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mentors around, many of whom be- painter, she says she learned that
came friends, and still are.” skill initially by painting Ameri-
can Indians in their native dress.
By observing them work, she could She became well-versed in the vari-
scrutinize their painting styles and ous tribes after studying the photo-
would chit chat; asking, for example, graphs by Edward Curtis of the early
about the type of paint they used, or Western landscapes and peoples.
their favorite brushes.
Burgarella moved here 18 years
“That’s why it was a fantastic way ago and soon immersed herself in
to learn, and I made so many good the arts community. She has been on
friends. I had an unusual start to my the boards of the Vero Beach and Se-
art career, and I immersed myself bastian Art Clubs and played an ac-
so fast and so hard, in combination tive part in establishing the 14th Av-
with a natural talent,” says Burgarel- enue Arts District, going door to door
la, who has painted seriously since to gather information and working
1999. on marketing and brochures. “If you

Now an accomplished portrait

PHOTOS, STORY CONTINUED ON PAGE 52 tion.
“I learned everything from oil, to
thought I would be next,” she says.
Her two girls were grown by then, pastels, to acrylic, you name it, and I
learned it from good artists. And that
but not knowing when or if she might is how I learned to paint. I had a lot of
become ill, she decided she wouldn’t
have time to go to art school. Instead,
she took some lessons from local art-
ists and started a plein air group, in-
viting other artists in her Connecti-
cut shoreline community to join.

“It was a unique way to learn paint-
ing,” says Burgarella. “I gathered the
best of the best. The deal was, every-
thing was free. I would find a beauti-
ful place to paint and get them there
at no charge. But I would be able to
set up my easel next to whomever I
liked, so I had a really diverse educa-

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build it, they will come,” she quotes. Conservation Society’s annual In- um’s Rolling Sculpture: Streamlined
Toward the end of the pandemic, dian River Bird and Nature Art Show Art Deco Automobiles and Motor-
at the Environmental Learning Cen- cycles exhibit, she is designing a lo-
Burgarella and Camy DeMario, a ter, where she received First Place cal scene involving the Vero Theatre
children’s book author/illustrator, ribbons in both oil and acrylic. They on 14th Avenue, which was built in
put together an art show at the Raw join the many other awards she has the Art Deco style, that will feature a
Space Gallery called Keeping the received throughout the years. 1920s-style car and couple.
Arts Alive.
Burgarella has taught classes at “I only have 15 hours to get the
“Everyone was so frustrated and the VBMA for nearly a decade, pri- students from beginning to finished
wanted to do something,” she says, marily in portraiture, but often to painting, so I give students the out-
noting that the well-attended show complement its current exhibits. line of the features. They learn how
raised money for charity, and drew Her recent plein air and photo real- to mix flesh colors, how to paint
more than 250 entries. ism classes were coordinated with ears, the nose, hair, the glisten and
the museum’s James Balog photo- glow of the eyes,” says Burgarella.
Her own artwork is frequently ac- graphic exhibit, Changing Nature: A She includes as much as she can into
cepted at juried shows, including at New Vision. the three-hour, five-week courses,
the Vero Beach Art Club Gallery and and refers students to her blogs if
the Vero Beach Museum of Art. She In 2023, to compliment the muse-
was recently in the Pelican Island

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they need further instruction.
“The students watch my paintings

take shape. It’s a great way to learn.
They see me making mistakes and
correct them and witness the joy I
project in my painting process.”

Burgarella, who considers art the
best type of therapy, says she now
sees everything through the eyes of
an artist.

“Just driving down the street, I
could do 40 paintings with what I
see; a beautiful set of clouds, or the
way light falls on a tree. Paintings
that don’t have light and shadows
are flat, and don’t look natural. Light
brings a painting to life. I teach my
students to see the colors in clouds,
and how to add even more color,
like lavender, lime green, blues and
greys, and how to make those col-
ors.”

Burgarella imparts her knowledge
freely.

“I’m not in competition with any-
body. I just like to share, and I love to
see people getting better and going
on to bigger and better things. That’s
what I love about art. If you are get-
ting bored, change your medium,

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change your art club. There is an- created, and ideas for the future. housed in a storage unit and, often, and passion for art has enriched the
other set of people just as interesting Additionally, she and her daugh- furniture from Burgarella’s own lives of others, conveying in them an
in another club.” home, they try to make listings more equal appreciation.
ter Robin Burgarella, a Realtor at saleable. “The before and after is
Burgarella works from a home stu- Dale Sorenson Real Estate, work on amazing,” she says. “It’s a rich life here in Indian River
dio that is filled with art books, can- “beautification” projects and house- County if you’re in the arts. So many
vases, paints and brushes as well as staging. Gifted with boundless energy and artsy things going on, and I try my
photos of every painting she has ever an infectious joy, her knowledge best to do them all.” 
Drawing from an inventory

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COMING UP! St. Helen’s Harvest Festival means super-sized fun

BY PAM HARBAUGH val. The festival is cashless, so you St. Helen’s Harvest Festival.
Correspondent need to purchase wrist bands for
food and rides. You can get unlim-
You may not be ready for this, but the ited rides with a wrist band start-
holidays are quickly approaching. So ing at $30, and $22 worth of food
get your happy hat on and start your and games starting at $20. There
shopping. will be a raffle for a $10,000 grand
prize, $2,500 second prize, plus a
1 Four days of carnival fun, com- mountain bike, big-screen TV, and
plete with rides, food, games gift cards to local restaurants and
stores. with tickets selling at $20
and vendors, are on tap at the 56th for one, $50 for three and $100 for

annual St. Helen’s Harvest Festi-

V2enrdo ABnenauchalPFiupneds raanisderDCruomncsert.

six. Vendors ing baseball and basket-
include the Ladybug ball games, a cake walk, a
Boutique which will offer up crafts, “gone fishing” game, face
baby items, Christmas decor, and painting, and much more.
raffle tickets for a Raggedy Ann
and Andy and three quilts. Food The St. Helen’s Harvest
booths will serve up cotton candy, Festival runs 5 p.m. to
sausage and peppers, and chicken 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
parm, Millie’s Soup Pot, jerk chick- 17, 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Fri-
en and hamburgers. There will also day, Nov. 18, noon to 11
be game booths galore, includ-
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19,
and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 20. The location is at the Jackie
Robinson Training Complex, 3901
26th St., Vero Beach. For more in-
formation, visit StHelenVero.org or
call 772-567-5129.

2 Hear the melodic and melan-
choly tunes of Scottish, Irish

and American cultures when the

Vero Beach Pipes and Drums per-

forms in its 2nd Annual Fundraiser

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ARTS & THEATRE The Vero BSheaocwh.
Fall Boat

Concert Friday evening at the First 4 The Coastal Conservation As- more. Tickets start at boats, shallow
Presbyterian Church in Vero Beach. $150 for adults and $55 water skiffs,
The concert is a fundraiser for the sociation will have its Florida for youths. The Inter- personal wa-
organization, which strives to pro- Treasure Coast Banquet & Auction generational Center is tercraft and
mote interest and excellence in this Thursday evening at the Indian Riv- at 1590 9th St. SW, Vero cruisers. There
musical genre. The group teaches er County Intergenerational Center. Beach. Call 772-473- will also be fishing machines, ma-
both piping and drumming and The evening includes an open bar, 8475 or 772-216-3890. rine accessories, services and plenty
performs in parades, concerts and a 14 Bones dinner and an auction. of goodies you can pick up as gifts for
competitions. It was founded in 2015 This is the organization’s 17th an- 5 The Vero Beach Fall Boat Show your nautically inclined sweetie. Food
by Drum Master John Thompson nual banquet/auction fundraiser. and refreshments will be available.
and Pipe Master Jacob Craig, who is Funds raised will help the CCA in runs this weekend at River- The Vero Beach Fall Boat Show runs 10
also the director of music and arts its support of Florida’s marine re- side Park. There will be boat dealers a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, and 10
at the First Presbyterian Church of sources. The evening starts at 6 p.m. and suppliers displaying products, a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, at Riv-
Vero Beach. If you are interested in Thursday, Nov. 17, with an open answering questions and probably erside Park in Vero Beach. Both park-
joining, rehearsals take place 7 p.m. bar and appetizers. Dinner follows. whetting your appetite for all things ing and admission are free. For more
to 9 p.m. Mondays. The 2nd Annual There will also be extensive raffles nautical. You can see a range of prod- information, call 772-562-7922 or visit
Fundraiser Concert begins 7 p.m. and auctions for trips, artwork and ucts, including standup paddleboards VeroBeachBoatShow.com. 
Friday, Nov. 18, in McAfee Hall at the and kayaks, deck boats and pontoon
First Presbyterian Church, 520 Roy-
al Palm Blvd. Get there by 6:30 p.m.
and you can enter multiple raffles.
There is free admission to the con-
cert, but a $10 donation is suggested.
For more information, call 772-562-
9088 or visit VeroBeachPipesAnd-
Drums.org.

