05/02/2019 ISSUE 18

Polish-American Club files
$1 million lawsuit. P10
Memorable exhibit
closes at Windsor. P15

Harbor Branch could lose
vanity license plate money. P8

School Board looks to For breaking news visit
move forward after
Rendell’s departure 2 Vero nursing
homes get worst
rating–again

BY FEDERICO MARTINEZ BY MICHELLE GENZ
Staff Writer Staff Writer

Now that School Superin- MY Justice is no golden parachute for Rendell Two Vero nursing homes
tendent Mark Rendell has re- VERO were once again awarded
signed, several School Board one star out of a possible five
members said they hope his BY RAY MCNULTY dent Mark Rendell was do- planning to accept – a prin- by Medicare’s Nursing Home
departure this month will al- Staff Writer ing, even though she has been cipal’s job in Brevard County Compare rating system – the
low the school district to be- his staunchest supporter and when she somehow circum- worst possible grade – when
gin healing from the many It’s entirely possible, I sup- fiercest defender in the district. vented state law last month the new ratings were published
controversies and scandals pose, that School Board Vice to arrange an April 16 special last Wednesday.
of the past four years. Chairman Tiffany Justice had It’s possible Justice was com- meeting at which she urged
no idea what Superinten- pletely unaware that Rendell Consulate Health Care, sued
“I wish Dr. Rendell and his had been offered – and was CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 for negligence two dozen times
family all the best in their fu- in a decade, and Palm Garden
ture endeavors,” said School of Vero Beach, facing a spate
Board member Jacqueline of lawsuits itself and starting
Rosario. “At this time, it is its fourth month on the state’s
critical the board remains nursing home watch list, also
focused in our efforts to both got one star in the previ-
heal and move the district ous ratings.
forward. I have no doubt we
will continue to be united Both local nursing homes,
toward this end.” part of large for-profit chains,
ironically are located virtually
Board memberTeri Baren- in the shadow of Cleveland
borg echoed those senti- Clinic Indian River – a hos-
ments in a short, written pital now affiliated with the
statement: “I wish him the second-best health system in
best in his future endeav- the world, according to News-
ors and thank him for his week’s just-released ranking.

CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Pennsylvania-based Con-

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John’s Island ‘not giving up’ on pipeline project Vero Utilities: No plan for replacing old water pipes

BY GEORGE ANDREASSI a 3-to-2 vote last week – may go back to BY LISA ZAHNER aging – and in many cases, deteriorat-
Staff Writer commissioners in a month or two. Staff Writer ing – water pipes that carry drinking
water to thousands of residents.
A controversial proposal to run a “We’re not giving up on the subaque- A slightly scary truth emerged last
reuse water pipeline beneath the In- ous line because we still feel it’s the best week for Vero Beach Utilities custom- The issue came up during aVero Util-
dian River Lagoon to provide irriga- option for . . . [our] needs,” said John’s ers who live in older homes, or in older ities Commission meeting after com-
tion water for John’s Island – which was Island General Manager Michael Korpar. neighborhoods: The city has no plan, plaints from a handful of residents on
blocked by the County Commission on “That’s the route we’re still shooting for.” and scant funding, to replace miles of Silver Moss Drive in John’s Island who

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School Board moving forward goal is to have an interim superinten- That proposed agreement also My Vero
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 dent in place by May 24. called for the board to pay him for
all unused vacation days and prohib- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
service to our school community over It typically takes 4 to 6 months to ited the board from ever making any
these past four years.” hire a new superintendent. negative remarks about him pub- the other board members to accept
licly. That non-disparagement clause the superintendent’s offer to resign
The board took a first step in mov- In his resignation letter, Rendell would have prevented the board from in exchange for more than $40,000 in
ing forward by voting April 23 to join wrote: “… this letter shall serve as attributing any financial, legal or aca- severance pay.
the Florida Association of School notice that my employment with the demic problems to Rendell in future
Boards, which will help guide the dis- School Board of Indian River County board discussions. Rendell originally asked for
trict’s search for an interim superin- shall end effective May 24, 2019.” $62,545.60 in severance but dropped
tendent and a new permanent super- The board rejected his terms dur- his demand to $40,000 the day before
intendent. Rendell will begin his new job as ing a special meeting on April 16. the meeting.
principal at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High Since Rendell is now resigning volun-
The FASB was scheduled to meet School on June 3. tarily, the district owes him only for It’s also possible Justice didn’t know
with the Indian River School Board on some unused vacation time, which Rendell already had agreed to become
May 1 to begin discussing the process. Rendell had earlier attempted to Zorc estimates will total between the principal at Cocoa Beach Junior/
Board Chairman Laura Zorc said her strong-arm the board into signing an $6,000 and $8,000.  Senior High School while the board
agreement – that he demanded they ap- awaited his response to its counterof-
prove by April 17 – to pay him $62,545.60 fer last week.
in order to secure his resignation.
After all, Justice is a self-proclaimed
fiscal conservative who often speaks
of spending taxpayer dollars care-
fully. There’s no way she would’ve
knowingly abetted Rendell’s attempt
to double-dip from the public trough
and walk away with a lucrative golden
parachute when he already had an-
other job lined up, right?

So maybe her curious behavior
throughout this saga – she too often
sounded more like his agent than his
boss – was nothing more than igno-
rance.

Maybe she was merely gullible, too
naïve to believe Rendell would dare
try to take from the district’s coffers
money he didn’t deserve.

Or maybe she was played.
We don’t have Justice’s explanation
for all this, because calls to her cell-
phone and office phone were not re-
turned.
Whatever the reason, School Board
Chairman Laura Zorc, backed by
Jackie Rosario and Mara Schiff, made
sure Justice’s efforts on Rendell’s be-
half went nowhere, refusing to accept
the superintendent’s offer or rush into
a yes-or-no vote simply to meet his
April 17 deadline.
Eventually, nearing the end of the
three-hour meeting on April 16, the
board agreed to have its attorney, Su-
zanne D’Agresta, negotiate a more-
palatable deal that didn’t include the
non-disparagement clause Rendell
wanted.
It proved to be a wise move.
Unable to pressure board members
into a quick deal – or convince them
to accept his offer of a sizeable, last-
minute discount in his severance pay
– Rendell abandoned the negotiations
last week, when he submitted his res-
ignation and gave the 30-day notice
mandated by his contract. He’ll work
here through May 24, then start his
new job on June 3.
It was, by any measure, the best
possible outcome for the district.
“We’re getting out of this with the
lowest cost possible to the district,”
Zorc said. “We’re paying nothing for

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him to leave, and the $25,000 fee we’ll whistle-blower complaints and other mult, which has taken a toll on almost Worse, he leaves behind a financial
pay to conduct a search for his re- costly controversies, many of them of every aspect of the district, including and administrative mess.
placement is something we’d have to his own making. academic performance.
pay, anyway – because he was leaving “His self-manufactured lack of dis-
either way.” There has been too much turnover To be sure, Rendell has enjoyed a few trict leadership is hindering our board
– of teachers, support staff and even successes since being hired here, but responsibilities,” Zorc said, adding,
Zorc, who warned the board in upper-tier staffers in the district of- not nearly enough. He has been given “He has definitely created an atmo-
March that Rendell’s decision to hire a fice – often because of the culture of plenty of time to fix the problems he sphere of confusion in our meetings,
lawyer was an “aggressive act” and re- intimidation and retaliation that has inherited and move our schools in the intentionally or unintentionally.”
fused to jump every time his attorney been pervasive since his arrival. right direction, but he has made too
sent a letter, deserves a rousing round little progress. Despite the board members’ lack of
of applause for reading the situation There has been far too much tu-
perfectly, reacting appropriately and CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
saving the district a pile of cash.
NEW LISTING
As Rendell’s allies continued their
pathetic social-media attacks on her, Exclusively John’s Island
Zorc’s vindication came Friday morn-
ing, when, three days after accepting Enjoy unparalleled privacy and waterfront living in this striking 6BR/7.5BA
the Brevard job, the outgoing super- estate poised on 2.09± acres along the Intracoastal Waterway. Finely crafted,
intendent told a local radio audience the 8,872± GSF home unfolds from a Belvedere entry into a standout living
that he had been “preparing for this” room with soaring Cathedral ceilings. Incomparable features include a pecky
since August. cypress library with stone fireplace, gracious master suite, chef’s kitchen,
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dates vowed to hold Rendell more
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That’s also when Rendell real-
ized the makeup of the board would
change.

“We saw the primary election and
we knew the board was going to be
different,” Rendell said on WTTB-
AM’s “Local News Magazine with Bob
Soos,” adding that “it was not a matter
of if, it was a matter of when” he’d start
searching for another job.

“It’s kind of the nature of the busi-
ness that we’re in,” Rendell told the
audience, saying board turnover often
results in changes in superintendents.
“So we saw all that coming and defi-
nitely prepared for it.”

Rendell told Soos and the radio au-
dience he had “made it to the moun-
taintop” of public education by rising
to the level of superintendent, but he
wanted to return to the principal’s of-
fice because he missed being on cam-
pus and interacting with students.

“The further I’ve gotten away from
the classroom,” he said, “the less-re-
warding the positions have been.”

That’s a beautiful sentiment but we
didn’t hear such talk until after the
board voted against extending his
contract. So I can’t help but wonder if
Rendell, who will embark on his third
stint as a high school principal next
month, decided to take a career step
backwards because he truly wants to
work with kids again – or because he
realized he was dog-paddling in the
deep end of the pool.

Certainly, Rendell’s four years here
have been a struggle – so much so that
he made it impossible for the board to
extend his contract, which would’ve
expired in July 2020.

There have been too many scan-
dals, investigations, legal challenges,

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My Vero about calling for the meeting and be-
lieved the secretary would contact the
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 other board members to ask if they
wanted to join her. She said she never
experience – Zorc and Justice have put asked Esplen to not reveal her name.
in two-plus years of service, while Ro-
sario, Barenborg and Schiff are rookies Could this violation of state law have
– the chairman defended their perfor- been nothing more than an innocent
mance under difficult circumstances mistake? Might there have been some
they didn’t create. miscommunication between Justice
and Esplen, or between Esplen and
“The last five months would’ve been Rosario?
challenging for a seasoned board,”
Zorc said. Maybe so, but why, then, did no one
on the board – no one other than Jus-
One by one, though, the board mem- tice – know who called the meeting?
bers have addressed the issues put
before them, overcoming the Rendell- Better yet: Why was it so important
provoked departures of the district’s to Justice to schedule the special meet-
chief financial officer, finance director, ing for April 16, the day the Brevard
assistant superintendent for human Public Schools Board posted its agen-
resources and a senior accountant, all da for the April 23 meeting at which
in a relatively short time span. Rendell’s hiring was to be approved?

Rendell’s decision in March to hire Was it just a coincidence?
an attorney, followed by his announce- It’s possible, I suppose. 
ment that he was applying for other
jobs, only added to their challenges Old water pipes
– and their angst – as did Justice’s un-
wavering and often angry support for CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
the superintendent, even after his re-
lationship with the board had become had been plagued by yellow drinking
“fractured beyond repair,” as she put it. water caused by a span of old galva-
nized pipe.
In one of the more bizarre scenes
in recent weeks, board members were After Indian River Shores put pres-
discussing at their March 26 meeting sure on Vero and commissioned engi-
Zorc’s recommendation that Rendell neering work at its own expense to map
be fired this summer. Suddenly, from out the problem pipe, the city dug up
out of nowhere, Justice chimed in with the pipe and replaced it. But town offi-
a motion seeking to extend the super- cials speculated that it was only a mat-
intendent’s contract to 2021. ter of time before the yellow water – or
worse – started popping up in other
The motion died, as it should have, older neighborhoods all over the town
when no one on the board offered a and up and down the barrier island.
second.
Shores Vice Mayor Bob Auwaerter, a
It was the board’s April 16 special former chair of the Vero Utility Com-
meeting, though, that produced the mission, made a motion for the Utili-
most compelling drama yet. ties Commission to ask city staff for
a full five-year capital improvement
Under Florida law, the chairman is plan specifying when and how the city
the only individual School Board mem- expects to replace the aging pipes.
ber who may call for a special meeting.
However, such meetings also can be “What is your plan, or is there a plan
called by a majority of the board. for replacing pipes?” Auwaerter asked
Vero Water-Sewer Utility Director Rob
So how did Justice orchestrate through Bolton at the meeting without getting
board secretary Nancy Esplen the sched- a direct answer. Auwaerter noted that
uling of the April 16 meeting to address published consultant studies say the
and discuss the “mutual separation city has iron pipe and asbestos-concrete
agreement” offer from Rendell’s attorney? pipe, and he would think the city would
want to phase those materials out.
Nobody seems to know.
Zorc didn’t see any need for the Bolton said, “I can tell you right now
board to rush to a special meeting. if you want to know about water pipes.
Rosario, Schiff and Barenborg all said We’re doing a construction project on
they had agreed to attend, but none 43rd Avenue that we’re going to spend
called for one. roughly $1.3 million or something
Rosario said she asked Esplen which next year; any of the other ones, we do
members called for the meeting, but a replacement as needed.”
was told, “I’m not allowed to say.”
Justice, meanwhile, kept quiet un- The city budgets $250,000 per year
til it became awkwardly obvious that for the whole system for general re-
she – and she alone – called for the placement of old pipes, Bolton said.
meeting, where she urged the other “We replace a lot of galvanized pipes
members to embrace Rendell’s golden with PVC pipes. Eventually we’ll get
parachute deal, saying, “I do believe into cast-iron pipes, but we really
the terms are reasonable and should don’t see anything on the horizon
be acceptable to us as a school board.” that is an issue.”
Justice said she spoke to Esplen

