07/11/2019 ISSUE 28

Proposed Sebastian annexation
drawing opposition. P8
Laura Riding Jackson
house on the move. P10

School anti-violence program
to be expanded in coming year. P4

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MY VERO The old St. Sebastian River railroad bridge as seen from a home in Roseland. School district
wasted $750K
BY RAY MCNULTY New rail bridge seen diminishing Old Florida ambiance on deseg fight

Will fall election again flip BY GEORGE ANDREASSI rail project than Tony Wood, the end of the year on a massive BY FEDERICO MARTINEZ
balance on Vero Council? Staff Writer whose Roseland home over- concrete replacement bridge Staff Writer
looks the historic railroad and a second track to handle
Depending on which side of It’s hard to imagine any- bridge that has carried trains the addition of 32 passenger During the past three years,
the debate you stand, you’re one in Indian River County across the St. Sebastian River trains per day to the roughly the school district under Su-
either excited about the pros- being more affected by the for more than 90 years. 20 freight trains that pass his perintendent Mark Rendell
pects of the Keep Vero Vero old Virgin Trains USA passenger house daily. wasted three quarters of a mil-
guard regaining control of the Construction could start by lion dollars on a failed attempt
City Council, or you’re worried Wood is among the Rose- to get Indian River County out
we’re about to return to the land homeowners who fear the from under a federal court
days of Vero city governments modernization of the railroad desegregation order that has
that have mucked up so many bridge and tracks will dimin- been in effect in various forms
things over the years. ish the Old Florida ambiance since the 1960s.
of their rustic, heavily-wooded,
There’s reason for worry. riverfront community. The money went to Husch
As November approaches Blackwell, a national law firm
with one incumbent having “This is what drew us to the that specializes in protect-
announced he will not seek re- area; it’s still kind of Old Flor- ing businesses facing federal
election, a second still decid- ida,” Wood said last week in litigation, where partner John
ing whether to run again and the backyard of his home on Borkowski charged the school
the fate of 35 acres of lagoon- 83rd Avenue. “The old historic district what he characterized
front property to be deter- Flagler bridge jibes well with as “a discounted hourly rate
mined, the stakes are high. that theme. Certainly this new of $540.”
And those in the Keep Vero Virgin railway doesn’t.”
Vero crowd know it. The spending spree be-
They know if their side wins, CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 gan in 2015 after Rendell
change once again slows to a was hired as school super-
crawl.
“I’m really afraid that’s what’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
going to happen,” City Coun-
Computer crash forces
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 doctors to cancel entire
week of appointments
Lawnwood undertakes
$100 million expansion BY MICHELLE GENZ
Staff Writer
BY MICHELLE GENZ
Staff Writer Hundreds of island resi-
dents had their doctors’ ap-
Lawnwood Regional Med- pointments canceled last week
ical Center is getting a major after a computer crash almost
infusion of funds that could completely shut down Prima-
speed up construction of ry Care of the Treasure Coast,
its Vero Beach freestanding
emergency department. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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My Vero council seats and, along with Laura term and was replaced by Robbie “That said, I’d rather not run again,”
Moss, were elected to orchestrate the Brackett, who appears to have inher- he added. “If we can find the right peo-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 sale of the city’s electric utility to Flor- ited his predecessor’s role. ple to run, I’ll do everything I can to help.
ida Power & Light – a long, drawn-out If we can’t, I’ll probably run, especially if
cilman Harry Howle said, “and that process that was frustrated for years But the direction of the City Council there’s an issue that’s significantly going
would be awful for everybody.” by Keep Vero Vero’s vocal minority. could change drastically in November: to impact the future of our city.”
Howle isn’t seeking re-election, and
Certainly, it would be far different In December, the council finally ac- Zudans said he hasn’t yet decided if he Could the fate of Centennial Place,
from what we’ve seen the past few complished its mission, selling Vero will seek another term. the lagoon-front property now con-
years, when Howle was joined on the Electric for $185 million. taining the Vero’s shuttered power
City Council by Val Zudans and Lange “I have no desire to be on the City plant and wastewater treatment plant,
Sykes, both of whom shared his gov- Since then, however, the panel has Council,” said Zudans, now the mayor. provide such an issue?
erning philosophy of embracing the been divided, particularly on issues of “I ran because I wanted to sell Vero
private sector and pursuing smart de- growth and land use, with Zudans and Electric. We’ve done that. We’ve done Yes, Zudans said, but only if the City
velopment to generate sorely needed Howle on one side and Moss teaming a lot of good. This City Council has Council is poised to make pivotal deci-
tax revenue. with Tony Young on the other. solved more problems here than any sions about that property in the next
council in memory, and we’re not fin- two to four years.
All three men, in fact, ran for their Sykes often was the swing vote on ished.
such issues, until he completed his As it stands – because of the required
planning, referendum and site prepa-
ration – there’s little chance we would
see any development of the property
for at least five years even with an am-
bitious City Council.

But if Zudans joins Howle in not
seeking re-election, there’s a real
chance they would be replaced by
candidates aligned with the Keep Vero
Vero faction and supported by the In-
dian River Neighborhood Association,
which has deep pockets and can wield
influence.

And if that happens?
“We probably go backwards,” Zu-
dans said, explaining that City Coun-
cil candidates not backed by the IRNA
must overcome their opponents’
built-in votes.
“If you’re not with them, you start out
behind,” he said, “and as we’ve seen,
these elections can be decided by a cou-
ple of hundred votes.”
The greater challenge, though, is at-
tracting candidates, especially younger,
still-working candidates who believe
Vero Beach can continue to develop
in ways that enhance our commu-
nity without destroying its small-town
charm.
Let there be no doubt: With Zudans,
Howle and Sykes on the dais, the City
Council has looked noticeably differ-
ent in comparison to past councils,
and it has governed accordingly, not
hesitating to push for progress when
appropriate.
But will similar candidates choose
to run – and can they win – in elections
not tied to a single issue, such as the
electric utility sale?
“So far, there’s nobody,” said Howle,
who plans to devote more time to his
insurance business when he leaves the
council. “I’ve approached some peo-
ple who share my philosophy, but they
either don’t live in the city or they’re
not interested.
“If we could get more people in their
40s and 50s to come to our meetings, it
might help get them interested in run-
ning,” he added. “But most people in
that age group have kids and jobs, and
they just don’t have the time.
“It’s a lot easier for someone who’s
retired.”

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While the fate of the lagoon-front more than $140,000 between March addition to the initial $150,000. Instead, the NAACP said the district
property could be the impetus need- and August, at the same time as it was During the same period, the NAACP, was focused mainly on its expensive
ed to spur interest from new candi- failing to negotiate a new contract legal fight to have the order lifted.
dates – if developed wisely, that tract with teachers because it did not know one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that
could give Vero Beach an attractive if it could afford to give them a raise. led to the federal order, complained “Our relationship quickly became
riverfront with public amenities like bitterly that the district was doing lit- contentious after Husch Blackwell
other towns up and down the Trea- All told, the district paid the law tle to actually comply with the court was hired,” said Tony Brown, presi-
sure and Space coasts – Moss said firm a total of $600,841 in fees over order, which required the district to dent of the NAACP chapter in Indian
she’d prefer council members not be three years to come up with argu- hire more black teachers and close the River County. “The whole group of
focused solely on a single issue. ments supporting the idea that fed- achievement gap between black and them – the Blackwell Group, D’Agresta
eral oversight should be lifted, in white students.
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You can be sure the Keep Vero Vero
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they’ll back candidates for both seats
in an effort to reclaim control of the
City Council, especially with the future
of that lagoon-front property hanging
in the balance.

“Throughout the history of Vero
Beach, our City Council has had a
track record of flip-flopping between
very good and abysmal,” Zudans said.
“Bad councils have cost our commu-
nity $100 million in bad decisions. My
concern is that the next City Council
will botch a decision that will haunt us
for the next 100 years.” 

School district wasted
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

intendent. Facing questions from
the School Board about his plans for
dealing with the long-running federal
order, Rendell hired Husch Blackwell
for $150,000 to conduct a study of the
district’s past and future desegregation
status with the aim of convincing the
court the district was in compliance.

On the advice of Husch Blackwell, the
board kept the report’s findings secret
while continuing to pay the firm addi-
tional legal fees for three years, some-
times at a rapid clip, according to in-
voices obtained by Vero Beach 32963.

For example, in 2017 the school dis-
trict paid Husch Blackwell $12,315 in
February, $15,310 in March, $10,840
in April, $19,647 in June, $15,931 in
July, $34,855 in August, $28,013 in Sep-
tember, and $22,788 in October, for a
total of almost $160,000 during that
9-month period.

The spigot stayed on throughout
2018, with the district shelling out

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School district wasted That situation is about to change, ment gap for black students,” Rosario board asked to see documents so that
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 however, along with the district’s over- said during a June 21 budget work- he couldn’t be held accountable.”
all attitude toward the desegregation shop. “I personally don’t feel we’re re-
and Rendell – kept trying to intimidate order, according to its new leader. ally doing enough.” “It’s important to me to make sure
and provoke me and Dr. [Jacqueline] all students have equal opportunities
Warrior. Interim District Superintendent Su- Board member Mara Schiff argued to succeed,” said Moxley, explaining
san Moxley, who was hired in May af- at the June 21 meeting that the district why she is abandoning the district’s
Warrior is the local NAACP’s educa- ter the current School Board declined must invest in better strategies to re- longtime efforts to fight the deseg-
tion chairperson. Susan D’Agresta is to extend Rendell’s contract and he cruit and retain more African-Ameri- regation order. “It’s important, and a
the board’s outside lawyer, who was resigned, has made complying with can administrators and teachers. priority of mine that we comply and
paid at least $836,000 for her services the five-decade desegregation order a move forward.”
during the same three-year period, top priority. Moxley says she has already directed
according to a copy of D’Agresta’s con- department administrators to develop During the past month, Moxley has
tract with the district. Moxley and the board have said strategies for increasing equality that also reversed several personnel deci-
the school district will file a progress she can take to the School Board for ap- sions made by Rendell that included
“They wanted us to walk away from report in September, the next court- proval. This won’t be a hollow effort with trying to fire or demote African-Amer-
this fight, but we wouldn’t,” Brown said. mandated deadline. The promised no follow through, Moxley has said. ican administrators, teachers and oth-
action is part of what Moxley and er employees, sometimes attempting
Instead, the NAACP took the school the School Board vow is a new era of Board Chairman Laura Zorc said to replace them with white employees
district to federal court, and after a transparency and commitment to previously that wasn’t the case. For ex- who worked for him in other districts.
protracted battle, both sides reached fairness in the school district. ample, during the past three years the
a partial agreement to form an “Equity district has annually budgeted $30,000 “I had my doubts when Moxley was
Committee.” The School Board recently voted to recruit more African-American em- hired,” Brown said. “[But] the lady
unanimously to approve a program ployees, but has little to show for it, is making me think she’s real. I have
The committee, which includes three that will allow students from low-in- Zorc said. guarded optimism. I think we needed
school district representatives and two come households to take SAT college to get Rendell out of the way before
NAACP representatives, is charged with entrance exams at no cost in the fall. More disconcerting, Rendell and his we could make any progress.”
overseeing the district’s efforts to im- Many of the students that qualify for staff ignored repeated School Board re-
prove facilities, promote more African- the program are African American. quests to see documents showing how Rendell, who resigned under pres-
American administrators and hire non- the money was spent. sure on May 24, could not be reached
instructional staff. Board member Jacqueline Rosario for comment. He is currently principal
wants to do more, pointing out that “That was always a problem with at Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High
The School Board is required to file the district also needs programs that Dr. Rendell,” Zorc said. “He always School in Brevard County. 
regular reports to the court showing prepare students to do well on the refused or dragged his feet when the
evidence that improvements are being SAT, not just provide an opportunity
made, but current board members ad- to take the test. Sbceheoxoplaanndtie-dviionletnhceecpormogirnagmyewairll
mit no reports have been filed since the
agreement was signed nearly a year ago. “We need to be more strategic in
how we go about closing the achieve-

BY MICHELLE GENZ among other things why the school
district wasn’t funding the program.
Staff Writer
The same issue nearly quashed the
A dogged effort by leaders of the program’s pilot effort last year, when
Mental Health Association has result- Coppola sought funding through the
ed not only in renewed funding but Hospital District. In the end, the dis-
expansion of a school anti-violence trict granted the Mental Health As-
program that proved successful in its sociation $75,000 to counsel ninth-
first year. graders at Vero Beach High School
and Sebastian River High School on
Dr. Nicholas Coppola, who took how to prevent tragedies like the Val-
over as CEO of the Mental Health As- entine’s Day 2018 shooting at Marjory
sociation in January, and his clinical Stoneman Douglas High School in
director, Jeanne Shepherd, shared the Parkland, Florida.
news Friday morning with the school
district's mental health facilitator, Dr. Seventeen students and staff mem-
Sharon Packard. bers were killed that day in the deadli-
est high school shooting in U.S. histo-
The program in the coming year ry when an expelled student returned
will be expanded to reach nearly three to campus armed with a semi-auto-
times as many county students and matic rifle.
will include a suicide prevention com-
ponent. The next day, at a Hospital District
meeting, Trustee Ann Marie McCrys-
“We had a great meeting with Dr. tal asked Robert Brugnoli, who was
Packard,” said Coppola. then CEO of the Mental Health Asso-
ciation, to come back to them with a
That was in stark contrast to a meet- program to help prevent school vio-
ing earlier in the week when Coppola lence here.
went before the Indian River County
Commission to make a last-minute After a late start, the 10-week pro-
plea for funding after the program gram was initiated this spring, with
was turned down by the county's Chil- some 950 students getting training in
dren’s Services Advisory Committee. violence prevention and awareness.
Of those, 21 sought counseling.
That volunteer board, which met
last month over the course of three The program ended up using only
days, had voted not to recommend $45,000 of the $75,000 allotted.
funding for the program, questioning

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This time, the program will cost the The program will be expanded to Coppola will be able to reach more Coppola decided against approach-
same amount – $45,000 – but will ad- include sixth-grade students as well students this year for the same amount ing the School Board for funding after
dress suicide prevention as well as as ninth-graders. The coursework, of money in part because the program hearing it had depleted a fund carved
school violence. And it will reach far taught by Mental Health Association will use a different curriculum, Erica’s out of the state budget in the wake of
more students, almost 2,800, accord- clinicians, will be included in the pub- Lighthouse, which is available at no the Parkland shooting. That fund put
ing to Coppola, and will be taught in lic schools’ Life Skills classes, as it was cost. The curriculum used last year re- more police officers in schools as well
10 schools instead of two. this past spring. quired a fee. as additional counselors. 