3 Enjoy beautiful, romantic
music at the Flute & Piano

Concert held Sunday afternoon at

Christ by the Sea United Method-

Flute & Piano Concert at Christ by
the Sea United Methodist Church.

ist Church. The concert features
flutist Nora Lee Garcia and pianist
Marcos Flores performing Claude
Debussy’s haunting “Syrinx” and
“Clair de Lune.” Also performed will
be sonatas by Poulenc and Gnatalli
and works by Taffanel and Foote.
The concert begins 3 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 20, at Christ by the Sea, 3755
Highway A1A, Vero Beach. Tickets
are $25 general and $10 youth. Call
772-231-1661 or visit CBTSUMC.org/
Concert-Series.

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Bonz befriends dog-and-duck buds Presley and Indy

Hi Dog Buddies! counter: In Indy’s case, ON down under the water an swim
around together. WAY fun! An jet
I’m thinkin’ all you pooches who en- the counter, standing arrow- skiin’. One time we came across this
joy chasing sticks are having lotsa fun guy whose boat wouldn’t go. It was
recently cuzza the over-uh-BUN-dunce straight on a large Pet Pee Pad. just driftin’. So me an Dad towed
of sticks all over everywhere. Am I right? him in on our jet ski!
(If I were you, I probly wouldn’t fetch “I’ll be the Spokesduck,” he
any that were heaped up in big piles by “Yep,” noted Presley, “We’re Boat
the street. Just sayin’.) announced. Peeple. Every weekend we go out on
the boat. I lounge on deck, an Indy
This week I innerviewed BFFs Presley “An I’ll chime in as needed,” swims. If we’re with a buncha other
Rau an Indy Hardee, who live right on Boat Peeple, he swims from boat to
the river. Presley, a stylish English bull- Presley added. boat for snacks an pats.”
dog with that wonderful squishy face,
greeted me an my assistant. “Stop me if I’m talking too “Oh, an last month,” Indy said with
pride, “I got to be the Flower Boy for
“Welcome, Bonz! Make yourself com- fast,” said Indy. our frens Gary an Ceci’s wedding. I
fy. This is my Mom, Kenna, an Indy’s wore a flower wreath anna bow tie.”
Dad, Danny. It’s gonna be fun tellin’ “Ackshully,” I replied, “I
you about our famly an all our ad-VEN- “What about bedtime? Fave food-
churs an …” thought you ducks did a lotta, stuffs?” I inquired.

Suddenly Presley sprung to his feet, well, Quacking, but …” “I sleep with my special blanket, an
jumped behind the couch an hollered Ellie, my elephant stuffy. I’m not puh-
“DUCK!!!” “Lemme just press pause Indy.PHOTO: JOSHUA KODIS TICK-u-ler about food, but I do enjoy
right now,” Indy interrupted. alligator-shaped Whimzee snacks,” ad-
I yelped in suh-prize, my notebook “Only the lady ducks quack. mitted Presley.
went flyin’, an I dived behind the couch.
Us drakes (guy ducks) don’t “Me, I love MEALY worms, dried OR
“What the woof was …” I began, then wiggly,” said Indy. “Also MINN-ows.
realized Presley was laughin’. Quack. We do this other Dad pours ’em inna bowl of water an I
can slurp 4 dozen minnows in 15 sec-
‘GOTCHA!” he said. “Works every stuff, called rasping. An only us drakes lady standing beside him.) “She got me onds. Us ducks sleep with one eye open,
time!” cuzza being close to the bottom of the
have this Fashion Forward curvy tail in a whole other state, MISH-uh-gin, food chain.”
“Beg pardon?”
“Sorry, Bonz. We couldn’t resist,” Pre- feather.” when I was just a pupper. I’m 7 now. Heading home, I was thinkin’ about
sley said. “I’d like you to meet my liddle my two fun new frens, an pickshurin’
brother an Bestie, Indy Hardee.” “Got it! Thanks,” I acknowledged. “When we first met, I was like ‘Leave Indy onna plane, orange legs dangling,
By the time I came out from behind seatbelt fastened an a liddle bag of
the couch an retreeved my notebook, “I’m 2 now. An I’m ackshully Dad’s me alone, Featherface.’ But the silly crispy mealyworms on the tray table in
a snowy white duck was standing next front of him.
to Presley: orange bill an swim-fin feet, second duck named Indy. He picked the liddle fluffball just kept bouncin’ up to
red ID ankle band, deep blue eyes, one Till next time,
curvy tail feather that stood out from name cuz he drives really fast race cars me. So, after about 5 months, I started
the others, and he was makin’ nonstop The Bonz
raspy sounds. Even though I’m not what an Indy’s the name of one of the racing thinkin’ of him like a baby brother. Now
you could call conversant in Duck, I Don’t Be Shy
KNEW he was laughin’, too. places. When Indy 1 went to Water Fowl we’re Total Brothers Under the Fur an
The two shared a congratulatory We are always looking for pets
High Paw/High Wing, an I agreed, “You Heaven 2 years ago, right away Dad real- Feathers. I watch over him when we go with interesting stories.
guys got me good. This is gonna be a fun
innerview!” ly missed havin’ a duck buddy. No suh- out, on the beach or wherever we run To set up an interview, email
We gathered around the kitchen [email protected].
prise. I mean, us ducks are Very Smart into my dog buddies. See, Indy’s the

AN hansome. Speshully my spee-cees, kinda duck that can’t fly. They’re way

the Pekin Duck. (We’re also very duh- too heavy for their liddle wings.” (He

lishus, but we won’t get into that.) Any- leaned in closer an lowered his voice.)

way, Dad went to a duck store in Bartow “That’s cuzza bein’ raised for, you know,

an picked me, a fuzzy yellow pingpong foodstuffs for humans. Which I don’t

ball of fluff, 5 days old, fresh outta my even like to think about.”

egg. Cuzza being newly hatched, I did “Woof! I guess not!” I smoothly

the duck thing of imprinting on the first changed the subject. “Do you guys play

cree-chur to give me foodstuffs an cud- together?”

dles. Which was Dad. He’s Totally Top “We hang out together, but I’m more,

Duck! He had a cozy liddle spot for me shall I say, sedentary,” Presley replied.

in his car an I just sat there all the way “My favrite activities are sunbathin’,

home. I’ve ridden in every one of Dad’s rollin’ in the grass, an nappin’. I tried

vee-hickles! Now my biggest goal is to to learn to swim but I kept sinking like

ride inna plane.” a rock. Mom even got me floaties, but

“When did you an Presley meet?” swimmin’ just isn’t my thing. I do wear

Presley entered the conversation. “It a life jacket when we go out in the boat.”

was about 2 years ago, when his Dad “WELL, swimmin’ is MY thing,” Indy

met my Mom, Kenna.” (He nudged the piped up. “Me an Dad dive all the way

‘UNSTRUGGLE’

LASER-FOCUSED ON
MENTAL HEALTH CARE

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‘Unstruggle’ campaign laser-focused on mental health care

BY KERRY FIRTH we all struggle with something.” Brett Hall. lem in their lifetime,” Adair said.
Correspondent At a launch reception attended “But the rate since the pandemic
PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS has nearly doubled.
A coalition of agencies and indi- by some 100 mental health profes-
viduals launched “Unstruggle” in sionals and advocates the keynote and advocate concerning men- “The problem is that we never
October, a program aimed at in- speaker was Ian Adair, “a nonprofit tal health awareness and mental talk about it for fear of losing our
creasing awareness and treatment industry influencer, TEDx speaker, health in the workplace,” according jobs or being judged by others”
of mental health problems in Indi- to his online bio. added Adair, author of the 2020
an River County. book “Stronger than Stigma: A Call
“Normally, one in five people will to Action.”
The rate of hospitalizations due experience a mental health prob-
to mental health is 44 percent high- “On top of that, the media [usu-
er in Indian River County than the ally] only talks about the mental
state average and suicides are 11 health crisis when there is a trau-
percent higher, according to Brett matic event like a mass shooting or
Hall, executive director of the Men- a celebrity suicide. We have to get
tal Health Collaborative of Indian people talking about it and elimi-
River County. Alarmingly, the rate nate the stigma.”
of mood/depressive disorders for
young people is a full 50 percent The Unstruggle campaign is the
higher than the state average. latest in a series of community
efforts to provide more and bet-
“Our ‘Unstruggle’ campaign is ter assistance to people suffering
designed to help residents see a from mental illness in Indian River
path forward in which they don’t County.
need to struggle with mental health
challenges,” said Hall. “Through A community coach bus wrapped
community support and profes- with the Unstruggle slogan “When life
sional help, their struggles can be is a struggle – getting help shouldn’t
addressed. We strive to erase those be” is traversing the county as a mo-
stigmas and normalize the fact that bile billboard creating awareness
about mental healthcare availability.
Soon the message will be broadcast

