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ing has popped up a quarter mile south of the first one. The latest blockbuster listing, located at 2150 S. A1A, is generating another burst of publicity for the barrier island around the globe and creating lots of buzz in South Florida where a majority of Vero’s luxury buyers now come from. But rather than merely douCounty Commissioner Deryl Loar said he has heard the growing rumors that he’s weighing a 2024 run for sheriff – the position he held for Less than a month after a $60-million oceanfront compound came on the market in the barrier island’s Estate Section, garnering attention worldwide, a second $60-million listNews 1-14 Arts 43-50 Books 38 Dining 66-70 Editorial 36 Games 39-41 Health 51-61 Insight 31-42 People 15-30 Pets 71 Real Estate 73-88 Style 62-65 February 23, 2023 Volume 16, Issue 8 Newsstand Price $2.00 TO ADVERTISE CALL 772-559-4187 FOR CIRCULATION CALL 772-226-7925 G.R.O.W. Doula program invaluable for new mothers. P52 ‘Wheels & Keels’ expands reach. P20 New COVID-19 infections fall sharply here. P8 ‘Mangroves & Moonlight’ at the ELC. P16 © 2023 Vero Beach 32963 Media LLC. All rights reserved. For breaking news visit What happens if the school district exhausts all reasonable means in its ongoing efforts to recruit more Black teachers to Indian River County, only to see little or no improvement in the racial diversity of the faculties in our public schools? “We’re fighting an uphill battle,” School Board Chair Peggy Jones said in a phone interview Sunday, four days after a workshop meeting between representatives from the district and local NAACP chapter. “But if you don’t fight, you’ll never get there.” Getting there, however, won’t be easy. It might not be possible – not in the foreseeable future, anyway. The hard truth is: Convincing young Black teachers, just out of college and possessing the required certification, to move to this county is a daunting task, given the challenges presented by the financial, social and political climate in which we now live. Appeals court hearing extends utilities conflict The Town of Indian River Shores will get another opportunity in April to make its case that Vero Beach breached a 2012 utility franchise agreement by not matching Indian River County Utilities’ reuse irrigation water rates as promised in a 15-year contract. Circuit Court Judge Janet Croom ruled in favor of Vero last year, saying the city had not run afoul of the utility contract and was protected by state law, but Shores officials disagreed, so they appealed the case to the next higher state court, the Fourth District Court of Appeals. The matter before the panel of appeals judges will be whether Vero violated the 2012 franchise agreement when it kept Indian River BY LISA ZAHNER Staff Writer CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 MY VERO BY RAY MCNULTY Schools find diversity push ‘an uphill battle’ BY STEVEN M. THOMAS Staff Writer BY RAY MCNULTY Staff Writer CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 Elderly woman’s death adds to grim toll of A1A fatalities Second $60M listing further enhances island’s cachet Loar finds his voice on County Commission PHOTO BY JOSHUA KODIS PHOTO BY JOSHUA KODIS An elderly Indian River Shores woman went out for a walk on the sidewalk along A1A on Saturday afternoon and never made it back home. As she attempted to cross to the east side of the road near the entrance to the Del Mar condominiums, she was struck by a Dodge Charger. “Immediately a couple of cars pulled over on the side of the road,” a witness who had been walking her dog at the time of the crash told Vero Beach 32963. “The woman was not moving ... she was in the fetal position.” It was the fourth fatal crash on the island in less than two years. One man was killed in a two-car collision, one struck riding a bicycle, and one run down walking his dog (see a follow-up on the latter fatality, page 13). BY LISA ZAHNER Staff Writer PHOTO BY JOSHUA KODIS

2 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Shores’ reuse irrigation water rates the same after Indian River County Utilities reduced its reuse irrigation water rates significantly in 2019. To thwart an effort by Indian River County Utilities to take Indian River Shores’ utility business away from Vero, the city originally undercut the county’s proposal for the Shores’ business by agreeing to match published county rates for Indian River Shores customers for the term of the franchise agreement. The Shores argues that the court should uphold the franchise agreement to the letter. But Croom ruled that Vero had the power to set its own rates, based upon its costs of providing the service. Each side already filed its best arguments in writing, but the appellate court will hear 15 minutes from Vero and 15 minutes from Indian River Shores at 10:30 a.m. on April 4 at the appeals courthouse in West Palm Beach. NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Utilities battle

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 3 12 years before retiring from law enforcement in early 2021. “People ask me every day, and a lot of them say they want me to run,” Loar said during a phone interview last week. “I’ve even heard from a few people at the Sheriff’s Office, and that’s flattering. “But unless something catastrophic happens, I don’t see it,” he added. “I enjoy what I’m doing now.” As of Monday afternoon, only two candidates had filed to run – Fellsmere Police Chief Keith Touchberry and 2020 candidate Deborah Cooney, who lost to Loar’s hand-picked successor, Eric Flowers. Flowers, though, has struggled noticeably in his first term as sheriff, particularly in his second year, when his extramarital affair was publicly exposed, his deputies were involved in two controversial shootings, and he inexplicably told a TV reporter where the agency’s school resource officers store their AR-15 rifles. NEWS CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Deryl Loar Most of the circuit court hearings in this 2020 case were conducted by Zoom under temporary COVID-19 civil court protocols, but the oral arguments before the appeals court will be in person. Shores Town Manager Jim Harpring said he was pleased that the appeals court scheduled oral arguments, as it could have simply handed down a written order affirming Croom’s ruling. Vero Beach City Manager Monte Falls said of the court date, “It’s my understanding that they’re not compelled to hear oral arguments, and that the town requested oral arguments to be heard and we’re not opposed to that.” Falls said the pending appeal has not stalled the implementation of Vero’s “One Rate” plan which shifts all water-sewer customers to one uniform rate, regardless of whether they live inside the city, outside the city on the South barrier island or in the Town of Indian River Shores. “The new rate increase took effect the first of January based upon the rate schedule developed by our consultant,” Falls said. Vero water-sewer customers saw their rates go up by about 15 percent last month, with another 15 percent rate increase scheduled for Oct. 1, and a third double-digit rate hike slated for Oct. 1, 2025. The city did carve out an exception for Indian River Shores’ customers reuse irrigation water rates, keeping those flat while the appeal is pending. The lawsuit from 2020 being appealed now does not directly address whether the new set of rate increases that Vero imposed upon Shores customers in January violate the 2012 franchise agreement. That could be a different legal battle altogether. Shores Councilman Bob Auwaerter, who serves as the town’s representative on Vero’s Utility Commission, said the breach of contract case to be argued in April has broad implications way beyond a squabble between Vero and Indian River Shores. “The reality is that if the appeals court affirms this ruling it blows up every utility franchise agreement between two government entities and says utility franchise agreements are not worth the paper they’re written on,” Auwaerter said. Auwaerter said Vero’s argument that the Town of Indian River Shores should have known that Vero was not going to be able to match county rates long-term is “absurd.” “We’ll have to see how it goes. I’m glad it’s moving along – that’s for sure,” Auwaerter said.

4 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ “That’s not how I trained him,” Loar said, expressing some disappointment with Flowers, who announced last year in a news report that he planned to seek re-election but hasn’t yet filed the required paperwork. As for Loar, 55, he spent his first two months as a County Commissioner learning on the job, meeting with department heads and staffers, and limiting his remarks from the dais. He said he was determined to do the homework necessary to become well-versed on the topics being discussed, so that he would earn the respect of the other four commissioners and ensure that his words carried weight. “Yeah, I was holding back a bit,” he admitted. But over the past few weeks, as Loar continues his transition from heading a 500-employee law-enforcement agency to being one of five members of a board, he has been more forceful and outspoken. He appears to be more confident and comfortable interacting with the other commissioners during meetings. He doesn’t hesitate to ask questions and challenge opposing positions. He seems to have found his voice. “And it’s going to get stronger,” he said. As a three-term sheriff, Loar annually would present his proposed budget to the commissioners, who some years NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Deryl Loar DISCLAIMER: Information published or otherwise provided by Premier Estate Properties, Inc. and its representatives including but not limited to prices, measurements, square footages, lot sizes, calculations and statistics are deemed reliable but are not guaranteed and are subject to errors, omissions or changes without notice. All such information should be independently verified by any prospective purchaser or seller. Parties should perform their own due diligence to verify such information prior to a sale or listing. Premier Estate Properties, Inc. expressly disclaims any warranty or representation regarding such information. Prices published are either list price, sold price, and/or last asking price. Premier Estate Properties, Inc. participates in the Multiple Listing Service and IDX. The properties published as listed and sold are not necessarily exclusive to Premier Estate Properties, Inc. and may be listed or have sold with other members of the Multiple Listing Service. Transactions where Premier Estate Properties, Inc. represented both buyers and sellers are calculated as two sales. Cooperating Brokers are advised that in the event of a Buyer default, no commission will be paid to a cooperating Broker on the Deposits retained by the Seller. No commissions are paid to any cooperating broker until title passes or upon actual commencement of a lease. Some affiliations may not be applicable to certain geographic areas. If your property is currently listed with another broker, please disregard any solicitation for services. Copyright 2022 Premier Estate Properties, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Your Trusted Advisor for Vero Beach Luxury Real Estate 772.234.5555 675 Beachland Boulevard OUR INCOMPARABLE GLOBAL NETWORK 916 COVE POINT PLACE $1.795 Million Info:www.V265429.com Melissa Talley 772.234.5148 1831 E SANDPOINTE LANE $1.395 Million Info:www.V266218.com Brown I Talley 772.234.5148 9013 SOMERSET BAY LANE $1.25 Million Info:www.V264585.com Barbara & Courtney Dietrich 772.234.5116 925 BAY OAK LANE $4.995 Million Info:www.V263814.com Lange Sykes 772.234.5034 1025 ANDARELLA WAY $2.749 Million Info:www.V250160.com Brown I Talley 772.234.5148 2215 SEASIDE STREET $1.895 Million Info:www.V265492.com Lange Sykes 772.234.5034 503 River Drive $6.25 Million Info:www.V266057.com Brown I Talley 772.234.5148 PremierEstateProperties.com Explore More Of Our Exceptional Vero Beach Collection

