05/09/2019 ISSUE 19

Laura Riding Jackson house
moving this month. P10
Filling top jobs
at Vero City Hall. P8

Effort to shift license plate
funds from Harbor Branch fails. P8

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BY RAY MCNULTY Interim school
superintendent
Decision not to prosecute pick seen near
Sidles not a big surprise

There’s something you should BY FEDERICO MARTINEZ
know, now that the State At- Staff Writer
torney’s Office has decided the
case presented by the Sheriff’s Founder of Village Beach Market dies at 73 The School Board is on a fast-
Office last month lacked the track to hire an interim super-
probable cause necessary to BY RAY MCNULTY he opened the Village Beach permarkets on the mainland intendent, hoping to pick one
chargeVicki Sidles with a crime Staff Writer Market in 1980, died last week. in the 1960s and ’70s, when by May 14 to replace Superin-
for using her Twitter page to He was 73. Keen would walk up and ask if tendent Mark Rendell, who will
post disparaging comments Jerry “Butch” Keen, a lifelong she needed assistance. step down May 24.
about School BoardVice Chair- grocer who expanded the fam- Alma Lee Loy, affectionately
man Tiffany Justice: ily business from mainland known as the “First Lady of “He had a quiet way about “Ideally, we would like to have
Vero to the barrier island when Vero Beach,” fondly recalled him, but when you went into the interim begin working Mon-
The detective who investi- shopping at one of Keen’s su- day, May 20 so that they will
gated the cyber-stalking com- CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 have a week to work with Dr.
plaint Justice filed against Rendell and become familiar
the longtime school district with the job,” Board Chairman
employee also didn’t believe Laura Zorc said during a special
a prosecutable case could be board meeting on May 1.
made.
The board agreed to seek ap-
In fact, Assistant State At- plications from May 1 to May 8.
torney Steve Wilson wrote – in It will then meet publicly from
the first paragraph of his April 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., this Friday,
25 letter denying Det. Aaron’s May 10, to review resumes and
Scranton’s affidavit seeking decide which candidates board
an arrest warrant – that the members want to interview.
Sheriff’s Office submitted the
Finalist interviews, also open
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 to the public, will be held 8 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m., Monday, May 13.
Construction of homes A special business meeting will
at east end of Wabasso
bridge now underway CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

BY STEVEN M. THOMAS Windsor golf course, grass gone, being
Staff Writer restored to Robert Trent Jones design

Construction is finally un- BY RAY MCNULTY Most of the grass on the
derway at the subdivision Staff Writer club’s golf course has been
formerly known as Michael “scalped away,” as a first
Creek, on the right as you While last weekend’s rains step in restoring the course
come onto the island off the greened-up much of the bar- to the original Robert Trent
eastern end of the Wabasso rier island, things are pretty Jones design.
bridge, which was plated and brown these days at Windsor.
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Windsor golf course ward tees for family play, which won’t will allow for more sustainable main- My Vero
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 impact the layout at all. What we’re do- tenance.”
ing now is restoring the original foot- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
“The course is almost 30 years old print of the course, as it was designed.” Gallagher would not divulge the
and, over time, the original design cost of the restoration project, which case to his office while conceding the
changes as a result of the mainte- Gallagher said the course also will be began April 1 and is expected to be “facts did not appear to rise to the
nance,” Windsor General Manager re-surfaced “wall to wall” with Celebra- completed before Nov. 1. level of probable cause for the alleged
Bob Gallagher said. “Typically, the tion, a drought- and shade-tolerant offense . . .”
greens get smaller as you cut the fring- grass, and with “tried-and-true” Tiff Though Windsor’s course sees few
es. The fringes then get longer. Even Eagle Bermuda grass on the greens. golfers during the summer months, the So why did the Sheriff’s Office
the shapes of the bunkers change as pro shop has made reciprocal agree- push for a first-degree misdemeanor
they break down. In addition the out-of-bounds ar- ments with other local clubs – including charge with a case it didn’t believe in?
eas will be “tightened up” and more Orchid Island, Bent Pine and Indian Riv-
“So we’re not redesigning the course,” natural waste areas will be created to er Club – for members who want to play. Why waste prosecutors’ time with a
he added. “We’re not adding any new make the course more maintenance- complaint that, from the outset, had
design features, other than a few for- friendly. “We’re very friendly with the other little chance of producing a charge,
pros,” Gallagher said. “Of course, we’ll let alone a conviction?
“We have a very large course,” Gal- return the favor when their courses
lagher said. “It was built big, and this Why not simply tell Justice that
are being renovated.”  the investigation into her complaint,
which she filed with the Sheriff’s Of-
fice in January, uncovered not nearly
enough evidence to arrest Sidles,
based on the criteria set forth in
Florida statutes and previous court
rulings?

We’ll get back to that – because, first,
there’s something else you should
know about Sidles’ case, which is also
being investigated by the school dis-
trict.

Unlike Det. Scranton, who ex-
plained to Sidles the reason she was
under investigation when he ques-
tioned her for the first time at her
workplace, the school district’s hu-
man resources department didn’t ex-
tend the same courtesy.

When Sidles’ supervisor in the
school district’s purchasing depart-
ment told her last month that she
was being relieved of her duties,
suspended with pay and sent home
pending an investigation, he refused
to tell her why.

That’s because our school district,
when investigating allegations of
wrongdoing by employees, operates
under procedures that don’t require
employees to be told what they’ve
been accused of.

Worse, such disclosures are pro-
hibited.

According to Cristen Maddux, the
district’s public information officer,
employees are informed – either ver-
bally, in writing or both – that an in-
vestigation is being conducted.

“The employee is not given the spe-
cifics of the investigation, only that
there is a potential violation of poli-
cy,” she wrote in an email after con-
sulting with the district’s HR depart-
ment. “This is done in order to protect
all parties involved.”

That’s baloney.
Then again, so was the HR depart-
ment’s initial response to my phone
calls seeking an explanation of the
district’s policies and procedures for
conducting investigations into al-
leged wrongdoing by employees.
Both Michelle Olk, director of em-
ployee and labor relations, and Edwi-
na Suit, executive director for human

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resources, offered identical respons- are very intimidating and sometimes principal at Cocoa Beach Junior/Se- “I do have a problem with that,” Zorc
es: “I can’t comment on that.” an over-exaggeration of authority. nior High School – he announced his said, of the current policy of keeping
resignation last month and his final employees in the dark.
Obviously, they correctly assumed “Investigations are sometimes need- day here is May 24.
I was addressing Sidles’ situation, but ed,” she added, “but they should be the Sidles, meanwhile, has a problem
I didn’t ask about any particular in- very last resort.” Among the possible changes Zorc with the district’s decision to sus-
vestigation – just the process the dis- wants the board to discuss is a re- pend her, albeit with pay, over what
trict follows in every case. And they Zorc said she plans to “bring policy quirement that employees under in- she believes were her Twitter com-
didn’t want to tell me. suggestions forward” after Rendell de- vestigation be told of the allegations ments about Justice and her deci-
parts and an interim superintendent is made against them at the time they’re sion to start an online petition urg-
It wasn’t until I contacted School in place. suspended.
Board Chairman Laura Zorc, who CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
forwarded my written request via Rendell is leaving to become the
email to now-outgoing Superinten-
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It’s all part of a culture of intimida-
tion, bullying and retaliation – from
the top down – that has plagued our
schools for far too long, destroying
morale and prompting the departures
of high-quality but beaten-down em-
ployees, particularly teachers.

These employee-investigation pro-
cedures aren’t merely wrongheaded.
They’re unnecessarily cruel, espe-
cially for the many who are exoner-
ated. They’re also unfair.

Usually, when employees are sus-
pended, the district’s HR department
follows up with letters sent to their
homes using certified mail. Those
letters, which explain the process,
also inform the employees that they
are prohibited from discussing the
investigations with their work col-
leagues until the investigations have
been completed.

The district claims that the don’t-
talk mandate ensures the integrity of
its investigations, which is ridiculous.
The district also warns, however, that
employees who violate the directive
could face disciplinary action, up to
and including termination.

Which is disturbing.
Put yourself in the accused em-
ployee’s place: Rendell’s henchmen
are free to discuss your case with
your co-workers as part of their in-
vestigation, but you can’t.
It’s no surprise, then, that Zorc has
expressed concern about the number
of employee investigations, the dis-
trict’s investigation procedures and
the superintendent’s power to order
often-costly investigations without
notifying the School Board.
“We can’t ignore the increased num-
bers of investigations as we look for-
ward,” Zorc said. “Not only are these
investigations draining funds, but they

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My Vero hurtful or inappropriate, but that does davit, given the public position of the proving the “substantial emotional dis-
not rise to the level of criminal con- individuals, it will not be possible to tress” element of the crime – and Scran-
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 duct under the statute,” Wilson wrote. prove that there is no legitimate pur- ton’s case fell short.
“The ‘no legitimate purpose’ element pose for the alleged conduct.”
ing the School Board to fire Rendell. has been broadly construed to cover a As for Sidles’ tweets and the online-
She said she has consulted with wide range of conduct. Wilson also wrote that, using the “rea- petition comments being directed
sonable person standard as the guiding specifically at Justice, Wilson wrote:
an attorney to provide legal counsel “In the facts presented in the affi- paradigm,” the law sets high the bar for “Although the posts linked to Tiffany
if the district tries to take punitive ac-
tion against her, adding, “If I lose my job Indian River County high schools get poor ratings
or they demote me over this, they will
definitely be hearing from me and my BY RAY MCNULTY cracked the top 300 in the state. County, had four schools in the state’s
attorney.” Staff Writer Vero Beach, the county’s largest top 300. Even the oft-troubled St. Lu-
cie County district put four schools
Sidles won’t need a criminal defense If you’ve seen U.S. News & World school with an enrollment of 2,892 in the top 300.
attorney, though. Report’s “2019 Best High Schools” students in grades 9 through 12, was
list, which was published last week, ranked No. 305 in Florida. Sebastian "There are so many factors that go
According to Wilson’s letter to you can understand why Mark Ren- River, with 1,824 students, checked in into those rankings, which I know are
Scranton, Florida’s cyber-stalking dell told a local radio audience he’s at No. 336 in the state. just a measuring stick, but we do a lot
law and legal precedent required “thrilled” about his new job. of really good things in this district,"
prosecutors to be able to prove that Indian River Charter, with an enroll- School Board Chairman Laura Zorc
Sidles’ tweets: specifically and di- Indian River County’s outgoing ment of only 653 students, fared the said.
rectly targeted Justice; would have schools superintendent is leaving best among the county’s high schools,
caused any reasonable person to suf- later this month to become the prin- coming in at No. 273 in Florida. "The students who really want to
fer from the “substantial emotional cipal at Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior succeed – who put in the work – they're
distress” cited by Justice; and served High School, which was No. 39 in the As a group, the three local high succeeding," she added. "What we've
no “legitimate purpose,” as interpret- magazine’s rankings of Florida’s 555 schools didn’t measure up to those in got to do is find out why some kids
ed by state law. public high schools. neighboring counties. are falling through the cracks and get
those students up to par. A lot of times,
The facts presented in Scranton’s He’ll leave behind a district he led Brevard County placed nine public it comes down to their home life.
affidavit failed on all three counts, es- for four years in which neither of high schools in Florida’s top 300, in-
pecially the third – because, as Wilson the county’s two large high schools cluding six in the top 200 and three in "There's so much that goes into
stated, Sidles’ comments were “al- – Vero Beach and Sebastian River – the top 40. educating kids, but I definitely think
most exclusively” directed at elected
officials in the performance of their Martin County, often considered we can do better." 
public duties. a community similar to Indian River

“The opinions expressed may have
been colorful and even viewed as

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Justice’s Twitter name, that does not tice had to “affirmatively go to (Sidles’) gaged in an inappropriate relationship the School Board must approve it.
mean that the posts were sent to Tif- Twitter page in order to see the posts.” with Rendell. That probably won’t happen.
fany Justice. Rather, the posts were The last thing our school district
made on a public website that would So, under Florida law, Sidles did Sidles won’t be arrested.
allow anyone who had access to Twit- not commit a crime when she posted Will she be fired? Not likely. needs now is another disruptive con-
ter to review them.” social-media comments that were Even if Rendell rushes through the troversy, another costly legal battle,
sometimes-critical, occasionally dis- investigation and recommends that another unnecessary investigation.
Additionally, Wilson wrote that Jus- paraging and often implied Justice en- Sidles’ employment be terminated,
And the board knows it. 