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on radio and delivered in print. in a mutual purpose to improve life 19th Judicial Court Judge Cyn- ting people the services they need
Mental health advocates in In- in her beloved Indian River County. thia Cox has been involved with the to keep them out of the justice sys-
Mental Health Collaborative from tem.
dian River County will act as ‘Un- She rallied local leaders including the very beginning. As a family
struggle’ ambassadors who will law enforcement officials, health- court judge, she is acutely aware of “We all struggle with our mental
help publicize the program in care and elected officials, and Unit- the need for easier access to mental health at some point in time and
churches, schools, community ed Way representatives to discuss health help. that’s what this ‘Unstruggle’ cam-
groups and social media. They will the flaws of mental health care in paign is all about,” Cox continued.
also direct residents to local pro- the community. She convinced the “About 90 percent of our court “By destigmatizing mental illness
viders and programs and to the Mc- group to join her in forming the cases involve some degree of mental and educating the public about the
Cabe Connections Center, a central Mental Health Collaborative of Indi- health instability,” she said. services available in the commu-
access point for supporting the an River County to work toward the nity, we hope more people will seek
mental health needs of the county, common goal of erasing the stigma “Back in 2015, Sheriff Daryl Loar the help they need so they no longer
which was created by a woman who of mental illness and providing easy and I spearheaded a subcommittee have to live with their pain.”
lost her son to suicide. access to mental health treatment. of the Mental Health Collaborative
The Collaborative’s flagship project that paved the way for Mental Health For more information, call 772-
The McCabe Connections Center was establishing the McCabe Con- Court in Indian River County. 217-3663 or visit www.unstruggle.
was launched in 2017 by the Men- nections Center. org or www.mhcollaborative.org. 
tal Health Collaborative of Indian “The Mental Health Collabora-
River County as a one-stop place tion has been instrumental in get-
for those experiencing difficulties
gaining access to mental health
and substance abuse services. The
Connections staff assists those
struggling with mental health or
substance disorders, and provides
referrals to community mental
health and substance abuse provid-
ers best suited to meet their needs.

By streamlining and simplifying
the screening process they elimi-
nate barriers and get people help
more quickly. Their goal is to obtain
appointments on behalf of each in-
dividual within five days in order
to deal with current suffering and
lessen the risk of future distress.
They also do timely follow-ups to
ensure a positive outcome. Insur-
ance is not required nor is there a
fee for the service.

The Mental Health Collaborative
is a nonprofit organization, estab-
lished in 2004, whose mission is to
establish a continuum of care for
mental health made up of private
and public funders, mental health
providers and others who work in
collaboration to increase access,
decrease duplication, and facilitate
community-wide support for men-
tal health solutions.

The organization was birthed
from tragedy, when the eldest son
of local philanthropist Eleonora
McCabe committed suicide af-
ter struggling with mental illness.
While she couldn’t change her
son’s fate or the cloud of grief that
engulfed her family, she found sol-
ace through her philanthropy and
set about helping others in similar
situations. She focused on learning
about mental health and became
a champion for changing outdated
opinions and treatment.

McCabe was president of the
Robert F. and Eleonora W. McCabe
Foundation, which funded many
nonprofit organizations, and was
widely recognized for her chari-
table giving. Her greatest gift, how-
ever, was her ability to unify com-
munity leaders and philanthropists

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Speedy scientific workout you can do almost anywhere

BY GRETCHEN REYNOLDS consists of five simple exercises: high out of five exercises was as effective as pants repeated this run/walk interval
The Washington Post knees, squat jumps, scissor jacks, running at the gym, Bellissimo and five times, rested for two minutes, and
jumping lunges and modified bur- her colleagues rounded up 12 healthy, then did the entire workout again.
Stuck for time or space to exercise? pees (no push-up required.) active men and women in their 20s or Each round of exercise took 11 min-
A newly published study may have the early 30s. On one day, they asked them utes.
workout for you. There’s one caveat: You must per- to sprint through a typical version of
form the exercises – or simplified vari- intervals, running on a treadmill at On another day, the exercise shifted
Start by lifting your knees up one ations of them – with sufficient enthu- top speed for one minute, then walk- to the five common moves designed
at a time, like a prancing marionette. siasm and vigor. ing for another minute. The partici- to tax the lower body. The volunteers
Then squat, hop, lunge and perform bopped and lunged through as many
burpees for five minutes of calisthen- To find out if this bodyweight work- of each exercise as they could com-
ics, with a few minutes of walking in plete in one minute, stepped in place
between. You’ll get about as much for a minute, then headed on to the
exercise as if you had run hard on next exercise. After resting for two
a treadmill at the gym, but without minutes at the end, they repeated the
leaving your living room or work cu- routine.
bicle.
During both workouts, the scien-
The study is one of the first to look tists monitored people’s heart rates,
into whether a quick bodyweight oxygen consumption and feelings
workout “can be called high-intensity about how hard the exertion felt. Af-
exercise,” said Gabriella Bellissimo, a terward, they asked how much people
doctoral candidate at the University of enjoyed each workout and checked
New Mexico in Albuquerque, who led in the following days on muscle sore-
the new study. ness.

The study suggests the answer is The result? Both workouts raised
yes. The results show you can get an people’s heart rates and oxygen con-
effective aerobic and strength work- sumption substantially, meaning they
out at home, or wherever you hap- both constituted effective, aerobic ex-
pen to be, in less time than you might ercise. There were slight differences.
take for a coffee break. The workout The treadmill sprints required more

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oxygen, suggesting they might stress Even so, “there is value in conduct-
the cardiovascular system and build ing studies like this,” he said. “It’s
endurance marginally more than the important to characterize the physi-
bodyweight exercises. ological responses” during and after
various workouts, to reassure people
The bodyweight workout, on the who may be tempted to squat-jump
other hand caused greater soreness, and scissor-kick that their exertions
indicating it demanded more of peo- will have the desired effects.
ple’s muscles, probably resulting, over
time, in larger gains in leg strength. If you would like to try bodyweight
The volunteers also said the body- HIIT, Bellissimo said, feel free to
weight routine felt more strenuous, tweak or totally rejigger the study’s
although it lasted for the same few workout to suit your fitness and cir-
minutes as the running. cumstances. Do the full set of exer-
cises only once, instead of twice, for
Overall, the study shows a basic instance. Slow down during any of the
bodyweight workout “can definitely exercises.
be called high-intensity exercise,”
Bellissimo said. More precisely, she Or, if you feel capable and hyper-
continued, the running and body- competitive, beat the study partici-
weight workouts both count as high- pants’ high-knees average, which was
intensity interval training or HIIT, one 185 per minute. Add in the burpee
of the buzziest of fitness terms. push-up, unused in this study, if you
want upper-body exercise, or use a
In HIIT exercise, a brief spurt of chair to make the burpees or squats
strenuous exertion alternates with less taxing.
rest. Scientists already knew tread-
mill intervals count as HIIT. This “Try to finish each interval, how-
study helps establish that calisthenics ever you can,” said Bellissimo, who
at home or a quiet corner of the office is studying a dialed-down version of
or your favorite park deliver intense bodyweight HIIT with older people
exercise, too. who have health concerns. They are
tolerating the exercise well so far, she
This study was quite small and only said.
measured the effects of a single instance
of each of the workouts, said Martin “The beauty of intervals is that they
Gibala, a professor of kinesiology at Mc- are intense, yes, but then, they’re
Master University in Hamilton, Canada. done.” 

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Collagen supplements for your skin and joints: What to know

BY ALLY WADYKA
The Washington Post

Collagen is the most abundant
protein in our bodies. It’s used to
make all our connective tissues –
including skin, bones, blood ves-
sels, cartilage, ligaments, muscles
and tendons. That has led scien-
tists to look into whether consum-
ing collagen supplements can keep
skin and joints youthful as we age.
The answer is maybe.

Meanwhile, collagen supple-
ments are already popular. In a
recent Consumer Reports’ nation-
ally representative survey of more
than 3,000 U.S. adults, 7 percent of
men and 19 percent of women said
they’ve used collagen. And among
the 27 percent of Americans who
said they’ve ever taken any type of
supplements for nail, skin or hair
health, 3 in 10 have used collagen
for that reason.

Here’s what you need to know if
you’re considering taking a colla-
gen supplement.

