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News 1-14 Arts 45-48 Books 38 Dining 64-68 Editorial 36 Games 39-41 Health 49-59 Insight 31-44 People 15-30 Pets 69 Real Estate 71-84 Style 60-63 May 25, 2023 Volume 16, Issue 21 Newsstand Price $2.00 TO ADVERTISE CALL 772-559-4187 FOR CIRCULATION CALL 772-226-7925 Start of Brightline service to Orlando delayed until Sept. 1. P13 Music community mourns McMullan. P13 Legal self-help centers receive a funding boost. P10 Hibiscus benefit was a ‘Spring’ of beauty. P16 © 2023 Vero Beach 32963 Media LLC. All rights reserved. For breaking news visit What you’re about to read might seem cold-hearted and harsh, but there’s no nice way to put it: If the Vero Beach City Council is serious about reviving Pocahontas Park as part of its efforts to revitalize the downtown area, the growing homeless presence there must be removed. It’s that simple. Local residents and visitors will not return to the once-vibrant park until they feel comfortable there, knowing they won’t be accosted by panhandlers or verbally assaulted by daytime drunks. They need to know they can use the park’s restrooms without the uneasiness of being watched or otherwise Insurance chaos challenges home owners, realtors Island criminal cases grind slowly through the courts FPL’s apology for poor tree-pruning work not cutting it Home insurance woes have engulfed the Florida real estate market, and the 32963 barrier island is not immune. Rapidly changing laws and underwriting regulations, skyrocketing premiums and problems getting coverage at any cost are making life stressful for home owners, buyers, and realtors. But island agents are finding practical and psychological ways to adapt and get deals done despite an insurance market that “has gone bonkers,” in the words of Alex MacWilliam agent Shannon O’Leary. “It is the elephant in everybody’s living room,” said DougBY STEVEN M. THOMAS Staff Writer BY LISA ZAHNER Staff Writer BY PIETER VANBENNEKOM Staff Writer Emeritus CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 MY VERO BY RAY MCNULTY Pocahontas Park must become homeless-free PHOTO BY JOSHUA KODIS SHELL-SHOCKED: While walking his dogs along an island beach early last Friday evening, SeaForest resident Jimmy Brauer happened upon this visitor who had come ashore to nest. After quickly leashing Ellie and Franny, he shot these remarkable photos. Hundreds of victims await justice for a massive theft of money from Holy Cross Catholic Church going back more than a decade, and a John’s Island widow and her family await their day in court to hold an Orchid woman reThe on-again, off-again war between residents trying to defend the island’s oak canopies and the professional treecutters trying to protect power lines took another surprising turn last week when Florida Power & Light (FPL) apologized

2 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ for a botched tree-trimming job and offered to uproot and replace trees that may have been damaged beyond repair. Problem: The trees that might have to be replaced were 40-year-old stately live oak trees and FPL wants to give the residents a credit on their bills to enable them replace their oaks with trees like magnolias. Ironically, Ground Zero of the latest battle was a condominium complex on North A1A just south of the Indian River Shores town hall named Robles del Mar, which is Spanish for Sea Oaks. There, the FPL proposal and peace offering was a total non-starter. “I explained to them that our name is Robles del Mar (and what the Spanish words mean) and that we would like to stick to the magnificent oaks,” said Mary Power, the active president of the Robles del Mar Home Owners’ Association (HOA). “We want to maintain the name and the character of our grounds.” This latest round of the long-running battle between tree huggers and tree cutters started a couple of weeks ago when an FPL contractor started trimming back trees to clear foliage deemed too close to power lines all along North A1A from the Indian River Shores town line at the 7-Eleven convenience store to the Wabasso Bridge. The branch trimming generally takes place ahead of the annual hurricane season as a routine preventive measure. Most power outages after storms are caused by trees and branches falling on power lines. At Robles this year, branch-cutting was pretty aggressive. Power, in the name of the Robles del Mar HOA, took up the issue with FPL, sending along pictures of the damaged trees and vowing to enlist the help of the state’s environmental protection authorities, the relevant municipal planning and zoning boards and other organizations that exist to protect trees. “They were stately trees which can live for 400 years but now there is very little left of them,” Power wrote. “You are certainly the talk of the town … how you can come along and do so much damage … and how ridiculous the whole area looks now. How would you feel if such damage occurred on the frontage of your property?” In response to Power’s letter, FPL sent someone out to look at the damaged trees up and down A1A. “They agreed that the trees have been badly pruned and do not meet their own guidelines,” Power told the Robes del Mar condo owners in a group email. “I was pretty upset myself when I saw it,” said an FPL supervisor who went back out to the site last week, adding that the radical trimming was not done in accordance with national standards to protect the health of the trees. FPL returned to the site with a new, better-trained contractor to try and repair the damage done to the trees. That unfortunately involved more cutting, but this time the job was done in accordance with national standards in such a way that the trees have a chance to heal themselves and regrow branches and leaves. One tree might be too far gone to be repaired, but crews decided to leave it alone because it is part of the iconic entrance to the complex. Conflicts between utility workers and tree-loving residents about overaggressive trimming seem to have increased since the sale of Vero Electric to FPL in 2019, which brought residents lower electric rates. “Their policy was to be more reactive,” the FPL supervisor said, referring to Vero Electric, meaning that the old municipal utility cut back branches and trees basically only when they were threatening to engulf power lines and presented an active risk. “We are proactive,” he said, adding that FPL starts cutting away foliage before it can develop into a problem for power lines. He said FPL schedules major tree maintenance for every three years, but does a visual survey every year to see if more action is needed. The company has also advised residents that it is using drones to take aerial photographs to help identify trouble spots where abundant foliage threatens the safety of power lines. As a result of conflicts with local residents, FPL has updated its contact list and has promised to stay in touch with residents and HOA leaders, where applicable, to advise them of tree-trimming schedules. “We’ll give you a call next time we’re coming out to give you a chance to state your concerns about protecting your trees to our certified arborist. We want to work with you and treat your house like it was our house,” the supervisor said. The 72-unit Robles del Mar condominium complex was built 44 years ago. The stately live oak trees, which normally grow about 3 feet per year, were planted around the same time or shortly after construction was finished. In the future, Power said, the HOA may plant some new oak trees farther back from the power lines to protect them from over-aggressive pruning by utility workers. NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Botched tree cutting

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 3 Those that remain have been losing money hand over fist, more than $1 billion each year in 2021 and 2022, according to an article published in April by bankrate.com. “In a market such as this where carriers are losing money, they respond by raising rates, tightening underwriting criteria and reducing coverage, and all three of those tactics are being implemented very aggressively,” said David Collins, vice president of Tom Collins Insurance Agency on the barrier island. “I have seen clients with homes on the island have their home insurance rates double at renewal – and that is on top of a 50 percent increase the year before – going from $7,000 to $11,500 to $23,000.” Reducing coverage includes instituting roof amortization schedules wherein the insurance company will only pay part of the replacement cost if a roof is damaged, based on the roof’s age. Tightening standards include refusing to insure homes with roofs older than 15 years, which Daley said has become the standard, regardless of the condition of the roof, and putting age NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Home insurance chaos CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 las Elliman broker associate Sally Daley, who has come up with an ingenious way to sell houses with older, uninsurable roofs that is totally transparent, maximizes the seller’s payout and give the buyer peace of mind. “Insurance costs and availability are almost as important as the cost of the house nowadays,” said Berkshire Hathaway agent Chip Landers, who now starts every deal with a four-point inspection that looks at roofing, electrical, plumbing and HVAC to make sure there aren’t any insurance boobytraps. “It isn’t the second thing you talk about with sellers or buyers. It is the first thing,” said Daley, whose own home insurance just went up $3,000 a year, even though she has a new roof and hasn’t made any claims. There are two parts to the problem. First, hazard insurance, which protects homeowners from hurricanes, fire and other threats, is going up dramatically in price while simultaneously getting harder to secure. Second, the impact of FEMA’s new Risk Rating 2.0 pricing for federal flood insurance is beginning to hit home on the barrier island, where the average cost of flood insurance is slated to increase 500 percent on average, according to FEMA’s projections, going up no more than 18 percent a year until premiums reflect the actual risk of loss from storm surge for homes located in our watery little world between the ocean and lagoon. FEMA currently insures 3,003 homes in 32963 against flood damage. The average premium is $1,163, but according to FEMA’s new calculations, which now are based on house-by-house analysis instead of just a flood zone designation, the fair risk-based premium is $5,526. Of the two, the increase in federal flood insurance premiums is a simpler problem. There is a sense of sticker shock now, when homeowners look ahead at how much more they will have to pay eventually, and island agents said some people are selling their winter homes here because the added expense doesn’t make sense. But the increases will be phased in. The hazard insurance market is much more chaotic, with insurance companies jacking rates up dramatically and unpredictably and dropping clients across the state by the tens of thousands, either because they are leaving Florida or don’t want the risk they see in the client’s house. More than a dozen insurance companies have faced involuntary liquidation or pulled up stakes on their own and left the state in the past two years.

4 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ limits on hot water heaters, air conditioners and other systems. “If the hot water heater in a condo is older than 10 years, it is an automatic ‘no’ from the insurance company because a leak could damage condos below,” O’Leary told Vero Beach 32963. “Electrical panels are another thing that has come up recently. Apparently, there is a blacklisted set of panels that, if they are in the house, you can’t get insurance until it is swapped out.” Problems getting and paying for hazard insurance hit people who need a mortgage especially hard. Banks won’t fund a home loan unless the house is insured – for obvious reasons – so a lastminute insurance hitch can collapse a deal, hurting buyer, seller and agent. Which is why Landers, Daley, O’Leary and other proactive agents go into a new listing like Sherlock Holmes, looking for anything that might be rejected by an insurance company so problems can be dealt with well ahead of closing. “Insurance companies used to allow a grace period of 30 days after closing to make required repairs, but most of them don’t do that anymore,” said O’Leary. Home Insurance used to be more or less of an afterthought in a home sale. Buyers’ agents often simply recommended continuing with the home’s current insurer, calculating the expected cost based on what the seller was paying. NEWS 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 1025 ANDARELLA WAY $2.799 Million Info:www.V250160.com Brown | Talley 772.234.5148 6100 8TH STREET $1.025 Million Info:www.V265951.com Hendricks | Schwiering 772.234.5093 1010 EASTER LILY LANE, RESIDENCE 201 $2.895 Million Info:www.V268321.com Lange Sykes 772.234.5034 618 LANTANA LANE $3.995 Million Info:www.V266562.com Brown | Talley 772.234.5148 730 LAGOON ROAD $3.950 Million Info:www.V266875.com Bob Niederpruem 772.257.7456 726 RIOMAR DRIVE $3.295 Million Info:www.V263499.com Lange Sykes 772.234.5034 Explore More Of Our Exceptional Vero Beach Collection PremierEstateProperties.com Open House | Sunday 1-3 PM 745 Lagoon Road $4.399 Million Info: www.V266550.com Bob Niederpruem 772.257.7456 MOORINGS FULL CLUB MEMBERSHIP AVAILABLE (UPON APPROVAL) CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Home insurance chaos

