10/17/2019 ISSUE 42

Ocean Grill relaxes dress code
for lunch. P4

Black and White
Masquerade Ball. P20
Could a lifeguard have saved
South Beach drowning victim? P12

MY VERO For breaking news visit

BY RAY MCNULTY Is School Board
ready to comply
Few showing interest in with deseg order?
Vero City Council election

Quick, without looking: BY FEDERICO MARTINEZ
Name the eight candidates Correspondent
running for the two Vero

Beach City Council seats up Is it possible that the county

for grabs in next month’s off- finally has a School Board ea-

year election. ger to comply with a 52-year-

Can’t do it? Neither can I. old federal desegregation order,

(Answers, P9.) and willing to spend millions of

Sure, I know Brian Heady is dollars to do it?

running – because, well, Brian That’s the message School

Heady always runs. He’s the Board members gave the dis-

Timex of local politics. Year af- trict’s Equity Committee at an

ter year, he takes a licking and Oct. 8 meeting, declaring they

keeps on ticking. are eager to press forward with

I also know local attorney a costly program for recruiting

Joe Graves is on the ballot, and hiring more African-Amer-

mostly because I’ve seen his ican teachers and implement-

law firm’s TV commercials and ing programs to help African-

partly because I wrote about PHOTO BY ROSS ROWLINSON American students improve

the tragic death of his teen- academically.
aged son, Jimmy, who was “If we’re going to do this

If this bridge closes, what happens then?killed in a boating accident in right as a district, we need to

December 2016. put resources behind it,” said

And I know former Vero BY GEORGE ANDREASSI 55-year-old structure is be- What will the 3,000-plus Board member Teri Baren-
Beach Yacht Club commodore Staff Writer borg, whose comments were
Ray Neville is in the race, but ing replaced by a new span cars that use the A1A bridge echoed by other board mem-

in 2026? each day to get from Bre-

only because he recently gave Will the heavily used Se- If so, how long will north- vard County to Indian River bers. “We need to reach out

me a fascinating interview in bastian Inlet bridge con- bound and/or southbound County or vice versa do as never before.”

which he recalled growing up necting Brevard and Indian traffic on A1A be interrupt- when the closest alterna- Board member Jacqueline

in the house that’s now the River counties close while the ed? Months? Years? CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 Rosario questioned aloud why

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Defense disputing everything in trial of Michael Jones for strangulation murder of girlfriend

BY LISA ZAHNER PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES Monday of the first-degree mur-
Staff Writer der trial of Michael David Jones,
32, who is accused of the pre-
The defense will make no meditated manual strangula-
concessions. Everything the pros- tion of his girlfriend Diana Duve.
ecution says will be in dispute.
“The issue of the cause of
Assistant Public Defender death is in dispute in this
Dorothy Naumann made that case,” Naumann said, an-
clear right from the opening
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Michael Jones trial fractured from the force with which ing lot; and finally taking a cab back heard Jones yelling loudly for about
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 she was strangled. to Vero and holing up at the Hampton an hour and called police, followed
Inn, where he was arrested. by the officer who responded to the
nouncing that the defense will be Workman explained that Jones Jones residence and wrote a report
bringing in a retired coroner who has a would have had to choke Duve for 20 Then Workman went back to the that Duve asked him to wait while she
different theory about how Duve died seconds or so while she fought back matter of the strangulation. This gathered her things quickly and left.
in June 2014. until losing consciousness, and then wasn’t the first time, Workman told the
strangle her for another four minutes jury. Two friends then testified that Duve
For the prosecution’s opening salvo, until she died. showed up hysterical at The Stamp Bar
Assistant State Attorney Brian Work- That’s where the state launched its downtown where they worked, and
man told jurors in detail about Duve’s The prosecution then described case on Monday, with four witnesses when she finally calmed down, told
death. Workman revealed the brutality how police say Jones almost imme- testifying about a night in April 2014, them there had been an argument and
of the alleged crime, that the young diately began to cover up the crime: less than two months before Duve’s Jones had choked her.
nurse’s body and face were bruised, loading Duve’s body into the trunk death, when Duve claimed Jones not
her eye swollen and hemorrhaging of her own car; driving Duve’s black only threatened to kill her but tried to One of the friends took photos
and bones in her neck broken and Nissan to Brevard County where he kill her in the bedroom of his Carolina showing what appeared to be finger
bought a burner phone, and parked Trace townhome. marks on Duve’s neck – images which
the car in a Melbourne Publix park- were shown in court to jurors on a
Testifying were the neighbor who 5-foot-wide screen.

To each of these witnesses, Nau-
mann pointed out that they all had
knowledge Duve got back together
with Jones – even after the allegations
that he’d choked her and threatened to
kill her.

Monday afternoon friends and col-
leagues of Jones at PNC Wealth Man-
agement, where he worked, testified
that the University of Georgia gradu-
ate with the two law degrees “was
a rainmaker” able to juggle a busy
schedule of client meetings plus social
networking that helped bring wealthy
clients in the door.

But they also said Jones and Duve
had a rocky relationship. They de-
scribed Jones as distraught over break-
ing up with Duve – sad, anxious, drink-
ing more than usual – and as Nicholas
Mazza recalled, told friends Duve had
left him and planned to move out west,
to Las Vegas, with a new beau.

Events of the last few days before
Duve died were recounted by numer-
ous friends, leading up to the final
time they saw Duve alive, drinking at
Cobalt and then at The Kilted Mer-
maid before meeting up with Jones at
What-A-Tavern at approximately 11
p.m. on Thursday, June 19, 2014.

Bartender Kristi Bowser testified to
seeing Jones and Duve talking quiet-
ly, playing songs on the jukebox, and
leaving together just after 1 a.m. Their
tab totaled $47 for vodka cocktails and
Vegas Bomb shots, plus Jones tacked
on a $20 tip and signed the credit card
receipt.

Two things Bowser recalled from
the encounter were that Duve told a
man who had been bothering her that
“Michael is my boyfriend” and Jones,
as the two departed, said “he had her,
he was driving.” Then they walked out
the front door together.

The next chapter of the story, as pre-
sented by prosecutors, picked up when
Duve’s mother Lena Andrews awoke
Friday morning, June 20, around 7
a.m. to a 1:45 a.m. text message from
Duve, in Russian as the mother and
daughter customarily communicated,
saying Duve would not be returning
home that night.

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Andrews could not reach her Equity Committee members said they dent of the Indian River County chap- tendent Susan Moxley acknowledged
daughter despite repeated calls and decided to delay that recommendation ter of the NAACP, said following the there is $80,000 immediately available.
texts. She did reach Jones once, and in order to discuss the issue further. meeting. Brown is also a member of
he assured her all was OK, but said the Equity Committee. Those recently discovered funds
he was out and Duve was back at his The board’s enthusiastic support for have been sitting unused for the past
place sleeping. the other recommendations, howev- “The right words are being spoken, two years because former Superin-
er, caught the Equity Committee and but will this board follow through? tendent Mark Rendell never told the
As the afternoon wore on, Andrews leaders of the NAACP by surprise dur- That’s the question we’re all waiting to School Board the money existed.
got more and more worried – to be out ing the Oct. 8 meeting. see answered.”
of touch was not like her only child Since Rendell’s resignation in May,
Diana, she said – until finally she went “Are we embarking on a new day in The board has not yet voted to fund the board has discovered several in-
to the Vero Beach Police Department the district?” Tony Brown, the presi- any of the efforts, but Interim Superin-
around 8 p.m. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

That is when Cpl. Bradley Kmetz
came into the picture. He was detective
on call and took the lead on what start-
ed as a missing persons investigation.

Kmetz answered questions asked
by Chief Assistant State Attorney Tom
Bakkedahl about how friends and as-
sociates were interviewed, and how
warrants were obtained to track the
cellphone activity and cell site loca-
tions of both Duve’s and Jones’ mobile
phones.

Bakkedahl said Kmetz will be re-
called numerous times to testify about
how the case was investigated over a
frantic weekend spent searching for
Duve until her body was found.

There’s much more of the story of
Duve’s tragic death to unfold as the
prosecution rolls out evidence and as
the defense posed pointed questions.
The trial is expected to last until the
middle of next week.

Boxes of depositions, reports, medi-
cal records, photographs, video re-
cordings and more than 6,000 pages of
discovery documents – or at least the
most relevant of them – await the ju-
ry’s consideration in the coming days.

As Assistant State Attorney Work-
man directly addressed the seven men
and eight women serving as jurors
and alternates in the prosecution’s
opening arguments, “Diana is not go-
ing to testify. The evidence will need to
speak for her. Listen with your minds

and listen with your hearts.” 

Deseg order

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

it has taken the district 52 years to
comply with the order.

“Why has this taken so long,” Rosa-
rio said. “It’s common sense. We just
need to do it.”

Most of the recommendations made
by the Equity Committee, which the
School Board is expected to largely adopt
at its Nov. 12 business meeting, focused
on teacher recruitment and hiring.

The Equity Committee did not in-
clude in its report a recommendation
to rezone the school district. That con-
troversial plan would require some
students bused to different schools
than they now attend, so that schools
would be more racially integrated.

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Ocean Grill eases dress code for lunch, but not for dinner

BY RAY MCNULTY So Replogle’s son, Joey, who man- PHOTO BY KAILA JONES sides, we didn’t want to pick a fight
Staff Writer ages the upscale restaurant, decid- with guys who’d point to women
ed more than a year ago to ease the in, Replogle said, it’s usually on week- and say, ‘She’s wearing a tank top,’
If you’ve gone to the Ocean Grill for lunch-hour dress code to allow men ends, particularly on Saturdays. or ‘She doesn’t have sleeves.’
lunch the past couple of years, you to dine in tank tops and even wear
might’ve noticed men wearing tank baseball-style caps. “Nobody really wants to look at “There are some people who
tops or baseball caps while seated at men’s armpits when they’re eating, don’t like it, especially some of our
tables and wondered: When tank-top wearers do come but in this day and age, when ev- older customers, who also get upset
erything is so casual, it didn’t make because we don’t make guys take
Doesn’t this place have a dress sense to say no,” Replogle said. “Be- their hats off,” he added. “But, like I
code? said, we don’t get very many people
in tank tops, so it really hasn’t been
In fact, the iconic beachside res- an issue.
taurant’s website clearly states: “We
ask that our guests refrain from wear- “We don’t allow them for dinner.”
ing tank tops and beachwear.” Replogle described the Ocean
Grill’s evening dress code as “casual
The website, though, needs to be resort wear,” which, for men, in-
updated – because Ocean Grill own- cludes long- or short-sleeved shirts,
er Charley Replogle said last week slacks or dress shorts – jeans, too,
the restaurant now allows men to are allowed – and some type of foot-
wear tank tops at lunchtime. wear, though he said, “We don’t look
at people’s feet.”
“We don’t allow it for dinner,” Re- Caps may not be worn during the
plogle said. “And, frankly, we don’t dinner hours. Swim trunks are not
get very many guys here in tank tops, permitted at any time of day.
anyway. They usually go to Mul- “Some people think we should re-
ligan’s. But we do occasionally get quire men to wear jackets,” Replogle
people who come in off the beach
for lunch, and we didn’t want to keep said, “but we don’t do that.” 
turning them away.”

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Deseg order “It’s why he’s not here anymore and ing sufficient progress had been made. federal order. The committee’s job is to
we’re moving on,” Rosario said. The Equity Committee, which is com- oversee the district’s efforts to fix ineq-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 uity and make recommendations to the
Under Rendell’s leadership, the dis- prised of two NAACP representatives, School Board to that effect.
stances where the former superinten- trict sank more than $750,000 in a four- two school employees and a commu-
dent with-held financial information, year battle with the NAACP in a failed nity-at-large member, was formed as Another priority is addressing the
Board member Rosario noted. effort to get the county released from part of a 2018 court-ordered mandate achievement gap between African-
the federal desegregation order, claim- requiring the district to comply with the
American and other students. 

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Students of all ages spend day immersed in ‘Lagoon 101’

BY SUE COCKING Indian River County students collect water quality and biological samples along the lagoon. PHOTO BY KAILA JONES a single day," explained Missy Weiss of
Staff Writer the non-profit Sea A Difference, who
ment samples, measuring tide height tored by their teachers and a few hun- partnered with the Ocean Research and
Seventh-grader Walter Lloyd wad- and current speed, and counting fish dred volunteer resource managers, sci- Conservation Association (ORCA) to
ed waist-deep into the water at Vero along the entire 156-mile-long lagoon. entists and environmental educators. organize the event. "This is not a one-
Beach's MacWilliams boat ramp last and-done day field trip. We hope these
Thursday holding part of a seine net All were working as citizen scientists "They get in the water and collect the partners will adopt these sites long-
while several classmates helped. When in the second annual "A Day in the Life same information that research scien- term for sampling."
they hauled the net onto the beach, of the Indian River Lagoon" – men- tists do, but all along the lagoon and in
they found anchovies, glass minnows Weiss said all data collected will be
and a baby snook in the mesh. uploaded to the seaadifference.org
website and accessible to everyone.
The students carefully recorded each With a few more years of data, she said,
creature they collected on log sheets, student researchers will be able to com-
then released the minnows back into pare biodiversity at their lagoon site
the Indian River Lagoon alive. with others' sites and evaluate whether
the lagoon is getting healthier or sicker.
It was Walter – an avid fisherman
and scuba diver – who identified the A few miles south of MacWilliams
snook among the other little fish. boat ramp, 35 sixth-graders and 10 high
schoolers gathered at the Saint Edwards
"I could tell by the black line and the School lagoon-front dock where an
way the mouth looked," he explained, ORCA volunteer showed them how to
referring to the lateral line running the measure dissolved oxygen, fecal coli-
length of the little snook's body. form bacteria, and the nutrients nitrate
and phosphorus in water samples. St.
Walter, a student at Gifford Middle Ed's senior Connor Jones tossed a cou-
School, was among some 1,600 el- ple of oranges into the water and dem-
ementary, middle and high school onstrated how to use them to measure
students from Volusia County south the water's current speed.
to Jupiter who spent last Thursday
morning collecting water and sedi-

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Sixth-grader Connor O'Brien was ing of an alligator in the lagoon nearby. goon," Buckley said. "The marine kids forming tests under the supervision of
paying close attention. Marine biology teacher Meghan are mentoring the younger ones. If you environmental science teacher Nicole
can get kids actively doing science rather Mosblech and volunteers from the
"I like how different the currents can Buckley said she would use the infor- than reading about it, it is really valuable." U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
be in less than 30 minutes," he said. mation the students collected in her
lesson plans. Further south at Round Island Park, "This kind of teaches students how
Several students were deploying a 48 Vero Beach High School students we assess the quality of the ecosystem
seine net in the water next to the dock "For the marine students, they are go- waded in the lagoon and patrolled the and what we do with the data to help
– which they were unable to do at last ing to compare the animals and water shoreline collecting samples and per-
year's "A Day in the Life" due to a sight- quality here with other sites in the la- fix it," Mosblech said. 

