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ARTS & THEATRE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 51 quantity, God will take care of the quality.” After growing up in south Florida, Bradbury studied briefly in the 1970s at Cooper Union in New York City. In the ’80s he studied Chinese painting and calligraphy in Taiwan, before beginning a career that included being a literary translator and, for some 20 years, a literature professor. In 2015 Bradbury decided to pursue art full time so he quit his job and returned to Florida. He settled in Fort White, Fla., home to the Ichetucknee River, which he calls CONTINUED ON PAGE 52 Steven Bradbury. PHOTOS BY JOSHUA KODIS

ARTS & THEATRE 52 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ “one of the longest spring-fed rivers in the world and among one of the most beautiful corners of a beautiful state,” and a few years later, he moved to Melrose. Although Bradbury does occasionally work in other mediums, he gravitated to graphite when he returned to art, relating to its “rich darks and silvery sheers, which remind me of film noir and moonlit nights.” “I didn’t know how to use color,” says Bradbury, adding while he has drawn in pastels, he didn’t have enough color knowledge to paint CONTINUED FROM PAGE 51

ARTS & THEATRE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 53 with oils. “All I knew how to do was draw, so I developed some new techniques, and turned my weaknesses into strengths,” says Bradbury. Among them is the use of watercolor graphite, a water-soluble graphite that, when mixed with water, becomes like an ink wash. Bradbury’s black and white artworks are distinctive, especially when shown with other mediums, standing CONTINUED ON PAGE 54

ARTS & THEATRE 54 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ out in what he calls “the scarcity principle,” explaining that there is not a lot of competition in this unusual medium. “A lot of people think my graphite drawings are a print or a photo. I seem to have a unique medium and look,” says Bradbury. He uses Chinese brushes and unusual applicators, such as rolling pins, wet wipes, cotton CONTINUED FROM PAGE 53 `All I knew how to do was draw, so I developed some new techniques, and turned my weaknesses into strengths.’ - Steven Bradbury

ARTS & THEATRE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 55 balls, paint trimming sponges, stones or whatever is at hand, to create texture on the synthetic Yupo paper, which he prefers over standard watercolor paper. “If you apply something it produces texture. It is difficult to control, but capable of amazing effects. It doesn’t buckle when moistened and has the additional advantage of allowing you to wipe it down and start afresh,” says Bradbury. “On Yupo, it’s more like seizing a happy accident. A lot is just chance or luck.” Bradbury says the pencil remains the instrument of choice for most graphite artists. The black core of a typical “lead” pencil is not lead at all, but rather graphite, a form of carbon once so rare that in England, for centuries the only high-quality source, miners were routinely searched to make sure they weren’t smuggling it out. In addition to the graphite pencil, he says, “there are many types of graphite tools, such as graphite powder, graphite sticks and graphite putty, the last of CONTINUED ON PAGE 56

ARTS & THEATRE 56 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ which I use to make intense darks.” Bradbury has also used dirty erasers, scissors, a cuticle pusher, ruler, triangle and curved metal to make curved lines, commenting that their use prompted one of his students to say, “It’s all just tricks,” and another to ask, “Why don’t you just use a camera?” When COVID hit, Bradbury says that in order to stay away from people, he began drawing clouds. “Clouds were the first thing I fell in love with, after my mom – way before girls. It’s so flat here and the clouds keep changing. You have to be very fast; they move so quickly. They have magnificent forms. It’s such a pleasure to look at them. It was just me in those hay fields; there was no one else around. It was very peaceful and beautiful.” Since 2017, Bradbury’s works have been on display at numerous solo and group exhibits, in Texas, Illinois, Arizona, Georgia, Colorado, Washington and New Jersey. He earned Best in Show awards twice at the Gainesville Fine Arts Association, First Place at shows in Palatka, Fla., and Springfield, Ind., and received the Art of Distinction Award in Asheville, N.C. Additionally, in 2021, Bradbury won a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for the book “Raised by Wolves: Poems and Conversations,” by Taiwanese poet-filmmaker Amang. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 55

ARTS & THEATRE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 57 There are simply not enough hours in the week for you to do all that is Coming Up. So, get your calendar and start making choices. One of the bigger deals this weekend happens Sunday evening when the Indian River Symphonic Association presents the Brevard Symphony Orchestra led by Maestro Christopher Confessore. Titled “Inspired by Bach,” the concert reveals the continuing influence of Johann Sebastian Bach. It includes: Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Aria from Bachianas Brasileiros No. 5, performed by soprano Kyaunee Richardson; Bach’s Suite from BWV 1067 and 1068 arranged by Gustav Mahler; and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major. The concert begins 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, at the Community Church of Vero Beach, 1901 23rd St. Tickets are $60. Call 772-778-1070 or visit IRSymphonic.org. We leap from the classics to country with the 32nd Annual Fellsmere Frog Leg Festival running Thursday through Sunday. This is the gathering where you get gator, frogs and more. There’s also music and rides and plenty of vendors. Specially priced armbands ($20 to $25) will get you all-you-can-ride days; otherwise you’ll be paying $1.25 for one ticket, and the roller coasters require three to four tickets for each ride. Entertainment features some great artists like Matt Rosman, Jason Wright, Hired Guns, Johnny Debt and Ch3mistry. You can also get a very “down home” T-shirt and poster. The 32nd Annual Fellsmere Frog Leg Festival runs 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Jan. 19-20, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, at the Old School Complex, on the corner of CR 512 and Broadway Street (22 South Orange St.). For more information, call 772-571-3022 or visit FrogLegFestival.com. Local tennis professionals will play at the King of the Hill Tennis Tournament running Thursdays through March 2. The event is one of the largest fundraisers for the Youth Guidance Mentoring Academy, which provides daily meals and mentoring programs in both voRoy A. McLendon Jr. JOIN US FOR THE ART GALLERY OPENING OF FRIDAY JANUARY 20TH, 6-9PM Roy Jr is a Highwaymen in his own right with a refined and unique style. 2059 Indian River Blvd., Vero Beach, FL 32960 (across from Bonefish Grill) COMING UP! Get ‘Bach’ at super Symphonic Association concert 1 BY PAM HARBAUGH Correspondent 2 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 58

ARTS & THEATRE 58 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ cational and life skills for children coming from Indian River County families with limited resources. The tournament begins with open divi - sion players 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Boulevard Village Tennis Club, 1620 Boulevard Village Lane, Vero Beach. For more information, call 772-979-5582 or visit Youth GuidanceProgram.org. Riverside Theatre for Kids pres - ents “Playtime in the Park,” a program designed to nurture the creative energy in children 2 to 5 years of age. The free program be - gins 11 a.m. on the second and third Saturdays of most months. The young ones participate in dance on the second Saturday and partici - pate in theatrical interactive plays on the third Saturday. The program is held outdoors at the new Loop Stage at Riverside Theatre, 3250 Riv - erside Dr., Vero Beach. For more in - formation, call 772-231-5860 or visit RiversideTheatre.com. The Galleries at First Pres has opened its 6th Anniversary Art Show, featuring works of area artists Jean Breeding, Cathleen Hahn and George Kofas. The galleries are lo - cated throughout the campus of the First Presbyterian Church of Vero Beach, 520 Royal Palm Blvd. Breed - ing’s work includes paintings reveal - ing personal strengths of people who have overcome sickness, abuse, rejection and loss. Hahn attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., and eventually went into the advertis - ing and design business. She began working with nonprofits and established the Gloria Ministries Crisis Center for Women in Kyiv, Ukraine. Upon returning to the U.S., she taught art and painted profession - ally. Kofas explores spiritual issues of the temporary and the eternal, or, in other words, the physical and the spiritual. For more information about the art galleries, the exhibi - tion or the artists, call 772-562-9088 or visit FirstPresVero.org. The Emerson Center is busy this week. MusicWorks brings in Judy Collins to perform “Wildflow - ers” with the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19. Tickets are $55 to $130. MusicWorks later brings in Dave Mason at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26. Tickets are $45 to $80. The Pelican Island Audubon Society will have its Transforming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future Conference with lectures from ex - perts 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21. $25, includes box lunch. Contact PelicanIslandAudubon.org. A ben - efit concert starring Russian pia - nist Sergey Belyavsky and German violinist Christoph Seybold begins 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22. $20 suggested donation. Proceeds go to the Voice for Children of Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast. The Emerson Center E-Series kicks off 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24 with “Here Be Monsters” by deep sea explorer and marine biolumines - cence expert Dr. Edith Widder. Free. The Emerson Center is at 1590 27th Ave., Vero Beach. Call 772-777-9321 or visit TheEmersonCenter.org. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 57 4 56

