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steady through June. P8
Rash of burglaries
at Grand Harbor. P10
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MY VERO Shores cop facing
felony charges in
BY RAY MCNULTY domestic dispute

Will this sheriff ever give
the community answers?

It’s difficult to muster much PHOTO BY ROSS ROWLINSON BY RAY MCNULTY
sympathy for Jamall Freder- Staff Writer
ick, the 19-year-old convict- Wabasso Causeway landscaping nearly finished
ed felon who was shot mul- A now-former Indian River
tiple times when he allegedly BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA Causeway should con- to the barrier island. Shores Public Safety Depart-
grabbed a handgun and ran Staff Writer clude this week, but that Area residents were dis- ment officer faces two felony
from sheriff’s deputies dur- work will soon start on charges and a first-degree mis-
ing a traffic stop in Gifford last The Florida Department removing the stanchions mayed last year when the demeanor in connection with
month. of Transportation says the that line both sides of the Australian Pines that had, what police say was a violent
planting of new landscap- high bridge that carries for decades, provided domestic dispute at a Brevard
But this isn’t about him. ing along the Wabasso traffic across the lagoon shade and (many thought) County hotel last week.
This isn’t even about wheth-
er the deputies were justified CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 Solomon “Joe” Parrish, 55,
in shooting him, though we was arrested at his home in
still don’t know enough about Sebastian after getting into an
what happened to say with argument with his longtime
any confidence that they were girlfriend during a stay at the
left with little choice. Hampton Inn & Suites in West
This is about the questions Melbourne two Sundays ago.
that remain unanswered more
than three weeks after the Shores Public Safety Direc-
June 11 incident that resulted tor Rich Rosell declined com-
in deputies filling the night air ment on the arrest, calling it a
of a residential neighborhood “personal matter” that did not
will two separate flurries of involve his agency, but he said
bullets. Parrish’s employment with the
This is about Sheriff Eric town ended Friday.
Flowers not providing any
updates on the case since As for whether the arrest
the June 14 news conference contributed to Parrish’s dis-
when he released an edited missal, Rosell said, “He failed
to meet the terms of his proba-

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Former County Administrator Joe Baird New South Beach restaurant to be built on site of old Charley Brown’s
charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend
BY STEVEN M. THOMAS island residents may finally break ground in early 2023. And
BY RAY MCNULTY that he stalked his ex-girlfriend Staff Writer find a restaurant there once according to developer Antho-
Staff Writer in May, his attorney said last again – and possibly, it might ny DeChellis, it could end up
week. There probably will never even be the temporary home housing the island’s most popu-
Former Indian River County again be a salad bar on the of The Tides. lar fine-dining restaurant.
Administrator Joe Baird plans to Baird, 65, was arrested on site of the popular old Charley
plead “not guilty” and go to trial June 27, after returning to Vero Brown’s steakhouse on South A new mixed-use project DeChellis, who also owns
to fight a misdemeanor charge Beach from a rented summer Beach. But by the 20th anni- planned for 1410 Highway A1A the buildings where The Tides
versary of the 2004 hurricanes, – with restaurant, retail and currently is located, is working
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 office space – is scheduled to
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My Vero struck by one of the first bullets fired But he wants to. were occurring in our community.”
by the deputies, who began shooting Brown said he’s so troubled by the So why not follow their training and
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 almost immediately after he started deputies’ lack of concern about the
running. possibility of collateral damage that conduct a felony stop?
version of footage from the deputies’ he has spoken with national and state If they had, the deputies would have
body cameras. Flowers owes us answers. NAACP leaders and they will ask both
He also should explain why he re- the U.S. Justice Department and Flori- remained at least two car lengths from
This is about Flowers not respond- peatedly tried to link the deputies’ da Department of Law Enforcement to the suspects’ vehicle, providing them
ing to a list of questions emailed to him thought process during the traffic investigate the incident. with a safer position from which to
and his agency last week – a list that stop to a gun-related “homicide” that Obviously, he doesn’t trust the Sher- control the situation.
included questions not asked during occurred in the same neighborhood iff’s Office’s Internal Affairs Division.
his same-night and three-days-later two days earlier, when he knew, or at “I’ve told this sheriff exactly what I Frederick still could have grabbed
sessions with the local news media. least strongly suspected, the June 9 told the previous sheriff: When you do the gun and run, but if he did turn and
shooting was self-inflicted and pos- your job right, I’ve got your back. But shoot, the deputies were farther away
Whether the sheriff likes it or not, sibly accidental. when you do it wrong, I’m going to be and could use their vehicles for pro-
the county residents who pay his salary “I told him not to make that infer- your worst enemy,” Brown said. tection. It’s also possible that he might
have a right to know how many times ence,” said Tony Brown, president of “Those deputies put my commu- have reassessed his chances.
Frederick was shot, where on his body the local NAACP chapter. “I told him: nity in danger, and the sheriff said
he was struck by deputies’ bullets, his Don’t put that false narrative out they did no wrong,” he added. “All that We don’t know.
current condition and whether he has there.” does is give a group of rogue cops the Nor do we know how many deputy-
been released from the hospital. Brown has publicly criticized the go-ahead to have open season on our involved shootings occurred in our
deputies’ actions, particularly their community, knowing there won’t be county since Flowers took office in
We certainly have a right to know decision to “fire gunshots indiscrimi- any consequences.” January 2021, or if any of the deputies
how many rounds the deputies fired nately and recklessly in a residential While Brown acknowledges that in the June 11 shooting were also in-
that night. neighborhood – a walking neighbor- Frederick was wrong to grab the gun volved in the March 26 fatal shooting
hood – at 9 o’clock on a Saturday and flee, he also expressed concern of a patient at the hospital, or why the
The sheriff said at his news confer- night.” that the deputies began shooting al- sheriff shared the body-cam footage
ence that investigators would ask the He said the deputies’ willingness to most immediately, even though Fred- with Brown one day before releasing it
deputies involved in the traffic stop riddle the scene with bullets showed a erick was running away from them. to the public.
what they saw as they shot and pur- “disrespect” for the community. “You see him get out of the car and We don’t know because Flowers
sued Frederick in the darkness. “We believe they fired as many as 40 start running,” Brown said, referring didn’t respond to my questions.
rounds,” Brown said. “We counted 23 to the body-cam footage released by And I have more now:
What exactly did they see? Did Fred- bullets that hit a nearby home under the Sheriff’s Office. “Count one, one
erick ever point a gun at them? Or construction. Then add the bullets that thousand … two one-thousand … You  Where did deputies recover
when he turned to look over his right him. Beyond that, we still don’t know.” don’t get to three before they opened
shoulder while fleeing, was he merely fire. Frederick’s gun, and was he still armed
checking to see if the deputies were “The video is vivid until he took that when a second round of shots were
gaining on him? second step,” he added, “but there was fired by deputies as they pursued him
no way he turned to shoot at them.” deeper into the darkness?
Perhaps he turned because he was To be sure, the footage is inconclu-
sive, despite Flowers’ assertion that  Why didn’t the Sheriff’s Office
Frederick, after moving a gun from his
left to right hand while running away, release any video of the latter part of
can be seen “turning back to face the the deputies’ pursuit and Frederick’s
deputies.” capture?
Frederick does turn his head, as if
looking back over his right shoulder,  What was edited out of the foot-
but even when the video is viewed in
slow motion, he doesn’t appear to be age that was made public?
facing the deputies or pointing a gun Flowers was correct when he said
at them.
Flowers admitted during his June 14 that the entire incident could’ve been
news conference that “nothing in this avoided if Frederick had obeyed the
video” shows Frederick “pointing the deputies’ command to not touch the
gun.” gun.
The video does show, however, that
the deputies did not conduct what in As the sheriff put it: “The second he
law-enforcement lingo is known as armed himself, he changed the sce-
a “felony stop,” – sometimes called a nario.”
“high-risk stop” – a tactic officers are
supposed to employ when stopping That may be true.
a vehicle containing a driver and/or But about all that we know for sure
passengers suspected of having com- is that the innocent bystanders who
mitted a felony. live in that Gifford neighborhood got
Remember: Flowers said his depu- very lucky.
ties train for such scenarios, adding And no matter how much our sheriff
that those involved in the traffic stop might want this story to go away, they
were “actively watching” the car be- – and we – deserve something, too.
cause its driver and/or passengers
were suspected of having been Answers. 
connected to a “flurry of shots”
earlier and “some burglaries that Charley Brown’s

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on plans to redevelop it and the build-
ing next to it in 2024, and said: “Noth-
ing has been decided yet, but it is pos-
sible The Tides could be relocated to
1410 while its current location is rede-
veloped.

“There have also been very prelimi-
nary discussions about a new restaurant
run by The Tides team occupying the
first-floor space long-term,” he added.

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“There are a lot of great things hap- 14,000-square-foot, two-story office age between Camelia Lane and Bou- Lane Architects, the same firm that de-
pening in Vero Beach and I want to building next door to The Tides on the gainvillea Lane. signed his mixed-use project in South
be in that mix, helping shape [an up- north side, paying $3 million for the Beach.
graded built environment] ... that will Colonial-style frame structure and an- DeChellis told Vero Beach 32963
be here for the next generation,” said other third of an acre. that redevelopment would involve The A1A project will sit on a 1.1-
DeChellis, who grew up inVero, attend- tearing down the existing buildings, acre parcel that DeChellis bought for
ing St. Edward’s School and fishing in The buildings were purchased from one of which was built in the 1950s, $675,000 in 2008 when he was CEO of
the Moorings canals before going on to Vero Beach attorney Michael O’Haire and “replacing them with better build- Credit Suisse Private Banking. Charley
Rollins College, the University of Chi- and members of his family. Between ings” in the Anglo-Caribbean style Brown’s restaurant, which had occu-
cago and a dynamic career in banking them the properties comprise about a popular on the island. He said plans pied the site, was torn down after be-
and wealth management. .96-acre parcel that occupies the front- are being drawn up now by Moulton
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A site plan submitted to the City of
Vero Beach shows a 13,300-square-
foot structure with three sections built
around a roofed central courtyard on
a 1.1-acre parcel at 1410 Highway A1A.
According to the site plan, there will be
two two-story sections and one three-
story section.

Some 2,500 square feet of first-floor
space is designated on the plan for a
restaurant and 2,500 for retail, with the
second and third floors shown as of-
fice space.

But DeChellis said the entire first
floor could be occupied by a single
restaurant.

DeChellis’ engineer Joe Schulke
submitted the site plan to the city in
late March and the city sent it back
with a typical slate of notes and ques-
tions in mid-May.

Schulke said the revised plan will be
back to the city “within the next three
or four weeks. It is a really neat proj-
ect. We should be ready to go in front
of the Planning and Zoning Board in
September.”

“We hope to have all our approvals
by late fall and break ground in early
2023,” said DeChellis, CEO of Silicon
Valley Bank Private, a private banking
and wealth management operation
headquartered in California.

Previously, DeChellis was CEO and
president of Boston Private Bank &
Trust, which was acquired by Silicon
Valley Bank in 2021 for $900 million in
cash and stock, according to Wealth-
Management.com.

That same year, DeChellis made a
number of real estate investments on
the island.

In May 2021, he bought 1401 High-
way A1A from ONE Sotheby’s Interna-
tional Realty broker-associate Michael
Thorpe, paying $2.15 million for the
16,000-square-foot office building.
Built by Proctor Construction in 2003
and located across the street from
the mixed-use development site, the
building houses the main Vero office
of ONE Sotheby’s, which acquired
Thorpe’s real estate business in 2019
but not the building he operated from.

In August 2021, DeChellis closed on
3103 Cardinal Dr., paying $1.8 million
for a little more than half an acre of
land and two commercial structures,
including the 4,000-square foot build-
ing where The Tides is located.

The same day, he closed on the

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Charley Brown’s deciding the market was not ripe for passed away a year ago at age 88, Speedway’s 3,800 stores for $21 bil-
the project. owned the lot and building on the west lion in 2021, 7-Eleven made a counter-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 side of A1A where Johnny D’s is now proposal, floating the idea of building
“This will be a Class-A-plus building. located, and the senior DeChellis op- a big Speedway station that would
ing damaged by the 2004 hurricanes. With all that has happened in Vero in erated Carlucci’s Gourmet Market on occupy the existing 7-Eleven site and
In 2014, at the end of his stint at recent years, I am confident the mar- that site until that building, too, was se- DeChellis’ property.
ket will now sustain the building,” he verely damaged in the 2004 hurricanes.
Credit Suisse, DeChellis and his team said, adding that it, too, will be in the “Of course, I said no,” DeChellis said.
drew up plans for a mixed-use devel- Anglo-Caribbean style. Anthony DeChellis said at one point, “That would not have been right
opment on the site similar to the one he also had been in talks with 7-Elev- for the island. Vero Beach is one of the
now in the works. The site plan was DeChellis is part of a family that has en looking at the possibility of incor- more special towns in Florida and I
approved by the city, but DeChellis been active in the Vero food and res- porating their property on South A1A have a personal stake in seeing good
hit the pause button at some point, taurant business for decades. into a larger project. After acquiring
things happen here.” 
His father Carlo DeChellis, who

