03/07/2019 ISSUE 10

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INSIGHT BRIDGE

ONE DEAL CONTAINING TWO PLAY POINTS WEST NORTH EAST
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Oscar Wilde said, “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I 7632 AKJ8 Q5
am saying.”
SOUTH
Bridge players who do not understand their partner’s bids are in trouble. This week, we are A9872
looking at the splinter bid, which shows a good fit for partner’s suit, at least game-going AK
values and a singleton (or void) in the suit just named. AK3
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Once, my partner opened one club. I had 15 high-card points with six clubs to the ace-king-
queen-jack. I also had a singleton spade, so I responded three spades. It went all pass! Then Dealer: South; Vulnerable: North-South
partner put a singleton spade down in the dummy! I tried hard to make it, but I unluckily ran
out of trumps. Six clubs was cold. The Bidding:

In this week’s deal, North’s four diamonds was a splinter bid. Then South used 14-30 SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
Roman Key Card Blackwood, understandably believing that his partner had something in 1 Spades Pass 4 Diamonds Pass
clubs to justify his game-force. When North showed one key card (an ace or the spade 4 NT Pass 5 Clubs Pass LEAD:
king), South jumped to six spades. 6 Spades Pass Pass Pass 7 Clubs

West, who disliked leading from a jack, chose the club seven. After winning with dummy’s
king, how did declarer play?

South saw that the danger was a 3-0 trump split. So, he called for the spade four and
underplayed East’s three with his two! When dummy’s four held the trick, declarer drew one
more round of trumps and discarded his club loser on dummy’s heart queen.

Note that if West could have taken the second trick, trumps would have been 2-1 and the
contract safe — sort of. Tune in again tomorrow.

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INSIGHT GAMES SOLUTIONS TO PREVIOUS ISSUE (FEBRUARY 28) ON PAGE 74

ACROSS DOWN
7 Risk (4) 1 Harbour (6)
8 Dappled (8) 2 Joie de vivre (4)
9 Verbal attack (8) 3 Savoury jelly (5)
10 Tardy, slow (4) 4 Young hare (7)
11 Belief (5) 5 Framework (8)
13 Plume (7) 6 Mild (6)
15 Depict (7) 12 Frayed (8)
17 Growl (5) 14 Deal (7)
20 Duelling sword (4) 16 Fish hawk (6)
21 Tip (8) 18 Habit (6)
23 Calm (8) 19 Sepals of a flower (5)
24 Target (4) 22 Encourage (4)

The Telegraph

How to do Sudoku:

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

The Telegraph

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INSIGHT GAMES

ACROSS 98 Lacking salty expanses 59 TransfixedThe Washington Post
99 Grower’s tool 61 Impatient exclamations
1 River runners 100 Guts 63 Statesmen
6 “Call” has one; 101 Nescafé rival 66 When prompted
102 Like movie monsters, often 67 U.S. space station of the
“cell” doesn’t 106 Nitpicking
11 Czech city 111 Sadie Thompson drama 1970s
15 The buck stops here, 112 Enclosure 68 Nader title word
113 Encircling attack 70 Slangy money
temporarily 114 Sewing cases 71 Parlor pieces
19 “ ... ___ of cherries” 115 Get a load of 73 Colonel’s insignias
20 “___ Pretty” 116 Actress Martha 74 Victor’s take
21 Mane attraction? 117 Some collars 76 Webber-Rice effort
22 Brainstorm 118 Wheelchair accesses 77 Cola opener?
23 Nondomestic concerns 82 Calydonian boar-hunt figure
25 Domestic concern? DOWN 84 Put in new grass
27 “Do, ___ ...” 1 The “so few” to whom “so 86 Cereal for kids
28 Perry and Skywalker 87 Fur-lined cloak
30 Dedicated work much” was owed: abbr. 88 Type of quarry
31 Hardcover coverups 2 Blood letters 89 Less confident
34 Lightens 3 Part of FYI 92 Gregory McDonald’s
35 Taxi co-star 4 Small-pain inflictors
39 Anesthetics 5 Some pitches undercover reporter
40 Bandleader’s first name 6 Cake mix biggie Duncan 94 Numismatist’s find
41 Nursing a grudge 7 A long ways off 96 River into Lake Geneva
42 Before 8 He makes the call 97 Entrance hall
43 Heyerdahl et al. 9 Collapse, in a way 98 Gratifies completely
44 TV bar boss actress 10 Actress Cardinale 100 15- or 30-yr. item
46 Prom goers 11 B.B. King’s thing 101 Endorse
48 Short times 12 Uses a letter opener 102 Buddy
49 Beatles’ meter maid 13 Inmate I.D.s 103 Fall behind
50 Other rte. 14 Traveling in a show 104 Can for the car
51 Herd animal 15 Used a 105 Barn grass
52 It makes God good 107 Titanic star, in Hollywood
53 Certain water supplies stopwatch on
57 Coffee-and-milk order 16 Operetta princess headlines
58 Vague, uneasy feeling 17 Island wear 108 Bubble material
60 Golf position 18 Young pup 109 Six-gun site
61 Commotion 24 Becomes 110 Fool
62 Daisy resemblers 26 “No ___ sugar”
64 Smash 29 Fall (over) IN A PERFECT WORLD By Merl Reagle
65 Mollify 31 Discarded things
67 Mill owner, ca. 1849 32 The Parthenon is dedicated
69 Supposed
72 Writes in symbols to her
75 Work, as dough 33 Filled sweets
76 Final resting places? 34 Roasters?
78 Gen. Arnold’s nickname 35 “___ the World”
79 Belgian river 36 Princes, for example
80 Front-cover abbr. 37 Invent
81 Part of RSVP 38 Little Pearl’s mom
82 Jason’s vessel 40 Court fig.
83 Corset closer, once 41 Our attachment?
85 No. 1 44 Windy-weather hobbyist
89 Popular vodka, familiarly 45 ___ de triomphe
90 CIO partner 47 Whodunit queen
91 Salamanders 49 Bed leaver
93 Queen, in Juarez 53 Honored or penalized
94 Legendary French couturière 54 Credo
95 Hibernatin’ havens 55 Patrick, for one
97 Cannes cans contents, once 56 Parking-lot welcome
57 “Whole ___ Shakin’ Goin’

On”

The Telegraph

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INSIGHT BACK PAGE

Boyfriend places too much weight on views of others

BY CAROLYN HAX thy and whole, which explains why “anything I do
Washington Post turns out wrong”: The very premise of changing
her into someone more to your tastes is wrong.
Hello, Carolyn! (Though, at the risk of negating my answer – un-
explained weight gain/loss = doctor.)
I am in a relationship with a
This is not to pile on shame, but instead to start
beautiful girl who has a wonderful your process of freeing yourself from it. To make
lucid decisions, you need to stop attaching value
personality. I think we would be judgments and merely accept what is present and
real. That would simplify your choices as follows:
able to get along together forever,
● If you can’t envision spending your life with
and she would be a great mom. any other woman than this one, then propose
marriage to her. People who judge you because
The problem is, although I never see her overeat, she is fat are begging to be tuned out. What you
find attractive is no one’s business but yours.
she has continued to gain weight throughout our
● ● If this is not the woman you want to marry,
relationship. Although my attraction has drifted then break up. People who judge you because they
don’t like your reasons are begging to be tuned
slightly, I never really talk about it to avoid hurting out. What you don’t find attractive is no one’s
business but yours. Plus, she deserves someone
her feelings. proud to love her. Come on. There’s nothing she’d
change about you?
I’m at the point in my life that I want to be mar-
● ● If you’re still not sure whether she’s for you,
ried, but I am self-conscious of her weight, keeping or you for her, then keep dating – but not stalling,
and not in secret!! – till answers emerge. Weight
her away from my family and friends and question- and health and attraction are legitimately com-
plicated, each unto themselves, even without so-
ing whether she is the one for me. I feel guilty about ciety’s thumb on the scale.

doing this. ●● If you can’t disentangle others’ opinions from
your own feelings, then that’s not about anyone’s
I’m caught between belief we could make it and weight. That’s about your maturity. 

disappointment that she has not been able to tack-

le the situation. I’ve tried to help, but anything I do

turns out wrong.

