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MY VERO Breeze encouraged by advance sales forVero flights Hospitalizations
for covid up, but
BY RAY MCNULTY BY RAY MCNULTY that it will launch commer- ing really well,” said Gareth new cases down
Staff Writer cial jet service to and from Edmondson-Jones, Breeze’s
O’Bryan: From chair to Vero Beach in February, a head of corporate commu- BY LISA ZAHNER
interim administrator? Breeze Airways execu- company spokesman said nications. “We started get- Staff Writer
tives are “thrilled” with the last week. ting calls as soon as we an-
Was retiring County Com- early response to the air- nounced. It’s obvious Vero The number of new co-
missioner Peter O’Bryan us- line’s recent announcement “The early indications vid infections reported to
ing his position as chairman are that the flights are sell- CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 the Florida Department of
to lobby from the dais for the Health declined slightly in In-
job as interim county admin- dian River County last week,
istrator? though hospitalizations rose
60 percent.
Or was he merely being a
devoted public servant who, Only 89 people reported
after 16 years on the commis- testing positive for COVID-19
sion, offered to postpone his during the week ending Nov. 3
retirement and use his expe- – down from 102 the previous
rience to oversee the county’s week – but six more people
operations during the search ended up in the hospital be-
for Jason Brown’s successor? ing treated for COVID illness
than the week before.
“I took it as the latter,” said
Commissioner Susan Ad- “We have 16 patients with
ams, who, 2 ½ hours into last COVID in-house this morn-
week’s meeting, unknowingly ing. None in Critical Care,” said
presented O’Bryan with an Cleveland Clinic Indian River
opening to make his pitch for Hospital spokesperson Arlene
the job. Allen-Mitchell on Friday.

After the commissioners That’s up from 10 the pre-
voted to conduct a national vious week, and single-digit
search for a new administra-
tor, then discussed the attri- CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
butes they’ll seek from ap-
plicants for the job, O’Bryan

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County firefighters and paramedics to get 32963 luxury developers look to South (Hutchinson Island)
4 percent pay hike and up to 5 more days off

BY RAY MCNULTY approved by the County Com- BY STEVEN M. THOMAS
Staff Writer mission last week. Staff Writer

The county’s Fire Rescue Di- The contract, ratified by As waterfront land in 32963 gets harder to
vision employees will receive a members of the Indian River find, high-end island brokers, builders and
4 percent pay raise in January County Firefighters/Paramed- developers are turning some of their atten-
and up to five additional days ics Association last month, also tion to nearby South Hutchinson Island,
off annually as part of a new, revamped financial incentives which extends from the Fort Pierce Inlet to
three-year collective bargain- to make them more uniform Jensen Beach.
ing agreement unanimously for paramedics and created an
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Luxury developers Both also were designed by the same amond Shores, a single-family, direct who split their time between a resi-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 architect, Randell Sofft, who’s well oceanfront development located 23.5 dence in Florida and one up north, or
known in 32963 for designing the Vero miles south of Sexton Plaza. even full-time residents.
Two big new projects worth a com- Beach Hotel and Spa, the homes in Old
bined $300 million that will bring 102 Oak Lane, and Indigo, one of the luxury Plated for 43 beachfront homes with There will be a small clubhouse for
luxury units to market are hitting inflec- developments currently being built on pre-construction prices of $3.45 mil- meetings and Reynolds said a day dock
tion points this month down on “South Vero’s oceanfront by Yane Zana and lion, Diamond Shores is being devel- and jet-ski launch are planned, so resi-
Hutch,” with a groundbreaking at one Coastmark Construction. oped by Joe Rauenhorst, who was the dents will have access to the river as
and a land purchase closing at the other. primary developer of the Strand beach well as the ocean. But the project isn’t
At the same time, the two projects are cottages in Indian River Shores, and being built or billed as a resort. In-
The projects are similar in several distinctly different, with different devel- built by Phoenix Construction, which stead it is a place for quiet, luxurious
ways – both have strong Vero connec- opment, construction and sales teams built the Strand and Tarpon Flats. oceanfront living midway between the
tions and offer beautifully-designed and different target demographics. attractions of Fort Pierce and Jensen
and built oceanfront homes. Both will The three-story, 5,785-square-foot, Beach/Stuart.
be worth about $150 million at sellout “There isn’t much direct competi- coastal contemporary residences,
at the current asking prices. tion between us for buyers,” said Scott which come with four bedrooms, five “Management costs and HOA fees
Reynolds, whose team at Compass is and half baths and three-car garages, will be low,” said Reynolds.
in charge of marketing and sales at Di- are intended for traditional snowbirds,
Meanwhile, six miles south on A1A,
Ouanalao, where a gala groundbreak-
ing took place last week, is all about
resort-style living.

Developed by The Heaton Compa-
nies, builders of Vero Beach Hotel and
Spa, Old Oak Lane and Tarpon Flats,
and sold by Douglas Elliman, the proj-
ect will include 25 large, luxed-out
oceanfront homes starting at $4.2 mil-
lion and 34 cottages offered for $1.5
million, preconstruction.

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Renderings show a fabulous beach
club on the oceanfront with a glass back
wall, spa, swimming pool, fine-dining
restaurant, bar and beach food service,
and a second clubhouse with another
resort-style pool, restaurant, bar and
26-slip dock on the slightly more casual
river side of the 15-acre property.

“The check at the river restaurant will
be about half what it is at the ocean-
front,” said project developer Lee Hea-
ton, who told Vero Beach 32963 that
he had been eyeing the project site for
years.

“We were always aware of the prop-
erty,” he said. “I called the owners a
couple of years ago and found out it
was available.”

Heaton bought the property for
$10,750,000 in June 2021, according to
St. Lucie County records, and began
meeting with architects and land plan-
ners to figure out the best project for
the site.

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He decided on luxury residential with sail – which creates a great opportunity Ouanalao opened for sales in June Elliman’s Palm Beach office but Elliman
a strong resort and rental component. for buyers to generate income when they and was more than 20 percent sold out agents from Vero were prominent at the
aren’t here in a way that is very unusual prior to groundbreaking, according to party and the company’s entire Florida
“There isn’t really anything like it on for a product of this caliber. the site plan at Ouanalaoresort.com, operation will be focused on the prop-
the Florida coast,” said Heaton. “We will with nine houses and three cottages erty.
have all the water activities on the river “I’ve been to quite a number of spoken for.
and ocean, with jet skis, paddle boards, groundbreakings,” Parker added. “And Sales opened at Diamond Shores
eco-tours, sea turtle nesting tours and they didn’t feel like this, look like this, “We have hard contracts on all of in August and Reynolds’ team has
horseback riding on the beach. There or sound like this one. I think it is those, not reservation deposits,” Hea- sold four homes so far, without a
will be a catamaran to take people out pretty clear this project is going to be ton said. model or presence at the site, in
to a nearby island with box lunches and something very special.”
for daily sunset cruises. The sales team is led by agents out of CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

“There is a kids club and an event
lawn where we will show free movies
every night.”

The $1.5 million beach cottages
will have 1,332 square feet of air-con-
ditioned living space with two bed-
rooms, and two and a half bathrooms.
The three-story beach houses will have
4,239 square feet of air-conditioned
living space with another 1,800 square
feet of outdoor living space. They come
with private swimming pools, eleva-
tors, media rooms, five bedrooms, and
five and a half baths.

Cottages and houses are sold fully
furnished with a long list of high-end
finishes and fittings. They will be built
by Kast Construction, a Florida com-
pany that has built hundreds of ma-
jor projects spanning the spectrum
of commercial real estate, including
dozens of multifamily and hospitality
developments.

Heaton said his buyers will be pur-
chasing “a second, third or fourth
home.”

Whether they spend a few weeks or
many months in residence each year,
owners will have access to a full suite of
luxury hotel amenities, with daily linen
and housekeeping services upon re-
quest, in-home, chef-prepared meals
for parties, and in-home spa services.

“You can have as little or as much of
that as you want,” Heaton said.

Buyers will automatically be signed
up for the rental program, which will
be run by Mainsail, a management
and development company with close
ties to Marriott.

“Mainsail has a strong focus on food
and beverage, which we wanted, and
they bring a direct link to Marriott’s
Bonvoy loyalty rewards program, which
has 150 million members,” Heaton said.

More than 160 people attended the
groundbreaking last Thursday, includ-
ing more than two dozen agents and
brokers from Vero Beach who hope
to bring clients to the closing table at
Ouanalao (pronounced O-wana-loo).

“Ouanalao was the original name of
St. Barts, one of the most extraordinary
islands in the hemisphere,” Jay Parker,
CEO of Douglas Elliman Florida, said
at the catered event at the project site
in Jensen Beach. “We will create that
same lifestyle and luxury here.

“We are very excited to be working
with the incredible development team at
the Heaton Companies and with Main-

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Luxury developers The 23-acre Diamond Shores prop- from closing and don’t see anything here no latter than Dec. 1, start con-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 erty was purchased for $7.5 million by that would interfere,” Reynolds said. struction in January and deliver new
WBC Collections LP in 2017. “WBC has the land prepared and pad homes 12 to 18 months after that,”
what has been a slow market. ready, with utilities stubbed in, so it said Sven Frisell, the Reynolds team
Reynolds plans to ramp up sales in At some point Rauenhorst made a will go fairly quickly once we begin member in charge of sales at Diamond
deal with WBC to prep and entitle the construction. We are just waiting for Shores. “We are seeing interest from all
coming weeks after final entitlements land for his residential development the final entitlements.” over, especially Miami and the North-
are in place. prior to closing on the sale. east. So far, we have sold to people
“We plan to have a sales trailer open
“We are just a couple of weeks away

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from Chicago, Tampa and a local from despite widespread uncertainty about pects, noting the ongoing lack of new- ances, quartz countertops and owners’
Hutchinson Island.” what will happen with real estate be- home inventory, Phoenix Construc- suites with floor-to-ceiling ocean-view
tween now and completion. tion’s reputation for building excellent windows.
That timeframe puts Diamond Shores homes, and an impressive array of
in sync with Ouanalao, where Heaton “Cash buyers are less affected by standard high-end features at Diamond Both developments are offering com-
hopes to complete his resort project by interest rates, and so far all our buy- Shores, including elevators, 12-foot ceil- missions to outside agents who bring
the end of the first quarter in 2024. ers are cash, at least on paper,” added ings, heated, ocean-view pools, white buyers.
Parker. oak flooring, Sub-Zero and Wolf appli-
“We have a lot to do,” he said, add- “We will pay a 3 percent commis-
ing that he is “confident of the market,” Reynolds, too, likes his sales pros- sion,” Heaton said. 