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The last major replacement effort at the wastewater plant and the water there’s no systematic plan to replace McCabe said his interest in water
was in the 1990s, when Bolton said plant over the years,” Bolton said. “If these pipes proactively, before they quality and what the pipes are made of
“millions” were spent on new PVC there are funds available in the future fail. “It does sort of raise the question stems from where he lived before Vero.
pipes in places where residents were we’ll start looking at the water distri- about whether maybe there should “I retired from Flint, Michigan.”
complaining about yellow water. bution system of galvanized pipe.” be a plan . . . then over the next 10 to
20 years most of these problem pipes Bolton said the city has both cast-
“It’s just a function of funds avail- Commission member Robert Mc- would be replaced.” iron pipe and ductile-iron pipe, and
able [to us] . . . and we had to do work Cabe echoed Auwaerter’s concern that
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Old water pipes major projects – not the drinking water search on Hole in the Wall island to de- east along Old Winter Beach Road on
distribution system. termine whether the county owns the the island adjacent to The Shores sub-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 right-of-way once occupied by the Old division and then go south along A1A
For the past four years, utility crews Winter Beach Road Bridge. to John’s Island.
that some of the city’s pipe maps don’t have been busy permitting and in-
clearly indicate the type of pipe. The stalling 350 septic tank effluent pump- Commissioners voted on April 23 to The lush country club community
asbestos-concrete pipe, Bolton said, is ing systems and pipes to hook up resi- reject John’s Island’s easement request needs 1 million gallons of re-use water
no problem unless there is construc- dents with older septic tanks to the mainly over concerns about the right- per day to irrigate landscaping, lawns
tion in the area, at which time those sewer system. of-way ownership and the likelihood of and golf courses, and doesn’t consider
pipes are subject to breakage. legal challenges. other reuse pipelines a sufficiently de-
Bolton said there were a total of 1,500 pendable source, Korpar said.
The presence of that type of pipe is septic tanks inside the city limits at the In response, John’s Island’s legal team
reported to FDEP, Bolton said, adding start of the $1 million project, but that is now trying to acquire title insurance More than 200 people packed the
that asbestos is only a problem if you crews have struggled just to keep up with indicating the county owns the right- commission chambers in the morn-
breathe it – that it doesn’t break down customers with faltering septic tanks that of-way on the island in the lagoon, Kor- ing when this came up last week and
into the water. could endanger the lagoon. Residents par said in an interview Friday. about half were still there for the late
pay for the system and to be hooked up, afternoon vote.
The downtown business district was and they can finance the cost while the If the title insurance is obtained, the
piped for water in the 1920s and 1930s, city holds a lien on their property. barrier island community will again ask Several environmental leaders ar-
so those areas would likely be the first commissioners to approve a temporary gued it was too risky to install a pipeline
in line for replacement should the city Moving or replacing the city’s 40-year- construction easement on Hole in the carrying treated sewage water beneath
develop a replacement schedule. old wastewater treatment plant on the Wall island for the pipeline project. the Indian River Lagoon when the es-
lagoon is the city’s next big funding pri- tuary has already been badly damaged
But the older areas on the barrier ority, with that facility approaching the Under the proposed agreement, by pollution. They contended there are
island were developed from the 1950s end of its natural life within the next four John’s Island would pay for construc- safer ways to provide reuse water to
through the 1980s and Bolton said to five years. Estimates for relocating it tion of the pipeline and then turn it over John’s Island.
cast-iron pipe has a 100-year lifes- range from $35 million to $50 million.  to the county, which would own and
pan. ”So there’s still 20 years, 30 years maintain it. In return, the county would After the vote, environmental activ-
before we would ever start looking at John’s Island pipeline sell reuse irrigation water to John’s Is- ists lauded the commission for pro-
those areas,” he said. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 land at a reduced rate for 25 years. tecting the lagoon.

While city officials hope for peak per- The fate of the $6 million pipeline The pipeline would begin at the “The lagoon had a big win today,”
formance from the potable water pipes appears to hinge on the results of a title county’s Sea Oats Wastewater Treat- said Leesa Souto, executive director
dating back 40 or 50 years or more, Vero ment Plant on 77th Street, go south of the Marine Resources Council. “For
has committed much of its planning on Dixie Highway and then turn east once, the natural resources are on the
energy, funding and manpower to other to the lagoon, run for a mile under the winning side. We all have a lot to lose
lagoon at a depth of 90 feet, continue from the lagoon’s continuing demise.”

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Commissioners Joe Flescher and because it’s environmentally better to every precaution to avoid polluting the the new ratings came out April 24.
Peter O’Bryan questioned the wisdom rely on reuse water for irrigation than Indian River Lagoon while construct- “Shame on them. It’s not like they’re
of granting the easement, considering potable water. ing the pipeline. Any leaks after pipe-
that county attorney Dylan Reingold line completion would be the county’s mom-and-pop organizations,” said
had earlier described the right-of-way The county wants to expand its reuse responsibility. Karen Deigl, who sits on the local
issue as “murky.” water program to dispose of the liquid Hospital District board. The Hospital
byproduct of the sewage treatment While disappointed in the April District, which levies taxes to pay for
Commissioner Susan Adams voted process, Zorc said. Every 100 houses 23 commission vote, Korpar said he care for the poor, tries to keep a close
with O’Bryan and Flescher to block the added to the sewer system produces hopes to return in a month or two with eye on the various agencies that pro-
pipeline after initially expressing un- 10,000 gallons of re-use water daily. title insurance that resolves the right- vide it. But Deigl said the complex-
certainty. of-way issue and sets up approval of ity of regulation and oversight would
“Re-use is good, there are a lot of ben- the temporary construction easement make it hard for local organizations
Since it’s not clear the county owns efits from re-use,” Solari said. “Good for Hole in the Wall island. to intervene with nursing homes.
right-of-way on Hole in the Wall island, potable water is in short supply. We
approving an easement could get the draw down too much, too fast from our “This was a setback that we hope to The Nursing Home Compare on-
county into a legal dispute, O’Bryan aquifers.We have to stop doing that. I’ve overcome in the future,” Korpar said. site surveys are conducted by Florida’s
and Flescher said. long thought the use of reuse water was “We think it could go a different way Agency for Health Care Administra-
the best way of doing it.” with the proper documentation and ev- tion, or AHCA. In addition to the AHCA
“Who owns this thing?” Flescher erything in place moving forward.”  inspections, CMS Nursing Home Com-
asked. “It will go to the courts. This thing “Is the risk worth the benefit of hav- pare also considers a facility’s level of
is going to be mired up and mucked up ing this paid for by John’s Island and Worst nursing home ratings staffing by calculating the number of
for six months, 18 months, we don’t having a million gallons of reuse water CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 nurses available to care for patients at
know how long it’s going to be. It’ll be a day?” Solari said. “I believe it is.” any given moment.
tied up.” sulate is the sixth largest nursing home
Running a pipeline from the Sea Oats chain in the nation and the largest in At the Vero campuses, Consulate
There are safer ways to provide re- plant to the Wabasso Causeway Bridge Florida, where six of its properties, but and Palm Garden each had six fire
use water to John’s Island, such as and south on A1A to John’s Island not the one in Vero, are on the same safety violations in the past year, more
running another pipe on the Wabasso would not meet John’s Island’s needs, state watch list as Vero’s Palm Garden. than twice the state and national av-
Causeway Bridge and south on State Korpar said, because the community erages. Palm Garden had 23 health
Road A1A, O’Bryan contended. would be at the end of the pipeline and Seven of the Palm Garden chain’s violations and Consulate had 16, com-
other communities to the north might 14 locations in Florida received only pared to the state average of 6.2 and a
“With an alternative pipeline avail- consume most of the water. one or two stars on the Medicare national average of 7.8.
able, I don’t think the juice is worth the Nursing Home Compare site when
squeeze,” O’Bryan said. Korpar and other John’s Island Wa- Online records of Palm Garden in-
ter Management officials assured the spections from January, while redact-
Commissioners Bob Solari and Tim commissioners they would use the
Zorc said they wanted to grant the most advanced technology and take CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
temporary construction easement

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Worst nursing home ratings nurse staffing. Inspectors interviewed notes of pills being taken out of storage Another Vero nursing home, 110-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 five certified nursing assistants who but not administered to patients. bed Sea Breeze Rehabilitation and
said that they were frequently short- Nursing Center, formerly called Atlan-
ed in places, referred to a resident in staffed. A registered nurse told an The same inspection noted smears tic Healthcare and Rehabilitation, re-
need of help with personal hygiene AHCA interviewer that only two nurs- of a “brown substance” on various ceived just 2 stars in the latest ratings
whose “foul body odor” drew the at- es were on staff per shift on a unit that surfaces including the bathroom floor, and is also on the AHCA watch list.
tention of examiners. They learned typically had 65 residents or more. wall and sink counter. It also noted
the resident had not been bathed for rusted metal supports on the toilet, The citation dates to September
“at least three days,” according to the The report also alleged Palm Garden’s food waste on the floor, chipped lami- and falls under a requirement to have
reports. Another patient was found to pharmacy “failed to ensure adequate nate exposing disintegrating particle a written emergency management
be lying in “heavily soiled” linens. controlled medication reconciliation board and garbage cans with no liners. plan, updated annually and tested
records” for four of 10 residents sam- semi-annually, with results reported
The report also cites inadequate pled. Inspectors found inconsistencies Of late, Palm Garden has seen a spike to the state’s healthcare emergency.
in administering controlled drugs, with in lawsuits. Court records show it is Interviewers on site in August deter-
a defendant in three actions alleging mined that there was no documenta-
Grace Rehab remains county’s top nursing home negligence, all filed since February. A tion that an emergency plan had been
fourth suit alleging medical malprac- approved, and that a plan had been
BY A STAFF WRITER Steward Sebastian River Medical tice was filed in May 2018. In that case, a sent in late. That watch status has not
Center’s rehab center overall rat- licensed practice nurse at Palm Garden been appealed.
The county’s top nursing homes ing rose from three stars last year to was arrested on felony neglect charges
shone once again with Grace Re- five stars. after a resident died of internal bleed- Calls were not returned at press
habilitation Center earning a five- ing; the charges were quickly dropped time by Consulate or Palm Garden
star rating overall from Medicare’s Randall Rees, executive director though the lawsuit is on-going. management. 
Nursing Home Compare grading of the five-star Grace Rehab for the
system – the highest possible score past 10 years, credits the nursing HARBOR BRANCH COULD LOSE
and in line with its ratings over the home’s parent company with giving $1.4 MILLION IF VANITY LICENSE
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to “serve from our hearts,” he said.
Tiny, 24-bed Florida Baptist Retire- BY SUE COCKING veterinarian at the Marineland field
ment Center, the only nonprofit nurs- “It’s a special company that allows station. "A lot of these operations are
ing home in the county, tied with 120- us to do what we need to do. We try Staff Writer run on a shoestring and they rely on
bed Willowbrooke Court at Indian to do the right thing every day by the volunteers. If they had an additional
River Estates with four stars each. patients. If we’re taking care of that, The legislature was expected to source of funding, they could do a
the numbers fall in line.”  decide this week whether the Har- better job of protecting dolphins. Dol-
bor Branch Oceanographic Institute phins are statewide and the funding
Foundation will lose $1.4 million in should be statewide as well."
annual revenue from sale of pictur-
esque license plates vehicle owners The organizations supporting the
buy to support dolphin and whale re- measure include Clearwater Marine
search and rescue efforts. Aquarium, Dolphins Plus of Key Largo,
Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge, Gulf
A coalition of dolphin research and World Marine Institute in the Pan-
conservation organizations is pushing handle, Sarasota's Mote Marine Labo-
hard for an amendment to the state's ratory, SeaWorld Rescue in Orlando,
specialty license plate law that would Hubbs SeaWorld Research Institute in
give each of them a piece of the rev- Melbourne Beach, Key West's Marine
enue pie from the "Protect Wild Dol- Animal Rescue Society, and the Uni-
phins" and "Protect Florida Whales" versity of Florida.
license plates.
The dolphin plate was created in
Currently, all the money from the 1998 and the whale tag in 2003, with
plates goes to the Harbor Branch Harbor Branch administering the
Foundation, which uses it exclusively money from Florida drivers. Until
to fund programs at Florida Atlantic 2007 when Harbor Branch became
University’s Harbor Branch Oceano- part of Florida Atlantic University, it
graphic Institute. The Foundation says handed out money to several of the
the money is used for research, educa- groups now backing the amendment.
tion and outreach benefitting marine
mammals throughout the state. But that flow of funds stopped in
recent years because "the Foundation
But members of One Ocean One has chosen to provide grants with these
Health Research Conservation Insti- funds to the Harbor Branch Oceano-
tute based at Georgia Aquarium's con- graphic Institute – a research institute
servation field station in Marineland, at FAU – which has been a leader in
Florida, say their nonprofit should take the field of oceanographic and marine
over distributing the funds to Florida research," Foundation President and
organizations that respond to dolphin CEO Katha Kissman wrote in an email
and whale strandings and conduct sci- to Vero Beach 32963.
entific research on the animals.
Researchers employed by the Insti-
"The people I've talked to are not tute are the only ones who can apply
getting any support from the license for the money.
plate funds," said Dr. Tim Mullican, a

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But One Ocean One Health Presi- designated for studying and protect- again flourish," Bossart wrote in an tion (Georgia Aquarium) looking to
dent Dr. Gregory Bossart, chief vet- ing marine mammals. April 18 letter to the governor and use the legislative process to come in
erinary officer at Georgia Aquarium state lawmakers. and take money that is not theirs," she
who headed Harbor Branch's marine "It is here that the 'Protect Wild Dol- wrote in her email. "A more appropri-
mammal and conservation program phins' and 'Protect Florida Whales' Kissman said the Foundation op- ate approach would be for Georgia
from 2000 to 2008, says his consortium specialty license plates should find poses the amendment and has been Aquarium's One Ocean One Health to
is best suited to decide who gets funds a new home, where transparency lobbying against it in Tallahassee.
and statewide partnerships will once CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
"This is an out-of-state organiza-

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Polish-American Club files $1 million suit in aftermath of coup

BY FEDERICO MARTINEZ dicial Circuit Court of Florida, include and Fleisher “breached their legal lawsuit also seeks compensation for
Staff Writer Lynne Hampton, Jay Fleisher and duty to plaintiff by devising a plan to those losses.
Scott W. Zappolo. The attorneys could take all of the club’s assets and trans-
The Polish-American Social Club of not be reached for comment. fer them to another corporation for no Members of the Polish-American
Vero Beach has filed a $1 million law- consideration and which culminated Social Club filed their first civil com-
suit against three West Palm Beach “These three attorneys directed the in the loss of those assets.” plaint in October 2015, after the orga-
attorneys, alleging that the attorneys efforts to take over the club,” said Bill nization’s board of directors abruptly
directed a coup by a handful of rogue Summers, a club supporter who helped The attorneys’ actions prevented formed a new corporation – the Vero
members who took over the club and the original members regain control of the Polish-American Social Club from Beach Social Club. It then transferred
its property for several years. the club following a 4-year court battle. operating, costing it hundreds of the Polish-American Social Club’s
“It was an expensive legal fight that cost thousands of dollars in potential rev- assets to the new nonprofit and dis-
Attorneys named in the lawsuit, more than $300,000.” enue from fundraising activities and solved the original corporation – all
which was filed April 4 in the 19th Ju- other events, Summers said, and the without a vote by club members.
The lawsuit alleges that Hampton
Attorneys for the Polish faction ar-
gued this was unfair – that while the
club’s bylaws left routine financial
and business affairs to the board, ma-
jor decisions were “subject to the ap-
proval of regular membership.”