Sebastian Inlet bridge 9 Indian River County Metropolitan barrier islands, O’Reilly added. Con- $6.2 million for project engineering in
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Planning Organization meeting. struction is to start in 2026 and take 2022 and $2 million for environmental
several years to complete. studies in 2024, records show.
tive routes require crossing the lagoon An engineering study with a $2.6 mil-
many miles to the south or north? lion price tag will help FDOT decide how The 1,600-foot-long A1A bridge tra- As far as construction costs, O’Reilly
to build a new $50 million-plus replace- verses a 500-foot-plus wide section of said,“A crazy guess would be somewhere
And what will the financial impact ment bridge across the Sebastian Inlet. the Sebastian Inlet. It is 17.5 miles from in the $50 million range if we were build-
of a bridge closure be on residents? the Melbourne Causeway, the closest ing it today, that type of money.”
Small businesses? For that matter, on The study will help FDOT determine route off Brevard County’s barrier island.
Sebastian Inlet State Park? how to keep traffic flowing on the bridge The bridge construction money will
while the new span is being built, O’Reilly It is also about 8 miles from the Wa- be added to next year’s five-year work
Those at the moment are million- said. He dismissed a rumor FDOT plans basso Causeway, the closest route off plan for 2026, O’Reilly said.
dollar questions for engineering con- to close the southbound lane. Indian River County’s barrier island.
sultants to answer, according to Florida The MPO – which consists of all five
Department of Transportation officials. “I don’t know where that rumor FDOT decided to build a new bridge county commissioners and six city
came from because we haven’t done after a routine inspection on Nov. 14, and town council members – voted
“I couldn’t answer any of those things anything short of saying, ‘It needs to 2018, found so much corrosion that ma- unanimously to approve FDOT’s five-
until we get those people on board, they be replaced, let’s hire the consultants jor repairs would not significantly extend year work plan for the county, includ-
do some analysis, start looking what type to do the studies,’” O’Reilly said. its useful life, an FDOT fact sheet says. ing $11 million for the A1A bridge re-
of structure, how much property do we placement ground work.
own in the area,” said Gerry O’Reilly, Corrosion and new standards have “The analysis they did said, ‘Listen,
FDOT’s South Florida district secretary. rendered the James H. Pruitt Memo- it’s past rehab. You need to be looking at The new bridge will include bicycle
rial Bridge “structurally deficient” and replacement,’” O’Reilly told the coun- lanes and sidewalks, which are a stan-
“That’s why we do the studies,” “functionally obsolete,” O’Reilly said. ty’s transportation planning panel. dard feature in all new bridges, O’Reilly
O’Reilly said during an interview with said. FDOT will also work with Sebas-
Vero Beach 32963 following the Oct. But the bridge is still safe enough to FDOT budgeted $2.6 million in 2021 tian Inlet State Park officials on the
handle 3,150 vehicles per day until it is for a Project Development & Envi-
replaced by a new span linking the two ronmental Study for the new bridge, bridge design. 

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My Vero more than 35 percent of voters turned them, order them and get them made.” that they’ve asked for her opinions.
out for a referendum on leasing the Why did these candidates wait so “I’m so concerned about this that I
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 city’s power plant site.
long to file? Were they undecided about talked to the city attorney to make sure
home of The Tides restaurant. “Unless there’s a referendum on the seeking public office? Or were they we could legally invite the candidates
The other five candidates? ballot or the city is confronting an im- waiting to see who else was running? to our meeting and give them each
I suppose I should’ve mentioned portant issue, such as the sale of the elec- three minutes to speak,” Moss said. “It
tric utility, it’s the candidates who drive It doesn’t matter now. makes sense to me to do this, because
Bob McCabe, too, but it wasn’t until I turnout in off-year elections,” County There are eight candidates in the two of them are going to be sitting with
saw a couple of his campaign signs last Supervisor of Elections Leslie Swan said. race – John Cotungo, Jeff Nall, Estelle us on the dais in November.”
week that I remembered he ran unsuc- Panagakos and Nick Thomas, along
cessfully for a council seat last year. If so, I won’t be at all surprised if the with Graves, Heady, McCabe and Nev- The candidates were scheduled to
turnout next month doesn’t reach 20 ille – and all of them need to tell peo- speak at Tuesday’s council meeting.
The rest of the field, though, reads percent – because here we are, less ple who they are and what they hope
less like a Who’s Who and more like a than three weeks from the election, to accomplish if elected. Solari, meanwhile, has his own con-
Who’s That. and most of us know almost nothing This is an off-year election, but that cerns: He attended the Taxpayers As-
about most of the candidates, includ- doesn’t mean voters should take the sociation forum and came away dis-
“There’s certainly not much name ing their names. year off. The next council will make piv- appointed, particularly with what he
recognition in this race,” County Com- otal decisions regarding the future of perceived to be the candidates’ failure
mission Chairman and longtime city Which reminds me: Where are all the city’s water-and-sewer operations to take strong positions on the local is-
resident Bob Solari said. “Four of the the campaign signs? and the fate of the Centennial Place. sues they’ll confront.
eight candidates, I’d never heard of be- Buzz or not, this election matters.
fore. Two others, I’d never met or had a Driving around town last weekend, “The next council could be one of the “If you’re running for public office,
conversation with – and I travel in lo- I saw considerably more “For Sale” most important councils ever,” Moss said, you should be able to tell people what
cal political circles.” signs than campaign signs. That puz- “because next year could be one of the you want to do,” Solari said, adding
zled me, given the candidates’ need to most important years in the city’s history.” that he wasn’t overly excited about any
Perhaps that’s why there has been so put their names in front of the voters. For that reason, Moss said she has of the candidates. “You can’t say you’re
little buzz about this election, which “lost sleep” worrying about the lack of just going to listen to the people.”
will fill the seats being vacated by May- “Six of the eight candidates filed information the candidates had pro-
or Val Zudans and Councilman Harry their papers in the last two days before vided to the public. The county’s Tax- Maybe that’s the problem: The can-
Howle. the (Sept. 6) deadline,” Vero Beach payers Association held a candidates didates are doing too much listening
City Councilwoman Laura Moss said, forum last week, but there are fewer and not enough talking.
The city’s off-year elections tend to “and I think that has a lot to do with such forums for off-year elections than
generate little excitement and produce why we’ve seen so few signs. for general elections. If nothing changes, Heady and Graves
small turnouts, anyway. Across the past As a result, Moss said, some city might be able to ride their name recog-
decade, only twice have more than 25 “It costs money to have signs made, residents know so little about the field nition to victory in a no-buzz election
percent of Vero Beach’s registered vot- and you can’t raise money until you in which 200 votes – or a few campaign
ers cast ballots in off-year elections. file,” she added. “So if you started fund- signs – could decide the outcome.
raising only a month ago, you might not
One of those years was 2011, when have the signs yet. It takes time to design “All bets are off on this one,” Moss
said. “Anything can happen.” 

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Eight running for Vero Council agree on need for public input

PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES

The eight candidates vying for open City Council seats – clockwise from top left: Rey Neville, Bob McCabe, John Cotugno, Joe Graves, Estelle Panagakos, Nick Thomas, Brian Heady and Jeff Nall.

BY NICOLE RODRIGUEZ that is through a disciplined and vigor- substantive and meaningful engage- ought to be listening to all of these
Staff Writer ous inquiry of the city of Vero Beach to ment with the public and that it’s not people and holding public hearings,”
identify what they think should be done superficial, canned, predetermined or McCabe said. “And I think the City
The two candidates elected to the with this wonderful location.” top down led,” Nall said, adding Cen- Council should take a stronger role in
Vero Beach City Council next month tennial Place should be a destination the public hearings and not just fend it
may well be in a position to cast deci- Prominent local attorney and island for all ages and incomes. off to a consulting organization.”
sive votes on some of the biggest de- resident Joe Graves agrees the public
velopment decisions that have ever must be involved in the planning pro- The City Council in recent weeks Candidates are also concerned
faced the municipality. cess. hired Miami-based DPZ CoDesign for about the potential environmental
consulting services to redevelop the impacts of a marina expansion. The
The eight vying for two open seats “My responsibility as a council city-owned Centennial Place prop- City Council earlier this month de-
being vacated by Mayor Val Zudans member is to see that the will of the erties. The firm’s six-month plan in- cided to move forward with a major
and Councilman Harry Howle largely people is done,” said Graves, who has cludes time to analyze the site, hold revamp and expansion of the shabby
share similar stances on the process touted being a fiscal conservative. “I’m a “kick-off” presentation to the board marina that could take up to two de-
the city should use to redevelop the not coming in with an agenda.” in mid-November, formulate a public cades to complete.
deteriorating Vero Beach Municipal survey, hold a series of public meet-
Marina and the 35-acre riverfront Jeff Nall, an adjunct professor who ings in January and present a final The board chose the most dramatic
property on 17th Street and Indian teaches philosophy and humanities report summarizing the community’s among several possible facelifts for
River Boulevard commonly known as at Indian River State College and the wishes in May. the dilapidated facility, which will in-
Centennial Place. University of Central Florida, joined clude new dockage along the southern
the race after advocating to keep fund- Bob McCabe, an island resident who shoreline, larger slips, a one-way drive
All agree public input is vital to the ing for Leisure Square Pool in the city’s unsuccessfully ran for a City Council with angled parking near the dog park,
future of both projects, regardless of budget. The heated debate between the seat last year, echoed his opponents’ an expanded mooring field and a pe-
their own preferences. council and public about the pool’s clo- sentiment. destrian bridge from the marina to
sure could have been avoided had the Riverside Park. Future councils must
“It could be the crown jewel of the city council listened to the public, he said. “The people in the whole county approve each phase, which could be
and my intention is that it shall be,” Rey in this area are the ones who enjoy all tweaked, city officials have said.
Neville, a barrier island resident and re- Nall would like to avoid another of our parks and recreational facili-
tired Air Force colonel, said of Centen- blunder with Centennial Place and the ties. It’s not limited to those that have Neville, Graves, Nall and McCabe
nial Place. “And the way we’ll arrive at city marina. a Vero Beach city address. I think we
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“It is absolutely vital that we have

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Vero City Council race “I’m not keen on it yet, because I’m that needs to be made better. Although they have more specific plans in mind
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 not sure what it entails and if it’s going those projects seem to have a nice for both projects.
to destroy any plant life and fish or fur- payback, the payback needs to be bal-
agree that major fixes are needed, but ther pollute the lagoon,” said Panaga- anced ... ,” Cotugno said. “We can’t ne- “My vision is to see the (Centen-
they must not damage the ailing In- kos, who added a revamp is needed. glect the lagoon and the environment nial Place) property developed into a
dian River Lagoon. no matter whatever our quest for city full-service park similar to our much
John Cotugno, who worked in sales revenue, because the impact of that loved Riverside Park,” Thomas, a law-
Candidate Estelle Panagakos – a and marketing for various companies will be far reaching into the future.” yer, said, adding ‘Centennial Park’
retired school teacher and probation including Texas Instruments before would be an appropriate name for the
officer who wants Centennial Place his retirement, believes the lagoon While perennial candidate and for- prime piece of real estate. “It’s time
to include ocean-related venues such must be considered when redevelop- mer one-term Vero Beach City Coun- for the mainland to have its own boat
as an educational science museum, ing both the marina and Centennial cil member Brian Heady and Nick ramps that provide quick access to the
aquarium and a marina with restau- Place, which Cotugno thinks will end Thomas, who unsuccessfully ran for fishable waters of Fort Pierce and the
rants – is fearful a marina expansion up being a mixed-use area with ample City Council and a seat on the Indian open ocean.”
could be ecologically harmful. green space for citizens. River County Commission in 2012,
also believe public input is important, Thomas favors repairing the ma-
“We have a sick lagoon – a lagoon rina, but said he opposes an expan-

City and county urged to explore wastewater partnership

BY NICOLE RODRIGUEZ nering option before building and in- speculation city staff was looking for of properly examining partnering with
Staff Writer dependently operating a new multi- ways to renovate the aging facility. the county, Auwaerter presented the
million-dollar inland site away from commission with three studies that
Would consolidating Vero Beach’s the lagoon. The council also asked staff to open outlined the benefits other jurisdic-
municipal wastewater operations with a dialogue with the county to gauge if tions experienced from making such
those of Indian River County be the The vote came nearly a month after that jurisdiction is interested in taking a move.
most cost effective and best option for the Vero Beach City Council issued a over the city’s wastewater operation at
taxpayers? similar unanimous policy directive an inland site. “In any business where you have a
explicitly expressing its desire to re- large amount of fixed costs like you
The Vero Beach Utilities Commis- locate the city’s unsightly wastewater “It has to be fully vetted in an objec- do with water or electric, you can do
sion has pressed city staff to leave no treatment plant from the Indian River tive manner,” commission Vice Chair- better if you spread those costs over a
stone unturned in exploring a part- Lagoon as soon as possible, following man Robert Auwaerter said. wider revenue base,” Auwaerter said.