Should I move on and be heartbroken or try to fix

something out of my control? Am I a bad person? Are Confused Guy: So, essentially, you’re ashamed
to be with her and ashamed to break up with her.
my feelings of shame unjustified, or is the expecta-
That’s really where you’re caught. Shamed
tion of good health valid? if you do, shamed if you don’t, by a culture too
warped to allow all kinds to exist in peace.
Sometimes I think I need to move on and be with
And the answer is not – ever – to “fix some-
someone thin, but I never want to lose this woman – I thing out of my control.” Your girlfriend is wor-

want to have kids with her.

–Confused Guy

4

SPEECH PATHOLOGISTS’ EXPERTISE
EXTENDS FAR AND WIDE

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HEALTH

Speech pathologists’ expertise extends far and wide

Mike Gaughran and
Jessica Fitzgerald.

PHOTOS BY DENISE RITCHIE

BY TOM LLOYD ‘It’s more about
Staff Writer maintaining what they
still have – we’re trying
Speech pathologists, including Jes- to preserve some of that
sica Fitzgerald and Mike Gaughran at
the Steward Medical Group’s Sebas- remaining function.’
tian River Medical Center, may have
one of the most incomplete job titles – Mike Gaughran
in all of medicine.
According to the American Heart As-
Like their counterparts across the sociation, “stroke affects nearly 500,000
country, Fitzgerald and Gaughran do people a year and is the leading cause
much more than work with people who of disability in older adults. Another 1.7
have speech problems. million people sustain some form of

They also help treat stroke, trau-
matic brain injury, Parkinson’s and Al-
zheimer’s patients.

Those four problems make up a huge
universe of potential patients.

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HEALTH

master’s degree along with a nine-
month clinical fellowship and 30 hours
of continuing education every two
years. And a lot of drive.

“There really are lots of folks out
there that have difficulty with organi-
zation, planning, some of those higher-
function skills, short-term memory and
word-finding,” Gaughran concludes.
He and Fitzgerald are confident they
can help.

Mike Gaughran and Jessica Fitzgerald
are with the rehab services at the Sebas-
tian River Medical Center in Sebastian.
The phone number is 772-581-2068. 

traumatic brain injury.” memory. We take information in,
Add to that what the Alzheimer’s we store it and then we retrieve it.
And then we would give them some
Association says is an “estimated 5.7 memory strategies,” to help them
million Americans of all ages living retrieve that information.
with Alzheimer’s dementia” and the
60,000 people diagnosed with Parkin- Fitzgerald quickly adds, “the root of
son’s disease in the U.S. each year, and our profession is function,” and to that
it starts to become clear that speech end, role-playing and specific situ-
pathologists are tasked with much ational strategies can be a big help for
more than helping clear up simple patients.
speech problems.
For instance, “when a patient is
For example, the National Stroke As- cooking at the stove and the doorbell
sociation points out, after a stroke it is rings, my strategy would be to com-
very common for patients to have mul- plete one task at a time: Move that pot
tiple communication problems. “This off of the stove, turn the stove off and
condition,” says the NSA, “is known then go answer the door. Don’t just
as aphasia and can affect your ability leave [the stove] going because then by
to find the right words, to understand the time you [finish dealing with what-
what others are saying and/or reading ever distracted you], you’ll come back
and writing.” and have burned the house down.”

Gaughran estimates 50 percent of the While that might sound extreme,
patients he and Fitzgerald see in their cooking fires are an all-too-common
Sebastian offices are stroke or Alzheim- occurrence for patients with demen-
er’s patients – and the initial consulta- tia or aphasia.
tions don’t always go smoothly.
And while both Gaughran and
“When you go in and introduce Fitzgerald are keenly aware that ev-
yourself as a speech pathologist,” eryone wants a “magic pill” that will
says Fitzgerald, “it’s not uncommon instantly cure their speech or cogni-
to hear a patient say, ‘there’s nothing tive problems, the hard fact is no such
wrong with my speech.’ But we don’t pill exists, so preserving and building
just treat speech. on what speech and cognitive abili-
ties patients still have becomes the
“If someone has aphasia from a stroke, top priority.
maybe they also have some cognitive
impairment and that’s where I think we “In Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and
have to determine which problems are some of those degenerative kind of
more speech- or language-based and problems, it’s not so much about restor-
which ones are more cognitive-based.” ing [what’s been lost],” says Gaughran.
“It’s more about maintaining what
Asked how – or if – it is possible to they still have – we’re trying to preserve
teach or re-teach cognition, Gaughran some of that remaining function. If we
pauses briefly before saying, “that’s can maintain what they do have, well,
a good question. We’ve got a couple that’s a win for the patient.”
of things. If a patient comes in with
memory problems, we might show Speech pathology is not a field for the
them the stages of memory – I might under-educated or the faint of heart.
explain there are three stages to The job requires both a bachelor’s and

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HEALTH

Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery seen as big success

BY TOM LLOYD Dr. Stephen Tate.
Staff Writer
PHOTO BY DENISE RITCHIE
New Vision Eye Center’s Dr. Stephen
Tate is excited about the success of
minimally invasive glaucoma surgery
– aptly dubbed “MIGS” – and a new
type of ocular stent intended to “pro-
vide glaucoma patients surgical inter-
ventions much earlier in the disease
that are safer than traditional glauco-
ma surgeries.”

Better glaucoma surgery is a big deal
because more than 3 million Ameri-
cans have the disease and, according
to the Mayo Clinic, it “is one of the
leading causes of blindness for people
over the age of 60.”

Glaucoma is caused by pressure on
the optic nerve – which transmits im-
ages from your eye to your brain – that
results when fluids that build up inside
the eye are unable to drain properly.

The Glaucoma Research Foundation
reports that “standard glaucoma sur-
geries are major surgeries. While they
are very often effective at lowering eye
pressure and preventing progression of
glaucoma, they have a long list of poten-

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Hydrus Microstent MIGS. HEALTH

‘... just about “The patients who had over the duration [of the study] … patients are not at any additional risk by
everybody will this implanted, their which is really nice.” doing this and they have been shown to
have cataracts pressure actu- decrease the odds that their glaucoma
if they live long ally tended As an added bonus, the MIGS proce- continues to progress. And if it does
to trend dure and micro-stent implantation can progress, that progress is slower than in
enough.’ down be easily incorporated into cataract re- somebody who has not had one of these
moval surgery. interventions.”
– Dr. Stephen
Tate Why bring cataracts into the con- “We’ve been very happy” with both
versation? the MIGS procedures and the new
tial complications.” stents, says Tate.
Now, MIGS and a newly FDA-ap- That’s simple. As Tate points out, “just
about everybody will have cataracts He adds that New Vision’s own in-
proved stent are offering a safer way to ternal data mimics the FDA studies.
treat this sight-stealing disease in pa- if they live long enough. That’s “A little over 80 percent” of New Vision
tients who are diagnosed early. a fact of life,” and almost all patients who’ve had these new proce-
studies have shown “no sig- dures and stents “have now been taken
When the disease is detected early, nificant difference in risks off one their medications.”
Tate says, MIGS surgeries “have been by adding this [MIGS] to
shown to be very, very safe with very, cataract surgery. The
very low risk of adding any untoward
event to the surgery and they can very
safely get people a pressure reduction”
on their optic nerve.

