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John’s Island launches
new recycling effort. P10
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better shape than expected. P8

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MY VERO Schools spend
$10 million to
BY RAY MCNULTY beef up security

Illegal meeting. Law BY FEDERICO MARTINEZ
violations. Falsified Staff Writer
minutes. What will
School Board do next? The school district is

Why are they making this so spending more than $10 mil-
difficult?
lion on security this summer,
Why won’t the five members
of our School Board publicly with much of the money go-
acknowledge what they know
to be true – that the special ing to complete installation
meeting they held on April
16 was unlawfully called and of single-entry security fences
never should’ve taken place?
around 19 school campuses in
Why won’t they admit they
failed to provide the two days’ the county.
public notice for that meet-
ing “in a newspaper of general The new fencing, which will
circulation in the county” as
required by Florida law? make it easier to prevent intru-

Why did they opt to make a sion and monitor who enters
bad situation worse last week,
by unanimously approving school grounds, will be in place
falsified minutes for the spe-
cial meeting? by the time school resumes on

CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Aug. 12, Jon Teske, assistant

Moorings resident Barbara superintendent of operations,
Miller captured a water spout
during Saturday’s storms. Work on reconstructing rail crossings in downtown Vero for high-speed trains is expected to start late next year. PHOTO BY ROSS ROWLINSON said during a recent School
Board meeting.
Virgin Trains faces challenge with downtown crossings
Fencing has already been
completed at more than half

of the county’s schools.

BY GEORGE ANDREASSI right-of-way will require Virgin The crossings should be “After the Marjory Stone-
Staff Writer Trains to build up the track bed designed to reduce the slope man Douglas school shooting

and widen the railroad cross- between the railroad right-of- last year, the board decided to

Virgin Trains USA plans to ings to the west, Falls said in an way and the roadways, par- put all other capital projects

start major reconstruction work interview last week. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

on railroad crossings and tracks

in downtown Vero Beach for Jones Pier property being restored
its higher-speed passenger rail to take visitors back to Old Florida

service late next year, city of-
ficials said.

Designing crossings to min- BY NICOLE RODRIGUEZ
imize traffic delays on U.S. 1, Staff Writer
which is just 6 feet from the

railroad right-of-way in some The county is restoring a property for-

spots, is a crucial aspect of merly owned by one of the barrier island’s

the project, said City Manager first pioneers so that residents and visitors

Monte Falls. can travel back in time to experience what

The addition of a second track CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 Timothy Jones standing in front of his fruit stand at Jones Pier.

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Downtown train crossings can to make it a project that has the expected to start in late 2020 or early southbound onto the westbound cross-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 least impact we can on our commu- 2021, Falls said. ings, Falls said.
nity," Falls said.
ticularly at 23rd and U.S. 1, Falls said. Virgin Trains is likely to need right- When motorists stop in the right
That would lessen the chances of a Vero Beach public works officials of-way permits from Vero Beach and lane of U.S. 1 southbound, waiting to
tractor trailer getting hung up on the have been working with Virgin Trains Florida Department of Transportation turn west and traverse a crossing, only
crossings – something that happened officials on details the construction to work outside of FECR property, Falls one through lane remains for south-
recently when a car carrier blocked plans for the crossings, Falls said. said. bound traffic, Falls said. There is not
the tracks for an extended period. enough room between the railroad
Virgin Trains anticipates operating Construction work at the crossings is tracks and U.S. 1 southbound to con-
In addition, Virgin Trains should 32 passenger trains a day through In- not expected to cause traffic headaches struct right turn lanes at the crossings.
install fencing along the east side of dian River County at speeds up to 110 downtown, Falls said. Only one cross-
Pocahontas Park to keep children from mph starting in 2022 as part of its Mi- ing will be worked on at a time and de- U.S. 1’s northbound left turn lanes
wandering onto the tracks, Falls said. ami-to-Orlando service. The company tour routes will be clearly marked. onto the westbound crossings may
started service between Miami and also back up when trains roll through,
"We want to make sure if this thing West Palm Beach in May 2018. However, congestion on U.S. 1 could Falls said.
comes to reality that we've done all we get worse once 32 passenger trains join
The construction on the FECR right- the daily freight train traffic because of But Virgin Trains spokesman Mi-
of-way in downtown Vero Beach is the lack of right turn lanes from U.S. 1 chael Hicks said the passenger trains
are not expected to cause traffic jams
because the trains are short, and the
crossing closures last less than a min-
ute.

“Traffic congestion has not been an
issue with Brightline’s South Florida
operation,” Hicks said. The crossing
gates are down for three or four min-
utes for long freight trains.

Virgin Trains representatives are
meeting with Treasure and Space
coast government officials regarding
the construction plans and schedules.

“We are in process of updating all the
plan sets, addressing previous com-
ments from local governments and
making additional revisions in con-
sultation with FDOT and FRA (Federal
Railroad Administration),” Hicks said.

"Virgin Trains continues to work
closely with FDOT and FRA to ensure
our designs comply with all regula-
tions and achieve the highest level of
safety."

Vero Beach public works officials
will have a better idea of how Virgin
Trains intends to address the public
safety and traffic congestion issues
once the company provides the final
construction plans, Falls said. 

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Why were the names of the three
members initially cited as calling the
special meeting –Vice Chairman Tiffany
Justice, Jackie Rosario and Teri Baren-
borg – deleted from the amended min-
utes approved last week by the board?

Why?
Surely, the board members know
their actions are being closely watched,
and that it’s foolish and futile to think
this self-inflicted controversy will sub-
side until they address it.
Why do they think they can con-
tinue to dodge questions about who
called the April 16 meeting, since Ro-
sario and Barenborg both have stated
publicly that they did not join Justice
in calling the meeting.
Why did they think they could violate
Florida law again last week, voting to

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approve minutes that had been inex- Is that what’s happening? Or is the who, directed by Justice, arranged the Whatever the real reason for the
plicably revised to state that the special board protecting someone else? meeting by calling each member to ask board’s refusal to fully and publicly
meeting “was called and attended by a if they were interested in the special disclose who called that April 16
majority of the members of the board.” Are the board members protecting meeting? meeting – and explain in detail how it
Justice, who initiated the special meet- was called – the members are damag-
All five board members did attend ing to discuss now-departed superinten- Rosario remains adamant that Es- ing their credibility.
that April 16 meeting. Only Justice, dent Mark Rendell’s last-gasp attempt to plen told her she was instructed to not
however, admitted to calling it, albeit pressure the panel into awarding him a reveal the identity of the board mem- They asked for our trust. They prom-
indirectly, even evasively. severance payout he didn’t deserve? ber who was seeking the special meet- ised to be transparent. They need to
ing, even though Justice has denied do what’s right – and they need to do
That’s a problem, because the rel- Or might the board members be pro- making any such request.
evant Florida statute states that special tecting their secretary, Nancy Esplen, CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
meetings may be called by only the dis-
trict superintendent, board chairman
or a majority of the board’s members.

Why do they think can they get away
with the board’s failure to provide the
public with the statutorily mandated two
days’ advance notice of the meeting?

The board claims in the meeting’s
minutes that “reasonable notice” was
provided April 12 via posts on the
board’s calendar and Notice of Events
pages on the district’s website, as well
as through email blasts and printed
signs posted in the reception area of
the administration building and on
the board chamber’s door.

While a legal advertisement was sent
to Treasure Coast Newspapers, which
includes the Press Journal, it wasn’t
published until the day of the meeting.
Therefore, the required notice was not
given, Florida’s Sunshine Law was vio-
lated and, combined with the way it was
called, the meeting was essentially ille-
gal – and the board members know it.

Is it possible that School Board mem-
bers do not know it’s a first-degree mis-
demeanor to knowingly falsify public
records, including the minutes from
meetings?

According to School Board Chair-
man Laura Zorc, the members are
relying on the legal counsel they’re
receiving from Suzanne D’Agresta –
the School Board’s $22,000-a-month
attorney – who Zorc said has assured
them that the April 16 meeting was
properly called and noticed.

It was D’Agresta, however, who al-
lowed the special meeting to proceed
without first verifying that at least three
board members had called it – even after
being alerted to a possible discrepancy.

It was D’Agresta who then failed to
advise Zorc to immediately stop the
session when Rosario and later Baren-
borg announced they did not call it.

The Florida Department of Edu-
cation’s Inspector General’s Office
already is looking into several com-
plaints filed by county residents and
has forwarded the alleged Sunshine
Law violation to our Sheriff’s Office,
which is investigating.

“I’ve reached out for other opinions,
and I’m also waiting for the DOE to let
us know if we did anything wrong,”
Zorc said last week. “If we did some-
thing improper, we’ll fix it.”

Still, it’s D’Agresta’s job to keep the
board out of trouble – not the board’s
job to protect its attorney.

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My Vero it should never have been scheduled
and we will expunge any record of it –
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 which we can do because, fortunately,
nothing of consequence happened.
it before the situation goes from bad
to worse. “We truly regret how we’ve handled
this situation, including our failure to
They can start by saying something give the proper public notice, and we’ve
like this: learned from our mistakes. You can be
sure they will never happen again.”
“We messed up. The special meeting
wasn’t called by a majority of the board, How difficult is that? 

NEW TEXTING WHILE DRIVING LAW
SEEN VERY DIFFICULT TO ENFORCE

BY RAY MCNULTY it’s a dangerous behavior and it’s much
too prevalent.”
Staff Writer
According to the Florida Depart-
A new Florida law that went into ef- ment of Highway Safety and Motor Ve-
fect Monday allows police to pull over hicles, distracted driving was cited as
and issue citations to motorists they the cause of nearly 50,000 of the state’s
see texting and driving. traffic accidents in 2016. Those wrecks
resulted in 233 deaths.
However, local law enforcement
representatives say they don’t expect Under the new law, police officers
to write many tickets. may stop motorists for texting and
driving only when the suspects’ ve-
The reason? hicles are in motion. Drivers are per-
Motorists stopped for texting and mitted to text while stopped at traffic
driving aren’t required to show police lights.
their phones, making it impossible for
officers to confirm at the scene that an However, police can stop and cite
offense occurred. motorists for impeding the flow of
“It’s a good law with good intent, traffic if their vehicles fail to promptly
but it’s going to be a tough law to en- resume motion when the lights turn
force,” Vero Beach Police Department green because the drivers were dis-
spokesman Darrell Rivers said. “We tracted by their phones.
can pull them over, but without see-
ing their phones, we’re probably not The law also allows drivers to hold
going to issue citations. I doubt many their phones in their hands to talk
drivers are going to let us look at their while driving. Starting Oct. 1, however,
phones?” drivers may not do so if they’re travel-
Police could try to obtain warrants ing through a school zone or a work
to compel motorists to hand over their zone when workers are present.
phones, but local authorities say it’s
unlikely such action would be taken – Drivers also may use their phones as
unless the drivers were involved in ac- GPS devices.
cidents resulting in substantial prop-
erty damage, serious injury or death. “Little by little, the Legislature is try-
Barring those circumstances, most ing to solve the problem, and this is an-
motorists pulled over locally for tex- other baby step in the right direction,”
ting and driving can expect to get off Indian River County Sheriff’s Maj. Eric
with a warning, possibly only a verbal Flowers said. “Just knowing we can
warning about the dangers of distract- pull them over for texting and driv-
ed driving. ing should wake people up, or at least
“We haven’t sat down and mapped make them more aware of the problem.
out exactly what we’re going to do yet,
but if an officer sees a driver’s thumbs “Making seat belts mandatory saved
are going 100 mph on a keyboard, the lives,” he added. “When we stop texting
vehicle is going to be stopped,” Indian and driving, that will save lives, too.”
River Shores Public Safety Director
Rich Rosell said. Flowers said he hopes to see Florida
“The new law makes texting and follow the lead of other states that re-
driving a primary offense, so you can be quire hands-free use of phones while
pulled over just for that, and that’s what driving. In the meantime, he urged
you’re going to see,” he added. “There’s local motorists with newer smart
no reason to be heavy-handed right out phones to use the auto-reply notifica-
of the gate, but we’ll be looking for it, tion system that tells the person call-
even if we start out giving warnings. ing or texting you that you’re driving
“We need to do something, because and can’t respond at that time.

“Rather than relying solely on gov-
ernment,” Flowers said, “I’d prefer
to see car and phone manufacturers
come up with ways to address the
problem.” 

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Jones Pier property the 16-acre historical Jones Pier Con- The project also includes restora- include restrooms, a pavilion and
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 servation Area along Jungle Trail in- tion of the family’s cottage that will parking.
cludes construction of a replica of serve as a museum, and the addition
Old Florida was like at the turn of the the Jones family’s iconic fruit stand, of a one-mile walking trail, commu- All the improvements to the area,
20th century. which became a popular tourist desti- nity garden and four-acre salt marsh which will be open to the public,
nation that was once visited by Walter to filter water before it enters the In- are expected to take between 18-24
The roughly $1.6 million facelift to Cronkite among others. dian River Lagoon. The site will also months to complete.