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 5 “That’s out the window now,” Landers said. “There is no sense asking what the current owner paid for insurance. It is irrelevant and misleading because it could easily double, going from $3,000 to $6,000 for the same house with the same carrier.” Doubled insurance costs, especially if unexpected, can kill a deal in a number of ways. The buyer may simply walk away, because the higher cost makes the house less desirable or unattainable for them. Or the bank can reject the deal because they prequalified the buyer based on their incometo-debt ratio, determined in part by the expected insurance costs. “There is so much change and uncertainty in our market, with different insurance companies, home inspectors, lenders and others, there isn’t a lot of consistency, and that can add to the stress of the transaction,” O’Leary said. “Sometimes, I feel like Debbie Downer, because I am the one giving the client the bad news about things that make the house uninsurable. At the lower price ranges, people may not have the money to make required repairs and they are just stuck. “At the same time, we see homes going under contract and then falling out once the buyers realize the actual cost of getting hazard and flood insurance. It can all be overwhelming sometimes.” “It is immensely difficult,” said Collins. “We are talking to more clients on a daily basis about rates and other issues.” 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 1025 ANDARELLA WAY $2.799 Million Info:www.V250160.com Brown | Talley 772.234.5148 6100 8TH STREET $1.025 Million Info:www.V265951.com Hendricks | Schwiering 772.234.5093 1010 EASTER LILY LANE, RESIDENCE 201 $2.895 Million Info:www.V268321.com Lange Sykes 772.234.5034 618 LANTANA LANE $3.995 Million Info:www.V266562.com Brown | Talley 772.234.5148 730 LAGOON ROAD $3.950 Million Info:www.V266875.com Bob Niederpruem 772.257.7456 726 RIOMAR DRIVE $3.295 Million Info:www.V263499.com Lange Sykes 772.234.5034 Explore More Of Our Exceptional Vero Beach Collection PremierEstateProperties.com Open House | Sunday 1-3 PM 745 Lagoon Road $4.399 Million Info: www.V266550.com Bob Niederpruem 772.257.7456 MOORINGS FULL CLUB MEMBERSHIP AVAILABLE (UPON APPROVAL)

6 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ NEWS The Finest Pre-Owned 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. Get the Best Price For Your Pre-Owned Rolex We are proud to deliver exceptional customer service and high value offers for your pre-owned Rolex. As your trusted and reputable local jeweler, we make selling your watch a smooth experience with our guaranteed offers. Prices Upon Request 3001 Ocean Drive # 105, Vero Beach, FL 32963 772-231-2060 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 My Vero The crisis has multiple causes. Global warming is causing more and bigger hurricanes, according to most scientists, at the same time as coastal property values here and around Florida have gone through the roof, adding to insurance companies’ exposure for replacement costs. Forbes reported this month that “six of the 10 costliest storms in U.S. history have walloped the Sunshine State.” “There are higher insured values along our coast than there has ever been, an unprecedented density of wealth and infrastructure,” said Collins. “We are seeing $60 to $70 billion in losses in Fort Myers and if that storm had hit Tampa Bay, it might be triple that. At some point there is no more capacity to insure these astronomical values we are seeing. All the global reinsurance in the world cannot really continue to absorb the massive hurricanes hitting our coasts.” In addition, by most accounts, there has been a major problem with insurance fraud, having to do with something called “assignment of benefits,” that allowed contractors and lawyers to sue insurance companies on homeCONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 Home insurance chaos owner’s behalf, and “one way legal fees,” that forced insurance companies to pay the expenses of the lawyers suing them. “Florida accounts for only 9 percent of the country’s home insurance claims but 79 percent of its home insurance lawsuits, many of them fraudulent,” according to Bankrate.com. Collins said state legislation that went into effect in December will help correct that problem but that “it isn’t going to make companies profitable overnight or lower anyone’s premiums right away.” Despite all the difficulty, island agents are finding ways to get deals done. AMAC’s O’Leary recently financed out of her own pocket electrical repairs needed to secure insurance and complete the sale of a client’s house. Other agents are similarly looking for problems early, figuring out workarounds and brainstorming new strategies – like Daley’s method for successfully marketing homes even though they have old roofs. “Rather than market the house with an old roof, which makes it worth less and reduces the pool of buyers, we find a roofer who will take a deposit and make a firm commitment and we market the house with a new roof,” Daley said. “We coordinate with the roofer and as soon as the deal goes hard, they start on the roof and then closing takes place after it is complete. The final roofing bill goes to the closing agent and the roofer gets paid at the closing table from the seller’s proceeds. “Yes, the seller’s check is reduced, but they were able to price the house higher and get more for it with a new roof – and the buyer doesn’t have to worry about roof repairs and an insurance company turning them down. It could literally be the reason a buyer chooses the property and signs the contract.” bothered by vagrants who loiter in the building. They need to know they can bring their young children and grandchildren to the park’s playground without worrying they’ll step on a drug needle, or broken glass, or human waste. They need to know the park and its amenities are clean, safe and welcoming to law-abiding citizens of all ages, offering a downtown oasis where they can be alone with their thoughts or socialize with neighbors. None of that happens, however, if the City Council continues to allow a growing homeless community to occupy the park, tolerates its increasingly aggressive behavior and, ultimately, lets the homeless dictate policy. That’s why Mayor John Cotugno requested the council’s special-call meeting last week. “We don’t have the wherewithal to solve the homeless problem in this community,” he said, “but we’ve got to start somewhere.” For those who don’t know: This isn’t a new problem. Vero Beach Police Chief David Currey said his department has been responding to complaints about the homeless presence at Pocahontas Park for decades. As the county’s population has grown, however, so has its homeless population, some of which has migrated into the city, where officials say transients have become more aggressive in their interactions with the public. “We’re not really seeing any increase in violence,” Currey said. “In fact, our crime rate in the downtown area isn’t too bad. What we are seeing from the homeless population there is the accosting of people walking by, panhandling, public intoxication, making inappropriate comments, sleeping in CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

8 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ NEWS public areas and trespassing at busi - nesses after being warned. “These people tend to gravitate into the park, but the park closes at 10 p.m. and we have a no-camping ordinance, so they can’t sleep there,” he added. “During the daytime hours, though, they have the same right to be in the park as anybody else, as long as they’re not doing anything illegal.” Over the past year, the city has tried to discourage the homeless from con - gregating in the park. First, the city removed benches in and around the park, including those near the Heritage Center, because the homeless were sleeping on them, mak - ing them unavailable for public use. Then, when the vagrants migrated south to the heart of the downtown business district, the city removed those benches, too, taking away an amenity from the general public. Currey said he believes the tactic has helped, but Vice Mayor Linda Moore, co-owner of The Kilted Mermaid craft beer and wine bar in downtown Vero, said she regularly hears from citizens who want the benches returned. If the benches are returned, though, wouldn’t they again be hogged by the homeless, most of whom haven’t gone anywhere? “How would bringing back the bench - es make it any different than it was be - fore?” Councilman Rey Neville said. “There would still be no place to sit, for the most part, because they’ll be occu - pied full time.” Now, our city leaders are talking about removing or repurposing the Rotary Fountain – built in 2005 on park’s perim - eter, at the northeast corner of 14th Ave - nue and 21st Street – because the down - town homeless have used it to bathe and launder their clothes. Councilman John Carroll suggested the fountain be drained, filled with soil and converted into a planter un - til the city adopts a downtown master plan. The cost would be minimal, and we wouldn’t need to worry about see - ing anyone bathe on a street corner. But would that solve the problem? What about a providing a constant police presence downtown with the goal of making at least some of the home - less park dwellers so uncomfortable that they’d seek other accommodations? Currey has asked the City Council for the funding to add four new offi - cers, one of which would be assigned on a full-time basis to patrol the down - town area, specifically along 14th Av - enue and including Pocahontas Park. If that’s not enough of an incentive, the council – working with Piper Aircraft, which has committed to becoming the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 My Vero lead sponsor of the city’s plan to revive the park – wants to install better lighting and, possibly, police-monitored surveil - lance cameras on the premises. Council members also believe im - proved landscaping would not only provide park goers with better views of the downtown’s historic buildings, but it would also enhance visibility within the park, making it more difficult to hide illegal or inappropriate behavior. They agree that the homeless situ - ation in the park has become a public safety issue. “It all comes down to: How do we make our citizens feel as if it’s their park again?” Cotugno said. “There are cer - tain perceptions of what the park has become, and having walked through there, I can understand those percep - tions – because I’ve been accosted.” Cotguno admitted the city contrib - uted to the public’s negative percep - tion of the park by neglecting the fa - cility for too long. But with the council poised to develop a master plan for the revitalization of downtown Vero, he believes now is the time to act. And he’s not alone. Along with its new collaboration with Piper, the city plans to work with The Source, a local ministry that advo - cates for the poor and homeless in our community. The Source already operates two “Dignity Buses,” which sleep a com - bined 36 people who pay $2 per night, and expects to open “Dignity Village” – a renovated 18-unit motel-like com - plex that will house up to 40 residents just south of Sebastian – this summer. In addition, The Source’s executive director, Anthony Zorbaugh, told the City Council his organization plans to expand its program to provide op - portunities for homeless clients to perform community service projects, starting on June 1. The nonprofit would pay the work - ers to go downtown to pick up trash, pressure-wash sidewalks, and clean streets, alleyways and the park. It’s a wonderful idea, one we all should applaud. To be sure, there’s plenty of help available in the Vero Beach area for homeless folks who want to rebuild their lives and are physically and mentally able to do so. But not all of them do. Of the estimated 300-plus homeless people in this county – as many as 200 are in the city – how many are willing to embrace this opportunity to get out of the park, get paid to work and get back to a productive life? We’ll see. My guess is, however, we’ll see many of the same faces in the park. And until they’re gone, Pocahontas Park has no chance to become the “jewel of downtown” the City Council believes it can be.