What does it do? “Collagen is like

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the frame of your mattress, pro- supplementation does have a ben- reported joint pain by 26 percent mal protein, such as meat and fish.
viding necessary structure and eficial effect on collagen turnover to 33 percent. And a 2018 study, “Bone broth and tough cuts of
support to tissues in the skin and rates in older adults,” says Keith published in the journal Nutrients,
other areas of the body,” says Josh- Baar, professor of molecular exer- looked at the effect of collagen on meat, like brisket or pot roast, con-
ua Zeichner, associate professor of cise physiology at the University of bone density in postmenopausal tain lots of connective tissue, which
dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospi- California at Davis. women. Those who took a 5-gram is made up of collagen,” Baum says.
tal in New York. collagen supplement had signifi- But you don’t need to eat collagen
A 2017 review of several small cant increases in the spine and to make collagen. “When you eat
When you’re young, the body studies of people with osteoar- neck vs. those who got a placebo. any type of protein [animal- or
continually produces new collagen thritis concluded that daily col- (The study was partly funded by a plant-based], your body breaks it
and degrades the old – meaning lagen supplements (between 10 supplement manufacturer.) down into individual amino acids,”
there’s always a plentiful supply to milligrams and 40 mg) decreased Baum says. These are reassembled
feed those connective tissues. But “I do think that future research to make proteins your body needs,
as with many things, production of will show more positive effects,” including collagen.
it slows down as we age. Lifestyle Baar says. “But the quality of the
factors can also affect your supply. current data isn’t super-high, and “The type of protein doesn’t mat-
we need evidence from large, long- ter as much as making sure you’re
“Sun exposure, smoking, exces- term trials.” getting adequate amounts of essen-
sive alcohol or sugar intake, lack of tial amino acids in your diet,” she
sleep and being sedentary can ac- And supplements have a down- says. For older adults, that’s about
celerate the loss of collagen,” says side: They aren’t regulated by the 25 to 30 grams of protein per meal.
Jamie I. Baum, director of the Cen- Food and Drug Administration, so
ter for Human Nutrition at the Uni- there’s no guarantee that you’re We know that vitamin C, zinc
versity of Arkansas in Fayetteville. getting exactly what the package and copper help with collagen pro-
Before you know it, you’re losing claims. duction, and other dietary factors
collagen faster than you can re- may also play a role. Researchers in
place it. Heavy metal contamination is Baar’s lab are looking at micronu-
also a concern. In 2020, the Or- trients (such as phytoestrogens in
Without the structure that colla- ganic Consumers Association and soy and polyphenols in dark choco-
gen fibers provide, skin starts to sag the Clean Label Project tested 28 late) that may increase the body’s
and wrinkle. Without enough fresh, brands of collagen supplements ability to make more collagen even
spongy collagen in your cartilage, and found that many contained ar- as we age.
tendons, ligaments and joints can senic, lead, mercury and cadmium.
be less flexible. “I have a feeling we’re going to
Best ways to get this protein: For find that groups who traditionally
What about the science? The re- now, you can enhance collagen pro- eat those foods will show lower
search is far from definitive, but duction by following a healthy diet. rates of musculoskeletal problems,”
“some data suggests that collagen Collagen is found naturally in ani- he says. 

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Old Fashioned Medical Care Why aren’t there more
ways to treat alcoholism?
on the Treasure Coast

Personalized Touch
Direct Primary Care

Helping Patients and Families Achieve BY KATHERINE ELLISON tions into the hands of doctors and
Optimal Health and Wellness their patients has proved difficult,
The Washington Post said George Koob, director of the
Bruce Murray, M.D. Sandy Potter, R.N. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
Board Certified With 45 Years News organizations were quick to and Alcoholism (NIAAA), adding “it
of Caring trumpet the recent findings of a small doesn’t go for lack of trying.”
“Country Doctor at Heart” study suggesting that “magic mush-
rooms” could be part of a breakthrough Lack of awareness by doctors, fund-
We Still Have Space Available. treatment for alcoholism. ing decisions by the pharmaceutical
Call us to schedule a visit! industry and the stigma surrounding
We would love to meet you. It’s no wonder. Every year, alcohol alcoholism have all held up progress,
abuse kills more than 140,000 Ameri- he said.
cans and affects millions more, with
a steep increase in deaths in recent Can pills help?
years, according to recent data pub- Ron and other researchers say medi-
lished by the Centers for Disease Con- cation can play a vital role in combating
trol and Prevention. But excitement alcohol use disorder, the medical con-
about the psilocybin study also raises dition commonly known as alcohol-
a question: Why aren’t there more ism. But fewer than 2 percent of people
medical treatments for such an obvi- with an alcohol addiction take medica-
ously devastating problem? tion for the condition, national surveys
show, compared with 13.4 percent of
“There is a desperate need for new those dealing with opioid addiction.
medications, and there are many A possible contributing factor is that
good avenues that we’re pursuing,” existing treatments are limited. Since
said Dorit Ron, a neurology professor 1949, the Food and Drug Administra-
at the University of California at San tion has approved just three medica-
Francisco Medical Center, who has tions to treat heavy drinking, none of
been studying potential treatments which is commonly used. Nor are sev-
that include rapamycin, a drug de- eral medications that doctors some-
signed to help transplant patients tol- times prescribe “off label” – without
erate new organs. FDA approval for use as an alcoholism

But getting promising new medica-

The Doctor is Always in!

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treatment – including gabapentin, ba- Researchers led by Michael Bogen- knew they existed, said Koob, adding: “I But yet another factor is lack of in-
clofen, topiramate and ondansetron. schutz, the director of the NYU Lan- dare you to ask any primary care doctor terest by the large pharmaceutical
gone Center for Psychedelic Medi- to name even one of them.” firms that once paid for many of the
Several researchers said problems cine, studied 93 people diagnosed costly trials needed for FDA approval
with the existing FDA-approved medi- with alcohol use disorder. Those who In its ongoing efforts to address this of psychiatric drugs, including those
cations, including limited efficacy, play received two doses of psilocybin re- problem, Koob said, the NIAAA this for addiction, Koob added. This is
into undertreatment. duced their alcohol consumption by year launched an online educational a particular problem, he said, with
83 percent within eight months, com- program, “The Healthcare Profes- repurposed drugs such as gabapen-
Acamprosate, which can dull crav- pared with 51 percent of those who re- sional’s Core Resource on Alcohol,” tin and rapamycin that have shown
ings in patients who have already ceived a placebo. that offers continuing education cred- promise in treating alcoholism in tri-
stopped drinking, must be taken its on topics including alcohol’s clini- als but which have expired patents,
three times a day and cannot be used Twenty-five percent, including Kos- cal effects and strategies for preven- making them less lucrative to sell.
by people with kidney problems. Na- tas, who first received psilocybin in tion and treatment.
ltrexone, designed to block the plea- 2015, stopped drinking altogether, the Andrew Powaleny, a spokesman
sure of drinking, can block the plea- study says, compared with 9 percent Patients may be even more in the for PhRMA, a lobbying association for
sure of other activities, such as eating, who took the placebo. dark about medications than their major pharmaceutical firms, took is-
and cannot be used by those with doctors. sue with Koob’s characterization. Pow-
liver failure, which frequently accom- All the participants received an ex- aleny shared a 2019 report showing
panies alcohol abuse disorder. Di- traordinary amount of psychotherapy: Unlike drugs for depression, cancer that biopharmaceutical research firms
sulfiram, marketed as Antabuse, can 12 outpatient sessions, each lasting an and erectile dysfunction, medications were developing 138 medicines to treat
cause headaches, nausea, choking hour to 90 minutes, plus two all-day for alcoholism are not abundantly pro- mental illness, including six for exces-
and vomiting following consumption sessions for those who took the drug. moted on television or in magazines, sive drinking. As of mid-September,
of even small amounts of alcohol. This was key both to ensure patients’ even as ads for alcohol and positive Powaleny said, the number of alcohol
safety while experiencing an altered portrayals of drinking abound. use disorder medications in develop-
“I tried them all,” said Jon Kostas, 32, state of reality and to provide maxi- ment had risen to 17.
who took his first drink at age 13 and mum benefit, Bogenschutz said. “A lot of people still think all you can
was drinking so heavily by age 25 that do is go to rehab for 28 days and then Regardless, Ron said she has not
doctors warned him he might not live While it’s still unknown precisely [Alcoholics Anonymous] for the rest of heard from pharmaceutical firms in-
until 30. “Nothing worked.” how the psilocybin helps, it may work your life,” Bogenschutz said. Surveys terested in furthering her research,
by magnifying the effect of the therapy, suggest many patients are reluctant to even as news reports on her studies
Looking to psilocybin such that “the person who has taken do that, with fewer than 6 percent of of existing drugs have generated let-
Desperate for another answer, Kos- the drug becomes more open … and those with alcohol use disorder getting ters from people seeking to join clini-
tas, who today runs a nonprofit group more flexible and willing to learn new treatment of any kind. cal trials.
advocating research into medical uses behaviors and patterns,” he added.
of psychedelics, was one of the first pa- Stigma and research Ron and other researchers continue
tients to join the psilocybin study, re- Hurdles and hopes The stigma surrounding someone’s to hope their work will one day make a
sults of which were published in August The three FDA-approved drugs could lack of control with alcohol can also meaningful difference. 
in JAMA. help many more people if doctors only make both patients and doctors hesi-
tant to discuss treatment, Koob said.