RSV, PART OF VIRAL TRIFECTA, HITTING CHILDREN HARD THIS WINTER

60 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ A viral trifecta is sweeping the country this winter, with COVID-19, the flu and RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) creating havoc in hospital emergency rooms, slamming all age groups but, in the case of RSV, hitting children especially hard. Here in Florida, the Department of Health has documented a higher number of pediatric emergency visits for RSV compared to previous years. “This winter season has been pretty severe already with cases of children being hospitalized due to RSV,” said Dr. Julia Retureta, a board-certified pediatrician with HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce. In her capacity as assistant medical director of Lawnwood’s pediatric emergency department, Dr. Retureta, treats children with RSV from all over the Treasure Coast. “We are the only dedicated pediatric facility on the Treasure Coast, so we get a lot of transfers in from other hospitals,” she said. “We have an en1225 US HWY 1, VERO BEACH, FL 32960 JULIE A. CROMER, DDS COSMETIC DENTISTRY GENERAL DENTISTRY DENTURES & PARTIALS DENTAL IMPLANTS WHITENING GUM SURGERY WALK-INS WELCOME FINANCING & SAVINGS PLAN AVAILABLE DENTAL LAB ON PREMISES Call 772-562-5051 CromerAndCairnsDental.com The patient and any other person responsible for payment has a right to refuse to pay, cancel payment, or be reimbursed for payment for any other services, examination, or treatment that is preformed as a result of and within 72 hours of responding to the advertisement for the free, discounted fee, or reduced fee service, examination, or treatment. NEW PATIENT SPECIAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM FULL SET XRAYS TREATMENT PLAN CLEANING* $79 *Not in combination with any other offer. Offer good for new patients only and cleaning in absence of periodontal disease. Xrays are non transferable. (D0150) (D1110) (D0210) (D0330) RSV, part of viral trifecta, hitting children hard this winter BY KERRY FIRTH Correspondent Dr. Julia Retureta. PHOTO: JOSHUA KODIS

Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 61 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ tire staff of pediatric physicians on the pediatric floor and in the pediatric intensive care unit.” RSV is the major cause of respiratory illness in children. Nearly all children will get an RSV infection by the time they are 2. Most of the time RSV causes only a common cold but sometimes it infects the lungs and breathing passages, leading to serious breathing problems for infants and young children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that as many as 80,000 children under the age of 5 are hospitalized annually due to the highly contagious virus. RSV spreads through air droplets, mostly during the winter months. In older children it generally just causes a cold with upper respiratory symptoms, but it is more dangerous for children under the age of 2 – especially those less than 6 months of age and those born prematurely. Early symptoms are generally the same as a common cold, including runny nose, decrease in appetite and a cough, but these symptoms can progress into bronchiolitis. Parents should be concerned if their child experiences shortness of breath, fast breathing, wheezing, abdominal breathing or nasal flaring – all signs of decreased air exchange in the lungs, which can progress into pneumonia. Some children have apneic spells – basically holding their breath, which can lead to respiratory failure. Infants less than 6 months old may only show signs of RSV with irritability, decreased activity and appetite, and apnea. “Unfortunately, there is no vaccine for RSV but there is a monoclonal antibody reserved for ex-preemies less than 28 weeks and congenital heart disease babies,” Dr. Retureta explained. “It’s a monthly intramuscular injection given for six months during the RSV season to prevent them getting the virus. Parents of these high-risk infants should talk to their pediatrician about this preventative measure.” Mild cases of RSV typically clear up on their own after a week or two. To help relieve symptoms and make your child more comfortable, your doctor may recommend over-the-counter medications such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen. Some medications are not recommended for babies, however, so consult your pediatrician before using any nonprescription medicine. You should take your baby to the ER immediately if there are signs of dehydration (decrease in wet diapers), labored breathing, high fever, lethargy, skin turning blue (especially lips and fingernails), or unresponsiveness. If you are unsure whether your baby has severe RSV, err on the side of caution and seek medical treatment. If the RSV infection is severe enough for the child to be hospitalized, treatments may include intravenous fluids, humidified oxygen and, in rare cases, mechanical ventilation or a breathing machine. “RSV is not at new virus. It’s been around for a long time,” Dr. Retureta said. “[Fortunately] there are some commonsense preventative measures parents can adopt to ward off the virus. “Since RSV spreads by air droplet transmission, avoid close contact with sick people, wash your hands frequently, clean and disinfect surfaces, and cover your mouth when coughing. This year, RSV is more prevalent than ever so parents should be diligent in recognizing the symptoms and seeking medical help if the symptoms worsen.” Dr. Julia Retureta graduated from the University Central Del Caribe School of Medicine and completed her pediatrics residency at UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital. She works exclusively in the Pediatric Emergency Room at HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital. Should you suspect that your child needs emergency care for RSV, call the Consult-aNurse at 844-706-8773, also known as 844-70-NURSE.

62 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ The Food and Drug Administration last week approved an Alzheimer’s drug that slowed cognitive decline in a major study, offering patients desperately needed hope – even as doctors sharply debated the safety of the drug and whether it provides a significant benefit. The FDA said the drug, called lecanemab, is for patients with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia because of Alzheimer’s. The accelerated approval was based on a mid-stage trial that showed the treatment effectively removed a sticky protein called amyloid beta – considered a hallmark of the illness – from the brain. A larger trial, conducted more recently, found the drug, which will be sold under the brand name Leqembi, slowed the progression of Alzheimer’s disease by 27 percent. “This treatment option is the latest therapy to target and affect the underlying disease process of Alzheimer’s, instead of only treating the symptoms of the disease,” Billy Dunn, director of the FDA’s Office of Neuroscience, said in a statement. The approval followed a barrage of criticism endured by the FDA for its 2021 approval of Aduhelm, another amyloid-targeting drug that had been panned by the agency’s outside experts. Lecanemab is getting a warmer reception but disagreements remain. Many neurologists and advocates hailed lecanemab, given intravenously twice a month, as an important advance – one that follows years of failure involving Alzheimer’s drugs. They said the treatment will allow patients to stay longer in the milder stages of the fatal, neurodegenerative disorder, which afflicts more than 6 million people in the United States. “This is what the field has been pursuing for decades, a drug that can slow the course of this disease,” said Joshua D. Grill, an Alzheimer’s researcher at the University of California at Irvine. “It’s an important starting point.” But other experts are skeptical, saying the drug’s benefits are modest at best, not enough to outweigh concerns about swelling and bleeding in the brain. Those complications, which can range from minor to, in rare cases, extremely serious, are well-known side effects of antiamyloid treatments. Media reports about the deaths of three patients, potentially linked to the drug, have heightened concerns. “I would tell a patient, ‘In my opinion, the risks exceed the benefits, and it is not clear that it will markedly change your course,’” said Kenneth Covinsky, a geriatrician at the University of California at San Francisco. Shortly after the approval, Eisai, a Tokyo pharmaceutical firm that developed lecanemab with Biogen, a biotech company in Cambridge, Mass., said the price would be $26,500 a year. That’s higher than what some health-care experts said would make the medication cost effective, but less than half the initial price of $56,000 annually for Aduhelm, which was developed by the same two companies. The FDA decision was affected by unusual timing. The accelerated approval, which can be used for serious illnesses with few treatments, was based on a biomarker – amyloid removal – that is thought by the FDA to help patients. Typically, the agency requires that drugs receiving early approval be tested in another clinical trial to confirm they provide a clinical benefit to patients. That can take years. In lecanemab’s case, however, the confirmatory trial was wrapped up in November. The study, called Clarity, was the first completed latestage study in which a drug slowed the progression of Alzheimer’s. The debate over lecanemab underscores the complicated riskbenefit calculation for patients, said Holly Fernandez Lynch, a medical ethics expert at the University of Pennsylvania. “I think it would be reasonable for one patient to say, ‘This is a risk I am willing to take,’ and another to say, ‘I’m not willing to take this risk because I don’t think the benefit will be big enough,’” she said. Tony Gonzales, 48, a former radio personality who lives in Santa Maria, Calif., is eager to try the drug. “I am hoping that I will be one of the first to get lecanemab,” said Gonzales, who was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment three years ago after getting lost on his way to work. “Every day, I lose a little bit.” Following FDA approval, doctors can prescribe the drug, but patients will probably have to wait for widespread access. Medicare, as part of Alzheimer’s drug that slows cognitive decline gets FDA nod BY LAURIE MCGINLEY The Washington Post

Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 63 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ its review of Aduhelm, decided that it would cover any anti-amyloid drug approved on an expedited ba - sis only in clinical trials. In a statement, Chiquita BrooksLaSure, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servic - es, said CMS “will continue to ex - peditiously review the data on these products as they become available and are committed to timely ac - cess to treatments, including drugs, that improve clinically meaningful outcomes.” CMS added that it is ex - amining available information and may reconsider its coverage based on the review. Eisai said it plans to apply to the FDA for full approval shortly, using the Clarity trial data; many experts say a green light is assured. The process, which could take several months, should pave the way for broader Medicare coverage, though patient outcomes still might have to be tracked through registries. In the Clarity study, which in - volved 1,800 patients, participants’ health declined whether they received the treatment or a placebo, but the lecanemab group deteriorated 27 percent more slowly. At 18 months, those patients scored a half-point better than the placebo group on an 18-point dementia test involving memory, judgment and other areas, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. Some doctors say those effects are not large enough to be meaningful to patients and their families and may not even be noticed. But others argue that the treatment could allow some patients with the fatal disease to enjoy the birth of a grandchild or to live at home longer. “The effect sizes are modest, but they are there and they are consis - tent,” said Jason Karlawish, profes - sor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and co-director of the Penn Memory Center. He added that doctors would need to be cautious in selecting patients for the drug and in monitoring them. The most worrisome side effects – swelling and bleeding in the brain – occurred in about 20 percent of patients in the lecanemab group and 9 percent in the placebo group in the 18-month Clarity trial. The condition, which shows up on brain scans, is called ARIA, for amyloidrelated imaging abnormalities. Most patients did not have symp - toms, and the drug was not linked to any deaths in the 18-month trial, Eisai said. But in an extended portion of the trial – in which all participants were permitted to take the drug – three patients on lecanemab died in inci - dents potentially linked to the medi - cation, according to reports in med - ical news websites Science and Stat. One patient was also being treated with a blood thinner for atrial fibril - lation, according to the reports. An - other was a 65-year-old woman who arrived at a Chicago-area emergency room showing signs of a stroke. She was given tPA, an anti-clotting medication, and subsequently had massive brain bleeding and died. Doctors at the Northwestern Uni - versity Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago described that woman’s case in a letter to the editor pub - lished Wednesday in the New Eng - land Journal of Medicine. They said an autopsy showed the woman had a condition called cerebral amyloid angiopathy – extensive amyloid in the brain’s blood vessels – and sug - gested lecanemab may have con - tributed to her death. Some experts believe lecanemab’s stripping away of amyloid, combined with tPA, could have weakened the patient’s blood vessels. In a response in the same publica - tion, investigators who led the Clar - ity trial said they understand why the Chicago case generated concern but that tPA “appears to be the proximate cause of the death.” They said there have been cases in which people with the condition have ex - perienced brain hemorrhages when given tPA, even though they hadn’t received anti-amyloid drugs. In its prescribing information, the FDA did not say patients on bloodthinning drugs should avoid the new Alzheimer’s drug but did urge doctors to use extra caution in giv - ing anti-clotting medications to patients taking lecanemab. It also said that doctors, before prescribing lecanemab, should confirm that pa - tients have elevated amyloid levels in the brain. And they should monitor patients with regular MRI scans, the FDA said. Ivan Cheung, chairman and CEO of Eisai in the United States, said in an interview before the FDA ap - proval that the company remains “confident of the safety profile” of the drug – and that the benefits out - weigh the risks. Cheung said Eisai plans to offer a safety program designed to educate doctors about possible side effects. He also said Eisai will launch a “pa - tient support initiative” to answer questions about the drug and how to get it. Lecanemab is a monoclonal an - tibody, a man-made protein that binds to amyloid beta, marking it for destruction by the immune system. Even amid lingering questions, CONTINUED ON PAGE 64

64 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ lecanemab has gotten a much better reception than Aduhelm, largely because it achieved statistical success in a well-run trial. In addition, unlike with Aduhelm, Eisai – not Biogen – has taken the lead on lecanemab and appears determined to avoid some of the mistakes that dogged Aduhelm. The label, for example, said the drug is for earlystage patients, rather than any patient with Alzheimer’s, which was the initial Aduhelm indication. On the matter of price, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, a nonprofit that analyzes the value of drugs, said in a recent report that lecanemab should cost between $8,500 and $20,600 a year to be cost effective. The research group said the data on the drug appears to be “promising but inconclusive.” Cheung said the company calculated the societal value of the drug – including the patient’s quality of life and the burden on caregivers – at $37,000 annually, but lowered the price out of affordability concerns. Even so, at $26,500 a year, lecanemab would “be a significant hit” to Medicare, said Reshma Ramachandran, an assistant professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine. The real cost to consumers ultimately depends on whether Medicare and private insurance companies decide to cover lecanemab. In December, the Alzheimer’s Association submitted a formal request to CMS to reverse its policy restricting coverage for anti-amyloid treatments. It said the Clarity data showed that those therapies can be effective and should be made immediately available to patients with what is essentially a terminal disease. “We would hope that is quick and timely because time matters for a treatment that targets the early stage,” Joanne Pike, president of the organization, said. David S. Knopman, a neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said the ultimate value of lecanemab will be determined by a question the 18-month clinical trial could not answer: What happens to patients after 18 months? Does the therapeutic benefit grow, disappear or stay the same? If it increases, “that would be a real win,” Knopman said. If it fades, so will enthusiasm for the drug, he said. Subsequent trials and clinical use should provide the answer. If demand for lecanemab takes off, the logistics could be challenging – and especially difficult for individuals who do not have access to sophisticated health-care facilities. Experts warn that the United States has an inadequate system for diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s. Typically, doctors would determine whether patients have amyloid buildup by performing a spinal tap or ordering a specialized PET scan. But not all doctors perform spinal taps, and the scans are not routinely covered by Medicare, though CMS is reviewing its policy. Simple blood tests to detect amyloid are available but not yet in widespread use. In addition, there is a nationwide shortage of neurologists and geriatricians, as well as specialized equipment and facilities – a squeeze that is likely to get worse. By 2050, almost 13 million people in the United States are expected to have Alzheimer’s, unless medical treatments make a big impact, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. “The bottom line is that this is an inflection point in treating Alzheimer’s,” said Gil Rabinovici, a neurologist at the University of California at San Francisco. “The big picture is we are making progress.” HARBOR PRIMARY CARE 1300 36TH ST, STE 1G • VERO BEACH, FL 32960 Medical Arts Center West of Hospital Emergency Department PLEASE CALL 772-562-3960 FOR APPOINTMENT THET L. TUN M.D. Board Certified Internal Medicine • Accepts Medicare and Most Major Insurance Plans • Dr. Tun is an Active Member of the Medical Staff at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital since 2011 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 63

Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 65 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Helping Patients and Families Achieve Optimal Health and Wellness The Doctor is Always in! Bruce Murray, M.D. Board Certified “Country Doctor at Heart” Sandy Potter, R.N. With 45 Years of Caring We Still Have Space Available. Call us to schedule a visit! We would love to meet you. 772-226-6461 Murray Concierge Medicine 920 37th Place, Suite 103 Vero Beach, FL 32960 Old Fashioned Medical Care on the Treasure Coast Personalized Touch Direct Primary Care MurrayMedicine.com Q: I feel fine, but how do I really know if my heart is healthy? A: The amount of work the heart performs is mind-boggling. From birth until death, the heart beats nearly 3 billion times. Each heartbeat generates enough force to circulate blood through tens of thousands of miles of vessels. The amount of blood that passes through an average adult heart in a week could fill a backyard swimming pool. When things go wrong with this vital organ, the outcome is often fatal. Cardiovascular disease claims 18 million lives – nearly one-third of all deaths – across the globe each year. The good news is there are things we can do to keep our hearts healthy and working well. Much of what we have learned about how to prevent heart disease comes from a study started in a small town in Massachusetts shortly after World War II. At the start of the Framingham Heart Study, researchers monitored approximately 5,000 healthy, mostly White patients between the ages of 30 and 59. The Framingham study identified key risk factors for heart disease – family history, smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension. And a later, 12-year study of 20,000 Swedish men showed that almost 4 out of 5 heart attacks could be prevented through Framingham-inspired lifestyle changes, such as a healthy diet, moderate alcohol consumption, no smoking, increased physical activity, and maintaining a normal body weight. Men who adopted all 5 changes were 86 percent less likely to have a heart attack than those who did not. If you want to check your heart health before embarking on lifestyle changes or while working toward a healthier lifestyle, there are effective tests that can diagnose the condition of this remarkable muscle. They include: Blood test for Lipoprotein(a): Lipoprotein(a) is a cholesterol-carrying molecule. A high serum concentration of lipoprotein(a), which can be measured on a standard blood test, is associated with more than double the normal risk of developing coronary artery disease or stroke. Other novel risk markers may include smaller and denser cholesterol particles that are more prone to causing arterial hardening. C-reactive protein or CRP: This blood test looks for elevated levels of C-reactive protein, which go up with inflammation. Coronary calcium scan: This CT scan can assess the degree of coronary calcium, a marker of arterial hardening. An elevated calcium “score” is predictive of cardiac events, such as heart attacks, irrespective of other cardiac risk factors. The lower the score, the better. A calcium score of 0 means there is no evidence of heart disease, and a score from 1 to 10 suggests minimal evidence of disease. A score of 100 or more is associated with elevated risk of heart attack. Patients with an elevated score on any of these tests may be prescribed a drug called a statin, which can lower cholesterol, reduce inflammation and has been shown to lower risk for heart attack or stroke. Treadmill: Some cardiologists still use a treadmill stress test to proactively evaluate risk, and the test can have value, but such tests typically only detect coronary blockages greater than 70 percent, which are unlikely to be present in patients who don’t have chest pains. It’s also important to monitor your mental and emotional condition. A number of cardiovascular risk factors are in the “psychosocial” domain, and a massive amount of epidemiological data associates heart disease with chronic emotional disorder. How does depression affect heart health? Possible mechanisms include elevating blood pressure, causing vascular inflammation, and increasing blood clotting. Unhealthy behaviors associated with depression, such as physical inactivity, smoking, and failure to take medications or adhere to medical advice, also probably play a role. It has been easier to focus on blood pressure and cholesterol as cardiovascular risk factors, in part because those factors are so much easier to reduce than emotional and social disruption. But we must keep psychosocial factors front and center in how we think about heart problems. It is increasingly clear that heart disease is inextricably linked to the state of our neighborhoods, jobs, families and minds. How do I know if my heart is healthy? BY SANDEEP JAUHAR, MD The Washington Post

66 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Ever since I was a doctor fresh out of residency, I have prescribed food to my patients to prevent and treat chronic health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease. But health insurance had never covered the cost of a healthy meal, which means some patients cannot afford the healthy diet I’ve given them. That has recently changed in California and a handful of other states, where Medicaid now covers some food targeting patients with diet-related conditions. As a result, I now prescribe “Medically Supportive Food,” or MSF, for some patients – a weekly bag of groceries, or up to three daily meals – paid for by insurance as if it were a medication. This move to embrace “food as medicine” is bolstered by research showing that food prescriptions by medical professionals can cut healthcare costs and improve well-being, especially for those who do not have the resources to access healthy food. FOOD AS MEDICINE? IT’S NOT AS SIMPLE AS IT SOUNDS BY DAPHNE MILLER The Washington Post

Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 67 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ In a recent study, researchers estimated that offering a nationwide “medically tailored meal” benefit to individuals with such conditions as heart disease, cancer and diabetes could save $185.1 billion in medical costs and avert more than 18 million hospitalizations over a 10-year period. For those who see food as an integral part of healing, this is a monumental step forward. But prescribing food is not as straightforward as it sounds. Food is more complex than any pill. This makes it difficult for doctors and patients to know which medically tailored foods are the best medicine and which suppliers can best deliver these edible therapies. Food is not a pill First, there’s a real challenge in identifying which suppliers provide the most nutritious food. A pharmaceutical drug, whether it is generic or brand name, has a near-identical makeup regardless of who makes it. But food varies dramatically in nutrient content depending on seed, season, farming and processing method, and how long it was stored before it was eaten. Combine foods to make a meal and the nutrient variability gets even greater. The lack of standardization made it hard, for instance, for Dennis Hsieh, a physician and chief medical officer of the Contra Costa Health Plan based in California, to choose among the food vendors bidding to fill the food prescriptions for his plan’s enrollees. Hsieh has extensive experience contracting with medical supply companies for drugs and other health-care products, but this is his first foray into the food sector. He said he received little guidance from California’s Department of Health Care Services about what he should be buying. Its policy guide merely suggests he offer “appropriate dietary therapies based on evidence-based nutritional practice guidelines.” “At the end of the day, my basic criteria [for vendors] is that they get healthy food to patients and that they are not giving them McDonald’s and charging us for it,” he said. Ultimately, Hsieh contracted with six vendors. He said he hopes these vendors will offer meals and groceries that reproduce the cost savings and health benefits of the “food is medicine” studies, but he doesn’t “have the experience” to judge which vendors will accomplish this. Michelle Kuppich, a registered dietitian and director of the California Food Is Medicine Coalition, is also concerned about the quality of some of the food entering this growing medical marketplace. “There are many new companies coming into this space because there is money involved and people want the health-care dollars,” Kuppich said. She said she suspects that some of them “started off selling prepared meals for weight loss and then rebranded.” Kuppich has found it challenging to get information about the nutritional value of some of the food being sold. “There is a lack of transparency in terms of ingredients,” she said. Some of the vendors are offering food that is just as ultra-processed as fast-food meals that Hsieh hopes to avoid. Ultra-processed foods have been linked with chronic diseases and a higher risk of early death. For example, GA Foods, a Floridabased vendor of medically supportive food, offers over 50 “nutritionally balanced” meals that contain additives, including corn syrup and other sweeteners, food coloring, flavor additives, hydrolyzed protein and preservatives. “We follow guidelines from the top CONTINUED ON PAGE 68