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County labor contract retired Tad Stone in July, described the
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 process as “one of the smoothest nego-
tiations I’ve even seen.”
additional rescue sergeant’s position.
County Administrator Jason Brown In addition to the wage increase,
Brown said the increase in “Kelly
said the agreement should help the days” – additional days off as part of
county “recruit and retain” the best firefighters’ shifts – were among the
people to provide fire rescue services. union’s priorities.

“This is a good agreement for ev- He said fire-rescue workers in the
eryone involved, a positive step for- counties to the south get one Kelly
ward for the county and its firefighters day every three weeks. Prior to the
and paramedics,” Brown said. “We’ve new agreement, firefighters here re-
made a big swing towards making ceived only three Kelly days per year.
sure we’re competitive in the job mar- They’ll now receive one Kelly day ev-
ket and making this county a place ery six weeks.
where people want to work and build
their careers.” “It’s not what they’re getting in St.
Lucie, Martin, Palm Beach, Broward
The two sides tentatively agreed to and Miami-Dade,” Brown said, “but it
terms on Sept. 21 and finalized the starts a transition to get us closer.”
contract’s language on Oct. 1. The new
agreement runs through Sept. 30, 2025. County Commissioner Joe Earman,
a former firefighter and union presi-
Both county officials and the fire- dent who retired six years ago, said it
rescue workers’ local union president, was odd being on the management
John O’Connor, praised the way the side of the table, but he was pleased
negotiations were conducted and ex- with the outcome of the negotiations.
pressed optimism about future labor
talks. “The bottom line is: We needed to
take care of our firefighters, take care
They said there was none of the acri- of the retention issue and be com-
mony that so often marred previous ne- petitive in the wage market, no matter
gotiations. In fact, O’Connor thanked what,” Earman said. “And we did that.”
the commissioners for addressing the
union’s concerns. He said the new agreement – and
how both parties approached the ne-
“We’ve had multiple discussions gotiations – puts the county “on a good
over the years about retention issues,” path” to building one of the state’s top
O’Connor said, “and I think this con- fire-rescue departments.
tract reflects that and will provide a
foundation for us to build as we grow “For the first time,” Earman said, “I
as an organization.” saw a good working relationship be-
tween us and the firefighters.”
County Emergency Services Director
David Johnson, who replaced the now- According to Brown, the total three-
year cost of the new agreement is esti-
mated at $11.3 million. 

Breeze advance bookings Currently, Breeze’s lone competitor in
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the Vero Beach market is Elite Airways,
which began offering non-stop jet ser-
Beach is a very popular destination. vice to Newark, N.J., in December 2015
“Our thought is: If the demand is and later added flights intermittently to
Portland, Me.; Asheville, N.C.; andWest-
there, we’ll add flights and even routes,” chester.
he added. “Right now, there’s reason to
be excited.” Elite, however, hasn’t flown since
June 30, and Vero Beach Airport Direc-
Breeze announced last month that it tor Todd Scher said he doesn’t know
will offer daily non-stop flights to and when or if the boutique airline will re-
from Hartford, Conn.; and Thursday, sume service – here or anywhere.
Saturday and Sunday non-stop service
to and from Westchester County. Scher said his most recent com-
munications with Elite was prompted
The airline also will provide one-stop by the “demand letter” he emailed to
Thursday, Saturday and Sunday service the airline’s president, John Pearsall,
to Norfolk, Va., but passengers will not requesting that the company remove
need to change aircraft. the inactive carrier’s computer equip-
ment from the terminal.
The airline is offering one-way fares
as low as $79 on flights to Westches- “He called me last week and left a
ter and Hartford. The lowest one-way voice message,” Scher said. “Apparent-
ticket to Norfolk is $89. ly, he misinterpreted the demand letter
to mean we were done with them and
Edmondson-Jones said company they couldn’t come back. So I sent him
policy prohibited him from provid- an email and corrected him, explain-
ing actual ticket-sale numbers, which ing that we want to do some modifica-
competitors could use to their benefit, tions to the building and don’t want to
but he claimed both the Westchester risk damaging their property.”
and Hartford flights “appear to be do-
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Breeze advance bookings As for Pearsall’s planned announce-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 ment, Scher said, “We hear it’s going
to happen, too, but we’ve been waiting
Scher said he also “reiterated” to for a while now.”
Pearsall the steps Elite needed to take
if the carrier wants to resume service In the meantime, Scher said, he and
in Vero Beach. his staff are continuing with their prep-
arations for Breeze’s arrival. The airline
The city has barred Elite from using is scheduled to begin service here on
the airport’s passenger facilities until it Feb. 15.
pays more than $6,600 in overdue fees
and provides proof of insurance. Scher Scher said he continues to talk to
said the city was notified in August that Breeze executives on a weekly basis to
the carrier’s insurance had expired. discuss the city’s preparations, especial-
ly security, as well as marketing and sig-
In addition, Scher said he has re- nage. “Based on my conversations with
quested from Pearsall “written notifica- them, there’s a lot of excitement on their
tion on company letterhead” that Elite part,” he added.
intends to return to Vero Beach. As last
week ended, Pearsall hadn’t responded. Still, though, Scher said the airport
continues to get more phone calls from
residents asking about Elite’s status.

Reached by phone Friday afternoon, “That’s probably because Breeze has
Pearsall, who more than two months been more transparent,” he said.“People
ago said he would make a “major an- don’t know what’s happening with Elite.”
nouncement soon,” told Vero Beach
32963 he was not yet prepared to pro- If Elite does resume service here,
vide an update on Elite’s status. Scher said that the airport staff and
terminal can handle both airlines, as
“We’re really close; within days,” long as the two carriers don’t schedule
Pearsall said. “As soon as I have one, flights too closely together.
I’ll let you know.”
The airport’s single-lane Trans-
In a text exchange last month, Pears- portation Security Administration
all wrote that he welcomed the compe- checkpoint likely would get backed
tition from Breeze. up if two flights were scheduled to
depart at anywhere near the same
“It’s certainly an odd situation,” Scher time.
said. “When I talk to him, his response
is always, ‘Everything is in place. We’re “We can do it, but we need to make
ready to restart,’ and then nothing hap- sure they don’t stack their flights on
pens. So we’re not sure where we stand top of each other,” Scher said. “We’ve
with them. We’re living in the land of never been in that situation before,
what if.” but we’ll work with both carriers.

