equine studies, and logistics and supply chain management, CF has heard the demand of our targeted sectors. The college remains relevant and responsive, connecting workforce development to economic development by matching its programs to the needs of businesses and delivering educational opportunities to train new workers and up-skill current employees. CF looks to the future to develop programs that embrace technology as labor markets transition to a technology-driven economy. CF also looks to the future to nurture a college-going culture that encourages individuals to reach beyond a high school diploma and invest in attaining a higher level education that yields positive returns. Continue reading
Friends,
Just a few weeks ago, a pro-life, pro-veteran press conference with the Freedom Speaks Coalition and Phyllis Schlafly Constitution Center was held on the 4th floor of the Capitol in Tallahassee. At the center of the discussion were two bills filed by your Senator and Representative Mike Hill of Pensacola. The first bill is one that wrote about last week, the Heartbeat Bill, and the other was a veteran’s monuments and memorials protection bill. You may think that it was a strange choice to highlight these two bills together, considering that they address two very different issues. They do, however, address key foundations of American culture that are extremely important.
At this press conference, I shared my deep concern of the radical globalist push to dismantle anything representing American ideals and culture. For them, what better place to start than with our history and the history of our ancestors. While far from perfect, our ancestors do not deserve to be demonized or have their memorials desecrated because a university student might feel offended. I do not wish to hide their faults, but I do not want us to go down this road because none of us lived in the time of those who came before us. Continue reading
by A.J.(Tony) Powell
A wall or not a wall? That is (still) the question!
Another question is “Does a country, any country, have a ‘Right-To-Exist?”
Or you could ask, “Do the people of any country have a right to protect their way of life from invaders?”
The so-called ‘Indians’ of the Americas and the Caribbean had open, unprotected borders didn’t they? How did uncontrolled ‘immigration’ work out for them? They lost their land, they lost their culture, they lost their language.
Why? Because they were unable to protect themselves against ‘illegal invaders!
I heard a (legal USA immigrant) student from India on Public Radio claim that “Immigration is a Human Right.” Continue reading
By Steve Hayes, Chairman and President – Americans for Fair Taxation
THE OPPORTUNITY ZONE–HOW THE SWAMP BRIBES THE WEALTHY
The 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act created opportunity zone investments and tax benefits for those investing in them. While this sounds good—use the income tax code to help bring investments to needy areas– it is really designed to bribe higher income people.
This information is provided by the IRS:
An Opportunity Zone is an economically-distressed community where new investments, under certain conditions, may be eligible for preferential tax treatment. Localities qualify as Opportunity Zones if they have been nominated for that designation by the state and that nomination has been certified by the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury via his delegation of authority to the Internal Revenue Service. Continue reading