To hammer home the importance

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2019 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

ELECTION DAY
NOVEMBER 5th

ONLY RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN AND
THE CITY OF VERO BEACH ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE

IN THEIR RESPECTIVE ELECTIONS

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IN WHICH YOU RESIDE. IF YOUR ADDRESS HAS
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OFFICE BEFORE NOVEMBER 5

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sion with the exception of the moor- ten more answers at that meeting. The
ing field. marina shouldn’t be something just
left to deteriorate, and that’s kind of
Heady believes the council should what happened.”
have received specific answers about
the marina expansion before choos- Heady, however, has a dramatically
ing the most extreme option. The firm different future in mind for Centennial
helping to plan the renovations is ex- Place. He believes the former electric
pected to report back to the board utility should be repurposed as a water
with concrete cost figures and details treatment facility to create potable wa-
about additional slips. ter, while the current wastewater facil-
ity should be used to clean stormwater
“There were a lot of questions and runoff instead of being relocated inland.
very few answers of what develop-
ment would look like,” Heady said. “I The race will be decided Nov. 5 with
understand we’re at the development the top two vote getters winning the
stage, but the council should have got-
open seats. 

Auwaerter presented studies from in the event of a sale, but ensures the
the U.S. Water Alliance, the Metro- city will provide county rates to unin-
politan Council – a regional planning corporated county customers it serves,
organization for the seven-county Brown said.
Minneapolis-St. Paul area – and the
National Governors Association. Each County and city officials last week
study researched numerous wastewa- met again to talk strictly consolidation
ter consolidations with other jurisdic- options. It’s still unclear how long talks
tions and their payoffs, including fi- will take, but any outcome must be
nancial and environmental. considered by the county’s governing
board, Brown said.
“Potential financial benefits from wa-
ter utility consolidation include econ- “The City Council has given them di-
omy of scale and operating efficien- rection to talk to us and we’re happy to
cies, increased access to capital, lower exchange information, but at a certain
costs, lower or equal customer rates for point, I’m going to have to get direc-
a specified level of service, level of sta- tion from the Board of County Com-
bility, reduced exposure to regulatory missioners on what might be possible
penalties – which is something we’re from the county’s standpoint,” Brown
concerned about given the situation said.
with the lagoon – improved planning
and risk management, and potential The possible economic, financial
and rate pitfalls or benefits of consoli-
dation also remain unclear.

increased opportunities for economic “There are a whole lot of unknowns,”
development,” Auwaerter said, citing Bolton said.
the U.S. Water Alliance study.
Bolton estimates the price tag to de-
The county two weeks ago initiated commission the riverfront plant and
the first meeting with city staff. construct a new state-of-the-art sewer
plant at the airport would be about
“We had a meeting with the county $50 million. A new plant would take
last week just as kind of an ice break- more than two years to construct and
er,” Utilities Director Rob Bolton said. could be operational by 2024 or 2025,
“It was actually dealing with the fran- Bolton has said.
chise (agreement).”
The existing plant, designed to treat
The city and county’s franchise 4.5 million gallons per day, was built in
agreement lapsed in recent years when 1977 to replace an obsolete 1958 plant
the city experienced turn over in top that treated 2.2 million gallons a day.
administrators, essentially icing talks, Bolton, who has also been research-
County Administrator Jason Brown ing grant and financing opportunities,
said, adding now that the city has hired believes the city could qualify for state
a new city manager and city attorney, grants and potentially a .17-percent
it’s time to negotiate an agreement. A interest rate to borrow money for a
franchise agreement doesn’t make the
city’s wastewater utility more valuable new plant, he said. 

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Could a lifeguard on duty have saved latest drowning victim?

BY RAY MCNULTY soo said last week. “There’s no way to nearly two hours after the lifeguards friends” on the scene described him
Staff Writer know for sure because, based on what went off duty at nearby South Beach as a “weak swimmer” who “should
I’ve been told, he went down quickly. Park. not have gone out that far.”
Might 25-year-old Bogyu Choe,
the South Korean flight student who “But he definitely would’ve stood a Toomsoo said lifeguards surely “One of the things we’re pretty good at
drowned near South Beach Park on chance.” would’ve seen Choe and his friends, is identifying people who are potential
Sept. 30, still be alive if lifeguards had who were on the beach south of the victims, and that’s not an unusual place
been on duty? For the first time this summer – from park, and probably would’ve noticed for people to get in trouble,” Toomsoo
Memorial Day through Labor Day – life- that Choe wasn’t comfortable entering said, referring to a section of beach
“That’s a very good question, but I’d guards protected the city’s beaches from the dangerously rough surf. south of the park’s volleyball nets. “That
like to think so,” Vero Beach Lifeguard 9 a.m. until 7 p.m., two hours beyond area can be rippy, and the rip currents
Association president Erik Toom- the 5 p.m. cutoff the rest of the year. According to a Vero Beach Police were especially bad that week.”
report, in fact, one of Choe’s “close
Choe drowned at about 6:45 p.m., At the very least, Toomsoo said, the
lifeguards would’ve kept a close watch
on the men – the beach usually isn’t
crowded at that hour – and reacted
immediately if anyone needed help.

The police report, citing witness ac-
counts, states that Choe and another
man, Justin Donnelly of Vero Beach,
were swimming in water deep enough
that their feet couldn’t touch bottom.

When Choe began to struggle,
splashing desperately to stay afloat
and gasping for air, he tried to reach
for Donnelly. Instead, he went under
water and remained submerged for
approximately five minutes before re-
surfacing, the report states.

Donnelly “attempted to drag him to
the shore, but he struggled to do so,”
the report states, adding that it took
four others in the group – they were on
the beach – to get Choe out of the water.

Choe was “unconscious and not
breathing” when he was pulled ashore,
the report states, and efforts to revive
him failed. He was taken to Cleveland
Clinic Indian River Hospital, where
he was pronounced dead less than an
hour after he entered the water.

“It was so tragic and so avoidable,”
Toomsoo said, “but it was one of those
perfect-storm scenarios: rough condi-
tions, a hesitant swimmer and no life-
guards present.”

City Councilwoman Laura Moss,
though, has asked Vero Beach Recre-
ation Director Rob Slezak to explore
the need for – and possibility of –
keeping lifeguards on duty until 7 p.m.
beyond Labor Day and, perhaps, into
October.

Nightfall already is coming earlier.
Sunday’s sunset was at 6:55 p.m., and
Eastern Standard Time starts on Nov. 3.

“We’ve got to examine the utili-
zation of our beaches during those
hours in those months, and then look
at the costs,” Slezak said, adding that
his department raised funds to cover
the $25,000 cost of extending the life-
guard-protection hours this year.

“We also need to see if we have the
staffing necessary to do it," he added.
“We’re working on it and, when we
have all the numbers, we’ll send them

to the City Council.” 

MASSIVE ‘MAKING STRIDES’
WALK PACKS A PINK PUNCH

Sandy Webster
and Kathleen Brown.

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Massive ‘Making Strides’ walk packs a pink punch

Laura McGarry and Barbara McCauley. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Wanda Travis and Lakeisha Maycock. Fran Basso and Laura Moss.

Tiffany Coleman, Dani Pulido, Jayna Beck and Brenda Lloyd. Melanie Coppola, Mary Helen Sullivan and Hunter Russ.

BY MARY SCHENKEL goes toward research and to PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
Staff Writer helping survivors. People are Maureen Briggs and Debbie Silk.
often reluctant to talk about hav-
A river of pink flowed through Riv- ing breast cancer. But one woman
erside Park as thousands of partici- came up to me and said she had
pants made a statement of support for come last year and was inspired after
breast cancer survivors at Indian River seeing everyone else. She was now feel-
County’s 15th annual Making Strides ing more like a survivor.”
Against Breast Cancer walk. From
pink tutus to bedazzled bra-bedecked “It’s important for me to be together
T-shirts, the Power of Pink was on full with other survivors and to celebrate
display. life,” said Lin Reading, founder of the
support group Friends After Diagnosis.
“We’re expecting about 4,000 peo- “We just share a special, strong sister-
ple,” said Karen Aiello, American Can- hood. Every woman, and man, diag-
cer Society senior community develop- nosed with breast cancer goes through
ment manager. “The Vero walk is the things only each other can under-
second largest on the Treasure Coast, stand.”
second only to Martin County.”
Interspersed in the crowd were the
“We have a better crowd than normal 13 Real Men Wear Pink contributors
because of great community support. who have stepped up to raise aware-
It’s just nice to see all these members ness and funds.
of the community together, young and
old,” said Laura McGarry, MSABC event “It’s sort of a competition for them,”
lead for Indian River County, adding said McGarry, adding that group has
that they hoped to raise $140,000. until the end of October to raise their
goal of $36,000.
“We have until the end of the year
to make it,” said McGarry. “The money For more information, visit acsevents.
org. 



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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 Jeff and Ali Tillman with daughter Julianna.
Richard George with Joan Kaser and Lynne George.

Chelsea Brown and Jessica Cummings. Donna Goodwin, Theresa Woodson and Joe Culotta. Lilly Wall, Sue Wall and Lonnah Wall.

Dr. James Grichnik, Erin Miller, Lori McCormick, Carrie Antonelli and Sandy Webster. Kate Worden with Geoff Moore and Brittany Lawson.

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Aerie of excitement at ‘Bird and Nature Art Show’

Grace Savage and Donna Ware. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Tim Glover and Deb Avery. Grace Cormier and Patty Corapi.

BY MARY SCHENKEL SHOW WINNERS: Guests perused roughly 80 sub- A Sunset Wine & Cheese Cruise to
Staff Writer missions by 49 area artists and of- Pelican Island was so popular, event
Best in Show: fered their congratulations to all organizer Debbie Avery said they
The Sebastian River Art Club was Susan Lavendar for “Shore Bird.” who had been chosen for ribbons could have added another, noting,
the host for the fifth annual Indian by judges Karen “Keko” Ekonomou, “Next year, we’re going to try a sun-
River Bird and Nature Art Show, First Place in 2-D: Ginny Piech and Barbara duPont. rise cruise on Sunday morning.”
which benefited the SRAC and the Anne Whitney for
Pelican Island Preservation Society. “Storks at Corkscrew Swamp.” Members of PIPs were also on It is not too late to join in on the
The event kicked off a full week of hand to enlist volunteers in their ef- festivities. Staff and volunteers from
activities in celebration of Oct. 13- First Place in 3-D: forts to support our local refuge as PINWR, PIPS and the Pelican Island
19 as National Wildlife Refuge Week. Floyd Markowitz for well as the National Wildlife Refuge Audubon Society will host a tree
Showcased was the Pelican Island “Flamenco Hibiscus, Apollo.” System in general and its conserva- planting ceremony from 8 a.m. to 10
National Wildlife Refuge, designat- tion of habitats and wildlife. a.m. on Friday, Oct. 18. Additionally,
ed as the nation’s first by President First Place Photography: from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday,
Theodore Roosevelt in 1903. Patti Corapi for “Anhinga.” Other activities included a talk Oct. 19, there will be a Meet-and-
on Saturday by keynote speaker Greet at PINWR’s Centennial Trail
Birders and artists gathered Fri- area’s spectacular birds were shot for Dr. Llewelyn Erhart, an expert on where people can learn more about
day evening at a reception for the their feathers, they are now only shot the Pelican Island and Archie Carr the refuge. Limited tram rides will
weekend show of works which cap- by cameras or captured on canvas as national wildlife refuges, and the also be available.
tured the beauty of nature in a va- a way of preserving their splendor. founder of the Marine Turtle Re-
riety of mediums. Where once our search Group at the University of For more information, visit firstre-
Central Florida. fuge.org. 

Vicky Lada.
Pat Brannon and Joan Stuhlinger.

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Heavy lifting boosts St. Baldrick’s fundraising push

BY KERRY FIRTH Missy Elward and Sheryl Hathaway. John O’Connor, Carly Lang, Lynn Bottey. truck pull for the fourth year in a row.
Correspondent Meanwhile, youngsters cooled
the nonprofit organization. lenge, which had them hoisting sand-
Strong men and women, cheered Participants in a Strong Man com- bags weighing 50, 100, 150 and 200 down while frolicking on the water
on by their supportive families and pounds onto a 4-foot wall; and pulling slides, played in bounce houses and
friends, came out in full force for some petition first muscled up to show off a 5,300-pound SUV. jumped from wading pool to wading
friendly competitions last Saturday their prowess by competing solo on pool under the watchful eyes of their
afternoon to raise funds for children’s a challenging course of events. Tasks Teams of up to seven competed in parents.
cancer research through the St. Bal- included pushing a tank weighing in the truck pull, using their might to pull
drick’s Foundation. at 270 pounds with the added weight a 43,000-pound firetruck. The winner St. Baldrick’s began in 2000 with
of a grown man sitting atop it; a hand- of the Strong Man competition was three men in Manhattan challenging
This is the fourth year that St. Bal- over-hand sled pull; a farmers walk Robert Dixon, and the Indian River each other on St. Patrick’s Day to go
drick’s, the International Association while toting 270 pounds – 135-pound Rugby Raptors maintained their win- bald as a way to raise money for child-
of Firefighters Local 2201 and Walk- weights in each hand; a sandbag chal- ning streak, besting all foes in the fire- hood cancer research. The name is de-
ing Tree Brewery have teamed up to rived from the day – St. Patrick’s – and
host this fun-filled family day to raise the word bald.
awareness and support for the discov-
ery of promising cures for childhood From those humble beginnings, the
cancer. St. Baldrick’s Foundation has become
the biggest funders of childhood can-
“We only hold two events a year,” cer research grants. Donations are in-
said event organizer Missy Elward. vested with researchers at hundreds of
“We host this family truck pull and institutions worldwide to find leading
family water day in the fall, so that cures for childhood cancer. World-
everyone in the community can learn wide, 300,000 children are diagnosed
about what we do and contribute in a with cancer each year – one nearly ev-
small way. Then in March we hold our ery two minutes. In the U.S. more chil-
big head-shaving fundraiser.” dren die from childhood cancer than
any other disease.
To date, those combined events
have generated more than $150,000 for For more information, visit stbal-
dricks.org. 

