Features

By Barbara and Bob Hudson

Refuge Hosts Holiday Lighthouse: Dec 28

 Cindy Leiner, of the Cedar Key Woman’s Club,  presents a $500 check to the Cedar Key School FFA.

Pictured from left are: Nathaniel Brinkman, Taryn Epperson, Kit Riley, Cindy Leiner from the CKWC, Michael Shewey, Amanda Robinson, Denny Voyles, Terra Dunn, Emilie LaVoie and MacKenzie Kirkbride.  

Recently, Cedar Key Arts Center members met with Sarah Thompson, from UF Coastal Change, in an effort to document, through art, change in coastal areas of the Gulf.

On Tuesday, Nov. 19, the Cedar Key Woman’s Club will be filling holiday themed “Support Our Troop” care packages. The contents of the packages and the cost of postage is donated by CKWC members and members of the C.K. community.

 The 44th Annual Cedar Key Seafood Festival experienced another successful turnout this past weekend. 

Ashley Thornton was there to capture the activities which included eating a veriety of seafood.

Pirate McFly of Clearwater battles it out with Hawkeye Jim of Tampa Bay on the shores of Cedar Key during the epic birddog sea battle, a part of the three-day Pirate Invasion  festivities.

Look in the Multimedia section of our website for more photos from the weekend.

Levy County Sheriff Bobby McCallum was one of the jailbirds taken into custody at last week’s Jail and Bail, sponsored by the Williston Rotary Club.

The fund-raiser brought in more than $4,500 that will be used for youth programs, including The Dictionary Project and The Black Stallion Project. 

When it came time to wean calves from their mothers it was a drawn-out affair. First, you separated the bull calves from the heifers. We castrated the bulls, marked and branded both bunches and then put them together in a separate pasture behind the cow pen.