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Blood, bile, melancholy, phlegm: Medicine in the Bard’s day

BY ERIN BLAKEMORE and yellow bile were all thought to rule work to understand everything from
The Washington Post human bodies and behaviors, affecting the seasons to stages of life.
everything from attitude to interests
How’s your blood and bile? Are you and fueling disease. Ancient Greeks such as Aristotle and
melancholic or phlegmatic? Hippocrates helped popularize the
The theory of bodily humors has long theory. The humors, they thought, were
In early medicine, those questions since been discredited and discarded. linked to both personality characteris-
were keys to the bodily humors – four But in the time of William Shakespeare, tics and age. If a person was cold and
substances linking physical illness to the humors were thought to dictate phlegmatic, for example, they would be
emotional states and shaping how phy- emotions of anger, grief, hope and fear mature and prefer intellectual activi-
sicians and patients alike understood – and if they were out of balance, people ties. A hot and dry person was thought
their bodies and lives. Phlegm, blood surmised that sickness or emotional to be choleric and ruled by yellow bile,
associated with childhood and sum-
chaos would ensue. mer.
Now, an online exhibition from the
The exhibition uses characters from
National Library of Medicine explores Shakespeare’s plays to illustrate the
the humors as Shakespeare and his supposed effects of the humors. There’s
contemporaries understood them, Katharine Minola of “The Taming of
with the help of antique illustrations the Shrew,” a sharp-tongued woman
and the playwright’s words. thought to have too much choler, the
melancholic Ophelia of “Hamlet,”
“‘And there’s the humor of it!’ Shake- whose melancholia demonstrated an
speare and the Four Humors” uses rare excess of black bile, and more.
books from the National Library of
Medicine and the Folger Shakespeare The days of the humors are long
Library to explore the now-defunct gone, but the exhibition is a fun intro-
theory, which people used as a frame- duction to their supposed power – and
their ongoing relevance in the Bard’s
timeless plays.

You can explore the exhibition at bit.ly/
ShakesHumors. 

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Glucosamine and chondroitin may help reduce joint pain

BY FRED CICETTI dal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) relieving qualities, the supplements these supplements could diminish
Columnist such as ibuprofen (Advil) and naproxen have yet to pass a test that would qualify structural damage from osteoarthritis
(Aleve) may be used. them to be a primary treatment for os- of the knee. At the end of the ancil-
Q. Are glucosamine and chondroitin teoarthritis. More research is needed. lary study, the team had gathered data
good for arthritis? Many people say glucosamine and on 581 knees. After assessing the data,
chondroitin can relieve the symptoms In one study, the combination of glu- the researchers concluded that glucos-
A. Arthritis is inflammation of the of osteoarthritis. In the United States, cosamine and chondroitin did not pro- amine and chondroitin appeared to
joints. Osteoarthritis is the most prev- glucosamine and chondroitin are sold vide significant relief from osteoarthri- do no better than placebo in slowing
alent form of the condition. An esti- as dietary supplements, which are tis pain among all participants. A total loss of cartilage in osteoarthritis of the
mated 27 million adults in the United regulated as foods rather than drugs. of 1,583 people with an average age of knee.
States live with osteoarthritis. The annual sales of the supplements 59 participated in the study.
around the world are about $2 billion. Another important study was done
You get osteoarthritis when carti- However, for a subset of participants by Dr. Peter Juni of the University of To-
lage – the cushioning tissue within the Glucosamine and chondroitin are with moderate-to-severe pain, glucos- ronto, and Dr. Andrew Sherman at the
joints – wears down. The disease af- two molecules in joint cartilage. Treat- amine combined with chondroitin pro- University of Miami.
fects both men and women. By age 65, ment with these supplements is based vided statistically significant pain relief
more than 50 percent of us have osteo- on the theory that consuming them compared with placebo. Researchers For that study, the investigators ana-
arthritis in at least one joint. may speed the formation of new carti- said these findings need to be con- lyzed the results of 10 randomized clin-
lage. firmed in further studies because of the ical trials involving more than 3,800 pa-
Osteoarthritis can affect any joint, small size of this subgroup. tients with knee or hip osteoarthritis.
but it usually strikes those that support There is no proof that glucosamine They found no clinically relevant effect
weight. Common signs of osteoarthri- and chondroitin help form new carti- This research was funded by the Na- of chondroitin, glucosamine or both
tis include joint pain, swelling, and ten- lage, but there are studies indicating tional Institutes of Health (NIH). Re- taken together on joint pain.
derness. that the supplements relieve pain bet- searchers led by rheumatologist Dan-
ter than placebos. The pain reduction iel O. Clegg, M.D., of the University of “We need to look more closely at
Treatments for osteoarthritis include found in these studies was similar to Utah, School of Medicine, conducted these over-the-counter medications
exercise, joint care, dieting, medicines results obtained by NSAIDs. However, the 4-year study known as the Glucos- that claim to be panaceas and may not
and surgery. For pain relief, doctors NSAIDS have side effects including gas- amine/chondroitin Arthritis Interven- be giving us our money’s worth,” Dr.
usually start with acetaminophen, the trointestinal bleeding. Glucosamine tion Trial (GAIT) at 16 sites across the Sherman said.
medicine in Tylenol, because the side and chondroitin have few side effects. United States.
effects are minimal. If acetaminophen Should you try the supplements?
does not relieve pain, then non-steroi- While there are indications that glu- The GAIT study included an addi- Not without consulting your personal
cosamine and chondroitin have pain- tional inquiry to investigate whether physician. 



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Fall looks to help you feel t hankful and grateful

It’s that time of year again when we can finally start to feel cozy and not brutally
hot. Pumpkin spice, leather, layers, sweaters, boots, oh my! Here are some looks
to get you in the spirit because, let’s face it, your turkey doesn’t have to be the only
thing well dressed on Thanksgiving. 

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The reason French women
always look good at parties

BY LISA ARMSTRONG
The Telegraph

Top model Caroline de Maigret on her Caroline de Maigret
midlife style inspiration and the lessons
we can all take from Chanel’s 2022/23 eled silk heels in this collection. She
Cruise collection. loves jumpsuits (there’s a slew of slouchy
tweed and checked ones so timelessly
It’s mid-afternoon in Miami, three cut they raise the genre to the equiva-
hours before Chanel’s Cruise show on lent of a modern little black dress). Oc-
the city’s famously endless beach. Caro- casionally she’ll put on a skirt, but un-
line de Maigret, a longstanding ambas- less it’s a maxi she ends up changing
sador for the house and one of the after- back into trousers.
show party’s guests of honor is telling
me about her plans to launch a rock/ One imagines her relaxed approach
soul band next year. comes from an abundance of self con-
fidence. But de Maigret has her share
A PR pro and her manager are itching of insecurities. In her co-authored 2020
to whisk her off to get ready for the eve- book “Older, But Better, But Older,” she
ning, but we all know it won’t take long. confesses to an early hatred of her low-
Dressed in faded jeans, a white linen slung bottom, which had been pointed
blouse with billowing sleeves, and some out to her by a callow boy.
dangly chain and pearl Chanel earrings,
47-year-old de Maigret epitomizes a Later in the book, she writes a poem to
shrug-shouldered nonchalance that the her bum, thanking it for sticking around
world has come to associate with a cer- and apologizing for trying to starve it
tain kind of low-maintenance effortless into submission when she was young-
Parisian style, that seems increasingly er. As a result of her bottom hang-up,
rare in a world where more and more she’d worked out a style strategy by the
take a highly interventionist approach time she got to university. “I borrowed
to fashion and beauty. some trousers, oversized, from my older
brother, and belted them high, a white
I say low maintenance, but, as de shirt and rolled-up the sleeves and I
Maigret is the first to point out, as one went to college that first day dressed like
ages, it’s more about strategic mainte- him. Everyone told me I looked so cool,
nance. “The more creased my face gets, I realized I had to understand why. It’s
the more brushed my hair,” she laughs, just about finding the proportions that
from beneath a thick mane of wind- work for your body and your personal-
swept Robinson Crusoe-esque hair and ity,” she summarizes.
her trademark blunt fringe. That, rather
than having layers of makeup, is what This is all about pushing a detail a lit-
will keep her groomers busy over the tle further for a more interesting result.
next hour. “The wrong kind of make-up
can be aging. On me, red lipstick doesn’t
work anymore, it makes me look hard. I
don’t like foundation. Just a sheer tint.”
(FYI: Chanel’s Eau de Teint.)

She doesn’t need much eye make-up
because that fringe is sufficient empha-
sis. “Lots of mascara and at night, some
eye-liner, and I love Shu Uemura’s hair
oils. You put a few drops on and blow or
air dry, and all the frizz is gone”. She also
swears by Virtue Lab’s Full Shampoo
which she says transformed her hair.

I can’t see Maigret going overboard
with “festive” gimmicks and frou frou
this season. Even in Miami, the ultimate
frou frou town, she doesn’t betray her
pared-back day-to-night pragmatism.
When I see her at the party, she’s wear-
ing a checked tweed Chanel jacket and
trousers. Apart from the blow dry and
eye-liner, it’s more or less her day look.
Sometimes at night she adds heels.

