09/02/2021 ISSUE 35

Shores takes utility dispute
to federal court. P4
McCord resigns

from Shores Council. P8
Thomas Lowther seeks new
term on County Commission. P9

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Covid has claimed
at least 81 here
since July surge

Wolf Laurel: For a half century, Vero’s mystic mountain escape BY MICHELLE GENZ
Staff Writer
BY STEVEN M. THOMAS “I was involved from the well Banker Paradise. “My father played a key role in
Staff Writer very beginning,” says Brown, father Ed Schlitt and my un- saving the resort after it fell As the state continues in-
broker associate at Premier cle Frank Schlitt were early on hard times in the 1980s. “I explicably to withhold weekly
High in the Appalachian rain Estate Properties. “I’d put the investors and we started go- started traveling up there as COVID death counts by coun-
forest, a nine-hour drive from kids in the car in the morning ing up there in the late 1960s a teenager in the 1970s and I ty, Indian River County’s health
Sexton Plaza, the mountain and drive straight through, when I was about 12, staying have spent much of the sum- department circulated weekly
resort of Wolf Laurel has been talking to the truckers on my in one of the original cabins.” mer up there this year.” reports to select health profes-
a favorite escape for many of CB radio. My handle was Sil- sionals – but not the media – re-
Vero’s leading real estate fami- ver Streaker, and the truckers “I was born and raised in “It is my joy and my medi- porting another 16 COVID-19
lies for more than 50 years. would let me ride in between Florida and the mountains tation,” says Premier Estate related deaths in the county
two of them so I wouldn’t amazed me,” says Gonzalez. Properties broker associate last week. More may have oc-
Mention Wolf Laurel to get arrested for speeding in “We would go up for 10 days O’Dare, who has been going curred, but have not yet been
Steve Schlitt, Linda Gonza- some little southern town!” or two weeks at a time. It was to Wolf Laurel for 20 years logged into state records.
lez, Buzz MacWilliam, Kay such a fun place for us!” and bought her third house
Brown or Cindy O’Dare and “Wolf Laurel is the first there last fall. The latest report also shows
the smiles reflect memories place I saw snow,” says “I have been going there an additional 13 deaths from
of cool summer getaways Schlitt, who with his sister for 50 years,” says MacWil- “I sit in my rocking chair July 24 to Aug. 21. When that
and winter ski vacations. Linda Gonzalez runs Cold- liam, broker at Alex Mac- on the porch with my iPad update is added to last week’s
William Real Estate, whose count, the total number of
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 people lost to COVID since the
surge began in late July is 81.

That number is expected to

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Island clubs require
that employees get
Covid vaccine shots

BY RAY MCNULTY
Staff Writer

Responding to the recent
spike in COVID-19 infections
locally and nationally, at least
four of the island’s prominent
clubs are requiring their em-
ployees be fully vaccinated by
Oct. 15.

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Wolf Laurel along with Vero investors he looped in
when he got in financial trouble, the
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 5,000-acre resort half an hour north of
Asheville can lay claim to the highest
and close deals while watching deer elevation golf course east of the Rock-
walk by,” she says. “It is the most relax- ies.
ing place I know.”
Its ski slopes got 88 inches of snow
Developed mostly by a colorful lo- last winter, and its central village of
cal rancher named Fondren Mitchell historic log cabins – moved from Vir-

Three generations of the MacWilliam family at Wolf Laurel.

Premier Estate Properties broker associate Cindy O'Dare on her front porch.

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ginia, Tennessee and other parts of nearby, along with all the resort ac- courts and a heated swimming pool other investors purchased the debt on
North Carolina – includes one ru- tivities.” all within five minutes of our house,” the property and began their own ef-
mored to have been built by American says MacWilliam. forts. By 1973, Mitchell had bought out
avatar Daniel Boone. “My son Alex came up with his girl- most of the other investors and was
friend to stay for a week in August,” Like many resort communities, Wolf running Bald Mountain Development
Two of the 24 astronauts who made says MacWilliam. “On day five, he Laurel has a complex and checkered Corporation.
the trip to the moon, including one said, ‘You know what, this is so relax- development history with lots of ups
of the 12 who walked on the surface, ing, and I am having such a good time, and downs. In the end, he did more than anyone
have owned homes, according to I’m going to stay for another week.’” else to create an awesome resort com-
Warren Johnson and James Klumpp, Vero came into the picture in 1969 munity, but there were struggles along
Ph.D., who just finished a book-length “We have the golf club and restaurant, after the first developer ran out of
history of Wolf Laurel, “A Treasure in a riding stable, tennis courts, pickleball money and Fondren Mitchell and six CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
the Appalachian Sky.” And the authors
say they have been told by multiple
sources that Elvis Presley tried to buy
the mountain in the early days of its
development.

As in Vero, the Wolf Laurel real es-
tate market has taken off since the
pandemic, with inventory disappear-
ing and prices rising as people flee big
cities and learn to work remotely in
places safer and more peaceful than
downtown New York City or Chicago.

“Historically, it would take sev-
eral years for a house to sell, which is
not unusual for a remote mountain
community,” says MacWilliam. Now,
houses that are priced right sell in a
day or two, according to Camille Yates,
an agent with MacWilliam’s brokerage
who lived on Holly Road in Central
Beach for many years and now lives
near Asheville.

The average price of a home sold in
the community over the past year was
$369,605, up from $282,979 in the pri-
or year, according to data provided to
Vero Beach 32963 by Yates, who says
she has 20 buyers waiting in line for
homes in Wolf Laurel and nearby re-
sort areas.

O’Dare’s partner Richard Boga, bro-
ker associate at Premier Estate Prop-
erties, bought his first home in Wolf
Laurel last October and has since fall-
en under the mountain’s spell.

“I was up there six times between
October and May and spent the week
between Christmas and New Years in
my A-frame with some friends,” Boga
said. “It started to snow on Christmas
Eve and there were 6 inches of fresh
powder in the morning!”

Boga recently bought a second
home on the mountain – larger, high-
er up, with two fireplaces

“We call that being ‘wolf bit’,” says
Johnson of the magnetic, almost mys-
tical hold the resort has taken on Boga,
who is far from alone in his mountain
addiction.

“It is all about the altitude,” Boga says
of his summer excursions to Wolf Lau-
rel, which starts at 3,500 feet above sea
level and goes up to 5,500 feet. “It will be
90 in Vero and feel like 100 when I leave,
80 degrees at the airport in Asheville
and 70 at the cabin,” he says.

“The Appalachian Trail is only a
short walk from my house, and I go
hiking most every day. There are lots
of waterfalls and swimming holes

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Wolf Laurel stake inWolf Laurel in 1986, but the new county to bolster club restaurant profits. Joe Earman, highlighting another
owners couldn’t make a go of the proj- “The others rewarded him for all his key connection between the resort
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 ect and the club went into bankruptcy. and Vero Beach.
hard work by making him Member No.
the way and he had to be rescued re- It was then that Buzz MacWilliam’s 1 in the club,” says MacWilliam. “My parents had two houses up
peatedly by Vero friends. father, who owned a home on the there and would spend four to five
mountain, stepped in to organize resi- “My dad served as general manag- months at Wolf Laurel in the sum-
“Fondren was a sport. He was a dents to take over the club and make it er of the club around that time, help- mer,” says Earman, who has good
gambler. He’d gamble on anything. He into an equity enterprise. ing get things back to normal,” says memories of taking his family to the
gambled on Wolf Laurel, and it [nearly] Indian River county commissioner mountain to visit his parents and play
broke him,” says Mark Tripson, a grand- He also managed to leverage some golf when his kids were young.
son ofWaldo Sexton who knew Mitchell political connections to get the first li-
for many years. quor license in what had been a dry Mitchell passed away in one of the
old log cabins in 1990 about the time
“He came here after the war and the members took over the club, leav-
he had a jelly factory, Old South Jelly, ing behind a worthy legacy.
which he sold to Winn Dixie. With that
money he bought his cattle ranch out Today the community is owned by
west of Fellsmere. He had 30,000 acres the HOA, successor to Bald Moun-
to begin with and sold off parts of it tain Development Corporation. The
when he needed money.” country club is owned by the mem-
bers and the ski resort, which had a
The Arab oil embargo hit just as Swiss owner/operator at one point, is
Mitchell was dumping lots of cash into now owned by a local businessman.
his resort project and then there were
several winters when it didn’t snow on Wolf Laurel is located within the
the mountain, killing business at the massive 135,000-square-mile Appa-
ski resort, according to Tripson. lachian temperate rainforest, which
helps account for its abundant flora,
“Fondren would get into financial fauna and winter snow.
trouble from time to time,” says Gon-
zalez. “When that happened Dad and For those who don’t fancy the nine-
others put more money in, buying a hour drive from Vero, there are flights
bunch of lots.” to Asheville from West Palm Beach
and Sanford. From Asheville, it is a
“He sold lots to just about everybody
in town,” says Tripson. “It was like little half-hour drive to Wolf Laurel. 
Vero up there in the summertime.”
SHORES TAKES UTILITY DISPUTE
In failing health, Mitchell sold his WITH VERO TO FEDERAL COURT

BY LISA ZAHNER 1989 agreement by which Indian River
County and Vero split up the county
Staff Writer into areas they had the capacity and
willingness to serve at the time.
Indian River Shores has asked a fed-
eral court to strike down the City of In the 1980s, the county’s fledgling
Vero Beach’s claim to a permanent wa- water-sewer utility had no way to
ter-sewer service territory as null and serve the South barrier island or the
void, to settle a dispute over whether town of Indian River Shores.
or not the Shores must remain on Ve-
ro’s utility system after its water-sewer But since those areas were adjacent
franchise agreement with Vero expires to Vero’s city limits and Vero could
in 2027. serve them, they both went into Vero’s
territory. Vero says the old lines are
Hand in hand with that petition, the immovable, despite the expansion of
town’s attorneys have also asked the
court to prevent the City of Vero Beach NEWS ANALYSIS
from taking actions that violate fed-
eral antitrust law. the county’s utility system and growth
in capacity over the past 30 years. In-
Attorney Bruce May of the Talla- dian River Shores sees this as a mo-
hassee-based Holland and Knight law nopolistic power grab, and argues the
firm last week filed a lawsuit on behalf town should be able to leave when no
of the town in the Fort Pierce division longer under contract to stay.
of Florida’s Southern District federal
court, triggering a conflict resolution The Shores is seeking “declaratory
process that gives the Shores and Vero and injunctive relief,” meaning that the
a chance to settle their differences and town wants the court to declare the 1989
avoid a protracted trial. Market Allocation Agreement between
Vero and Indian River County unlawful
Florida Statute mandates this out- because it perpetuates a monopoly.
of-court process to save taxpayer
funds whenever two government bod- “City defendants should be perma-
ies or agencies have a legal dispute. nently enjoined from monopolistic
and anticompetitive acts against the
Vero’s claim to a permanent water-
sewer service territory hinges on a

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town in violation of antitrust law,” May town and its residents from obtain- opment. Vero has invested for 30-plus can plan capacity for the next 30 years.
wrote on the Shores’ behalf. ing essential water services from the years in infrastructure built to serve Shores officials say Vero has not dealt
county or otherwise.” the Shores, but Shores customers honestly with them in the past – the
The Shores petitioned the court to helped pay for all that infrastructure topic of a separate breach of contract
bar Vero from asserting claims of a The town was not a party to the 1989 via their utility bills. lawsuit pending in state circuit court.
permanent service territory and from agreement, but Vero says the town The Shores wants the option to break
“engaging in any other noncompeti- benefited from having water and sew- Vero needs certainty as to the size
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Utility dispute where, and at what cost the Shores’
citizens will obtain its drinking water,
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 irrigation water, and sewer services in
perpetuity. This was not something
from Vero when the town’s contract is the Council could accept,” Foley said.
up in 2027 to form a better union with “We look forward to an impartial judi-
another provider. No one can move cial determination as to the legality of
forward without an answer on the ser- the COVB’s anticompetitive actions.”
vice territory.
Indian River County has been pro-
Vero is being represented by the viding information to the Shores about
Gray Robinson law firm’s attorneys water-sewer capacity and the county’s
Thomas Cloud and Gary Carman plus ability to serve the Shores, from a tech-
City Attorney John Turner, who said nical and financial perspective. Vero
on Monday, “We will vigorously de- took offense at the county participat-
fend and will prevail on all issues.” ing in the Shores’ study of its options,
landing county officials in a separate
The town has been studying its op- set of dispute resolution meetings
tions for water-sewer service once its with Vero in June and July.
franchise agreement with Vero expires
in 2027, since the Shores has long said Those talks fell apart after City Man-
nothing bars it from contracting for ager Monte Falls stated publicly that
services with Indian River County or the city will increase utility rates in
even a private utility provider after a 2022 under a new “one rate” plan to
15-year franchise agreement with Vero pay for a proposed $70 million sewer
signed in 2012 expires. The town must plant and other system improvements.
give Vero notice of its intentions by
October 2023. The next step is a joint meeting of
the Vero Beach City Council and the
Shores Mayor Brian Foley said on Indian River Board of County Com-
Monday, “The Town of Indian River missioners on Sept. 8 at the Indian
Shores was forced to file this action River Charter High School as a neu-
to protect the rights of its citizens and tral venue. Indian River Shores is not
taxpayers to have a voice in who pro- a party to that dispute, though Vero’s
vides critical water and sewer services claims extend to Indian River Shores
to the Town. as part of the permanent service ter-
ritory as well as to the residents of the
“Without this lawsuit, the Shores unincorporated South barrier island
would in effect be conceding that the from the southern part of Castaway
City of Vero Beach has the sole au-
thority to say from who, how, when, Cove to the St. Lucie County line. 