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Joe Baird maliciously and repeatedly followed, River Shores home since April 2019. there were no acts of stalking, and he de-
harassed and cyberstalked” his former Metcalf said he was “shocked” the nied the injunction.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 longtime girlfriend.
police pursued the case after the wom- “There are no new facts.”
home in Rhode Island and turning him- Baird’s attorney, Andy Metcalf, dis- an’s efforts to obtain a restraining order The woman said last weekend, howev-
self in at the County Jail, where he spent puted the allegations and dismissed against his client were denied by Circuit er, that Meadows didn’t consider all of the
the night before being released the next them as the remnants of a “bad break- Judge Robert Meadows after a four-hour facts – because, she claimed, the judge
morning after posting a $2,500 bond. up,” referring to the couple’s romantic- hearing on June 7. refused to view visual evidence collected
but-tumultuous, eight-year relation- by a private investigator she had hired.
In a probable-cause affidavit used ship that the woman claims to have “This case was already litigated,” said She said the investigator, who was al-
to obtain an arrest warrant on June ended in February. Metcalf, who represented Baird at the lowed to testify at the hearing, wasn’t
24, Vero Beach Police Detective Jenni- hearing. “She had an attorney. The judge permitted to support his testimony with
fer Brumley wrote that Baird “willfully, The couple had lived together on gave them all day to make their case,
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Joe Baird her to the police station and file a report.” ever she noticed it near her home. before learning of the arrest warrant and
The affidavit states that the woman no- Realizing the stalking wasn’t going to returning to Vero Beach to answer the
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 stalking charge.
ticed Baird’s car parked across the street stop, the affidavit continues, the wom-
photographs and videos that showed from her home “several times” from May an hired a private investigator, who she In fact, Metcalf rejected the woman’s
Baird stalking her. 11 through May 17, and she took photos said documented each time he observed claim that she ended the relationship,
to document his presence. Baird following and stalking her. Those saying, “Joe asked her to move out.”
According to Brumley’s sworn affi- episodes included Baird: He also offered a far different story as
davit, the woman said the stalking be- She finally contacted the Vero Beach to what happened in the months since
gan May 1, when she noticed her 2021 Police Department on May 17 and said  Standing on the boardwalk across the couple’s breakup.
Porsche had been “keyed.” She sus- she had received multiple text messages
pected Baird, but when she confronted and phone calls from Baird, and she be- from the woman’s condominium and Metcalf said the woman returned
him, he denied it. lieved he was stalking her. staring at the building. to Baird’s home “10 or 12 times” and
phoned him a “hundred times” be-
The next day, the woman returned The woman told Brumley she texted  Driving past, parking near and tween February and May. He said the
to her Ocean Club I home and noticed Baird on May 1 to say, “Don’t contact woman also sent Baird text messages
Baird in his car, parked across the street. me,” but his texts and calls kept com- pacing back and forth – occasionally asking if she could still share his mem-
Nearly four hours later, as she left her ing. After reviewing the texts, Brumley ducking behind trees and bushes – in bership at Quail Valley.
residence, she saw Baird pulling out of a spoke with Baird by phone and told front of a Cardinal Drive bank in which
parking lot across A1A. him the woman no longer wanted any the woman was doing business. The woman said last weekend she
contact with him and that, if the harass- left Baird’s home on Feb. 11 due to
At one point, she pulled over and, ment and stalking continued, he could  Riding his bicycle back and forth “domestic violence,” and asked Indian
when he stopped nearby, told him: “I be criminally charged. River Shores police to accompany her
know you’re following me. I noticed you on the sidewalk in front of the woman’s as she removed her belongings.
parked across the street earlier, and now “Baird said he understood and agreed home and staring at the building.
you’re here again. Quit stalking me, or he would not have any further contact” She said she hoped the breakup
I’m going to get a restraining order.” with the woman, the affidavit states.  Repeatedly circling the block in his would be amicable and tried to remain
cordial with Baird, whom she claims
The woman then drove to her parents’ Three hours later, the woman saw car while the woman and her mother allowed her to continue to share his
Central Beach home with Baird still fol- Baird’s car parked across the street from were having dinner at The Tides. Quail Valley membership.
lowing her, the affidavit states, though he her home.
didn’t turn onto the same street. Minutes The woman, who has owned a sum- Baird, whose arraignment is sched-
later, however, Baird phoned her parents She also noticed him following her as mer home in Newport, Rhode Island, uled for July 19, served as county ad-
and began “rambling” to her father. she drove to an appointment near Conn for the past five years, told Brumley that ministrator from 2004 to 2016.
Beach. Once there, she observed him Baird recently signed a four-month lease
Her father quickly cut him off, telling driving in the area. to rent a house less than a half-mile away. The woman, who asked that her
him, “This has gone too far,” and warning: name be withheld under Florida’s vic-
“If you don’t leave my daughter alone and When the woman returned home, She said she doesn’t plan to go to New- tims’ rights law, has lived in the Vero
quit following her, I will personally take she again saw Baird’s car parked port this summer “because she is afraid Beach area for 13 years, most of the
across the street. The affidavit states of Baird, and believes he rented the
that she took photos of his car when- house there to intimidate, stalk and ha- time on the barrier island. 
rass her,” the affidavit states.

Metcalf, though, said Baird has begun
a new relationship with a different wom-
an and was living with her in Newport

Shores cop arrested her right arm and a chipped tooth.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The couple had been in a “roman-

tionary period” and did not elaborate. tic relationship” for approximately 20
Rosell said Parrish, a former Indian years, the affidavit states, but the wom-
an’s adult daughter said the relation-
River County sheriff’s deputy and pri- ship had been “on and off.”
vate investigator, was a member of his
agency for about 15 months and was Parrish was charged with one felony
“triple certified” as a law enforcement count each of false imprisonment and
officer, firefighter and emergency tampering with a witness or victim,
medical technician. as well as one misdemeanor count of
battery – domestic violence. He spent
Parrish’s 12-month probationary nearly 15 hours in the Indian River
period began after he graduated from County Jail before being released on
the fire academy this past spring, $15,000 bond and ordered to have no
Roselle said, “so he had roughly 10 contact with the woman.
months to go.”
The affidavit states Parrish refused to
According to the West Melbourne give police a statement after his arrest.
Police Department’s probable-cause
affidavit, Parrish refused to allow his The case has been transferred to
girlfriend to leave the hotel room – Brevard County, where the incident oc-
physically blocking the door, shoving curred, but records there did not include
her, pushing her head against a wall, his next court date. Reached via text
knocking her to the floor and prevent- message, Parrish did not offer a com-
ing her from using her wrist phone to ment on his arrest or departure from the
call 911 for help. Indian River Shores Public Safety De-
partment. He wrote that he has retained
While the woman was on the floor, the services of an attorney.
the affidavit states, Parrish “leaned
over her and ripped off her Apple The woman’s daughter said her
watch and began banging it on the mother is afraid Parrish might try to
bathroom sink until it was disabled.” harm her again and is seeking a re-
straining order. A hearing is scheduled
The woman, who lives in Fellsmere, for today (July 7) before Circuit Judge
finally managed to escape when Par- Cynthia Cox in Vero Beach.
rish’s back was turned, the affida-
vit continues, adding that she had The daughter also said her mother
cuts on her left elbow, bruising on has asked the court to redact her name
from public records in accordance with

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COVID INFECTIONS HERE HOLD STEADY THROUGH JUNE

BY LISA ZAHNER hovering in the low 20s, and Cleve- targeting the new Omicron sub- one Johnson and Johnson dose, but
Staff Writer land Clinic Indian River Hospital variants. The FDA invited the drug have not gotten a booster shot.
reporting in-house COVID-positive makers to present their data and
The number of new COVID-19 patient numbers each week in the keep testing these tweaked vac- Ninety-five percent of local se-
infections locally held relatively high teens. cines. niors age 65 and older are fully
steady during the month of June – vaccinated, but only 43 percent of
neither surging nor receding, but Going into the July 4th holiday The FDA released a statement on those people have received at least
inching up to 65 people per day weekend, Cleveland Clinic spokes- June 30 saying, “The COVID-19 vac- one booster shot.
testing positive through a lab that person Erin Miller said: “We have 17 cines that the FDA has approved and
reports to the Florida Department COVID positive patients in-house. authorized for emergency use have “We encourage those who are
of Health — plus an unknowable None of which is in the ICU.” made a tremendous difference to currently eligible for a booster to
number of positive results on at- public health and have saved count- get one,” the FDA said.
home COVID-19 test kits. With several highly contagious less lives in the U.S. and globally.
virus variants swirling around the However, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that “As we move into the fall and
Last Friday’s state report showed globe, closer and closer to home, causes COVID-19, has evolved sig- winter, it is critical that we have
464 weekly cases, only 5 cases more and clinical research showing nificantly, with recent surges around safe and effective vaccine boosters
than on the June 17 weekly re- somewhat diminishing effective- the world associated with the rapid that can provide protection against
port and up only slightly from the ness of each additional booster spread of highly transmissible vari- circulating and emerging variants
433 cases on the June 3 report. At shot in vulnerable populations, ants such as omicron.” to prevent the most severe conse-
the state level, Florida started the public health officials predict that quences of COVID-19. Following
month with 74,389 weekly cases, this somewhat stable trend might But officials don’t want un-boost- a thorough discussion on June 28,
and ended it at 74,481 weekly cases be the proverbial calm before the ed people to wait for the modified 2022, an overwhelming majority
– a difference of little more 1/10th next COVID storm this fall. vaccine to get their next shot. The of the advisory committee voted
of 1 percent. new vaccine would only be given as in favor of including a SARS-CoV-2
In the face of that, the U.S. Food a booster — not as a first or second omicron component in COVID-19
Locally, hospitalizations have and Drug Administration last week dose. Sixty-eight percent of Indian vaccines that would be used for
fluctuated very little over the past gave Pfizer and Moderna the green River County residents age 5 and boosters in the U.S. beginning in
month as well, with total new hos- light to push forward with prepa- older are considered “fully vacci- fall 2022.
pitalizations as reported by the CDC rations to mass-produce a new nated” with a two-dose regimen or
version of the COVID-19 vaccine “We have advised manufacturers

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COVID infections locally an Omicron BA.1 component have Sheriff’s Office investigating a rash of
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 already been reported and appear residential burglaries in Grand Harbor
promising, but the FDA wants a con-
seeking to update their COVID-19 tinued stream of new data this sum- BY RAY MCNULTY
vaccines that they should develop mer. Staff Writer
modified vaccines that add an omi-
cron BA.4/5 spike protein compo- “Manufacturers will also be asked The Sheriff’s Office is continuing to
nent to the current vaccine compo- to begin clinical trials with modi- investigate a rash of residential bur-
sition to create a two component fied vaccines containing an omicron glaries that occurred from mid-May
(bivalent) booster vaccine, so that BA.4/5 component, as these data will through mid-June in the Grand Har-
the modified vaccines can potential- be of use as the pandemic further bor community on the mainland, an
ly be used starting in early to mid-fall evolves,” the statement concludes, agency spokesperson said last week.
2022.” adding that the FDA has been plan-
ning to guide the development of Three of the burglaries were at
Very preliminary results from clini- modified vaccines after seeing how townhomes on St. David’s Lane.
cal trials of modified vaccines with the virus has rapidly mutated over
According to the spokesperson,
the past two-plus years.  detectives said there were no signs
of forced entry and they believe each
case was a “crime of opportunity” The detectives also recommended
that occurred where doors had been the installation of home-security
left unlocked. cameras.

Detectives have been in contact On June 16, the community’s
with homeowners, Grand Harbor’s property manager sent out an email
security team and the country-club message informing residents about
community’s Safety Board. They the burglaries and urging them to
have encouraged residents to lock lock their doors when leaving their
their doors, even if leaving the prem- homes and, if they have them, acti-
ises for a short period of time, and re- vate their security alarms.
port any suspicious activity they see
during their daily routines. The chairman of Grand Harbor’s
Community Safety Board did not
respond to multiple phone mes-

sages. 

Wabasso Causeway
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

beauty along the river in the little fence had already been put in place,
parks along the causeway were re- FDOT shifted to a Plan B which met
moved by the FDOT at a cost of ap- with residents’ approval. The origi-
proximately $112,000 because they nal contractor, however, then ceased
are officially considered “invasive operations.
non-native species detrimental to
our Florida environment.” The state sought bids for Plan B,
but those came in an unacceptable
Over the past several weeks, the $1.5 million higher than the original
pines have been replaced with native cost. Finally, working closely with
trees and palms that FDOT deems the county Municipal Planning Or-
more appropriate for the coastal envi- ganization, FDOT decided to design
ronment: gumbo limbo, with a maxi- a stand-alone project for which state
mum height of 16-18 feet; Pigeon funding is available.
plum, 12-14 feet; Sabal palms, 10-30
feet; and buttonwood, 12-14 feet. According to Grace Ducanis, com-
Most of the new trees are already in the munications officer for FDOT Dis-
ground and stabilized with supports. trict 4, “The high span project (Wa-
basso Railing) has been let (out for
While critics generally feel the new bid) and selection of the contractor
vegetation is quite sparse, trees and is under way. Once the selection has
palms grow very rapidly in Florida. been completed, the contract will
be executed. The project is still on
The high span over the lagoon was schedule to begin in the Summer of
built in 1970 to replace the historic
wooden swing bridge constructed 2022.” 
in 1920.

Last September, FDOT’s $180,000
bike and pedestrian safety project –
which included a 3-foot chain link
fence along both edges of the bridge
– hit a snag when residents drowned
the plan in a flood of complaints that
the fence would destroy the iconic
river view.

While stanchions for the chain link

Niki Perinei with Atlas and Meg Offutt.

FITTEST AND FASTEST
STAND OUT AT GRUELING
VERO BEACH TRIATHLON P. 20

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Gifford honors ancestors at festive ‘Freedom Day’ event

Kevin Browning and Jonnie Mae Perry. PHOTOS: MARY SCHENKEL School Superintendent David Moore, School Board member Peggy Jones Dorothy Hart, Wilfred Hart, Denny Hart and Victor Hart Jr.
and Assistant Superintendent Eric Seymour.
BY MARY SCHENKEL
Staff Writer

On a day filled with music, dance, (Front) Bernice and Joe Idlette; (Back) Jerrod Miller, Jody Idlette, Anthony Idlette and Jennifer Idlette.
prayers and praise, residents united
for a Freedom Day Celebration at Perry, event organizer and CEO of Grace by Gifford Middle School stu- a change in their lives,” said Perry.
the Gifford Historical Museum & the Gifford Historical Museum and dent Jevon Grier, Perry noted that it Browning said that despite ad-
Cultural Center to commemorate Cultural Center. had been written by John Newton,
Florida’s Emancipation Day. a former slave trader, ship captain vancements, issues regarding
“We are here today to remember, and slave owner who later became equality, education and social jus-
Juneteenth is now a national holi- to celebrate our ancestors. Because an abolitionist. tice continue, with Black employees
day, commemorating that on June of who they were, we are,” said Per- and students often denied access
19, 1865, slaves in Texas finally r y. “John Newton shows everybody to the opportunities and equal pay
learned that on Jan. 1, 1863, two and how one can, with God’s help, make needed to succeed.
a half years earlier, the Emancipa- Prior to the playing of Amazing
tion Proclamation ending slavery
had become effective.