He adds that “people who have very
severe glaucoma and are getting vi-
sual field loss or vision loss and are
maxed out on medications” still have
to rely on the old, tried-and-true glau-
coma surgery to save their vision, be-
cause, by that time, there are “no oth-
er alternatives.”

The key to the success of the newer
technique is the new stent that helps
drain the fluid that can damage the op-
tic nerve. Produced by Ivantis, the “hy-
drus” micro-stent was approved by the
FDA in August of 2018.

It is now available at New Vision
where doctors say it is much more ef-
fective in relieving pressure on the optic
nerve by draining more fluid from the
eye than earlier stents.

“The hydrus stent was part of one of
the largest FDA studies for a glaucoma
device that’s ever been done,” Tate says.
The study, which followed 4,000 pa-
tients, found that “close to 80 percent
of patients were able to stop one of their
eyedrop medications afterward and
the pressure-lowering effect of the de-
vice continued over several years.

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HEALTHY SENIOR

Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment: Part 2

BY FRED CICETTI long as a woman is in good health and particles that destroy cancer cells. This Hormone therapy with tamoxifen is
Columnist would be a candidate for treatment, treatment may be used to destroy can- often given to patients with early stages
she should continue to get mammo- cer cells that remain in the breast, chest of breast cancer and those with meta-
The most common breast cancer grams and exams. wall or underarm area after surgery. static breast cancer (cancer that has
symptom is a lump. Other symptoms spread to other parts of the body). Hor-
include swelling, skin irritation, nip- Research has shown that self-exams Medicines are also used to treat mone therapy with tamoxifen or estro-
ple pain or retraction, and an unusual help find breast cancer. Self-examina- breast cancer. Chemotherapy em- gens can act on cells all over the body
discharge. tion teaches women how their breasts ploys intravenous and oral drugs that and may increase the chance of devel-
feel normally and to notice changes. can kill cancer cells in most parts oping endometrial cancer.
Early diagnosis saves lives. The com- of the body. The anti-estrogen drug
bination of a mammogram, a clinical Ultrasound and MRI are other diag- tamoxifen has been used for many Women taking tamoxifen should
breast exam and self-exams is recom- nostic tools. years to treat breast cancer. have a pelvic exam every year to look
mended by healthcare experts to re- for any signs of cancer. Any vagi-
duce breast-cancer deaths. Ultrasound uses high-frequency Hormone therapy is a cancer treat- nal bleeding, other than menstrual
sound waves to outline a part of ment that removes hormones or bleeding, should be reported to a
A mammogram is a breast X-ray. the body. Breast ultrasound can fo- blocks their action and stops cancer doctor as soon as possible.
If mammography finds an abnor- cus upon something picked up by a cells from growing. Hormones are
mality, confirmation by biopsy is re- mammogram. substances made by glands in the [This is the second installment in a
quired. In a biopsy, a tissue sample is body and circulated in the blood- three-part series on breast cancer] 
taken for analysis. Magnetic resonance imaging stream. Some hormones can cause
(MRI) uses radio waves and strong certain cancers to grow.
WebMd.com reports that “accord- magnets instead of X-rays. They can
ing to the American Cancer Society, be used to examine cancers found by If tests show that the cancer cells have
about 10 percent of women who have mammogram. places where hormones can attach (re-
a mammogram will be called back for ceptors), drugs, surgery or radiation
more tests. But only 8 percent to 10 Most women with breast cancer have therapy are used to reduce the produc-
percent of those women will need a bi- some type of surgery. Surgeries include tion of hormones or block them from
opsy and 80 percent of those biopsies lumpectomy to remove only the breast working. The hormone estrogen, which
turn out be benign.” lump and surrounding tissue, a mas- makes some breast cancers grow, is
tectomy that removes part or the entire made mainly by the ovaries. Treatment
Women 40 and older should have breast or can be more extensive to in- to stop the ovaries from making estro-
an annual mammogram and breast clude lymph nodes and muscle tissue. gen is called ovarian ablation.
exam by a healthcare professional. As
Radiation therapy is another form of
treatment. It uses high-energy rays or



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The best and worst looks from Paris Fashion Week

Balenciaga Balmain Celine Chloe Christian Dior
Dries Van Noten
Elie Saab Giambattista Valli Givenchy

Loewe Nina Ricci Stella McCartney Valentino

Oh Yes!

Oh No!

Vivienne Westwood Kenzo Loewe Manish Arora

Marine Serre Nina Ricci Rick Owens Y Project

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These designers keep cool and quirky from turning into just plain kooky

BY ROBIN GIVHAN creates a sense of style. Her clothes don’t
The Washington Post announce her inspiration. Instead, they
tell a story about mood and attitude —
A handful of supremely talented de- L L C about not fussing with your clothes or
signers combine disparate notions and O A H overthinking what to wear. Just toss it on
competing aesthetics into garments that E N L – the whole $5,000 outfit.
look beautifully inevitable. That accom- W V O
plishment is akin to concocting dessert E I E Ramsay-Levi sent out slim-cut
with an off-putting blend of ingredients N checked trousers that unzipped over
– roasted kumquats, sage ice cream and mid-calf boots, expertly proportioned
a brown sugar crisp – and having guests sweaters over shirts over skirts, a pon-
swoon in unexpected delight. It’s the cho that one actually might want to wear
equivalent of composing a piece of mu- and dresses that were prim-sexy-chic.
sic in which a cacophony of beats and Most everything was worn with chunky-
squeals, wailing woodwinds and tin- heeled boots, along with the occasional
kling piano manage to reach the listen- pair of infinity eyeglasses, chandelier
er’s soul in a way some earnest melody earrings and berry-red lips.
never could. Soothing chaos. Discordant
ecstasy. A beautiful mess. Casual observers of fashion often
believe style is something that comes
The clothes on the Loewe runway last naturally. That those who are deeply
Friday morning, and those from Chloe embedded in the fashion industry
the day before, sprang from wondrous have always had a certain way with
imaginations. Loewe’s Jonathan An- clothes, that they were born fluent in
derson takes warring textures and in- the language of personal presentation.
compatible silhouettes and brings them Certainly there are those who were
together in splendid harmony. Chloe’s seeded from birth with a talent for
Natacha Ramsay-Levi merges notes of fashion, who’ve always had the mak-
equestrians, sailors, forests and the Au- ings of style wizardry. But as with any
rora Borealis to create a chorus of cool. bit of raw talent, it has to be nurtured.
What they do is death-defying – at least One has to care. 
by design standards – because it can so
easily go so terribly, ferociously wrong. highest order.
One is more likely to fail than succeed.
At its best, Anderson’s work looks
spontaneous and unplanned – even if That brings us to Loewe who is the latest
it has been meticulously sorted out. His designer to take on the revitalization of
is a daring high-wire act any number of Lanvin. Lanvin became a case study in
designers try and at which most end up how to destroy a fashion company when
failing miserably. its then-owner fired longtime creative
director Alber Elbaz in 2015. Since then,
For fall, Anderson successfully blend- the brand has churned through design-
ed stiff and formal history with a mod- ers; each successive attempt at a revival
ern need for loose-limbed peacocking. further decimated the label’s reputation
He was inspired by some of the earliest and alienated its core followers. Lanvin’s
self-portraits in photography. His show new owner, Chinese conglomerate Fo-
invitation featured a reproduction of an sun, hired Bruno Sialelli, who once de-
1839 self-portrait by Robert Cornelius, signed menswear at Loewe.
who might be called the father of the
modern selfie. Anderson’s exercise had Sialelli showed his first Lanvin wom-
him mixing richly hued tapestry prints en’s collection on the runway earlier in
with silver, tinsel-like skirts; modest the week at the 13th century Musée de
dresses with little peephole backs that Cluny, and, well, it looked like Loewe
called to mind a camera’s viewfinder; – but not really. In a collection called
high-collar blouses with prim scarf ties; Mystic Pilgrims, he offered an eccen-
and coats trimmed with feathery boas tric blend of fairy-tale imagery, nautical
like something from a depiction of a themes, medieval references, pastels
royal court mixed with hats that evoked and more pastels.
a marriage between a tri-corner hat and
Mickey Mouse. Sialelli was never able to find the right
proportions of all of these conflicting
The historical references were clear elements. The collection was a fashion
but nothing about the collection looked equivalent of a Tower of Babel – so many
like a costume or felt as though it was voices, so many languages but without
plucked from the past. Anderson has a any discernible message.
skill for making the unexpected con-
nections, for riffing on some grace note Oh, yes, giving voice to the stylish
until it becomes a stirring main event. fashion eccentric is hard. Terribly hard.
To say that his accomplishment is a bit Ramsay-Levi at Chloe makes it look as
of a miracle would be overstating the easy as a shrug. She plays a game of mix-
majesty of fashion, but it is a feat of the and-match chaos, and cooks up concoc-
tions that are both self-assured and cool.
Ramsay-Levi doesn’t make fashion; she