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 9 sponsible for the death of 89-year-old Christopher Ingraham. But the only 32963 case that seems finally ready for a jury trial this summer involves hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from two John’s Island octogenarians nearly six years ago. Orchid resident Elizabeth Jewkes Danielsen, who was arrested while sunbathing at her Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club pool in January for the May 2022 vehicular Homicide of John’s Island resident Christopher Ingraham, is now facing two civil lawsuits as well. The family of Christopher and Frances Ingraham hired attorney Dan Ullian of Gould Cooksey Fennell law firm to sue both Elizabeth Jewkes Danielsen and her husband Paul Danielsen for negligence. Frances Ingraham, who sustained serious injuries when Danielsen’s Mercedes struck the Ingrahams’ Lexus, killing Christopher, NEWS CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Island criminal cases

10 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ New Access to Justice Legal Self Help Centers – designed to help lowincome residents who are trying to deal with the legal system without a costly attorney – received unanimous support for future funding from Indian River County Commissioner at its May 16 meeting. Clerk of Circuit Court Jeff Smith told the commission that the initiative, which is designed to aid self-represented litigants, should help reduce court backlogs and costs. “There’s a lot of need for people to have assistance through the justice system that can’t afford it. We will be able to serve them and get them through the process. This is a great accomplishment. It’s a big thing for Indian River County,” added Smith, who is also suing the Danielsens separately from the personal representatives of the estate. The complaints allege that the Danielsens were out drinking together and, after leaving in separate vehicles, both drove north on A1A through the Town of Indian River Shores in a reckless manner. Judge Janet Croom in April ordered the parties to file a joint case management plan, but on May 3 Ingraham’s personal representatives reported to the court that they had not yet been able to serve the lawsuit on the Danielsens. Paul Danielsen is an attorney in California. Police say Elizabeth Danielsen’s blood alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit when her blood was drawn at Lawnwood Hospital. Elizabeth Danielsen pleaded not guilty in writing on March 20, and defense attorney Andy Metcalf filed a notice with the court that she would be waiving her right to appear in person at pre-trial proceedings. She is out on $150,000 bond with an ankle monitor and she must submit to weekly drug and alcohol testing. She is only permitNEWS CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 Island criminal cases ted to leave the 19th Judicial Circuit for work and medical emergencies. Assistant State Attorney Bill Long, who recently applied to be appointed to fill a judicial seat but was not selected, is prosecuting this case. Deborah True, the former Holy Cross Catholic Church administrator accused of using an off-the-books bank account to siphon off about $700,000 in parishioner donations to pay her personal debts, is not going to trial anytime soon. True, 70, is out on $25,000 bond and living in Colorado with her adult son, who she said needs her because he has mental issues. Ahead of a scheduled May 3 docket call, True’s defense attorney filed a motion to continue the case until July 12. Assistant State Attorney Patrick O’Brien agreed and Judge Robert Meadows granted the continuance. True is charged with first-degree felony grand theft pursuant to a scheme or course of conduct. Victims number in the hundreds, as detailed in bank records with copies of donation checks and fund transfers from the sale of securities. The losses are likely much greater than the $1.5 million estimated by police – $697,000 which can be shown to have directly benefitted True – but due to bank document retention policies, the oldest records the Vero Beach Police Department could obtain were dated January 2015. Records show the late Holy Cross priest, Fr. Richard Murphy, set up the secret bank account in 2012 with he and True being the only signatories, but the two transferred from St. Joseph’s Church in Stuart together a quarter century ago as a package deal – 17 years prior to any bank records that still exist. Records show True cleaned out the account in May 2020 and closed it shortly after Murphy’s death. True and Murphy were close friends who traveled and dined together, and True served as the personal representative of Murphy’s estate. The crimes True is accused of came to light in 2020 after True retired and a new priest and administrator found a bank account that had not been reported to the parish council or to the Diocese of Palm Beach. Bank records show donations were routinely deposited to this account by True, then checks and electronic payments were issued to True or to her creditors. True was arrested in September and entered a plea of not guilty in October. True told police that Murphy was “generous to a fault” and that he gave her the money over the years to pay her bills. One very old felony case of theft and exploitation of an elderly John’s Island couple looks as if it may go to trial next month. Sophia Monae Shepherd, also known as Sophia Brown, is one of two home health aides accused of stealing more than a half million dollars from Michelina Martinelli, her late husband Alfred, and the banks at which they had platinum credit cards. In addition to designer clothing, shoes and electronics, the pair of CNAs allegedly charged a cruise, gambling junkets, cosmetic surgery, a trip to New York with a stay at The Plaza, and the rental of a Rolls Royce through an exotic car service. In February 2022, co-defendant Chiquita McGee pleaded no contest to her part in the thefts, which police say amounted to more than $300,000, and was sentenced in March 2022 to 12 years in prison, followed by 10 years of probation. McGee did not agree to testify against Shepherd, who is her sister, as part of her plea arrangement. McGee had been out on bond for more than four years. Shepherd is still out on bond nearly six years after her arrest. The defendants were prosecuted separately from the beginning because each had control of a separate credit card. Shepherd’s case was scheduled to be heard prior to McGee’s, but Shepherd changed attorneys and was granted extra time to prepare for trial. Should Shepherd decide to take her chances at trial instead of changing her plea, jury selection is scheduled to begin on June 12. Funding boost for legal self-help centers BY MARY SCHENKEL Staff Writer

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12 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ With pomp and circumstance, the Class of 2023 at Saint Edward’s School celebrated a milestone anniversary with the school’s 50th Commencement ceremony. In his welcoming speech, Jack MacMullan, Associate Head of School/ Head of Upper School, said it would have provided lovely symmetry if there were 50 students in the graduating Class of 2023, but alas, he quipped, it was a class of 49. MacMullan said the 2023 graduates had overcome many obstacles, most notably the pandemic, which had impacted their first three years of high school with frustration and uncertainty, highs and lows. “For the first time in a long time, this year felt like normal, with the return of numerous traditions and even the start of a few new ones,” said MacMullan. Head of School Stuart Hirstein recognized the “small but mighty” faculty, who do a remarkable job leading the school. Addressing the Class of 2023, he offered 12 pieces of advice, including that they should live life to the fullest, but in such a fashion as to make the lives of others better. The seniors selected a married couple as this year’s faculty guest speakers; Jaclyn and Scott Mohr, who met at St. Edward’s as teachers, according to Jaclyn, “right here on the senior patio, the pinnacle of romance.” The couple spoke to the class with humor and warmth about what they could expect in the coming years and emphasized that the celebration was an equally important moment for their families. “I’m confident that each family member in the audience has been on an emotional roller coaster in the last few weeks,” said Jaclyn Mohr. As students walked across the stage to receive their diplomas, she said, their parents would likely have visions of them as infants, children and young adults flashing through their minds. will retire from his position June 30. Two confidential Self Help Centers, which will be outfitted with legal kiosks, are expected to become operational in July. Initially, one will be located in a firstfloor office at the County Courthouse, and the other in an office at the United Against Poverty UP Center. In the long term, the goal is to provide additional centers in other parts of the county. Prior to the commission meeting, Ellen Kendall, president of the John’s Island Community Service League, explained that pro se litigants, those not represented by an attorney, are often unaware of the correct forms to use, where to file them or the court system in general. Developers are currently loading the kiosks with software containing the types of forms needed to file a variety of matters such as family law, small claims and residential landlord/tenant disputes. Once completed, forms can be filed through the kiosks as well. The kiosks will also have connectivity to enable short conversations via Zoom with pro bono attorneys or, in some cases, to appear in matters. Litigants will be charged the minimal amount of $1 per minute in 15-minute increNEWS 49 grads feted at St. Edward’s 50th commencement BY MARY SCHENKEL Staff Writer CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 Legal self-help centers ments, up to a maximum of one hour for attorney consultations. Smith requested, and commissioners agreed, to allocate those funds currently designated to the Fort Pierce-based Florida Rural Legal Services to instead sustain the Access to Justice Self Help Centers in Indian River County. The United Way of Indian River County (which is also the program’s fiscal agent) and the John’s Island Community Service League have provided funding for the initial operational costs, including the salary of the program director, and the John’s Island Foundation has funded the capital costs of the kiosks. “This is a program I have long desired to establish in our county court system,” said Smith. He noted that while similar programs elsewhere are funded by tax dollars, he was pleased that this is being made possible due to a public/private partnership. Smith said Nancy Ludo, who previously worked with him, has been hired to be the director for the program. It is anticipated that she will be at United Against Poverty two days a week and the courthouse three days a week.

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 13 Brightline conducted 110 mile per hour test runs in northern Indian River County last week after announcing that the anticipated June 30 rollout of high-speed rail passenger service between Orlando and Miami would be delayed at least until Sept. 1. Brightline started selling tickets on May 17 for the three-and-a-half-hour trip between Orlando and Miami with Friday, Sept. 1, being the first date available on the company’s website. One-way tickets are selling for $79 and up for adults, according to a Brightline news release. Premium one-way fares cost $149 and up. The Sept. 1 startup date is two months later than Brightline anticipated in its January 2023 Revenue and Ridership Report when the company predicted “commencement of operations” by June 30. The daytime test runs at 110 mph ran across the new St. Sebastian River Railroad Bridge and through northern Indian River County between May 17 and May 19, the company said. The $33 million replacement of the St. Sebastian River Railroad Bridge is expected to be completed in June, according to Brightline’s May 8 construction and testing advisory. Additional testing is expected in June and July. Once service starts, Brightline’s highspeed passenger trains will pass through Indian River County 32 times per day – 16 in each direction – at speeds of up to 110 mph. Brightline’s online schedule indicates the first train from Orlando to Miami will depart at 5 a.m. and arrive in Miami at 8:30 a.m. The last train leaves Orlando at 8:50 p.m. and arrives in Miami at 12:20 a.m. NEWS BY GEORGE ANDREASSI Staff Writer Vero’s musical community lost one of its champions with the passing of Jean McMullan, co-founder of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, who died May 12 at her home in Asheville, N.C. McMullan, who would have celebrated her 97th birthday in June, visited Vero in April to enjoy the final Masterworks Concert of the 33rd season and made a brief appearance onstage to a standing ovation. She was predeceased in January 2019 by husband Andrew McMullan, an accomplished musician who until 2004 conducted the orchestra the couple founded from their Oceangate condominium in Vero Beach. Possessed of her own musical acumen, combined with savvy leadership skills, Jean McMullan held bachelor's and master’s degrees in education and music from the University of Connecticut and played for 16 years in the Portland Symphony in Maine. As a result of their enthusiasm, careful nurturing and the support of donors and friends, the ACO has enthralled audiences for more than three decades. It is now the oldest continuously performing professional orchestra on the Treasure Coast. “I was so proud of my Andy and what he created. I’m thankful that we had wonderful friends to support his vision in bringing a topnotch professional orchestra to the Treasure Coast. I am still in awe that the ACO was able to survive the pandemic and is now back stronger than ever,” said McMullan at the April concert at the Community Church of Vero Beach. In her honor, the Jean McMullan Artist Fund has been established at the Atlantic Classical Orchestra to support “the music and musicians that set the standard for classical music in our area.” Music community mourns Jean McMullan Brightline’s Orlando service delayed to Sept. 1 BY MARY SCHENKEL Staff Writer She advised them to realize their own self-worth, to know how truly irreplaceable they are. Scott Mohr agreed, telling them to “give your best, give to others, but also give to yourself by taking care of yourself.” Lauren Grace Chesley, recipient of the Head of School Award, was chosen by her classmates as Senior Class speaker. On behalf of them, she acknowledged the support of families, friends and faculty. “We’ve got a good group 2023. I can’t wait to see where life takes each of you,” said Chesley. “All of your high school memories have officially been made. Cherish them always.”

