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Wednesday September 24, 2008 A Publication of
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Sally Price Correspondent

Squawk Box
With Doug Johnston

Ice cream shop brings back

memories

Dunnellon now has a

Baskin-Robbins that opened a
couple of weeks ago. It
couldn't compare to the ice
cream cones we used to get in
Inverness during the 1950’s
and 60’s at the Freezer Queen just across
from CitrusHigh School. Those cones were
made of soft ice cream and they were out of
this world.
Two ex-policewomen from Chi-
cago, Illinois opened the Freezer Queen (we
called it the Creamette), sometime in the
middle 50's. Hazel and Ethel were tough busi-
ness women who kept a squeaky clean eat-
ing establishment and had a no-nonsense ap-
proach to the many CHS students who pa-
tronized the eatery. There were no inside
accommodations. Customers would drive-up
and eat the food in their cars, take it with
them, or eat on the large wooden picnic table
that was adjacent to the building. It was on a Kayak fishing (left photo) is one of the things that drew Gail and Jim Zaloga to South Levy. Gail and Jim Zaloga relocated to the
concrete floor and under an extended part of Inglis area 6 to 7 weeks ago from High Springs after they fell in love with the Nature Coast town. They had searched out the west coast
the roof. towns in the Big Bend, each about 60 miles from their home and decided our area met their needs and likes. More on page 5.Car
The Freezeer Queen was a meeting Fishing,(right photo) Russ Kennedy, certified rescue diver from Inglis helps removed a 1971 Chevelle from the water at the Yankeetown
place for many years in Inverness. Many Boat Ramp Tuesday morning. A Marion County man apparently became confused with the road’s end and drove into the water, see story
families would make the trip once or twice a below-Photos by Sally Price

Deputies Dismantle Marion

week and get ice cream. Our family ice cream
outing was on Sunday nights. Momma, Daddy,
me and my three sisters would load into the
car and we would make the much anticipated
trip to the Creamette. We would all get ice
cream. I remember that I would be the first
one finished. My older sister would not eat
hers until we were all finished. Then she
would tease us with her ice cream. Brat!
As a teenager I would stop there and get a
milk shake on the way home from football
practice when I was fortunate enough to have
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Pigskin
County Man
Inverness Grow House
A 32-year-old Inverness man was arrested, around 8:00 a.m., Sept. 15, after members
of the Citrus County Sheriff's Office Vice & Narcotics Unit executed an arrest warrant at
Drives Car
his 4133 E. Ryan St. residence.
Ray Martinez was charged with sell/manufacture/deliver/pos-
sess a controlled substance (marijuana) with intent to sell/manu-
Into The
facture/deliver, cultivating marijuana in a residential dwelling and
possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $15,500.
During the search, Martinez stated that he did not wish to
Water
make any statements, but made several remarks that detectives
noted - to the effect that detectives had done a good job, they had
By Newscaster Correspondent
Sally Price
gotten the top dog and that he knew his house was being watched.
Detectives found six large marijuana plants in a bedroom which According to Steve Losapio of
were being nurtured by grow lights, a carbon dioxide generator Marion Oaks, he took a wrong turn off Hwy
and water from a large plastic bin. Walls were lined in foil, and 200 in Ocala in the middle of the night Mon-
the windows had been sealed off. The bedroom closet contained day night. Passing through Dunnellon, he said

Predictors numerous bottles of plant food and chemicals used for growing
plants. Another bedroom contained additional florescent fixtures
he got confused and came thru Yankeetown.
Not knowing the area he drove the classic

Is Back
and "various apparatuses used for cultivating marijuana." On a cof- 1971 SS Chevelle right down the boat ramp
fee table in the living room, detectives found an ashtray contain- Ray Martinez at the end of Hwy 40. Lucky the windows
ing rolling papers and two marijuana roaches. The report stated were down and he got out and swam to the

Page 8 that other items on the search warrant were not found. Martinez was transported to the
Citrus County Detention Facility in Lecanto.
dock where he said some fishermen leaving
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