Less known, however, is that Flor-
ida had also withheld news of the
proclamation.

The Gifford Freedom Day Cel-
ebration featured a reenactment of
the May 20, 1865, day, when Union
Brig. Gen. Edward M. McCook ac-
cepted the surrender of Florida’s
Confederate troops in Tallahassee
and read the proclamation declar-
ing that enslaved people were free.

Event emcee Kevin Browning, ra-
dio host at 104.5 The Flame, point-
ed out numerous Gifford commu-
nity leaders in attendance. Among
them, Joe Idlette, the first Black
elected to the Indian River County
school board, where he served 20
years; Anthony Brown, president
of the NAACP; A. Ronald Hudson,
GYAC co-founder; and NFL players
Kenny Holmes and Dale Dawkins.
Two spry centenarians were also in
attendance – Lenora Williams, 102
and Willie Mae Darrisaw, 101.

“To my knowledge, we have the
only celebration on the Treasure
Coast to recognize and celebrate
this date, simply because people
are not familiar with Florida’s en-
slaved history,” said Jonnie Mae

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Curtis Williams, Steve Osiecki, Jadie Barringer and Gerrod Miller. PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
Linda Morgan dances with 102-year-old Lenora Williams.
“There’s still a lot of work to do,”
said Browning. “The struggle is
real. It’s Emancipation Day but we
still have work to do.”

He stressed the importance of ed-
ucation, citing the need for children
to be enrolled in voluntary Pre-K so
that they are not behind when en-
tering kindergarten.

On the subject of education, Eric
Seymour, School District of Indian
River County assistant superin-
tendent, introduced David Moore,
SDIRC superintendent, saying
Moore had solidified a framework
of change through the development
and implementation of the district’s
strategic plan.

Moore acknowledged the “living
history” among the attendees that
day, citing the need for a call to ac-
tion to honor and respect those who
paved the way.

“We cannot be complacent. We
cannot stand still,” said Moore.
“This sense of community that we
feel here today should be every-
where, all throughout Indian River
County. And that requires a solid
public education system that teach-
es our children. We have to fight to
make sure that all means all.”

Commenting that May 20 is a
somber, reflective occasion, An-
thony Brown, NAACP president,
stated: “Ladies and gentlemen, stop
this fantasy about standing on the
shoulders; we’re standing on the
graves of some great people who
sacrificed for us to be afforded this
partial freedom that we have.”

Brown questioned whether Black
people are really free at a time when
voting has been made more difficult
and educators are now banned from
talking about the history of slavery,
or anything else related to race.

“A man that does not know his
past cannot have a future,” said
Brown paraphrasing Fredrick Dou-
glass.

For additional information, visit
GiffordHistoricalMuseumAndCultural
Center.org. 

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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 Dale Dawkins and Kenny Holmes.
Ann Henderson Hardison, Hannah Darrisaw and 101-year-old Willie Mae Darrisaw.

Luda Charkatz and Rev. Dr. Crystal Bujol. Soreya Dramain, Justine Carter and Yolanda Carter with Maria and Travis Beckett.

County Commissioner Joe Flescher and Dale Dawkins.

Lynn DiMenna, Christine Domingue, Keren Perez and Navah Kirven.

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Three cheers for Guild’s multi-season Genie Awards gala

Michael Naffziger. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES Jerusha Stewart and Bob Stanley. excellence in theater by recognizing for Outstanding Play went to “Moon-
the contributions of cast, crew and light & Magnolias,” directed by Pam
volunteers. Harbaugh.

Season 62 productions includ- Season 64 featured “One Flew
ed “Cats,” “A Bench in the Sun,” Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Dracula,”
“Camelot,” “Always a Bridesmaid” and “Sleuth,” “Calendar Girls,” “I Do! I
“Jesus Christ Superstar,” which prema- Do!” “See How They Run” and “Native
turely closed after one week due to the Gardens.” The Genie Award for Out-
pandemic. The Genie Awards for Out- standing Play was presented to “Na-
standing Play went to “Always a Brides- tive Gardens,” directed by Patti Hall.
maid,” directed by Art Pingree; and
Outstanding Musical to “Jesus Christ Looking ahead, Season 65 promises
Superstar,” directed by Jon Putzke. to be equally spectacular with Main-
stage productions of “Footloose,” “Cat
Reviewing that tumultuous year, on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Musical Chairs,”
Putzke, VBTG creative director, said, “Visiting Mr. Green,” “The Boy from
“Many volunteers connected on social Oz” and “Murder on the Nile.” Stu-
media, uploading music and mono- dio Theater productions will include
logues, using Zoom to present scenes “Art,” “Love, Loss & What I Wore,”
and even full-on productions while “The Lifespan of a Fact” and “Equus.”
we were physically apart. We were
connected by our love of theater until The Theatre Guild is the oldest
these doors could open again.” community theater on the Treasure
Coast and, since its founding in 1958,
Changes to the theater itself en- has continued to enrich, entertain
abled them to fully reopen for Season and educate the community through
63, which brought to the stage “Over theatrical arts.
the Tavern,” “Almost, Maine,” “A Shot
in the Dark,” “Sister Act” and “Moon- For more information, visit vero-
light & Magnolias.” The Genie Award beachtheatreguild.com. 

PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
Michelle Gonzalez, Mattheau Monzo, Steven Budkiewicz and Gloria Allen.

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF production of quality local theater.
Staff Writer Before kicking off the program, Mi-

Vero Beach Theatre Guild support- chael Naffziger, master of ceremonies
ers partied at a Mystery on the Nile- and VBTG vice president, reflected on
themed Genie Awards presentation at the impact that assisting with a high
the theater to celebrate three seasons’ school production of “Guys and Dolls”
worth of opening nights, the awards at age 13 had on his life.
presentations having been put on
hold the past couple of years. In true While his motives weren’t initially
form, the thespians came attired in altruistic – basically a teen boy’s inter-
costumes befitting a cruise down the est in girls – he said the impact of see-
Nile – a nod to Agatha Christie’s “Mur- ing “a group of human beings coming
der on the Nile,” which is scheduled to together to create something bigger
close out the upcoming Season 65 in than the individual” was profound.
May 2023.
“I felt wonderful because I was
And, although the awards ceremo- part of a community. Isn’t that what
nies had been postponed, the Theatre we are? We are a community theater,
Guild, which employed true “show and we lift each other up. We fix sets
must go on” dynamism, should be for each other, and we put costumes
applauded for finding ways to forge on each other, and we comfort each
ahead with performances despite the other when we’ve messed up. We con-
pandemic. gratulate each other when we’ve done
well and that, to me, is what makes
Guests milled about over drinks this place and any community theater
and light fare before the devoted worth it,” said Naffziger.
casts, crews and volunteers were
applauded for their parts in the The Genie Awards, named in honor
of Eugene Davis, one of the Theatre
Guild’s first resident directors, honor

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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 Dylan Clifton, Megan Ross and Lynn Miller. Liz and Bob Keimer.
Jeffrey Barkwell and Sharon Whiteley.

MR. JOHN PATRICK GRIFFIN Anne Talbot, Eleanor Dixon and Ginny Dixon.

Mr. John Patrick Griffin, 54, of Sebastian, FL, passed Patti and Jeff Hall. Richard Digiandomenico and Cecelia Lyons.
away Thursday, June 16, 2022, from complications due
to a recent stroke.

John was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and spent his

earliest years in Bangkok, Thailand. In 1977, he moved
to New Jersey, where he lived for 25 years. He was a
graduate of Bernards High School in Bernardsville, NJ,
and received an Associate’s degree from Raritan Valley
Community College in Branchburg, NJ. He worked in
a variety of fields, including sales, marketing, HVAC,
and commercial painting. In 2002, John relocated to
Sebastian, FL, to be closer to the sunshine and to his
father, who had just retired. He was self-employed for
six years, doing painting and restoration, and then worked for property management
companies. Since 2014, he worked for Sea Oaks Property Management in Vero
Beach, FL.

Never one to sit still, John enjoyed spending time at his home - always making
improvements to his beautiful gardens, tinkering in the garage, trying a new recipe
on the grill, cruising around in his convertible, caring for his beloved cat Zoe and his
many tropical fish. He loved his family and was thrilled to be “Uncle Peaches” to his
brother’s three children. He had a wide variety of friends and enjoyed helping with all
of their home improvement projects as well.

John enjoyed traveling and often went back to the northeast to visit family and
friends. He recently traveled to Ireland with his dear friend Carol - they enjoyed the
sights in Dublin and Belfast and visiting with his godmother, Aunt Kathleen.
John was known to be kind, a friend to all - always willing to lend a listening ear and
a helping hand.

John is survived by his parents, Ingrid L. Griffin of Naples, FL, and John J. Griffin of
Vero Beach, FL, his sister Stephanie Griffin Elia and her husband Michael E. Elia, of
Larchmont, NY, his brother Michael J. Griffin and his wife Lauren Q. Griffin, and their
children Quinn, Luke, and Brendan, of Montclair, NJ, as well as extended family in
Germany and Northern Ireland.

The family appreciates the requests to make donations in memory of John. While a
specific fund has not been set up, they ask you to consider the following:

• American Stroke Association/American Heart Association
• Bob Woodruff Foundation
• Halo No-Kill Pet Rescue, Sebastian, FL

A Mass of Christian burial was held on June 21, 2022 at
St. Sebastian Catholic Church to honor the life of John.

Arrangements are entrusted to Strunk Funeral Homes & Crematory,
1623 North Central Avenue, Sebastian, FL, 32958.

A guest book is available at: https://www.strunkfuneralhome.com/obituary/john-griffin

Francine Potvin, Joan Cady and Frieda Mangulas.

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Jon Putzke, Barbara Muhlbauer, Doris Kwek and Marg Putzke.

Debbie Brandauer and Lisa McNamee. Catherine and Jerry Reichert.

Caitlin and Greg Harris with Peggy Glennon and Libbie Baylinson.

Davy Cappelen and Yolanda Sullivan with Richard and Lynn Bergeron.

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Full steam ahead on fundraising for World War II tribute

BY MARY SCHENKEL
Staff Writer

At their final luncheon of the sea- Carla and John Michael Matthews. Barbara Ruddy and Alicia Quinn. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES Jim Rannazzisi and Bruce Scully.
son, Military Officers Association of
America, Indian River County Chap- currently used for ceremonies on the
ter members and visitors viewed island.
plans to build a World War II tribute
on Veterans Memorial Island Sanctu- The 30-inch-high platform would
ary. display the Victory Medal (front and
back), Vero Beach Naval Air Station
The WWII project has been ap- Logo and Honorable Discharge Pin
proved by VMIS, city and county on pillars, as well as WWII Campaign
leadership, and MOAA is now actively Ribbons from the Americas, Asia Pa-
raising some $400,000 to fund it.

Lt. Col. Carroll Oates, USA (Ret.)
and Col. Tony Young, USA (Ret.) are
co-chairing the WWII tribute com-
mittee. Similarly, MOAA members
Col. Michael DiScipio, USMC (Ret.)
and Col. Carlos Halcomb, USAF (Ret.)
co-chaired the World War I “Dixie
Doughboy” statue on Memorial Is-
land, which was dedicated on Veter-
ans Day 2021.

Rather than a statue or monument,
the WWII tribute is being planned
as a permanent Parade Reviewing
Stand to replace the mobile staging

Terry Treat, Randall Guthrie and Marcia Hill. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES
Carroll Oates and Elke Fetterolf.
cific, European Africa and the Victo-
ry Medal. Future WWII tributes, such
as to Normandy and Iwo Jima, are a
possibility.

Their proposal would shift the cur-
rent view of the stage area some 20
degrees west, so that audiences no
longer face the sun. To enhance the
site and provide shade, a Contempla-
tion Grove would be planted behind it
and additional trees would surround
the seating area, with sight lines radi-

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ating out to other monuments on the be completed by Memorial Day 2023. residents who served in that war. limited by the amount of donations
island and to the lagoon. Although she admits that it may “We all know that these living vet- it can accept annually, so contribu-
tions to the project are being fun-
John Michael Matthews, VMIS be optimistic, committee member erans from World War II are dying at neled through the Cultural Council of
chairman, said that any work must Barbara Ruddy would like to see a very high rate of speed. They’re in Indian River County. Checks should
wait until the city replaces the the W WII tribute dedicated on Vet- their late 90s, early 100s, and so for be made out to CCIRC-WWII Tribute,
bridge to the island. Money has al- erans Day 2023 to honor the 42 res- me, speed is an essential item,” said 1216 21st St., Suite 1, Vero Beach, FL
ready been set aside for that $1.3 idents of the county who lost their Ruddy. 32960. 
million project, which they hope will lives during WWII and all the other
As a military 501-C19, MOAA is

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Fittest, fastest stand out at grueling Vero Beach Triathlon

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

Athletes from across the country said he became a triathlete late in life, Barry Segal and VBPD Capt. Matthew Monaco. Dr. David O’Brien and Cynthia Thompson.
kicked it into high gear during the sec- explaining that as a swimmer, it was a
ond annual Vero Beach Triathlon held natural progression once he had more former LLS Conquistadores Sprint of Port St. Lucie, who finished with a
at South Beach Park. time on his hands. Triathlon at Jaycee Park. Judging from time of 2:17:16, and the first-place fe-
the nearly 200 participants this year, male was Renae Tadrowski of Gaines-
Participants endured challengingly “I love to swim, and that’s a key he seems to have rekindled interest ville with a time of 2:33:45. Sprint
choppy waters before running up the element in triathlon,” said Harnis- in the sport. He was assisted in the distance winners were John and Ash-
wide beach to the parking area and chfeger. “Triathlons are the ultimate endeavor by Sommer Sports, which ley Reback of Jupiter, at 1:08:31 and
jumping on bikes for the second half endurance sport, so it’s a significant managed the race, and the Indian Riv- 1:23:47, respectively.
of the grueling ordeal. The final leg of challenge.” er County Lifeguards, who kept watch
the beachside triathlon was a flat-out over the swimmers. For more information, including full
run, each of the challenges pitting se- He said he wanted to revive triath- race results, visit verobeachtriathlon.
rious athletes against one another and lons here in Vero Beach, such as the The overall winner of the Olym- com. 
the elements. pic distance was Ramses Rodriguez

Triathletes, ranging in ages from 19
to 70, competed in the Sprint Distance
Tri comprised of a 750-meter (.46 mi)
swim, 20K (12.4 miles) bike ride and
5K (3.1 miles) run, or the Olympic
Distance Tri, which required them to
swim 1,500 meters (.93 miles), bike 40K
(24.8 miles) and run 10K (6.2 miles).
Olympic Aquabike sand Sprint Mixed
Relay races were offered as well.