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Big ’80s shoulders are back ... to hold the weight of the world?

BY ROBIN GIVHAN
The Washington Post

There’s a shoulder obsession hap-
pening on the runways here.

As the fall 2019 collections unfold,
more than a few designers have fo-
cused on beefing up the silhouette
of jackets and coats, dresses and
blouses. The clothes aren’t over-
size, although they tend to look that
way if you’re accustomed to star-
ing at garments that hew closely to
the actual shape of the body. These
are linebacker shoulders. “Working
Girl” shoulder pads. Straight from
the 1980s without being toned down,
these are shoulders that play tricks
with your proportions and make a
woman’s hips look like they are the
size of a 12-year-old boy’s.

These big shoulders have been lurk-
ing around for a while. At first, they
didn’t look all that big because every-
thing in fashion was big. The sleeves
hung down the knuckles. The trousers
were twice the size they needed to
be. It was all part of the comfort-first,
athleisure, jolt-the-eye fashion move-

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ment. But things are shifting. Shoul- the world is groaning under a long list
ders are bigger and everything else is of burdens.
smaller.
At Saint Laurent, the shoulders were
The shoulders at Saint Laurent so big that you almost didn’t notice
are massive. Designer Anthony Vac- that some of the women weren’t wear-
carello showed the house’s fall 2019 ing pants. They were wearing fancy
collection earlier this week inside a bloomers. You were also briefly dis-
tent constructed directly in front of tracted from the fact that a lot of the
the Eiffel Tower. The tower began to clothes on the runway looked familiar
twinkle just as the show began and – as if you possibly saw them last sea-
the evening was clear, and it was all son or the season before that. Surely
beautiful and magical. And then the you saw something quite similar.
doors closed, enveloping the room in
darkness and the first model walked But back to the giant shoulders.
out into a spotlight looking like some In the 1980s, women barreled into
strange extraterrestrial version of the workplace with their clothing-
Betty Catroux, one of the house’s as-armor. The shoulder pads were
longtime muses – with her long side- meant to give them the kind of sharp,
swept hair and androgynous features defined silhouette that men had with
– from way back when the brand’s their fancy suits and power ties. The
namesake was young and irreverent. wide shoulders carried into the eve-
ning with the flashy cocktail dress-
The model was perched atop high es and pouffy party frocks and the
platform shoes with spike heels. She enormous, teased-out hair. People
was wearing slim, slightly cropped were taking up space and showing off
trousers and a long overcoat with wealth.
massive, massive shoulders. How And the big shoulders went quite
could she fit through a doorway nicely with all that excess.
with those shoulders? How annoying This time around, the shoulders
would she be on a crowded subway don’t seem to be celebrating over-
banging into people? This tall, thin, abundance. They are a power stance.
young woman looked big and fierce Women are ready to tackle the world.
with her linebacker shoulders. She To take it down. Or shore it up. Wom-
could carry the weight of the world en have a lot to deal with. So get out of
on those shoulders, and these days, their way. 

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DINING REVIEW

Vero Prime: Sumptuous steaks and, now, much more

BY TINA RONDEAU
Columnist

What do you call a restaurant that ads at the big city steakhouses, where Veal Avanzare. Ribeye.
combines the best of two Vero eater- a single veggie can run into the teens,
ies? and you quickly realize that what you – this is certainly the best chophouse PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES
are getting here is quite a bargain. for miles around.
Answer: Vero Prime. Crab Stuffed
When Vero’s most prolific restau- For dessert on this evening, we Whether you are in the mood for Oysters.
rateur, Roger Lenzi, closed Avanzare shared a brownie, a carrot cake and steak, or one of those special dishes
last spring after a decade-plus run as a crème brulee (each $8), and a bread you used to enjoy at Avanzare, Vero Hours:
the area’s favorite Tuscan trattoria, he pudding ($10). Prime is delivering sumptuous meals Monday through Saturday,
added some of Avanzare’s greatest hits at prices that are hard to beat.
to the menu of Vero Prime, the area’s Dinner for two with a modest bottle 5 pm to late
top steakhouse. of wine could range from $90 to $150 I welcome your comments, and en- Beverages: Full Bar
Vero Prime has the right atmo- before tip. courage you to send feedback to me at
sphere for a steak house – dark and [email protected]. Address:
hushed, black ceilings, burnt sienna While this is not yet Peter Luger – 901 21St Street
walls, a lot of brick. Everything about named the best steakhouse in New This reviewer dines anonymously
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That worked out great last Friday
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tackling slabs of beef.
After a couple of glasses of wine and
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were the crab stuffed oysters Vero
Prime was serving that evening – the
men in our group got down to serious
business.
For entrées, one ordered the prime
filet mignon ($52), another went for
the cowboy steak ($49) and my hus-
band chose the dry aged ribeye ($52).
I was also thinking meat, but decid-
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with the filet tips ($28). One of our
companions, however, opted for the
parmesan crusted chicken ($18) and I
almost changed my own order when
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gna ($24). That was always my favorite
dish at Avanzare.
The steaks, I am pleased to report,
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tato and creamed spinach, this is his
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And our friend who had the cowboy
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A big plus for Vero Prime is you get
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Check the price of the sides and sal-