68 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ organizations around each disease state and update guidelines as they are released,” said Mary O’Hara, senior marketing manager for GA Foods. “Our medically tailored meal portfolio continuously evolves to meet patient needs and new innovations around health and wellness.” And Tracy Smith, vice president of marketing for Mom’s Meals, an Iowabased company that serves over a million meals per week nationwide, said some of their meals include a micronutrient blend of magnesium, zinc, iron, calcium, and vitamins C, B1 and B6 to “ensure that the meal fully meets one-third of a person’s Dietary Reference Intake. We do that instead of including additional servings of food that would then take that meal above recommended calories, sodium or carbohydrates per serving, for example.” Fortifying foods with vitamins and minerals can prevent anemia and other diseases linked to deficiencies of specific nutrients, but it cannot reproduce the more complete nutrition offered in a whole food. A carrot, for example, has all the nutrients in a Mom’s Meals blend, plus dozens of additional disease-fighting compounds, which work together to influence our health. Cathryn Couch, founder and chief executive of Ceres Community Project, a nonprofit MSF supplier based in Sonoma County, Calif., said, “We use high-quality, nutrient-dense food and we don’t need to add anything to meet the nutrient requirements for our clients.” Couch said sourcing food regionally and limiting storage and transit time helps ensure higher nutritional quality. (It also can help support the local economy and diminish the environmental footprint.) Taste matters Healthcare providers also face a challenge of identifying which vendors offer food that appeals to the taste buds – and the soul. “None of these food interventions work if the people don’t want to eat the food,” said Seth Berkowitz, a researcher who led some food is medicine pilot studies and is now an associate professor in general medicine and clinical epidemiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He described food as offering gastronomic pleasure, cultural connection and family memories. Berkowitz said national vendors offer “an economy of scale” that keeps costs down, but the pilot studies he was involved with in Boston that showed positive results had received their food from a nonprofit group that says it serves “scratch-made” meals and buys from local farmers. “Mission-driven organizations may offer benefits,” Berkowitz said. “It remains to be seen whether the secret sauce that made those small efforts work can be scaled.” Nutrition and lifestyle coaching Beyond supplying food, MSF vendors in California are expected to offer nutrition and lifestyle coaching to their clients, since research shows that coupling food assistance with education is more likely to promote healthy eating patterns. As with the food, these services vary. Some vendors give enrollees access to a brief nutrition consultation or a healthy eating app, while others provide real-time cooking and shopping classes. “The number one thing I hear from our clients is ‘I learned how to use a knife,’” said Sarah Nelson, executive director of 18 Reasons, an MSF provider in the San Francisco Bay area. She has discovered that her clients are more likely to try new vegetables if they are given a recipe and practice prepping them in a group setting. “Nutrition education and counseling is as important as the food, so that people can prepare healthy meals once their prescription ends,” Kuppich said. How it works in a doctor’s office Recently, I wrote a food prescription for a 50-year-old woman with poorly controlled Type 2 diabetes. She was enrolled in MediCal, California’s health insurance program for children and adults with limited income and resources. I tried my best to direct her to the vendor that would deliver the tastiest, most nutrient-dense, culturally relevant food. But even with my nutrition know-how, I found it challenging to figure out which one that might be. She ultimately chose a nonprofit group that sources most of its food locally and delivered meals to her doorstep. Two months into her prescription, her blood sugars improved, and I called her to give her the good news. I asked her what she thought of the meals. “They are so nice, it is really good to see them,” she said. It took me a moment to realize she was referring to the delivery person, not the food. Her comment left me wondering what had produced the positive change in blood sugar. Was it the food? The social connection? Both? Regardless, it was a bracing reminder that food is not a pill, it’s a much more complicated medicine. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 67

Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 69 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Q. I get low blood pressure after I eat a meal. It makes me a little woozy. What can I do about it? A. This is a senior malady called “postprandial hypotension.” When you eat, blood pours into your digestive system. To maintain your blood pressure, your heart pumps more often and your blood vessels constrict. But these compensatory mechanisms don’t work for some people. To help prevent postprandial hypotension, eat small portions several times a day and limit high-carbohydrate foods such as potatoes, rice, pasta and bread. In many instances, low blood pressure isn’t serious. However, it is important to see your doctor if you have hypotension symptoms, because they sometimes can point to serious problems. Chronic low blood pressure may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s-type dementia in some older adults. Q. Does bursitis get worse with age? A. Yes. Bursitis is inflammation of a bursa, which is a small sac filled with fluid. We each have about 160 of these bursae, which act as shock absorbers and grease for our joints. They are buffers between bones and overlapping muscles or between bones and tendons/skin. When bursae become inflamed, they can ache. While repetitive motions are the usual culprits in bursitis, simple pressure can cause inflammation, too. A couple of examples: Pushing a vacuum cleaner can give you bursitis in your elbow. But sitting on a hard surface for a long time can inflame the bursa over a bone in your buttocks. You can usually take care of bursitis yourself. Rest the affected joint. An ice pack will reduce swelling. To reduce pain and inflammation, take a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) such as ibuprofen or aspirin. It usually takes a week or so for bursitis to go away. You should go to your doctor if the symptoms don’t subside after 10 days; you have a fever; there’s excessive swelling, redness, bruising or a rash in the affected area; pain is sharp, shooting or disabling; you have a medical condition or you take drugs that may increase your risk of an infection. Q. I am a senior who is afraid that my infirmities make me a target for dogs. Am I being paranoid? What should I do when confronted by a dog? A. Seniors are bitten by dogs more than any other group except children. Older people are more prone to being bitten by an aggressive dog because they tend to be slower and weaker than younger adults. Here are some tips from the experts on how to avoid being attacked by a dog: Don’t look a dog straight in the eye. This is provocative. Do not run away from or past a dog. This can make them aggressive and want to chase you. Never go up to a dog you don’t know and try to get friendly, especially if the dog is behind a fence, tethered or in a parked car. If an unfamiliar dog comes up to you, stand still. Most of the time, the dog will sniff you and then walk away. Never bother a dog that is eating or sleeping. And stay away from a mother tending to her litter. If you’re threatened by a dog, don’t yell. Respond calmly. In a commanding voice, tell the dog to go away. Try to stay still until the dog leaves, or back away slowly. If you are attacked, give the dog an object, such as a jacket or tote to bite. If you are knocked down, roll yourself into a ball and lie still. Cover your head and face with your hands. BY FRED CICETTI Columnist Addressing low blood pressure, bursitis ... and dog bites

70 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Style By giving his daughter control of Dior, Bernard Arnault may have begun the contest to see which child takes his place as head of LVMH. “I’m not sure ambitious is the right word,” the billionaire Bernard Arnault told the Telegraph’s Celia Walden back in 2015 when quizzed about his current levels of drive. “What I love is to win. What I love is being number one.” He’s certainly achieved that, as head of LVMH, who controls major luxury brands from Moët to Louis Vuitton. In December, he knocked Elon Musk off the world’s richest man spot. This week, Arnault, 73, gave every indication that he had just sounded the starting pistol on the world’s most glamorous and potentially most fraught contest to see which of his five children will succeed him to become the next number one. He appointed his daughter Delphine, 47, the new CEO of Dior, the most beloved of all his many prestigious trinkets. While the Arnaults all have far too much self-control for there ever to be visible blood on the Aubusson, what Arnault has done, explains Luca Solca, an analyst at investment firm Bernstein, is create a “Darwinian contest” among his children. Far from openly indicating that he’s about to retire from LVMH, the conglomerate he founded in 1987, Arnault recently had the rules at LVMH changed so that its CEO can work until they’re 80. Slim, tall (over 6 feet) and a keen tennis player (for his 65th birthday his children organized a surprise match between him and Roger Federer – Arnault scored a few points), he appears healthy and so far shows no signs of slowing down. Still, every measured strategist has a moral responsibility to plan their eventual succession. And this one will be quite the battle. At stake is a maze of some of the world’s most luxurious brands – Dior, Louis Vuitton, Celine, Givenchy, Tiffany, Loro Piana, Moët et Chandon – and an empire recently valued at $390billion. Arnault has frequently been dubbed “the wolf in cashmere,” partly for his pale blue, constantly vigilant, lupine eyes and glide-y manner, and wholly for his seemingly imperturbable demeanor and implacable ruthlessness. His daughter, Delphine, is inscrutable but what is certain is that this latest move is big. Her next in line, darkly handsome brother Antoine, 45 (married to Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova), has been appointed vicechairman and CEO of Christian Dior SE (the holding company through which the family controls LVMH). Forget the Roys of HBO’s darkly comic “Succession.” There are only four children involved there and at World’s richest dynasty is at stake: Who will take control? BY LISA ARMSTRONG The Telegraph Bernard Arnault (center) with his children Delphine and Antoine.