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Interim school superintendent the board hire an interim superinten- Keen was surrounded by his family Jerry Keen worked in his father’s
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 dent for six to 12 months. when he died April 29 in Vero Beach. store as a high school and college stu-
According to his son, Jason, Keen suc- dent and then took over the business
be held that afternoon from 1 p.m. to “The board needs to shore up some cumbed to complications from a brief when Roy Keen died in 1966.
3 p.m. so that the board can decide things before you search for a super- battle with a rare and aggressive form
which candidate it wants to hire and intendent,” Messina said. “I’ve seen of lymphoma, which wasn’t diagnosed Jerry Keen expanded the family gro-
begin contract negotiations. some of your meetings, read the sto- until January, shortly after he discov- cery business in the 1970s and 1980s.
ries and noticed there are some real ered a lump in his neck. He opened a Keen’s Foodtown in Se-
The board is expected to approve problems. bastian in 1972 and a store on the is-
the interim superintendent’s contract “It’s been a tough few months,” Ja- land in 1980 that continues today as
during its regular May 14 business “The first thing a new superinten- son Keen said. “My dad never retired, the Village Market. That store was sig-
meeting. The interim superintendent dent asks when applying for a job, is, but before he became ill, I had a goal nificantly remodeled in 1998 and is
would be paid at the same current ‘Do I have a cohesive board that will to get him semi-retired in 18 months. scheduled to undergo another major
annual rate, $163,000, as Rendell, but support me?’ and ‘What is the current That was a year ago. But he never had renovation this summer.
would not receive any other benefits, state of the district?’ a hobby. His hobby was the business.
said Andrea Messina, executive direc- Later in the 1980s, Keen added a
tor of the Florida School Board Asso- “You need to stabilize things before “He had a passion for food and pas- fourth location, taking over the former
ciation, which is coordinating the in- you ask someone to come here. An sion for the people here,” he added. Pantry Pride supermarket site in the
terim hiring. interim superintendent can help you “He moved here when he was 5 years Miracle Mile shopping area, but fierce
address budgeting issues, curriculum old, graduated from Vero Beach High competition from Publix forced him to
Messina explained to the board dur- changes, the summer hiring process School in 1963 and spent his whole life close the store after 18 months.
ing its May 1 meeting that by law, the in this town. He loved Vero Beach, and
district must have an acting superin- and contract negotiations.”  took a lot of pride in being part of this Keen closed the Sebastian store in
tendent in place by May 25. She encour- community.” 1993 and the store at U.S. 1 and 12th
aged board members to stay focused Village Beach Market Street in 1995.
and put aside any personal or political CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Jerry Keen’s business roots in Vero
differences to stay on schedule. Beach reach back to 1951, when his fa- That made Village Beach Market his
his store, he was always helpful and ther Roy Keen opened what was then lone remaining store, though he backed
“This is an aggressive, but doable always had a smile on his face,” Loy Keen’s Cabins and Grocery, located on his son’s recent interest in adding a sec-
timeline,” Messina reassured the board. said Monday, one day before Keen’s the southwest corner of the intersec- ond location on the seven-acre parcel
funeral at Crestlawn Cemetery. “I tion of U.S. 1 and 12th Street where owned by Ken Puttick in Orchid – the
Several board members wanted to knew Jerry for a lot of years, and he Staples is now. Three years later, he ex- site of Publix’s failed bid to build a su-
begin discussing the search for a per- was a really fine man. panded the store, which was rebrand- permarket-anchored shopping center.
manent superintendent, but Messina ed as Keen’s Grocery. It became Keen’s
discouraged that idea. She suggested “It was a joy to have him as a friend.” Supermarket in 1957. “He wanted me to be able to grow,
just as he did, and he was interested to
see how the community there would re-

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spond to our proposal,” said Jason Keen, ated people and gave back to the com- ful of inventory homes will be com- has the lots around the lake and along
the Village Beach Market’s chief operat- munity without calling a lot of atten- plete by late fall, when snowbirds re- route 510. Parkwood will build on 13
ing officer. “He was very excited about tion to himself. turn for Vero’s busy winter season. lots along an inlet of the Indian River
the remodel we’re about to undergo and called Orchid Cove Lagoon and seven
helping me with the future of the store.” “As successful as he was in busi- “I expect we will have some ‘solds’ prime lots directly on the river that
ness and as many contributions as by that time, as well,” Handler says. will have the highest price homes.
In addition to operating his stores, he made to this community, I’ll re-
Jerry Keen served on the Associ- member him most for how he treated Handler has a contract with Trema- GHO will offer four models, each
ated Grocers’ board of directors for people,” said Loy, who in 1968 became terra to purchase 37 lots in the subdivi- with two elevations to choose from.
48 years. He was the chairman of the the first woman elected to the Indian sion, and has closed on the first batch. The two- and three-bedroom homes
board for the Retail Grocers Associa- River County Commission. The developer’s company, Parkwood will range in size from 2,052 square
tion of Florida in 1980. Distinctive Homes, will build the oth- feet to 2,521 square feet, with start-
“I don’t think Jerry ever forgot a er 20 houses, which includes all of the ing prices between $565,000 and
Keen, an active member of Kings face,” she added. “Maybe he couldn’t waterfront homes. $715,000, but Handler expects to sell
Baptist Church, also loved baseball – always put a name to it – not right homes priced at more than $800,000
so much so that he sponsored “Gro- away, anyway – but if he saw you in “We already have two homes un- as the project progresses.
cery Grab” promotions at Vero Beach his store, he’d remember you were a der contract,” says Janyne Kenworthy,
Dodgers minor-league games and broker-associate with Treasure Coast Parkwood is offering four models, too,
provided funding for numerous local customer.”  Sotheby’s International Realty, who is but choices are not limited to the mod-
Little League teams. handling sales of the Parkwood homes. els. Parkwood’s sign at the entrance to
Orchid Cove the subdivision advertises “custom wa-
“There was one year when he spon- Trematerra paid $6 million for 31- terfront homes,” and Kenworthy said the
sored Little League teams in both CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 acre property in 2017. It was listed by developer can build pretty much “what-
Vero and Sebastian, and both of them Treasure Coast Sotheby’s co-owner/ ever a buyer wants.” She expects prices
reached the championship game,” Ja- approved more than a decade ago. broker Michael Thorpe. Kenworthy to start in the low $700s and go up to $2
son Keen recalled. “It was Keen’s ver- Now called Orchid Cove, the 57- represented the buyer. million for a 3995-square-foot house.
sus Keen’s, and my dad didn’t want to
show any favoritism by sitting on one home development on the south side of After purchase, Trematerra cleaned Both builders plan upscale “coastal
side or the other. route 510 has been revived by Gaines- up the site, built docks on the river homes” with high-end features and fin-
ville developer Michael Trematerra and dredged the channel between the ishes. The architectural style and color
“So they put two chairs directly and GHO Homes. docks and the Intracoastal Waterway. palate will be consistent throughout
behind home plate, and my parents He also re-plated the development, the subdivision according to Handler.
watched the game from there.” Concrete block walls are going up for eliminating 3 lots to make the remain-
the first of two model homes planned ing interior lots slightly larger. Handler said his homes will be
Jason Keen said his father, while by GHO, and company president Bill somewhat similar to those he is build-
a well-known figure, was “more of a Handler says both models and a hand- Lots in the gated subdivision are
behind-the-scenes guy” who appreci- laid out in two concentric circles CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
around a central retaining lake. GHO

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Orchid Cove Effort to strip specialty license plate funds from Harbor Branch fails

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ing in Lily’s Cay, a gated luxury com- BY SUE COCKING – died just before the close of the 2019 conservation and public outreach.
munity on Indian River Drive on the Staff Writer legislative session last Saturday. That has been standard practice since
mainland where prices start in the
$500s, but “a little bit nicer, because of Florida Atlantic University's Har- Members of the One Ocean One shortly after Harbor Branch became part
the island location.” bor Branch Oceanographic Institute Health Research Conservation Insti- of FAU in 2007. Before that, the Founda-
Foundation will get to keep more than tute based at Georgia Aquarium's con- tion shared revenues from the dolphin
“Parkwood will be building beauti- $1.4 million in annual revenue from servation field station in Marineland, plate (created in 1998) and the whale
ful homes, very nicely finished, with two specialty license plates for at least Florida had sought the legislation that tag (2003) with several of the groups that
12-foot ceilings in the living areas and one more year. would have designated their group to make up One Ocean One Health.
10-foot ceilings in the bedrooms,” administer the tag revenues paid by
Kenworthy said. “Homes on the river A proposed amendment to House Florida drivers. But the 2019 legislative Dr. Tim Mullican, a veterinarian at the
will have docks and there will be a and Senate specialty license plate bills session ended with no action. Marineland field station, said he would
beautiful clubhouse. Maintenance that would have redistributed the pro- meet with One Ocean One Health lead-
fees will be only $230 a month, and ceeds from sales of the "Protect Wild That means the Harbor Branch ership to make a decision on whether to
that includes lawncare.” Dolphins" and "Protect FloridaWhales" Oceanographic Institute Foundation try to amend the specialty tag law dur-
tags among a statewide coalition of ma- – the institute's fund raising and chari- ing the 2020 legislative session.
Handler has made a career of reviv- rine mammal rescue and research or- table arm – will maintain control of the
ing subdivisions that were planned ganizations – including Harbor Branch money and keep awarding it exclusively The Harbor Branch Foundation op-
and sometimes begun in the mid- to Harbor Branch scientists for research, posed the amendments and lobbied
2000s but failed to get off the ground
due to the housing downturn. against them in Tallahassee. 

“The location here is very good and No Vacancy? Filling the top jobs at Vero Beach City Hall
we are always looking for opportuni-
ties to build in different price ranges,” BY LISA ZAHNER Last Friday, City Council members Two months ago, Falls was not in-
Handler said of his decision to buy up Staff Writer conducted both public interviews and terested in the job because of the har-
the available lots in Orchid Cove. individual, round-robin sit-downs with rowing experience he had while serv-
By the time you read this, Vero Beach five candidates to run the city’s legal de- ing as interim city manager the first
Trematerra comes from a construc- could be hanging a “no vacancy” sign partment, a position vacated last fall by time around.
tion and development family back- on City Hall when it comes to filling the City Attorney Wayne Coment.
ground and has built dozens of sub- two top spots on its management team. But after eight years of O’Connor
divisions and commercial projects in But the only decision the coun- changing the culture of the city gov-
central and south Florida, according cil made on Friday was to not switch ernment, Falls says he definitely no-
from an in-house legal staff to an out- tices the difference. So when Howle
to the bio on his website.  side law firm. approached him in late April about
taking the job, he didn’t say no.
The vote to determine which of the
remaining four applicants would be of- “Things have changed a lot. When I
fered the job was scheduled for this past did the job before there were a lot of
Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. contentious issues,” Falls said. Those
issues – including soaring utility rates,
Also on Tuesday night, the coun- botched contracts and $3 million con-
cil was set to entertain a proposal by sultant bills – had no easy or quick so-
Councilman Harry Howle to halt the lutions. And Brian Heady was on the
headhunter search for a new city man- City Council, always clamoring for an-
ager and instead hire Vero Public Works swers, to keep Falls busy.
Director Monte Falls, 61, for that job.
Selling the albatross of the electric
Falls has been serving as interim utility took a lot of heat off the city
city manager since former City Man- manager’s office, but it’s more than
ager Jim O’Connor’s retirement, same that. Falls said he learned a great deal
as he did for nine months in 2010 and from working with and for O’Connor.
2011 while city officials searched for
and eventually found O’Connor. “Jim showed us that there’s a differ-

