Big Lee’s Rashad Jones: ‘I beat Bobby Flay’

By Julie Garisto julie@magnoliamediaco.com

The family and friends of Ajike “AJ” Owens and the Ocala community gathered July 8 at the Kingdom Revival Church to raise their voices in protest and come together in fellowship on the “National Day of Righteous Outrage for AJ.”

As reported by the “Gazette,” Owens, who was Black, was fatally shot through a closed front door by her white neighbor, Susan Lorincz, on June 2.

The mother of four visited Lorincz at the Quail Run-area home to ask about an electronic

See National Day, page A3

By Julie Garisto julie@magnoliamediaco.com

Big Lee’s pitmaster Rashad Jones continues his longstanding winning streak on the 12th episode of “Beat Bobby Flay” season 34, “The Win Beneath Their Wings.”

The show aired July 6 on the Food Network and a repeat of it can be seen at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 31. Locally, it’s available on Spectrum TV Ch. 59.

In the high-pressure “Beat Bobby Flay” episode, “Cowboy” Kent Rollins of Oklahoma and Jones go tong to tong to out-cook Flay, a celebrity chef with a notorious competitive streak. To qualify for the opportunity to “beat” Flay, the chefs face off against each other with a secret ingredient of Bobby’s choice.

“He very rarely loses on the show,” Jones said of the star.

The initial round of “Win Beneath Their Wings” tasked Jones and his first opponent, Rollins, with transforming a grilled sirloin cap.

Rollins made “barbecue fajitas,” but Jones edged him out with his super-thinsliced classic barbecue sandwich.