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Jones Pier property nal area, but we want to make it an el- The family farmed beans, citrus, ing, the school district is spending
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 egant feature that the public and use mango, coconut and pineapple on the hundreds of thousands of dollars this
and enjoy,” Swindell said. land that they sold at the historic fruit summer to install keyless door pads
The county acquired the property stand from the late 1800s to 1990s, in all buildings, Teske said. Employees
for historical preservation in 2008, The Joneses were homestead set- Stanbridge said. will be provided with cards they will
paying $6.9 million. Jones Pier itself, tlers who came to the barrier island swipe to gain entry, creating a record
which was built by the family in 1907 in the late 1800s, according to county The 1,200-square-foot cottage the of who enters and when.
to facilitate shipping farm produce by historian Ruth Stanbridge, who is also Jones family called home was built in
water, is believed to be the oldest pier president of the Indian River County 1921. It will be elevated 5 feet to pre- The district is also installing security
on the barrier island. It was restored a Historical Society. vent future flooding and converted to cameras on school campuses this sum-
few years ago and is open to the pub- a museum of island history that will mer and replacing old public announce-
lic, county officials said. Three generations of the Jones fam- house artifacts such as a ledger of fruit ment speaker systems at some schools.
ily tended to the pier, which was an sales kept by Richard Jones, along with School administrators did not provide
Current improvements are being essential dock needed to trade vital his handwritten records of area visitors cost estimates for these projects.
funded by a combination of county goods such as food and medical sup- and fellow pioneer families who lived
money and grants from the state and plies prior to the advent of trains and along Jungle Trial, which was called During 2018-19 school year, the
federal government. before bridges were built to connect Orchid/Narrows Road in those days. district began a policy of having law
the barrier island to the mainland. enforcement officers at each cam-
The Joneses “settled here because it Museum exhibits will also include pus during regular school hours,
was a warm climate and it was better Jones’ accounts of World War II, when which cost the school district about
for their health. The resources were so the Coast Guard patrolled beaches on $500,000, Zorc said.
abundant here. The land was fertile, horseback, Stanbridge said. 
and they could fish in the lagoon and The Indian River County Sheriff’s
provide for their families,” said Beth Schools beef up security Office, Vero Beach City police and Se-
Powell, the county’s assistant director CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 bastian police departments provide
of parks and conservation resources. the officers and bear part of the ex-
“To be able to tell this story for future on hold and make school security our pense of the service.
generations is really important.” priority,” said Board Chairman Laura
Zorc. “The fencing is only one of many The district will continue having
Wendy Swindell, the county’s con- security improvements we’ve added onsite officers during the upcoming
servation lands project specialist, during the past three years.” 2019-20 school year.
echoed Powell’s sentiment.
In addition to the new security fenc- The district has also spent at least $2
“We want to keep the spirit of what million hiring mental health counselors,
the Jones family had here in the origi- replacing aging phone systems and in-
stalling new fire alarm systems at school
buildings, Zorc and Teske said. 

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Judge to make recommendations for new teacher contracts

BY FEDERICO MARTINEZ recommendations he hopes both sides “They didn’t negotiate with us for an lion to the insurance fund, Levitt, an
Staff Writer can live with. entire year and now they just want to attorney from Winter Park, Florida,
ignore that year happened,” Cannon said the district is proposing to give
Representatives of the school dis- The union requested the June 26 said. “That’s bull…., and you can quote each teacher a $643 “bonus” check to
trict and the teachers union quarreled special hearing beforeYoung after it be- me on that.” spend as they please.
angrily for eight hours over proposed came clear the district and union could
pay raises for teachers, increasing in- not break their 15-month contract ne- Cannon also was not happy with the If that sounds enticing, the pro-
surance costs, employee grievance gotiation impasse without help. district’s offer to split the cost of a pro- posed bonus money would be subject
procedures and whether the district jected 6.2 percent increase in health to taxes, resulting in less money for
should continue reimbursing teachers Both sides have until Aug. 5 to submit insurance rates for the 2019-20 school employees, and likely be negated by
for classes they must take to become briefs outlining their positions, Young year. That proposal would require the the upcoming insurance rate increase,
recertified every five years. said. He hopes to release his contract district to cover half of the increased Cannon noted.
recommendations by Aug. 16. But the costs, while teacher insurance premi-
They found little they could agree process likely won’t end there. ums would be increased to cover the Young, who has been working as a
upon. other half. mediator between unions and school
If either side disagrees with a recom- districts for more than 20 years, knew
In fact, Attorney Mark Levitt, chief mendation by Young, they can appeal But union officials said the district immediately he was facing a difficult
contract negotiator for Indian River to the School Board, which will make raised teacher insurance rates 30 per- challenge at the Indian River hearing.
County Public Schools, openly mocked a final decision on any issues still up cent three years ago, and added an ex-
and belittled proposals made by repre- for debate. tra half hour to their workday, which He halted the hearing within min-
sentatives of the teachers union. negated the $900 pay raise they re- utes and ordered already bickering
The most divisive issue is the dis- ceived at the time. negotiation representatives to huddle
Liz Cannon, president of the Indian trict’s proposal to give teachers a $600 and narrow the list of 29 issues they
River County Education Association, pay raise, which would become effec- The district has previously agreed initially disagreed on when they ar-
publicly called the district’s counter- tive upon teacher ratification of the to contribute $1.56 million to the em- rived.
proposals “bull ----.” contract. The union’s problem with ployee health insurance fund for 2018-
that offer is that the raise would be 19 and 2019-20 school years – which When the two sides dragged their
Now it’s up to Ninth Judicial Circuit for the 2019-20 school year, and the it now is trying to renege on, Cannon feet on completing their task, Young
Court Judge Tom Young, who listened district and union are supposed to be said. threatened, “I will keep you hear until
to both sides make arguments support- negotiating a contract for the recently midnight, if I have to.”
ing their negotiating positions, to make ended 2018-19 school year. Instead of contributing $1.56 mil-
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Teacher contracts School district finances are in better shape
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 than expected; 30 teachers to retain jobs

Eventually both sides agreed to nar- BY FEDERICO MARTINEZ had, and the School Board had feared million sitting in a fund district offi-
row their list of disagreements to nine Staff Writer it would be facing a budget deficit. cial had lost track of and did not know
items. about.
Thirty teachers facing possible lay- “I’m very happy to learn that our
That didn’t mean either side warmed offs will retain their jobs for the 2019- budget is stable,” Board Chairman “We’re happy,” Moxley said. “We’re
up to each other. 20 school year after a relieved School Laura Zorc said. “It’s a relief. Before it anticipating a healthy fund balance.
Board learned during a recent budget was constant guessing and it was im- Right now, we don’t anticipate any
Cannon and union business agent workshop that the school district is in possible to get anything done because budget cuts.”
Frank Peterman III hammered away much better financial shape than ex- we had no idea how much money we
at the school district’s team, who ap- pected. had to work with. The district still faces some difficult
peared disorganized and unprepared financial decisions, Bargeron told the
during the hearing. Since arriving in Indian River Coun- “This will allow us to go into con- board. The district’s 2019-20 school
ty, Interim Superintendent Susan Mox- tract negotiations with confidence year began July 1 and classes resume
Peterman on several occasions ley and two associates have pored over and begin budgeting for the 2019-20 Aug. 12, but the district will not receive
pointed out that statistics Levitt’s the district’s finances, trying to sort school year.” any property tax revenue until late
team was using to support their ar- out confusion that developed during a mid-November.
guments were incorrect or outdated. year-long period when the schools had In early June, Moxley hired financial
Leavitt and Michelle Olk, who was no chief financial officer. consultant Tim Bargeron to assist her That creates a dilemma, because
hired two months ago as the dis- and Kim Copeman, school district di- without that tax revenue, the district
trict’s director of labor relations, often After hearing from Moxley, the rector of finance, in sifting through the will not have the estimated $7.4 mil-
couldn’t cite the sources they used to School Board now expects to end the district’s various funds and budgets. lion needed to pay employee salaries
accumulate their data. current school year with an $8.5 mil- and other bills between July and No-
lion surplus in the district’s general Bargeron, who is being paid $110 vember, Bargeron said.
Leavitt is the fourth person in the fund. School administrators are pro- per hour as a consultant, currently
past 15 months who has been asked jecting a $9.3 million surplus for the works as assistant superintendent for Moxley and Bargeron are recom-
to represent the district in its negotia- 2019-20 school year. business operations for Galveston In- mending that the board give the dis-
tions with teachers. dependent School District in Texas. trict approval to seek a Tax Anticipa-
Without a CFO, administrators were He previously served as Chief Finan- tion Note. Tax Anticipation Notes are
He and Olk were frequently unable not sure how much money the district cial Officer for St. Lucie County School basically low-interest loans that must
to answer questions about current District. be repaid when tax revenues arrive,
school operations or laws governing and the district has used them in prior
school districts. They had to ask for As they sorted out the school dis- years. 
several breaks to leave the hearing to trict’s books, the trio discovered $1.5
try and find answers to questions from
the judge and union. 

MOORINGS RESIDENT A WINNER IN
BIG ROCK MARLIN FISHING CONTEST

BY SUE COCKING
Staff Writer

Moorings resident James Luihn fish’s bill and tail mounted for a tro-
and his crew aboard the Donna phy. He said all the marlin weighed
Mae caught a 569.9-pound blue at the tournament were donated
marlin to take third place and more to North Carolina State University
than $192,000 in prize money in the marine biologists for study.
61st annual Big Rock Tournament
in Morehead City, N.C., held June The Big Rock is one of the oldest,
7-15. largest and richest fishing tourna-
ments in the United States with
Luihn, a commercial restaurant prizes totaling more than $2.8 mil-
builder, said it took him about 4 1/2 lion. The 2019 contest drew a fleet
hours to reel in the huge billfish af- of 184 boats. 
ter hooking it in 4,000 feet of water
northeast of Morehead City. The
fish ate a trolled, silver-blue Andy
Moyes lure.

Luihn said it was the first time in
14 appearances at the Big Rock that
he brought a marlin to the scales.

“It was awesome,” he said.
Luihn’s friend, captain Joe Webb
of Anna Maria Island, Florida, skip-
pered the 61-foot custom-built
Chadwick sport fishing boat.
The angler said he plans to get the



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John’s Island launches recycling effort for soft plastics

BY SUE COCKING county’s recycling education and mar- bins provided at many Publix stores. your recycling container, you could be
Staff Writer keting coordinator Sue Flak. But Flak says about 30 percent of blue fined $500,” Flak said.

The 1,400-member John’s Island “Do NOT bag your recyclables,” Flak said. bins countywide are contaminated with Colclough said the club will train
Club has launched a new initiative Residents are supposed to separate soft plastics, dog poop and other gar- its more than 500 employees on how
to help residents and staff properly soft plastics from recyclable items like bage that gums up recycling equipment, to dispose of soft plastic waste. And
recycle soft plastics that are causing hard plastic water bottles and jugs costs the county extra money to sort, Mike Korpar, general manager of the
problems for the county’s blue-bin re- – which do go in the blue bins – and and ends up in the county landfill any- Johns Island Property Owners Associ-
cycling program. drop them at convenience centers way. She said the county will conduct ation, said he will direct homeowners
around the county, the single-stream field audits to check for compliance. to the new receptacles through email
The club has just installed four in- holding center in Vero Beach, or in blasts and brochures.
dustrial-sized receptacles to handle “If you continue to contaminate
soft plastic food containers, shrink
wrap and other items generated by its ANTI-POLLUTION EXPERIMENT UNDERWAY IN YOUNG PARK
beach and golf clubs, and 15 smaller
containers will be placed outside its BY SUE COCKING wide bed of crushed coquina shells Haynes, the city’s grounds manager.
restaurants and other gathering plac- Staff Writer surrounding a variety of lush palms Haynes is working with the non-
es for residents to use. and other native and tropical plants.
If you’ve visited A.W. Young Park The park’s eastern and northern profit Ocean Research and Conser-
“This is something that not only the on the Indian River Lagoon in Vero shorelines remain unchanged. vation Association (ORCA) to find
management wants to do, but the club Isles recently, you probably noticed out how reclaimed water used to ir-
members want to do as well,” said David some attractive new landscaping The landscaping is a pilot project rigate city parks impacts the lagoon.
Colclough, the club’s assistant general lining the southern shoreline. launched to study lagoon pollution
manager. “This is not an inexpensive and demonstrate the benefits of ORCA research scientist Dr. Beth
thing to do, but it’s the right thing to do.” The park is at the tip of a penin- environmentally-conscious land- Falls and her colleagues installed
sula formed by a canal on either side scaping for public and private green eight gutters along both the newly
Indian River County residents are and the lagoon at the end. Sod that spaces – “a way to show people what landscaped and non-landscaped
very good about recycling – except for lined the southern seawall has been can be done to be attractive and shorelines at Young Park to compare
one thing: many dispose of soft plastic replaced by a 180-foot-long, 10-foot- be lagoon-friendly,” said Nanette the amount of polluted water that
waste like grocery and dry-cleaning
bags in their blue recycling bins. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

That’s a problem, according to the

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Korpar said he’s working on a plan to years to decompose in landfills, is Meanwhile, the Rotary Club has businesses in the program: Walking
place soft plastic recycling containers trucked to Tropical Recycling in Fort enlisted the help of the Indian River Tree Brewery; Coastal Van Lines; and
outside condo blocks and in a central Pierce, where it is packed up and County school system to install loose- the Ralph Lauren store at the Vero
location close to single-family houses shipped to facilities elsewhere in the plastic collection bins at 24 schools. Beach Outlet Mall.
for even more convenience. U.S. to be re-purposed into lawn fur- Volunteers collect the bins and take
niture, decking, walkways and other them to Publix to be emptied. The Ro- The Rotary’s Jeff Powers said he ex-
Properly disposed of soft plastic products. tarians have also engaged three local pects larger local businesses to follow
waste, which can take about 1,000 their lead. 

