04/06/2023 ISSUE 14

ARTS & THEATRE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 51 each singer had performed a selection of their choosing, thrilling the rapt listeners and filling the auditorium with the splendor of the human voice at its most awe-inspiring. As in previous years, the Kleinschmidt Family Foundation graciously provided the competition’s top prizes of $10,000, $5,000 and $3,000. This year’s First Prize winner was Cuban-born Eleomar Cuello, an exciting young baritone who movingly delivered the anguished aria, ‘Ah, per sempre … Bel sogno beato’ from Vincenzo Bellini’s “I Puritani,” a tale of romance, heartache and violence set during the English Civil War. In addition to an immensely compelling voice, Cuello commands the stage with dramatic control, an appealing stage presence, and the ability to give every note, every phrase, its due. Cuello has extensive international stage experience, performing at major theaters in Cuba, Nicaragua, Chile, Spain, France and South Korea. Last season, Cuello performed as Alcindoro in Vero Beach Opera’s production of “La Bohème,” and more recently as one of four singers who treated residents of Windsor, a VBO partner in supporting young artists, to a presentation of “Broadway Meets Opera,” featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber showstoppers and opera favorites. Only weeks ago, Cuello was First Place winner in the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Laffont Competition, Southeast Region, and will head to New York City to compete on April 17 in the National Semifinals at the Met. The notable competition is where many internationally renowned opera singers, the great American soprano Renee Fleming among them, got their start. Second Place went to Chattanooga native Chelsea Lehnea, a 2016 alumna of the Sante Fe Opera’s Apprentice Singer program. Already a multi-award winner, the exciting young soprano is known for her “fearless personality, powerful artistry and unique sense of style,” with a voice described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “an excellent combination of tenderness and vocal power.” On the VBO stage, “all of the above” took the audience’s collective breath away, as Lehnea delivered warrior Odabella’s bad-ass aria ‘Santo di Patria’ from Giuseppe Verdi’s lyric drama “Attila,” wowing in shimmery silver-and-black, with an icy white pixie haircut, dramatic dark eyes and a ferociously brilliant vocal and dramatic ability that more than matched her eye-catching physicality. Awarded Third Place was tenor Joshua Wheeker, a Dayton, Ohio, native now living in the Chicago area. Wheeker holds a BA in music from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and is a graduate of the Los Angeles Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist program. Radiating a congenial and approachable charisma, and voice critics have noted for its “warmth and clarity,” Wheeker has performed many of opera’s leading male roles, including Nemorino in “L’Elisir d’Amore,” Don Ottavio in “Don Giovanni,” the Duke of Mantua in “Rigoletto” and others. On the VBO stage, Wheeker brought a clear, precise sensitivity to the role of Des Grieux, the gifted preacher in one of Jules Massenet’s great tenor arias, ‘Ah! Fuyez douce image,’ from “Manon.” Tenor Matthew Cairns won the $3,000 Sergio Franchi Memorial Award as well as an Encouragement Award from the Louis L. Lawson Legacy Fund. A 2022 Grand Finals winner in the Met’s Laffont National Opera Competition, Cairns is currently part of the Met’s Young Artists program. Also receiving $1,000 Encouragement CONTINUED ON PAGE 52 CONTINUED ON PAGE 50 Esther Tonea. Eleomar Cuello. Joshua Wheeker. Rachel Blaustein.

ARTS & THEATRE 52 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Awards were soprano Rachel Blaustein, from the Windsor Foundation; soprano Shaina Martinez, from Tommy and Simonetta Steyer; soprano Esther Tonea, in Memory of Sofia Blanchard; and bass-baritone Le Bu, in Memory of Sofia Blanchard. As a 2022 Laffont winner, Le Bu is in his first year in the Met’s Young Artists program. The evening’s accompanist, collaborative pianist Anna Fateeva, has performed with such luminaries as Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and is an active member of the nonprofit Young Patronesses of Opera, generous supporters of Vero Beach Opera, according to VBO president Joan Ortega-Cowan. How, with eight spectacularly gifted young singers, are the winners chosen? And by whom? The 2023 Rising Stars jury included five individuals whose collective experience, depth of knowledge and attention to detail qualify them well for the daunting task: jury president, VBO artistic advisor Roman Ortega-Cowan, and jurists Gregory Buchalter, music director and conductor of the Varne International and Metropolitan Opera assistant conductor; Eva Franchi, founder of the Sergio Franchi Music Foundation; Susan Neves, Metropolitan Opera singer; and Randall Romig, Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Southeast Region chairman. “VBO now invites young, aspiring singers who have already won a significant number of competitions, awards. In essence, serious, dedicated young artists pursuing a real opera singing career,” says Ortega-Cowen. VBO stages its competitions as a two-tier audition, semifinals and finals, with each singer asked to prepare five arias. In the semifinals, each performed one of their choices, and a second chosen by the judges. On the second day, finals, each performed two more arias, and the judges reached, but did not disclose, their final decisions, which were announced at the Friday evening concert. Criteria concentrates, Ortega-Cowan explains, on six disciplines: the competitor’s presence (demeanor, grooming, poise), personality, technique (control of voice, overall physicality), musicality (pitch, intonation, rhythm), phrasing/ diction (precise, clear delivery, in sync with music). The sixth discipline, interpretation, says Ortega-Cowan, is “the splitting hairs moment when judges compare the true understanding and delivering of a title to the audience. Most judges prefer that singers present the work as written by the author, taking liberties only as notated in the original form. The true impersonation of a character is extremely important in this interpretation context. A charismatic singer, gifted with dramatic ability, technical knowhow and vocal stamina, has an edge in today’s performing environment.” How does a young singer choose such a path? Chelsea Lehnea provided some thoughtful insight. She began singing in church at age 3, then chose opera as a college sophomore, with encouragement from her first voice teacher, when playing Susanna in a school production of Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro.” “I fell in love with the art form. Ever since, opera has become my passion. The experience of painting time with the human voice, matched with all the colors of an orchestra, it thrills my soul like nothing else can. My favorite role so far has been the fiery Musetta in Puccini’s classic ‘La Bohème.’” She lists her dream characters as the title roles in “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “Maria Stuarda,” “Tosca” and “Thaïs.” Asked how she prepares herself for the moment she takes the stage, she shares a thoughtful and endearing scenario. “I start the day with a soft morning, complete with a delicious breakfast and kitty cuddles. Before I sing a note, I like to warm up my entire body with either yoga or a long walk. I fuel up with a continuous stream of La Croix, iced coffee and potatoes. When it’s time to take the stage, I take a moment of gratitude – gratitude for the music, gratitude for the present moment, and gratitude for the experience of live theater, where we thrive as communities.” For more information, visit VeroBeachOpera.org. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 51 Dr. Robert and Marcia Loewinger with Joan and Roman Ortega-Cowan.

ARTS & THEATRE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 53 There will be plenty of family fun at a couple of Easter Eggs events this weekend. First up is the Easter Egg Hunt, which is hosted by the City of Sebastian and the Sebastian Police Department at the Twin Piers at Riverview Park. The Easter Egg Hunt festivities begin 6 p.m. Friday, April 7. There will be a good hour for you to arrive with your little one for photos with the Easter Bunny. There will also be a DJ playing music, candy, prizes and games galore. Then, at 7:15 p.m. promptly, the actual hunting for the eggs begins. Be sure to bring a basket or a bag to collect the eggs and any treats that might by “hiding” as well. But the fun is not over yet. Movie Night starts at 7:45 p.m. with the screening of the PG movie “Peter Rabbit.” This is bound to be plenty of fun. Be sure to get there on time. Twin Piers at Riverview Park is at U.S. 1 and County Road 512, Sebastian. For more information, visit CityOfSebastian.org or call 772-228-7054. The next day arrives with something a bit different – the Treasure Coast Egg Drop. This is the Eggstreme Easter Egg Drop free event where 50,000 eggs are dropped by helicopter onto the grounds at Pathway Church, 1105 58th Ave., Vero Beach. The Egg Hunt will be carried out at various times depending on the child’s age. Here’s the Egg Hunt schedule: 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. the VIP Hunt for families who pre-register early; 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. up to the age of 2; 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. 3 to 4 year olds; 11:15 a.m. to noon, kindergarteners to first-graders; noon to 12:45 p.m. family hunt with mixed ages; 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. second- and third-graders; 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. fourth- and fifthgraders; and 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. family hunt with mixed ages. Now that you know your child’s time slot, here’s how it works: Register ahead of time, arrive before your drop time, check in with your registration confirmation, collect your stamp and bag, line up and watch the helicopter drop, then start collecting the eggs. While you’re not actively engaged in the egg collection, there will plenty of other activities to keep you busy. You can also enjoy the live music, kids games and bounce houses. There will also be food trucks serving up Kona Ice, One Crafty Weenie, Off the Hook, Tavos Tacos, Paisano’s, Espresso Yourself, The Source, High on the Hog, Jeremiah’s Ice, Krazy Fries and Nut House. The Salvation Army will be providing free popcorn and water. There is offsite parking with shuttles at Indian River State College, 6155 College Lane, Vero Beach. Those with VIP and Handicap permits will enter via the 12th street entrance of Pathway Church and exit via the 58th Street exit. For more information and to register for both the Egg Drop time slot or the VIP permit, visit TreasureCoastEggDrop.com. Riverside Theatre is a busy place right now. It has a taut drama already on its smaller stage in the Waxlax Theatre and a big musical about to open on its Stark Stage. And on Saturday, it will present a shortened version of “Seussical, Jr.” outdoors at its Playtime in the Park program. Those pining for gripping drama should make a beeline to see “Oleanna,” a play by David Mamet. The play concerns the “he said/she said” confrontation between a pompous college professor and his female student. Riverside has a truly excellent production of it running through Sunday, April 9. Tickets are $65. The lavish musical “42nd Street,” billed as a “song and dance extravaganza,” opens Tuesday, April 11, and runs through April 30. This musical is one of the most beloved from the American musical theater canon. Tickets for that start at $50 with discounts available for students. Playtime in the Park is a popular series of children’s classes and showcases held on Riverside’s outdoor Loop Stage. This Saturday the program will present something a little different, Riverside’s traveling troupe of young performers in a shortened version of “Seussical, Jr.” Admission to that is free; it starts 11 a.m. Saturday, April 8. Riverside Theatre is at 3250 Riverside Park Dr., Vero Beach. Call 772-231-6990 or visit RiversideTheatre.com. 3 2 COMING UP! 2 egg-citing events for the kiddos this weekend 1 BY PAM HARBAUGH Correspondent

