Remember Rene Varela?

Rene Varela, our former mayor, in the news

As some of you remember, Rene Varela resigned as our mayor to be the director of Baltimore County Animal Services. back in 2011.

Varela made some history here in Lake Worth after being the first public official in the history of Lake Worth to stick us with a $25,000 bill forcing us into a special election after he resigned 5 days early and an election amount that I was told at the time would cost us double. Rene Varela skipped out on Lake Worth and went to work in Towson, Maryland as a veterinarian.

Now he's the director of Baltimore County Animal Services...a big job.

For decades, colonies of feral cats have lived on the Spring Grove Hospital Center property. Volunteers with the nonprofit Cats on the Grove have cared for the cats since 2014, and they don't want to see the population abandoned. They've reduced the number of cats from over 100 down to 35.

The volunteers maintain six to seven feeding stations that provide food to the cats twice a day. But recently, a raccoon drawn by the food bit a volunteer, and now, the group has been notified by Rene Varela of Baltimore County Animal Services that they have three months to relocate the colony.

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