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rtifacts and documents illustrating Miami’s role in World War II and South Florida-based CIA activities with Cuba and Nicaragua will become the focus of a “South Florida Military Museum,” now being planned adjacent to Miami Metrozoo. Although not due to open for at least five years, the military exhibit is envisioned as part of a twofold project designed to expand the Gold Coast Railroad Museum into a tourist-friendly esplanade with adjacent shops and an outdoor cafe. The new military museum will be housed within the “last re-buildable structure” from the old Richmond Naval Air Station grounds, according to Kevin Asher, supervising the development for the Miami-Dade Park and Recreation Department through an initial $2 million from BBC (Building Better Communities) bond revenues A feasibility report for the museum was prepared by Lord Cultural Resources, a national firm that reports on existing military museums as part of a General Planning Study, prepared

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BY ROBERT HAMILTON nimal Services invites the community to celebrate its Fourth Birthday Adoption Party on Oct. 4, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The adoption celebration will take place at the Animal Services Shelter, 7401 NW 74 St. in Medley. The Anniversary Adoption Party will give residents the opportunity to adopt dogs and cats who are in need of a loving home. Anyone who adopts a pet at the event will receive a complimentary picture with his or her new family member. Interested adopters must be at least 18 years old. Adoption fees apply, including a $50 refundable deposit if pet is not yet spayed or neutered. Only Miami-Dade County residents may adopt pets under the spay/neuter agreement. Attendance is free and open to the public. Donations of dog and/or cat toys are appreciated. Miami-Dade Animal Services is responsible for enforcing Chapter V, as well as Florida Statutes 828, which deals primarily with animal cruelty issues. Unlike private shelters that have limitations on the number of pets they accept, Animal Services accepts all dogs and cats. Each year, the shelter impounds more than 34,000 pets. The goal at Animal Services is to reunite lost pets with their families or find life-long homes for as many animals as possible. For more information visit online at <www.miamidade.gov/animals> or call 3-1-1.

Architectural rendering of how Building 25 will look after restoration.

Proposed study may define new ‘center’ of W. Kendall BY RICHARD YAGER ocating the elusive “downtown” center for West Kendall may soon be over. Discussing the need to select a “small” area for a charrette, West Kendall Community Council 11 voted 5-0 that county planners should focus the study from SW 88th Street to SW 120th Street between 132nd and 147th avenues, with a centralized point at SW 137th Avenue and Kendall Drive. Told that a charrette should be confined to a one to two-mile square

area, or along a corridor not exceeding two miles in length, council members agreed that SW 137th Avenue was the key north-south section line road intersecting with Kendall Drive. The study area south from the SW 88th Street/137th Avenue intersection was extended beyond two miles to include recent rapid commercial growth along SW 120th Street bordering the north side of KendallTamiami Executive Airport. “We need to designate the area we

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Former commissioner offers to arbitrate issue of councils BY RICHARD YAGER Favoring the continuation of action by community councils on local issues, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, who originated the concept, is volunteering to “arbitrate” potential ways to retain the councils’ nonzoning meetings and recommendations. His comments before West Kendall’s Community Council 11 last week indicated he may play an important, if not decisive, role in an effort to maintain local representation of residents in unincorporated areas. A $437,000 budget cutback for fiscal 2009-10 removed operational funding and staff salaries needed to continue operating non-zoning council meetings beyond Sept. 30. Both East and West Kendall councils, which represent more than a quarter million residents, are protesting elimination of four annual non-zoning sessions required by the Miami-Dade Charter to hear and advise county commissioners on local matters other than zoning appeals. A resolution sponsored by Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz, reducing the county’s 10 councils (with six members elected and one appointed) to four (with nine appointed members) was approved 8-5 vote by the commission during the first of two public hearings on Sept. 15. Final action is pending a second hearing. “As the one who established the councils during the charter change to provide local representation in 1996, I believe we should preserve that spirit,” Diaz de la Portilla told Community Council 11 members and attendees during a Sept. 22 meeting. His comments came when council

chair Patricia “Shannen” Davis, noting the former commissioner in the audience, asked for his comments after Council 11 members discussed any action they might take to restore representation for non-zoning issues. “There are so many different things tied to this question, as well as representation, we need to hear all views before taking any council action,” she said. “You don’t have to feel pressed to act immediately. There’s still time to express your views,” Diaz de la Portilla advised, noting the commission apparently will not act until early November. “Although a new fiscal budget has been approved, it also is subject to amendments that usually occur for several months after adoption.” Although not taking formal action, Davis and four colleagues — vice chair Jeff Wander, Ileana Vazquez, Joseph E. Delaney and Nelson Diaz — supported liaison with local commission members to seek a solution continuing local review of non-zoning matters while welcoming Diaz de la Portilla’s possible involvement in future discussions. Six members of East Kendall’s Community Council 12 conducted a special meeting on Aug. 5 approving a four-page letter protesting the cutback, stating: “Elimination (of) non-zoning community council meetings…does not eliminate the issues that residents face. All it does is eliminate the means which residents have to resolve them.” “This is really a matter of self-determination,” Wander concluded. “Nonzoning matters are as important as zoning issues. They were begun to eliminate people having to go downtown to meetings and miss work to appear before the commission.”