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16 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Cherry blossoms bloomed during the 24th annual Blue Ribbon Luncheon and Fashion Show, a sold-out Springtime in Paris-themed event at the Oak Harbor Club to benefit the Hibiscus Children’s Center. Wearing a vibrant bouquet of springtime colors, ladies sipped champagne and perused the impressive selection of silent-auction items and purchased raffle tickets for a chance at several spectacular items, before heading into the dining room for the luncheon. The ladies were all anxious to get a look at this year’s must-have spring and summer women’s fashions from our island shops: Belle Cose, Cooper & Co., Frances Brewster, Island Cashmere, J. McLaughlin, Melange, Sara Campbell Ltd., Sassy Boutique, and Tendencies, plus a selection of men’s wear from Vernon Scott. Hibiscus Guild members had organized the event, a considerable undertaking co-chaired by Lisa Giessert BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF Staff Writer Linda Kofoed, Grace Hoffman, Kearny Dietrich, Deana Marchant, Erin Keenan, Danielle Dean, Dominique Reed, Cathye Motta, Melinda Cooper and Michelle DeAquair. PHOTOS BY JOSHUA KODIS AND STEPANIE LaBAFF Stylish Hibiscus Children’s benefit was a ‘Spring’ of beauty

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 17 and Barbara Rice, and the fashion show was produced by Sobol Fashion Productions, which brought in professional models from Miami to showcase a variety of styles from casual day wear to evening attire. While everyone enjoyed the opportunity to view the beautiful fashions, their true intent was to support the Hibiscus Children’s Center, recognizing that their own lives greatly contrast with the harsh realities of the lives of teens, ages 13 through 17, who reside Page Franzel and Henriette Churney. Quinlan O’Grady and Carole Casey. CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

18 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ at the Vero Beach Hibiscus Village. “By your presence, each one of you shares a commitment of raising funds and raising awareness for the teens who live at the Village here in Vero Beach,” said Sue Sharpe, mistress of ceremonies. “April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. The teens who live at Hibiscus Village come from broken backgrounds of abuse, neglect and abandonment. Hibiscus Children’s Center offers them a healing environment,” she added, before introducing Matt Markley, Hibiscus president and CEO. “By your attendance here today, you have heeded the clarion call that we will tolerate child abuse and neCONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 Diane Wilhelm, Bonnie Oliver and Linda Teetz. Pam Huber, Jan Harrell and Barbara Schwin. Helen Robertson, Raquel Tilton and Liz Kusch. Renae Tesauro, Cathy Curley and Lora Wilson. Elke Fetterolf and Veronique Piechnik. Mary Wright and Sue Sharpe. Jane Haight and Trudie Rainone. Robin Jones and Karen Nuccitelli.

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 19 glect no longer. If we find a child in this situation, we will remove them as quickly as possible and take them to a place where they are safe, loved and nurtured,” said Markley. He commented that youth at the Village receive care every hour and every day of the year and have continual access to credentialed therapists. “A place where today, at this very hour, 54 kids are safe, loved and cared for. A place called Hibiscus Children’s Center, whose unofficial motto is ‘every child, every day, for a better tomorrow.’” Quoting Winston Churchill, Sharpe said, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give,” before introducing guest speaker, Leanne Kelleher, chef/ Susan Kintner and Pam Larrick. Sally Pearse and Ruth Farrell. Liz Gallagher, Nancy Iliffe and Susanne Sweeny. Theresa Lacey and Taylor Farnsworth. Dena Lombardo and Patricia Ashdown. Suzanne Bertman and Libby King. Lou Ann Lindsay and Janice Lunn. Holly Lentini and Lee Albro. CONTINUED ON PAGE 20

20 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ owner of the Tides, one of Vero’s top restaurants, who offers her time for a Culinary Program at the Village. “Our speaker gives of herself every day. You may know her best by her superb meals,” said Sharpe. Kelleher quipped that the last time she was on a runway, it was to model the latest in flower girl apparel 50 years ago. She noted that despite the difficulties of trying to take time away from running a bustling restaurant, her work with the children at Hibiscus brings her great joy. “I was blessed with a family and lots of support. My mom and dad would do anything they could for me. These kids don’t have that. In some cases, they don’t even know what their birthday is,” says Kelleher. “They’re going to age out, and they’re going to have to go out and get jobs. If you can cook, you can make money, and if you can make money, you can take care of yourself.” For more information, visit HibiscusChildrensCenter.org. Emilie Burr, Carol Mettam, Jan Calfee and Mary Anne Liljedahl. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 21 Supporters of the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Foundation enjoyed a spectacular afternoon attending the 32nd annual May Pops Spring Concert at the Windsor polo field, with Marlynn and Bill Scully again as presenting sponsors. VIP ticket holders dined on a lavish buffet luncheon sitting at elegant sponsor tables in cabanas at the northern end of the field, while general admission concertgoers picnicked in their own festive style on the southern side. Attorney John Moore, as emcee, thanked Windsor as the host venue, and pointed out that a number of the gentlemen were wearing bow ties in honor of the late Dick Post, who with wife Helen started the annual event three decades ago, helping to make it into a signature event and serving as presenting sponsors until last year. “Our biggest advocates, supporters and donors are all gathered today to celebrate the end of another successful season. I’m thrilled to see all of you here today, and grateful for your support of the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital,” said Roxanne Hall, executive director of the CCIR Foundation, before introducing Dr. David Peter, interim president of CCIRH. “Dr. Peter has been with Cleveland Clinic since 2019, serving as Chief Medical Officer. He has graciously 710 15th Pl., Vero Beach, FL 32960 I 772.999.3292 VBAutoSports.net Hours: Mon-Fri: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm Saturday: 10am - 4pm I Closed Sunday Buy I Sell I Trade I Consignment I Financing 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-550 Cabriolet, 40K Mi. 2004 Lexus SC430, 89K Mi. 2021 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet, 6K Mi. 2015 Jeep Wrangler Sport 6-Speed, 65K Mi. 2018 Porsche Macan GTS, 50K Mi. 2008 Mercedes-Benz S-Class S550, 43K Mi. $20K $24K $23K $28K $160K $50K Family Owned & Operated NOW OFFERING Vero’s Exclusive Destination for Exciting Automobiles Specializing in Exotic, Luxury & Collectible Automobiles RECONDITIONING | DETAILING Cheery ‘May Pops’ concert full of snap and crackle, too BY MARY SCHENKEL Staff Writer Rob and Roxanne Hall with Dr. Dean Harter, and Carol and Dr. David Peter. PHOTOS BY JOSHUA KODIS CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

22 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ CARPET ONE CREATIVE FLOORS & HOME Creative Floors & Home has more for your entire home from the floor up! With Flooring, Tile, Cabinets and even vacuum cleaners! 772.569.0240 1137 Old Dixie Hwy • Vero Beach creativefloorscarpet1verobeach.com Professional Cabinet Design Available been serving as both CEO, President and Chief Medical Officer since January 2023. And he has been an amazing partner to philanthropy,” said Hall. “Today we’re going to recognize two very special Cleveland Clinic Indian River individuals: Michelle Bollinger and Tony Woodruff,” said Peter. He said Bollinger was retiring after 34 years of service to Cleveland Clinic Indian River, including as executive administrator to the president, and she has been the go-to person for the board, foundation and the community. “We would also like to highlight a very special person for his exceptional leadership over the last nine years as Cleveland Clinic Indian River Foundation chair, Tony Woodruff,” said Peter, noting that Woodruff served on the foundation board two terms, for a total of 19 years. “He has had primary leadership and strategic engagement resulting in over $50 million in contributions to Cleveland Clinic Indian River FounMichelle and Bill Bollinger. Richard Pickert, John Moore and Matt Rundels. Sally and Tony Woodruff. Joan DeCrane and Sue Scully. Peter and Pat Thompson. Dale and Matilde Sorensen. Evelyn Mayerson and Dhuanne Tansil. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 23 Ali Furnsinn, Shirley Becker and Susan Becker. Bob and Kathy Hugin with Bill Scully. Les Gwyn-Williams, Helen Post, Liz Cundari and Dr. Dean Harter. Bill and Judy Munn. Warren and Virginia Schwerin. CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

24 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ dation and will be greatly missed by the hospital, its foundation board members and the staff,” said Peter, adding that Woodruff will now serve as Chair Emeritus to the foundation. Woodruff was given the honor of conducting the orchestra in its playing of the Star Spangled Banner. The Brevard Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Christopher Confessore, next presented a delightful concert filled with lighthearted Broadway and film favorites, joined by celebrated vocalists Sal Viviano and Sarah Uriarte Berry. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23 Fred and Marcia Floyd with Frank and Sarah DeFino. Dr. Bill Cooney and Gerri Smith with Marybeth and Chuck Cunningham. Mollie Rogers, Liz Farnsworth and Mimi Robinson. George Higgs with Barry and Lynn Wiksten and Barbara Diemer. Emily Sherwood, Rosemary Kotkowski and Joan Nicolais.

26 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ At the closing luncheon of the John’s Island Community Service League, Karen Drury, outgoing president, thanked members for contributing their time, energy and dollars, adding, “More accurately, thank you for allowing us to fulfill our mission, which is to strive to improve the lives of the less fortunate women, children and families in Indian River County.” The JICSL has again met that goal and then some. “This year, the John’s Island Community Service League awarded $1,275,500 in regular grants,” said Michelle Julian, grant co-chair with Ellen Kendall, who oversaw 48 volunteers in an intensive and detailed grant process. Additionally, JICSL awarded a record $90,000 in scholarships to John’s Island employees and their children and distributed another $141,500 in strategic grants. “In total, we’re funding approximately $1.5 million for 50 different programs at 44 different agencies. This really is truly an amazing number, and it compares to $1,463,000 last year,” said Julian. “One of the areas of particular focus for us these past two years, and going forward, has been mental health. Service League cheers funding blitz for needy neighbors BY MARY SCHENKEL Staff Writer Sue Ann Siegelbaum and Joann Phillips. Diane Feeley and Karen Drury. PHOTOS BY MARY SCHENKEL Caroline Vandeventer and Ellen Kendall.

PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 27 Because of the dramatic increase in mental health issues in our community, particularly anxiety, depression and suicide, we have increased the number of agencies and programs we fund,” said Kendall. Working with mental health agencies, they hope to find ways to address finding and retaining interns and mental health professionals, and expanding facilities to meet the growing caseloads. Hope Woodhouse, Strategic Grants chair, said the Marlynn Scully Strategic Fund, which began with $500,000 in seed money from Marlynn and Bill Scully, is refilled annually and since 2017 has distributed $750,000. It complements the regular grant process by enabling start-ups, off-cycle requests and multi-agency collaborations. Woodhouse explained that they work with agencies to determine needs and work with them to fill those gaps. Examples include providing funding for the Cleveland Clinic IntenCONTINUED ON PAGE 28

28 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ sive Outpatient Program, a 12-week, five-day-a-week, mental health afterschool program to treat 13- to 17-yearolds, that has been so successful that it now includes 18- to-24-year-olds. Another is a new Access to Justice initiative that will assist people filing legal documents for family law, small claims and landlord tenant issues, using kiosks at Self-Help Centers at the courthouse and United Against Poverty. It’s spearheaded by Kendall and Julian in collaboration with the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the United Way, with capital funding from the Johns Island Foundation. “We have a couple of irons in the fire that I’m exceedingly excited about,” said Woodhouse, referencing a Substance Awareness treatment program for high school students to add to the prevention program. Michelle Julian, Marcy DeWolfe and Paula Shorts. Delia Willsey, Annette Rodriguez and Karen Keating. Sarah Banks and Mary Blair. Patti Bunston-Gunn and Julie O’Connor. CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 27

30 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 PEOPLE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Treasurer Karen Keating said money is amassed from a full slate of fundraising events, dues, donations and sponsorships, and the Tambourine Resale Shop, which netted more than $160,000. “Most of the work is accomplished by volunteers, who so enjoy working to help our neighbors in need,” said Keating. Whimsical centerpieces had been crafted by “creative genius” Diane Feeley, who with Sue Ann Siegelbaum devised a comical “Day in the Life of Mr. & Mrs. John’s Island” fashion show featuring everything from bathrobes to a full-length wedding gown, all selected from the Tambourine Shop. JICSL board members also sported Tambourine clothing, complete with price tags. “A word of warning: Don’t be surprised if you see your donated clothes, walk down that runway,” said Siegelbaum. For more information, visit JICSL. org. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 28 Buff Penrose and Nancy Rosner. Sandy Singh and Karen Pierce. Brian Kroh Bob Gibb. Diane Feeley. Pat Thompson.

32 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ INSIGHT COVER STORY Jamie Feldmar, a Los Angeles food writer, spends an inordinate amount of time with an old Armenian man named Raffi. Raffi is not a fun hang, but he is a talented mechanic. Specifically, he’s a savant of Saabs, the long-dead maker of the 1993 convertible that Feldmar bought six months ago. “I basically had a crush on this car,” she says. “I would see one on the street and I’d lose my mind.” Keeping the car alive, however, has been a slog, requiring a parade of tow trucks, hours of eBay hunting and many Armenian pastries for Raffi. “The first couple of weeks were amazing,” Feldmar says, but now she’s afraid to drive long distances. “I’m not going to say I regret my decision, but I understand why people who do this generally have a second car.” Feldmar may not have known exactly what she was getting into, but she did know that she was effectively buying a 3,000-pound zombie. Other car owners find themselves in a similar spot when the company that builds their vehicle of choice discontinues the model, or happens to go under itself. The arc of automotive history is long and littered with the corpses of auto corporations. As the transition to electric vehicles brings an entirely new cohort of car companies into existence — many of them still struggling to manufacture at scale – more drivers than ever are facing the zombie threat. Lucid Group Inc., for example, could be the next Ford Motor Co., or it could be another Saab story. The same goes for Rivian Automotive Inc., Lordstown Motors Corp. and a crowd of other freshman carmakers. Some EV buyers are clamoring to snap up these vehicles while few of them exist in the wild, but others worry about an exciting novelty turning into an ownership nightmare. Since Henry Ford and his rivals started fiddling around with “horseless carriages” in 1903, there have been roughly 2,500 car companies in the US alone; today, there are about 50. For every Cadillac, there’s a crowd of Pontiacs and for every Hummer EV, there are dozens of Hummer OGs. Plenty of these discontinued models still have sizable followings: Nearly one in five enthusiast vehicles (either older or very scarce automobiles) is made by a company that has since ceased to exist, according to Hagerty Inc., which insures collectibles. JessieLeigh Freeman, a mechanic in New Jersey, was barely in high school when General Motors shuttered its Saturn imprint. Despite knowing nothing about the brand, seven years later she bought one. Now Freeman owns 19 Saturns and is bent on “saving” as many of them as she can.

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 33 INSIGHT COVER STORY “They are very unloved,” Freeman says. “But they look good, they’re easy to work on, they’re underappreciated and they’re very good cars.” It helps that Freeman is essentially her own Raffi. But she also devotes significant time to keeping her fleet alive. Because they tend to rust, functioning Saturns are getting harder to find – though ironically, the rust makes it easier for Freeman to source parts. Any decent-sized junkyard tends to house a snoozing Saturn or two with rotted body panels and relatively sound organs. A century from now, the zombie ranks are sure to include cars that just made their debut, or are about to. The sweep of auto electrification has led to a boom in car startups, and the industry’s 14 or so conglomerates now find themselves pitted against a crowd of newbies like Lucid, Rivian, Lordstown, Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. and Workhorse Group Inc. In addition to managing sticker shock, alleviating range anxiety and – crucially – churning out the actual cars, these scrappy auto entrepreneurs must also convince customers that they’re here for the long haul. That may not be easy. While the newest EV-makers have had little trouble raising capital, cash is also disappearing quickly as they hustle to spin up factories, supply chains and sales CONTINUED ON PAGE 34

34 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 33 INSIGHT COVER STORY channels. For every vehicle Lucid delivered last year, it logged $139,000 in revenue and $376,000 in costs, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. Rivian, meanwhile, spent $235,000 more than it collected on each of its trucks in 2022. Even Tesla is offering steep discounts to stay competitive against incumbent automakers catching up to electrification. Several EV upstarts are already staring down acute financial threats. Rivian’s market capitalization is down to $12 billion from its $150 billion debut in late 2021. Although growth projections and production pledges remain lofty, the company’s value is now almost exactly in line with the pile of cash it has on hand. Elsewhere in the EV ecosystem, Lordstown Motors said last week that if a fraught funding deal with Foxconn doesn’t go through, it may have to file for bankruptcy. For a struggling car company, an existential crisis can become a selffulfilling prophecy. Enough bad quarters, recalls and investor side-eye, and would-be buyers start looking elsewhere. Prospective car owners might be put off by Altman Z-Scores, for example, which use financial information to estimate how likely it is for a company to go bankrupt. At least six of the bright young EV-makers have a Z-score under 0, a level considered on the brink of solvency. There is already some evidence of this calculus weighing on purchasing decisions. Six out of 10 car buyers now say they are at least somewhat likely to buy electric, according to JD Power. But the youngest car companies – including Lucid, Fisker, Rivian and Polestar – rank at the bottom of the list of brands they’re considering. Name recognition and high price points may be part of the problem, concedes Elizabeth Krear, vice president of JD Power’s EV practice. However, “the risk is higher now that wellknown, established brands continue rolling out compelling models.” Polestar, for what it's worth, says it has seen no sign of skittish customers, in part because it’s a “pure EV” brand with the backing of an auto titan in Volvo, the company’s largest shareholder. “Polestar offers customers the best of both worlds,” says Michael Whittington, head of global sales. When a car company does fold, its progeny are left listless: Car owners must move on to a new whip, or coordinate maintenance and repairs within a shrinking network. “My takeaway for a prospective buyer is be very skeptical,” says Brian Moody, executive editor for Autotrader.com (who also has an inconvenient Saab habit). “At some point, some of these cars are best used as a garden decoration.” To start, warranties may or may not be covered by some kind of zombie financial instrument. (Saabs, for example, were still being serviced under warranty years after the company’s 2011 funeral.) Then there’s the declin-

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 35 INSIGHT COVER STORY ing number of mechanics knowledgeable enough to tune a cast-off car and source the pieces needed to keep it running. The availability of both of these things is a numbers game. In some cases, the supply chain is literally the email of the guy still making the oneoff wheels or tuning the tricky carburetors. But if the market is big enough, third-party companies will fill the void. “The passion for the cars kind of dictates what the ownership will be like when the owner no longer supports the car,” says Casey Maxon, senior manager of heritage at the Hagerty Drivers Foundation, a nonprofit that, among other things, is building a National Historic Vehicle Registry. “Either a cottage industry will develop or the enthusiasts will have to help each other out to keep these cars on the road.” Keeping an old Corvette running, for example, is easy – largely because General Motors has made almost 2 million of them over a 70-year period. By contrast and with the exception of Tesla, the new crop of electric vehicles is still trickling out of factories. In 2022, Lucid, Rivian and Polestar collectively made about 130,000 cars and trucks. Volkswagen Group churns out that many in a slow week. “A manufacturer wants to keep making parts as long as it’s profitable,” Moody says. “And [new EV-makers are] just not at the scale the way a Honda, Toyota, Ford or Chevy is.” Maxon says upkeep of newer orphan cars can be particularly finicky. They’re full of plastic pieces, which both break more easily and are trickier to make than metal. (Feldmar’s Saab, for example, gushed a tank of gas onto the streets of LA after a plastic fastener snapped off the fuel tank.) EV-makers’ tech-inspired product plan – ship, then iterate – also means that when a company runs out of road, so do its software updates. Of course, car choices are a convenient statement of identity, and piloting a zombie is a strong statement of originality. Once orphaned, a unique vehicle is only guaranteed to get more rare, with comparably appreciating Instagram cred. Just ask the 100 or so people who bought one of the first EVs, the Coda in, 2012; or the couple thousand optimists piloting a Fisker Karma, an early and very brief Tesla rival. To that end, the same mysterious gravity Saturn has over Freeman can be found between many recent car buyers and their Lucid or Polestar – namely the desire to have something less than ubiquitous. That was the calculus for Ryan Dossey, a Florida-based real estate investor who recently ditched a Tesla Model X for a Lucid Air. “I ride motorcycles; I paraglide; I enjoy doing things other people don’t,” he says. “This kind of felt in that vein.” Dossey considered the longevity of Lucid and the risk therein, but he has a plan if his car becomes a zombie: “I’ll just get rid of it.”