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“We don’t know what Elite is going to er’s plans for Vero Beach, Edmondson- Breeze announced last month it will However, the airline plans to add non-
do,” he added, “but our preparations for Jones said. discontinue nonstop service between stop service between Tulsa and Orlando
Breeze are on track for a February start.” San Francisco and Charleston, S.C., in March.
He said news of the December flight in January; and Nashville, Tenn., and
Breeze’s recent decision to tempo- cancellations was “blown out of pro- Tulsa, Okla., later this month. Both Launched by airline entrepreneur
rarily suspend service to some desti- portion by the media,” adding, “You routes were dumped because of a lack David Neeleman, who founded Jet-
nations next month –because of crew never want to cancel flights, but it of demand. Blue Airways in 1998, Breeze began
availability – will not impact the carri- happens. It has no effect on Vero.”
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Breeze advance bookings experience he gained during his four erything we have going on. Adding extra six months and produce an adminis-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 terms as commissioner, his institu- duties might not be the best way to go.” trator who doesn’t fully understand
tional knowledge of the county and its what makes this county special.
operations in May 2021. Fourteen operations, and his relationships with O’Bryan, 65, did not seek a fifth term
months later, the carrier ranked No. department heads and their staffs. – former three-term sheriff Deryl Loar The commissioners, though, cre-
2 on Travel + Leisure magazine’s “Ten was elected to replace him on the ated quite a wish list of attributes,
Best Domestic Airlines.”  He also argued that having an in- commission – and will preside over his ranging from leadership, people skills,
terim manager “who has no interest last commission meeting Tuesday. He and temperament to experience in fi-
My Vero in the job on a long-term basis” would is scheduled to retire on Nov. 21, but nance, budgeting, managing commu-
enhance the county’s search for a new he said he could rescind the date. nity growth, technology, engineering
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 administrator – because applicants and infrastructure.
would know they’re not be competing Once out of office, O’Bryan said, he
brought up the need to hire someone against someone already doing the job would be legally eligible to take the ad- That might be too much to ask for,
in the interim. and that the position is truly open. ministrator’s job, as long as he doesn’t especially for an annual salary just
withdraw any pension money from the north of $200,000 a year. Profession-
He asked whether the conversation O’Bryan closed by saying he would Florida Retirement System. als with such vast expertise are most
should be conducted at that meeting be “honored” to be chosen for the in- likely working in the private sector for
or at a later date. terim position. Brown, 48, announced last month five times that amount, or more.
that he planned to resign from his
That’s when Adams quipped: “Well, The other four commissioners $211,000-plus position, effective Dec. So, either the commissioners lower
you’re retiring …” seemed to embrace the idea, with Laura 31. He has worked for the county for their expectations or they extend the
Moss saying, “I love the surprise ending. 25 years, mostly in the Office of Man- time frame for their search.
Little did she expect O’Bryan to It’s surprising but not unwelcome.” agement and Budget. He has served as
announce that he not only had con- county administrator since 2016, when Not that they should settle.
sidered the interim administrator’s Adams, who admitted she was he was promoted from budget director But they need to be realistic.
position, but that he already had dis- “halfway joking” when she mentioned to replace Joe Baird, who retired. A national search is likely to produce
cussed it with his wife and the coun- O’Bryan’s imminent retirement, said applicants who are on the way up –
ty’s human resources director, Su- his offer “sounds very enticing to me.” The commission voted 4-1 earlier younger professionals who will stay for
zanne Boyll. in the meeting to spend up to $35,000 five years and use the experience they
In a phone conversation after the to hire an executive recruiting firm to gain here to move on to a better job – as
“I think everyone was surprised that meeting, Adams said she’d rather not mount a national search for Brown’s well as older candidates who are on the
Peter was so prepared to talk about it,” give the interim job to a department successor. back nine of their careers and are look-
Adams said. “He certainly has done head or staff member because doing ing for a place to eventually retire.
his homework.” double-duty could be overwhelming. Commissioner Joe Flescher, elected Preferably, we’ll get something in be-
this year to a fifth term, cast the lone tween.
O’Bryan seized the opportunity to “They’d have to do their work as well opposing vote. He urged the commis- In the meantime, though, someone
make his case for the job, citing the as the administrator’s job, which is very sion to interview and evaluate any in- needs to fill the void created by Brown’s
demanding, so I do have concerns about house applicants before embarking on
going in that direction,” Adams said. a national search that could take up to CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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My Vero “My wife asked me the exact same pension, claimed it would have been the bivalent vaccine and consistent
question,” O’Bryan said. “And my an- “negligent” for the commission chair- with the original vaccine,” Pfizer said.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 swer is: I don’t really want to do it. But man to not ask for a discussion about
there’s a need for me to do it – for some- the position. Pfizer submitted the data to the
departure to the Clerk of Court’s fi- one to keep the county going and still be U.S. Food and Drug Administration
nance office. able to attract great applicants. The commissioners were scheduled and said it would continue to monitor
to address the topic again Tuesday. how the updated, Omicron-targeted
Baird might’ve been a possibility, but “I think I’d do a good job.” booster performs against multiple new
he’s busy defending himself against a As for O’Bryan applying for the job “I guess I opened a can of worms,” strains of the virus now circulating,
criminal charge that he stalked his for- from the dais, County Attorney Dylan Adams said. “As far as I knew, Peter was which are still expected to contribute
mer girlfriend. Also, there are certain- Reingold said the commissioner did retiring, getting in an RV and heading to a winter surge in cases.
ly department heads working at the nothing illegal or in violation of coun- to state parks unknown. I was sur-
county offices who could step in for a ty policy, nor would it be illegal for him prised to hear that he had already be- Right now the BQ.1 subvariant, which
few months. to take the job after he leaves office. gun looking into it. has shown to be quite resistant to pro-
And for those wondering: O’Bryan, tective antibodies, accounts for about
Could O’Bryan do the job? who said serving as interim county “He brought up the interim position, 16.5 percent of cases between Oct. 30
He believes he can. administrator would not increase his but, honestly, any one of us could’ve and Nov. 5. And BQ.1 has already mu-
Why does he want the job? done it,” she added. “There’s no con- tated into BQ.1.1 which accounts for
spiracy.”  18.8 percent of the cases this week, ac-
cording to the CDC.
Covid
The BA.4 subvariant has mutated
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 into the BA.4.6 strain, which accounts
for 9.5 percent of the cases. The BA.5
hospitalizations in mid-October. subvariant is still the leader of the
Statewide, the number of COVID pack with nearly 40 percent of cases.
The balance is divided among four
infections rose 14 percent last week. other subvariants.
Still, all of the state except the greater
Tampa area remains in the Low CO- Public health officials warned this
VID Community Level category. week that Influenza A outbreaks are
increasing, and the RSV respiratory vi-
Demand for COVID-19 vaccines rus is gaining steam as well, ahead of
remains low, with only 63,000 people its typical seasonal patterns, creating
statewide out of more than 21.78 mil- the possibility of a “tripledemic” this
lion people opting to get the jab last winter. There is no vaccine for RSV,
week – 56,546 of the shots given being though several different adult and pe-
boosters. diatric formulas are in late-stage clini-
cal trials.
Pfizer-BioNTech released some
hopeful data for older Americans Fri- Florida was listed as an area of high
day on its newly formulated boost- influenza transmission last week,
er shot, based upon a study of 900 with 13 Southern states plus New Jer-
healthy volunteers who had all re- sey, New York City and the District of
ceived their two-dose vaccine regi- Columbia being in the very high flu
men plus one booster. transmission zone.

Pfizer said the study showed its All three of these viruses – CO-
booster designed to protect against VID-19, influenza and RSV – can
the Omicron sub-variants produced cause serious illness, death and last-
four times the antibody response in ing health effects in the young and
study subjects age 55 and older than old, especially to the respiratory sys-
the original Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. tem. Nationwide, about 14,000 peo-
ple age 65 and older die from RSV
“As we head into the holiday season, each year.
we hope these updated data will en-
courage people to seek out a COVID-19 Long COVID is the term used to de-
bivalent booster as soon as they are eli- scribe a variety of symptoms from brain
gible in order to maintain high levels of fog to fatigue that last way beyond a
protection against the widely circulat- patient’s recovery from acute covid ill-
ing Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sublineag- ness. The CDC released data from the
es,” said Albert Bourla, chairman and National Center for Health Statistics
CEO, Pfizer. reporting that an estimated 24 million
Americans have suffered from long CO-
“These updated data also provide VID, and 80 percent of people with long
confidence in the adaptability of our COVID surveyed said it affected their
mRNA platform and our ability to rap- ability to carry out daily tasks.
idly update the vaccine to match the
most prevalent strains each season,” Results of numerous studies on “long
he said. COVID” were published over the past
few weeks, including an Israeli study
The new booster formula produced of nearly 700 people. The study found
similar results regardless of whether that one-third of the participants had
the person had a history of COVID ill- not returned to their pre-COVID ill-
ness, or no history of having COVID, ness state of health after six months.
Pfizer reported. People in the Israeli study who were
overweight and smokers tended to be
“These data highlight the poten- more likely to suffer from long COVID,
tial benefit of the bivalent vaccine and women were more likely than men
for all populations regardless of to be afflicted with long COVID. 
previous SARS-CoV-2 infection. The
safety profile remains favorable for

Shelby, Ashlynn, Travis
and Jay Hinton with
Karen Smith.

GOOD CHEER ADDS PEP TO STEPS
AT ‘MAKING STRIDES’ FUNDRAISER

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Good cheer adds pep to steps at ‘Making Strides’ fundraiser

Tina Pelissier and Maria Diaz. Maleny Zamarripa, Kim Feliciano, Jeannine Abbey, Gina Sebastian, Skylar Reitano and Genevieve Reitano. PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF Antawnette Williams and A-Miyah Barron. Cathy Curley received the Hot Pink
Staff Writer PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 Award for her Flamingo Fundraiser
Vero Beach, which raised more than
Undaunted by a deluge of rain, $10,000.
breast cancer survivors and their
supporters exploded with enthusi- “That’s enough money to provide
asm during the 2022 Making Strides free lodging for 154 cancer patients
Against Breast Cancer of Indian River and their caregivers, just to give you
walk at Riverside Park, hosted by the an idea of what donations can do for
American Cancer Society. breast cancer patients who travel
long distances,” said Bartoszewicz.
Adorned in everything from
pink tutus to spectacularly deco- She noted that the 18 men in this
rated brassieres, participants raised year’s Real Men Wear Pink Campaign
$96,577, exceeding the goal for this raised a collective $28,464, adding
year’s non-competitive walk. Event that while only 1 percent of men are
lead Vanessa Bartoszewicz encour- afflicted with breast cancer, they are
aged participants to continue their affected through the diagnoses of
fundraising efforts through the end their mothers, sisters, wives, daugh-
of October. ters, nieces, employees and friends.

Cathi and Edmund Nalzaro part- Among the Real Men Wear Pink
nered with local radio personality participants was six-year cancer sur-
Bob Soos to educate, entertain and vivor Thomas Schinske, who offered
excite the crowd as they prepared for kisses for donations as a way to con-
the walk of pink. tinue his fundraising.

“Thanks to our teams who come “Today, we also honor and remem-
out each year taking steps in a fight ber those lost to breast cancer,” said
for a world without breast cancer. Soos, inviting attendees to add a
Thank you for hosting fundraisers, heart to the Forever in our Hearts
asking friends and families for dona- display.
tions, and doing all you can to help
fund the future fight against breast Having lost his mother to breast
cancer,” said Cathi Nalzaro. cancer, Soos said treatment in the
early 1970s, when his mother was di-
“These companies and organiza- agnosed, was nowhere near as good
tions are not just walking. They are as today.
truly walking the talk and investing
in the American Cancer Society’s “This terrific group in front of me
mission to discover more ways to gives so much inspiration and cause
prevent, find, treat and survive breast for celebration,” said Soos, as survi-
cancer.” vors gathered for a group photo with
Survivor chair Elizabeth April. A 25-
Dr. Edward Murphy was recog- year breast cancer survivor, she is
nized for a “decade of dedication” among more than 3.8 million breast
as a platinum-level sponsor, and cancer survivors in the U.S. today.

Friends in Motion performed a

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spirited selection of dances, and the vivors, thrivers and caregivers, and women apart from skin cancer. For tion’s most significant breast cancer
Vero Fitness team got folks ready the efforts of the ACS to provide pa- more than 30 years, friends, family movement will occur in more than
to shred the tread on their sneakers tient support services and find a cure and businesses have teamed up na- 150 communities, supported by the
with a high-energy warmup before for breast cancer. tionwide to raise funds and aware- ACS through helplines, chat services
the 75 teams, consisting of 378 par- ness, amassing more than $71 mil- and a mobile app.
ticipants, lengthened their strides to More than 290,000 people will be lion to be invested in breast cancer
support breast cancer patients, sur- diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022 research grants. This year, the na- For more information, visit cancer.
– the most common cancer type for org. 