PETS 54 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ It’s always fun doin’ an innerview at Sea Oaks. It’s VERY VERY Pooch Frenly: lotsa paths for leash walkin’; lotsa trees an other sniffable plants an stuff. An, of course, NOO-mer-us pooches! This week, I made a new Sea Oaks pooch pal, Elmo Keller-Williams Jr., a jaunty liddle extrovert, and a Crispy Biscuits mixchur of Mini-Pinscher, Mini-Jack Russell an (already mini) Chihuahua. We met on a nice padio near the tennis courts. (That’s where humans run around bopping tennis balls back an forth over a net, with a funny bopper called a RACK-ut. It’s kinda huhLARRY-us, but us pooches are NOT ALLOWED to paw-ticipate. Altho most of us love playin’ catch with a tennis ball under appropriate circumstances.) But I digress. Elmo an his human were sittin’ atta table in the shade an he pranced right over for the Wag-an-Sniff, super spiffy in a (bran new, he proudly told me) red harness. “Hi, Mr. Bonzo! I’m Elmo! You can call me Elmo. I’m named for a pree-vious Elmo an also for Elmo on ‘Sesame Street,’ cuz we’re both liddle an happy and sorta the same age. He’s 3-anna-haff an I’m gonna be 3 this very month! This is my Mommy, Mer. My Daddy Ray’s elsewhere.” Right away, an free-quently during the innerview, Elmo’d paws to greet passing humans an pooches, who’d call, “Hey, Elmo! “Hi, Elmo! “’Sup, Elmo?” Everybuddy knew Elmo! “A pleasure,” I replied. “You can call me Bonz. Woof, you sure are pupular!” “I have tons of frens!” he replied happily. “So, how’d you find your Furever Famly?” “OK, SO, Mommy an Daddy use to dogsit for a pooch also named Elmo who’d been owned by a human up in DeeCee who couldn’t keep him cuz he didn’t have any place to live: He was sittin’ in front of a big bank building holding Elmo an feeling Very Sad an Concerned. He finally decided the right thing to do was give Elmo to somebuddy who could give him proper care. So he gave Elmo to a human at the bank, who brought Elmo to a shelter.” “Woof!” I exclaimed as Elmo took a breath. “I KNOW, right?” he said. “Anyway, Elmo’s phodo got put on the shelter Website and two ladies wanted him, so they went to the shelter and had three-hour innerviews to be sure they’d be good pooch parents. The lady who got him had an apartment in DeeCee, but Elmo got bored stayin’ in it all day while she was at work. So he went down here to Flori-duh to live with HER mom an dad in a very fancy place called Palm Beach Gardens. It was a Rag-to-Riches sitchew-WAY-shun fur sure! That’s where MY Mommy an Daddy started Dog Sittin’ him an became Very Attached! When he died, they cried an cried an decided they NEVER wanted another pooch!” “Understandable,” I remarked. “But THEN … (an, honestly Mr. Bonzo, I ackshully think that somehow the first Elmo picked ME ’speshully for THEM: I’m almost exactly like him. I look just like him an I have the same outgoing pupanality. I saw his phodo and it’s TROO!) … THEN a fren of a fren of Mommy’s posted on Facebook (which I totally don’t understand) that she had one more puppy left from a litter (me) and hadda find it a home pronto!” “Mommy’s fren suggested me to Mommy an Daddy and they said, ‘NO! NO PUPPY! NEVER! ABSOLUTELY NOT!’ “Until they decided to meet me. When the lady put liddle fluff ball me into Mommy’s arms it was what humans call Love At First Sight. I Totally KNEW I’d found my Furever Famly.” “Understandable!” “Truth be told, Mommy sorta spoils me. She says I’m FABulous! Altho, as a pupper, probably not so much. I LOVED chewin’! (Bein’ a pupper, it’s kinda our JOB!) The furniture was COVERED with munch marks, so Mommy got Magic Markers an colored over them. Also, I ate a record six remotes! An Mommy’s best pair of shoes (proving I have good taste like Mommy, right?). Now there’s a hook on the closet door.” Prudently changing the subject, I asked, “What’s your typical day like?” “Mommy’s my Short Order Cook, cuz they only eat veg-tubbles. I sleep snuggled with Mommy until she accidently bops me with her feet, then I sleep on Daddy. I get along grrreat with humans: They love me at the vet’s. So do Mommy’s tennis pals. Their coach Mr. Marco pats me an plays with me, AN he’s teachin’ me Spanish. I call him Tio Marco. (I don’t really swim, ’cept one time I went to the lagoon with Tio Marco.) “I LOVE the beach. Just not the water. One time I ate so much sand tryin’ to pick up my Frizbee I got sick. Now there’re Frizbees attached to ropes so us pooches can grab ’em without gettin’ a mouth fulla sand. “I know pretty much every Sea Oaks pooch. My BFF’s Tio Marco’s dog, Luneta, an Molly an Ollie are a couple of leash walk pals. Me an my pooch niece Silver, she’s about my size, have a blast over at the Dog Park. “I have lotsa toys. My newest one’s a speshully knitted stuffed carrot! Totally Pawsome! “Mommy always carries blue poop bags Cuz You Never Know, an sometimes, she lets me chew one to bits. It’s a great stress reliever and I NEVER swallow the pieces.” “Do you travel?” “Woof, yes! I’ve been back and forth to Boston an MICHI-gan. I snooze in the back on my speshull blanket. I also enjoy going to rest-runts with Mommy an Daddy. At one place, I get to order off the liddle kids’ menu an the restaurant human even cuts up my burgurr for me! Woof, do I feel speshull!” Sittin’ in the shade yappin’ with amiable Elmo, the hour had zoomed by. Headin’ home I was thinkin’ about his First Elmo tale an how, time after time, pooches find their Purpose in the most speshull and mysterious ways. Till next time, Hi Dog Buddies! Bonz meets Elmo, one of Sea Oaks’ most popular pooches The Bonz Don’t Be Shy We are always looking for pets with interesting stories. To set up an interview, email [email protected]. Elmo. PHOTO BY JOSHUA KODIS

NEW HIGH-TECH THERAPY TREATING SKIN CANCER WITHOUT SCARRING

56 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Being diagnosed with skin cancer is scary enough. But concerns are amplified when the cancer is on the face and surgery could be disfiguring. “One in 5 people will develop some sort of skin cancer in the United States and the odds are even higher when you live in a sunny state like Florida,” said Dr. Anand Haryani, who owns and operates Iconic Dermatology with his wife Dr. Divya Haryani. “The majority of non-melanoma skin cancers are associated with the ultraviolet radiation from the sun, and since we have so much sunshine, skin cancers are prevalent.” For many years, the main option was to surgically remove the cancer, possibly leaving a scar, or in some cases of cancer on the nose or ear, a disfiguration or amputation. “Not everyone wants surgery anymore,” Dr. Anand Haryani continued. “Fortunately, there is now a non-surgical, noninvasive option called image-guided superficial radiation therapy that we are proud to offer in three of our four locations.” Image-Guided Superficial Radiation Therapy uses low levels of X-ray energy to kill cancer cells and allow normal tissue to grow back in its place. High-resolution ultrasound visualization is used to determine tumor size to guide the scope and energy level of the radiation treatNew high-tech therapy treats skin cancer without scarring BY KERRY FIRTH Correspondent Drs. Divya Haryani and Anand Haryani. PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS

Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 57 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ ment. The high-resolution ultrasound is performed during each treatment and after completion in order to make real-time modifications and assessments for treatment response. Patients who have been diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma or some other form of non-melanoma skin cancer and have been told they need Mohs surgery are candidates for the new laser treatment. Iconic Dermatology has partnered with a company called GentleCure to provide this innovative treatment to their patients. GentleCure radiation therapists are highly trained in the use of the radiation treatment device and are full-time employees stationed in each local Iconic Dermatology office. A team of physicists and radiation oncologists at GentleCure’s corporate offices reads the scans in real time to determine the type and depth of the cancer and set parameters of where the margins will be. A physicist calibrates the machine and determines the radiation dosages. “We’ve partnered with GentleCure because they are the experts in the field and they have the offsite personnel with the expertise to do the calculations to say how much radiation they want to give to this area,” Dr. Divya Haryani added. “Ultimately, they are our patients, so we oversee the entire process to make sure everything is going as planned. And every office has its own full-time radiation therapist to ensure continuity of treatment for the patient.” With Image Guided SRT, the patient sits in a chair and a gel is applied at the site of the cancer. Using an imaging wand, the doctors can look at a detailed image of the cancer on a screen and measure the size and shape of the affected area, calculate the treatment dose and define the treatment area. Once complete, the arm of the device will be placed over the treatment site and the exact dose of Xray energy will be used to precisely target the cancer site, penetrating only a few millimeters into the patient’s tissue without harming the healthy tissue around it. Each treatment takes about 15 minutes with 20 treatments given over a five-week period. Before each treatment, the ultrasound measures the depth of the remaining cancer and changes the dosage of radiation if needed. The most recent study on Image Guided SRT published by biomedical.com shows a cure rate of greater than 99 percent, which is equal to the success rate with Mohs surgery. That is without cutting, bleeding or surgical scarring, no recovery time, no anesthesia and no risk for short- or long-term nerve damage, which can occur with Mohs surgery – though Mohs is generally safe and effective. Science Daily reported in a 2020 article that 95 percent of patients were satisfied with the outcome of their Mohs surgery. “We are currently the only practice on the Treasure Coast offering the Image Guided SRT,” Dr. Anand Haryani claimed. “We treat about 20 patients a day in each location and so far the patients have been very satisfied. The ultrasound gives us the ability to look under the skin and actually see the roots of the cancer and then target just the area that is affected. It’s definitely the new wave of treatment.” Iconic Dermatology has grown from one to four locations in less than three years. “Our goal was always to open a practice in central Vero but there wasn’t the right property available when we started,” Dr. Anand Haryani said. “So we opened our location in Wabasso and expanded to Barefoot Bay and Melbourne, yet we were still busting at the seams. When the building in Vero became available, we went for it, spent a year renovating it, and opened in November last year. We’ve grown from just three employees to 35 and we now have the ability to serve the Vero/Sebastian/Melbourne area completely.” “Now that we’ve gone through our growing process, we intend to continue focusing on delivering the best possible care for all of our patients,” Dr. Divya Haryani concluded. Both doctors are board certified dermatologists. Dr. Anand Haryani graduated from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and received his dermatology training at John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago. Dr. Divya Haryani attended the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and completed her residency in dermatology at the University of South Florida and Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. They see patients at their offices in Vero Beach, Wabasso, Barefoot Bay and Melbourne. Call 772-247-6224 or visit iconicderm.com to get more information or make an appointment.