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MUSEUM, from page 1 ––––––––––––––––––––– by Lambert Advisory and the Evans Group for both projects. Facing on a “Main Street” plaza, the military museum will display artifacts from South Florida’s World War II history within the restored three-story “Building 25,” once the U.S. Navy’s squadron headquarters for blimp operations. The Lord study notes that a National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, opened in 1963 in a renovated wood-framed building constructed during World War II, now has a 534-seat IMAX theater and nearly 300,000 square feet of exhibition space, hosting more than 600,000 visitors in 2007. While much smaller by comparison, a South Florida Military Museum eventually could draw an estimated 40,000 visitors annually as part of a two-museum complex located a short distance from the new water park entertainment center planned adjacent to Metrozoo. “We’ve been storing and collecting things, like blimp aircraft fabric and uniforms for several years,” said Anthony Atwood, a Naval Reserve officer who now teaches American and military history as an adjunct professor at FIU, and credited by Asher as a guiding force behind the formation of a military museum. Besides collected uniforms, medals and photographs, the museum would feature relics still available from WWII: “We have an eye on a blimp gondola lying in a pasture upstate,” added Atwood who just received a 45-pound military radio as a donated item.

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Both the ideas of a railroad and military museum began more than a half-century ago when rail enthusiasts in 1957 formed the Miami Railroad Historical Society to preserve equipment collected by William Godfrey, then housed by the University of Miami on the 2,100-acre site, former home to the Richmond Naval Air Station (RNAS). The history of the station, with dramatic photos of post-storm destruction and aerials taken during the past half-century, accompany a 2002 narrative by aviation historian Paul Freeman that can be seen online at <www.airfields-freeman.com>. Built in 1941-42 as a base for spotter blimps used to protect Florida-area shipping from German U-Boat attacks, RNAS became the largest blimp base on the East Coast, only to be destroyed on Sept. 15, 1945, when a “suspected” Category 4 hurricane with 123 mph winds hit the airfield directly. The storm destroyed the hangars by fire but Building 25 and other base structures remained intact, Freeman said. Blimps never returned permanently after the storm but the base’s helium plant continued to supply Navy airships while other buildings served a variety of uses, including space used by Navy and Marine Corps Reserve units. Freeman reports that “from 1962 to 1968, the [base] was reused in a curious role, the CIA leasing a few buildings from the University of Miami under a ‘front’ name of Zenith Technological Services, an intelligence gathering headquarters against the Cuban communist government then known as JM/WAVE with over 400 CIA operatives. In 1966, historic railroad equipment was moved to Fort Lauderdale until the

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Workmen rebuild old Richmond Base headquarters for military museum. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

need for the military ‘waned’ and the collection was returned to the former air station.” “Eventually, all of the buildings deteriorated,” Atwood noted. “Firemen would even set dilapidated barracks on fire to practice putting the fires out. We want to preserve whatever we can as part of the area’s military history.” Now used as a parking area for Metrozoo, RNAS building foundations are long gone, except for traces of the hangar tie-downs, a helipad and the on-going renovation project to restore Building 25, sole survivor from more than six decades ago.

CENTER, from page 1 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– believe best suited for a study,” said Jeff Wander, council vice chair, before he moved to establish boundary parameters. The motion was seconded by Ileana Vazquez. The resolution did not detail specific study purposes but Wander later said he anticipated the Planning Department will evaluate the area to determine the appropriate concerns for recommending improvements during a citizen workshop. The council voted 6-0 on Apr. 15 to request the Department of Planning and Zoning draft “a resolution to initiate a small area plan/charrette” within Districts 8, 9, 10 and 11, resulting in the department’s advice to select a smaller area — one square mile or a two-mile corridor within the four districts before proceeding. The charrette initially was asked for during an earlier council meeting by Martha D. Backer, an active voice in community affairs who has long addressed the need for a centralized

government office in West Kendall. The last detailed charrette request, sought in 2006 by the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations (KFHA), proposed an approximate 32square-mile area bounded by Bird Road (SW 42nd Street) to SW 136th Street between Florida’s Turnpike and the existing Urban Development Boundary, closely paralleling Krome Avenue. That resolution asked for studies of demography, land use, transportation, environmental issues, facilities, services, aesthetics, design, economic and social issues, West Kendall entrance features, expanding green areas, parks, bikes and walking trails, roadway landscaping, improving infrastructure (sidewalks, street lights, landscaping, etc.) and locating neighborhood traffic calmers. The study also sought “creation of design standards for architectural facade treatment for the future and redeveloped areas” and “decorative street lighting for the whole area.”