Circuit Judge Paul Kanarek in Feb-
ruary 2018 ruled that the actions by
the insurgent board of directors that
dissolved the old club and transferred
its assets to the new Vero Beach Social
Club violated the original club’s arti-
cles of incorporation.

In a ruling issued Jan. 22, Circuit
Judge Janet Croom echoed Kanarek’s
decision and ordered the Vero Beach
Social Club to vacate the club building.

Croom also invalidated all legal
documents related to the takeover, in-
cluding deeds and bills of sale.

Ron Roz, who was elected the club’s
new president on Sunday, said the
Polish-American Club is back in op-
eration at its reclaimed facility at 7500
U.S. 1, and has several upcoming
events planned. 

Vanity license plates
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

seek the creation of their own plate to
support their mission."

Kissman said specialty tag funds
have been used "judiciously" amid
careful monitoring and with clean ex-
ternal audits.

If the amendment passes and is
signed into law by the governor, Har-
bor Branch Foundation would still
receive revenue from Florida’s “Aqua-
culture” and “Save Our Seas” special-
ty license plates.

The proposed amendment comes
in the midst of a two-year legal battle
between the Harbor Branch Founda-
tion and FAU over control of the Foun-
dation's $72 million endowment. The
Foundation sued the university in
2017 to prevent it from diverting reve-
nue from the specialty tags and trusts
to uses other than marine research.
The case is pending before St. Lucie
Circuit Judge Lawrence Mirman. 

Aviana Bouyssou.

CHILDREN’S ART FESTIVAL AT
MUSEUM: A PLAYDATE TO CREATE

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Children’s Art Festival at Museum: A playdate to create

Calais Bouyssou. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Teak Mullins. Ellis Johnson.

Sara Beth Roberts with son Emmett. PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
David Vazquez and Natalya Dorsett.

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF through specially made binoculars music, dance, karate, singing and ba- liance for the Arts to elicit interest in
Staff Writer and played the ukulele to mimic the ton by elementary school students. the creation of a community museum.
“Musica” painting. Today the festival attracts nearly 4,000
Creativity overflowed at the Vero The 2019 Indian River County Juried children and families.
Beach Museum of Art last Saturday A giant board game had youngsters Student Exhibition, on display through
during the 38th annual Children’s Art dancing like an octopus, chomping May 19, included more than 40 works “Families really want to do things
Festival, a free, family-friendly event like a shark, spinning like a hurricane by local students. The Middle School together, and the museum wants to
oozing with exciting hands-on activi- and walking the plank before swim- Best in Show was awarded to Sebastian generate a whole new art audience.
ties and performances for all to enjoy. ming ashore to dig into a treasure Bois, seventh grade, for “Smushy Face,” One of the ways you do that is to invite
chest, and there were also visits to the and at the High School level to Alexis the families in. This is a way to get the
In the studios children painted, multi-sensory Art Zone, shell decorat- Kolesnik, 12th grade, for “Beach Still parents, grandparents and children all
molded and designed to their hearts’ ing and creativity with clay. Life.” together in one place to celebrate art.
content, creating faux stained glass to And it’s all the arts – performing, visual
tie in to the museum’s Victorian Radi- Things got “curiouser and cu- “The art leaders in the community and creative arts,” explained Hamner.
cals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the riouser” with a Mad Hatter tea party really were interested in introducing
Arts & Crafts Movement exhibition, performance by Xaque Gruber and art to children,” said VBMA volunteer Upcoming exhibits, Circle of Ani-
on display through May 5. In the gal- Friends that had everyone celebrat- Toni Hamner, remembering back to mals/Zodiac Heads: Gold, and the
lery, docents discussed selected pieces ing their “unbirthday,” just like “Alice the inaugural event in 1981, before the Astronomy Photographer of the Year
while children viewed the paintings in Wonderland.” Other performances museum was even built. The then “art open June 1. For information, visit vb-
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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 Maryanne Bohlinger.
Marilyn Bosland and Toni Hamner.

James Russell. Lucy Vitek. Chloe Cappelen, Teak Mullins, Caroline Faires,
Leilani Mullins and Xaque Gruber.

Madison Clevenger and Sue Sharpe. Taryn Ayson and Kirsten Ayson.

Osceola Singers.

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From start to Finissage, a memorable exhibit at Windsor

BY MARY SCHENKEL Jean Gaul and Ellen Rantz. Jon Rubenstein and Karen Richardson. Annabel Robertson and Aric Attas.
Linda Stubblefield and Laurie Wyndham. Mary and Jim Weiss with Jane Smalley.
Staff Writer PHOTOS: KAILA JONES

The Gallery at Windsor bid adieu to
the vibrantly-colored Michael Craig-
Martin “Present Sense” exhibition
with a Finissage Closing Reception
last Thursday evening, where guests
enjoyed wine and hors d’oeuvres, lis-
tened to music by Ella and the Bossa
Beat, and wandered about the show
one last time.

“This has been one of the most pop-
ular exhibitions we’ve had, because
the subject matter is something that is
ubiquitous to everyone. It’s easily rec-
ognizable – that’s his visual language
– and the colors are just so joyful. It’s
just a happy experience,” said lead do-
cent Linda Stubblefield. “It was a very
easy exhibition to talk about, because
we got a chance to meet the artist and
hear what he had to say.”

She noted that the support materi-
als which were given to visitors greatly
enhanced each individual experience.
In addition to information about
Craig-Martin, Windsor and the Royal
Academy of Arts, the brochures fea-
tured commentary by the artist about
the inspiration behind each of his
pieces and the reasons behind their
selection for this particular show.

Videos were provided which aug-
mented the printed descriptions. One
of those offered visitors an armchair
tour of the five sculptures placed
about Windsor for the exhibition. A
sixth sculpture was on display at the
Vero Beach Museum of Art for the
show’s duration.

Stubblefield said Windsor had
hosted three sold-out sculpture tours,
which gave people an opportunity to
have lunch at the beautiful clubhouse
and view the fascinating gallery exhi-
bition before boarding golf carts for
docent-led tours of the sculptures.

“We also had another video that
gave an overview of the artist’s oeu-
vre, over his lifetime, if you will,” said
Stubblefield, “so from the early ’70s
through present day, where he was
talking about his creative process.”

“Present Sense” was the second in
a series of three exhibitions curated
collaboratively by the Hon. Hilary M.
Weston, Windsor co-founder and cre-
ative director of the Gallery at Wind-
sor, with London’s Royal Academy of
Arts president Christopher Le Brun
and artistic director Tim Marlow. The
first in the series was last year’s Gray-
son Perry RA, “Making Meaning.”

For more information, visit windsor-
florida.com/gallery. 

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Charity Shooters on target for Ed Foundation projects

BY MARY SCHENKEL Elizabeth McGill and Quintin Walter. olds for kindergarten success. It’s a & Engineering Fair will be competing
Staff Writer bridge program for children who have later this month at the Intel Interna-
Once scores were tallied, winners been in voluntary pre-K and will be tional Science & Engineering Fair in
The weather couldn’t have been were announced during a rustically entering a Title 1 elementary school Phoenix – the top science fair competi-
more perfect last Saturday morning elegant BBQ lunch catered by Wind- in the fall. So we serve 30 percent of tion in the world.
as roughly 30 participants gathered at sor. the entering population, which is re-
the Windsor Gun Club at Vero Beach ally exciting,” said Cynthia Falardeau, Through an Education Foundation
Clay Shooting Sports (formerly Indian “You have made impacts on so EF executive director, speaking of just high-impact grant for a program called
River Trap & Skeet) for the 19th annual many people’s lives; all the way from one of numerous programs supported Kinder Gardeners, the kindergartners
Charity Shoot to benefit the Education pre-school through, believe it or not, by fundraisers such as this one. at Vero Beach Elementary School have
Foundation of Indian River County. 22-year-olds who are differently- been growing hydroponic vertical gar-
abled children,” said Cathy Filusch, “The biggest benefit of the pro- dens, integrating science, math, read-
Traditionally the last shoot of the EF board president. “We have proj- gram really, the feedback we’ve got- ing and writing in applied learning.
Windsor season, its gun pro Nicky ects going on in our middle schools, ten through this whole process, is the Another grant provided to Sebastian
Szápáry once again provided instruc- our high schools and our elementary social/emotional component of being River High School has enabled a robot-
tion when needed and monitored the schools.” able to play well with others, attend to ics program where students are learn-
overall safety of everyone there. The tasks and follow directions. So these ing sciences such as velocity, force and
shooters, a randomly drawn mix of “What’s really exciting is our Step children have become the leaders in thrust through robotics.
newbies and experts, targeted clay into Kindergarten program is in its their class; that’s what the teachers
disks that had been flung into the air fifth year of preparing 4- and 5-year- have told us. Parents have told us it’s “I think people sometimes think we
by mechanized traps. been a great way for them to learn how just serve elementary school, but our
to navigate the bus, lunch; all these work is all grades,” said Falardeau. “It’s
Scores for the three-person teams things that can be overwhelming, really an exciting time for us. It’s our
were based on combined results in intimidating,” said Falardeau, add- 27th year and we’ve made tremendous
the Driven Game Simulation – shoot- ing the parents’ anxiety is lessened as strides. And of course, the announce-
ers have 40 shells and about 4 minutes well. ment of our endowment just insures
to hit 100 targets launched their way – our perpetuity, which is really excit-
and Quadruple Three Stand competi- Falardeau noted that three of the ing.”
tions – with 30 targets launched in sets students who participated in this
of four. Mulligans help. year’s Indian River Regional Science For more information, visit edfoun-
dationirc.org. 

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Pat Blackburn and Fred Schoenberg with Patrice and Dr. Cary Stowe. Ben Bailey, Gordon Calder and Sean Baird. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES Lee Etheredge, Tom Theobald, Jessica Green and George Fetterolf.

Karen and Bert Condie with Deke Welles and Bill Hudson. Guy and Dede Snowden with Nickolas Roseland. Cathy Filusch, Nicky Szápáry and Cynthia Falardeau.

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Mori Serpa named Junior League’s Woman of the Year

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

Moraima “Mori” Serpa was named Moraima “Mori” Serpa. Avery Twiss, Susan Aguirre and Kelly Peters. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE
this year’s Woman of the Year by the
Junior League of Indian River last dead in the eye and gives it a wink. of things that it needs help with,” said ganized a Women in STEAM confer-
Wednesday afternoon at the seventh Every one of these women is good at Serpa. “People need help, whether it’s ence for middle school girls, found-
annual Woman of the Year Luncheon winking. Each of us has a personal children, veterans, the community ed the Key Club in her high school,
at the Oak Harbor Clubhouse. calling that’s as unique as a finger- or businesses. That’s what motivates collected hats for children fighting
print, and the best way to succeed is me.” cancer, and held toy drives to benefit
Serpa currently serves as vice presi- to discover what you love and then Hibiscus Children’s Center.
dent for the American Legion Auxilia- find a way to offer it to others in the Karen Franke, general manager for
ry’s Children & Youth, Education and form of service,” said Aguirre. Treasure and Space Coast Radio, was Other nominees included Re-
Scholarships program. She instituted selected for the Business/Profession- nee Boesch, Christina Klingler,
the North County Quarter Auction, a “The Junior League brings like al Award for her work post-hurricane Laura LaPorte and Michelle Napier
monthly auction to benefit local char- minds together and serves multiple Harvey, where she spearheaded a do- for Business/Professional; Kendra
ities, and she works with CareBag, a functions to actively support our nation collection at the radio station, Cope, Jenny Davis, Allison Falana,
mobile shower project which enables community through effective ac- for boosting the station’s partnership Katie Nall and Jacque Petrone for
the homeless to take showers. tion, leadership and the development with United Against Poverty, and for Civic/Non-Profit Professional; Fran
of women,” said Allison Cloughley, her dedication to the Healthy Start Adams, Brenda Bradley, Marybeth
The local Junior League has been JLIRC board president. “Within the Coalition through Dancing With Vero Cunningham and Cathy Durrett-Fi-
serving the community for nearly 30 league year, our membership pro- Stars. lusch for Volunteer; and Katie Alerte,
years, promoting volunteerism, de- vided focus and funding toward com- Grace Dooley, Isabel Ernst and Eliz-
veloping the potential of women and munal projects that promote the de- Jerusha Stewart was selected for abeth Zoltak for Rising Star.
improving the community through velopment of women and children.” the Civic/Nonprofit Professional
effective action. Award for her work as the founder “Every year I’m in awe of the ac-
“This year’s Woman of the Year and executive director of the Vero complishments of the women who
The Woman of the Year Award hon- showed exemplary leadership Beach Wine and Film Festival, the are recognized at this event,” said
ors someone who demonstrates high through acts of selflessness and will- first multi-day, multi-venue event Meg Cunningham, JLIRC president-
ethical standards, is a recognized role ingness to do for others without any in Florida supporting mental health elect. “It’s truly inspiring to hear that
model, has a strong sense of commu- regard of recognition,” said Aguirre of awareness. women are making such a difference
nity responsibility and is outstand- Serpa, who was also presented with in our community. It’s this senti-
ing in her contributions within the the Volunteer Award. Florida Tech student Katie Toper- ment that’s truly the cornerstone of
county. zer was selected for the Rising Star the Junior League.” 
“I do this because the world has a lot Award. The 2018 Miss Hibiscus or-
The collective contributions of the
21 women selected as finalists for the
honor covered a wide range of com-
munity involvement in the categories
of Business/Professional, Civic/Non-
Profit Professional, Volunteer and
Rising Star. Nominees were judged
by members of the Junior League of
Greater Orlando to ensure impartial-
ity.

