02/02/2023 ISSUE 05

The night before 27-year-old Johnny Peters went missing, he enjoyed a casual meatloaf dinner with his brother Freddy and friend Steven Stewart at the Peters brothers’ Vero home, then the three sat around a fire pit in the backyard, with good vibes flowing. It would be the final time Stewart saw Johnny Peters, his friend since Vero Beach High. Stewart spoke to his former classmate the next day on Jan. 9. Johnny told him he was at the beach having a beer. He was last seen at Waldo’s at the Driftwood Inn, then on a nearby beach. The Peters boys were raised in Central Beach before parents Fred and Amanda Peters moved to Indian River Shores, so the eateries and watering holes of Ocean Drive were Johnny’s home turf. Nothing Right up to the moment he hung up the black robe for the last time, Circuit Court Judge Dan Vaughn gave the taxpayers of Indian River County and all of Florida’s 19th Judicial Circuit his full effort and attention to ensuring that justice was done. On the bench, Vaughn displayed a rare combination of meticulous attention to detail, exhaustive knowledge of Florida law and good-hearted humanity toward jurors, victims and their families, and even to the beleaguered defendants who wound up in his courtroom. Realizing that any normal person gets really nervous in a courtroom, Vaughn had a habit of repeating important instructions three times. He thanked jurors profusely for serving and it was during the jury selection or voir dire process that Vaughn sought to put prospective jurors at ease by letting let his humorous side show. But to the attorneys who practiced before him, Vaughn never joked about the law. Prosecutors and defense attorneys got exactly the treatment they deserved – respect for being prepared, thorough and quick on their feet to represent the state or their client, or a rebuke for being lazy, careless and not following the rules. INSIDE To advertise call: 772-559-4187 For circulation or where to pick up your issue call: 772-226-7925 NEWS HEALTH PETS REAL ESTATE 1-5 6 B8 12 ARTS GAMES CALENDAR B1 B9 B12 © 2023 Vero Beach 32963 Media LLC. All rights reserved. MY TAKE BY RAY MCNULTY Another sad chapter in culture wars hits schools Teenagers are not going to their high school libraries looking for pornography. They’re not going to their high school libraries to check out books about LGBTQ lifestyles, or that encourage premarital sex, or overwhelm them with guilt about racism. Nor are they scanning the shelves in search of reading materials that could indoctrinate them in some fringe religion or anti-America ideology. To be blunt: They’re not checking out school-library books at all – not in any meaningful numbers, anyway. They’re not even using their school libraries. Our school district superintendent, in fact, hopes to draw students back to these relics by converting them into modern media centers, equipped with the electronics and technology of these digital-first times. Besides, if high school kids want to find sexually explicit content – or other age-inappropriate materials – they’re going to the Internet, using their phones and laptops. So why is our School Board, along with Superintendent David Moore and his already-overworked district staff, wasting time and resources developing a policy and process for reviewing library books students aren’t reading? Why has the school district leadership formed a nine-member committee, composed of citizens and staff, to hear challenges from community members who believe February 2, 2023 | Volume 10, Issue 5 | Newsstand Price: $1.00 | For breaking news visit VeroNews.com YOUR LOCAL NEWS SOURCE FOR INDIAN RIVER COUNTY MOBILE VISITS FOR YOUNG PATIENTS BY SEBASTIAN DOCTOR Your Health, Page 8 ARTIST JILL KERWICK ALWAYS GOES WITH THE CREATIVE FLOW Arts & Theatre, P. B2 Vero man’s disappearance devastates family, friends CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 By Lisa Zahner | Staff Writer [email protected] Retired jurist Vaughn was case study in fairness CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 With an “inaugural celebration” involving banners, local dignitaries and other hoopla, Breeze Airways is set to begin its self-styled “nice” regular passenger airline service this weekend between the Northeast and Vero Beach, a destination the airline’s founder says he’s never visited but heard a lot about. The first Breeze plane, an Embraer jet that can hold 118 passengers, was to touch down at the Vero Beach Regional Airport Friday afternoon from Westchester (N.Y.) airport, and after the landing and take-off party, return that evening to Westchester with its first load of Vero passengers. The following day, Saturday, a brandnew A220 Airbus jet with a capacity for CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 By Pieter VanBennekom Staff Writer Emeritus CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Breeze Airways chief has high hopes for Vero service By Nick Samuel | Staff Writer A Breeze A220 Airbus jet. Breeze Airways founder and CEO David Neeleman.

up to 137 passengers will make the roundtrip to Vero Beach from Bradley Field, the international airport serving the Hartford, Conn., and Springfield, Mass., metropolitan areas. With its brightly colored blue-andpurple jets, Breeze will offer service between Hartford and Vero Beach twice a week, on Thursdays and Saturdays, and twice a week to Westchester as well, on Fridays and Mondays. The flights to Westchester also continue on to Norfolk, VA. “I must admit that I’ve haven’t been to Vero Beach yet myself,” Breeze Airways founder and CEO David Neeleman told Vero News in an exclusive interview prior to the inaugural flights. “But some of my kids live in the Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut, areas north of New York City. As I was visiting them while we were expanding the airline’s route structure, I kept hearing from them and their friends and neighbors that we should fly to Vero Beach, what a great place it is. “It seems like a lot of people from there moved to Vero Beach, have a second home in Vero Beach, or know friends or family in Vero Beach,” Neeleman said. “You might say they kind of talked me into it,” Neeleman said. He said the Vero Beach city officials and the airport management have been very welcoming to Breeze and everyone worked hard to make it happen on time. The initial market response has also been extremely satisfying. “We’re off to a good start and our only regret is that for now, we weren’t able to offer more flights, but we hope to be able to do that soon.” He even expects to be able to visit Vero Beach personally some time in the near future from his base in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah. “I have a stepdaughter in Fort Lauderdale, so the next time we visit her, I might drop in to see Vero Beach for myself,” Neeleman said. Neeleman is one of the most amazing entrepreneurs in the airline business. After working for SouthWest at one time, he has founded five new commercial airlines, Morris Air, WestJet, JetBlue Airways (now a public company no longer associated with him), then Azul Brazilian Airways, and now Breeze. To found Azul, which has become the largest Brazilian airline, Neeleman took advantage of the fact that he has dual U.S. and Brazilian citizenship since he was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, when his father, Gary, was the bureau chief there for the news agency UPI, then in its heyday in Latin America. To found Azul (the word means “blue” in Portuguese), Neeleman commuted from Utah to Brazil. He is still chairman of the airline and goes to Brazil for quarterly board meetings. Neeleman also took out citizenship in Cyprus, a European Union country, to facilitate business ventures in Europe when he took a minority stake in the Portuguese airline TAP. He sold those shares back to the Portuguese state when a new government took power that didn’t look favorably on private ownership of the national flag airline. “This is it,” Neeleman says of his latest Breeze venture. “I’m 63 now and I promise I won’t start yet another airline.” Breeze started operations in May 2021, less than two years ago, when the airline industry had not yet fully recovered from the ravages of the COVID pandemic, with a flight from Tampa to Charleston, S.C., and has rapidly expanded to serve more than 30 cities across the country with a fleet of 27 planes. Neeleman said the launch of the new airline had been in the planning stages before COVID hit, and even though by May 2021 conditions in the market were far from ideal, “rather than folding up the tent, we decided to go ahead anyway. We got a lot of cooperation from the Federal Aviation Administration ... and we got to the point where things were actually looking good for the future. We believe there’s still a lot of opportunity out there.” Although Neeleman is keeping future expansion plans close to the vest, he’s got 80 new airplanes coming and expects to have a fleet of about 120 planes soon. Breeze sees good opportunities in smaller and medium-sized markets which have become under-served in the pandemic as established airlines concentrated on trunk lines between major hubs. Breeze is a low-cost airline, but like all airlines, it will price seats according to demand, with the more popular Friday departures costing a bit more. The first few flights have proved very popular and won’t be that cheap, but future one-way fares to Westchester or Hartford can run as low as $69 in economy according to the airline’s website. A ticket to Norfolk, Va., on the so-called “breeze-through” service via Westchester County, costs only $10 more. But apart from being a low-cost airline, Neeleman says he mostly wants Breeze to be the “nicest” airline the flying public is dealing with these days. The “nice” theme is the airline’s brand and permeates everything Breeze does to the point that it calls itself the “seriously nice low-fare airline.” If you try to book a flight on Breeze on its website (flybreeze.com), you are greeted with the phrase “Nice to see you.” Economy seats are called “nice” seats, economy seats with a little extra legroom are “nicer” seats and the equivalent of business-class seats are the “nicest” seats. “NICE is our theme because it’s the only thing we can control,” Neeleman explains. “We can’t control the weather, or traffic flight delays, or ground transportation hassles. But we can control the fact that we’ll always be nice to people. We hear a lot these days about unruly passenger behavior on airplanes, but we believe that if we’re nice to them, they’re more likely to be nice to us, too.” Neeleman says the airline has recruited all of its employees specifically for character traits that classify them as “nice” people: “Everyone who comes into contact with cus2 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | LOCAL NEWS www.veronews.com CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 BREEZE AIRWAYS