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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 Luz Molina, Alisa Messina, Ellie Candido and Rosanne Gangi.
Alice Parks and Johnna Morris.

Trish Murray, Dyan Chester and Mimi Kuriger. Patty Yacovella. Colette Heid, Dennis Bartholomew, Judi Miller and Vicki Soule.

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Carol Theriault, Cindy Davenhall and Pam Vavonese. Debbie and Mike Roche with Ruth Young. Mary Helen Sullivan, Julie Norris and Maureen Leu.

Terri Schmalfuss, Nancy Madsen and Jane Holman. Shawn Rhude, Catherine Cousino, Paige Pickhardt and Dr. Daniel Glotzer. Genevieve Introcaso and Eric Demaris.

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Community Leaders feted for showing the philanthropic ‘Way’

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

After a three-year hiatus, business PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 20
leaders, government and nonprofit
agencies gathered at the Quail Valley Phyllis Schneider and Kyleigh Savoie. PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS Peggy Jones and Cindy Emerson.
River Club to recognize a continued
legacy of volunteerism and philan- record-breaking $5.2 million into Indi- that we are going to solve affordable  Richardson Spirit of Indian River
thropy at the annual United Way of In- an River County through partnerships housing, but we all need to get on the County Award for Funded Partners:
dian River County’s Community Lead- and initiatives. Because of you, United same page and know that we are work- The Children’s Home Society.
ers Breakfast and Spirit of Indian River Way was able to fund 45 vital programs ing toward the solution together,” said
County Awards Program, sponsored at 36 partner agencies that focus on the Egan.  Richardson Spirit Award for Cham-
by Florida Power & Light. education, financial stability, and the pion of the Community: Nick LoPresti,
health of our community,” noted Egan. This year’s guest speaker was David LoPresti Productions.
“Gathering like this is just such a Hall, a Florida Housing Finance Cor-
great way to start our day and also Organizers chose the lack of afford- poration board member, who spoke  Richardson Spirit Award for Work-
start our season,” said Meredith Egan, able housing to be the focus of this about the programs and actions they place Partner: Cleveland Clinic Indian
UWIRC CEO. “It’s difficult to fathom year’s event, with Egan citing the dis- are taking to increase affordable hous- River Hospital.
how far we’ve come since 2019. These parity between low-income wages and ing at the county and state levels.
moments have challenged us and rising housing costs. Currently, she  Ralph T. King Award: Margo Lind
changed us in ways that we never could said 60 percent of Indian River County “We live in one of the richest coun- was honored with their most presti-
have imagined. Despite the challenges, residents are ALICE (Asset Limited, In- ties in one of the richest nations in all gious recognition, for her unwavering
we have demonstrated at United Way come Constrained, Employed), before of human history,” said Jeff Petersen, support of the United Way over the
that the power of our work has never showing a moving video that gave at- UWIRC board chair elect. “Yet we still years, including serving as board trea-
been stronger.” tendees a better picture of the ALICE have neighbors that live in cars, under surer, on the Citizen’s Review Panel,
population. bridges and in tent cities.” at the United Way’s Day of Caring and
Egan said that all during the pan- myriad other volunteer tasks.
demic, their work never ceased. “Our Community Leaders breakfast Before announcing the award recip-
is designed to amplify work around ients, Petersen said, “I am supremely “These honorees today capture the
“Our doors never closed because profit markers, connect varied stake- proud that we live in an overly gener- legacy of these two gentlemen in a way
those we serve needed us most. The holders, and bring the community ous county. I am very proud, for the that makes them true game changers
fabric that makes up the network of our closer to the work of the United Way. second year in a row, to thank those and hand raisers,” said Petersen, refer-
community partners held tight as the We know that this is a difficult and who have done an outstanding job of encing the late Dan K. Richardson and
waves of the pandemic, economic in- complex issue, and today is not the day representing our community and what Ralph T. King.
security, natural disasters and political it means to live United.”
polarization all rocked and continue to For more information, visit united-
affect our everyday reality.” wayirc.org. 

The United Way, which celebrated
its 60th anniversary in 2021, contin-
ues to support the community by rais-
ing funds, championing causes, and
searching for solutions to challenges.

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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 Sarah Tucci, David Hall and Deana Shatley. Margo Lind and Jessica Dodd.
Sandy and Randy Rolf.

Karen Egan and Claudia McNulty. Jermey Gable, Yamilet Cendejas and Chief David Currey. Julia Keenan and Amy Haase.

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Antoine Jennings, Angelia Perry, Cathy De Schouwer, Barbara Pearce and Sabrina Sampson.

Mike McGee and Michael Kint. Heather Dales and Noreen Davis.

Freddie Woolfork and Judi Miller. Marie O’Brien and Karen Malits.

Mary Cone and Ann Marie McCrystal. Sheriff Eric Flowers and Kevin Given.

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‘Hunt for Hope Florida’ scavenges funds to fight rare cancer

BY MARY SCHENKEL to benefit the IBC Network Founda-
Staff Writer tion, which funds clinical research and
treatments for Inflammatory Breast
Those costumed men and women Cancer.
you may have seen wandering about
taking pictures of themselves and As in the past, teams met at the main
performing various tasks at Sebastian pavilion at Riverview Park to get their
businesses weren’t early trick-or-treat- scavenger hunt marching orders for
ers, but instead were participants in Part 1. New this year, Part 2 featured
the 10th annual Hunt for Hope Florida team head-to-head competitions in the
park following the hunt.

PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS

STORY, PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

“One-hundred percent of what we She said the all-volunteer IBC Foun-
raise goes to research for breast cancer, dation was formed in 2011, because at
specifically inflammatory breast can- the time there was very little research
cer,” said Dr. Holly Hamilton, owner of into inflammatory breast cancer, a rare
Riverside Family Dental and aggressive form of cancer. She ex-
plained that IBC doesn’t present with
“But there’s a lot of crossover studies a lump, isn’t found in a mammogram,
that they’re doing right now that ben- typically occurs in younger women,
efits triple-negative breast cancer and and is frequently misdiagnosed, mean-
some of the other forms of breast can- ing that it can be Stage Four by the time
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it actually is correctly diagnosed. “A lot of the studies they are funding STORY/PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 22
Hamilton formed Hunt for Hope are crossover studies for me as well, so Lorraine Childs, Jayne Astrom, Mariah Dean, and Dawn Wittenrich.
it’s very relevant to me,” said Hamilton,
Florida in honor of her friend, Dr. Lori adding that IBC and TNBC treatment
Grennan, a physician who began the regimens are similar.
first Hunt for Hope in Ohio while un-
dergoing treatment for IBC, and who “They’re learning a lot through
later died from it. medications that they’re developing
and there’s a lot of research going on.
The research became particularly There’s a lot of good stuff,” said Hamil-
pertinent to Hamilton after she was ton. There is now a TNBC vaccine avail-
diagnosed with triple-negative breast able, subsequent to her 2019 diagnosis.
cancer, another very aggressive form
that also tends to affect younger wom- “We continued having Hunt for Hope
en. According to breastcancer.org, tri- throughout all that time because it was
ple-negative breast cancer is estrogen that important to me. And it’s even
receptor-negative, progesterone recep- more important now that I see the
tor-negative and HER2-negative. type of research that they’re doing that

would be beneficial to anyone with it,” PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
said Hamilton.
Lorranie Childs, Jayne Astrom,
“They’re starting to do some manual Mariah Dean and Dawn Wittenrich.
therapy drugs and some other things,
but as of now there’s still a lot of research
that needs to be done in those fields.”

She commented that the larger can-
cer organizations are generally focused
on mainstream cancers and are less
inclined to fund research into cancers
that are rare and/or that don’t have a
good long-term prognosis.

“So there’s still a lot of funding for re-
search needed,” said Hamilton.

For more information, visit TheIBC-
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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 24 PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS Tayler Beuth, Zach Yanoviak, Hayden Beuth and Brittney Yanoviak. Coach Tyrone Perry, Garrett Kulp, Michael Howard,
Tony, Jen, Abbey, and Ethan Carter. Patrick Hamilton, and Brendan Sposato.

Erika and Johnny Rincon.

Connie Wellman, Diana Williams, Pam Kahl.

Mike and Dr. Holly Hamilton.
Laura Aldrich and Susan Shine.

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‘Pink in Paradise’ sparkles with support for cancer survivors

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 28 programs include breast prostheses, more than medicine. It’s comprehen-
Nina and Scott Curtis. mastectomy bras, and wigs; con- sive. It requires not just the medica-
Staff Writer cierge services ranging from shop- tions and the surgeries,” said Nelson.
ping to companion visits; chemo kits
A blush of pink filled the American that contain items cancer patients According to Nelson, the group will
Icon Brewery during an inaugural find helpful during their treatments; roll out a quarterly Caregiver Sympo-
Pink in Paradise Charity Gala hosted and financial services which provide sium in March 2023 that will create
by Friends After Diagnosis and the financial assistance for travel during a network of local and national re-
Reynolds Team of Compass Realty, treatment. sources that cancer patients can ac-
the premier sponsor. cess.
“We want to help heal their mind,
Bedecked and bejeweled in for- body and spirit. Cancer recovery is For more information, visit friend-
mal attire, survivors and supporters safterdiagnosis.com. 
gathered to support the mission of
the nonprofit “to enhance the lives
of women diagnosed with cancer.”

As guests dined on small plates
and a variety of tempting sweets,
they could read from stories that
lined the brewery’s second floor,
written by some of the women who
have participated in the myriad ser-
vices and programs offered through
the organization. Each story re-
vealed the struggles these women
have had during their battles against
cancer; some overcoming them and
others still waging their own private
wars.

Event proceeds will go toward the
support groups, wellness programs,
and direct and personal services,
provided by Friends After Diagno-
sis, aligning with the evening’s goal
of “battling breast cancer at a local
level.”