Vero Beach Triathlon founder and
race director Walter Harnischfeger

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Paul Reback, Cliff Sandlin and Carl Zeilman. PHOTOS: STEPHANIE LABAFF

Tina Clark, Rose Cintron-Allen, Maria Addonizio and Elba Brown.

Raphael Thiney and Dr. Eleni Anastasia Tousimis. Chauncelor and Virginia Howell.

Holly Mantle, Andy Metcalf and Cynthia Falardeau. Chris Tyler and Carol O’Connor.

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Bonz says it’s a wonderful life for lovable li’l Louie

Hi Dog Buddies! “Thanks, Bonz! My life began LOUIE. black-and-orange-sherbet buggy
at a very nice kennel Up North. with treat pocket, comfy-lookin’
I’ve never seen a poocheroo like Lou- Gramma an Grampa, my uncles still am, The Boss.) Later, when they had- mattress, an sun hood.
ie Wallace. He’s a dachshund, which I an my Mom, who was 9 at the da go to Dog Heaven, I was sad for a long
HAVE seen before: spruce an stylish, time, were livin’ in New York time. But I was always Mom’s baby. Me “Woof! Louie! That is one suh-
long hound nose, black floppy ears; with two Labs, Bailey an Cin- an Mom grew up together. WEEEEET ride!”
that dachshund long-loaf-of-bread mid- namon. Mom REALLY, REALLY
dle; legs shorter than snoot. But what wanted a tiny pooch to cuddle “Now I’m attached to Gramma an “I KNOW! Right? All my pals agree.
amazed me was his Super Cool Kibbles with. But Gramma an Grampa Grampa. I protect ‘em and wanna be There’s Bernie an Rusty. An (he low-
color, gold around the eyes, an big black said NO MORE POOCHES. with ‘em all the time. I love ridin’ in the ered his voice) My Grrrlfren Bella,
and white patches all over. I thought he PERIOD. ABSOLUTELY NOT. car so much I do a special twirly dance a Cairn Terrier. She’s beautiful. But,
was some sort of mix-chur. THE END. But Mom kept sa- whenever we’re gettin’ ready. When I alas, she’s also a Canadian snowbird-
yin’ pleeze pleeze pleeze so hafta stay home, I have a cozy liddle dog and she’s gone for the summer.
When we knocked, there was lotsa Gramma an Grampa thought hideaway under the table sorta like a But I still have my mem-rees.” Louie
barkin an, when the door opened Louie ‘Hummm, ah ha!’ then said tent, with a special Temper-Pedic pad so sighed, hopped into his Crispy Bis-
was standin’ there barkin’ away (not ‘OK, if you can raise the money I won’t get what humans call ang-ZIE- cuits carriage, an settled in.
fuh-ROW-shus, just loud) next to a lady, yourself.’ Since Mom was 9 they figured uddy. “Another great spot is the screen
who invited us in. the chances were slim-to-none.” porch. I gaze out at the pond, an con-
“The hardest thing I remember about template the birds. The squirrels I find,
“Good morning, Mr. Wallace,” I said. Since Louie was sittin’ right in front of learnin’ Basic Dog Stuff was tryin’ well, annoying, even though I know
“Thank you for meeting on such short me, I sensed what was coming. to conker this one liddle HAH-butt: they’re fellow cree-churs. I just wish they
notice. I had a last-minute cancellation Chewin’ Furnichur Corners. There were go be fellow cree-churs elsewhere.”
anna early deadline.” “Well,” Louie continued, “right before a whole bunch of ’em to chew, too! But “I hear ya,” I sympathized. “Any fav
Mom’s 10th birthday, she announced finally I transitioned to a more accept- foodstuffs?”
As I spoke, my assistant, with an OK that she had enough money for a pup- able item, which I still haffta have with “I’m trying to lose a few pounds. I’ve
from the lady, produced a yoghurt-an- py, PLUS, her an her BFF Jenny’d been me when I go to bed: My Pig Ear Binkie. dropped some but you know what they
apple snack from The Satchel an offered searchin’ On The Line an found my ken- It’s perfect! It’s not a corner, but it lasts say: Those last few are the hardest. So
it to Louie, who accepted it, munched, nel AN my bran new litter. Gramma an furever. So far.” I’m on an Holistic diet: mostly ground
then approached for the Wag-and-Sniff. Grampa were VERY suh-PRIZED (an beef an veg-tubbles. I also enjoy non-fat
also impressed with Mom’s duh-ter-mu- “Whaddy do for exercise? Any pooch Greek yoghurt.”
“Good morning, Bonz! May I call you NAY-shun an engine-NEW-itty), so they pals?” I was going to ask him what flavor he
Bonz? Call me Louie. Happy to help. This all drove to my kennel to meet us in the preferred when I noticed he had dropped
is my Gramma, Barb. Grampa Tom’s fur. I kept comin’ up to ’em for pats an “Well, I’m 12, gettin’ up there, so I get off to sleep.
around somewhere. My Mom Caitlin’s snuggles, an we liked one another right at least five short neighborhood walks Heading home, I was thinkin’ about
in college. I do come on strong, I know. away. An that was that. Mom named me every day. An, if I get tired, I ride in my the sturdy liddle piebald dachshund
Tho small of STAH- chur, I am very pro- Louie cuz she said I just look like a Lou- tricycle buggy. Wanna see?” with his cool ride; his pig ear binky; an
tective of my famly. Nothing personal. ie.” his dedication to his loving family. An I
PLUS, as you likely noticed, all the hu- His gramma disappeared, return- hadda agree with his Mom, he DOES just
mans outside tidying the grounds with “So how was it when you got to your ing with this Extremely Crispy Biscuits look like a Louie.
those loud muh-SHEENS are gettin’ on Furever home?”
my last nerve. Let’s go sit down. I under- The Bonz
stand you wanna know where I’m from, “I met my uncles, who were 17, an
how I found my furever famly, that sorta somma their pals, who all thought I was Don’t Be Shy
thing?” Totally Adorable, of course. Bailey an
Cinnamon, were less than enthusiastic. We are always looking for pets
“Exactly!” I opened my notebook. They sniffed me an were like, ‘Who in with interesting stories.
“Great! Here goes. First off: I know I Lassie’s name is THIS liddle muggins?’ I
don’t look like a normal dachshund. But was completely pooped so I just flopped To set up an interview, email
I AM a purebred, just a more unusual over into their (empty) food bowl, curled [email protected].
color call PIE-bald.” up an fell asleep. From then on, we were
“Well, you’re very striking and han- totally inseparable. They were the Best!
some!” (When I got all grown up, I became, an



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The marker for the 2021 water line INSIGHT COVER STORY
at Hemenway Harbor at Lake Mead
on June 14.

Truck owned by Flint Campbell, 36, is stuck in the mud at Lake Mead on June 15.

Faith Lippincott, 45, and her 10-year-old daughter, Addy, at a
previously submerged boat on Lake Mead on June 14.

LASVEGAS – They appeared to be just barrel last month – suspected of be- electricity to 350,000 homes as well as couraged a full-fledged treasure hunt.
a couple of special-education teachers, ing a decades-old mob execution – are irrigation and drinking water to some It is illegal to scan the shores with metal
freed up by Flag Day, out for a morning not the only artifacts and oddities that 25 million people across the Southwest. detectors or fish for submerged wreck-
of bass fishing on Lake Mead. have turned up in the mud. age with large magnets – although au-
Rosen and Blanchard were not look- thorities catch people doing both from
Matt Blanchard and Shawn Rosen There have also been handguns, ing for bodies in their barrels. The time to time.
had settled into their 18-foot motor- baby strollers, tackle boxes, vintage Las Vegas Boat Harbor is what Rosen
boat, put beers on ice and waited their Coors cans, Prada sunglasses, exploded – a 31-year-old Army National Guard “This is history being made right now,”
turn at the last functioning boat launch ordnance, real human jaw bones, fake member in addition to his teaching said Dean Weigel, a.k.a. “Dean of Ma-
on this rapidly disappearing body of human skeletons, ancient arrowheads, duties – calls a “PNN,” or private news chines” on his YouTube channel about
water. It wasn’t until the old Bayliner concrete mooring blocks, dozens of network. car repair, who had driven nearly two
was chugging away that Rosen men- sunken boats and untold amounts of hours from his job at the Nevada Na-
tioned an ulterior motive for their mid- scattered trash. “Everybody just talks s---,” he said. tional Security Site to examine formerly
June excursion. That’s where he heard the legend about sunken boats now displayed like post-
The declining water levels have be- Bugsy Siegel, a mobster who helped apocalyptic figurines in a desert sculp-
“We’re hoping today’s trip, besides come a source of morbid fascination for develop the Vegas strip, and how he ture garden.
finding fish, we come across some bar- visitors and longtime residents alike. In supposedly stored his ill-gotten gains
rels,” Rosen said. “Everybody’s trying to a place where party barges and speed- in barrels tossed to the bottom of Lake “I just can’t believe it,” he said, mar-
find the barrels.” boats once frolicked, Americans now Mead. veling at a speedboat standing bolt up-
wander the heat-ravaged West search- right in a desiccated basin. “We’re sup-
As the nation’s largest reservoir has ing for wreckage. “We’re expecting jewelry,” Rosen said. posed to be, what, 50-foot underwater
plummeted to about a quarter of its “Where there’s bodies, there’s treasure.” right here?”
former size, barrels have taken on a Online groups have sprung up dedi-
grisly new significance. But the human cated to documenting the dramatic The fact that Lake Mead sits on fed- There are many ways to measure the
remains discovered in a rusted-out disappearance of a lake that supplies eral ground, within the first national decline of Lake Mead – a body of water
recreation area, has somewhat dis-

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People at the beach at Lake Mead INSIGHT COVER STORY
in Boulder City, Nevada, in June.
Lines of past water levels, known
as “bathtub rings,” at Lake Mead.

Special-education teachers
Shawn Rosen, 31, left, and
Matthew Blanchard, 31, at
Lake Mead in Boulder City.

Miguel Arroyo, 56, works to put
in a water line extension at Lake
Mead on June 14.

Hemenway Harbor at
Lake Mead on June 14

in Boulder City.

created in the 1930s when the Hoover A view of Boulder Harbor at Lake Mead on June 15. nearly impossible for the agency, and
Dam harnessed the Colorado River – for the remaining marinas, to main-
and all of them are grim. The “bathtub last 20 years. In the last year, it’s pour- ago, some 1,200 boats would hit the tain their facilities.
ring,” the bleached-out portion of the ing out.” lake from 10 ramps each day; now 50
Mojave Desert hillside that is a con- to 60 boats launch from one ramp on On a recent day, Miguel Arroyo, 56,
stant reminder of what the lake once The creation of Lake Mead spawned a good day, according to the Park Ser- was digging a trench of about 400 feet
was, now reaches about 180 feet high. boating and recreational playground vice. And the water’s retreat makes it in the freshly exposed shoreline mud
that’s now a shell of itself. Two decades to extend the utility pipes to the Las
Alongside the Hemenway Harbor Vegas Boat Harbor. It’s a job he has be-
Launch Ramp, the National Park Service come familiar with. “Whenever they
has put up signs that indicate where the need to do this, we come,” he said.
water stood at various years. It takes just
24 paces to walk downhill between the All up and down the sloping shoreline
sign for the 2018 water level and the sign at Boulder Beach are parallel berms of
for 2021. But to get to where the water dirt. These are where the Park Service
stands now – just a year later – takes 250 has built parking areas that they’ve had
more steps. to repeatedly move closer to the ever-
retreating water, along with the rows of
“It is dumping. It is plummeting,” portable toilets and dumpsters. Just this
said a local official who works at the year, the lake has lost about 20 vertical
lake and spoke on the condition of an- feet. One vertical foot can translate into
onymity because they were not autho- about 20 feet of lost shoreline, depend-
rized to speak publicly. “It’s not slowly ing on the slope of the beach.
going out like the drought was for the
CONTINUED ON PAGE 26

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The Hoover Dam from the water at Lake Mead on June 14.

Boulder Harbor at Lake Mead on June 15.

A view of Lake Mead on June 15 in Boulder City.