Event chair Susan Aguirre said the
judges had a difficult time choos-
ing just one woman and, when asked
what qualities determine the award,
shared the words of her own mother.

“A strong woman looks a challenge

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Jacque Petrone, Jerusha Stewart and Michelle Napier.

Brenda Bradley and Karen Franke. Cathy Durrett-Filusch and Christina Klingler.

Katie Toperzer, Isabel Ernst, Jenny Davis, Allison Falana and Katie Nall.

Fran Adams, Kendra Cope and Grace Dooley.

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Pinnacle honors Alexander’s great focus on ‘greater good’

Scott and Gail Alexander with Lois Appleby and David Osgood. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Angelia Perry with Dr. Wayne Creelman and Freddie Woolfork.

William Kirk, Gloria Nicely, Douglass Bailor and Dillon Roberts. Marie Conforti, Daniel Stump, Patricia Hennig and Patti Rooney.

BY MARY SCHENKEL invested community leader,” said Jeff IRCF board president, eliciting laugh- Shortly after arriving in Vero Beach,
Staff Writer Pickering, who nominated Alexander ter from the crowd. Alexander was asked to chair the Gif-
for the award. ford Youth Achievement Center board
Scott E. Alexander, regional presi- In addition to chairing the IRCF – despite not even serving on the board
dent of Northern Trust, was honored “He has consistently engaged in a board, Alexander served as chair of the at the time – and has since worked to
last Tuesday morning at the Quail Val- process of learning about the issues Vero Beach Museum of Art and Gifford increase the organization’s financial
ley River Club at the 11th annual Pin- that are important to our commu- Youth Achievement Center, and is cur- stability and its overall standing in the
nacle Award Breakfast. Recognizing nity and then he invests his time, his rently president of the Princeton Club community.
“excellence in charitable planning,” professional experience and his own of Vero Beach. He has also served on
the award is presented by the Indian personal financial commitment in the boards of Riverside Theatre, Indi- “He leads us by example,” said
River Estate Planning Council and solutions that continue to make our an River Medical Center Foundation, Chenault, noting that Alexander had
the Planned Giving Council of Indian community a better place.” United Way of Indian River County jumped into our local philanthropic
River. and the United Way Foundation. community full throttle. “A part of his
Pickering noted that Alexander has heart has been forever planted in Vero
“I consider you to be Alexander the championed several IRCF initiatives, To try to capture the “essence of the Beach, and Vero Beach is the better for
great,” said Lois Appleby, last year’s such as encouraging a greater aware- man,” Puff said four qualities stood that.”
recipient, as she presented the award. ness of the intergenerational transfer out: that he is a class act and very pro-
of wealth, strengthening collabora- fessional; he is dependable and always “What happens in this town is that
Prior to that, event chairman Da- tive efforts with the United Way of completes the task; he has great judg- the community embraces you,” said
vid Osgood described Alexander as IRC, and increasing the visibility of ment in dealing with people; and he Alexander, thanking the various in-
the “living example of compassion, the IRCF and local philanthropy at the has a wonderful sense of humor. dividuals who guided his entree into
integrity and being able to mobilize statewide level. and development within the local
resources for the greater good.” Susan Chenault, senior vice presi- nonprofit world.
“In 2009, when Scott and (wife) Gail dent and trust officer at Northern
“During my four years as CEO of the were contemplating a move to Vero Trust, provided background on Alex- “I would submit to you that so many
Indian River Community Foundation, Beach, he said to Gail, ‘I’m going to cut ander’s many years in the financial of the organizations in this town are
I’ve come to believe that Scott dem- back on my involvement with boards services industry, adding that he was critical to the success of this commu-
onstrates the best characteristics of and charitable organizations; maybe active in the philanthropic efforts of nity,” said Alexander, before express-
what it means to be an engaged and one or two,’” said Bob Puff, former whatever town he resided in. ing his appreciation for the award. 

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Thomas Rolland with Dee Giannotti and Felix Cruz. Michael Kmetz, Robin Lloyd and Russell O’Brien. Bob Bauchman, Jim Davis, William Schlitt and Anthony Guettler.

Susan Chenault, Jessica Schmitt and Barbara Schlitt Ford. Ann Marie McCrystal and Bob Puff. Carol Kanarek, Richard Johnson and Liz Bruner.

Andrew White and Sam Block. Jeff Pickering with son Colin Pickering. Nancy McCurry and Tess Munoz. Joshua McNeely and Iliana Malaret.

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Party-goers are glad as a Hatter to help The Arc

BY STEPHANIE LABAFF PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 24 the appreciative crowd. Dillon Rob-
Staff Writer erts and Jeff Petersen kept the mo-
Ed and Susan Smith with Drs. Suzanne and Mickey Conway. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES mentum rolling with a paddle ask,
Supporters of The Arc of Indian pitting one side of the tent against
River happily followed Alice “down tened to music by the Gypsy Lane never took away from the importance the other to raise their paddles high
the rabbit hole, for a very important Band while dining on sumptuous of the work done by The Arc, which with offers of contributions to fund
date” last Thursday evening at the or- fare catered by Elizabeth D. Kennedy since 1975 has empowered individu- Arc programming.
ganization’s Mad Hatter Garden Gala & Co. that included a savory Asian als with special needs to live their
Tea Party-themed fifth annual Star- station including a full sushi boat, a lives to the fullest. “We’re able to provide services due
light & Sneakers fundraiser. mixed grill station with mouthwa- to the outstanding support of the
tering fillet, chicken and baby lamb Clients include people like Scott community, partnerships and events
A cast of characters from Lewis chops and another station with deli- Connelly, a Vero Beach native who like Starlight & Sneakers,” said Heath-
Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” came cious assorted salads. was a successful professional living er Dales, Arc CEO. “The funds raised
to life at Rock City Gardens with the in California when he suffered a trau- help to subsidize our programs.”
Queen of Hearts, Alice, the Mad Hat- The lightheartedness of the event matic brain injury. After two years
ter and the Cheshire Cat frolicking in the hospital, he was able to come Dales said Florida ranks 50 out of
about the beautifully manicured home, but it quickly became appar- 51 nationally (including Washington,
paths as they greeted the arriving ent that Connelly would never be able D.C.) for reimbursement rates for ser-
guests. to return to his former life. Suffering vices nationwide. More than 2,000
from short-term memory loss, he families in Indian River County are
Already known for their glammed- would not be able to live on his own. impacted by special needs, yet gov-
up sneaker competition, organizers ernment funding is currently 11 per-
this time added hats to the equation Fortunately, his family learned cent less than what The Arc received
and, with a nod to the Mad Hatter, about The Arc through the Replogle in 2003.
many a noggin donned festive top- family and now, 14 years later, Con-
pers resplendent with feathers and nelly lives a happy and fulfilling life. “It’s challenging for us. Everything
cards, a few cowboy hats made the is getting more expensive. Our rates
cut, and there was even one made “The Arc has allowed Scott to live are less and our client base has in-
from palm fronds. somewhat independently. He loves creased by about 30 percent,” said
music, and if it weren’t for The Arc Dales. They currently offer more
Guests enjoyed cocktails and lis- Chorus and Noreen Davis, I don’t than 220 special needs adults a place
know where he would be,” shared his to engage with others, learn employ-
sister-in-law, Laurie Connelly. ment skills and live a more fulfilling
life.
Later, Scott Connelly joined fellow
members of The Arc Chorus, who all Thanks to community support,
sang with contagious enthusiasm for they now also work with disabled
youth between the ages of 14 and
21 who are in the school system to
help them with job skills, on-the-job
training and resume building.

“It’s a great program to help our
youth learn employability skills, so
they have those when they join the
employer market,” said Dales, adding
that otherwise they would join the
nearly 90 percent of adults with dis-
abilities who remain un- or under-
employed.

For more information, visit arcir.
org. 

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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 22 Carole Jean Jordan, Chris Sexton and Mary Beth Vallar.
Carol Koontz, Debbie True and Kathleen Schulke.

Silvia Brasil, Joyce Gorman, Linda Scarpa and Maryanne Egan. Alvaro Roldan and Ashley Robinson. Heather Dales, Gil Walker and Susan Scott.

The Arc Chorus.

John and Melinda Meikle with Warren and Virginia Schwerin and Steve Smith and Sally Smith.

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Mary Ellen Replogle, John Replogle and Penny Odiorne. Justin Larson, Dillon and Sara Beth Roberts with Jeff Petersen. Willie LaCroix, Pat Kroger and Cathy LaCroix.

Andy and Sally Rivero.

Robi and Sandy Robinson.

Rodger and Diana Pridgeon.
Helen and Reese Brackins.

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‘Croq’ and rolling for Ed Foundation at Wine & Wickets

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

The sound of mallets hitting wood-

en balls broke the tranquility that gen-

erally pervades the beautiful John’s

Island West Course, when supporters

of the Education Foundation of Indian

River County did their best to score at

the nonprofit’s annual Wine & Wick-

ets fundraiser.

Croquet newbies received a crash

course before heading out onto the

croquet court for a rousing game of

what, to the untrained observer, might

appear to be a random succession of

ball-whacking shenanigans. In actu- Jim McGuigan, Marion Manchester, Pat Blackburn and Brian Elwell. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES Wanda Lincoln, Cynthia Falardeau and Cathy Filusch.

ality, it is a game played with strategy

and skill, appropriately referred to as

chess on grass.

Each tap of the ball and hit through

the players’ hoop could also be seen

as a metaphor for the hoops the Edu-

cation Foundation goes through to

ensure that all local children achieve

academic success. The foundation as-

sists all students from pre-K through

high school – public, private and home

schooled – to develop the skills need-

ed to meet the challenges of higher

education or the pursuit of vocational

interests.

“I can’t tell you how it makes my

heart feel to see my croquet players

out here supporting an endeavor and Sue Vanderstricht, Ellen Mendez-Penate, Janie Henderson and Matt Rundels. John Rush, Anne Linville, Mark Mistretta and Louise Porter.

passion of mine,” said Cathy Filusch,

EF board president. “There is so much

need. Education and our society need

to move forward in the best way it

can. That’s why educating our youth

means educating them not only aca-

demically but socially-emotionally; as

well as making sure they have shoes

on their feet, good teeth and good

eyes.”

As Cynthia Falardeau, executive di-

rector, noted, without the support of

the community, they wouldn’t be able

to “open doors for student success Jack Porter and Robin Ryan. Melody Ippolito and Rick Hope. Laura Allen and Ann Rush.

here in Indian River.”

Founded in 1991 the Education

Foundation funds school programs

and services such as providing High

Impact Innovation Grants to pilot in-

novative student advancement con-

cepts, hosting the Regional Science

and Engineering Fair for grades K-12,

supporting the STEP into Kindergar-

ten six-week program to bridge the

transition from voluntary pre-kinder-

garten to kindergarten, and adminis-

tering the Sneaker Exchange, Tools to

Learn School Supply Project, and Vi-

sion for Reading programs.

For more information, visit edfoun-

dationirc.org. 

‘STILL’ THE ONE: ATHENA SOCIETY TO BUY
GOLDBERG PAINTING

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‘Still’ the one: Athena Society to buy Goldberg painting

BY ELLEN FISCHER Doris Lee: ‘Family Reunion.’
Columnist
Michael Goldberg: George Copeland Ault: ‘Desert Towers.’
The Athena Society at the Vero ‘Still Life with Onion Rolls.’
Beach Museum of Art has voted. On ground, rather than merely cover it.
April 12, the group, 95 member house- PHOTOS BY DENISE RITCHIE Those artists will tell you that at a cer-
holds strong, met over an elegant din- tain point in its development, a paint-
ner at the museum to decide on which color, it makes me think of later Phil- ing can take on a life – or rather, a will
one of four paintings – vetted by the lip Guston. That’s just painting about of its own. After that, painting and the
museum’s director, curator and col- painting. That’s not a reference to any- painter engage in a battle over the ar-
lections committee – to purchase for thing other than bubble gum. That’s tistic outcome. When it is a large paint-
the VBMA permanent collection. just a pure painting color.” ing, a major work, the contest looks like
something between an Apache dance
The winner was “Still Life with On- In other words, nothing you might and a prizefight. The match ends in a
ion Rolls,” a 1956 abstract expressionist think you see in this painting is what draw (not good), a crash and burn (not
painting by Michael Goldberg offered it is about. The subject of the painting, good), or, as “Still Life with Onion Rolls”
by the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in hidden in plain sight, is painting itself. attests, a masterpiece.
New York, currently on display in the
museum’s main hallway. When you see A didactic label next to it advises “It’s a great gesture painting,” says
it, don’t fret if you can’t find the onion that the work’s “outbursts of paint Roberts.
rolls in the over 6-foot tall, 6-foot wide strokes and colors indicate Goldberg’s
oil on canvas. The title is a red herring. interest in the physicality of the act of Goldberg learned from the best.
painting.” Based in New York City, he studied un-
As executive director Brady Roberts der esteemed abstract painter Hans
explains, “You can see it’s a nature- In 1958 the artist described the act of Hofmann, and talked art with Willem
based abstraction, like a Willem de painting as “a life and death proposi- and Elaine de Kooning, Jackson Pol-
Kooning or a Joan Mitchell. It’s got a tion.” He refers to a phenomenon well lock and Franz Kline; he was a gen-
little Arshile Gorky in the drippy, thin- known by painters determined to break
ner parts, but then he’s got that area
(in the composition’s right side) of
bubble gum pink. When I look at that