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Ann and Kyle Wald with Suzy Dupuis. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Wendy Wilson, Emily Wilson, Ray Rigo, Jon Sternberg and Chris Nolan. Roy Monk, Justin Hayskar and Allen Hernon.

Ryan Ramsey, James Derry and Robby Rivas. Pamela Lewis, David Vazquez and Mike Monk. Bill Herrington and Brad Eskew.

J.P. Granath and Rebecca Cousin. Dakota Muraca.

Colton Muraca. William Sanford and Lisa Ferguson-Sanford.

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Who’s and aha’s at ‘Black and White Masquerade Ball’

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF joyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
Staff Writer while perusing a variety of silent-auc-
tion items and often trying to deter-
An air of mystery surrounded the mine of the person who just passed by:
fifth annual Black and White Centen- “Who was that masked man or wom-
nial Masquerade Ball at the Vero Beach an?”
Country Club last Saturday evening,
hosted by the Exchange Club of Indian The evening’s theme of Bringing
River Foundation. it Back to 1919 harkened to the era of
black and white in recognition of the
Masked Exchangites, adorned in 100th anniversary of Vero Beach. Cen-
feathered, lace and beaded finery, en- tennial co-chairs Tammy Bursick and

John Binkley and Abaco Richardson with Rachel and Maj. Eric Flowers. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE

Tammy Bursick and Tony Young. Anna Valencia Tillery and Diane Parentela.

Tony Young were honored for the tire- focused on the prevention of child
less number of hours they have dedi- abuse to support the club’s mantra:
cated to the year-long anniversary “We believe every child should have
celebration. the opportunity to grow up healthy,
safe and strong.”
Attendees cast off their veils of mys-
tery to sup on a sumptuous surf and The Exchange Club of Indian River
turf dinner, and later had some fun in is an all-volunteer service organiza-
the photo booth before dancing the tion that has served the community
night away to the sounds of the Bobby since 1973 in the areas of “American-
Owen Band. ism, Community Service, Youth Ac-
tivities and the prevention of child
A spectacular cake made by Ex- abuse.” Its members have supported
change Club secretary Angela Cletzer youth-related projects through pro-
was a sight to behold. The tiered black grams at such nonprofits as Youth
and white cake paid homage to the Guidance, Children’s Hibiscus Center,
city’s centennial with images of his- CASTLE and Dasie Hope Center.
toric Vero Beach.
Members meet Wednesdays for
The cake was almost too pretty to lunch at C.J. Cannon’s Restaurant,
eat, until folks realized that hidden generally inviting speakers on top-
inside were luscious layers of choco- ics relating to business, government,
late, vanilla, creamsicle, lemon and charity, personal and professional ar-
key lime. It was an apt reminder that eas of interest.
the beauty of Vero Beach is matched
only by the philanthropic community Upcoming events include the
inside the city. March 7 Toss Out Child Abuse Charity
Cornhole Tournament, and they will
Event emcee Anna Valencia Til- again partner with the Vero Beach Air
lery doubled as its auctioneer, cajol- Show on April 25-26.
ing attendees to bid on live-auction
items, by reminding them that pro- For more information, visit exch-
ceeds would help fund local projects angeclubofindianriver.org. 

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Karen Egan, Bob Schlitt and Pam Howard. Michelle Griffin, Sue Dempsey and Marni Howder. Mike Bielecki and Erin Grall.

Edwina Arnold, Jan Binney and Rhonda Lummus. Stacy and Myles Gill. PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 22
Dick Arnold, Joe Binney and Andrew Molloy.

Wallace Johnson and Carmen Townsend. Anna and Robert Paugh.

Karen and Gary Kaplan with Lisa Alsofrom, Marllyn and Dale Justice.

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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 Mark and Patricia Ashdown.
Liz and Craig Phillips. Lynn Fiske, Valerie Esposito and Janean Barrows.
Jeff Knowles, Sharon and Fred Wininger with Dustin Haynes.
Walter William Jagermann Martin Sanderson, Erica Vezza, Sonya Gates and Jim Brann.

Walter William Jagemann, 89, joined his
Heavenly Father and parents, September
28, 2019 in Jacksonville, FL. Born May
9, 1930 to the late Walter H. Jagemann
and Maria (Mayr) Jagemann. At the age
of 18, he met and later married the love
of his life, Gladys (Lorch) Jagemann
and for the next 70 years, they raised a
family, spent weekends at the beach, and
enjoyed spoiling their grandchildren and
traveling and cruising the world together.
Walter was born and grew up in Yonkers NY, after attending Indiana
Tech and earning his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, he returned
to New York. He worked for Amman & Whitney for 15 years. He was on
the engineering team responsible for the construction of the Verrazano
Narrows Bridge, Dulles Airport and countless other projects.
In 1968, after vacationing in Florida he packed up his family and
moved to South Florida. During his residence in Hollywood, Fort
Lauderdale and Davie he was an active member and volunteer of Saint
Mark’s Lutheran Church in Hollywood. He retired from the Dade
County Public Works Dept. Highway Division in 1996, with 28 years
of service. Prior to moving to Saint Johns, FL he resided in Vero Beach,
where he was an active member and volunteer of Lutheran Church
of The Redeemer. He volunteered his time with the Vero Beach
Theater Guild constructing stage sets for production plays, earning
a Genie Award for his hard work and dedication. He was a member
of the Architectural Review Committee with the Kenwood Village
homeowners association.
A loving Dad to four children, Linda (Jim) Barbara of Winona, TX,
William (Dina) Jagemann of Coconut Creek, FL, Margaret (Mark)
Micciche and Walter (Marsha) Jagemann of Saint John’s, FL. A devoted
and proud Grandpa to seven grandchildren, William, Alison, Bryan,
Nicholas, Christopher, Elyse and Alexander. He is also survived by his
brother, Joseph U. (Patricia) Jagemann of Taneytown, MD, nieces and
nephews throughout Maryland, as well as numerous cousins living in
the vicinity of Wolfratshausen, Germany.
A Celebration of Life will be held October 19th 12pm, at the Lutheran
Church of The Redeemer, 900 27th Avenue, Vero Beach, FL 32960. The
Reverend Christopher Kollmann will officiate. A reception for family
and friends will follow the service in the Fellowship Hall. In lieu of
flowers, Walter’s family would like to request a donation be made in a
charity of your choice. Arrangements are under the care and direction
of HARDAGE-GIDDENS FUNERAL HOME OF MANDARIN,
11801 San Jose Blvd. Jacksonville, FL 32223. www.hgmandarin.com
(904) 288-0025.

MAKEUP MAESTRO PUTS BEST
THEATRICAL FACES FORWARD

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Makeup maestro puts best theatrical faces forward

BY MARY SCHENKEL
Staff Writer

The art of theatrical makeup has
been an integral component of per-
formances for centuries. In some in-
stances, the makeup primarily com-
pensates for the effects of harsh stage
lighting and ensures that actors’ fea-
tures will be visible throughout the
theater. But in other productions,
such as the Vero Beach Theatre Guild
production of “Cats” this past sum-
mer, dramatic makeup is a critical
element of the performance itself.

Rob Volsky was the man behind
the designs for that musical’s spec-
tacular Jellicle cats, as well as many
other VBTG productions. To dem-
onstrate the process as we spoke, he
created a half-beauty, half-zombie
effect on the lovely Katheryne Nix,
while explaining the complex pro-
cess of special effects makeup.

The zombie look was the sort of Hal-
loween-themed makeup application
he will be teaching during a four-hour
Fantasy Character Makeup work-
shop on Oct. 26 at the Theatre Guild,

Rob Volsky prepares a zombie-inspired look on Katheryne Nix. PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES

the first of several workshops offered productions at the Vero Beach Opera,
throughout the year. local high schools and other area com-
munity theaters.
Volsky, who earned a master’s in
arts/theater arts at California State Volsky begins the extensive pro-
University Long Beach, began draw- cess with a portrait-style photograph
ing faces at an early age, recalling of the actor and, after concept dis-
being awarded extra credit in a sev- cussions with the director and other
enth-grade history class by sketching designers, researches specific refer-
the faces of all the U. S. presidents. ences for the characters in produc-
tions elsewhere.
After college, he became creative
director at the Westmore Academy “‘Cats,’ for example, has been done
of Cosmetic Arts, preparing others to in so many different ways over the
become makeup artists for film, tele- years and yet it has several charac-
vision and theater. After moving to ters that have a signature look,” Vol-
Florida in 1992 he continued to con- sky explains.
sult and teach those skills, while also
working for the U.S. Postal Service, “Victoria, the white cat, is always
from which he retired. white. And so her makeup has to be
very white, but I wanted her also to
“My chosen nonprofit volunteer be very beautiful. Hers is regarded
activity in the community is to help as an avant-garde makeup; it’s high
here in the Vero Beach Theatre Guild,” fashion, with a cutting-edge use of
says Volsky. He has won several Ge- line, color and shape. Hopefully,
nie Awards, the VBTG equivalent of a when she sees herself in the mirror,
Tony Award, as both a performer and a she sees the fulfillment of the classic
makeup designer. He also assists with Victoria and is inspired to perform to

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“Some of the modern pigments are headpiece he created for Prince Yama-
very refined to create a very sheer but dori in a Vero Beach Opera production
opaque coverage, but none of the $20 of Madama Butterfly.
foundations are any better than the
$8 ones that we use in the theater. For “People ask actors and designers,
theater, you’re at least 20 or 50 feet ‘What’s your favorite show?’ And I
away from the actors. The basic col- think my go-to answer for that is, ‘The
ors and blending don’t have to be as last one I did.’ Because I don’t create
refined as they have to be for close-up a preconception of how it’s going to
photographs.” be. As it evolves it becomes more and
more engaging.”
He has lately been practicing tech-
niques with materials used by Cosplay, The Fantasy Character Makeup
costume creators, including Worbla, Workshop runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
a moldable, plasticized material that on Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Vero Beach
can be heated and form-fitted to dif- Theatre Guild. For more information,
ferent shapes such as the Japanese call 772-562-8300 or visit verobeachthe-
atreguild.com. 

the utmost of her ability. This is what and “Shrek,” where, thanks to his con-
makeup can do – change a person’s nections, he was fortunate to obtain a
spiritual energy.” professionally made Shrek head from a
touring company.
With photograph in hand, his cre-
ative control comes into play, as he uti- With “Beauty and the Beast,” be-
lizes image editing software to render cause of the transition from beast
and make changes to his design. to prince, he explains, “I had to cre-
ate two duplicate masks so that the
“That saves a lot of time in experi- actors could switch places during a
menting with the colors. I can design smoke cover effect to make the tran-
the makeup and make it my own be- sition.”
fore I get there. It’s important to under-
stand that the finished product has to Referencing the half-beauty and
be executable,” Volsky explains. half-zombie effect he was creating on
Nix, he shares that while both utilize
It may take several iterations on color theory, blending and sculpture,
the actor before the director gives fi- the beauty side is actually more dif-
nal approval and even then, tweaks ficult as it requires subtleties to meet
can be made even after the first per- expectations. On the creative side, he
formance. can let his imagination run wild, be-
cause there is no expectation of what
“The artistic process is, by nature, it’s supposed to look like.
flexible and evolutionary,” says Vol-
sky, who next trains the actors to apply “I think that’s why young people love
their own makeup. it so much, because it’s a very engag-
ing art process,” says Volsky. “She has
“Many of the actors really love a beautiful face for the beauty makeup
the process of putting on their own and it makes a really nice contrast. A
makeup and evolving their designs lot of young people like to do the half
as part of the performance. Many and half.”
actually came up with better designs
than I did for their characters, be- “The eyeball is pretty fantastic,” says
cause they had studied them out spe- Nix of the prosthetic eye Volsky had
cifically and were personally invest- created out of Knox gelatin which he
ed in those characters,” says Volsky, formed over a ball. “It’s hard to believe
noting that performers often come in it’s not my real eye. I can see his paint-
several hours early to work on their brush going over it.”
makeup, socialize and get their cre-
ative juices flowing. Volsky says he tends to use generic
cream-based and water-based make-
Other signature makeup projects ups that are easily available and af-
he has worked on at VBTG include fordable.
the musicals “Beauty and the Beast”

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COMING UP! Symphony’s in the spirit with ‘Chills & Thrills’ concert

BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA Family Concert” – this Sunday, Oct.
Staff Writer 20, at Vero Beach High School Per-
forming Arts Center. Kids and adults
1 “It was a dark and stormy night. are invited to come in costume (I
A wolf howled as the heavy door hear whispers there’ll be a costume
parade). The chilling musical lineup
creaked open slowly ...” Well, that will be led by musical sorcerer (aka
principal guest conductor) Michael
show promo lead got my attention. Hall, and includes some creepy clas-
sics: Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald
The Spooktacular Space Coast Sym- Mountain” (my personal favorite),

phony Orchestra was referring to the 1 “Chills & Thrills: A Haunting Family Concert”, this Sunday
at Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center.
creepy musical afternoon it has con-

jured – “Chills & Thrills: A Haunting

Gounod’s “Funeral March of a Mari- mantic fin de siècle France. One in
onette” and Saint-Saens’ “Danse the “French Films at the Museum”
Macabre”; as well as frightening series, “French Cancan” is, accord-
film scores from “Jaws,” “Beetle- ing to Wikipedia, an homage to the
juice,” “Mars Attacks!” and others. Parisian café-concert scene of the
Then, says the show promo, a special 19th century, and the enormously
spooky Halloween treat: Artistic Di- popular singers and dancers who
rector and Conductor Aaron Collins populated it. The wonderful visuals
will debut his new work “Dracula Re- “evoke the paintings of Edgar Degas
imagined,” based on his award-win- and the Impressionists, including
ning 1999 composition “The Dracula Degas’ own father, Pierre-Auguste
Suite.” To top off the evening is, as Renoir.” The film takes place in the
the SCSO describes it, a hilarious Paris of the 1890s. As Wikipedia tells
whodunit for the whole family, “The the story, Henri Danglard owns a
Composer Is Dead,” with music by cafe featuring his mistress, Lola, as
Nathaniel Stookey and text by Lem- a belly dancer, and it’s losing mon-
ony Snicket. Just so you know, “No ey. Finding himself in Montmartre
one leaves the Concert Hall until one day, Henri discovers the old-
this mystery is solved.” Central Flor- fashioned cancan – France’s most
ida actor Eric Pinder narrates. Time: notorious dance – is still being per-
3 p.m. Tickets: under 18 and college formed there. In a stroke of inspira-
students with student ID, free; ad- tion, Henri devises a new plan for
vance through website, $25; at the his floundering café: he revives the
door, $30. 855-252-7276 or www. cancan and brings in a new danc-
SpaceCoastSymphony.org. er, Nini, a humble washerwoman
whom he has met by chance and
2 Perhaps you’ve been to the whom, says the Museum promo,
Moulin Rouge cabaret, the one “he turns into a star.” Time: 2 p.m.
Admission: Free with paid museum
at 82 Boulevard de Clichy, Paris, and admission – adults, $12; seniors, $10;
museum members, those 17 and
seen one of the City of Lights’ most under, and active military with ID,
free. It is a good idea to pre-register,
enduring icons – the cancan. Per- the museum suggests. 772-231-0707,
ext. 116.
haps not. Either way, the Vero Beach

Museum of Art’s Oct. 24 screening

of the 1955 film “French Cancan”

will be a delightful glimpse into ro-

3 Lighten up this weekend, Oct.
18 and 19, with an evening of

food, bevs, live music and lots of

laughs at Riverside Theatre’s Com-

edy Zone and Live in the Loop.