“In some areas, that’s 400 additional these giant cylinders rise like mono- Federal officials are increasingly wor- riculture in farming regions in Califor-
feet of shoreline,” said Justin Pattison, liths out of the water. ried about the ability of Mead and Pow- nia and Arizona, which produce about
deputy superintendent of the Lake ell to continue to provide hydropower a quarter of the country’s fruits and
Mead National Recreation Area, on a “It’s sobering,” said Aaron, who is re- in the future. vegetables.
recent tour of area. “We can’t keep up tiring this month as a spokeswoman at
with construction.” the dam. “We hit a new low every day.” “The Colorado River Basin faces It also means more unusual discov-
greater risks than any other time in our eries will probably emerge from the
“It’s dropping so much faster than The Southwest is now in its 23rd modern history,” Tanya Trujillo, the In- Lake Mead mud.
anybody expected,” he said. year of drought, a drying out wors- terior Department’s assistant secretary
ened by humans burning fossil fuels. for water and science, said during a The dozens of dead carp, and the
The official lake level measurements These regional climate change im- speech in June. vultures circling over them, were what
are kept by the Bureau of Reclamation, pacts – warmer, drier, less snowpack stunned Mark and Luanne Realy when
the federal agency that operates the in the mountains – are expected to Her remarks echoed concerns by they showed up in early May at their
Hoover Dam. As of Monday, the sur- persist, even as thirsty populations Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner former boat launch at Boulder Harbor.
face of Lake Mead stood at 1043.45 feet continue to grow. This year, officials Camille Calimlim Touton, who told a
above sea level, or 28 percent capacity, held more water upstream to protect Senate hearing that authorities need to The lake had been the scene of
a record low. Every two weeks, a dam power generation at Lake Powell, an- make major cuts in water distribution pleasant memories since the couple
employee enters one of the four con- other Colorado River reservoir, fur- from Mead and Powell next year, on moved to the area in 2006, from boat
crete intake towers and lowers a plumb ther depleted Lake Mead. the order of 2 million to 4 million acre- trips to hikes to photographing light-
line down to the water level to take an feet of water. The states of California, ning storms and bald eagles. Now it
exact measurement. The dropping water level has already Arizona and Nevada used a combined felt like an environmental horror show.
cut the Hoover Dam’s power genera- total of about 7 million acre-feet from
When Patti Aaron moved to the Las tion by about 13 percent, as a smaller the Colorado River last year. “Had they made a movie and put it
Vegas area in 1999, those intake tow- lake means less pressure on the tur- on the sci-fi channel, you wouldn’t of
ers were almost fully submerged. Now bines and less efficient generation. That could mean less water for ag- believed it,” said Mark Realy, a telecom
technician. “But we’re living it.”

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After the visit, Luanne Realy, a job SNORR, which stands for Southern Ne- people out searching for barrels, as well who responded, quickly surveyed the
coach, created a Facebook group called vada Off-Road Recovery, and they have as tow trucks responding to service calls scene.
Lake Mead Drying Up and began post- already saved more than 500 people who themselves got stuck. On Wednes-
ing pictures and news stories about the this year. day evening, SNORR got a call about a “A tow-strap and a tug backwards
problem. On May 5, after two sets of white Dodge Ram stuck at Government and it will be out in a second,” he said.
human remains had been found in the Ean Quiel, the nonprofit group’s di- Wash, a cove on the lake popular with
mud, she wrote: “It might not be safe rector, described a typical scenario: “ campers and off-roaders. Within about 20 minutes, after pull-
to go to Lake Mead.” ‘Hey, I got a Jeep. I’m cool. I’m going to ing the Ram out with a winch, the fam-
go out on the beach and launch my Jet It turned out to be a couple from ily was off to search for a campsite.
The first body, found May 1, was Ski’ – until all of a sudden, you sink into Mexico and their three children visit-
stuffed in a barrel, lying in the newly the mud.” ing the area for the first time. They were Sky figured it might not be the last
exposed mud next to the Hemenway on their way for an evening swim when time he sees them. With Lake Mead
boat launch. The container had had “It’s not like normal mud you’re used their tires spun out. now a giant mud puddle, he’d rescued
corroded enough that a visitor could to,” he said. “It’s a lake bed silt that’s some people so often he knew them
look inside, according to the Park Ser- been underwater for the last 30 years. “We tried to go that way, and we saw by name.
vice. Police estimated the victim had It’s a real nasty thing.” this sand. Oh, my God,” said Eusevio
been shot in the mid-1970s or early Valles, 38, the father. “Just try to stay on the actual path –
1980s, based on the person’s Kmart The volunteers – a group of some where it’s hard-packed,” he told Valles
shoes. The FBI is now involved, and a 60 off-road enthusiasts – have rescued Brandon Sky, one of the volunteers as he drove off. “But yeah, you can go
group of local philanthropists have do- down that way.” 
nated $5,000 to pay for DNA testing.

“It has the signature of a mob hit,”
said Geoff Schumacher, vice presi-
dent of the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.
“Shot in the head. Execution-style, ap-
parently. Probably close-range.”

The discovery has sent Schumacher
on a deep dive through Las Vegas mob
history. The most prominent gang-
sters in Las Vegas at that time came
from the Chicago mafia, and they were
known for skimming off casino prof-
its to fund operations in other cities.
Schumacher recently wrote a column
for the Daily Mail naming three mafia-
connected people who went missing
around that time, including his prime
candidate: a casino host who ran a re-
sort on Lake Mead and put his boat up
for sale just before he disappeared in
1976.

“Whoever killed that person in the
barrel and then dumped them cer-
tainly could not have been an expert
on climate change,” Schumacher said.
“Maybe as the lake continues to recede,
some more secrets will be revealed.”

The other skeletal remains were hap-
pened upon by paddleboarding sisters,
who pulled a human jaw out of the
sand.

Authorities expect those bones be-
long to someone who drowned in the
lake, as many have over the years, in-
cluding a man over Father’s Day week-
end this month.

Park Service staff are now fielding
calls when people find animal bones on
the beach, fearing more human bodies.
Beachcombers have also discovered
skeletons that turned out to be plastic,
placed underwater long ago by scuba
instructors to entertain their clients.

These days, the shorelines pose the
most frequent risks to Lake Mead visi-
tors. The water has fallen so fast that
what looks like solid ground is often
just a thin veneer of sunbaked dirt cov-
ering a morass of tire-sucking mud.

So many cars and trucks have gotten
stuck trying to approach the lake that
a network of volunteers has sprung
up to save them. The group calls itself

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The world’s biggest car company, Toyota Motor campaigns that aren’t formally recognized by the and difficult to contain than those for traditional
Corp., reluctantly released an electric vehicle in authority. autos because of a process called thermal runaway,
May. Weeks later, it recalled 2,700 of them because where the flames accelerate through chain reac-
there was a risk their wheels – the most fundamen- Most recalls in traditional cars are now about tions.
tal component – would fall off. defects or issues with the electronics and software,
or components like lights and wiring. That isn’t to General Motors Co. recalled all of the 142,000 of
If that’s the level of quality and safety traditional say engine fires don’t happen – they do. This year, its electric Bolts sold because the risk of the battery
auto giants are willing to commit to, then investors Ford Motor Co. recalled thousands of its models – the core of the car – catching fire. LG Energy So-
and regulators should increase their scrutiny. because the vehicles could catch fire while parked lutions, with a market capitalization of $75 billion,
and turned off. The American car company told made the fire-prone battery – the most expensive
Getting it right on battery technology and elec- drivers to park their car outside while they worked for green vehicles.
tric motors is one thing, but bolting the wheels on on a solution. Hyundai Motor Co. announced a
properly? It shouldn’t even be a question. manufacturing defect that would lead to fires a few The issue is, these aren’t just any recalls: These
years ago. are serious and, most worryingly, basic problems –
Billions of dollars have been invested, huge an engine combusting, a tire rolling off. Manufac-
promises have been made and every major car That’s just for internal combustion engine, or turers say they are remedying the issue, but then
manufacturer in the world has committed to go ICE, vehicles that have been in production for de- what?
electric and clean. What’s more, cars are selling at cades. EVs, on the other hand, are a new breed –
record high prices. many models are still concepts and barely mass- These aren’t rag-tag up-starts trying to displace
produced. That means as more are made, more the incumbents – it’s publicly listed, corporate be-
Toyota’s statement was alarming. “After low- problems are bound to crop up. In the past two hemoths like LG, GM, Toyota, and their peers.
mileage use, all of the hub bolts on the wheel can years alone, there have been thousands of recalls,
loosen to the point where the wheel can detach costing billions of dollars. Even though there aren’t many of these vehicles
from the vehicle. If a wheel detaches from the vehi- being produced right now, and there have, so far,
cle while driving, it could result in a loss of vehicle What’s more, fires in electric cars are far worse been limited injuries, the fact that these cars could
control, increasing the risk of a crash,” the com- actually be on the road – and trusted because they
pany said as it recalled its first electric car release. are made by a large, well-established company –
should raise alarm.
Long a leader in hybrid or gasoline-electric tech-
nology, the Japanese firm has been dragging its feet Lawmakers, investors and firms are all pushing
on EVs as competitors like Volkswagen AG have for electric vehicles. But we seem to have lost sight
raced ahead. Toyota president Akio Toyoda has in of safety. In the rush to go green and check off ESG
the past commented on the excessive hype around criteria, responsibility is being shifted.
green cars and pointed out the downsides.
Truth is, manufacturers will have to take greater
Meanwhile, Subaru Corp., in which Toyota holds care if investors withdraw their backing or signifi-
a 20.02 percent stake, also recalled the Solterra, a cant shareholders start asking tough questions.
related electric vehicle model jointly developed Regulators need to play their part, too, by setting
that shares parts with the latter’s bZ4x. higher standards and tests before each model is re-
leased.
Recalls are par for the course in the auto indus-
try – every year, millions of vehicles are affected. Only then will automakers put consumers’ safety at
Last year, more than 21 million were accounted for top of their list – not the next self-driven vehicle. 
in recalls mandated by the US National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, according to third- A version of this article by Anjani Trivedi first ap-
party data provider Recall Master. In addition, sev- peared on Bloomberg. It does not necessarily reflect
eral million more are part of so-called voluntary the views of Vero Beach 32963.

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Summer, 1940. A deep peans it became one of itself under Charles de Gaulle, the leader of Free
sense of despair descended survival. France. Indeed, his agents provided vital intelli-
over Europe as country after gence – for example, where air power might be de-
country fell to Nazi Germany’s At least in the early ployed most effectively – but “these activities were
rapacious conquest. Wher- phases of the war, re- only valuable when the Allies were nearby,” Kochan-
ever they went, the occupiers sistance in Western ski writes. Industrial sabotage and the dismantling
imposed painful markers of Europe was less risky. of railway lines were making the Germans aware of
their presence. Public build- As a result, small- their vulnerability, but Kochanski shows that they
ings were draped in blood-red scale forms, such as were “more of a nuisance than a war-changing ac-
banners bearing the swastika. the use of symbols, tivity.”
Orders were barked at civilians. were widespread.
German street signs appeared. “Resistance” also challenges our images of friend
“Foreign occupation changes Many Dutch people and foe in World War II. “Who is the enemy?” is a
every detail of one’s whole life,” wore orange blos- pertinent question, given that the compliance of in-
a Czech soldier wrote. “You are soms to support the ternal collaborators was often as much of a problem
no longer master of your own House of Orange; to the resistance as the Germans themselves.
country, no longer at home in some Norwegians
your own home.” wore paper clips on For Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Czecho-
slovakia, countries that had gained independence
But what could be done to defy their lapels in al- after World War I, there was another dimension to
such overwhelming force? The legiance with King the struggle: Their fight was for autonomy – against
German onslaught had overrun Haakon; French re- whoever compromised it. After 1943, when the war
the professional armies of Poland sisters carried the began to turn, this conundrum raised the question:
and France in a matter of months. Cross of Lorraine “Was the greater enemy the retreating Germans or
Resistance from ordinary people as key fobs. Such the advancing Soviets?”
seemed futile, even suicidal. Most visual defiance
Europeans did not dare fight their may seem ineffec- This dilemma had serious repercussions for post-
occupiers; they tried to learn to war views of what resistance had achieved. In the
live with them: “If we cannot sing with the angels tive, but it helped West, where the defeat of Nazism restored inde-
we shall howl with the wolves,” as a Czech journalist maintain tension pendence, democracy and a chance to rebuild na-
put it. between the occupiers and the occu- tional dignity, the resistance was associated with
pied and rarely ended in prison sentences, never liberation. But in the East, where Soviet occupation
But even at this moment in history, when Nazi mind executions. replaced the German one, things were very differ-
victory seemed certain and permanent, some men Meanwhile in Eastern Europe, partisan action be- ent. As one devastated resistance fighter put it, “As
and women found it in themselves to fight back. gan well before the German invasion of the Soviet the smoke cleared from the battlefield it began to
The intriguing question of why they did so – “Why Union in 1941, and it drew a devastating backlash emerge that we had suffered a huge national de-
resist?” – runs like a red thread through Halik Ko- not just for those involved but for passive civilians feat.”
chanski’s comprehensive new book, “Resistance: too. In Poland, Maj. Henryk Dobrzanski, known as
The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945.” Hubal, refused to surrender after the Polish defeat in A nuanced and dispassionate study, “Resistance”
1939 and gathered a volunteer force that destroyed nonetheless pays tribute to those who “were deter-
In her unflinching and sober account of the re- an entire German battalion in March 1940. But Nazi mined to thwart the designs of the Germans, to ha-
sponse of ordinary people under occupation, Ko- retaliation was swift and brutal. Anti-partisan units rass them, to deny them the opportunity to ever as-
chanski shows that there is no straightforward an- killed more than 1,200 people, including civilians sert total control over the peoples of Europe.” Ideas
swer to the question of why some Europeans chose whose villages were targeted whether they had sup- of independence and dignity were at the heart of the
to resist the Nazis while most did not. Broadly, she ported Hubal or not. struggle – worth fighting and even dying for. Dutch
argues, the responses depended on the type of While the efforts of resisters everywhere in Eu- resister Erik Hazelhoff spoke for many when he said:
occupation imposed: “What Hitler wanted from rope were admirable in bravery and spirit, decades “In the life of every person there are moments when
France was for the French to remain silent while of postwar mythmaking have also obscured many he says to himself: ‘Tja, this won’t do.’ And then he
he prepared for war against Britain, and to permit uncomfortable historical realities. Kochanski takes does something.” 
the economic plundering of the country.” In Poland an uncompromising new look at many of these
meanwhile, the population was regarded as Unter- dearly held ideas without taking away from their RESISTANCE
menschen – subhumans to be exploited and then importance “to the concept of the nation state in
exterminated. To Western Europeans, “Why resist?” the post-war years.” THE UNDERGROUND WAR AGAINST HITLER, 1939-1945
was a question of principle, while to Eastern Euro- In order to rebuild, postwar France, for instance,
needed to believe that it had practically liberated BY HALIK KOCHANSKI | LIVERIGHT. 936 PP. $45
REVIEW BY KATJA HOYER, THE WASHINGTON POST

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THIS EXTRACTION IS WITHOUT NOVOCAIN WEST NORTH EAST
A75 K J 10 6 4 93
By Phillip Alder - Bridge Columnist KQ75 984 10 3
10 9 8 3 Q KJ7542
Ambrose Bierce defined a dentist as a prestidigitator who, putting metal in one’s mouth, 43 QJ76 K 10 5
pulls coins out of one’s pockets.
SOUTH
Now, I guess that would be bills, not coins. Q82
AJ62
In this week’s deal, South reached four spades. West led the heart king: four, 10, ace. A6
How should South have proceeded? A982

In the bidding, North transferred to spades, then showed his second suit. Since five Dealer: South; Vulnerable: North-South
clubs did not rate to be best, and with that singleton diamond queen, I would have rebid
three no-trump, which South would have corrected to four spades. (Yes, three no-trump The Bidding:
is slightly aggressive, but two no-trump would be even more cautious.)
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
At trick two, South led a low trump. West rushed in with his ace, cashed the heart 1 NT Pass 2 Hearts Pass
queen and gave his partner a heart ruff. East exited with the diamond king and waited 2 Spades Pass 3 Clubs Pass LEAD:
for a club trick to materialize to defeat the contract. 4 Spades Pass Pass Pass K Hearts

Before touching trumps, South should have cashed his diamond ace and ruffed the
diamond six on the board. Then, when West won with his spade ace and gave his
partner the heart ruff, East would have been endplayed.