COVID-19 deaths As testing kept declining last week,
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 positivity rates continued to rise av-
eraging just under 27 percent for the
rise. In the past few weeks, the backlog week ending Sunday.
in reporting has added around 20 per-
cent more deaths each week. New COVID-19 infections in our
county set yet another record, inch-
How many of those deaths involved ing up 10 percent to an average of 185
long-term care facilities is unknown; the people per day, totaling nearly 1,300
state no longer publishes data by county, new infections in a single week, even
nor does it publish cases by facility. as numbers statewide appeared to be
leveling out and some counties were
But there is a record of long-term seeing slight declines in new cases.
care deaths, again, withheld from the
media but shared with certain clinics, New hospital admissions here were
hospitals, doctors and pharmacists. down by 30 percent this past week to
83, from 103 in mid-August, and the
Of the 13 deaths logged last week, number of intensive care beds being
five were in long-term care. In all, used by COVID-19 patients was down
from the start of the pandemic, 143 15 percent.
people in Indian River County’s nurs-
ing homes and assisted living facilities One reason may be the increased
have died in the pandemic. access to Regeneron, the monoclonal
antibody treatment intended to keep
The bulk of cases though are show- those at highest risk for severe COVID
ing up in younger patients; though disease from progressing to hospital-
seniors make up a third of the popula- ization.
tion in the county, they make up only
20 percent of cases now, with most The treatment, limited to those
seniors fully vaccinated. Older teens high-risk people who are still early in
and young adults continue to lag in the disease progression, is now avail-
vaccination rates, and they comprise able at Cleveland Clinic Indian Riv-
the largest sectors of infected people. er Hospital as well as Whole Family
Those aged 15 to 24 and 25 to 34 ac- Health Center and infectious disease
count for 29 percent of all cases since specialists around town. The drug, ad-
the pandemic began. ministered by IV infusion or a series

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COVID-19 deaths already protected against severe dis- Island Club and Orchid Island Golf & “Even contractors who are doing
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 ease, so they rarely qualify for Regen- Beach Club confirmed their policies, work here must be vaccinated.”
eron’s drug. designed to mitigate the spread of
of injections in the abdomen, is de- coronavirus cases. Employees who choose to not get
signed to block the virus that causes As for the rate of fully vaccinated vaccinated – and who don’t provide le-
COVID-19. people in Indian River County, it inched In addition, well-placed sources at gitimate medical or religious reasons
upward again last week, but only to 54.6 Windsor and the Sea Oaks Beach & for being exempt from the policy – will
Its dual antibodies bind in different Tennis Club said the same protocols lose their jobs.
ways to the virus’ spike protein, mak- percent of the total population.  were being followed there.
ing it hard for the virus to work its way Kroh said masks are optional for those
into human cells. RENGEN-COV, as the Club vaccination policies “By Oct. 15, all of our staff must who are vaccinated, but he quickly add-
drug is officially called, won emergency CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 be completely vaccinated – and the ed: “The staff is all wearing masks.”
use authorization last November. same applies to members and guests,”
Most also are mandating masks be John’s Island General Manager Brian Orchid Island General Manager Rob
Experts agree though that the best worn when indoors on the premises. Kroh said this week. “Everybody who Tench said his club has adopted the
way to avoid hospitalization is vac- comes into the club has to be vacci- same vaccination and masking policies.
cination. And vaccinated people are The general managers at the John’s nated, except for people making drop-
offs and deliveries. The general managers at Windsor,
Riomar and Quail Valley did not re-
spond to messages left at their offices
or on their mobile phones.

The Moorings Yacht & Country Club’s
marketing director, Ursula Gunter, said
the club currently does not have a vac-
cine mandate for employees.

Both Kroh and Tench said only a
small percentage of their clubs’ work-
force has pushed back against the vacci-
nation requirement, but feedback from
an overwhelming majority of members
and employees has been positive.

“We’ve had some staffers who didn’t
want to get vaccinated,” Kroh said.
“Some of them have decided to get vac-
cinated. Some have said they’ll work un-
til Oct. 15, then find other employment.

“Those who say they won’t get vac-
cinated are small in numbers.”

Tench said only about 5 percent of
Orchid Island employees have refused
to comply with the vaccination re-
quirement.

“The members are certainly happy
with the vaccination policy, because
it makes them feel safer when they
come to the club,” Tench said. “Most of
the employees are happy about it, too,
because they know the people they’re
working with have been vaccinated.

“There’s some pain for some staff-

ers, but overall it’s a positive thing.” 

McCord resigns,
creating a vacancy
on Shores Council

BY LISA ZAHNER
Staff Writer

Indian River Shores Town Council-
man John McCord has resigned, ef-
fective Friday, and the town expects to
appoint a replacement on Sept. 23.

McCord, a retired utility industry ex-
ecutive who worked behind the scenes
on the Vero Electric sale to Florida Pow-
er & Light, was elected in November
2020, so whoever serves out his four-
year term will be in office until 2024.

“I’m very sad,” McCord said Mon-

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Lowther enters GOP primary race for county commission

BY RAY MCNULTY “In the funeral business, you’re al- Council. He counts among his ac- that he planned to run for O’Bryan’s
Staff Writer ways helping people, and that’s what complishments the consolidation of commission seat, Lowther made his
you do on the County Commission,” the county’s firefighters and para- decision.
Funeral home owner Thomas he added. “And as a fourth-generation medics, and the pay raises given to
Lowther, who was elected to the county resident, I want to be one of sheriff’s deputies in 2005. “I’m more at ease now that I’ve
County Commission in 2002 but lost the voices in the decisions we make to filed,” Lowther said, “and I’m looking
a re-election bid to Peter O’Bryan keep this community special.” Lowther said he had been asked re- forward to a good campaign.”
four years later, filed the necessary peatedly by people in the community
paperwork last week to run for a sec- During his one term on the com- whether he would run, “but I wanted Lowther said he believes O’Bryan
ond term in 2022. mission, Lowther served on nu- to take some time to think about it.” “has done a tremendous job” over the
merous committees, as well as the past 16 years, and he’s encouraged
Lowther, 61, became the second Treasure Coast Regional Planning A week after Loar announced on by the “cohesiveness of the commis-
candidate to officially enter the Dis- the front page of Vero Beach 32963
trict 4 race, joining longtime school sion.” 
district employee Joann Binford. For-
mer Sheriff Deryl Loar announced he
plans to run, but, as the week began,
he hadn’t yet filed with the county’s
Supervisor of Elections Office.

Funeral home owner Thomas Lowther.

O’Bryan, a four-term commission-
er, announced in 2017 that he would
not seek a fifth.

“I’m running for the office, not
against Deryl or anyone else,” said
Lowther, who was the County Com-
mission’s chairman in 2005. “Deryl is a
good friend of mine, but he hasn’t filed
yet.”

Lowther, a fourth-generation coun-
ty resident and 1978 graduate of Vero
Beach High School, has been in the
funeral business for 43 years and has
owned and managed the Lowther Fu-
neral Home and Crematory in Vero
Beach since 1997.

He unsuccessfully challenged in-
cumbent Tax Collector Carole Jean
Jordan in 2012. But in 2014, he was
elected to the county’s Mosquito Con-
trol District Board and was re-elected
in 2018.

“My term on the Mosquito Control
Board is up the same time as Peter’s
term on the County Commission,
so the timing is right,” Lowther said.
“We’ve got the Mosquito Control Dis-
trict in a good place, and I feel I still
have a lot to offer to this community,
which has been so good to me.

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Shores town council a learning curve. Former vice mayor Bob
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 Auwaerter served the town from 2016 to
2020 but then did not seek re-election
day, saying he had a great time while after losing the Republican primary for
serving on council, but that he and his the Board of County Commissioners
wife are leaving John’s Island to move to former Vero mayor Laura Moss. Au-
to California where their children and waerter had not filled out an application
grandchildren live. on Monday but said he would apply.

“I love this community, have been a “I just want to serve the commu-
part of it for 23 years and care about it nity again, particularly with regard to
deeply,” McCord said, but added that it’s the reuse water dispute with the City
time to have his family all in one place. of Vero Beach. I feel I’m the one who
is the most knowledgeable about it
While on council, McCord served as and can bring that knowledge to bear
the town’s representative on the Vero on the town council,” said Auwaerter,
Beach Utilities Commission, and his who has been serving in a consulting
extensive knowledge of utilities and capacity on utility matters since his
the regulatory arena leaves a void, as term ended last November.
the town is mired in two active legal
disputes with Vero which could drag Other interested town council hope-
on for the bulk of what would have fuls must be residents of the town for
been McCord’s council term. the last 12 months who are eligible
to vote in Indian River County. The
One person has already emerged who deadline to complete an application is
feels he could fill McCord’s seat without
Sept. 13. 

BEACHLAND ELEMENTARY BECOMES FIRST
SCHOOL CLOSED HERE BY COVID SURGE

BY GEORGE ANDREASSI Board reinstated the mandatory face-
mask policy because they believe it
Staff Writer slows the spread of the virus.

The closing of Beachland Elementary “It just reiterates how important it
School until Sept. 7 amid a COVID-19 is to wear a mask,” said Stacy Hazell,
outbreak shows why students and edu- whose daughter is a third-grader. “Last
cators must be required to wear a face- year we sent our children to school
mask on campus, several parents said. wearing masks and we didn’t have any
issues at all.”
The school district shuttered Beach-
land Elementary School on Friday The voluntary facemask policy put
(Aug. 27) after 14 educators – more in place when schools reopened re-
than a quarter of the staff – tested posi- sulted in relatively few students and
tive for the virus since the new school teachers opting to wear masks at
year started Aug. 10. Beachland Elementary, Hazell said.

By Monday (Aug. 30), a total of 15 Kristi Challenor, who has twin third-
staff members and 26 students at graders at Beachland Elementary, said
Beachland Elementary had tested she would like to see the school district
positive for COVID-19, school district reinstitute the full program of health
records show. and safety initiatives put in place for the
2020-2021 school year, including requir-
The 41 COVID-19 cases so far this ing all to wear facemasks on campus.
year amounted to more than twice the
total at Beachland Elementary for the “Masks are a great first step, but we
entire 2020-2021 school year, when all know that’s not all they need to do,”
Florida Department of Health reported Challenor said. “They obviously need
16 cases. to implement the safety measures
they had last year. We’re a little bit be-
The virus was spreading so rapidly hind the eight ball here.
at Beachland Elementary, some of the
district officials assigned to substitute “We opened the school year with
for ill teachers and administrators masks and social distancing and these
have also gotten sick, said School Su- protocols,” Challenor said.“The district
perintendent David Moore. focused on all these different measures
so people knew exactly what to do and
Moore’s Aug. 26 decision to shut down the kids knew what to do in school too.
the Vero Beach barrier island’s only pub- Now I think the district needs to find a
lic school came two days after the School way to communicate all those things
Board voted 3-2 on Aug. 24 to again re- again, so we can try to limit any more
quire students and staff members to spread, especially at Beachland.”
wear a facemask on campus when so-
cial distancing is not possible. Daniel Bowman, whose son is in third
grade at Beachland, said the schools
Some Beachland Elementary School
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Beachland Elementary As of Monday (Aug. 30), the school
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 district reported a total of 333 students
have tested positive for COVID-19 since
could make the mask mandate more the new school year started on Aug. 10
palatable by offering students new dis- and 629 students have been quaran-
posable masks between classes. tined.

“I think new masks every now and A total of 136 staff members have
then throughout the day wouldn’t hurt,” tested positive for the virus, including
Bowman said. “I think they just need to 22 at Vero Beach High School, 10 at
keep following the rules and provide Storm Grove Middle School, and nine
new and fresh masks more often.” each at Treasure Coast and Citrus ele-
mentary schools, district records show.
However, the mandatory facemask
policy remained a hot-button issue in “Where we are as a district is not a
Indian River County as several parents good place,” Moore said Friday.
urged the School Board on Aug. 24 to
continue the optional facemask policy District officials are also consider-
put in place for the new school year. ing closing Treasure Coast Elementary
School, where 32 students have tested
John Corapi, an anti-mask activist positive for COVID-19, Moore said.
who frequently speaks at School Board
meetings, claimed mask mandates in A fourth-grade teacher at Treasure
schools across the country have trig- Coast Elementary School, Tabitha
gered an increase in mental illness and Blair, died Aug. 19, reportedly from
suicide attempts. COVID-19 contracted outside of work.
The school held a fundraiser for her
“The masks don’t work and they keep family Aug. 26 with students wearing
kids isolated,” Corapi said. “They don’t clothes with tie-died and flamingo-
protect them from COVID, they don’t themed clothing in her honor.
protect them from the Delta variant.
A kindergarten teacher at Fellsmere
“We don’t need kids to die from sui- Elementary School, Sarah Zevallos
cide because they’re not dying from Gonzalez, died August 26 from COV-
COVID,” Corapi said. “If you’re vot- ID-19, a week after testing positive for
ing for masks, you’re voting for COVID the virus, Moore said.
stress disorder, you’re voting for kids at-
tempting suicide in the future.” “Students who had a teacher last
Friday are going to have a hard time
Despite the anti-mask protestations, understanding why they have to have
COVID-19 continued to spread across In- a new teacher,” Moore said Friday
dian River County and its public schools. (Aug. 27). “It’s been a real rough week

for us.” 

COUNTY IN DEAL TO SIGN OVER
STAKE IN SOUTH BEACH PARK

BY LISA ZAHNER leasing the site to the tower operator
Staff Writer was going to the city.