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Doctors cancel appointments drives. “It went back and corrupted all groups physicians were scheduled to patients from Cleveland Clinic Indian
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 of our servers,” said Luton. “We had work last week, that could add up to River, if not Sebastian, which is further
backups so nothing was lost, but we 800 canceled patient visits over the to the north.
the largest independent medical prac- had to rebuild everything.” course of the four-day holiday week.
tice in the county. It’s unclear how much the rest of the
By the end of the week, with techni- At $150 a visit, that would equal improvements will affect consumer
Starting Friday, June 28, and stretch- cians working remotely, receptionists a loss of more than $100,000 in rev- choices in healthcare, with Sebastian
ing into the Fourth of July weekend, were cautiously rescheduling missed enues.  River nearing completion of a new
the patients of Primary Care’s 19 pro- appointments for this week, trying patient tower and Indian River having
viders were notified that their ap- not to overbook in case the system Lawnwood expansion recently completed renovation of half
pointments had been canceled and was still down. That was according to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 its patient rooms, with $250 million
could not immediately be resched- one staffer who declined to be named. more in the pipeline from Cleveland
uled. That included school physicals, HCA East Florida is allocating more Clinic, slated to be spent on improve-
wellness checkups and ailments that By Friday, Luton said the practice than $100 million to Fort Pierce’s ments over the next decade.
could wait a week. was “95 percent up,” with only ac- Lawnwood Regional Medical Cen-
counting and payroll still to rebuild. ter that will significantly expand the “This major expansion project will
Doctors did see patients with acute “We weren’t open on the Fourth of hospital’s surgery department, add an allow us to continue to be the hospital
problems, said Primary Care’s CEO July, but we were working on restoring adolescent behavioral health program of choice for years to come,” said Lawn-
Mike Luton. But for the first two days, things through the holiday.” and fund the $10 million emergency wood CEO Eric Goldman in a press re-
they weren’t able to log in on their lap- department in south Vero, a project lease. “HCA East Florida continues to
tops to review the patients’ records. Among the top priorities for Luton currently under construction on U.S. invest in our communities and is com-
They also couldn’t enter notes from was to get the patient portal up and 1 near Oslo Road. mitted to doing what is right for our pa-
the visit into the system. running so that patients could trans- tients. The most recent expansion will
mit messages to their doctors. Lawnwood, a Level II trauma center help us remain a leader in healthcare
The crash, which shut down ac- with neonatal and pediatric intensive and reinforce our commitment to pro-
cess to everything from lab reports to The patient portal was set up in care units, shares part of its market vide superior patient-centered care.”
medical records, was due to a hard- 2010, according to Primary Care’s web- with Cleveland Clinic Indian River
ware malfunction, and was not the site. The business has been using elec- and to a lesser degree, Sebastian River Plans are to add three new operat-
result of a hack or ransomware, Lu- tronic medical records and e-prescrib- Medical Center, owned by Steward ing rooms and 32 beds to the medical
ton said. There was no breach of data, ing since 2006. Health. surgical unit and triple the size of the
he added. existing pre-operative and recovery
Today, the practice sees 28,000 pa- Lawnwood’s new Vero emergency areas. Currently Lawnwood is the larg-
Luton blamed the crash on a failed tients, Luton said. He could not esti- room seems destined to siphon off est hospital in the area, with 380 beds,
disk array, a storage system that dis- mate how many visits had to be can- about to become 424 beds when the
tributes data across multiple disk celed due to the computer crash. project is completed.

On average, primary care doctors
see about 20 patients a day. If 10 of the

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Twelve of those extra beds will make Hospitals gain new freedom to expand after repeal of certificate of need law
up a new adolescent inpatient unit at
Lawnwood Pavilion, which houses BY MICHELLE GENZ vice lines such as heart transplants “For years and years, we were not able
the hospital’s behavioral health cen- Staff Writer and neonatal intensive care units. to open a Weston hospital,” Barsoum
ter. That unit, with private and shared told the magazine. “It took many at-
rooms, a swimming pool and gym, is When Gov. Rick DeSantis signed the Critics of certificates of need have tempts before we finally got one open.”
expected to open later this month. repeal of Florida’s certificate of need long maintained the CON approval
laws last month, the expansion plans process is expensive, drawn-out and The laws also stopped the system
The freestanding emergency room of hospital systems, including Cleve- often politicized. Furthermore, they from expanding its Naples hospital to
was approved by the county last year land Clinic Florida, were put into the argued, existing hospitals shouldn’t include open-heart surgery. The deni-
for a property just north of Oslo Road hands of the healthcare companies have their patient volumes protected al of that certificate of need was largely
on the site formerly occupied by the themselves instead of left to the mer- from new entries to the market. blamed for the system selling off its
Quilted Giraffe restaurant. It is Lawn- cies of a state agency. Naples property.
wood’s first venture in Vero Beach and “Organizations that have historically
the first such facility in the area. Before the law was repealed, hos- provided average or below average care Cleveland Clinic Weston entered the
pital systems could only expand and will have to step up their game,” said transplant arena in 2012 after being
The 11,000-square-foot structure add certain new programs if the state Cleveland Clinic Florida president and granted certificates of need for heart,
built by Proctor Construction will in- judged there was need of the new ser- CEO, Dr. Wael Barsoum, as quoted in liver and kidney transplant programs.
clude 12 beds, a trauma bay, pediatric vices. an article in Health Leaders magazine.
rooms and a psychiatric safe room. “Otherwise, other providers will come Late last fall, just as Cleveland Clinic
Patients will have access to an on-site Until now, Florida’s Agency for Health- in and compete aggressively with them was finalizing mergers with Indian River
32-slice CT scanner, a mobile ultra- care Administration, or AHCA, has been to force an improvement in quality.” and Martin Health, the hospital system’s
sound and X-ray machine. There is responsible for determining whether leaders were in Tallahassee seeking a
also an ambulance bay. there are already enough hospitals or Florida’s certificate of need laws, certificate of need to add bone marrow
services available in a given area. If the first enacted nearly a half-century transplants to its Weston capabilities.
Freestanding emergency depart- state deemed service was already suffi- ago, got in the way of Cleveland Clinic
ments have been a focus of HCA’s Flor- cient, expansion was not allowed. building its first Florida hospital in The repeal has made that effort
ida operations over the past decade, as Weston. In the Health Leaders article, moot and cleared the way for the bone
have urgent care centers. The repeal, which went into effect Barsoum outlined a history already marrow program.
July 1, means market forces – rather known to those who followed the sys-
HCA was among four finalist health than state-certified need – can bring tem’s year-long bid to take over Indian As yet, Barsoum has not commented
systems who competed to take over about the construction of new hospi- River Medical Center, a deal that was on building a hospital in Palm Beach
the publicly-owned Indian River Med- tals and the addition of complex ser- unaffected by certificate-of-need laws. County. Cleveland Clinic has long eyed
ical Center. HCA, a for-profit system Palm Beach County as an expansion
and the largest in the nation, lost out
to nonprofit Cleveland Clinic.  CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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Certificate of need law “It’s noisy, but what are you going in 1970 and she’s enjoyed living there ture has outlived its useful life and
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 to do about it?” said Gene Hayden, ever since. Talbott said she’s never had should be replaced.
whose 83rd Avenue home is just across any concerns about the freight trains.
market but certificate of need laws pre- the tracks from Wood’s house. “I love “It needs to be gone,” Hayden said.
sented a significant obstacle to starting the river out there. It’s quiet, peaceful. “The train track is my backyard,” “You’ll be sitting out there in a boat
a new hospital. The company recently That’s the main thing.” Talbott said. “I was 3 years old watch- when the train comes over, and rust
acquired property in Wellington that ing them go by, so it was normal.” falls on your head.”
could accommodate a small hospital, Virgin Trains plans to construct a
but so far, Cleveland has announced new railroad bridge across the St. Se- “It’s funny because when people The new railroad bridge would be
only phase one of the project: medical bastian River in the next two years as come to visit they say, ‘How can you “a blessing in disguise” and “safer” be-
office space. part of the track improvements need- live with the train?’” Talbott said. “What cause of advances in engineering and
ed to provide passenger service be- train?’ We don’t even hear it anymore.” technology, Talbott said.
While there were no certificate-of- tween Orlando and Miami.
need requests on file with the state from Some in the neighborhood are con- Wood said he is not looking forward
any hospital systems to expand services The existing 1,625-foot-long steel cerned about pedestrian safety as to the construction of the new railroad
in Indian River County, the repeal may bridge, which was built in 1926, is slated people take a path across the railroad bridge and tracks next to his house,
bring capabilities closer to Vero Beach. for demolition, federal records show. tracks to get from one side of 83rd Av- but doesn’t see any point to opposing
enue to the other, said Maria Capps, the project.
In Orlando, two hospitals – Arnold Passenger rail service between Or- whose 133rd Court house is about 50
Palmer Medical Center and Nemours lando and Miami is expected to start feet from the tracks. “I’m going to miss the bridge. It’s
Children’s Hospital – appear poised to in 2022, according to Virgin Trains. kind of rusty but it grows on you,”
start pediatric heart transplant pro- Passenger service between Miami and Walking across the tracks will get Wood said. “I’m worried about losing
grams that had been blocked by the West Palm Beach started in May 2018. more dangerous once passenger trains the look of this bridge. I think we’re
certificate of need laws.  start racing by at 110 mph, more than going to have a modern, concrete,
Hayden, Wood and several other twice the speed of the freight trains, monolithic structure.”
St. Sebastian River rail bridge Roseland homeowners said they made people in the neighborhood said.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 peace with the railroad long ago and Wood, a fishing enthusiast, said
resigned themselves to coping with “Our main concern is, once they put he had no idea there was a possibil-
The natural beauty of the river and the new bridge construction and pas- in that high-speed train, how many ity of passenger rail service coming to
peacefulness of the historic community senger trains. people are going to be get hit by the the FECR tracks when he bought his
near Roseland Road outweigh the noise train,” Capps said. “There’s a lot of foot house with a dock on the river in 2010.
and vibrations from existing freight Other homeowners along the rail- traffic, especially in the winter. It’s all
train traffic, several homeowners said. road tracks like the Florida East Coast day long.” “I’m a business guy. I knew what I
Railway freight trains. They are look- was getting into here when I moved
ing forward to the construction of a People sometimes venture out onto here,” Wood said. “You live next to a
new railroad bridge and establish- the railroad bridge, despite the obvious railroad track, it’s their property, they
ment of passenger rail service. danger, Capps and her neighbors said. can do whatever they want. I just
would not have ever anticipated this
Pauline Talbott’s parents built their While some Roseland residents said whole business plan would’ve arisen
home next to the tracks on 133rd Place they’ll miss the view of the 93-year-old in this location.” 
railroad bridge, others said the struc-

PROPOSED SEBASTIAN ANNEXATION
IS OPPOSED BY COUNTY OFFICIALS,

ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND IRNA

CARPET ONE Creative Floors & Home has more for your BY NICOLE RODRIGUEZ sewer. That is a really big deal. Are they
CREATIVE FLOORS entire home from the floor up! With Flooring, Staff Writer going to be able to be supplied through
Tile, Cabinets and even vacuum cleaners! the county? That doesn’t look really very
& HOME County officials, environmental- optimistic at this point in time.
772.569.0240 ists and the Indian River Neighbor-
hood Association are up in arms over “If they’re going to go septic, that’s a
1137 Old Dixie Hwy • Vero Beach proposed annexation of a 1,118-acre huge concern – a really big one,” Mi-
creativefloorscarpet1verobeach.com property to the city of Sebastian where nuse added. “We’re trying to get rid of
more than 3,500 homes could ulti- septic systems; we don’t want to add
mately be built, along with commer- more. We need to have a very compre-
cial and industrial development. hensive look at what’s being planned
and have a voice in the process.”
Opponents say the proposed devel-
opment amounts to urban sprawl and “The city of Sebastian shouldn’t be in
would have a negative impact on area the business of annexing large property
waterways and roads, increasing traf- holdings simply because the landown-
fic and pollution. But development re- er doesn’t want to commit to respon-
view documents produced for the City sible development under county regu-
of Sebastian say the proposed site is lations,” said Richard Baker, president
a “very advantageous location which of the Pelican Island Audubon Society.
supports urban development.” “This annexation, as presented, will
adversely affect surrounding lands and
Much of the controversy revolves waters and create negative impacts on
around whether the thousands of new county residents, including those that
homes will be tied into county sewer reside inside the City of Sebastian.”
lines or have septic systems.
“The county and state are spend-
“We’re very concerned because our ing millions of dollars on water quality
water issues are very, very critical,” projects to protect waters near Sebas-
said IRNA board chairwoman Honey tian and it is irresponsible for the City
Minuse. “We’re not sure where they’re of Sebastian to allow annexation and
headed as far as planning for water and development of this particular property

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in a manner that will negate the benefits east of 82nd Avenue in the county. up to eight homes per acre, along with enue, utility taxes and stormwater fees
from those water quality projects.” Graves Brothers proposes to keep the some commercial and industrial prop- for Sebastian. The developer would
erty. Representatives of the company also make a one-time $3.7 million pay-
Graves Brothers Companies, a lo- land’s current agricultural zoning until could not be reached for comment. ment to the city for recreational impact
cally-based citrus grower, made the re- plans for the development are com- fees, according to city documents.
quest for voluntary annexation of the plete, according to city documents. Annexation of the property is pro-
nearly 2-square-mile tract located north Preliminary plans show the mostly resi- jected to ultimately generate nearly $7 The Sebastian City Council set a pub-
of 69th Street, west of 74th Avenue and dential development would consist of million annually in property tax rev-
CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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Sebastian annexation there are no provisions in the county’s drainage facilities, which can support Laura Riding Jackson
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 comprehensive plan to provide water the future urban development of the house is on the move,
and sewer services there, according to site,” the documents state. heading for new home
lic hearing and reading of an ordinance County Administrator Jason Brown.
approving the annexation for Aug. 28. At a June 26 meeting, Sebastian City BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA
“Adequate water/wastewater ca- council members promised the public Staff Writer
Pelican Island Audubon Society, pacity does not exist ... for this area,” that the board would act in the best
Friends of the St. Sebastian River and Brown wrote Sebastian City Manager interests of the city and environment History was on the move last week
the Indian River County’s Clean Water Paul Carlisle. and deal with the county’s concerns. as sections of poet Laura Riding Jack-
Coalition are calling for a reduction in son’s 110-year-old Florida Cracker
the project’s density and examination But development evaluation docu- “It’s very valid to not want more sep- house left the Environmental Learn-
of environmental effects, fearing that ments presented to the Sebastian City tic tanks,” Councilman Ed Dodd said. ing Center on the Wabasso Causeway,
runoff could contaminate nearby wet- Council contradict claims of project “It’s very valid to want to protect the where it has been located for 25 years,
lands and the St. Sebastian River. opponents. wetlands. I will assure you ... the coun- and headed for what will likely be its
cil is not going to allow something to “final resting place” on the Vero Beach
The huge tract is located outside of “The site is the benefactor of exist- happen to those wetlands and not go- campus of Indian River State College.
the county’s Urban Service Area, so ing and planned thoroughfare roads, ing to allow someone to put a subdivi-
existing water and sewer utilities and sion in that’s on septic tanks.”  The fragile structure had been
existing Sebastian River Improvement painstakingly disassembled over a
period of weeks. On the morning of
the move, “a bedroom; portions of
the front porch and a study, the back
porch with kitchen; and the smaller
part of our pole barn” were loaded
onto three tractor trailers, said Laura
Riding Jackson Foundation Board
member Jacque Jacobs.