If East led a diamond, South would have ruffed in his hand and sluffed a club from the
board. Then he would have drawn trumps, taken a successful club finesse, played a
club to his ace and discarded dummy’s last club on the heart jack. Or, if East shifted to a
club, declarer would have won as cheaply as possible and had no club loser.

That extraction of East’s safe diamond-king exit card is called a dentist’s coup.





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15 Floor of a building (6) 10 Muslim ascetic (7)
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18 Hesitate (6) 13 Appetising (9)
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ACROSS 106 Took Trigger 56 “Daniel” singer The Washington Post
1 Backbone cushion 107 With 117 Across, dancer 59 America’s godfather of
5 Size up THE LAST NAME GAME By Merl Reagle
11 Order to Frankenstein who can’t help disrupting safety
15 With 37 Down, a singer sermons? 60 Ex of Frank and André
19 Home of Flaming Gorge 110 Mrs. McKinley 61 Violinist Mischa
20 With 24 Across, loser of the 111 Tense beginning? 62 Presentation aid
113 Sorts chickens, e.g. 64 Enjoys a hammock
first really serious pie fight? 117 See 107 Across 67 Kovacs et al.
21 City near Carson City 121 Nana author 68 Precisely right
22 Yucky stuff 122 Wally of cookies 69 Sans corrections
23 Actress Rooney or Kate 123 Dodge model 70 “You ___ ..... a chicken!”
24 See 20 Across 124 Singer who gardens? 71 Olivier’s title
27 Christian’s captain 125 Bothers 72 Soccer ___
29 Ex-fighter? 126 Five-year-old’s recitation 73 Slave who told tales
30 “May ___ on?” 127 “Interesting!” 76 Revolutionary hero
31 Actor who plays slippery 128 Howard and Isaac 77 Driving-speed abbr., in
129 Caustic cleaners
characters? Britain
32 White House bloomer DOWN 78 Vow to pony up
34 Scull need 1 Speechless 79 Topic: abbr.
35 Oklahoma city 2 Bold alternative, perhaps: 80 The pituitary, for one
36 Singer who can’t keep a 81 Green plum
abbr. 83 Fleece-seeking vessel
secret? 3 Gift for a Madras Mrs. 84 Docking place
43 Derby prize 4 Mortification 85 Money for personal
47 Delicately pretty 5 Philanthropist ___ Khan IV
48 “___ I say!” 6 Waitperson projects, in D.C.
49 Our team, to their fans 7 A bit 91 Disapproving words
52 Bridge sur la Seine 8 While opening 93 Viscera
53 Business abbr. 9 Friday, for one: abbr. 94 Toon dog, Scooby ___
54 Self-satisfied 10 Continuing crises? 95 Pimlico posting
55 Discipline with a kick 11 “Answer yes ___” 96 Young Zappa
57 “Me ___!” 12 Implore 98 Extinct birds
58 SAT taker 13 Ink, in Paris 100 Press secretary,
60 Actress who puts up her 14 “Whose side
for one
own posters? are ___?” 101 Where Coos Bay is
63 Lon Nol or U Nu, for 15 Misbehaved 103 Greeting to a spouse
16 Highland hillside 104 Slug evidence
example 17 Singer Ives 107 Movie-rating org.
65 Grant counterpart 18 Swirling effect 108 Metrical foot
66 Very efficient, as a ship 25 Mean man 109 Burgermeister Ray
67 Actor who never gives 26 Small piece 110 “What’s ___ for me?”
28 Parasite’s need 111 Corn bread
100 per cent? 33 Infiltrator 112 German industrial area
73 Field of knowledge 34 Tulsa-area Indians 114 Chromosome choice
74 Mellencamp’s “R.O.C.K. in 36 Change your story 115 Actress Sommer
37 See 15 Across 116 Bratty talk
the ___” 38 Failing 118 ___ tight budget
75 TV innovator Arledge 39 Halley of comet fame 119 Fold-up sleeper
76 Statesman with mono? 40 Bad-tempered 120 “___ on another
82 Reindeer raiser 41 Humbles
86 “Try ___ might ...” 42 Actor Russell line ...”
87 Coffee urn features 44 Low-grade hooch
88 Touch down 45 Pig nose
89 Tropic of Capricorn city 46 Harrow’s main cricket rival
90 Leopold’s accomplice 50 Lamb’s lament
92 Centers 51 “The racer’s edge” fuel
93 Shakespearean bad guy
94 Koufax was one additive
97 Derby site, ___ Downs 54 German industrial area
99 Actress who likes to build 55 It may be “bended”

her own sets?
102 ___ and ahs
105 Nonaffiliated one: abbr.

The Telegraph

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Mom wants to help plan wedding, but her ideas get ignored

BY CAROLYN HAX wedding is shaping up in their minds, not yours,
Washington Post and see whether you have something to add that
(you believe) makes the most of their vision. Or,
Hi, Carolyn: My only son plans simpler, just say: “Put me to work! Doesn’t have to
be planning. I’ll do errands and busy work, too.”
to be married next summer. I like Perhaps this was their idea of “involved” all along.

his fiancee. They both say they But, you know what? You can read everything I
just wrote and say, “Nah.” Because asking me what
want me to be involved in wedding I think isn’t the same as promising you’ll take my
advice – and I’m still “involved,” peck-pecking
planning, and I am contributing away at my ideas, just less usefully than I may have
hoped.
financially both to the wedding
The second thing is excluding his sister. That he
and to a down payment on a house. tuned out your plea for a different date is of much
greater consequence than rejecting your advice on
The problem? Any suggestion I have made has been flowers or whatever else. I’m sorry.

shot down or ignored. The one thing I begged for – I’m also balking, though, at your insistence they
have “no good reason” for the date they ultimately
that they have the wedding on a date when his only chose. Their not giving you one is different from
their not having one. Only they have the full story,
sister, who is a resident physician out of state, could which includes the right not to share it.

attend – they said did not work, even though the wed- Therefore, the attitude that gives you the best
chance to come out of this still liking your son’s
ding will be in their town, and there is no good reason bride and not alienating them both is to trust them
to have excellent reasons for their choice, sad as its
for them to be fixated on the date they chose. consequences may be.

Is my only option to smile and be quiet? I am afraid So here we are, as promised, at the smile-and-
be-quiet buffet: This is their wedding, and you are
that, if I say anything, I will cry and possibly alienate here to love and celebrate them. Period. As long
as you don’t drift from these core truths, whatever
them both. you choose will be fine. 

– Odd Woman Out ing your ideas – because that can be true even as
they shoot them all down. Using your money.
Odd Woman Out: These are two different issues,
which I am going to address separately – and I urge Inviting someone to help with planning doesn’t
you to do the same. Until I get to the end and bring guarantee liking their ideas. It’s not necessarily per-
them both all the way back around to the only rea- sonal, even. It can just be a different vision of the
sonable option: to smile and be quiet. But I’m hop- event.
ing it won’t sound so bad by then.
You wouldn’t want them to adopt suggestions
First, there’s the “be involved in wedding plan- they don’t like just to humor you, certainly.
ning” thing. I think it is safe, and happier for all, for
you to assume that they were sincere in encourag- If it’s really important for you to feel useful or in-
cluded, then my advice is to pay careful attention
to the choices they are making, imagine how the

Adam Conard

Making a surreal impression
on the Vero Beach arts scene

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Adam Conard: Making surreal impression on arts scene

BY DEBBIE TIMMERMANN | CORRESPONDENT

Adam Conard’s first foray into paint- Adam Conard.
ing, at age 12, barely raised his father’s
eyebrows, despite that his painting PHOTOS BY JOSHUA KODIS
wasn’t on paper, or even on canvas.
Conard had decided to paint the inside ‘i wanted to be
walls of their house in Jackson Hole, Wy- different. my quest
oming, and had finished by the time his is to rebel against
father came home at the end of the day. the status quo...’

His father, whose child rearing phi- - adam conard
losophy was to give his children a lot
of freedom, simply responded with,
“Hmmm, what does this mean?”

Nicknamed “Zoto” by his dad, the
name means freedom to Conard, who
signs his paintings with Zoto and
named his website ZOTOArt.com.

His father’s patience was again
tested with Conard’s second painting,
which involved ripping up his bed-
room carpet to paint a large mural on
the floor, which he periodically added
to over the years.

At age 16, Conard says his uncle, Mi-
chael Ciasullo, a well-known Austin,
Texas, artist passed away “somewhat
abruptly.” Having been aware of Co-
nard’s habit of frequently sketching,
Ciasullo left him a box filled with his
paint brushes and a note: “Adam, Keep
painting. Michael.”

The gift coincided with a basket-
ball accident that resulted in a broken
back. His upper body was encased in
an immobile cast for 18 months, and
doctors said he’d never be able to play
basketball again.

To release pent-up energy, he began
painting with the brushes, although
with limited movement it took six
months to finish his first painting. He
eventually deified the odds through
physical therapy and was able to play
basketball again, but his affinity for
art continued.

As luck would have it, his high
school art teacher, Floyd Thompson,

was also a renowned artist. move here permanently from Colora-
“I still talk with him frequently and do, where they had been living.

he continues to inspire me. He was a “If we were going to be shut down, it
passionate and amazing art teacher might as well be in some place warm.
who put his students first. We never It was a blessing. I had time to paint,
knew [while in school] that he was a and time for my family. I could never
well-known artist.” go back to working in an office again,”
Conard explains.
Conard and his family arrived in
Vero Beach during the first winter of Additionally, he says he appreciates
COVID and that spring made plans to life and the time we have on earth to

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listening to records from the 1940’s and
1950’s while painting in his studio.

“The old blues records; each song tells
a story of the time period. The resilience
of the people is so inspiring,” he explains.

Conard believes he has found what
he calls true wealth and inspiration in
Vero Beach, noting: “True wealth is not
in money, but in values; time with fam-
ily and respect for other people.”

Active in the Vero Beach Art Club,
Conard will co-chair the 2023 VBAC
Under the Oaks Fine Arts and Crafts
Show, and recently became the admin-
istrator of the Cultural Council’s Art in
Public Places project. 

celebrate it, adding, “I’ve lost a higher The paintings’ titles are also impor-
number of people than anyone I know.” tant to Conard, such as with “Whole
Again,” which he says represents a
Conard is often inspired by their message of hope and new life.
8-year-old daughter – to be joyful and
to do things he wouldn’t otherwise do In that one, a bird’s nest is depicted
as an adult. Just like his own father, Co- to the left. Mid painting, the nest is bro-
nard wasn’t fazed when she painted the ken apart, but a new nest, stronger and
walls of his current studio, saying, “It is better than the old one, with a beauti-
wonderful to let the artistic desire flow.” ful egg in it, lies on the right.

Indeed, she creates a few pieces of art While Conard’s older works had a
each day, starting on her own with no drip effect, or were photo realistic, his
coaxing from her parents. newer ones are more impressionistic.
The background composition is not too
“It brings whimsy in my art. I re- detailed, whereas the subject matter
ally want that sense of emotion in my pops out in realism.
paintings, that sense of life and being
alive. It’s so precious. To capture this “The dichotomy of spontaneous
life, it’s like a race to do as many paint- background and detailed subject is my
ings as I can while I’m here.” go-to style,” he says, adding that his ar-
tistic styles evolved innately.
Conard paints one or two paintings
each week, working five to six hours at a Although he was a student of classi-
stretch, often well into the night. cal artists, who painstakingly detailed
their work, he describes his own style
“I have a frequent and vivid dream as classic surrealist.
life,” he says. “I always look for some
deeper symbolism [in dreams], and “Surrealism isn’t a popular style, but
the images and symbolism often make it’s the only way I can capture the real-
their way onto a canvas.” ness,” he says.

His painting “Sea Shell Sonata” re- “My early paintings could be mistak-
sulted after dreaming of a conductor en for photographs, but I was looking
directing shells, which make music as for more freedom. I blended them to
water rushes over them and retreats. capture in a surreal way, but not so sur-
Remarkably, the painting delivers that real that you can’t believe it, a whole-
sense of music. some, real earth.”