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 5 forced him to defend his spending plan. The process was, at times, contentious. That was the backdrop to his arrival on the dais in November, after he defeated funeral-home owner Tom Lowther and political newcomer Joann Binford for the District 4 commission seat vacated by the retirement of Peter O’Bryan. “I don’t want to say they were intimidated,” Loar said, “but I think they were curious, because they knew me only as the sheriff.” Through his first three months, Loar has often sided with five-term commissioner Joe Flescher on issues – they recently cast the only votes against the county’s new 30-year franchise agreement that continues Vero Beach’s water and sewer service to the southern tier of the barrier island – and the two men seem to have developed a bond. Loar said he and Flescher, who was a police officer in New York and a deputy here, share perspectives on some matters. “I’ve grown to like the guy,” Loar said. “He’s not only knowledgeable, but he’s a funny guy to be around. And because we both come from law-enforcement backgrounds, we think alike on some things.” It’s only a matter of time, though, before Loar steps out of Flescher’s shadow and leaves his imprint on the commission, where currently Joe Earman serves as chair and Susan Adams as vice chair. “I’m going to emerge as a leader,” Loar said. “It can be difficult when you’re just one of five up there – and I can count NEWS CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 DISCLAIMER: Information published or otherwise provided by Premier Estate Properties, Inc. and its representatives including but not limited to prices, measurements, square footages, lot sizes, calculations and statistics are deemed reliable but are not guaranteed and are subject to errors, omissions or changes without notice. All such information should be independently verified by any prospective purchaser or seller. Parties should perform their own due diligence to verify such information prior to a sale or listing. Premier Estate Properties, Inc. expressly disclaims any warranty or representation regarding such information. Prices published are either list price, sold price, and/or last asking price. Premier Estate Properties, Inc. participates in the Multiple Listing Service and IDX. The properties published as listed and sold are not necessarily exclusive to Premier Estate Properties, Inc. and may be listed or have sold with other members of the Multiple Listing Service. Transactions where Premier Estate Properties, Inc. represented both buyers and sellers are calculated as two sales. Cooperating Brokers are advised that in the event of a Buyer default, no commission will be paid to a cooperating Broker on the Deposits retained by the Seller. No commissions are paid to any cooperating broker until title passes or upon actual commencement of a lease. Some affiliations may not be applicable to certain geographic areas. If your property is currently listed with another broker, please disregard any solicitation for services. Copyright 2022 Premier Estate Properties, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Your Trusted Advisor for Vero Beach Luxury Real Estate 772.234.5555 675 Beachland Boulevard OUR INCOMPARABLE GLOBAL NETWORK 916 COVE POINT PLACE $1.795 Million Info:www.V265429.com Melissa Talley 772.234.5148 1831 E SANDPOINTE LANE $1.395 Million Info:www.V266218.com Brown I Talley 772.234.5148 9013 SOMERSET BAY LANE $1.25 Million Info:www.V264585.com Barbara & Courtney Dietrich 772.234.5116 925 BAY OAK LANE $4.995 Million Info:www.V263814.com Lange Sykes 772.234.5034 1025 ANDARELLA WAY $2.749 Million Info:www.V250160.com Brown I Talley 772.234.5148 2215 SEASIDE STREET $1.895 Million Info:www.V265492.com Lange Sykes 772.234.5034 503 River Drive $6.25 Million Info:www.V266057.com Brown I Talley 772.234.5148 PremierEstateProperties.com Explore More Of Our Exceptional Vero Beach Collection

6 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ In 2018, the court gave the school district credit for fulfilling some of the desegregation order’s requirements in the areas of facilities, non-instructional staff and administrative staff. But until the arrival of Schools Superintendent David Moore three years ago, the order was treated as little more than a nuisance. Now, it’s a priority, and the district continues to address the more meaty issues, especially the requirements pertaining to adding Black teachers and closing the achievement gap between Black and white students. Under Moore’s leadership, the percentage of black teachers in our school district has, in fact, increased from 9 percent to 12 percent. That’s still below the percentage of black students, which has risen to 19 percent (excluding charter schools), but it’s a significant jump when considering the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and a national teacher shortage. Jones is hopeful the federal court judge presiding over the case will see the improving numbers, recognize the district’s efforts and remove the order as soon as next year. “We’ve made progress in all areas, but there’s still work to be done,” she said. “We’re continuing to work with the NAACP to address the remaining issues, including the hiring of AfricanAmerican teachers.” Local NAACP President Tony Brown expressed his respect for Jones’ record on race during her 11 years as Sebastian River High School’s principal, saying, “At one time, she had more African-American teachers on her campus than the rest of the district combined.” But he’s still not satisfied, arguing that the school district’s recruiting teams should include representatives who are more likely to appeal to Black teaching candidates because they know the community, and perhaps, attended the same colleges and universities. “You don’t send a football coach to recruit a tennis player,” Brown said, adding that recruiters should have the authority to offer contracts “on the spot.” He also urged that the district’s recruiters start early, engaging with local students while they’re in high school in hopes of spurring their interest in going to college – possibly Indian River State College – to become teachers and persuading them to return here to work. Jones welcomed Brown’s suggestion, so much so that she requested the NAACP’s assistance in recruiting black teachers. “We’ll take all the help we can get,” she said. “We need to do a better job of NEWS The Finest PreOwned Rolex Watches Le Classique Jewelers and Watchmakers Every Rolex Watch comes backed with our 1 year Warranty. All Rolex Service and repairs are done on premises. Prices Upon Request 3001 Ocean Drive # 105, Vero Beach, FL 32963 772-231-2060 CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 My Vero CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 Deryl Loar to three – but I’ve always been a leader. My mannerisms, my voice, how I carry myself … It’s who I am. “As we go forward, you’re going to see me being more vocal, bringing up issues I believe we need to address.” Those issues include expansion of the county’s urban services area, affordable housing, water and sewer services, recruiting and retaining staffers, and the ongoing search for a new county administrator. Unlike his years as sheriff, however, Florida’s government-in-the-sunshine law prohibits Loar from walking into another commissioner’s office to discuss county business. “When you’re the sheriff, it’s completely different,” Loar said. “You just call somebody into your office and tell them what you want to do. As a commissioner, you can talk with the other commissioners only when they’re brought up on the dais at meetings. “I understand why we have the law, but it does make it tougher to get things done.” Does that mean he misses being sheriff? “No, sir,” Loar said. “I certainly don’t miss getting those calls in the middle of the night. And I think my blood pressure has gone down a bit. “Being a commissioner is a unique job, because you’ve got to work together to get anything done,” he added. “It’s also a fun job, because every day is different and you get to help people who come to you with problems. “I really enjoy it.” But a federal court demands the school district make a sincere and comprehensive attempt, working jointly with the county’s NAACP leadership to create and implement a plan to attract, interview and hire more diverse teaching staffs. That mandate is part of a desegregation order that dates back more than 55 years – to the Civil Rights era, before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy – and remains in force to this day, still an embarrassment to our community. The 1967 court order was issued three years after four parents sued the school district, claiming Black students were sent to separate and inferior schools.

8 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ partnering with the NAACP.” But will it be enough? As Jones pointed out: Our district is competing with others in the state, as well as nationally, for a shrinking number of qualified candidates. She said the percentage of America’s college graduates pursuing careers in education has plummeted to 9 percent. Of that small fraction, she added, “only 8 or 9 percent” are Black. Even Brown conceded that most Black college students – as is the case with students of all races – are opting for more lucrative professions, such as in the fields of technology, business, medicine and law. “The money is bigger,” he said, “and the headaches are less.” Compounding the problem here is a troubling lack of affordable housing for entry-level teachers, who must find a place to live and pay their bills on a starting salary of $47,500. “When you look at the cost of living in this county,” Brown said, “that’s a major factor working against us.” But not the only one. The dwindling pool of candidates allows teachers to be more selective in choosing where they want to work. This is especially true for Black candidates who know many school districts are desperately seeking to diversify their faculties. So why would young Black teachers, particularly those who have no prior connections to our community, choose to come here? The county’s population is 74 percent white, and has an average age of 54.2 years. Of the people who live here, only 9.5 percent are Black and just 18.5 percent are between the ages of 20 and 39. NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 My Vero And if these Black teachers are single, which is not uncommon for people in their early-to-mid 20s, what nightlife or other social offerings do we have to entice today’s young people? Where would they go to meet – in any sizable numbers – other young, Black, college-educated people? Orlando? Miami? Jacksonville? That’s a long way to drive for a date, though Brown disagreed, saying that traveling on weekends is “not really an issue for young people these days.” Then there’s the current tone in Tallahassee, where Florida teachers are being targeted by wrongheaded new laws that exhibit an unprecedented hostility toward the profession. It’s surprising anyone would want to be an educator in this state, where teachers – regardless of race – risk being fired, sued or held up to public ridicule by an intolerant, government-endorsed, parental-rights mob bent on seizing control of our public schools. Brown acknowledges all of the challenges mentioned above, but he still believes the school district can do a better job of recruiting and retaining Black teachers. And if that doesn’t work? If the district embraces the NAACP’s recommendations and expands its efforts, only to see no tangible improvement? “If you do everything you can – if you do everything you’re supposed to do and you can document what you’ve done – and you still can’t hire more African-American teachers?” Brown said. “Then there’s nothing I can say.” Certainly, there’s more work to do before the school district can take its case back to federal court with any realistic hope of getting the desegregation order removed. But there’s only so much that can be done. Will it be enough? The number of new COVID-19 infections last week declined 28 percent locally and 20 percent statewide, again defying predictions of a winter surge of the illness. The case count locally dropped from 120 new cases to 86 new cases for the week ending Feb. 16. About one in four or nearly 43,000 people in Indian River County have reported a positive COVID-19 test to the Florida Department of Health since March 2020, but the real number of people infected could be twice that, with the widespread use of at-home COVID test kits, plus people with very mild or no symptoms not getting tested. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported eight people were newly hospitalized with COVID illness locally, down 33 percent from 12 hospitalizations the previous week. Cleveland Clinic spokesperson Erin Miller said on Monday, “We have four COVID-positive patients in-house this morning, none of which are in critical care.” That’s down drastically from nine patients hospitalized with COVID illNew COVID cases fall sharply here BY LISA ZAHNER Staff Writer

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 9 ness last week. Indian River County falls within the CDC’s Low COVID Community Level, in large part because of the county’s robust hospital capacity versus the low number of hospitalizations. The rest of the Treasure Coast, plus Palm Beach County, is in the Medium COVID Community Level category. Three years ago this week, the United States had just 33 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus illness newly named COVID-19, including 18 passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked off Japan. The total known U.S. death count from complications of COVID illness at that time was two. Nearly 103 million people have since reported testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 illness in the United States. That does not include people who tested positive on at-home rapid test kits and did not report their illness to their local health department or turn up for medical care, at which time their case would have been counted. NEWS CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