58 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Attention! If you’re like most people, you’re probably wondering what has happened to yours. Dr. Whitney Legler, a neuropsychologist/psychologist with a practice in Vero Beach, says people of all ages are experiencing shortened attention spans, caused by several ongoing social factors and exacerbated by COVID-19 lifestyle changes. “Technology certainly has a lot to do with it,” she says. “It overstimulates us with constant reminders, distracting us and taking our attention away from what we’re doing. Bings and the other sounds that our phones and tablets now make constantly intrude, encouraging us to react quickly.” According to the Wall Street Journal, a study done by a research team at the University of California, Irvine working with Microsoft Research found that in 2004 people averaged 150 seconds on any computer screen before switching to another screen. By 2012, it had declined to 75 seconds, and between 2016 and 2021, it shrank to 47 seconds. Dr. Peggy Russell, professor of psychology at Indian River State College’s main campus in Fort Pierce, believes that “distractability” is increasingly at play in our lives, regardless of our ages. A study published by ScienceOur shrinking attention spans: the causes – and the fix BY JACKIE HOLFELDER Correspondent Dr. Whitney Legler. PHOTOS: JOSHUA KODIS

Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 59 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Direct.com reports that distract - ibility, or a fleeting attention span, refers to lapses in the ability to concentrate on a stimulus or task and sustain the requisite degree of focused attention to persevere with information processing or task attainment. Dr. Russell says declining concentration is related to “the accessibility of things in our environment that can distract us and our expectation of getting information and entertainment quickly, deliv - ered to us in small ‘bytes.’” Countless distractions “vie for our attention,” she adds, “leaving us feeling frazzled. Our social me - dia addiction makes it harder for us to think and daydream, because we’re not choosing to do so.” Dr. Russell says we can make the choice to “stretch our brains”: elect - ing to do something that increases our mindfulness. Mindfulness is defined by the American Psycho - logical Association as awareness of one’s internal states and surroundings. Mindfulness can help people avoid destructive or automatic habits and responses by learning to observe their thoughts, emotions and other present-moment experi - ences without judging or reacting to them. “That means different things to different people,” she says. “For some, it may be meditation. I work on cars or finish antique furniture. [During those activities] my brain is engaged in sustained attention, doing something I enjoy.” Dr. Legler says modern life as most of us live it causes us to be spread too thin. “The content of what we take in daily is increas - ing,” she says. “Our brains aren’t designed to be exhausted.” A large part of Dr. Legler’s prac - tice involves working with children. “Since COVID-19, I’m seeing a huge increase in attention deficit disor - der diagnoses,” she says. Teachers are shortening lessons and even college professors are making lec - tures briefer to accommodate stu - dents’ shorter attention spans. “Many high school students can’t sit still long enough to read,” Dr. Legler says – “even if it’s on a screen.” Our frontal lobe isn’t fully de - veloped until we’re 22 to 23 years old, Dr. Legler notes. “That’s the part of the brain that’s responsible for attention, concentration and decision-making. The interference from outside stimuli in childhood is affecting that development and I’m not even sure we yet know to what extent.” A simple way to extend young children’s attention span is to do something they truly enjoy and in - volve them directly on every level, says Dr. Legler. In line with that, Dr. Russell be - lieves an active presenter can en - gage people and hold their atten - tion. “We need a sage on the stage, not a guide on the side,” she offers. She firmly believes that “baby sit - ting by devices” contributes to the problem. “Parental attention has decreased, forcing kids to choose on their own how to entertain themselves. Many of them grow up not wanting to devote much time to paying attention.” The pandemic and post-pan - demic increase in mental health problems such depression, anxiety, stress and sleep deprivation all have an effect on our attention spans, Dr. Russell adds. The inability to pay sustained at - tention has serious repercussions, according to the Wall Street Journal report. Studies consistently show that blood pressure rises and heart rate increases with fast attention shifts. A study in the journal Media Psychology reports that distracted subjects experienced higher anxi - ety and stress and lower productiv - ity.The researchers at UCI and Mi - crosoft found that frequently shift - ing attention leads to more er - rors and delays in finishing tasks, known as a “switch cost.” When we spend time switching attention and reorienting back to a task, we drain our precious and limited cognitive resources. It’s like having a gas tank that leaks, leaving less fuel for the mission at hand. While there is no simple fix for this society-wide problem, simple breathing exercises and other med - itation techniques can help indi - viduals regain a stronger ability to concentrate. Dr. Whitney Legler is a neuropsy - chologist/psychologist. She has an M.A. and doctorate and has com - pleted externships at U.S. Naval Hospital in Illinois and Lakeview Neurological Rehabilitation Hospi - tal in Wisconsin. She is certified by American Psychological Association and National Academy of Neuro - psychology. She is accepting new patients at Legler Psychology Associates, 3003 Cardinal Dr., Vero Beach. 772-221-5554. Dr. Peggy Russell has a B.S. in psy - chology from University of Florida, M.A. in counseling psychology from Boston College and Ph.D. in counsel - ing psychology from Florida State University. She is a professor at Indian River State College.

60 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Feeling dissatisfied and lonely? You might want to snag tickets to a few of your favorite team’s games. New research connects viewing live sporting events with higher levels of life satisfaction and lower levels of loneliness – and researchers say live sporting events could be used to improve public health. The study, published in Frontiers in Public Health, looked at data from a survey of 7,209 16- to 85-year-old people living in England. The survey asked participants questions about their lives and well-being, and included questions about whether they attended sporting events. The analysis showed that attending a live sporting event made for higher self-reported scores on life satisfaction and lower scores on loneliness. Participants who had attended a live sporting event within the past year were more likely to report that their lives were worthwhile. (Adding a live game into the mix predicted higher self-reported life satisfaction than some demographic factors, such as age or employment, that can indicate how worthwhile someone finds their life.) Researchers observed a similar effect with loneliness, although the effect was not seen with selfreported anxiety or happiness. The researchers were careful to point out that the data doesn’t mean watching live sports actually causes those gains. But the association is worth exploring further, they say – especially because of the association of reduced loneliness and higher life satisfaction with better overall health. “Our findings could be useful for shaping future public health strategies, such as offering reduced ticket prices for certain groups,” says Helen Keyes, head of the Anglia Ruskin University School of Psychology and Sport Science and the study’s lead author, in a news release. The researchers speculate that the social interaction inherent in sporting events can make people feel as if they belong, thus making them less lonely. At the same time, there could be a downside for some attendees: Some studies find that watching sports can lead to health problems associated with a faster heart rate and higher blood pressure brought on by the excitement of a game. Nonetheless, most “people who choose to watch sports enjoy it and do not experience any health problems during or afterwards,” writes Robert H. Shmerling, a physician and the senior faculty editor of Harvard Health Publishing. And given the potential benefits of cheering on your favorite team in person, a day at the game might be just what the doctor ordered. Why watching live sports in person may be good for you BY ERIN BLAKEMORE The Washington Post

Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 61 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ [This is the second of two columns on hypnosis written in response to a question about its effectiveness.] Hypnosis is one of several relaxation methods helpful for treating chronic pain, alleviating anxiety, reducing the frequency and severity of headaches, controlling bleeding and pain during dental procedures, quitting smoking and ending alcohol dependence. Hypnosis achieves focused attention. It is like using a magnifying glass to focus the rays of the sun and make them more powerful. When our minds are concentrated, we are able to use them more powerfully. Hypnosis – also known as hypnotherapy or hypnotic suggestion – has been a healing practice for thousands of years. Under hypnosis, you’re more open than usual to suggestions, and this can be used to modify your perceptions, behavior, sensations and emotions. Although you’re more open to suggestion during therapeutic hypnosis, your free will remains intact and you don’t lose control over your behavior. Before undergoing hypnosis, you should wear comfortable clothing to help with relaxation, and make sure you’re well rested so you won’t fall asleep during the session. Choose a therapist or healthcare professional to perform hypnosis. When you do find a potential hypnotherapist, ask lots of questions, such as: Do you have training in a field such as psychology, medicine, social work or dentistry? Are you licensed in your specialty in this state? Where did you go to school, and where did you do your internship, residency or both? How much training have you had in hypnotherapy and from what schools? What professional organizations do you belong to? How long have you been in practice? What are your fees? Does insurance cover your services? In general, a hypnotherapist explains the process of hypnosis and reviews what you both hope to accomplish. The hypnotherapist usually induces you into hypnosis by talking in a gentle, soothing tone and describing images that create a sense of relaxation, security and well-being. When you’re in a deep trance-like state, the hypnotherapist suggests ways for you to achieve specific goals, such as reducing pain or eliminating cravings to smoke. The hypnotherapist also may help you visualize vivid, meaningful mental images in which you picture yourself accomplishing your goals. When the session is over, either you are able to bring yourself out of hypnosis or your hypnotherapist helps you end your trance-like state. A typical hypnosis session lasts about 30 to 60 minutes. You may benefit from just one session or several sessions of hypnosis. You can usually resume normal activities immediately. You may eventually be able to practice self-hypnosis. The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis recommends that you choose a healthcare provider who is properly trained, licensed and credentialed. This means that the individual has graduate training and holds a currently valid license in a healthcare field, such as medicine, dentistry, psychiatry, psychology, social work or nursing. This generally also means that the individual holds an academic degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education and has had supervised experience in offering professional services to clients and patients. An additional benefit of choosing a licensed healthcare provider is that your healthcare insurance may reimburse for services provided, although you should determine this in advance by contacting your insurer or asking your provider. BY FRED CICETTI Columnist Hypnosis can help with chronic pain, anxiety and more