The tractor trailer convoy began its
11.6-mile journey around 10 a.m., es-
corted by Indian River County Sher-
iff’s deputies with lights flashing, “four
of our board members’ vehicles and
Eric Crockett of Proctor Construc-
tion,” Jacobs added.

The route was carefully planned to
avoid as much traffic as possible, roll-
ing west on the Wabasso Causeway,
across U.S. 1 onto CR 510 to 58th Ave-
nue; then south on 58th to 77th Street;
west on 77th to 66th Avenue; south on
66th across State Road 60 to College
Lane; and east on College to the cam-
pus, to a .71-acre site in the field be-
hind the Brackett Library that will be
the historic house’s new home.

Last week’s move was the first of a
two-part relocation process sched-
uled for completion this weekend.

“We’re expecting the second floor
to be lifted off the house at the ELC
on Friday, July 12, and a temporary
plywood covering placed over the re-
maining first floor to prepare it for
travel,” said Jacobs. “Final preparation
will occur on Saturday, and then the
larger part of the pole barn and the
remaining two parts of the house will
begin their journey at dawn on Sun-
day, July 14.” 

WHAT A BLAST! VERO BASKS IN
FOURTH FEST AND FIREWORKS

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What a blast! Vero basks in Fourth fest and fireworks

Ella Young. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES. Easton Brown.

Garrett Abernathy prepares kettle corn. Kyleigh Brown. Lila Marquez.

Connor Mcilvaine. Chris and Madison Young. Nicholas Kennedy tries to land a butterfly on his sponge.

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF sters splashed in wading pools to keep Attendees were entertained by
Staff Writer the heat at bay. bands playing throughout the day as
they quenched their thirst at the Vero
Riverside Park was awash in red, More than 10,000 people were ex- Beach Lifeguard Association Beer tent
white and blue last Thursday in cel- pected to attend the old-fashioned, pa- or dined at one of many food trucks on
ebration of our nation’s birthday at a triotic blowout, which was reminiscent site. As dusk descended all eyes were
star-spangled afternoon of family, fun of days gone by. skyward as fireworks lit up the night
and fireworks. with a little extra oomph in honor of
The festivities got started earlier the City Centennial.
Families gathered for the 4th of July than in prior years to allow more fam-
Celebration and Vero Beach Centen- ily time for the little ones to play in Festival sponsors included Treasure
nial Fireworks early in the day, staking the children’s play area, visit the pet- and Space Coast Radio and Cleveland
out choice spots in the park where they ting zoo, jump in the always-popular Clinic, with firework sponsors Indian
passed the time pitching tents, tailgat- bounce house, try their best to keep River County, the City of Vero Beach
ing and visiting with friends, as young- Hula Hoops aloft or stroll through a and Mulligan’s. 
unique butterfly feeding tent.



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Freedom Festival: Sebastian’s super-sized celebration

Graham Trott with Quinn. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Jim Van Veen with Christina De Falco and Meredith Van Veen. Chloe Cochran.

BY MARY SCHENKEL rade and Freedom Festival to celebrate PARADE AWARD WINNERS
Staff Writer Independence Day.
Best Overall: Sebastian River High
The Sebastian Lions Club and Ma- “We formed a partnership with the School Marching Band
sonic Lodge No. 232, in collaboration Masonic Lodge last year to continue on
with the City of Sebastian and the with the Freedom Festival together,” Best Community Spirit: St. Baldrick’s
Sebastian Police Department, rolled said parade chairman Tony Anunzia- Best Patriotic Theme:
out the red, white and blue carpet last to, event co-coordinator with festival Pareidolia Brewing Co.
Thursday for the 48th annual July 4 Pa- chair Dr. Norman Meyer. “We start in Best Non-Commercial:
February to put everything together Gold Star Mothers

Best Commercial: RE/MAX

Hazel

Alan and Iris Madison. overall and Diane LaBar of Palm
City taking first place in the women’s
for the parade and the festival.” division.
He says they work closely with the
Next, 15 minutes before the parade
city, which puts on the fireworks dis- began, Coldwell Banker Paradise
play, and the police, who keep every- agents and friends continued their
one safe, adding, “It’s a total commit- longstanding tradition of handing out
ment from all of us.” 5,000 American flags to the crowds
lining the 2-mile route from the
Festivities got off to a running Masonic Lodge, along Indian River
start with the Freedom Run 5K to Drive to Riverview Park.
benefit Substance Awareness Center
programs, including the LifeSkills “They ran out, so we know we
Training Prevention program taught in had more than 5,000 people,” said
all Indian River County middle schools Anunziato.
and six elementary schools, as well as
its treatment and recovery support More than 60 groups braved the
programs. oppressive heat to march in the parade,
waving to the enthusiastic crowds as
Roughly 240 runners participated in they passed out goodies along the way.
the sunrise 5K, with Benjamin Bayless Offering a patriotic conclusion to the
from Vero Beach coming in first place parade, Sebastian Skydive parachuters
descended to the park trailing
enormous American flags.

The throngs then made their way
to the family-friendly festival to enjoy
the numerous food, craft and vendor
booths as well as live entertainment
throughout the day, ending with
fireworks over the lagoon at dusk.

“The Lions love to give back to the
community,” said Anunziato, noting
that they donate back the money
they raise through scholarships and
the support of local charities and
food banks. 

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Tanner Cross, David Currey and Hazel McNees. Roger Welton and Jill Goldenberg. Roger Welton, Adrian Castro, Cristian McAdams and Bailey Yoerin.

Rachel Williams and Bruce McMann. Kim Sablick and Vickie Tunker.

Rebekah, Lily and Kayla Chirino. Max Sartain.

Callie, Elizabeth and Madelyn Taylor. Anetria Griggs-Hughes and Briana Griggs
with Amy Forest and Jaelyn Eastridge.

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Boogie night: ‘Pride’ partiers sizzle at Studio 54

BY MARY SCHENKEL Jessica Deveraux, Jacqueline “Legs” St. James be an after-party with entertainment
Staff Writer at Kilted Mermaid, and on Sunday,
Katie Gastley, Shelley Adelle and Stephanie LeBlanc. and Kathryn Nevets. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE a family-friendly Sunday Fun-day
Attendees of the third annual Vero at Heaton’s Reef at the Vero Beach
Beach Pride party harkened back like fun.’” in addition to the two Village People- Hotel.
to the 1970s, when disco was all the To deal with the overlap, Adelle style officers at the entrance.
rage and everyone wanted to cross The event, which annually cel-
the ropes into the hottest place in said they put up some fencing and “So this year we actually have ebrates diversity and a message of
town, Studio 54. The Heritage Cen- hired two uniformed Vero Beach Po- three full events,” said Adelle, noting acceptance and belonging to the LG-
ter was transformed into the famed lice Department officers, explaining that after the sold-out ticketed event BTQ+ community, also paid homage
nightclub and guests came dressed with a grin that the real officers were at the Heritage Center, there would this year to the 50th anniversary of
to impress, some in the flamboyance the 1969 Stonewall riots, with a me-
of the era and others in colorful rain- morial set up in the courtyard.
bow-hued attire.
Later in the evening, Graham Em-
A few eyebrows were lifted by sur- erson, a freshman at Florida Atlantic
prised attendees of United Against University, spoke about the signifi-
Poverty’s Burgers and Brews Cel- cance of the riots, which marked the
ebration, who wondered about the commencement of the gay rights
glitzy garb. movement. Its activists are credited
with paving the way for the legal ac-
“Both organizations found out a ceptance of subsequent generations
while ago that two events were hap- to “love who they love in the public
pening at the same time. Honestly, eye.”
it hasn’t been a problem at all,” said
Shelley Adelle, event co-founder with Vero Pride again presented a $1,000
Katie Gastley and Stephanie LeBlanc. college scholarship, this year to se-
nior Anna Birnholz, who won for her
“If anything, there’s been a lot of ‘What Diversity Means to Me’ essay,
curiosity,” said Gastley. “People are ‘The Woven Tapestry.’
saying, ‘What’s going on? This looks
“She runs the Q+ Acceptance Club

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Kelly Flynn, Jackie Byers and Tom Fletcher. Kevin and Scott Oberlink. Sarah Lisle, Katee Renz and Patrick Lisle.

Billy Banks and Anna Birnholz. Cindy Goetz and Liz Mayo. Scarlett Visser and Angela Love. Alex Hocke and Bryan Hocke.

Christopher White and Martin Lavander. Richard Giessert and Javaune Daley.

that is out of Vero Beach High School, former resident DJ at the Pulse Night-
which we’ve been working with club, and whooped with abandon to
throughout the year,” said Gastley. stage performances by imperson-
She said the after-sschool club ators Kathryn Nevets, 2014’s “Miss
provides a safe outlet for individuals National Comedy Queen”; Jessica
questioning or identifying as Deveraux, first alternative to Miss
LGBTQ+. Gay Western States America 2017;
and Jacqueline St. James, “The Legs
“They were really eager to meet of Lakeland.”
with adult members of the commu-
nity, so we’ve gone in and we’ve done “Our hope moving forward is that
some Q&A’s with them, and we hope we will be able to connect people in
to continue that programming going the community together, so if any-
forward,” said Adelle. one is interested in participating in
events throughout the year, we are
In true Studio 54 fashion, the looking for volunteers,” said Adelle.
roughly 225 guests were kept enter-
tained throughout the night as they For more information visit vero-
socialized with friends, boogied to pride.com. 
musical selections by Scott Robert, a

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Showing UP in record numbers to enjoy ‘Burgers & Brews’

Shelby Saine. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Luke and Jennie Flynt with David Flynt. Kara Paul and Jackie Kazimer.

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF subsidies, employment training with Dignity program took home pie-eating contest threw themselves
Staff Writer and referrals to collaborative social the People’s Choice Award, shaking with wild abandon into scrumptious
service providers. things up a bit with a JFC (Jesus Fried pies from Fresh Market. Emcee
Good times were on tap at the Chicken) breaded chicken breast, Hamp Elliott cajoled and heckled
The grills weren’t the only thing topped with dignity sauce, lettuce contenders, who did their best to
fourth annual Burgers & Brews: An sizzling in the summer heat. Even the and tomato on a waffle. consume the most within three
pavement hissed as raindrops briefly minutes, with Jason Patzer taking
American Heritage Celebration, fell, cooling things off only slightly Chefs from American Icon Brewery, home first prize and a belly full of
as fest-goers sampled their way Big Shots Golf, Cobalt, Ono Luau, Post pie.
hosted by United Against Poverty, down 14th Avenue, sipping suds and & Vine, Sean Ryan Pub, Southern
nibbling on sliders created by 11 local Social and The Tides had dressed up Closing out the afternoon’s
with presenting sponsor Southern master chefs vying for the title of Best their selections with onions, a variety activities, the Vero Beach Police
Burger in Indian River County. of peppers, chorizo, eggs, brined Department and Indian River County
Eagle Distributing & the Peter W. pickles and “special” sauces. Sheriff’s Office gave new meaning
American Grill & Bar and Wilke’s to the dog days of summer with K-9
Busch Family Foundation. 14 Bones tied for first place, each Attendees could also grab snacks demonstrations, showcasing their
earning the Judges’ Choice Award. A from food trucks, visit with friends four-legged partners’ abilities.
“This is a wonderful event because Sicilian grill burger with bacon and at picnic tables, as youngsters played
a caramelized onion jam served on a in the children’s area, shop at vendor “Burgers & Brews was amazing,”
we bring the whole community Gorgonzola burger with spicy lemon booths or try their hands at hitting said Annabel Robertson, UP
honey remoulade was American the bullseye of the celebrity dunk executive director. “We had a record
in and make them aware of the Grill’s unique combination. Wilke’s tank. Ladies of Soul, East Harbor and crowd of over 5,000 people and raised
got the judges’ attention with a burger Pirate Flag Band, a Kenney Chesney a record amount of money. It was a
opportunities that United Against topped with pulled pork, cheddar tribute group, provided the musical wonderful opportunity to celebrate
cheese, ranch dressing, onion straws entertainment, playing throughout our community, each other and our
Poverty offers to people who want and barbecue sauce. the day and into the evening. great country.”

to lift themselves up,” said Barbara For the second year in a row, There’s nothing more American For more information, visit upirc.
participants in The Source’s Dining than apple pie, and contestants of the org. 
Lowry, UP board chair.

Proceeds from the street festival

will help fund UP programs and their

goal of inspiring and empowering

individuals who are struggling

economically to lift themselves

“up” to economic self-sufficiency.

Programs include crisis care, case

management, transformative

education, food and household

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Nora Koontz with Sheila Herget and Julie McDonough. Debbie Lopez. Craig Merrill with Jen and Tom Dupuis.

Gisela Elliston enjoys her burger from The Source. Jason and Beth Scheibel. Wylie and Cindi Green. Sophia Williams with Ben Williams.

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Holy moly, did Bonz ever fit in with this gang!