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UDB Movement OK’d 3-1 by WKCC Michael Miller EXECUTIVE EDITOR

AROUND TOWN Latest effort to move the UDB (Urban Development Boundary) got a 3-1 “transmit without recommendation” okay from West Kendall’s Community Council last week. Ferro Investment Group II, LLC, represented by former Miami-Dade Commissioner Miguel De la Portilla asked for the Comprehensive Development Master Plan (CDMP) change to establish a business and office center on a near 10acre parcel at SW 167th Avenue and SW 104th Street. The CDMP cycle takes a minimum of six months to go through reviews and public hearings, and if not denied outright by the County Commission, will next be “heard” in Tallahassee before returning for a second BCC hearing — all of which won’t take place until April, 2010.

Even if the CDMP change is approved, a re-zoning process requires a new round of hearings to permit the type of uses sought for the center. The CDMP dissenting voter was Chair Patricia ‘Shannen’ Davis who said the need to get a shopping center underway in an area is hardly sufficient reason to overturn the UDB, especially when many who live in that vicinity (like her family) can drive to a Publix in a few minutes’ time. “Just isn’t needed to impact UDB movement,” declared Ms. Davis, even though three colleagues okayed the permit for review, if not outright approval. A second CDMP allowing Baptist Hospital to rezone a 19.5-acre vacant tract from office and residential to office/business use only off SW 137th Avenue and SW 96th Street was approved by the Council. While housewives may object to the last of our tomato fields disappearing, Atty. Joseph Goldstein explained the hospital had held the vacant land since the mid1990’s for a possible clinic location, now outdated by the full-scale West Kendall Baptist Hospital being built at the SW 162nd Avenue site. So, too, is considera-

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tion for residential use where the Council designated as WK’s newest ‘downtown center’ for a charrette study. “Topping out” of the fourth story of the new hospital early in September keeps the new complex on schedule for a 2011 opening of the $160 million facility, added Atty. Goldstein. Public gets its first look at West Kendall’s new Children’s Hospital Clinic from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 24, when public tours are planned for the new facility that opened earlier this year. Extensive equipment for rehabilitation and other specialized services will be explained during the one-day event in the building located off the easternmost SW 120th Street entrance to the London Square shopping center. Killian High School, Class of ‘68, will hold a “Destination Reunion” on the weekend of October 3 near Avon Park with almost 80 of a class of less than 400 marking 41 years since graduation, just two years after Killian opened its doors along SW 97th Avenue, two years earlier. According to alum Martha Backer of West Kendall, the celebration is scheduled for the “Wild Turkey” on SR 27, plus

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Taxpayers, you can’t have it both ways R. Kenneth Bluh KENNETH’S COMMENTARY We all thought it would go on forever. The value of real estate would continue to climb; tax revenues used to run our governments would continue to increase. We all, myself included, wanted more from our tax dollars. We wanted more libraries, cops on every corner, a ballpark, government grants for the arts, parks for our kids, newer streetlights and services for the elderly. Why not? Every year we had more and more dollars to cover our ever growing list of “wants.” No one said, “Hey, let’s put a few dollars away for a rainy day. Times may not always be good. Let’s set up a savings account for our future.” But we didn’t. Now the bad days are here and everyone is crying “no more taxes.” Yet the problem is self-evident — our county

income is based upon real estate taxes and fees for county services. When the value of real estate goes down, as evidenced in Miami-Dade’s ad valorem drop of 9.2 percent, revenues go down unless we increase the millage rate. Hundreds of taxpaying residents took their allotted two minutes and told our county commissioners “do not increase our taxes!” More, representing dozens of non-profits, went before the same commissioners and said, “Please don’t cut funding for our organization. We feed the hungry. We house the homeless. We take care of uninsured’s medical needs. We bring joy through the arts.” No one wanted to pay more taxes. No one wanted to see cuts in government spending. However, the two just don’t work together. We either pay more in taxes or we receive fewer benefits. What can we do? Or, better said, what must we do? Several actions must be taken. I am not a genius. We all know the procedure. First, we must search out the “unnecessary” functions of government. Unfortunately the arts are generally the first hit, and for good reason. We can