some of the available books should be removed from school libraries? Why are the school district’s media-center specialists being required to undergo Florida Department of Education training on choosing, removing and curating books for school libraries to ensure they don’t contain content some deem sexually inappropriate or that relates to social justice, critical race theory, or other theories? Because it’s the law. It doesn’t matter that it’s an entirely unnecessary law, enacted last year to address a problem that doesn’t exist. This trumped-up controversy about school library books harming teenagers is nothing more than a ruse concocted to alarm parents in a pathetic attempt to further the politicization of public education in Florida. Yet it forces our school district, as well as all the others around the state, to comply with a contrived mandate that diverts valuable time, focus and effort away from what should matter most to our School Board and superintendent – improving the quality of education and student outcomes. “We don’t have a choice,” School Board Chairman Peggy Jones said. “We’ve got to follow the law.” The board is expected to formally approve the school district’s new book-review policy at next month’s meeting. Then we wait for the flood of challenges sure to come from the Moms For Liberty, an uncompromising and intolerant parental-rights group that pretends to care about education but engages almost exclusively on politically driven culture-war issues. The Moms, who believe parents know more about their children’s educational needs than trained educators, challenged more than 150 books last year, claiming they were “pornographic.” The School Board removed only five of them. Some were moved from middle school to high school libraries. But that was before the Moms had the backing of a new state law. “There’s no way to know how many books will be challenged,” Jones said, “but I expect it’ll be a lot.” You can count on it. Don’t be surprised if many of the books reviewed last year are re-submitted for review by the committee. You can be sure dozens, maybe hundreds, of others will be added to the challenge list. And more time will be wasted – by the committee, by school district staffers and, ultimately, the School Board, which will be required to hold public hearings before voting on the fate of the challenged books. That means there will be public comment and board discussion. The public-comment session is sure to attract to the podium a conga line of Moms members, who seize these opportunities to celebrate their wrongheaded cause and raise the group’s profile in a desperate attempt to remain relevant in the mainstream of our community. At the moment – since masking students is no longer an issue and critical race theory isn’t being taught here – this manufactured library-book drama is all they have. Likewise, we can expect Jackie Rosario, the Moms’ voice on the board, to dominate the panel’s pre-vote discussions of the challenged books and committee’s recommendations, particularly if she’s in the minority. As we’ve witnessed time and again: There’s no way she’ll pass up a chance to grandstand on an issue on which the Moms have taken a position, ensuring that these sessions drag on much longer than necessary. At last week’s School Board meeting, for example, Rosario engaged with Vice Chair Teri Barenborg in a prolonged argument over a book, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” that Barenborg checked out of a school library last year and kept for several months. Apparently, Rosario wanted to verify the version of the book in the school library didn’t contain graphic pictures. Barenborg said it didn’t, adding that she used the futuristic dystopian novel during her re-election campaign as an example of the dangers of challenging the wrong versions of books. For those wondering: Before Barenborg borrowed it, “The Handmaid’s Tale” had been checked out only three times since it was purchased in 2015. Seeing that the board was being publicly embarrassed by this juvenile display, Jones Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | LOCAL NEWS February 2, 2023 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 MY TAKE tomers has to be a nice person.” Breeze also boasts what it calls “nice” seating arrangements. Airline passengers generally hate having to sit in middle seats, so Breeze has as few as possible of them. On its Embraer jets, there are no middle seats. Each row has two seats on either side of the aisle. The Airbus jets on the route to Hartford offer three seats across on one side of the aisle for groups of three or families traveling with a child, while the other side of the aisle has just two seats. The “nice” message must be getting through. Travel + Leisure Magazine just named Breeze the second-best U.S. domestic airline – not bad for a recent start-up. Breeze’s impending arrival in Vero Beach has stirred up considerable enthusiasm here. There is a lengthy thread of messages on Facebook where people ask other social media users if they know anything about Breeze, and several people replied that they know people in other parts of the country who have taken Breeze flights. The reviews were overwhelmingly popular, with “low fares” being the most frequent comment. Up to recently, the only regular passenger air service out of Vero Beach had been offered by Elite Airways which flew to Newark, N.J., and Portland, Maine, but Elite hasn’t been around for months and it is unsure if it will ever restart operations. Elite had a high cancellation rate and it was never really a passenger airline until it began flying out of Vero Beach; it started as a charter service for sports teams.

Vaughn praised Diamond Litty’s public defenders who represent the judicial circuit’s indigent. “They’re very dedicated to helping people and they’re very good at criminal law. They’re knowledgeable and they’re in there with the judge every day, day in and day out, and they’re very good lawyers and they’re dedicated,” Vaughn said. “I’ve told defendants many times, you’re not getting any kind of substandard representation because you’ve got a public defender. The contrary is true. You’re not going to get better representation from a private lawyer that you’re going to pay a ton of money to. “In bigger cases, they’ll give the state a run for their money,” Vaughn said, adding that the circuit’s public defenders are very skilled at jury selection, especially in death penalty cases. As a former assistant state attorney under both retired State Attorney Bob Stone and retired State Attorney Bruce Colton, Vaughn held the circuit’s prosecutors to an extremely high standard because he knew from seven years as a prosecutor how crucial their job is to the integrity of the justice system. “A lot of times in felony court, I feel like they over-charge because they’ll come back and take the charge down to a misdemeanor,” Vaughn said. “And it should have never been a felony in the first place if they couldn’t make a case for it.” Vaughn presided over an unprecedented period in the criminal courts the past several years. Vaughn said the challenges of the pandemic revealed some pretty shoddy behavior, including defendants who lied about having COVID so they didn’t have to come to court. “These defendants knew how to game the system,” he said, explaining that he had to start requiring medical documentation because it got so bad with people pretending to be sick. “They’d tell the deputy downstairs, ‘I’ve got COVID,” Vaughn said. Attorneys also displayed an ample amount of lazy lawyering, Vaughn said. And by the way, he really hates Zoom. “Either the lawyer you’re trying to talk to wouldn’t be available when you called them, or there’s some kind of technical malfunction and you can’t hear them, or they’d be driving around in their car,” Vaughn said. “I had several of them, they’re driving around in their car on Zoom and I’d have to say, ‘Could you pull over, please?’ I’m talking to them on Zoom and I’m afraid going to see a car wreck!” Vaughn reminded them that what they were doing was illegal. Vaughn said he would hold the Zoom hearings last and “for the people who bothered to get off their keister and come to court like they’re supposed to, to represent their client, I’d get to them first,” he said. At a certain point, lawyers started complaining that they had to wait too long on the Zoom calls to get to their hearings. “It was a nightmare,” Vaughn said. After that, Vaughn required a medical excuse for lawyers to not show up in person, but that didn’t always work either. With regard to the massive felony case backlog in Indian River County, the 1,100- plus cases awaiting trial that are now in the hands of Circuit Court Judge Bob Meadows, Vaughn wanted to set the record straight about the delays. “With the exception of maybe two that I can think of, none of these lawyers ever file what’s called a demand for speedy trial,” Vaughn said. “And I invite them to do it if they want to get their case over-with, file a demand for speedy trial, which binds them, the state and the court to bring the case to trial no less than five days from the date the demand is filed nor more than 45 days away, but they never do that.” Vaughn said cases are routinely continued because they attorneys are not ready for trial, and sometimes have not taken the first deposition. Many lawyers also do not ask the judge to compel a witness to show up if they dodge a deposition. “When they’re in there kind of disingenuously saying they’re ready for trial and I say, ‘You’re down the list. Why don’t you file a demand for speedy trial? You’ll go to the head of the class. You’ll get a trial in less than 45 days and the court is bound to try the case,’ they never do that.” Vaughn said he worked through the backlogged felony cases in a systematic way, and let attorneys pick convenient trial weeks. 4 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | LOCAL NEWS www.veronews.com CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 JUDGE VAUGHN NEUROPATHY RELIEF CALL NOW! 564-2454 PAINFUL, BURNING, OR NUMB FEET? BALANCE PROBLEMS? PAINLESS EFFECTIVE TREATMENT NEUROPATHY & LASER CENTER 780 US 1, SUITE 200 VERO BEACH, FL 32962 DR. SUSAN PERKINS, DC TO DETERMINE IF YOU ARE A CANDIDATE NeuropathyAndLaser.com dutifully stepped in and tried to stop the bickering, only to be confronted by Rosario, who repeatedly blurted out, “Point of order” and citing “Robert’s Rules of Order,” claiming the chair didn’t have the right to interrupt her. Jones, after consulting with School Board Attorney Molly Shadduck, eventually relented and allowed Barenborg and Rosario to continue their spat, which spilled over into other issues – none of which had anything to do with improving education and student outcomes. Eventually, this sad chapter closed with Barenborg telling Rosario: “We’ve gotten past a lot of ugliness. I don’t disagree that we don’t want horrible books in our schools. Stop making me the enemy. Let’s move on. Let’s work together as a board. ... I’m not running against you.” This uncomfortable episode prompted Jones to warn that the board needs to conduct itself professionally and with decorum, saying, “It’s very important how we present ourselves” to the public. Jones, in a phone conversation last week, said she had concerns about the example the board is setting for the community, including impressionable school children. Certainly, these board members can – and must – do better, especially with the approaching storm of book challenges on the horizon. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 MY TAKE