36 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ INSIGHT EDITORIAL During the coronavirus crisis, our Pelican Plaza office is closed to visitors. We appreciate your understanding. BY KATHLEEN PARKER Forget about aging gracefully. We’ve reached a moment when the old refuse to resign, when pouty octogenarians hawk sex appeal from magazine covers (okay, just one), and when officials teetering on the brink of non compos mentis insist upon leading the country. The notion of a generational changing of the guard has become a relic. But the past days and weeks have brought several reminders that age won’t be denied no matter how many live in denial. Dianne Feinstein recently returned to the Senate after a 2½-month medical leave necessitated by a shingles infection. The oldest current-serving member of Congress, Feinstein, 89, entered the chamber looking weak and diminished, presumably from the painful effects of the virus. She was in town to resume work, she said, while also saying she’d been at work all along, as though she’d never left. When a reporter asked whether she meant she had been working from home, Feinstein said, “No, I’ve been here. I’ve been voting. Please – You either know or don’t know.” True enough. Feinstein already announced she won’t run for reelection in 2024, when she will be 91. This followed reports of her mental decline by several colleagues, including three Democratic senators, three former staffers and a Democratic House member from California. They agreed that her memory deterioration meant she couldn’t do her job even with help from her staff. In fact, Feinstein voted this past week and attended a Judiciary Committee hearing to approve nominations which had been stalled by her absence. Otherwise, she’s keeping a light schedule on doctor’s orders and getting around in a wheelchair. Unsurprisingly, 83-year-old Rep. Nancy Pelosi has called reports about Feinstein’s mental diminishment “ridiculous attacks that are beneath the dignity in which she has led and the esteem in which she is held.” Commentary about someone’s age and related issues is painful to write and painful to read. At best, it seems disrespectful. But public life carries a duty to be honest with oneself while self-awareness is still possible. Which brings us, inevitably, to President Biden. At times I think, oh, whew, he got through that speech pretty well. I’m always pulling for him because he’s our president. I want him to be strong; I wish him good health and strong knees. But at other times, his speech is so muddled, I have no idea what he’s saying, and it seems he doesn’t either. Seventy percent of U.S. adults do not believe Mr. Biden should run again, and 69 percent cite his age as either a “major” or “minor” reason, according to a recent NBC News survey. I hate saying this, but Biden is too old to serve another four years, not least because, should he become debilitated by illness or injury, we’ll be saddled with one of the least-popular Democratic candidates from the 2020 primary campaign: Vice President Harris. Her word salads make Biden seem like Demosthenes. Ninety percent of the time, I have no idea what she’s talking about. Or why she’s laughing. Here is Harris addressing climate change: “We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues … and to work together as we continue to work, operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together ... we will work on this together.” And she’s only 58. Lest my observations seem partisan, Sen. Charles E. Grassley, 89, has served as one of Iowa’s senators since 1981. That’s eight terms for Grassley, who, by the way, is fit as a fiddle. Just ask him. He described his daily routine to a group of Iowa radio reporters last fall: “I go to bed at 9. Get up at 4. [Run] two miles in morning. Get to the office before 6. Usually in the office until 6:30, quarter ’til 7. I have a full schedule when I’m in the office – you know, committee meetings, caucuses, interviews like this that I do 52 times a year.” Grassley forgot to mention that he’ll drop to the floor and do push-ups for no reason whatsoever, and has the best Senate attendance record, according to one of his ads. No one has challenged Grassley’s mental acuity, though the Iowan will be 95 at the end of his term. I suppose he, like many men, worries that retirement means imminent death. But can’t a case be made for going home as a gesture of good manners and fair play – to give someone else a turn at the wheel? Surely, some younger version of Grassley can vote for what Iowans want. I’m guessing not many women are busting their bustles to challenge another older woman, who, the same week Feinstein rolled back into the Capitol, was flashing leg on the cover of the 2023 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Martha Stewart just can’t quit herself. For just $15.99 plus $4 shipping, you can view the 81-year-old vixen posing in a variety of bathing suits, including a white bikini. In one photo, she’s lying on a beach, leaning on one arm and looking a little sleepy, as a young dude in jeans-no-shirt rides a stallion through the shallows, dragging two more horses behind him. To each her own – and heaven forbid anyone should judge any woman’s decision about her body – but note to self: To all things there is a season. Martha looks fine from what I’ve seen online, but I’d buy the magazine only for her beauty Rolodex – names, numbers and none of this nonsense about drugstore body glow. A version of this column first appeared in The Washington Post. 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Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 37 INSIGHT OP-ED Ellen LaGow gets downgraded from business class to coach. Lufthansa promised her a refund for her business class tickets. But it's been five months and still nothing. QUESTION: Last year, our return flight from Prague to Denver was canceled because of a Lufthansa strike. My husband and I had upgraded to business class for this flight, but we could not get into business class when we were rebooked on a United flight the next day. At the time, a Lufthansa representative told me that Lufthansa would refund $678 to our account and assured me that he had already submitted the refund request. I have communicated with Lufthansa several times since then, both by phone and by email. Following your advice, I eventually emailed two Lufthansa executives. But we did not receive a refund. Because this refund seems so simple, I'm surprised by the long delay and even more by the lack of response from Lufthansa. I have received only two emails from Lufthansa: one requesting information and the other asking for our patience. I have granted them patience; now they need to refund the $678. ANSWER: Lufthansa should have refunded your upgrades promptly. By the time you contacted me for help, you had been waiting five months. That's way too long. Refunds should take no more than two weeks to process. You were flying from Prague to Frankfurt and then continuing to Denver. The Frankfurt-to-Denver flight is almost 11 hours, and definitely worth getting an upgrade to business class if you can afford it. And $678 is a bargain for a business-class upgrade. The Lufthansa pilot strike, which lasted for several days in early September, was temporarily resolved shortly after your trip. Lufthansa rescheduled you on a United flight, but as you note, business class wasn't available. When that happens, the rules are clear. Lufthansa's general terms and conditions – the legal agreement between you and the airline – says that you should get a refund for your seat reservation Lufthansa also promised you a refund. So what was with the wait? The strike may have had something to so do with it. Lufthansa scrambled to rebook so many of its passengers that your refund request may have gotten lost in the shuffle. But five months? Lufthansa did not offer an explanation when I asked about your case. Nice work on the self-advocacy. You contacted the Lufthansa executive contacts I list on my consumer advocacy site, Elliott.org. It's a shame they didn't respond. I contacted Lufthansa on your behalf. A few days later, you finally heard back from the airline. "Lufthansa refunded the money for the canceled business seats," you reported. ”I have to think that your contact prompted Lufthansa to finally issue the refund. Thanks so much for your assistance." Get help with any consumer problem by contacting Christopher Elliott at http://www.elliott.org/help BY CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT

38 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Kennedy author in possession of unused material must be in want of a new book deal. And yet, almost three decades have passed between Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s “As We Remember Her,” a 1997 oral history of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and his new book, “Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy.” While Anthony tended to other first ladies and their families – including biographies of Florence Harding and Nellie Taft – a spate of new books on Jackie arrived. They plodded along a predictable timeline, beginning with her parents’ bitter divorce after the Great Depression, followed by Jackie excelling and rebelling at Miss Porter’s boarding school, perfecting her French at the Sorbonne, feeling uninspired at Vassar and a little less so at George Washington University. She abandoned her hard-won guest editor job at Vogue, wrote a column in Washington and was briefly engaged to a man whose greatest aspiration was making a perfect martini. All the while, Jackie was being driven toward her real destination. “Camera Girl” offers one of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date. Anthony covers much of her early life, but the heart of the book, as the title suggests, was her time as an “inquiring photographer,” later renamed “inquiring camera girl,” at the Washington Times-Herald. From the fall of 1951 until the summer of 1953, Jackie was a gumshoe journalist who published, in addition to other works, a column six days a week. She left the job to marry Jack – a name Anthony withholds to good narrative effect until the congressman actually appears. Before he does, we see how Jackie was working on becoming, as she once wrote, “a sort of Overall Art Director of the Twentieth Century, watching everything from a chair hanging in space.” It’s delightful to see her pursue such a lofty goal. “Someday I’ll send him a literary masterpiece,” she wrote about a boy who had wronged her, “that will make him swallow his braces.” Jackie was a voracious reader who took hours to wonder at ideas, often processing her thoughts in letters to friends and family. “Write – or I will kill you,” she warned her beloved stepbrother Yusha, in a long letter from Paris in 1949. She described dropping a pencil and hearing it roll, roll, roll, after a professor at the Sorbonne explained that, “once oppressed people have experienced freedom, they can never again be truly controlled.” Some part of her was always in perpetual motion. “Once classwork is done,” she needed “stimulation.” Jackie danced, rode horses and excelled at the arts; she painted, drew, designed sets. She wrote short stories, poems and holiday plays for her siblings to perform, INSIGHT BOOKS and illustrated books to commemorate milestones. The 1947 Debutante of the Year wanted to chart her own path, not be “a schoolgirl among schoolgirls.” But it was more complicated than that. “Maybe because I’m Catholic and my parents were divorced when I was young,” she wrote, “I’ve always felt an outsider in that world.” She was rarely so vulnerable. Jackie’s happiness depended on maintaining the facade of a privileged boarding-school student with many homes: her stepfather’s grand estates in Fairfax, Va., and Newport, R.I., and her father’s high-rise apartment in Manhattan and family home in East Hampton. In reality, her parents, Janet and Black Jack, made “Kramer vs. Kramer” look tepid. When Jackie disappointed them, they retaliated: Janet, an unrelenting critic, hit her. Black Jack, a reckless bon vivant, blamed his wet, depressive episodes on her. Nothing was ever really hers, except her imagination. Jackie, from an early age, showed great promise as a writer. Grampy Lee, Janet’s father, submitted her poetry to the East Hampton Star. “I honestly think you could write a book on your travels,” praised her father, predicting a “best-seller.” But that kind of success could ruin a girl’s prospects. Every author quotes Jackie’s intention, memorialized in a 1947 high school yearbook, “not to be a housewife,” but Anthony does well to show what being “distinct” – her advice to lovelorn friends – meant in the real world. John Husted, her erstwhile fiance, deemed her career “insipid” and her column “stupid.” She wanted to “marry a man with imagination,” but “that’s not easy to find.” Careful what you wish for. As her engagement waned, she met John F. Kennedy. “I was rather frightened of him – because I knew if he came towards me, I wouldn’t have the power to run away – though it would probably be better if I did.” If it worked out, Kennedy’s dreams would clearly eclipse hers, but at 35, Jack had never gotten close to proposing to anyone. “He didn’t look like someone who wanted to get married, and I pictured heartbreak,” but still, it “seemed worth it.” In theory. After they met, he didn’t call for months. “He hurt me terribly when he was campaigning,” she admitted to her priest, “and never called up for weeks.” Today, we’d call it ghosting, and the rest – a couple of short telegrams, a couple of books as gifts in lieu of flowers and last-minute invites – breadcrumbing. And she allowed it. When he disappeared, she didn’t chase him, and when he reemerged, she accepted his overtures. Jack’s insouciance was painful, but his whereabouts could be accounted for in the papers: He was running for senator in Massachusetts, where women accounted for 51 percent of the vote. They flocked to see the rich, eligible bachelor on the campaign trail, and the eligibility wasn’t an act. “He was as much in love with me as he could be with anyone,” Jackie said, aware that he was publicly dating other women. But Jackie, mired in courtship limbo, was determined to make her own luck. She shopped around a screenplay about the Octagon House, where James and Dolley Madison moved after the British burned the White House in 1812. She wore down her boss, who assigned her features and published her illustrations alongside stories. She kept up the column, too, posing questions to subjects that reveal an otherwise quiet pining: “Can you give me any reason why a contented bachelor should get married?” “What is the food of romance?” “The Irish author Sean O’Faolain claims that the Irish are deficient in the art of love. Do you agree?” CAMERA GIRL The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy BY CARL SFERRAZZA ANTHONY | GALLERY. 379 PP. $29.99 REVIEW BY ALEXIS COE | THE WASHINGTON POST