She likes flat or high, not in between
– there are beautiful 1950s inspired jew-

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Marion Cotillard De Maigret is any party, never pre- legacy, “I think the proportions are clos-
tall, slim; rangy, vented from having er to the body now. It’s very feminine.”
“These trousers weren’t just wide trou- long legged and fun by her clothes)
sers that hid what I disliked. They gave long necked, as you that appealed to Karl De Maigret has her run of Chanel
me a devil-may-care attitude.” Marion would expect of Lagerfeld, whom she collections, but she never looks over-
Cotillard, who also attended the Miami someone who has interviewed in the done. To avoid looking frumpy or aged
show, has a similar knack for pushing a modelled profes- back of a van for a ra- in the classics she so loves, she always
detail – in Cotillard’s case it’s her eyes, sionally, on and off, dio show for Jalouse asks, “What would Keith Richards do?”
and a love of quirk that twists her classic since their early 20s. Magazine. “We had Answer: Roll up the sleeves, undo half
Chanel ensembles. But she’s not emaci- a blast,” she recalls. A the buttons and wear it with a tangle of
ated like many style few days later, she re- necklaces. In this she’s like Viard, who’s
mavens. She has wrinkles, likes to lie ceived an invitation to model in a Cha- cut from the same, quietly rebellious,
on the beach and swim in the sea. She nel show in St Tropez. She was 39. low-key school of style.
has a charming gap between her front It was the start of “older” models be-
teeth and never had her magnificent ing reappraised and approached for a The Miami resort show is one of her
nose standardized. In a world that second act in their modelling careers, best to date, filled with glamorous but
seems to be increasingly dominated by although by then, de Maigret had forged (strange as it sounds) also useful gems,
cookie cutter “ironed out” blandness, several others, including music produc- from gold tweed jackets and sequined
Maigret’s gunslinger spirit seems all ing. She shares similar musical tastes jogging pants to Lurex knits and floaty
the more enticing. (rock and soul) with Virginie Viard, La- chiffon dresses, printed with Formula
gerfeld’s successor, and admires the way One checkered flags. It’s timeless which
It was her attitude and humor (you Viard has subtly tweaked Lagerfeld’s is, as de Maigret points out, “what
know she’ll quietly be the backbone of makes it so special. You’re going to wear
this forever.”

Even if you don’t have a Chanel bud-
get, there are lessons here; a cropped
tweed jacket in a lighter color, satin
shoes, sheer black tights, flowing silky
trousers and blouses. Wear everything
just that little bit loose for maximum
ease and a modern sensibility. Replace
boring buttons on shirts or cardigans
with jeweled ones, head to LK Bennett
or Arket for some seriously good tweed
jackets and channel Keith Richards in
whatever quantity suits. 

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WINE COLUMN

Record temps, wildfires wreak havoc on Europe’s winemakers

BY ELIN McCOY Angel Hsu, a climate scientist at Univer- High temperatures that persist can active fires over the past 10 days.
Bloomberg sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. sunburn grapes, which won’t ripen In the Douro Valley, famous for port,
well, and also hydric stress, which de-
In Portugal’s Douro Valley on July 7, By now wine lovers know how a mix prives the vines of enough water to heat has been brutal, with recent tem-
a wildfire burned close to Oscar Que- of high temperatures, drought, and flourish. They react by accumulating peratures the highest since 1941. Most
vedo’s Quinta da Alegria vineyard. By gusty winds make it easy to spark a sugar more slowly, which delays ripen- of the country is in severe drought.
the middle of the night, flames sur- wildfire and hard to stop its spread. ing and harvest. Grapes are smaller,
rounded it. The vines around the edges Europe’s fire season came earlier than yields drop, and quality suffers. Rob Symington, whose family has
burned. In his 39 years, Quevedo says, usual this year. Land has burned in 27 vineyards and eight wineries in the
“I had never seen such a big and fast France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, among Growers in such places as the Loire Douro Valley and in Alentejo, says fire
fire in the heart of the Douro.” others; thousands of people have been Valley don’t seem worried about fire has not been a problem, but heat is re-
evacuated, and many have died. and smoke. Further south, in Bor- ducing crop size. “The next four to six
All over Europe, temperatures in deaux, the story is different. Two major weeks, until harvest, will be crucial,”
wine regions have been sweltering at Even if a fire doesn’t burn vines, fires started around July 12, one along he adds. “If temperatures cool slightly
new highs, and heat waves are moving smoke from nearby flames can ruin the coast near resort town Arcachon and a small amount of rain falls, the
north into such normally cool coun- crops for miles. When heavy smoke and the other in a pine forest south of harvest could be positive. “
tries as Germany. hangs over vines for days, it can cause Bordeaux, close to the vineyards in the
smoke taint in the grapes, which gives Graves region. Current weather maps of Spain are
Increasingly intense heat waves are wines an ashy taste. In the past, this completely red, indicating extreme
signaling that conditions could be- has affected wines in Napa and So- A raging fire was so close to the tiny temperatures everywhere. Fires blazed
come even more extreme and unpre- noma in California and in Australia. Liber Pater vineyard that police or- in regions such as Castilla y Leon,
dictable over time. dered it evacuated on July 18. Before whose stars are Vega Sicilia and Pin-
Still, rural fires are affecting only leaving, owner Loic Pasquet created gus, and Andalusia, noted for sherry.
“Europe has been warming faster some wine areas, while just about ev- firewalls to try to block flames. Luckily,
than the global average,” says professor erywhere vineyards are suffering from the wind shifted, saving his vines from Though there are no fires in Rias
extreme heat and ensuing drought. smoke. The average price of his reds is Baixas, they are elsewhere in Galicia
a cool $4,000 a bottle, and the rare 2015 in the northwest, where fire burned
vintage goes for $33,000. part of a vineyard at Virgen del Galir,
an estate that’s now part of the large
The good news is that no vines have family owned CVNE portfolio. CEO
burned, and the smoke seems to be Victor Urrutia emailed a photograph
blowing away from the vineyards, ac- that showed blackened trees around
cording to Cecile Ha of the CIVB, the the vines, like sentinels warning of cli-
wine trade association. Still, forecast- mate change.
ers predict very high temperatures
over the next few days. Hot fire spots in Catalonia, in Spain’s
northeast, are now under control; the
One solution to excessive heat may Torres winery reports that none came
be agroforestry. Bordeaux pioneer close to its vineyards there or in other
Château Haut-Bages Liberal in Pauil- parts of the country. 
lac planted trees in the vineyards to
provide shade, cool the air, and create
humidity, convinced that this helps its
vines cope better with heat and stress.

“Unfortunately, wildfires are a
threat to all regions in Portugal,” ex-
plains Frederico Falcao, president of
ViniPortugal. No burned vineyards
have been officially reported, al-
though the Civil Protection authority
(ANEPC) website has listed dozens of

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REAL ESTATE

Elegant, move-in-ready home hits market in old Riomar

BY STEPHANIE LABAFF
Staff Writer

The oak-canopied streets of old
Riomar evoke a sense of nostalgia for
bygone days, helping make this quiet
enclave one of the most sought-after
neighborhoods in Vero’s charming
beachside village.

Located in Riomar’s legacy estate came upon Vero, we knew this is
section, the relatively new home at where we wanted to live.” One of the
925 Bay Oak Lane home overlooks the draws for them was Vero’s proximity
first fairway and front nine of the Rio- to and from Palm Beach.
mar Country Club golf course.
The house, nestled between several
The owners, who moved from New older homes, is located just across the
York to Vero Beach about 30 years ago, street from the Riomar Country Club
say this is the favorite of the 12 homes and adjacent to a home designed by
they have built. It was designed by ar- a famous architect nearly a century
chitect Greg Anderson and built by ago.
Reilly Construction eight years ago
on one of the few undeveloped lots Anderson says the owners were
left in Riomar. very involved in the design of the
house, and their love of architecture
“When we started our search for a and design is evident. They took great
Florida residence, we started on the care to stay in harmony with charm-
west coast and then looked on the ing ambiance of old Riomar.
east coast from Palm Beach north,”
said one of the owners. “Once we The house reflects Spanish-Medi-
terranean influences from the other

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houses along Bay Oak Lane, explains pavers lead guests into a walled visitors with access to the private, tensive attention to detail, including
Anderson, with features including courtyard that is an outdoor ante- western-facing courtyard. mahogany trim work and high-end
the clay, barrel tile roof, arches and chamber for the front entrance. marble, stone and wood flooring.
pillars. The elegance of the home features
Once through the 10-foot-tall, vaulted ceilings, fine finishes, and ex- French doors topped with clear-
“The house is a real jewel box of the double entry doors, a formal recep-
perfect size,” said one of the owners. tion area opens into the formal living
“It’s all on one floor, very private and and dining rooms at the center of the
a short and safe distance from the house.
ocean.”
En suite guest bedrooms are locat-
Wanting to embrace the subtropi- ed on both sides of the foyer. On the
cal environs, the owners created pri- eastern side of the house, dark, rich
vate courtyard spaces on both sides wood encases the suite currently be-
of the house, says Anderson. ing used as a study, an elegant room
offering pool and golf course views.
“The house is deceiving from the
road. It’s much larger than it appears The second guest suite, laundry
because of the way that it extends to room, powder room and garage ac-
the back,” he adds. cess are on the opposite side of the
house, creating a secluded space for
At the top of the circle drive, brick

VITAL STATISTICS
925 BAY OAK LANE

Neighborhood: Riomar • Year built: 2014
Architect: Gregory Anderson • Builder: Reilly Construction