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Sam Gilliam: ‘King of Prussia.’ proffered paintings precluded a VBMA might be able to acquire, say, an der thirty-five” exhibition at the Whit-
second purchase; the Goldberg, early de Kooning or Motherwell, but ney Museum of American Art.
erational peer of Joan Mitchell, Alfred however, emptied the account for those artists’ pre-World War II efforts
Leslie and Sam Francis. this year and will dip into the funds look nothing like the paintings for Goldberg died in 2007 at the age of 83
allotted for next year’s selection. which they are known, says Roberts. after a long career as an abstract paint-
Roberts notes that while the style of He notes that Goldberg’s “Still Life er and teacher. In addition to the Vero
“Still Life with Onion Rolls” may put A label displayed next to “Still with Onion Rolls,” on the other hand, Beach Museum of Art, his work has
you in mind of some of those names, Life with Onion Rolls” explained is a major painting by a celebrated sec- been collected by the Albright-Knox
Goldberg’s work is ultimately no- to the society’s members that, if that ond-generation abstract expressionist. Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., the Balti-
body’s but his own. painting won the vote, the addition He calls the painting “a rare thing to more Museum of Art, the Hirschhorn
funds needed to purchase it, “approxi- see”: a large painting executed “right Museum and Sculpture Garden in
Three other paintings, all by Ameri- mately $150,000,” would come from in the heart of” the Abstract Expres- Washington, D.C., the Walker Art Cen-
cans, were also considered for purchase part of the funds the Athena Society sionist era, with a sterling exhibition ter in Minnesota, the Museum of Fine
this year. They can hardly be consid- would raise for 2020. history. The latter includes its display Arts Houston, and New York City’s
ered losers; any one of them would be Is this a major acquisition for the in the “Young America 1957: Thirty Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R.
a significant addition to the collection. museum? American Painters and Sculptors un- Guggenheim Museum and Whitney
“Yes,” says Roberts. “What we are Museum of American Art. 
Says Roberts, “You never know looking for, what I would like to see
when some patron saint is going to come out of this process, are corner-
swoop in and say, ‘I was totally disap- stone pieces” for the collection.
pointed with the result of the vote, and For a small museum, buying art is
I think this (or that) painting needs to “part chess game. (Art) has emotional
stay here.’” impact; you can’t help but feel that. But
you have to be analytical and strategic
Two of those paintings, Doris Lee’s about the whole thing too,” he says,
1942 “Family Reunion,” a Rock- adding that how best to employ the mu-
wellesque depiction of a family dinner seum’s finite resources is the question.
honoring a soldier home on leave, and It is “almost impossible” for the mu-
Sam Gilliam’s 1980 “King of Prussia,” seum to afford to buy a great abstract
a large, aggressively textural abstract painting by a first-generation abstract
painting, were on offer from Robert artist, Roberts says.
Boos of New York. “Desert Towers” of A look at recent auction records for
1937, a haunting depiction of solitude major mid-century works backs up
by American surrealist George Cope- that assertion.
land Ault, was offered by Debra Force In November 2018, an iconic de
Fine Art, also in New York. Kooning, “Woman as Landscape”
(c. 1954-1955), sold at Christie’s New
“You’ve got two big, powerful ab- York for a tad less than $69 million. In
stract statements and two represen- the same month, that auction house
tational statements of very different sold a modestly sized (36 5/8 inches
nature,” says Roberts. x 25 5/8 inches) Jackson Pollack drip
painting, “Composition with Red
Alas, this year the Athena Society Strokes” (1950) for almost $55.5 mil-
had only enough funds to purchase lion. The last time a significant Kline
one of the works. To understand what sold at Christie’s was in 2012, when
kind of spending power was available an untitled 1957 painting sold for $4.5
for the 2019 selection, consider that million. And those were public sales.
the society’s 95 member households Information about private sales of
paid $5,000 each – a grand total of valuable paintings is, well, private. It
$625,000 – for the privilege of selecting is safe to say, however, that rare paint-
this year’s purchase. ings by top tier artists are bought and
sold for many millions on the q.t. be-
This year the cost of any one of the tween willing buyers and sellers.
With the Athena Society’s help, the

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Coming Up: Scholastic musical stars ‘Swing’ into action

BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA al fresco party of the season – the Beast” in Disney’s “Beauty and the says dramatists.com, “drawn togeth-
Staff Writer May Pops Concert – celebrating its Beast,” and recently appeared in er by Fate and an impromptu happy
30th year supporting (now) Cleve- the landmark revival of Rodgers and hour,” and determined to find the en-
1 These kids are really, really land Clinic Indian River Hospital. Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” at thusiasm for life they’ve lost. Worka-
good. A couple of Vero Beach On the expansive grounds of the Lincoln Center. He has played nu- holic perfectionist Randa is dealing
Indian River County Fairgrounds, merous leadings roles on and off- with a career derailment that “reveals
high and middle school musical Maestro Christopher Confessore, Broadway and in national tours, she has no life and no clue how to get
the wonderful Brevard Symphony including as Captain von Trapp in one.” Dot faces starting over all alone,
groups present spring concerts this Orchestra and a pair of Broadway “The Sound of Music,” and Billy Fly- after her husband’s sudden death.
stars, Alli Mauzey and William Mi- nn in Kander and Ebb’s “Chicago.” Marlafaye is a mouthy, earthy Texan
week – the Vero Beach High School chals, will delight celebrants with a Whether you BYO picnic or partake who has “blasted into Savannah” af-
thrilling menu of melodies from the of the lavish VIP spread, May Pops ter her no-good hubby bailed with a
Jazz Band Thursday, May 2; and the Great White Way. According to the is always a totally delightful way to young dental hygienist. She is seek-
event promo, among her numerous spend a late spring afternoon. Time: ing a new life – and revenge. Another
VBHS and Gifford Middle School or- roles and awards, Mauzey appeared gates open for picnickers and VIP newcomer, Jinx, is a “spunky fireball”
on Broadway as Glinda in the 10th reception, 3:30 p.m.; performance, who tries to get everyone else’s life
chestras, Sunday, May 5. If you’re al- Anniversary company of “Wicked,” 5:30 p.m. Admission: lawn, $30; VIP, back on track when she’s the one who
which she also performed to criti- $225. 772-226-4960. really needs help. During six months
ready familiar with the level of mu- cal acclaim on the first national tour of conversation, misadventure and
and in the San Francisco company, liquid refreshment, the four learn a lot
sicianship these young people have and has performed in several con- about themselves, each other, and the
certs with symphony orchestras value of friendship. Filled with laugh-
reached, you know what I mean when across the country and abroad, in- ter, says the Guild promo, “The Savan-
cluding playing Ellie in “Show Boat” nah Sipping Society” is joyful and sur-
I say that listening to what they have with the New York Philharmonic, prisingly touching. Curtain: Tuesdays,
and the title role in “Cinderella” Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays –
accomplished is an absolute joy and with the Nashville Symphony Or- 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 2
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Jazz Band’s “Swing into Spring” con-

cert and the combined orchestras’

“Pops Concert” will both take place 3 Let’s raise a glass to the ladies of
the “Savannah Sipping Society,”
at the VBHS Performing Arts Center.

Times: 7 p.m. Tickets, $6 and $12. who, you can be sure, will be raising

772-564-5537. a glass (or so) of their own. Opening

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2 Bowties and Broadway stars: this coming Tuesday, May 7, for a two-
Bowties will again be the ac-
week run, this comedy is about how

cessory of choice this Sunday, May four Southern women, each needing

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BY JEANNE WHALEN | WASHINGTON POST
INSIGHT COVER STORY

In April 2018, a ship carrying $3 mil- cent overtures to Kim – and his order A mound of North Korean coal U.N. monitors’ instructions to seize the
lion worth of coal slipped into Indo- last month to withdraw new Treasury at Rajin harbor in North Korea’s coal, allowing it to be transferred to an-
nesian waters with its identification Department sanctions on North Korea Rason Special Economic Zone. other vessel, which promptly set sail for
transmitter switched off and its flag – introduce “a tremendous sense of Malaysia, Griffiths said. He called this a
hidden from view. uncertainty in the global community,” ing with a fleet of ghost ships that paint “clear violation” of sanctions and said
said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a Treasury false names on their hulls, steal iden- he has asked Malaysia to investigate.
Acting on a tip, Indonesia’s navy de- Department sanctions official from tification numbers from other vessels Indonesian and Malaysian officials did
tained the vessel, which identified itself 2009 to 2013. “They don’t know wheth- and execute their trades via ship-to- not immediately respond to requests
as the “Wise Honest” from Sierra Leone. er sanctions will be there the next day.” ship transfers at sea, to avoid prying for comment.
When inspectors went aboard, they eyes at ports.
found two dozen crew members and The White House and the Treasury Many countries agree that a nu-
registration documents indicating a dif- Department declined to comment. In the case of the Wise Honest, a clear North Korea represents a grave
ferent country of origin – North Korea. Trump this month said he did not want globe-trotting North Korean sales- threat to global security. But enforc-
to increase U.S. sanctions “because of man arranged the shipment by hold- ing the sanctions requires more time
The interdiction, detailed in a March my relationship with Kim Jong Un” ing meetings at Pyongyang’s embassy and money than many are willing to
5 report by U.N. sanctions monitors, is and because he believed “something in Jakarta, Indonesia – and then paid an spend, Griffiths said.
part of a worrying rise in coal exports very significant is going to happen” in Indonesian broker through bank trans-
from the hermit kingdom – exports his denuclearization talks with Kim. fers facilitated by JPMorgan Chase, ac- Stopping Pyongyang’s illicit trade
that violate U.N. sanctions and help cording to bank documents and other would involve keeping close watch on
finance Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons North Korea conducts its illicit trad- evidence gathered by the monitors. North Korea’s embassies and expelling
program, the monitors said. diplomats who facilitate sanctions
While the interception of the Wise evasion, he said.
Pyongyang is growing bolder in its Honest initially looked like a victory for
sanctions evasion in part because enforcement, Indonesia recently defied It would also require countries to
many countries – and their banks, in- boost regulation of insurers, banks
surers and commodities traders – have and commodities traders to ensure
long failed to properly enforce the they more thoroughly screen the ship-
measures, North Korea experts said. ments and transactions they support,
And some sanctions specialists worry the monitors said in the report.
that mixed signals from the Trump ad-
ministration may further undermine Pyongyang’s trading partners in-
global enforcement. clude criminal networks that know-
ingly turn a blind eye to sanctions
“It’s anarchy,” Hugh Griffiths, the out- law, Griffiths said. “If they see North
going coordinator of the U.N. monitors, Korean coal is cheaper to buy because
said in an interview. “These massive it’s illegal, there’s an increased profit
gaps in maritime and financial gover- margin,” he said. Other traders unwit-
nance will provide Chairman Kim with tingly bumble into the transactions
an economic lifeline for months, if not because they are not scrutinizing their
years, to come.” deals closely enough, Griffiths said. In
addition to coal exports, illegal oil im-
While Washington has tradition- ports to North Korea are also soaring.
ally led the global policing of U.N. and
U.S. sanctions, President Trump’s re- Most of the ships that trade with

Chong Chon Gang: A North Korean vessel
previously detained for illicit activity.

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Pyongyang sail under a “flag of conve- North Korean vessel Shang Yuan Bao with name partially painted over. Photo from May 18, 2018. Security Council impose sanctions on
nience,” meaning they are registered companies and ships that violate the
in countries such as Panama, Togo PAEK MA rules, a punishment that can hamper
and Dominica that provide little over- their ability to trade.
sight. But vessels and firms in more- SHANG YUAN BAO
developed countries have also come Some of the explanations the moni-
under suspicion. Shang Yuan Bao and Paek Ma conducting ship-to-ship transfer on May 18, 2018 in the East China Sea. tors receive are far-fetched. After the
Shang Yuan Bao oil tanker was pho-
In late March, the Treasury and State YU JONG 2 KUM UN SAN 3 KOTI tographed transferring cargo through
departments added two oil tankers hoses to a North Korean vessel in May
from South Korea and Singapore to a MIN NING 2018, Griffiths contacted a Taiwan-
watch list of vessels “believed to have DE YOU 078 based management company linked
engaged in” illegal trade with North Ko- to the ship. According to the report,
rea. And the U.N. monitors found that a Above: North Korean-flagged tanker Yu Jong 2, Above: Image shows the North Korean Vessel the company replied that it had used
South Korean company was the intend- and Min Ning De You 078 lying alongside in Kum Un San 3 falsely declared as a Chinese- the hoses to provide drinking water to
ed recipient of the Wise Honest coal. the East China Sea. the North Korean ship, “based on hu-
registered cargo vessel. manitarian aid.”
Singaporean officials said that they
were investigating the tanker from Given that the ship’s hoses are nor-
their country and that they take their mally used for petroleum, the expla-
obligations to enforce sanctions “very nation was “not credible,” Griffiths
seriously.” South Korea said it will said. “Anyone who has tried to drink
“conduct a thorough investigation” on petroleum-tainted water will tell you,
possible sanctions violations. you automatically retch,” he said.