Vero Beach and Indian River County City Manager Monte Falls and City
have struck a deal to renew a lease on a Attorney John Turner said that to make
communications tower site on Old Di- the deal happen, the county agreed to
xie Highway for 99 years in exchange for give Vero a parcel adjacent to Charles
$500,000 and the county’s portion of the Park on the mainland, plus the vacant
island’s South Beach Park. oceanfront property that makes up the
northern two fifths of South Beach Park.
But the transaction must be ap-
proved by city voters on this Novem- That property will give Vero space to
ber’s ballot. The 4-1 City Council vote expand beach facilities or parking.
to move forward was made in a spe-
cial call meeting on Monday, and the “We asked for it, they didn’t hesitate
ballot language summarizing the deal to put that into the deal,” Falls said, add-
needs to go to Supervisor of Elections ing that the city will grant the county an
Leslie Swan by 5 p.m. Friday. easement on the south end of the park
so beach replenishment projects can be
The tower on Old Dixie serves both the completed.
city and county emergency services as
well as cell phone providers. Commonly “I’m happy with the deal. I think it’s
known as the Old City Nursery, the site is a good deal for all of us,” Mayor Rob-
protected by the city charter, so the vot- bie Brackett said.
ers must approve any sale or lease.
The final draft of the lease agree-
Vero officials had concerns about ment was not available at the time of
the proposed lease and the fact that the vote. County Attorney Dylan Falls
only 30 percent of the proceeds from said the county agreed to pay the $3,500
fee to place the referendum on the bal-

lot for the November election. 

’BOARD-CERTIFIED FUN AT
‘PADDLE DASH’ LAGOON BENEFIT

Skylar Chapman
and Elliese Shaughnessy.

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’Board-certified fun at ‘Paddle Dash’ lagoon benefit

Tonya and Zac Coletti.

PHOTOS: KAILA JONES

BY MARY SCHENKEL eXp Realty and Alex MacWilliam Real stored all the plantings protecting At the same time, despite the
Estate – with three competitors each. the dunes at Conn Beach Boardwalk, growth of their board and all the
Staff Writer “from where the restaurant is all the good they have done for the com-
“We were happy with the turnout. way down to the end. That was 100 munity, they had to close their thrift
Brightly colored people-powered I think we had about 20 individu- percent our grant money and volun- store and are struggling financially.
kayaks and paddleboards dotted the als the last time we did it, so it was a teers,” said Packer. “We worked with
Indian River Lagoon recently, as par- good jump. I think every year we get a the city and put the plan together and “We lost the funding from the state
ticipants competed in the third an- little better at it. There’s four different then we ordered everything, and our level because the budget got pulled
nual Paddle Dash, presented by Dale races: advanced, intermediate and volunteers put it in. We tried to do a for COVID-related things rather than
Sorensen Real Estate and hosted by beginner individual races, and then sign, but it never got placed.” environmental things. The funding
Paddles by the Sea to benefit Keep In- at the end a relay race sprint course for special projects, like Keep Florida
dian River Beautiful. that’s going to be a corporate one,” Another project involved removing Beautiful at a statewide level, was just
said Woodruff. “It’s a perfect day. The exotics and planting a native Florida eaten up by all of the extra changes
“I think it’s definitely a better turn- little bit of breeze we have is really garden at the Captain Forster’s Ham- that they had to make. They didn’t re-
out than before. I think people are helpful.” mock off Jungle Trail, which connects ally give us much explanation other
looking for things that they can do estuary habitat from the Indian River than that,” said Packer.
COVID-safe and this on the water is Woodruff’s sweet golden retriever Lagoon to the ocean.
great,” said Dasie Packer, KIRB exec- Mildred kept a watchful eye on him, “So now we’re 100 percent depen-
utive director. “This is our third year; all the while accepting pats from “It was all very overgrown with dent on the community for support.
we had to cancel last year because of viewers milling about the dock. weeds and dead plants, and we re- It makes things more challenging
COVID. We are hoping to show the did all of that. We partnered with the but we’re doing the best we can,”
community what we do to protect the “She loves boat rides, paddleboard- Parks Department on that plan but said Packer. She added that Wood-
lagoon.” ing, whatever she can get into, as long that was 100 percent funding from ruff, who serves as treasurer on the
as she’s around people,” said Wood- Keep Indian River Beautiful and vol- KIRB board, and his staff donated
“Last year was a Mulligan,” said ruff. He said Paddles by the Sea be- unteers.” their time, so that 100 percent of pro-
Paddles by the Sea owner Chris gan renting the slip from Vero Tackle ceeds would benefit KIRB. “He’s been
Woodruff with a laugh, noting that and Marina alongside Riverside Café Because of COVID they have been amazing.”
their first event took place in 2018. in 2014, and now runs both. taking their programs into neighbor-
hoods to remind people that the en- Next up is the Sept. 18 Internation-
“What better way to raise aware- Packer noted that while many peo- vironment starts at their own back al Coastal Cleanup. And, she said,
ness for the Indian River Lagoon than ple are aware of the nonprofit orga- doors. They assist people with disabil- while they have had good registra-
to get out on it to experience it,” said nization’s litter cleanups, they were ities and low-income veterans, work- tion response, they are still looking
Woodruff, pleased that Paddles by less aware of its restoration projects, ing with groups such as Kiwanis, by for sponsors.
the Sea provided KIRB an opportu- plantings and Lagoon Friendly Lawn fixing up the outsides of their homes.
nity to highlight its importance. Nutrient Pollution Reduction pro- For more information, visit keep
grams. “It helps the whole community. indianriverbeautiful.org or paddles-
The event drew roughly 35 individ- When you raise one person up you bythesea.com. 
ual participants plus three corporate After hurricanes Matthew and raise up everybody,” said Packer.
teams – Dale Sorensen Real Estate, Irma paid unwanted visits, KIRB re-

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Cassie Hiltwine and Jose Antonio.
Chris Woodruff.

Dan Hardee with his duck, Indy.

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Chef’s surprise: Orchid Island brings lunch to hospital team

BY STEPHANIE LaBAFF
Staff Writer

Last Thursday morning, Orchid Is- Dr. Greg Rosencrance, James Harper, Executive Chef Chris Sozio, Melanie Nevins and Rob Tench. PHOTOS: KAILA JONES
land Golf & Beach Club Executive Chef
Chris Sozio and his culinary team
made a special delivery of lovingly pre-
pared meals, which were being given to
the staff at the Cleveland Clinic Indian
River Hospital Laboratory Department.

The lab employees would be enjoy-
ing a gourmet salad of chicken and
summer vegetables tossed with a white
balsamic vinaigrette. And to sweeten
the deal, Sozio snuck in some of their
famous chocolate chip cookies.

“We live in the community. Our
families and our members are all part
of this community, and we appreciate
everything they do here at the hospital
and the long hours they put in,” said
Sozio, as he and Rob Tench, Orchid Is-
land general manager, dropped off the
meals.

The unexpected lunch was made
possible by Orchid Island members
who wanted to show their apprecia-
tion for the tireless efforts of the hos-

Executive Chef Chris Sozio and “We’re all in the same
and Sous Chef D’Arcy Parker. storm,” said Rosencrance, CEO
of CCIRH. “The support from
pital’s lab staff during the pandemic. Orchid Island and the commu-
“The team here at the hospital has nity for our caregivers means
so much. They have been deal-
been under an incredible amount of ing with this pandemic for
stress. They do such a great job for over 18 months and this is the
our community. This is just a small fourth surge.”
token of gratitude from the Orchid
Island members,” added Tench. “Our Although lesser known, the
members are so happy to be able to medical professionals in the
help in a small way. We want to thank lab department play a critical
the doctors, the nurses and all the role at the hospital, one that
support staff that take care of the has become particularly bur-
health of this whole community. We densome with the pandemic
are fortunate to have Dr. Greg Rosen- and the testing of COVID sam-
crance leading the team.” ples.

“It’s really important for
people to understand what we
do in the lab. Without us they
can’t treat the patients,” said
Melanie Nevins, laboratory di-
rector. “To know that the com-
munity wants to recognize us in this
way is very uplifting. It’s boosted the
morale of our team.”
Laboratory manager James Harper
shared that when they made the an-
nouncement during the team huddle
that Orchid Island would be bringing
them a special lunch, the staff actually
cheered.
“It’s a breath of fresh air. It’s wonder-
ful when things like this happen,” said
Harper. “There’s a lot of COVID fatigue
going on with the group and they’ve re-
ally been stretched thin.” 

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‘Women’s Suffrage’: Historical Society presents riveting film

BY MARY SCHENKEL Sean Sexton. county commissioners in the state.” “It’s a privilege to represent wom-
“Women in rural communities en, who now vote probably 3 percent
Staff Writer PHOTOS: BRENDA AHEARN more than men do,” said Carol Jean
and small communities really are Jordan, Indian River County’s tax
On Aug. 18, exactly 101 years to PHOTOS CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 the backbone of those communi- collector. “We’ve never had a wom-
the day after the 19th Amendment ties,” said Fran Adams. “I look back an governor in the state of Florida;
to the United States Constitution to disenfranchise minority women, at those women in the early suf- what a loss for us.”
was ratified, giving women the right and men for that matter, until pas- frage movement and I’m in awe at
to vote, members of the Indian Riv- sage of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. how far they traveled to get together Jonnie Mae Perry, executive di-
er County Historical Society wel- 6, 1965. to begin this journey for the right to rector of the Gifford Community
comed visitors to the Courthouse vote. So always fight for it, fight for and Cultural Resources Center, not-
Executive Center to introduce its And while many states and terri- what’s right and be grateful for all of ed that despite being awarded the
latest film, “Women’s Suffrage.” tories recognized women’s suffrage those who fought ahead of you; and right to vote, Blacks, particularly in
rights before or shortly after 1920, never forget.” the south, were kept from casting
Ruth Stanbridge, County Histo- the State of Florida was among the their ballots through other means.
rian and IRCHS president, noted last six to do so, delaying it until First-time voters Charlotte Feagin
that COVID had interrupted their May 1969. and Kylie Oakes, who were seniors “The struggle and the fight con-
previous plan to premiere the video at Saint Edward’s School at the tinued in the Black community,
during the amendment’s centen- Despite that, at the local level, on time of the taping, commented that along with Civil Rights,” said Perry.
nial year. June 19, 1915, Zena Dreier of Fells- even 100 years later, they feel that “I don’t think the young people to-
mere became the first woman to it is their duty and responsibility day realize the struggle, the blood,
Prior to the film, Stanbridge in- cast a ballot south of the Mason- to voice their opinions and take a the lives that were shed in order to
troduced a photographic tribute to Dixon Line; doing so five years ear- stance, just as Dreier and others like have opportunities to vote, particu-
the late Alma Lee Loy, a trailblazer lier than ratification. her had done. larly in the Black community. This
in her own right and an “enthusi- is a challenge and a call to action.
astic supporter of women’s rights,” Stanbridge commented on the in- “Voting opened up a whole trend Vote.”
noting that in 1964 Loy was ap- fluential women of the local wom- of empowerment for women, and
pointed by the governor to serve as en’s clubs in Fellsmere, Roseland nowadays you see that more women For more information or to view
one of the original commissioners and Sebastian as well as the Vero are holding office and are more en- films in the video library, visit irc
on the Florida Commission on the Beach Woman’s Club, which was gaged,” said Leslie Swan, Indian Riv- historical.org. 
Status of Women. The moving trib- founded in 1915. As women were not er County’s supervisor of elections.
ute featured photos taken through allowed to have their own bank ac-
the decades that highlighted just a counts, Stanbridge said they raised
few of Loy’s innumerable accom- money for their building, which still
plishments and contributions to the exists, by selling cabbage. “So you
community. can see that women found a way to
do things even back then.”
Sean Sexton, Indian River County
Poet Laureate, read an affectionate In Fellsmere, she said Zena Drei-
and touching poem titled, “Dear er, a farmer’s wife, inserted one line
Aunt Lee,” which he explained was into the city’s 1915 incorporation
addressed as if from Loy’s niece, papers that gave women the vote.
Robyn Guy, and adding of Loy,
“She’s all of our ‘Dear Aunt Lee.” “They didn’t read it and they
didn’t realize when the governor
“It is hard to imagine the life signed it that it gave women the
that women lived 100 years ago, right to vote,” said County Commis-
and even earlier than that, without sioner Susan Adams with a chuckle.
the rights that we have today,” said “That’s my favorite part.”
Stanbridge in the Women’s Suffrage
video, in which local women spoke She noted that her mother, former
about the significance of acquiring County Commissioner Fran Adams,
the right to vote. was the fourth and she is the eighth
female county commissioner, add-
Although Abigail Adams urged ing, “I’m proud to say that my mom
her husband in March 1776 to “re- and I are the only mother/daughter
member the ladies,” as the Conti-
nental Congress was drafting rules
for the fledgling democracy, they
did not.

At the national level, the hard-
fought movement by women’s rights
advocates officially began in 1848
at a convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
There, a group of women drafted a
“Declaration of Sentiments” to peti-
tion for women’s legal and political
rights, including the right to vote.

After decades of debate in Con-
gress, the 19th Amendment was
ratified on Aug. 18, 1920. However,
discriminatory hurdles continued

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PHOTOS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 Al Smith and Susan Williams.
Julie Watson and County Commissioner Susan Adams.

Carolyn Bayless, Suzanne Jones, Martha Kucinsky and Ruth Stanbridge.

Kelly Thompson and Jonnie Mae Perry. Maureen Lobenstein with her sons Riley and Robert.

Shala Edwards, Linda Barker and Yonbrilla King.



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SUCRAVNIVTEHPEAANPDPEAMLIACCPHOIAPUNLTARRAITILY?
BY LIZZIE JOHNSON | WASHINGTON POST
The beautiful days are the worst at Katahdin, Maine. But the pandemic
the Roller Coaster. Megan Godersky walks her dog, Dillon, along the Roller Coaster. has transformed the world’s longest
hiking-only footpath from a bucolic
When the skies are blue and the refuge to a linear version of Costco on
weather is cool, day hikers descend on a Saturday.
this rolling 13.5-mile section of the Ap-
palachian Trail, which cuts from Ashby “The popularity of the Appalachian
Gap to Snickers Gap in Virginia. By 9 Trail has grown, but with the coronavi-
a.m., the gravel lots are crammed with rus, it just exploded,” said David Weiss,
cars. And by noon, the stragglers – anx- chair of the board of supervisors in
ious to get on the trail – park on the Clarke County, Va., home of the Roller
highway shoulder, or illegally on resi- Coaster. He described what’s happen-
dential streets. ing along his county’s stretch of the
trail as a “pretty severe crisis situation.”
Sometimes the day-trippers carry
loud stereos in their backpacks, or dis- The onslaught of pandemic hikers
card paper coffee cups, dog poop bags has overwhelmed other places, too.
and other trash on the trail. When they On Reddit threads – “How bad are
run out of food and water or get lost, crowds on Franconia Ridge?” in New
the paramedics are summoned. Hampshire – and on TripAdvisor, Yelp
and outdoor apps like Guthook Guides
Even before the worst public health and AllTrails, day-trippers trade horror
crisis in a century, more than 3 million stories about hours-long waits to park
people a year hiked parts of the 2,200- and how to avoid the hordes.
mile Appalachian Trail, which rambles
from Springer Mountain, Ga., to Mount Sandi Marra, the president and CEO

Hikers along the hilly stretch
of the Appalachian Trail known
as the Roller Coaster take in
the view at Bears Den Over-
look in Virginia this month.