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ent way of doing things,” Falls said. asked, and then to carry out the poli- Then he met with O’Connor, who because Howle sees the value of hiring
Falls said O’Connor’s management cies set by the council. assured Falls he was up to the chal- a permanent city manager who does
lenge and encouraged him to go for it. not need to be brought up to speed on
style put the five elected members of After meeting with Howle, Falls said everything.
the City Council more in the driver’s he spoke to his wife Michelle about it. Howle said his motivation for urg-
seat, and positioned the staff, from “I consulted her, as I do about every- ing Falls to step up to the city manager “I really want to get this done so we
the city manager on down, to provide thing. We’ve been together going on 40 post was not just because he has confi- can move forward,” said Howle, who
the best information and advice when years now.” dence Falls will do a good job, but also
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Vero’s top jobs in on his one-on-one interviews with the LAURA RIDING JACKSON HOUSE WILL
five county attorney hopefuls last week. BE MOVED SOON TO COLLEGE CAMPUS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9
Falls said he was impressed by the BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA Last week, officials from the college
is serving his final six months in office candidates’ knowledge, by them per- Staff Writer and the Laura Riding Jackson House
after deciding not to run for re-elec- sonally, and by the good rapport sev- Foundation met to look over the site
tion in November. eral established with the mayor. Plans to move the historic Laura on the college campus where the
Riding Jackson House from the En- 110-year-old house and its original
Howle said having a professional in Falls’ long tenure with the city is one vironmental Learning Center to the pole barn will be relocated.
the top job he can trust with the re- of his biggest strengths, but it has also Vero Beach campus of Indian River
sponsibility of running the city – long raised questions of whether or not he State College have been finalized, and The house is significant as an exam-
after his council term is complete – is would retire soon. the move is scheduled to take place at ple of traditional Florida ‘cracker’ ar-
of utmost importance. “I’ve known the end of the month. chitecture and because it was the long-
Monte since I was 15 years old.” He went to work for the City of Vero time home of renowned 20th century
Beach 28 years ago, in January 1991. poet and literary entrepreneur Laura
Mayor Val Zudans apparently also val- But Falls said he plans to stay “a mini- Riding Jackson.
ues Falls’ advice and knowledge of the mum of five more years” and would
city. He asked the interim manager to sit commit to at least that timeframe if The college was one of several local
organizations that offered to host the
offered the city manager job.  house after its removal from the ELC
campus. The college board voted to
give the foundation a 15-year, renew-
able lease agreement at no cost.

“That is what has made it possible
for us to do all this,” said foundation
Board President Marie Stiefel.

So far, the cost to disassemble the
wood frame house into several sec-
tions and move it 11 miles from the is-
land in the Indian River Lagoon where
it is now to the college campus near
the Indian River Mall has been pegged
at $333,121 – not including the land-
scaping and preservation, which is es-
timated at another $100,000.

Foundation board member Jacque
Jacobs said the first task in the large
but delicate moving operation will be
to break the house into four sections,
removing both wings and the second
floor, and painstakingly dismantling a
portion of the chimney, brick by brick.

Loaded onto at least four trucks –
single-wide for the second floor and
wings, and doublewide for the main
house – the caravan will negotiate
traffic and utility lines on its 3-plus
hour journey, taking up two lanes as it
crawls forward at 4 miles per hour.

The slow motion parade will head
west on the Wabasso Causeway, across
U.S. 1 on route 510 to 58th Avenue;
then go south on 58th to 77th Street
and west on 77th west to 66th Avenue;
then south on 66th across State Road
60, turning east on College Lane and
finally “bringing it across the grass” to
its new home – a .71-acre site in the

field behind the Brackett Library. 

CLARIFICATION

In last week's article on trou-
bled nursing homes in Vero
Beach, we should have pointed
out more clearly that the local
Hospital District provides no
funds to nursing homes, and
has no statutory role in regu-
lating or overseeing them.

AJ and Lisa Mangel.

BEAUTIFUL MUSIC,
GOOD CHEER REIGN
AT ‘MAY POPS’ P. 12

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Beautiful music, good cheer reign at ‘May Pops’

Elizabeth Cundari and Helen Post. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
Tony Woodruff, Maj. Eric Flowers and John Moore.
BY STEPHANIE LABAFF buffet tables through the rain, while
our volunteers assembled chairs and Executive Chef Joe Faria.
Staff Writer tables for sponsors and supporters. I
regret that our guests didn’t get to see Sheila and Don Iodice with Barbara Lowry.
Music filled the air despite raindrops the beautiful reception space created
and lightning bolts at the May Pops by Rhonda Lowe, Wade Baxley and the
Season Finale Concert to benefit the talented team at Rock City Gardens.
Cleveland Clinic Indian River Founda- And special thanks to the Brevard
tion. The virtuoso performance by the Symphony Orchestra for embodying
Brevard Symphony Orchestra was held the adage ‘the show must go on.’”
this year at the Indian River County
Fairgrounds, with presenting sponsors When the weather cleared, VIPs
once again being Helen Post and the lounged under cabanas, ready to keep
Plansoen Foundation. both the sun and looming storms at
bay, while a smattering of picnickers
With Windsor currently renovating set up camp in the lawn area with their
its polo fields and golf course, a change own spreads atop blankets and under
in venue was one note that had to be umbrellas.
taken into consideration while plan-
ning the event. Nevertheless, the after- “I want to thank all of you,” said Tony
noon concert promised a spectacular Woodruff, foundation board chair-
celebration of “30 years of beautiful man. “In the last 10 or 12 years as a
music with good friends for a great foundation and as a community we’ve
cause,” at what is fondly considered the raised over $100 million. As a result of
final movement of the season. that, we have centers of excellence.”

Undeterred by afternoon storms, The Brevard Symphony Orchestra,
aficionados arrived fashionably early under the direction of principal conduc-
for a VIP reception, which was moved tor and music director Maestro Christo-
indoors due to the inclement weath- pher Confessore, proceeded to dazzle
er. Guests sipped on cool drinks and the audience along with guest vocalists
nibbled on a lavish affair presented by Alli Mauzey and William Michals.
Quail Valley Executive Chef Joe Faria
and his efficient crew. When the final note was played,
guests gathered their belongings and
“We are beyond grateful for the ex- went home a little waterlogged but
traordinary efforts of Chef Joe Faria, with a song in their heart and the
the entire Quail Valley team and our knowledge that proceeds from the
resilient volunteers,” said Liz Bruner, afternoons entertainment will help
CCIRF president. “Our VIP reception to advance technology, enhance fa-
was literally swamped until Chef de- cilities and elevate patient care at
vised a plan to move food and bever- CCIRH, benefiting all who need the
ages to a dry space. His crew carried hospital’s services. 



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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 Ivan and Wade Baxley with Rhonda Lowe and Chris Deigl.
Dr. Charles Mackett with Carol and Dr. David Peter.

Ann and Ralph Turner. Drs. Lauren and Trevor Applehof. John Donlan and Jack Rogers.

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Jan Donlan, Dr. Mark Malias and Toni Houdyshell. Warren and Virginia Schwerin with Marianne and Lon Chaikin. Teresa Ingram, Hal Oberkotter with Helen and John Higgs.

Oscar and Anne Sales. Tony Woodruff and Maestro Christopher Confessore.

Alma Lee Loy and Ann Hamner. Ted and Dawn Michael.

Dr. Kathy Grichnik with Heidi and Lorne Waxlax and Debbie and Dr. Greg MacKay.

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Yes, we kin! ‘Pioneer Dinner’ fetes Hamilton, Mathis clans

BY KERRY FIRTH
Correspondent

Descendants of the Hamilton and Billy Harp and Alma Lee Loy. Lea Skinner, Kathy and Paul Hamilton, Deanna Hamilton. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE
Mathis families chatted and remi-
nisced about decades of lineage as and harvesting green beans, guavas eight generations of the
they mingled with well-wishers who and tomatoes on what is today John’s
had gathered to celebrate the accom- Island. Hamilton-Mathis fam-
plishments of their ancestors and
subsequent generations during the Initially, launches were used to ily. Public service runs
20th annual Pioneer Dinner at the transport people and produce up
Heritage Center. and down the river until, in 1925, the through their veins,
Quay Dock Bridge was built, which al-
When family matriarch Lydia Ham- lowed families to drive directly to the with four generations
ilton-Mathis traveled down to our
area in 1906 with her family, they did having served Indian
so by wagon. In search of a better life,
her father Edward Hamilton was relo- River County in vari-
cating the household, which included
18-year-old Lydia, her brothers and ous governmental posi-
sisters, her aunt and uncle and their
children, from North Florida. It took
the family 30 days to complete the
300-mile journey, which was beset by
storms, wild animals and sickness.

Once here, the family sheltered in
tents and lived off the land and the
water; with everyone from children to
elders working in the fields growing

tions.

Edward W. Ham-

ilton was the second

Winter Beach Bridge

tender and his son JJP

Hamilton was County

Melba Wolverton and Ann Mathis. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Commissioner. Third-

generation Eugene F.

mainland. At the Quay Dock Depot, Hamilton was superintendent of the

produce was transferred to trains for Road and Bridge Department for 31

delivery throughout the state. years and fourth-generation Edward

It was during this time that Lydia Hamilton has been employed by the

helped care for the ailing wife of an- Road and Bridge Department for 35

other early pioneer, Melvin Mathis. years.

When his wife passed, Melvin fell in “Having our family honored as a

love with and married Lydia, uniting pioneer family is such an honor,” said

the two families. Lydia would raise Billy Harp, grandson of Lydia Ham-

his three boys and their own eight ilton and the clan’s spokesman. “To

children. The family was raised with be able to share our family history is

a strong sense of community, where a pleasure. I think these events are so

Melvin was a respected elder in the informative and we have so much to

Indian River Primitive Baptist Church learn from the early settlers.”

and a successful farmer. The Pioneer Dinner is the signa-

Eventually, hurricanes and soil de- ture fundraiser for Vero Heritage, Inc.,

pletion made farming more difficult, which oversees the operation and

so in 1932 the families moved to the preservation of the Heritage Center

mainland where the citrus industry and its adjacent Citrus Museum.

was booming. “It’s fitting to hold it in this his-

Lydia’s brother Jessie, known as JJP, toric building,” said Heather Staple-

helped transform the area through ton, executive director. “This build-

politics, serving for 22 years as a ing is all about celebrating history,

County Commissioner, and devel- creating new memories and holding

oped the first modern subdivision memorable events. The Hamilton-

called Winter Beach, “where the sun- Mathis family has done an incred-

shine spends winter.” ible job of chronicling their history

For the past 113 years, the legacy of through photographs and memoirs,

that love of land, family and commu- and they are some of the best story-

nity has been passed down through tellers we’ve met.” 

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Janie Gould and Kathy Harp. Brenda Sistler and Brenda Corum. John and Tammy Harp. Jeff and Lizca Mathis.

Debbie Larsen and Doris Hamilton-Lisle. Brenda Petito and Rodney Dean Hamilton. Mary and Bill Earman. Kaley Stone and Megan Hall.

Rena Hamilton-Pisani, Roger Jenkins and Karin Hamilton-Admire.

Patsy Helseth, Shirley Helseth-Morris and Wanda Simmons Knight.

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At ‘BBQ Bash,’ an appetite to assist St. Francis Manor

BY STEPHANIE LABAFF
Staff Writer

Bandanas and boots were all the Katie Kowanic, Linda Scott and Gwen Zorc Lamothe. Jeff and Ruth Jones with Harry Hurst. Maria Elena Kitchell, Louis Schacht and Betty Rollins.
rage at the recent All-American Coun- Susan Simmens and Ashley Simmens.
try BBQ Bash at and to benefit St. dently,” he explained.
Francis Manor of Vero Beach, which Inside the community room, an as-
provides much-needed affordable
housing for seniors on a limited in- sortment of raffle items, a cork pull,
come. 50/50 drawing, Chinese and silent
auctions tempted attendees to try
Folks kicked up their heels to the their luck at obtaining the wide va-
country and southern rock sounds riety of goodies. Outside, checkered
of Spayed Koolie and enjoyed some table cloths and cowboy hat center-
finger-lickin’ barbecue with all the pieces dotted the bucolic setting, and
fixins’ compliments of Sunrise Rotary young and old alike were drawn to the
Vero Beach and a host of other spon- manor’s large pond to feed the fish
sors. and turtles with supplied food pellets.