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 39 Can you spot the second chance? By Phillip Alder - Bridge Columnist Laura Schlessinger, who hosts “The Dr. Laura Program” on the radio, said, “Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.” That’s true, but I wonder how many parents analyze their childhood before planning how they will bring up their children. At the bridge table, you sometimes have two chances to make your contract, but if one is obvious and the other obscure, it can be easy to fail if the first chance does not pan out. In today’s deal, how should South play in three no-trump after West leads the heart ace and continues with the heart queen, East playing high-low to show a doubleton? In the auction, North’s double was negative, showing exactly four spades and 6 or more points. South bid what he hoped he could make. West might have led the heart queen, but it was reasonable to begin with the ace, given that he had the club ace as an entry card. When I use this deal in a class, most declarers win with their heart king and immediately play two rounds of diamonds. When West discards a club, declarer then stops to think, but it is too late. Yes, it is unlucky that the diamonds are 5-1, a priori only a 14.5% probability. But declarer had two ways to nine tricks. Not just one heart, five diamonds and three spades, but also four spades, one heart and four diamonds. Before touching diamonds, South should cash his two top spades. When the jack drops, he takes the spade 10 and only then turns to the diamonds. Dealer: South; Vulnerable: East-West NORTH Q 7 6 2 5 4 A Q J 4 3 8 2 WEST J 4 A Q J 8 6 3 2 A 10 9 5 SOUTH A K 10 K 10 9 K 6 K Q 7 4 3 EAST 9 8 5 3 7 2 10 9 8 7 5 J 6 The Bidding: OPENING LEAD: A Hearts SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 1 Clubs 1 Hearts Dbl. Pass 3NT Pass Pass Pass INSIGHT BRIDGE

40 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ The Telegraph How to do Sudoku: Fill in the grid so the numbers one through nine appear just once in every column, row and three-by-three square. The Telegraph SOLUTIONS TO PREVIOUS ISSUE (MAY 18) ON PAGE 70 ACROSS 1. Nucleus (4) 4. Orbs (5) 9. Sound qualities (5) 10. Tom sang (anag.) (7) 11. Natural home (7) 13. Shiny material (5) 14. Suppress (6) 16. Threaten to occur (6) 18. To hate (5) 19. Go backwards (7) 21. Landscape (7) 22. Husk; bombard (5) 23. Try; thesis (5) 24. Get paid (4) DOWN 2. Start; attack (5) 3. Word-perfect (5) 4. To flower (7) 5. Carefree (5-7) 6. Beelzebub (5) 7. Ethics (anag.) (6) 8. Condescension (12) 12. Era (3) 15. In general (7) 16. Diamonds (slang) (3) 17. Resides (6) 18. Gangway (5) 19. Poem (5) 20. Helmet’s face covering (5) INSIGHT GAMES

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 41 The Telegraph How to do Sudoku: Fill in the grid so the numbers one through nine appear just once in every column, row and three-by-three square. The Telegraph SOLUTIONS TO PREVIOUS ISSUE (MAY 18) ON PAGE 70 ACROSS 1. Nucleus (4) 4. Orbs (5) 9. Sound qualities (5) 10. Tom sang (anag.) (7) 11. Natural home (7) 13. Shiny material (5) 14. Suppress (6) 16. Threaten to occur (6) 18. To hate (5) 19. Go backwards (7) 21. Landscape (7) 22. Husk; bombard (5) 23. Try; thesis (5) 24. Get paid (4) DOWN 2. Start; attack (5) 3. Word-perfect (5) 4. To flower (7) 5. Carefree (5-7) 6. Beelzebub (5) 7. Ethics (anag.) (6) 8. Condescension (12) 12. Era (3) 15. In general (7) 16. Diamonds (slang) (3) 17. Resides (6) 18. Gangway (5) 19. Poem (5) 20. Helmet’s face covering (5) ACROSS 1 Voodoo charm 5 “___ directed” (medicine caveat) 10 Party animal? 16 Talk 19 Mideast gulf 20 Did a little diction practice 22 U.N. VIP 23 Making the top of the honor roll 25 Movies, in Variety 26 Power source 27 Kin of “sorry!” 28 Swift’s birthplace 29 Bad habit 30 Even a little 31 Type option: abbr. 34 “May ___ frank?” 36 Tacit 38 Nuclear vessel, briefly 39 Biscuit’s cousin 41 Encircling attack 42 Sport-recreation centers 47 A sign of spring? 50 Yes ___ 51 Tribulation 52 Ready-___ 54 Offshoots of orthodoxy 55 Type of relief? 56 French church 59 Power source 61 Suture 62 “Out of love ___” (Shak.) 64 Ailments 69 Put finishing touches on 76 Media company’s namesake 77 “___ the dotted line” 78 An exceptional word? 81 Actress Garr 82 Whirling mass 86 GI’s address 87 Relieve of one’s boater 90 Cugat rhythm 93 “___ know you?” 94 Vidi 95 Leathers 97 Taking a time-out 101 Threadlike 103 River of forgetfulness, in Hades 104 Woodworking tool 105 Foolish fancies 108 Moniker, to Monique 109 Ex-Cabinet member Federico 110 ___ loss 113 Lifted, nautically 114 Charlie’s Angels co-star 116 Insect stage 118 Glory 120 Part of a fold 121 Behaved 125 Eng. king’s name 126 Tenth of a mil 127 Bible bk. 128 Drums into dreamland 129 Her hair was a fright 130 Fat substitute 131 Mine finds DOWN 1 Molten matter 2 Start of a poem about a 5 Down 3 Wall in the water 4 Not fooled by 5 Decorative collectible 6 Soak, old-style 7 The sun, in Sonora 8 A cappella voice 9 Pacino role 10 Luau staple 11 Dramatist William 12 India VIP, once 13 Actors John and Sean 14 In ___ (en route) 15 Fool 16 U.S. booster rockets 17 Cold ___ 18 Treated, as skis 21 WWII movie of 1981 24 March-date celebrants 29 Nebulous 32 Washing site 33 “... ___ of cherries” 35 It means “within” 37 Health-store offerings 38 In the past 39 Beatles tune, “___ Leaving Home” 40 Have an ___ (appreciate) 42 Card-game pass of a sort 43 A Muse 44 Map blowup, often 45 Louis Quatorze, for example 46 Lizard starter 48 Great Basin tribe 49 Compass pt. 53 Turner et al. 56 Comeback of a sort 57 Belgian treaty city 58 Comical Dame of Broadway fame 60 Timor- ____ (Asian country) 63 Airport tower person: abbr. 65 Psychoanalysis concerns 66 1970s series with John Candy and Catherine O’Hara 67 Abbr. after John Cornyn’s name 68 Na Na lead-in 70 “Same as above,” in bibliographies 71 Glacial chunk (or reading up, worries) 72 20 Questions question 73 Wipe out 74 Hitchcock-Uris collaboration 75 Mountain blankets 78 Ralph’s vehicle 79 Burma VIP, once 80 Newsroom precepts 83 Garfield pooch 84 Director Howard 85 Big cat, in Barcelona 88 Stop on ___ 89 Type or text preceder 91 Bingo call 92 Eight-armed creature, generally speaking 94 Deviltry doer 96 Young pilchard 98 Saki 99 Rafael’s intro 100 Japanese metropolis 102 Produced cats and dogs? 105 Insolence 106 Informal greeting 107 Hindu holy man 109 ___ deux 110 Venomous snake 111 Chef’s hat 112 They’re a big help: abbr. 115 Olympic overseer 117 Banana danger 119 Change back 121 Pram pusher, often 122 Recombinant ___ 123 Links org. 124 Nine-digit item: abbr. The Telegraph The Washington Post We Get Letters By Merl Reagle INSIGHT GAMES

44 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ INSIGHT BACK PAGE Dear Carolyn: After years of therapy, I found a safe way to have a relationship with a father who was physically, mentally and emotionally abusive to his wife and children. When I first reconnected with him, his favorite trick was to ask leading questions to manipulate me into a place where he could spring an attack against me and my siblings, most of whom want nothing to do with him. I learned to set and enforce clear boundaries, and that worked for a while. But lately, dementia has set in, and he has rewritten history to make himself the victim. The stories he tells are so outlandish that I’d laugh if they didn’t put me in full fight-or-flight mode. When my mother had Alzheimer’s, I learned not to challenge her delusions. But although I realize what I’m dealing with now is a lonely and guilt-ridden old man, I cannot listen to the lies he so desperately needs to tell himself. Nor can I turn my back on a man who has so few other people in his life. It’s only going to get worse. – Anonymous Anonymous: It is OK to see your dad as just as delusional as your mother was – meaning, not a “guiltridden old man” who lies to himself to get by, but a person whose dementia has loosened his grip on reality. His victim narrative is deeply offensive and disorienting to you, understandably, but that doesn’t make it any more real or less a dementia symptom than your mom’s delusions. It is also okay to decide that even if his delusions have a medical and therefore not morally relevant explanation, you’re still not willing to go along with them – or even engage with them at all. That’s the upshot, really. Any duty you feel to be part of your father’s life lies strictly within you. He squandered long ago any claim he had to your loving attention. Society gets no say in how you handle that now that he’s ailing in the bed he made. If you choose not to “turn my back” on a man who drove almost everyone else out of his life, then you have every right to make that choice. I do recommend, however, that you make it with at least occasional therapy appointments and/or dementia-care support groups on your schedule, even if it’s just to ground yourself through such an unsettling time. Dear Carolyn: One of these days, I’m going to have to meet my ex-wife’s new husband. Our marriage ended in a total blind side when she announced she was sleeping with this guy. Obviously, I’m not happy with either of them, and I’d love some advice on how to greet the new husband. I certainly don’t want to say, “Nice to meet you,” and I’m trying to be more mature than saying, “Oh, so you’re the guy who broke up two families?” Any suggestions? – Ex Ex: “Hello,” or, “How do you do?” is blandly sufficient. Your ex-wife broke up two families, too, and presumably you have kept things civil with her for the kids’ or for old times’ sake, so I urge you to keep that truth in mind for this meeting instead of the emotional truth of wanting to make the guy pay for it all. I also urge you to get the first meeting accomplished before you all have to be together around the kids or other family or mutual friends. Get it over with in as low-stakes a way as you can. They’re each other’s problems now. Tuck that into the back of your mind, and good luck. BY CAROLYN HAX Washington Post A dad with dementia revises his abusive history