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said the increased usage is most ob-
vious on the trail itself: abandoned states and offers hundreds of access
banana peels and aluminum cans, points, making crowd control chal-
four-foot-wide trails that have sud- lenging.
denly doubled in size, the overflowing
parking lots. Yellowstone, Zion and other big na-
tional parks have experimented with
And then, Marra said with a sigh, timed entry tickets, reservation and
there’s Max Patch. shuttle systems, and closed entrances
to handle the crush of visitors.
“It actually looked like a field at a
music festival,” Marra said of the popu- In June, the National Park Service
lar Appalachian Trail campsite, located reported that more than 31 million
in North Carolina’s Pisgah National people had visited its 423 sites that
Forest. “It was insane. People were up month – so many that it warranted a
there with their dogs and tents and Senate Energy and Natural Resources
coolers and pavilion tents. That’s why it subcommittee hearing on congestion
got shut down.” and overcrowding.

It will be two years before the dam- At the July hearing, photos were
age is repaired and campers can again blown up and displayed on stands
pitch tents there. of cars wedged into lots and lines at
Arches and Yosemite national parks.
All of this has created a headache for
the army of volunteers who keep the Subcommittee Chairman Angus
Appalachian Trail as pristine as pos- King (I-Maine) said he didn’t have any
sible. Devotees of the gospel of “leave immediate solutions other than to con-
no trace,” they’re quick to say they’re sider pointing visitors to less-crowded
glad the newbies are embracing the places.
outdoors. “The trail is for everyone,”
they intone. “We can accidentally love our parks
to death,” said King, who invoked the
But their sincerity is being tested. throngs at Acadia National Park in
Unlike other national parks with a lim- his home state of Maine. “Watching
ited number of entry and exit points, the sun rise from the top of Cadillac
the Appalachian Trail runs through 14 Mountain is a wonderful experience.
Staring at the taillights of the car in

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Max Patch in North Carolina's
Pisgah National Forest was
overrun with visitors last fall
before being shut down.

A pair of tennis shoes
hang from a wire in
the parking lot of
the Roller Coaster.

A bag containing
feces sits on a

branch along the
Roller Coaster.

Cars wait at Zion Hikers take a break
National Park on along the Roller
a busy morning. Coaster.

front of you as you’re trying to get up A man in a white T-shirt leaned over, “So many people,” Balaban said, ly making its way into guidebooks and
the mountain and find a parking place? scooping a pile of dog poop into a bag, stretching one pink-hiking-pants-clad enticing more hikers to come out and
Not so much.” which he then left on the side of the leg. “You can really see the wear and tear see what the hype was about.
trail. on the trail.”
The Roller Coaster is not as re- “Covid seems to have woken every-
nowned as Cadillac Mountain, but the In the parking lot, Karen Balaban The Roller Coaster is made up of one up to the outdoors,” said Chris
path has still experienced its share of loaded her backpack with snacks. The nearly 3,800 feet of ups-and-downs Brunton, the crew leader who helped
overcrowding. On a recent weekend, 68-year-old said she hasn’t been out near the border of Clarke and Loudoun construct the Roller Coaster. “We get
the trailhead at Snickers Gap reeked hiking as much as she used to. She counties. It wasn’t opened until 1989 hundreds of hikers here on the week-
of sunscreen and insect repellent. A generally knows which trails everyone and got its unusual name from the reg- end. It’s really – let me say this first, I
cluster of hikers blasted “Pumped Up goes to and tries to stay away. But she istry used by the Appalachian Trail’s am really happy to see new people
Kicks” by Foster the People from a ste- was in the area for her niece’s wedding famed thru-hikers, who spend months coming on the trail, especially kids –
reo. Families with small children – ba- and wanted to introduce her sister and walking the entire trail. but I do wish they would learn to leave
bies hanging from carriers, pudgy legs a friend to the Roller Coaster. Balaban no trace. In 30 years, I’ve never had to
kicking – navigated the steep incline slammed her trunk – full of coolers “Today was a roller-coaster ride,” pick up so much trash.”
as orange butterflies flitted overhead. and hiking gear – closed. thru-hikers continuously remarked of
the stretch. The name stuck, eventual- The area ridge runner – tasked with

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tending to the section of trail between can’t travel more than 50 feet without Highway 7, Sumption said, but not on adjusted the sunglasses perched on
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park seeing a ‘no parking’ sign.” secondary roads. Those are still a prob- her head and drank from a blue water
and Shenandoah National Park – lik- lem. bottle.
ens the Roller Coaster to the “Wild Yet people have continued to park
West.” – this time, beneath the signs instruct- On a recent morning, though, hik- “My sister picked out this place,”
ing them not to do so. At first, the only ers seemed blissfully unaware of the said Anju, who lives in Fairfax County.
For the past three years, Witt Wise- way to enforce those signs, Sumption dilemma their presence posed. “She just Googled things to do and it
bram has made $13 an hour picking up said, was to tow vehicles in violation popped up.”
after other hikers. He sleeps in a cam- – but that could cost more than $500 A mile up the trail, Anju Singh, 42,
ouflage tent and walks the entire trail and cause a great inconvenience to ev- settled on a rocky outcropping with her “I love to hike,” Anita added. “But
weekly, tallying people and picking up eryone, including the towing compa- sister, Anita Singh, 46, who was visiting there are no mountains in Florida, so
used toilet paper “blossoms,” cigarette nies who sometimes refused to drive from Florida. The horizon was hazy, beach walking is what I’m used to. I
butts, disposable masks, dirty diapers up the pass. Instead, Clarke County the valley below dotted with green love how much hiking is here. It was a
and, once, two pounds of uncooked enacted a parking violation ordinance trees and bald lawns, the gray highway great pick.”
shrimp left in a fire pit. for the area of the Roller Coaster. The looping through tilled fields.
cost of a ticket is $30. As they turned to leave, returning
Increasingly, he has also encoun- A woman in a black backpack took downhill to the trailhead, another car
tered more and more soiled pants. He That seemed to solve the issue on a photo with two toddlers. A family of turned off the highway and into the
considers it a great mystery. How do four shared a small bag of grapes. Anju parking lot. 
these people make it off the trail with-
out pants?

Wisebram, 37, theorizes they prob-
ably carry extra shorts in their back-
pack. His preferred method for collect-
ing this manner of trash is spearing the
cloth with “chopsticks,” or two twigs,
and dropping it into a Ziploc bag.

“My job is really making sure hikers
are okay on the trail,” Wisebram said.
“But I also say I’m making sure the
trail is okay from the hikers.”

Ironically, eight months before the
pandemic began, Clarke County had
worked with the National Park Ser-
vice to print thousands of brochures
featuring six local day hikes, including
the Roller Coaster. The agencies had
hoped to lure more people outside.
Now, faced with too many hikers, they
have too few solutions.

“It’s been a big shift, definitely,” said
Alison Teetor, Clarke County’s natu-
ral resource planner. “We’ve had a lot
of phone calls and discussions about
there being too many people, and
what are we going to do about it? But
there’s not a lot you can do.”

Though they’ve discussed building
another parking lot, space is limited. It
is, after all, a mountain. Besides, Tee-
tor explained, “we don’t want to build
a parking lot for 100 cars, because
then you’ll get that many people for
that spot.”

Instead, they’ve focused on regulat-
ing parking, which she said has posed
the biggest issue.

“Don’t park illegally,” she warned.
“If there’s no parking, go somewhere
else. You can’t just park where there
isn’t any parking.”

Travis Sumption, chief deputy at
the Clarke County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment, said people have even left their
vehicles near Highway 7 and walked
with their children across all four
lanes to reach the trailhead – despite
the 55 mph speed limit. To combat
this, the state Department of Trans-
portation staked “no parking” signs
on the roadside.

“The AT used to be beautiful until
we littered it with 'no parking’ signs,”
Sumption said, sounding pained. “You

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VERO

BY RAY McNULTY the mettle to stand up for their convictions and not For those who don’t know: Moore was on the
be bullied into making bad decisions. job for only 44 school days before the COVID pan-
As difficult as it has been to educate the county’s demic prompted the district brass to close schools,
public school children throughout a pandemic that “A school board is supposed to be nonpartisan and requiring him to adjust on the fly and devise a plan
refuses to go away, the struggles we’ve endured these put the children’s best interests first,” Moore said, for virtual learning.
past 18 months could’ve been far worse for our stu- “and having a group of individuals willing to do so
dents and teachers. when loud voices fill the room is truly rewarding.” Even with that distraction, Moore continued to
move the district forward, assembling a capable cabi-
This nightmare could’ve happened under the School The mask mandate, however, might not be as un- net and addressing the need for improvements in
District’s previous regime – with an obviously over- popular as people think. According to Moore, an academic achievement and tackling an embarrassing
matched superintendent flailing and failing to provide overwhelming majority of the emails that flooded desegregation order that was handed down in 1967
the leadership needed by a rudderless School Board. the district’s administrative offices in the wake of the but had been mostly ignored for five decades.
mask vote endorsed the board’s action.
I shudder to think how that bunch would’ve mis- It’s a shame, really, that he also has been forced to
handled such a daunting public-health emergency. “For every 100 emails I’ve received,” Moore said, deal with the anti-maskers.
“I’d say 90 are supportive.”
It’s our good fortune, however, to have the right peo- “The stress and drama levels at our meetings have
ple in place to make the tough decisions necessary to Barefoot and Schiff said they’re seeing similar num- been so high,” Schiff said, “and they’ve been non-stop.”
steer our school district through the COVID storm. bers or better – which should surprise no one. Yet the
local anti-mask mob continues to oppose the district’s While Moore acknowledges he occasionally be-
Not only are we blessed to have David Moore as our mandate, which went into effect Monday. comes frustrated, he said he remains committed to
superintendent – his undeniable competence, poise his mission here and has no plans to walk away from
under pressure and ability to adapt in the face of ad- The anti-maskers have accused the School Board a job he described as the “right fit for me.”
versity have been on public display since COVID’s ar- of violating the law, even though a judge ruled that it
rival here in March 2020 – but School Board Chairman was DeSantis who exceeded his authority. “You can’t be in these positions and have thin
Brian Barefoot has brought to his post the stature, pro- skin,” Moore said, adding that he stands by his
fessionalism and management style we sorely needed. During the latter half of the 2020-21 school year, masking recommendation.
they would repeatedly show up at School Board
In addition, Barefoot has the benefit of working meetings, taking up countless hours of public-com- Confronted with alarming COVID numbers lo-
with two board members who possess years of expe- ment time verbally attacking the district’s leadership cally, Moore did what any responsible superinten-
rience in education and, more importantly, the wis- for imposing a mask mandate, spewing mostly non- dent should do – present a plan to slow the virus’
dom and courage to put aside partisan politics and sense from debunked or questionable sources. spread in schools – and three of the five board mem-
focus on our children’s best interest. bers put aside politics, and did what was best for our
So don’t be surprised to see at least a couple of the children.
That slim majority, in fact, produced the board’s group’s more visible leaders try to wrest control of the
approval last week of Moore’s recommendation that school district by running against board incumbents “I get frustrated, too,” said Barefoot, 78, a former
students, from Pre-K through eighth grade, be re- and, if successful, running off Moore. Indian River Shores mayor. “This job can be a pain,
quired to wear masks in school when social-distanc- having people call you a liar and threatening you.
ing wasn’t possible, unless parents provide doctors’ That would be a disaster for our district, which, on But one of the reasons I ran for the school board was
notes exempting their children for medical reasons. Moore’s watch, is finally moving in the right direction. because I saw a lack of leadership.”

It was a bold move, coming days before a Tallahas- “He has done a really good job under challenging cir- Most of us saw a clown show.
see judge torpedoed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wrongheaded cumstances – and not just with the pandemic,” Barefoot Barefoot’s board, however, continues to include a
executive order barring mask mandates. said of Moore. “Look at what he’s accomplished with the majority of members who have shown a willingness to
teachers’ union, getting that three-year contract. make the tough calls necessary to allow Moore to lead
The 3-2 vote also was taken in a chamber filled the district through a seemingly endless pandemic.
with members of our community’s vocal anti-mask “The tone and cooperation within the district have So ignore the partisan critics.
minority, providing further proof that Barefoot and changed dramatically since his arrival,” he contin- We’ve got our best people on the job. 
board members Mara Schiff and Peggy Jones have ued. “He’s not perfect, but he’s got all the qualities
you want in a leader, and he’s learning.”

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Anyone who mentions reading a book about WASPs litical and cultural influence, and a desire for com- despair punished himself by putting his hand into a
is likely to be asked, “The insects or the people?” Mi- pleteness, which Beran describes as “a developing of fire; poet George Cabot Lodge, who suffered a mental
chael Knox Beran’s new history focuses on the storied all sides of one’s nature to satisfy some longing in the breakdown in Paris; novelist Louisa May Alcott, who
aristocrats who dominated American culture from soul.” evidently contemplated suicide; and historian Henry
roughly the mid-19th through the mid-20th centuries. Adams, an admirable character in Beran’s narrative,
Yet there is something almost entomological about And then there is the neurosis. One of the book’s who is nonetheless described as a “functioning neur-
Beran’s new book. Under his glass, we see his subjects through-lines is the concept of “neurasthenia,” an old- asthenic.” Even Theodore Roosevelt is said to have
beyond their propensity for silly nicknames and mem- fashioned term describing a collection of symptoms dedicated himself to strenuous exercise partly in reac-
bership in the Skull and Bones club, and we look more including headaches, listlessness and low-grade de- tion to the weakness, sickness and anxiety that blight-
closely at what made a WASP a WASP. pression. ed his childhood.

