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NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Club seeks fracking moratorium By Kathy Steele
lution to ban fracking also will include a request for a study commission to look at the pros and cons of the controversial practice. The Dade City Garden Club is pushing Pasco County Commissioner Jack for a resolution that urges state lawmakers Mariano is the resolution’s sponsor. to enact a statewide ban on hydraulic frackDuring fracking, chemically treated, highing. pressure water is pumped into a drilled Pasco County commissioners will vote pipeline to break apart rock formations to on the matter, likely on Nov. 17, but the reso- extract oil or natural gas.
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An opt-out clause is recommended in the resolution to give counties the right to ban fracking even if there’s no statewide ban. “We do want to have some local control,” Mariano said. In October, a similar resolution was pulled from the commissioners’ agenda. It See FRACKING, page13A
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The Lutz Cemetery Association Inc., maintains the Lutz Cemetery. Vernon Wynn is the president of the association; Mary Lewis isvice president and also director of operations for the cemetery.
A walk through history at Lutz Cemetery By Kathy Steele
Sawmills, Critters, Crackers,” a history of Lutz by Elizabeth Riegler MacManus and her daughter, Susan MacManus. The first resident of the Lutz Cemetery is Today, the site measures nearly 8 acres. a man known only as Mr. Nims. His grave Early settlers who are buried include marker is gone and the burial plot nearly Fred Polen, a teacher at Myrtle School, and obliterated. later a mail carrier; and Herbert Vernon, Local historians think he was buried owner of Vernon & Land Co. Three generathere in 1914, and almost nothing is known tions of the Goheens can be found there, of his personal history. too. That is not the situation, however, for Ira Goheen and his father, Alfred, made most of the people resting in peace at this Mr. Nims’ coffin, according to the hallowed ground, off U.S. 41 at Fifth Avenue. MacManus’ book. Instead, their headstones and grave markModern day community activists also are ers are a narrative of the history of Lutz at the Lutz Cemetery including Oscar from past to present. Cooler, a champion of Lutz youth sports. The The cemetery is more than 100 years Oscar Cooler Sports Complex is named for old. him. And Carolyn Meeker, former president The original cemetery plot was 230 feet of the Lutz Civic Association, is another acby 80 feet, in what today is the western por- tivist buried there. tion of the cemetery, according to “Citrus, “This is a community cemetery,” said
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Mary Lewis, vice president of the Lutz Cemetery Association Inc., and the cemetery’s director of operations. The cemetery is a legacy donated to Lutz residents by C. E. Thomas, president of the North Tampa Land Company. A group of Chicago investors bought about 32,000 acres, north of the city of Tampa. They called their proposed settlement “North Tampa.” The company targeted its advertising to See CEMETERY, page13A
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Land O’ Lakes’ brothers, Owen and Grady Matthew, want to provide socks for the homeless. And, Zephyrhills retiree Janet Chubinsky wants to give new shoes to children in need. The efforts are separate, but both are making strides in reaching their goals to help others. Kid President, a YouTube character played by 11-year-old Robby Novak, inspired the Matthew brothers to get involved. Kid President declared the month of October as “Socktober,” and challenged children across the nation to host sock drives to help homeless people. Sixth-grader Owen and second-grader Grady embraced the challenge, and enlisted the help of nearly 300 students and their families at Countryside Montessori Charter School in Land O’ Lakes. By the end of the month, the sock drive doubled its goal of 770 socks by donating 1,552 socks to the Salvation Army. “We have amazing parents,” said Holly DePiro, volunteer and fundraising coordinator for Countryside Montessori Charter School. “You ask, and they go with the cause.The kids get excited.” See CHARITY, page13A
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Owen Matthew, left, and Grady Matthew challenged students and families at Countryside Montessori Charter School to a sock drive that collected 1,552 socks for the Salvation Army.