10 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ As of Monday, 1,113,254 people have died in the U.S. of complications of COVID-19 illness. Even now, as the federal public health emergency for the COVID pandemic is set to expire on May 11, more than a quarter-million Americans are still reporting positive COVID tests each week, according to the CDC. Nearly 3,600 people in the United States are being hospitalized each day for COVID-19 illness, which amounts to nearly 18,000 hospitalizations per week. Of those, 2,838 people died last week. Roughly 16 percent of all patients hospitalized for COVID-19 illness never leave the hospital to return to their lives and families again. More than 22,000 Americans are in the hospital this week with COVID-19 illness. Back in 2020 at the start of the pandemic when so little was known about the virus or the course of the disease, Florida did not announce its first presumptive cases of COVID-19 illness until the first week of March. There was no test yet, only a list of symptoms. But public health officials now know that COVID-19 arrived on Florida’s shores and in its airports long before the first documented case. An analysis of state health data conducted by the Miami Herald found at least 170 patients fitting COVID-19 symptom criteria between Dec. 31, 2019 and Feb. 29, 2020. The patients ranged in age from 4 to 91 and 10 of them died. The virus was presumably spreading in Florida communities throughout December 2019 and over the Christmas holidays. Miami Gardens hosted the Super Bowl LIV on Feb. 2, 2020 at Hard Rock Stadium, welcoming visitors from around the globe in the midst of an already-busy snowbird season. bling the attention drawn to the 32963 market, island brokers say it is a case of one plus one equaling three – or four – in terms of upping Vero’s profile among the ultra-wealthy. During the pandemic boom, the barrier island entered a new real estate category, emerging as a $20-million-plus market for the first time, with multiple record-breaking sales at or above that figure. But $60-million buyers are different from $20-million buyers and the backto-back big listings have made Vero light up on the map those buyers look at when they’re seeking real estate investments. “One difference is that the $20-million buyer might be local, while the $60-million buyer will almost certainly be new to the area and probably didn’t start out looking specifically for Vero Beach, but rather for a trophy property,” said Cindy O’Dare, brokerassociate at ONE Sotheby’s International Realty, who with her partner Richard Boga listed the latest $60-milThe witness to the latest A1A fatality, who asked not to be identified, told our photographer the woman was “put in an ambulance, and it seems like she died in the ambulance because when they drove off, they didn’t have sirens or anything.” As more than a dozen emergency vehicles swarmed the scene, traffic was backed up nearly 2 miles with northbound drivers initially being turned around and diverted back to Central Beach. Indian River Shores Public Safety Director Chief Rich Rosell said his officers faced a challenge identifying the woman, because she was carrying no wallet or identification. Police canvassed Amy Ann Lane trying to find out if someone was missing a loved one in her 80s who was out for a walk. No one did. But in late afternoon, an elderly man ventured out from his residence, telling Shores Public Safety officers that his wife had been gone for three and a half hours and he was very worried. He was directed to the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital Emergency Department. Police at the scene were not permitted to deliver the grave news, not knowing for sure if this man’s wife was the unidentified woman they transported to the hospital. “He identified her there at Cleveland Clinic,” Rosell said. Rosell would not release the name of the woman who was killed, or the driver of the Dodge Charger, other than to say, “She was a seasonal Indian River Shores resident in her 80s. He (the driver) is a young white male from St. Lucie County.” Rosell said three officers trained in DUI examination evaluated the driver roadside, and a blood sample was taken to preserve for evidence. But on Saturday evening Rosell said, “No one is in custody.” NEWS CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Elderly woman killed on A1A CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Another $60-million listing CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 COVID cases fall sharply

12 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ lion house as “coming soon” on Valentine’s Day. “This is truly unprecedented and exceptionally exciting,” O’Dare added. “When the Wall Street Journal covered the previous $60-million listing, that article received millions of impressions, and as a result, we have heard from buyers all over the world. “We are seeing a new echelon of buyers. Almost overnight, areas like Palm Beach, Naples, Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Hamptons have become true feeder markets for Vero Beach.” “Certainly, these listings are drawing new eyes to Vero that had not previously taken note of our market,” agreed Boga. O’Dare and Boga’s listing, which went live on the MLS this week, is one of the most famous houses on the island. Long known as “the barcode lady’s house” and later renamed Palazzo Di Mare, it was the first major home built in the Estate Section. Completed in 2001 in an elegant, Regency-revival kind of style, the house was the creation of Sharon Nicholson, widow of William Nicholson, inventor of barcode technology and co-founder of Retail Grocery Inventory Service, now called RGIS, a leading inventory control company. The 23,315-square-foot house sits on a 5-acre ocean-to-river lot with 205 feet of ocean frontage and 198 feet of river shoreline. There are seven bedrooms, nine full baths, two elevators, stone and hardwood floors, a 14-car underground garage, and extensive landscaped grounds, including a sweeping back lawn that would do a 5-star seaside resort proud. Nicholson sold the house in 2016 for an undisclosed sum to a buyer who resold it a year later to island developer Ken Cooper for $7.9 million, according to county records. Cooper renovated the dated home, giving it the light, bright look and feel of a classic Palm Beach estate, making it into a breezy dream world with expansive sea views that was both restful and wonderfully alive with architectural and design elements that range from Moorish to Art Deco. Current owners Doug and Sharon O’Banion bought the property from Cooper in 2019, paying $10,250,000, shortly after selling their RV dealership in Fort Worth for $250 million. They then spent two years doing extensive additional renovations that Doug O’Banion told Vero Beach 32963 cost approximately $3 million. The renovations included 14 new air conditioners, a $200,000 Crestron home control system, redoing the resort-style pool and landscaping and, most notably, transforming the little-used third level observation deck into a private, 28-seat bar and dining area with the finest equipment and furnishing and the kind of views you get in heaven. Even with those improvements, the jump from $10 million-plus to $60 million is epic, and some island agents think it is unrealistic – but the most potent support for the price comes from what could be called the Florida Factor. According to a recent article in Bloomberg, “38 of the 50 million-dollar U.S. neighborhoods with the largest price gains over the past three years are in Florida,” and the upward price trend is continuing with hedge-fund kingpin Ken Griffin’s spending spree in Miami. Griffin, who moved his company Citadel to Miami last year, has spent hundreds of millions on real estate, with his executives following in his wake, and Maria Elena Lagomasino, CEO of WE Family Offices, a Miami-based wealth management firm, told Bloomberg NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 Another $60-million listing CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 13 was tried now, we’d have to put on our whole case for the vehicular homicide,” Bakkedahl said. The state, meanwhile, continues to build its vehicular homicide case, which includes law enforcement accounts of what was observed, heard and found the night Gianfrancesco and his dog Molly were struck while taking an evening stroll on the shoulder of A1A. The Florida Highway Patrol trooper reported his interaction with Williams, which was cited by the Department of Corrections in the amended warrant. The trooper, who had responded to a request from the St. Lucie Sheriff’s Office to be on the lookout for a fleeing suspect driving northbound on A1A following a shooting at Pepper Park a half-dozen miles south of the Indian County line, clocked Williams driving 110 miles per hour before the crash. “Post Miranda, the defendant understood their rights and agreed to speak with law enforcement. The defendant stated, ‘I was really trying to speed and get around like three or four cars.’ When asked as to why he was trying to overtake vehicles, the defendant stated, ‘I seen another car do it, so I was trying to do it also.’ When asked about mechanical defects with NEWS Justice still far off for man struck and killed on A1A in 2021 BY LISA ZAHNER Staff Writer The vehicular homicide charge against Fort Pierce resident Jamie Jarvontae Williams, whose speeding car struck and killed South Beach resident Michael Gianfrancesco while he was walking his dog along A1A on Memorial Day 2021, seems likely to take many more months – if not years – to resolve. But a frequently heard question is why the 29-year-old Williams – who also has been charged with violation of probation – hasn’t at least been tried for that since numerous law enforcement officers documented his presence in Indian River County the night of the fatal crash? Convicting Williams for crossing out of St. Lucie County and driving into Indian River County without first getting his probation officer’s permission, and for failing to report having contact with law enforcement officers the night of the crash, would seem a slam-dunk case. But State Attorney Tom Bakkedahl said Williams’ violation of probation trial will not take place anytime soon because it’s not as simple as proving he was outside St. Lucie County without permission. “Not when there’s a simultaneous criminal case going on,” Bakkedahl said. And if he was put on trial for violation of probation and convicted, he might even be sentenced to time served and again allowed to go free until his trial for vehicular homicide. The night of the crash, in fact, the Florida Highway Patrol – which took the lead in the investigation – actually released Williams. He went free for two months. Then after Vero Beach 32963 reported that Williams had been on felony probation at the time of the crash, the Sheriff’s Office contacted Williams’ probation officer. The Florida Department of Corrections submitted a list of minor probation violations to the court, including being outside St. Lucie County and not reporting contact with police, and Williams was locked up in July 2021. “Right now, the defendant is being held without bond on the violation of probation charge,” Bakkedahl said. But the Department of Corrections subsequently added the vehicular homicide to the list of specific acts Williams is accused of committing while on probation. At that point, the Indian River County vehicular homicide case and the St. Lucie violation of probation case became inextricably linked. “If the violation of probation case CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