Hi Dog Buddies! asked politely. PHOTO: KAILA JONES ridge with the bushes.
Usually I don’t accept He calls it Hamburger
This week I innerviewed four Cool So I zoomed over and jumped in. They Hill.”
Kibbles poocheroos: three Labs anna snacks when I’m workin,’ hadda fish me out. Two times. Mom
Gigantic Goldendoodle with the but it looked like I’d have calls it the luh-GOON. Shortly after So, I asked them,
BIGGEST PAWS I’VE EVER SEEN. time while everyone was that, Mom an Pops got an uh-leck-trick “What’s your day like?”
concentratin’ on their fence and a special collar for me.”
We met at Holy Cross Church, where Bully Sticks. “Sure. Why Logan said, “We
they work as Official Greeters and not? Thanks!” I said. And “Me! Me! Me! It’s my turn now, work full time, an we
Guards, whichever is required. joined the munching. right?” Reilly stood up, an I felt like get to attend some
a Volkswagen parked next to an special church funk-
Logan Murphy’s the “old man” of the Snacks dispatched, I 18-wheeler. shuns, like the annual
bunch. He’s 12, a liddle white in the asked how their Forever pick-nick. We mingle,
muzzle, paws, an tip of tail. Logan’s a Family had come together. “Totes, Reilly! Ready when you are.” an We’re the Clean-Up
Fox Red Lab, which I’d never heard of. “Pops found me at Moss Creek Crew.”
Have you? He says it’s kinda rare (an Logan began. “When Goldendoodles. Mommy was a Golden “I have a BFF!” Hugo chimed in.
very trendy). Pops’ Golden Retriever, Retriever an Daddy was a Poodle. My “Wade. We have play dates at each
Paddy, went to Dog Heaven, Mom an coat is real poodly. An doncha love other’s homes.”
Emma True’s a sweet, gentle, lady- Pops found me at a Lab breeder in my pawsome tail with that big fluffy “An,” added Emma, “there’s a liddle
like White Lab. She’s 10. Hugo True’s 3, Lake Worth. They liked my unusual pompom?” He swished it around. I pool here we play in. When Reilly
also a Fox Red Lab. color an, of course, my adorable puppy ducked. bellyflops, he soaks up, like, half the
personality. They picked me up on New “Truly pawsome,” I agreed. water. Then he runs in to Mom and
The Goldendoodle is Reilly Murphy: Year’s Day, 2007. I rode all the way home “An guess what? Every year, there’s shakes. (Mom an Pops have a joke:
the youngest (only 1), a frenly, eager on Mom’s lap. We were all very happy, a big Doodle Romp up in Maitland. ‘How many Swiffer pads does it take
(70-pound) puppy with an all-white but Mom was also kinda squished cuz There’s like, zillions of Doodles inna to raise a puppy?’) An we LOVE car
coat of tight poodly curls, an the I was already 14 weeks old an very big field, playing and havin’ snacks rides! Whenever Mom or Pops says
aforementioned pawsome paws. wiggly.” and contests an stuff. There’s a Meet ‘Go,’ or ‘Car,’ or ‘Bank’ or ‘Out,’ we get
and Greet, an a Yappy Hour (mostly for Real Excited an rush to the door. Me an
When me an my assistant entered the “That Fox Red color is Totally Crispy the humans, I think). I went to my first Logan took a super long car ride once
office, a buzzer buzzed an, right away, Dog Biscuits,” I remarked. “I’ve never Doodle Romp this year. I had the Best. when a hurry-cane was comin’ an we
Reilly an Hugo rushed out and plopped seen it before.” Time. Ever. Then I fell over in a heap in hadda uh-VAC-u-ate, which means
their front paws up on the counter to the back seat all the way home. grab your blanket; one toy; water; and
greet us, waggin’ to beat the band, soon “Ackshully,” Logan explained, “I “Mom says I’m a counter surfer. One kibbles and Get Outta There.”
joined by Emma an Logan. Googled, and learned it’s not a separate time she had a liddle slice of cake she Heading home, I was hopin’ I could
Lab color. It’s a shade of the Yellow was savin’ for lunch. She put it on the come back without my notebook, just
As the eldest, Logan was Labs, which can be white, yellow, cream counter. I thought it was for ME, So I, to play an hang out with Logan, Emma,
spokespooch. “Welcome, welcome Mr. and, of course, the coolest (no offense, um, I sorta, um … Anyway, Dennis, the Hugo an Reilly; an sendin’ Best Woofs
Bonzo an Mr. Bonzo’s assistant. We’ll Emma), Fox Red.” Plant Manager, found what was left of it to their Pops. 
yap in the conference room.” where I had stashed it, over on that little
“None taken,” Emma said. “Anyway, The Bonz
Once there, it was wag-an-sniffs it’ a matter of taste.” She turned to me.
all ’round. Logan did the intros. “This “Mom says she got me Onna Whim. Don’t Be Shy
is Debbie True, we all call her Mom. I think that’s kinda like a nap mat.
Emma an Hugo live with her. Me an Anyway, I was on it. Mom woke up one We are always looking for pets with
Reilly live here with Father Murphy. Sunday, looked through the paper, and interesting stories.
We call him Pops. He’s taking Serious found me in Fort Pierce. I was just 8
Treatments which make him real tired, weeks old. ‘What the Woof,’ she probly To set up an interview, email
but he says to say Hello an Welcome.” thought. When she arrived to collect [email protected].
me, I was all wet cuz the breeder had
All four were still in bouncy-waggy this lovely pond and I am, after all, a
welcome mode, so their Mom brought natch-rull swimmer. Mom didn’t mind.
out a bag of Bully Sticks and passed ’em But one time, right after I arrived, I was
around. Instantly, the only sound in the checkin’ stuff out an discovered this
room was munching. big buncha of water right next to here.

“Would you like one, Bonzo?” Logan



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It’s rare, especially in Florida, to find the circuit. I was what they call a season Harold Newton lived across the
anyone who hasn’t heard about the baby, born wherever the migrant work- street from the family in Wabasso,
Highwaymen – a group of self-taught, er was working,” McLendon said. “The and began mentoring Roy, who was
black artists from Wabasso and Fort hardest part about being raised in that inspired by Newton’s vibrantly beauti-
Pierce who, in the mid-1950s, began environment was moving from school ful landscape art. The two soon com-
painting vivid Florida landscapes and to school and not really being able to es- menced painting together. McLen-
taking their artwork on the road, sell- tablish a network of friends.” don says that for a long time, his
ing their pieces door-to-door or out of father juggled his art with his picking,
the backs of their cars. Their story has PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES but eventually became a painter full-
been the basis of numerous books and time.
even a proposed movie.
Although 26 artists have been iden-
But life in those early days was ex- tified as Highwaymen, and have been
tremely difficult and, according to inducted into the Florida Artists Hall
artist Ray McLendon, son of original of Fame as such, Newton and McLen-
Highwaymen artist Roy McLendon, don are named as “original” Highway-
much of the popular storyline’s reality men, along with Alfred Hair, James
has become blurred with fantasy. Gibson, Livingston Roberts, Mary Ann
Carroll (the only woman), Willie Dan-
“My father Roy was a migrant work- iels and Al Black.
er, and as a family we would move
north with him as he followed the mi- “One thing for sure is that if you
grant circuit,” says McLendon, add- were a child of one of the Highway-
ing that the family always returned to men painters, you were always raised
their home in Wabasso each winter by your mother,” says McLendon. “Our
during citrus season. dads were always on the road as travel-
ing salesmen. It wasn’t a new concept at
“He’d pick citrus in Florida, peaches in all. In the ’60s everything was sold door-
Georgia, potatoes in Virginia, tomatoes to-door – vacuums, encyclopedias,
in New Jersey and apples in Pennsylva- household supplies, pots and pans – it’s
nia. I was actually born in Bridgetown, just the way it was.”
N.J., because that’s where we were on

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He says that especially for black a bet with my father,” McLendon says “Life is all about balance and paint- artist gets the entire amount of the
artists, if they were going to sell their with a chuckle. “By this time, every- ing simply makes me happy. I love sale and can put food on the table.”
paintings they had to knock on doors one wanted to be a Highwaymen-like bringing color and life to a canvas
or set up a display on the side of the painter and there were some terrible with a brilliant Florida sunsets or bold To tell the “true, inside story” of the
road. They were not welcomed to sell impersonators.” Poinciana trees,” says McLendon. Highwaymen movement – one that is
in local galleries, and in Vero Beach notably different than the sensational-
during that time, blacks had to be off He recalls that at one show, a wom- “The vibrant color found in Flori- ized story currently told – McLendon
the streets by sundown. an had a booth where she was selling da landscape is the signature of any is writing a book he’s calling “Fame
some particularly horrible Highway- Highwayman painting. Capturing and without Fortune.”
“They sold their painting for $25 men-style landscapes. preserving the beauty of Florida is our
to $50 each,” says McLendon. “Those goal. But, even with the Highwaymen “It may ruffle a few feathers, but it is
paintings today and most of the newer “I told my dad that even I could name recognition, making a living as the grass-roots story of the movement’s
Highwaymen paintings command paint better than (that) and that she an artist is still a challenge. If there is infancy back in the mid-’50s, when my
thousands a piece from enthusiasts would never sell those. He bet me she one thing that I would encourage peo- dad and Harold Newton started painting
and collectors.” would, and that if she did I would have ple to do, it would be to purchase di- and selling their work. They are the two
to start painting again. To my disbe- rectly from the artist and not through original Highwaymen. I am more than
McLendon says he was always artisti- lief, she sold them and I picked up the a broker or promoter. That way the proud of my heritage and truly honored
cally inclined, able to draw and sketch, paintbrush again.” to be carrying on the tradition.” 
but he had little interest, preferring to
play basketball in high school and col- McLendon invested in canvases,
lege, where he attained a degree in so- paints and brushes, but after feeling
cial work from Kutztown University in that his work was mediocre at best, he
Pennsylvania. When he did pick up a quit. A few months later, since he al-
brush, he preferred to paint abstracts. ready had all the supplies, he decided
to try again.
“My father always said I’d sell more
abstract paintings than landscapes, This time he says he prayed to the
but of course that is not the case in Lord for some of the talent bestowed
on his father and brother. He also
sought advice and guidance from his
brother before embarking on his third
career as a full-time artist. About five
years ago McLendon turned over his
restaurant to his son and opened his
own working studio on 14th Avenue in

Florida, where Highwaymen paintings Vero Beach – the Florida Highwaymen
are the rage,” says McLendon. Landscape Art Gallery.

Once out of college, he was employed “I love being independent and self-
as a social worker in mental hospitals employed, which is why I’ve traveled
and health centers throughout Florida, the paths I’ve chosen through life,”
but because the salaries were low, he al- says McLendon. “I love painting now
ways took on a second job as well. and I paint without looking at a photo
or sketching it out; it’s finally second
After decades of working in the so- nature to me.”
cial service sector, McLendon decid-
ed to open a seafood market in Fort When not in his studio, McLendon
Pierce called R&B Crab Shack, and was travels about Florida displaying and
its hands-on owner for 25 years. He selling his work at high-end art shows.
painted on the side and would go to
art shows with his father and brother, “I do about 12 shows a year; they
Roy McLendon Jr., by then a renowned are all held between October and April
second-generation Highwaymen art- and that’s when I have to make the
ist, in his spare time. sales,” says McLendon, adding that
during summer he often assists his
“I actually started painting again on seven children with home projects.

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COMING UP! Guild’s ‘Cats’– don’t miss this meow-sical!

BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA uber-talented cast, including theater ily: It’s the five-Tony-winning “Matilda, same way and, of course, Truth, Jus-
Staff Writer students from Vero Beach and Charter the Musical,” fully staged at Riverside tice and Adorableness win the day. The
high schools. Naffziger calls this pro- Theatre next Friday and Saturday, July West End production took a then-re-
1 There are cats. And then there duction “an extremely physical show 19 and 20, presented by the terrific cord 12 Olivier Awards; premiering on
are “Cats.” The latter is a clowder that requires acrobatics, ballet, tap and Riverside Theatre for Kids. The musi- Broadway in 2013, “Matilda, the Musi-
very fluid, intricate movement.” To help cal is, of course, based on Roald Dahl’s cal” scored five Tony awards, including
you won’t want to miss as they contin- his cat cast find their feline feet, “rather novel “Matilda.” Perhaps it was one of one for Best Book of a Musical Curtain:
than trying to imitate (cat) behavior, we your own faves growing up. Or maybe 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. both days. Tickets:
ue to “slink, dance and sing their way mimicked the elements of earth, wind, your kids or grands are “Matilda” fans. $10. 772-231-6990 or www.riverside-
fire and water – easier to emulate than As a kid, Director Kevin Quillinan says theatre.com.
through an elaborate junkyard maze” a cat walk.” The Guild’s own acclaimed “Matilda” was one of his favorites, and
performer Eleanor Dixon, as the aging adds “the themes are still relevant and
on the Vero Beach Theatre Guild stage Grizabella, “delivers an unforgettable inspiring to kids today.” Wikipedia so
rendition of ‘Memory,’ one of the pro- aptly describes the captivating tale as
now through July 28, promises the show duction’s most treasured songs, record-
ed by over 150 artists,” according to the reveling in “the anarchy of childhood,
promo. This record-smashing, Tony show promo. Whether you have seen the power of imagination and the in-
“Cats” before or never, you’ll want to spiring story of a girl who dreams of a
Award- and Olivier Award-winning, join the 73 million theatregoers world- better life.” The musical’s website calls
wide who have. Tip: Ticket sales broke the title character “Broadway’s biggest
Andrew Lloyd Webber “sung-through Guild records the first two days they little hero,” describing the precocious, 3 Movin’ to the groove this Sunday,
were open, so act accordingly. Curtain: book-loving 5-year-old as possessing July 14. Detroit, Michigan, aka
musical” open the Guild’s 62nd season weekdays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and “astonishing wit, intelligence and psy-
Sundays, 2 p.m.; dark Mondays. Tickets: chokinetic powers.” During her first
with what looks to be one of the most $30, under 18, $15. www.verobeachthe- term at school, Matilda, unloved by her “Motor City,” is the epicenter of the au-
atreguild.com or 772-562-8300. dreadful parents, “overcomes obstacles
memorable, groundbreaking shows in caused by her family and school, and tomotive industry. But the Motor City is
helps her teacher (the loveable Miss
the theatre’s rich history. It’s definitely Honey) reclaim her life.” As the spunky at least as famous, says a Space Coast
Matilda faces off against her nemesis,
unlike anything the Guild has previous- the school’s horrid headmistress, Miss Symphony promo, as the epicenter –
Trunchbull, you might recall a similarly
ly undertaken. “Cats,” says Wikipedia, plucky little heroine, Annie, going up and birthplace – of Motown, “the record
against orphanage headmistress Miss
is a “sung-through musical” based on Hannigan. You’ll cheer for Matilda the label favored by young African-Amer-

“Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” ican artists that launched a musical

a collection of whimsical poems by T.S. revolution, with that fabulous soul mu-

Eliot. The story takes place on the night sic with the distinctive pop flavor.” The

a tribe of cats called the Jellicles gath- Space Coast Symphony Jazz Orchestra

ers to make the “Jellicle choice”: which will celebrate that distinctive sound

cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer with local audiences in an homage to

and come back to a new life (as purr the artists who came up with the trade-

‘cats have nine lives’). Award-winning mark Motown Sound. “MOTOWN: The

Charter High School drama program 2 Another wonderful theater must- Groove That Changed America” will be
see for, as they say, the entire fam-
director Michael Naffziger guides an performed in concert Sunday afternoon

at the Emerson Center in Vero Beach.

Trombonist Frank Wosar, according to

the concert promo, will lead the orches-

tra “in a program of hits by stellar artists

the likes of Stevie Wonder, the Jackson

5, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations,

the Supremes, the Four Tops and Mar-

vin Gaye.” Wosar, lead/solo trombone

for the One and Only Tommy Dorsey

Orchestra and the Dr. Phillips Jazz Or-

chestra, says Motown music, much

like jazz, “transcended social, cultural,

and ethnic boundaries, and brought

together people of different races and

backgrounds, male and female, old and

young and put its indelible stamp on

American musical history.” Time: 3 p.m.