“The support meetings are a
place to talk to someone else going
through a similar situation; things
that they may not ever voice to their
family members or friends. It is re-
ally important to be able to have that
community available to the ladies
who have been diagnosed with can-
cer,” said Carolyn Nelson, Friends
executive director, noting that sup-
port groups are offered in-person
and via Zoom.

Friends also offers Ride Beyond
Diagnosis, an equine-assisted thera-
peutic program; Friends in Motion,
for those who enjoy dance; Row Be-
yond Diagnosis, a crew rowing pro-
gram, at Vero Beach Rowing; and
Aquatic Friends for water exercising.

“People don’t realize that in order
to remain a cancer survivor and not
have recurrences, you have to be
physically fit. You have to maintain
your health and get exercise,” shared
Michelle Moss, a cancer survivor.

“If you’re just coming out of it,
the whole idea of going to a gym is
overwhelming. To be able to exer-
cise with other people who are in the
same situation as you is very benefi-
cial.”

Their direct and personal services

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PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS Leni Taube and Nicole Paradiso. Suzy Stoeckel and Junius Penn.
Stephanie and Dave Wierzbicki.

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Diana Tremesani, Renata Di Virgilio, Jorge Brache and Nancy Marquez.

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By Stephanie Hanes | Christian Science Monitor

The Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New The drilling rig for CUBO, the Cornell University Borehole CUBO mud logger, Madeline Fresonke takes samples
York, is a small city of some 30,000 people, spanning Observatory, in Ithaca, New York. Cornell researchers have of rock chips from the drilling mud at the drill site.
2,400 acres and hundreds of buildings, including drilled a nearly 2-mile-deep hole with the goal of using
castlelike dorms, state-of-the-art laboratories, an heat in the Earth to warm university buildings. cused on electrification – exchanging your oil tank,
art museum shaped like a sewing machine, and a for instance, for an electric heat pump. But this ap-
power plant that produces some 240 megawatts of proach, although effective at lowering greenhouse
electricity every year. gases, doesn’t address two big problems: First, the
world’s electric grids are already straining to keep up
This leafy, academic metropolis is perched on lay- with demand. And second, despite a huge increase
ers of sedimentary rock – geology that reveals itself in wind and solar power production, most electricity
in the gorges that slice through the campus, deep still comes from power plants that burn fossil fuels.
crevices where, long ago, errant waters of retreating
glaciers ripped open the earth. Policymakers have suggested a slew of different
models for addressing this quandary, such as extend-
These layers continue deep underground, thou- ing the life of nuclear power plants, ramping up the
sands upon thousands of feet, until they hit what is number of wind and solar farms, or tapping into the
known as the “crystalline basement.” There, nearly 2 awesome power of ocean waves to produce electricity.
miles down, lies a rock barrier between what we, as
humans, typically think of as “earth” on one side, and But here in Ithaca, scientists, utilities, and entre-
the planet’s hot, silicate mantle on the other. preneurs are flipping the solutions narrative. In-
stead of looking upward for clean energy, to the sun
It also marks the location of what a growing cadre or the wind, they are turning their ingenuity down-
of scientists, entrepreneurs, and government officials ward, into the Earth itself.
sees as a viable solution to a pressing, yet elemental,
challenge: how to stay warm. “We’re seeing a huge influx into the geothermal sec-
tor,” says Jeremy Harrell, chief strategy officer at Clear-
There is a looming problem: How we heat today Path, a research and advocacy group that focuses on
mostly relies on burning fossil fuels. This is a prob-
lem because of what it means for the world’s climate,
which is changing rapidly thanks to atmosphere-
warming emissions, but also because staying warm
through winter is tied to global forces often beyond
one’s control.

Until very recently, most of the discussion about
moving away from fossil fuel-based heating has fo-

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ SOURCE: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

using free-market policies to accelerate emissions re-
ductions. “Geothermal is exciting. It’s a cost-effective
technology that is resilient and that can provide heat
and power.”

It could also, if some of the more cutting-edge
initiatives succeed, fundamentally alter the way the
world understands and uses energy.

In the middle of a nondescript gravel lot, once
reserved for contractor parking, high above Cayu-
ga Lake, researchers involved with Cornell’s Earth
Source Heat project have drilled down nearly 2
miles, to that crystalline basement, to explore the
potential of tapping geothermal heat.

Graduate student Sean Fulcher holds up a piece
of rock taken from deep within the Earth.

Below: Tammy Johnson, project manager for the
drilling of CUBO, the Cornell University Borehole
Observatory, stands by the wellhead covering a
hole nearly 2 miles deep.

Only the wellhead remains – the drill rig and the
mud spinners and cement silos departed this fall –
but scientists here are still studying the geology of
what they affectionately call CUBO, the Cornell Uni-
versity Borehole Observatory. They are modeling
water flow, examining seismic behavior, and work-

COVER STORY CONTINUED ON PAGE 34

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ing with facilities staff to plan a new system for heat- Frank Perry, Cornell’s thermal distribution and
ing the campus. hydroelectric project manager, explains how cold
water from deep in nearby Cayuga Lake is used to
“If we want to decarbonize, we have to switch from cool the university’s buildings in summer.
natural gas to something else,” says Jefferson Tester,
a professor of sustainable energy systems in Cornell’s Jefferson Tester, a professor
Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engi- at Cornell University and the
neering and the principal scientist for the university’s principal scientist for the
Earth Source Heat project. “Geothermal would be one university’s Earth Source
of the really good opportunities. ... It’s on all the time, Heat project.
it’s available, it’s stored in the earth. And we can reach
it with today’s technology.” Extracted rock samples
labeled with the depth, in
Tapping the earth for heat and power, by itself, is feet, are ready for analysis.
not new. In Iceland, where hot rock and subterranean
water are near the surface, 9 out of 10 households “If we want to decarbonize ... geothermal would
get their heat directly from geothermal sources. In be one of the really good opportunities. ... It’s on
Boise, Idaho, a centralized geothermal system deliv- all the time, it’s available, it’s stored in the earth.
ers 177-degree water through a series of pipes that And we can reach it with today’s technology.”
heats millions of square feet of downtown building
space. There is also geothermal heating in Paris; San A member of the project team reviews data
Bernardino, California; and Klamath Falls, Oregon – from the CUBO drilling operation to help track
places where subterranean hot water reservoirs can the progress of drilling through the different
flow through rock at relatively shallow depths. rock layers.

These places also tend to have geothermal power New Mexico, under the Carter administration, when him to join its faculty and head a project to put that
plants – facilities that use the Earth’s heat to make scientists at the national laboratory began what be- work into practice.
steam to spin turbines that generate electricity in came known as the Hot Dry Rock Program.
the same manner as nuclear or coal plants. The Gey- In many ways, Cornell’s Ithaca campus was the
sers, for instance, a 45-square mile facility located But the funding for that program evaporated dur- perfect location to create an earth source heat sys-
about 75 miles north of San Francisco, is home to ing the Reagan administration, and Dr. Tester went tem. It was already committed to carbon neutral-
the largest geothermal energy site in the world. to work at MIT, where he continued his research on ity. And from a practical point of view, a university,
geothermal energy and heat. In 2009, Cornell asked where administrators have access to and control
This power, points out Joseph Greco, the head of
the Western region strategic initiatives for Calpine,
the company that runs the Geysers, is consistent – it
doesn’t fluctuate like wind or solar. This is particu-
larly important for a grid that is increasingly maxed
out. During the state’s rolling blackouts this past
summer, “we were there supplying the grid 24/7,”
he says.

But the idea of expanding geothermal anywhere
and everywhere, so that the earth beneath one’s feet
can take care of a good percentage of one’s own heat
and power needs – that’s new. And it has caught the
imagination not just of scientists, but of the U.S. De-
partment of Energy, along with a growing number of
startups and existing power companies.

There are different systems for creating this “next-
generation” geothermal. There are “closed-loop” sys-
tems that, rather than tapping into hot underground
water reservoirs, send a pipe through the hot areas, sort
of like a big, old-fashioned radiator through the Earth.

But starting a geothermal project takes time.
This summer, a company named Fervo Energy
raised $138 million for next-generation geothermal
energy, the largest private investment in geothermal
technology to date.
Others are working on technology to further re-
duce the cost of geothermal.
To encourage innovation, the U.S. Department
of Energy this year added an enhanced geothermal
“shot” to its Energy Earthshots program, a series of
initiatives and funding streams intended to spark in-
novation to help address the climate crisis and grow
the clean energy job sector. The department made a
specific request for projects that used geothermal for
direct heat.
“Everybody is talking about electrification, but I
don’t think electricity is the answer,” says Dr. Hick-
son at Alberta No. 1. “We need to get the world to
understand – especially in the U.S. and Canada – the
low-hanging fruit here is thermal energy.”
This has been Dr. Tester’s mission for decades.
The Cornell professor began working in geother-
mal energy as a postdoctoral student in Los Alamos,

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CUBO mud logger, Juliette Torres takes samples “We can make guesses about what rocks The school was also willing to experiment. It is part
of rock chips from the drill site for geological are there. But to know what it actually is of the university’s mission, administrators say, to use
evaluation. – for that we have to go down.” academic resources to develop environmental solu-
tions that can be applied well beyond campus.
A man works on a pipe near the Hellisheidi gas and now tracks and adjusts its operations to keep
Geothermal Power Plant outside Reykjavík, emissions as low as possible; a generations-old hy- In 2009, Dr. Tester and his team of graduate stu-
Iceland. In Iceland, 9 out of 10 houses are dropower plant perched alongside the picturesque dents began putting together a plan for the new Earth
heated directly from geothermal sources. Fall Creek; and, most unusually, an innovative “lake Source Heat system.
source cooling” system, which taps the cold, deep
Patrick Fulton, an earth and atmospheric sci- water of Cayuga Lake to cool buildings without tradi- But in many ways, what was under their feet was
ences assistant professor at Cornell University tional air-conditioning systems. still a mystery.
working with grad students to examine thou-
sands of rock cuttings and core samples. “We can make guesses about what rocks are there,”
says Patrick Fulton, an earth and atmospheric sci-
over all the buildings, is a good place to make this ences professor at Cornell and one of the lead Earth
sort of systemwide change. Source Heat researchers with Dr. Tester. “There are
seismic and geophysical surveys that can help us
Cornell had already made huge investments in predict it. But to know what it actually is – for that we
both practical science and infrastructure related to have to go down.”
utilities, and it had a suite of alternative energy sys-
tems: a central heat and electricity power plant that In a windowless laboratory on the first floor of the
was converted from burning coal to cleaner natural Cornell University earth sciences building, dozens
of blue boxes sit on top of each other, all filled with
samples of earth taken from CUBO. Graduate stu-
dent Sean Fulcher removes one baggie and dumps
the contents onto a table. The gravel shards are part
of the crystalline basement, which Mr. Fulcher and
Dr. Fulton estimate to be 1.1 billion to 1.5 billion
years old. The rocks were likely part of the base of a
mountain range that once reached higher than the
Himalayas.