His painting [out of darkness] “Into He also continues to be painstaking-
the Light” is from a continuing dream ly dedicated to detail, wanting propor-
where he floats a few feet off the ground tions to be believable.
to observe, then back to earth and up
again. The painting pictures birds, a “I often paint a real sky, one that I
red balloon, and a boat that is floating took a picture of. [The images] are all
on clouds. real-life things, portrayed in a surreal
way. Without the refinement, the view-
“The bird symbolizes anybody er might not focus and get my mes-
trapped in darkness. The balloon sage,” says Conard.
bursts, and the bird flies off to freedom,
finding more gratitude, positivity and “I wanted to be different. My quest
light,” he explains. is to rebel against the status quo, and I
think my art shows that as well.”
In a black and white drawing, a man
holds an open umbrella over his head, His favorite paints are the highly pig-
but it is only raining under the umbrella mented, hand-made oils made by Wil-
and onto the man. “He’s creating his liamsburg Oils.
own storm.”
In fact, his immense appreciation
Although Conard tries to paint just for their product resulted in his being
one piece at a time, his brain is fre- named a key influencer in the com-
quently moving on to the next one. pany’s artist program. No money is ex-
changed, but he judges new colors, and
“I get excited to the point that I can’t receives free paint.
sleep. I have to force myself to finish a
painting before I move on.” A collector of vintage clothes, cars,
hats and instruments, Conard enjoys

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THEATRE GUILD KICKS IT UP
A NOTCH WITH ‘FOOTLOOSE’

BY PAM HARBAUGH 3 Plan now for the space-limited
Correspondent gallery talk “Celebrating the Ev-

eryday with Doris Lee,” scheduled for

noon Wednesday, July 20 at the Vero

1 One of the most popular stage Beach Museum of Art. The gallery
musicals based on a movie is
talk is held by the VBMA education

opening at the Vero Beach Theatre staff and docents. They are scheduled

Guild. It’s “Footloose the Musical,” monthly and present an in-depth look

and from all the buzz at the theater, at selected artwork from current ex-

tickets are selling fast. The stage hibitions and the permanent collec-

musical came out in 1998 and was tion. They begin at the main entrance

based on the 1984 movie starring and move en masse into the galleries.

Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer and John The next one will explore artist Do-

Lithgow. The storyline follows Ren, ris Lee’s “uncomplicated concept of

who, after being abandoned by his an ideal view of life” as shown in the

father, moves with his mother from current exhibition “Simple Pleasures:

fast-paced, open-minded Chicago The Art of Doris Lee” exhibition run-

to a small farming town of Bomont. ning through Sept. 18. Admission to

Ren soon discovers that the town is the gallery talks is free with paid mu-

under the thumb of a local preach- seum admission, which is $8 general,

er, who has banned dancing in or- $7 seniors, and free to children under

der to control the town’s youth. As 17 years of age and museum members.

expected, the preacher’s daughter, You must register in advance as space

Ariel, falls for Ren. In comes Ariel’s is limited. The Vero Beach Museum of

boyfriend, Chuck, who spreads false Art is at 3001 Riverside Park Dr. Call

rumors. Of course, the town’s youth 772-231-0707 or visit VBMuseum.org.

rebel and go “footloose” with some

great Oscar- and Tony-nominated 4 Riverside Theatre’s Comedy
Zone presents headliner Earl Da-
songs by Tom Snow, Jim Steinman

and Dean Pitchford. Odds are, you’re vid Reed, feature act Jesse Blanco and

probably humming the theme right emcee Joshua Armenteros this week-

now. The show’s storyline also digs end, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday and Sat-

a little deeper about a son longing urday, July 8-9. When Reed was called

for his father who walked out and “an urban Don Rickles” by the Las

a father longing for the son he lost. Vegas Review-Journal, Rickles joked

“Footloose the Musical” performs “this guy works the room like a Las

7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and Vegas showgirl.” Reed has been seen

2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, from on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,”

July 8-31 at the Vero Beach Theatre HBO, Showtime, FOX’s “Comic Strip

Guild, 2020 San Juan Ave. Tickets are Live,” and much more. He’s current-

$20 to $40. Call 772-562-8300 or visit ly on “The People’s Morning Show”

VeroBeachTheatreGuild.com. running on 105.7 The X. Blanco has

performed along the East Coast and

2 Now, if the idea of dancing sticks has worked with both Reed and Rob
with you, consider heading to
Schneider. As the evening’s emcee,

First Presbyterian Church of Vero Beach Armenteros is a comedian who draws

when it wraps up the Vero Beach Inter- on the big Cuban family in which he

national Music Festival. There’s a main grew up. Tickets to the Comedy Zone

stage concert 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 8 fea- are $23. For its free outdoor pre-show

turing Americana, Bluegrass, Brazilian, “Live in the Loop” concerts, Riverside

Celtic, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock and more Theatre is offering something new –

from the Mike Block String Camp. The reserved table seating under covered

student concert from the Mike Block tents. While the concerts are free, you

String Camp will be held 7:30 p.m. Sat- can be guaranteed a comfortable seat-

urday, July 9. The dancing part comes ing for $5 a person (no refunds). This

on after the Saturday concert when the weekend’s lineup includes the British

festival ends with a Barn Dance with a Invasion Guys Friday, July 8 and the

live band. Performances are free, but a Melinda Elena Band on Saturday, July

$20 donation is encouraged. Those do- 9. Food and drinks available for pur-

nations benefit the scholarship fund for chase throughout the evenings. River-

the Mike Block String Camp. The First side Theatre is at 3250 Riverside Park

Presbyterian Church of Vero Beach is at Dr., Vero Beach. Call 772-231-6990 or

520 Royal Palm Blvd. Call 772-562-9088. visit RiversideTheatre.com.” 

AQUABLATION THERAPY
MAJOR ADVANCE IN
PROSTATE TREATMENT

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Aquablation therapy major advance in prostate treatment

BY KERRY FIRTH Dr. Justin Muskovich. tate, so as the prostate grows
Correspondent in a natural fashion it starts to
PHOTO: JOSHUA KODIS clog. The way we feel prostate
If you are a man over the age of enlargement is through our
50, chances are you already have or bladder. It’s like taking a gar-
will soon be developing an enlarged den hose that flows freely and
prostate. It’s simply a natural part squeezing it. You have to put
of aging. But at some point, it can more pressure on it to release
lead to an uncomfortable condition the same amount of water.
called benign prostatic hyperplasia
(BPH). “Our bladders work the same
way. When that blockage oc-
The good news is that BPH isn’t curs, our bladder muscles have
prostate cancer and doesn’t make to generate more strength and
you more likely to get it. And there the bladder will end up growing
are a lot of treatments for BPH, from thicker which will cause spas-
lifestyle changes to medication to ticity and irritation. Left un-
su rger y. treated, BPH can cause urinary
tract infections, bladder or
“An enlarged prostate is a natu- kidney damage, bladder stones
rally occurring phenomena and and incontinence.”
any male that lives long enough will
eventually have it,” Dr. Justin Mus- Obstructive symptoms of
kovich, a urologist with HCA Flori- BPH include having trouble
da Lawnwood Hospital, explained. starting to urinate or having
“It occurs in response to the tes- to stop and restart repeatedly;
tosterone production through our having to strain or push when
lifetime. you urinate; and having a weak
urine stream.
“Our urethra, the tube that car-
ries urine out of our penis, runs BPH symptoms caused by
right through the center of our pros- changes in the bladder include

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feeling an urgency to urinate; a high tion, orgasmic function and sexual gets near the muscles controlling well as a highly fine-tuned machine.”
frequency of urination; the feeling desire.” sexual functions it alters the way it Dr. Justin Muskovich received his
that even after you go, you feel as works to preserve ejaculatory func-
though your bladder is not empty; Aquablation therapy is the only tion. medical degree and completed his
and waking up often in the night to procedure that uses a cystoscope (a surgical internship and urologic
relieve yourself. camera that goes through the ure- “We are the first hospital in central residency at the University of Toledo
thra into the bladder) in combina- Florida and the first HCA facility on School of Medicine. He is trained in
“The main reason to treat BPH is tion with ultrasound imaging to either of the coasts in this country to the use of minimally invasive treat-
to protect the bladder long term,” enable the surgeon to see the en- have this machine,” Dr. Muskovich ment modalities for the treatment of
Dr. Muskovich said. “As the pros- tire prostate (from the inside of the said proudly. kidney stones, bladder stones, blad-
tate gets larger, the treatment gets prostate) during surgery. der tumors and enlarged prostates.
more involved. With that said, the “For HCA to invest so heavily in this He is affiliated with HCA Florida
overall size of the prostate doesn’t Using ultrasound to map the advanced technology is an amazing Lawnwood Hospital and HCA Flor-
necessarily correlate to how severe prostate, the robot system comes up resource for people in this area. With ida St. Lucie Hospital, and his office
the symptoms are. I’ve seen small with the treatment. It shows where aquablation therapy we have the is located in the Heart and Family
prostates with big problems and to spray the water and how much ability to accurately reproduce re- Health Institute, NW Peacock Boule-
large prostates with no problems. tissue to remove, and monitors it in sults and take human error out of the vard, Port St. Lucie. For an appoint-
The treatment, however, is based on real time. equation. As confident as I am in my ment, call 772-336-6601. 
the size.” surgical skills, I know I will not do as
It is also designed so that when it
While some lifestyle changes such
as drinking less caffeine and alco-
hol, and fewer liquids before bed-
time may ease some of the symp-
toms, there are medications and
minimally invasive options that
may be more effective.

Minimally invasive options include:
 Rezum water vapor therapy,
which injects steam into the pros-
tate gland causing death of the ex-
cess prostate tissue.
 Transurethral microwave ther-
apy, which uses microwave heat to
kill off excess prostate tissue.
 Laser treatments that vaporize
excess prostate tissue by shooting
laser energy from the inside of the
prostate.
 Transurethral resection, which
removes all but the outer part of
the prostate by cutting and shaving
pieces of the prostate with a scope.
“The problem with some of these
procedures is that the nerves that
control sexual orgasms, erectile
function and ejaculations run right
outside the prostate, so any pro-
cedure that uses heat energy has
the potential to pass that energy to
those nerves,” Dr. Muskovich con-
tinued. “Heat damages nerves and
some of these procedures have the
potential to interfere with sexual
function.”
If the prostate is too big for the
treatments listed above, a surgical
procedure called a prostatectomy
can be performed using either open
or robotically assisted surgical tech-
niques to cut out the excess prostate
tissue.
But now there is another option.
“Rather than doing open sur-
gery for very large prostates, there
is a new technique called robotic
aquablation therapy, which uses
heat-free, high-pressure jets of wa-
ter to remove prostate tissue. While
a simple prostatectomy might take
two hours under general anesthe-
sia, this procedure can get the same
results in about five minutes. Plus,
it has zero impact on erectile func-

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Medical cannabis enrollments quadrupled from 2016 to 2020

BY LINDA SEARING galized marijuana for medical use disorder (11 percent). tor’s referral and sign up on their
The Washington Post as of February. Other conditions that may quali- state’s registry. Then, for a fee, they
are given a card that allows them to
A growing number of people in State laws vary on which health fy people for participation, depend- buy medical marijuana from an ap-
the United States are enrolling in conditions qualify someone for ing on their state’s law, include proved dispensary. It may be avail-
medical marijuana programs, with participation, but the study’s re- multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, able in a variety of forms: pill, pow-
the total surpassing 2.97 million searchers found that the most com- AIDS, glaucoma, Crohn’s disease der, liquid, oil and dried leaves.
through 2020, more than quadru- mon condition cited by current and chemotherapy-induced nausea
pling the number of people en- participants is chronic pain (noted and vomiting. Medical marijuana is sometimes
rolled in 2016, according to a study by about 61 percent of enrollees), called medical cannabis, referring
published in Annals of Internal followed by post-traumatic stress To enroll in a medical marijuana to the plant, Cannabis sativa, from
Medicine. And the numbers are up program, people must get a doc- which it is derived. Potential medi-
significantly since 2020. cal benefits stem from marijuana’s
active compounds: THC (delta-9
As of April, there were 700,000 tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD
medical marijuana patients in (cannabidiol).
Florida, according to CBS affiliate
10TampaBay.com, which cited the A few marijuana-based medica-
Florida Physician Certification Pat- tions have been approved by the
tern Review report. That is more Food and Drug Administration to
than double the number prior to treat health issues of people with
the pandemic. cancer, AIDS or childhood epilepsy,
and several other drugs are under-
These programs enable partici- going clinical trials to determine
pants to buy marijuana for medical their safety and effectiveness.
use. Although marijuana is still il-
legal under the federal Controlled The study’s researchers noted,
Substances Act, the National Con- however, that roughly one-third of
ference of State Legislatures re- program participants use medical
ports that 37 states, Washington, marijuana “for conditions or symp-
D.C. and four U.S. territories had le- toms without a substantial evi-
dence basis.” 

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12 ways to overcome negative thoughts and be happier

BY FRED CICETTI away. The best way I know to label  Pray or meditate every chance tions” by John Cook. Or search the
Columnist a thought is to ask yourself if think- you get. These reduce stress and internet for “positive quotations.”
ing it makes you feel lousy. Exam- lead to joy and peace. I use this There are many websites that offer
[This is the second of two columns ples: technique whenever I’m forced to inspiration.
on negative thinking. Today’s col- wait anywhere but in traffic. Good
umn is about ways to be more posi- Life has no meaning. Most peo- use of what would be wasted time.  If you think negatively about
tive.] ple are rotten. I’m weak. I hate my- someone, recall one of their good
self/everyone. The future is awful.  Take naps. Even a 15-minute traits.
A common cold, exhaustion, What’s wrong with me? I’ll never power nap can improve your state
stress, hunger, sleep deprivation, make it. What’s the point of going of mind.  Smile though your heart is
even allergies can make you de- on? Was I ever happy? I’m letting breaking … There’s wisdom in
pressed, which leads to negative everyone down.  Walk in a pleasant, natural those lyrics. It’s harder to be sad
thoughts. setting – the woods or park. The if you smile. The principle of this
beauty, exercise and fresh air are technique works with body lan-
However, in many cases, depres- all tonics. guage, too. Walk with your head up
sion can be caused by negative and shoulders back.
thinking, itself. Our feelings follow  Recall all the happiest, most
what we are thinking and dwelling serene moments in your life. Wed-  Avoid negative people if you
upon negative thoughts can send dings, births, vacations, successes. can. They will bring you down.
us spiraling down into depression. Dwell on these moments instead
of the garbage dumped into your  Help others. The psychic in-
I’ve found many techniques for mind. come is invaluable. And you will
fending off negative thoughts and stop thinking about your own trou-
becoming a happier person. The  Remind yourself that negativity bles.
following are ones that worked for hurts you. It’s worth the effort to be
me. positive because it makes you feel  Gratitude. Count your blessings
better. got to be a cliche because it works.
 Negative thoughts can sneak If you’re not grateful for what you
into your mind and, before you  Read positive quotes. These will have, you can never be happy.
know it, you’re focused upon them. uplift you because of their message
The first step is to identify a neg- and the realization that so many  Have fun. This is difficult when
ative thought so you can cast it wise people are life-affirming. A you’re down. You’re not in the mood
good place to find upbeat messages for fun. You have to force yourself.
is in “The Book of Positive Quota- After you’ve had some fun, you’ll
feel better. 