As he oversaw the grilling of the de-
licious fare, Jim Thompson, a 62-year
member of the Rotary Club, noted that
he has seen an immense increase in
the need for affordable senior housing
since his family moved to Vero Beach
in 1937.

“The Rotary supports St. Francis
because they provide a service that’s
needed. As people get older, they need
a place where they can live indepen-

Rene and Alice Donars. PHOTOS: MARY SCHENKEL

Tom Groendyke and Guy Clifton. Richard Morris, Paula Sutton and Lasker Morris.

Mary and Brian Tatro. ceeds from the BBQ Bash help to sus-
tain operational expenses.
Folks attend the annual gathering
to support the nonprofit’s efforts to Founded in 1974, St. Francis Manor
provide independent apartment liv- has been home to more than 1,000
ing to limited-income seniors ages 62 residents over the years and currently
and older in an attractive, safe and provides housing to 120 residents. De-
socially supportive environment. Pro- spite the major expansion that was
completed last year, which added 18
efficiency units, there is still a waiting
list of more than 100 people.

“More than just a place to live, St.
Francis is a family. The people who
live here look out for each other,” said
Katie Kowanic, interim executive di-
rector. “There is still a huge need right
now in this community.”

For more information, visit stfrancis-
manor.org. 



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Living the ‘dream’ at Fish Foundation tennis party

BY MARY SCHENKEL
Staff Writer

Tennis fans and supporters of the Tom Fish, Grace Levelston and Sally Fish. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES Juan Benitez, Randy Walker and Nick Hardt.
Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation
converged on the Boulevard Tennis of local children. Today, more than poised young woman of 13, Levelston converged for the pre-qualifying and
Club Sunday, April 28 for a Kickoff 2,500 school-aged children are served was a 5-year-old student at Beach- qualifying events, adding, “We had
Party to advance the MFCF Tennis through its funding of afterschool land Elementary School when she 200 people here for the pre-qualify-
Championship, a USTA Pro Circuit programs and scholarships focused first entered the MFCF Kids on Court ing finals. There are some ATP tour
event, which concluded this past on healthy lifestyle activities. program. events that don’t even get that many
Sunday. people coming out to watch matches.
Grace Levelston, one of the top ju- Hoping to encourage other young At this level, they play in cities all
“It’s a great week to watch some nior players in Florida, is a shining people to pick up a racket, she says, around the world. But no city em-
tennis. I’m sure these players are go- example of that success. Now a tall, “It’s great exercise and it really helps braces this level of tennis more than
ing to put on an amazing show for widen your social network. I have met Vero Beach. Everyone in the crowd
us, but the real purpose is to raise a lot of my friends all over the country here are fine connoisseurs of good
money to help kids,” said Tom Fish, through tennis.” tennis.”
Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation
board chairman. “It’s exciting; we’re The reception featured music by Additionally, each tournament
helping a lot of kids. It was a dream the band Riptide, delicious passed day showcased a different program
of Mardy’s to give back to the com- hors d’oeuvres and a generous buf- funded by MFCF, including the Chil-
munity. It started at our kitchen table fet, followed by a special exhibition dren’s Homeless Foundation’s Youth
one day and now that dream has be- by eight of the tournament players in Swim Team, Sherwood Farm’s Intro
come all this.” a mini-tournament of nine-point tie- to Equine, Youth Guidance, Treasure
breakers. Coast Elementary Garden Club, In-
Mardy Fish, a former Vero Beach dian River Golf Foundation’s SNAG
resident and top-10 player who cur- “We’re very happy to be here. This Golf, LOTA Sports Net Generation
rently serves as captain of the U.S. really has become the new epicenter Tennis Clinic, Boys & Girls Clubs,
Davis Cup team, founded the foun- of tennis in Vero Beach,” said Randy Junior Tennis League and Sebastian
dation in 2007 to improve the lives Walker, tournament co-director, Elementary School Futures Finals
speaking about improvements made Dance Team Open Cheer.
under the Boulevard’s new owners
and management. For more information, visit mardy-
fishchildrensfoundation.org. 
He said that even before the main
draw, players from around the world

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Heather MacIntyre, Jane Wilkey and Debbie Barnes. Jacquie Kelley and Charlene Friedman. Jacqui Mason, Pat Reynolds, Mike Hickey and Margaret Wall.

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Pony tale: Polo proceeds help New Horizons’ mission

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

Polo ponies galloped full tilt to score Cheryl Isola, Bonnie Mixon, Jodi Harvey and Sheri Altic. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE Jodi Harvey and Sabre Mochachino.
big for New Horizons of the Treasure
Coast during Vero Beach Polo’s recent for photos on a wooden practice pony.
season finale game. The chapeau procession included

As the featured nonprofit of the boaters and bowlers, Panama-style
week, New Horizons received pro- and sailor hats, each festively bejew-
ceeds from the gate to help ensure eled with rhinestones, feathers and
that Treasure Coast residents will other finery. Yvette Jones Pryor took
have access to care and counseling for home the prize for the best hat with
mental health and substance abuse her glorious spring-yellow sunhat, its
issues regardless of their ability to pay.

“All money raised in Indian River
County stays here,” said Lisa Rymer,
New Horizons chief development offi-
cer. “Fifty-seven percent of our clients
have no source of income or insur-
ance. The funds that we raise are used
to cover the costs of indigent care.”

After guests enthusiastically
stomped divots during the half-time
– replacing clumps of grass and dirt
dislodged by the ponies – two-legged
guests took a turn parading down the
field in a special hat parade and com-
petition, while the younger set posed

Qayani Pryor and Yvette Jones Pryor. Mary Ellen Replogle and Nancy May.

wide-brim jauntily turned up. cannot accommodate the need.
In this final match of the season The organization also manages

the Sunset Farm and Vero Beach Polo a detox unit, independent recovery
Clubs ended in a 5-5 tie. Polo season program, case management services,
will resume in January 2020. Florida Assertive Community Treat-
ment, psychosocial rehab, indepen-
The real winners are the more than dent living skills training, a crisis line,
14,000 Treasure Coast children and emergency screening services, a mo-
adults who receive services through bile crisis unit, and stabilization ser-
New Horizons annually. Roughly 20 vices for adults and children.
percent of clients live in Indian River
County, where they have access to Additionally, staff connects with
outpatient services at two locations. the homeless population through the
The Fort Pierce location serves as the PATH (Projects for Assistance in Tran-
nearest Baker Act receiving facility sition from Homelessness) programs,
when those in Indian River County building their trust before bringing
them into the fold to connect them
with whatever resources they are eli-
gible for through social workers and
case managers.

On May 20, New Horizons will
feature fashions from designers Mo-
chachino NY LA, Vivre Couture, Star-
wear USA and Annalise Bean in the
upcoming Jazz Art & Fashion fund-
raiser at the Grand Harbor Golf Club.

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‘Derby de Mayo’: A winning combo against cancer

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

Two worlds collided last Thurs- Fenia Hiaasen and Dr. Raul Storey. Dr. Patrick and Naomi Ottuso. Timothy and Claudia Ball. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE
day evening in the Crystal Ball-
room at Costa d’Este when Cinco de hybrid event, with many of the la- that it’s difficult and a very emo- cer,” said Storey.
Mayo and the Kentucky Derby were dies wearing las flores either in tional journey.” In Indian River County last year,
merged into a Derby de Mayo fun- their hair or atop their traditional
draiser to benefit the Leukemia & derby hats. Noting that one out of two men more than 200 residents requested
Lymphoma Society through its Man and one out of three women will be information from LLS and it pro-
& Woman of the Year campaign, Guests sipped on mint juleps and diagnosed with some type of cancer vided 40 cancer patients with nearly
which ends May 18. Margaritas while snacking on street in their lifetime, he added, “the only $80,000 in co-pay assistance.
tacos and visiting the cupcake can- way that we can find to fight this is
The event was hosted by LLS Man tina, perusing the silent-auction through cancer research. That’s LLS has invested nearly $1.3 bil-
& Woman of the Year nominee Dr. items and taking selfies in the pho- what the Leukemia & Lymphoma lion in groundbreaking research
Raul Storey, a hematology and on- to booth. Society is doing.” since it was founded in 1949. It is
cology specialist in Indian River dedicated to curing leukemia, lym-
County since 2012. The LLS Man Following a brief video about his It has been a personal journey for phoma, myeloma and other blood
& Woman of the Year is a philan- campaign, a ‘Call to the Post’ was Storey, whose father was diagnosed cancers, while ensuring patients
thropic competition created to sup- played and Storey addressed the with prostate cancer more than 20 have access to lifesaving treat-
port blood cancer research, with crowd to encourage them to join years ago. Thanks to treatments re- ments, provides hope, compassion,
candidates fundraising in honor of him in the race to cure cancer. sulting from cancer research, he is education and support.
two children who are blood cancer doing so well that the two were able
survivors. “Cancer is a cause that touches to run another Miami Marathon to- To donate in Dr. Storey’s name,
everybody,” said Storey. “We all gether just a few months ago. visit pages.mwoy.org/pb/pbc19/rsto-
The nomination criteria states know someone close to us that has reyroj. For more information about
that candidates for the honor “share gone through their own journey “We’re all together in trying to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society,
a compassion for others and are dy- of cancer, if not yourself. We know win this race to find a cure for can- visit lls.org. 
namic individuals who are connect-
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less in their efforts to raise funds
to find cures for blood cancers.”
Fifteen nominees from Melbourne
to Miami are competing, and at
the conclusion of the 10-week cam-
paign, the top fundraising man and
woman are awarded the regional
title. Top nationwide fundraisers
receive the national title.

The charismatic Storey invited
friends, patients and colleagues
who all embraced the theme of the

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Kendra Brown with Suzanne Leigh-Vilas and Marcelo Vilas. Dr. Adam Jones and Dr. Giuliana Diaz Jones. PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
Alisha and Steve Renfrew with Janean Barrows.

Todd and Marni Howder.

Sonia and Dr. Arley Peter.

Frank and Penny Tranchilla.
Todd and Caleigh Hansen.

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Pottery yarn: The story of Peggy Thomas’ life with clay

BY KERRY FIRTH icut. However, that university didn’t of-
Correspondent fer pottery classes, so it wasn’t until she
married a college professor who taught
Life experiences often shape the fu- at Marietta College in Ohio that she had
ture and such is the case with local her first pottery lessons at age 29.
potter Peggy Thomas, whose sense of
adventure and lack of fear has enabled “I was hooked on the raw composi-
her to pursue a number of careers, pre- tion and pliability of clay and the way I
ceding her current one as a teacher and could sculpt and mold it into whatever I
hand-thrown pottery artist. imagined,” Thomas recalls.

“I’ve lived in 11 different states and, Still, creating pottery was just a hob-
for a short time, on the Caribbean is- by at the time, and her life continued to
land of Dominica. And I’ve worked unfold with unusual twists and turns.
as a fisherman, clammer, shrimper, Her second husband was a potter who
seamstress, carpenter, housekeeper, she met while doing an apprenticeship
paralegal, chauffeur and middle school and, as the pair produced production
teacher,” says Thomas. pottery, she became adept at throwing
a lot of pots on the wheel.
“Literally all of these life lessons are
now parlayed into my clay creations, “We were two college-educated
with the hopes that the pot will ignite free spirits who followed our dreams
a favorite and incongruous memory without preparation,” Thomas says
in another. Nothing gives me as much with a laugh. “We lived in California
joy as seeing people look at my work and Texas and finally settled in North
and start laughing, because I have Carolina, where we traded our car for
triggered something special in their a boat and started a fishing business,
recollection.” of all things.”