Tickets: $25 in advance, $30 at the door;

18 and under, free. 855-252-7276. 



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ALTAMIRA, Brazil – Isolated indig- even though Belo Monte is among the stroy riverbanks, alter animal breed- de Janeiro. They will also bring tens of
enous tribes, three-toed sloths and less environmentally damaging mega- ing cycles and provide the catalysts for thousands of jobs and easier access to
stealthy jaguars still populate this cor- projects of its kind. large-scale urbanization, as happened electricity deeper into the jungle, real-
ner of the Amazon rain forest. But now, here in Altamira. And even though they izing Bolsonaro’s dream of tapping the
it is also the home of something else. Scientists believe the Amazonian may generate renewable electricity, Amazon’s economic potential for the
ecosystem is far closer to an existential the huge projects will also spur greater 209 million residents of the country.
The Whopper. tipping point than previously thought, deforestation because of the road net-
Burger King is just one of many with potentially grievous results for works and population surges that in- “Let’s use the riches that God gave us
new arrivals since an enormous dam the region and the planet. evitably go with them. Many critics say for the well-being of our population,”
project brought a population surge, the dams are not even needed to satisfy Bolsonaro said on a recent visit to the
shopping malls with food courts and Yet under Brazil’s new far-right pres- the nation’s power needs. Amazon, where he proposed opening
U.S.-style subdivisions to civilization’s ident, Jair Bolsonaro, the Belo Monte an ecological reserve to mining.
edge. plant, which harnesses power through But for Bolsonaro’s Brazil, the dam
As the Belo Monte dam complex environment-altering dams, is a har- network holds the irresistible poten- Anchored by Belo Monte, this fron-
– envisioned to be one of the world’s binger of the region’s future. Reversing tial of billions of dollars’ worth of in- tier city on the banks of the Xingu
largest by power capacity – approaches a decision by the previous administra- vestments in Latin America’s largest River is now a developer’s vision of the
completion, experts call the outcome tion, Bolsonaro’s government has sig- nation. forest’s future.
here an example of the kind of mas- naled its intention to put both large-
sive development that could critically and small-scale dams in the Amazon The hydroelectric plants will feed Follow the red earth roads on the
wound the world’s largest rain forest, basin back on the table. into national grids, powering distant outskirts of town to the Trans-Am-
mega-cities such as Sao Paulo and Rio azonian Highway, then take a right
The new dams could flood and de- at the billboard of a beaming couple

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who “found their dream” home at Al- A RESETTLEMENT COMMUNITY IN ALTAMIRA FOR PEOPLE DISPLACED BY THE BELO MONTE DAM. higher temperatures in the immediate
tamira’s “New City” subdivision – built area and lower rainfall not only in Bra-
to take advantage of the dam-driven BIKES AND A SCULPTURE ALONG zil but also in Uruguay, Paraguay and
population growth. Squint, and you THE XINGU RIVER IN ALTAMIRA. Argentina.
can still see a patch of jungle canopy
rising beyond the asphalt parking lot RESIDENTS OF ALTAMIRA EAT DOUGLAS BRETAS, 28, THE The global impacts could also be se-
of the city’s the city’s hottest hangout AT BURGER KING INSIDE THE FRANCHISE OWNER OF THE vere. Unless deforestation is stopped
– the Golden Ridge Mall. MALL’S BURGER KING. before reaching the tipping point,
GOLDEN RIDGE MALL some 50 or 60 percent of the Amazon
On a busy Saturday night, Brie Lar- will be lost, meaning the forest will no
son is saving the Earth onscreen at the THE BELO MONTE DAM UTILIZES A “RUN OF longer be able to pull carbon out of the
new multiplex. Twenty-four-packs of THE RIVER” DESIGN THAT DIVERTS PART OF THE air at the same rate, allowing about
Coca-Cola are on sale at the Costco- XINGU RIVER INTO A SECONDARY RESERVOIR. 550 million tons of carbon dioxide to
like megastore. And over at the food remain in the atmosphere each year,
court, Douglas Bretas – one part fran- THE SUN SETS AT THE according to Nobre.
chise owner, one part Bolsonaro-era GOLDEN RIDGE MALL.
pioneer – is helping his staff work the This amount is comparable to the
weekend rush behind the register at DYING TREES WHERE THE BELO MONTE DAM WAS BUILT. annual emissions of a major economy,
Altamira’s newest institution: Burger such as Canada or South Korea, deal-
King. ing a potentially critical setback to the
global effort to cut greenhouse gas
“Would you like to make that a emissions.
combo?” a beaming Bretas asks a lo-
cal woman in Portuguese. She flashes “If that tipping point is crossed, it’s
a quizzical look before replying, “Com- irreversible,” Nobre said. “It’s an on-
bo? What’s a combo?” going dynamic process that will really
lead to savanna-ization of 50, 60 per-
“You get fries and a drink with the cent of the Amazon.”
combo,” he says, turning on the charm.
“Look, it’s a good deal.” For a time, there was reason for
environmentalists to hope. Between
“Sure,” the woman agrees. “I’ll take it.” 2005 and 2012, Brazil embraced a
The Amazon rain forest stretches new sense of environmental protec-
like a blanket of green velvet across tion that dramatically reduced the
nine countries in South America. But rate of deforestation. In 2004, more
no nation is more a guardian of the than 10,000 square miles of the rain
forest than Brazil, home to 60 percent forest were lost, according to official
of the Amazon basin. Brazilian government data. In 2012,
Well before Bolsonaro, the Amazon the damage was less than 2,000 square
faced serious challenges. Since the miles.
rubber boom of the 19th century, fol-
lowed by the gold rushes, ranching, But now, Brazil is poised for a his-
damming and logging of the 20th and toric era of Amazonian exploitation
21st centuries, nearly 400,000 square under Bolsonaro.
miles of the Amazon – about 15 per-
cent – have been deforested. Since taking office, the former army
And this rain forest may be in even captain has eliminated the country’s
more danger than most people think. ministry of indigenous affairs and
For years, scientists assumed that slashed the budget of Brazil’s envi-
about 40 percent of the rain forest had ronmental protection agency by 24
to be lost before it would reach the percent. Perhaps most importantly,
dangerous point at which its ecosys- Bolsonaro’s cabinet has reopened the
tem could no longer heal itself, creat- door to powering the nation through
ing drier, hotter weather cycles that new hydroelectric dam projects in the
could turn vast areas of the jungle into Amazon – an idea the previous gov-
savanna. ernment nixed last year after weighing
But in recent years, scientists have the impact in Altamira.
delivered a more alarming verdict.
Carlos Nobre, a senior researcher Dams that were once scrubbed – in-
at the University of Sao Paulo, and cluding the massive Sao Luis plant on
Thomas Lovejoy, a noted ecologist at the Tapajos River that would flood an
George Mason University, suggested area of jungle nearly twice the size of
that because of exacerbating factors Miami – could be back on the table,
such as climate change and worsening authorities say. But what environmen-
forest fires, such a red line could be talists see as the start of a new and
crossed at a far lower threshold of 20 dangerous assault on the Amazonian
to 25 percent deforestation. ecosystem is being hailed as a belat-
“If the rates increase – as one can see ed embrace of progress by Bolsonaro
them increasing this year – it is likely backers.
that this tipping point will be reached
between 20 and 30 years” from now, Dams built in Brazil during the
Nobre said. country’s military dictatorship flood-
The effect, scientists say, would ed mass swaths of land and blocked
be devastating. Vast areas of the rain the flow of the river completely. By the
forest would be indelibly altered by mid-2000s, Brazil had become more
changing climate patterns, leading to environmentally conscious and had
cut back on some practices known to
damage the rain forest.

But the Belo Monte dam was nev-

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ertheless green-lighted – long before Sen. José Porfírio VEGITATION INDEX benefits. It generated commerce. It
Bolsonaro became president – be- brought new people.
cause of a chronic energy shortage LESS VEGITATION MORE VEGITATION
that had led to blackouts and ration- “It brought progress.”
ing over the previous two decades. Altamira PA R A That’s a disputed position. Michigan
State University anthropologist Emilio
Belo Monte, while still an enormous 1986 Moran, who has studied Belo Monte
dam, has a somewhat smaller eco- closely, is that the “run of the river” de-
logical footprint in one sense – it has Sen. José Porfírio sign of the dam means it can’t sustain-
a smaller flooded area, due to a “run ably generate as much power as prom-
of the river” design that diverts part of Altamira DAM PA R A ised. That, in turn, means there may be
the Xingu into a secondary reservoir, a clamor for more dams on the Xingu.
rather than damming it entirely. Still, DAM 2017
the dam flooded or degraded a plot of Four blocks away from the Golden
forest larger than Chicago. Locals say BELO MONTE Ridge Mall, which opened to great
it also upended the ecosystem’s bal- DAM COMPLEX fanfare in 2017, Bretas, the Burger
ance. King franchisee, sat with his accoun-
Intermediate tant in his new home. It’s a green and
In Altamira, construction of the reservoir yellow bungalow, with a crescent on
dam added 35,000 temporary work- the door – a design reminiscent of the
ers to the 99,000 people already liv- Brazilian flag.
ing there. The influx fueled a stunning
growth spurt, even as tens of thou- He went over the payrolls for the 17
sands of rural dwellers upriver were
displaced. Many ended up in planned
communities in Altamira, some of
which transformed into ghettos rife
with drugs and crime.

Altamira’s mayor, Domingos Juvenil,
dismisses the naysayers with a wave. If
the dam brought anything, he says, it
was a much-needed boost to the city’s
economy.

“Some people are against every-
thing,” he said. “It’s the ideology of fear.”

The dam, he said, “brought many

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people in the region who now have Across the food court from Burger city is on the cusp of great things. “I know other investments are com-
jobs because of him. King, there’s a mural of jungle animals Not far away, a Canadian company ing, in gold and mining. It will bring ho-
and forest – now a popular backdrop for tels, and the city will grow,” Bretas said.
“We’re providing work,” he said. mall-goers to take selfies. He’s the only is angling to build a large-scale gold “Because in the Amazon, you can make
“We are seeing things changing con- international fast-food chain here, but mine, the kind of project that was money. That’s how I’ve always felt. That
cretely now – not just fairy tales, but because of the dam and all it brought stalled in recent years because of en- the Amazon was a place where you
business owners who believe in the to Altamira, he’s sure, he says, that the vironmental risks – but that Bolsonaro could really make money.” 
economy now,” he said. has signaled a willingness to fast-track.

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For better or worse, Lee Iacocca created the Celebrity CEO

BY JOE NOCERA mous corporate chieftains before Iacocca – John D. in their companies’ ad campaign: Dave Thomas,
When I heard last week that Lee Iacocca had Rockefeller and Walt Disney come to mind – but they founder of the Wendy’s Co., and Victor Kiam, who
passed away, I was momentarily taken aback. Not were the exceptions to the rule that CEOs should owned Remington Products Co., maker of electric
so much because he had died – he was, after all, 94 be low-key, boring even. Iacocca made it okay for a shavers. (His tag line: “I liked it so much, I bought the
– but because, for someone who had been such a chief executive not just to gain fame, but to desire it. company.”)
larger-than-life figure for so much of his career, he
had been out of the limelight for so long. When had a chief executive made himself the cen- CEOs became less bashful about granting inter-
Iacocca first burst into the public consciousness terpiece of his company’s ad campaign before Iacoc- views and posing for magazine covers. (By 2002, Bill
in 1963, when in the same week he made the cov- ca did it at Chrysler? When had one made himself a Gates had posed for Fortune’s cover 25 times.) Or
ers of both Time and Newsweek (and those were the selling point in asking Congress for help? Or taken bragging about their accomplishments to anyone
days when making the cover of Time or Newsweek a public victory lap the way Iacocca did after the who would listen. (I’m talking to you, Jack Welch.)
really meant something!). He was standing in front Chrysler turnaround, posing for magazine covers
of the brand new Ford Mustang, which he had (al- from Life to the Saturday Evening Post? Or publicly And then there were the ghost-written CEO autobi-
legedly) masterminded as a top Ford executive. muse about running for president? ographies, which poured forth into bookstores after
His last public act took place in 1995, when he and the success of “Iacocca: An Autobiography.” “Pizza
the financier Kirk Kerkorian made a foolhardy at- Oh, and when had a chief executive written an Tiger,” by Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino’s Piz-
tempt to take over Chrysler. Although he later formed autobiography that became one of the best-selling za Inc. “Work in Progress,” by Michael Eisner, former
an investment company, and dabbled in this and books of all time? Not business books, mind you. chief executive of The Walt Disney Co. “Straight From
that, this once unforgettable figure spent the last two Books. Published in 1984, more than 7 million cop- the Gut,” by Welch, CEO of General Electric Co. “Sam
decades of his life, well, forgotten. ies were sold by the end of the following year. Walton: Made in America,” by Walmart Inc. founder
In the headline of its obituary, the New York Times Sam Walton. “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM,” by
described Iacocca as a “Visionary Automaker Who After Iacocca did it, other CEOs put themselves Thomas Watson Jr. And lest we forget: “The Art of the
Led Both Ford and Chrysler.” And that’s true, so far Deal,” by Donald Trump. That came out three years
as it goes. Having accrued most of the credit for the after Iacocca’s book.
Mustang, he was promoted to Ford’s president by the
time he was 46. But in 1978, even though Ford was I never covered Iacocca myself, but I’ve long real-
going great guns, Henry Ford II fired him. Suppos- ized that much of my career has been spent taking
edly, Ford said he was canning Iacocca because he advantage of the trail he blazed. My very first business
didn’t like him. story, in 1982, was about T. Boone Pickens’ first hostile
Then came his tenure at Chrysler, which was on takeover attempt, which I wrote for Texas Monthly.
the brink of collapse when he took it over. He per-
suaded the federal government to give the company During my decade at Fortune, getting to know
$1.5 billion in loan guarantees, and used that money CEOs, interviewing them, writing stories about them
to orchestrate a brilliant turnaround, spearheaded – and getting them to pose for the cover – was at the
by the Chrysler minivan – a car that, in addition to heart of the enterprise. I did a short documentary
making the company gobs of money, had a profound about Warren Buffett. At the New York Times, my
impact on American society. (Just ask any parent.) readership always spiked when I wrote a column
All well and good. about Steve Jobs and Apple.
But Iacocca influenced the culture in another way
as well. The celebrification of chief executives can be Now at Bloomberg, I still find myself drawn to col-
traced directly to him. Yes, there had been other fa- umns about CEOs. Readers care about the comings
and goings of chief executives in a way they never did
before Lee Iacocca. 

A version of this column first appeared on Bloom-
berg. It does not necessarily reflect the views of Vero
Beach 32963.