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Cleveland Clinic partners with major home healthcare agency

BY MICHELLE GENZ the second-largest home healthcare ground up in Broward County, where to Cleveland Clinic Indian River in the
Staff Writer nonprofit in the nation, will be co- Weston is located. There are no plans at person of Dr. Landers. A family phy-
owned by both entities, but managed the moment to expand to Cleveland Clin- sician and geriatrician, Landers led
In a move in line with a national trend by VNA Health Group. ic Florida’s recently acquired Vero Beach Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Home
to take healthcare into the home, Cleve- hospital. Still, the joint venture is seen as Care and Community Rehabilitation in
land Clinic Florida announced last week The new organization will be called shining a spotlight on home healthcare. Ohio before joining VNA Health Group.
a joint venture with a New Jersey-based Cleveland Clinic FloridaVisiting Nurses.
home health agency that will serve the “We’re excited for them to join with Landers called Vero’s VNA “a really
patients of Cleveland Clinic Florida’s VNA Health Group and the new Cleveland Clinic Weston,” said Lundy special organization,” praising Fields
flagship hospital in Weston. joint venture are separate from and Fields, CEO of Vero-based VNA of the as someone he “really respects and
not directly affiliated with the Visiting Treasure Coast. looks up to.”
The joint venture between Cleveland Nurses Association nonprofit health-
Clinic Florida and VNA Health Group, care agency in Indian River County. The joint venture also brings a na- The Vero agency, founded in 1975,
tional voice on home healthcare closer provides home healthcare, therapy,
The joint venture is starting from the palliative care and hospice care to
residents of Indian River and Brevard
counties. Fields, who was named CEO
of the agency only a year ago, said he
looks forward to coordinating with
Cleveland Clinic Florida Visiting Nurs-
es to care for Vero patients who travel
south for the highly complex proce-
dures offered in Weston – including
heart, kidney and liver transplants –
and return home to recuperate.

Fields pointed out that VNA of the
Treasure Coast already coordinates care
with the Stuart-based VNA of Florida
for Vero patients traveling to hospitals
in Martin or St. Lucie counties for pro-
cedures. “We have a very friendly rela-
tionship with them, and I would expect
that we would have a very friendly rela-
tionship with the VNA in Weston.”

“We’d be glad to find ways to coordi-
nate care,” said Landers.

“Hospitals and health systems are
having to really look more closely
at the whole continuum of care and
what happens once people are leav-
ing the hospital,” said Landers. “In
some instances, they are providing
care without people being in the hos-
pital in the first place.” 

A.W. Young Park

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flows into the lagoon from each one.
“It was the perfect case study for us,”

Falls said. “We are in the process of col-
lecting water samples from areas with
buffered shorelines and those without.
We want to have the science to demon-
strate the value of buffered shorelines.”

Haynes said the eco-friendly land-
scaping cost a little over $12,000. She
hopes private landowners will want to
follow the park’s lead.

“There are homes across the canal
[from the park] and you can see land-
scape guys edging and blowing and
seeing this stuff going into the water,”
Haynes said.

“We’re hoping once we show what
we did, other people will want to do
the same thing.” 

Rocky Prudenti.

BURSTS OF PATRIOTISM AT
BUBBLE WRAP EXPLOSION P. 18

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‘Game’ on! Beast Feast hunts down funds for epilepsy

Amy Wylie, Jack Paige, Emily Wylie and Bernita Thomas with John and Lisa Paige. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Susan Eddins and Marie Phillips.

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

The tantalizing aroma of gator, Linda Lemay and Scott Treatman. Lee and Chris Curry with Hawk. Bill Schabot and Michelle Sechen.
deer, hog, pheasant and other goodies
on the grill tempted passers-by to PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 Guests brought side dishes to
the Riverhouse recently for the 34th Josh Quigley, Ryan Reifenberg, Richie Dowling and Ben Rojo. augment the game, visited with
annual Beast Feast hosted by John friends while listening to music by
Paige in support of Epilepsy Florida. of Health in Washington D.C.,” said “When patients receive the proper Blue Cypress Bluegrass and bid on
Paige with pride, noting that Andy’s medication, a large percentage can live such silent-auction items as duck
The bountiful game came from success today would not have been seizure-free,” said Marie Phillips, EFL decoys and jewelry made from bird
hunting trips taken by Paige and his possible without that proper diagnosis medical case manager. feathers.
friends throughout the past year. But and effective treatment.
it’s his wife Lisa who should really get “Every dollar we donate here, the EFL EFL provides a number of
the credit for the grill being fired up However, the anti-seizure can turn into about $92 worth of drugs services to the estimated 426,000
many years ago. medication his son takes costs $785 that they can give to somebody that Floridians suffering from the
a month, which is often outside the doesn’t have insurance,” said Paige. “I neurological disorder, including
“As a newlywed, I was hunting birds realm of possibility for epilepsy was going to have this party anyway, so epilepsy prevention and education,
and we had a little refrigerator with a patients and their families. why not do something good.” support groups, referrals and
little tiny freezer,” said Paige. “My wife case management, medical and
got mad one day because she couldn’t psychological services, Affordable
put anything else in the freezer and Care Act Healthcare navigation and
she said, ‘You have got to get rid of all advocacy.
these beasts.’ So, I cooked them all up
and we had a feast.” The EFL also educates teachers and
school bus drivers, partners with law
What began as an excuse to visit enforcement to provide children’s
with friends and welcome newcomers helmets to prevent brain injury-
into the fold, has since evolved into a induced epilepsy and hosts a special
way to raise awareness and funding Camp Boggy Creek for epileptic
for Epilepsy Florida. EFL is a not-for- children, where they can experience
profit founded in 1971 that supports camp life in a medically supervised
individuals impacted by epilepsy and environment.
helps them to manage the challenges
resulting from seizures. For more information, visit
epilepsyfl.com. 
Paige said that when their youngest
son Andy was a boy, their family had
become frustrated by physicians’
inability to diagnose what was
happening to him. As a result, Paige
packed the family up and headed
to a seminar at the Mayo Clinic
in Jacksonville, Fla., where they
discovered that Andy had epilepsy.
He began receiving treatment and a
medication which has enabled him to
live a normal life.

“Since that day, our son has not had
another seizure. Now, he’s a genetic
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Centennial show for vets: Cars and stars and stripes!

work with Every Dream Has a Price Waskow estimated that there are
and manage the housing and also currently between15,000 and 17,000
help with the funding. We also have veterans living in the county, with the
what we call a Vet Court (Veterans’ majority now from the Vietnam era.
Treatment Court).” VVIRC meetings are generally held
the first Wednesday of the month at
Nightingale explained that Judicial their offices at 696 8th Court. New
Circuit Court judges assign a veteran members are always welcome.
to mentor and assist other vets accused
of non-felony related crimes, helping For more information, visit VVIRC.
them to get their lives back on track. org. 

Sidney Jackson Jr. and Sidney Jackson with their 1970 Monte Carlo. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES

Monte Griffin with his 1955 Chevrolet 210 Wagon.

BY MARY SCHENKEL restored, modified and even home-
built designs in the mix. Cars with
Staff Writer vibrantly colored exteriors sat beside
glossy classics with gorgeous hood
Lovingly polished to perfection, ornaments and flashy headlight
roughly 130 cars were recently on caps; the sharp tailfins of yesteryear
display at the Indian River County Cadillacs alongside ‘horseless car-
Fairgrounds for a Centennial edition riages’ with rumble seats and run-
of the Vietnam Veterans of Indian ning boards.
River County’s ninth annual Car
Show to support veterans’ assistance Asked if he had a favorite – other
programs and housing. than his own bright red 1970 Buick
Skylark convertible – Waskow said
“We’ve had it at the Elks Lodge on diplomatically, “I’m not partial to
Father’s Day for eight years and we anything really; I like them all. I
moved it to here for the Centennial appreciate them for all their values,
because of the venue; they were all their uniqueness and what they
gracious enough to supply it for us,” represent. I think what we have
said event organizer Craig Waskow, here today, with the exception of
a Vietnam veteran and Elks Lodge maybe half a dozen, the cars are all
member. “We’re open to anything: American.”
antique, classic, modern-day cars.
Anything that people enjoy driving.” Tim Nightingale, VVIRC president,
said he hadn’t picked a favorite either,
For the benefit of the cars, owners adding, “I worked for General Motors
and visitors alike, the unique for 32 years so anything General
beauties were parked out of the sun Motors works for me.”
– some in the outdoor Expo Pavilion
and others in the air-conditioned Commenting on some of the
Expo Exhibition Center. programs the event would help fund,
Nightingale said, “Presently we’ve
Vehicles included everything from got 16 beds that we put vets up in to
a jazzy 1923 Ford T Rocket perched keep them off of the streets; we’ve got
atop a 1927 Chevrolet Car Hauler, to three different houses right now. We
modern-day Corvettes, with original,

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Bursts of patriotism at annual Bubble Wrap Explosion

Michelle Isaacson leads story time at the Patriotic Bubble Wrap Explosion. Children had some romping
stomping fun last Saturday
morning, quite literally crushing
it at the safest ‘fireworks’ experi-
ence around – the Vero Beach
Book Center’s annual Bubble
Wrap Explosion. Giggles of de-
light accompanied the popping
sounds as piles of bubble wrap
were crunched underfoot; the
little ones stomping with aban-
don on the packaging, saved up
throughout the year. Owner/
manager Chad Leonard has
continued the time-honored red,
white and blue tradition started
by his parents, store founders
Tom and Linda Leonard, which
also featured patriotic music, a
flag-waving parade around the
second floor, where the Chil-
dren’s Store is located, story book
readings and assorted children’s
crafts. 

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Franzi and Matilde Grozier with River Zevin. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Jennifer Rossmell with son Jarren.

Rocky Prudenti. Michelle Isaacson leads the parade.

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Noshing on nefarious fare at Sebastian Lionfish Fest

BY MARY SCHENKEL education and connecting people with
Staff Writer the environment.”

They’re invasive and destructive, but The Lionfish Fest featured two teams
as the crowds that descended on Capt. of anglers competing in the Lionfish
Hiram’s for the fourth annual Sebastian Tournament and harvesting 201 of the
Lionfish Fest recently discovered, harmful fish, which have no known
lionfish sure are tasty. Proceeds predators. Teams were light this year
from the event benefited Coastal due to a couple of conflicting marine
Connections Inc., whose mission is “to events. The Alpha Dog team came out
protect our coastal habitats through on top, harvesting 139 fish, and Sea
Bauchery brought in 62.

Margaret S. Hardy Becky Vickman, Sherri Davis, and Coby Vickman. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE

Margaret S. Hardy, known to all as Muggie, On Sunday afternoon at Capt. and the coastal resources manager
passed away on June 7th at the age of 95, after Hiram’s Sand Bar, attendees tasted for Indian River County. “This event
72 years of joyful married life. She was born on an assortment of creative lionfish was started by the county and was
December 7th 1923 in Charleston, West Virginia dishes (the fish had been purchased passed off to Coastal Connections as
to Daniel Wilkin Stubblefield and Frances Ogden from a commercial supplier) prepared a partnership with the county. Every
Stubblefield. Muggie attended public school in by local chefs in a Lionfish Cook-off, year we get bigger and bigger, because
Charleston and prep school at the Shipley School before selecting the winner. people are learning in our community
in Philadelphia. to come together, remove lionfish
During her freshman year at Vassar Muggie Mobay Grill won the Feast on the and celebrate our new modern way of
was chosen Queen of the West Virginia Forest Beast cook-off with a flavorsome jerk conservation.”
Festival, an annual honor still awarded today. She lionfish served over spinach mashed
was also chosen Cherry Blossom Queen for West potatoes with a mango relish. Other Cope stressed that the spiny lionfish
Virginia. Her college career at Vassar, where she competitors were Chelsea’s Market, are not poisonous, explaining “they
majored in chemistry, was reduced to two years by the start of World War II. Instead serving torched lionfish atop local have venomous spines, but they’re
of continuing her academic career, she took a job at the Du Pont Experimental citrus sticky rice with avocado and not dangerous to consume. And that
Station in Wilmington Delaware to be part of the war effort, working on incendiary Sirach crema; The Wave at Costa d’Este is what we kind of treasure about our
devices. Here she met and later married John Van Etten Hardy, a Princeton chemical served blue corn lionfish street tacos event here.”
engineer, in an Episcopalian service conducted by the same Bishop that married with mango habanero sauce; Indian
Muggie’s parents. Muggie and John have both been lifelong Episcopalians. River Estates presented a soba noodle The hope is that the overall winner
Thus began a career raising four children as she and John were moved by Du Pont in salad with seared lionfish, wasabi is our coastal ecosystems, as the public
the 1950s first to Texas and then to various locations in West Virginia before moving aioli and microgreens; Blackfins becomes more educated about the
briefly back to Delaware. In 1960, DuPont moved John to head up a DuPont-Mitsui at Capt. Hiram’s offered a salt and importance of removing the voracious
joint venture. So Muggie packed up the children and flew to Tokyo where John had pepper lionfish with julienne scallion lionfish from our waterways. Attendees
started plant design work. One benefit of Tokyo residency included membership in and jalapeno; and Ono Luau offered learned from local nonprofit and
the Tokyo Tennis Club where Muggie had frequent games with Mr. Mikimoto of a lionfish poke atop a Hawaiian taro governmental organizations about the
pearl fame. She fell in love with the history and culture of Japan, resulting in her chip. ways conservationists hope to stop the
building a collection of Japanese art, including a screen painted in the 1600s. In 1963, non-native lionfish from obliterating
Muggie completed the round-the-world tour by leading the children through Asia “We’re eating destructive fishes and native species, and were educated on
and the Middle East while John was busy in India, ending with two weeks in Ireland making delicious dishes out of them. ways to safely fish for and remove the
before returning home to Delaware. As a conservation effort, it’s a new toxic spines of lionfish, while coming
A few years later, John retired from Du Pont, and Muggie and John moved to the twist,” said Kendra Cope, president up with ideas to whip up their own
Carolinas where there was plenty of golf and tennis. Over the next few years, they and founder of Coastal Connections, culinary fare featuring the fish. 
participated in a series of international social golf tournaments with competitions
at golf clubs on every continent except Antarctica. At an event in Singapore, one of
Muggie’s golf opponents was the King of Malaysia, for which the U.S. Ambassador to
Singapore advised Muggie to be generous in giving golf puts to the King.
Several years later Muggie and John participated in archaeological digs in Minorca,
Argentina and northern Peru and trekked to the base of Annapurna III in the
Western Himalayas, the world’s fifth highest mountain. She was helped over areas
of difficult terrain by Nima Tenzing, the famous Everest Sherpa. After stays in Vail,
Colorado and Maui, Hawai the senior Hardys retired to Florida with a summer
cottage in West Virginia.
Muggie throughout her life was an avid reader of history and biographies and lover of
the English language; it sustained her and enriched her life and that of all around her.
Muggie is survived by daughter Margaret Ogden and sons William Harris Hardy and
John Van Etten Hardy Jr. Daughter Frances predeceased her mother. She has three
grandsons, John Hardy III, McEwen C-T Hardy, and Dr. William Harris Hardy IV.
So here’s to Muggie; a wonderful mother, a golfer, skier, and tennis player who raised
four wonderful children. She brightened the lives of her many friends and brought 72
years of pride and affection to her husband.
A Celebration of Life service will be held 11 a.m., Friday, July 12, 2019 at Christ Church
Vero Beach. An online guestbook is available at www.lowtherfuneralhome.com.

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Chefs Alfredo Arce and Armando Galeas from The Wave at Costa D’Este. Tom and Betty Bried. PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 22
Sabrina Yawn and Yvette McGlasson.

Jayne Campbell.

Emily Dark and Jeff Beal.
Alexis Peralta and Kendra Cope.

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Donna Greene, Elizabeth Azar and Greg Greene.

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INTRIGUING GUILD SEASON

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‘Cats’ just scratches surface of intriguing Guild season

BY PAM HARBAUGH
Correspondent

Exciting musicals, romance, inspi- and found out ing the season, says they are especially lyrics by
ration, humor and high drama will be that Tim Conway had been one excited about putting on this new ver- Alan Jay Lerner and music by Fred-
there for the picking during the 2019- of the leading characters, I said this is sion of the classic, which has recently erick Loewe, is based on T.H. White’s
2020 season of the Vero Beach Theatre the funniest thing. I thought maybe the been released by the publisher, Music novel “The Once and Future King”
Guild. The 62-year old organization has show was written for him. I think the Theatre International. about the King Arthur legend and the
organized a new season that, despite audiences are going to love this show.” romance between Queen Guinevere
the cliché, has something for everyone. “I think we’re one of the first theaters and Sir Lancelot.
The renowned musical “Camelot” to get that version of it,” says Putzke.
Jon Putzke, Theatre Guild presi- runs Nov. 13-Dec. 1. According to theater history, in a
dent, feels that the season’s three The 1960 musical, with book and
musicals, three comedies and three Putzke, who led the project in choos-
Apron Series dramas will appeal to
different audiences because of the
genre of the shows.

The season begins July 10-28 with
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ground-
breaking musical “Cats.”

Based on 20th century poet T.S. El-
liot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical
Cats,” the 1982 musical is really less of
a musical, with its conflict, plot-driven
libretto, than a musical revue, designed
to showcase song and dance. Typically,
the musical is very demanding on cos-
tumes, makeup and dance.

It is a collection of musical vignettes
set in a junkyard beneath a full moon,
where a clowder of “Jellicle” cats gath-
er and show off their personalities. A
little bit of a story line does develop
when poor old Grizabella enters. The
younger cats, who despise her for her
age, send her off as she ascends to
the heavens in search of the next of
her nine lives.

It is directed by Michael Naffziger,
the theater department head at Indian
River Charter High School and a Tony-
nominated scenic designer. Naffziger
also teaches VBTG acting classes using
techniques developed by the legendary
Sanford Meisner and Michael Chekhov
(nephew of playwright Anton Chekhov).

“I just came back from a rehearsal
and I am absolutely blown away,” says
Putzke.

“It is something that Guild audiences
have never seen before. First of all, the
set is absolutely incredible. It’s Broad-
way caliber. He has brought in several
other lighting experts along with his
own lighting company, and added so
many effects; just incredible. And the
woman who did the costumes, Cat
Faust, is amazing. The costumes are just
to die for.”

“A Bench in the Sun” follows, run-
ning Sept. 18-29.

While not as well known, Putzke says
the show, which takes place on a bench
in a senior citizens community, is a
comedy through and through.

“It’s the funniest little comedy ever,”
Putzke says. “When I first read the script

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pre-Broadway tryout of around a roomful of writers attempt-
“Camelot” in Toronto starring ing to come up with a rewrite to “Gone
Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and with the Wind.” The farce is designed
Robert Goulet, the premiere lasted four not only to evoke laughs, but to also give
and a half hours. The curtain reportedly a sly insight into the zaniness of Holly-
came down at 12:40 a.m., bringing in a wood in the 1930s.
multitude of quips including this wit-
ticism from Noel Coward: “… the show In addition to the Mainstage season
was longer than ‘Gotterdammerung’ shows, VBTG will present its popular
and not nearly as funny.” Apron Series – three staged readings
It was edited, severely, and soon be- of classic dramas held in front of the
came a Broadway hit, with Goulet, who stage’s “grand drape.”
portrayed Sir Lancelot, adopting the
musical’s iconic song “If Ever I Should Staged readings are directed and
Leave You” as his signature song. employ actors holding scripts, to
“This new version has been rewritten which they may refer, while interpret-
in a way that makes it more fun,” says ing lines with full-bodied emotion
Putzke. “It’s got the same plot and same and character intent. Done correctly,
lush music, but just presented in a dif- they can be as satisfying as a fully re-
ferent way.” alized production.

“Always a Bridesmaid” runs Jan. Putzke says the Apron Series is bring-
15-26. The comedy, by the same trio of ing in new audiences, especially young-
playwrights who wrote “Dixie Swim er patrons more interested in serious
Club,” is a funny look at lifelong friends drama than musicals.
who, for one reason or another, are al-
ways walking down the aisle. The three dramas this season are all
by the highly revered American play-
They always promised to be at each wright Arthur Miller.
other’s weddings, but no one ever said
how many weddings that would be. “The Crucible,” Oct. 4-6, is rife with
political innuendo. Although set in 1692
“Jesus Christ Superstar,” another and concerning witch hunts in Salem,
Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, is well- Mass., the play was written as an allego-
timed to set the stage for Easter, run- ry to the mass hysteria and repression
ning March 11-29. caused by the 1950s McCarthyism.

This iconic rock opera centers on the “A View from the Bridge” runs Jan.
last week of Jesus Christ’s life, with a 31-Feb. 2. Set in the 1950s in the tough
driving score that brings a modern look Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook,
at the classic story of sacrifice, love and the play concerns an immigrant Italian
redemption. One of its most memorable family.
songs is “I Don’t Know How to Love
Him,” sung by the character of Mary “Death of a Salesman” runs April
Magdalene. 3-5. One of the greatest of American
tragedies, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
A favorite of both community and play is set in 1940s New York City and
professional theaters since it first blast- revolves around Willy Loman, a hapless
ed onto stage in 1971, it most recently salesman who represents the loss of the
had a live TV revival starring John Leg- American dream.
end as Jesus and Sara Bareilles as Mary
Magdalene. The Vero Beach Theatre Guild is at
2020 San Juan Ave., Vero Beach. Tickets
“Moonlight & Magnolias” finishes to its mainstage series are $150 for a six-
the season with comedy and high style, show package and $30 for single tickets.
May 6-17. Tickets to the Apron Series are $30. Dis-
counts to both are available for students.
The new comedy by Ron Hutchinson For more information, call 772-562-8300
is set in 1939 Hollywood and revolves or visit VeroBeachTheatreGuild.com. 

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All that Mazz jazz! Violinist joins Block String Camp

BY MICHELLE GENZ traditional bluegrass to electronica. member my aunt telling me, ‘You need Mazz Swift.
Staff Writer The addition of Swift to the roster to have a violin to be a violinist!’ And I
agreed, and then went right on insist- Logic and D’Angelo.
For jazz violinist Mazz Swift, this could add yet another style to the con- ing I was a violinist.” “Whitney Houston was one of the
weekend’s journey from Banff to Vero certs. Mike Block, a Grammy-winning,
Beach may not be as jarring in July as, Juilliard-trained cellist and founder of At 6 she finally got her violin. By ado- kindest and most open souls of all the
say, January. But whether it’s in the Ca- the Vero camp, has been inviting Swift lescence, she was on track for a career people I worked with of equal fame. She
nadian Rockies, where she just served for the past six years, but she was too in music, accepted into LaGuardia High lit up a room,” Swift says.
on the faculty of a summer music fes- busy to make it. Swift once called her School for the Performing Arts – the
tival, or along the Indian River, where sound “deep, dark soul” in an appear- school in the movie “Fame.” Her expe- “D’Angelo was mind-blowing to play
she joins the Mike Block String Camp ance on the “Today” show, adding that rience there included a performance at with. The talent and creativity that
this week, Swift sends her audiences it evolved of her parents’ love of jazz and Alice Tully Hall, where she was violin oozed out of him was exciting to in-
on a trip that is unpredictably cool, classical music that played in her home soloist with members of the New York teract with – and his band was equally
chill or scorching hot. growing up in Queens, N.Y. Philharmonic. She played under the incredible. It was surreal just how good
late Jonathan Strasser, who taught at the everyone was.”
Known as much for her classical and Everyone in the family was musical, celebrated high school and played the
folk violin as for her own composition says Swift, and parents and children conductor in “Fame.” But it was Springsteen, whom she
and improvisation, Swift comes to Vero alike sang and played instruments. At calls “so gracious,” who provided her
to help teach as many as 100 students, the centerpiece of the home was the “It was one of the few memories I with a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
children and adults, local and interna- piano, first in the Ravenswood hous- have of performing without being ex- He shared the stage with Swift and his
tional, in the art of improvisation. ing projects in Long Island City, and cruciatingly nervous. I remember just “killer band,” as she puts it, before a
later in Hollis, where countless music before going out onstage, (Strasser) massive audience.
Swift will also take part in two free legends in R&B, jazz and hip-hop got said to me, ‘Just have fun!’ And it was a
concerts that Block has grandly dubbed their start, she notes. revelation. I decided I was going to go in “I played in front of one of the larg-
the Vero Beach International Music and have fun, and I did.” est crowds I will ever play in front of.
Festival, featuring more than a dozen When they could, her parents made It is something to face tens of thou-
highly accomplished musicians. From a point of taking Swift and her three “The school was every bit as exciting sands of people all cheering so loudly,
Celtic music competition champions sisters to free concerts in Central Park. as I had expected it to be. My two older you can feel it in your chest. It was
to Grammy Award-winning recording At age 4, she determined in her mind sisters had gone there before me, and awe-inspiring.”
artists, the camp faculty typically per- that she would play the violin, “just I really relished being surrounded by
forms in a broad swath of styles from went around telling everyone that I was other artistic smart alecks.” If past years are any indication,
a violinist,” she says. “I specifically re- Swift’s Vero audiences may be smaller, a
But it was Juilliard that was imprinted couple of hundred lovers of Americana,
on her to-do list. Celtic and bluegrass music jammed into
a hall at the First Presbyterian Church.
“My parents talked about me going But they will be no less enthusiastic.
there as far back as I can remember.
Long before I knew what it was, I knew The Mike Block String Camp Inter-
I was going there.” national Music Festival faculty concerts
are Wednesday and Friday, July 10 and
Swift was accepted into the legendary 12, at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian
college of music when she was only 16. Church. A Saturday concert featuring
That played a role in her feeling unpre- the camp’s students is at 3 p.m., fol-
pared for the rigors of Juilliard, along lowed by a barn dance.
with having to live in the dorms and
away from home for the first time – de- For more information, visit mikeblock-
spite her parents’ protests. stringcamp.com. 

