BELLE GLADE — A stone’s throw from Dorothy McCloud’s house are fields of sugarcane, which is the reason why she keeps rat poison on hand. Whenever the crop is burned before harvesting, the rodents scurry from the fields and into nearby buildings and homes.
It may take a few days for a response, she said, if she complained about the rats to the , which manages the 714 units within the Okeechobee and Osceola centers on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
But McCloud, 68, couldn’t recall how long it had been that had fallen on her foot, or that she needed a new front door.
But things abruptly changed when at the Okeechobee Center became news this summer, she said.
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