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WINE COLUMN

It’s high time you paid attention to the other cabernet

BY ELIN MCCOY
Bloomberg

Quick: When you hear a wine is cab- tion Premiere, where cabernet sauvi- Cab franc, he says, is misunderstood More cab franc is definitely in your fu-
ernet, do you automatically think caber- gnon is always the star, eight special and quirky, yet smooth and elegant. ture. Because the grape ripens a week or
net sauvignon? Of course you do. It’s the lots of cabernet franc were auctioned, The medium-bodied wines are differ- two earlier than cabernet sauvignon, it’s
world’s most widely planted red grape, leading off with Lot #1, “Gravity’s Rain- ent from cabernet sauvignon: loaded ideally suited to cool climates like New
noted for big, rich, power-packed wines bow” made by wine whiz Aaron Pott, with charm and finesse, soft bright York’s Finger Lakes and other places in
you can swoon over and even invest in. who has long championed the grape. raspberry-ish fruit, aromas of violets the U.S. such as Virginia and Michigan.
and mint, less tannin and a silky tex-
But I’m here to convince you to re- What’s cabernet franc’s appeal? Na- ture that can remind you of pinot noir. Acreage in Argentina is growing, and
member cabernet franc, its lighter, pa’s Rob Sinskey, owner of Robert Sin- the grape is planted in Hungary and
fresher, juicier and more versatile rela- skey Vineyards, likes to say that if wine While some top examples sell for Kazakhstan. At the same time, global
tive. (In fact, cabernet franc turns out were cars, cabernet franc would be a three digits, the majority are modest- warming has helped cabernet francs in
to be one of the parents of cabernet Citroen DS from the early ’60s (still a ly priced. Examples from outside the the very cool Loire Valley develop more
sauvignon.) Once an underdog, cab- collectible that placed third in the 1999 Loire are fruitier and sunnier, often fruit and sensuality.
ernet franc has become the new in- Car of the Century poll). with softer edges.
sider choice for wine geeks, somms and So what are you waiting for? 
those who like to be up on the fashion-
able grape of the moment.

That’s partly because of the current
craze for all things Loire Valley, where
cabernet franc is the grape of wines
labeled Chinon, Bourgueuil, Saumur
Champigny, Anjou Rouge.

In Bordeaux and California, cab franc
was mostly relegated to a blending grape,
adding acidity, spark, savory herbs, and
lush floral aromas to fat-bottomed mer-
lot and cabernet sauvignon blends.

But the all-cab franc style of France’s
Loire Valley is inspiring more winemak-
ers around the world, from Argentina to
Italy, to create their own lively versions.
Canada even uses it for ice wine.

In 2018, the volume of direct ship-
ments of cabernet franc in the U.S.
jumped 19 percent, according to the
recently released Direct to Consumer
Wine Shipping Report. The growth
trend, it says, started in 2014.

California, naturally, is behind a
new wave of cabernet franc wines. Last
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PETS

Bonz meets Cletis the Beagle, a good ol’ country boy

Hi Dog Buddies! “Well, for starters, “I see your point.”

This week I got to yap with a gen- where you’re from. How “One time I got in Big
you-wine Florida Cracker pooch from
Okee-cho-bee. I’d heard he was 14 you got here.” Trouble. Mom an Big Pop’s
in human, an a tad crotch-iddy, so,
walkin’ up to the door, I was remindin’ “Me an my sister an daudder-in-law had these
myself to always respect my elders. We
could hear a lotta woofin’ even before brother, Biscuit an Ras- real fancy, ’spensive shoes,
the door opened. When it did, a lady
an this older-lookin’ Beagle were stan- cal, were whelped in called ’em SAN-dulls. Well,
din’ there. The barkin’ was comin’ from
a coupla pooches behind a pooch Okeechobee, 14 years I accidently sorta ate one.
gate in another room. They schushed
soon as the lady told ’em to. The older ago. Cow country. Real The other one was jus fine,
pooch came over for a Basic Wag-an-
Sniff. He was getting’ gray and kinda pretty out there. We’re but everybody was still
faded all over, but I could still see his
Beagle-y colors, an he had that paw- purebreds, ya know. Got Real Peeved. I also usta
some Beagle profile I always admired.
those dad-gum silly long love toilet paper. Grab it
“Hey, there, sonny. I’m Cletis Taylor.
I’m the boss around here, just so you names nobody uses. real gentle-like, then take
know. Come right on in. This here’s
my Mom, Debra. Those two squawky Anyways, Mom and Big off runnin,’ fancy up the
mutts are my liddle sisters, Gabby an
Smiley. Our dad, we call him Big Pop, Pop heard we needed whole house. Those were
he’s workin.’ So, let’s go take a load off.
You’ll hafta speak up a tad cuz my ears a home. They already good times. I quit toilet
ain’t what they usta be. Mom an Big
Pop call me an ol’ man, an I can’t ar- had a Beagle, name o’ paper for years, but, re-
gue. I ain’t as quick as I once was, ’cept
when I hear the cookie jar lid. Then Foots. Mom wanted a girl PHOTO: KAILA JONES Cletis cently, I’ve been relivin’
I’m On It, like a puppy with springs in pooch. That was Biscuit. those glory days again.
his tail. Nobody better get between me But Big Pop was playin’ They usta call us the
an my dried liver cookie treats. Know
what I’m sayin’?” with me an I was a real Beagle Brigade. We were

“Yes, sir! It’s a pleasure to meet you, cute liddle fellar back “An, when the somethin’ to see.”
sir,” I said in my most respectful, out-
side voice as we followed Cletis an his then. Big Pop gave Mom Puppy Eyes four of us got togther under a big ol’ Cletis gave a sigh. A faraway look
Mom out to the patio. He immediately
flopped down, front paws straight better’n any pooch I’ve ever seen. So tree an practiced our bayin,’ we usta crossed his face. “Over the years,
out in front, back paws straight out in
back. I couldn’t help thinkin’ he looked I got to go, too. That left Rascal. Me an drive the squirrels NUTS! Mom’s al- they’ve all crossed the Rainbow Bridge,
sorta like a smushed frog (no offense
to frogs or dogs). Biscuit didn’t wanna leave without our ways remindin’ the tree-trimmin’ guys ’cept me. I’m the Last Remaining Bea-

“OK, shoot. Whaddya wanna know, brother, so we all three gave Mom an to leave a path though the treetops for gle. Now I hang out with my sisters.
young fella?”
Big Pop three sets of our very best Ma- the squirrels.” They’re big girls, ain’t nothin’ like me.

jor Puppy Eyes. An it worked, Thank “That’s so thoughtful,” I comment- Smiley, we call her Dennis the Menace,

Lassie.” ed. an Gabby, she’s real calm an laid back.

“Woof! What was it like, all four of “You wanna hear my bay, young fel- They know I love ’em. Hey now, before

you pupsters, in your new home? I la? I still got it!” you head out, I’ll show you my bay.

guess it was real fun an maybe a liddle “Maybe later,” I replied quickly. You ain’t never heard anything like it.”

rowdy,” I ventured. “Back in our puppy days,” Cle- Heading home, I was re-playin’ all

“Bet your Dog Biscuits it was. Back tis continued, “nothin’ was safe. The Cletis’ Cool Kibbles stories. An the

then Mom an Big Pop were takin’ care miss-chuff one of us didn’t think of, sound of his big beautiful bay was still

of some greyhounds: Charleston an another did. Bein’ Beagles an all, we echoing in my ears.

Fawn were rescues who buh-longed loved trackin’ stuff. One liddle sniff

to Mom and Big Pop’s human son, an an off we’d go. Mom an Big Pop hadda The Bonz
were just visitin.’ Baby an Fig Newton be sure we didn’t go out without our
were adopted from a vet who’d res- leashes cuz, if we caught an innersting

cued ’em from a dog track in Orlando smell, POW! we were off like a flea col- Don’t Be Shy
so they could be dog blood donors. lar, noses to the ground. We’d stick to
Cuz us three were real liddle, wig- that smell like glue. Why, you could set We are always looking for pets with
gly puppies, who racing greyhounds off a stick o’ dynamite and we wouldn’t interesting stories.
might mistake for something they out- pay no mind. That’s fine when you’re To set up an interview, email

ta chase, Mom an Big Pop innerduced workin’ inna field or someplace

us outside, one atta time. Evenshully, like that, but not where you can get [email protected].

everything worked out just dandy. smushed by a truck.”