Bringing the funny will be a diverse

pair – comedians Kevin Lee and Tif-

fany Barbee. Says the show promo,

Lee melds comedy, magic and jug-

gling, the latter including “bowl-

ing balls, frying pans, machetes.”

Oh, and, there’s also his “fire and

sword-swallowing.” Whoa. Barbee

is billed as “a sweet and quirky re-

tired pageant kid turned national

touring stand-up comedian, fifth-

degree black belt, Bible student,

2 Screening at VBMA Oct. 24. actress, and model.” Did you know

Riverside’s weekend of fun now has

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special guest emcees? This Friday’s a BIG Cuban family, and growing band is Radio Days, who’ll keep the p.m. Live on the Loop – 6 p.m. to
Comedy Zone emcee will be Val Zu- up around them gives enough sto- oak leaves shaking with rock and 9:30 p.m. Tickets: Comedy Zone
dans who is, according to the River- ries to keep you guys laughing all pop hits from the ’50s through to- – side seats $12; table seating $14-
side promo, “mayor (of Vero Beach) night.” Arrive early (6:30-ish) to en- day. Saturday, it’ll be “Cyndi Rapp $18 (you can pick where you want
and an eye surgeon.” In the emcee joy the really great full bar and grill and Rappture” with soft rock hits to sit). Live on the Loop – free. 772-
spotlight on Saturday will be Josh- (under the oaks Live in The Loop) from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Times: 231-6990 or www.riversidetheatre.
ua Armenteros, who “comes from and the free live music. Friday’s Comedy Zone: 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 com. 

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‘Rocky Horror’ zaniness returns for area’s cult vultures

BY PAM HARBAUGH arguably also the vehicle for the per- “The Rocky Horror Show” cast. young couple whose car breaks down
Correspondent former known as “Meatloaf” to step in a thunderstorm who then happen
into the public eye. PHOTO BY NIKO STAMOS upon a creepy castle where they ask for
The craze continues. “The Rocky shelter and help.
Horror Show,” that is. “The movie became a cult classic,” because the movie got such acclaim.
said Niko Stamos, costumer and asso- “It’s zany weird and doesn’t make Enter Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the boldly
Just a short drive north of Vero ciate director for the local production. sexy scientist played again by Alex Na-
Beach, a theatrical production of the “People have loved it ever since. And much since, but it’s a fun night out.” than bedecked in fishnet stockings,
cult classic opens Friday and runs people now do the stage show again Titusville Playhouse has mounted bustier, wig and bright red lipstick.
through Sunday at the Henegar Center
in Melbourne. a production of the stage show for Also featured are returnees Melinda
the past six years. This time, it’s be- Benya as Magenta, Jordyn Linkous as
Not only patrons, but performers ing done first at the Henegar and then Riff Raff, Marcy Szymanski as Colum-
alike have lined up to experience this moving to Titusville. bia and Ethan Lolley as Rocky. They
crazy rock musical about an innocent all don wild costumes and makeup to
young couple learning about life and Director Steven Heron offered last form Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s question-
obsession in the creepy home owned year’s cast the same roles for this able entourage of helpers.
by the flamboyant transvestite Dr. year’s production. They all jumped
Frank-N-Furter. at the chance to put on over-the-top The caricature costumes are also a
costumes and hit the stage to do big deal for “Rocky Horror.” Titusville
The history of the appeal started the “Time Warp” again, have sassy kept spending money every year to
with a flop. fun with “Sweet Transvestite” and rent them, but eventually decided that
swoon to “Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch- it would be cost-effective to build the
It was 1973, when the story, mu- a, Touch Me.” costumes themselves since the show
sic and lyrics, all written by Richard had become an annual event.
O’Brien, first made it to the stage as Because the cast already knows
“The Rocky Horror Show.” It was de- the show, they only need about a In fact, the costumes are so im-
signed to be a tribute to all those awful week to rehearse the show, which is portant that audience members
“B” movies with sci-fi settings. done with an onstage band led by frequently dress up to get the full
Spencer Crosswell. “Rocky” experience.
In 1975, it was turned into a movie
starring Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N- “It’s pretty much a spitting image Audience involvement was created
Furter and Barry Bostwick and Susan of what it was done when it was first at the movie, called “The Rocky Hor-
Sarandon as the young couple. It was staged,” Stamos said. ror Picture Show,” where a so-called
“shadow cast” enacts the movie in front
The cast stars Kyle McDonald as of the screen as it is being projected
Brad and Kristen Sellers as Janet, the onto it. The audience uses props to du-
plicate action in the storyline, such as
a newspaper to cover their heads dur-
ing the rain, pieces of toast to toss at the
screen, squirt guns to douse each other
during the storm, and much more.

Stamos is surprised at the live show’s
enduring popularity.

“It has been shocking,” he said. “This
show does very well for us. It’s become
a Halloween tradition.”

“The Rocky Horror Show” opens Fri-
day and runs through Sunday at the
Henegar Center, 625 E. New Haven Ave.,
Melbourne. Tickets are $21 to $29. Call
321-723-8698 or visit Henegar.org. 



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MoMA seen from 53rd Street.

– Since the Mu- its larger, public mission. It became a were unveiled in 2014, MoMA an- ous but to no avail. MoMA gets what
seum of Modern bastion of exclusion, and artists and nounced that it would demolish the MoMA wants, and a perfectly good
Art moved to 53rd Street in 1939, it curators who were not welcome there former American Folk Art Museum building was destroyed to make room
has been expanded several times, often worked and organized in oppo- which it had acquired, designed by for a purpose-built structure.
gobbling up whatever space it could sition to what MoMA stood for, push- the respected firm of Todd Williams
find in one of this country’s dens- ing the art world forward even as one Billie Tsien Architects (the same Visitors to the new campus will
est urban neighborhoods. It has also of its greatest “modern” institutions group that is working on the design be happy for the extra space and the
struggled over the past decade with held things back. of the Barack Obama presidential much-improved circulation of the
extraordinary demand, with some center in Chicago). Protest was vigor- galleries. The expansion, designed by
years topping more than 3 million When the latest plans for expansion Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collabora-
annual visitors. tion with Gensler, includes both a new
On Oct. 21, after an almost five- The museum sculpture garden with the “Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman building where the old Folk Art mu-
month closure, the museum will open Education and Research Building” in the background. seum stood and space carved out of
yet another major expansion project, the dark, enormous and architectur-
adding 40,000 square feet of gallery ally dispiriting condominium tower
space for a total of some 166,000 square designed by Jean Nouvel at 53 W. 53rd
feet. They’ve also reconfigured the old St. (there’s a penthouse apartment still
galleries and reinstalled the permanent available for a mere $63.8 million).
collection.
All of this growth has come at a cost. Galleries now flow through all three
When the museum was founded in spaces, the old building, the new one
1929, it put forth a militant face, argu- and the lower floors of the Nouvel tower.
ing by example for a modernist view
of the world that eventually encom- That means there is less going up
passed art, architecture and design. and down the escalators than was nec-
But it was always an establish- essary in the old configuration, and
ment property, loyal to wealth and there was nothing quite so depressing
wealthy donors, and though the pub- as the MoMA escalators. They felt tight,
lic embraced it, the museum often constrained and overcrowded, but it
did things that felt like a betrayal of was always easier to take them than
to wait for the elevators. If you wanted
to see two shows, they were inevitably
not just on different floors, but several

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floors apart. The intellectual energy of INSIGHT COVER STORY one-third of the collection will be
the galleries fizzled out in this strange- switched out, with the galleries fully
ly uncongenial, vertical space that was View of “Inner and Outer Space” refreshed every 18 months.
reminiscent of a shopping mall. (gallery 209) with architectural
sculpture “Kinshasa la Belle” MoMA is billing these changes to the
Now, there is a second way to move (1991) by Bodys Isek Kingelez. display of the art as the most signifi-
between the floors: a capacious steel cant aspect of the expansion. Not only
staircase that floats in a well-lighted is the museum growing, it is changing
column of space facing 53rd Street. its relationship to the art, no longer in-
That, alone, would make this renova- sisting on a single grand narrative, no
tion welcome. But the increase in gal- longer teaching, but simply opening
lery space also helps bring order to the itself up to exploration and discovery.
collection, even as the museum works “The museum is not the place where
to mix things up stylistically, chrono- we are going to give a lesson,” Chris-
logically and across disciplinary lines. tophe Cherix, chief curator of draw-
ings and prints, told The Washington
The collection is still roughly ar- Post last summer.
ranged by date, with the oldest work

The immersive sound
installation Rainforest V
(variation 1) by electronic
music pioneer David Tudor,
in the Marie-Josée and
Henry Kravis Studio.

(from the late 19th century) on view Left: Blade Stair viewed from Level 6. That’s radical, and to abandon the
on the fifth floor, mid-century work idea that the museum serves an edu-
on the fourth and the newest mate- David Geffen Wing gallery cational function would be a disaster.
rial on the second. More gallery space 206,“Transfigurations,” But, though such language may sound
means more options for dealing with one of the new spaces good to other museum professionals,
light-sensitive material and film and at MoMA. the public generally does want a lesson.
video, which have now been thor- And despite efforts to abandon “grand
oughly integrated into galleries. The A sculpture by Louise Bourgeois in front of three Pottery by George Ohr (foreground), with Vincent narratives,” people generally revert to
museum has also added free galleries paintings by Picasso, including his Boy Leading Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Henri Rousseau’s Sleep- them, at least to provide a general intel-
on the ground level, a small conces- ing Gypsy, and three paintings by Paul Cézanne. lectual skeleton on which to hang their
sion to those put off by the $25 full a Horse (second from left). observations and discoveries.
admission, and a welcome break from
the erstwhile hermetic relationship to Up on the fifth floor, the galleries
the street and city beyond. aren’t labeled by the old “isms” of art
history – Fauvism, expressionism, cub-
Visitors will enjoy all of this, as well ism, surrealism – though the works are
as a new cafe with outdoor seating on mostly grouped by stylistic or intel-
the sixth floor, a new metal awning lectual affinities. Ordinary visitors will
over the 53rd Street entrance, a more probably use their handheld devices to
open and sensible ticket and entry look up and fill in the labels that have
atrium, reopened windows into the been removed, reconstructing the
central lobby at the core of the old more linear sense of art history that the
building and a double-height “studio” curators have attempted to dissolve.
space in the new wing, for perfor-
mance and installation works. Much of the best of MoMA’s work
over the past decade has been about
The museum has also committed to adding to the larger narrative of mod-
regularly rotating its permanent col- ern art, discovering different “modern-
lection, to get more of it on view and isms” around the planet and expand-
incorporate diverse artists into what ing the definition of what qualifies as
was for decades a rigidly canonical art. An exhibition of Tarsila do Amaral
approach to display. Every six months,
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Standing Youth from 1913 and Kneeling Woman from
1911 by Wilihelm Lehmbruck, in a room with works
by Gustav Klimt and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

A view of the fifth-floor collection galleries. Shown here are
multiple works by Pablo Picasso including Les Demoiselles

d’Avignon and The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro.

extended the drama of modernist paint- them. MoMA seems to want to do the porarily to complicate things. Even ed audience who will understand why
ing into Brazil, where it flourished, while latter but can’t quite bring itself to do more worrisome is the stated goal of it’s interesting to, say, hang a 1967 Faith
a display of the sculptures of Bodys Isek so. The rough narrative in the galleries abandoning the didactic function. No Ringgold painting near Picasso’s 1907
Kingelez connected an artist working remains broadly chronological, with the one wants a cultural organization that “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.” Some
in the Congo to the larger history of ar- stars of its collections still pretty much hectors, but they do want to learn. It’s of these juxtapositions are telling and
chitecture and utopian social thinking. where you expect to find them. a question of tone. smart; others seem merely clever.
And it’s good to see works from these
artists incorporated into the display of The danger is that the museum will And it’s not entirely clear at whom the Now MoMA faces the same chal-
the permanent collection. end up with a two-tier system, still de- new installation is aimed: the ordinary lenge it faced before: how to manage
pendent on the iconic pieces that visi- visitor who is supposedly demanding to its own success. Like widening high-
But there’s a difference between com- tors demand to see, supplemented by see art without any supporting intellec- ways, which tends to simply induce
plicating narratives and abandoning the occasional guests brought in tem- tual apparatus or the more sophisticat- more traffic, expanding MoMA will

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only make it more attractive to more to keep growing. And, with that, the with this cycle, and interrupt it. That terribly concerned with what happens
people. pressure to do the big, dumb, crowd- will mean recommitting to first prin- when they leave. Did their eyeballs
pleasing shows like the terrible 2015 ciples, or at least some principles that simply lounge over lots of intriguing
The new building may handle the Bjork exhibition will only increase. reference not just access to art, but the things, or did they learn something?
crowds well for a while. But MoMA has actual experience of thinking about it.
become one of the great “winner takes At some point, if the institution is The Museum of Modern Art, at 11
all” cultural institutions, and the more to remain genuinely relevant to the MoMA knows how to get people W. 53rd St. in New York, reopens Oct. 21.
it grows, the more it will feel the need discourse of art, it will have to grapple through the door, but no one seems moma.org. 