The U.N. Security Council banned In the case of the Wise Honest, a
North Korean coal exports – the coun- North Korean man named Jong Song
try’s largest source of external revenue Ho was central to the deal, the moni-
– in August 2017, after Pyongyang car- tors said. In late 2017, he turned up for
ried out several missile launches. Soon a meeting at North Korea’s embassy
after, the Security Council banned all in Jakarta, where North Korean diplo-
ship-to-ship transfers with North Ko- mats introduced him to an Indonesian
rean vessels and severely restricted commodity trader named Hamid Ali.
North Korea’s petroleum imports, in
part to deprive its military of fuel. Jong presented a business card in-
troducing himself as president of Jin-
Griffiths and his team of seven is the myong Trading Group and Jinmyong
main monitor of compliance, working Joint Bank in Pyongyang – the latter of
out of what Griffiths calls an “undis- which the United States hit with sanc-
closed location” near U.N. headquar- tions in 2017.
ters in New York – undisclosed after
cyberattacks against the monitors In early 2018, Ali and Jong met again
raised concerns about their safety. in Jakarta and discussed a “transship-
ment of coal,” Ali told the monitors,
The team scrutinizes photos and sat- according to the report. Jong then ar-
ellite imagery – some supplied by the ranged to send $760,000 to Ali, via a
United States, Japan, South Korea and company called Huitong Minerals, the
Britain – and bombards Pyongyang’s report said. JPMorgan Chase helped
trading partners with emails demand- facilitate this payment by acting as the
ing that they explain their activity. correspondent bank in transfers, ac-
cording to bank-transfer records ob-
“We don’t have subpoena power,” tained by the monitors.
said Griffiths, a Briton who has spent
his career investigating international Part of that money was a commis-
crime for U.N., European Union and sion payment for helping arrange sale
U.S. bodies. And the group is woefully of the Wise Honest coal, Griffiths said.
understaffed for the size of the task, he
said, with the same number of moni- Ali did not respond to The Washing-
tors as a U.N. team scrutinizing Soma- ton Post’s requests for comment. Jong
lia sanctions, despite having five times and Huitong Minerals could not be
as many measures to track. reached for comment.

Still, the Griffiths team does have On March 11, 2018, a U.N. mem-
some teeth: It can recommend that the ber state captured a photo of the Wise

CONTINUED ON PAGE 34

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This photo from 2017 shows ships and
coal at Rajin harbour in North Korea’s
northeastern city of Rason.

The seizure of the Lighthouse Winmore was revealed after President
Trump accused China of secretly transferring petroleum to North Korean ships.

China cut all coal
imports from
North Korea.

Front-end loaders move coal im-
ported from North Korea in the
Chinese border city of Dandong,
Liaoning Province, in 2010

Honest being loaded with coal at a Enermax told the monitors it “sim- tions on them. In March 2018, the and effectively prohibited other ships
port in Nampo, North Korea. ply received an offer of Indonesia-or- United Nations placed sanctions on from trading with it.
igin coal from someone who seemed a vessel registered in Dominica called
After Indonesia detained the ship to be a local broker in Indonesia.” En- the Yuk Tung, along with the Singapor- To keep operating in the East China
in April 2018, officials there told the ermax did not respond to The Post’s ean company that managed it, after Sea, the Yuk Tung painted a new name
monitors that a South Korean com- requests for comment. the vessel traded with a North Korean and a stolen identification number on
pany, Enermax Korea, was the “final ship. That punishment banned the its stern and falsely transmitted the
destination/recipient” of the coal, ac- Some ships carry on trading even Yuk Tung from all ports worldwide stolen number. Meanwhile, the right-
cording to the report. after the Security Council places sanc- ful owner of that ID was anchored in

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the Gulf of Guinea, more than 7,000 commodities traders, Hin Leong Trad- their investigation and appeared to be to ensure that sanctions are never
miles away, according to the monitors. ing, Griffiths said. A U.N. member state an “unwitting party” to an illicit trans- breached,” a spokesman for Hin Le-
told Griffiths’s team it believed the pe- action, but Griffiths said the company ong said by email.
These tactics enabled the Yuk Tung troleum was destined for North Korea. is not doing all it could to vet its trad-
to masquerade as the Maika and re- ing partners. A British insurer and banks from
ceive $5.7 million worth of petroleum The monitors said Hin Leong Trad- the United States and Singapore were
in October from a Singaporean tanker ing, founded by Singaporean billion- “We shall continue to strive to im- also involved in the deal, the monitors
controlled by one of the region’s biggest aire Lim Oon Kuin, cooperated with prove our procedures and operations said, declining to name them. 

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INSIGHT OPINION

Time zone boundaries can be hazardous to your health

Sleep scientist Matthew Walker has observed that The problem for folks who go to bed later is that at least 8 hours,” the authors write. “The effects are
“human beings are the only species that deliberately they generally cannot make up lost sleep on the back larger among individuals with early working schedules
deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain.” We end: Work and school have set start times, whether and among individuals with children of school age.”
stay up late to watch our favorite TV shows. We wake you live in Pecos or Panama City.
up early to get to work or school on time. And twice a Roughly speaking, 19 minutes of lost sleep a day
year we change our clocks, to the bewilderment of our “Individuals on the late sunset side of a time zone translates to 115 hours of lost sleep per year. Given
circadian rhythms. boundary are more likely to be sleep deprived, more what’s known about the importance of sleep for good
likely to sleep less than 6 hours, and less likely to sleep physical and mental health, it’s no surprise that Gi-
We also set up conflicts between our natural and untella and Mazzonna found a greater incidence of
social clocks in other, less obvious ways, a fact under- health problems in areas where the sun sets later.
scored in research published this month in the Jour-
nal of Health Economics. It turns out, the study found, People on the late side of sunset across U.S. time
that living on the wrong side of a time zone’s boundary zones were 11 percent more likely, on average, to be
can have negative consequences on a person’s health overweight and 21 percent more likely to be obese. Dia-
and wallet. betes was more prevalent, and the risk of heart attack
increased by 19 percent. Breast cancer rates were slight-
The culprit? More natural light in the evening hours. ly elevated, too – about 5 percent higher than average.
To understand the study, co-authored by Osea Gi-
untella of the University of Pittsburgh and Fabrizio The authors also found economic differences. Sleep-
Mazzonna of the Universita della Svizzera Italiana, it ing less is known to adversely affect productivity. As a re-
is important to understand how time zones affect lo- sult, the researchers found, “wages tend to be 3 percent
cal sunset times. Traveling east to west, sunrise and lower on the late sunset side of the time zone border,
sunset times get later, as the map shows. suggesting negative effects on economic productivity.”
Panama City, Fla., for instance, is located on the far
eastern end of the Central time zone, while Pecos, Tex., Economic data suggests people don’t put much of
sits on the far western side. Last week, the sun set in a price tag on living on one side of a time zone or the
Panama City about 7:12 p.m. Central time. In Pecos, it other. Housing prices and commuting times are com-
set more than an hour later, at 8:25 p.m. parable, for example.
Sunset is a powerful biological trigger: The fading
of natural light causes the body to release melatonin, But it’s not all bad for the late folks. Giuntella and
a hormone that induces drowsiness. As a result, peo- Mazzonna speculate later sunset times may pay for
ple on the eastern side of a time zone, where the sun themselves in terms of the enjoyment people get out
sets earlier, tend to go to bed earlier than those on the of them. “Individuals may derive more utility from
western side. enjoying leisure time with more natural light in the
The data illustrate this point showing how bed- evening,” they write. In other words, an extra hour of
times shift from east to west, with a sharp reset hap- daylight for recreation may at least partially offset the
pening once you cross into a new time zone. loss of sleep.
Data from the American Time Use Survey by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, in which respondents keep “As long work hours, work schedules, school start
detailed diaries of how they spend their days, con- times and the timing of TV shows can create conflicts
firms what the Jawbone data suggest: Those who live between our biological rhythms and social timing,
in the geographical area of a time zone with a later our findings suggest that reshaping social schedules
sunset went to bed, on average, 19 minutes later than in ways that promote sleeping may have non-trivial
people who live with earlier sunsets. effects on health and economic performance,” the re-

searchers wrote. 

This column by Christopher Ingraham first ap-
peared in The Washington Post. It does not necessarily
reflect the views of Vero Beach 32963.

SKIN CANCER, PART VII  LASER SURGERY © 2019 VERO BEACH 32963 MEDIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Laser surgery is sometimes used to treat superficial SCCs
Fortunately, there are several very effective treatments for squa- when other techniques have been unsuccessful. Some lasers
mous cell carcinoma, the second most common type of skin (such as CO2 lasers) vaporize (ablate) the skin cancer; others
cancer. (nonablative lasers) convert the beam of light to heat, which
destroys the tumor.
TREATMENT FOR SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA (SCC)  RADIATION
 MOHS MICROGRAPIC SURGERY Radiation therapy, which utilizes low-energy X-ray beams to
Mohs is the gold standard for treating many SCCs (as well destroy the tumor, is mainly used in cases that are hard to
as many basal cell carcinomas and some melanomas). The treat surgically or if the patient is not a good candidate for
physician removes a thin layer of tissue containing the tu- surgery due to age or poor health. It is sometimes used in
mor. With the patient waiting, the tissue is examined under the treatment of advanced cases of SCC after surgery, com-
a microscope. The procedure is repeated until the last ex- bined with other treatments, as well.
cised layer of skin viewed under the microscope is cancer-  PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY (PDT)
free. Mohs surgery is used to treat large tumors, recurring Phototodynamic therapy uses a drug, called a photosen-
skin cancers, tumors that are hard to pinpoint and critical sitizer or photosensitizing agent, and a specific wavelength
areas around the eyes, nose, lips, ears, temple, scalp or fingers. of light. When photosensitizers are exposed to this light,
 EXCISIONAL SURGERY they produce a form of oxygen that kills nearby cells. Patients
The physician uses a scalpel to remove the entire growth must avoid sunlight for at least 48 hours after treatment.
and a border of normal skin as a safety margin. After closing PDT may be used for some superficial SCCs on the face and
the surgical site with stiches, the tissue is sent to the labo- scalp but is not recommended for invasive SCC.
ratory to be examined under a microscope. If the patholo-  TOPICAL MEDICATIONS
gist determines that not all skin cancer was removed, the While 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and imiquimod are approved by
procedure will need to be repeated. the FDA to treat actinic keratoses and superficial basal cell
 CURETTAGE AND ELECTRODISSECTION (ELECTROSURGERY) carcinoma, they are not for squamous cell carcinoma. How-
Small and unaggressive lesions are usually treated by scraping ever, they are sometimes used to treat superficial – not ad-
the growth off using an instrument called a curette that has vanced – SCCs.
a sharp, ring-shaped tip. Then the tumor site is electrodis- Next time we’ll discuss the only drug approved to treat advanced
sected (burned) with an electrocautery needle. squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. 
 CRYOSURGERY (“FREEZING”) Your comments and suggestions for future topics are always
Liquid nitrogen is applied to the growth with a cotton-tipped welcome. Email us at [email protected].
applicator or a spray device in order to freeze and destroy
the lesion. Local anesthesia is sometimes used.

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INSIGHT BOOKS

Tyler Kepner quotes let’s not forget Mike Montgomery, who won ing that pitch, or how’d he look fouling that pitch off?
a World Series with the Chicago Cubs – he There’s all these things going on in your head.”
two baseball historians perfected his curveball by throwing to his
mother, a former college softball player.) Sure, physical attributes matter. Carl Hubbell, a nine-
as saying that Sandy time All Star, always said he could throw a screwball be-
This teacher/student relationship im- cause his left arm “hangs from my shoulder strangely.”
Koufax possessed the parts more than technique, it conveys Pedro Martinez of the Boston Red Sox had “ridiculously
the most critical quality a pitcher (or any long” fingers, according to his teammate Curt Schil-
best curveball ever. athlete, for that matter) really needs: self- ling. “That’s one of the reasons why he had such a good
confidence. Fred Martin, a coach for the change-up. Bigger fingers allow you more control over
Reading that sentence, Cubs, taught Bruce Sutter how to throw the baseball.”
a split-finger fastball and something
I recalled a story told else as well. “With Fred’s personality, he But pure athleticism is not enough. The essence of
great pitching is deceit. Every successful practitioner
by Jane Leavy, a for- knew what to say around me to get me is “part magician.” The key to success is not bludgeon-
relaxed,” says Sutter, a relief pitcher with ing hitters, it’s bamboozling them. Orel Hershiser, who
mer sportswriter for the 300 career saves. “He knew hollering at played for 18 years before becoming a TV commenta-
me is not gonna work. Bull-------- me tor, quotes an adage from Hall of Famer Greg Maddux:
Washington Post who is not going to work. You had to tell me “Make strikes look like balls and make balls look like
something that I believe that’d work. He strikes.” He adds: “That’s pitching.”
wrote a wonderful bi- had that knack.”
Kepner’s book lacks a compelling narrative and Not so much lately, however. Teams are stocking their
ography of Koufax, win- well-developed characters. His descriptions of how rosters with power arms that can throw 100 miles per
to throw various pitches can be hard to visualize; de- hour, and they want them to go full speed in very short
ner of 165 games for the tailed illustrations would have helped. Accordingly, bursts – like hockey players on a shift. “These guys know
this volume will appeal more to hardcore fans than to only one thing, because organizations are telling them
Brooklyn and Los Angeles casual readers, but for us baseball believers, there are one thing: give me everything you have and we’ll take
plenty of nourishing nuggets here, starting with the care of the rest,” says John Smoltz, Maddux’s teammate
Dodgers between 1955 essential nature of the pitching profession. on the Atlanta Braves and now a broadcaster. “It is not
It’s different from any position on the diamond, a healthy trend,” Kepner writes. It leads to more pitch-
and 1966. from any position in any sport except perhaps for a ing changes, more strikeouts, longer games and more
football quarterback. “The pitcher is the planner, the fan discontent. Total attendance at big league ballparks
Leavy invited Koufax initiator of action,” Kepner writes. Jamie Moyer, who dropped by 3 million last season.
pitched for 25 seasons, adds: “It’s about being in con-
to her son’s bar mitz- trol – who’s in control of the game?” That’s why mind- In response, baseball recently announced that it
sets are as important as muscles. And why it often would experiment with changes on the minor league
vah in Washington, and she showed me takes even the best big leaguers many years to mature. level this season to speed up the action: requiring each
Koufax won only 36 games during his first six years in pitcher to face at least three batters, for example, and
a photo of the legendary left-hander demonstrat- the majors, from age 19 through 24; over the next six, moving the mound back two feet. Good ideas. Baseball
he won 129 games (and then retired with a sore arm). needs some freshening up, but the essence of the game
ing how to throw a curve to a gaggle of 13-year-old Mike Mussina, who was recently elected to the Hall has remained the same since the major leagues formed
of Fame, explained what every pitcher must consider in the late 19th century. The magician on the mound
boys. No, one of the youngsters protested, that’s not before every pitch: “Who’s hitting? Is he hot or cold? is in control. And he passes on the secrets of his sect,
Where are the base runners? What’s the situation? expert to acolyte, season after season. 
how you do it, my coach showed me a different way. Where are we in the game? Are we on the road? Are
we at home? Is it nighttime? Is it daytime? What has he K
Koufax gently corrected the dissenter but still the lad done the other two at-bats? Let’s say it’s the seventh
inning. Where’s he at in the box? How’d he look tak- A HISTORY OF BASEBALL IN TEN PITCHES
persisted. Finally the Hall of Famer lost patience and
BY TYLER KEPNER | 302 PP. $28.95
growled, “Look, kid, this is how you throw a goddamn REVIEW BY STEVEN V. ROBERTS, THE WASHINGTON POST

curveball!”