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | LOCAL NEWS February 2, 2023 5 “There’s a million different reasons they come up with on the morning of trial, on the day they asked for, when three weeks before they were ready for trial.” Vaughn said both prosecutors and defense attorneys offer excuses, but that defendants out on bond are hardly ever motivated to get a speedy trial. “They’re both equally culpable in this,” Vaughn said. “Don’t let them make you think they’re standing here banging on the courthouse door trying to get a trial because they’re not.” Vaughn said getting a second full-time Indian River County felony judge is an urgent matter, but based upon experience, he doesn’t expect the legislature or the court bureaucracy to rectify the problem anytime soon. unusual there. “Everything seemed normal, from dinner to the phone conversation,” Stewart said, adding that the trio planned a golf outing that following Tuesday. But after that phone call, Johnny Peters never returned to the Vero residence he shared with his brother. Pictures of Johnny flooded the social media of friends, families and others who knew him. Social media users said he had a “heart of gold,” and that his family is heartbroken. At Waldo’s, a popular beachfront eatery for residents and tourists alike, a missing persons flier of Johnny Peters still hangs on the wall. Jamie Weber, a bartender at Waldo’s, said she had served Johnny two beers during happy hour before his disappearance. “He was smiling and in a great mood,” Weber said. “I had to ask his name for the tab. That’s how I knew who he was. He said, ‘I’m Johnny Peters.’” The morning after Johnny Peters went missing, Stewart and Freddy Peters searched the beach near Humiston Park where Johnny’s cellphone had pinged. Freddy found his brother’s clothes piled up near the seawall, Stewart said. Worried that his brother might have taken a nighttime swim, Freddy later found Johnny’s black 2013 Hyundai Tucson parked in the 3100 block of Ocean Drive. Police issued an alert on social media Jan. 10 asking for the public’s help in finding Johnny. Officers learned the man visited Waldo’s Restaurant on Vero’s beachside for a drink about 5 p.m. the day he vanished, an incident report showed. Johnny Peters’ disappearance prompted a multi-agency search involving the U.S. Coast Guard, Vero Beach Police Department and Indian River County Fire-Rescue. The Coast Guard used boats and helicopters to comb more than 1,440 miles of the Atlantic Ocean over 42 hours Ocean for any sign of him before suspending the search. No clues have washed ashore and no reports of any sightings have been made. “It’s so sad,” said Weber who had been tending bar at Waldo’s. “I’ve been working here 12 years and haven’t had anything like this happen.” On Jan. 11, detectives got a glimpse of the last-known movements of Johnny Peters through images captured on security camera footage. After leaving Waldo’s, Johnny went alone to Humiston Beach Park, a small, family-friendly area dotted with picnic tables and tall palm trees, as the sun began to go down over the western horizon. The skies had been partly cloudy, with temperatures at a warm 75, the National Weather Service reported. He removed his jacket, then his shirt, hat and sandals, Vero Beach police said. Then Johnny Peters – wearing only a pair of shorts – apparently jumped into the ocean, never to be seen again. “We have two young ladies who saw him walk into the ocean,” said Vero Beach Police Chief David Currey. Peters has been missing for more than three weeks. Freddy Peters said the family – baffled by the disappearance – is still seeking any information on what may have happened. “We have no new leads,” said Currey. “It’s confusing. I don’t know where to put my energy,” brother Freddy said. “I don’t know what happened. Do I need to keep looking for him? Do I mourn him? Without any proof he’s dead, we have to continue to look for him.” No vigils or memorials are planned, Freddy said, as family and friends wait for answers. Freddy Peters said his parents are not ready to speak publicly about Johnny’s disappearance. But Freddy Peters recalled the memories he cherished with his brother – only one year his junior. The two enjoyed hobbies including golfing, grilling, cooking, surfing and even traveling around the world to Germany and Italy, Freddy said. He described his brother, with his sandy blonde hair and affable smile seen in the photos distributed across social media, as a “relaxed and upbeat guy. “He spent a lot of time with his friends at the beach,” Freddy said. The brothers are both Vero Beach High School alumni, with Freddy Peters graduating in 2012 and Johnny graduating in 2014. Johnny Peters was finishing up a bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of North Florida, according to his brother. He also worked for the family real estate company Peters & Company LLC. Both Peters brothers hold real estate licenses. “We were trying to figure out how to bring back good business,” Freddy Peters said. The brothers also have two younger sisters – Kristin Mori, 26, who lives with her husband Kou Mori in Tokyo, Japan, and Katherine “Kiki” Peters, 25, of Delaware. “My sister (Kristin) just had a baby, so we wanted to see her in Tokyo,” Freddy said. Johnny Peters’ friends remember him as a care-free guy and a fast learner who loved video games, playing tennis and grilling out. Anyone with information should contact Det. Sean Crowley of the Vero Beach Police Department at 772-978-4664. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 JOHNNY PETERS

6 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | YOUR HEALTH www.veronews.com Sooner or later we all have to deal the loss of a loved one and eventually our own death. For many, the diagnosis of a terminal illness can be one of the most difficult times in life and not knowing where to turn is a common fear. “I always tell people that young, old, expected or unexpected – it’s never easy,” said Dr. Michael Venazio, medical director for VNA Hospice of Indian River County. “We are available to help you and your loved ones through an extremely difficult time and we will do our best to give the most incredible care we can.” Hospice is for those whose illness is not expected to get better and for that reason hospice care treats the person, not the disease. It focuses on alleviating what people fear the most – being in pain, being alone, losing control and being a burden to others. “When we graduate as physicians, we take an oath to do no harm and take care of people in times when they are living and when the end of life comes,” Dr. Venazio said. “Taking care of them and having their needs met at the end of their life is as important as it is when they are healthy and vibrant.” In Vero Beach, free hospice care is provided by the Visiting Nurse Association to everyone, with or without insurance. Most insurance companies cover the services completely; for those without insurance, the VNA hospice staff work out payment through Medicaid or local philanthropic organizations. In his role as medical director, Dr. Venazio oversees admission, discharge and patient care at Hospice House. He personally visits patients in their long-term care facility, their home, hospital or at the Hospice House. Hospice care is provided whenever and wherever a patient asks for help, with pain management being a top priority. Frequency of care is based on a patient’s needs and plan of care established by the patient, their family and their interdisciplinary team. “We treat patients where they live and where they are most comfortable,” Dr. Venazio explained. “We make sure the patients are comfortable with what’s happening. At the same time our social workers, bereavement counselors and chaplains are available to talk to the patient and family and offer support to the caregivers.” Medicare guidelines say hospice patients must be within the last six months of their life if their disease progresses as expected, as determined by two physicians. VNA offers hospice care for all, with or without insurance By Kerry Firth | Correspondent 1225 US HWY 1, VERO BEACH, FL 32960 JULIE A. CROMER, DDS COSMETIC DENTISTRY GENERAL DENTISTRY DENTURES & PARTIALS DENTAL IMPLANTS WHITENING GUM SURGERY WALK-INS WELCOME FINANCING & SAVINGS PLAN AVAILABLE DENTAL LAB ON PREMISES Call 772-562-5051 CromerAndCairnsDental.com The patient and any other person responsible for payment has a right to refuse to pay, cancel payment, or be reimbursed for payment for any other services, examination, or treatment that is preformed as a result of and within 72 hours of responding to the advertisement for the free, discounted fee, or reduced fee service, examination, or treatment. NEW PATIENT SPECIAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM FULL SET XRAYS TREATMENT PLAN CLEANING* $79 *Not in combination with any other offer. Offer good for new patients only and cleaning in absence of periodontal disease. Xrays are non transferable. (D0150) (D1110) (D0210) (D0330) PHOTO: JOSHUA KODIS

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | YOUR HEALTH February 2, 2023 7 “Most of the referrals will come from the patient’s primary care physician, cardiol - ogist, oncologist or attending physician. Then the case will be presented to me and I’ll agree or ask for more information,” said Dr. Venazio. “Ultimately two doctors need to agree on eligibility.” While the six-month window to end of life is standard, some individuals receive hospice services for years if their disease process is slow. Other patients improve un - der the high quality of care offered and may actually be discharged from hospice care. Services provided by VNA Hospice in - clude pain management through medica - tion and therapy, counseling and support, personal care such as bathing and dressing, and volunteer support for hospice patients and families, to help run errands or just provide comfort and compassion. Alternative therapies offered include music therapy, pet visitations, massage, aromatherapy and spiritual support. A major aspect of VNA Hospice is the multi-faceted Bereavement Program which is available to the families of patients for 13 months after their loved one has passed. Children ages 6-12 can find comfort and guidance at Camp Chrysalis, a bereave - ment camp designed to help children work through their grief. For patients whose symptoms cannot be managed at home, VNA Hospice House offers end-of-life care in a homelike setting. Each patient room has a large bathroom and private lanai overlooking gardens. The rooms also have overnight sleeping ac - commodations for visitors. The VNA Hos - pice House is available up to five days each month to patients receiving hospice care at their homes under a program called Respite Care, which is designed to give caregivers time to rest and refuel. “The majority of our patients are on routine care at home, in the hospital or at a long-term facility,” Dr. Venazio elabo - rated. “We are not licensed as a long-term care facility at Hospice House, so most of our patients are admitted in the final days of life or are there for respite care to give caregivers a break.” Hospice staff said having an advanced care plan in place prior to a medical crisis helps your family know your end-of-life wish - es. Conversations can be uncomfortable, but there is really no reason to delay doing it. While 92 percent of people say that talking about end of life to their loved ones is import - ant, only 32 percent have actually done so. The VNA has a simple, four-step individ - ualized advance care plan template that be used to help you make difficult medical decisions. Step 1 is understanding your diagnosis. Ask for details about your diagnosis and if there are any other medical problems that should be taken into consideration. Ask your provider what decisions you and your family will need to make and write them down. Step 2 is to discuss the prognosis. Find out how your condition will affect your fu - ture and how much time you have left. Will you be able to live independently? Will your quality of life or time remaining be affected by aggressive medical treatment? Discuss how much assistance you may need from family members and caregivers. Step 3 is identifying goals of care. Consid - er how and where you want to live and how much quality of life are you willing to sacrifice to live longer? At what point do you want to stop aggressive treatment and focus on comfort? Healthcare preferences are unique to everyone so write them down. Step 4 is aligning treatments. Discuss treatment options with your provider and share these wishes with your family. What are the benefits and risks of these options? Clarify details of specific orders such as Do Not Resuscitate (DNR). For more information about advanced care planning and hospice care, call the Vis - iting Nurse Association at 772-567-5551 or visit vnatc.com. Dr. Michael Venazio is an internist who divides his time between serving as medical director at VNA Hospice and attending to pa - tients in his Sebastian office. He is affiliated with Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital. Dr. Venazio received his medical degree from New Jersey University of Medicine and Den - tistry (now called Rutgers New Jersey Med - ical School) and completed his residency at Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center in New Jersey. He can be reached at his office located at 1627 U.S. 1, #201 in Sebastian. Call 772-388-2110 to set up an appointment.