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In the Bahamas, you smell more bodies than you can find

Among the relief workers who cycle in and out of and sea-level rise: Disasters are changing, and how mattresses and babies crying, mothers trying to look
the Bahamas in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, an we deal with them must change as well. respectable for Sunday services, men playing cards.
unofficial refrain sums up the situation: You can smell
more bodies than you can find. For much of the 20th century, emergency response The government does not allow cameras inside,
was based on the notion that natural disasters were saying that it is for the evacuees’ privacy. The evacu-
The government death toll remains, officially, at random and rare. Yes, bad things happened, but with ees, almost all of them of Haitian descent, whisper
61 , but nobody believes it. The conventional wis- a surge of resources and commitment, a damaged from their beds that it is because officials don’t want
dom among locals holds that hundreds of the 1,300 community could quickly get back to where it was. the images coming out. “Home is home,” said Shella
still reported missing were swept out to sea, but as Monestime, whose baby was born a day before Dorian
the massive debris removal gets underway, the smell But storms like Dorian are no longer random and hit and who expects to return to Abaco, although her
implies a different story. rare – and they are stronger and more violent. “It is a physical home is gone. “This,” she noted, pointing to
template hurricane,” Bahamian meteorologist Wayne the shelter, “is no place for anyone.”
On the devastated islands of Abaco and Grand Ba- Neely said. “It’s the new normal.” Which raises this
hama, souls are being found: There are still “quite a question: Why invest in recovery that builds com- Storms impact communities as they find them.
bit of bodies,” said Abaco’s Marsh Harbour coroner, munities back when the next storm is always coming, Hurricane Katrina did not create corruption in New
Anon McIntosh. maybe harsher than the last? Orleans city management. Hurricane Maria did not
create a crumbling infrastructure in Puerto Rico.
For nearly 24 hours, Dorian’s 200 mph winds sat on The simple question in Abaco is whether to re- And Hurricane Dorian did not create an ethnic di-
top of Abaco and its 17,000 residents, ripping every- build at all. The Bahamian government has not de- vide between Bahamians and Haitians, who came to
thing apart and drowning whole areas before moving cided how to answer. It has placed a moratorium on Abaco for jobs and remain stigmatized in a country
slowly on to Grand Bahama. More than 10,000 evac- some rebuilding on Abaco so that recovery efforts that barely affords them citizenship, let alone politi-
uees from Abaco alone are thought to be in Nassau. can be fully planned before everyone just starts do- cal participation. They have no say in the future of
They talk of bodies they saw, families entirely lost. ing the same thing again. Meanwhile, people from their island.
Abaco don’t know whether they are temporary storm
But it isn’t only the uncounted dead that the Ba- evacuees or permanent climate-change refugees. The scene on Grand Bahama is not as grim. That
hamian government is worried about, as criticism of island also took a direct hit from Dorian, but people
its slow response to the Sept. 1-2 disaster begins to At the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium in Nassau, 700 of are returning to rebuild. The government has asked
pivot to frustration. these evacuees are on a single floor, with crammed various relief services to remain for now, said Scott Lil-
libridge, who runs the medical disaster units for the
For the richest country in the Caribbean to remain International Medical Corps. “We don’t know how long
so, it must present a different vision of recovery, one we will be here, but we aren’t leaving soon,” he said.
that tells the outside world that it is open for busi-
ness. “14 islands of the Bahamas are ready and wait- One major storm, neither random nor rare, has
ing to receive you,” a tourist office tweets, ignoring left many missions in its wake: the cleanup; wheth-
the other devastated two. er, and how, to build again; the future of Haitian im-
migrants, who fear the government will simply send
Massive cruise ships are again lined up in Nas- them back to Haiti; and luring vacationers to keep
sau’s untouched harbor, monstrosities of grandeur the desperately needed money flowing.
looming over the overcrowded evacuation shelters
in their shadow. But first the bodies must be found and identified,
so their families can pay respects. Maybe they’ve
There is no shame in these opposing narratives; been swept away to the ocean. The smell suggests
both are true. For any recovery to begin, the dead otherwise. 
must be accounted for and treated with respect. But
recovery for the Bahamas is dependent on a steady This column by Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant
stream of visitors; after all, 60 percent of its economy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security,
is related to tourism. first appeared in The Washington Post. It does not
necessarily reflect the views of Vero Beach 32963.
At the same time, Dorian has made this Caribbean
nation the newest evidence of our changing climate

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PART IV is created. Based on the patient’s specific anatomy,
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OSTEOARTHRITIS OF THE KNEE (CONTINUED) is determined. During surgery, the surgeon guides a
Mako robotic-arm to place the implant with precise
Arthritis of the knee joint can occur in one or more of its accuracy.
three compartments, the:
 Medial compartment, located near the middle of the TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT
knee on the inner side
 Lateral compartment, located on the outer side of During total knee replacement surgery, the orthopedic
the knee surgeon removes broken-down cartilage and bone and
 Patellofemoral compartment, formed by the knee- replaces them with an artificial joint. A prosthesis (im-
cap and front part of the thighbone plant), made of plastic and metal, is either attached to
Osteoarthritis is found most commonly in the medial the bone with acrylic cement or press-fit into the area
compartment, and rarely in the patellofemoral com- to have bone grow into the implant over time. Dam-
partment. aged ligaments are also repaired during surgery.
While many total knee replacement surgeries can be
PARTIAL KNEE REPLACEMENT done as an outpatient procedure, most patients spend
one to two days in the hospital after surgery. As early as
If only one of the three compartments has cartilage de- the day after surgery, patients can stand and move the
generation due to osteoarthritis, it is considered “uni- joint. They use a cane, walker or other aid for several
compartmental.” weeks. Undergoing physical therapy is critical to restor-
Partial knee replacement surgery is used to remove ing motion. In about six weeks, most patients are able
damaged cartilage and bone in one compartment; to put their full weight on their knee using a cane. In six
knee ligaments and normal cartilage are not affected. months, most people are fully recovered and can return
A custom-made implant is placed into the damaged to their normal active lifestyle, with exceptions: no run-
area of the knee and your other two knee compart- ning, jumping or other high impact activities.
ments remain intact. Because less bone is cut away As with partial knee replacement, Mako robotic-arm
than with total knee replacement surgery, patients assisted surgery can also be used for total knee replace-
are able to keep more of their own knee. In addition ment. Studies have found this new technology system
to requiring only a few small incisions into the knee, results in less bone and soft tissue damage, less need
advantages of partial knee replacement over total for opiate analgesics, less inpatient physical therapy
knee replacement surgery include quicker recovery sessions, less post-operative pain and shorter hospital
time, less pain after surgery and less blood loss. stays than with conventional surgery. 
A new advancement in partial knee surgery is robotic- Your comments and suggestions for future topics are
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INSIGHT BOOKS

How do you say something new about Eyewitness accounts are frustration at being forcibly diverted away from Wash-
the single most-witnessed event in the all that remain of some fi- ington by the Secret Service. On Air Force One, miles up
history of the world? Hundreds of mil- nal moments, in places that in the air, unable to watch TV and with limited commu-
lions of people watched the tragedy of no longer exist. Crawling nication, he existed in a painful limbo. Leaders of Con-
the twin towers unfold in real time, and through rubble in rooms laid gress, whisked away to Mount Weather in Berryville, Va.,
even more saw it on seemingly endless waste by explosions, reeking 80 minutes outside Washington, fared little better. Liter-
replay for days. So it is all the more re- of jet fuel and smoke, often ally millions of Americans watching CNN knew more
markable what Garrett M. Graff man- without electricity (and some- than they did. At one point Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.),
ages to accomplish with “The Only times flooded ankle-deep by flying with the president, called his wife to say that he
Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of water from sprinklers), those was safe but that he wasn’t allowed to tell her where he
9/11.” Stitched together with first-per- lucky enough to have stum- was. She replied: “Oh, I thought you were in Barksdale?
son accounts, he crafts an incredibly bled in the right direction lived That’s what I saw on TV.” That was exactly where he was.
evocative and compelling re-creation to tell their stories. One phrase
of the day, with just words and the repeated again and again, espe- The extent to which America was unprepared is par-
barest handful of photographs. cially by first responders, is how ticularly evident in the chapter about the two F-16 Na-
turning left or right they lived, tional Guard pilots hastily enlisted to shoot down United
Graff conducted hundreds of in- and how those they were next to Flight 93. As they wrestle with the implications of firing
terviews and culled even more from turned the other way and died. on a civilian aircraft, the pilots soberly recount their or-
more than 2,000 oral histories. Rather All too often, those who in- ders to divebomb it Kamikaze style if their effort to shoot
than telling the stories one after the sisted on evacuating early and it down failed. They had no missiles on the planes, just a
other, like a horrific version of Groundhog leading survivors to safety, like Rick Rescorla, vice presi- few rounds of regular lead bullets. It was clear that they
Day, he breaks up the accounts chronologically and by dent of security at Morgan Stanley, died in the process. took off expecting that their mission might be a suicide
location. The chapters run from minutes to hours, and Again and again, firefighters who knew better than most mission. While they made their hasty battle plan (one
at times feel like a real-time Twitter feed of 9/11. This al- what their chances were walked up the long stairs with was to fly into the tail, the other into toward the cock-
lows you to experience this fateful day in an intimately heavy packs, never to be heard from again. Capt. Paddy pit), there was no mention of a fact that would have most
visceral fashion, starting with the ordinary (the sky was Brown’s last communication was to refuse a direct order shocked veterans from another era: One of the pilots was
gorgeously blue) and progressing to confusion, fear, to evacuate, because he would not leave his injured men a woman.
numbness and grief. behind.
Under incredible duress, with no time for reflection, Heartbreakingly, “the lucky of the unlucky” had the
To help the reader keep things straight, one font is ordinary Americans rose to the occasion. Pentagon per- time to realize they were likely to die and the ability to
used for quotes from survivors and another for record- sonnel rushed back into the burning building when they call those they loved. On planes and on the highest floors,
ings. Graff’s usually spare background information is heard their office mates screaming. Ten office workers they reached out to spouses and family members to say
italicized. The first time you encounter a person, you get carried their quadriplegic colleague down 69 flights in a a final goodbye. Most of their conversations are remem-
a brief description, usually a job title and perhaps the specially designed chair. At the Battery and nearby piers, bered rather than recorded. At 9:30 a.m., Sean Rooney
floor they were on. You will probably flip back and forth a makeshift, largely civilian fleet organized an impromp- called his wife from the 98th floor of the South Tower,
trying to find the page where a certain individual entered tu water evacuation of between 300,000 and 500,000 spending his last moments alive remembering their
the narrative. With more than 500 people featured, it is people, larger than Dunkirk. Even far from the devasta- happy times together. She could hear the glass break and
hard to keep track of them all. tion, residents of “pretty bad neighborhoods” brought the difficulty he had breathing because of the heat. In the
out hoses so dust-covered refugees walking home could end, as the smoke got thicker, he kept whispering “I love
There are recollections from President George W. have something to drink. you” over and over. She asked him if he was in pain, and
Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Today, when even middle-schoolers have smart- he paused, and said no. “He loved me enough to lie.” 
Donald Rumsfeld and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, phones, it is shocking to read how poor the communi-
but they are part of a much larger ensemble rather than cation technology was at the time. Ironically, it was the THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY
the featured stars. Most of the narratives are contained president and his scattered staff, hustled off unwillingly
in one or two chapters, but some begin in the morn- to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana and then Offutt, AN ORAL HISTORY OF 9/11
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ON FAITH

Old-fashioned kindness never out of fashion – wear it well!

BY REV. DRS. CASEY AND BOB BAGGOTT that despite all the harshness that hov-
Columnists ers round us and even seems to threat-
en our world these days, human hope
Kindness seems like an old-fash- has survived because of an instinct we
ioned word. And it does have history. possess. And that instinct tells us that
It apparently derives from or is related at the heart of reality, deep down where
to words in Old English, Old Saxon, we cannot see but only sense it, kind-
Proto-German and Old Norse that ness holds sway. Kindness, despite our
mean clan, family, child and son. To recent dismissal of its significance, is
display “kindness” in its original sense at the very heart of things.
was to behave to others as one would
naturally want to behave to one’s own Perhaps it was, after all, an unshak-
“kind,” that is, with courtesy, with able divine kindness that brought
helpful deeds and with compassion. the world into being, that spread the
stars across the heavens, that formed
Kindness was a virtue held in high the land and seas and creatures, and
regard for century after century, au- finally breathed its own breath into
thors Adam Phillips and Barbara Tay- dust from the ground and made a hu-
lor argue in their book “On Kindness.” man being. That this beautiful world
Maybe kindness was admired because exists is a kindness. That we are born
it was recognized that kindness, with to live in it is a kindness. That we bear
its requirement for sympathetic un- the image of the divine likeness and
derstanding and openness to others’ its very breath in our own being is a
needs, demanded a lot of the person kindness.
offering it. Clearly, it can be hazardous
to be open-hearted. Our caring and So why wouldn’t we want to assist, and
sympathy may be rejected or exploit- enhance and magnify the divine kind-
ed. It takes courage to risk that. It takes ness that undergirds everything? Be swift
courage to be kind. to love and make haste to be kind! Kind-
ness never goes out of fashion. 
So why bother with kindness? Well,
some of us don’t. In recent centuries kindness grows. Instead, we have
there has been less cultural apprecia- come to admire fierce independence
tion for the sort of mutual belonging and self-reliance as the highest forms
and interdependence out of which of personal development. We are in-
clined to see kindness as a ploy for the
manipulative or a crutch for the weak.
Kindness seems to have fallen out of
favor.