62 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Most of us don’t think about our breathing, but if we put our minds to it, it can make us feel better. “Respiration is the perfect interaction between conscious and unconscious,” said Angelo Gemignani, psychiatrist and neuroscience professor at the University of Pisa. Breathing is a way for both the mind and body to work together to help regulate our emotions. A study in Cell Reports Medicine showed that just five minutes of breathwork each day for about a month could improve mood and reduce anxiety – and these benefits may be larger than from mindfulness meditation for the same amount of time. “We’re always busy doing instead of being,” said David Spiegel, an author of the study. “And it’s a good idea to just take a few minutes to collect yourself, commune with your body and help it prepare to deal with whatever you want to deal with.” In a randomized controlled study of 108 adults, researchers compared three different breathwork exercises, in which participants deliberately guided their breathing in various ways, and mindfulness meditation, in which people observed their breathing but didn’t try to control it. The participants did the breathwork at home, following video instructions. One group of participants was told to practice cyclic sighing. Participants were instructed to slowly inhale through the nose to expand the lungs, and inhale again to maximally fill the lungs. Then they were asked to slowly and fully exhale the breath through the mouth. A second group focused on box breathing, which is spending the same amount of time slowly inhaling, holding the breath, exhaling and holding, before repeating the sequence. A third group practiced cyclic hyperventilation, which “emphasizes inhalation rather than exhalation. It’s kind of the mirror image of the cyclic sighing exercise,” said Spiegel, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and director of the Center on Stress and Health at Stanford University. They took one deep, rapid inhalation through the nose, exhaled passively, letting the air “fall out from the mouth,” he said. Every 30 cycles, they would hold their breath after passive exhalation for 15 seconds with the lungs empty. The fourth group performed mindfulness meditation, which emphasized being aware of breathing and their body – as opposed to actively controlling their breathing. After 28 days, participants in both the mindfulness meditation and breathwork groups reported having more positive feelings and fewer negative ones compared with before they began their respective practices. Participants in both groups also reported reduced feelings of anxiety. “That’s not bad for five minutes a day,” Spiegel said. “It seems that practicing some control over your respiration is a kind of entry into one way of controlling your autonomic activity.” The positive effects of breathwork took time to kick in: The more days the participants spent doing their breathing exercises, the better they felt each successive day. Cyclic sighing appeared to be particularly effective among the different breathing exercises. Participants in this group reported even greater positive mood improvements compared with participants who practiced mindfulness meditation. The key to mindfulness meditation, however, is to practice it as a daily life routine for an extended period of time, said Gemignani, who was not involved in the study and who provides longer breathwork and meditation interventions to his patients. “I think five min5-minute breathing exercises can improve mood, reduce anxiety BY RICHARD SIMA The Washington Post

Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 63 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ utes are too short for inducing benefits for subjects.” Breathwork exercises allow us to consciously slow down our breathing. And research shows it can not only affect mood but also physiology by inducing a more relaxed physical state. One recent meta-analysis conducted by Gemignani and his colleagues suggests that slow breathing practices can affect our autonomic system, which regulates key physiological processes such as heart rate, blood pressure and breathing. Specifically, these techniques seem to shift the balance away from the amped-up fight-or-flight sympathetic mode toward the more relaxed rest-and-digest parasympathetic system. “One hypothesis is that just taking control of your breathing, and particularly in ways that would trigger selfsoothing parasympathetic activity, is likely to improve mood and reduce your overall level of arousal,” Spiegel said. In the new study, the cyclic sighers had a greater reduction in their respiration rate – how often they breathed – compared with the mindfulness meditators, although there were no differences in heart rate. Interestingly, the more the respiration rate decreased in cyclic sighers, the more their positive emotions increased, suggesting that the participants who had the largest physiological changes may show the greatest benefit in mood. Breathwork may also enforce our sense of agency, Spiegel said. “We like being in a situation where we can control not only what’s happening in the world, but what’s happening in our body, what we call interoception,” he said. “So it feels good to know that you can do things that will help your body respond and feel more comfortable.” Breathing in through the nose – which is employed in many breathwork practices – can also have a surprisingly large effect on the brain, Gemignani said. Slow inhalation through the nose can trigger neural oscillations in the olfactory system, which may synchronize and slow down activity in wide swaths of the cortex and other brain regions such as the hippocampus and amygdala. This slowing down of activity may be important for the positive mood effects of breathwork. Spiegel said he plans to conduct follow-up neuroimaging research on how breathing practices may change the brain in the long term. And the great news is, breathing exercises are easier and more accessible than many meditative practices. Here are some tips to help you get started: Figure out which practices work best for you. This study’s results suggest cyclic sighing is superior, but the best breathing technique may depend on the individual. Try out the three types of breathing techniques and see what feels right for you, Gemignani said. Start small and build a routine. Try just five minutes and see how you feel when doing your preferred breathing exercise, Spiegel said. “It’s not so hard to make it part of your daily routine if it’s only five minutes of your time.” You can also perform the breathing exercises for longer than five minutes, which may enhance the benefits. Use it where and when you need it. The beauty of breathing exercises is that you can employ them wherever you can breathe and whenever you need to destress and self-soothe. Gemignani said he performs box breathing when walking down the street or even while swimming. “I think what the study shows is that a small, safe, easy-to-use intervention can have big effects,” Spiegel said. So when you are feeling anxious or down, remember to take a breath.

64 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Two more people have died in the United States after being infected by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a drug-resistant bacterium that has been linked to eyedrops, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bringing the death count to three. The outbreak has also been connected to eight recent reports of vision loss and four reports of enucleation, or surgical removal of an eyeball. The agency first warned of the outbreak in January, and it has now infected at least 68 people in 16 states. Shortly after the warning, EzriCare Artificial Tears, a preservative-free, over-the-counter product that many infected patients reported using, was recalled by its manufacturer. Since then, several additional eye products have been taken off shelves, though not all are related to the bacterial infection. With millions of Americans turning to eyedrops every day – the vast majority of them safely – news of the illness and recalls has sparked concern and confusion. Here’s what you should know. Which eyedrops have been recalled? At least four eyedrop products have been recalled recently. They include EzriCare and Delsam Pharma’s Artificial Tears, which have been associated with the bacterial infection. Two other products – Pharmedica USA’s Purely Soothing, 15% MSM Drops and Apotex’s Brimonidine Tartrate Ophthalmic Solution, 0.15% - were also pulled by their makers, though they are not related to the outbreak. Patients who suffered infections of Pseudomonas aeruginosa reported using more than 10 brands of artificial tears, but none as often as EzriCare, according to the CDC. David Chen, an ophthalmologist at Singapore’s National University Hospital, said in an email that he does not believe people should worry about other brands that have not been recalled. He advises exercising “general precaution when using artificial tears,” such as avoiding contaminating them with fingers and disposing of them within the advised time frame. Pharmedica USA in March recalled Purely Soothing, 15% MSM Drops out of concern that the product is not sterile. The drops have not been linked to illness, the company said, though it cautioned that using contaminated eye products can increase the risk of infections that could result in blindness. Also in March, Apotex Corp. recalled Brimonidine Tartrate Ophthalmic SoFacts about the eyedrop recall linked to deaths and vision loss BY KELSEY ABLES AND MARLENE CIMONS The Washington Post

Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 65 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ lution, 0.15% “out of an abundance of caution” due to cracks in some of the bottles’ caps, which could affect the product’s sterility, the company said. Delsam Pharma’s Artificial Eye Ointment, which has not been linked directly to illness but was produced by Global Pharma Healthcare, the same manufacturer behind the Delsam Pharma’s artificial tears, has also been recalled. What are the symptoms of eye infection to watch out for? If you’ve used Ezricare and Delsam Pharma’s Artificial Tears, look out for symptoms including yellow, green or clear discharge from the eye; eye pain or discomfort; redness of the eye or eyelid; a sensation that there is something in your eye; increased sensitivity to light; and blurry vision, according to the CDC. The CDC instructs those who are experiencing such symptoms and have used either of the two eyedrops to seek medical care immediately. People not experiencing symptoms do not need to test for possible infection, it says. A severe eye infection can feel similar to less threatening conditions such as dry eye disease and other autoimmune or inflammatory diseases of the eyes, experts caution. “If it is truly bacterial, a direct eye exam will determine it, since there are certain clinical features we can see that would suggest bacteria and the degree of infection,” Dave Patel, an ophthalmologist at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, told the Post. What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa? Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an aggressive bacterium that is found all over the environment, including in water, soil and human waste. It can enter eye drops through contamination with environmental agents during handling, experts say. The bacterium is resistant to most antibiotics and is particularly dangerous in healthcare settings and for people with weakened immune systems. Elizabeth Connick, professor of medicine and immunobiology at the University of Arizona, said that the bacterium “secretes proteins that can destroy the clear tissue at the front of the eye – the cornea – and allows it to invade the eye. It can impair vision or even blind someone.” Pseudomonas aeruginosa tends to cause problems in places where “immune responses are blunted,” Robert T. Schooley, distinguished professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases and global public health at the University of California at San Diego, previously told the Post. But when medical products such as eye drops become contaminated, “the concentration of bacteria – or viruses, or fungi – in the product can be extremely high and overwhelm local immune responses, even when people are not overtly immune compromised,” he said. Infections can present in ways such as keratitis, sepsis and respiratory and urinary tract infections. In 2017, the United States saw about 2,700 deaths related to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and 32,600 cases in hospitalized patients, according to CDC estimates. The eyedrop-related strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa has not previously appeared in the United States, the CDC said.