Construction: Concrete block with stucco
Lot size: 110 feet by 174 feet • Home size: 4,074 square feet

Bedrooms: 3 • Bathrooms: 3 full baths and 1 half-bath
Pool: Heated, black bottom swimming pool and spillover spa

View: Pool and garden
Additional features: Study; Wolfe appliances; warming drawer; wet bar;
wine cooler; vaulted ceilings; carpet, marble and walnut wood flooring;
two gas fireplaces; storm panels; impact resistant doors and windows;
whole home generator; 1,000-gallon propane tank; two irrigation wells;

electric car charger power outlet; and two-car garage
Listing agency: Premier Estate Properties
Listing agent: Lange Sykes, 772-473-7983
Listing price: $6,595,000

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REAL ESTATE Separate hallways lead to the kitch-
en and family room on one side and
story windows line both sides of the to sit in a courtyard opposite the sun to the primary suite at the rear of the
formal living and dining rooms. They at peak times of the day. house on the other.
can be thrown open to access the
courtyards on either side, creating a A wet bar with underlit onyx coun- In the gourmet kitchen, with quartz
gracious and expansive space for en- tertop is located between the formal counters, glass-tile backsplashes,
tertaining. and casual areas of the house, allow- professional-grade appliances and a
ing for optimal access when enter-
This layout also enables the owner taining.

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built-in desk ensure that food prep- nition between the kitchen and fam- closet, bidet, dressing room and two “The neighborhood is great; we are
aration is a pleasure and that the ily room, perfect as a spot to lay out a oversized custom-fitted closets. a short distance from Vero’s [beach-
household runs smoothly. The built- buffet. side village] ... in an area where golf
in breakfast nook provides a lovely, Outside, sitting on the wraparound carts are allowed to roam. We are
casual spot for morning coffee and The primary suite offers an “oa- loggia, new owners will enjoy views of members of Quail and Riomar, which
afternoon snacks. sis of tranquility,” with access to the the black-bottom pool and spillover we can access by golf carts,” says one
private western courtyard, a marble spa in the privacy of the park-like gar- of the owners.
A large island provides a bit of defi- bathroom with a garden tub, water den.

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Old Riomar is conveniently located REAL ESTATE
between Vero’s two bridges, with easy
access to beachside and mainland lo- trees. It’s just a short walk, bike or golf and the Vero Beach Museum of Art in
cations. One of the first areas settled cart ride to Quail Valley River Club, Riverside Park.
along the ocean, the neighborhood Riomar Country Club, Riomar Beach
is rich in history and known for its access, and shopping and dining on Also in or near the park are the mu-
charming old fairytale-like live oak Ocean Drive. nicipal tennis center, an outdoor ex-
ercise training circuit, a boat launch,
Cultural offerings are available the City Marina and a large, shady
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Blackstone’s $70B real estate fund for investors is losing steam

BY DAWN LIM AND JOHN GITTELSOHN tel and casino; a 76-story New York it drivers, expanding property invest-
Bloomberg skyscraper designed by Frank Gehry; ing in private markets to the masses.
and a sprawling Florida complex for
In just over five years, a Blackstone interns working at the Walt Disney Now, the money machine is facing
Inc. real estate fund for small inves- World Resort. its biggest test. Rising interest rates
tors has turned into a $70 billion force threaten to drag down property val-
in the U.S. economy. Unlike with many real estate in- ues and make cheap debt harder to
vestment trusts, its shares don’t trade come by.
It has swallowed up apartments, on exchanges. But fueled by billions
suburban homes, dorms, data cen- of dollars from affluent individuals, Even though the BREIT strategy is
ters, hotels and shopping centers. It Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust outperforming stocks – total net re-
owns Las Vegas’s lavish Bellagio ho- has become one of the firm’s top prof- turns for its most popular share class
were 9.3 percent in the nine months
ended September – inflows are slow-
ing and redemptions are up.

Wealth advisers at some banks are
growing cautious about client expo-
sure to more illiquid investments. At
UBS Group AG, some advisers have
been shaving their exposure to BREIT
after the fund’s massive growth made
it too big a piece of clients’ savings,
according to people close to the bank.
Staffers at Bank of America Corp.’s
Merrill Lynch have been reviewing
client portfolios more closely in this
market to assess customers’ exposure
to REITs that don’t trade on exchang-
es, other people said.

After years of attracting investors
chasing yield at a time of rock-bottom
interest rates, BREIT is coming under
new pressure. It has thresholds on
how much money investors can take
out, meaning if too many people head
for the exits, it may have to restrict
withdrawals or raise its limits.

BREIT was built to weather chal-
lenging markets, said Nadeem
Meghji, head of Blackstone Real Estate
Americas, with its portfolio heavily
weighted toward rental housing and
warehouse assets in the U.S. Sun Belt.

“This is exactly what you want to
own in an environment like we are in
today,” he said in a statement.

The REIT has piled into $21 billion
worth of interest-rate swaps this year
to hedge against higher debt costs.
Such swaps have appreciated by $4.4
billion, helping to buoy the portfolio’s
overall value.

BREIT “is operated with substantial
liquidity and is structured to never be
a forced seller of assets,” Meghji said.
“All of this enables BREIT to deliver
outstanding performance for its in-
vestors.”

Blackstone executives are personal-
ly invested: President Jon Gray has put
$100 million more of his own money
in BREIT since July, as has Chief Ex-
ecutive Officer Steve Schwarzman,
according to a person close to the
company. All told, the firm’s employ-
ees have some $1.1 billion of their own
money in the REIT.

Still, money going into BREIT fell
sharply in the third quarter. It took in

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$1.2 billion in net flows, down from ing Blackstone staffers just after the over the years in pursuit of individuals’ Kim Kardashian and Ariana Grande.
$7.7 billion in the year-earlier period. fund’s launch: “If you don’t raise $20 cash, while the fundraising circuit for When someone invests money in
Investors added about 50 percent less billion, you should be ashamed of pensions and large investors’ money
new money. Withdrawals have risen yourselves.” became more crowded. BREIT, they put in more than $150,000
approximately 15-fold. A chunk of re- on average, according to a person fa-
demptions have been tied to Asian in- Blackstone employees at the meet- The entry of the world’s largest al- miliar with the matter. The constant
vestors seeking cash in volatile mar- ing looked concerned, Gannon said, ternative-asset manager into nontrad- flows fueled a hunt for acquisitions
kets, the person close to the firm said. “as though I put a target on their ed REITs sparked an arms race, with that one Blackstone real estate staffer
backs.” Gray, one of the fund’s master- Starwood Capital Group, KKR & Co. described as unrelenting.
Blackstone set up BREIT as a semi- minds, had a different response, tell- and others launching similar funds.
liquid product. It has an overall limit ing lieutenants: “I told you so.” When markets surged, BREIT and oth- BREIT was Blackstone’s biggest
on investors cashing out of 2 percent of er rivals in 2021 and early 2022 were driver of earnings in the last quarter
the fund’s net asset value each month, BREIT gave Blackstone an early key players in a fundraising boom “as of 2021. The fund takes in 1.25 percent
or 5 percent each quarter, although mover position in the untapped multi- action-packed as Pete Davidson’s love of assets in fees and 12.5 percent of
the fund’s board has final discretion to trillion-dollar market for individual in- life,” analysts with real estate analyt- returns – higher fees than traditional
raise or lower these thresholds. vestors. It was a key plank of the firm’s ics firm Green Street wrote in May, stock-and-bond funds. Advisers have
bid to become a bigger retail brand. referring to the comedian who dated won big too, collecting upfront com-
In June, the most recent date where Other private equity firms followed suit missions on some BREIT customers. 
monthly data was publicly available,
the REIT had redemption requests of
1.96 percent of the fund. If BREIT were
to limit investors’ ability to take out
money, it would send ripple effects
through the real estate world because
of the fund’s size and importance as a
bellwether for financial markets.

“It doesn’t mean it’s bad, wrong,
or it’s going to happen tomorrow,”
said Rob Brown, chief investment
officer for Integrated Financial Part-
ners, a wealth advisory firm based in
Waltham, Massachusetts. But some
retail investors may be caught off
guard if they assumed they could get
their money when they wanted, he
said.

Concerns about sluggish fundrais-
ing and a broader slump in dealmak-
ing have been weighing on Blackstone
shares: The stock is down 31 percent
this year, exceeding the 22-percent
decline in the S&P 500, as of two
weeks ago.

BREIT’s launch in 2017 was seismic
for nontraded real estate investment
trusts. That was a corner of finance
with a tarnished reputation because
of high fees, low returns and an ac-
counting scandal that roiled the then-
largest sponsor of such REITs.

The pitch for the trusts can be com-
pelling: A person can take a stake in
a swath of properties and collect divi-
dends, benefiting from rising real es-
tate values without stock-market gy-
rations.