8 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | YOUR HEALTH www.veronews.com When he learned that a working mother had lost a day’s pay after she brought her sick son to his office for an exam, Dr. Sydney Nichols knew there had to be a better way. “That’s when I got the idea for Mobile Virtual Providers,” he says. Dr. Nichols had a van retrofitted, and his medical office on wheels now makes house and school calls in Sebastian, Vero Beach, Melbourne and Palm Bay. He also works out of traditional medical offices in Sebastian near Sebastian River Medical Center and can provide identical services in the office or at your home or at child’s school or day care center. Nonprofits and large medical practices often have mobile units, but so far as Dr. Nichols knows, he’s the only individual doctor in the area offering this alternative. The Mobile Virtual Providers van fits in a standard driveway or parking space. “It’s very convenient if you have more than one child who needs to be examined – he or she can stay in the house until it’s appointment time and simply walk to the van without Mobile visits for young patients by Sebastian pediatrician By Jackie Holfelder | Correspondent Dr. Sydney Nichols. PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | YOUR HEALTH February 2, 2023 9 having to wait in an office while the others are seen. Your living room is your waiting room.” Dr. Nichols said. “There are many reasons that parents love the ease of the mobile visit: mothers of newborns may not be comfortable bringing the little one to an office filled with sick children, or perhaps mom, herself, isn’t feeling up to the trip. Transportation issues are no longer a problem,” adds Dr. Nichols. You needn’t be an established patient to take advantage of the convenience of Mobile Virtual Providers. For many people, the first visit takes the place of going to an urgent care center. Dr. Nichols says his mobile service is much more cost effective. “A visit from Mobile Virtual Providers is billed as an office visit rather than an urgent care center visit, which is a substantial savings on just about any insurance plan.” No insurance? No worries, Dr. Nichols accepts out-of-pocket payment. A full list of the illnesses and conditions Dr. Nichols treats via his mobile unit, as well as the costs, can be found at www. mobilevirtualproviders.com. There is also a $60 convenience fee per mobile visit. Dr. Nichols is passionate about healthy lifestyles for children and in December 2022 became certified in Lifestyle Medicine. The mobile unit is a key component in his mission to help patients get started on – and stay on – a path to making good choices. According to the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), this specialty uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions to treat chronic conditions including cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes and obesity. Lifestyle medicine certified clinicians are trained to apply evidence-based, whole-person, prescriptive lifestyle change to treat and, when used intensively, often reverse such conditions. Dr. Nichols said that although he normally treats patients aged newborn to 18, he accepts those up to the age of 26 in the lifestyle medicine protocol. “Plus, the whole family can get involved so everyone benefits.” Patients are taught how to adopt a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, practice physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connections so they get started on the path to good health early. Since regular oversight is key to achieving success, Dr. Nichols’ ability to visit patients where and when it is convenient for them is an important advantage for busy families or those who don’t like going to the doctor’s office. Dr. Nichols’ goal is to provide accessible, affordable medical care, especially for working parents. He is at the office and on call on Mondays through Fridays until 9 p.m., and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays. Sydney Nichols M.D., is a board-certified Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, with over 10 years’ experience. He completed his Pediatric Residency at Maimonides Medical Center, New York, in 2011. He was certified in Lifestyle Medicine in 2022. Dr. Nichols is currently accepting new patients at 7955 Bay St., Suite 2, Sebastian for in-office or mobile treatment. Call 772-388- 9155 for an appointment.

10 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | YOUR HEALTH www.veronews.com Experts predict that the number of centenarians – people who live to be at least 100 years old – will continue to rise in the coming decades. While genetics play a large role in healthy aging, physical activity, social support and where you live also can influence your chances for living a very long life. Sister André, a French Catholic nun born Lucile Randon, who was the world’s oldest living person, recently died at the age of 118. Now the two oldest living people are believed to be María Branyas Morera, a 115-year-old Spanish woman born in the United States, and Fusa Tatsumi, who lives in Osaka, Japan, who is also 115 but 52 days younger than Morera, according to a database by the Gerontology Research Group. Based on a 2022 estimate by the United Nations, there are 593,000 centenarians around the world. It’s a fast-growing age group. The United Nations projects there will be 3.7 million centenarians alive by 2050. Experts who study the expanding human life span say the reason someone may live beyond 100 years starts with their DNA – the genes they’ve inherited from their parents. “You can’t make it out that far without having already won the genetic lottery at birth,” said S. Jay Olshansky, a professor of public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “So, rule No. 1 is going to be genetics.” The longer your parents live, the more likely you’ll live a healthier, longer life, experts say. Luigi Ferrucci, the scientific director at the National Institute on Aging, said the children of centenarians typically live healthier, longer lives than their peers. “It’s probably not one single gene but a profile, a combination of genes,” Ferrucci said. Nir Barzilai, the director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, has studied the lives of hundreds of centenarians, the people they’ve married and their kids. The children of centenarians are “about 10 years healthier” than their peers, Barzilai said. Barzilai is working with others to enroll 10,000 centenarians, their children and a control group from the general population to identify the different genes that contribute to a long life. People who have a certain mutation on their growth hormone, for example, are “very likely to live longer” because their cells spend more energy on maintaining existing cells, not growing new ones, Barzilai said. How to get to 100? Good genes, getting outside and friends By Teddy Amenabar The Washington Post

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | YOUR HEALTH February 2, 2023 11 The plan is to use artificial intelligence to help find the genes and develop drugs from them, he said. “We really want to find all the longevity genes,” Barzilai said. Olshansky said he and his colleagues are preparing to launch a platform in February where people can upload data from a genetic testing service to identify whether they have genes “associated with exceptional longevity,” so they can plan financially for retirement. “I’m a carrier, for example, of two sets of genes that are associated with longevity,” Olshansky said. “For planning purposes, I probably need to delay retirement.” Experts disagree on exactly how much genetics influence a person’s life span vs. their lifestyle. But most experts say that good genes will only get you so far. Jamie Justice, an assistant professor of gerontology at Wake Forest University, says some research has suggested that genetics account for around 25 percent of longevity. The other 75 percent relates to your environment – where you live, what you eat, how often you exercise, and your support system through friends or family. For those of us who are not endowed with a set of promising genes, the goal isn’t to push the boundaries of human life expectancy, Justice said. Instead, researchers are more interested in figuring out how people can have full, healthy lives with the time they have. “The goal isn’t necessarily to live to 118 years. It’s to live well within those years,” Justice said. “What individual things do we do that we can really harness our health and live healthier within the years given?” And, Justice said, a good public health system “can’t be undersold.” If you have access to a better healthcare system, you’re going to have a higher life expectancy, she said. The United States and Japan have the most confirmed centenarians and supercentenarians, people who live to be 110 years old or older; and, Japan has the most per capita, according to Robert Young, the director of supercentenarian research at the Gerontology Research Group. But there are probably more centenarians and supercentenarians we don’t know about. More than 110 years ago, certain countries were better at creating and preserving birth certificates or hospital records, Young said. A country’s record-keeping a century ago is often the factor determining where confirmed supercentenarians are reported across the world, he said. “People need to remember that when we’re looking at human longevity today, we’re actually looking more at the state of the world 110-plus years ago,” Young said. Beyond record-keeping, where someone lives – a war zone, a place with access to quality health care, a country with a lot of pollution, a developed nation where people sit a lot – is believed to play a significant role in longevity. Researchers have recently found “the stress of life directly affects some of the biological mechanisms of aging,” said Ferrucci, adding that our exposure to various types of pollution can harm our overall health, as well. He called the topic an “expanding area of research” that could revolutionize how we approach public health. “We are discovering that the secret of good health is not only in our behavior but it’s also in what our society does to enhance the health of our population,” Ferrucci said. And, from studying centenarians, Ferrucci said researchers have found that healthy older adults tend to be remain physically active, spend time outside and have strong connections with their friends and family. “Just walking outside,” makes an enormous difference, Ferrucci said. “If I had a jewel to give to people who want to live long and well, I would tell them to get up early in the morning and go out,” Ferrucci said. “That is really the best gift that you can give yourself if you want to achieve longevity.” Still, Ferrucci said centenarians and especially supercentenarians are often “unique,” with the “biological resilience” to live a long life despite everything going against them. “There’s the curve of mortality that characterizes the general population and then there are these individuals that are unique singularities,” Ferrucci said. “We don’t know how and that is the great secret.” Experts say the usual advice of regular exercise and eating healthy food applies generally to all aging adults, but for a few centenarians, there are exceptions to the rule. Barzilai once visited a centenarian, and when she opened the door, she was smoking a cigarette. “I said, ‘Helen, nobody told you to stop smoking?’” Barzilai said. “And she said, ‘You know, the four doctors who told me to stop smoking? They all died.”

12 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | REAL ESTATE www.veronews.com The bright and beautiful residence at 345 21st Court SW in The Preserve exudes curb appeal, with a lush lawn, a handsomely tiled, columned porch, and a blue, sunrise-facing front door. Wide windows are topped with halfmoon transoms, a graceful, arched style that is repeated throughout the interior. The open foyer is separated by a hip wall from a charming breakfast nook that looks out upon the front lawn via a fullwall, plantation-shuttered window. The home’s open design, 12-foot ceilings, soft cream/pink tile flooring, whisper pale walls and white millwork create a fresh, light-filled atmosphere. From the foyer, the eye sweeps across the living room to the glass slider wall and lanai, and then turns to the wide dining alcove and kitchen. Presiding over the living room is an electric, remote control fireplace with handsome stone surround and white mantle. The spacious kitchen sports cream/gray/ black granite countertops; light wood cabinetry with crown molding on the wall units; and stainless-steel dishwasher, deep double sink, range and French door fridge (with two freezer doors and front water dispenser). The backsplash, with vari-sized glass mosaic tiles in taupe, pink, silver and cocoa, creates an eye-catching sweep of kitchen art. Occupying the home’s south side, the primary suite is a lovely retreat, with an expanse of pale hardwood flooring and a 12-foot tray ceiling with an exquisite crystal chandelier extending from a decorative medallion. You’ll also enjoy two walk-in closets. There is a door to the covered patio and, at the far end, though a wide, open archway, is a charming little “flex” room, currently in use as an office, but easily transformed into a den, sewing room or exercise space. The owner’s bathroom is large and indulgently spa-like, offering another beautiful tray ceiling with its own crystal chandelier; a pair of long, warm hardwood vanities facing across the cream-tiled floor, their white marble countertops featuring built-in basins and exquisite fixtures, with wall-to-wall mirrors above. Between the vanities, within an alcove beneath a wide, arched window, is a big, beautiful soaking tub with a sand-hued tile surround. There is plenty of room for a candle and, perhaps, an end-of-stressfulday glass of vino. A glass walk-in shower with a stationary and a hand-held heads; a private water closet; and a large linen/storage closet complete this wonderful space. On the opposite side of the home are the two guest bedrooms, one slightly larger than the other, each with light hardwood floor, long, mirror slider closet, ceiling fan and large window. The guest bedrooms share a full bath, which is crisp and bright, with blue walls, soft tan/pink tile floor and white millwork. There is a tub/shower and oval mirrors above each of the two basins. Also on this side of the house is the laundry room, with wall cabinets and access to the two-car garage. You’ll likely find yourself spending lots of time outside at this charming home, enjoying the large, covered lanai, which is connected to the living room via a pair of wide glass sliders. There are three ceiling fan/lights and lots of room for a large dining table with chairs, a grill and storage. With sliders open to the living room, you’ll have all sorts of room for entertaining. There are accordion shutters that can ‘Preserve’ pool home offers superb curb appeal, lake views By Samantha Rohlfing Baita | Staff Writer [email protected]