If those neophytes didn’t heed Koufax’s counsel,

many others have. In his engaging book “K: A History

of Baseball in 10 Pitches,” Kepner describes a dinner

in the winter of 2014, when Koufax was seated next to

Max Scherzer, the ace right-hander of the Washing-

ton Nationals. They talked pitching all evening and

“for Scherzer, it was a master class on the curveball,”

writes the author, who covers baseball for the New

York Times.

“My God, could you imagine a better person in life

to ever talk to about throwing a curveball?” Scherzer

told Kepner. “I literally sat there on my iPhone just

writing down notes. ‘How are you doing this, what do

you do on that?’ There’s definitely some principles I

still think about from that conversation.”

That scene embodies a basic theme from Kepner’s

book. Pitching is best taught through the ancient sys-

tem of apprenticeship. Wisdom is passed down from

master to initiate, coach to player, father to son. (And

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INSIGHT BRIDGE

ANOTHER UNUSUAL SUIT ESTABLISHMENT WEST NORTH EAST
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By Phillip Alder - Bridge Columnist — KJ83 Q542
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Alfred North Whitehead, an English mathematician and philosopher, said, “It requires a very J9652 AKQ4 10 8 7 3
unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
SOUTH
Yesterday, we had a thin slam that needed luck and skill — here is another, one that requires A K 10 8 5
an unusual form of suit establishment. How should South plan the play in seven spades after A 10 9 7 6
West leads a trump, and East discards a diamond? 873
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Over South’s one-spade opening, North responded four diamonds, a splinter bid promising
four-card or longer spade support, a singleton or void in diamonds and at least game-going Dealer: South; Vulnerable: East-West
values. This bid improved South’s hand, so he control-bid the heart ace. That was sufficient
for North, who jumped to five no-trump, which was the Grand Slam Force, asking South to The Bidding:
bid seven spades with two of the top three spade honors.
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
At first glance, maybe you went for these 13 tricks: five spades, two hearts, three clubs and 1 Spades Pass 4 Diamonds Pass
three diamond ruffs in the dummy. However, the bad heart break is fatal. 4 Hearts Pass 5 NT Pass LEAD:
7 Spades Pass Pass Pass 3 Spades
It is better to play for five spades, three hearts, three clubs and two diamond ruffs. Declarer
should draw trumps and cash the heart ace. (Starting with the heart king is fatal if West has
all four hearts, unlikely though that may be.) If both opponents follow, South plays a heart to
the king, discards his remaining hearts on the top clubs and ruffs a heart.

Here, when West discards, declarer also plays a heart to the king and pitches his last three
hearts, but then he leads the heart jack for a ruffing finesse through East’s queen to establish
a third winner in the suit.

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1 Egyptian capital (5) 1 Easy to remember (tune) (6)
4 Czech capital (6) 2 Herbivorous dinosaur (9)
9 Excursions (5) 3 In a legal position (football (6)
10 Collapse (7) 5 Slight surface wave (6)
11 Ashamed (expression) (7) 6 Sentimentality (3)
12 Artificial embankment (5) 7 Cricket team? (6)
14 Day before (3) 8 Protection for digit; filter slang
15 Not even (3)
16 Moose (3) (anag.) (11)
18 Double-decker? (3) 13 Cycling arena (9)
21 Oz (5) 17 Woollen ball (6)
22 Heavenly claps? (7) 18 Scarab, say? (6)
23 Critical (7) 19 Trick; rubbish (6)
25 Fillip (5) 20 Squirm (6)
26 Calling or business (6) 24 Check (3)
27 Honking birds (5)
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ACROSS 95 Six-gun site 46 Blind ___ The Washington Post
96 Bergen’s boob 47 Presidential helicopter pilot,
1 Damn Yankees dame 97 Tide or Surf ANAGRAM NICKNAMES 2 By Merl Reagle
5 Bucket o’ bolts 99 In due time e.g.
9 Part of a comet’s head 101 Melted 49 An actress really, really early OIL & PROPANE FLORIDA
13 Goes through, 102 Defunct detergent brand SIGN UP AS A NEW CUSTOMER
105 Absorbing playwright? in her career?
as a check 109 Some babies 50 Instruction book FOR PROPANE OR GASOLINE
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Zab flows 111 Cuban-coffee ingredient 54 M. Friedman’s forte
20 Commedia dell’___ 112 Chou’s end 56 French article ON ANY GRILL PURCHASE
21 Luang Prabang’s nation 113 Purchase options on Wheel 58 Legless critters
22 British medical journal 60 Atlas blowup
23 It borders Lake Titicaca of Fortune 61 A cowboy steps in it
24 Ex-prime minister with a 115 Author who’s always a bad 62 On edge
63 Hemingway title character
90-mile-an-hour fastball? witness? 64 “Funny, but when you’re ___
27 What the hold holds 119 Brit’s baby buggy
29 Wireless alert 122 Legal fee payer ... ”
30 Home of Florida’s Herald 123 Cozy corner 66 Chihuahua lizard
31 1965 protest anthem, 124 Isle of exile 67 Boat on the Mekong
125 H. Rickover’s alma mater 72 Pants-patch spot
“___ of Destruction” 126 John Henry’s tool 73 Crayola color,
32 Elem. or tech. 127 Lake where Perry beat the
34 Actress-turned- Burnt ___
British 75 Thunder Bay prov.
grease monkey? 128 Signs of hope, perhaps 79 Applications
37 Make mends 129 Dantean river 80 Flower seed, e.g.
38 Argues a case 82 Persian queen
40 Goose genus DOWN 86 Up ___ (to prison)
41 Certain race pace 1 Backtalk 87 Poop (out)
43 Shelf-service lane 2 Azurite, for one 89 Shade provider
44 Mo. zone 3 Film star once accused of 90 They’re often hard
45 Sci-fi classic, The Mind
being a “wooden” actor? to beat
of Mr. ___ 4 It means “water” 92 Color choices
48 Città where Keats died 93 The Eocene, for one
52 Athenian lawgiver 5 Scottish dish 94 Resembling pitch
6 Peter in Captain Blood 98 Like caplets
53 Church section 7 Had a little lamb? 100 Ski-lift frame
55 Hush-hush org. 8 Antonym of “aristocrats” 101 Step on it
56 Turner and others 9 Study sessions 102 Coins and Frisbees
57 Conductor Dorati 10 Outboard backup 103 Mo or Stew of Arizona
59 TV actor who’s fond of 11 Mell Lazarus 104 Spy org. in Our Man Flint (or

Cubans? comic strip an amazed exclamation)
63 Burden 12 Sean who played Samwise 106 Bible possessive
65 Rommel’s quietus 107 Pavarotti, for one
68 Flea inflictions 13 Complains loudly 108 Longtime New York Times
69 “Heeere’s Johnny!”, e.g. 14 Hispanic
70 Big name in small blocks 15 Placed inside: abbr. critic Vincent
71 Writer-director-surgeon? 16 Massage targets 114 Penguin’s name in Outland
73 SRO lack 17 Actor Christopher 116 Rorem of music
74 Morse morsel 18 Scatter 117 “There but for the grace of
75 Great hatred 25 Colloquial clothes
76 Reacts to an intro 26 Proverbial God ___”
77 Sources of trouble waste-maker 118 Dock workers’ org.
78 Writer with his own line of fish 28 A gnaw-it-all 120 “___ takers?”
32 Pool halls? 121 Human Factor
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81 Bash by Bacchus 35 Rub with a file
83 “It’s ___ unusual day ...” 36 Marked with an X instead of
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INSIGHT BACK PAGE

He wants a son. She’d settle for a responsible hubby

BY CAROLYN HAX and watch him be just as disengaged – and harbor
Washington Post unwelcome suspicions that gender has something
to do with this.
Dear Carolyn:
Grumpy just typing that one, by the way, so I
My husband is a great father hope I’m laughably wrong. And it’s not just the
sexism of it that’s irritating, either – it’s the fact
to our 6- and 4-year-old daugh- that kids are, and deserve to be treated as and
loved for, whoever they are. They’re not little gen-
ters, but he is a dud with chil- der representatives sent to give their parents a
specific sense of continuity and connection, no
dren much younger than 4. I did matter how many generations of parents promote
and perpetuate these hopes. So for everyone’s
nearly all the baby and toddler sake I hope, if you have this baby, your husband
is a champ about baby care and keeps the gender
stuff by myself because he was too tired, too over- thing in perspective.

whelmed, too scared to break them and so on. Anyway.
The list I suggested is partly about not setting
He wants a third baby – he does not say so, but either of you up to fail, and partly about know-
ing where your buttons are so you aren’t surprised
he wants a boy – and while I’m sure I would love when something pushes them. Both goals are in
service of a larger goal of not allowing resentment
another baby, I don’t want to do all the work alone to seep in, since that’s bad for marriages and flat-
out terrible for kids.
again. When I say that to him, he promises to be One more thing. Just because a co-parent is re-
luctant doesn’t mean you have to step in to do ev-
more involved next time around, but I don’t know erything. There are ways to engage an otherwise
competent parent who is just fearful of breaking a
whether I believe him and I don’t know whether baby: “I’m taking [4-year-old and 6-year-old] to [ac-
tivity]. You’ve got [baby]. We’ll be back around [ETA
he really knows how to be more involved, or un- several hours from now].” Everyone is new at it at
some point, and everyone learns on the job. 
derstands how far off the mark he was the last two

times.

How can I determine, without actually having

the baby and watching him fail, whether he can

be a better baby dad and not leave me in the lurch?

–Another Baby?

Another Baby?: The only way having another alone again, and you enjoy the pleasant surprise of
baby would make any sense for you is the follow- not having to do it if and when he makes good on
ing: his promise.

1. You really want another baby yourself. 3. You are ready to possibly have a boy and then
2. You assume you will be left in the lurch on all watch your husband actually care for said boy in a
of the baby care, you plan on doing all of the work way he never did for his girls – or have another girl

4

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HEALTH

New osteoporosis drug, service brighten patients’ prospects

BY TOM LLOYD Dr. Seth Coren.
Staff Writer
PHOTOS BY DENISE RITCHIE
At the beginning of April a new os-
teoporosis drug from Amgen grabbed
headlines nationwide when the Food
and Drug Administration approved its
use for a select group of patients.

But there is even bigger osteoporo-
sis news – locally, anyway – that comes
from Dr. Seth Coren of the Osteoporosis
and Bone Health Center at Vero Ortho-
paedics, who has convinced Cleveland
Clinic Indian River Hospital to launch
what he calls a “fracture liaison service.”

It is a service that is sorely needed, ac-
cording to Coren, and he says it didn’t
take all that much convincing.

Right now, all Vero Orthopaedics pa-
tients who come into the hospital with
a fractured hip or pelvis are offered
a “consultation” on osteoporosis by
Coren, along with treatment if needed,
but he wants to do more. He wants to of-
fer those consultations and treatments
to prevent future fractures to all such
patients at the hospital, whether they’re
Vero Orthopaedics patients or not.

“In the past,” Coren continues, “I

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HEALTH

hadn’t gotten any support from the and a tool.” Normal bone vs. The FDA says the “effects of the Eve-
[hospital] administration to expand this “I’m not a big fan of rushing into new osteoarthritic bone. nity wanes after 12 doses,” so its use is
to the general population,” but, he says, for one year only, before patients have to
Cleveland Clinic has stepped up. medications,” he adds. we have some more experience with it, switch to other medications.
“If you come in with mild osteopo- then I may say this is what we do first.”
The hospital’s new management said, If things go the way Coren hopes, his
“Yes. Let’s do this. This is part of treating rosis, do I want to put you on this drug? Probably the best news about Evenity collaboration with Cleveland Clinic In-
patients.” Probably not. Now, in three years, after is that Medicare likely will pay most of dian River Hospital in developing a hos-
the nearly $19,000 cost that 12 months’ pital-wide fracture liaison service will
“We’re now in the process of creating a worth of injections costs. continue far longer than just 12 months,
fracture liaison service. That’s so impor- lasting until, someday, osteoporosis can
tant. Only about 15 percent of the people finally be cured or prevented entirely.
who break their hip are evaluated and
treated for osteoporosis after their initial Dr. Seth Coren is with the Osteoporosis
fracture, and statistics show there is a and Bone Health Center at Vero Ortho-
significant risk of a second or even third paedics/Neurology at 1155 35th Lane in
fracture within one or two years of the Vero Beach. The phone number is 772-
first,” if the underlying condition of os- 569-2330. 
teoporosis is not treated.

“So,” says Coren, “we’re now in the
process of creating assistance where, not
only do patients get treated appropriate-
ly for their broken hip, but [we educate
and use specific medications] so they
don’t come back with another broken
hip in the next year or two.”

“If you come into the hospital with a
heart attack, before you leave, there is a
checklist,” Coren says. “You have to have
beta blockers, you have to have this, you
have to have that.” In his eyes patients
with osteoporosis-related bone frac-
tures deserve the same kind of precau-
tionary treatment and education.

And speaking of precautionary treat-
ment, let’s get back to that new osteopo-
rosis drug, which is known as “Evenity”
or “romosozumab.”

The New York Times calls it “the first
new treatment approach for osteopo-
rosis in nearly two decades,” but Coren,
a stickler for detail, singles out what he
calls an error in the Times report.