66 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Nothing prepared Linda C. Johnson of Indianapolis for the fatigue that descended on her after a diagnosis of Stage 4 lung cancer in early 2020. Initially, Johnson, now 77, thought she was depressed. She could barely summon the energy to get dressed in the morning. Some days, she couldn’t get out of bed. But as she began to get her affairs in order, Johnson realized something else was going on. However long she slept the night before, she woke up exhausted. “People would tell me, ‘You know, you’re getting old.’ And that wasn’t helpful at all. Because then you feel there’s nothing you can do mentally or physically to deal with this,” she told me. Fatigue is a common companion of many illnesses that beset older adults, typically those 65 and older: heart disease, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, lung disease, kidney disease, and neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis, among others. It’s one of the most common symptoms associated with chronic illness, affecting 40 percent to 74 percent of older people living with those conditions, according to a 2021 review by researchers at the University of Massachusetts. This is more than exhaustion after an extremely busy day or a night of poor sleep. It’s a persistent, wholebody feeling of having no energy, even with minimal or no exertion. “I feel like I have a drained battery pretty much all of the time,” wrote a user named Renee in a Facebook group for people with polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer. “It’s sort of like being a wrung-out dish rag.” Fatigue doesn’t represent “a day when you’re tired; it’s a couple of weeks or a couple of months when you’re tired,” said Kurt Kroenke, a research scientist at the Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis, which specializes in medical research, and a professor at Indiana University’s School of Medicine. When he and colleagues queried nearly 3,500 patients 60 and older at a large primary care clinic in Indianapolis about bothersome symptoms, 55 percent listed fatigue — second only to musculoskeletal pain (65 percent) and more than back pain (45 percent) and shortness of breath (41 percent). A ‘vicious cycle’ Separately, a 2010 study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society estimated that 31 percent of people 51 and older reported being fatigued in the previous week. The effect can be profound. Fatigue is the leading reason for restricted activity in people 70 and older, according to a 2001 study by researchers at Yale University. Other studies have linked fatigue with impaired mobility, limitations in people’s abilities to perform daily activities, the onset Finding the cause of fatigue among older people is important BY JUDITH GRAHAM The Washington Post

Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 67 HEALTH Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ or worsening of disability and earlier death. Often, older adults with fatigue stop being active and become deconditioned, which leads to muscle loss and weakness, which heightens fatigue. “It becomes a vicious cycle that contributes to things like depression, which can make you more fatigued,” said Jean Kutner, a professor of medicine and chief medical officer at the University of Colorado Hospital. To prevent that, Johnson came up with a plan after learning her lung cancer had returned. Every morning, she set small goals for herself. One day, she’d get up and wash her face. The next, she’d take a shower. Another day, she’d go to the grocery store. After each activity, she’d rest. In the three years since her cancer came back, Johnson’s fatigue has been constant. But “I’m functioning better,” she told me, because she has learned how to pace herself and find things that motivate her, such as teaching a virtual class to students training to be teachers and getting exercise under the supervision of a personal trainer. When should older adults be concerned about fatigue? “If someone has been doing OK but is now feeling fatigued all the time, it’s important to get an evaluation,” said Holly Yang, a physician at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego and board president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. “Fatigue is an alarm signal that something is wrong with the body, but it’s rarely one thing,” said Ardeshir Hashmi, section chief of the Center for Geriatric Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. “Usually, several things need to be addressed.” Among the items physicians should check: Are your thyroid levels normal? Are you having trouble with sleep? If you have underlying medical conditions, are they well controlled? Do you have an underlying infection? Are you chronically dehydrated? Do you have anemia (a deficiency of red blood cells or hemoglobin), an electrolyte imbalance or low levels of testosterone? Are you eating enough protein? Have you been feeling more anxious or depressed recently? And might medications you’re taking be contributing to fatigue? “The medications and doses may be the same, but your body’s ability to metabolize those medications and clear them from your system may have changed,” said Hashmi, noting that such changes in the body’s metabolic activity are common as people become older. Many potential contributors to fatigue can be addressed. But much of the time, the cause of fatigue cannot be explained by an underlying medical condition. That happened to Teresa Goodell, 64, a retired nurse who lives just outside Portland, Ore. During a December visit to Arizona, she suddenly found herself exhausted and short of breath while on a hike, even though she was in good physical condition. At an urgent care facility, she was diagnosed with an asthma exacerbation and given steroids, but they didn’t help. Soon, Goodell was spending hours each day in bed, overcome by profound tiredness and weakness. Even small activities wore her out. But none of the medical tests she received in Arizona and subsequently in Portland – a chest X-ray and CT scan, bloodwork, a cardiac stress test – showed abnormalities. “There was no objective evidence of illness, and that makes it hard for anybody to believe you’re sick,” she told me. Goodell started visiting long COVID websites and chatrooms for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome. Today, she is convinced she has post-viral syndrome from an infection. One of the most common symptoms of long COVID is fatigue that interferes with daily life, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Several strategies can deal with persistent fatigue. In cancer patients, “the best evidence favors physical activity such as tai chi, yoga, walking or low-impact exercises,” said Christian Sinclair, an associate professor of palliative medicine at the University of Kansas Health System. The goal is to “gradually stretch patients’ stamina,” he said.

68 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Style Am I too old to wear fashion’s biggest trends? At 53, I think I’m too old not to. We’re forever hearing that middle-aged women become “invisible,” that society would like us to slip into a hessian sack and please sit at home and watch telly, while politely awaiting death. But as actress Michelle Yeoh said at the Oscars, “Ladies, never let anyone tell you you are past your prime.” It’s why I think now is the time to lean harder on fashion. In fact, I genuinely credit my interest in trends, and my love of getting dressed each day, with keeping me feeling visible. Yes, my husband finds my more experimental outfits (like my rainbowstriped jumpsuit) a bit much, but my Instagram followers laugh with me when I post the hashtag #clothesmyhusbandhates. ‘‘That’s … a choice,” my teenage daughter will deadpan as I leave the house wearing featherclad shirt cuffs. I’m braver than her, because she’s in that self-conscious phase when standing out in any way is seen as a fate worse than death. Clothes used to matter a lot more in my working life, when I was an editor of women’s magazines – most notably Glamour and the Mail on Sunday’s You. My outfits were regularly given a judgy once-over at parties, front row at fashion shows or even just at the office. Every outfit felt like another audition for my job, so looking like I had a clue about trends was vital. I don’t feel that pressure any more, but it turns out I still love getting dressed every day. It’s important to me as I get older that I never look like I’ve given up. Two of my favorite fashionable women are Trinny Woodall, 59, and the former model and Instagrammer, 70-something Linda Wright. They have wildly different styles, but share an inspirational attitude to ageing glamorously and boldly. That said, none of us wants to look as though we’re in denial about our age. I’d hate anyone to think I’m desperately trying to look younger. So these days I look for the quietly sophisticated ways to nod to the big trends. Which is entirely doable. Avant-garde cut-outs The idea of “cut-outs” usually makes me feel a bit sick. I’ve seen a lot of horrors cropping up on the street – dresses with massive slashes at the hips or midriff. I saw a black column dress on the runway of British brand Poster Girl that featured a cut-out circle exposing the model’s entire stomach. I don’t want to see my bare, middleaged gut, so why would I inflict it on anyone else? But it’s all in the interpretation and this top is the sort of subtle nod to a trend I like. A modest hit of the clavicle won’t traumatize anyone. It’s just the right touch to give this sensible tartan skirt and boots a bit of an edge. You can even wear a bra with it. I texted a picture of this to my husband who said, “Why don’t you ever Six quietly sophisticated ways to nod to this season’s trends BY JO ELVIN The Telegraph

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 69 Style Modern cowboy boots They may have been the stars of runway shows, from Chloé to Chanel, in recent times, but I still can’t look at a pair of cowboy boots without that awful Billy Ray Cyrus song, “Achy Breaky Heart,” playing on a loop in my head. I also have the self-awareness to know: I’m not sexy. Never have been. And I’ve only ever really seen sexy women pull off cowboy boots. Women like FKA Twigs and Emily Ratajkowski who team theirs with lithe, youthful pins and microscopic skirts. So I’m a bit startled to find that this might be my favorite of all of these looks. It simply hadn’t occurred to me that cowboy boots could look polished, as I think they do paired with this Palmer Harding dress. There’s no skin on show, and yet I don’t feel frumpy because the look is really considered. The duck-egg blue detail on the boot and the blue tones through the tweed jacket work beautifully with the color of the dress. This feels confident and modern and I love it. Preppy the Prada way I’m channeling the vibe of Miuccia Prada here. When the iconic fashion designer appears to take a shy bow at the end of her Prada or Miu Miu shows, she’s usually wearing a pleated midi-skirt teamed with preppy details like a knit and shoes and socks. In recent times she’s ushered in a punky take on preppy at Miu Miu with barely-there pleated skirts teamed with collegekid knits. I’m torn on this one because, essentially, I really like it. But I also completely get why, when he saw this, the photographer’s smile dropped and he simply said, “Oh. It’s a bit frumpy.” Midi-skirts are tricky enough to pull off without adding a bulky sock. No, the only older woman who can pull this off is Mrs. Prada because she is Mrs. Prada. I think you need a young face and body to pull off this librarian vibe with some sexy irony. I just look like an ageing librarian. Subtle vs. fullon silver I love a metallic and I’m never afraid to deploy one at any time of day or night. Sequins for grocery shopping? Hell yes. But oh my, this current silver trend really has gone full-tilt Bacofoil lately, hasn’t it? Gucci, Versace, Chanel – they seem to have collectively adopted robots as their muses. So I was pleasantly surprised and relieved when I found these jeans in Zara. They have some nice full metal glints here and there but there’s no risk of looking ovenready. In fact this whole look is chic simplicity at its best. Sizing up on the blazer is the most modern take on tailoring right now, and with the added bonus of emphasizing the drainpipe cut of the jeans to flattering effect. Truth be told I’ll probably never wear these heels in real life. I’d happily wear this outfit every day of the week, but CONTINUED ON PAGE 70

70 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Style with sneakers or pointy flats. Upscale cargo pants I struggle to see why anyone would ever feel too old for cargo pants. Maybe because it’s one of those trends some of us can say we saw the first time round. In the noughties, they were the go-to look for every sexy pop group from All Saints to Destiny’s Child. But those youngsters didn’t invent them. Cargo trousers are middle-aged magic – often loose at the waist, which is wonderful for us menopausal types who get a bit fatter round the middle by 5 p.m. And they’re so versatile. You can enjoy their utilitarian roots by day – wear loose and casual with chunky boots and a cozy knit – and they readily go glam for evening: Add a silk shirt, a strappy heel and roll them to reveal a hint of ankle. These ones from Toteme are a dream. The drawstring at the ankle means you can wear them wide-legged or tapered. The satiny finish to the cotton means no one will think you grabbed them from your teenage daughter’s floor. This sleek, neutral look would have been a no-brainer for my fashion show days. Louche low-rise, wide-leg trousers I like the idea of low-waisted trousers in theory. Curiously, I am in the minority among my friends in that I loathe high-waisted trousers. (It’s that “fat by 5 p.m.” thing again: If I dare to eat so much as a breadstick, I am in agony until I can get home and unbutton.) The challenge of the low-waisted trend has nothing to do with your age and everything to do with the shape of your body. At a slim size 10, this is the only pair I could find that I could push down to my hip line – but only if I really sucked in and held my breath. If you are that one middle-aged woman who has kept her teenage snake hips, then these are for you – although I might be inclined to just buy a bigger size of low-waisted trousers and then get them altered. This is a timeless, sophisticated look, but the slouchy, almost-falling-off-ofyou vibe is a nice edgy update – not to mention a subtle way to show that you might be older but you still know what’s going on in fashion. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 69