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | REAL ESTATE February 2, 2023 13 completely enclose the space, so you can enjoy it in fair weather or foul. Beyond the lanai, the freeform swimming pool features blue mosaic tile edging and a waterfall fountain, and there’s plenty of space for seating on the large pool deck. Your back yard slopes down to the sparkling little lake, and there is a pretty side yard, landscaped to create your own secret garden. From the Preserve, it’s only a few minutes’ drive to restaurants, shopping, services and schools along the Oslo Road corridor and U.S. 1. Vero’s downtown restaurant and gallery district and Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital also are nearby. Just across the Indian River Lagoon is Vero’s charming island village with upscale pubs, restaurants, resorts and boutiques – and beautiful, uncrowded beaches. Neighborhood: The Preserve Construction: CBS; shingle roof Home size: 2,499 square feet Lot size: .24 acre • Year built: 2004 Bedrooms: 3 • Bathrooms: 2 Additional features: Central heat/air; 2-bay garage with remote; electric fireplace; lofty ceilings; swimming pool; screened patio w/ lake views; solar water heater with electric backup; ring doorbell; space for office/den, sitting room; ceiling fans; laundry room; new hurricane shutters; horizontal blinds; recessed lighting; French doors; sliders; 2 walk-in closets; crown molding; garden tub; pantry; split bedroom plan; gated community; HOA includes common area grounds maintenance and security Listing agency: AMAC Alex MacWilliam Real Estate Listing agents: Bailey Schlitt, 772-360-5211, and Phil Sunkel, 772-538-2339 Listing price: $625,000 345 21 COURT SW

14 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | REAL ESTATE www.veronews.com MAINLAND REAL ESTATE SALES: JAN. 23 THROUGH JAN. 27 TOP SALES OF THE WEEK Another fairly slow week for real estate sales on the mainland saw 22 transactions of single-family residences and lots reported (some shown below). The top sale of the week was in Vero Beach, where the 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom home at 1760 Covey Run Court SW – first listed in June for $999,999 – sold for $800,000 on Jan. 27. Representing the seller in the transaction was agent Tareek Beasley of Keller Williams Realty. Rep- resenting the buyer was agent Debra Madden of Lowe’s International Realty Plus. SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCES AND LOTS ORIGINAL SELLING TOWN ADDRESS LISTED ASKING PRICE SOLD PRICE VERO BEACH 1760 COVEY RUN CT SW 6/27/2022 $999,999 1/27/2023 $800,000 SEBASTIAN 586 GOSSAMER WING WAY 11/16/2022 $550,000 1/23/2023 $542,000 VERO BEACH 1444 SAINT DAVID’S LN 11/29/2022 $550,000 1/26/2023 $515,000 VERO BEACH 4005 57TH TER 11/4/2022 $489,000 1/25/2023 $465,000 VERO BEACH 742 CARRIAGE LAKE WAY 11/16/2022 $424,000 1/26/2023 $424,000 VERO BEACH 1109 W 13TH SQ 12/21/2022 $389,900 1/24/2023 $400,000 VERO BEACH 445 11TH AVE 8/25/2022 $420,000 1/23/2023 $399,900 VERO BEACH 1726 33RD AVE 8/29/2022 $429,000 1/23/2023 $380,000 SEBASTIAN 101 BELLAMY TRL 8/25/2022 $379,000 1/25/2023 $354,615 SEBASTIAN 13570 MYSTIC DR UNIT #305 10/25/2022 $349,900 1/24/2023 $320,000 VERO BEACH 266 VISTA CT 11/15/2022 $360,000 1/23/2023 $315,000 VERO BEACH 6135 6TH ST 11/23/2022 $309,900 1/25/2023 $309,900 VERO BEACH 5060 HARMONY CIR UNIT #107 8/4/2022 $295,000 1/24/2023 $244,000 SEBASTIAN 9635 RIVERSIDE DR UNIT #3 1/3/2023 $245,000 1/23/2023 $232,000 VERO BEACH 20 PINE ARBOR LN UNIT #202 10/6/2022 $234,650 1/23/2023 $215,000 VERO BEACH 1420 39TH AVE UNIT #H-4 1/1/2023 $200,000 1/23/2023 $192,500 VERO BEACH 735 TIMBER RIDGE TRL SW #B 12/15/2022 $185,000 1/23/2023 $185,000 VERO BEACH 5605 39TH ST 12/23/2022 $184,400 1/27/2023 $180,000 SEBASTIAN 9740 61ST TER 10/14/2022 $169,900 1/26/2023 $174,000 VERO BEACH 1171 27TH AVE 1/4/2023 $190,000 1/24/2023 $170,000 VERO BEACH 1100 PONCE DE LEON CIR #E307 11/11/2022 $159,000 1/25/2023 $152,000 VERO BEACH 3 VISTA PALM LN UNIT #205 12/15/2022 $115,000 1/26/2023 $115,000

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | REAL ESTATE February 2, 2023 15 HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOP RECENT INDIAN RIVER COUNTY REAL ESTATE SALES. Listing Date: Original Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: Listing Date: Original Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: Listing Date: Original Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: 11/4/2022 $489,000 1/25/2023 $465,000 Peggy Hewett Berkshire Hathaway Florida Shane Reynolds Keller Williams Realty 4005 57th Ter, Vero Beach 11/29/2022 $550,000 1/26/2023 $515,000 Kelly Fischer ONE Sotheby’s Int’l Realty John Roberts III Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. 1444 Saint David’s Ln, Vero Beach 11/16/2022 $550,000 1/23/2023 $542,000 Kathleen Pogany Compass Florida LLC Jason Coley Atlantic Shores Realty Execs 586 Gossamer Wing Way, Sebastian

16 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | REAL ESTATE www.veronews.com Grand Harbor debuted its remodeled beach club this week to a delighted crowd of 150 or so members and guests, continuing a community renaissance that began two years ago when members took over ownership of the club from the developer. Grand Harbor Golf & Beach Club, the second-largest residential development in Indian River County in number of homes with 1,180, is located on the mainland just across the river from Indian River Shores, and its luxury club lifestyle. And it has a substantial outpost on the barrier island, where the developer bought 5.1-acres with 400 feet of ocean frontage in 1989 to give members access to a private beach club for sunning, swimming and seaside dining. The 7,688-square-foot clubhouse was built that same year, according to county records. It is located along A1A at 4985 Club Terrace, half a mile south of Wabasso Beach Park. Besides changing rooms, it includes a dining room, expansive swimming pool overlooking the ocean and other facilities. The just-completed $3 million renovation focused primarily on transforming the 1,800-square-foot Shell Dining Room, which reopened last week after being closed for several months during construction. The dining space, presided over by Executive Chef Rico Hosena, was opened up and refurbished, getting an impressive new bar and two huge NanaWall glass walls – one facing the ocean, the other facing the pool deck. The energy-efficient, weather-resistant NanaWall glass panels provide a flood of natural light and expansive views when closed and fold-back, accordion style in pleasant weather, opening the dining room fully to the natural world, sharpening the views, and letting in the sound of seabirds and waves crashing on the sand. A highlight of the deck renovation is the Cabana Deck, stretching toward the sea along the north side of the clubhouse, lined with blue, open-tented cabanas and blue and white chaises. Upgrades also included two elegant new bathrooms and an elevated walkway across the sea grapes and dunes, leading down to a private beach that typically is dotted with a Riviera-like line of lounge chairs and nautical blue umbrellas stretching along the shoreline. With a daily staff of 40, the Shell Dining Room is open seven days a week for lunch and four nights a week for dinner, and private catering is available. During the island high season, from after Christmas until the end of March, the restaurant typically serves 300 for lunch every day, according to club GM Michael Gibson, who added that members can get full dining room service on the beach as they relax, toes-in-thesand, beneath their bright blue umbrellas. The beach club is popular with members for more than just dining and swimming. Gibson mentioned the well-attended Full Moon Rising beach parties and noted that earlier this month a pod of whales was spotted frolicking just offshore. “It’s wonderful how Grand Harbor has come back around,” said club member Nancy Forlines, as guests sipped champagne at the grand reopening. “The club is growing with good growth and more younger people.” Growth is due in part to the club opening membership to people who do not live in Grand Harbor but want a country club – and beach club – experience. The 800-member club held two other grand openings last week, debuting the dramatically redone River Course, one of two golf courses in the main, riverside community, and four new pickleball courts. Renovation will continue at the Beach Club this year with the addition of a bar overlooking the ocean and other upgrades, according to Gibson. $3M revamped beach club adds to Grand Harbor’s appeal By Samantha Rohlfing Baita | Staff Writer [email protected]