14 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ his vehicle, the defendant stated that ‘the engine was running hard and the brakes do not stop as fast.’” A sheriff’s deputy on scene said Williams claimed he was trying not to hit a speeding Camaro when he crashed his Chevy Impala. “When asked where the Camaro was, the defendant stated, ‘I was trying to slow down, that's what made us wreck’.” Police found drugs and a firearm near Williams’ vehicle, and one occupant riding in his Impala was a convicted felon, but Williams so far has not been charged in connection with those things as part of his violation of probation case. The reason Williams was on probation at the time of the crash was that he’d been previously arrested on two third-degree felony charges – carrying a concealed weapon and attempting to tamper with evidence – plus a misdemeanor charge of resisting an officer without violence. Originally pleading not guilty, Williams changed his plea to no contest in June 2020, and in July 2020 was sentenced to two years of probation for the three offenses. NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 Justice slow in coming that “the migration of affluent people to Florida is only in ‘the early innings.’” As buyers like Griffen bid up prices in south Florida, sellers are able to cash out and flee increasing congestion in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, with many looking north to Vero where they can buy an equivalent property for much less than they sold for. A quick glance at homes for sale in Palm Beach shows that the historic price differential between Vero and south Florida remains, even with $60-million listings in 32963: On Monday, Realtor.com showed a 2.8-acre oceanfront lot listed for $150 million (without a house!) and an older home on the river without ocean access on a 2.7-acre lot offered for $210 million. “Florida got the lion’s share of the pandemic transplants, and I think that momentum is ongoing,” said Boga. “With a new level of buyers coming in, south Florida sellers can get a fabulous price for their house in Miami or Palm Beach, which makes now seem like a good time to move to a less crowded and less expensive part of the state.” Connected to the influx of ultrawealthy buyers is the incredible increase in wealth among the kind of people who purchase $60-million homes. The top 1 percent of American households gained $26 trillion in wealth over the past three years, according to a January article published by cnbc.com. That cash created many new billionaires and bigtime multimillionaires who can easily afford a $60-million house, ushering in a new era in the ultra-luxury real estate market. That new era was apparent in Vero last year when Matilde Sorensen’s listing at 1804 Ocean in Riomar sold for $13.9 million, more than triple what it sold for just two years before, and 500 Bay Dr. closed for $20 million, more than double the previous riverfront record here and triple what it sold for previously, in a deal handled by Charlotte Terry at AMAC Alex MacWilliam and Dale Sorensen Real estate agent Cathy Curley. Miami real estate investor Jonathan Molano said the $60-million listings are good for the island market, where he has a 17-acre riverfront parcel listed with super-agent Oren Alexander for $25 million. When he put the property on the market last year, some island agents scoffed at the list price, but he told Vero Beach 32963 on Monday that he is getting a steady stream of calls from interested buyers and is thinking of raising the price in light of the big new listings nearby. Boga also noted that “oceanfront construction prices have at least tripled in recent years,” which makes an existing structure like 2150 S. Highway A1A more valuable by the day. “The increase in construction costs and the scarcity of properties like this are helping drive big price increases,” Boga added. In addition, he pointed out that there is development potential at the property. “Besides about three and a half acres on the oceanside, there are one and half acres on the river side, with plenty of room for a helipad, a tennis court, or another single-family residence oriented to river with a pool and maybe a 20-vehicle car barn, if the buyer is a car collector,” Boga said. Doug O’Banion told Vero Beach 32963 that he and his wife will not be “out in the rain” after selling their Vero home. They have homes in Texas and the Bahamas and he is thinking about moving counter to the current migration and buying a place in Palm Beach. His RV dealership, Motor Home Specialist, was the largest in the world at the time he sold it, according to Fort Worth Business Press. “We were selling $300 million a year,” he says, “with a top sale of $3 million. When people ask me who buys a $3-million motorhome, I always tell them ‘people with money!’” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 Another $60-million listing

MANGROVES & MOONLIGHT MUCH TO MARVEL ABOUT AT THE ELC Andrew and Carly Witteck.

16 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Under a clear moonlit sky, supporters of the Environmental Learning Center kicked off its 35th anniversary during a Mangroves & Moonlight fundraiser on the 64-acre campus of the nonprofit. Glasses of wine in hand, guests strolled among the mangroves while enjoying the East Harbor band or took a turn around the Moondance Platform, a dancefloor on the boardwalk. Others nibbled on small plates while seated in an eco-friendly banquette area, made of recycled pallets that had been set up in the grassy center field, or visited the Discovery Station to learn more about the creatures that live in the lagoon. “Proceeds from tonight’s event will support our mission, which is to educate, inspire and empower all people to be active stewards of the environment and their own well-being,” said Barbara Schlitt Ford, ELC executive director. Guests were invited to support the ELC by sponsoring one of its 10 “mission critical” needs: a motor for the pontoon boat, scholarships, camp and program supplies, the care and feeding of the marine life in the Discovery Station aquariums, college and high school internships, a golf cart, the Florida Master Naturalist Program, the Youth Environmental Leaders Corps, technology and, the area of greatest need, unrestricted funding. “For the past few years, we have made a tremendous effort to strengthen the ELC’s impact on quality of life here in Indian River County,” said Ford, underscoring their goal of helping people connect with the natural world to foster environmental stewardship. “We have revitalized our 64-acre lagoon island campus with roofs, boardwalks, new campus features and programs, and an amazing new education pavilion and grassy event oval,” she added. “We all spend an incredible amount of time connected to the virtual world through our cellphones, social media and game accounts,” said John Daniels, ELC board chair, who emphasized the motto of the ELC was to Unplug-Discover-Connect. “When we come here and unplug and start re-discovering the natural world, we get reminded that each of us is a part of nature, not apart from nature, and therefore we are all connected to all living things,” said Daniels, explaining that a more balanced relationship is healthier for people and the environment. “At the ELC, we take pride in being educators, in instilling these deeper connections to nature. I love this organization because I feel that it inspires people who visit us to get better conMuch to marvel about at ELC’s Mangroves & Moonlight BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF Staff Writer Bill and Jane Jackson. PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS Pedro Besares and Kristie Woodward. Cindy and Sean Emerson with David Moore and Wilfred Hart. Dave Piacquad, Bill Bannister, Lynn Southerly, Jackie Bannister and Nina Piacquad. PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 17 nected to the natural world and consequently take better care of it. This is good for the lagoon, it’s good for our own well-being, and selfishly it’s good for our property values,” said Daniels. “Our theme tonight is Mangroves & Moonlight for a very important reason,” said Don Barr, ELC board vice chairman. “The ELC is nestled in a mangrove forest. Mangrove trees are vital to our lagoon ecosystem for many reasons.” Barr read an excerpt from an article written by a student in the ELC’s Junior Interpreter program about the importance of mangroves. It described them as one of the most important trees in Florida, as they provide a home to more than 1,300 species of animals and they protect the land from erosion. “We should love mangroves because they help us and the environment,” added Barr. On April 1, the ELC will host its annual LagoonFest. For more information, visit discoverelc.org.

18 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Christine Ryall and Deb Polackwich. County Commissioner Joe and Rosemary Flescher with Michelle and Bob Soos. Megan Osteen and Zack Todd. Halina Cegielski and Susan O’Rourke. Jordan and Jessica Stewart with Ashleigh Collins and Rachel Clark. PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 19 Donald and Pamela Barr with Jennifer and Martin Anderson. Mary and Mark Sammartino with Al and Betty Sammartino. Stephen and Tori Hume. Robin Rutherford, Leonard Whitlock and Sherri Law. Joan Edwards, Lloyd Lasenby and County Commissioner Laura Moss. George and Sandy Kahle. Robert Brulotte and Catherine Dritenbas.

20 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Friends of Wheels and Keels were invited to a cocktail reception at the home of Gavin Ruotolo, founder and CEO of the Wheels and Keels Foundation, to thank them for their support of the annual Wheels and Keels Antique and Exotic Car and Boat Show and Fundraising Dinner, being held April 14-15 at the Moorings Yacht & Country Club. Guests were given a peek at Ruotolo’s own vintage car collection as they mingled with one another and with representatives of the seven nonprofits the foundation provides grants to. Each of the agencies offers services geared toward improving the lives of local children and adults, with special interest given to organizations less able to secure financing from other sources. Since 2010, they have expanded from funding just the Youth Sailing Foundation, to include the Arc’s Oyster Reef Restoration project, Navy SEAL Trident House Charities, Vero Beach Rowing, Lines in the Lagoon, Special Equestrians of the Treasure Coast, and Crossover Mission. Additionally, W&K board member Annetta Gregg said that in honor of Marcia Ruotolo, Gavin’s wife of 55 years who passed away in June, they are planning a special new Founders Award. It will be given away to a different charity every year at the Friday night dinner. “She was so sweet, and she was instrumental in organizing the foundation with Gavin and Vince,” said Gregg, referencing Vince DeTurris, W&K board president. “It will be given to a new nonprofit charity from Vero Beach that deals with children, just children,” said Gregg, explaining that Marcia was always particularly enthusiastic when speaking about children. “When we talked about this Founders Award, I said it has to be for the children, because that’s Marcia. We’re hoping every year to bring in new charities under the wing of Wheels and ‘Wheels & Keels’ looks to expand its charitable reach BY MARY SCHENKEL Staff Writer Gavin Ruotolo, Vince DeTurris and Cathi Canal. Proudly Serving the Treasure Coast for over 40 years 640 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-569-3874 [email protected] ISA Certified Arborist Hazardous Tree Removal Oak Tree Trimming Specialist Professional Mangrove Trimmers Fully Licensed and Insured Leslie Jones and Jeff Faucher.

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 21 Sam Gagliano with Barbara and Gordon Sulcer. Annetta Gregg and Tom Juliano. PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS Gordon Sulcer, Amanda Ford, Vincent DeTurris, Gavin Ruotolo, Kent Soukup, Annetta Gregg, Sam Gagliano and James Gregg. PHOTOS, STORY CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

22 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Craig Lopes and Marley Butcher. Rick and Barbara Keiser. Nelson and Gretchen Cover. Charlie and Chris Pope. Gavin Ruotolo and Rachel Morrell. Connie Link and Jane Link Hall. PHOTOS, STORY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 23 Keels. We’re pretty excited about it,” said Gregg. “We have the seven charities that we sponsor year to year to year, but now we’re going to also have a couple of other awards to give to organizations that have specific needs. Since this keeps growing, it’s just got such a great opportunity to have impact,” added board member Kent Soukup. “There are a lot of smaller charities that have barely any budget, so a few thousand dollars has a huge impact. We’re looking around trying to identify some smaller charities that could really use it,” said Soukup. He explained that he has a simpler grant application form for those requests, which they are currently accepting. “We’ve got the wherewithal and bandwidth to raise a lot of funds, whereas with these smaller organizations, it’s just impossible for them to put on an event, so it works well,” said Soukup. For more information, visit WKVero. com.