McALLISTER ENJOYS GIVING ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY HIS BEST SHOT

ARTS & THEATRE 46 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Photographer Craig McAllister says he was given his first “big boy” camera in 2010 by one of his best friends, a big-time bookseller with five New York Times best sellers, who had witnessed him taking pictures with his iPhone. “Half of what had made this man famous were the pictures he had taken on his ‘Walk Across America.’ He gave me the camera he had used. I started taking pictures, first of my friend’s ’54 Chevy at the beach. I also got into birds. Birds of prey were one of my major things. I wanted to try everything you could try,” McAllister says. Originally from Greenwich, Conn., and more recently from San Francisco, McAllister retired from marketing and advertising and has been a serious photographer for about 10 years. Currently, he says he has become, sort of, possessed with boats. “If you look hard enough, you find new stuff and the new stuff is like these little gems. When I find a boat, I will fall in love with the boat,” says McAllister. He explains that he often camps out, waiting for the sun to rise, itching to get those “first light” shots where he can capture craft in unique and spectacular fashion. In some of his photos, it is difficult to tell which is the boat and which is its reflection in the water. McAllister says his approach is just to attack, taking multiple shots before determining which are the best ones. While living in California, for example, he had access to thousands of boats in the water. “I would go out and take 500 shots and then pick out 10 or 15 shots that were the best,” he recalls. While there, McAllister experimented by taking pictures of sunsets, sunrises, hummingbirds, views from their home. He also tried nighttime shots on rainy days and wet surfaces, getting some wonderful reflections on the pavement from neon lights. “I wanted to take all the pictures that everyone takes, I wanted to do all of that.” He had a Bird’s Eye View series, including one shot of a large bird holding a lizard, its catch for dinner, with some parts already consumed. In another, the eye of a large and beautiful osprey is captured looking straight back at you. Visually, his work straddles the line between paintings and photographs. On first view, his photos resemble contemporary paintings, with vibrant colors and crisp lines. But further review reveals that they are photographs, imbued with glimmers of sunlight and reflections and, in some cases, edited with pops of color. McAllister says he thought his first boat photo, taken in 2011 in HyanBY DEBBIE TIMMERMANN CORRESPONDENT McAllister enjoys giving artistic photography his best shot PHOTOS BY JOSHUA KODIS

ARTS & THEATRE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 47 nis Harbor, Mass., was interesting, but filed it away. It wasn’t until a visit to Naples, Fla., that he and wife, Suzanne, came upon a little inlet with a group of boats. “It was so calm, and it was like the lightbulb went off. The resulting picture wasn’t a big deal, but to me, it said, ‘OK, I can do this.’ And that was the picture that really got me going,” he says. On a trip to Auckland, he says, “The picture I took there was a major breakthrough, the back of the boat, the reflections off the side of the boat. I just loved that.” Encouraged by Suzanne, his brother and a childhood friend, he decided to take the art form seriously. He says Suzanne is a strong partner in this team. With an amazing sense of what works and doesn’t, she assists with the entire process. “My buddy had a show, the San Francisco Art and Antique Show, and in 2018 I put up two pictures. Those sold for a decent amount, and I thought, ‘OK, we’re on our way.’” That same year he sent in his work to the Sausalito Art Festival, which he says is “a big deal,” attended by upwards of 30,000 people. It was the first time he entered a serious show, adding that being considered as an artist was a hard moniker for him to accept. “But all of a sudden, I’m putting my pictures out, it’s a juried thing, and I got picked,” he says. McAllister did really well at that show and the one the following year, but the pandemic put a halt to festivals for the next few years. However, it gave him time to listen to an inner voice that guided him to act on instinct, developing a photographic style that is both interesting and unique. Each time he takes a picture, he says he is totally reinventing the wheel. “Finding a new boat with a new angle, you never know what you’ll find.” Locally, McAllister participated in the Sea Oaks Art Stroll this past March, his first “face to face” show in nearly three years. “That was great, and I sold a number of pictures.” He and Suzanne have traveled the world, scouting out a variety of places, including Honolulu, where he took hundred shots of one particular boat, experimenting with sunlight and flash over three days. “I just focused on this boat I named ‘In The Pink.’ It had so many different looks,” McAllister says. In Picton, a small town in New Zealand, there were two marinas and another about 5 miles away, each with spectacular boats, clean water and colorful boats. “You look at the boats and it tells you about the people, about the place.” A boat in Sausalito, featured in his photograph, ‘Sunda,’ was “so photogenic” he says it could be taken from any angle. “It was just incredible. The owner of the boat wanted a cleaned-up copy of the boat,” says McAllister, but he felt that leaving the imperfections gave the photo a depth, a “realness.” His printer in San Francisco showed him how to edit photos, to the point where he could essentially redo the whole picture. But, he says, “you lose the soul. The defects add to the picture, giving it depth, reality, keeping it from becoming too clean, too stiff.” Some, though, do require extensive editing. “A picture of a boat in very still water had so many dust particles on the water, it took me six hours to edit the specs out.” Another time he edited a piece to too great an extent. “It was too clean. I stripped it back to what the photo had been, and it’s so much better, seeing the lines, the moisture on top of the paint, the current on the water. It is the imperfections that add to it and make it,” McAllister says. His photographs are printed on Hahnemuhle, a museum-quality, digital fine art paper from Germany, and he limits most editions of his work to 20, which keeps it in a higher-end market. His work is on display in marinas in New Zealand, California and South Carolina, and in galleries in New York, Washington, D.C., California and Massachusetts. Recently, his photograph ‘Hyannis 6:15’ was shown at the Vero Beach Art Club’s Art by the Sea event at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, where it received an Award of Merit. It will also be shown at the Vero Beach Art Club, where McAllister is a member, starting May 25.

ARTS & THEATRE 48 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ The “Best of John Williams” will be performed Sunday by the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra. This is part of the organization’s Side by Side initiative which brings selected youth musicians from around Florida to play with professionals. The program will feature some soaring musical theme music, including that from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” “E.T.,” “Jaws,” “1941” and more. This is the final concert of the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra’s season. It is designed to pay homage to a great composer, says artistic director and conductor Aaron T. Collins. “Music is such a huge component of any film ... excitement, color, power, drama. It’s everything. And by any standard, John Williams’ film music ranks at the very top.” The concert begins 3 p.m. Sunday, May 28, at the Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center, 1707 16th St. Tickets are $30 in advance (available online or at the Marine Bank & Trust in Vero Beach), and $35 at the door. Concertgoers 18 years and younger or with a college ID are admitted free. For more information, visit SpaceCoastSymphony.org. Pirates and Fairies are invited to dress up in with their best fairy wands or swashbuckling gear head to McKee Botanical Garden on Saturday. Called “Pirate and Fairy Celebration Saturdays,” the event includes fair house building, games, make and take crafts, temporary tattoos, live entertainment and, of course, that unique combination of pirates and fairies (think Tinker Bell and Captain Hook). The day also includes balloon twisting with Tommy Tricks from 10 a.m. to noon; fairy hair applications with glitter and sparkle from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.; live pirate and maritime music with CharlieQ from 10 a.m. to noon and with Acoustic Kuk from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.; and a visit from Captain Jack Sparrow from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The McKee Botanical Garden is at 350 U.S. 1, Vero Beach. Admission is $15 general, $10 children 2 through 12 years and military with ID, $13 seniors 65 and older and children 13 to 17 years, and free to children under the age of 2. For more information, call 772-794-0601 or visit McKeeGarden.org. A Memorial Day Ceremony will be hosted by the Veterans Council of Indian River County. It begins 9 a.m. Monday, May 29, at the Veterans Memorial Island Sanctuary, 100 Dahlia Lane, Vero Beach. There is limited seating, so it is suggested to bring your own chair. Riverside Theatre opens “Honky Tonk Angels” on Tuesday, May 30. The show will run through June 18. It is a country western musical with plenty of music and dancing. Tickets start at $45. Riverside is also busy with its Comedy Zone. This weekend, the stand-up comics are headliner Greg Hall, feature act Kojo Prince and emcee Steve Kalisik. Hall is a Texas singer/songwriter who won a Kennedy Center award in musical composition. He’s now based in Nashville and performs comedy at a variety of venues, including diners, drive-ins and dives. Prince is known for his energetic, animated stage presence. A New York City native, he was raised in New Jersey and first performed comedy at the iconic Village Gate in Greenwich Village. Kalisik is originally from Chicago but has lived in Indian River County for 10 years. Shows are at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. and tickets are $25. Plan your evening to include picnic dinner and drinks, plus settling in at free concerts in Live at the Loop, which is outside the entrance to the Comedy Zone. There are no tickets required to Live in the Loop, so you’re encouraged to get there early enough to find a place to sit. The concerts run 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Friday’s musical act is Reckless Shots, an awardwinning band covering Tom Petty, Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, John Prince and more. Saturday’s musical act is Nasty Habits, which covers Stevie Ray Vaughn, Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton and more. Riverside Theatre is at 3250 Riverside Park Dr., Vero Beach. Call 772-231-6990 or visit RiversideTheatre.com. 3 2 COMING UP! Space Coast Symphony fetes legendary John Williams 1 BY PAM HARBAUGH Correspondent 4

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50 Vero Beach 32963 / May 25, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Polycystic ovarian syndrome: Patient’s desires dictate treatment Dr. Deni Malave-Huertas. PHOTO: JOSHUA KODIS Polycystic ovarian syndrome is a common problem for women of childbearing age, affecting up to 10 percent of the female population. It is also the leading cause of infertility and can increase the risk of other health conditions. That’s why if you are a woman experiencing irregular menstrual cycles, you should see your gynecologist and be checked for this condition. “There are different definitions for polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS),” said Dr. Deni Malave-Huertas, a gynecologist with Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital’s Partners in Women’s Health in Vero Beach. “But the BY KERRY FIRTH Correspondent