Hope you’re well rested, because it’s all still coming fast and furious. The Vero Beach High School Jazz Band will hold its winter concert 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in the school’s performing arts center. The concert features toe-tapping music from big bands, jazz classics and contemporary jazz. Tickets are $5 to $12, but the concert can also be viewed online. The Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center is at 1707 16th St. Call 772-564-5537. Quentin’s Out of the Box Retrospective opens with a reception 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3 at Raw Space. Jazz pianist Mike Telesmanick will be featured. The exhibition features work by artist Quentin Walker. It includes her 1966 collage for a Vietnam War blood drive. It comprises ceramics, photographs, watercolors, installations, conceptual and performance CONTINUED ON PAGE B4 VERO HIGH JAZZ BAND GETS WEEKEND OFF TO A SIZZLIN’ START By Pam Harbaugh | Correspondent Coming Up 1 HOUSE OF THE WEEK: ‘PRESERVE’ POOL HOME BIG PIG PAL CHUBBS 8 12 HAS TONS OF CHARM PEDIATRICIAN MAKES MOBILE MEDICAL VISITS B8 WONDROUS ART JILL KERWICK GOES WITH CREATIVE FLOW PAGE B2 2

B2 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | ARTS & THEATRE www.veronews.com Jill Kerwick, whose artworks include oil paintings, quirky photo collages and a combination of the two, is the newest artist to join the Ocean Drive Gallery in Vero Beach. Kerwick utilizes her varied talents, among them painting, collage, photography, printmaking and set design, to create works that have a touch of surrealism and an open-ended narrative. “I’m kind of a ritualistic person, but I like to have a purpose. I like to have a plan. Certain times I just try anything in my sketch book and then it just flows from there,” says Kerwick. Calling her sketches “germs” that start the process, she begins with a sketch, followed by a small-scale oil painting, before choosing which paintings might work on a larger scale. “A lot of issues can be worked out in a smaller style. If I jump into a big painting, it’s a struggle,” says Kerwick. “I have no problem with the beginning of a painting. I have lots of ideas in my sketchbook, and if it starts to resonate with me, I do a small painting. If it resonates even more, I’ll start a larger painting. Why struggle starting a large painting from scratch and then struggle with it, when I have so many ideas I can draw from and filter through?” she asks. “I use memory and drawing as a starting point. There is some fleeting moment that’s happened, and for some reason I want to investigate it more, or want to remember it. Or it has a feeling that I want to explore, an open-ended moment of wonder.” When evoking an image, she attempts, for example, to not only recreate sunlight, but also “what the water felt like, and what the temperature was, how unbelievable the color of the sky is, and the sound of the ocean. I want to hold onto a playful innocence, so I don’t censor myself, especially in the early phase.” Consequently, Kerwick’s work has a richness to it, with complex elements. Her use of color and the way she handles backgrounds give her pieces a contemporary feel. Kerwick says she allows herself to play with the colors. “Factual reality is not always that interesting. Making up colors other than what I actually see, actually feels more real to me, BY DEBBIE TIMMERMANN | CORRESPONDENT Kerwick goes with the creative flow, and wondrous art ensues

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | ARTS & THEATRE February 2, 2023 B3 more like a feeling of the time, or the sound, or the breeze. A whole lot of issues can be worked out in sketches, color and scale,” she explains. “I mix my own colors and do that at the start of a painting and save them through - out the work, so that the colors will match. I put my paints in the freezer if I am going to work with them the next day. There are all these little things you learn,” says Kerwick. With her photo collage work, Kerwick says she used to cut and paste her photo - graphs, but now takes advantage of Pho - toshop, which makes the process easier, if not as archival. “Now that you can scan things and change sizes, many collages aren’t good looking anymore. But the fun is you get to play with the scale that’s already done for you, and you’re just finding the things that work together,” she explains. “I think it’s good in collage to have some rules and parameters that you have to stick to. Then you have to work within those rules. But then when you break a rule, it’s exciting.” Kerwick received a bachelor of fine arts degree in illustration from the Moore Col - lege of Art and Design in Philadelphia in 1978, and a master of fine arts in printmaking at New York University in 1995. She also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, the Vermont Studio School, and at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. She worked as an art di - rector in New York for 15 years but has paint - ed full-time since 1995. Kerwick spent time in Costa Rica before she and husband Arthur Kontos started coming to Vero in the winter. They spend summers at a farm in New Jersey that they started 12 years ago. It is a working farm, with hired farmers year-round, that pro - duces hay and honey, and which currently boasts four horses, two donkeys, 40 chickens and eight rabbits. Three years ago, she was one of the founding four members of Friends of Contemporary Art, which has continued to grow. “There are so many people interested in art. They want to look at it, talk about it, and we go on field trips, studio visits and visit collectors’ homes. Art people want to talk about art, just like tennis people like to talk about tennis,” says Kerwick. “I do some sort of art every day. That makes me the happiest. Otherwise, I get kind of grumpy.” Kerwick has exhibited at solo and group shows nationwide. Currently, in addition to Ocean Drive Gallery, Kerwick’s works can be viewed at the White Collins Gallery in New York, and in the Monmouth Museum’s 43rd Annual Exhibition. From March 3-31, she will have a solo show at the Center for Spiritual Care called “Heightened Awareness,” which Kerwick says she is “really excited about. It is one of the best artists ‘co-ops’ in town. It’s the best place around. Warren Obluck has such a good eye.” PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS

B4 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | ARTS & THEATRE www.veronews.com pieces, acrylic paintings, costumes and more. It runs through Feb. 25 at Raw Space, 1795 Old Dixie Highway. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. Alexandra Razskazoff, the 2022 MET Opera Laffont Grand Finals Winner Soprano, will sing with tenor Matthew White, baritone Eleomar Cuello and mezzo-soprano Pascale Spinny in the Vero Beach Opera’s production of “Phantom Goes to the Opera” Saturday evening. The program features Andrew Lloyd Webber hits from “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Aspect of Love,” “CATS,” “Evita,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “Jesus Christ Superstar.” It also will feature opera favorites “Don Giovanni,” “The Merry Widow,” “La Bohème,” “Carmen” and “La Traviata.” The concert features pianist Anna Fateeva. Tickets are $15 to $50. “Phantom Goes to the Opera” starts 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center is at 1707 16th St. Call 772-564-5537 or visit VeroBeachOpera.org. Music and comedy mix in the next concert presented by the Indian River Symphonic Association. “Comedy Tonight,” a pop music concert by the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, will explore how comedy, satire and wit can be musical inspiration for unforgettable tunes. Featured in the concert will be Henry Mancini’s “The Pink Panther” theme music and theme music from hit television comedy shows including “The Office,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Led by Maestro Christopher Confessore, the concert will also feature music satirist Peter Schickele’s “Sneaky Pete and the Wolf,” which twists the tale of “Peter and the Wolf.” The concert begins 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Community Church of Vero Beach, 1901 23rd St. Tickets are $65. Call 772-778-1070 or visit IRSymphonic.org. The Vero Beach Art Club will hold its 14th annual Art Trail Fine Arts & Crafts Studio Tour this weekend. The Art Trail takes guests into open houses of area art studios. The idea is to introduce the public to an artist’s work as well as the location in which it is created. Works will be on view and available for purchase. This year, there are more than 14 studios participating, from commercial locations to home studios. “It’s pretty cool to see all the artists joining this year,” says event co-chair Dominique Tynes. Although a free event, the best way to go manage the art trail is to pre-register so you can get a map of the studios ahead of time. “We have over 120 registered already,” Tynes says. “I see daily everybody keeps registering.” You can also pick up a map at the Vero Beach Art Club, 1903 14th Ave., Vero Beach. The individual studios on the trail will also have maps. The Art Trail runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 4-5. For more information, call 772-231-0303 or visit VeroBeachArtClub.org. A couple of engaging lectures are also in the offing. The first is the Distinguished Lecturer Series presentation of Gen. James Mattis (Ret.) at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Monday at Riverside Theatre. Mattis is a retired United States Marine Corps fourstar general and former U.S. secretary of defense. Lectures are held both in the large Stark Theatre as well as a live simulcast in the Waxlax Theatre. Riverside Theatre is at 3250 Riverside Park Dr., Vero Beach. Get on a waiting list for tickets by calling 772-231-6990 or emailing DLStickethelp@ RiversideTheatre.com. The Emerson Center will host Clay Henderson speaking on “Forces of Nature – Florida’s Fighters for Conservation” 7 p.m. Tuesday. Henderson is an author and environmental attorney, and also serves as the director of the Institute for Water & Environmental Resilience. Admission is free, but a $10 donation is suggested. The Emerson Center is at 1590 27th Ave., Vero Beach. Call 772-778-5249 or visit TheEmersonCenter.org. CONTINUED FROM PAGE B1 3 4 6 5

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | DINING February 2, 2023 B5 Fine Dining, Elevated Exciting Innovative Cuisine Award Winning Wine List Unparalleled Service Expanded outdoor dining in The Café. Proud recipient of Trip Advisor’s Traveler’s Choice Award placing us in “The Top 10% of restaurants worldwide”. Catering Now Available (772) 234-3966 • tidesofvero.com Open 7 Days a Week Starting at 5 PM 3103 Cardinal Drive, Vero Beach, FL Reservations Highly Recommended • Proper Attire Appreciated Wine Spectator Award 2002 – 2021 Serving Dinner Tues - Sat from 5pm (772) 226-7870 Downwn Vero Bea 2023 14th Avenue www.VeroPrime.com Prime Steaks, Seafood & Italian Specialties Happy Hour featuring Premium Spirits Nightly 5 - 6:30pm (Bar Only) Early Dining Menu Nightly 5 - 5:30pm

B6 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | DINING www.veronews.com