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 71 Style least one of them is a flake. Banish thoughts also of the Murdoch media dynasty that allegedly inspired “Succession.” The Arnault patriarch Bernard, born into an affluent family with a solid construction business, has painstakingly constructed an empire and a dynasty more glamorous and far, far richer than anything conjured up by Murdoch, Musk or the fictitious Roy. His house, an 18thcentury neoclassical 12-bedroom pile, not far from the Arc de Triomphe in the 8th arrondissement, has, for Paris, almost unimaginably large grounds. Rupert Murdoch’s personal fortune of $17.3billion is almost pathetically weedy compared with Bernard’s $203billion stash. And yet there are echoes… Logan Roy, the thuggish patriarch of “Succession,” enjoys nothing more than pitting his deeply disturbed offspring against one another. Arnault, meanwhile, has all five of his children from two marriages working in the various tentacles of his empire. Delphine Arnault, from his first marriage to Anne Dewavrin, is poised and elegant with creamy hair. She has her father’s arrestingly light eyes as well as his height. She’s just under 6 feet tall and her first marriage to Alessandro Vallarino Gancia, heir to an Italian wine fortune, in 2005 was a major event. The bride wore a dress designed by John Galliano, who worked for her father at Dior, and Karl Lagerfeld, who worked for Arnault at Fendi, took the photos. Like Shiv Roy in “Succession,” she is also smart. These days her partner is Xavier Niel, a French tech billionaire with whom she has two children. She’s fluent in English, having studied in the U.S. and at the London School of Economics, and she graduated to McKinsey’s before working for her father at Louis Vuitton and Dior. Perhaps in an unconscious compliment to her father, Delphine tends to wear monochromatic, pared-back tailoring (usually from Dior) and sits beside him in the front row at shows with the same impassive inscrutability. Not surly or snarling, but not what you’d call approachable. Antoine is more twinkly – and less averse to posing on the red carpet. If Delphine’s motto is “live hidden, live happy,”,Antoine, in his bachelor days, relished the title of playboy. While he was working at Louis Vuitton, he masterminded the A++ celebrity campaign in 2007 that starred, inter alia, Keith Richards, Catherine Deneuve, Pele, Maradona, Muhammad Ali and Mikhail Gorbachev. He also served as CEO of Berluti (from 2011), boosting growth from around $45million to $130million a year in sales. Impressive, but is it enough to overtake his big sister? There are three other Arnault claimants, from Bernard’s second marriage to Canadian classical pianist Hélène Mercier, 62, whom he married in 1991 – all of them with the same wide noses and long, ascetic faces of their father and elder siblings. Alexandre, 30, is head of products and communication at Tiffany & Co., previously CEO and president of Rimowa after the upmarket German luggage brand was acquired by LVMH in 2017. Frédéric, 28, is currently chief executive of Tag Heuer. Jean, 24, is head of marketing and product development for Louis Vuitton’s watches division. Talk about keeping it en famille. But far from being merely nepo-babies, as Gen Z might describe them, this lot are all highly accomplished, academic, sporty and musical. Arnault is far too astute to entrust the conglomerate he has assiduously constructed over four decades to a bunch of second raters. And make no mistake: What he has done since 1987 has changed the meaning and worth of luxury beyond recognition. Hunting down illustrious family names, such as the Rome-based Fendi and Madrid-based Loewe, and building them into much bigger businesses, he turned high-end fashion, beauty and watches into a mega industry. The secret of his success, says Solca, was the invention of a paradox: “selling exclusivity by the million.” There has, inevitably, been collateral human damage. As he moved his designers across his ever-expanding chess board, there were collisions and disappearances. Arnault’s designers live like emperors while in his favour – he cannot be accused of undervaluing creativity – but the shadows are a very cold place. A photograph from the 1990s showing Arnault with his three biggest stars at the time says it all. John Galliano flamed out spectacularly in 2011 after 15 years. Alexander McQueen, who worked for Arnault at Givenchy for five years and never got the praise he sought, fled back to London where he committed suicide in 2010. Marc Jacobs, in his 16 years as creative director of Louis Vuitton, periodically vanished into rehab. All were replaced and at Givenchy and Dior, their replacements were replaced. In Arnault’s fashion paradigm no one is indispensable forever.

72 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Style The house’s new menswear collection in Milan marked a departure from former designer Alessandro Michele’s playful razzmatazz. You might not own any Gucci, and you might not be aware of recent reshuffles within its court of kings, but chances are the house’s effect on men’s wardrobes has entered your sphere somehow. Be it a teenage son who’s donning pearl necklaces or in the proliferation of ’70s silhouettes on the high street, the effect of Gucci thanks to its designer Alessandro Michele has shifted the axis of men’s dressing, even if you didn’t know it. Profits soared under the flowing haired, messianic Michele – who was installed in the top job by FrancoisSkirts, blouses and spangles – how Gucci shook up the average man’s wardrobe BY STEPHEN DOIG The Telegraph Alessandro Michele

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 73 Style Henri Pinault in 2015 – and his maximalist, retro, playful aesthetic became the style signature of Harry Styles, Jared Leto and Elton John. All of which made his abrupt departure back in November all the more surprising. Had the Michele magic lost its luster? Anyone expecting a grand finale from the designer will be disappointed to learn that Gucci’s latest collection, which kicked off men’s fashion week in Milan last Friday, was designed by an in-house team in the wake of Michele’s exit – and the first model, clad in a white T-shirt, beanie and khaki trousers, was a statement of low key intent. There was still a sprinkling of Michele’s trademark fairy dust and whimsy, but the collection was more tempered in tone. Yes, there were spangles in the form of metallic silver biker trousers, sequined dinner jackets and a coat rippling with pearlescent paillettes, but the OTT-ness of Guccigone-by was much less prevalent. Instead, flared jeans, narrow jackets and crisp trench coats spoke to a more streamlined kind of guy. Michele could do downplayed too, but this new direction felt more clean and unfettered. Cartoon emblems out, crisp shirts in. It might not be as joyful, but in uncertain financial terrain it’s probably a safe bet; rumor has it that Pinault wants to steer the house into the timeless luxury sphere of Hermès or Chanel instead of the high voltage theatrics it’s been known for. “It’s a real change,” said actor Idris Elba, who attended the show alongside Nick Cave, wearing a bold turquoise suit. “The silhouettes were different and unusual, in a good way. It’s a real step in a different direction,” he said. That may be the case, but chances are owner Pinault doesn’t want too dramatic a sea change while he shops for a new designer to run the house; he’s still weathering the Balenciaga child pornography scandal, the French house being the other star gem in his firmament. There were still some of the recent Gucci staples – the ’70s aesthetic, for example, and the fondness for British tweedy fabrics and rugby shirts – to keep a sense of calm continuity. But the narrower silhouettes, via lean trousers contrasted with boxy blazers, and the grungy sportswear and ski jackets were a definite shift on from the Michelle loucheness and razzmatazz. Whether it will have the same effect on men’s wardrobes, time will tell.

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SPACIOUS ORCHID ISLE ESTATES HOME OVERLOOKS CONSERVATION AREA 8625 Seacrest Dr. in Orchid Isle Estates: 4-bedroom, 4-bath, 4,800-square-foot, two-story, waterfront home offered for $1,750,000 by Kimberly Keithahn, AMAC Alex MacWilliam Real Estate: 772-321-4656

REAL ESTATE 80 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ “It’s all about the view and abundant wildlife,” says AMAC Alex MacWilliam Real Estate agent Kimberly Keithahn, pointing to an unobstructed western view that will never change because the property on the opposite side of the river is protected, adding depth to the tranquil setting of the home at 8625 Seacrest Dr. “On this side of the island, you can boat, paddleboard and kayak,” she adds. The solidly built four-bedroom, four-bath, 4,800-square-foot, twostory, waterfront house in Orchid Isle Estates is set back from the street, providing a measure of privacy. An expansive lawn borders the driveway, stopping just short of the house where a substantial motor court provides ample parking and access to the two-car, side-entry garage The house is move-in ready with new carpeting, repainted interior, and updated plumbing and electricity, according to Keithahn. Spacious Orchid Isle Estates home overlooks conservation area BY STEPHANIE LABAFF Staff Writer