They extracted these samples from the borehole.
The scientists are now exploring each of them, clean-
ing them, painstakingly recording their features, and
building a 3D image of the inside of the Earth. These
rocks, and others, give a sort of map of what may be
underneath the university – where there are cracks,
where geologic layers have pushed into one another,
where tectonic movement from 100 million years
ago may have left the sort of subterranean features
that today could lead to a modern-day heating sys-
tem.

Some of this research is also essential for safety.
“You don’t want to mess around and create earth-
quakes,” Dr. Fulton says. This has happened with
some geothermal initiatives in the past.

This worries some environmentalists, who won-
der about the line between ingenuity and hubris –
especially with a growing number of private sector
interests involved. But geothermal researchers say
the alternative of continued fossil fuel emissions is
even riskier, and they insist that there is far more at-
tention today to the possible seismic and environ-
mental impacts of drilling.

“There are definitely things that, if you don’t do it
well or smart, and you don’t have an understanding
of what could go wrong, then could be bad,” says Dr.
Fulton.

That’s why an academic effort like Cornell’s is so
important, he and others involved say. They are not
only demonstrating the viability of a new energy
system, but also showing how to foster ingenuity
safely.

But for Dr. Fulton, the purpose of CUBO goes be-
yond simply heating the campus with carbon-free
thermal energy. Knowing what is underground helps
scientists imagine a relationship with the Earth that
is not simply extractive, he says. If humans, for in-
stance, are taking heat from those deep rocks, could
we return that energy? Could the Cornell green-
houses, which currently blow heat into the atmo-
sphere, instead send that heat underground, using
the Earth as a sort of rechargeable heat battery?

“It’s changing the mindset,” he says. “It is start-
ing to think more sustainably about how we interact
with the Earth.” 

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By David Ignatius | Washington Post should cooperate on global economic issues, too, in a settlement in Ukraine – that’s up to Kyiv – but
responding to food and energy shortages and any he can discuss how to prevent any direct U.S.-
The Group of 20 summit scheduled in Bali, In- future global economic downturn. They should re- Russian military conflict. That dialogue is always
donesia, this month will include the presidents of sume talks about curbing global climate change. valuable.
the United States, China and perhaps Russia and And they should underline their shared interest in
Ukraine – providing a rare opportunity for face-to- averting nuclear escalation in Ukraine and in end- The Kremlin, perhaps sensing the world’s anxi-
face diplomacy at one of the tensest moments in ing that war. ety about its nuclear saber-rattling, has backed off
modern history. in recent days. Putin said on Oct. 27 about nuclear
Xi will arrive in Bali with the authority of a Chi- escalation: “There is no point in that, neither po-
The first item on my Bali agenda would be a reaffir- nese emperor, after his dominating performance litical, nor military.” And the Russian Foreign Min-
mation that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must at last month’s party congress. His attendance istry reiterated last week: “Nuclear war is imper-
never be fought,” as five nuclear-weapons states put might look like a charm offensive, as he meets all missible, there can be no winner in it, and it must
it in a joint statement in January. Perhaps they could the major global leaders after being off the world never be unleashed.” Putin might repeat that mes-
again sign such a statement, this time with the lead- stage for most of the past two years. But Xi has new sage in Bali; but then, he said he wouldn’t invade
ers of the world’s other leading economies as wit- problems, too: his slowing economy, his misman- Ukraine, either.
nesses. agement of covid-19 and other domestic prob-
lems, and the world’s growing wariness of Chinese Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ten-
Affirming the red line against nuclear weapons is power. tatively scheduled to attend the Bali summit, at
important now. least virtually. That would present an opportunity
As for Biden, he has seemed to want it both ways for a Putin-Zelensky meeting, with the obvious
But the headline conversation in Bali is likely to be with China: to look tough and conciliatory at the mediator being Turkish President Recep Tayyip
President Biden’s potential encounter with Chinese same time. Erdogan, who just managed to persuade Putin to
President Xi Jinping. reopen the Black Sea for Ukrainian grain exports.
It hasn’t worked very well. He made a mistake But the moment doesn’t seem right yet for settling
U.S. and Chinese officials have been signaling in acquiescing to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s that war diplomatically.
that they want to lower the temperature in the visit to Taiwan in August. Her trip, however well
relationship after a period of unusually high ten- intended, was ultimately a setback for Taipei, as Let’s be honest: If Russian troops keep pulveriz-
sion. it led China to tighten its military squeeze on the ing Ukrainian civilians, the best accomplishment
island. in Bali would be a strong statement from a majori-
A meeting would make sense for both sides: The ty of G-20 leaders condemning Russian aggression.
United States and its allies want a cooling-off oppor- It was a moment where U.S. domestic politics That would demonstrate that Russia will remain
tunity, and China needs better relations as its econo- trumped its strategic interests. isolated – and its economic future clouded – until
my slows to less than 3 percent annual growth, per- this brutal war ends.
haps indefinitely. U.S. officials should manage the China relation-
ship so that the past few years’ downward spiral Summit meetings are showy events, usually
“This is the right moment for a relaunch between doesn’t accelerate. Xi is convinced that the two more photo opportunity than real diplomacy.
the U.S. and China,” says Harvard Kennedy School countries are heading toward war, according to an We can expect to see smiling faces in the staged
professor Graham Allison, the author of “Destined American who knows the Chinese leadership well. group photographs. But the world has been on a
for War,” a book about the risk of a Sino-American The United States should convey that, while com- knife’s edge in recent months, and we can hope
conflict. The two countries are inescapably rivals, petition is inevitable, conflict isn’t. Bali provides some cool heads and frank conver-
Allison argues, but they share an existential inter- sations. 
est in averting climate catastrophe and nuclear Vladimir Putin might decide to stay away from
war. Bali, where he’s likely to be shunned by many at- A version of this column first appeared in The
tendees. But if he goes, Biden’s aides should ex- Washington Post. It does not necessarily reflect the
Building a floor under the Sino-American rela- plore whether meeting the Russian leader would views of Vero Beach 32963.
tionship would require both sides to exercise more accomplish anything useful. Biden can’t negotiate
caution over Taiwan and the South China Sea. They

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Over the course of his six decades of omnipres- THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG mic way, the haunted, hilarious corridors of “The
ence in public life, Bob Dylan has manifested Philosophy of Modern Song” offer the best insight
many guises: Guthrie-besotted roustabout, silver- BY BOB DYLAN | SIMON & SCHUSTER. 339 PP. $45 yet into a crucial Dylan paradox: Music is clearly his
tongued enfant terrible, dignified country-western REVIEW BY ELIZABETH NELSON, THE WASHINGTON POST salvation, but music also seems to scare the wits out
crooner, world-weary gypsy, fire-and-brimstone of him.
evangelist, befuddled ’80s artifact, and finally the throwback burlesque artwork and pictures of the art-
sly and wizened trickster of his triumphal later ists represented within, a visual banquet to accom- These essays are not all terrifying verdicts on the
years. Dylan’s penchant for personal transforma- pany the weird majesty of his essays. fate of a corrupted humanity. There are history les-
tion creates the eerie, quasimystical feeling that sons, too! Charmingly, Dylan appears to have done
there is not one single person dwelling within the And boy, are these essays weird. Longtime Dylan a great deal of research on the material covered,
singer, but several, that somehow, the strange, en- followers are accustomed to the peculiar cast that and maybe even breaks a little news here and there.
chanted boy from Minnesota’s Iron Range contains haunts his songs – scarlet women, jughead criminals, Did you know the inventor of the rhinestone-cov-
all of the multitudes of American music within his wanton judges, sanctified hobos and unscrupulous ered “nudie suit” was a Ukrainian Jew named Nuta
diminutive frame. gamblers – and they festoon these pages as well. Kotlyarenko who fled Russia ahead of a czarist po-
grom? The roots of country music run deeper than
This notion of Dylan as oracle provides the back- Describing Webb Pierce’s “There Stands the Glass” we imagine.
drop for his new essay collection, whose delight- (1953), Dylan extrapolates the sad song into some-
fully portentous title, “The Philosophy of Modern thing remorselessly bleak: The song’s narrator “must Writing of Kotlyarenko’s life, with a sly echo of
Song,” is a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment of his justify and vindicate his entire being, he’s been be- his own, Dylan says: “Like with many men who
mythic status: Aristotle as an A.M. radio DJ. It has trayed by politicians back home, forsaken and dou- reinvent themselves, the details get a bit dodgy in
66 brief vignettes about memorable sides cut by ble crossed.” He “doesn’t recall ever having a soul, or places.” Dylan has been interviewed thousands of
performers ranging from the Sun Records also-ran if he did, it’s long dead at the bottom of a lake.” times, and has an established reputation for being
Jimmy Wages to the 1940s multithreat Perry Como somewhat surly and stubborn on that front. That is
to Dylan’s old touring buddies the Grateful Dead to Costello’s glam-noir “Pump It Up” (1978) is re- both fair and it is not.
his musical inheritors, like Elvis Costello and the garded with similar, delectable dread. “The one-two
Clash. Some of the analyses, which can already be punch, the uppercut, and the wallop, then get out Oftentimes, when interrogated about himself
loose, are accompanied by brief pieces that treat the quick and make tracks. You broke the command- and his views, he is something of a pill: evasive,
songs as creative writing prompts. ments and cheated. Now you’ll have to back down, defensive and not infrequently ornery. But when
capitulate and turn in your resignation.” In its gno- speaking about peers and progenitors in the field of
In keeping with the theme of his omniscient zeal songwriting, the mood shifts. He has routinely been
for songcraft, Dylan betrays no sense there is any- thoughtful, insightful and uncommonly generous
thing remotely odd about zigzagging among Jim- to those with whom he shares the arena.
my Reed, Rosemary Clooney and Santana, itself a “The Philosophy of Modern Song” is the great
meaningful insight into the wide-open apertures of manifestation of that praiseful impulse. Dylan has
his powers of expression. his nitpicks, but this is mostly a liturgy. Here are 66
instances of beauty, anxiety and deliverance that
This is Dylan’s first book of prose since “Chron- taken together would make a satisfying last will and
icles: Volume One” (2004), which was a startlingly testimony, in the unlikely event that Dylan has any
muscular display of prose writing whose sui generis designs on dying.
voice seemed cobbled together from stray parts of Fittingly, one of the best and most moving essays
Charles Portis, James Joyce and the Book of Revela- is a tribute to fellow transformative outcast Little
tion. (Collections of his lyrics and his Nobel Prize Richard. Dylan describes Richard and his epochal
acceptance speech have been published in the time 1955 game changer “Tutti Frutti.” That appreciation
since.) “Chronicles” was a transporting medley of surveys the full playing field for the otherworldly
fever-dream memoir, shaggy dog stories and odd- talented, closeted gay, strictly Christian Richard
ball philosophizing that consecrated, impossibly, Wayne Penniman from Georgia, and articulates the
yet another way in which Dylan could surprise us. vast gifts afforded us through the psychic pain of
one genius:
Readers have eagerly awaited “Chronicles: Vol- “He took speaking in tongues right out of the
ume Two,” but “The Philosophy of Modern Song” is sweaty canvas tent and put it on the mainstream ra-
not that. Not remotely. Whereas his previous book dio – even screamed like a holy preacher – which is
was decidedly austere in presentation, evoking what he was.”
the monochromatic sobriety of a black-and-white How many roads must a man walk down? A-wop-
Bergman film, this new one is more like Fellini. It is bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom. 
bursting at the seams with color in old movie stills,