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 71 Style Ask any designer in 2023 which celebrity they would most like to dress, and about 90 percent of them will reply with the same name: Florence Pugh. The star, 27, who appeared in Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling” opposite Harry Styles, and played Amy in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women,” is one of the most exciting actors working right now – and as a consequence of her professional success, one of the most exciting people on the red carpet for some time. This wasn’t always the case. Until about 2017 she was a classic English rose who looked great in a goddess gown with an up-do, but her style choices didn’t set her apart in any significant way. Over the past couple of years, though, every appearance has been what the fashion business likes to call “a moment”. Witness: the orange Nina Ricci by Harris Reed gown she wore for the Baftas in February, with its fan-shaped neckline and mermaid skirt. On anyone else, the dress would render the woman within it near invisible. Or how about the pale-pink Rodarte slip dress with a pink ruffled tulle cape for the British Independent Film Awards. Only Pugh has the presence to truly carry this off. Then there was the video from the Venice Film Festival, shared by her stylist Rebecca Corbin-Murray after Pugh decided to skip the press conference for “Don’t Worry Darling.” Clad in a purple Valentino shorts set, she sashays past, raising her Aperol spritz glass to the camera. Not just “a moment,” but also “a mood” that promptly went viral. The help of a brilliant stylist cannot be overstated, not just for their taste, but also for their access to and relationships with top designers. Corbin-Murray is one of the best. With Pugh there’s a certain magic, perhaps a case of a star finding a stylist who truly gets them, or the other way around. Either way, it works. There’s a balance to the styling too: take the transparent Valentino skirt worn to the label’s show at Paris Fashion Week – it was contrasted with a cropped grey sweatshirt (about as close to couture as loungewear is ever going to get). And the embellished black Erdem top with cape gloves (yes they are a thing) which was styled with widelegged tailored gray trousers. Much like the career-defining haircuts of models like Linda Evangelista and Twiggy, Pugh’s blonde crop has also been central to her new image. It’s versatile in that it can be slicked back, styled as a quiff in waves or a topknot – it looks as fresh and modern as that delicate glimmer of gold at her septum, pierced in 2021. There’s something so admirable too about Pugh’s determination not to succumb to the normal pressures of Hollywood. “All the things that [Hollywood executives] were trying to change about me – whether it was my weight, my look, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows – that was so not what I wanted to do, or the industry I wanted to work in,” she explained in an interview with the Telegraph. “This was what the top of the game looked like, and I felt I’d made a massive mistake.” She also launched a powerful attack on body shamers who criticized her appearance on Instagram: “I’m very grateful that I grew up in a household with very strong, powerful, curvy women,” she wrote. “We were raised to find power in the creases of our body. To be loud about being comfortable. It has always been my mission in this industry to say ‘f--- it and f--- that’, whenever anyone expects my body to morph into an opinion of what’s hot or sexually attractive.” This confidence is reflected every time we see her on the red carpet. It is this which is the most important lesson to learn from Pugh. She’s proof for women everywhere that with the right attitude, you too could carry off any look you like. The style makeover which turned Florence Pugh into the red-carpet rebel BY TAMARA ABRAHAM The Telegraph

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Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 77 ARTIST GALLERIES Except where noted, hours are by appointment or chance. BEACHSIDE GALLERIES J.M. Stringer Gallery of Fine Art 2465 Ocean Drive. 772-231-3900 Website: jmstringergallery.com Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tues. through Sat. Current Exhibit: Poetry of the Colorists: Deborah Cotrone, Leonard Mizerek and im Rodgers Koman Fine Art 2905 Cardinal Drive. 772-231-4500 or 772-473-1646 Instagram: komanfineart Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon. to Sat. Laughing Dog Gallery 2910 Cardinal Drive. 772-234-6711 Website: thelaughingdoggallery.com Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tues. to Sat. Meghan Candler Gallery 6160 Hwy. A1A at the Village Shops. 772-234-8811 Website: meghancandlergallery.com Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tues. to Sat. Current Exhibit: Linda Arnold, New Painting Collection Ocean Drive Gallery 3349 Ocean Drive, Suite 8, 2nd Floor. 772-579-7667 Website: oceandrivegalleryverobeach.com Hours: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wed. to Sat. Palm House Gallery & Studio 3227 Ocean Drive (2nd floor). 772-231-6816 Website: palmhousegallery.com Steve Diossy Marine Art Gallery 3247 Ocean Drive. 772-205 2973 Website: stevediossy.com Hours: Closed Mondays; check website for hours. HISTORIC DOWNTOWN ARTS DISTRICT GALLERIES All are open during 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Gallery Strolls Big Art Now Gallery 1791 Old Dixie Highway, 561-440-4260 Website: bigartnow.co/ Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thurs. to Sat. Current Exhibit: Group Show: Original artworks by 14 Florida-based artists Gallery 14 1911 14th Avenue. 772-562-5525 Website: gallery14verobeach.com Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tues. to Fri.; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sat. Current Exhibit: Southern Light: Focus on Nature, by Reed Dixon Gallery Veritas & Art Library 1420 20th Street, 323-547-1188 Website: thegalleryveritas.com Hours: Noon to 2 p.m. Tues. and Thurs. Current Exhibit: For the Love of Color, by Lisa Cave Main Street Vero Beach Studios & Gallery 2036 14th Avenue, Suite 103. 772-643-6782 Website: mainstreetverobeach.org Hours: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mon. to Fri. Raw Space 1795 Old Dixie Hwy. 772-410-9126 Website: artconceptalternative.org Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 8, 11, 15, 18 and 22; 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. April 14 and 21 Current Exhibit: Yours, Mine and Ours Vero Beach Art Club Gallery & Market Place 1903 14th Avenue. 772-217-3345 Website: verobeachartclub.org Hours: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tues. to Sat. Current Exhibit: Different Perspectives GALLERIES ELSEWHERE Roy A. McLendon, Jr. HAAP Fine Art Studio 2059 Indian River Blvd. 772-584-6653 Website: roymcclendonjr.com Hours: 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Mon. to Fri.; 1 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sat. Resident Artist: Roy A. McLendon Jr. Artists Guild Gallery 1974 14th Avenue. 772-299-1234 Website: artistsguildgalleryofverobeach.com Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tues. to Saturday

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ CALENDAR 78 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 ONGOING APRIL Sudoku Page 44 Sudoku Page 45 Crossword Page 44 Solutions from Games Pages in March 30, 2023 Edition ACROSS 1 BAR 3 SIR 5 LONER 8 ENTER 9 BABBLES 10 DEED 11 CONTINUE 13 OUTPUT 14 PROFIT 17 FAITHFUL 19 ARCH 22 RESTORE 23 ODOUR 24 DREAM 25 BAD 26 SHY DOWN 1 BLEND 2 RETREAT 3 SORT 4 RIBBON 5 LOBSTERS 6 NYLON 7 RESPECT 12 MUSHROOM 13 OFFERED 15 FURIOUS 16 SUPERB 18 ISSUE 20 HURRY 21 FOOD Crossword Page 45 (CONTAIN YOURSELF) Check with organizations directly for updates/cancellations. Riverside Theatre: “Oleanna” on the Waxlax Stage through April 9. 772-231-6990 or RiversideTheatre.com Vero Beach Museum of Art: Rolling Sculpture: Streamlined Art Deco Automobiles and Motorcycles exhibit through April 30. VBMuseum.org or 772-231-0707 Garden of Glass at McKee Botanical Garden through April 30. McKeeGarden.org or 772- 794-0601 7 Easter Egg Hunt, hosted by City of Sebastian & Sebastian PD, 6 p.m. at Riverview Park, with photos with the Easter Bunny, 7:15 p.m. egg hunt and PG movie, “Peter Rabbit” at 7:45 p.m. 8 Eggstreme Easter Egg Drop, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pathway Church, with 50,000 eggs dropped from a helicopter in age-related start times, plus music, games, bounce houses and food trucks. Free. TreasureCoastEggDrop.com 10|11 American Theatre Guild presents “Fiddler on the Roof” at the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts. BroadwayAtTheKingCenter.com or 321-242-2219. 11-30 Riverside Theatre presents the song and dance musical, “42nd Street” on the Stark Stage. 772-231-6990 or RiversideTheatre.com 13 Atlantic Classical Orchestra Masterworks IV, 7:30 p.m. at Community Church of VB, featuring Lopes’ Concerto for Harp “Recife” and soloist Bridget Kibbey. 772-460- 0851or AtlanticClassicalOrchestra.com 14 Mah Jong Luncheon, 10:30 a.m. at Bent Pine Golf Club to benefit AAUW scholarships and grants for women and girls. $75. AAUWVeroBeach.org 14 Walk Out on Cancer Relay for Life of IRC, 5 to 10 p.m. at Riverside Park Gazebo, with survivor walk, Luminaria at sundown, food, music, kids zone and games. RelayForLife. org/IndianRiverFL 14 Concerts in the Park presents Group Therapy, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Riverview Park. Free; BYO chairs/blankets. SebastianChamber.com or 772-589-5969 14|15 Wheels and Keels to benefit multiple local nonprofits, 5:30 p.m. Fri. Dinner and Auction; and 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sat. Antique & Exotic Car and Boat Show, all at the Moorings Yacht and Country Club. WKVero.com 14-16 Ballet Vero Beach presents Choreographer’s Notebook: Samuel Kurkjian, 7:30 p.m. Fri., 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Sat. at Vero Beach High School PAC. $10 to $75. Hour-long Accessible/Family Friendly performance 2 p.m. Sun., $10. Balletverobeach.org or 772-905-2651 14-16 Vero Beach Theatre Guild presents “Equus,” a stage reading in the Studio Theatre. VeroBeach TheatreGuild.com or 772-562-8300 15 Treasure Coast Jazz Society presents Gene Bruno ‘Sexy Saxophone,’ 12:30 p.m. at Oak Harbor Club. 772-234-4600 15 Gin & Jazz, a 1920s-inspired evening to benefit the Sally Wilkey Foundation, 6:30 p.m. at Grand Harbor Club, with dinner, casino, live music and comedian Jay-R Milton. $200. SallyWilkeyFoundation.org Our directory gives small business people eager to provide services to the community an opportunity to make themselves known to our readers at an affordable cost. This is the only business directory mailed each week. If you would like your business to appear in our directory, please call 772-633-0753 or email [email protected]. Advertising Vero Beach Services | If you would like your business to appear in our directory, please call 772-633-0753 VERO BEACH 32963 BUSINESS DIRECTORY Althea Powell, Board Certified Pedorthist State Licensed • Custom Molded Orthotics • Custom Molded Shoes • Diabetic Shoes • Elevation 2686 U.S. HWY 1 • VERO BEACH, FL www.powellshoes.com • 772.562.9045 POWELL SHOES PEDORTHIC FACILITY 20% DISCOUNT FOR ALL NEW CUSTOMERS Perfection one cut at a time 772-539-3365 Time to Clean Your Carpets/Furniture? Maxfield Carpet Cleaning • 772-538-0213 5300 N. A1A, Vero Beach • SINCE 1979 Three Reasons to Call Mitch Maxfield: QUALITY: My “2-step system” removes even tough ground-in dirt. All work guaranteed. SERVICE: I, personally, will clean your carpets and furniture. PRICE: Two (2) Rooms (any size)...$77, 6’ Sofa or 2 Chairs...$66 State Certified Electrical Contractor TOM G. WALTON Hiring Electricians 772-569-1547 • [email protected] L. Walton Electric, Inc. EC13003596