Born and raised in Connecticut, The couple attempted fishing, then
Thomas graduated with an art history clamming and then shrimping off
degree from the University of Connect- Harkers Island in Carteret County, but
not being from the area they received

Peggy Thomas.

PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES

‘Honestly, it’s as easy for me to
mold and fire a pot as it is to
breathe. It’s my all-encompassing

focus and purpose in life.’

– Peggy Thomas

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happy filling my life with my family,
friends, my art and the nature around
me. Nowadays, I have the time, ideas
and imagination to create non-stop.
Honestly, it’s as easy for me to mold
and fire a pot as it is to breathe. It’s my
all-encompassing focus and purpose
in life.”

Thomas encourages others to ex-
plore their artistic talent by taking one
of her classes at the museum, promis-
ing “anyone can do it and there is no
grading. It’s just you, a mound of clay
and your imagination. I just help you
execute the innovation and originality
that lies within.” 

very little help from the locals. tive work is low-fired and colorful- or
“We really struggled in North Caro- pit-fired. But, she says, her favorite
method is utilizing a raku kiln, where
lina,” Thomas recalls. They were even the intriguing allure of fire and smoke
forced to learn how to tie fishing nets gives her work a blackened color with
back together after theirs were mys- a copper colored metallic sheen and a
teriously cut. “We were wildly unsuc- crackled texture.
cessful.”
“I enjoy putting on my protective
With money tight and the fishing gear and working with the fire and
prospects dismal, Thomas appren- smoke,” Thomas explains. “There’s
ticed herself to a carpenter to supple- something magical about using my
ment their income, before they finally tongs to remove a glowing pot from
decided to throw in the towel. The car- the propane kiln and transferring it to
penter gave them an old car and they a garbage can filled with newspaper.
drove south, settling in Fort Pierce’s It literally bursts into flames and then
Lakewood Park when the car broke I put the lid on the can to reduce the
down there. oxygen and it smokes and smolders.
The results are spectacular and it’s so
“I guess you could say we went where much fun to do.”
the wind blew us,” she says.
Today, Thomas teaches clay art at
Once again reinventing herself, she the Vero Beach Museum of Art, where
began making and selling smocked her artwork has been showcased, and
dresses and blouses to shops on the she is a resident artist at the Flametree
beach. And, when the lure of the Ca- Clay Art Gallery in downtown Vero
ribbean beckoned, they packed up Beach. She has displayed and sold her
their three little boys and moved to work at the Vero Beach Art Club’s Un-
Dominica. der the Oaks Art Show, and has opened
up her home studio to visitors through
“Of course, we didn’t realize that the club’s annual Art Trail event. Her
there was no way to make a living there, pieces have also been shown at the
so it wasn’t long before we came back to Brevard Museum of Art and the Back-
Vero Beach.” us Museum.

When that marriage dissolved, An avid kayaker and biker, Thomas
Thomas began working as an elemen- is often seen paddling on the river or
tary school substitute teacher at Osceo- cycling through the area’s lush streets
la Magnet School. and parks. In addition to life experi-
ences, she says much of her inspiration
“I finally found my calling,” she comes from her love of nature.
says. “I loved awakening the creativity
in young minds, and I went on to get “I am fascinated with the flora and
my teaching degree through IRSC and fauna of Florida,” says Thomas. “My
FAU. I got a permanent job teaching art work celebrates the gorgeous nature
at Osceola and then at the Freshman that surrounds me with its rich color
Learning Center. I didn’t do much of and texture. I enjoy creating beauti-
my own clay sculpting and firing dur- ful, whimsical stories that evoke hu-
ing my teaching years, because my mor and joy.”
energy was depleted creating projects
for my students. It was during my re- Having raised five children who
tirement that I truly dove into my work have all gone on to live successful lives,
and flourished.” Thomas is now single and remains pas-
sionate about her life and her art.
Thomas now spends her days ex-
perimenting – exploring different “I read that love inhabits the same
glazes, surfaces and techniques, and part of our brains as creativity,” she
utilizing several firing methods de- explains. “When I left my marriage
pending on the desired effect for the behind, I blossomed creatively. For
finished piece. me, my solidarity fuels my passion
and awakens my artistry. I’m very
For functional ware she fires in Cone
10 reduction, which reduces the oxygen
in the kiln. Some of the more decora-

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Coming Up: You’ll get a kick out of ‘Kinky Boots’ at Kravis

BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA twists and turns aplenty, and a de-
Staff Writer nouement that might catch you by
surprise. At some point in this hilar-
1 “These boots were made for ious play, “disbelief ceases to be sus-
a long run” paraphrases the pended,” Disch observes. Find out
for yourself this now through May
New York Times in its glowing re- 19, when “The Nerd” hits the boards
at A.C.T. in Stuart. Curtain: Fridays
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smash about friendship and the be-

lief that “you can change the world

if you change your mind” comes to 3 Aunt Maggie, the poor dear,
possibly poisoned her cat. And
the Kravis in West Palm this Thurs-

day, May 16. With music by pop star 1 At Kravis Center May 16. her husband. Find out for sure, or not,

Cyndi Lauper and music by Harvey when the Barn Theatre in Stuart pres-

Weinstein, “Kinky Boots” was in- ents the comedy “Just a Little Crazy,”

spired by true events, according to the world has seen before,” fabulous, on the moronic,” yet it “racks up more now through May 26. And, warns the
thigh-high, red and glittery. In the laughs, and louder, than any farce
the Kravis promo. It struts its stuff end, though, their best achievement this side of (award-winning British show promo, Aunt Maggie is only one
is their friendship. I loved this sole- playwright and director) Alan Ayck-
from a shoe factory in Northampton ful, feel-good musical, and I expect bourn.” The two-act play concerns part of the “circus of confusion” Nola
you will, as well. Curtain: 8 p.m. the dilemma of a young architect
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be “an inept, bumbling oaf with no
er struggling to save the family busi- social sense, little intelligence, less boyfriend. Seems Mom is grappling
tact and no desire to leave.” In ad-
ness. Lola is a “fabulous entertainer” dition to all the laughing, there are with repairs and redecoration of the

who has an exciting, crazy idea. house, and Dad declines to help, and

With “a little compassion and a lot 2 The A.C.T. Studio Theatre in escapes to work. Then there’s the
Stuart sends out a Nerd alert.
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India’s election

a journey down the ganges

BY ARCHANA CHAUDHARY are growing increasingly critical as sure on resources. journey.
Bloomberg they feel sidelined by Modi’s Hindu The transformation of the Ganges Downstream at Haridwar, a city
nationalist party. That sense of disil-
Every Hindu in India learns the story lusionment could deny him a majority from a spiritual journey to an eco- of more than 300,000, a cow roamed
of the goddess Ganga and the medici- or even contribute to an election upset nomic resource is arguably the story of the yard of the Matri Sadan ashram, a
nal qualities of her waters. And every in favor of Congress or a coalition of Modi’s new India. Hindu retreat. In the shade of two trees
dying Hindu is given a few drops from smaller, regional rivals. sat Brahmachari Atmabodhanand,
the Ganges River to free the soul from His critics say Modi’s focus on cos- a young seer fasting since October to
the cycle of life and death. Whoever wins India’s elections metic changes – building Himalayan protest against dams on the Ganges.
will have to confront the trade-offs highways and sprucing up riverbanks
Narendra Modi’s first act on taking required to develop the country and instead of tackling the deeper challeng- Dams on the Ganges generate 4,900
charge as prime minister in 2014 was to es facing the more than 400 mil- megawatts of power, enough to supply
worship India’s holiest – and arguably meet its potential. That includes lion people of the Ganges basin, New Delhi, while 97 cities and towns
its most polluted – watercourse. “Moth- addressing the needs of a pop- from jobs to child malnutri- use its water. But some 11 billion liters
er Ganga needs someone to take her out ulation forecast to overtake tion — reflects his politics. of industrial waste and effluent is dis-
of this dirt,” Modi declared as millions China’s as the world’s big- The dissonance between charged back into the river each day,
watched on television, “and she’s cho- gest within just five years, campaign promises and the equivalent of 4,400 Olympic-size
sen me for the job.” and already plac- swimming pools.
ing unprece- implementation
As Modi seeks a second term as In- dented pres- was a recurring Swami Shivanand Saraswati, Matri
dia’s prime minister in elections that theme on the Sadan’s founder, complained the gov-
began in April and stretch through ernment wasn’t serious about finding
mid-May, a journey along the riv- Narendra Modi. a solution. He and other sadhus, or
er’s course – flowing for 1,570 miles holy men, had great hopes for Modi in
through five of India’s most populous 2014, counting on his credentials as a
states – offers a chance to appraise staunch Hindu leader. “But Modi has
how voters judge his record. disappointed us.”

At one level, Modi’s popular- Kanpur is the first big industrial
ity seems largely intact, with little evi- town after the river descends into Ut-
dence of a groundswell of support for tar Pradesh, India’s most populous state
the opposition Congress Party led by and a key election battleground. Under
Rahul Gandhi. the British, the former garrison town,
then known as Cawnpore, made belts,
Yet the lower castes and Muslims boots, and saddles for the army. It’s
who together make up one-third of now the biggest leather supplier to In-
the country’s 1.3 billion population dia’s armed forces. At the Jajmau drain,
where waste empties into the river, the

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chemical stench from curing hides Naiyer Jamal is an owner of a tannery in Kanpur. The industry has been shut down in the area since December. Prayagraj, returned to its Hindu roots
hung thick in the air. in October by the state’s chief minister,
castes. Now so many people have lost Pradesh supported Modi for his devel- Yogi Adityanath, a leading light of Mo-
A couple of workers whitewashed their livelihoods.” opment agenda. Now, watching their di’s BJP.
the walls of the empty courtyard industry die, none of those interviewed
enclosing Naiyer Jamal’s factory, Kanpur’s tanneries have been in the in Kanpur, tannery owners or employ- Manish Dubey, 39, a senior BJP of-
where the 61-year-old sat in his office legal sights for more than three de- ees, planned to give him their vote. ficial, was keen to show off the roads
drinking tea with a half-dozen Mus- cades. India’s Supreme Court first or- that had been widened for the Kumbh,
lim men. The idle plant and endless dered they set up a sewage treatment The plains turned greener and the which ended in March. Colorful murals
rounds of chai have been their daily plant in 1985 after chromium and met- call of the cuckoo announced the ar- from mythological stories looked down
routine since December, when the als from the factories were found to be rival of eastern Uttar Pradesh, where from walls and overpasses. Many small
state government shut down all 256 of contaminating the Ganges. The tanner- tall bamboo, teak, and mango trees Hindu and Muslim shrines were de-
Kanpur’s tanneries. ies say poor sewage treatment and not lined the highways. The city of Alla- molished overnight to enable the city’s
their effluent is to blame. habad, scene of the Kumbh, was freshly avenues to be broadened, he said.
Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister, the painted and newly renamed: It is now
Hindu priest Yogi Adityanath, ordered In 2014, many Muslims in Uttar An engineer by profession, Dubey
them shut before the Ardh Kumbh fes- quit his job with Alstom SA to join the
tival, when millions bathe in the con- BJP and help secure Modi’s victory in
fluence of the Ganges and Yamuna 2014. He’s part of the team working on
rivers on days considered auspicious Modi’s reelection campaign.
according to the Hindu lunar calendar.
Modi’s appeal helped the BJP to
Kanpur’s leather industry is worth sweep 71 of the 78 seats it contested in
some $7 billion a year. Past govern- Uttar Pradesh. Dubey expects a repeat
ments shut Kanpur’s tanneries for three win based on Modi’s handling of at-
weeks at most. This year’s closure of tacks in February on Indians in Kash-
four months and counting is unprec- mir, the disputed territory also claimed
edented and has already cost millions by Pakistan. The arrangements at the
of dollars, said Jamal. Kumbh might also help.