But what are we missing by turning
away from kindness as a virtue to de-
velop and a practice to cultivate? Is a
society that rebuffs the development
of kindness diminished by its lack?
How are we personally affected by the
scarcity of kindness? Isn’t a life without
kindness a little bleaker, a little colder,
a little harsher?

Poet John O’Donohue once claimed

40 Vero Beach 32963 / October 17, 2019 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™

PETS

Every dog has its day (to play) at ‘Howls for Fall’

Hi Dog Buddies! Lt. Albert Iovino tions and arresting them,” said
and Jacque Petrone. Chief Rich Rosell, comment-
Chief Rich Rosell ing on the bond developed by
with Diamond. PHOTO: DENISE RITCHIE integrating emotional support
I’m still out of the office, so one dogs.
of my many assistants volunteered dian River Shores Community Cen- featuring photos of IRS
to sniff out yet another dog-centric ter. Public Safety Department Recalling one resident who
event – the H.A.L.O. Howls for Fall employees paired with had called because his wife
Festival last Saturday afternoon, co- Tails were wagging as assorted some adorable animals was in a rage, Iovino said, “She
hosted by H.A.L.O. No-Kill Rescue pups and their two-legged compan- rescued by HALO. Cal- had dementia and was threat-
and the Indian River Shores Pub- ions enjoyed old fashioned fun vis- endars can be purchased ening to throw something
lic Safety Department, held on the iting a haunted firehouse, partici- through the H.A.L.O. through a window.”
grounds of the newly constructed In- pating in a costume contest, taking website, its Sebastian
hayrides, bobbing for apples and Adoption Center or at the Iovino said he was amazed
playing assorted games. Inside, ven- IRS Public Safety Depart- by how quickly the woman
dors from H.A.L.O.’s Artisans at the ment, with proceeds sup- calmed down when he brought
Mall crew sold handcrafted goods porting the Angel Medical along two of the firehouse fos-
and attendees could chow down a Fund, for rescues needing extensive ter dogs.
free lunch. medical treatment.
The genesis for the collaboration “It made perfect sense to
It was also the perfect time to re- began several years ago when Lt. Al- combine our rescues with
veal the 2020 Rescue Me Calendar, bert Iovino observed how his father, these rescuers,” added Jacque
who had dementia, interacted with Petrone, H.A.L.O. founder.
his dogs. Wondering if dogs might
help officers during interactions with Among Saturday’s attendees
residents suffering from dementia were a few of the nearly 100 potcakes
or Alzheimer’s, they began fostering (a mixed-breed dog found in the Ba-
H.A.L.O. dogs; more often than not hamas) which H.A.L.O. took in from
resulting in adoptions. the Grand Bahama Humane Soci-
“Law enforcement has an obliga- ety after the devastation wrought by
tion to reach out to the community Hurricane Dorian.
in ways other than giving them cita-
H.A.L.O.’s mission is to provide
a no-kill haven for abandoned and
abused animals in Indian River
County. Upcoming events include
their Dec. 6 H.A.L.O. Fur Ball and the
Jan. 5 Chase Your Tail 5K Run/Walk.
For more information, visit halores-
cuef l.org.

Till next time,

The Bonz

Don’t Be Shy

We are always looking for pets
with interesting stories.

To set up an interview, email
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INSIGHT BRIDGE

NEGATIVE DOUBLES ARE USEFUL COUNTERS WEST NORTH EAST
K J 10 9 4 652 83
By Phillip Alder - Bridge Columnist 7 A943 8652
AK2 743 Q J 10 8 5
Hans Selye, an Austrian-Hungarian endocrinologist who died in 1982, said, “Adopting 8643 A52 97
the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” Or, at the bridge table,
adopting the negative double can convert a minus score into a plus one. SOUTH
AQ7
These days, since players intervene with scant regard for suit quality or hand strength, you K Q J 10
and your partner must be ready to fight back. Bridge is not a game for cowards. 96
K Q J 10
If the opener bids one of a suit, the next player overcalls in a different suit, perhaps with a
single jump, and the responder doubles, that is negative. Its primary job at a low level is to Dealer: South; Vulnerable: Neither
try to find a fit in an unbid major. In this deal, North’s double shows four hearts and 6 or more
points. (North might have five hearts if his hand is too weak for a two-heart response, which The Bidding:
promises 10-plus points.)
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
Over this double, South has an easy jump to four hearts. (Perhaps he thought about three 1 Clubs 1 Spades Dbl. Pass
no-trump, but that would not have worked well if West had led a high diamond. Then East 4 Hearts Pass Pass Pass LEAD:
would have signaled with the queen to tell West that the suit was running.) A Diamonds

West leads the diamond ace, cashes the diamond king and continues with a third diamond,
which South ruffs.

On top, declarer has one spade, four hearts and four clubs. So, along with the diamond ruff,
there are no worries. Just take the ruff, draw trumps and run the clubs.

What would North have done without the negative double? Presumably bid two clubs,
potentially reaching a 3-3 fit. You will get positive results with negative doubles.

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9 Soft Italian cheese (7) 3 Form of address (5)
10 Register (5) 4 Rough (6)
11 Frighten (5) 5 Gift (7)
12 Svelte (7) 6 Drowsy (5)
13 Range (5) 7 Lively (5)
15 Olive pip (5) 8 Praise (5)
20 French castle or manor (7) 14 Get ready (7)
22 Hardy (5) 16 Unbiased (7)
23 Manila hemp (5) 17 Remnant (5)
24 Finch-like bird (7) 18 Granola-like food (6)
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21 Warning signal (5)
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INSIGHT GAMES

ACROSS 87 Surveyor’s nail denizen The Washington Post
88 Unsociable 39 British school
1 Return of the ___ 90 Atticus Finch portrayer 40 “Stop staring ___!” UNEASY LISTENING By Merl Reagle
5 The over-50 crowd? 91 Provide 41 Draw the outline of
9 Opening letters 94 Inappropriate Muzak for a 42 Romance-novel buyers
12 Trapezoid, for one 43 “Skip me”
17 Paulsen for whom a skating doctor’s office? (from Paul 44 Carping one
McCartney) 45 Lip-stretching people
jump is named 97 See 64 Down 46 Dracula director Browning
18 Fortunate 98 Baby food buyer 48 Miracle on 34th Street
20 Excessively 101 First name in home humor
21 “___ see!” 102 Ochoa’s one character
22 Inappropriate Muzak for 103 Barker’s barrage 52 Potent start?
104 Let fall 53 Focused (on)
a doctor’s office? (from 105 Beef cuts 56 Blown-up area
Roberta Flack) 108 With 115 Across, 58 2-by-4
25 “Go ahead, make ___” inappropriate Muzak for a 59 Actress Moore
26 Is, in Issy doctor’s office? (from Barry 60 Tennyson effort
27 Rocket launcher? Manilow) 62 “___ girl!”
28 Inappropriate Muzak for a 111 Treat roughly 64 With 97 Across, really big
doctor’s office? (from Sting) 112 Walk-on? 68 Sculls
30 Worked as a rabbi 114 Propeller sound 69 Sit suddenly
32 Straighten (out) 115 See 108 Across 70 Old illumination
34 Maine et les autres 119 Broadcast transition 71 Receded
35 The Gold Bug penner 120 On the ___ 72 Grateful mot
36 Hajji’s teacher 121 ___ the spot 73 Tent-raising prop
37 Wash again, 122 Celluloid terrier 74 He talked to a Post
as the dishes 123 Aristophanes topic 77 Tetley rival
38 Indeed, in Psalms 124 Prophet ending 78 Medal candidate
41 Inappropriate Muzak for a 125 Takes off the shelf 79 Potato buds
doctor’s office? (from the 126 Mangel-wurzel, e.g. 80 British composer
Beatles) 81 “Friendly skies” corp.
47 Kelly the clown DOWN 83 Geraldine’s mom
49 Catch, as calves 1 Chinatown sleuth 84 Bean dip?
50 Port from which Columbus 2 Am alive 88 Sol’s intro
departed 3 Legacy airline carrier 89 Winter viruses
in 1492 4 Needing nursing 92 What barons build
51 Job, Joel, 5 Emo emotion 93 Traffic-slowing weather
or Jonah, e.g. 6 Mater or Mahler preceder 95 Point of an angle
54 Minuscule minimum 7 Morgue, for one 96 WWII plane,
55 Violin maker 8 Ofc. needs
57 It adjoins a locker room 9 Bulletin-board abbr. the ___ Gay
58 Inappropriate Muzak for a 10 Scarecrow portrayer 99 Quality of character
doctor’s office? (from Bon 11 Hapless cartoon predator 100 Pacific greetings
Jovi) 12 Runny nose 103 Soft-drink concentrate
61 Light-plane maker 104 Sequel to 9 Across
63 Game, in ancient Greece or watery eyes 105 Rommel’s rumblers
65 Bereft of the basics 13 Georgetown’s players 106 Rub the wrong away?
66 Type widths 14 Vowel-rich carmaker 107 Honeymoon booking
67 With 78 Across, 15 Method of proceeding 108 “Take ___ Train”
inappropriate Muzak for a 16 TV Tarzan Ron 109 Sets, as sails
doctor’s office? (from Stevie 18 Piled haphazardly 110 Lapidary display
Nicks and Tom Petty) 19 Central Indiana city 111 Muddy going
71 Type widths 23 Valuable bar 113 Wee fly everywhere
74 Wok material 24 Old Cadillac feature 114 Way to fly: abbr.
75 Pinza piece 29 Go back for a pass 116 Aussie symbol
76 “Yeah, right” 31 Surprise wins 117 ___ Vegas
78 See 67 Across 32 “___ I could spit!” 118 Shoot the breeze
82 Namesake often 33 Spectator shouts
85 Zodiac sign 36 Sans thinking
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When to tell a friend that her husband is a groper

BY CAROLYN HAX Is it time for me to tell her the truth? So, Plan B. You tell. Telling right away the first time
Washington Post would have been a valid and compassionate choice,
– Anguished too, by the way, especially if you had reason to be-
Dear Carolyn: This is very diffi- lieve it wasn’t a one-time or isolated mistake.
cult note to write. For years I have Anguished: Yes. I’m sorry.
concealed from my best friend that Embracing her while avoiding him was a valid and That’s because the validity and compassion lie in
her husband attempts to grope me compassionate choice, but only if you were able to your intent. You kept the husband’s secret not out of
when she is out of the room. The first pull it off. You weren’t. Not your fault. Blame your cruelty or self-preservation, but to stay out of your
time it happened, I was in the guest friend’s acuity and the quality of your friendship. friend’s marriage. That’s fair.
room and he entered late at night and tried to kiss me, And, of course, the groper: They all made it impos-
which I rejected in shock. sible for you to distance yourself from the husband Now you’d be telling not to punish the husband or
My friend adores this man, she praises everything without also distancing yourself from her. protect yourself, but instead to let your friend know
about him, his wit, his wisdom and his appearance, her husband’s behavior is costing her in ways she
and seems completely happy with him. Her social me- may not realize. That’s also fair.
dia feed is full of smiling photos of the two of them
sharing adventures. Which brings us to another truth-telling you’re
I don’t see my friend very often, because she lives in a due for: Neither you nor anyone else invites unwel-
different part of the country. That’s one of the reasons I come sexual advances – or, if he succeeds in these
haven’t told her; stupidly I hoped it would stop happen- groping attempts, sexual assaults – by being friendly;
ing. I also wondered if somehow I brought this on my- you weren’t stupid to hope the husband would stop;
self by being open and friendly. (Until this happened, I you wouldn’t destroy her happiness by telling your
genuinely liked him.) As well, I was sure the revelation friend what happened; you wouldn’t turn her against
would either destroy her happiness, which I had no de- you.
sire to do, or would turn her against me. Until this, I had
no secrets from my friend. The husband is responsible for the groping at-
I go out of my way to avoid him whenever I see my tempts.
friend, and suggest we do things on our own. Recently
my friend told me I had changed, I was no longer the The husband is responsible for not taking no for
fun, loving person she remembered, and she was ques- an answer.
tioning our friendship.
She asked what had happened to cause me to change. The husband is responsible if the truth of his ac-
tions destroys his wife’s happiness.

The husband is responsible if he falsely counter-
accuses you. A real risk.

I’m sorry this happened to you. It’s not fair. But it is
your responsibility now to fill in the blanks for your
friend. 