24 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach is fortunate to have an abundance of talented artists living here, and more than 200 of them opted to show off their abilities by participating in the 34th annual Art by the Sea Exhibition, presented by the Vero Beach Art Club at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. The Art Club changed things up a bit this year, moving the exhibit across the hall from the Holmes Great Hall and into the redesigned Laura and Bill Buck Atrium, where the ample natural lighting appeared to meet with the approval of the thousands of visitors who attended the three-day event. The show, co-chaired by Judy Rixom and Sherry Haaland, featured one piece of artwork by each of the artists, all members of the Vero Beach Art Club and/or the Vero Beach Museum of Art. As Veroites are always particularly supportive of our arts community, the camaraderie of the crowd, artists and visitors alike was palpable. Before the awards were handed out at the opening night reception, Paulette Visceglia, VBAC president, thanked the many volunteers who had been involved in the successful show, from the event chairs and the people who arranged and hung the art, to the servers, bartenders and the folks eagerly ringing up sales. “We put it together as a team,” said Visceglia. “I have to thank the artists for participating in the show and each and every one of you as patrons for being here and supporting the art club at this venue. So let’s have a fun evening and just enjoy life in the art world here on the Treasure Coast, Indian River County and Vero Beach.” The judge this year was Gregory Grant, owner and managing director ‘Art by the Sea’ showcases ever-rising tide of talent here BY MARY SCHENKEL Staff Writer Mary Mazur Memorial Award – Best in Show: Adrienne Markel, Sky View Sharon Morgan Edgy Work Award: Stephanie Lovallo, Assemblage Tool Celebration Alicia B. Callander Award – People’s Choice: Soozi Schuble, Golden Dazzle Sharon Way-Howard Watercolor Wildlife Award: Gabrielle Stratmann, Garden Gathering First Place Winners: Pastel/Graphics: Amanda Hernandez Golden Glow Acrylic Painting: Katharine Russum, Arcing Angel Sculpture/3D/Ceramics: Ed Uttridge, Alon Film/Digital Photography: Lynne Hollingsworth, Natural Beauty Jewelry: Carolyn Merrifield, Maritime Forest Oil Painting: Robert Whiting, Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Museum Watercolor Painting: Judy Mercer, Master Thatcher Mixed Media: Minakshi De, World of my Imagination WINNERS: Bruce Witt, Carol Donnelly, Bruce Galvin and Tammy Adams. STORY CONTINUED ON PAGE 26

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 25 Minakshi De and Judy Burgarella. PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS Ed and Jill Uttridge. Robert Whiting and Adrienne Markel. Adam Conard, Alicia Quinn, Rita Ziegler and Cynthia Davis. Barbara Butts and Pat Marquis. Grace Cormier and Georgene Granholm.

26 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ of Arts on Granada in Ormond Beach, Fla., who had the difficult job of choosing winners in a variety of media. The Vero Beach Art Club has a decades-long history in the community. It was originally formed in 1936 as the Vero Beach Sketch Club, was incorporated in 1954 under its present name, and has continued to expand and flourish ever since. Funds raised at the event benefit the Vero Beach Art Club Scholarship Program, which awards scholarships toward degrees in fine arts to local high school students. Mark your calendars for March 10- 12 for the 72nd annual Under the Oaks Fine Arts & Craft Show, a juried show that draws more than 200 artists from around the country. In addition to its Janette Beach Art Gallery on 14th Avenue which presents varying exhibits throughout the year, the club hosts Art in the Park, featuring works by members at Humiston Park various Sundays during season. For more information, visit VeroBeachArtClub.org. PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25

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28 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ The stars twinkled brightly during the Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program’s Reach for the Stars Gala, Dinner, and Auction at the Grand Harbor Clubhouse. Roughly 150 members gathered for an evening of cocktails, bidding, socializing and fine dining. The staff outdid themselves with a lovely short rib and shrimp scampi dinner, topped off with the star of the show, a “shooting star” chocolate raspberry bombe. Following an established tradition, Doug and Susanne Sweeny emceed the annual Angel Auction, which helped remind everyone to focus on those in need. As a token, Angel donors receive an angel memento to keep the community’s most needy neighbors in mind. Featured among the more than 30 nonprofits that the Outreach Program supports through funding raised at events such as the gala and the annual golf tournament, are charities that assist at-risk children, homeless families, older adults and military veterans. The stellar event provides about one-third of the funding needed to fill requests made by the nonprofits, according to event co-chairs Lisa Alcock and Maureen Kahrmann, who expected to exceed last year’s fundraising efforts. GHCOP has raised more than $6.6 million to support area nonprofits since its founding in 2001. “We focus on agencies that have limited access to resources and are meeting essential needs like shelter, food and the ability to support oneself,” Alcock explained. The theme this year was meant to encourage guests to help the less fortunate reach for the stars. “The idea is that people should reach for the best in what they can give to others. When you reach for something, you’re reaching for something bigger and better than you,” said Alcock. Many of the residents living in Grand Harbor are retired, and recall having experienced a time in their lives when they were helped out by someone in some fashion. “We know what it means to have somebody else reach out and make it easier for us on our journey. It’s our turn. It’s a great pay-it-forward idea. So much of what we do allows other people a chance to reach for the stars themselves. Which means being able to raise a healthy, happy family and have a job that you enjoy and are proud of,” said Alcock. For more information, visit ghcop. org. Angel donors have ‘Star’ roles at Grand Harbor Outreach gala BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF Staff Writer M.L. Norton, Debbie Lindsay, Mary Ellen Skehan, Barbara Reis and Jeanine Nestor.

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 29 Susanne and Doug Sweeny. PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS Georgene Grennan, Celia Montgomery and Ruth Farrell. Maureen Kahrmann and Lisa Alcock. Michaela Westover and Lyn Wnek. PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

30 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Back: Mark Rice, Bill Churney and Ed Churney. Front: Henriette Churney, Barbara Rice and Joyce Churney. Dale Jacobs and Len Hoffman. Dr. John and Debbie Lindsay. Barry and Georgene Grennan. Bob and Donna Dole. Kathy Tonkel with Joe and Mary Alice Pojanowski and Diane De Francisci. Phyllis Surma, Joan Irvine and Sally Pearse. PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 29

32 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ INSIGHT COVER STORY Rapidly warming oceans are cutting into the underside of the Earth’s widest glacier and posing a major sea-level-rise threat, startling new data and images show. Using an underwater robot at Thwaites Glacier, researchers have determined that warm water is getting channeled into crevasses in what the researchers called “terraces” – essentially, upside-down trenches – and carving out gaps under the ice. As the ice then flows toward the sea, these channels enlarge and become future potential break points, where the floating ice shelf comes apart and produces huge icebergs. The results from overlapping teams of more than two dozen scientists, published last week in two papers in the journal Nature, reveal the extent to which human-caused warming could destabilize glaciers in West Antarctica that could ultimately raise global sea level by 10 feet if they disintegrate over the coming centuries. Scientists with the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, a historic scientific collaboration organized by the United States and the United Kingdom, arrived at one of the safest spots to land on the West Antarctic behemoth in 2019 and 2020, and used hot water to drill through nearly 2,000 feet of ice to the ocean below. Here, in a region known as the eastern ice shelf, they deployed an ocean sensor at the base of the floating ice shelf and sent down a pen-shaped, 11-footlong robot called Icefin. The vessel collected unprecedented data and images in an environment in which warm ocean water, in some places more than 2 degrees Celsius above the local freezing point, is weakening the glacier. The biggest revelation was that the ice melt is very uneven, with relatively slow loss in flat areas on the underside of the glacier. But the warm water entering Thwaites Glacier’s crevasses pose a serious threat, according to Britney Schmidt, the Cornell based-scientist who is the lead researcher behind Icefin and deployed it with a group of 12 other researchers who encamped on the ice. “The warm water is getting into the weak spots of the glacier, and kind of making everything worse,” Schmidt said. “It shouldn’t be like that," Schmidt continued. "That’s not what the system would look like if it wasn’t being forced by climate change.” The new observations emerge from what is the very definition of an extreme The Icefin underwater robot was deployed beneath the Thwaites Glacier in Antartica in January 2020 to measure ice melt beneath the surface of the glacier.

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 33 INSIGHT COVER STORY environment. In this part of Thwaites Glacier – perhaps its most stable region – 1,900-foot-thick ice lifts upward from the seafloor and spreads over the ocean. Where the ice first departs from the seafloor is called the “grounding line” – the three dimensional intersection of ice, ocean and bedrock. Outward from there, the floating ice creates a dark cavity that warm seawater and some fish can enter – but that humans cannot. That’s why the observations from Icefin – which scientists pulled back up the borehole after the experiments and can be deployed again – are so unprecedented and revealing. “That’s the first time we’ve had data from that kind of environment, for Thwaites or any other glacier,” Schmidt said. They give breathtaking details of what it looks like beneath the glacier. Near the grounding line, video from the robot shows an underside of the ice that is dark and grainy because seafloor mud and sediment is frozen into it. Further downstream the robot observed sand and pebbles falling out of the ice as it melted. Within the crevasses and terraces, the robot captured video of scalloped side walls that resemble a round coffered ceiling. “The technical achievement of getting this amazing range of data in a very difficult environment, and getting out safely, is just wonderful,” said Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Penn State University who was not directly involved in the research. The unique data and images come from what is arguably the most important ocean-facing glacier of them all – at least so far as humans are concerned. Thwaites is some 80 miles across and is the exit point for an area of ice larger than Florida. It is, essentially, the heart of West Antarctica, so large that if lost, it could only be replaced by a new Thwaites Sea. Thwaites has been losing ice at an accelerating pace, based on data provided by Eric Rignot, one of the studies’ co-authors, at the University of California at Irvine. The rate of loss overall since 1979 has A borehole drilling site on the Thwaites Glacier is seen in 2022. South Pole East Antarctica West Antarctica Amundsen Sea Thwaites Glacier CONTINUED ON PAGE 34

34 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 33 INSIGHT COVER STORY been a little less than 20 billion tons per year, but that has increased to more than 40 billion tons since 2010, according to the data Rignot provided. “This robot is getting to the hard places where we need to go to understand the future of the continent," Rignot said. "We cannot understand what we cannot observe and measure.” The terraced and scalloped features are generally not included in the simulations, or models, which attempt to forecast what the all-important Thwaites Glacier system will do in the future, the new research noted. That’s critical because as the ice flows outward over the ocean — that is why this part of the glacier is called an ice shelf — crevasses that begin at the grounding line grow and develop over the course of this motion. “This melting that starts right at the grounding line in crevasses is really important for what happens downstream,” Schmidt said. “Downstream, where it’s falling apart, these crevasses become these giant features.” In the main trunk of Thwaites – where the seafloor is deeper and the glacier’s movement much faster, and which is difficult to safely reach – the floating ice shelf has largely collapsed. In the calmer eastern region, where the research took place, it is still intact but features large cracks. In both regions, the grounding line of the glacier is retreating toward the center of Antarctica. And in both regions the glacier is out of balance, meaning it is getting thinner, and losing more ice to the ocean than is being replaced by flow from the inland parts of Antarctica. When it comes to the Icefin robot, “my hope is that we will have a chance to take it to [the] main trunk of Thwaites, which is harder to get to, but also more important (deeper, warmer, moving faster, etc),” said Rignot in an email. “These studies show it can be done and that we learn enormously from it.” There was some good news in the research, in areas measured beneath