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | DINING February 2, 2023 B7 The Gri One free kids meal per one adult 772.770.5970 | 3700 Oslo Rd (9th St SW), Vero Beach C W W I L L I S F A M I LY F A R M S . C O M Fridays at The Grill Kids eat FREE with the purchase of an adult entree 4pm to 6pm 1931 Old Dixie • 772.770.0977 fishackverobeach.com • Like us on Facebook! Gift Certificates, Private Parties & Patio Dining Available TUESDAY NIGHT l ALL YOU CAN EAT FISH FRY HAPPY HOUR 4-6 PM l TUES.- SAT. WE CAN ACCOMMODATE LARGE PARTIES TUES OPEN FOR DINNER AT 4 WED-SAT OPEN FOR LUNCH & DINNER CLOSED SUNDAYS & MONDAYS OFFERING Local Fish Northern Fish Patio Dining Happy Hour Best Margaritas Full Liquor Bar Large Parties Daily Specials 56 Royal Palm Pointe 772-567-4160 Follow us on Facebook & Instagram OPEN FOR DINNER WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY BEGINNING AT 4 PM. CLOSED MONDAY & TUESDAY. OPEN WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY ORDER YOUR PARTY PLATTERS ORDER ONLINE FOR DELIVERY OR PICKUP THROUGH Pizzoodles.com or ToastTakeout.com Let the Pours Begin! Our Private Label, Aged Barrel “Fighting 69th” Irish Whiskey 2019 14th Ave (772) 217-2183 OPEN Tues-Sun 11:30 AM to Close seanryanpub.com Where Vero goes for a Lil bit of Ireland! Chef Chet Perrotti Happy Hour 4-6 PM & 9-Close & All Day Sunday Tuesday Trivia Thurs, Fri & Sat Live Local Music Wednesday - Bingo, Brews & Burgers ($7) We carry ALL College & NFL games Tropical Thursday - $5 Deep Eddys & 75¢ Wings Happy Hour ALL DAY Sunday w/ 75¢ Wings

B8 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | PETS www.veronews.com Remember a while back when I innerviewed Elvis Lemley, a liddle black rescue piglet? He was my very first innerviewee of the Porcine Purr-sway-shun, 3 pounds of snuffly cuteness. SO, this week I innerviewed my second pig, Chubbs Thomas, a grown-up pig who’s at the Totally Other End of the Scale from itsy Elvis. Chubbs weighs lidder-rully 100 times as much as Elvis did. A frenly lady an man greeted me an my assistant an led us to what they called Chubbs’ Privacy Apartment. I’d never seen anything like it. It was a regular room from the front an side, but around back it was a haffa wall, where you can look into the room. So we looked an there he was. A pink pig mountain with long briss-ly white hair from his head right down his back. He hadda, round, snuffly nose, pinkish face an big black petal-shapes around his squinty eyes. When he spoke, you could see these two curvy teeth stickin’ out on each side of his face. He was Seriously Cool Kibbles! “Good afternoon, Mr. Thomas!” I said, bein’ un-fuh-MILL-yur with Pig Etiquette and thinkin’ formality might be the best way to begin. “It is indeed a good afternoon, Bonzo. Welcome to my home. These are my Mom an Dad, Nicole an Galen. Somewhere about is my feline sister Bella. You may call me Chubbs.” “Thank you! Chubbs it is. Call me Bonz!” I replied. Chubbs’ voice was sorta gravelly/squeeky/teeth grind-y, with low snorts inner-spursed, but his pruh-NUNCING was good. “This is a great apartment,” I commented. There was carpet, anna obviously well-loved stuffy teddy bear, anna BLANKET. (I always thought Pigs-Inna-Blanket was just an Urban Legend.) There was also a ramp anna Chubbs-sized door to the outside. “I can’t wait to hear your story.” “I shall begin then. Pardon me if I don’t get up. I’m not what you’d call Spry, so I pace myself.” “Understood,” I replied, pencil poised. “It was 2017, an I was a tiny piglet, if you can imagine it. I’d been purchased by one of Mom’s co-workers, who’d quickly ree-lized she didn’t have the time to properly care for me. So she asked Mom, ‘Do you want a pig?’ She’d been assured (as offen happens) that I was one of those pig varieties that stay cute forever an Never Get That Big, so that’s what she told Mom.” “Oh, Woof!” I said. “I KNOW,” agreed Chubbs. “Anyway, Mom said, ‘I’ll ask my huzz-bun.’ So she did. “‘I’d LOVE a pig!’ he said, so they adopted me. An here’s my favrite part. When I grew, an, grew, just blew right past the mini-pig zone, all the way into my current size, they just kept lovin’ me THE SAME. I’m gonna be 7 in July, an I don’t think BBQ or bacon has EVER crossed their minds. I’m one lucky piggo.” “I LOVE that story!” I said, wiping my eyes with my paw. “So what’s your day-to-day like?” “Me an Mom have a rue-TEEN: At 5:30 every morning, I holler to Mom, to remind her it’s Time To Feed The Pig. That’s ME. So Mom gets her coffee, then pruh-pares my breakfast: Pig Pellets. But, I also get froot an vege-tubbles. Mom an Dad give ’em to me by hand, thru-out the day. I like the ‘by-hand’ part cuz it makes me feel significant. Apples are my favrite an I frequently request another slice or two. I also enjoy bananas an grapes, an nuts, which I get for special holiday treats. But NOT BELL PEPPERS! “I would also like to note, for the record, Pigs are not dirty. Or dumm. We’re ackshully smart. An Tidy. We only roll about in dirt or mud, like a number of other fellow creatures I might add, to stay cool. Plus, I love to be brushed. And I know several human words. Me an Mom have bonded, is what she calls it. I think that means I have taught her a whole lot of Pig Speak. I’ve learned, as well. For example, when I hear Mom gettin’ out her keys I know she’s gonna leave for a bit. She always comes to tell me goodbye an when she’s gonna be back so I don’t become concerned, which I think is very thoughtful, don’t you?” “Extremely so,” I replied, impressed. “So let me show you my dining room and outdoor space.” With that, he stood up, walked over to his Pig Door an Ramp, an exited. His Mom led me an my assistant outside and around the corner into the guh-RAGH, where another liddle room had been created with Another Pig Fence. “This is my dining room,” Chubbs said, indicating his food an water bowls. Then, “Follow me!” he squeak/snorted as he exited thru another pig-sized door an ramp out into his yard. We walked around to the fence where Chubbs was standing in a nice side yard. “I take a lotta naps here,” he said, an promptly began one. Just then a gray tabby cat appeared an said in a frenly way. “Hi! I’m Bella. Chubbs is out for a while. Come’on back an meet my pals.” “Um, OK, sure! Why not?” I said, checkin’ Chubbs, who was, in fact, out. We followed the liddle cat to the back yard, which had all sorts of cool plants, some shady trees and a buncha CHIGGINS. Soon as Bella appeared, they all gathered around us. “Hey, guys, this is Bonzo. He’s a Dog, but don’t worry. He’s Cool Catnip.” And, as they bwakked an clucked uppa storm (which I interpreted as frenly chiggin greetings), Bella said, “This is Buttercup an Ding an Floyd (she’s a girl) an Chequanda an Rock-an-Rolla an Lil’ Kim.” “Meetin’ you all is an unexpected pleasure,” I told them. With a final round of bwakks/clucks, they dispersed into the trees. Headin’ home, I was thinkin’ about what a fun an unusual time I’d had an, once again, feelin’ fortunate to have such a fun job, gettin’ to meet all you fascinatin’ fellow pets. Till next time, Hi Dog Buddies! Bonzo’s big new pig pal Chubbs has tons of charm The Bonz Don’t Be Shy We are always looking for pets with interesting stories. To set up an interview, email [email protected]. Chubbs. PHOTO: JOSHUA KODIS

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | GAMES February 2, 2023 B9 WHEN YOU GET LUCKY, TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE By Phillip Alder - Bridge Columnist John Key, the 38th prime minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016, said, “You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck, but you also make a bit of luck.” Sometimes you need to get lucky at the bridge table. If so, go for it. Don’t just throw in the towel. In this week’s deal, it isn’t clear that North-South want to be in a slam. But if they do, six diamonds is where they would prefer to be. But South plunged into six spades. What should he have done after West led the club four: two, king, ace? Using two-over-one game-force, North’s response was natural and gameinvitational. Fine, but North-South had never discussed follow-ups. South basically just guessed! After the favorable first trick, declarer had to play the trump suit for the loss of only one trick. He cashed the spade ace: five, diamond, three. He continued with the spade king: jack, diamond, eight. What next? There were three spades still extant: the six, nine and queen. Hoping to pin the nine, declarer led the spade 10. But now he had to lose two trump tricks. What inference did South miss? If West had had Q-J-6-5 of spades, why would he have dropped the jack under the king? He wouldn’t. So, declarer should have led a low spade on the third round of the suit — and he would have gotten lucky! One other North got even luckier. In seven diamonds, when he led the diamond queen from the dummy, the robot West inconceivably covered with the king! Dealer: South; Vulnerable: East-West NORTH — K J 5 A J 10 7 6 3 2 10 3 2 WEST Q J 5 7 6 3 K 8 4 9 8 6 4 SOUTH A K 10 7 4 2 A 2 Q A Q J 7 EAST 9 8 6 3 Q 10 9 8 4 9 5 K 5 The Bidding: OPENING LEAD: 4 Clubs SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 1 Spades Pass 3 Diamonds Pass 4 NT Pass 5 Diamond Pass 6 Spades Pass Pass Pass Shack Shine_SPEC_HI560 HOUSE DETAILING SERVICE MAKING YOUR HOME SMILE • Window Washing • Gutter Cleaning • Power Washing • Roof Cleaning • Christmas Lights We’ll give you the shiniest house on the block. Book your appointment today! SHACKSHINE.COM 772-766-0079 BOOK TODAY AND SAVE DRIVEWAY CLEANING FREE with Purchase of Exterior House Cleaning Up to 2500 sq. ft. Expires 3/31/23 BOOK TODAY AND SAVE FREE DRIVEWAY CLEANING with Purchase of Exterior House Cleaning Up to 2500 sq. ft. Expires 3/31/23 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