NURSE PRACTITIONER GOING ABOVE
AND BEYOND FOR SENIOR CARE

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HEALTH

Nurse practitioner going above and beyond for senior care

BY TOM LLOYD advanced – and still quite rare – certifi- Jennifer Konowitz, ARNP,
Staff Writer cation as an “Adult-Gerontology Acute with Dr. Charles Croft.
Care Nurse Practitioner.”
Jennifer Konowitz, a nurse practitio- PHOTOS BY DENISE RITCHIE
ner at Sebastian River Medical Center’s If you’ve never heard of that, you’re
cardiac catheterization lab, has set her far from alone. Geronotolgy isn’t your
sights on something new. grandpa’s version of what used to be
called “geriatrics.”
Better care for older patients.
Konowitz is currently enrolled in Unlike geriatrics, which tended to
post-master’s classes at the University concentrate solely on the medical as-
of Central Florida seeking to obtain an pects of aging, gerontology adds the
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‘She’s the person who normally only really see an intensivist here. She’s the person who sees all the The one fly in this particular oint-
[critical care physician] or possibly an patients, organizes them, assesses them ment is time. With her fulltime work at
sees all the patients, emergency room physician doing.” and now she’s getting [even more] prac- the SRMC cath lab, Konowitz’s course
tical experience. schedule is, well, challenging. Mostly
organizes them, assesses “I feel it’s so critically important for nights and weekends with a lot of com-
me to know the proper way to do these “She’s a great person,” he concludes, muting time in between.
them and now she’s procedures,” Konowitz exclaims, “along having not apparent doubt this ad-
with what tests to run afterwards and vanced certification is easily within Ko- January will be the start of Konowitz’s
getting [even more] how to follow up with those patients.” nowitz’s grasp. final semester and then she’ll take her
national board exams.
practical experience.’ The SRMC physician who undoubt- She agrees. “I felt when this new post-
edly knows Konowitz best is Dr. Charles master’s certification came about, I was If all goes well, by June 2020, she will
– Dr. Charles Croft Croft, and he makes clear how he feels going to try for it, and when I called my have earned her Adult-Gerontology
about his protégé: “We’ve been work- Alma Mater – the University of Central Acute Care Nurse Practitioner designa-
of aging to those physical effects and ing together for a long time,” Croft says. Florida – I was excited to learn that they tion and local seniors will begin ben-
has been embraced by some high-pow- “Since 2012. She appeared out of no- were, in fact, one of the only ones offer- efiting even more than they already do
ered medical schools. where and has really been a rock around ing this.” from her efforts and dedication. 

Johns Hopkins says Adult-Gerontolo-
gy Acute Care Nurse Practitioners “bring
a deep respect for the people they care
for and a commitment to working with
patients, family members and caregivers
to ensure quality of life and health.”

The University of Georgia’s medical
school says “gerontology is the study of
aging across the life course. It encom-
passes the social, psychological, and
biological aspects of the aging process.”

NursingLicenseMap, an online re-
source dedicated to helping those in-
terested in advancing their nursing
careers, reports “the role of the adult-
gerontology acute care nurse practitio-
ner is to provide advanced nursing care
to adult, older adult and elderly patients
with acute, chronic and critical condi-
tions. The AG-ACNP works collabora-
tively with a host of different health care
professionals in order to stabilize and
improve the health of patients.”

That is a valuable skill set now and
going into the future – according to pro-
jections from the Pew Research Center,
about 1-in-5 Americans will soon be
over age 65 and about 5 percent will be
age 85 and older.

Konowitz says the AG-ACPN certifi-
cation she’s seeking is “fairly new,” but
quickly adds that even in her current
position in the cath lab, “most of my
patients are acutely ill. So whether it is
an acute exacerbation of a chronic ill-
ness that they’re experiencing or a new
diagnosis, when they’re here they’re not
well,” and she says she wants to do more
to help them.

How much more?
When she completes her studies,
says Konowitz, she’ll be able to intubate
patients (insert a tube, called an endo-
tracheal tube through the mouth and
then into the airway so a patient can
be placed on a ventilator to assist with
breathing during anesthesia, sedation,
or severe illness) and perform thoracen-
tesis (procedures in which a needle is
inserted into the pleural space between
the lungs and the chest wall to remove
excess fluid to help patients breathe
more easily).
She will also be able to perform a host
of other tasks that, she adds, “you would

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HEALTH

New guidelines on opioid tapering tell doctors to go slow

BY JOEL ACHENBACH painkillers have been overprescribed cluding illicit opioids, as a way to treat for pain from back injuries, arthritis or
and that many patients would have bet- their pain or withdrawal symptoms,” headaches.
The Washington Post ter long-term health outcomes if they states the HHS guide.
cut back on their dosages and took ad- The overuse of these pills and patch-
Amid controversy and confusion over vantage of other types of treatment, “Increased pain happens to be an es has fueled an opioid epidemic that
the use of prescription opioids to treat ranging from physical therapy to non- opioid-withdrawal symptom. Most pa- claims more lives every year in the Unit-
chronic pain, the federal government narcotic painkillers. tients will experience a transient expe- ed States than automobile accidents or
last Thursday published new guidelines rience of pain,” said Deborah Dowell, a gun violence. In the past decade, medi-
on how, when and whether the mil- But there has been pushback from chief medical officer at the Centers for cal experts have come to realize the po-
lions of patients who use the painkillers people in pain. Many say they desper- Disease Control and Prevention and the tentially dire consequences – addiction,
should be forced to cut back. ately need the opioids they take and lead author of the new guide. for starters, overdoses, and death in the
don’t want to be forced by their doctors worst-case scenarios – of prescribing
A main point of the new guidance to taper the dosages. Many also are anx- “All of us are extremely empathetic to these narcotics for ailments other than
on tapering is that clinicians should ious about the prospect of losing access people living with severe chronic pain,” cancer, recent surgery or end-of-life pal-
be slow, cautious and deliberate in to their painkillers. Giroir said. liative care.
reducing dosages and should consult
patients to ensure they are tolerating People who have been forced by their He reiterated the need to take steps A 2016 guidance from the CDC set
the process. The guidelines empha- doctors to cut back rapidly on their to limit opioid addiction and reduce the standards for prescribing of opioids.
size “personalized care tailored to the medication may experience heightened number of fatal overdoses. That can be Officials later acknowledged that many
specific circumstances and unique pain and may suffer psychological dis- done while still treating pain with opi- medical professionals misinterpreted
needs of each patient,” said Brett P. Gi- tress, the new HHS guide for clinicians oids in a responsible manner, he said. the guidelines.
roir, an assistant secretary for health states. Clinicians are advised to monitor “We can achieve both goals. They are
at the Department of Health and Hu- patients closely for signs of anxiety and not mutually exclusive.” The CDC, for example, had suggested
man Services. suicidal ideation. an upper limit for opioid dosages among
This is a delicate issue for the mil- new patients. But many patients were
Millions of people in the United States “Risks of rapid tapering or sudden lions of people taking opioids and the already taking more than that, and their
– an estimated 3 to 4 percent of the adult discontinuation of opioids in physi- broader medical community, which in doctors tried to cut dosages to the CDC
population – take opioids daily. About cally dependent patients include acute the 1990s embraced the idea of pain as recommendation. The CDC clarified
2 million people have been diagnosed withdrawal symptoms, exacerbation of the fifth vital sign of health. Drug com- the guidance earlier this year to say that
with prescription opioid use disorder, pain, serious psychological distress and panies promoted opioid painkillers as a it only applied to new patients, not ex-
according to HHS. There is a consensus thoughts of suicide. Patients may seek safe and rarely addictive treatment for isting ones, who should not be tapered
in the medical community that these other sources of opioids, potentially in- chronic pain. Pills such as OxyContin rapidly to a lower dose. 
and Percocet began to be used widely

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HEALTHY SENIOR

Smokers owe it to themselves to attempt to quit

FRED CICETTI smokers, who often don’t inhale, are hose. Hookah smoke contains varying
still breathing the second-hand smoke amounts of nicotine, carbon monoxide,
Columnist that surrounds them and other hazardous substances. Sev-
eral types of cancer have been linked to
(Part 2 of a 3-part series) • Smokeless tobacco can cause cancer hookah smoking.
If you smoke, you owe it to yourself of the gums, mouth, pharynx, larynx
to quit. And I believe you have an obli- and esophagus. People who dip or chew • When smoke contacts live cells, it
gation to try to help others to quit. I’m smokeless tobacco get about the same hurts them. There is no safe way to use
doing my part by offering this unusual amount of nicotine as regular smokers. tobacco.
series of columns. No scolding or exag-
gerated scare tactics. I’m giving you just • Hookah smoking involves burn- [In the last part of this series, I’ll give
the facts in a chain of bulletins. ing flavored tobacco in a water pipe you some statistics and information
You can stick these columns on bul- and inhaling the smoke through a long about quitting.] 
letin boards and refrigerators. I recom-
mend giving them to a smoker you love. • Clove cigarettes, also called
Here are more: “kreteks,” contain about 65 percent
• Cigarette smoke contains 4,000 tobacco and about 35 percent ground
chemicals, including more than 60 cloves, clove oil and other additives.
known to cause cancer. Some of the They are a tobacco product with the
chemicals cause heart and lung dis- same health risks as regular cigarettes.
eases. Included in the list of chemicals
are cyanide, benzene, formaldehyde, • “Bidis” are hand-rolled, flavored
methanol, acetylene, ammonia, nitro- cigarettes imported mainly from In-
gen oxide and carbon monoxide. dia. Bidis appear to have all of the same
• Any amount of smoke is dangerous. health risks of conventional cigarettes.
Even smoking as few as 1 to 4 cigarettes a
day can increase the risk of dying sooner. • Nicotine, the addictive ingredient
• Smoking cigarettes with lower tar in tobacco, constricts arteries and plays
and nicotine provides no clear health an important role in increasing smok-
benefit. Smokers who buy these ciga- ers’ risk of heart disease and stroke.
rettes often inhale more deeply, inhale However, it is other ingredients in to-
more often and smoke them down to bacco cause cancers.
their fingers to compensate for the low-
er tar and nicotine. • Anyone who starts smoking is at risk
• Menthol cigarettes are more dan- of becoming addicted to nicotine.
gerous than other types because they
diminish the cough reflex and mask a • With regular use of tobacco –
dry throat. This enables smokers to in- smoked or chewed – nicotine accumu-
hale these cigarettes deeper and more lates in the body. Daily consumers are
often, too. People who smoke menthol exposed to nicotine effects 24/7.
cigarettes are less successful quitting.
• Hand-rolled cigarettes are not safer • Nicotine, like cocaine, increases
than commercial brands. the level of the neurotransmitter dopa-
• Cigarettes billed as “all natural” mine, which affects the brain pathways
have not been proven to be safer than that control reward and pleasure.
any other cigarettes.
• Herbal cigarettes produce tar and • Smoking cigars and pipes causes
carbon monoxide and are dangerous to cancers of the lung, oral cavity (lip,
your health. tongue, mouth, throat), larynx (voice
box) and esophagus. Pipe and cigar

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ST. EDWARD’S

Interest in St. Edward’s golf program is far above par

BY RON HOLUB sistency by the top four golfers during
Correspondent the regular season. This year also saw
a significant upsurge in participation
St. Ed’s hosted the District 13-1A boys on the girls team. The St. Ed’s program
golf tournament this week at Bent Pine prospered with great assistance from a
Golf Club featuring a field of 10 teams golf-loving community and a dedicated
and up to 50 golfers vying for an oppor- husband and wife coaching tandem.
tunity to break through and advance in
the postseason. “We are just really blessed by how
many in our town support youth golf,”
The Pirates entered as the fifth seed fifth-year boys head coach Scott Mohr
following a remarkable display of con- said. “Golf has really been a family en-

GP Battista, Aidan Heaney, Jack Kincus, Ryan Niederpruem and Adam Rogers. PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES

SUMMER deavor for us. My wife Jaclyn coached ans and hopefully we are going to peak
SALE! the girls team (for the fourth straight at the right time. We had strong senior
year), so to have us do this together leadership led by Ryan Niederpruem.
(772) 567-2005 again was really fantastic. He was our best scorer in most of the
matches. He worked his tail off and it re-
665 4TH STREET, VERO BEACH, FL 32962 “Riomar Country Club was the perfect ally paid off for him, and for us. It’s really
place for us to have as a home course. It a pleasure as a coach to see that come to
Discounts on in-stock new & used material. was the home base for the girls team this fruition for a young athlete.
Patios  Driveways  Pool Decks  Walkways year, and that made it easier for all of us
on a daily basis. We also had a boys JV “Our other senior, GP Battista, had a
Fire Pits  Walls  Water & Light Features team, so to have 25 young golfers at one really nice season in his fifth year with
time at the same facility serves to show the team. He had a fantastic Senior
SERVING VERO BEACH AND THE TREASURE COAST! the growth of this sport at our school. It’s Night with an even par score. That was
been great.” certainly a highlight for him. Our two
sophomores, Aidan Heaney and Adam
Even though the numbers were Rogers, were really solid and that gave us
healthy across the board, the boys var- a lot of stability.
sity team was limited to five players. The
girls team ballooned to 11 this year. “We had great team chemistry. The
players rallied around each other. ... It
“The best part for the boys is that also made for a great season overall.”
we’ve been on a direct upward incline
since the beginning of the season,” Scott The approach with the girls team was
Mohr said. “We only had a five-man vastly different. The very short season
team. We chose not to have a sixth and concluded two weeks ago and it will be
that put a little more pressure on the curious to see how many girls take up
guys in some ways. We really topped the sport next year at St. Ed’s, or on a ca-
out on Senior Night with a score of 156. sual, recreational basis. This year was es-
Some parents were able to share in that sentially an introductory course for most
moment. Posting those scores in that of them.
match turned it into a really great day.”
“I think what encouraged a large
Ryan Niederpruem topped the 2019 number of girls to come out was a few
leader board with a nine-hole average things,” Jaclyn Mohr told us. “First was
of 39 in regular-season matches. Fellow the atmosphere that a lot of people
senior GP Battista averaged 42. Sopho- would be starting at the same place,
mores Aidan Heaney with 40 and Adam just learning the game. The other
Rogers with 41 gave the Pirates a for- would be my husband talking up the
midable, highly competitive foursome program. I am an off-campus coach
throughout. Junior Jack Kincus finished which makes it harder to connect with
with 46 for his best score in a victory over students during the day. The final rea-
Sebastian River High School. son was the location. Riomar is a beau-
tiful golf course and it is extremely
The boys teed off against some tough close to the school.
competition this week, most notably
tourney favorite Benjamin and always “We were very blessed. The girls re-
pesky Pine School. The coach remained ally got along well and were extremely
optimistic based on the steady perfor- supportive of each other. Junior Katie
mances of his team since the opener Croom and sophomore Charlotte Yates
was pushed back a week by the Hurri- really stood out. They were our only re-
cane Dorian scare. turning players. They became our lead-
ers during practices and matches.” 
“All of our players are returning veter-