They appealed against the closures Modi chose the next stop on the river,
all the way up to the Indian trade min- Varanasi, as his constituency in 2014,
istry in Delhi, to no avail. Now he fears winning with a huge majority. Known
the government wants them closed for millennia as Kashi to Hindus, it
for good. “We are easier to target be- is one of the most important Hindu
cause we are weak,” he said. “Only two shrines, associated with Shiva and the
communities touch leather in India, coming together of the universe’s mas-
we Muslims and the Dalits, or lower
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 33 A Hindu cremation ground in Varanasi. for the last 10 days now. But they say it
will make life easier for worshippers.”
culine and feminine forces. culprit, with “uncontrolled develop- on a heap of rubble trying to come to
“The city’s modernization before ment” also a concern. terms with the demise of the home she Loaded coal wagons crossed the
was married into 40 years before. She is rice-growing flatlands of Bihar along
the Kumbh may have angered a few lo- “People now say that the Ganga is no longer a Modi supporter. the Sone, one of the Ganges’s biggest
cals, but will translate into votes for the cleaner,” he said. “I say her condition tributaries. Bihar and Jharkhand are
prime minister’s party because it shows has further worsened.” In reality, “all “We never thought such a thing could known as India’s mineral-rich states,
they can take hard decisions,” he said. that’s needed is that we not treat Gan- happen, that the government goes out yet they’re among the poorest finan-
ga as a dustbin.” of its way to destroy such an ancient cially. Bihar has barely 1.5 percent of
Modi promised 200 billion rupees to neighborhood,” she said. “One day they India’s industries. Unemployment is
clean the Ganges, to be supplied from Progress in Varanasi, as in Prayagraj, spoke about it, the next they turned 11.6 percent, compared with India’s
state funds and donations from devout means clearing the way to temples. up with bulldozers. We’ve been living average of 7.1 percent; in Jharkhand,
Hindus worldwide. As of December, less Outside one of the houses scheduled for without sewage or water connections it’s 14 percent. Both are strongholds of
than 20 percent of the 2.4 billion rupees demolition, Nirmala Gupta, 60, stood the BJP or its affiliates.
received in donations had been spent,
according to Indian news site The Wire. As infrastructure demand grows,
developers are dredging more sand
In a recent report, India’s pollution from rivers like the Ganges and the
monitoring agency found the river is Sone to use for building. Locals are
relatively clean in only one of 39 loca- turning to illegal sand mining to try
tions it tested. and cash in, too.

Vishwambhar Nath Mishra, an engi- Lack of work is the reason, said
neer and professor at the city’s Banaras Rampyari Devi, 70, sitting in the court-
Hindu University, is also a Brahman yard of her mud and wood home.
and high priest at the Sankat Mochan “Farming doesn’t pay in India,” she
Hanuman temple, one of the most re- said. “My husband worked in Mum-
vered in Varanasi. The temple founda- bai and Delhi as a daily-wage worker
tion runs a laboratory that tests for fecal for years. I raised the kids by myself. I
coliform bacteria, science that Vish- want to ask Modi, ‘Should my sons and
wambhar Mishra, like his father before grandsons have to do the same?’ ”
him, uses to press for a cleaner Ganges.
To the south, on the Ganges delta,
At his sprawling home on the banks Kolkata was India’s capital during
of the Ganges, Mishra cited data the British Raj but saw its importance
showing that 85 percent to 90 percent fade as power shifted to Delhi. It’s
of the river’s problems are caused now known for its crumbling infra-
by raw sewage disposal. City sewers
along the river’s course are the chief

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structure serving a conurbation of Authority of India, and so key to gov- inhabit this part of the Ganges, say en- down the river, he said the authority is
some 14 million people. Kolkata is the ernment plans to turn the lower Gan- vironmentalists. doing more business under Modi. The
capital of West Bengal state, a target ges into a national waterway for cargo. government has ensured the river was
for the BJP as it seeks to expand its Shipping is cheaper than transport by Shipmaster Kanhai Debnath, 38, dredged, making it easier to navigate.
power eastward. rail or road. Yet building barrages and who has worked at the Waterways Au- The Ganges looks cleaner to him. “I
deepening river drafts threaten the thority for a decade, sees the develop- have no doubt that things have gotten
The city is the most important port alligators, turtles, and dolphins that ment as a chance to return jobs and better,” he said. 
for the state-owned Inland Waterways prestige to Kolkata. Steering his ship

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Too old for the White House? Take a look around

Those who have spent private time concerts. And how many rockers have “My Fair Lady” – 67 years after her nor dementia. In mythology, religion
with President Trump and former vice the energy of 75-year-old Mick Jagger Broadway debut. and history, we have seen early-career
president Joe Biden have often attested and Keith Richards. dragon slayers become dragons them-
that they have greater physical stamina Research has shown that older work- selves by late career.
than most people half their age, but Research by Northwestern Univer- ers have greater sales skills, interpersonal
that reality is clouded by cliches. sity economist Benjamin F. Jones dem- savvy and show only modest declines in At the same time, many students and
onstrates that most Nobel laureates in physical dexterity. Studies focused on clients burn out in their 30s while see-
Stand-up acts have been ageist for a science since 1985 created their prize- the field of engineering found that older ing septuagenarians champing at the bit
long time. When Ronald Reagan, who winning work in their later decades. managers were only somewhat less will- for fresh adventure. Such disruptive en-
served as president until he was 77, Nicolaus Copernicus offered his gen- ing to take risks and took longer to make trepreneurs as Sam Walton of Walmart,
mentioned consulting his senior ad- eral theory of the universe at age 70. decisions, but they were better able to Bill McGowan of MCI, Bernie Marcus of
visers in 1983, comedian Jay Leno ex- And Benjamin Franklin co-authored appreciate the value of new information. Home Depot, John Bogle of Vanguard
ploded, “Senior advisers? . . . This guy’s the Declaration of Independence at 70. and Ray Kroc of McDonald’s, as well as
73! The whole country’s only 200! What Forty years ago, an article on the Intel’s Andy Grove, Alibaba’s Jack Ma
has he got, a couple of guys from the At 80, the great pianist Claudio Ar- aging workforce for the Harvard Busi- and Apple’s Steve Jobs, achieved great
Bull Moose Party?” rau commented, “When I am playing, ness Review referenced corporate per- triumphs in their fifth and sixth decades.
I feel like a young man. My muscles formance studies that showed older
Similar sentiments have been echo- have acquired a wisdom of their own, workers possessed greater dedication The legendary Maurice R. “Hank”
ing again recently. Comedian Bill Ma- and I think they are working better and wisdom in decision-making, while Greenberg of C.V. Starr, who fought on
her cracked that Biden does have a vi- than ever.” For eight Lincoln Center younger workers were often physically the beaches of Normandy and built AIG
sion for America, but “he doesn’t have performances a week, 91-year-old stronger but with hastier judgment. into an insurance behemoth, turned 94
night vision.” Washington Post colum- Rosemary Harris earns rave reviews last week and still travels several times a
nist Richard Cohen wrote he wouldn’t playing Henry Higgins’s mother in Youth is no guarantee of brilliance, year to China, Europe and Latin Amer-
be surprised if Biden, age 76, “thought and age does not ensure wisdom – ica for business – while burning out his
Snapchat was a breakfast cereal.” tennis pro on Saturdays.

Perhaps it is Cohen, at 78, who is out Courageous journalist Morley Safer
of touch with the times. He should look kept producing “60 Minutes” break-
around Washington: Senate Majority throughs until he died at age 84. Elie
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is 77 Wiesel died at 87, never having retired
and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi from his campaign for social justice
(D-Calif.) is 79, while Charles E. Grass- and human rights.
ley (R-Iowa), president pro tempore
of the Senate, is 85. Justice Ruth Bader The gerontologist Bernice Neugarten
Ginsburg is 86 and Justice Stephen G. once said, “It is high time we reset the
Breyer is 80. clock of life, which tells us at what age
it is appropriate to do what and when.”
Yes, the Age of Aquarius is aging –
with Galt McDermott, the song’s writer, We can agree or disagree with the
having passed away last year at age 89. politics of Trump, Biden, McConnell,
Pelosi, Sanders, et al., but they should
But 50 years after Woodstock, most be judged on their ideas, not on “acting
of its performers are still very much
around and engaged, with Joan Baez their age.” 
and Arlo Guthrie packing theaters. Paul
McCartney continues to perform into A version of this column by Jef-
his mid-70s, filling arenas with 40-song frey Sonnenfeld first appeared in The
Washington Post. It does not necessari-
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of a nose, eye or ear? If left unchecked, squamous cell carci- infused drug called cemiplimab-rwlc (Libtayo®) as a treatment
noma of the skin can potentially lead to major disfigurement, or for patients with metastatic SCC of the skin and or for patients
nerve and muscle injury, and can spread (metastasize) to other with locally advanced cases who are not candidates for cura-
areas of the body and even lead to death. tive surgery or radiation. This is the first and only treatment
specifically approved for advanced squamous cell carcinoma
RECURRENT SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA (SCC) of the skin in the U.S.
Known as “checkpoint blockage immunotherapy,” this drug har-
Once you have one squamous cell carcinoma you are at in- nesses the power of the immune system to fight cancer by block-
creased risk to develop another, especially in the same area. Such ing a receptor called PD-1 (programmed death-1), which nor-
recurrences usually occur within the first two years after surgery. mally keeps the immune system in check. The drug allows T cells
Pay attention to any previously treated site and let your doctor – which actively participate in the body’s immune response – to
know immediately if you see any changes. Areas most prone for attack the tumor.
recurrence are the nose, ears and lips. Be sure to go for regu-
larly scheduled follow-up appointments. If cancer returns, your MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM CONSULTATION
doctor may recommend a different type of treatment.
Before starting treatment for recurrent or advanced squamous
ADVANCED SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA cell cancer, your doctor may recommend an evaluation by a
multidisciplinary team of specialists. The team, which will likely
About 50,000 cases a year, or about 1 out of every 20 cases, of include your dermatologist or Mohs surgeon, will discuss vari-
SCCs become locally advanced or spread to distant tissues and ous treatment options to be considered, including participation
organs. These SCCs can become life-threatening. in a clinical trial.
The term “advanced” can refer to SCCs that have recurred, resist- Squamous cell carcinoma and other skin cancers are almost
ed multiple treatments or spread extensively. “Locally advanced” always curable when detected and treated early. If you have
SCCs are primary tumors that are very large; those that have bur- advanced squamous cell carcinoma, stay in contact with your
rowed under the skin, into muscles or along nerves near the origi- medical team. Keep abreast of clinical trials. Results are con-
nal site; or tumors that have metastasized to nearby lymph nodes stantly being studied, evaluated and used to develop new
or other parts of the body, usually the ear, nose and lip. strategies. 
For SCCs that recur, become locally advanced or metastasize, Your comments and suggestions for future topics are always
your doctor may use a combination of treatments. welcome. Email us at [email protected].