This is familiar territory for Beran, an exquisitely Early on, we meet artist and East Coast transplant If WASP living bred restlessness, it also contributed
gifted writer and the author of “The Last Patrician: Francis “Duke” Sedgwick (father of actress and Andy to the culture. Groton, the Massachusetts boarding
Bobby Kennedy and the End of American Aristocracy” Warhol muse Edie), who paraded his impressive, half- school for boys founded in 1884 by Endicott “Cotty”
and “Pathology of the Elites: How the Arrogant Classes naked physique around his California ranch but suf- Peabody, is a recurring character here. Beran (a Gro-
Plan to Run Your Life.” Seventy pages of footnotes at- fered from having failed to live up to the Ivy League ex- ton alum) charts its original values of spartan living,
test to the research he invested in “WASPS: The Splen- pectations of his family. As a class, WASPs considered hard study and a communal atmosphere. The school
dors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy.” But his themselves better than the riffraff and responsible for became a thing of legend and educated a Who’s Who
fluency and command feel like products of full immer- lifting America to achieve its potential. Sedgwick didn’t of success stories, including philanthropist William
sion in his subjects’ lives and psyches – the books they have it in him. Payne Whitney, writer Louis Auchincloss and a multi-
read, the heroes they worshiped, their affinities and generation passel of Roosevelts. It also reflected hope
proclivities, achievements, affairs, shames and disap- “Once they had known how to make their desires pro- for that ideal of the betterment of society.
pointments. ductive, and bred leaders like Theodore and Franklin
Good writers tell us what happened; greater writ-
A warning, though: The Roosevelt,” Beran writes. ers make meaning of what happened. Beran is a great
reader hoping for something “Now, in characters like writer who seeks to connect dots others wouldn’t see,
of an American “Downton Francis Sedgwick, they though occasionally this effort slides into peripatetic
Abbey” is in for a surprise. At were becoming headcas- wandering. Still, there is much to love in “WASPS.” At
its center, “WASPS” is a think es, Mayflower screwballs, the start, Beran mentions how difficult it is to know the
piece, a colossal essay that the poet Robert Lowell imaginations of his subjects with real intimacy, yet the
assumes a measure of so- called them, fit only for rest of the book makes great use of the historical record
phistication about the topic to do just that. So it comes as a surprise when, toward
on the part of the reader. the asylum.” (For the re- the end, Beran introduces an especially beautiful sec-
cord, the middle-aged tion that follows two of his Groton contemporaries
Beran begins by acknowl- Sedgwick comes off from the late 1970s and early ’80s.
edging the slipperiness of as sexually predatory
defining his subjects as White in “WASPS,” which, if Rob” and “the Cid” (and Beran himself) experi-
Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The true, would have made ence the best of Groton’s traditions at a time when the
term gets it wrong, “betraying him more than simply boarding school “ceased to be a shaper of the govern-
the sociologist’s inclination to a “headcase.”) ing patriciate.” We follow as the Cid goes to law school,
use a term like Anglo-Saxon and then we learn much more about Rob – Robert
when simply English would Edie Sedgwick in- Bingham, who became a successful fiction writer (his
do.” That’s just the beginning herited the family’s debut collection, “Pure Slaughter Value,” made a mark
of the problem, as Beran sees it. mental health vul- with critics) before succumbing to the existential de-
WASPs were an American phe- nerabilities and died spair inherited from his wealthy WASP forebears. Bing-
nomenon, not English, and not young. Beran cites ham died at 33 of a heroin overdose. In this section,
always Protestant. Who might be other notable neurot- Beran writes with the intimacy that observation and
considered a WASP turns out to memory allow. It is a poignant way to drive the history
be subjective, but Beran makes ics, including lawyer toward closure.
the case that the famously Cath- and essayist John
olic John F. Kennedy checked a Jay Chapman, who From the vantage point of 2021, so much about
lot of the boxes. in a fit of romantic WASP culture seems mockable. The WASPs themselves
didn’t particularly invite us to regard them as ordinary
The defining qualities of the WASP were typically WASPS mortals, but viewing them as such is the very thing that
found at the intersection of patrician bloodlines, po- makes them interesting. 
THE SPLENDORS AND MISERIES OF AN AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY

BY MICHAEL KNOX BERAN | PEGASUS. 530 PP. $29.95
REVIEW BY KAREN SANDSTROM, THE WASHINGTON POST

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Roger Federer is to click into place for the young talent myself really like a regular guy,” he tells Clarey, “with a
such a master of
timing, it’s only apt to become the branded superstar that fascinating life as a tennis player.”
that an expansive
new biography is “Roger.” Federer calls this professional echelon, at its best, a
about him arrives
at an uncanny The adolescent Federer, for one, had total “out-of-body experience” – and that was before he
moment.
to choose tennis over soccer, which he became one of the world’s highest-paid athletes.
Last month,
the Swiss tennis (like Nadal) probably could have played So what drives Federer to consider yet another post
legend looked
squarely into professionally. Coaches and his parents knee-surgery return, after many months ahead away
the camera
and shared had to help him harness his rambunc- from the game? What drives this 40-year-old family man
the news: He
would need tious energy and strengthen his emotion- when he seems to have everything? The seeds can per-
another knee
surgery “to al fragility. “These are the pivot points,” haps be seen in what he told Clarey in 2012 of his life on
give myself
a glimmer Clarey writes, “like Robert Federer requir- tour:
of hope to
return to the tour in ing his temperamental son to find his own “I feel very fortunate, and I guess that’s also one of the
some shape or form.” The emotion in
his voice was as clear as his message: His recovery holds ride home in Basel” – underscoring how reasons I would like to play for longer, because these
no guarantees about whether he will return to competi-
tive tennis, to say nothing of the rarefied heights he has young Roger was not “coddled in light of his things are not going to come back around when you re-
occupied for decades, as one of the greatest ever to hold
a racket. potential.” tire.”

Federer, who turned 40 this month, will miss the U.S. Through scores of interviews, “The Mas- As the Federer faithful say: Allez Roger. 
Open, which begins Aug. 30. Because he is at such a ca-
reer crossroads, the time is opportune to reflect on the ter” highlights
man behind and within the image – to consider how a
sensitive and hot-tempered teenager evolved to become some of the
not only an equipoised champion, but also his sport’s
preeminent global ambassador. more publicly Trevor Linton-Smith

Subtitled “The Long Run and Beautiful Game of undersung but
Roger Federer,” “The Master” unfolds with the mostly crucially influ-
chronological precision of Swiss clockwork. New York
Times tennis correspondent Christopher Clarey makes ential members Trevor Linton-Smith, 94, of Vero Beach, FL and High
the most of more than 20 years of journalistic access to of Federer’s long- Springs, FL, passed away peacefully in High Springs
Federer across six continents – experiences that include evolving team, in- on August 19th with his wife, Irene, at his side.
waiting for him in a chauffeured car outside a packed cluding fitness trainer and Trevor was born in Sydney, Australia in 1927 to police
stadium match near Buenos Aires, tagging along on an confidant Pierre Paganini; officer Kenneth Smith and dental assistant, the former
early-morning private flight out of the California desert, performance psychologist Bernadine Linton. While attending Randwick Boys
brunching with the star before panoramic views of Lake Christian Marcolli; and late High School and Sydney Technical College, Trevor
Zurich. Clarey provides a window into the “low-friction” coach Peter Carter, whose worked in his uncle’s boatyard building sailboats
world of Federer as a wealthy athlete, but not before tragic 2002 death seemed and repairing minesweepers for the Australian
showing the sometimes high-friction risks of devoting to prompt a profound Navy during World War II. He later emigrated to
your life to the pursuit of tennis glory.
maturation in Federer. The America in 1952 to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied
Federer – so often likened to a maestro, a painter, a aeronautical engineering under Professors Otto Koppen and Eugene Larrabee. Shortly
ballet dancer – can make the game look artfully effort- book also illuminates how after graduating in 1956, he secured a job at Helio Aircraft Corporation in suburban
less, such is his uncommon fast-twitch grace. Clarey ap- the Olympics romance Boston where he designed light aircraft.
preciates the technical qualities that make Federer such between teen Roger and
a physical outlier, such as how his eyes stay fixed on the
contact point just a bit longer than everyone else. fellow Swiss player Mirka In 1960, Trevor married the former Irene Pohmursky, who was then a Russian
Vavrinec blossomed into and Spanish language teacher at Newton High School. The new couple welcomed
Yet the good reporter must go deep beneath the be- a relationship that would 3 children during their time in Boston, before moving to Vero Beach, FL in 1968,
guiling artistry and trove of trophies, including a record where Trevor took a job with Piper Aircraft. Several years later, a fourth child was
20 major titles – tying him for the time being with Ra- blend her personal and added to the family.
fael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, the other members of
the sport’s so-called Big Three. In search of formative professional roles within
moments, Clarey carefully traces the origin story, even
traveling to the South African neighborhood where the Team Federer – and into a Across 40 years at Piper, Trevor took part in developing popular aircraft such as the
Swiss 23-year-old Robert Federer first fell for an 18-year- marriage that has been a Cherokee, Seminole, and Malibu – the latter becoming Piper’s most successful plane
old co-worker named Lynette, Roger’s mother. bedrock of his long-term and current flagship series. Despite these high-flying successes, he counted his family
success. and friends as his greatest endeavor. He gave generously of his time as a volunteer to
That is just the first of several fortuitous twists of fate. St. Helen Catholic Church’s annual Harvest Festival, counselor with the Indian River
The author pinpoints some of the key tumblers that had The book also deftly County Crisis Center, and judge for local school science fairs.
peels backs layers on some
THE MASTER:
of the biggest matches of Music and theater also featured prominently in Trevor’s life. He played the flute,
THE LONG RUN AND BEAUTIFUL GAME OF ROGER FEDERER Federer’s career, includ- served as choir director and cantor at St. Helen’s, and enjoyed attending live musical

BY CHRISTOPHER CLAREY | TWELVE/HACHETTE. 421 PP. $30 ing a 2001 Wimbledon vic- performances whenever he had the opportunity. He and his wife also acted and
REVIEW BY MICHAEL CAVNA, THE WASHINGTON POST sang in various local stage productions with the Vero Beach Theatre Guild. His most
tory over Pete Sampras that memorable performance was that of Colonel Pickering in “My Fair Lady” – a role that
earned him the Best Supporting Actor “Genie Award” from the Theatre Guild that
heralded teenage Federer’s year. In the weeks leading up to the production, neighbors reported with delight that
ascent; his comeback Aus- they could hear him rehearsing his lines during his walks to and from work.
tralian Open title in 2017;
and historic Wimbledon

heartbreakers in losses to In his retirement years, Trevor returned to his first love – woodworking. He built
Nadal in 2008 and Djokovic various items for his children, including bookcases, china hutches, and end tables, but
he also restored numerous pieces for friends and acquaintances.
in 2019 (interviews with

both those rivals deepen Whether designing exquisite air foils, working with wood, or enjoying the company of
the book’s reflections). others, Trevor always led with a positive spirit. He unfailingly radiated good cheer and
embraced everyone with genuine love.
Insights from a host

of Hall of Fame players Trevor is survived by his wife of 61 years, Irene; children Peter, Christopher, Katherine,
round out this portrait of and Stephen; daughter-in-law Susan; son-in-law Andrew; daughter-in-law Lisa;
Federer as an easygoing grandchildren Spencer, Jacob, Sarah, Justin, and Anna; and dozens of nieces, nephews,
locker-room presence with and cousins in Australia.
a requisite killer instinct

once he steps on the court, A funeral mass will be held on August 30, 2021 at 10:00 AM at

even with tour players who St. Madeleine Catholic Church, 17155 NW US Highway 441, High Springs, FL.

are friends. He is also the

down-to-earth multilin- The family would be grateful to those who would be willing to share their favorite
stories about Trevor by emailing them to [email protected]
gual humanitarian who

embraces being a citizen

of the world. “I consider



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THE RUFF IS EASY, BUT WHAT IS NEXT? WEST NORTH EAST
Q43 K9 J 10
By Phillip Alder - Bridge Columnist 10 9 8 6 5 3 KQ7 J2
J 843 A K 10 7 6 2
Galileo said, “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is 743 K 10 6 5 2 A98
to discover them.”
SOUTH
At the bridge table, the point is to “discover” the right bids and plays with accurate A87652
analysis. In today’s layout, it is easy for West to analyze his partner’s lead at trick three. A4
The harder task this time is to spot the killing defense. Q95
QJ
How should East-West card to defeat three spades?
Dealer: South; Vulnerable: Both
A pair using two-over-one game-forcing would respond one forcing no-trump with
that North hand. Then, whether using two-over-one or Standard, when South rebids The Bidding:
two spades to guarantee at least a six-card suit, North should invite game with three
spades. But South should pass with such a poor hand. (South could even pass over SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
two diamonds. Then North should balance with a takeout double, and he might pass if 1 Spades Pass 2 Clubs 2 Diamonds
South pulls to two spades.) 2 Spades Pass 3 Spades All Pass LEAD:
J Diamonds
West leads his singleton diamond. East wins with the king, cashes the diamond ace
and leads the diamond two for West to ruff. West, knowing that the two is low, shifts
to the club seven (high from a weak suit). East wins with his ace and ... does what?

South must have the major-suit aces for his opening bid, so there are no more side-
suit tricks available. Instead, East must try to generate a second trump trick by leading
another diamond. When West ruffs with the spade queen, it effects an uppercut and
promotes a trump trick for East.