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 35 INSIGHT COVER STORY Thwaites that were not characterized by crevasses and terraces, the rates of melt were fairly slow. That’s because cold fresh meltwater created a protective layer that insulated the ice from the warmer water below – which could mix up into the crevasses but was thwarted in the more linear environment. Thus, nearly a third of melting occurred in the crevasses, the scientists calculated. And the slower melt rate outside of them is not much consolation, considering that this slow rate may not be characteristic of the faster changing part of Thwaites, and at any rate does not change the fact that the glacier is losing ice and retreating. “What the results show is that you don’t need a large increase in melting to drive rapid retreat," said Peter Davis, a researcher with the British Antarctic Survey who led a second paper published with Schmidt’s by a largely overlapping team of scientists. "You just need to shift it out of equilibrium.” Scientists consulted by The Post had different readings of what the new research means for our overall understanding of what Thwaites Glacier will do to coastlines in our coming lifetimes. For Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado, the results from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration dampens somewhat the fear of catastrophic collapse of the glacier any time soon. It is retreating and that may not be stoppable, Scambos said, but the pace will still be manageable in coming decades. “While we might see only a moderate add-on to sea level rise in the next 50 years, the processes are real, and the triggers for accelerating the collapse are bound to occur,” he said. “But we have also seen how to apply the brakes, what parts of the climate and ocean system are the main drivers, and what makes them drive …. We have some time to get this under control. Otherwise, the century of our grandchildren’s children will be very, very difficult.” Alley, the glaciologist at Penn State University, had a somewhat different overall outlook – that at least we are finally learning how these gigantic glaciers work. “Overall, these papers don’t really change my level of worry about Thwaites collapse or not," Alley said. "But, the papers increase my optimism that we can make sense of this incredibly difficult and important system, and improve our ability to project what it may do in the future.” Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier in 2019. The Icefin at Kamb Ice Stream after being pulled from the water. Above: A team deploys the Icefin at Thwaites Glacier in January 2020.

36 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ INSIGHT EDITORIAL During the coronavirus crisis, our Pelican Plaza office is closed to visitors. We appreciate your understanding. Every good spy thriller needs a “mole hunt” – a search for the foreign agent who has burrowed his way to the heart of the CIA or MI6 and is stealing secrets faster than you can say John le Carré. The “mole hunt” trope is so familiar in fiction that it’s easy to forget that, in real life, counterintelligence investigations are incredibly destructive The latest example of mole-mania is the flap surrounding a book published last year by Robert Baer, a former CIA officer, titled “The Fourth Man.” Baer recounts unsubstantiated allegations by former CIA and FBI sources that Paul Redmond, who helped run CIA counterintelligence in the 1990s, was a “fourth” Russian spy who gave the Russians secrets beyond what they learned from traitors Edward Lee Howard, Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Redmond and former CIA colleagues have convincingly rebutted the allegations. The details are contained in a Feb. 5 article in the Cipher Brief by three former top agency officers, Michael Sulick, Lucinda Webb and Mark Kelton, and in a Feb. 6 “review” of Baer’s book by Redmond himself in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. This flurry of commentary from CIA retirees is unusual. Gossips spins nonstop within this inbred group, but usually former officers keep it zipped in public, with their version of the aristocratic credo “Never complain, never explain.” Not this time. “Robert Baer’s book is hogwash, filled with mistakes and misinformation. I have never ever been a Russian spy,” Redmond told the Law & Crime Network’s Brian Ross. Even Baer concedes in the book, “I don’t know who the Fourth Man was.” He told Ross: “If I were on a jury, I wouldn’t convict.” Redmond, in his review, asks the obvious question in repudiating the charge: “If I were a spy, would I have … ?” Then he lists a series of well-documented actions he took against the Russians, including exposing Ames in 1991, creating a new CIA unit to look for other Russian penetrations beyond Ames, pushing for robust counterintelligence – in short, doing the opposite of what a Russian penetration agent would have done. Redmond retired from the CIA in 1997. This story is interesting to me not for its particulars (I know both Baer and Redmond) but for several larger points it raises about the spy business and life. The first is that the counterintelligence mind-set is a kind of organized paranoia. It’s toxic to an organization, and for that reason, it needs to be kept under tight control. When unproven suspicions escape internal controls (as inevitably seems to happen), they can become the intelligence equivalent of a deadly virus. I had an unusual opportunity to watch this paranoia in action as a young reporter in the late 1970s. I had just begun covering the CIA for the Wall Street Journal when, on a whim, I called the home phone number of James Jesus Angleton, the retired chief of CIA counterintelligence. To call him a “legendary” mole hunter doesn’t do justice to how notorious and bizarre his investigative methods were. Even hardened CIA officers seemed terrified of him and his theory of all-encompassing Russian manipulation, known as the “monster plot.” Angleton and I began to have regular lunches at the Army and Navy Club on Farragut Square. My wife still wears the engagement ring he helped me pick out at his favorite jeweler. I used to wonder why Angleton was talking to a kid reporter like me (I was then 29). But as the years passed, it became obvious: He wanted an audience, and I (unlike most of his former CIA colleagues) was eager to listen to his baroque theories about how the Soviets had contaminated the CIA. The larger point here is that with Angleton, an appropriate skepticism had jumped the tracks into an obsessive and paralyzing paranoia. Many in the CIA came to believe that Angleton was haunted by his failure to realize that his 1950s MI6 lunchtime pal, Harold “Kim” Philby, was a Soviet spy. But Angleton took his skepticism to a mad level after a 1961 Russian defector named Anatoly Golitsyn convinced him that every other Soviet defector would be a fake. This paranoia became so extreme that the CIA largely stopped operating against Moscow during the mid-1960s. That raises a second epistemological point about counterintelligence. You can’t “know” whether someone is a recruited agent unless that person confesses – or you get hard intelligence that confirms his recruitment. That’s how Hanssen, the devastatingly effective mole in the FBI, was finally identified. U.S. intelligence recruited a Russian who could get into the Moscow files and lift his fingerprints. Which brings me to a final larger point. In intelligence operations, as in life, we have to make decisions in the face of radical uncertainty. I once asked former CIA director Richard Helms what he had made of Angleton’s case that the Soviets had poisoned every operation. Helms answered that the conspiracy theories were so convoluted that he couldn’t follow them. Helms decided that going further down Angleton’s rabbit hole was useless. He ordered the paralyzed division handling the Soviets to get back to work spying in the late 1960s, with a version of his characteristic admonition “Let’s get on with it.” In the current case of over-the-top paranoia, Redmond’s defenders argue that the CIA should drop its usual, coy refusal to comment and say, flat out, that the evidence indicates that Redmond is innocent – and prevent future publication of “slanderous allegations.” Screenwriters love a spy world painted in shades of gray. And the CIA often abets this ambiguity by refusing to comment on sensitive matters. But when something is clear-cut, as seems to be the case with Redmond’s innocence, the CIA should say so. A version of this column first appeared in The Washington Post. It does not necessarily reflect the views of Vero Beach 32963.

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 37 INSIGHT OP-ED Christy Prince's new GE refrigerator didn’t work for months. Shouldn’t GE have replaced it? QUESTION: The refrigerator portion of my new GE refrigerator stopped cooling approximately 60 days after I bought it. The retailer only allowed returns within 30 days, but my GE warranty still covered the appliance, so I contacted GE. It scheduled a service call, but I had to wait three weeks because they only had one technician who services my area. When the technician finally came, he determined the fan was faulty. But the part he needed was on backorder and wouldn't arrive for another two months. I told him I couldn't wait that long. The technician gave me the customer service number to call to see if GE would switch out the entire refrigerator. I spoke to an agent who said she would have to reach out to their parts department to see if they could get the part sooner. A week later, GE contacted me to say it had been able to locate one part and could get it shipped out, but they said they were still checking on some other parts needed for my repair. This is getting ridiculous! ANSWER: I don't care about the retailer's warranty or the manufacturer's warranty. Both companies should be getting you a working refrigerator on the double! But that's not how warranties work. Companies strictly limit their warranties. They also reserve the right to repair, replace or refund, and they almost always attempt a repair. I list the names, numbers and email addresses of GE's customer service executives on my consumer advocacy site, Elliott.org. I think a quick, polite email to one of them might have helped. But there's really only one way to avoid a problem like this. You have to research your appliance purchase carefully. Read the customer reviews and run an online search for recalls. I've received several GE appliance cases recently, and I'm certain some of them could have been avoided with a little homework. It's reasonable to give a company a month to repair a problem. But by the time you contacted me, you had been three months without a refrigerator, which is unacceptable. I contacted the company, and GE expedited parts to your technician, who attempted a repair. "GE changed out the three parts and it worked as of the moment they repaired it," you told me. "However, it did not continue past Friday. So we are now back at square one without a refrigerator." I spoke with GE again. This time, the company got it right. "They ended up completely replacing the unit," you reported. "The new unit is much colder than the other one ever was so I think the original one was just faulty from the beginning." Get help with any consumer problem by contacting Christopher Elliott at http://www.elliott.org/help