SKIN CANCER PART XVII RADIATION THERAPY © 2019 VERO BEACH 32963 MEDIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

TREATMENT FOR MELANOMA (CONTINUED) While radiation (directing X-ray beams at a tumor) has
been used more often to treat basal or squamous cell
So far, we have covered many treatment modalities for carcinomas than melanoma in the past, it is now being
melanoma including: tested for use in combination with checkpoint blockade
 Surgical excision (resection) therapies for advanced melanoma. Current research
 Sentinel node biopsy/dissection suggests that radiation may react synergistically with im-
 Mohs surgery munotherapies and boost the immune response. Ideal
 Immunology (targeted therapies and checkpoint immunotherapy-radiation combinations, including timing
blockade therapies) and doses, are being studied. In addition to successfully
 Anti-PD1/PDL1 and anti-CTLA4 antibodies for brain treating local tumors, radiation may stimulate a systemic
metastases immune response that helps control distant disease.
 Oncolytic virus injections A new use of radiation is in the treatment of oligometasta-
 Adoptive cell transfer ses, which are limited metastatic tumors that spread from
Today we’ll conclude our discussion of treatment options the primary tumor to just one or two distant parts of the
for melanoma. body, including organs. Used alone, radiation has been
found to be curative at these sites; combined with system-
BRAF AND MEK INHIBITORS ic therapy, it has appeared even more effective, possibly
stopping cancer from metastasizing (spreading) altogether.
About half of all melanomas have mutations in the BRAF
gene. Melanoma cells with these mutations make an al- CHEMOTHERAPY
tered BRAF protein that helps them grow. There are now
drugs that target this mutated protein directly (molecular- With the success of new immunotherapies and targeted
ly targeted therapy). BRAF inhibitors are drugs that target therapies, the use of chemotherapy has been phased out
the mutated BRAF protein. The growth driving pathway as frontline (initial) treatment for melanoma. Currently
used by BRAF includes another protein, MEK. If a person dacarbazine (DTIC) may be given by intravenous infu-
has a BRAF mutation and needs targeted therapy, he or sion (IV) alone or in combination with other chemother-
she will most likely be given both a BRAF inhibitor and a apy drugs for melanomas that have spread to the brain
MEK inhibitor since the combination seems to shrink tu- or nervous system. Chemotherapy may also be used at
mors for longer periods of time than using either type of times to supplement other treatments as well.
drug alone.
CLINICAL TRIALS
C-KIT INHIBITORS
If you have Stage III or IV melanoma, you may want to ask
A small number of melanomas are related to mutations your doctor if he or she thinks you might be a good candi-
of the C-KIT gene. These changes are more common in date for a clinical trial. While clinical trials are experimen-
melanomas that start on the palms of the hands, soles tal, patients who qualify may gain access to treatments
of the feet, under the nails, inside the mouth or other that are not generally available. 
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INSIGHT BOOK REVIEW

The serial killer’s Achilles’ heel is the very thing make and color of car only to realize he lacked prob- Nonetheless, the other interrogators pieced to-
that makes him so fascinating: His urge to repeat able cause to pull it over. “Find a reason,” the cop’s gether how Keyes got away with so many murders.
himself. He either stages his murders as rituals, thus superior insisted over the radio. He did: The driver He wasn’t picky. With the exception of young chil-
providing clues to why he is enraged with the world, exceed the speed limit – by a measly two miles, but dren, whom Keyes claimed to have left alone, he
or he falls into patterns, because devising a new mo- that was enough. At the wheel of the stopped car would just as soon target a portly middle-aged cou-
dus operandi for each killing calls for unsustainable was Israel Keyes. ple as he would a young woman such as Koenig. This
levels of creativity and flexibility. randomness, along with Keyes’ vanishingly low pro-
Kidnapping is a federal crime, and the FBI had file, enabled him to kill undetected for years.
But what if a serial killer has enough wits and been directing the case from Anchorage. Taken
self-control to fashion an amorphous M. O.? What if there, Keyes admitted to killing Koenig and to having Nor was Keyes trying to make a point about his
he reads and learns from FBI profiles of fiends like done this sort of thing before, though how often and victims’ pasts or sexuality or any other personal
himself and from fiction such as “The Silence of the who his victims were he wouldn’t say. He was able to characteristic, Callahan deduces after listening to
Lambs”? What if the very serialism of his “work” es- take charge of his own interrogation, largely because tapes of his interrogation. He was after power and
capes notice? And what if he defies the stereotype of of what Callahan sees as the ineptitude of a lawyer sick thrills. “When Keyes took people,” she writes,
serial killers as sullen loners by being a family man? from the U.S. attorney’s office in Anchorage who in- “he was acutely attuned to their animal response:
sisted on being the alpha questioner only to com- the acid flush of adrenaline flooding the brain, color
All these exceptions were true of Israel Keyes, the mit one blunder after another. Most damagingly, the draining from the faces, pupils dilating in fear. He
subject of Maureen Callahan’s riveting book “Ameri- bumbling lawyer failed to give the right impression: could smell it in their sweat. He liked to extend that
can Predator.” Make the suspect think you already know far more response as long as possible.” He also got kicks from
about him and his actions than you actually do. watching TV news clips about his murders and com-
And Keyes had something else going for him: He menting on them (anonymously) online. He gloried
barely left a trace. “No property records,” Callahan in his superiority to the police.
writes. “No documentation of parents or siblings. No
address history, no gun licenses, no academic tran- Keyes had been raised in a fundamentalist sect,
scripts. … He had left nearly no digital footprints, home-schooled and surrounded by guns. As a child,
no paper trail – and this was a guy with an unusual he exhibited the behavior that seems to be a com-
name.” Later it came out that Keyes had never even mon denominator among adult serial killers: a lust
applied for a Social Security card, though he had for torturing animals. So how did the grown-up
done military service. Keyes get caught? Callahan suggests that it was only
because he wanted to be, that he made the rookie
Callahan, an investigative journalist, begins her mistake of repeatedly using Koenig’s ATM card be-
narrative with the murder that spelled the beginning cause it was time for his brilliance to be recognized.
of the end for Keyes. In February 2012, a high school But we’ll never really know: Keyes committed sui-
senior named Samantha Koenig went missing from cide while in police custody awaiting trial for Koe-
the kiosk where she worked as a barista in Anchor- nig’s murder.
age. A security-camera video showed her leaving
with an unknown adult male. But the transaction “American Predator” is a fine book – exhaustively
looked so ordinary that at first the cops wondered researched and candid without being prurient – that
whether the girl hadn’t “staged [her own] abduction, should be as illuminating to law-enforcement as it is
and the man in the video was her accomplice.” The fascinating to the general reader. If only there were
man had shown so little of himself to the camera some way to keep it from being read by would-be
that “tall and athletic” was as much of a description serial killers. 
as could be gleaned. (Koenig’s sang-froid may have
been an act she put on to keep her abductor calm.) AMERICAN PREDATOR

The first break in the case came when someone THE HUNT FOR THE MOST METICULOUS
began using Koenig’s ATM card to make cash with- SERIAL KILLER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
drawals in Texas. Then an alert small-town Texas cop
reported seeing a car parked near an ATM at 2:23 BY MAUREEN CALLAHAN | VIKING. 285 PP. $36
a.m. Callahan homes in on the nerve-racking mo- REVIEW BY DENNIS DRABELLE, THE WASHINGTON POST
ment when a highway patrolman spotted the same

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INSIGHT GAMES

HEADS YOU WIN, TAILS THEY LOSE WEST NORTH EAST
A2 KJ76 10 9 8 4 3
By Phillip Alder - Bridge Columnist AK9763 85 2
A5 Q94 J 10 8 6 3
Sondra Radvanovsky, an American-Canadian soprano who specializes in 19th-century 874 J 10 3 2 95
Italian opera, said, “When I was signing up for the University of Southern California’s music
program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute — tails SOUTH
would be voice.” Q5
Q J 10 4
Bridge players like to find plays that leave an opponent feeling that it is heads I lose, tails you K72
win. How did South do that to West in this deal? South was in three no-trump, and West AKQ6
started with three rounds of hearts.
Dealer: South; Vulnerable: North-South
When West overcalled two hearts, North made a negative double. This promised four
spades and some values. South went for the vulnerable game. The Bidding:

South started with six winners: two hearts and four clubs. He needed to establish three SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
more tricks. It looked as though West had the spade and diamond aces, so declarer had to 1 NT 2 Hearts Dbl. Pass
get those extra winners without letting West get in with one ace, dislodge South’s last heart, 3 NT Pass Pass Pass LEAD:
regain the lead with his other ace and cash the last two hearts. What was the solution? A Hearts

It was to impale West on the tines of Morton’s fork. At trick four, South led his spade five.
How could West have defended? If he took the trick, South would have had three spade
winners. So West played low. Now declarer returned to his hand with a club and led a
low diamond. If West had won with his ace, South would have taken one spade and two
diamonds. When West ducked again, South won with dummy’s queen and played a spade
to his queen, getting two spades and one diamond. It was heads South won, tails West lost.

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SOLUTIONS TO PREVIOUS ISSUE (JULY 4) ON PAGE 62
INSIGHT GAMES

ACROSS DOWN
1 Demarcation (8) 1 Cook or stew slowly (6)
5 Unit of land area (4) 2 Accidental (13)
9 Farewell (5) 3 Mixture for bread (5)
10 Sailor (7) 4 Walk or wander (6)
11 School bag (7) 6 Deep thought (13)
12 Naive (5) 7 Task (6)
13 Chortle (5) 8 Source (6)
15 Connect (5) 14 Sale of goods (6)
19 Lift (5) 16 Dissertation (6)
20 Get ready (7) 17 Globe (6)
22 Dawn (7) 18 Middle (6)
23 Live (5) 21 Occasion (5)
24 Unaccompanied (4)
25 Set of words (8)

The Telegraph

How to do Sudoku:

Fill in the grid so the
numbers one through
nine appear just once
in every column, row
and three-by-three
square.

The Telegraph

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INSIGHT GAMES

ACROSS 95 Emulating Helen and 53 Frosty The Washington Post
Paris 54 One who eats out of your
1 Talkative
7 Hog haven 97 Apothecary amount hand?
10 “Pretentious? ___?” 98 Common connector 56 James Clavell opus
13 Get by begging 99 Quote, part 6 58 Symbol in ancient
18 Ms. Bloomer of bloomers 101 Quote, part 7
106 South continuance manuscripts
fame 107 Saudi neighbor 60 Occupied
19 Corporate VIP 108 Designer Gernreich 63 Mee krob’s cuisine
20 Wrestlers’ protectors 109 End of quote 64 Shoemaker’s hammering
21 Parts of imperial domes 113 Slap
22 Start of a quote from 114 Hearing-related place (anagram of
115 Mr. Flanders LOST A PEN)
A Star Is Born, 1937 116 Birthplace of the noodle 65 ___ Jima
24 College offerings 117 Chan portrayer 66 Apr.-Oct. change
25 Closes the gap 118 Fake-fruit material 67 Flimsy
26 Gas-pump suffix 119 Tokyo, once 75 Nothing like Superman
27 Quote, part 2 120 Steak, not cake 76 L.A.’s area: abbr.
30 Quote, part 3 78 Day O’Connor colleague
33 Feminine ending DOWN 79 True
34 “Split” spots 1 Mover’s truck 80 Gratuity
35 Egyptian city of stone 2 Far-from-feelgood music 82 Growing ground
83 Acrobat catcher
fame style 84 Made another call to
36 Rough 3 Bounty hunter incentives 87 Argued
40 German article 4 Window buy 88 Consarned
41 Famed aviator’s initials 5 Singer Mann 90 Cad
42 Guitarist’s or stripper’s 6 Who-goes-first test, in pool 91 Clue for Sherlock
7 Descendants 92 Letter from “Grandma”?
buys 8 Campers hammer them 94 Notebook, in Nantes
44 Area of N.Y.C. 9 Dairy desserts 96 Less-than-satisfied remark
46 Works by Claude 10 Shelley or Lincoln 97 Dickens’s Little ___
48 Even matches? 11 Conductor Klemperer 99 Longtime N.J. base
49 Word after chap or crest 12 Giving, as a ticket 100 Long
51 Somebody 13 Like some lenses 101 Letterman, for one
53 ___ many words 14 Writer James 102 Filler that fires
54 Great Expectations kid 15 Sweetheart 103 Take a caravel
55 Erstwhile home-run king 16 Goldfinger portrayer Frobe 104 Pre’s cousin
56 Early American home? 17 Renamed oil co. 105 Ms. Lee
57 The old soft shoe, for short? 20 Roof types 110 Uprooting tool
59 Nobelist Bohr 23 Actors Peter and Annette 111 D.C.-to-Annapolis dir.
61 It’s two after tau 28 Perfect 10 Mary Lou 112 Expwy., e.g.
62 Quote, part 4 29 Have ___
66 Quote, part 5 FILM COMMENT By Merl Reagle
68 Sojourn stop (become satisfied)
69 Area of a ship’s bow 30 Alphabetised tome: abbr.
70 Actor Whitman, 31 Actress O’Connor
32 Hitchcock’s ___
familiarly
71 Sharpen Mrs. Smith
72 “Whoever-you-are!” 36 Half of “the ropes”
73 Letters on GI letters 37 Lang. of the deaf
74 A Deadly Sin 38 Publisher’s emblem
77 Katarina or Ekaterina’s sport 39 Generic-sounding horror film
81 Whereabouts claims
83 Now, to Nero title
84 Get, as a shark or a mark 41 Cell denizen
85 Puzzling goose 43 Indignant retort
86 “Ninety degrees” spot 45 Prompt
89 Touch of frost 46 Preferred
90 Slangy occupation 47 Final resting places
93 Minuteman foe 50 Church area
51 Semaphorist, e.g.
52 Call-in show access

The Telegraph

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INSIGHT BACK PAGE

He’s neat, she’s not. Is it time to make a clean break?