“I was very happy about that, coming
from a very strict household. But I was
extremely awkward and insecure, and
then there were things I didn’t realize
until much later. Being one of a hand-
ful of black students, I think I felt rather
isolated, and in hindsight, needed a lot
more support than I had.”

In addition, she struggled with
ADHD, which only recently was diag-
nosed, she says. At Juilliard, “practice,
study, communication was all exceed-
ingly difficult,” she says.

When a bout of depression set in,
topped with anxiety, she decided to
leave Juilliard, even though she was
maintaining a 3.85 GPA. It was the mid-
dle of her third year.

“I wasn’t prepared for the place so-
cially, but I loved the classes and the
orchestra. It made my nerd brain very
happy, even as I was struggling socially.”

Swift went on to perform with an
astonishing roster of music greats,
including Bruce Springsteen, Whit-
ney Houston, Kanye West, Jay-Z, DJ

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ARTS & THEATRE

Coming Up: Odds on for great fun at Howl’s ‘Vegas Nights’

BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA 3 You won’t need mittens to en-
Staff Writer joy this wildly popular show

at the Henegar Center for the Arts

1 As if Riverside Theatre’s Howl in Melbourne. This coming Friday
at the Moon audience partici-
and Saturday, July 12 and 13, “Fro-

pation performances aren’t already zen Jr.” takes the Henegar stage.

super weekend entertainment, this It’s based on the smash Broadway

Friday and Saturday they’ll be even hit, which is, in turn, based on the

more fabulous and fun. Because smash-hit animated film, with all

this weekend’s theme (and July those lovable characters – and great

19 and 20) is “Vegas Nights.” You songs – from the movie, which takes

will want to arrive early and make place in the chilly but magical land

a beeline for the theatre’s beauti- of Arendelle. A tale of true love and

ful, big lobby, which you’ll find has acceptance between sisters, says the

been transformed into a Vegas-like show promo, “Frozen Jr.” expands

casino where you can play “authen- on the emotional relationship be-

tic casino games” to your heart’s tween Princesses Anna and Elsa,

content, and maybe win one of the 2 As refreshing as an orange musicians, learning traditions, de- who, as they face danger, “find their
popsicle, a highly anticipated veloping improv skills and honing
great prizes. “Vegas Nights” sup- their craft for public performances. hidden potential and discover the
Students and faculty agree the camp
ports Riverside’s educational pro- summer musical treat returns this encourages creativity and individu- powerful bond of sisterhood. You’ll
ality, guiding students to express
grams and the free music you enjoy coming Wednesday, Friday and themselves through their music. hear all those wonderful songs from
Times: Wednesday and Friday, 7:30
all year long in Live in the Loop, Saturday, July 10, 12 and 13, to First p.m.; Saturday, 3 p.m. Admission: the film (music and lyrics by Kristen
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the Moon three-musicians-face- zling music – “Americana, Blue- “Frozen Jr.” is sure to “thaw even

off request show, where you get to grass, Brazilian, Celtic, Folk, Jazz, the coldest heart!” Curtain: Friday, 7

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This weekend’s free live music will will perform Wednesday and Friday,

be classic rock with the Jacks Band July 10 and 12; then, Saturday, July

on Friday, and “a soulful blend of 13, they’ll join their Camp students

rootsy jam/rock/blues” with Slee- for a concert and barn dance. This

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set up “in the Loop.” Times: Vegas offers education for string players of

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the Loop, 6 p.m.; Howl at the Moon, Classical traditions and contempo-

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Sports in her future? St. Ed’s athlete will ‘Wake’ and see

BY RON HOLUB those gnawing bouts of anxiety her very well. But I found that everyone
Correspondent The reasoning for that is solid. Zu- was so welcoming. By the end of the first
week I was meeting with a bunch of girls
After graduating from St. Ed’s a few dans knows that engaging in team and we were going to movies and doing
weeks ago, Wake Forest-bound Kira Zu- sports eased the transition to an en- other things like that.
dans is naturally a “little nervous” about tirely unfamiliar circumstance in her
exactly what mysteries lie ahead for her life once before. “Those girls are my best friends to this
in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Nev- day. It was crazy – the encouragement I
ertheless, she is reassured in the belief “I was home-schooled for two years received to get involved – and that in-
that her experiences as a Pirate student- before enrolling at St. Edward’s in sev- cluded sports. I didn’t do any sports that
athlete can serve as a buffer against enth grade,” Zudans recalled. “When first year until soccer season. Some of
I came here I knew only one person, my friends were soccer players. Sports at
besides my brothers, and I didn’t know such a small school like this are not just
about sports in the athletic sense, they
SUMMER SPECIALS bring kids together socially. You see the idea of a little baby coming.”
person on your team sitting next to you Zudans and her senior teammates
15-20% OFF CLEANING & SEALING in class, so that’s a great way to get in-
volved, and stay involved.” witnessed a nearly identical situation
(772) 567-2005 the following year when the Mohrs were
Her sporting career at St. Ed’s took expecting again. At that point the varsi-
665 4TH STREET, VERO BEACH, FL 32962 off from there. She was on the middle ty soccer program was starting on a re-
school soccer team for two seasons building process after several extremely
Discounts on in-stock new & used material. before beginning a four-year varsity successful seasons.
Patios  Driveways  Pool Decks  Walkways stint as a freshman. Rowing entered
the picture immediately after soccer “My sophomore year we won the dis-
Fire Pits  Walls  Water & Light Features in seventh grade. That lasted through trict championship. I remember run-
her sophomore year when St. Ed’s ning onto the field after we won the
SERVING VERO BEACH AND THE TREASURE COAST! rowing program disbanded. In eighth championship. Everyone was scream-
grade she joined the volleyball pro- ing and laughing and crying. That was
gram and played on the varsity as a a huge thing for me. Probably my best
junior and senior. sports memory.”

“I was always kind of nervous par- While those high school experi-
ticipating in sports, and I definitely had ences certainly stand out, nothing
my little struggles here and there,” Zu- was more important to Zudans than
dans told us about her introduction to her work with the Kenya Tutoring Pro-
Pirate volleyball. “But by senior year I gram. She arrived early at school one
became very confident in my abilities. day a week to Skype with a student in
I was pretty good at it, so I would say a high-stakes effort to aid that young
that volleyball was my main sport here person through a very challenging ed-
at school. I became a good blocker and ucational environment.
outside hitter.”
As for her own future at Wake Forest,
“I was probably better at volleyball, Zudans sees a continuum connecting
but I found that soccer had more of a her with what she encountered upon ar-
family atmosphere to it. Everyone was rival at St. Ed’s.
so close. We would hang out after prac-
tices and games and go to dinner and “I’ve always kind of struggled with
do things like that. The coaches were so what I really liked to study. I prefer an
welcoming and it was a lot of fun when all-around spectrum. In the beginning
everyone was together.” I really liked English, then I went to sci-
ence, and right now I really like math.
Those soccer coaches were Carlos But I think I want to go to college and
Pulido in middle school, and Jaclyn study some kind of science because I
Pancotti-Mohr, Scott Mohr and Sam hope to be a pediatrician.
Borkovic with the varsity. And those
four varsity seasons were loaded with “Really what I want to do is take a
melodrama on and off the field. bunch of classes, because I’m not 100
percent sure that’s what I want to do.
“When I was a freshman and sopho- So I will see when I get there. The nice
more our coach, Ms. Pancotti, would thing about Wake is that it’s a little like
participate in practices and actually St. Edward’s. They are focused on get-
play with us on the field. She got mar- ting students involved with everything
ried to Mr. Mohr sophomore year and at the school.
was pregnant the next year. It was a lot
different because she wasn’t on the field “The largest lecture class size is only
with us. She was still passionate, though, about 40 people, but you also have a D-1
but we noticed a change of tone because school with all the sports games to go to,
she was about to become a mother. and so many other activities. I love the
campus and you have the town of Win-
“At that point Mr. Mohr was play- ston Salem, which is really cool.” 
ing with us on the field. It brought
us all even closer together because
we were all just so obsessed with the



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HAVANA – Just like that, the cruise Empress of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, leaves Havana nothing has stung more than stiffening
ships are gone, along with thousands on June 5. It became the last cruise by a U.S. operator to visit the U.S. sanctions.
of cash-toting Americans who oohed Cuban port after the Trump administration implemented new sanctions
and aahed – and shopped – amid the against the communist government. Measures taken by Washington aimed
crumbling grandeur of Old Havana. at punishing Cuba for supporting Ven-
The lawn of the Nicaraguan Embassy – important patron, oil-rich Venezuela, ezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
For Cubans, it’s a bitter reversal of a launch point for migrants seeking to and the Cuban government’s own fail- are deepening disruptions to foreign
fortune. President Barack Obama’s enter the United States via Mexico – is ure to enact reforms more rapidly, have supply chains, scaring off some of the
opening here, leading to his historic overflowing with visa applicants. damaged the fragile economy, analysts Canadian and other banks that have
visit three years ago, inspired hopes of say. But especially in recent weeks, helped finance $2 billion in food im-
an economic boom, bringing Ameri- The near-collapse of Cuba’s most ports annually, according to industry
can investment and visitors back to and Trump administration officials.
this communist island largely shut off
from the United States for more than a Facing a cash and credit crunch, the
half-century. Cuban government last month rein-
troduced broad rationing, giving rise
A new crop of restaurateurs, IT entre- to several weeks of what many here
preneurs, artists and fashion designers, describe as the longest food lines since
reveling in a fresh sense of optimism, Venezuelan oil and aid began flowing
began building businesses to tap into to the island during the early 2000s.
the seemingly lucrative detente.
Following new U.S. travel restrictions
But as a deepening frost settles in be- announced this month, cruise ships –
tween the Trump administration and the single biggest source of U.S. visitors
Havana, Cuba is instead confronting to Cuba – have begun diverting around
its worst economic setback in years. Cuban ports, offering passengers alter-
nate routes or refunds. Trump admin-
Lines have snaked hours long in istration officials calculate that their
front of markets selling rationed meat.

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punitive steps will cut the number of U.S. cruise ship tourists talk of U.S. sanctions, expected in days
Americans visiting Cuba by more than to a tour guide in a vintage or weeks, with new limits on the re-
half. Nearly 600,000 visited last year. car in Havana. mittances from family in the United
States and elsewhere that allow many
Washington is also targeting Cuba’s Tour guide Nichdaly Gonzalez applies makeup as she waits for cruise ship passengers in Havana. Cubans to make ends meet.
energy supply, imposing sanctions on
theVenezuelan state and private freight Cubans wait in line to buy rice in On a sweltering recent morning, An-
companies that ferry over increasingly a state-owned store in Havana. tonio Muñiz, an 83-year-old former fac-
intermittent shipments of oil and fuel. tory worker, waited in line to buy meat
ruption they are laboring to fix. Lines Camaguey. With access to future sup- in Old Havana. Cubans had flooded the
“We are talking about funding and in the capital have eased markedly in plies still unpredictable, some expect market after it received an overnight
financing that goes to a regime that recent days. But eyewitnesses say they further disruptions in the weeks and shipment. Muñiz, a diabetic, had been
is repressing 11 million people and is remain longer than usual in other cit- months ahead. at it for an hour; he had another to go
supporting a regime that is repressing ies, including Santiago de Cuba and before he’d reach the door.
31 million people in Venezuela,” said a Others fret over the next round
senior Trump administration official, “This is different” from the special
period, he said. “But we’re heading to-
Cubans wait at Panama’s ward the same end. Difficulty in being
embassy in Havana to apply able to live.”

for visas to travel to the Tempers have flared as frustrated Cu-
Central American country. bans jostle for position on food lines. A
social media campaign – #LaColaChal-
who spoke on the condition of ano- lenge – has Cubans flooding Twitter
nymity to discuss internal thinking. with photos of massive lines, includ-
“We are serious. These are times for ing selfies of themselves tragicomically
maximum pressure, and that is what waiting in them.
has informed our thinking.”
Outside a Havana supermarket one
Cuban officials counter that the morning, some anxious customers in
American steps are coming down a line for chicken blamed the govern-
hardest not on the government, but ment.
average citizens.
“This will never be fixed,” said a
Recent shortages of chicken, eggs, 47-year-old man who would not give
soap and other goods have reminded his name. “The problem is political.
Cubans of the early 1990s – the crip- Leaders who only think they know
pling “special period” of hunger and what they are doing.”
hardship following the collapse of the
Soviet Union, the government’s previ- Yet many more lashed out at the
ous major patron. Trump administration and insisted Cu-
bans would stoically tighten their belts
The government has diversified Cu- in the face of “American aggression.”
ba’s economy since those years, with
new pillars such as tourism in place to The tourism sanctions, Cuban au-
protect against such a precipitous fall thorities and business owners say, have
now. But authorities are already warn- caused particular harm to the island’s
ing the people to prepare for leaner burgeoning private sector. That in-
times. cludes civilian owners of restaurants,
Airbnb rental apartments and cultur-
The Cuban government describes al tours that since 2016 have geared
the food shortages as a temporary dis- their businesses to American travelers,
bringing a dose of the free market to
one of its last frontiers.