38 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ The subject of Lynne Olson’s excellent biography “Empress of the Nile” isn’t, as you might think, Cleopatra, but rather the “daredevil archaeologist” Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, best known for helping save massive ancient temples from destruction. Olson presents this female Egyptologist as the driving force behind an astonishing instance of international cooperation, even if her role at the time was often scarcely acknowledged. Others – all male – jockeyed for the limelight, while DesrochesNoblecourt cared less about the credit than about actually getting the job done. Christiane Desroches – she later added her husband’s name to her own – was born to an upper-middle-class Parisian family in 1913. From an early age, she was fascinated with Egypt, hieroglyphs and stories of archaeological discovery. Fortunately, her enlightened father encouraged his daughter’s scholarly interests and financially supported her when, in 1934, she landed an unpaid internship at the Louvre cataloguing objects from its storeroom of Egyptian antiquities. In 1937, the 23-year-old received a threemonth study grant that allowed her to travel to the Valley of the Kings, where she met one of her heroes, the distinguished French Egyptologist Bernard Bruyere. Back in 1922, Bruyere had bucked up a despondent Howard Carter when the Englishman was about to abandon his long search for the tomb of Tutankhamen. A few weeks later it was found, intact, and, in Carter’s famous words, “full of wonderful things.” Just before the outbreak of World War II, DesrochesNoblecourt joined the Louvre staff as a junior curator. Foreseeing the likelihood of a German invasion, the museum’s shrewd director, Jacques Jaujard, was already making plans to move the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and other treasures out of harm’s way. Olson, whose many previous books spotlight unsung heroes and heroines of that war, is here at her best. As the roads swarmed with people fleeing to safety, the Louvre personnel, including Desroches-Noblecourt, trucked their precious cargo to various chateaus on the Loire away from the eyes of rapacious Nazi collectors, notably Hermann Goering. Shortly afterward, the young Egyptologist joined the now-legendary Resistance network formed by scholars from Paris’ Musée de l’Homme. In 1942, the group – which mainly focused on intelligence-gathering and publishing an underground newspaper – was betrayed by a mole. While some of its members, including Desroches-Noblecourt, escaped capture, others were deported to concentration camps. Seven of its leaders were executed. In their last moments before the firing squad, these martyrs for France lifted their voices in “La Marseillaise.” Before and after the war, Desroches-Noblecourt spent considerable time in Egypt, excavating at the Valley of the Queens and other sites, photographing and cataloguing artifacts. Needless to say, it wasn’t easy for a woman to pursue field work in those days: The petite DesrochesNoblecourt confronted male condescension at every turn. Still, she nearly always managed to earn a grudging acknowledgment of her abilities from most senior scholars of the Egyptology establishment – and would, of course, eventually become a distinguished member of that establishment herself. Most crucially, this hardworking woman possessed what we now call people skills. She learned modern Arabic, taught herself enough basic medicine to treat emergencies among the site workers and made allies in Cairo’s Antiquities Services. As a result, Desroches-Noblecourt retained the approval and respect of the Egyptians during a time of increasing political tension. The 1950s saw the last gasp of overt Western colonialism, the bloodless coup that brought Gamel Abdel Nasser to power, Britain’s loss of control of the Suez Canal, and the ever-increasing involvement of the United States and the Soviet Union in Middle Eastern affairs. In the early 1960s, Desroches-Noblecourt’s friendships and grit proved essential to the success of her career’s crowning achievement: the seemingly quixotic campaign to save from destruction the temples, sculptures and artifacts at Abu Simbel, near Egypt’s border with Sudan. Nasser’s planned construction of the Aswan High Dam would create a reservoir – Lake Nasser – that would leave these antiquities, including four colossal figures of Pharaoh Ramses II, drowned in the waters of the Nile. The only hope of preserving the monuments was to move them to higher ground and safer locations. Bear in mind that the 65-foot-tall sculptures of Ramses II were actually carved from – and were still part of – the rock face of a sandstone cliff near the river’s edge. How this crusade acquired the support of Egyptian Minister of Culture Sarwat Okasha, dashing UNESCO chief René Maheu and American first lady Jacqueline Kennedy forms the second half of “Empress of the Nile.” It’s a complicated story of international cooperation achieved only after intense diplomatic back-and-forth, the promise of vast amounts of financial aid and, above all, extraordinary human effort. To move the Ramses sculptures, for instance, required master craftsmen from Italy’s Carrara marble quarries to slice the gigantic figures into huge blocks that could be lifted by derricks and placed on trucks or barges. Like Legos, they would later be put back together on a site similar to their original riverside location. Desroches-Noblecourt also wanted Egypt’s treasures to be better-known in the West. During and after these massive salvage efforts, she helped pave the way for sensational exhibitions in Paris, London and other cities. Many of us in Washington can still remember the crowds in 1976 for the fabulous “King Tut” show at the National Gallery of Art. In her later years, Desroches-Noblecourt brought out several books about ancient Egypt for popular audiences and lived long enough to watch a documentary made about her career and accomplishments. She died at age 97 in 2011. It was quite a life. Certainly “Empress of the Nile” tells her story well, embedding it in the history of modern Egyptian archaeology, though at times it does approach the hagiographic. This lack of shading can grow tiresome. Only toward the end of the biography does Olson – whose previous books include “Madame Fourcade’s Secret War,” “Last Hope Island” and “Those Angry Days” – suggest that the archaeologist was sometimes a difficult personality. But this is a minor cavil. “Empress of the Nile,” which publishes Feb. 28, is a welcome and needed work of both rescue and reclamation. EMPRESS OF THE NILE THE DAREDEVIL ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO SAVED EGYPT’S ANCIENT TEMPLES FROM DESTRUCTION BY LYNNE OLSON | RANDOM HOUSE. 448 PP. $32 REVIEW BY MICHAEL DIRDA, THE WASHINGTON POST INSIGHT BOOKS

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 39 INSIGHT BRIDGE TRY TO SCRAMBLE THEIR COMMUNICATIONS By Phillip Alder - Bridge Columnist In a Peanuts cartoon, Charlie Brown has been hit by a line drive. Schroeder runs to the pitcher’s mound with an offer of first aid. Lucy suggests that second or third aid will be quite sufficient. The same idea applies to bridge deals. The second- or third-best play might be sufficient to bring home the contract. But sometimes the declarer really must use the best medicine. Against four spades, West leads the club king and follows with the club ace (showing his doubleton). How should declarer have handled the cards? When South jumped to four hearts, he realized he could be getting out of his depth. But he had such a promising hand that he hoped North would have a fit in at least one of the majors. Declarer ruffed the club ace at trick two, played a heart to dummy’s jack and took the spade finesse. However, West won with the king and switched to the diamond two. Realizing his partner hadn’t led his fourth-highest diamond, East worked out that the two was a suit-preference signal. He won with the diamond ace and led the club queen, promoting West’s spade 10 to the setting trick. Since West had advertised his club doubleton, South should have recognized the possibility of a trump promotion. If he had, he would have realized that he needed to cut the defenders’ communications. That could have been done by discarding the diamond five at trick two. Then it would have been impossible for East to gain the lead. South could have drawn trumps in peace and made his contract. Dealer: South; Vulnerable: East-West NORTH 8 6 5 Q J 10 8 7 9 8 5 3 2 WEST K 10 3 8 4 K Q 9 6 4 2 A K SOUTH A Q J 7 4 2 A K 10 9 3 5 6 EAST 9 7 6 5 2 A J 3 Q J 10 7 4 The Bidding: OPENING LEAD: K Clubs SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 1 Spades 2 Diamonds Pass 3 Diamonds 4 Hearts Pass 4 Spades All Pass

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Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 41 INSIGHT GAMES ACROSS 1 California clam 6 Horn sounds 11 Greek lyric poet 17 Chou of China 18 Trios singing with trios 20 Microphone inventor 21 Plantation-owning belle 23 “It’s so ___ fall in love” 24 Antiknock ingredient 25 Oom-___ band 26 Sax-playing son of John Coltrane 28 Diplomacy 29 With “mo,” a replay speed 30 Wd. on a ph. dial 32 Theme of this puzzle, in Spanish 35 With it, once 37 Phnom ___ 39 Deadly 41 Ballet outfit 42 Regular or waffle item 43 ER patient’s next stop 45 Anthem opening 47 Alley item 48 Envelope abbr. 49 Tuber toy 54 Big house 56 Clod buster 57 Wooden shoe 58 American Beauty 60 Religious group 61 Lion’s share 63 Gun (the engine) 64 Gaiety 66 Actor Mineo 67 First name of “the Iron Chancellor” 68 Nearby 71 Sigh language? 75 College cheer 77 Lost intentionally 78 C minus 41 79 Tries to win over 80 Skips lightly across water 82 Do a Vegas job 83 Eagle’s nest 85 Gold holder 86 Citrus drink 88 Inn keeper, perhaps 92 Hot tea alternative 93 Ending for “sit” 95 Dark greenish blue 96 Ill-fated amdt. 97 Dir. listing 98 Many moons 100 Comes up 103 Segment 107 La-la lead-in 108 Type of zither 110 Accident-probing org. 112 Barnyard mom 113 Crossing cost 115 Funny Idle 116 ___ degree 117 Allergic reaction? 119 Magical drink 121 Certain closeup view 125 Ms. Bloomer 126 Drank noisily 127 Emporium 128 Secretarial role 129 Acts 130 Norton’s workplace DOWN 1 Mortar’s partner 2 Korean War landing site 3 Do in 4 Danny’s daughter 5 Getty’s fortune 6 Crimes of the Heart playwright Henley 7 Outside, as a skeleton 8 Old verb ending 9 Sea gem 10 Dire circumstance? 11 Consult with 12 On ___ (at the movies, e.g.) 13 Tower city 14 Out of touch with reality 15 Victim of Dutch colonialism in 17th-century South Africa 16 Lennon’s lady 18 Open 19 Prepare for a rainy day 22 Fencing foil 24 Mentalism 27 Before the buzzer 31 Early Greek biographer 32 Pocket money 33 Insect wings 34 Bluefin, for one 36 Dead Man Walking star 38 Holster location 40 Owl’s opinion 42 Whence precedents come 44 Fortune 500 listings: abbr. 46 Perennial plant, or Peter of Peter, Paul, and Mary 49 Already resolved 50 Take a break 51 Bible victim 52 The right ___ 53 “The lady ___ protest too much” (Hamlet) 55 Surveillance org. 56 Med. “middleman” 59 Author Aleichem 62 The T of PT boat 64 Dark red wine 65 Graph ending 66 Screen idol’s trait 69 Iranian leader, once 70 Actress Sorvino 72 Clinton’s birthplace 73 Othello, for one 74 N.Y. hrs. 76 “___ favor to me” 80 Dual nature 81 Early king of Egypt 82 Indicate 83 “Oh, that’s ___ need!” 84 Pencil-parking place 86 Suction introduction 87 “Mon ___!” 89 Rip 90 Tombstone lawman 91 Space 94 Disapproving sounds 99 Protect 101 Hair net 102 Coup d’___ 104 Off one’s dinghy 105 Truffle-hunting hog, for example 106 Slam-dunk score 108 Dr. Alzheimer’s first name 109 Without ___ (totally lost) 111 Cooking or sewing term 114 1953 Leslie Caron musical 116 Dict. companion 118 Black-tongued dog 119 Butter portion 120 Turner in a Styron novel 122 “Hearken ___ I die” (Tennyson) 123 Delayed: abbr. 124 CIA precursor The Telegraph The Washington Post YOU’RE GETTING WARMER By Merl Reagle