B10 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | GAMES www.veronews.com 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 (JANUARY 26) ON PAGE B12 ACROSS 1 Wages (3) 3 For each (3) 5 Hang about (4) 7 Scene; put (5) 8 Lasso (6) 10 Went by horse (4) 11 Imaginary (8) 13 Cat’s in (anag.) (6) 14 Breathing illness (6) 17 Smart alecs (4-4) 19 Frail and weedy (4) 21 In a nonchalant way (6) 22 Flashily smart (5) 23 Plot (4) 24 Church seat (3) 25 Papa (3) DOWN 1 Popular books (10) 2 Start of time (colloq.) (4,3) 3 Bard (4) 4 Broadcasts (6) 5 Fighting fund (3,5) 6 Biblical patriarch (5) 9 Looking half-awake (6-4) 12 Event (8) 15 Beset by spirits (7) 16 Exaggerate; misbehave (4,2) 18 Bay window (5) 20 Once more (4)

Serving mainland Indian River County VeroNews/Sebastian River News | GAMES February 2, 2023 B11 ACROSS 1 Avant-garde art 5 Near the rear 8 Calendar abbr. 11 Zincite, for one 14 Coldness exemplar 17 It’s a stinking problem 18 Understand 19 Car or drug? 21 Throng 22 Car or drug? 24 Car or drug? 25 Sphere 26 The Clan of the Cave Bear author Jean 27 Mr. Clampett 28 Belts into oblivion 29 Diving bell inventor 31 Car or drug? 35 Furry friend 36 Guardian spirits 37 Puncture opening 38 Squirrel’s prize 39 Birdie plus 1 40 Irma ___ 42 Car or drug? 46 Water under the bridge? 47 Top number 48 Mr. Planck 49 Fuel suffixes 50 Car or drug? 53 Lofty peak 54 Car or drug? 57 Hit the nightclubs 58 “It ___ Be You” 60 Word before Fox or Rabbit 61 Literary king 63 Dist. from the ground 64 Black, to a poet 66 Car or drug? 69 Car or drug? 74 Sky, in French 75 Certain particle 77 Rugged rock 78 Notice in the office 79 Rim that holds a gem 82 Distant 84 Car or drug? 86 Author Umberto 87 Car or drug? 90 Galatea’s love 91 Overhead trains 92 Not strict 93 The way, in China 94 Car or drug? 98 Race car time-out 101 Dial-up pioneer 102 Air rifle shot 103 Home: abbr. 104 Show conclusively 105 Salt Lake City player 106 Car or drug? 110 Family members 111 CD rate abbr. 112 Old nuclear org. 113 Get up 114 Witch’s spell 115 Car or drug? 118 Car or drug? 122 Repulsed response 123 Car or drug? 124 “Just me” 125 Lorre’s sleuth 126 Mentalist’s claim 127 Allen or Roth 128 Ultimate (degree) 129 CIA precursor 130 London area DOWN 1 Deer girl 2 Vogue, mostly 3 A Dwarf 4 “Could you hold it down to ___ in here?” 5 ___ in the right direction 6 Whose Casanova and Roma? 7 John Ritter’s dad 8 Whipped through, as a test 9 Angel dust 10 Chair for grandma 11 Track postings 12 Nutrient amt. 13 Go over 14 Car or drug? 15 Car or drug? 16 Subside 19 Hairy Halloween costumes 20 Outbreak of a sort 23 Regret 27 Blue Angel’s vehicle 30 Sonoran year 31 “My name is ...” 32 Sgt., for one 33 The Boy King 34 Do a sound job 35 Bridge sign 36 Outlaw group 39 Penne and such 40 Fibula site 41 Fair 43 Workaday world 44 End to “end”? 45 “Whoa!” girl 46 Burger support 47 It’s a blast 50 Dictionary name 51 Driver’s place, old-style 52 Shoe man McAn 54 TV network, in Toronto 55 “... man ___ mouse?” 56 Book after Exod. 57 1914-18 event 59 Belief in souls 62 Moray 64 Historic time 65 Elaborate charade 67 Cheery quality, in a song 68 Stubbing result 70 Attempt 71 Rorem or Sparks 72 Med. grp. 73 In favor of 76 Of birth 79 Vehicle sound 80 Car or drug? 81 Car or drug? 82 Send over phone lines 83 A personal question? 85 12 on a clock 88 Lotion ingredient 89 Space 90 Non-winners 94 Alphabet network 95 Ulna’s locale 96 Dry, as wine 97 Lawyer’s honorific: abbr. 99 Unhappy sound 100 Commercial 101 Reach 102 Pen brand 105 La Jolla campus (strangely) 106 Barber’s call 107 Chows down in style 108 Zone of Conn. 109 Lots (of paper) 111 Purple fruit 112 Amulet symbol 114 Color 116 Swiss canton 117 Q-U innards 118 Where some buffalo roam 119 Dove sound 120 Stretch inning 121 Indy’s mile total The Telegraph The Washington Post CARS OR DRUGS? By Merl Reagle [email protected] 1964 14th Avenue 772.217.2161 HairIdentityVB.com BOOK TODAY FOR ALL YOUR HAIR AND NAIL NEEDS. FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY!

B12 February 2, 2023 VeroNews/Sebastian River News | CALENDAR www.veronews.com Riverside Theatre: “Bakersfield Mist” on the Waxlax Stage through Feb. 19. 772-231-6990 or RiversideTheatre.com King of the Hill Tennis Tournaments, 6 p.m. Thursdays through March 2 at the Boulevard to benefit Youth Guidance. 772-979-5582 Vero Beach Museum of Art: Rolling Sculpture: Streamlined Art Deco Automobiles and Motorcycles exhibit through April 30. VBMuseum.org or 772-231-0707 Garden of Glass at McKee Botanical Garden. McKeeGarden.org or 772-794-0601 2 Live from Vero Beach presents Classic Albums Live performing Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumors,’ 7 p.m. at the Emerson Center. 800-595-4849 2 Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Winter Jazz Band Concert, 7 p.m. at VBHS PAC. 772-564-5537 3 Concerts in the Park presents Tom MacLear & Friends, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Riverview Park. Free; BYO chairs/blankets. SebastianChamber.com or 772-589-5969 3-5 Drive-In Laser Light show at IRC Fairgrounds, with shows at 7 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. $30 and $120 per carload; $10 more at gate. Freshtix.com 4 Cupcake 2-Miler, 7:30 a.m. from AW Young Park, with cupcake stop at 1 mile and postrace festivities. RunSignUp.com 4 Family Fun Fest hosted by Substance Abuse Free Indian River, 10 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Intergenerational Center, with food trucks, children’s activities, music and games. Free. 4 Patriots for Puppies, military-themed golden oldies dance and show, 5:30 p.m. at Pointe West Country Club to benefit Dogs for Life training for veteran service dogs. $125. 772-567-8969 4 Vero Beach Opera presents Phantom Goes to the Opera, celebrating the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, 7 p.m. at Vero Beach High School PAC. VeroBeachOpera.org 4|5 Gardenfest, Nature’s Finest Marketplace, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (to 4 p.m. Sun.) at Riverside Park hosted by the Garden Club of IRC, with vendors of plants and garden accessories, lectures, demos, food and children’s crafts. Free. 4|5 Vero Beach Art Club’s Art Trail, a 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. self-tour of local Fine Arts and Crafts artists’ studios. Free, but registration required. VeroBeachArtClub.org 4-26 Fine Art Photography Exhibit of works by Robert McCall and Steven Stregevsky at Stouthouse, noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays only. 651-408-5625 5 Indian River Symphonic Association presents the Brevard Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert, Comedy Tonight, with Maestro Christopher Confessore, 7:30 p.m. at Community Church of VB. 772-778-1070 or IRSymphonic.org 6 Distinguished Lecturer Series presents Gen. James Mattis (Ret.), 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. at Riverside Theatre. 772-231-6990 or RiversideTheatre.com 6 Night of Hope to benefit the Source, 6 p.m. at the Emerson Center, with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and desserts, and a special guest performance by Gospel singer Wintley Phipps. 772- 564-0202 Ext 204 or IAmTheSource.org. ONGOING FEBRUARY Sudoku Page B11 Sudoku Page B12 Crossword Page B11 Solutions from Games Pages in January 26, 2023 Edition ACROSS 1 STEEP 4 ATLAS 10 LEAVE 11 ABALONE 12 COASTER 13 PIECE 14 BELLOW 16 JESTER 19 SALSA 21 APPOINT 23 EXAMINE 24 PATIO 25 SHINE 26 FLEET DOWN 2 TRAVAIL 3 EJECT 5 TRAIPSE 6 ALONE 7 BLOCKBUSTER 8 CARRY 9 CELEBRATION 15 OVATION 17 THISTLE 18 BABEL 20 LEASH 22 PUPIL Crossword Page B12 (IN A PERFECT WORLD 2) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to register the fictitious name of D Aagenes Art Danielle Aagenes 510 Cross Creek Cir Sebastian, FL 32958 A B S T R A C T A N D M I X E D M E D I A A R T D Aagenes Art 20% DISCOUNT FOR ALL NEW CUSTOMERS Perfection one cut at a time 772-539-3365 State Certified Electrical Contractor Tom G. Walton And all your service needs Serving the Treasure Coast since 1984 772-569-1547 • [email protected] Residential • Commercial • Industrial L. Walton Electric, Inc. EC13003596 Beachside Dog Spa Pampering In Paradise Luxury Dog Grooming 772-584-3368 2190 45th St. #102 (West), Vero Beach, FL 32967 VBDogspa.com • [email protected] BUSINESS DIRECTORY - ADVERTISING INDIAN RIVER COUNTY BUSINESSES Our directory gives small business people eager to provide services to the community an opportunity to make themselves known to our readers at an affordable cost. This is the only business directory mailed each week. If you would like your business to appear in our directory, please call 772-633-0753. This is also where we publish Fictitious Name or “Doing Business As” notices, Public Notices and Employment ads. To place one, please email [email protected]. MEDICARE ADVANTAGE. SUPPLEMENT. RX INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY HEALTH PLANS CALL FOR A NO COST QUOTE! JENNIFER TOMAS LICENSED INSURANCE AGENT 772-834-4703 TOMASINSURANCE.COM