“The U.S. wants to attack the Cuban
government, and destroy the revolution
and make socialism fall,” said Deborah
Rivas Saavedra, director of foreign in-
vestments at Cuba’s Foreign Trade Min-
istry. “But the ones being affected are
these businesspeople that [the United
States] supposedly wants to see benefit.
The ones who don’t support socialism.”

The U.S. measures are being widely
denounced here by private business
owners. Many blame their own govern-
ment for moving too slowly to open the
economy. But after Obama’s opening
– his administration normalized diplo-
matic relations between the countries,
and loosened restrictions on travel,
banking and remittances – they also
feel betrayed by the United States.

Marvin Segundo, 35, still recalls the
“excitement” of Obama’s trip in March
2016, when the president touched down
in Havana.

“We really thought something was

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 31 of the diversification of our economy, but
we have to be prepared for the worst,”
happening under Obama, and that the former president Raúl Castro, the broth-
culture here would change,” Segundo er of the late revolutionary Fidel Castro,
said. “I mean, for a while, it did.” warned in a speech last month.

Segundo launched a tour business The Trump administration is tighten-
after Obama’s trip, offering visitors the ing sanctions only a year after Raúl Cas-
chance to play basketball with himself tro stepped down, leaving someone out-
and other Cuban players for $55 a game. side the family dynasty in charge of the
island for the first time in nearly 60 years.
“Ninety-eight percent of my cus-
tomers were Americans,” he said. Administration officials believe
President Miguel Díaz-Canel is navi-
But after the Trump administration gating a still delicate transition, and
began to issue travel warnings and re- mounting pressure has led him to dial
tool travel policy for Americans in late back support for Venezuela’s Maduro
2017, Segundo began to see a subtle in his standoff with the U.S.-backed
decline. By this month, business had opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
fallen by 60 percent from last year – a
drop likely to worsen following sharp Analysts and some Cuban insiders
new curbs on travel announced by say the brain trust in Havana has done
Washington last week. itself a disservice by seeking to portray
Díaz-Canel as a caretaker of continuity
Segundo’s solution: to leave. rather than a figure for change.
“I’m going to move to Chile and will
try to make it there,” he said. “All we Though Cuba has taken important
have here now are food lines and ra- steps toward modernization under Díaz-
tioning. Canel – improving access to the Internet
“I feel sad. I feel as if something great via smartphones and allowing private
was about to happen. I don’t under- WiFi more broadly – it has moved far
stand why the U.S. is doing this.” more slowly on the economic front and
As shipments of oil from teetering remains years behind the free-market re-
Venezuela become less reliable, the forms made by communist governments
state-controlled media have begun to in China and Vietnam, for example.
call on Cubans to conserve vital ener-
gy – warnings that have some fearing a Carlos Alzugaray is a former senior
return to the kind of rolling blackouts Cuban diplomat.
witnessed in the 1990s.
“Today the reality is different in terms “This government has a problem,” he

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said. “And the first problem is the way Cuba of maintaining “thousands” of that solves the Venezuelan problem.” because Maduro has significant sup-
they have framed themselves, by con- military and intelligence personnel in Asked if that might mean accepting port from the population,” he said.
tinually calling themselves ‘continuity’ Venezuela. Havana denies the claim. “No one knows exactly how much
– which might be pleasing ideologically the U.S. insistence that Maduro leaves support, but it’s significant. It’s prob-
for some, but gives the bureaucracy the Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s power, he said that depended on the ably higher than some presidents of
perfect excuse to change nothing.” director of U.S. affairs, said Havana sup- Venezuelan leader. many Latin American countries have
ports “any process that avoids military at this moment.” 
Administration officials accuse action and that implies a negotiation “To start with, you have to ask if
Maduro is willing to abandon power,

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LIGHTNING STRIKES BOEING ONCE TOO OFTEN

If you’re in the business of selling proach taken by Johnson & Johnson in The problem is that Boeing is a dif- line wanting to get a good price from
passenger aircraft, design flaws that the wake of the 1982 Tylenol scandal: ferent sort of company than Johnson Airbus SE has to keep Boeing in play as
might cause your planes to crash ought Put safety first and maximize trans- & Johnson. Consumers were easily a potential supplier.
to be non-existent. parency to convince the public that able to choose another brand of pain-
the company has nothing to hide. killers if they didn’t trust Tylenol, so In theory, passengers who refuse
That’s why the discovery of a second winning back their trust was an exis- to fly on the 737 Max and find out at
critical safety risk on Boeing Co.’s 737 And yet, there’s precious little evi- tential issue. the departure gate that their aircraft
Max is so alarming. Tests by the U.S. dence that Boeing has done enough has been switched from an A320neo
Federal Aviation Administration found in terms of improving transparency, The same doesn’t apply in the case could tear up their tickets and exercise
that flight computers could cause the communication and oversight to get it of commercial aircraft, which are sold consumer choice in the same way as
plane to dive in a way that pilots strug- out of the doghouse. in a duopolistic market where any air- a shopper buying headache pills. In
gled to correct in simulator tests, we practice, we’re all stuck with whatever
learned last week. is served up to us.

The problem wasn’t connected to the Investors seem to know this. Boe-
Maneuvering Characteristics Augmen- ing’s share price, amid the grounding
tation System, or MCAS, that’s been of its key product and a simmering
linked to 737 Max crashes in Indonesia trade war over one of its biggest mar-
and Ethiopia, but could produce simi- kets, is holding up well.
lar effects, we were told.
And at the Paris airshow this month,
Lightning shouldn’t strike in the the company managed to score a haul
same place twice. Developing new air- of around $34 billion in new orders –
craft is a decade-scale project, with cer- less than the $44 billion tally for Air-
tification by aviation regulators alone bus, to be sure, but grounded on a $24
typically taking five years. By the time billion commitment from IAG SA for
a plane is ready to be delivered to cus- the 737 Max itself.
tomers, it should have passed through
such a stringent battery of tests that Chief Executive Officer Dennis
only once-in-a-lifetime events can Muilenburg last week promised to
cause problems. inspire a “relentless pursuit of safety”
at Boeing. “We want to create an en-
It’s bad enough that the 737 Max vironment where everyone feels com-
made it onto the market with one fortable bringing problems to the sur-
system that could cause uncontrolled face,” he told the Aspen Ideas Festival
flights to plunge into the ground. To on Wednesday. “We don’t want to cre-
discover a second casts a worrying ate an environment where problems
light on the company’s entire safety stay hidden.”
culture.
This latest revelation suggests that’s
How could Boeing have allowed fur- still not happening – and far from suf-
ther problems in such critical systems fering, Boeing is doing just fine. 
to lie undisclosed?
A version of this column by David
Since the 737 Max grounding, many Fickling first appeared on Bloomberg.
people have exhorted the company It does not necessarily reflect the views
to follow the crisis-management ap- of Vero Beach 32963.

SKIN CANCER (PART XVI), TREATMENT FOR MELANOMA (CONTINUED)

In addition to surgical excision (resection), sentinel node immune system, there are increased risks for autoim- © 2019 VERO BEACH 32963 MEDIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
biopsy/dissection and Mohs surgery, the immunology mune-related side effects.
revolution that’s now taking place has potential to one IOnN2C0O15LY, TthICe VFIDRAUaSpIpNrJoEvCeTdIOanNSentirely new class of im-
day turn advanced (Stages III and IV) melanoma into a munotherapy for melanoma called injectable oncolytic vi-
curable disease. Today we’ll review additional treat- rus therapy. The drug talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC),
ments for melanoma: anti-PD1/PDL1 and anti-CTLA4 an- used for local treatment of inoperable metastatic lesions
tibodies for brain metastases, oncolytic virus injections in the skin or lymph nodes that recur after initial surgery,
and adoptive cell transfer. is a version of the herpes simplex virus. T-VEC is geneti-
ANTI-PD1/PDL1 AND ANTI-CTLA4 cally modified to select cancer cells and secrete an im-
AANmTaIBjoOr DroIEleS oTOf tThReEbAoTdBy’RsAimINmMunEeTAsSyTstAeSmESis to differ- mune-boosting protein to strengthen the body’s immune
entiate between normal and “foreign” cells, and then response against melanoma. Significant amounts of the
attack the foreign cells without affecting the normal virus are injected directly into detectable skin tumors
cells using “checkpoints.” There are instances, however, over a period of many months. The drug replicates inside
in which cancer (foreign) cells are able work their way the tumor cells and causes them to rupture and die. The
around checkpoints and avoid being attacked. engineered virus also encodes an immune-boosting pro-
A checkpoint protein called CTLA4 has revolutionized the tein (GM-CSF) that is thought to attract immune cells to
treatment of metastatic melanoma. Found on the surface the injected tumors to further drive an immune attack.
of immune system T cells, CTLA4 acts as an “off” switch. AADteOcPhTnIiVquEeCEcaLlLleTdRaAdNoSpFtiEvRe cell transfer (ACT) involves
If blocked, the activated T cell helps drive the immune harvesting white blood cells called tumor-infiltrating lym-
destruction of cancerous cells. The antibody-based drug phocytes (TILs) from the patient’s blood. Scientists iden-
ipilimumab targets CTLA4. tify and isolate the most effective melanoma-killing T cells
Likewise, PD1 and PDL1 are types of proteins found on from the TILs, grow them in large numbers in the lab and
cells in the body. PD1, found in T cells, normally acts as then reinject them into the patient to hopefully attack the
a type of off switch to keep T cells from attacking other patient’s melanoma cells. Sometimes doctors will add in-
cells in the body. When PD1 attaches to PDL1, T cells terleukin-2 or other drugs to eliminate immune factors
leave other cells alone and don’t attack them. Some can- that might inhibit the tumor-fighting cells. While still ex-
cer cells have large amounts of PDL1, which helps them perimental, for patients with metastatic melanoma that
hide from immune attack. The antibody-based drug has not responded to previous treatment, this technique
nivolumab targets PD1. Therapies that target either PD1 has resulted in better results than chemotherapy.
or PDL1 can stop the cancer cells from hiding. Next time we’ll complete our discussion on treatments
The combination of ipilimunab and nivolumab has be- for melanoma, including BRAF and MEK inhibitors, target-
come so successful in boosting the immune response ed drugs to treat melanomas related to the C-KIT gene,
against cancer cells that it has become a major re- chemotherapy and radiation therapy. 
source for treatment for patients with melanoma, es- Your comments and suggestions for future topics are
pecially those with brain metastases. It is important always welcome. Email us at [email protected].
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INSIGHT BOOKS

