Today's Features

About eight months ago, 45-year-old Polly “P.J.” Jensen noticed a lump under her left arm.

She was unable to afford health insurance and ineligible for Medicaid.

“So I kind of set it aside at the time – something I should have never done,” P.J. said. “Something every women should never do.”

After a while, the mild discomfort became painful tenderness. “It got to the point that I couldn’t wear anything tight around that area.”

She finally went to the doctor early this month.

Airheads from all over the state converged on a 45-acre farm located between Cedar Key and Chiefland last weekend for the Second Annual Suwannee River Tech Day and Camp.

The international Airheads Beemer Club is for riders who own specific BMW bikes: those with air-cooled engines. Most anything that happens with an Airhead Beemer can be repaired on the side of the road with the tool kit that BMW provides – with the right knowledge, of course.

That’s why the Airheads motto is “Simple by Choice.”

More than 40 participants from the Levy Association for Retarded Citizens Work Activity Center located in Otter Creek visited the Cedar Key Community Center last Thursday for a luncheon, informational presentations by local officials and a dance.

“Mrs. Thelma McCain made us a fish dinner, grits, coleslaw, hush puppies and cake,” said Trainer Kathy Eschbach. McCain’s son Harold is a LARC participant. “Mrs. McCain fed everybody – anyone who walked through the front door,” Eschbach said.

Luz Kraujalis, known affectionately around Cedar Key as the “Tree Lady” has done it again. With the gracious donation of island landowner Tom Tonnilier of TNT Nursery, and three and a half days hard work by a handful of volunteers, Luz has seen to it that 62 young trees have been planted throughout downtown and the surrounding area.

Tonnilier offered the sand live oak trees to the city as a gift, complete with delivery from his nursery in Alachua County.