42 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ INSIGHT BACK PAGE Dear Carolyn: My girlfriend loves her dog and takes extremely good care of it. I mean extremely. The dog has a schedule, including breakfast, walks, naps, playtime, dinner and bedtime. She cooks for the dog. The dog gets filtered (not tap) water. The dog has more toys and sweaters than your average toddler. The dog goes to day care on the days my girlfriend has to work on-site. My girlfriend spends a lot of money on the dog. The dog is cute. I like the dog. But we are thinking of marrying, and I worry that the way she treats this dog will set a precedent for how she might treat our children. I think as much as she loves the dog, if she treated a child this way, it would be too much. Too much hovering, too much spending, too much controlling. She is a great girl in every other way. Even in this way, even if that sounds weird, because boy is that dog loved. But I still worry because I am less hands-on with my pets. They are fed, walked and cuddled, but they are not treated like royalty. Would it be a mistake to marry this wonderful girl? – Worried Worried: If you call her a “girl” one more time, so help me, I’ll have to walk off my rage with my unsweatered pets. While that is my issue for sure, I suspect it’s also relevant to yours. The combination of calling her “this wonderful girl,” and not really having any idea whether she’s emotionally flexible enough to make a good parent, because you apparently haven’t talked about it – while also suggesting you’re serious enough to be weighing marriage? – has me asking how well you really know her, and, subsequently, how much equality and transparency you expect a life partnership to have. This is the obvious point of entry: Next time you gaze upon the filtered water, you can ask her whether she’s thought about how she’d approach raising children. Does she want to have them? Has she thought about how she’d treat human kids vs. fur kids? Were her parents nurturing? Is her meticulous caregiving a reflection of her childhood, a reaction to it, just a hobby you’d both do well not to overthink? Go get all the answers you need, and more. That you haven’t had these kinds of deep-courtship conversations just seems odd to me – and to have them is so obvious a solution that I suspect, “Just talk to her, please,” is too superficial an answer for the situation. The second most obvious point of entry is context. Is everything in her life as carefully scheduled as her dog? Does she flow or flip out when plans start to unravel? Is spontaneity ever a thing? But this, too, seems too obvious to be up to the task, because you’d have done it by now. So, back to the great-and-wonderful. My hunch is that you’re more in a role than a relationship. Find “great girl,” date, marry, have children, have grandchildren, sheet-cake party for 50th, The End. With two kind people, a little luck and a deep mutual commitment to the roles and institutions, this can serve you well. (I’m not a complete cynic.) But people who have started asking questions rarely stop – and you’ve come up with an excellent one to which you don’t feel empowered, for whatever reason, to chase down an answer yourself. So that’s my advice: to empower yourself. To understand that if you believe compatibility and shared philosophy and like-minded parenting are nonnegotiable in a marriage, then it’s time to lose the rolethink and get comfortable with uncomfortable conversations. BY CAROLYN HAX Washington Post Does coddling a dog translate to spoiling future children?

‘INFINITE POSSIBILITIES’ AN ARTIST’S CAPTIVATING COLLAGES

ARTS & THEATRE 46 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ “It was hard to make the choice between theater and art when I was applying to college,” says mixed-media collage artist Dorothy Napp Schindel, a founding partner of Gallery 14, who has been fortunate to have found a way to enjoy a life filled with both. Growing up in Neponsit, a small community on the ocean in Rockaway Beach, N.Y., she says her mother, a painter, interior designer and singer, was invested in the arts. “As a child my mother took me to see the New York City Ballet every Saturday.” Her mother also arranged to have lessons at the house in art, drama and piano. Schindel attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School and as a teenager was a summer stock apprentice BY DEBBIE TIMMERMANN | CORRESPONDENT ‘Infinite possibilities’ inform artist’s captivating collages Dorothy Napp Schindel. PHOTOS BY JOSHUA KODIS

ARTS & THEATRE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 47 with the Gateway Playhouse, an Equity theater on Long Island. Schindel combined her interests and studied theater, specializing in set design, and education, obtaining a bachelor’s from Columbia University and master’s degrees both in theater and in museum education leadership. “In these dual roles I specialized in creating immersive sculptural environments that redefined the relationship between audience and actors,” she says. Her interest in collage work grew out of a class in 2002 from a noted artist at the Cooper Union in New York City, who also sparked her interest in political issues. “It was the most inspiring class. I just loved every minute of it.” Some of her initial collages were done in wooden boxes built by Stephen, her husband of 57 years, or with antique cigar boxes. “I imagine that these were closest to stage sets. My initial covered work was done with watercolor. I now use acrylics, all kinds, including the transparent ones that work like watercolor,” Schindel explains. She entered a United Nations show, Fem-in-Art, sponsored by the United Nations Development Fund for Women and won First Place for ‘Unholy Vision,’ about the persecution of women in Afghanistan. Schindel went on to do other social issue works that conveyed messages on topics such as women, immigration, war and peace, and American Indians. CONTINUED ON PAGE 48

ARTS & THEATRE 48 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ “One of my pieces, a commentary on pollution in the Housatonic River, was showcased at the Norman Rock - well Museum in Stockbridge, Massa - chusetts,” says Schindel, referencing her ‘River of Hope.’ The river, which runs from Pittsfield, Mass., through Connecticut and into Long Island Sound, is dangerously polluted with PCBs and other chemicals from a General Electric plant. Her piece ‘After the Storm’ is a com - mentary on the devastation of the 2004 twin hurricanes, Frances and Jean, but her latest collages are more upbeat. One features scenes from the clas - sic “I Love Lucy” episode where Lucy and Ethel are wrapping chocolates on a conveyor belt that keeps moving faster and faster. They are seen stuffing the chocolates in their mouths and shirts so the forewoman wouldn’t know they couldn’t keep up. “We need some happy right now,” she says. “It was really a lot of fun to do.” Schindel uses photos she has taken as the base for her collages, and mixes them with historic and other found images, even a painting her father made. She is especially known for her ‘laundry’ series, where each collage features a building or landscape with laundry hung out to dry. “Everybody can relate to laundry,” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 47

ARTS & THEATRE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 49 says Schindel. Other series showcase an assortment of subject matter. “I work with a wide variety of media that includes my own drawings and prints, tissue paper, doilies, stenciling, gel prints, newspaper, found and art papers, ephemera, plastics and other found objects, torn paper and photos. I use photo transfer techniques often, then Photoshop,” she explains. “Very time consuming and detailed work.” Schindel is now experimenting with sewn paper collages, having bought a computerized sewing machine that makes 60 decorative stiches. “I begin in much the same way a scenic designer would. Identify concept or issue or specific item and explore that with a graphic image that says something emotionally about the image through color, line and form,” says Schindel. “With collage, I have at my fingertips infinite possibilities for interpretation through a variety of materials. I like to add surprise images, not expected, often repeating them.” Prior to moving to Vero Beach in 2004, Schindel had an active life in New York City and the Berkshires in Massachusetts, where she was involved nationally in educational theater and developmental drama. For many years, Schindel was the director of DramaMUSE Associates, a theater company that interpreted concepts and exhibits through interactive productions at museums, conferences and even for New York’s mayor at Gracie Mansion. She taught acting at New York University, served as artistic director of the Little Theater of the Mind’s Eye in Great Neck, N.Y., was the founding artistic director of City Lights Youth Theater in NYC, and was director of Middle School Theater at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights. “Packer had a very advanced arts program,” recalls Schindel. “All middle-schoolers studied dance, visual arts, music, theater and animation as academic subjects.” The country home they owned in the Berkshires was down the road from Jacob’s Pillow, a dance center and performance space, and for a number of years she served as director of education for the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge. During the summer Schindel would work with children, flushing out plays they had written, after which they would have a production of the play. She also served as museum director of the Becket Land Trust Historic Quarry and Forest, where she initiated programs that continue to this day. Her book “Pioneer Journeys: Drama in Museum Education,” co-authored with Jennifer Fell Hayes, received the Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theater and Education. Schindel’s work can be viewed at Gallery 14, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, and the virtual show, Art Impact International, an online site of artists and exhibitions. She is also an active member of the Vero Beach Art Club, where she is currently co-chair of workshops.

ARTS & THEATRE 50 Vero Beach 32963 / February 23, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ The Share to Care free community fair runs all day Saturday and will showcase good news and good entertainment for the whole family. You can get to know more than 40 deserving nonprofits that received grants from Impact 100 for critical projects ranging from medical services to arts to mentoring programs to sailing and much more. There will also be a mainstage where you can enjoy dancers, music and theatrical acts. Learn about QiGong, listen to “A Day in the Life” of a sailor, play games, engage in crafts, demonstrations and a scavenger hunt. And yes, there will be food trucks. Organizers say this should be “tremendous fun for the whole family.” Share to Care runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, at Riverside Park in Vero Beach. Attendees who sign up ahead of time at Impact100IR.com/share-to-care will receive a gift and be signed up for some raffle prize drawings. For more information, visit Impact100IR.com. Ballet Vero Beach will present the performance “Beyond the Ballet Russes,” which celebrates the legacy of the iconic Ballet Russes company, which changed the face of the art form. The program includes George Balanchine’s “Sylvia Pas de Deux,” choreographer Camilo A. Rodriguez’s adaptation of the Ballet Russes “Firebird,” and the world premiere “Rubinstein/ Bolero,” choreographed by Ballet Vero Beach artistic director Adam Schnell. The program is especially exciting, Schnell says, because it expands the artistic boundaries of the Ballet Vero Beach. “There are only four dancers in the show, but it feels epic,” he says. “Camilo’s retelling of ‘Firebird’ pushes the original into a squarely current and relatable place while making sure no one who loves the original misses anything.” The work is narrative in form and uses digital scenery, a first for Ballet Vero Beach. The ballet will perform 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25. Tickets are $10 to $75. There will also be a modified Accessible/Family Friendly performance 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, with tickets to that costing $10. All performances will be held at the Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center, 1707 16th St. For more information, call 772-905-2651 or visit BalletVeroBeach.org. There will also be plenty of music this weekend. It begins with the Vero Beach Blues Festival. In addition to plenty of blues, the musical festival also includes 180 marketplace vendors selling arts and crafts, plenty of food, drink and adult beverages and more. There also will be 10 musical acts, and a classic car and truck show. The event runs 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, and 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Indian River County Fairgrounds, 7955 58th Ave., Vero Beach. Admission is $5 and free for children under the age of 13 years. Parking is free. For more information, and to see the musical lineup, visit VeroBluesFest.com. Then, the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra will perform “Showtime!” with Broadway’s most beloved tunes on Sunday afternoon. The concert includes great music from well-known composers and begins 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Emerson Center, 1590 27th Ave., Vero Beach. For more information, call 855-252-7276 or visit SpaceCoastSymphony.org. COMING UP! Live (and learn) it up at free Share to Care fair 1 BY PAM HARBAUGH Correspondent 2 3 4 1010 Sexton Plaza, Vero Beach, FL 32963 www.shoppreppypalms.com www.shopdecorenvy.com @shoppreppypalms @shopdecorenvy MEN'S, WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S APPAREL | JEWELRY | SHOES | ACCESSORIES | HOME DECOR NEW LOCATION NOW OPEN! ~ FEATURING ~ MAINLAND LOCATIONS REMAIN OPEN Candyce Speck