The reputation of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who came from his time in the Union Constitution specifically
lived from 1841 to 1935, has fluctuated along with the Army, where he was wounded authorized the federal or
political and constitutional battles of every generation three times and almost died at state governments to act
since he was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1902. At Antietam, the bloodiest battle in but whether it specifi-
the beginning of the 20th century, Holmes was lionized American history. Holmes took cally forbade them from
as the greatest legal thinker of his time by progressives from his service in the Army, which doing so. He rejected
who celebrated his dissenting opinions arguing for Budiansky describes in vivid detail, the idea of the conser-
the protection of free speech and the upholding of the idea that fighting for ideals was
economic regulations. After World War II, he was senseless; as Louis Menand famous- vative textualists and
criticized by Catholic legal scholars and civil-libertarian ly wrote, the war “made him lose originalists of his day,
liberals who were alarmed to discover his enthusiasm for his belief in beliefs.” The war made who argued that the
eugenics, which he displayed in upholding mandatory- Holmes suspicious of moral certi- Constitution should
sterilization laws. Christian theologians and conservative tude, zealotry and ideologues of the be strictly enforced ac-
political activists denounced Holmes’ moral relativism right and the left. “I don’t care to boss cording to its original
in insisting that law could be separated from God’s will. my neighbors and to require them to public meaning. In his
More recently, Holmes has been out of fashion among want something different from what view, they were sim-
both conservative originalists and progressive living- they do,” he told Harold Laski, “even ply substituting their
constitutionalists, who dislike his rejection of the idea when, as frequently, I think their wish-
that the Constitution contains absolute principles that es more or less suicidal.” Holmes came own political prefer-
can be invoked to protect minorities against mob rule. to believe that life is a struggle and the ences and ascribing
only thing that can redeem it is cease- them to the Consti-
In “Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and less hard work – mastery of a subject, tution’s framers.
Ideas,” Stephen Budiansky sets out to revive Holmes’ a discipline or a job for its own sake,
reputation and relevance as a model of intellectual without being able to control the result. Holmes’ radical
humility for our polarized age. And his readable, lively devotion to judicial
and engaging biography is so successful that it persuaded The subject Holmes chose to master restraint led him to
me, a Holmes skeptic, to give the Yankee from Olympus was law, and he worked harder at it than anyone else of vote to uphold not
a second look. Budiansky emphasizes that Holmes his generation. He told a cousin that he had resolved to only progressive economic legislation but also some of
learned from his service in the Civil War that moralism write a classic work on the law before the age of 40 and the most illiberal laws of his day, including mandatory-
leads to intolerance – “when you know that you know, that he hoped after that to become a Supreme Court jus- sterilization laws and laws disenfranchising African
persecution comes easy,” he wrote. More than most tice. Holmes achieved both ambitions, writing a book, American voters in the Jim Crow South.
judges, Holmes managed to set aside his prejudices and “The Common Law,” that revolutionized legal thinking The most inspiring sign of Holmes’ intellectual hu-
partisan loyalties because of his philosophical skepticism by arguing that judges made policy rather than simply mility was that, throughout his long life, from his 20s
about the impossibility of ever being confident that one applying the law, and that rather than embodying ab- through his 90s, he never stopped cultivating his facul-
is right. “To have doubted one’s own first principles,” as solute moral principles, law reflected changing social ties of reason and set aside time every day for learn-
he put it, “is a mark of a civilized man.” norms. ing. At age 21, he began keeping a list of every book he
read for pleasure and self-improvement. At the time of
This philosophical skepticism led him to uphold most This view, which conservatives today denounce as so- his death, the range was inspiring – more than 4,000
laws against constitutional challenges; as he put it in his ciological jurisprudence, led Holmes to a constitutional books, ranging from philosophy, sociology, religion,
most famous dissenting opinion, “A constitution is not philosophy not of judicial activism but of radical judicial economics and science to murder mysteries. In the
intended to embody a particular economic theory … it restraint. In his two decades as a judge in Massachusetts, course of reading more than a book a week, he had a
is made for people of fundamentally differing views.” he voted to strike down a law as unconstitutional only rule that a book had to be finished once started, no
The same philosophical skepticism, however, eventually once. A constitution, he wrote, “is a frame of government matter how arduous. 
persuaded him to write some of the greatest defenses of for men of opposite opinions and for the future, and
free speech of his time, on the grounds that a functioning therefore [we should] not hastily import into it our own OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
democracy needs broad tolerance for what he famously views, or unexpressed limitations derived merely from
called “the thought we hate.” the practices of the past.” He followed the same philoso- A LIFE IN WAR, LAW, AND IDEAS
phy on the U.S. Supreme Court, asking not whether the
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TRUMP CONTROL CAN BE HARD TO MAINTAIN WEST NORTH EAST
AJ72 10 3 6
By Phillip Alder - Bridge Columnist AK63 Q4 J 10 9 8 5 2
985 AQ72 10 4 3
Leone Levi, a 19th-century English jurist and statistician, said, “Man has six organs to serve 10 4 K9865 QJ7
him, and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his
mouth, hand and foot.” SOUTH
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A bridge player needs to control his eyes by looking at all of the cards, his ears by listening 7
to the bidding, and his hands by playing the right cards. In this deal, what should South do in KJ6
four spades after West starts with two top hearts? A32

North had a minimum two-club response in Standard, but was too strong for one no-trump. Dealer: South; Vulnerable: East-West
Then, when South indicated a six-card suit, North made an invitational raise, which South
was happy to accept with his secondary club fit and heart singleton. The Bidding:

Under the heart ace, East signaled with his jack, the top of touching honors, to tell partner SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
that it would not establish a trick for South if West continued with the heart king. 1 Spades Pass 2 Clubs Pass
2 Spades Pass 3 Spades Pass LEAD:
Many players, after ruffing at trick two, would lead the spade king. But if West plays low, 4 Spades Pass Pass Pass A Hearts
the contract cannot be made. West wins the next trump and leads another heart to reduce
South to the same spade length — two — as West. Declarer would lose either three spades
and one heart or two spades and two hearts.

Instead, to keep trump control if there is a 4-1 break, South should lead a low trump toward
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The Telegraph ACROSS DOWN
1 Bovine animals (4) 2 2 Woodwind instrument (4)
4 Faint; frail (4) 3 Partition (6)
8 Fair; only (4) 4 Evil (6)
9 Jack, queen, or king (5,4) 5 Car safety device (6)
11 Important person (6) 6 Got the better of (9)
13 Army officer (7) 7 Male deer (4)
15 Got paid; merited (6) 10 Quandary (7)
16 Mild-mannered (6) 12 Nothing (4)
18 Groups of eight (6) 13 Bizarre (9)
20 Hinder (6) 14 Planet (7)
22 Scold (7) 17 Level (4)
23 Gambling house (6) 19 Cadge; type of cake (6)
25 Amuse (9) 20 Salford river (6)
26 Noisy (4) 21 Pockmarked (6)
27 Prisoner’s room (4) 23 Telephone (4)
28 Speechless (4) 24 Solid (4)

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ACROSS 102 Breaks in 63 Popular brand of
105 Hook, as a crook athlete’s-foot spray
1 Cuban dances 108 Widen, as pupils
10 FDR’s dog 110 Reflective and iridescent, as 68 Overdue debts
14 Gives gats 69 Sweet-and-sour
18 Places to stay paint 73 Resonance
20 Lab assistant’s name, 111 Actress Joanne 75 ___ and needles
112 Cold song lyric? 77 Overload safeguard
sometimes 117 Ms. Bombeck 78 “Aw, quit ___ belly-achin’!”
21 Rail-family bird 118 Tabloid tidbit 80 Letters on rare U.S. pennies
22 Cold catchphrase of 1977? 119 National park in SW Oregon 84 Feudal honcho
25 Women’s ___ 120 Charon’s waters 86 Fool
26 Didn’t forget 121 Toddler’s pop 87 Like some coffee
27 “Hit Man” of boxing 122 Fast, maneuverable warship 88 Lakme composer Leo
29 Watney’s, for one 89 Poised, militarily
30 Tends or likes DOWN 91 Tea container
31 Seminoles’ sch. 1 Se ___ espanol 93 Toothed wheel
33 Singles-bar opener 2 “To fetch ___ of water” 95 Insincerely flattering
34 Fabian, in his day 3 Cold McCartney tune? 98 Easy ___ (a snap)
36 Part of RSVP 4 Some drawings 101 Call for attention
37 Extra for the server 5 Highest 102 Skin layer
38 Personal plus 6 Brilliant green 103 Forearm bones
39 Suit material 7 Allude (to) 104 Actress Zasu
43 Going between a walk and a 8 Sixth of a C scale 106 Inclined from the
9 Streets, in German
run 10 Bran’s benefit perpendicular
46 48 ___ 11 Like cheddar, perhaps 107 Caveat emptor heeder
47 Seal having external ears 12 Oven setting 109 Freshly recorded songs,
48 Nine-sided figure 13 Jackie wed him
50 Speak up, in a way 14 Analgesic target MTV-style
51 Wagering site, for short 15 1985 World Series champs 110 Talking horse
52 Baird and Caldwell 16 Like Othello 113 Attempt, in headlines
54 Cold call for help? 17 Lollapalooza 114 Greek letter
60 ___ a doornail 19 Alien, Jurassic 115 Bruins’ Bobby
62 TV trophy 116 Showmaster Ziegfeld
64 Spreadable substitute Park, etc.
65 Cork’s land 23 Famed WWII bomber The Washington Post
66 Car maker Ferrari 24 Cheers night for
67 Pilgrims to Mecca AH-CHOO! By Merl Reagle
69 It’s human 11 yrs.
70 Latin deeds 28 Tennis units TofhCe Aosrmte&ticSScuierngecrey
71 Oil gulf 30 Head cold
72 McDonald’s founder 31 In shape SPECIALTIES INCLUDE:
73 Cutty ___ 32 Aerosol wielder • Minimal Incision Lift for the
74 Deli customer 35 Women’s org. Face, Body, Neck & Brow
76 Coldly seeks a city office? 37 Indian oven • Breast Augmentations & Reductions
79 Cinematographer Nykvist 38 Aleutian island • Post Cancer Reconstructions
81 Pedro’s bear 39 Ability to pick up songs easily • Chemical Peels • Botox
82 No ___ (pointless) 40 In view of, in Versailles • Obagi Medical Products • Laser Surgery
83 Traditionally digited 41 Carol’s finish? • Liposculpture • Tummy Tucks
85 Michael of Monty Python 42 Common cosmetic surgery • Skin Cancer Treatments
87 Testifier’s promise 44 Xmas gift, often
90 Pulitzer poet Karl 45 Look Back in Anger
92 Cat’s whiskers
94 Burn myrrh, e.g. playwright
96 Actor Leibman or Silver 49 Missile interceptors, for short
97 Norma ___ 53 Lake Winnebago city
99 Handle, in Latin 55 Soviet VIP Kosygin
100 Jack who played many a 56 Pro votes
57 Cold former comedy duo?
scuzzball in westerns 58 L.A. suburb (famous for its
101 David McCullough subj.
wells?)
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She shouldn’t have to walk down the aisle on eggshells

BY CAROLYN HAX person and jump to brainstorming solutions
Washington Post
immediately; the other part is perhaps generational? A

lot of my friends don’t understand what validation is.

Dear Carolyn: My fiance’s job is –Brainstorming

detrimental to his mental health,

but he needs it for health insurance Brainstorming: It’s not generational, it’s linguistic.
Your daughter does not want unsolicited advice.
due to a serious condition. And therefore is like every other generation before
her, as far as I can tell.
Our wedding is next year. We are It’s possible – I’m going with probable – that
your “action-oriented,” “brainstorming solutions
considering getting legally married immediately” style has served you better with other
people than it has with your daughter because they
soon so he’s covered by my insurance and free to leave are other people and not your daughter. Unsolicited
advice tends not to be a cherished commodity in
his job. We would still have our wedding next year for general, but it often takes one’s offspring to find it
truly unbearable.
the exchanging of vows and rings. The good news is, problem-solving skills are valued.
Therefore, the only adjustment you need to make is to
My biggest concern is telling my parents, who will be ask people if they want your suggestions before you
start suggesting. All people, not just your daughter –
upset. If my fiance leaves his job, they may suspect what but especially your daughter.
People who don’t want advice generally want
we’re doing. someone to listen to them and maybe make
sympathetic noises every once in a while: “Oh, no,
I have a lot of ingrained fear of disappointing them. I’m sorry to hear that.” It’s just a timeless human
transaction that some people are learning to ask for
My relationship with them has been severely damaged If you can’t marry now with confidence that you by name.
can withstand the pressure your parents bring to When you genuinely don’t sympathize, don’t fake it,
in the past and is worlds better now, but our history bear, then please take the matter to a reputable family but do ask: “I have thoughts. Want ’em?” In the event
therapist. Find your voice, find the strength to stand of “no,” I find it helpful to bite on a stick. 
definitely contributes to my fear of telling them. up to pressure, then find joy in walking your own path
vs. tiptoeing on somebody else’s.
I hate that anything is holding me back from making
Hi, Carolyn: My adult daughter let me know during
my fiance’s life a lot easier. Thoughts? her last visit that when she speaks of her life she is
looking for “validation.” I am trying to learn what this
–Secret Bride means so I can improve when I see her again in a few
months.
Secret Bride: Moving up the wedding is just as
important for your serious condition as it is for your Most people describe me as an excellent listener, so I
fiance’s – yours being that you’re an adult who can’t am confused.
freely make adult decisions out of fear of disapproval.
Part of the puzzle is that I am an action-oriented
Until you’re able to make choices openly that you
believe are right – even knowing they’ll upset your
parents or whoever else – your fear will stand between
you and life fulfillment. No exaggeration.

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SPIN-WIN SCENARIO:
ROTATING DEVICE CLEARS

CORONARY ARTERIES

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HEALTH

Spin-win scenario: Rotating device clears coronary arteries

Dr. Charles Croft.

PHOTOS BY DENISE RITCHIE

BY TOM LLOYD First it was the lowly stent, those
Staff Writer tiny bare metal mesh tubes used to
keep coronary arteries open after a
Leave it to Sebastian interventional balloon angioplasty procedure.
cardiologist Dr. Charles Croft to once
again pioneer the use of a modern According to Harvard Medical, “an
modification of an older technology estimated 2 million people get coro-
and achieve impressive results. nary artery stents every year” in an ef-
fort to keep their arteries open so they

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can provide blood and oxygen to the mond-coated on both sides, “so as it That improvement is important vast majority of people go home the
heart and prevent heart attacks. spins, it abrades the artery both in the here in Vero Beach. next day.” Recovery and return time
[forward] direction and [backward] from bypass surgery is substantially
The basic stent had been widely direction.” As Croft points out, “the demo- longer and the risk of complications is
used since the mid-1980s. graphics of this area mean that we exponentially higher.
The New England Journal of Medi- have [people with] complicated blood
Croft, however, was one of the first cine says Croft’s approach to rotation- vessels and this gives us a tool to han- Croft says he has done “probably
in this area to embrace a new incarna- al ablation has “successfully reduced dle that subset of patients that we oth- around 80” of these newer proce-
tion of these tiny lifesavers, the “drug- stenosis (the abnormal narrowing of erwise could not handle.” dures. “I think our success rate has got
eluting” stent. These newer stents the artery) in 94 percent of procedures to be better than 90 percent.”
feature a polymer coating that elutes and was effective even in complex and Pausing briefly, he adds, “the [only]
– or slowly releases – medications that calcified lesions.” other alternative is bypass surgery.” Dr. Charles Croft is with both Sebas-
help keep those arteries open longer. tian River Medical Center’s cath lab
This genial South African, with That’s key. “Under normal circum- and the Holmes Regional Medical Cen-
Now Croft has adopted a modern- more than 40 years of interventional stances,” says Croft, “I’d say it takes ter in Melbourne. His phone number
ized version of the Rotablator, a tool cardiology experience, freely admits maybe five minutes or even less to set in Sebastian is 772-388-4305. In Mel-
long used for the mechanical clear- “it’s a complicated device [but it is] … up. And [the rotational ablation proce- bourne it’s 321-772-3288. 
ing of plaque and calcium buildup definitely an improvement.” dure itself] is usually about 15 minutes.”
inside coronary arteries – a procedure
known as “rotational ablation.” More importantly, Croft adds, “the

The Arrhythmia and Electrophysi-
ology Review says this type of pro-
cedure was first used more than two
decades ago to remove rock-hard or
“calcified” buildups of plaque lodged
inside the arteries – but it had some
drawbacks.

