Today's News

Children still will be blessed with food-filled take-home backpacks — that will not change.

However, as of June 1, the program formerly known as Blessings in a Backpack changes its name to Citrus County Blessings.

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Community Emergency Response team member Gloria Wells, left, talks to Ruby and Herb Calderon during the Citrus County Emergency Expo on Saturday at the National Guard Armory in Crystal River. The CERT Team is activated in case of a disaster that requires search and communications other than conventional phone or Internet service. More than 60 CERT members are HAM radio operators.

When I first came to work at the Chronicle, I shared a pod with a grammar stickler.

I would say something like, “People that eat bugs for lunch are odd.” And he would spin his chair around and say, “People who. People who. People are ‘who;’ objects are ‘that.’”

I’ve never forgotten that. People who eat bugs are odd. Bugs that eat people — well, you get the point.

The EPA is developing proposed rules under the Clean Water Act to reduce mercury discharges from dental facilities to the environment. EPA is focusing its technology assessment on amalgam separators. EPA is now preparing the proposed rulemaking for review.

If you would like additional information or would like to follow its progress, EPA has a dental mercury webpage: water.epa.gov/scitech/wastetech/guide/dental.

Dr. Susan Zimmer
Crystal River