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The mullet is back. How the heck did that happen?

BY LAURA CRAIK would come back from the dead. But grove may be dead (or is he?) his mul- meets Ziggy Stardust.” Rather than
The Telegraph that was to reckon without “Stranger let lives on, having transmogrified using crunchy eighties hairspray, King
Things.” Coming back from the dead is and taken up residence on the head of recommends styling with hair clay for
Blame “Stranger Things” if you will, “Stranger Things’” specialty. Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton). Mike a softer look that brings out the layers
but expect to see an ’80s hairdo on a Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) also sports and texture.
Gen Z-er near you soon. It started in Season 3 with Billy Har- a version, albeit one with a fringe is a
grove (played by Dacre Montgomery), a more stylish take on the actor tipped to During the pandemic , DIY groom-
There were many wonderful mean bully by day and a Mind Flayer be the face of Saint Laurent in 2019. ing experiments resulted in ersatz
things about the eighties. Sony by night who lured innocent people to
Walkmans. Rubik’s Cubes. their deaths but whose negative traits If you’re tempted to get the look, mullets being sported more by ac-
Kate Bush releasing “Run- – mullet included – were roundly over- Wolfhard’s version of the mullet is the cident than design. How ironic
ning Up That Hill.” But looked by fans, who promptly decided way to go. “I’ve been cutting a lot of that a style which many men
there were also many he was fanciable. Sometimes the heart mullets for my clients,” confirms the
less than wonder- wants what it wants, and to hell with hairdresser Larry King. “The tradi- adopted by default during the
ful things – most of ethics. Or haircuts. tional big fringe and heavy layers are pandemic is now being request-
which resided on one’s key, but the modern mullet is much ed in the hairdresser’s chair.
head. When it comes to A quick glance at “Stranger Things” more versatile: think Jane Fonda
choosing the most lu- Season 4 confirms that while Billy Har- But here we are. Another
dicrous hairstyle of the modern version is the
decade, the bar is high. Wolf cut, a mullet with
a thick fringe swept
Should that accolade be- toward the face that
long to the bubble perm? The has proven popular
feather cut? The pompadour? on TikTok, with over
No: it must surely belong to 600 million views.
the mullet, that risible cre- Nor is it just for men:
ation whose raggedy, off- Billie Eilish and
kilter proportions make Zendaya have also
everyone look daft. sported the style.
Business in the front, If your antipathy
party in the back, the is more akin to
mullet is the sort of haircut your tod- that of the Ira-
dler would give you, if they could hold nian govern-
scissors. Although why use scissors? ment, who in
Garden shears would do.
2010 banned mullets as part of a bid to
The eighties were littered with bad rid the country of “decadent Western
mullets, Billy Ray Cyrus, Limahl and haircuts”, fear not: “Stranger Things”
Bono being but three. Even eight- has stolen a few more styles from the
ies pin-ups like Rob Lowe and Patrick eighties archives for your delecta-
Swayze never looked worse than dur- tion. Bowl cuts, flat tops and quiffs
ing their mullet phase. On TV ever are also in abundance on the heads
since, mullets have acted as a sort of of Hawkins’ middle schoolers: scarier
follicular shorthand for stupidity: see than a spider monster, perhaps, but
David Spade as Joe Dirt in the self titled given its current status as the top rat-
movie “Joe Dirt” or Nelson Munz from ed Netflix show in 91 countries, it can
“The Simpsons.” Truly, the mullet was only be a matter of time before these
the one hairstyle that we never thought coiffs are all around us. $30 million
per episode and they couldn’t even get
the cast decent haircuts? That’s a mat-
ter of opinion. 

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A white dress always flattering – if you follow these rules

BY EMILY JOHNSTON As for all those fashion fears, let’s do the remainder of the work for you. stick is a must-have when I go out in
The Telegraph address a few. If you’re the type who white. It banishes the fear of stains
likes a pop of color to accompany Top tip and the stain itself, should the worst
The key is choosing the right shade your white fashion statement, wear The Tide Instant Stain Remover happen. 
of pale for you. a bright scarf or a necklace, throw
on a bangle or slip on some contrast-
Wearing white can bring fear to a ing footwear. If you want to break up
woman’s eyes and I’m not just talking the white or change the outline of the
about the threat of stains and ketch- dress, a belt is your best friend (good
up being your mortal enemy. Some for color, too). As for the sheerness
among us dread the idea of wearing factor, these days, most white dresses
a white dress come summer. Why? are lined or will have a built-in slip.
Well, the fear starts with the idea that
white can wash a woman out. Now that’s sorted, I fully expect
to see you all donning your finest
From there it progresses to the white frocks as the mercury starts to
traditional fashion fears we’ve been rise. Banish the fear and remember
brainwashed with over the years. Do ketchup stains are easily erased with
these sound familiar – it’s not always bleach.
appropriate to wear white; all white
dresses are see-through; you need The details
tons of color to balance a white dress? • Be aware – you may be showing
too much. Check your sheerness. Not
Let’s wipe the slate clean and start all white dresses are created equal
with a simple statement: A white and some need a little assistance with
dress is flattering for every woman. a slip, or you’ll leave yourself exposed.
The trick is finding the right white • Add a pop of color. Break up a
for you. As you will find if you are white dress with a bold belt. Go cra-
choosing paint, there are myriad zy with color or metals to add a bit of
shades of white. Generally speak- flair and fit to any ensemble.
ing, stark whites are better for dark- • Thick or thin? Consider the
er skin tones and creamy whites suit weather when choosing the fabric.
a paler skin. Linen is good in the heat; however, a
heavily lined dress in high tempera-
Sadly, I can’t tell you what your tures could break you.
perfect shade is, so you’ll have to get • Get the right white. There is a
out there and put in the effort to find multiplicity of shades of white. Keep
it. When you do, embrace it without searching and you may find several
a moment’s hesitation. A white dress that suit your skin tone perfectly.
is a classic, easy-to-wear item that • Don’t gild the lily. Keep it sim-
should be hanging in your ward- ple! Most white dresses need no
robe all summer. Frankly speaking, help at all. They are easy to throw
brides shouldn’t be the only ones on and go. Your natural beauty will
lucky enough to sport a beautiful
white frock in the warmer months.

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Chanel’s new headquarters isn’t what you would expect

BY SUSIE RUSHTON quarters for 10 of the artisanal work-
The Telegraph shops owned by Chanel is designed to
draw them in.
The future of Parisian couture has
been assured by Chanel’s brand-new Maybe it helps that the location isn’t
super atelier. obviously glamorous, nor even very
central. Situated in a no man’s land
If luxury boutiques can sometimes between northern Paris and the sub-
intimidate passers-by, the new head- urb of Aubervilliers, Le19M is already
attracting architecture spotters (it was

designed by award-winning French ar- ing back to the 19th century, in an ef-
chitect Rudy Ricciotti). President Ma- fort to conserve their traditional know-
cron and his wife, Brigitte, may have how. Its stable, a subsidiary of the
attended its inauguration, but it has main company, includes not only the
some decidedly inclusive ambitions. embroiderers Lesage and Montex, but
Maison Michel (hats), Massaro (boots),
“We want Le19M to be a space for en- Lemarié (feathers and flowers), Log-
counters and exchanges, a nerve center non (pleats), Goossens (goldsmithing),
where artisans, the public, schools and Paloma (couture construction) and
art lovers can come together,” is how Eres (swimwear).
Chanel’s president of fashion, Bruno
Pavlovsky, puts it. Every year, Chanel’s Métiers d’art
show is a demi-couture tribute to their
Near the entrance to the building, specialist talents. The latest was pre-
which comprises three wings – covered sented in December last year in the
in a facade of white strands evoking cloistered walkways of Le19M. Under
woven tweed – is a gallery and events the direction of Virginie Viard, it took
space. From next week, Le19M begins inspiration from the architecture of the
a summer program of workshops and building and – returning to a neighbor-
cultural events, with a cafe and even a hood theme – graffiti. The letters CHA-
shop selling tote bags cut from leftover and -NEL, styled after street artists’
fabrics. Earlier this year, schoolchil- tags, are picked out on two pockets of
dren and community groups gathered a black jacket, in perfectionist crystal
in the gallery spaces to try embroidery, and pearls by Lesage embroiderers.
under the eye of specialists from the
legendary Chanel-owned embroidery It’s this kind of handiwork one can
house Lesage. see everywhere in the spacious work-
rooms of Lesage, which now occupies
Chanel has self-preservation in almost half a floor of Le19M, an up-
mind, too. Since 1985, the company grade from past decades in a cramped
has been gradually buying up the best atelier in suburban Paris.
workshops in Paris, some of them dat-

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But as Lesage’s artistic director, pany since 2012, calls, “my treasure to the studios of the couture milliner The new location on the second
Hubert Barrère, shows me, while the room, a Swiss bank,” or, in other words, Maison Michel, another prized pos- floor of Le19M has transformed these
demands on his 80-plus workers may the maison’s archive. Here is an entire session of the group. The 86-year-old centuries-old vocations, according to
have increased, the techniques they history of fashion, from 1858 until the company creates handmade styles for Maison Michel’s creative director, Pris-
use remain unchanged since the glory present day. At its previous headquar- Chanel and other clients, along with its cilla Royer. She too appreciates having
own line. Just how recherché its meth- more room: “We used to be fighting for
ods are is apparent in the hat-making space,” she says. This is particularly
room, home to Shariff Hisaud, who has perilous if you’re surrounded by boil-
been working with lindenwood blocks ing steam and ovens in the hatmak-
for 30 years. ing room. Grander quarters have also
allowed the company to have its own
“I’ve always made hats like this, ‘sculptor’ on site – that is, a woodcarv-
and I’ve made thousands for Chanel,” er who makes hat blocks. This master
says Hisaud, demonstrating how to craftsman, who is in his 70s, now has
make a boater. First, the soft white two apprentices learning a skill that
felt – actually rabbit fur – is prepared must surely be on any list of endan-
with gum arabic and steam, making gered manual vocations.
it malleable. Hisaud then forms it on
a boater-shaped mold in two pieces: But the biggest benefit to a new
the brim and the flat crown, caress- building Royer describes as ‘like being
ing the silhouette into being with in a spaceship’ is proximity to the other
nothing more than a piece of cord. maisons d’art: “We feel like a reunited
These techniques date from the 14th family. Together, we are stronger.” At
century. The most hi-tech piece of lunchtime on an early summer’s day
kit on Hisaud’s bench is a hair dryer. the employees from all 10 workshops
Even the iron that he uses to smooth mingle in the swish staff canteen (five
out any bumps is a flat iron, as used types of kombucha, and desserts that
by Victorian laundresses. The crisp would grace a Rue Saint-Honoré patis-
white hat then passes into the mil- serie window).
liners’ room, where Florence Astra, a
spotlight poised over her work, deftly ‘All the different maisons had such
stretches creamy Chanel tweed over different requirements,’ says Royer, of
both pieces; in total, each spotless the way Le19M has assembled the best of
boater takes three hours to make. French fashion’s savoir-faire. “It seemed
like a crazy idea. But it works.” 

days of the 1970s and ’80s, when Yves ters, in Pantin, a nearby suburb, much
Saint Laurent would ask François Les- had to be kept “in the cellar, but here it’s
age to embroider him replica Van Gogh one third bigger. And we are adding to
sunflowers for a jacket. “It’s not basic,” it. Every day we find Lesage embroidery
says Barrère of the exquisite work here, for sale [online], we are buying it up.”
with understatement. Each Métiers
d’art collection takes two months to The archive is also the only room not
complete; those graffiti pockets alone illuminated by full-height windows,
require 32 hours of toil, from the first an architectural feature that Barrère,
steps of marking out where each tiny and other artistic directors at Le19M,
colored pearl should be stitched, to believe has immeasurably improved
embroidering on the frame, and final their work. “The light, c’est mag-
checks to ensure a faultless finish. nifique,” he says, gesturing to the Pari-
sian morning outside. “Schopenhauer
He believes that clients are once said, “With no light you don’t have col-
again in the mood for gold thread and ors.’” It may be modern and fresh, but
glittering details. “People want the wow does it have the same creative energy
factor right now,” he says. “Although as the previous, smaller home? On this,
that may not last.” Yet certain types of he’s more ambivalent. “It’s something
embellishment belong to history and we ask ourselves, how can we create an
can’t be replicated: “We wouldn’t make atmosphere? It’s a work in progress.”
the YSL sunflowers now. Nobody would
wear it. Billionaire women today are More pressing for Lesage are chang-
not statues, they walk, they move, they es in global trade after the pandemic,
get on and off planes,” he says, referring and ever-shortening deadlines in fash-
to the 1988 Van Gogh-inspired jacket, ion production. But what Barrère is
which sold at auction at Christie’s for certain of is that Chanel has been its
$574,000 in 2019. savior. Could Lesage have survived if it
had not been purchased in 2002? “No.
A sample of those sunflowers is kept Absolutely not.”
in what Barrère, who has led the com-
It’s just a short zip up in an elevator

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