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Concerns about Zika on the rise By B.C. Manion
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The level of unease about the Zika virus is on the rise in Florida, according to a new poll conducted by the Saint Leo University Polling Institute. The online poll, which was conducted Aug. 14 to Aug. 18, surveyed 1,500 adults in Florida, according to a news release from Saint Leo University. Polling ended a day before Gov. Rick Scott announced that mosquitos are spreading the virus in the Miami area and five days before the governor announced a non-travel related case of Zika was found in Pinellas
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County, the release says. The university’s August poll found that 79.3 percent of respondents say they are “very” or “somewhat” concerned about the virus. Of those remaining, 1.1 percent say they are “somewhat unconcerned,” 7.5 percent indicate they are “not at all concerned,” and 2.1 percent say they are unsure or do not know enough to answer. The poll had a plus or minus margin of error of 3.0 percent. The polling institute’s June survey of 500 adults in Florida showed 71.2 percent of respondents expressing concern. See ZIKA, page 13A
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Conservation work yields statewide award By Kathy Steele
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Kaitlyn Greenough has nurtured a curiosity about nature and love of the outdoors since she was very young. She also began her lifelong relationship with girl scouting at an early age.As a matter of fact, she was in kindergarten when she became a Daisy scout. Her love of nature and of scouting both have shaped her life, and offered her opportunities to get involved in volunteer work in the community. Greenough recently received accolades for the work she has done, as a Girl Scout and a conservationist, to teach elementaryage children about water conservation. The 20-year-old spent about 130 hours, over three years, researching and designing a water conservation course in her quest for a Gold Award, the highest honor bestowed on a Girl Scout. She taught the course at Crystal Springs Preserve, a 525-acre sanctuary in Pasco County. For years, she attended summer camps at the preserve. She began volunteering there when she was 8. In July, the Florida Wildlife Federation name Greenough the Youth Conservationist of the Year.The award was bestowed on July 15 in Bradenton. “It’s the coolest award I’ve ever gotten,” said Greenough, the Zephyrhills High grad-
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Kaitlyn Greenough stands in the foreground as her summer camp students wade into the water at Crystal Springs Preserve during class on water conservation. Greenough is the Florida Wildlife Federation’s Youth Conservationist of the Year for 2016.
uate who is now a junior at the University of South Florida. A few months earlier, Greenough and other area Girl Scouts received their Gold awards from the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida. The Gold Award honors extraordinary leadership and community involvement by scouts in ninth through 12th grades. Greenough also received a lifetime
membership in the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. The young woman treasures the experiences she had through the Girl Scout program. “It’s about empowering women, and I really like that the exposure is generational,” she said.“You want to have women See AWARD, page 13A
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Whether in law enforcement, military or ministry, Barry White has always been destined to serve. In 2014, the Land O’ Lakes resident detailed his 37-plus years in public service in a self-published 218-page memoir, “Destined to PHOTOS COURTESY OF BARRY WHITE Serve.” In the book, White Barry White worked as a state wildlife officer from 1977-1979. chronicles key moments during his work for the Tampa Police Department, the Florida Wildlife Commission and the U.S.Army. “It’s really about what I think are some very interesting things that happened to me or around me when I was in law enforcement or when I was an army chaplain,” White, 67, said.“A lot of the stories — especially the ones where I was in law enforcement — are very usable in some messages to drive home a point or an illustration.” Some tales are exciting, some comical. Some are sad and others, heartbreaking. Most of the book’s 17 chapters focus on his military experience, most of which he described as “super rewarding.” His duties as an army chaplain took him to places like Guantanamo Bay— “a really unique experience”— and Seoul, Korea— “a neat place.” Yet, the most challenging portion of the book to write, he said, focused on delivering military death notifications. As an army chaplain, he was required to inform next of Barry White served as a soldier-chaplain in kin when a loved one had passed away. the U.S. Army for 23 years, before retiring in He figures he delivered about a dozen — 2010. “a dozen too many”— death notifications in his 23 years as a chaplain. “It’s the last thing in the world I want to somebody — it’s just a very difficult thing to do,”White said.“I honestly and truly would do.” rather be involved in some sort of a (police) In fact, the emotion of telling people shootout — as long as I have protection— their loved ones had passed away was the than to have to experience those types of most difficult he ever experienced in his caemotions. Just imagine having to go tell reer,White said.
A majority of the book focuses on his time in the U.S. Army.
“I’d rather have to do law enforcement than to go back and do that again,” he said. The most enjoyable chapters to write centered on his years in police work, and when he worked as a state wildlife officer, patrolling the Tsala Apopka Chain and the Withlacoochee River. “The Florida Wildlife Commission was a lot of fun,” he said.“You’re outdoors all the time, and even in hot Florida, you’re out there among nature.” White noted that being a state wildlife officer was “definitely less stressful” than his three years in the Tampa Police Department. “We didn’t have that many problems,” he said about working as a state wildlife officer. ...“Even if you catch someone doing a crime — like shining (a light) at night — usually you were on top of them before they even knew it. There’s adrenaline, but it was a good kind of adrenaline, whereas the police department, you were scared because there could be a riot, a gang or a bunch of folks who were all drunk, and you had no backup.” He continued: “Times have changed in See SERVE, page 13A