BREIT stood out. It let smaller in-
vestors come in with as little as $2,500
and stay on as long as they wished, al-
lowing for limited redemptions each
month. That’s a contrast to most buy-
out funds that take in money from
pensions and big investors, which re-
quire multiyear commitments. BRE-
IT was less expensive than unlisted
REITs of its time but more expensive
than typical mutual funds.

At first, people inside the firm
weren’t sure if BREIT could live up
to the ambitions of top Blackstone
leaders.

Kevin Gannon, chief executive of-
ficer of real estate investment bank
Robert A. Stanger & Co., recalls tell-

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Real Estate Sales on the Barrier Island: Nov. 3 to Nov. 9

Preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Nicole last week saw real estate activity slow to a
near halt on the barrier island, with just three transactions recorded.

Our featured sale was of a residence in Old Orchid. The home at 9465 West Maiden Court
was listed on Aug. 29 for $749,000. The asking price more recently was $699,900. The sale
closed on Nov.11 for $675,000.

The seller in the transaction was represented by Cheryl Gerstner and Kit Fields of Alex
MacWilliam Inc. The purchaser in the transaction was represented by Mayra Centonze
of Compass Florida.

SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCES AND LOTS

SUBDIVISION ADDRESS LISTED ORIGINAL MOST RECENT SOLD SELLING
ASKING PRICE ASKING PRICE PRICE
$875,000
$675,000
ORCHID ISLE ESTATES 8640 SEACREST DR 8/12/2022 $875,000 $875,000 11/9/2022
$549,900
OLD ORCHID 9465 W MAIDEN CT 8/29/2022 $749,000 $699,900 11/9/2022

TOWNHOMES, VILLAS, CONDOS, MULTIFAMILY AND INVESTMENT

SOUTH PASSAGE 1304 SPYGLASS LN, #1304 7/15/2022 $619,000 $549,900 11/4/2022

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Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales.

Subdivision: South Passage, Address: 1304 Spyglass Ln, Unit #1304 Subdivision: Orchid Isle Estates, Address: 8640 Seacrest Dr

Listing Date: 7/15/2022 Listing Date: 8/12/2022
Original Price: $619,000 Original Price: $875,000
Recent Price: $549,900 Recent Price: $875,000
Sold: 11/4/2022 Sold: 11/9/2022
Selling Price: $549,900 Selling Price: $875,000
Listing Agent: Daina Bertrand Listing Agent: Michael Merrill

Selling Agent: The Moorings Realty Sales Co. Selling Agent: Douglas Elliman Florida LLC

Cheryl Gerstner Michele Mackett

Alex MacWilliam, Inc. ONE Sotheby’s Int’l Realty

Subdivision: Harbor Inn, Address: 2135 Windward Way, #307 Subdivision: Royale Riviera, Address: 935 E Causeway Blvd, #303

Listing Date: 8/30/2022 Listing Date: 7/5/2022
Original Price: $479,000 Original Price: $465,000
Recent Price: $479,000 Recent Price: $465,000
Sold: 11/1/2022 Sold: 10/7/2022
Selling Price: $479,000 Selling Price: $430,000
Listing Agent: Judy Hargarten Listing Agent: Alex & Troy Westover

Selling Agent: The Moorings Realty Sales Co. Selling Agent: Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

Aggie Szymanska & Jennifer Ciecwierz
Saskia Nemeth
Keller Williams Realty
Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

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Housing affordable – because the community owns the land

BY ALEXANDER THOMPSON AND JOCELYN YANG bustling coastal city at the mouth of the put that dream out of reach. Zheng U.S. metropolitan areas increased a
Christian Science Monitor Min River, for another port half a world works at a restaurant. Lin works at record-breaking 18.8 percent in 2021.
away on the Charles River in Boston. home. Rents were up by 19.3 percent over the
Life in America was not easy. same period.
“It was crowded,” Meidan “Abby” They shared their first apartment Then a friend told Lin about the
Lin says. in Boston’s Chinatown with another Chinatown Community Land Trust. “As neighborhoods change and
In March 2016, Lin; her husband, Yin family. During nights in that cramped The organization was just getting its gentrify really fast, the idea of having
Zheng; their young son, Yuchen; and space, Lin started dreaming of a place start, but maybe it could help. community control and having more
Zheng’s mother left Fuzhou, China, a she could call her own. But Boston’s say about how neighborhoods are
soaring real estate prices seemed to The group was selling apartments changing and who’s going to be able
at discount prices, and Lin jumped to live in the neighborhood over time,
on the waitlist. But there was only one from an affordability perspective,
apartment big enough for her family. I think becomes really important,”
“I didn’t think we were able to get it,” says Beth Sorce, who works with com-
she says. All she could do was hope. munity land trusts nationwide at the
Grounded Solutions Network, an af-
Community land trusts, many of fordable housing advocacy group.
them recently founded, are pursuing
a novel solution to the nation’s afford- People walk by a brick row house
able housing crisis: They’re buying (on the corner) owned by the China-
their own properties to preserve them town Community Land Trust on Feb.
as affordable housing in perpetuity 9, 2022, in Boston. The building has
and give residents more say over what three affordable apartments, one of
happens in quickly changing neigh- which is owned by Lin’s family.
borhoods.
Community land trusts have been
That mission has gained new urgen- around for decades, but the trend real-
cy over the past year as homeowners ly began to accelerate after the 2008 re-
reap the rewards of a red-hot real es- cession. In 2019, the Schumacher Cen-
tate market while renters are hit with ter for a New Economics counted 215
steep rent hikes, deepening the divide land trusts in the U.S. and estimates
between the housing haves and have- that there are more than 250 today.
nots. Estimates show home values in

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Basically, land trusts raise money and by 2020 she was heading up the Yet, in order to disrupt traditional “When we think about community
from donations, grants and govern- South Bay Community Land Trust. real estate, land trusts “still have to land trusts, so many times we think
ment funds to buy property. Then play in the real estate game,” she adds. about just the homeownership lev-
they lease the house or apartment to a Success has not come easily, though. el,” says Sheldon Clark, who recently
buyer well below market value, but the By definition, land trusts do not Advocates stress that land trusts are served as president of the board of the
trust retains ownership of the land. make profits, and fundraising is the just one tool in a broader approach to Douglass Community Land Trust in
biggest challenge they face. To buy the affordability crisis, but it could be Washington, D.C. “And that really just
This way, occupants typically get their first property, a fourplex in a more effective one with government doesn’t cover the housing needs that
an ownership stake in their homes. downtown San Jose, they need to fun- help. we have.”
They build equity over time, but at a draise at least $1 million, on top of the
rate that is often capped at 1 percent half million dollars they need to pay Sorce, of Grounded Solutions, says Douglass has units it’s maintaining
or 2 percent a year. The trust, which is professional staff and make the orga- state and local governments should as permanently affordable rentals and
governed democratically by residents nization run. Speed is a problem, too. invest money in land trusts and other properties set up as coopera-
and neighbors, can decide to whom Developers snap up properties with change appraisal policies so land trust tives. They’ve also helped tenants take
the dwelling can be sold and at what cash in a matter of days, while the land properties aren’t paying taxes based advantage of a District of Columbia
price, usually through a covenant in trust moves “at the pace of communi- on their speculative value. law that entitles them to buy their unit
the lease. This ensures the property ty,” Rivera says. if their landlord plans to sell. 
remains affordable. With or without such help, land
trusts must innovate to succeed.
The land trust idea was imported to
the United States by civil rights activist
Charles Sherrod in the early 1970s from
the kibbutzim of Israel. Sherrod saw
land trusts as a way for Black Americans
to buy agricultural land in the South.

“We don’t always talk about commu-
nity land trusts as tools of justice, but
they are,” says Andre Perry, a housing
policy expert at the Brookings Institu-
tion. Dr. Perry’s own research shows
that an “intrinsic value of whiteness”
persists at almost every step of home
buying from the appraisal to the sale.
Minorities, but especially Black peo-
ple, must pay more and get less.

By taking property out of the tradi-
tional market, land trusts reduce the
discrimination baked into that system
and empower communities to actively
fight it, Dr. Perry says.

When Susan Saegert, a professor
of environmental psychology at the
City University of New York, com-
pared homebuyers and renters with
land trust homebuyers in several U.S.
cities, she found that the land trust
buyers were more likely to be minori-
ties, especially single mothers. More-
over, she found that they received all
the social benefits of homeownership
– things like stability and a sense of
home – without as many costs.

One of the most striking findings
was in survey data from Minneapolis,
Professor Saegert says. Freed from the
stress of constantly worrying about the
next rent hike or eviction, land trust
homeowners there reported they had
more time to pursue their passions.

“They have breathing space,” Sae-
gert says. “They can now imagine a
better life than before.”

In California, justice is what drives
Jacqueline Rivera and her fellow hous-
ing activists in San Jose. In the heart
of Silicon Valley, where even high-paid
tech employees struggle to find hous-
ing, development was pushing out vi-
brant Black, Hispanic, and immigrant
neighborhoods.

In community conversations Rivera
and her colleagues held around the
city in 2018, land trusts kept coming
up. Rivera grabbed hold of the idea,

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