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By Phillip Alder - Bridge Columnist 752

Arthur Koestler, a novelist and journalist, was born in Budapest but moved to London 853
just before World War II. He claimed, “The more original a discovery, the more obvious it
seems afterwards.” WEST A4
2 EAST
The right play in some bridge deals looks so obvious that almost everyone follows the A K 10 9
same line. Then, when they go down and realize that a different, unusual, approach 97640 3
would have worked, perhaps they have learned to think first, hunt for alternatives second 10 8 5 3
and play third. 8643

In today’s deal, how should South try to make four spades? West starts with three Q J 10
rounds of hearts.
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North adds one point for his doubleton and makes a game-invitational limit raise. If, like
me, you prefer to employ the Losing Trick Count, the North hand has only seven losers SOUTH
because you deduct one loser for a 10-card fit. That suggests forcing to game, but
perhaps it is better to pull in your belt one notch. A J 10 8 7 5

Declarer has three unavoidable red-suit losers, so it seems as though he needs the club QJ
finesse to succeed. He ruffs the third heart, draws trumps and runs the club queen. But
it loses, and South is an unhappy down one. AK2

However, perhaps North will notice that his partner had two chances to get home. After QJ
pulling the trumps, South should have played three rounds of diamonds. Lo and behold,
East would have had to win the third round and been endplayed either to lead away Dealer: South; Vulnerable: Neither
from the club king or to concede a ruff-and-sluff.
The Bidding:
Finally, yes, if West shifts to a club at trick three, he defeats the contract. East
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preference for clubs). 1 Spades Pass 3 Spades Pass
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1 Bees 106 Syn. opp. 61 Must
7 It’s often after you 107 ___ thumb 64 See 67 Down COOKBOOKS I’D LIKE TO SEE By Merl Reagle
10 Corporate-jet rider 108 Limb from limb 66 Dimelike
14 Gaslight? 112 The fat-free cop-snack 67 “Stop!”
18 Owner of the A’s in their
cookbook? (with 64 Down)
glory days, Charlie ___ 116 From Buns of Steel, the 68 Xylophone’s orch. section
19 O.H. who pitched 69 Court promise
___ Cookbook? 70 Schedule
in OH 118 Potato eyes 74 The Vanna White quintet
20 Grandson of Methuselah 119 LAX info 75 ___ Romana
21 Mgr.’s unit, often 120 A direction, to Fernando 76 That open-mouthed
22 Uncle Ben’s cookbook? 121 “___ reason why not”
24 The Spanish omelet 122 Zeno’s town feeling
123 Hitchcock film 77 Seaman’s concern
cookbook? 124 Abbr. on Salt Lake City 79 Michael of tennis
26 Twig broom 80 Saturday wakeup call
27 Like Rochester’s wife buses 82 Leaning degree
29 RE/MAX rival in the home- 125 Ford press secretary Ron 84 Smell awful
86 Cigarette brand
sales biz DOWN 87 Dunderheaded move
30 La-la lead-in 1 Tell ___ (prevaricate) 89 Old English country dance
31 The deep-dish cookbook? 2 Long-snouted fish 92 Very short time
36 The Trojans’ sch. 3 Rural hotels 94 Unexciting
39 “___ matter” 4 Throw for ___ (astonish) 95 As a whole
40 Cries 5 Showroom arrival 96 Finally
41 “Slippery” tree 6 Pathetic start? 97 Simone Signoret film, ___
42 Flower parts 7 Up
44 Ancient character 8 Filled by another actor Letter to My Love
45 Four, on old clocks 9 Justice Kagan 98 TV innovator Arledge
48 Mogadishu resident 10 Day of Doom 100 “___ with you always”
49 The little Little Caesar 11 Tic-tac-toe line 101 WWII figure Wallenberg
12 Stands on three legs 102 Secret
cookbook? 13 With 16 Down, a rhyming 103 Boiled French dish, pot-
55 Long-barreled gun of
Saturday Night Live star ___
southern Africa 14 “Camptown Races” horse 104 WWI battle site 109 Home
56 Stephen King thriller 15 Typify
58 Cut 16 See 13 Down of Iowa State
59 Paramedic: abbr. 17 Beezer-related 110 Actress Russo
60 Way 19 Birds of a region 111 Video-game movie of
62 Actor-singer Theodore 23 “Holy moly!”
63 Leitrim’s land 25 Contributed 1982
65 The slow-cooker 28 Follow 113 U.S. maintenance agcy.
32 Gin partner 114 Send a message in Morse
cookbook? 33 Spanish ladies
71 Arthur of tennis 34 Portly plus Code, e.g.
72 Be untrue 35 Queen of Eng. 115 Compass pt.
73 Ms. Korbut 36 Leonid’s land 117 Sea-creature feature
75 Comrade 37 Bent-forward posture
78 Color slightly 38 Attacked Dedicated to the
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83 Sly look of Cosmetic Surgery
85 The Chinese seafood Woolf? wife
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88 Kazan of Lust in the Dust 47 Special ending
90 The foreigner phobia 49 Cold, in Quito
91 “And giving ___ up the 50 Exasperates
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Still ‘overcome with guilt’ after breaking up with boyfriend

BY CAROLYN HAX will “be alone forever” and broke my ex’s heart? and friends, sabotage his career, feed his addictions or
Washington Post (ahem) gaslight him into thinking he was too broken
– Breaker-Upper to ever find anyone else to love him again? I could see
Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend of any one of those contributing to a bad breakup and
2½ years and I broke up in March; Breaker-Upper: The only thing you did “wrong” an angry ex. (Although that still wouldn’t justify his,
it was the first big heartbreak for was not love him as much as he thought you should. “You’ll be alone forever,” which gives him away as a
both of us. I am pushing 30 and felt So he damns you to eternal loneliness? What a prince. troll with its nastiness and myopia both.)
uneasy about moving in, getting
engaged and taking the next step. You’re the lucky b---- who got out of this relation- In fact, feeling reasonably confident someone
We also fought a lot. My friends told me that he was ship whole, I’d say. would handle a breakup badly is reason alone to
emotionally abusive, and generally I think people felt break up – or not date them to begin with.
we were incompatible. I tend to agree, but at times I That is, unless you’re omitting the juicy stuff. You
am still overcome with guilt at ending the relationship. didn’t cheat on him, did you? Or steal his nest egg, When you break up with someone you’re dating just
It took hours, involved lots of tears and left me feeling spread rumors about him, turn him against his family because you’re no longer interested, that is … let’s call
drained. it kindness-neutral. It’s not about being nice or mean
Needless to say, we ended on a bad note. My boy- so much as being transparent about your feelings.
friend blamed me for the relationship ending, said it
was the biggest mistake of my life and said he thought It’s also generous to him: You were willing to say the
I’d be alone forever. I have reached out to him only once hard things and be the bad guy to free both of you to
since March, to try to apologize for how negative the build lives that suit you better. Breaking up really, re-
breakup was and to make amends. He said he wasn’t ally hurts, but when you don’t want to be with some-
interested in talking. I also noticed that all of his friends one anymore, it’s a necessary hurt that helps you live
unfollowed me. This has really bothered me. life better and more fully.
Do most relationships end negatively? Am I fool-
ish for thinking we could have ended on good terms? If your ex were in good emotional health, then
Should I just accept that some exes will hate you and he wouldn’t want you to stay if your heart wasn’t in
move on? it; he’d want you to have a good life (maybe just far
There is so much advice for people getting enough away for him not to have to see it). And, OK,
dumped but very little for the dumper. Do I even if you were indeed reckless with his feelings, then he
deserve sympathy for breaking someone else’s might want karma to find you – but nothing too dev-
heart, or am I now just the coldhearted b---- who astating, of course.