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4 Javelins (6) 2 Titles (5)
9 River in Africa (7) 3 Style of hat (7)
10 Tag (5) 5 Aviator (5)
11 Perils (5) 6 Egg white (7)
12 Try (7) 7 Greet (6)
13 See-through (11) 8 Vanished (11)
18 Energy (7) 14 Actuality (7)
20 Rattle (5) 15 Echo (7)
22 Corrects (5) 16 Respect (6)
23 Teach (7) 17 Acute (6)
24 Chaos (6) 19 Problem (5)
25 Stick (6) 21 Conscious (5)

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ACROSS 96 A bunion? 53 Spacious The Washington Post
1 “An old division of 104 Dinghy slower 54 Friendly
105 Split ___ 55 Ointment ingredient DOUBLE FEATURES (3) By Merl Reagle
Russia? Confound it!” 106 Perry’s creator 56 (“Boy, is this boring”)
7 In there at first 107 Put one’s foot down ... hard 57 1960s cut
110 Weird 58 Clinton played sax for him
11 Agents 112 Something She 59 Hydrox rival
16 Actress McDormand 60 Start of a western
18 Self concepts complains about after He 61 Argus’s 100
19 Sidney Toler’s last film as takes a shower? 62 Sapporo sport
115 Trounced 67 Skilled
Charlie Chan 116 Resort area N of Provo 69 Foaming action
21 Where you might hear the 117 “Do you ___ tell the 70 Wife of Albert Einstein
truth ...” 71 “Waiter, s’il vous plaît”
following: 118 Oil fire expert Red 72 Smell
“So then, not too many 119 Fit together 73 Exodus author
120 Parsons’ homes 74 Dentist’s request
planes are landin’ here, 75 One of the Simpsons
I’m guessin’.” DOWN 77 Boulevardier’s topper
1 Word after pay or play 81 Famed archeological site,
“Oh yah?” 2 Spoiled one
23 Bring back 3 Calif. NFLer Mohenjo-___
24 Word before way or well 4 Ms. Dickinson 82 “Is That All ___?”
25 Ten-speed feature 5 Disdain 83 “Java” trumpeter Al
26 Animal fat 6 A cozy drink? 84 Radiation tidbit
27 Surfacing stuff 7 Calyx com po nent 85 Feeling you’re
28 Backup singers in a RuPaul 8 Bazaar ancestor
9 In favor of struck by
video? 10 World record finish? 86 Suspenseful Cary Grant film,
33 Body-treating body: abbr. 11 Dolly the clone, e.g.
36 Top-secret org. 12 Ants and weeds for short?
37 Soil toil buys 13 Addams Family hairy cousin 87 A screenwriting nom de
38 Snoopy’s WWI persona 14 Arousing art
39 Do-gooders’ love triangle? 15 Christian foe in the plume of W.C. Fields, ___
47 “Are you now or have you Kane Jeeves
Crusades 88 Said positively
___ ...” 17 Is hired officially 89 Looked after
48 Actress Helgenberger 19 Platitude 90 Pulls
49 Grp. of actors 20 Employment benefit 91 “I ___ just scream”
50 Shuffle 22 Old lutelike instrument 96 Coin flip
51 Part of A.D. 26 Husky vehicle 97 Monsieur Verdoux
52 Crusoe, for one 29 Concerning 98 Actress Stevens
57 Revenuer’s only thought? 30 Styx boatman 99 Poet who was part Butler
63 In imitation of 31 “Did you ever hear 100 Bible figure for whom a
64 Damage media giant is named
65 The sailor’s okay of ... ___?” 101 Tessie or Milo
66 Nasser’s ’58 alliance (Carl Denham) 102 Actor Hawke
67 Words in a tic-tac-toe 32 Nearly treeless plain 103 Touches the clouds
33 “O Captain ...” subject 108 Pesky arachnid
instruction 34 Dallas player, briefly 109 Favorable aspects
68 Watney’s product 35 Went gobble gobble? 111 Club for driving
69 The Snow White story, 40 Garr-Keating comedy 112 Singing Cooke
41 Somewhat 113 Ring shout
updated? 42 A word to the waiting 114 Certain guy, in personal-ad
76 Drops 43 “___ expert but ...” shorthand
78 Pilot’s prefix 44 It means “billionth”
79 Velvet’s horse 45 AARP, for one
80 Nelson and Norton 46 Stack up
81 Number of a’s in “Saarland” 51 Flock’s response
82 Fancy-schmancy actor 52 Fellow
87 Tabloid headline about

space aliens causing a lot of
“won-ton” destruction?
92 Maria’s intro
93 Continent prefix
94 Above, to Shakespeare
95 Unaccustomed

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When you and your spouse run out of things to talk about …

BY CAROLYN HAX then talking about instead of Netflix.
Washington Post  Perhaps start a conversation about

Dear Carolyn: What do you talk the fact that it’s becoming difficult to find
things to talk about. Granted, it could lead
to your spouse about? I don’t mean any number of places, not all of them
pleasant. But it beats ignoring the ele-
“you” specifically, but it’s starting phant in the room.

to feel like we’re running out of  Advice columns are great conversation
prompts. One of us reads a letter out loud,
things to talk about. We’re pretty then we stop there and we each respond
to it in turn and keep discussing as long
much down to news from the oc- as we’re both interested. It’s a great way to
understand each other, as well as practice
casional check-in with friends and then, “What do in articulating our own beliefs and values.
 David Sedaris wrote about frantically collecting
you want to watch on Netflix tonight?” Once the kids conversation topics. He didn’t want to become like the
elderly couples he’d frequently see silently munching
go to bed, there’s not much left to talk about. The si- away across the table from each other.
 Udemy and edX classes (many free to audit)
lences are starting to feel less companionable and watched together have been conversational lifesavers
and enriching experiences.
more awkward, and I’m worried this is going to start a nearer-term outcome could bring you immediate  Games – a nice time-filler, light chat, just don’t
relief and connection, even if it’s just making dinner over-compete.
straining our relationship. as a team tonight.  Ask each other for the “highlight” or “lowlight” of
each day. Also, “Hey, would you tell me the story of
– Running Out Readers’ many suggestions: ____?” For example, the coldest, hungriest, most ner-
 Just beware of the joint project you pick, as any vous, excited, satisfied, anxious, you have ever been.
Running Out: You can accept some silences as nor- couple will attest whose first step to divorce court  I purchased a couple of “conversation cubes,”
mal, since they can be, companionably so. came while wallpapering the dining room together. cards that ask different questions.
(Pick a project where the outcome is not particularly  AITA on Reddit! Entertaining and definitely gives
Or tell stories about your past, or about the family important to either party, for example.) you things to discuss. 
history. No doubt there’s more to know about each  Go for walks solo or jointly, or listen in your back-
other and pass along to the kids. yard, and talk about what the dogs, flowers, and birds
were doing. As old things fall away, we can shift and
Or stream more interesting content. invite new ways of connecting in with each other
Or join book groups, or just read the same book and with the parts of the earth that have always been
together. there, waiting for us to say hi.
Or start a little project. Home improvement, culi-  There’s an infinite number of books, websites,
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bringing people together and breaking down silences.
Raising children is a project in itself, but spread
out across two decades or so. A smaller effort with

Vero brewery hops on B’way project
to benefit Riverside

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VERO BREWERY HOPS ON B’WAY PROJECT TO BENEFIT RIVERSIDE

Jon Moses.

PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES

BY MARY SCHENKEL | STAFF WRITER performing arts organizations.
Locally, Walking Tree Brewery has

Even before the pandemic forced signed on to Curtain Up and has con-

Broadway to go dark, actors James cocted a Kölsch to benefit Riverside

Ludwig and Mark Aldrich had found Theatre.

a way to brew up support for the arts The Broadway Brews and Curtain

Up initiatives evolved out of an ear-

lier project that the pair of Broad-

way actors began co-producing and

hosting in 2008 called the Happy

Hour Guys, about craft beers and

where to find them. Over the years,

Ludwig says, they derived “tons

and tons of content” through the

production of nearly 400 epi-

sodes, including one filmed at

Walking Tree in 2019.

At the time, Ludwig and wife

Kristen Beth Williams were

gracing the stage at Riverside

JHa“emMnerysyFLHauiirgdLgwaiingdsyai.”ns Theatre as Henry Higgins

and Eliza Doolittle in “My
Fair Lady.”

“Oh we had so much fun

doing that; God what a great

show. We love it down in your neck

of the woods,” says Ludwig.

through their Broadway Always on the lookout for poten-

Brew project. And when COVID put tial brewers to feature, Ludwig recalls

a crimp in that plan, they crafted a that as soon as he arrived in town and

Curtain Up initiative that is raising unpacked, he made his way to Walk-

funds through breweries nationwide ing Tree.

to benefit the Actors Fund and other He quickly talked Mike Malone, co-

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founder and head brewer, and wife Rock” to benefit Sing for Hope; ‘It’s for Jack Wich. up a little bit, and then we kegged it.”
Brooke, creative director, into taping Adrienne,’ a cherry cream ale for “Wait- The beer is currently on tap at Walk-
a Happy Hour Guys episode, complete ress” to benefit the Adrienne Shelly got to do this for Riverside.’ They’re a
with a number of “My Fair Lady” cast Foundation, that Ludwig says “paired wonderful group of people and obvi- ing Tree, Riverside Theatre, Waldo’s Res-
members. very well with cherry pie”; ‘The Pint ously Riverside is a national treasure. taurant and Kilted Mermaid, and a por-
of No Return,’ a black lager created for We just adore that theater.” tion of sales benefits Riverside. Better get
“Walking Tree is pretty special; they’re “Phantom of the Opera” to benefit Mu- hopping, though. It was a special batch
really doing it up right there. They make sicians on Call; and ‘Islander Pale Ale,’ The beer they created is a Kölsch, limited to 26 sixth barrel kegs.
some great beer, they have an incredible created for “Come from Away” to benefit which Jack Wich, Walking Tree sales
space and they’re also literally around Tuesday’s Children. manager, described as an easy drinking, Although the pandemic hampered
the corner from the new housing for Riv- German-style ale, reminiscent of a lager. episode screenings of the Happy Hour
erside Theatre,” says Ludwig, referenc- “And then we were just about to do Guys, Ludwig says they’re starting to do
ing the Star Suites Hotel, which houses the last beer in the six pack, and COV- “The original was a big IPA and we some in-person shooting again.
cast and production members while ID happened. We were down to choos- wanted something a little bit more
they’re in town. ing from a couple of different shows to tailored to the local theater that “Now that may be slowing down
finish up the whole thing, and it was would move a little bit faster,” said again because of the Delta variant.
A few years before that Vero visit, going to be this great big shebang, Wich. “We took our Kölsch, and we We’ll have to play it by ear. Broadway
when Broadway was booming and all and then our industry completely col- blended it with a fruited sour – a pine- isn’t quite back yet, but my wife and I
was right with the theater world, they lapsed,” says Ludwig. apple/tangerine sour – and then re- managed to pivot during the pandem-
had begun thinking of a way to “get dry hopped the beer with Mandarin ic and have been teaching, which has
Broadway brewing for charity.” He adds that the shutdown has been Bavaria hops, to brighten the flavors been very welcome, here in New York
more devastating than anything they at the American Musical and Dramatic
“So we had this idea. Let’s get a could have imagined. “I mean, no one Academy,” says Ludwig.
Broadway show, find some actors in ever imagined any circumstance in
that show who think this is a cool which all of theater would just cease to “There’s such an intersection, because
thing, have them become the brew- exist overnight. No one.” so many people who work in restaurants
ers of a one-off beer, and then decide and bars are also in one way or another
amongst themselves who they would Relatively quickly, a number of in- connected to the arts. Whether they’re
like the beer to raise money for.” novative fundraising initiatives be- musicians or crew or actors, there’s been
gan to gain traction, including in the a lot of crossover with this. It’s been a
Through their previous interactions world of breweries. great, really heartwarming thing to be
with brewers, they knew that the craft involved with.”
brewing community is frequently gen- One that has seen remarkable success
erous in using their products to raise is a charity beer called ‘All Together’ that For more information or to view epi-
money for charity, but the concept was a the Other Half Brewing Company cre- sodes of Happy Hour Guys, including the
new one for Broadway. ated to benefit workers in the hospitality one at Walking Tree, visit thehappyhour-
industry. Taking the concept a step fur- guys.com/curtain-up-beer. 
“So we put this idea out there to a ther, they made it an open-source beer,
bunch of Broadway shows and got ba- putting the recipe and label online and
sically blank stares. It was laughable; inviting other brewers to become part
we had a lot of really strange respons- of the initiative by brewing the beer and
es,” says Ludwig. donating to the cause.

“And then the first show that really “The All Together beer has hundreds
saw the value of it was ‘Hamilton.’ So our and hundreds of breweries worldwide
first beer for the Broadway Brews proj- associated with it. We thought it was a
ect, right out of the gate, was ‘Hamilton,’ great idea, so we came up with the idea
which was a coup, obviously.” of the Curtain Up beer, as the final beer
in the Broadway Six Pack,” says Ludwig.
Their goal was to create a Broadway
Six Pack, consisting of “six different There are currently more than 75
beers with six different shows for six breweries nationwide brewing the Cur-
different charities.” With Hamilton on tain Up beer, using the original Hazy IPA
board, they soon found a brewer in the recipe or the breweries’ own version of it,
Bronx who whipped up a rye saison beer to benefit the Actors Fund, which assists
called ‘Rise Up Rye.’ those involved in the entertainment in-
dustry, or their local arts organizations.
“They’re still brewing it, and it’s now
being served at Madison Square Garden As they already had an established
and out at Citi Field,” says Ludwig. Fit- relationship with Walking Tree, Lud-
tingly, the chosen charity was the Eliza wig says they pitched the idea and
Project, an educational initiative out of “they immediately said, ‘Well, we’ve
the child welfare organization Graham
Windham, which was co-founded by
Hamilton’s wife Eliza.