BY CAROLYN HAX lution that’s built on mutual acceptance that neither
Washington Post of you is going to change. Either you develop a sys-
tem you both can live with – e.g., he cleans up after
Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend and you, in return you pay bills and grocery shop and do
I have been together for 4½ years, other annoying chores that don’t require neatness
living together for one. He is super- – or you scrounge the money for a housekeeper, or
super neat and clean, and I am, you go your loving but separate ways.
admittedly, a slob. He knew all of
this before we moved in together, Dear Carolyn: A friend I grew up with is getting
and said he didn’t mind in the least. I made sure to married this summer. I’m in the wedding party. She’s
confirm that several times before the big move. having a bachelorette party in a middle-of-nowhere
Now, a year later, he is saying how much he is both- resort town 2½ hours away. I’m expected to be able
ered by the chaos. I understand this, and I truly do to take off work as well as rent an expensive cabin.
make an effort, but I just don’t have the clean gene. I stated my stance: supporting her decision but re-
Now he is getting upset about this, but so am I, since I gretting I would not be able to attend. I also offered
confirmed several times last year that he knew I was alternatives that would still enable us to spend time
like this and it wasn’t going to bother him. together even if I was absent from the actual event.
We are getting engaged and this is our one big issue.
Can’t afford a maid. Who’s in the right? Now I have been deemed “less of a friend” because I
am not going. Am I a bad friend or is this a bad idea?
– Sooo Not a Domestic Goddess
– Bachelorette Regret

Sooo Not a Domestic Goddess: So I get to dispense didn’t before – that he does, in fact, mind the mess? Bachelorette Regret: There’s nothing wrong with
blame? Cool. He thought he could handle it, he can’t, it’s bad, but the idea of an elaborate out-of-town party, and
it’s done, so move on from the right vs. wrong thing. there’s nothing wrong with the friend who declines
OK. He’s wrong for changing the terms of a deal to go. Your regrets were just fine.
when he was fully informed when he made it and What you move on to is figuring out a practical so-
none of the facts have since changed. What counts as a bad idea – and bad friendship –
is enforcing attendance at an elaborate out-of-town
There! Now your filth won’t annoy him. party as if it’s required by law. Any time you ask
You’re arguing a point that’s totally beside the guests to travel and spend, you have to expect that
point now. Which means you’re wrong, too, for de- some, if not most, will refuse. You may have shared
bating fairness while the laundry piles up. a childhood with this girl, but you’re too kind to sug-
Yes, you had a deal. But what good is a year-old gest she grew up. 
deal if he sees now, as your actual roommate, what he

BIT OF GOOD NEWS IN IDIOPATHIC
PULMONARY FIBROSIS FIGHT

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HEALTH

Bit of good news in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis fight

BY TOM LLOYD come in and we have to tell them, getting air out of their lungs, IPF getting older. Maybe I’m out of shape.’
Staff Writer ‘Yeah, you’ve got something and I patients can’t get enough air in. Their It usually presents with shortness
don’t know what caused it and it’s lungs become so scarred they can no of breath, sometimes a dry, non-
If there’s one diagnosis you never going to kill you and you’re not going longer expand. productive cough.” It can also present
want to get, says Steward Medical to survive a long time.’”
Group pulmonologist Dr. Michael
Layton, it is IPF, or idiopathic Since, as Layton says, “the median
pulmonary fibrosis. survival of untreated IPF is about four
years,” it’s easy to understand why he
Without hemming or hawing, calls it “not a good diagnosis to get.”
Layton flatly states IPF “carries a very
poor prognosis. Basically, patients Unlike with COPD or emphysema,
in which patients have difficulty

Fiberoptic bronchoscope. P HOTOS BY DENISE RITCHIE

Adding to the difficult nature of with symptoms as simple as fatigue.
the disease is the fact it is hard to “Traditionally,” Layton continues,
diagnose.
“the diagnosis of idiopathic
“It can be mistaken for congestive pulmonary fibrosis has been made by
heart failure,” Layton says. “It can be taking a patient’s history, a physical
mistaken for an acute pneumonia. A exam, high-resolution CT scans, and
lot of times, because the presentation serologic testing to exclude other
is over a long period of time, some potential illnesses that can cause
patients just think, ‘Eh, I’m just something that looks a lot like IPF –

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / July 11, 2019 41

things like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, HEALTH
scleroderma and Sjogren’s disease.
Dr. Michael Layton medication for each individual patient.
“Many of those disorders can cause And there’s some good news on the
a pattern in the lungs that looks a lot
like IPF. It can have a Usual Interstitial treatment front, too: There are two
Pneumonia appearance under the new drugs – Esbriet and Ofev – on the
microscope, so we also draw blood market to treat IPF. The drugs don’t
to make sure patients don’t have one cure or stop the progression of the
of those other illnesses – because the disease, but they do slow progression
treatments for them are very different.” and make the condition a little easier
to live with.
Because diagnosis is so tricky,
patients sometimes have to undergo Dr. Michael Layton is with the Stew-
“open lung” biopsies, a risky, ard Medical Group’s Sebastian River
traumatic procedure. Medical Group and Riverside Pulmo-
nary and Internal Medicine. His of-
Which is where a bit of good news fices are at 12920 U.S. 1 in Sebastian.
for IPF patients comes into view. The phone number is 772-388-8322. 

According to Layton, Sebastian
River Medical Center is now working
with Veracyte, a company that
offers a much less severe screening
process that can be used in place
of the traditional open lung biopsy
procedure.

As Layton explains, open lung
biopsies, are major surgical
procedures that “require several days
in the hospital … If you talk to thoracic
surgeons, they’ll tell you that the
open lung biopsy is one of the highest
risk procedures for complications.”

Now, however, Layton can perform
a less debilitating type of biopsy
through a thin, flexible tube called a
bronchoscope and send the samples
he collects to Veracyte for “Envisia”
testing.

“Envisia,” according to Layton, “is
what they call a genomic classifier. It
looks for the 190 most common genes
that are associated with IPF. In other
words, if you take all of these patients
who have IPF and you look at all the
samples, what they’ve been able to
determine is that there are certain
genes that are expressed in patients
with IPF in the lung itself,” and that
can rule out other conditions that
mimic the symptoms of IPF.

In performing this type of
biopsy, says Layton, “the risk of a
complication is under 3 percent
and it’s an outpatient procedure.
Somebody comes to the hospital,
they get anesthetized, just like in a
colonoscopy or an endoscopy. It takes
10 to 15 minutes to do it. The patient
is [then] woken up and they go home.”

A few days later, Layton has a
genetic profile of the disease he has
to treat, though he does admit it’s not
infallible.

The Envisia report carries about
a 70 percent accuracy rate, but
that’s appreciably better than the 40
percent number that high-definition
CT scans can offer and Layton is
clearly proud to say, “We are the first
local hospital to provide this Veran
genomic testing.”

The net result?
Fewer misdiagnosed cases and great-
er certainty in prescribing the proper

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HEALTH

Consult your doctor about new or severe headaches

BY FRED CICETTI activity; a headache that intensifies The pain from migraines is moderate help. About 85 percent of cluster-head-
Columnist and persists; headaches that change to severe. ache sufferers are male.
character; persistent or severe vomit-
Q. I seem to be getting a lot of head- ing; a headache that is your “first or Another subcategory of primary Secondary headaches include chron-
aches lately. I’m pretty sure it’s been worst.” More than 45 million Ameri- headache is mixed headache syn- ic progressive, sinus and hormone
caused by stress, but I was wondering if I cans suffer from recurring headaches. drome, which is the combination of headaches.
should have it checked by a doctor. About 70 percent of headache sufferers migraine and tension headaches.
are women. Chronic progressive headaches
You should definitely see your doc- Cluster headaches, which come in worsen and become more frequent.
tor. Most headaches are harmless, but There are primary headaches that groups, are the worst type of primary These headaches may be caused by a
they can be a symptom of a serious are not related to another condition, headache. The pain hits behind one brain or skull illness such as encepha-
condition. and secondary headaches, which are. eye and it’s severe. Cluster headaches litis, inflammation of the brain. If dis-
occur one to three times per day dur- eases are ruled out, doctors will try
The American Council for Headache Primary headaches include tension, ing a cluster period, which may last two to focus on preventing the pain from
Education urges people to see a doctor migraine, mixed headache syndrome weeks to three months. striking. Preventive medication may
if there are any of the following symp- and cluster headaches. About 90 per- include antidepressants, muscle relax-
toms with headache: cent of primary headaches are caused Preventive medications are pre- ants or other drugs.
by tension. These muscle-contraction scribed for cluster headaches. During a
Headaches that began after age 50; headaches cause mild-to-moderate cluster headache, injecting medication Sinus headaches cause pain in the
three or more headaches per week; tak- pain and come and go. Tension head- or inhaling 100 percent oxygen may head and face and sometimes can fool
ing a pain reliever almost daily; taking aches are called chronic if you have you into thinking you have a dental
more than the recommended doses of them more than 15 days per month. problem. These headaches coincide
over-the-counter pain relievers; stiff They are episodic if you get them less with other sinusitis symptoms such as
neck; fever; shortness of breath; unex- than 15 days per month. Most tension nasal discharge. Over-the-counter pain
pected symptoms that affect your eyes, headaches can be treated with over- relievers and decongestants work well
ears, nose or throat; dizziness; slurred the-counter pain relievers such as acet- with this type of headache.
speech; weakness; numbness; a tin- aminophen, aspirin and ibuprofen.
gling sensation; confusion; drowsiness; Hormone headaches come with
headaches that begin and persist after The precise cause of migraines is changing hormone levels during men-
a head injury; a headache triggered by unknown. However, research has struation, pregnancy,and menopause.
exertion, coughing, bending or sexual demonstrated that migraines involve These are treated with non-steroidal
the actions of nerves and blood vessels. anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibu-
profen, and other drugs. 



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ON FAITH

In complicated world, simple is best: Do unto others ...

BY REV. DRS. CASEY AND BOB BAGGOTT daily commute to and from his home asked Diaz if he owned the place. He ing fairly elaborate cost/benefit cal-
Columnists in the Bronx. On his evening commute, couldn’t imagine why else someone culations in our treatment of others.
he usually departed the subway one would be nice to all the diner’s Do I need to acknowledge that per-
Some time ago Michael Garofalo stop before his home stop in order to employees. Diaz replied, “Well, son? Should I express regret to this
produced a fascinating piece for eat dinner at his favorite diner. But haven’t you been taught you should person? If I offer to do something for
NPR’s “Morning Addition” called “A one evening when Diaz stepped onto be nice to everybody?” someone will others ask the same
Victim Treats His Mugger Right.” It’s the subway platform, he encountered from me? If I allow this slight or this
the story of the encounter between a teenage boy, brandishing a knife. “Yeah,” the boy countered, “but I affront to go unanswered, am I invit-
31-year-old Julio Diaz, a social worker Diaz promptly pulled out his wallet didn’t think people actually behaved ing its recurrence? And so on and so
in New York City, and a teenager who and handed it to the boy. But when the that way.” on.
held him up at knife point. boy began to walk away, Diaz called
out to him, “Hey, wait a minute. You When their dinner concluded, Diaz Diaz’s approach seems to cut
Here’s what happened. Diaz made a forgot something. If you’re going to told the boy he’d have to pay for the through all that confusion to offer a
be robbing people for the rest of the meal, since he still had Diaz’s wal- behavioral pattern that’s infinitely
night, you might as well take my coat let. Without hesitating, the boy slid repeatable, though deceptively sim-
to keep you warm.” the wallet back to Diaz. Diaz paid for ple. Do unto others as you would have
their meal and then handed the boy them do unto you. Sounds familiar,
The boy looked startled and asked $20, asking for something in return – doesn’t it? We’ve all heard it asserted
Diaz why he would offer him his coat the boy’s knife. that treating others as we would like
as well as his wallet. Diaz responded, to be treated is always a great way to
“If you’re willing to risk your freedom The exchange was made and the behave. But is that behavioral pattern
for a few dollars, then I guess you boy went on his way. really meant to apply to ALL others?
must really need the money.” Then At ALL times?
Diaz asked the boy if he would like Later, Diaz summarized his meet-
to join him for dinner. And so the ing with the would-be robber by ex- Well, as Diaz points out, you can
two had dinner together in the diner plaining, “I figure, you know, if you only hope that in treating others well,
where Diaz was a regular. treat people right, you can only hope they will treat you well in return. It’s
that they treat you right. It’s as simple not a prefect system, perhaps, but in
The manager, the dishwashers and as it gets in this complicated world.” this complicated world, it has always
all the waiters came by the table to been an awfully good one. 
say hello to Diaz. Surprised, the boy Yes, it’s a complicated world, isn’t
it? Most of us navigate through life’s
complications, it seems, by employ-

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Valentino and the importance of beauty for beauty’s sake

BY LISA ARMSTRONG your comfort zone?
It didn’t even matter that the ap-
The Telegraph
pliqued satin mauve dress with its
You would have needed a heart of huge frontal bow will cost the same
ploddingly prosaic brick not to be as a house in rural France, because
moved when scores of artisans in surprisingly, these clothes also by-
white lab coats stepped onto the cat- pass that knee-jerk urge so many of
walk at the end of another virtuoso us have to own everything that takes
Maison Valentino couture show from our fancy.
Pierpaolo Piccioli.
They’re so beyond what most of
Partly it was their diffidence – some us would ever wear, it’s enough just
of them looked slightly dazed, others to look at them as they rustle, and
seemed keen to get the victory tour swoosh past, without needing to own
over. Quite a few had tears in their them. We can always take lessons
eyes (so did the audience). But they all from those dazzling color juxtaposi-
looked proud. tions: pebble and fuchsia, lilac and
orange, oxblood and tangerine … 71
Many of them had tape measures masterly combinations in all.
dangling around their necks or pins in
their lapels. Theirs is a real hands-on It turns out that appreciating beauty
job, right up to the last moments be- for beauty’s sake is a strangely edify-
fore a model steps onto the catwalk. ing sensation. So is the fact that there
are houses still doing couture on this
At a time when low-cost fashion scale. Sure, couture shows help sell a
is – rightly – taking a beating for the label’s perfumes and sunglasses, but
high price it extracts from the planet, plenty of brands bigger than this one
Valentino couture represents an ide- do fine without a couture wing.
alized alternative. Made to measure,
one off, transcendent fashion that de- It so happens that Valentino’s cou-
fies trends. ture business, especially in wedding
dresses, is highly profitable: That’s
In the end, who cares that most of one more reason to take heart. Make it
us will never have occasion to wear special enough, and they shall come.
a purple ruffled silk taffeta ballgown
with a heart-shaped bodice? Or that One final thought: In this jangly age
a pink fit and flare long dress com- of increasingly technological domi-
posed of painstakingly hand-stitched nance and fears about Artificial Intel-
squares and bows doesn’t answer the ligence, these white-coated men and
problem of what to wear to the office women – a reassuring number of them
this winter? young, suggesting that this is not,
contrary to all logic, a dying art – are
Or that a sunshine yellow tassled a reminder of the importance of the
wool maxi skirt, beaded daisy sheath human touch and the fact that cyni-
and matching tassled hat isn’t quite cism isn’t always the best lens through
what you initially had in mind when which to view. 
you said you wanted to break out of

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7 heatwave-dressing problems solved

