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🌱 Fake jury-duty callers target Hendry residents with arrest threats

LaBelle, Florida Patch AM: a 4 min read

Hi there, LaBelle! We've got your morning read ready! Read on to stay connected. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Fake jury-duty callers target Hendry residents with arrest threats
  • Coach's vandalized car renews lighting concerns at LaBelle soccer park
  • LaBelle facility figures in company's disputed monkey-breeding plans

Also on today's calendar: Goodwill Black Friday Sale and 3 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: A stray afternoon t-storm, with a high of 85 and low of 68 degrees.
  • Thursday: Mostly cloudy with a shower, temps: high: 80, low: 67.
  • Friday: Cloudy, a shower and t-storm, with a high of 74 and low of 51 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Scam Alert - Fake Jury Duty Calls (blogspot.com) — Hendry County deputies warn that scammers are impersonating law enforcement and demanding payment for supposedly missed jury duty. Calls may display an official number or no caller ID. Hang up without paying or sharing personal information, and verify concerns directly with the Sheriff's Office at 863-674-5600.
   

• LaBelle parents worry after coach's car vandalized at soccer park (winknews.com) — A volunteer soccer coach's vandalized vehicle has renewed concerns about dark parking areas at a LaBelle park. A parent says timed lights leave families walking to their cars in darkness. Hendry County deputies are investigating and offering up to $3,000 for information leading to an arrest.
   

• 30,000 Monkeys Could Be Bred for Lab Experiments Under Controversial Billionaire-Backed Plan (industrytap.com) — Safer Human Medicine has acquired an existing LaBelle facility to house and quarantine monkeys as it pursues a much larger breeding project in Georgia. The billionaire-backed company says research laboratories need reliable supplies of primates, while the proposed 30,000-monkey operation faces animal-welfare objections and legal disputes.
   

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  • After Florida voters approve property tax relief, Immokalee Fire faces funding dilemma (winknews.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in LaBelle

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