The Times wrote: “Standard treat-
ments, drugs called bisphosphonates,
stop the loss of bone but do not build it.”
Coren says that’s not altogether true.

He says existing medications includ-
ing Forteo, Tymlos, Fosamax, Boniva
and Prolia “do help you build bone. They
just do it in a different method.”

In any case, in two large clinical trials,
patients given Evenity as a once-month-
ly injection saw impressive increases in
their bone density.

But Coren warns it is not a panacea.
And it’s not without risk.

As the FDA reports, “Evenity may in-
crease the risk of heart attack, stroke
and cardiovascular death, so it’s impor-
tant to carefully select patients for this
therapy, which includes avoiding use in
patients who have had a heart attack or
stroke within the previous year.”

Evenity is currently approved only for
post-menopausal women who have not
suffered a heart attack or stroke in the
past year and have “a history of osteopo-
rotic fractures or multiple risk factors for
fractures, or those who have failed or are
intolerant to other osteoporosis thera-
pies,” according to the FDA.

That’s just fine by Coren. To him, the
new drug is “just one piece of the puzzle

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HEALTH

Healthcare task force tackles opioid addiction in county

BY TOM LLOYD doesn’t rank in the top 10 for drug over- pervasive, according to Posey, that a addiction
Staff Writer dose deaths in Florida – Palm Beach, healthcare task has been formed to prob-
Brevard and Okeechobee counties all combat the crisis.
If you think Vero Beach somehow do – but that’s not much consolation for Anne Posey. PHOTO BY KAILA JONES
dodged the nationwide opioid epidem- thousands of local residents who have Posey says she is working with Vicki
ic, just spend a few minutes with Anne been impacted by opioid addiction. Soule at Treasure Coast Community lems faced by many Americans.
Posey, administrative director of the Health, Carrie Maynard-Lester with In response, Posey and the task force
Behavioral Health Center at the Cleve- Meanwhile, St. Lucie County saw its Substance Awareness Center, Houston
land Clinic Indian River Hospital. opioid-related death toll triple between Park with Southeast Florida Behavioral have turned to what NIH calls “a whole
2014 and 2016, according to the Trea- Health and others in the task force to patient” approach known as MAT, or
She’ll quickly convince you other- sure Coast Regional Planning Council, evaluate and implement new treatment Medication Assisted Treatment, be-
wise. and it is still increasing today. approaches here. cause, as NIH says, “patients treated
with medication are more likely to re-
It is true that Indian River County The opioid problem in Florida is so Why are new opioid addiction ap- main in therapy compared to patients
proaches needed? In part because receiving treatment that did not include
many of today’s opioids aren’t, strictly medication.”
speaking, opioids anymore.
“From an evidence standpoint,”
The Hazelden-Betty Ford Founda- Posey explains, “it’s the treatment of
tion explains. The term “opioid” origi- choice.”
nally applied only to medications made
from natural opium poppies and to the If you, a family member, a friend,
illegal drug, heroin, but in 1996 Purdue neighbor or co-worker is struggling
Pharma began manufacturing Oxy- with opioid addiction, help is available.
Contin in the United States. By 2001 it
was the best-selling synthetic narcotic Getting that help can start with a
pain reliever in the country. phone call: “They can call us at 772-
563-4666, extension 6637,” Posey says.
“By 2004 OxyContin had become “That’s our rapid behavioral response
a leading drug of abuse in the United team.”
States,” according to the National In-
stitutes of Health. That was due, in no Anne Posey is the administrative di-
small part, to Purdue training “its sales rector at the Cleveland Clinic Indian
representatives to carry the message [to River Hospital’s Behavioral Health
prescribing physicians] that the risk of Center at 1190 37th Street in Vero
addiction was less than 1 percent.” Beach. 

That just wasn’t true. Not for Oxy-
Contin, or for oxycodone, hydrocodone,
fentanyl or any of the other new genera-
tion of synthetic pain relieving “opioid”
drugs. They are all every bit as addictive
as heroin.

In fact, the Mayo Clinic now says,
“opioid use – even short term – can lead
to addiction and, too often, overdose.
Anyone who takes opioids is at risk of
developing addiction.”

If that’s not scary enough, the folks
at the Mayo Clinic add, “legal or illegal,
stolen and shared, these drugs are re-
sponsible for the majority of overdose
deaths in the U.S. today,” as well as the

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / May 2, 2019 49

PETS

Bonz makes the scene with pair of show-biz stars

Hi Dog Buddies! atrical Animals. The Human in Charge,

OMG, you pooches! I am SO excited! Bill Berloni, is our Dad. Mom is Dorothy
I innerviewed my first musical theater
stars this week, AN saw their show, “Le- and Jenna’s our human sis. All us The-
gally Blonde,” over at Riverside! Frankie’s
a chihuahua and he plays the part of atrical Animals live on their big farm in
Bruiser; and Myrtle, a bulldog, plays Ru-
fus. An (THIS is SO Cool Kibbles) they are Cuh-neddi-cut. Dad’s an actor an also
both Rescues!
a Behavior Consultant for the Humane
I met ’em at Star Suites, a bran new
place where the human an animal actors Society of New York. He’s been rescuing
stay when they’re doin’ a Riverside show.
Me, my assistant, Frankie, Myrtle an pooches for 42 human years an giving
their human sat on snazzy blue couches
on the pool patio. ’em a wunnerful life in show business,

“I’m spokespooch cuz I’m a showbiz so everybuddy will see that rescue dogs MyPHrOtTlOeBY&KAIFLArJaOnNEkS ie.
veteran,” said Frankie, a happy, good- can be stars. We even had a Discovery
lookin’ leading-dog. “This is our fren
Rochelle Scudder. She’s in the show too, Network Reality Show, ‘From Wags to
an she takes care of us. This young lady
is Myrtle.” Riches,’ back in 2015. But I digress. “Shut the doghouse door!”

Myrtle was supercute, white and hon- “I’m basically a happy guy, kinda barky, “I KNOW. Cool Kibbles, right? On stage, “I practice my big scene where I run
ey-colored coat, short, an silky sweet, straight across the stage, fast as I can,”
smushy face; an this a-DOR-ubble under- and I’d been left at the Meridian Humane I’m all Bruiser. Back home, I’m just plain said Myrtle. “The audience totally loves
bite. Did I mention she was really cute? me.”
Society. I was hangin’ out, waitin’ for Frankie.”
“A great pleasure,” I said, grinning at “That they do,” Frankie agreed. “Years
Myrtle like a Doof. “I loved your show. whatever was next (if I ever made it outta “When he’s playin’ with other pooches, ago, I got so excited in my bark scene I
Majorly Awesome Dog Biscuits! Maybe toppled right over. But I bounced back up.
you two would do me the honor of sign- there), when Dad spotted me an knew I’d he does this funny thing,” said Myrtle. Didn’t miss a beat. The show must go on!”
ing my notebook.”
be perfect as Bruiser in the 2010 national l “He turns around an gives ’em a big ka- “Tell me about the costumes.”
“No prob, Bonz,” Frankie said. “I’ve got five changes: pink collar; ar-
“I’d be happy to drool on it,” Myrtle tour of ‘Legally Blonde.’ Seriously? At first, rate kick, I guess to show who the alpha gyle sweater for Harvard; pink parka for
offered. “This is my first innerview! It’s Thanksgiving break; tie for the court-
SO Cool Kibbles! Are you gonna take my I thought he was nuts. in the room is.” room; pink bow and bedazzled jumpsuit
pickshur? Is my collar on straight? Am I for the finale.”
drooling?” “At the farm I met dozens of pooch per- Frankie rolled his eyes. “He gets the cool outfits,” said Myrtle.
“Relax, Kid! You look pooch-perfect!” “I have a studded collar and a harness.
Frankie turned to me. “I took her under formers. Rescues like me. An my life was “So, can I tell about me?” Myrtle asked. But that’s show biz.”
my wing since we were gonna be co- Heading home, I still had stars in my
stars. Gave her a few showbiz tips. Don’t changed forever. Home base is Dad’s an “Sure, kid. Go for it,” said Frankie. eyes. I was thinking how cool Theatri-
play Minneapolis at Christmas; hold out cal Animals is to use all rescue dogs. It
for the good treats; no pictures till the Mom’s house on the farm, when we’re not “Dad rescued me in 2018. After me an gives those pooches pawsome new lives
light’s right.” so they can carry the banner that rescues
He curled up next to my assistant and touring. We have our own packs, usually my famly moved to New York from Israel, can do ANYTHING if somebody gives
began their tale. ’em that big break.
“We work for a comp-nee called The- according to which shows we’re doing. they couldn’t keep me, so they took me to
The Bonz
An our sizes. the Humane Society. I was one anna half.
Don’t Be Shy
“After we get use to our new home an I loved meeting Frankie an my other new
We are always looking for pets
the other pooches, The Bonding Process brothers an sisters, an I love the farm. We with interesting stories.

starts. We learn to trust Dad and unner- run an play an bark an nobody fusses. To set up an interview, email
[email protected].
stand he’s In Charge. Then comes the act- Dad says I’m perfect to play Rufus, which

ing classes. We learn to not be distracted is a cross-gender part. I just have to ex-

by anything when we’re working – like plore my inner Dude. ‘Legally Blonde’

laughin’; clappin’; cellphones; humans is my professional acting debut! I’m so

unwrapping those liddle coughdrop thrilled! An I just wanna give a big Woof

thingys. An learn to respond the same Out to all my frens for supporting me!”

way every time to what us actors call Qs. “What’s your pre-show routine?”

Dad treats us with respect an patience. “Before heading to the theatre, we rest

He uses what humans call ‘positive rein- in our fabulous suite, with Rochelle,”

forcement.’ That means pats, treats and Frankie replied. “At the theatre, we have

TLC. The humans we act with also have our own dressing room. Rochelle helps us

to learn to give our Qs. Rochelle teaches set out costumes an water stations, and

them for this show. After nine years tour- pre-set treats. Forty-five minutes before

ing, I hold the record for doing more per- curtain, everybody warms up on stage. I

formances of ‘Legally Blonde’ than any practice my lap jump and do my ‘Bark on

other pooch or human actor.” Q’ vocal warm-up.”

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ST. EDWARD’S

St. Ed’s girls lacrosse meets, exceeds season goals

BY RON HOLUB
Columnist

For the third time in the three-year Lauren Savage. sists), also a huge impact
tenure of head coach Rick Cassara, St. player. Our primary center
Edward’s varsity girls lacrosse team PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES is Catalina Pratt (25 goals, 17
finished the season on an upbeat note
playing as an independent. That meant those eligible to return. Savanna Ware.
no postseason tournament to extend the “All four of these seniors were team
season or test just how far this program my first two off the bench were also assists). All of these girls are very good
has progressed toward more elite status. captains. Not only are they very good freshmen.” ball handlers.”
lacrosse players and athletes, they are
That could change next year, however, very good leaders. Lauren Savage (28 Nevertheless, what truly ramps up the Cassara cited the “quiet excellence” of
and that was admittedly a central com- goals, 7 assists) played attack and was a anticipation for next year is the incom- Bridget Nelson and the “energizer bun-
ponent for formulating the big picture rock of the offense. Elizabeth Zoltak (23 ing senior class. ny” qualities of Elise Mallon among the
paradigm. The Pirates finished 10-4 in goals, 15 assists) was all over the field as rising senior class talent he is counting
2019 – making it 26 wins in the last 31 a pure midfielder. Katy Rodriguez (19 “The junior class was the core of the on in the coming season.
games under Cassara – and the best may ground balls, 14 caused turnovers) was team this year,” Cassara told us. “They
be yet to come. a very aggressive defender always look- are that little nuclear reactor that has St. Ed’s experienced a steady climb
ing to steal the ball or do something like been inside of us essentially since they in the 2019 state polls. Max Preps
“I would say this season went pretty that. Our goalie Jane Callaghan (40 per- came on the field as freshmen. These are jumped the Pirates from No. 37 to No.
much as we expected,” Cassara said. cent save rate) has been our starter in the kids you can trust with the ball. They are 34 just last week.
“We increased the degree of difficulty cage for two years, and she will be diffi- really good with the stick and don’t com-
of our schedule this year because we cult to replace. mit turnovers. “I’m cautiously optimistic, how does
thought we needed to after last year that sound?” Cassara summarized.
(13-1 in 2018). We had a couple of games “Losing those girls is going to be “If such records are kept, I would “The seniors that are leaving were key
that were pretty difficult for us. We tough. To ease the transition a little bit I expect that Hailey Rhymes (49 goals, players. But yeah, the juniors are like a
worked through some injuries and we had two freshmen start this year – and 24 assists) would be very competitive little nuclear reactor in there. We had a
were nicked up here and there, but ev- for all kinds of career scoring honors. very good wrap-up to this season, fin-
erybody has that. The flu really hurt us Right behind her in the scoring depart- ishing with three very nice wins. We’ll
more than any year I’ve seen; it affect- ment is Raleigh Cooper (40 goals, 22 as- go from there.” 
ed more kids and lingered longer with
some of them.”

That’s the overview of 2019 in a
nutshell. Those difficult games were
losses to Cardinal Newman and Ben-
jamin, both ranked in the top 10 state-
wide. Jensen Beach and Martin County
hung the other defeats on the Pirates
in close, competitive contests that at-
tested to the worth of the schedule up-
grade. The stage is now set for a leap
forward next year.

“One of the things we did this year
was try to prepare as best we could
for next year,” Cassara explained. “If
things go according to plan with the
FHSAA, we will be in the playoff mix
again. I did not want our players to
look ahead this year, but I was think-
ing about the kind of things we needed
to consider to get us ready for playoff
competition at the end of next year.

“More than upgrading our schedule,
we had some three-game weeks where
we stretched the players out physically.
Even in the games where we were un-
dermanned, there were opportunities
for some of the other girls to step up, get
some playing time, and accept the chal-
lenge. I think what we did this year will
prepare us for what I hope will be a play-
off season in 2020.”

Cassara said the details of that play-
off format are sketchy at this point,
but one definite downside when look-
ing ahead to next year is already set in
stone, i.e. the four seniors he will lose.
Then again, he speaks glowingly of