Villages/Lady Lake

Halloween is fast approaching, and while children anticipate the annual celebration of fun and fantasy, it’s a good time for the rest of us to think about safety.  As part of our ongoing commitment to protect children, all of us at the Lady Lake Police Department will be passing along Halloween safety advice.

Children should be instructed not to eat any treats until they’re back at home and mom or dad has inspected them.  Parents should make sure that candy wrappers are sealed.  Fruit or homemade items should be thoroughly examined.  If in doubt, throw it out.

When little ghosts and goblins take to the streets, the biggest threat they face is motor vehicle traffic – something for parents and drivers to keep in mind.

For motorists, extreme caution is the rule for Halloween night.  Expect children to run across the street, coming out of nowhere, oblivious to traffic.  Children should be accompanied by adults when trick-or-treating.  A responsible grown-up will be the person with a flashlight, leading the way when there’s a need to cross the street.  It’s always best to stay close to home and to visit neighbors and friends that you know.  Make sure children only approach homes that are well lit. Treats should be handed out at the door so that youngsters don’t have to enter the homes of strangers. Continue reading

By TomL

An angry crowd packed the Savannah Center Villages when residents of Sumter Villages and other areas came to voice their opinions about a 25% tax increase. County Administrator Bradley Arnold said Budget increases include 34 million for repair of Morse and Buena Vista Blvd. and other area problems. The total tax increase: 250 million. The taxation meeting was held September 24th. They ask all residents to attend.

The residents are not happy having the Tax increase rammed down their throat. Residents have said they can only change the budget by voting to change Commissioners. It is said by some the Commissioners have close ties. Three Commissioners are Villages Residents. One resident accused the Commissioners and the developers of colluding.

There is no question the road work needs to be done but the question is who should pay for it. Maybe the engineers of The Villages did not plan for 50,000 plus homes and traffic from those homes. I wonder what the Snowbirds will think? It will probably affect the sale of new homes???

Higher taxes??  Will this happen in other Counties?? What do you think?  tloury@att.net

Lady Lake Chamber holds a Breakfast Networking event. It is held at the Outback restaurant the 3rd Wednesday of the month. There were thirty attending and a lot of networking went on. Picture by Janet Fraley.

Mayor Jim Richards cutting the ribbon for the Lady Lake Museum re-Opening. What used to be a General Store in the early 1900s is certainly not anything approaching the modern grocery store or department store of today!  Entertaining music by Banjo player: “Mr. Blu Skies” – Marc Rhodes and Ukulele players: “Fun with Uke’s Players” – Peggy Lisnek. Photo by Janet Fraley.

By Publisher Tom Loury

This review has several months included and some out of the area reviews.