Three Happy Hour Guys episodes
were filmed for each beer. The first
was the exchange of ideas at the initial
meeting of cast members and brew-
ers, and next was the actual brew day
with cast members becoming guest
brewers of their beer.

And finally, the release of the beer,
“which we turned into a big party, for the
brewery, the cast and the charity,” says
Ludwig, describing it as a ton of work but
incredibly rewarding and fun.

The next four beers in the Broadway
Six Pack were: ‘School of Hops’ beer, an
imperial black ale with the “School of

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COMING UP! ‘Stroll’ into September at artsy Vero event

BY PAM HARBAUGH is limited. Call 772-217-8708 or visit
Correspondent SeaSUPgo.com.

1 The best way to begin Labor 5 You have until Sunday, Sept. 5, to
Day weekend in Vero Beach see the Christo & Jeanne-Claude

might by mellowing out to a casual, exhibit at the Vero Beach Museum of

relaxed First Friday Gallery Stroll. Art. You can also get a museum expe-

This is the monthly event where you rience by visiting its website, VBMuse-

find art lovers gathering in a conge- um.org, which is easy to navigate and

nial manner to amble through Vero filled with engaging items in its “Mu-

Beach’s Historic Downtown Arts Dis- seum Extras” menu. “Anke’s Art Mo-

trict. Dip into galleries, enjoy some ment” serves up weekly short videos in

refreshments and see what’s new. which museum’s senior curator, Anke

Chat up some artists. Meet new peo- Van Wagenberg, highlights artwork

ple. See and be seen. You can even from either the museum’s collection or

settle into some inviting restaurants from an exhibition, such as her discus-

for a leisurely drink or dinner. And, sion on Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s

most of all, take your time. The event iconic project of “Surrounded Islands”

runs 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3 in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. “Flick Picks”

along 14th Avenue, from 19th Street presents museum films studies co-

to 23rd Street. All the galleries open ordinator Diane Thelen suggesting

are free to the public. films, most current of which is the up-

lifting and inspiring “Edie,” in which

2 Both amateur and professionals a widow shuns her family’s desire for
will be showing off their skim-
her to move into a senior living com-

boarding skills at the 14th Annual munity and instead sets out to hike the

Mulligan’s Skim Jam Saturday morn- Scottish highlands. “Museum Stories”

ing at Sexton Plaza in Vero Beach. This presents Miss Jane speaking to young

the final skim contest of the season for children about art, such as her charm-

the Skim USA Tour. It attracts board ing video about Christo and Jeanne-

skimmers from around the world. The 3 And speaking of Walking Tree Just reading this could make you thirsty Claude’s wrapping of the Arc de Tri-
Brewery, that business is loaded for a nice cold one. Call 772-217-3502 or
event is hosted by “shore lb.” By the visit WalkingTreeBrewery.com. omphe. “Art Tutorials” are short video

way, “shore lb.” is surfer slang for the with things to do. Here’s what’s hap- lessons by various instructors who

way waves crash onto the beach. Learn pening there in the next few days alone: help you wake up that inner muse. “A+

more about that organization and see Stay Rooted Running Club, which 4 If a more sedate activity ap- Art” has a collection of longer videos
peals, then consider a lesson in
some of its “merch” at shorelb.com. meets there 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ev- designed for teens and young adults

The competition begins 9 a.m. Satur- ery Thursday; the Souljam band, which SUP – Stand Up Paddle Boarding. You on the Autism spectrum or those with

day at Sexton Plaza, 1050 Beachland plays cover tunes and its own songs 8 can learn SUP basics from a PaddleFit special needs. The Vero Beach Muse-

Blvd. Registration is online at https:// p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4; Vero certified coach 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. um of Art is at 3001 Riverside Park Dr.,

liveheats.com/events/5758. Riders will Vintage WV Meet-Up invites those with this Saturday at Sea SUP Go, 40 Royal Vero Beach. Call 772-231-0707 or visit

meet at 8:30 a.m. The awards ceremony a love of vintage “VeeDubs” to meet up Palm Pointe, Vero Beach. The cost is VBMuseum.org. Regular hours are 10

will be held 6 p.m. Saturday at Walking from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the first Tues- $10 per person. The organization sup- a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursdays through

Tree Brewery, 3209 Dodger Rd., Vero day of every month; Harry Potter Trivia plies all the equipment needed. They Saturdays, and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sun-

Beach. There will also be raffles and Night 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7; Tacos teach in the quiet, protected cove days. Admission is $8 general, $7 se-

other prizes handed out at the awards & Trivia Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. alongside their shop. You’ll learn how niors, free to members, children and

ceremony. For more information call Tuesdays; Brews & Bingo 6:30 p.m. to to get on and off that paddleboard, active military. The museum is closed

772-360-7166 or visit shortlb.com. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8. Whew! basic paddle stroke and more. Space on Labor Day. 

REST EASIER, PATIENTS: ‘ANESTHESIA
HAS GOTTEN A LOT SAFER’

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Rest easier, patients: ‘Anesthesia has gotten a lot safer’

BY KERRY FIRTH Dr. Philip Nye. can safely proceed through their op- your health and your preference.
Correspondent eration and wake up with no adverse General Anesthesia is used for
PHOTO: KAILA JONES effects.”
Anesthesiologist Dr. Philip Nye has major operations such as a knee re-
some good news for those facing sur- thesia and Sleep Medicine Services of Anesthesia is administered to placement or open-heart surgery and
gery: “Anesthesia has gotten a lot saf- Florida in Vero Beach. keep patients comfortable and pain causes you to lose consciousness. It is
er through the years because the an- free during surgery, medical proce- administered through a mask or an IV
esthetic techniques and equipment “We get a baseline assessment of dures or tests. But according to the placed in a vein. A tube may be placed
we use has gotten better,” Dr. Nye told hemodynamic status to determine American Society of Anesthesiolo- in your throat to help you breathe.
Vero Beach 32963. “Almost all operat- if the patient’s blood pressure, heart gists, there some key differences in
ing rooms have immediate access to rate, breathing and oxygenation is the types of anesthesia adminis- IV/Monitored Sedation is used for
fiber optic equipment, which makes stable or not. tered, depending on the procedure, minimally invasive procedures like
it much safer to secure an airway. We colonoscopies. Your level of con-
can now monitor your oxygen satura- “While the surgeon is focused on sciousness can range from being able
tion continuously through the pro- the surgery, the anesthesiologist is to talk to being unconscious. Seda-
cedure. We also have arterial lines focused on making sure the patient tion is usually provided through an IV
which can give us a beat-to-beat vari- is optimized for the surgery so they placed in a vein.
ability on what your blood pressure is
doing throughout the surgery. Every- Regional anesthesia is often used
thing has gotten better and as a result during childbirth and surgeries of
the recovery time has improved. the arm, leg or abdomen. It numbs a
large part of the body, but you remain
“During an anesthetic preoperative aware. The medication is delivered
assessment, we consider the nature through an injection or small tube
and urgency of the procedure and called a catheter.
evaluate the patient’s medical history
and comorbidity issues like cardio Local anesthesia is for procedures
disease, allergies and medications like having a mole removed or getting
that might interfere with the anesthe- stitches. It numbs a small area with a
sia,” said Dr. Nye, who operates Anes- one-time injection of medicine, and
you are alert and awake.

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pies is propofol,” Dr. Nye continued. of it could potentially kill them.” After 20 years as an anesthesiolo- sleep apnea but when I talked to them
“It’s known as the ‘milk of anesthesia’ Others have reported they were gist, Dr. Nye has noticed a direct cor- after the surgery and told them they
because it actually looks like milk. It’s relation between patients who had dropped the oxygen levels low, we’d
also used to put you to sleep and keep aware of what was going on, when ac- low oxygen levels while anesthetized find they had undiagnosed sleep ap-
you asleep during general anesthesia tually what they reported was at the and those with sleep apnea. nea. That’s what piqued my interest in
for surgery. It has very few side effects end of the surgery when everything sleep medicine.”
and is not associated with post-oper- was done, and they were coming off “I was performing a lot of endosco-
ative nausea.” the propofol and waking up. pies and colonoscopies which require Dr. Philip Nye opened his own sleep
the use of intravenous propofol,” medicine clinic in Vero Beach two years
Your anesthesiologist is with you “Medicine doesn’t just shut off like Dr. Nye explained. “We give a large ago where he treats sleep apnea, rest-
throughout the entire surgery. you turn off a switch,” Dr. Nye ex- enough dose of propofol to render the less leg syndrome, insomnia, narco-
plained. “It takes time. I’ve titrated patient asleep or unconscious and lepsy and a whole gamut of sleep dis-
“We don’t just give the anesthesia my medicine after the surgery is over since we are not intubating the pa- orders. He now splits his time between
and go into cruise control,” Dr. Nye and the patient will have a conversa- tient, we are relying on the patient to his sleep clinic and as a staff anesthesi-
explained. “We are at the head of the tion with me as we are leaving the op- breathe on their own while also keep- ologist at Good Samaritan Hospital in
bed monitoring the blood pressure erating room. Those are things they ing them unconscious. West Palm Beach. He can be reached at
and vitals continuously. We want to report as being awake during surgery. Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine Servic-
keep the vitals within 20 percent of Oftentimes a spinal anesthetic takes “I noticed a lot of patients were be- es of Florida, 1485 37th St. Vero Beach,
the patient’s baseline vitals. about 45 minutes to an hour to wear coming apneic. Prior to the surgery 772-266-6855. 
off, usually in the recovery room.” they never reported any issues with
“We are in constant communica-
tion with the surgeon, and if some-
thing is going on during the surgery
a conversation happens immediately
and together we determine what to do
to try to optimize the patient’s hemo-
dynamic status. We do that by giving
intravenous fluids and medications
that slow or increase the heartrate.”

Your anesthesiologist stays with
you through the post-operative phase
as well, managing your vitals in the
recovery room. He makes sure you
aren’t having any cardiac, pulmo-
nary or blood pressure issues. He
also monitors your pain level and has
techniques to help with post-op pain
and address any side effects such as
nausea and vomiting.

Even as anesthesia has gotten “a
lot safer through the years … surger-
ies have also gotten better,” noted Dr.
Nye. “They are much more minimally
invasive. The incisions have become
smaller. And more surgeries are be-
ing performed laparoscopically and
robotically which has been shown to
be associated with less blood loss. We
can do things now that we couldn’t do
20 to 30 years ago.”

In general, the dosage of anesthetic
is based on how long the procedure
will take, so less invasive and faster
surgeries typically reduce the amount
of anesthesia drugs needed for a pro-
cedure – but how does the anesthe-
siologist know if the patient is really
feeling no pain?

“If the blood pressure and heart
rate are high, that may indicate to me
there may by some sympathetic acti-
vation and I may need to increase the
anesthetic level,” said Dr. Nye. “A BIS
monitor is occasionally used to give
us a rough idea of the patient’s level of
awareness.

“Trauma patients have a higher
incidence of reporting recall be-
cause when a trauma patient comes
into the operating room, they are
usually unstable and have lost a lot
of blood. You can’t give these pa-
tients a very deep level of anesthetic
because their blood pressure is al-
ready tenuous and low. Anesthesia
drops blood pressure and too much

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Plant-based diets can drastically lower heart disease risk

BY LINDA SEARING ing that those whose diets regularly for postmenopausal women who ate cent and coronary heart disease by
The Washington Post included the most nutritionally rich more plant-based foods. This study 14 percent, compared with those who
plant foods and the fewest unhealthy involved 123,330 women who were 62, were more lax about what they ate.
Eating a high-quality, plant-cen- animal products, such as high-fat on average, and were then tracked for
tered diet can put young adults on meats, were least likely to develop 15 years. Plant-based diets are not the same
the path to a healthier heart, lowering heart disease. as vegetarian or vegan diets. People
their risk of cardiovascular disease Women who most closely adhered eating plant-based diets choose their
by 52 percent, according to research Even people who shifted to such to a specific diet of plant-based foods foods primarily from plant sources
published in the Journal of the Ameri- a diet as they aged achieved heart- known to lower cholesterol – known (nuts, seeds, oils, whole grains, le-
can Heart Association. protective benefits, regardless of as the Portfolio Diet – were 11 per- gumes and beans) but also do occa-
the quality of their original diet. A cent less likely to develop any type of sionally consume some animal prod-
The study followed 4,946 adults, separate study also published in the cardiovascular disease. They lowered ucts (such as non-fried poultry or fish,
ages 18 to 30, for about 32 years, find- AHA journal found similar benefits their risk for heart failure by 17 per- eggs and low-fat dairy). 

