• Ocala doesn’t have much cold weather and it doesn’t have an ice skating rink. What it does have is three Olympians who medaled at Beijing Winter Olympics in speed skating.
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• If you wonder how Ocala could have a reputation for champion ice skaters, it’s because they start out on wheels on Renee Hildebrand’s inline racing team.
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• Jackson became the first Black woman to medal in speed skating at a winter Olympics, and the first American woman to win the competition since 1994.
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• Many thousands are expected to gather Saturday evening and cheer on the floats and bands and all the other marchers — and of course Santa — as they travel down East Silver Springs Boulevard.
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• Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. More than 4,400 voters — or around 12 percent — have already voted by mail.
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• Mayor Kent Guinn urged the city attorney to take another look at it and come up with a new approach.
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• And Friday afternoon, yet another teen — this time an 18-year-old — was shot at the Promenade at Ocala apartments. Police did not have news on his condition.
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