But he is not in good emotional health, which the
fighting and the messy breakup and your friends have
all been trying to tell you. Believe them, please. And
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‘PIECES’ AND LOVE

VERO ARTIST FINDS JOY
IN DESIGNING JEWELRY

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‘Pieces’ and love: Vero artist finds joy in designing jewelry

BY DEBBIE TIMMERMANN | CORRESPONDENT College in Maine,
where she majored in
For the past 20 years, Deborah Mor- art, and later studied at
rell Polackwich has been creating one Bennington College in
of the world’s oldest art forms, one that Vermont, and at the Ar-
is said to predate even cave paintings rowmont School of Arts and
– jewelry. Crafts in Tennessee, a nation-
al center of contempo-
Originally from Maine, Polackwich rary arts and crafts.
moved to Vero Beach 43 years ago with
husband Alan, an attorney, and their Polackwich
children after he accepted a position makes her
here and, she says, “we wanted to get jewelry using
away from the cold.” a vast array
of items, includ-
In Vero, Polackwich divides her ing beads from
time between her home-based studio all over the
and Gallery 14; she is a founding co- world that
owner of the gallery, which opened 15 come in vari-
years ago. The couple still has a house ous shapes, colors and
on a small island in Maine that has sizes. Her pieces are
been in the family for generations, often highlighted
and which they are in the process of with an especially
renovating. striking pendant,
that she fashions
Polackwich says her interest in bead into the strands with
and jewelry work started when she bead embroidery, sometimes backing
worked on crafts with her children, them with hand-sewn suede.
and she eventually began taking class-
es in jewelry making. The pendants are one-of-a-kind ob-

Polackwich graduated from Colby

Deborah Polackwich.

PHOTOS BY JOSHUA KODIS

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get them in Milwaukee,” says Polack- manship and unique designs each
wich, noting that her favorite West piece offers, her prices are quite rea-
Palm store is Beads Gone Wild, and in sonable.
Maine it’s Caravan.
“It takes at least 10 to 20 hours to
While both have an online pres- make a piece, depending on how
ence, Polackwich says she prefers small the beads are and how intricate
buying in person, striving to choose the pattern is, and whether the chain
the best colors and varieties. She says is made out of beads, sterling, leather
that the cords, threads, silver, stones or ribbons,” she explains.
and beads can all add up, as can the
tools needed to create the intricate Polackwich often employs Kumihi-
pieces. mo, a traditional Japanese artform of
making braids and cords, in her work.
“The expense in this craft is in the Kumihimo, which literally means
tools,” she says. “I do this because I “gathered threads,” incorporates a va-
love it, not to make money.” riety of stringing material and is often

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jects, such as through
natural stones, the design
unusual beads process, de-
and even a fossil- termining
ized oyster, that how best to
she picks up here determine
and there. She holds the layout of
them aside until in- the piece based
spiration pulls them on the shape of the
from the drawer, and beads, the color she
a unique and exquisite wants it to be, and the
necklace takes shape in her number of strands she
expert hands. plans to weave together, anywhere
from one to eight.
The pendants are often flat-bot- Each piece of jewelry is as differ-
tomed, opaque gemstones, called ent as the beads themselves, which
cabochons, that have been shaped and can be made of anything from glass
polished, as opposed to faceted. The or ceramics to natural stones. And, to
resulting form is typically a convex the delight of her clients, she is always
obverse (dome shaped) with a flat re- experimenting with new ideas and
verse. Some of the shells she employs techniques.
are clear, which can give the interest- “I find most of the beads in West
ing effect of space within the necklace. Palm Beach or in Maine, but I used to

Polackwich explains that rather than
plan what to create with the materials
at hand, “it just evolves.”

As a seasoned designer with a cre-
ative mind, Polackwich works her way

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 47 25 times [with PMC], and then
put it in a kiln. The leaf
combined with beads to make excep- burns away from the
tional jewelry. heat, and what is left is
99.7 percent pure silver;
Symbolically, it represents stylish- sterling is only 92.7 per-
ness and sophistication, largely em- cent silver. It’s really hard to
ploying multiple strands for the most work with, just a little piece
dramatic effect. Polackwich explains at a time, because it dries out
that she might also combine that tech- really quickly.”
nique with others, such as embroider-
ing with beads, to put her own spin on Although she says she has never
the design. been interested in taking up artistic
painting, she did volunteer to paint
Polackwich has also worked with benches at a school during the recent
Precious Metal Clay, a soft clay con- United Way of Indian River County’s
sisting of microscopic particles of Day of Caring.
pure silver.

“I might take a real leaf, paint it about

“My husband member of the
and I are very Vero commu-
involved with nity.
United Way,”
she says, add- “The mentor-
ing that in ad- ing program
dition to raising gives values and
their “two wonder- guidance in nor-
ful children,” com- malcy, not tu-
munity service has toring really, but
always been of spe- someone to hang
cial interest to her. The out with,” says Po-
couple twice served as lackwich, who calls
co-chairs of the United it a privilege to have
Way’s annual fundraising worked with each
campaign, and she also do- and every one of those
nates many of her creations young people.
to nonprofits for their chari- Unsurprisingly, Polack-
table fundraising auctions. wich has won numerous
awards for her jewelry, in-
When her children were at cluding blue ribbons at the Vero
Beachland Elementary School, Beach Art Club’s annual Art by the
Polackwich was on the steering com- Sea Fine Arts & Crafts Exhibition at
mittee that initiated a mentoring the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Her
program there. She was an active work is on display at Gallery 14, and
mentor for 20 years, and still keeps at other VBAC exhibitions, including
in touch with her first mentee, now Under the Oaks. 
an adult, and a productive and active

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As holiday season nears, time to hop (and shop) to it

BY PAM HARBAUGH come to a yard sale, what do you
Correspondent want?” Vatland said. “Great bar-
gains. And all the stuff is at a great
You may not be ready for this, but the bargain because we want to sell it.
holidays are quickly approaching. So But we don’t sell coffee. Bring your
get your happy hat on and start your own if you need it.” The Garden
shopping.
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1 You can find some great deals
at the Garden Club of Indian

River County, which has its big yard

sale 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

12. “It is jam-packed with tables and

stuff,” said the club’s treasurer, Kar-

en Vatland. “They’re beating down

the doors at 7:30. It’s crowded.” Vat-

land said people love scoring great

deals on plants, holiday decorations,

household goods, purses, jewelry,

books, children’s toys and games, al-

most everything except “the kitchen

sink, and clothes. We don’t accept

clothing.” The items come from the members try to have everything ters. The plants,
priced ahead of time, but sometimes though, will be
members, some of whom are getting the cashiers have to offer up a price, on the club’s pa-
so even if you are hunting for that tio. After the yard sale,
ready to move or to simplify their bargain, lighten up, have fun and go members pack every-
with the flow. Most of the Yard Sale thing up and donate it
households. They are all gardeners takes place inside the club quar- to charities. “When you

so there’s usually quite a bit of plant

and pots. “It’s the yearly cleansing of

our cupboards,” Vatland said. Club

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Club of IRC is at 2526 17th Ave., Vero held at the Garden Club of Indian River
Beach. Call 772-567-5602 or visit Gar- County is at 2526 17th Ave., Vero Beach.
denClubOf IRC.org. You need to get there by 6:30 in order to
register and get a bidding paddle. The
2 You can also get good deals on auction begins 7 p.m. and goes for a
gifts via auctions. The Indian Riv- couple hours. Funds raised help sup-
port the Bromeliad Society, which is
er Bromeliad Society will hold an auc- a nonprofit. Cash or checks only. No
credit cards accepted. Call 772-713-
tion Monday evening, Nov. 14, where 6007 or visit IRBromeliadSociety.org.

you can pick up for reasonable costs

some most forgiving blooming plants.

“This is an opportunity for the commu-

nity to procure unusual exotic plants 3 Another great spot to pick up
some holiday gifts this weekend
you don’t find at garden centers or nurs-

eries near here,” said Society president is at the Indian River County Fair-

and founder Sally Gawler. “It’s a really grounds, where the Vero Beach Arts

fun event. It’s exclusively bromeliads, & Crafts Expo serves up its Holiday

very unique, varied in color, shape, tex- Edition. Visit with an assortment of

ture, size. You can have some 1 ½ inch vendors to find the right gift. There

tall, some 6 feet tall. You can have them will also be food and beverage for

indoors, outdoors. They are literally the purchase. The Vero Beach Arts and

‘no brainer’ plant.” Gawler says once Crafts Expo Holiday edition runs 10

you understand how easy it takes to a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12 and

grow and maintain bromeliads, you’ll 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13 at

become a fan of the plant. “It’s a perfect the Indian River Fairgrounds, 7955

special gift for people who think they 58th Ave., Vero Beach. Admission and

don’t have a green thumb,” she says. parking are free.

“They’re so exotic looking but so easy

… They don’t need a lot of care.” The 4 The popular show “Stomp” will brings performers into contact with quently imbued with an abstract nar-
perform 7:30 p.m. Thursday, metal garbage cans, wooden poles, rative, complete with urban charac-
evening begins 6:30 p.m. Typically, the radiator hoses, hub caps, brooms ters communicating through dance
and just about another than makes a and percussion. Tickets start at $39.
bids are affordable, frequently begin- Nov. 10, at the King Center for the Per- noise when banged on. This is an id- The King Center is at 3865 N. Wick-
iosyncratic band of performers who ham Rd. Call 321-242-2219 or visit
ning at $5. There will also be a raffle forming Arts in Melbourne. Present- bangs out rhythmic expression fre- KingCenter.com. 

with $1 tickets. The free auction event ed by the American Theatre Guild,

includes light snacks and bottled wa- “Stomp” is the award-winning, wild,

ter, all at no charge. The auction will be fun, percussive bit of theater that