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MORE TIPS ON AVOIDING SUN DAMAGE TO YOUR SKIN

BY FRED CICETTI visible as a tan. Every time you tan, they emit UV rays that can cause se-
Columnist you damage your skin, and this dam- rious long-term skin damage. The
age accumulates over time. amount of the radiation produced
[This is the second of two during indoor tanning is similar to the
columns about sun exposure.] There is no safe tan. What some sun’s production and in some cases
call a base tan may, actually, in- may be greater.
Ultraviolet (UV) rays, crease the chances you’ll get a
an invisible component of Many tanning salons are unregu-
sunlight, can cause skin burn, because you’re likely to stay lated. They allow customers access
damage, cataracts, wrin- out longer without properly pro- to tanning beds without supervision
kles, age spots and skin can- tecting your skin. or eye protection, which can lead to
cer. These rays also impair burns and skin damage. 
the skin’s immune system. You should stay away from tan-
ning beds and sunlamps because
UV rays can hurt you on
cloudy as well as sunny days. UV 8 to 10: Very high risk of harm.
rays also bounce off surfaces of the 11+: Extreme risk of harm.
ocean, sand, snow and cement. It is possible to go outside when the
UV Index is 11 or higher but you must
One of the surest ways to reduce be sure to take every step possible to
your exposure to UV rays is to stay protect yourself – sunscreen, hats,
out of the sun when it is the stron- long sleeves, sunglasses, the works.
gest. Those times in North America Not everyone reacts to the sun in
are between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the the same way. The level of danger cal-
late spring and early summer. In late culated for the basic categories of the
summer, the sun stays hot to 5 p.m. or UV Index are for a person with Type II
later. skin. The following are the skin types:
I – Always burns, never tans, sensi-
Other ways to protect yourself are tive to sun exposure
to wear protective clothing, such as II – Burns easily, tans minimally
a wide-brimmed hat, long-sleeved III – Burns moderately, tans gradu-
shirt, and long pants. You should use ally to light brown
a sunscreen rated at SPF 30 or more. IV – Burns minimally, always tans
Eye doctors recommend wraparound well to moderately brown
sunglasses that provide 100 percent V – Rarely burns, tans profusely to
UV ray protection. dark
VI – Never burns, deeply pigment-
You should also pay attention to the ed, least sensitive
UV Index developed by the National What is a suntan?
Weather Service and the Environ- When UV rays penetrate the skin’s
mental Protection Agency. This index inner layer they generate the produc-
assesses risk of overexposure to UV tion of melanin – a dark pigment. The
rays. melanin eventually moves toward the
outer layers of the skin and becomes
The UV Index is calculated daily
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The post-pandemic fashion purge − what stays and what goes

BY TAMARA ABRAHAM my colleague Krissy Turner admits she’s a time when they could barely pay their While it’s always worth having a
The Telegraph gone too far on occasion − to the extent rent. We often form such strong emo- couple of cozy, comfy things to wear at
that she’s re-purchased items she regret- tional attachments to our clothes, it can home, we don’t need a wardrobe-full,
It’s all about sticking to five simple rules ted giving away. be hard to let them go. so lose anything that’s lost its shape or
− some old, some new. that you just don’t love enough to wear
I can empathize with friends who are So how does one reconcile the need on a regular basis.
Are you having a wardrobe clear-out? more sentimental about clothing too. to make space in our wardrobes and
I am, my sister is, my friends are, it Often there’s a dress that may no longer get rid of what we no longer wear, while ⇢
seems everybody is in the midst of re- fit, but it reminds them of a happy time, saving the treasures we hold dear? It’s Reconsider your heels
freshing their wardrobes ahead of the or a handbag that was a major splurge at all about sticking to five simple rules − As soon as we stopped going out
autumn season and now that life is (sort some old, some new as a consequence back in March 2020, we stopped wear-
of) back to normal after the pandemic. of the pandemic. ing heels, and, well, we haven’t really
Maybe you’ve got a glut of lounge- looked back. When I watch “The Bach-
wear that’s now surplus to require- Dress for the work life you have – not elor” and see all the girls wearing tow-
ment; perhaps you’ve traded your for- the one you had ering platforms, I just think, ‘Oof, they
mal office for a permanent WFH setup; look uncomfortable.’
or a year-and-a-half of the pandemic Perhaps your company has gone Even post-pandemic, my heels aren’t
means you no longer have the patience virtual, or traded a permanent office getting much airtime, and by the time
for sky-high heels. Whatever your situ- for a trendy co-working space. Maybe we do revisit the high heel trend, I’ll
ation, your clothing needs have prob- a COVID-induced redundancy means have probably gone off those particu-
ably changed. you’ve changed jobs altogether. What- lar styles.
Getting it right in terms of what to ever your current work situation, My ruthless approach would be to
keep and what to donate or sell can be many of us have a new dress code, and donate or sell at least 70 percent of your
hard though. I’ve lived in city flats all our old work clothes are now gather- high heels. Instead, invest in a mid-
my life, where space is at a premium, so ing dust. block-heel mule or sandal for special
I’m ruthless when it comes to clear-outs occasions – they look far more modern
− and the truth is I rarely regret my deci- It’s time to take stock of what you and you’ll be able to dance until the
sions. In fact, it’s quite a liberating feel- wear and what you don’t on a daily ba- early hours too.
ing getting rid of unwanted stuff. But sis. It’s worth holding onto a couple of
timeless, quality pieces from your for- Ditch the ‘conditional clothing’
mer life – you never know when you’ll We all have ‘conditional clothing’ in
need them for the odd meeting − but our wardrobes – the sample sale dress
don’t hoard a wardrobe for a life you no that you’ll wear when you finally drop
longer lead. that dress size, the maternity dress
you’re keeping just in case you have
Anything that’s still in good con- another baby, or the shoes that you’re
dition can be sold on eBay, Vinted or hoping will come back into fashion
Vestiaire Collective, and you can use someday.
those funds to invest in new work These sentiments are so imbued with
clothes that better suit your post-pan- optimism, it seems cruel to dismiss
demic life. them but 90 percent of the time, these
fashion items are never worn again. Fol-
Lose the loungewear – but not all of it low my ruthless lead and part ways with
There was such a boom in lounge- them. You won’t miss them, and it’ll feel
wear sales in March and April 2020, so good to give the rest of your ward-
when the weather was still a little chilly robe a little breathing room.
and we had nothing to do but hunker
down and self-isolate. I’m sure I’m Repair or relinquish
not the only one who bought far more Tailoring one’s clothes can trans-
in the way of sweatshirts and joggers form a second-hand or a local piece
than I should have done. from average to amazing − it’s no sur-
prise that it’s something regularly done
by fashion editors and stylists.
The downside of tailoring is that it
requires a bit of admin: Trying it on,
pinning the fabric, briefing a tailor,
and of course the dropping off and
picking up that always seems to have to
be done between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on
a weekday, and not when you actually
have the free time.
As a result, we’re all guilty of having
that tailoring ‘to-do’ pile − to which we
also add any ripped or damaged cloth-
ing − that never actually makes it near
a sewing machine. So be realistic with
yourself. Take it to a tailor today or take
it to Goodwill – no more excuses. 

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Style lessons from 100-year-old fashion icon Iris Apfel

BY LISA ARMSTRONG
The Telegraph

The designer’s style is nothing like ‚Dress to haircut with attitude, the way she understated. The most touching les-
mine but l find it more inspiring now please yourself‘ uses lipstick and ladles on ac- son from Apfel, though, is the effort she
than ever. cessories to individualize items makes, always. There’s something stoi-
always see why people make such a that are sometimes surprisingly cal, if not heroic about that. 
Iris Apfel is a pithy distillation of all song and dance about it. But that, to
fashion’s contradictions. In a world me, only makes her more inspiring.
seemingly terrified of getting old, she She knows full well that her look isn’t
makes aging look almost aspirational. for everyone.

Partly that’s because she’s a fully paid Nor would she want it to be, although
up member of the never explain, never we can all take on board some color, the
complain school of thinking. Carl, her
beloved husband of years, died six years
ago but instead of publicly moping, she
made herself busier than ever.

The busyness isn’t all smoke and
mirrors. At age 97, she signed her first
official modeling deal – with IMG, the
people who represent Gisele Bund-
chen and the Hadid sisters, inter alia.

Two Sundays ago she turned 100,
marking the occasion by launching
her own range of spectacles (the
wackier ones are one of her sig-
natures). It’s called Zentennial –
a typically gung ho portmanteau
of her own age and the genera-
tion who hog most of the headlines
these days.

She doesn’t ascribe to the minimal-
ism espoused by some of fashion’s
most enduring style muses (Coco
Chanel, Diana Vreeland, Audrey Hep-
burn). “More is more and less is a
bore” runs the mantra on her Insta-
gram account (1.7 million followers,
in case you were wondering).

Of course, part of the reason fash-
ion loves her almost to the point of
fetishization is that her flamboyant
style is camp. When it’s not hitting
on minimalism, fashion has a ma-
jor crush on camp. Also, it probably
doesn’t hurt that she looks so affluent
and content.

Her Manhattan apartment bubbles
with colorful, exotic, sometimes pre-
cious pieces she has collected over
seven decades – her day job, with
Carl, was running their own textile
company. She helped decorate the
White House for nine presidents and
had various celebrity clients includ-
ing Greta Garbo and Estee Lauder.
“No two homes we did ever looked
alike,” she says. You can believe her.

Apfel has become a go-to when
companies need an older figurehead
and she has genuine flair. “I dress my-
self and home to please me, I am not
influenced by others and don’t take
myself too seriously – humor is im-
portant,” she says.

Because her flamboyant style
comes so naturally to her, she can’t

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The denim jacket is back – here’s how to wear it

BY CAROLINE LEAPER that only a teenager should wear it.
The Telegraph These polar contradictions have fed

The denim jacket has had a bad into the worker jacket’s reincarnation.
rap in fashion for over a decade now. Now it’s back, and the way to wear it
It’s impressive, in a way, that an item is grown up but not drab, relaxed but
can simultaneously be shunned as not ragged.
the epitome of frumpy, unmodern
style by some, and by others viewed The designer versions that are lead-
as something so ripped and edgy ing the comeback feel quite polished
– which is, yes, ironic for utility pieces.
Loewe’s leather logo patch jacket has
sold out repeatedly, and then there’s

Emilia Wickstead’s denim items is that you
pristine white Ionie can so clearly see what
style (a cool $1,500) you are getting for your
designed to be money, based on the
matched with the quality of finishes
most ladylike and the state of the
denim A-line always-unlined in-
midi skirt. side.
Your cut can
Those may be oversized or
be catwalk ide- cropped, waist-
als, but they serve defining or de-
to demonstrate signed to be worn
the versatility of a open. Whistles’ se-
denim jacket in all lection spans blaz-
scenarios and the er shapes, to easy
fact that you can overshirts, and the
wear one any- French labels Sé-
where now. zane and Claudie
Pierlot have ex-
There are key perimented with
features and w a i s t- c i nc h i n g
proportions to belts and detach-
look for when able lace collars.
buying a denim Colored denim
jacket 2.0. On the jackets are also a
banned list: zany go. Ganni leads the
bleach jobs, child- charge with blush
ish embroideries pink and tobacco,
and ‘distressed’ as well as the clas-
holes that you sic blues, and I
can fit a fist like the thought
through. Desir- of wearing the
ables, mean- khaki on offer
while, include at The Kooples
strategically positioned panels, inven-
tive application of pockets and smart with dark indigo or black jeans, for a
looking, not tarnished, hardware. new take on double denim.

Denim’s distinct felled seam lines The kids on TikTok are styling their
have been used to masterful effect denim jackets in a way that looks like
by good pattern cutters; I like how an early 2000s throwback. For those
on Benetton’s indigo style they curve of us who were very much there the
in to create the illusion of a nipped first time around, the way to move it
waist, and on Reiss’ ‘Phillipa’ would on is by wearing yours with more tai-
frame the small of one’s back. lored cotton trousers, silk tops and
glossy leather sandals. Pair the rough
A standout contrasting stitch color with the smooth, the utility with the
will also make a jacket look more ex- refined, and all will work out for the
pensive than it is. The thing about all worker jacket once more. 

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No sneakers over 40? Enough with the ageism in fashion

BY TAMARA ABRAHAM about what we should and
The Telegraph shouldn’t wear, and more about
expressing yourself through
I thought we’d moved past telling wom- your wardrobe. Yes, there are
en what to wear according to their age. trends, and yes there are dress
Apparently not. codes for certain occasions and
locations, but there’s plenty of
Apparently I am too old to be wear- space to experiment within
ing ripped jeans. And in a few months, those parameters.
when I turn 40, I’ll have aged out of
wearing fashion trainers too. What’s more, I find that
many women look better as
This is according to a survey of 2,000 they age, because they have a
shoppers conducted by comfortable better understanding of how
shoe specialist Hotter – the results to take care of themselves,
were released last week. whether it’s a skincare routine
or a favorite workout, as well as
The groan I emitted when this press how to dress to express their
release landed in my inbox was so au- personality and flatter their
dible, I’m surprised you didn’t hear it body shape. Adding age re-
from wherever you happen to be read- strictions to fashion items fails
ing this right now. I genuinely thought to acknowledge how different
we had moved past telling women we all are.
what to wear according to their age a
long time ago. Maybe it’s time to stop with
these surveys peddling out-
I won’t be the only one who finds it dated ideas instead? They’re
ludicrous that the survey participants ageist and boring – where’s
think 39 is too old to wear miniskirts the fun in wearing exclusively
(a major trend this autumn that I don’t sensible shoes from the age of
plan to miss out on, see head of fash- 40, anyway? 
ion Lisa Armstrong’s guide to wearing
them at any age), neon colors (they’ve sure to “dress their age.” “Hotter be-
forgotten how sensational the Queen lieves that all women should be able to
looks in acid green), animal print express themselves and dress however
(leopard is a neutral, duh), hoodies makes them happy and comfortable,”
(my dog-walking go-to) and skinny their statement reads.
jeans.
The brand is still, however, giving
When I turn 40, they think I should a platform to these outdated ideas
say goodbye to wearing low-cut tops, just by suggesting that we are break-
and when I’m 41, I should apparently ing conventions by being ‘brave’ and
hang up my bikini for good (could wearing what we want anyway. In re-
somebody tell J-Lo, 52, as I don’t think ality, I don’t think there’s any need to
she got the memo). These people sur- start applauding each other for wear-
veyed also concluded that 44 is too old ing fashion trainers or skinny jeans –
to be wearing high heels (I suppose by in 2021 these are wardrobe basics for
then I should just stay home and wait women of any age.
for my Social Security to arrive).
Perhaps the people surveyed hadn’t
I’m aware that I may have been bait- heard, but these days, fashion is less
ed a bit by this brand. They have suc-
cessfully persuaded me to dedicate
some time, effort and column inches
to getting angry about this press re-
lease. But what really bothers me is
that it perpetuates the idea of women
being too old to do or wear certain
things, simply by asking the question
in a survey.

It reminds people to contemplate
whether it is actually offensive to see
a pair of 40-something knees peek-
ing out of a pair of well-worn jeans –
if the respondents hadn’t been asked
the question, the thought probably
wouldn’t have crossed their minds.

I should clarify that Hotter Shoes
isn’t endorsing these ideas; this survey
is a tool through which the company
can tout its inclusivity in a world where
women are faced with societal pres-

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