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For those of a certain age, it is strange to think of “Fall and Rise” is tor Chris Young, on a temp job in
Sept. 11, 2001, as distant history. Yet an entire gen- an ambitious under- the North Tower, escape from an
eration has no living memory of that day’s events, taking, setting out elevator? Who would help Elaine
which reverberate as strongly as ever in our messy, to be an exhaustive, Duch, struck by a fireball on the
complicated present. Early in “Fall and Rise,” prismatic chronicle 88th floor of the North Tower and
Mitchell Zuckoff’s remarkable and groundbreaking of 9/11. Impressively, so badly burned that the zipper of
book about 9/11, he invokes the most obvious his- Zuckoff pulls it off. He her jacket fused into her scorched
torical parallel: the attack on Pearl Harbor 60 years deftly employs novel-
earlier, which also claimed thousands of lives and istic tools to create and skin? What would happen to the
hurtled America into war. “Hindsight furnishes maintain suspense (a firefighters of Ladder Company
us with perspective on the crisis,” Zuckoff writes, difficult feat when the 6 and their injured charge, Jose-
quoting historian Ian W. Toll, “but it also undercuts story’s outcome is uni- phine Harris, as the North Tower
our ability to empathize with the immediate con- versally known): fore- collapsed around them? Would
cerns of those who suffered through it.” Zuckoff, a shadowing, cliffhangers, Rear Adm. Dave Thomas find
former reporter for the Boston Globe, states that and an evocative homing
his intention is not to address the “why” of the at- in on details both heart- his best friend and colleague
tacks, by probing into the mind-set of jihadists, but breaking and macabre. A amid the smoldering wreckage
to offer a more intimate perspective of the tragedy 2-year-old girl, excited for of the Pentagon? What would
for those who lived through it and to create “some- her first trip to Disneyland Terry Shaffer, the chief of the
thing like memories” for everyone else. on United Airlines Flight Shanksville Volunteer Fire De-
175, tucks her stuffed rab- partment, encounter on the
Part of Zuckoff’s challenge is to distinguish his bit under the covers so field where the 44 passengers
book from a crowded and ever-growing field. The he’ll be safe until her return. Ziad Jarrah, the hi- of Flight 93 lost their lives? The
terrorist attacks of 9/11 are not only the deadli- jacker of United Airlines Flight 93, drafts a goodbye reader can barely fathom what Shaffer had to en-
est in U.S. history but also the most dissected and note to his fiancee (“I will wait for you until you dure: a scattered heap of seared limbs, teeth and
documented. You can read about the tragedy in come to me. There comes a time for everyone to bones; a swatch of torso and a foot with three toes;
every imaginable genre: graphic novels, airport make a move”). Shortly before that Tuesday morn- a Superman tattoo on a slice of shoulder. It would
blockbusters and literary novels (and even entire ing, a 38-year-old passenger on Flight 175 gives his be years, Zuckoff writes, before the fire chief could
books reviewing 9/11 fiction), comics, memoirs, wife specific instructions should he die: “You invite bring himself to describe his most disturbing find:
documentaries, collections of poetry and short all my friends and you drink Captain Morgan and the detached face with mangled features that,
stories, conspiracy theorist narratives, and fac- you live.” A service manager for American Airlines Shaffer surmised, belonged to the man who had
tual examinations of intelligence failures and the scans the business section of Flight 11 and experi- crashed the plane.
history of al-Qaeda. The most similar to Zuckoff’s ences “a queasy gut feeling” as he locks eyes with “Fall and Rise” evokes David McCullough’s “The
in tone and scope is Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn’s Mohamed Atta in Seat 8D. Then come the numer- Johnstown Flood” and, before that, the work of
“102 Minutes,” which focuses on the experiences ous calls from Airfones, progressing from frantic to Walter Lord, whose style was described by one
of those inside the twin towers, from the moment resigned: “Don’t worry, Dad,” consoles a passenger reviewer as “a kind of literary pointillism, the ar-
of first impact until their collapse. Zuckoff in- on Flight 175. “If it happens, it’ll be very fast.” rangement of contrasting bits of fact and emotion
cludes and expands upon this landscape, delving in such a fashion that a vividly real impression of
into events at three airports, on the four hijacked Following the four crashes, the narrative both an event is conveyed to the reader.”
flights, inside the Pentagon, at the Northeast Air broadens (witness President George W. Bush at “Fall and Rise” comes alive, reconfiguring and
Defense Sector in Rome, N.Y., and at the crash Booker Elementary School and Vice President preserving the memories of that day in a vital and
site of United Airlines Flight 93 in rural Pennsyl- Dick Cheney being whisked off to an underground unforgettable account. 
vania. He also smartly begins his narrative on the bunker) and becomes more personal. While the
evening of Sept. 10, capturing the cozy banality of general aftermath of 9/11 is standard knowledge, FALL AND RISE
everyday life that precedes the impending horror, the characters’ individual fates are not, and the
the final ticking hours before the world irrevocably reader follows each of their plights with heart- THE STORY OF 9/11
changed. stopping anticipation. How would aspiring ac-
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DO NOT BE DEAF TO THE BIDDING WEST NORTH EAST
10 7 6 4 3 K98 52
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64 A Q 10 5 KJ9
Paul Simon, in “The Sounds of Silence,” wrote the line: “People hearing without listening.” 9852 K43 Q 10 7

At a bridge table where bidding boxes are being used, that would have to be: “People SOUTH
seeing without listening.” A good bridge player, though, is never deaf to the auction: He AQJ
interprets all of the calls, whether by his partner or the opponents, and puts the information A94
to good use. In today’s deal, South was in three no-trump, and West led the heart eight. 8732
What should have happened after that? AJ6

South did not like to overcall one no-trump with that heart holding. He was worried that Dealer: East; Vulnerable: Both
partner might hold queen-doubleton, which would have provided a second stopper if
North were the declarer. But nothing would have more accurately described the nature and The Bidding:
strength of South’s hand.
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
Declarer started with seven top tricks. Since only 12 high-card points were missing, the club 1 NT Pass 3 NT 1 Hearts
finesse was bound to provide an eighth winner, but since the diamond finesse was doomed, All Pass LEAD:
from where would trick nine come? 8 Hearts

South ducked the first trick and took the second to learn the heart break. Then he cashed
his six black-suit tricks with the aid of the club finesse. East followed throughout in clubs
and cleverly discarded the diamond jack(!) on the third spade. He was hoping declarer
would believe that he had blanked the diamond king. However, South knew that 2-5-3-3
distribution was more likely than 2-5-2-4 and decided to let East get into the newspapers if
he’d had the courage to pitch a diamond from a doubleton.

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ACROSS DOWN
1 Number of goals/points (5) 2 Partnership (13)
4 Dish for a teacup (6) 3 Invasion (4)
10 Hedonistic (4-9) 5 Confederation (8)
11 Test (4) 6 Mint liqueur (5,2,6)
12 Variety of chilli (8) 7 Quota (6)
14 Tall building (5) 8 Pale (5)
15 Group of eight (5) 9 Perfect (5)
19 Variety of Italian bread (8) 13 Carafe (8)
20 Ale (4) 16 Nape (6)
22 Continual (13) 17 Begin (5)
23 Regalia (6) 18 Commerce (5)
24 Cut (5) 21 Block (4)

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ACROSS 120 Goofball 65 He played in size 22 The Washington Post
123 Land of the world’s basketball shoes
1 Mary Tyler Moore co-star MOVIE HYPE, TRANSLATED By Merl Reagle
8 Severe trial highest and lowest points 66 “Neither you” follower
14 Stealthy Japanese warrior 124 “Outrageous cult 67 Maja Clothed painter
19 “Dazzling special effects!” 73 Embellish
20 Shortcoming classic!” 74 Group of 8
21 Leaving word 129 Palmer, to pals 75 A-bomb physicist Enrico
22 “Ten years in the making!” 130 Undies fabric 76 Bent
25 Left the La-Z-Boy 131 “Introspective ... brooding ... 78 Fizz for a headache
26 Monstrous, old-style 80 Applauder’s shout
27 Winter runners? insightful ...” 81 Like an old bucket
28 Get ___ (ace the exam) 132 Drive a car
29 Actress Carter and 133 Pugilistic combination of song
134 Treats with an antiseptic 82 Olympic event, ___
cartoonist Barry
32 Artless one DOWN dancing
34 Frito-___ 1 Messengers 83 Scratch (out) a living
36 The No. 1 suffix 2 “It ___ matter” 84 Homeland
37 “The fun never stops!” 3 ___ as a beet 87 Ripening agent
46 Masada holdout 4 Trash pad? 91 Louis-Dreyfus comedy series
47 Flying-wedge members 5 IRS-form pencilings 92 Chassis-welder’s org.
48 Kahoolawe’s county 6 Erstwhile Harper’s Bazaar 93 Part of QED
49 Swit co-star 95 Citrus drinks
52 Concealed cover illustrator 99 Starting immediately
53 “Slice-of-life realism ...” 7 1960s runner Jim 100 World book
56 Poky arboreal primate 8 See 31 Down 101 Lyric work
58 Raise 9 Living (with) 103 Less friendly
62 Nostalgic time 10 Slight drop 104 Blue shade
63 Transgression 11 Israeli statesman Abba 105 Purchased by
64 “Massive in scope ... 12 In addition 106 Of bears
13 Not as much 107 Life forms
definitive ...” 14 The teen-slang language in 108 Deer sir?
68 Car front end protector 112 “Shut up!”
69 Pompous one A Clockwork Orange 113 Vied in a pool game
70 Geologic concept 15 Testimony preface 114 Flying prefix
71 Squinty-eyed Mr. of cartoons 16 Santa Maria’s “sister” 115 Beer amount
72 Old music note 17 Catch up with 117 Miss Gulch took him
74 Discount word 18 Celluloid canine 118 Zig or zag
77 Deceit metaphor 22 First name in whodunits 119 Falco of The Sopranos
79 “Builds to a shattering 23 Holey food 121 Critter on New Zealand
24 Members of a conger line
climax!” 30 Dug in stamps
85 Cartoon collectible 31 Ayatollah’s predecessor, 122 Studio effect
86 Actress Rooney 125 Jewel on
88 Princess’s headwear with 8 Down
89 Excellent, in Variety 33 Cow chow Guanabara Bay
90 “Sumptuous ... with an 35 November sweets 126 Stage routine
38 Mr. Yale 127 Ilsa, to Rick
international cast!” 39 Big name in travel guides 128 Queen Victoria’s
94 I.D. abbr. 40 With hum, an army vehicle
96 Bacteriologist Walter 41 Observe granddaughter
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Is it meddling to ask about your son’s wedding plans?

BY CAROLYN HAX just because a one-direction possibly-big-money flow
Washington Post to a 34-year-old arouses suspicions. Your son’s over-
reaction says there’s history. You also talked to the fi-
Dear Carolyn: My husband and ancee about the wedding after your son asked you to
drop it, which means you didn’t actually drop it, you
I have a 34-year-old son who has just moved it to someone else, and then changed your
language from English to cash. That is overstepping.
been in a relationship with a wom-
The best place for your energy, therefore, is not in
an for about seven years. About two pinning down a wedding date, but instead in figuring
out what role you play in this baggage. Do you step in
years ago, he unceremoniously be- too quickly and too far, not just here, but as a rule? Is
your son both dependent on and resentful of you? Is
gan referring to her as his “fiancee” this stalled wedding a microcosm of your son’s stalled
adulthood?
and she began wearing a ring, so we asked if there was
The answer could be no, but it’s still a question
a wedding date planned. He bit our heads off about the worth asking yourself as you take care to leave your
son’s business to him.
“pressure” he was under to set a date, and we dropped

the subject.

A few weeks after that, after a conversation with the

woman about her wedding plans, we sent them a four-

figure sum of money with a note indicating it should be

used to help with wedding expenses. That was the last

we heard of any wedding for the past two years.

We don’t expect our money back – he’s our son; money To: Meddling?: If she truly is lovely and like family,

flows in one direction and we have no misapprehen- then why does it actually matter to you whether they

sions about that – but we do feel misled and are won- get married or not? The whole point of getting mar-

dering what’s up. ried is to unite two families, no? So if you’ve already

Is it appropriate to ask for more definitive information welcomed her into yours, then sure, it would be fun

about whether he is going to marry this lovely woman to have an “official” celebration of that fact – and, of

we already consider family? Or would that be “pressure” talk about it seem awfully definitive to me. course, there are legal ramifications that are nothing
Why are you resisting this as a complete answer?
in a category that makes us a meddling nuisance? They’re not getting married. It is going to stay that to sneeze at, but those don’t really affect you in any way

– Meddling? way unless and until your son comes to you and an- – but how will it change anything in your relationship
nounces otherwise.
with the couple? If they just stayed “engaged” forever,
There is obviously baggage here, both in this seven-
Meddling?: Their not announcing an engage- year pairing and in his relationship with you – and not what’s the difference?
ment and their not marrying and his not talking
about it and his being rude about asking you not to – Anonymous

Anonymous: Excellent points, thank you. 