  1. In August I ate Silver Springs Restaurant, had a Cowboy Burger, no bread, no Barbecue sauce with half order fries, extra crispy. The hamburger was fresh, handmade and had onion rings on top like a Cowboy Hat. It was good and the price was reasonable.
  2. Ate at Roadhouse grill, Villages on 441. Had steak, potatoes and veggies. Service was good, food was excellent.
  3. Ate at Mojo’s Ocala,Fl. It was all good, price was right. I had a Hound Dog, ft long beef hot dog wrapped in bacon, with cheese, onions and mustard. WEW! Excellent.
  4. Ritzy place: ate at the Strata Hotel St Pete Beach several times. The food, all Chef prepared, all good. They had a Luau with a whole roasted pig. It was delicious. My wife would not look at it or eat any of it. There were plenty of other meats. One interesting thing they were serving Icelandic Glacial water in the rooms and at the conference’s meetings with sponsors paying for it. The bars were expensive, a good reason to stay sober. It was very nicely done. The Hotel was nice, the view of the ocean was rated great.
  5. 5. Ate at Terry’s restaurant. Had a fish sandwich on one of their homemade rolls, baked fresh every day in house. It was all good, I will go back there soon.
  6. 6. Ate at Turnpike Mikes Bistro in Dunnellon Florida at the Rainbow Spring Country Club. Bottom floor looking out over the well-groomed grounds and shade trees. My gosh! The half sub is huge. I ate some of the half sub took some home. I used the leftover meat & cheese to put in my salad twice the next two days.
  7. 7. Had finger foods at the Sky restaurant on top of the Holiday Inn, Ocala Fl at a networking event. The Chef there always does a good job. Interesting touch the Holiday Inn serves Artesian water from Norway in a unusually tall container with a lid that has a seal. Break the seal and it’s yours. The water was good.
  8. 8. Had breakfast at the Ocala Business Leaders at the Elks club. They always do a good job. Also they know how to make a good hot cup of coffee.
  9. 9. Had lunch at Honey Bake Ham, the soup and sandwich deal. Turkey noodle soup and ham and cheese half sandwich with the works. It was good, and price was not bad at all.
  10. 10. Had lunch at the Florida Cracker Kitchen on my way back from St Pete. It is in Brooksville Florida. The food was good, prices moderate. They also have a Cracker store next door. It was fun walking through while waiting for a table.
  11. 11. I ate at Ocean 11 all you can eat buffet. I had two or three kinds of shrimp, crab, stuffed mushrooms and tea which it was difficult ordering since staff did not speak very much English. Ordered unsweetened tea with just a splash of sweet on top. After two waitresses and sending the tea back we got it right. I said unsweet tea and I put the sugar in myself.
  12. 12. Ate at Eaton’s Beach on Lake Weir last week. I had a catfish poorboy without the bun. It was a nice fish fillet grilled lettuce, tomato, pickles & steamed broccoli and cauliflower. It was excellent. The unique setting is on the Lake with a beach on ground level surrounded by boat docks. I saw a catchy saying on a brochure…The only thing better than the view is the food!” How True!!!
  13. 13 Ate at Darrell’s Restaurant East Silver Spring Blvd. One of 15 locations, wow. I would classify my lunch as a good meal, bowl of chicken noodle soup with half a ham and cheese on toast. The service was good, the coffee was good and hot, prices were moderate. Good job Darrell’s. I don’t like cold coffee and not too strong. There is an art to making good coffee. Do not ask someone who doesn’t drink coffee every day to make coffee.

If you had a good restaurant experience anywhere in Florida,  email me at: tloury@att.net. Tell me what restaurant. What food did you have? How was it? How was it priced? How was the service?

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TomL says we are lucky to have won in the field of newspapers that were competing. We appreciate them for considering us. We are lucky to have Chris Boody doing our ad designing and composing our papers. Chris has also set up tomlpublishing.com website. Thank You Chris Boody for all you do!

This month, students will be returning to school in the tri-county area.  Your child’s safety is our number one priority. Please take a few moments to review back-to-school safety with your child.

Walking To School

If your child walks to school, make sure there are sidewalks along the way.  If you are not able to walk with your child, remember there is safety in numbers so have your child walk with siblings or other neighborhood children.  Being hit by a car is by far the greatest threat to any child walking to school.  Make sure your kids stay on the sidewalk and only cross at crosswalks.  Remember to remind your children to never, ever stop to talk to strangers on the way to and from school and, most importantly, never to get into any vehicle with a stranger.  These could potentially be life threatening situations. Continue reading

Lady Lake Chamber celebrating a Grand / Re-opening by having a Ribbon Cutting at Beef O’Brady’s. As you can see there were plenty of people in attendance. They are located 8720 SE 165th Mulberry Ln, The Villages, Fl 32162. Go see them. You will not be disappointed. Photo by Janet Fraley of the Lady Lake Chamber.

Lady Lake Chamber Nothing But Networking was held last month at RoadHouse Grill. Approximately fifty business people attended. A lot of information was shared. Business people meeting business people, sharing information and learning more about the others’ businesses. You help them and they will help you.

Next month the Nothing but Networking will be held at Eaten’s Beach. A great place on the water overlooking the lake. It will be sold out. Any questions about the Lady Lake Chamber call 352-753-6029

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