As Croft explains, “the old version
– the Rotablator – was a concentric
string device and it spun pretty rap-
idly, about 160,000 to 200,000 revolu-
tions per minute.”

That made cutting through cal-
cified plaque fairly easy, but it also
made the spinning grinder difficult
to control. So difficult, in fact, that it
would sometimes rupture the very ar-
tery the physician was trying to clear.

The new generation procedure –
with new rotating tools – says Croft, is
a notable improvement.

Croft has opted to use a device
made by Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
called the Diamondback 360 Coro-
nary Orbital Atherectomy System.

“It’s a little more friendly than the
Rotablator,” Croft says.

The older devices “spun so fast that
they wanted to go centrifugally. They
wanted to go straight, and when it
spins that fast it just doesn’t want to
take a bend, so you can perforate an
artery with a Rotablator.”

The device Croft uses now “spins
more slowly and works in a different
way. You can adjust how much of the
artery you want to ablate.”

It also spins differently.
“It spins like a skipping rope,” says
Croft, “so the deepest part of that
curve is the middle part of the skip-
ping rope and it moves eccentrically
so that it doesn’t stay in a straight path
all the way down.”
That’s important because blood
vessels don’t run in straight paths,
either.
Another problem with the previ-
ous generation of these devices, Croft
adds, was that they “would go for-
ward, but you might not be able to get
them back. They would sometimes get
stuck going through a hard calcium
deposit.”
The device Croft uses now is dia-

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Shedding light on crisis of midlife eating disorders

BY CARRIE DENNETT your doctor praise you when you lose
The Washington Post a few more pounds. Besides, you’re too
“old” for an eating disorder – right?
You’re an adult with multiple de-
cades to your credit, and you’ve got it all The truth is that eating disorders in
together – or look like you do. You never midlife – and beyond – are all too com-
have a kind word for yourself when you mon among women. “The belief that
look in the mirror, but who does? Your we all have is that eating disorders are
eating and exercise obsessions, secret a white girl’s disease, in high school
binges, and occasional purges can’t and college, when really it is across all
possibly be signs of an eating disorder. ages,” said Margo Maine, a Connecti-
After all, your friends, family and even cut-based clinical psychologist and co-
author of “Pursuing Perfection.” “We

have every color, every class, every eth- too. “One of them had bulimia for 30
nicity, and eating disorders are now in years and had had two marriages,” she
every country around the globe.” said. “Neither of her husbands knew,
her children didn’t know, her doctors
A 2012 study estimated that 13 per- didn’t have a clue.”
cent of American woman age 50 and
older have eating disorder symptoms. Jennifer Gaudiani, medical direc-
A 2017 study found that about 3.5 per- tor of Denver’s Gaudiani Clinic and
cent of women older than 40 have a di- author of “Sick Enough,” said the data
agnosable eating disorder, yet most are suggests that most older women with
not receiving treatment. Another study eating disorders have experienced at
found that though rates of anorexia least some disordered eating – if not a
plateau around age 26, rates of bulimia diagnosable eating disorder – earlier
don’t plateau until around age 47, and in life. “It’s more common for those
rates of binge-eating disorder don’t seeds to have been planted earlier on,”
plateau until the 70s. she said. “Major life transitions – di-
vorce, a child’s death, illness, or even
Awareness of eating disorders in departure for college, menopause, an
midlife has been increasing slowly. older parents’ health struggles – are a
Maine’s 2005 book “The Body Myth” common trigger for an older woman’s
has helped spotlight the issue. Many surge in eating disorder symptoms.”
of her adult eating disorder patients
were mothers of former patients who Research suggests the hormonal
finally realized they had problems, changes of perimenopause may open

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HEALTH

a “window of vulnerability” to devel- tom line is that older bodies are older, path, as with bone loss that results in star – they don’t ask you how you lost
oping eating disorders. Couple that and eating disorders at any age take a a hip fracture that leads to a down- the weight. The emphasis on weight
with the do-it-all, have-it-all mind-set toll on just about every bodily system,” ward health spiral. Eating disorders as a standard of health is absurd and it
of modern women, and that’s a potent she said, adding that aging bodies also often accompany other mental- just encourages eating disorders.”
mix. “Who can take a break and think may be more vulnerable to the medi- health disorders, such as depression
about ‘What do I need to do for myself cal complications of eating disorders. and anxiety. Shame and weight stigma are sig-
today?’ let alone ‘What do I need to do nificant barriers to treatment, Gaudi-
to stop dieting and have a better rela- The nutritional deficiencies caused Though eating disorders are under- ani said. “The vast majority of pa-
tionship with my body?’” Maine said. by eating disorders can lead to diges- diagnosed across the board, they’re tients with eating disorders do not live
“Instead of thinking about ‘What am tive issues such as gastroesophageal missed more frequently in midlife. in visually emaciated bodies, which
I doing?’ they’re just going on to the reflux disease, or GERD, and slow Women 40 or older admitted for treat- means, unfortunately, that many of
next diet or aerobics class. The body stomach emptying, as well as brittle ment at an eating disorder facility tend those with eating disorders who are
becomes the answer.” bones, strain on the heart, hormonal to have had their eating disorders lon- in larger bodies are actually advised
imbalances that affect the reproduc- ger than younger women who are ad- by their physician to restrict calories
Cynthia Bulik, founding director of tive cycle, tooth decay or breakage, and mitted for treatment. and lose weight,” she said. “This puts a
the University of North Carolina Cen- gum disease. serious chilling effect on appropriate
ter of Excellence for Eating Disorders, “Doctors still have trouble seeing diagnosis and referral to specialists.”
said ageism is overlooked as a midlife Some of these complications can eating disorders in anyone other than
trigger, in part because of its subtlety. cause sudden death, as with cardi- young patients,” Maine said. “Every- Maine recalls one patient in her ear-
“When people are worried about job ac arrest or suicide, or take a slower one who’s losing weight, they’re the ly 40s who had been dieting since pu-
security and see younger people tak- berty. She struggled with – and over-
ing over in the workplace, they can came – anorexia in college, but when
be propelled to engage in unhealthy she couldn’t lose weight after her
eating and exercise practices to try second pregnancy, she started purg-
to preserve an air of youth,” she said, ing and excessively exercising. Even-
even though looking younger may not tually, she realized her behavior was
translate to feeling younger. “That dis- out of control, even though her weight
crepancy – between how we look and wasn’t low enough to raise alarms.
how we feel – can also be distressing
and be a trigger to engage in yet more She finally went to her OB/GYN be-
disordered eating behaviors.” cause she trusted him. “What she was
not ready for was when her doctor
Bulik said eating disorders don’t walked into the room and said, ‘How
look much different in midlife than does your husband like your new
during the teen years, but the effects body?’ ” Maine said. “That vignette,
and consequences can be. “The bot- and what that woman said to me, was
why I wrote ‘The Body Myth.’” 



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Summer’s most flattering shorts – and how to wear them

BY FRANKIE GRADDON
The Telegraph

The last time I wore a pair of shorts occasions. If your office dress code The linen A-line Other Stories
was at a festival in 2008; I was 20 and permits, a tailored pair worn with A key fabric of the season, linen has pair. A coordi-
yet to discover the delights of cellu- a matching blazer makes for a sum- a new refined appeal, just in time for nating shirt and
lite. They were a pair of denim cut-offs mery alternative to the trouser suit. the warmer weather. Look for details short combina-
which I wore with the obligatory Hunt- that elevate the fabric further, such
er rain boots as I watched Neil Dia- A quick note on shoes: When wear- as the tortoiseshell button on this & tion will both
mond croon “Sweet Caroline.” After an ing shorts, keep things balanced with elongate and
11-year hiatus (bar the odd pair when low heels or flats – shorts and high look stylish.
on holiday), this summer I have found heels can look a little Love Island. If
myself contemplating shorts once you’re in need of extra elongation, try a The printed A-line
more. However, this time around I am strappy style or an open toe and avoid While print on the bottom half
looking for a pair that are less festival, heavy ankle straps like the plague. may initially cause alarm, when on
more grown-up and, crucially, look an A-line silhouette a subtle floral
good on my not-still-20-year-old legs. From pastel to linen, here are the makes for a flattering proposition.
most stylish A-line shorts to try ... Treat Arket’s extra-wide leg shorts as
My fashion yearnings, though weath- you would a skirt and team with a silky
er related (I’m braced for the heatwave), The pastel A-line shirt and tan block-heeled sandals for a
also chime in with this season’s sartorial From pistachio to lemon, a pastel pretty summer evening outfit. 
leanings. Shorts were ubiquitous on the palette is one of this season’s hero
summer catwalks with designers offer- trends and works beautifully on an
ing several iterations of the style: leather A-line short. Marks & Spencer’s lilac
micro at Saint Laurent, pastel knick- linen iteration has a flattering wide-
erbockers at Tibi, satin boardshorts at cut leg and delicate front pleats which
Prada. A lot of other brands have also look smart without adding volume.
jumped on the bandwagon with several
options including, of course, the divi- The utility A-line
sive cycling short. A utility short is a vacation staple
and looks far chicer than the beachy
Personally I’ll be skipping the latter cut off. Whistles’ iteration comes in
after discovering that they make my a universally flattering olive hue and
thighs look like over-stuffed sausag- with an leg-elongating high waist.
es; clearly what works for Gigi Hadid Tuck a lightweight cotton shirt into
does not work for me. However, after the waistband and team with leather
extensive perusing of this summer’s flats from Ancient Greek Sandals.
selection, I have discovered one style
of shorts that prove universally flat- The smart denim A-line
tering and are stylish to boot: the A- While denim shorts tend to con-
line short. jure up images of Daisy Duke’s bot-
tom skimmers, an A-line style has a
With a gently flared leg, the A-line far chicer appeal and doesn’t require
short skims rather than hugs the thighs, half as many squats. Team See by
meaning they won’t unkindly dig in, Chloe’s pale-wash pair with a Brode-
plus are less likely to ride up in the mid- rie Anglaise blouse and oversized
dle when walking. The high-rise waist- sunglasses for an easy weekend look.
band has leg-lengthening qualities
and the added bonus of cinching one’s
waist: something that can be accentu-
ated with a paper-bag or tie waist detail.
Structured styles in linen and cottons
tend to hang better on the body.

When it comes to length, though the
temptation might be to cover as much
skin as possible, knee-skimming
lengths can make you look squat. In-
stead, choose something that hits mid-
thigh and look for styles that can be
adjusted with the turn up or down of a
hem. If you’re worried about the back
view, choose a pair with pocket de-
tails on the bottom (which have both a
bum-lifting and -shrinking effect) and
avoid side pockets that add width.

In terms of what to wear with A-line
shorts, keep proportions in check and
tuck in your top; a simple T-shirt will
look great for casual affairs while a
cool, cotton shirt works for smarter

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Queen of jeans Gloria Vanderbilt pioneered designer denim

BY TAMARA ABRAHAM Her initials were embroidered on the
The Telegraph back of each pair, and her signature
double swan motif on the coin pocket
Jeans have become such an essential at the front, preempting the kind of lo-
part of a woman’s life, it’s hard for many gos which are now synonymous with
of us to imagine a time without them. must-have labels. She brought stretch
But it wasn’t until Gloria Laura Vander- versions with figure-flattering cuts to
bilt, the one-time society beauty who the masses, giving women a magically
died in New York last month at the age flattering new staple and the response
of 95, came along that they were trans- was phenomenal. In its first year alone,
formed from stiff workwear to glamor-
ous style solution. go on to help launch Tommy Hilfiger)
when a colleague presented her with a
As an artist, Vanderbilt had always few rolls of denim with the suggestion
been creative. Thanks to a combina- she design some jeans for women.
tion of genuine talent and society fame,
her collages and paintings were turned Taking up the challenge Vanderbilt
into everything from Hallmark cards insisted on a slim cut to skim and hug
to silk scarves. Denim had been grow-
ing in popularity as casualwear for men
thanks to the influence of James Dean
in “Rebel Without a Cause” and the
success of brands like Lee and Levi’s,
but even by the mid-1970s, options for
women were very limited.

Vanderbilt, who had modeled for
Harper’s Bazaar as a teenager and as
a socialite had been much admired for
her style, had been designing dresses
for the Murjani group (which would

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