EYE STROKE:
IT’S REAL, IT’S FRIGHTENING –
AND IT’S REVERSIBLE

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HEALTH

Eye stroke: It’s real, it’s frightening – and it’s reversible

BY TOM LLOYD fered in the U.S. annually are eye
Staff Writer strokes. These potentially sight-
stealing events occur when a blood
One of the most under-reported clot restricts blood flow to the eye.
medical facts for seniors today is
that human eyes – as well as the As the University of Pennsylva-
brain – can and do suffer strokes. nia Medical School explains, “an
eye stroke, or anterior ischemic op-
Cleveland Clinic Indian River tic neuropathy, is a dangerous and
Hospital’s Dr. Akram Shhadeh says potentially debilitating condition
80,000 of the 795,000 strokes suf- that occurs from a lack of sufficient

Dr Akram Shhadeh. PHOTOS: DENISE RITCHIE

blood flow to the tissues located in act fast.
the front part of the optic nerve,” Six hours is pretty much the out-
usually caused by a blood clot, and
the faster that can be treated, the side limit between when a stroke
better the prognosis for recovering occurs and when it is no longer re-
at least some sight. versible.

The symptoms of eye stroke can In a single week in April, three
vary and people who suffer one different patients came into Vero
usually are given little warning. Beach’s New Vision Eye Center
Most people with eye stroke notice across the street from the hospital
a loss of vision in one eye upon wak- complaining of vision loss. Two of
ing in the morning but do not have the three quickly found themselves
any pain. Some people notice a dark on the other side of 37th Street in
area or shadow in their vision that the hands of the hospital’s stroke
affects the upper or lower half of team, while the third waited more
their visual field. Other symptoms than 48 hours before seeking treat-
can include loss of visual contrast ment.
and light sensitivity.
The two who sought immediate
But the most egregiously under- treatment regained much of their
reported aspect of eye strokes is sight. The one who waited hasn’t.
that they can be reversed … if you
While it’s understandable some
people might think their eye doctor

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HEALTH

is the one to see if they experience us know [the patient had recovered “we know exactly what caused their It could save your sight.
vision loss, Shhadeh says the better most of her eyesight] and I called symptoms and they’re now on the Dr. Akram Shhadeh is with the
move is to dial – or have someone him back and said, ‘You are a super- right treatment for their risk fac-
else dial – 911. star. I have not seen this happen be- tors.” Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hos-
fore. I’m very grateful.’” pital’s Arubah Neuroscience stroke
“Patients should come into the Shhadeh concludes by offering team. He has written a book called
emergency room … They should It’s time that makes the differ- some urgent advice about strokes “FAST Stroke Guide” which is now
call 911 and be triaged as a stroke ence. And the physicians and their in general: “I want to emphasize the available at Amazon.com. While
patient. When you are labeled with tools. ‘BE FAST’ acronym, where B stands its primary intended audience is
stroke diagnosis in the field that for balance, E stands for eye vi- healthcare providers, Shhadeh says
makes you come to us immediately According to the American Heart sion, F stands for facial weakness, A “it is written in a very simple and
without waiting in [the hospital] Association, “most patients who stands for arm or leg weakness, S for clear manner without compromising
triage area. What’s more important, suffer a stroke in the eye don’t get speech – slurred speech or inability scientific content.” Shhadeh’s offices
the whole stroke team is prepared a follow-up evaluation that could to produce or understand speech – are at 3450 11th Court in Vero Beach.
when they get this notification help prevent them from later having and T stands for time to call 911.” Dr. David O’Brien is with New Vision
ahead of time.” a traditional – and potentially dead- Eye Center at 1055 37th Place also in
ly – stroke in the brain,” but Shha- But even without the B, F, A or S, if Vero Beach. 
New Vision Ophthalmologist Dr. deh says that at Cleveland Clinic, you experience vision loss, call 911.
David O’Brien and New Vision’s
retinal specialist, Dr. Rob Reinauer,
found and attempted to dislodge a
clot in the first patient’s retinal ar-
tery but were unable to do so.

Knowing time was of the essence,
O’Brien called the Cleveland Clinic
emergency room and told them,
“We’re sending this woman over
now. Please expedite her.”

Then he notified her primary care
physician.

His timely actions didn’t go unno-
ticed by Shhadeh. “I want to thank
Dr. O’Brien,” Shhadeh says enthu-
siastically, “because he’s one of the
few ophthalmologists I know [who]
recognizes this as a treatable, re-
versible, disease. That’s part of the
message we want to get out there
to other eye doctors. This is a new
treatment we have and it works.”

That treatment includes the in-
jection of Tissue Plasminogen Ac-
tivators, or tPAs, a drug that stimu-
lates production of an enzyme that
breaks down blood clots both in the
eye and the brain.

And, if the thought of an injec-
tion into the eyeball causes you to
cringe, it needn’t. The injection is
actually done internally coming up
by catheter from the femoral artery,
through the arterial system and is
injected from behind the eye. The
patient doesn’t feel, see or even
know it’s being done.

Like ischemic or hemorrhagic
brain strokes, eye strokes provide
little to no warning. O’Brien says he
had “just seen [the first eye stroke
patient] about two weeks prior
to this event,” and there were no
signs of trouble. Then with an au-
dible sigh of relief he adds, “In my
career of 25 years, I have never had
anybody regain vision of a usable
amount, a functional amount, with
this problem. Until now.

“I want to praise Cleveland Clin-
ic Indian River Hospital. I want to
praise the emergency room staff
and obviously the interventional
neurology department, because
without quick action, retinal tis-
sue dies. Dr. Shhadeh called to let

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HEALTHY SENIOR

Chances of carotid artery disease increase with age

BY FRED CICETTI significantly blocked carotid arter- Some of the causes of carotid ar- becomes severe enough, you may
Columnist ies, but 10 percent of people in their tery disease are high blood pres- need surgery to open the blood flow
80s have carotid artery disease. sure, cholesterol in your blood, to your brain.
Q. My doctor put his stethoscope on smoking and diabetes.
my neck and muttered to himself, “no As you age, a sticky substance In carotid endarterectomy, a sur-
brooey.” I’m not the type to ask the doc- called plaque, which contains cho- It is possible to fight carotid ar- geon makes an incision in the neck
tor questions, but I’m still wondering lesterol, can accumulate on the tery disease. First, quit smoking. to open a carotid artery. The block-
what he meant by that. My spelling is inside walls of your arteries. The This is the probably the most sig- age is removed and the artery is
probably wrong. process is called atherosclerosis or nificant thing you can do to combat closed.
hardening of the arteries. this disease. In addition to quitting
Your doctor was checking your smoking, you should get regular ex- Carotid artery stenting is a pro-
carotid arteries on the sides of your ercise, eat a healthy diet and keep cedure in which a wire mesh tube
neck to see if the blood flow to your your weight down. called a stent is positioned and ex-
brain was blocked. If one of the ar- panded across the blockage in the
teries was blocked, it would make Obviously, if you have high blood a r ter y.
a “swoosh” that the medical pro- pressure, too much cholesterol in
fession calls a bruit. Your phonetic your blood or diabetes, you should In its early stages, carotid artery
spelling is excellent. Bruit is pro- be treating those. disease may have no symptoms.
nounced “BROO-ee” – like “phooey.” The initial indication could be a
The common diagnostic tests for stroke. However, you may experi-
Carotid arteries run from the carotid artery disease are: carotid ence warning symptoms of a stroke
aorta – the main trunk of the arte- duplex scan, an ultrasound study called transient ischemic attacks or
rial system – up to your brain. When that shows the location and size of TIAs, which usually last less than
these vessels become blocked, you the problem; arteriogram, which is an hour.
have carotid artery disease, which an X-ray; Magnetic Resonance An-
can cause a stroke. giography (MRA) and computerized TIA symptoms include: weakness,
tomography (CT Scan) of the brain numbness, or a tingling on one side
The chances of developing this for damage. of your body; inability to control a
disease increase with age. About 1 limb; loss of vision in one eye; and
percent of people in their 50s have The amount of blockage in a ca- inability to speak clearly
rotid artery determines the risk
of having a stroke. If the blockage If you experience TIA symptoms,
contact your physician immediately. 

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Why it’s time to truly reconsider white jeans

BY LISA ARMSTRONG myriad reasons for this, but let’s start still look modern. lettos or kitten heels. Avoid skinny white
The Telegraph with the
obvious one. White is a dirt A few caveats: higher waists are more jeans – go for a kick-flare with minimal
magnet. So is brown. And black. And stretch. Nothing white should ever fit
Oh how the fashion elite mocked Liz any other color. But white shows it more. flattering and leg-elongating. Block like a sausage skin, even on Liz. 
Hurley’s daily uniform of white skinnies Is this a bad thing?
Not if they’re denim, heels look more contemporary than sti-
and more white skinnies. cotton, viscose or any other fabric that
can be popped in the machine.
They’re not laughing now. Tonne
Goodman, the 100 percent non-tacky, 5. They don’t make you look fat. Obvi-
trend-resistant Vogue contributing edi- ously this notion runs counter to every-
tor, recently told Bethan Holt of this par- thing your fashion wisdom has told you.
ish that white jeans are one of her go-tos. But it’s true. Dodgy fabrics, inferior cuts,
Mine too, Tonne. these are the things that dehance (why
doesn’t this word exist?) a figure, not
Let me count the ways that white color. In fact, there’s an argument that
jeans are utterly indispensable: people will catch one cop of your white
jeans and assume you’re slender just be-
1. Like black, they’re a go-with-any- cause you’re wearing them. And don’t
thing basic. forget the artful distraction that can be
had with a carefully balanced top, eye-
2. Unlike black, they haven’t become catching accessories and a damn good
beyond-predictable and you probably jacket.
don’t own 50 pairs of them.
6. You can wear white jeans with
3. They make everything you put the most classic combinations and
them with pop, including one of your 50
black tops.

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How to get out of your Mom style rut

BY EMILY CRONIN For midwife and Instagrammer Mom? Mastering the Working Moth- – all the things that have become the
The Telegraph Clemmie Hooper, the idea of dress- er’s Wardrobe in 2019’ panel at Stella hallmarks of mom style.”
ing like a mom conjures clothes that Live this month, only Rachel Sullivan,
When did a striped top and jeans are ‘very practical, nothing fun, just Marks & Spencer’s head of content, She’s right. I know she’s right. But
become the unofficial mum uniform? a bit frumpy.’ Beauty entrepreneur immediately associates mom style while my rational side can appreci-
Ignore the kids, and any school play- and influencer Freddie Harrel envis- with anything positive. “I would nev- ate the ridiculousness of my disdain
ground at drop-off resembles a sea of ages ‘a shapeless shirt tucked into a er be offended if someone described for looking like something that, as
Breton stripes and variegated shades baggy midi skirt.’ Of the three wom- me as dressing like a mom,” she says. a mother of three, I objectively am, I
of denim, with a few Lycra-clad gym en participating in the ‘Dress Like a “I embrace jumpsuits, white sneakers also get it. None of us wants to con-
sharks gliding through all the navy firm a stereotype that makes it easier
and white. for others to pigeonhole us at first
glance. This is especially true in the
This morning I counted seven workplace, where I’d prefer any co-
women (and one man) in some per- worker who glances my way to see a
mutation of the look. Make that eight, confident, high-functioning expert
as my outfit du jour consists of – what in fabulous shoes – not someone they
else? – a short-sleeved striped shirt, can safely assume has a spare box of
kick-flare black jeans and an ini- raisins stowed at the bottom of her
tial necklace. The Paw Patrol stick- handbag.
er on my shoulder may have been
unplanned, but trust me, it totally But one of the many, many life-
makes the look. changing aspects of raising small chil-
dren is a lack of time. And with that
I didn’t wake up today intending to can come a creeping de-prioritization
dress like ‘Mom.’ No one does (poor of self that makes it easy to default to
‘Mom’). Because while the mom uni- the more negative assumptions about
form may evolve – from 1950s shirt- mum style. Caring about style = indul-
dresses and ’80s mom jeans onwards gent. Quickly pulling on clothes that
– the images that come to mind when cover your body before the next kid-
most of us think about ‘mom style’ re- schlepping episode = necessary.
main stubbornly negative.
Yet I’d venture that devoting time

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