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ON FAITH

Misunderstanding results from turning a blind eye

BY REV. DRS. CASEY AND BOB BAGGOTT that her countryside was prosperous en us. We shouldn’t and we needn’t limitation, and the typical under-
Columnists and its people happy. choose blindness. standing of such blindness is that it
is curable. By opening our eyes, our
The legend has long been told about Then, the legend says, when the We’ve always loved the story of minds, our hearts and our souls we
the famed Czarina Catherine of Rus- Czarina’s entourage moved on, the blind pianist George Shearing, who might see a new reality. And then we
sia who, at the urging of her advisor, whole false village was deconstruct- when asked if he had been blind all could echo George Shearing’s senti-
Prince Potemkin, made a grand tour ed and swiftly moved by cart to the his life answered, “Not yet.” Blind- ments. Have we been blind all our
in 1783 of villages in the southern next site where it was reconstructed, ness has a long and distinguished lives? Not yet. 
region of Russia. Many thousands of so that when the Czarina’s riverboat history as a metaphor for spiritual
settlers had recently been induced floated in, she would again be greeted
to move to the region, launching ag- by a deceptively thriving picture of
ricultural and manufacturing en- Russian village life. The Czarina Cath-
terprises. The tour was intended to erine, the theory goes, never knew
showcase all the developments in about the falseness of what she saw.
this region which Potemkin had mas- She was content to be shown some-
terminded, and so he worked hard to thing pleasing and comforting, and
ensure a good impression was made asked no more. She was blind to what
on the Czarina. was happening right under her nose.

Much of the royal inspection tour One of the many reasons that story
was made by boat on the Dnieper Riv- is troubling, is that we’re afraid the
er. At each stop of the boat, grand dis- willingness to be gladly deceived is
plays were orchestrated to honor and not a tendency confined to the Cza-
impress the Czarina – sharpshooters, rina Catherine. Maybe we suffer from
fireworks and spectacles of all sorts. intentional blindness, too. Don’t we
Orders went ahead of the entourage sometimes stubbornly defend our
to hide beggars, paint the town’s most own perspectives, even though there
obvious buildings, and occasionally may be limited support for them?
even construct pasteboard facades Don’t we sometimes defend our life-
to hide hovels. Flocks and herds were styles, our politics, or even our brand
imported, as well as well-fed peas- of faithfulness without much inves-
ants, in order to convince the Czarina tigation into their actual merits and
their flaws?

Worse yet, sometimes we turn a
blind eye to our own personal failings
and limitations. Maybe we are reluc-
tant to confess a habit that is now out
of control. Maybe we can’t confront
an emotional scar that rankles. May-
be we hang onto an unjustified bias
or feed our self-righteous indigna-
tion at a wrong done to us. How many
circumstances exist right under our
noses that we are unwilling to face
squarely and deal with honestly?

There is nothing wrong with form-
ing an opinion or coming to a conclu-
sion, of course. But there is a danger
in closing our eyes to anything that
might challenge, enlarge or enlight-

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This directory gives small business people eager
to provide services to the beachside community an
opportunity to make themselves known to island readers at
an affordable cost. This is the only service directory mailed
each week during season to all 11,000+ homes on the
Vero Beach barrier island. If you are interested in a listing
in the Vero Beach 32963 Business Directory, please
contact marketing representative Kathleen Macglennon at
[email protected] or call 772-633-0753.

SECLUDED RIVERFRONT ESTATE IS JUST
MINUTES FROM BEACHSIDE VILLAGE

1300 River Ridge Drive in River Ridge Estates: 5-bedroom, 6-bath, 5,032-square-foot riverfront home
on a .63-acre lot offered for $4.9 million by Premier Estate Properties broker-associate
Cindy O’Dare: 772-713-5899

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Secluded estate just minutes from beachside village

BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA The 5-bedroom, 5,032-square-foot
Staff Writer riverfront home is a visual delight:
The skillful use of the principal colors
Originally built for Anheuser- inside and out – white and black – per-
Busch heir Peter Busch, the beauti- fectly define it as a place of welcome,
fully designed and renovated estate warmth and comfort. Creative light
at 1300 River Ridge Dr. has everything elements subtly enhance the interior
one could want in a luxury, waterside architecture; generous expanses of
residence: a convenient location a glass ensure the most spellbinding
mile south of the 17th Street Bridge, river and sky views; covered balco-
midway between Quail Valley and nies above and porches below allow
The Moorings; superior materials one to enjoy the fragrant Florida air
and workmanship; separate guest and the river breezes.
quarters; resort-worthy outdoor liv-
ing space; tropical landscaping; and The home’s numerous creative el-
lovely river/sunset vistas from virtu- ements include a charming antique
ally every room. pantry door; arched windows and
entryways; unique chandeliers; a sec-

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tion of the kitchen dedicated to bev-
erages and beverage accoutrements;
the master suite’s eye-popping black
wood floor; the vine-covered circu-
lar staircase from the separate guest
house (or teen hideaway) down into
the secret garden; charming little
oval windows repurposed during the
renovation – and lots more. It is, sim-
ply, a happy house.

Six years ago, owners Tim and Jor-
dan Wakeland, who had two daugh-
ters at home, were looking for that
perfect “family house,” Jordan Wake-
land recalled, adding that they had
pretty much decided to build on a lot
they owned to get what they wanted,
and had even drawn up plans.

But then, before they broke ground,
Jordan saw the house at 1300 River
Ridge Dr. and realized instantly “this
was the one.”

When they purchased the property,
the Wakelands knew they’d be doing
significant renovation but were re-
solved not to change the home’s time-
less character.

Jordan Wakeland is a “visual” per-
son, with a masterful eye for finding
and placing amazing objects – and
ideas. She worked with international-
ly acclaimed architect Ralph Beiran,
who now heads an award-winning
Manhattan firm.

Beiran loved the house and con-
sidered the Wakelands’ project his
“baby.” Like Jordan Wakeland, from
the moment Beiran laid eyes on the
home, ideas and visions flowed. The
result is a residence like no other.

The house sits on a cul de sac in a
quiet, shady neighborhood, mostly
hidden from street view by land-
scaping. Beneath a leafy canopy, a
winding drive leads through a gate,
opening onto a dramatic courtyard –
paved with stone squares edged with
strips of emerald grass – and reveal-
ing the handsome front facade.

Standing sentinel as you approach
this charming place is one of the most
amazing, fairy-tale-like trees you’ll
ever encounter, likely a giant fig. You
have entered a completely private is-
land retreat, a sanctuary where you

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can watch dolphins play, or launch room space offers wonderful river
your paddle board from a mangrove views and features two cozy gas fire-
canopy with its own tiny, naturally places, a built-in big screen TV and
accreted beach. ample seating areas.