GORGEOUS NEW TULIP LANE HOME ‘HAS EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT’ 648 Tulip Lane in Pelican Cove: 4-bedroom, 7-bath, 4,650-square-foot, waterfront home offered for $4,500,000 by Matilde Sorensen, broker-owner, Dale Sorensen Real Estate: 772-532-0010

REAL ESTATE 80 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Jeff and Christine Gelman moved to Vero Beach looking for a quieter lifestyle. “We wanted to be able to walk to the beach and to walk downtown,” says Jeff Gelman. So when they found the building lot at 648 Tulip Lane in Pelican Cove, it checked all the boxes. “We found a place where we can be anonymous yet be able ... to enjoy our lifestyle. We wanted to live quietly,” he explains. Using a Randall Stofft design, the Gelmans created a home where their three grown children and their children’s families would each have their own space when they came to visit – but they never ended up living in the house. “It’s a brand new house ready to move in,” says Dale Sorensen Real Estate broker-owner Matilde Sorensen of the recently completed home. “It has everything you could want.” Tulip Lane, a single-street neighborhood located between the bridges, is graced by deep water canals with quick access to the Intracoastal Waterway, making it convenient to get almost anywhere by foot, bike, golf cart, car or boat, notes Jeff, whether it’s the beach, Ocean Drive dining and shopping, Quail Valley River Club, across the bridge to mainland Vero or down the Indian River Lagoon to an ocean inlet. A circle drive at the front of the house allows plenty of room for parking, with mature oaks and palms adding texture to the symmetrical design of the house. With side entry garages on both sides, it creates a central focus on the home’s welcoming entrance, where frosted, glass-paneled doors open into the foyer. Once you step over the threshold, the elegance of the space immediately strikes you, with clean lines and modern finishes beautifully blended to enhance the tranquil water view through large sliding glass doors. The use of partial walls, varying ceiling heights and styles – barrel and coffered – creates intimate spaces within the open-concept floorplan with the great room, dining room, Gorgeous new Tulip Lane home ‘has everything you could want’ BY STEPHANIE LABAFF Staff Writer

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 81 breakfast nook and kitchen all sharing the central area of the house. The gourmet kitchen features Schlabach cabinets, a hidden walk-in pantry, a double pullout trash drawer, quartz countertops, Wolf electric double-convection oven, a six-burner range top, and drawer microwave. A SubZero refrigerator rounds out the top-of-the-line appliances. The island countertop provides additional seating for snack time and a place to lay out hors d’oeuvres when you’re entertaining. In the home’s west wing, two ensuite guest rooms enjoy complete separation, allowing for substantial privacy. The laundry room, mud room and access to the two-car garage near the front of the house also are in this wing. On the opposite side of the house, a powder room, guest suite and golf cart garage are situated at the front, with the primary suite and a club room at the rear of the east wing. The club room opens onto the pool deck and is perfect for an office or

REAL ESTATE 82 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ library. You can keep an eye on the kids while they’re in the swimming pool or catch up on some paperwork without missing out on too much of the family shenanigans. The primary suite has his and her bathrooms and closets adjacent to the generously sized bedroom overlooking the pool and river. Her bathroom has a soaking tub, water closet with a bidet, frameless shower and vanity, with direct access into her closet, while his bathroom includes a steam shower and a water closet. Outside, the Gelmans created an outdoor-living room space, notes, Sorensen. You can enjoy dinner poolside under cover or in a sunny spot. The outdoor living area has VITAL STATISTICS Neighborhood: Pelican Cove • Year built: 2022 Construction: Concrete block with stucco Lot size: 120 feet by 150 feet Home size: 4,650 square feet Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 5 full baths and 2 half-baths Pool: Swimming pool with salt chlorination Views: Pool and canal Additional features: Club room; ice maker; beverage center; soaking tub; steam shower; bidet; crown molding; linear vents; smart home integration; laundry/mudroom; two-car, air-conditioned garage; air-conditioned golf-cart garage; impact glass; outdoor shower; fenced; retaining wall; 500-gallon propane tank; and RV or boat parking pad Listing agency: Dale Sorensen Real Estate Broker-owner: Matilde Sorensen, 772-532-0010 Listing price: $4,500,000 648 TULIP LANE CONTINUED ON PAGE 84

REAL ESTATE 84 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ been pre-plumbed for a fresh air kitchen. The custom-designed pool has a sun-shelf and swim lane with LED lights for nighttime fun. And you can always hop into the spa or simply enjoy the soothing sounds of the spillover water feature. The Gelmans built this house to share with their family, but then found a completed house they liked even better at the other end of Tulip, closer to the ocean. So, while they are selling the beautiful home they CONTINUED FROM PAGE 82

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 85 just built, they are not going very far. “Tulip is all about families,” says Jeff Gelman “It’s probably the nicest family street between the causeways. The house we built is going to be somebody’s wonderful new home,” he adds. Tulip Lane is ideally located “between the bridges,” just a block north of the 17th Street bridge if you need to head to the mainland. Here, you are centrally located and close to everything Vero Beach has to offer. It is a quick walk or brief bike ride or golf cart ride to Quail Valley River Club and the beach. The city marina, Riverside Park, Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach Dog Park, and shopping and dining on Ocean Drive all are nearby.

REAL ESTATE 86 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Homebuyers are still fleeing expensive cities like New York and San Francisco for sunny skies and cheaper homes in Florida, undeterred by rising mortgage rates. Among the 10 cities that are seeing the highest net inflow of house hunters, three are in the Sunshine State – Miami, Tampa and Orlando – according to a report from real estate brokerage Redfin, and Miami was the top destination in the country for migrants from New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Although the overall number of buyers looking to relocate is down compared to 2022, those who are picking up and moving are more likely to be going cross-country than house hunting in their current metro area. The number of people looking to move to a new city fell 3.6 percent in February from the same time last year, while those looking to move within their current metro dropped by 14.4 percent. New Yorkers are moving to three big Florida cities BY PAULINA CACHERO Bloomberg The buy-to-rent premium hasn’t been this big since 2006, at the peak of the housing bubble. With mortgage rates high and home prices still elevated, the monthly payment for a newly purchased home – assuming a 10 percent down payment and a 30-year fixed rate mortgage – was $1,176 more than renting an apartment at the end 2022, according to an analysis from the National Multifamily Housing Council, a trade group that represents owners of professionally managed rental buildings. The cost of homeownership has surged 71 percent over the past three years, or an average of more than 20 percent per year, compared to average annual rent growth of 6.3 percent over the same period. As a result, the premium owners pay over renters is now wider than it’s been since the third quarter of 2006, the report said. U.S. housing costs surged in the pandemic. Buyers struggled to find affordable properties in a frothy housing market marked by bidding wars and cash offers and renters faced higher costs across the US. Now, things have cooled down a bit. Still, there’s limited inventory available and mortgage rates remain high despite slipping slightly in recent weeks. Buy-or-rent premium highest since 2006 housing bubble BY PAULINA CACHERO Bloomberg The cities with the highest net outflows came from the country’s most expensive housing markets, including San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. Redfin defines net outflow as the number of Redfin.com home searchers looking to leave a metro area, minus the number of searchers looking to move in. While rising interest rates have driven up monthly mortgage costs by nearly 20 percent compared to a year ago, that may not deter home hunters who feel they’re getting a deal in more affordable cities, Redfin said. A typical home in Miami went for $485,000 in February, compared with $640,000 in New York.

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 87 For architects at the Roman and Williams firm, the big attraction of any walk around New York City is the assemblage of Art Deco buildings that line the streets of Manhattan – glossy, century-old structures whose shine and aesthetic appeal has never dulled with age. And now, building design from the 1920s serves as the inspiration behind the Fitzroy, a 10-story residential tower nestled mid-block on West 24th Street in Chelsea. To channel the nostalgic spirit of Old New York, the architects tapped a timetested building material: terra cotta. A mix of clay and water that’s molded and fired in a kiln, terra cotta has been widely used in art and architecture for thousands of years. Prewar buildings on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side reflect the material’s turn-of-century heyday. But in the decades after these Art Deco and Beaux-Arts beauties were built, the use of terra cotta began to fade as glass, steel and concrete facades dominated. “I’ve always had a soft spot for the Art Deco tradition,” says Stephen Alesch, principal architect at Roman and Williams. “After World War II, architecture just changed to flat roofs and boxy buildings. There’s a million theories about why things changed, but I always thought bringing back the tradition was a worthy thing to do.” Projects like the Fitzroy, which opened in 2019, mark a wider resurgence in the use of terracotta in New York, particularly in wealthier areas of the city. SHoP Architects’ Steinway Tower, built along Billionaire’s Row in 2019, is a terra cotta-clad supertall shaped like a blade; CetraRuddy’s Oskar, a residential tower that opened in Hudson Yards in 2018, boasts a terra cotta rain screen; and One Vanderbilt, built by KPF in 2019 in Midtown, mixes glass and terra cotta panels. Most of these buildings use neutral colors that fall in line with the color palette of the city’s fin de siècle cornices and ornamental detailing. But the terra cotta of the Fitzroy is an opulent jade green. Alesch and Robin Standefer, another lead architect on the Fitzroy, were keen to emphasize the material’s beauty. The facade comprises about 5,600 terra cotta blocks – bricks, not just tiles – using 500 different types of clay. The team of architects and developers at Largo and JDS Development Group joined Buffalo-based In a Manhattan condo, terra cotta marks an Art Deco revival BY SRI TAYLOR Bloomberg The Fitzroy, a 10-story throwback to the Roaring Twenties, is part of a surge of high-end towers that make use of old-school building materials and design touches.