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 81 At 4,800 square feet, it is a large house but there is plenty of room for it on the .61-acre lot, a factor that Keithahn says is unique to the neighborhood. All the homes are on at least a half-acre, allowing for a comfortable distance between houses and giving everyone room to breathe. The front door opens into a grand, two-story, light-filled foyer. Here, a full bath, available for guests needing to rinse off after a swim, sits opposite the wooden staircase that leads to the second floor. A guest suite is conveniently located to the left of the front entry. A glass-block shower in the guest bath is a nice touch, letting in ample light. These rooms would also work well as a primary, first-floor suite for someone with an elderly family member who might have difficulty navigating the stairs. A laundry room, garage access and the formal living room are on the opposite side of the foyer. The communal spaces are all located across the back of the house. The family room features a lovely stone wall with a wood-burning fireplace at the center. Its proximity to the kitchen allows guests to chat with the chef du jour or enjoy the eat-in breakfast nook, with all three rooms overlooking the

REAL ESTATE 82 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ pool and spectacular river view. “There are beautiful views no matter where you are,” notes Keithahn. “The house is filled with windows that let in lots of light.” Anyone working in the kitchen can keep an eye on the children playing in the pool, with the tranquil river as a backdrop. The dining room sits between the kitchen and the living room, allowing for more formal gatherings. The upstairs primary suite and two additional second-floor bedrooms sharing a Jack and Jill bathroom provide the family an added measure of privacy. The two bedrooms in the northern wing bask in either sunrise or sunset views with built-ins in the front bedroom and access to the riverside balcony in the rear bedroom. The large landing at the top of the stairs overlooks the foyer and is a perfect spot for a reading area, office space, playroom or secondary seating area. Boasting sunrise and sunset balconies and a walk-in closet, the primary suite encompasses the southern wing of the second floor. It’s spacious, but the ornate, marble-faced, woodburning fireplace keeps things cozy. In the primary bath, a water closet, dual sinks, shower and soaking tub that overlooks the river complete the owner’s private sanctuary. Outside, the screened pool area is an extension of the house with covered spaces for dining and lounging and a generous pool deck that allows plenty of room to soak up the Florida sunshine. Beyond the pool, a vast green space beckons the family to play lawn games before ending at the mangroves at the river’s edge. The recently updated dock cuts a swath through the mangroves where you can sit and watch the sunset or take off in your boat, kayak or paddleboard for a day of fun along the river. “With the streets being so oak draped, it’s a magical place,” notes Keithahn. “The quiet neighborhood has a sunrise and a sunset community dock.” A 5-mile trail at the back of the neighborhood is a beautiful place to walk or ride your mountain bike, keeping an eye out for the abundant wildlife. Orchid Island Estates is “tucked away, and nearly everyone lives on

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 83 the water, which makes for a different lifestyle,” says Keithahn. A bonus, adds Keithahn, is that with Grand Harbor recently opening to public membership, residents of Orchid Isle Estates can join and then access the Grand Harbor Beach Club for oceanfront fun. Nearby Wabasso public beach at the end of 510 is another nearby swimming, surfing, sunbathing option. Orchid Isle Estates is a private, gated community located on Pine Island in the middle of the Indian River Lagoon. Located conveniently off the Wabasso Causeway, surrounded by a nature preserve, the 300-acre subdivision has just over 80 homes. It is located close to the Environmental Learning Center, Sebastian Inlet and the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, adding to the area’s natural allure. It is short drive away from Vero’s famous island village, the Sebastian working waterfront, the downtown gallery and restaurant district, and Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital. VITAL STATISTICS Neighborhood: Orchid Isle Estates Year built: 1994 Construction: Concrete block Lot size: 275 feet by 97 feet Home size: 4,800 square feet Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 4 Views: Expansive river vistas Additional features: Gated community; screened in swimming pool; two wood-burning fireplaces; crown molding; island kitchen; double oven; cooktop; Sub-Zero, paneled refrigerator; reverse osmosis water filter; walk-in closets; soaking tub; under-stair storage; large laundry room with built-in ironing board; sunrise and sunset balconies; two-car garage with hurricane braces; screen enclo- sure; shutters; and dock Listing agency: AMAC Alex MacWilliam Real Estate Listing agent: Kimberly Keithahn, 772-321-4656 Listing price: $1,750,000 8625 SEACREST DR.

REAL ESTATE 84 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ There’s a new twist in the fastmoving housing market with welcome news for renters: After an 18-month period of red-hot rent growth, the apartment market has cooled over the past few months. It’s another area of the economy that’s in the process of unwinding after experiencing an unsustainable boom in activity and price growth during the pandemic. And that’s good news for everyone (unless you’re a landlord). There was evidence a couple months ago as pricing began to moderate that something was changing in the rental market. At the time it was hard to tell whether this was just normalization after a period of elevated growth, or if normalization would give way to weakness. Two months later it’s clear that we’re seeing sluggishness rather than just the softness you would expect at a seasonally slower time of the year. Three years prior to the pandemic, in 2017 through 2019, apartment rents fell an average of 1.3 percent between September and November, according to Apartment List, a nationwide platform for rental listings. Last year, average rents actually rose by 2.7 percent during that three month period, reflecting the historically strong year for the rental market. But in a sharp reversal, this year rents fell by 2.2 percent during September, October and November – much weaker than we saw even prior to the pandemic. That raises the possibility that we might not see any rent growth at all next year as the market tries to find balance. On top of falling rents, vacancies are surging, albeit from historically low levels. In the Apartment List data, the vacancy rate has increased to 5.7 percent from 4.1 percent over the past year, with the biggest jumps coming over the past few months. This is still below the 6.7 percent average seen in 2017-2019, but we should expect it to rise in coming months as winter tends to be a slow time for leases. This shift in the rental market is likely going to come as a shock to both tenants and landlords. We’re used to boom-bust cycles in lots of things – oil, automobiles the purchase market for homes – but apartment rentals aren’t typically like that, particularly when we haven’t yet seen a meaningful change in the labor market. That gets to unique dynamics related to the pandemic that we haven’t seen in living memory. A public health emergency led lots of people to make different living decisions in 2020, and that led to a surge in new leases beyond what employment or population growth would have suggested. In response, landlords raised rents aggressively because we didn’t get a corresponding increase in rental supply. But as the public health emergency passed – and price shocks have rattled prospective renters – people are once again making different living decisions. This time that’s translating to a far weaker-than-expected rental market over at least the next few quarters. If you’re a renter, needless to say, this is great news. In 2021 rents rose much faster than incomes, squeezing household budgets. That’s no longer the case. In growing numbers After 18 months of pain, renters are finally catching a break BY CONOR SEN Bloomberg

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 85 of metropolitan areas wages are rising faster than rents, which should relieve some of those budgetary pressures and perhaps provide a boost to the fortunes of retailers as tenants have extra money to spend. It also raises the possibility that inflation will normalize faster than expected in 2023 given the importance of housing costs in the inflation data. There’s a lag between changes in market rents and what gets reported in the Consumer Price Index report, but the softening we’ve seen over the past few months should show up in the inflation data in months to come. The fascinating dynamic in the economy at the moment is that while people have been focused on how much higher interest rates will slow down the economy, between falling gasoline prices, supply chain healing in the automobile sector and now the sharp deceleration in the rental market, consumers are getting relief on multiple fronts simultaneously. These should help keep the economy afloat well into 2023.