From the entry hall, the light-filled This space flows into the impres-
living room/family room/dining sive chef’s kitchen, with marble floors,

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cathedral ceiling, handsome butcher Attended by graceful palms and
block island/snack bar and high-end tropical foliage, the outside living
appliances. The piece de resistance is area has strong allure, its shaded ve-
a gorgeous, glossy black and brass La randa and garden terrace stretching
Cornue gas range, with double oven along the home’s entire riverfront
and warming drawers, surrounded face.
by white, glass-front cabinets. A large
pantry off the kitchen includes a sec- Low stairs lead to the lawn below
ond fridge and custom cabinetry with that stretches down to the private
built-in pet food storage and two pet dock. The infinity pool with its swim-
feeding stations. up Tiki bar appears to flow seamless-
ly into the river.
The kitchen slider wall opens to the
screened dining lanai and summer Between the dock and the fire pit
kitchen, beneath a remote-controlled lounge area, Jordan Wakeland de-
retractable black-and-white striped signed another inviting space: a
awning. charming mini-beach, buffered by a
stretch of turf, a pleasing visual and

VITAL STATISTICS
1300 RIVER RIDGE DR.

Neighborhood: River Ridge Estates, South Beach
Year built: 1981; extensive, high-end renovation

Construction: Concrete block/stucco
Lot size: .63-acre, 225 feet by 165 feet

Home size: 5,032 square feet
Bedrooms: 5

Bathrooms: 5 full bathrooms, 2 half-baths
Additional features: 225 linear feet of river frontage; magnificent exte-
rior lighting; 2 fireplaces; fine hardwood and marble flooring; wet bar; 3
washer/dryer locations (1 upstairs); central vac; impact doors/windows;
downstairs master; detached guest suite; mature landscaping; infinity
pool with in-pool spa; fire pit and summer kitchen; T-dock with lounge

deck and lift; 3-bay garage
Listing agency: Premier Estate Properties
Listing agent: Cindy O’Dare, 772-773-5899

Listing price: $4,900,000

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a smart way to eliminate tracked-in your head from the pillow for an shoe storage that is to die for, and a screen within the vanity mirror, and
sand. amazing view of the river. The suite breathtaking master bath with white a free-standing tub.
includes a custom walk-in clos- and gray marble, another chande-
In the luxurious and light-filled et with a chandelier and lighted lier, glass steam room, a hidden TV Beautiful as the bathroom is, Jor-
master suite, you hardly need lift dan Wakeland says she and her hus-
band often prefer to step out into a
hidden garden and use the utterly pri-
vate outdoor shower there, enclosed
by landscaping and a high, curved
black pebble wall. With a pebble floor
and sleek waterfall showerhead, this
functional water feature imparts a
Zen-like serenity.

The three second-level bedrooms
are all master-worthy, each with pri-
vate bath and covered sunset balco-
ny. The guest house can be accessed
from a second-level walkway or the
vine decorated outside spiral stair-
way.

Wonderfully secluded on its
grounds in a quiet neighborhood, the
home is at the same time close to all
that Vero Beach has to offer, close to
the mainland bridge and just min-
utes from the relaxed sophistication
of Vero’s charming village by the sea,
with its pubs, restaurants, shops and
resorts. Also nearby is oak-shaded
Riverside Park, home to the city ten-
nis complex, the renowned Riverside
Theatre (Equity), and the nationally
recognized Vero Beach Museum of
Art, as well as a variety of festivals
and events throughout the year. 

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More people paying their mortgages on time. Will it last?

BY KENNETH R. HARNEY delinquency rate is much better than How long can the current impres- riskier credit applicants to pump up
it was a decade ago, when it hovered sive performance continue? No one their volume of home-purchase mort-
Washington Post about 14 percent. can be certain, but here are a couple of gages, it’s inevitable that delinquen-
observations. Mortgages originated in cies will rise.
It’s a real estate and social barom- Overall, says Freddie Mac Chief the past several years under strict fed-
eter that doesn’t get a lot of publicity, Economist Sam Khater, U.S. home- eral rules constitute what lenders and Some evidence exists that a modest
but it’s important: More Americans owners are performing better today in investors call “the cleanest book of loosening of standards got underway
are paying their mortgages on time terms of on-time payments and fore- business” they’ve seen in many years. last year. Homeowners’ demand for
today than they have in nearly two de- closure avoidance than they have in 30 If the lending industry begins to relax refinancing dissipated with rising in-
cades – maybe even longer. years. underwriting standards in any signifi- terest rates, and some lenders began
cant way to dig deeper into the pool of easing standards to include a broader
That’s a big deal, because when large What’s contributing to this good be- mix of applicants. 
numbers of owners do the opposite – havior is no secret: Since 2010, stricter
stop paying on their home loans for federal underwriting rules imposed
months at a time – the entire economy on the mortgage industry in the af-
feels the effects. Spiking delinquen- termath of the housing collapse have
cies in 2007-2008 ushered in the global banned some of the lending industry’s
financial crisis and spawned tidal previous worst habits, and required
waves of foreclosures that devastated them to screen out high-risk borrow-
borrowers and their communities. ers – essentially limiting their custom-
er base to people who can truly afford
Some of the wounds are still fresh. the mortgages they’re seeking.
Delinquency rates may sound like a
yawn, but they are a key economic In the conventional market, that’s
bellwether that shouldn’t be ignored why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac –
by anyone serious about real estate. the country’s two largest sources of
mortgage money – have kept their
So here’s the good news: The na- average FICO credit scores near a
tional delinquency rate on home loans relatively pristine 750, well above lev-
hit the lowest level in 18 years as of the els typical before the financial crisis.
final quarter of 2018, according to data (FICO scores run from 300 to 850, with
compiled by the Mortgage Bankers As- low scores indicating a high probabil-
sociation. ity of future delinquencies and fore-
closures.)
Borrowers with conventional mort-
gages, those eligible for sale to inves- An improving economy has helped
tors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are significantly, as well. Mortgage in-
the best performers; about 97 percent terest rates continue to be below his-
of them are paying on time. Borrow- torical averages. Unemployment has
ers with Federal Housing Administra- fallen steadily and is at or near multi-
tion-insured (FHA) mortgages pay late decade lows.
nearly three times more frequently;
even so, more than 91 percent of them Also, many of today’s owners are
are on time. sitting on sizable equity gains as they
pay down mortgage balances on their
The big gap between homeown- homes while price inflation pushes
ers with conventional loans and FHA their values up. The Federal Reserve
borrowers shouldn’t be surprising, estimates homeowner equity totals a
because FHA borrowers have lower stunning $1.5 trillion, the highest ever.
credit scores, higher debt-to-income For some owners, that cushion func-
ratios and lower down payments on tions as an insurance policy should
average. All three factors multiply the anything threaten their ability to pay
risk that borrowers will pay late. Yet the mortgage.
even at 8.65 percent, the current FHA

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Lennar set to build 86 homes at Huntington Place

BY DEBBIE CARSON models that range in size from the
Staff Writer Aqua, a 1,966-square-foot home with
three bedrooms, two bathrooms and
A major mainland subdivision that a two-car garage, to the 2,807-square-
faltered during the real estate down- foot Venice model, with three bed-
turn and lay fallow for years is about rooms, three and a half baths, and a
to see a burst of new activity, as Len- three-car garage. All Lennar homes
nar gears up to build 86 luxury single- will feature Wi-Fi Certified Smart
family homes with base prices that Home Design utilizing Amazon’s
range from $295,000 to $368,000. voice-controlled device, Alexa.