BY CHARLIE GOWANS-EGLINTON altogether, but look for a wide leg crop thing super tight-fitting or clingy. Look the feet of any woman in summer, and
The Telegraph pair. The A-line cut and shorter length for aluminium-free deodorants, as a potted history of her shoe choices is
mean there’s space for air to circulate: it’s the aluminium reacting with your easy to read, especially for those who’ve
Confirmation that summer is defi- avoid anything with stretch and look for sweat and shirt which causes those bought into this summer’s ‘naked san-
nitely upon us landed in my inbox last loose-fitting cottons instead. They’re grim yellow stains. dal’ trend – those sexy barely-there
week. A press release promising to “beat also all the better for showing off a good straps across the foot turn into cheese
the chub rub” (PR nonsense for bare pair of shoes. Wrong footed wire as soon as your feet start to swell
thighs that chafe together in the heat) Show me a beautiful sandal, and I’ll in the heat. Avoid: look for wider straps
was peddling sort-of-cycling-shorts The hot-cold cha cha show you the blister, cut or callous to that won’t cut in so much, and ankle
to wear under those lightweight sum- Breaking a sweat, cha cha cha. Sweat match. Even the sandals that I broke in straps that will stop your shoes mov-
mer dresses. But is the solution to wear drying cold, cha cha cha. My daily last summer have found their fighting ing around so much on your feet. If you
what is effectively a pair of lycra control home-office-lunch-office-grocery spirit, and are rubbing. Look down at have high arches, avoid straps that cross
pants? Speaking from personal experi- store-home climate dash means I need
ence, such sausage-casing underwear clothes that will work at 70 or 98 de-
undoes any heat-busting magic of the grees, so look for light layers in neutral
light cotton dress worn over the top. shades – khaki, cream, navy, tan – that
are easy to mix and match. A beige or
Now that the heat is here, it brings khaki cotton shacket (shirt/jacket hy-
with it a long, unglamorous list of an- brid) and white blazer both have throw-
noyances that go largely unmentioned, on-ability, and will work over pretty
since it’s not very sexy to talk about much anything.
swollen feet or sweat patches. I polled
the Telegraph’s fashion desk to come up Wet wet wet
with the seven most widely shared style Sweat patches are one of the easiest
problems. Here’s how to solve them. sartorial perils to combat. Sometimes
it’s just about damage control. Black,
The rub white and print all disguise sweat
On cooler days, control shorts are patches well, while block colors high-
an option (my favorites are the clas- light them. Breathable natural fabrics
sic Spanx), but they will up the hot- – cotton, linen – dry quickly, and are
and-bothered factor, and I certainly less likely to make you sweat in the first
wouldn’t recommend them on vacation place. Linen does crease badly, so avoid
– they’re too much like work. If you’re dresses or jumpsuits–- you’re less likely
planning a lot of walking – say, around to get a rumpled middle in separates –
a cobbled old town on vacation – swap or look for a print, rather than a block
the wafty skirt for wafty trousers in- color, as that will distract from any folds
stead. Arket’s printed pair is incredibly – see Whistles’ animal print linen dress,
lightweight, and you can dial it up or which would work in an office or at the
down for different occasions depend- weekend. Silk watermarks easily, so is
ing on the top you choose. If you usually best avoided on the top half – as is any-
live in jeans, you needn’t give them up

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over the foot. Fabric and faux-leathers Bikini vs. one-piece: Which is most flattering?
don’t stretch, and leather does, so you
may need to size up or down. Your feet BY BETHAN HOLT is me and I’m proud of how I look.” Any a little to the imagination.
will be bigger at the end of a hot day – critics will just have to deal with it. I understand the feeling of freedom
so depending on when you’re shopping, The Telegraph
shoes may feel snugger. None of us are In praise of the one-piece, by Bethan which a bikini brings, I really do, but
likely to emerge completely unscathed, National Bikini Day was last week, Holt when it comes to chicness, a one-piece
but you can minimize damage: don’t which just happens to coincide with reigns supreme. And you are far more
over-pumice your heels, or you’ll leave peak swimwear season when women This summer I am going on holiday to likely to be able to swan dive into the
the skin vulnerably soft; always carry are weighing up the eternal one-piece the Italian island of Pantelleria because pool or sea and keep your dignity in a
blister plasters; don’t wear the same vs. bikini debate. Here, two fashion edi- I saw it in a film. That film was “A Big- swimsuit than in a awkward bikini top.
pair of new shoes two days in a row, and tors fight for their favorites ... ger Splash,” starring Tilda Swinton and
moisturize to heal any scrapes faster. Dakota Johnson. For me, this is nothing to do with
In praise of the bikini, by Tamara body image. When it comes to figure-
Underwear Overshare Abraham I hate to cast stereotypes, but when flattering and feel-good, there are boun-
A by-product of making fabrics thin- it comes to swimwear, you are either a tiful options for women of all shapes
ner is making them sheerer – or in some When it comes to swimwear, I’m de- Tilda or a Dakota. Dakota wears bikinis and sizes whether in two pieces or one.
cases, near-transparent. It’s also more voted to the bikini. The two-piece can along with cut-off denim shorts, teeny- There is surely no silhouette more uni-
expensive to properly line a dress. Your genuinely be more flattering than a weeny little dresses and crochet crop versally alluring than a gently curved
new dress’ resemblance to a napkin can one-piece, celebrating a woman’s body tops. Tilda, by contrast, is always in a low-backed swimsuit.
be hard to spot in the artificial light of a rather than concealing it, plus it dries one-piece. When she’s not in a swim-
changing room, or when you’re getting faster after a dip in the ocean or pool. suit, her wardrobe comprises cool cot- One-pieces are a fabulous way to get
dressed in semi-darkness of a morning: ton dresses, plain caftans and mannish through a vacation day, too. Simply
no, this transparency will only become Now, before you accuse me of be- shirts, all created by Dior in a beauti- bring along a pair of linen shorts or a
apparent to you half way through the ing one of those rail-thin fashion edi- fully restrained palette of blues, creams flowy midi-skirt and you have an in-
day, by which point everyone and their tors who last ate a carb in 1998, let me and black. stant, nonchalant outfit, worthy of Jac-
dog will have seen that you prefer full assure you, I’m not. I’m 5 feet, 4 inches queline Kennedy stepping off a yacht,
briefs to bikinis. and a size 12, with plenty to feel self- Ever since I saw this film, Tilda has from dawn to beyond dusk.
Black, white or brightly colored un- conscious about. epitomized summer style goals for me.
derwear will stand out all the more, even She is the ultimate one-piece woman. I must add that there are waterbound
if they match the color of the dress – ei- But bikinis allow me to buy tops and For me, that means conjuring a mood of moments in “A Bigger Splash” when Til-
ther stock up on skin-tone underwear bottoms in different sizes – so many of cool elegance and graceful understate- da is not in a one-piece. At these points
or buy a basic silk slip dress (man-made us are different sizes in the bust and the ment. A one-piece is a little bit sporty she’s skinny dipping which really sums
fabrics can create static), which will not bottom. A lot of brands offer the same and rarely overtly sexy, always leaving it up. Go sleek one-piece or nothing.
only add a layer of opacity but also stop print in multiple styles too. Why settle for anything in-between? 
your dress from vacuum-wrapping into
your crevices in a light wind. It’s fun to mix and match different
sets, as well – a crochet top with a print-
Frizzy lids ed bottom. Specialist swimwear brands
Hazy sky in the morning, hairdress- now use fabrics that hug the body with-
er’s warning. A pump or two of hair oil out creating that sausage-casing effect.
will help to smooth flyaways, but be
light-handed lest you stray into greasy Then there’s the issue of tan lines:
mobster territory. Headbands are back even if you slather on the factor 50, you’ll
in fashion, championed by Kate Mid- likely pick up some color, and a one-
dleton and designer Miuccia Prada: piece will leave you with a pale midriff,
brush hair straight back and the band which can look a little odd when the rest
will keep any frace-framing baby hairs of your body is tanned.
at bay under a band. I always pack a
few printed silk scarves for vacations A little color can make you look slim-
– which I twist into a rope and wear as mer, more toned and dramatically
headbands – suddenly that frizz looks boost your confidence, making a bikini
like beachy waves. seem less daunting.

The perma-hot flush For the bikini beginner, the high-
When it gets hot, even the bare mini- waisted bottom is the perfect way to
mum of clothing can feel like a swaddle dip your toe into the two-piece waters
blanket. If you must leave the con- without baring all. They only expose
fines of your house and put on proper the narrowest part of the torso, and the
clothes, the simplest solution is to carry 1950s aesthetic is really chic.
a fan. While they’re not the prettiest of
things, they’ll do the job, and most even But my preference for a bikini goes
come with USB charge cords so you can beyond the practical – it also has a lot to
charge them up in the car. Still, there’s do with how it makes me feel. There is
something incredibly elegant about a nothing quite like the physical freedom
wooden fan, and & Other Stories has of sunbathing and swimming while
paired up with Fern Fans on a small line wearing as little as possible, and the bi-
of hand-painted floral and striped fans kini lends itself better to this.
in summery shades that are beautiful
enough to be accessories in their own I feel as though the one-piece makes
right – just be careful not to send any me look self-conscious, whether I am or
covert fan-language messages.  not. And confidence is a crucial ingredi-
ent in any swimwear look. Yes, my stom-
ach rolls when I sit, and I bloat after eat-
ing, but that’s true of everyone and it’s
not something to be embarrassed about.

With a degree of self-acceptance,
wearing a bikini can be a liberating, em-
powering thing. It tells the world: “This

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DINING REVIEW

Citrus: Better than ever with adventurous new dishes

BY TINA RONDEAU
Columnist

When Citrus finally reopened Roasted baby beets, herbed goat cheese My husband’s scallops, pan-seared Sweet Butter and Bacon Risotto
three months ago, almost a year with a parmesan red wine vinaigrette. perfectly, were served alongside a with Seared Sea Scallops.
after a devastating kitchen fire, it smokehouse bacon risotto with sweet
was besieged by Vero diners eager to Lemon Capellini. Spicy Shrimp and buttered corn. A great summer en- Mediterranean-inspired dishes, and
be among the first to try it in its new Lemon Cream. PHOTO BY KAILA JONES trée. some old favorites missing at the
incarnation. reopening have been restored.
this dish. I frankly did not know quite We found the portions more than
Before the fire, this popular dining what to make of it. adequate, comparable to what you We’ve always enjoyed trying Chef
spot overlooking the sea at Humiston would expect in fine restaurants in Varricchio’s latest creations. He is
Park had been regarded as one of the The third appetizer was a lovely New York, Chicago or Europe. You’re arguably Vero’s most adventuresome
Vero’s finest. And during the lengthy piece of yellowfin tuna. Seared rare, not likely to leave groaning about chef. But if you are not up for adven-
restoration, Chef Scott Varricchio the tuna had been dusted with scichi- having eaten too much, but this is not ture, stick with the tried and true
had been dropping hints of changes, mi, a Japanese dried spice seasoning, an all-you-can-eat buffet. By the time seafood and beef items (and don’t
so many were eager to see what Chef and it was served with a ponzu-pea- we finished our entrées, we were not forget the truffle fries)! You will find
Scott had wrought. nut soba noodle salad. Very tasty. able to even contemplate one of the that Citrus is not just back – but better
Citrus’ wonderful desserts. than ever.
We decided to hold off reviewing For entrees I decided to have the
it during this end-of-season rush. local yellowtail snapper ($36) and While a few of the more creative I welcome your comments, and en-
Instead, we followed with interest my husband went for the sea scallops plates at the moment have something courage you to send feedback to me at
the reactions of readers on their re- ($32). of an Asian influence, most of [email protected].
turn to a restaurant they had loved. the menu continues to consist of
Many were extremely positive, but My dish consisted of three beauti- The reviewer dines anonymously
some lamented the disappearance ful snapper filets, pan-roasted, pre- at restaurants at the expense of Vero
from the menu of favorite entrées, sented atop chilled lemon capellini Beach 32963. 
and quite a few diners griped about with baby heirloom tomatoes and a
portion size. lemon-thyme vinaigrette. This dish
was perfect for a steamy Vero eve-
So a couple of weeks ago, with the ning. I loved the cold lemon pasta.
town a bit less crowded, we visited
Citrus to see what was happening for
ourselves.

Seated at a nice table for two in a
dining room with new windows that
gave it a more open, spacious feel, we
decided to share three appetizers be-
fore ordering entrées. To complement
these, we ordered a couple of glasses
of Sonoma Cutrer chardonnay.

Our first starter was a Belgian en-
dive salad. It consisted of thin slices
of endive, topped by gorgonzola
cheese and a creamy sherry-Dijon
vinaigrette. A wonderful, light salad
to start the meal.

The second appetizer was one Chef
Scott called “compressed yogurt.”
It started with compressed yogurt –
which has a cheese-like consistency
– topped by whole grains, wild rice,
dried raisins, cranberries and apri-
cots, and then finished in a fig and
vanilla. There was a lot going on with

S’mores. Peach Shortcake.

Hours:
Daily from 5 p.m.
Also open for lunch
Adult Beverages: Full Bar

Address:
1050 Easter Lily Lane
Phone: 772-234-4114

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WINE COLUMN

New wave of American rosé rivals anything from France

BY ELIN MCCOY fair, so are many in France. But a technique Roth uses because he
Bloomberg the United States is a hotbed of believes it creates complexity.
rosé experiments. Winemakers are
In the not-so-distant past, it was trying out different winemaking But more and more top winemakers
techniques and unusual grapes are going for “intentional” rosés, as
tough to find a decent rosé Made in like touriga nacional and counoise, they do in Provence. That means
which lend violet aromas and soft picking earlier specifically for rosé
America. peppery flavors, respectively. production, macerating grapes until
they desired color is achieved, and
Robert Sinskey, owner of the There are several ways to make using all the juice for a pink wine.
rosé. With the saignee method, rosé For very light-colored examples,
eponymous Napa winery, says rosé is an afterthought to making red winemakers press whole clusters of
wine. The juice picks up color from grapes directly into vats, just like
was a “dirty word” when he made his the skins, and some is bled off for white wine, to keep fresh, bright
rosé, allowing the rest to become a f lavors.
first one in 1991. The most popular more concentrated red. Another way
is blending red and white varieties As for those fancy bottles, the
wines were sweet “blush” wines, aka together, as they do in Champagne, current trend in Provence, they’re
just getting started in the U.S. 
white zinfandel, and no one would

buy his Euro-inspired dry rosé,

which he named Vin Gris of pinot 1992 and now makes three (plus rosé
sparkling wine, cider, and gin). “The
noir. Hamptons was ripe for the spirit
of rosé,” says winemaker Roman
Today it’s the fastest-selling Roth, a German native. “It has the
same hedonistic beach culture as
wine in his portfolio, and more Provence.”

than 100 Napa wineries make their The turning point, he says, was
2014, when even keeping bottles of
own versions, though often in tiny it in Wölffer’s tasting room was a
struggle. “There’s still a lot of growth
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vino. Consider these statistics from pét-nats.

SevenFifty, an online wholesale “Instagram made it OK to drink Great Food
rosé,” says Napa winemaker Julien & Drink
marketplace for alcohol: 3,186 Fayard, a native of France whose
Azur label now turns out 4,000 cases
different still rosé bottlings are for annually. But with the high price of
Napa grapes, he has to source most
sale in New York City, 550 of which are of them in places such as the Sierra
Foothills.
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