REAL ESTATE 86 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ The Federal Reserve is on track to downshift to smaller interest-rate increases following a further cooling in inflation, though it’s likely to keep hiking until price pressures show more definitive signs of slowing. Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker, speaking last Thursday morning shortly after the Labor Department’s release of consumer price data, said rate hikes of a quarter-percentage point “will be appropriate going forward,” following bigger increases throughout most of 2022. Harker’s comments echoed remarks a day earlier from Susan Collins, his counterpart at the Boston Fed. Consumer prices rose 6.5 percent in the 12 months through December, marking the slowest inflation rate in more than a year. So-called core inflation, which excludes food and energy, was up 5.7 percent over the same period, the smallest advance in a year. Both figures matched median forecasts. “The trend in services inflation seems to be abating. That’s what the Fed will be looking at in today’s report,” said Thomas Costerg, a senior U.S. economist at Pictet Wealth Management in Geneva, Switzerland. “At the margin, this means an increased probability of a 25-basis-point rate hike on Feb. 1.” Investors seized on the numbers as a sign that the Fed would dial down the pace of its tightening campaign, which ramped into high gear last year amid the fastest inflation in four decades. The message of moderation was later reinforced by Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin, who told a bankers conference that “it makes sense to steer more deliberately as we work to bring inflation down.” On the other hand, his St. Louis colleague James Bullard separately said that he continued to favor front-loading policy moves to get rates above 5 percent “as soon as possible.” With the central bank’s benchmark rate now at 4.3 percent market participants expect a quarter-point rate hike at the Jan. 31-Feb. 1 meeting. And traders have also started to price in a small possibility that the Fed will forego a rate hike in March. Swaps shifted to show less than 50 basis points of tightening priced in across the next two meetings. While moderating inflation paves the way for a slower pace of rate increases in 2023, the market’s expectation of rate cuts later in the year is still at odds with Fed guidance. Policymakers have emphasized the need to hold rates at an elevated level for quite some time and cautioned against underestimating their will to do so. The outlook for interest rates probably hinges on developments in services prices in particular, a category Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues have homed in on in recent months. Officials have voiced concern that elevated wage growth will feed into prices in the services sector, keeping inflation there elevated until the labor market softens. So far, there are few signs of such weakness. A separate Labor Department report showed applications for unemployment benefits remained at a historically low level last week. The latest monthly jobs report showed some cooling in wage growth in December, but hiring was still robust and the unemployment rate fell to match a fivedecade low. Stripping out energy, rent and owners’ equivalent rent, services prices were up 0.3 percent last month, according to Bloomberg calculations. Removing medical care as well – an adjustment that helps offset a quirk in the CPI’s calculation of health insurance – services prices were up by a similar amount. Fed on track for rate-hike downshift after cool inflation data BY MATTHEW BOESLER, READE PICKERT AND JONNELLE MARTE Bloomberg

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 87 Q: My mother-in-law passed away more than 25 years ago. Her son, his wife and their children lived in the house. They still live there, maintain the home and pay the taxes. A probate estate was never opened when Mom passed away, as she didn’t have anything of value and lived with us. The only thing she owned was the house. My husband and his brother are the only children left. How can they get the deed changed to their names? Both sons are in their mid-70s now. They are worried as to what will happen to the property when they pass away. A: They are right to be worried. They’re 25 years late in taking care of this issue. Even though it’s been “business as usual” for your husband and his brother, they really must take action as soon as possible. In the best case, your husband and his brother can sign paperwork as the sole survivors of your mother’s estate. If that’s the case, they would be the only ones to inherit the property. Having said that, you didn’t mention anything about your fatherin-law. Is he still living? If he is, he may have some ownership rights to the home. And, if she died first and he passed afterward, we hope that his only children are your husband and his brother. You also mention that they are “the only children left.” Were there other siblings alive when your mother-inlaw passed away? Did they have children? If so, those grandchildren may have ownership rights to the property. The real question is: What does everybody want to do with the house? Do both siblings agree that the home should go to the brother that lives in the house with his kids? Do the brothers feel as though they own equal shares of the property? For each of these questions, there are different answers and, to some extent, those answers may differ from state to state. However, your husband and his brother would be wise to sit down with a probate attorney or a real estate attorney and look at their options. Let’s say that everyone agrees the property should wind up with the brother that lives in the home. In some states, your husband may be able to convey his ownership in the home to his brother by deed as the sole surviving heirs of your late mother-in-law. But the process may require some additional paperwork and the assistance of a title company. We think that many attorneys may recommend that you open up a probate case. This would officially transfer ownership of the home from your late mother-in-law’s name into the name of each brother or into the name of the brother who lives in the property. While probate can be expensive, you may find an attorney willing to help in this situation for a Sitting on an estate after a loved one dies adds complications BY ILYCE GLINK AND SAMUEL J. TAMKIN Tribune CONTINUED ON PAGE 90

REAL ESTATE 88 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCES AND LOTS SUBDIVISION ADDRESS LISTED ORIGINAL MOST RECENT SOLD SELLING ASKING PRICE ASKING PRICE PRICE RIOMAR 1807 OCEAN DR 4/29/2022 $3,900,000 $3,900,000 1/9/2023 $3,275,000 VERO BEACH ESTATES 816 CYPRESS RD 6/7/2022 $1,600,000 $1,500,000 1/12/2023 $1,140,000 VEROMAR 545 DATE PALM RD 10/19/2022 $1,095,000 $1,095,000 1/12/2023 $975,000 HARBOUR SIDE WEST 1815 MOORINGLINE DR, #PH-B 11/18/2022 $595,000 $595,000 1/6/2023 $595,000 ROBLES DEL MAR 5601 HIGHWAY A1A, #N306 11/28/2022 $375,000 $375,000 1/6/2023 $388,000 TOWNHOMES, VILLAS, CONDOS, MULTIFAMILY AND INVESTMENT Real Estate Sales on the Barrier Island: Jan. 5 to Jan. 12 The first full week of 2023 saw real estate activity on the barrier island off to a slow start with five transactions recorded, two of them for more than $1 million. The top sale of the week was of a Riomar building site directly across from the ocean and neighborhood beach access. The property at 1807 Ocean Drive was listed on April 29, 2022 for $3.9 million. The sale closed on Jan. 9 for $3.275 million. Both the seller and the purchaser in the transaction were represented by Matilde Sorensen of Dale Sorensen Real Estate.

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 89 Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales. Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: 11/18/2022 $595,000 $595,000 1/6/2023 $595,000 Daina Bertrand The Moorings Realty Sales Co. Daina Bertrand The Moorings Realty Sales Co. Subdivision: Harbour Side West, Address: 1815 Mooringline Dr, #PH-B 11/28/2022 $375,000 $375,000 1/6/2023 $388,000 Kimberly Keithahn Alex MacWilliam, Inc. David Walsh Century 21 Affiliated II Subdivision: Robles Del Mar, Address: 5601 Highway A1A, #N306 6/7/2022 $1,600,000 $1,500,000 1/12/2023 $1,140,000 Cindy O’Dare ONE Sotheby’s Int’l Realty Joseph O’Neill Douglas Elliman Florida LLC Subdivision: Vero Beach Estates, Address: 816 Cypress Rd 10/19/2022 $1,095,000 $1,095,000 1/12/2023 $975,000 Gretchen Hanson Berkshire Hathaway Florida John Pierce & Kit Fields Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Subdivision: Veromar, Address: 545 Date Palm Rd

REAL ESTATE 90 Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ much lesser sum than normal. Your husband and his brother might even find that they can open the probate case on their own if they read up on how probate court works, ask for assistance from the court clerks and are persistent. Doing it yourself isn’t easy and going into court may lead to a maze of complexities. But if your husband and his brother have the time and inclination, they can try to take it on. Otherwise, the laws of the state in which the property is located should control how the property would transfer from your mother-in-law. And, if your brother-in-law dies prior to taking care of the issue, you’ll then have to have his heirs (spouse and/ or children) sign documents. (This is a good reminder to take a long, hard look at your own end-of-life documents and make sure your estate plans are in good shape.) There are cases where people wait as long as your husband has to open up probate. Often, after a quarter century so many people have died that it can take a long time to locate CONTINUED FROM PAGE 87

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / January 19, 2023 91 all of the living heirs to have them sign documents. You also run the risk that one or more of the heirs will only sign the conveyance document if they get something in return. And when that happens, the whole property can go up for grabs as each heir stakes a claim to what they think they should get as their inheritance. So, get moving. Decide what you want done with the home. It’s not the best situation to have your husband and his brother own the home together if you know he and his brother agree that your brother-in-law should end up with the property. Your brother-in-law should also decide if he wants to hold title on his own (inheritances can be kept separate), or as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, or in a trust naming his spouse and/or children as beneficiaries. You and he should decide now what to do and how to move forward, and then find some help. If you or he dies before this is done, there will just be another layer of complication for your heirs to untangle.

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