Lennar Palm Atlantic, a division GHO Homes and Lifestyle Homes
of the mega-builder that operates on have already completed homes in
Florida’s east coast, is offering five Huntington Place, offering a wide ar-

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ARTIST RENDERING ARTIST RENDERING

ray of models priced from the low to for everyone who wants the best in
high $300,000s. amenities, and everything the Trea-
sure Coast lifestyle has to offer.”
The 55-acre property at 58th Ave-
nue and 61st Street was purchased for A community clubhouse with a
development purposes in the early pool and cabana has been built and
2000s by Foster IRC, LLC, a real estate the subdivision includes several con-
investment company based in Cali- servation areas, including a nearly
fornia, but the market tanked before 6-acre parcel on the southeast corner
the subdivision got going. at 58th Avenue and 59th Street. The
original developer preserved many
When the market rebounded, GHO mature trees when the land was first
and Lifestyle bought lots from the prop- prepared for construction.
erty owner and began building homes.
GHO Homes president Bill Handler says Homes in Huntington Place offer
his company has completed about a architectural variety with a blend of
dozen homes in Huntington Place and traditional and modern details. Some
is sold out in the subdivision. Lifestyle homes are shingled, others have bar-
Homes has finished approximately 15 rel tile roofs. Some have stucco fa-
homes and has 11 lots left. cades, others brick.

But Lennar’s Palm Atlantic divi- Despite the differences in styles,
sion is just getting started. The com- the homes coordinate and blend
pany has purchased the remaining well with each other without looking
lots and opened a sales office in Hun- “cookie-cutter.” Many homes are ar-
tington Place. It expects to deliver its ranged around five small lakes and
first home in about five months, with have water views.
plans to complete the subdivision
during the next two years. “Huntington Place is going to have
tremendous curb appeal,” Smart said.
“The target buyer at Hunting-
ton Place is really a mix,” said Len- All of Lennar’s homes will feature
nar Palm Atlantic Director of Sales the “Everything’s Included” pack-
Richelle Smart. “It’s a gated, luxury age, according to Smart. The package
community that truly has something includes stainless-steel appliances,

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PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES

For more information about Huntington Place,
visit the builders’ websites:

GHO • www.ghohomes.com/community-huntington-place-39.cfm
Lennar Palm Atlantic

www.lennar.com/new-homes/florida/treasure-coast/vero-beach/huntington-place
Lifestyle Homes

https://buildingalifestyle.com/community/huntington-place/

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Real Estate Sales on the Barrier Island: Feb. 22 to Feb. 28

The last week of February saw a continued upswing in real estate activity on the barrier island with 14
sales recorded, including 2 for more than $2 million.

The top sale of the week was of an oceanfront residence in Seagrove. The home at 100 Ocean Way was
placed on the market Nov. 12 for $3.495 million. The sale closed on Feb. 28 for $3.2 million.

The seller of the property was represented by Cindy O’Dare and Richard Boga of Premier Estate Properties.
The purchaser was represented by Dan Downey and Anne Wallace of Berkshire Hathaway Florida.

SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCES AND LOTS

SUBDIVISION ADDRESS LISTED ORIGINAL MOST RECENT SOLD SELLING
ASKING PRICE ASKING PRICE PRICE
$2,700,000
$2,750,000 $830,000
RIOMAR 976 RIOMAR DR 12/28/2018 $929,000 $2,750,000 2/27/2019 $625,000
MOORINGS 1175 BOWLINE DR 12/11/2018 $695,000 $929,000 2/27/2019 $615,000
$650,000 $525,000
SEA FOREST COURT 131 N CATALINA CT 1/16/2019 $599,000 $695,000 2/22/2019 $450,000
$475,000 $288,360
ESTUARY THE 110 ISLAND COTTAGE LN 10/31/2018 $411,000 $650,000 2/25/2019
$510,000
CASTAWAY COVE 1375 ADMIRALS WALK 11/1/2018 $575,000 2/25/2019 $449,000
$275,000
VEROMAR 615 EUGENIA RD 11/5/2018 $466,500 2/22/2019

SUMMERPLACE 9555 PERIWINKLE DR 8/14/2018 $324,000 2/22/2019

TOWNHOMES, VILLAS, CONDOS, MULTIFAMILY AND INVESTMENT

SEA COVE 1700 OCEAN DR, #207 9/25/2018 $564,900 $564,900 2/28/2019
SEA OAKS 1415 FERN CT, #316 12/18/2018 $459,000 $459,000 2/27/2019
HARBOR INN 2115 WINDWARD WAY, #103 6/13/2018 $295,000 $295,000 2/27/2019

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Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales.

Subdivision: Moorings, Address: 1175 Bowline Dr Subdivision: Riomar, Address: 976 Riomar Dr

Listing Date: 12/11/2018 Listing Date: 12/28/2018
Original Price: $929,000 Original Price: $2,750,000
Recent Price: $929,000 Recent Price: $2,750,000
Sold: 2/27/2019 Sold: 2/27/2019
Selling Price: $830,000 Selling Price: $2,700,000
Listing Agent: Brad Shearer Listing Agent: Matilde G Sorensen

Selling Agent: Treasure Coast Sotheby’s Intl Selling Agent: Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

Judy Hargarten Matilde G Sorensen

The Moorings Realty Sales Co. Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

Subdivision: Estuary The, Address: 110 Island Cottage Ln Subdivision: Sea Forest Court, Address: 131 N Catalina Ct

Listing Date: 10/31/2018 Listing Date: 1/16/2019
Original Price: $650,000 Original Price: $695,000
Recent Price: $650,000 Recent Price: $695,000
Sold: 2/25/2019 Sold: 2/22/2019
Selling Price: $615,000 Selling Price: $625,000
Listing Agent: Rita A Curry Listing Agent: Charlotte Terry & Karen Smith

Selling Agent: Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Selling Agent: Alex MacWilliam, Inc.

Rita A Curry Dan Downey & Anne Wallace

Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Berkshire Hathaway Florida

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Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales.

Subdivision: Castaway Cove, Address: 1375 Admirals Walk Subdivision: Veromar, Address: 615 Eugenia Rd

Listing Date: 11/1/2018 Listing Date: 11/5/2018
Original Price: $599,000 Original Price: $475,000
Recent Price: $575,000 Recent Price: $466,500
Sold: 2/25/2019 Sold: 2/22/2019
Selling Price: $525,000 Selling Price: $450,000
Listing Agent: Barbara Parent Listing Agent: Mark Seeberg

Selling Agent: Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Selling Agent: Berkshire Hathaway Florida

Kathy Nystrom Mark Seeberg

Coldwell Banker Paradise Berkshire Hathaway Florida

Subdivision: Sea Cove, Address: 1700 Ocean Dr, #207 Subdivision: Sea Oaks, Address: 1415 Fern Ct, #316

Listing Date: 9/25/2018 Listing Date: 12/18/2018
Original Price: $564,900 Original Price: $459,000
Recent Price: $564,900 Recent Price: $459,000
Sold: 2/28/2019 Sold: 2/27/2019
Selling Price: $510,000 Selling Price: $449,000
Listing Agent: Cheryl Gerstner Listing Agent: Susie Wilson

Selling Agent: Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Selling Agent: Susie Wilson Real Estate PA

Steve Owen Janice Jolly

Berkshire Hathaway Florida Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

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wood-finish cabinetry, quartz or granite counter- will be provided by Florida Power & Light and the
tops and oversized ceramic tile flooring. Lennar county will provide water and sewer services.
also offers buyers the opportunity to customize
their home, selecting flooring materials, cabinet Huntington Place is less than half a mile from the
styles and other finishes. county’s Sandridge Golf Club and basically across
the street from Bent Pine Golf Club. It is 15 minutes
The subdivision will have community-wide ir- from the beach and close to Indian River Mall and
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