REAL ESTATE 88 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ manufacturer Boston Valley Terra Cotta in determining both the shape and glaze of the blocks, which were molded and hand-pressed by Boston Valley artisans. All the window frames are oak and copper, for a rich material contrast. The margin for error is thin with terra cotta: Once the design in finalized and the blocks are fired, there’s no room for changes or tweaks, as the components can’t just be trimmed if the designers get a measurement wrong. An entirely new piece would need to be molded and fired, causing substantial delays. Other developers shied away from this painstaking “pencils down” process when the architects pitched the idea for the Fitzroy, according to Alesch. “In the modern world, last-minute changes and afterthoughts are really a part of the process,” Alesch says. “If you look at the history of the towers in Hudson Yards, for example, they were making design changes and adding and taking away features for the 10- year period they were being worked

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 89 We are 3rd generation Vero Beach Realtors and our families have called Vero Beach home for over 100+ years. Joseph O’Neill, Joseph Schlitt, and Chris Mickley have over 45 years of combined experience as full-time Realtors and have a comprehensive understanding of the local market. We have represented Buyers and Sellers in over 125 real estate transactions in 32963. If you are considering making a move, we can help. JOSEPH O’NEILL CHRIS MICKLEY JOSEPH SCHLITT OCEANFRONT ESTATE l 3756 OCEAN DRIVE l EXCEPTIONAL LOCATION 3001 OCEAN DRIVE VERO BEACH, FL 32963 772.231.9938 772.643.6824 on. It drives the architects crazy. But the Fitzroy didn’t follow that, and I think it was so unique and rare.” The building’s Roaring Twenties style appears to be landing with buyers: Listings on StreetEasy for the Fitzroy’s luxury three- and fourbedroom units were priced as high as $15.2 million as of 2022. Alesch hopes its success can usher in a generation of buildings that hold up as well as the prewar structures it emulates. As a kid during the 1970s and ’80s, he says, he noticed that modern architecture looked great when completed but often deteriorated quickly as rust and water stains marred their steel and concrete surfaces. He wants better for the Fitzroy. “When you look at the older terra cotta buildings you see water stains adding character, like a person’s wrinkles and crow’s feet becoming signs of wisdom,” he says. “The same thing we want for ourselves as human beings, or for a good pair of leather shoes, we should want for our buildings. To age gracefully.”

REAL ESTATE 90 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Record numbers of young, unmarried couples are moving in together. They’re doing it for love – and money. More than 11 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 lived with a romantic partner who’s not a spouse last year, the highest share ever, according to Census Bureau data. That’s about 3.2 million people, roughly 650,000 more than before the pandemic. The need to save money served as a tipping point for many young couples who turned to cohabiting sooner than they might have otherwise, with inflation driving up the cost of almost everything from groceries to gas and rent prices hovering near record highs. A recent Realtor.com survey found that money was a main factor behind the decision to move in together for 80 percent of Gen Z couples. About one in four of the total respondents said living with a partner allowed them to save more than $1,000 a month. Kerry Eller, a graduate student at Duke University, moved in with her boyfriend after he relocated from Boston to North Carolina last summer when they were both 22. Together, they pay $1,200 rent in a house they share with three other roommates. “The cost of rent is just sky high in Durham compared to grad-student salaries,” said Eller, whose partner works in finance. “Financially, it would suck to be in two different places, but also I feel like it wouldn’t really have made sense for him to move here and be living in a separate apartment.” To be sure, the share of unmarried Americans living with a partner has been on the rise for the past few decades as some taboos are dismantled and relationship arrangements become more fluid. That, coupled with the constraints of COVID-19 lockdowns, have made more people eager to dive into the next phase of their lives. “When there’s a stressful event, especially one like a pandemic that also requires social isolation, we see people making more moves in relationships,” said Galena Rhoades, a psychologist at the University of Denver. “The pandemic in some ways made it easier to move in together and harder to break up.” While the pandemic may have emboldened young couples to take their relationship to the next level, financial stress has proven to be a main driver behind the decision to move in together. “Young people make up a higher share of cohabitators because they’re less likely to be financially secure,” said Fenaba Addo, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Splitting bills is financially attractive.” That was the case for Xera Quattromani, whose landlord hiked his monthly rent by $100 while his partner’s roommates left him with a $3,300 apartment he couldn’t afford when they moved out. While the couple, 30 and 27, had been discussing living together in a more affordable Boston suburb, cohabiting became a financial lifeline. Even though he’s saved $2,000 on rent alone since moving in with his partner in August, Quattromani said they’re still “struggling to afford living here with everything getting more expensive.” “You have couples living with other couples and people living with six people,” said Quattromani, who owns a dog-walking business. “At this rate, nobody can afford to live alone.” Splitting living costs makes sense for many young couples. But some who rushed into cohabitation are realizing that their relationship does not. Realtor.com found that 42 percent of respondents who moved in with a romantic partner ultimately regretted the decision. GEN Z COUPLES ARE COHABITING AT RECORD RATES BY AUGUSTA SARAIVA AND PAULINA CACHERO Bloomberg

REAL ESTATE 92 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCES AND LOTS SUBDIVISION ADDRESS LISTED ORIGINAL MOST RECENT SOLD SELLING ASKING PRICE ASKING PRICE PRICE KANSAS CITY COLONY 1840 S HIGHWAY A1A 11/18/2022 $23,900,000 $23,900,000 3/23/2023 $20,500,000 MOORINGS 1986 MOORINGLINE DR 10/21/2022 $2,595,000 $2,395,000 3/28/2023 $2,100,000 MOORINGS 970 BEACON LN 6/17/2022 $2,700,000 $2,275,000 3/27/2023 $1,925,000 CASTAWAY COVE 1015 WINDERMERE WAY 12/5/2022 $1,595,000 $1,499,000 3/24/2023 $1,450,000 OCEANRIDGE 1924 OCEAN RIDGE CIR 1/23/2023 $1,575,000 $1,575,000 3/28/2023 $1,375,000 OCEANRIDGE 1939 OCEAN RIDGE CIR 1/2/2023 $1,495,000 $1,495,000 3/27/2023 $1,350,000 OCEAN CORP 1615 CORAL AVE 1/8/2023 $1,395,000 $1,395,000 3/24/2023 $1,325,000 RIVER MEWS CONDO 2155 VIA FUENTES, #2155 1/18/2023 $729,500 $710,000 3/30/2023 $675,000 WINDWARD CONDO 2155 GALLEON DR, #F1 3/8/2023 $599,000 $599,000 3/29/2023 $615,000 PORPOISE BAY VILLAS 300 HARBOUR DR, #201D 11/28/2022 $650,000 $625,000 3/29/2023 $595,000 TOWNHOMES, VILLAS, CONDOS, MULTIFAMILY AND INVESTMENT Real Estate Sales on the Barrier Island: March 23 to March 30 The real estate market on the barrier island had a solid week with 11 transactions recorded, including seven for more than $1 million. The top sale of the week was of an oceanfront home in the Estate Section. The property at 1840 South Highway A1A was listed Nov. 18 for $23.9 million. The home sold on March 23 for $20.5 million. The seller was represented by Cindy O’Dare of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty. The purchaser was represented by O’Dare and also by Matilde Sorensen of Dale Sorensen Real Estate.

REAL ESTATE Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 93 Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: 12/5/2022 $1,595,000 $1,499,000 3/24/2023 $1,450,000 Kristin Dobson & Cindy O’Dare ONE Sotheby’s Int’l Realty Rosanne Moler Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Subdivision: Castaway Cove, Address: 1015 Windermere Way Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: 6/17/2022 $2,700,000 $2,275,000 3/27/2023 $1,925,000 Daina Bertrand The Moorings Realty Sales Co. Mara Puerner Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Subdivision: Moorings, Address: 970 Beacon Ln Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: 10/21/2022 $2,595,000 $2,395,000 3/28/2023 $2,100,000 Alex MacWilliam IV Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Michele Ritchie Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Subdivision: Moorings, Address: 1986 Mooringline Dr Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: 1/23/2023 $1,575,000 $1,575,000 3/28/2023 $1,375,000 Michele Ritchie Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Danette Dieffenbach Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Subdivision: Oceanridge, Address: 1924 Ocean Ridge Cir Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales.

REAL ESTATE 94 Vero Beach 32963 / April 6, 2023 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales. Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: Listing Date: Original Price: Recent Price: Sold: Selling Price: Listing Agent: Selling Agent: 11/28/2022 $650,000 $625,000 3/29/2023 $595,000 Joan Cook Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Ellyn Marshall & Stuart Tilt ONE Sotheby’s Int’l Realty Subdivision: Porpoise Bay Villas, Address: 300 Harbour Dr, #201D 1/18/2023 $729,500 $710,000 3/30/2023 $675,000 Marsha Sherry The Moorings Realty Sales Co. Daina Bertrand The Moorings Realty Sales Co. Subdivision: River Mews Condo, Address: 2155 Via Fuentes, #2155 1/8/2023 $1,395,000 $1,395,000 3/24/2023 $1,325,000 Cindy & Lily O’Dare ONE Sotheby’s Int’l Realty Kathleen Pogany Compass Florida LLC Subdivision: Ocean Corp, Address: 1615 Coral Ave 1/2/2023 $1,495,000 $1,495,000 3/27/2023 $1,350,000 Michele Ritchie Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Michele Ritchie Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Subdivision: Oceanridge, Address: 1939 Ocean Ridge Cir

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