––– VIEWPOINT ––– live without art but we cannot live without food. The first to take a cut is the arts. Next, we must seek out waste. As one commissioner pointed out during the budget hearing: “Stop inventorying supplies, buy as needed. Save dollars storing and distributing.” We have waste everywhere in government and in private industry. The difference is government is spending “our” dollars. Businesses are spending the “owner’s” dollars. Salaries: there are two choices. Cut the number of employed or cut the salaries of the employees. Those at near minimum wage must not be cut. Those with high management salaries must take greater cuts than those in the middle salary ranges. Simply look at our recent budgets. While the population has basically leveled out, the county cost of operations

has increased 32 percent in the past five years. It didn’t go into expanded transportation. It hasn’t gone into funding of Jackson Memorial Hospital; they are in the red. Where has it gone? The money has gone to salary increases, pension funding and items other than community needs. So folks, let’s tighten our belts. If we have decided not to pay more tax dollars, we are going to experience less county privileges. Don’t look for any rainy day funds to cover our shortfalls. Next economic cycle, let’s put away a few dollars for the inevitable rainy day.

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The competition is getting even tighter for any available job openings around South Florida and long-term job seekers like Broward’s Samuel Johnson are getting discouraged after long days applying for any jobs they can’t find. “I come here looking for a job and fill out paperwork and go to interviews and they take my paperwork and they tell me they aren’t hiring and it’s rough,” Johnson said. “I’ve been doing this for six months.” And he’s not alone. According to the latest numbers from the U.S. Labor Department, another 545,000 former workers applied for new jobless benefits in a recent week. That is down about 12,000 from the week before and job losses are apparently tapering off. In fact, it’s the third week out of the past four that have seen an apparent slowdown in pink slips. Still, with new hiring almost shut down, long-term unemployment is getting worse. At this point, 6.2 million former workers now need extended aid, which may be extended even longer by Congress. Some economic forecasters predict South Florida’s job market may not real-

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“Why not link them to the sukkah?” Cantor Mark H. Kula added. “We sit as The holiday of Sukkot is the Jewish we drive; this way, we can sit in our cars version of Thanksgiving, and begins in the sukkah. Perhaps realizing the Friday evening, Oct. 2, and lasts for fragility of the sukkah will encourage us to drive more carefully.” eight days. The “McBet Shira Sukkah” will be locatObservant Jews sit, eat, socialize and some even sleep in the “sukkah,” tradi- ed at 7500 SW 120 St. in the synagogue’s main parking lot. Simply protionally a booth or shelter ceed past the first speed with a roof of branches and bump, drive into the sukkah, The Torah leaves that is used especially and stop and say the posted for meals during Sukkot. The details the blessing celebrating awaresukkah in the synagogue customs of courtyard is quite commonSukkot while the ness of the sukkah traditions. Volunteers will be present in place and the sukkah at commentaries the sukkah, holding a lulav home is the standard. What of the Talmud (palm), and etrog (citron) durabout a “drive-thru” sukkah? and Jewish ing several time periods durBet Shira Congregation ing the week of Sukkot. For legalists will construct what is exact times, contact Bet Shira believed to be the first and prescribe the Congregation at 305-238only “drive-thru” sukkah. dimensions of 2601. Everyone is welcome. The Torah details the custhe sukkah. “We hold and shake these toms of Sukkot while the symbols of nature in the commentaries of the Talmud sukkah and note that beauty and Jewish legalists prescribe the dimensions of the sukkah, and the surrounds us as we pursue peace in all need for one to see the stars through directions,” Cantor Kola said. When you stop in the sukkah and roll the roof. A person is directed to layshayv basuka down your window, you will also receive (sit in the Sukkah), which should remind a sweet sukkah treat that you can take one of a connection to nature, the Jewish home or enjoy in the sukkah. On people’s early agrarian days, and links to Wednesday evening, Oct. 7, a classic car the temporary dwellings of the Israelites will be in the sukkah, further celebratduring the exodus from Egypt. The key ing the intersection of nature and autoelement is to spend time in the sukkah to mobiles in our society. This innovation in the sukkah ritual foster these connections. “Cars are integral to our lifestyle, may lead to more interest in Sukkot. especially in South Florida and in Cantor Kula suggests, “that all of us Pinecrest where Bet Shira is located,” should be a little more sukkah consciensaid Rabbi Micah Caplan, the rabbi of tious this year and rejoice in Sukkot this 600-plus-member Conservative which is designated as the Jewish festival of happiness.” congregation.

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Seniors get extra help at South Miami Pharmacy BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD When Yvette Jimenez Romanach was hired by South Miami Pharmacy, she was the marketing director. But after a year on the job, working with the healthcare community, she realized that South Miami Pharmacy could help serve the elderly both at the store and in assisted living facilities in a way few pharmacies can. So she went to pharmacy owner Armando Bardisa and on her advice he created a Long Term Care Department. Staff at South Miami Pharmacy has received special training on Alzheimer’s and related disorders and the store created a new section only for seniors. The personnel in the department go out of their way to help seniors, even filling out the forms from Children’s and Family Services, which allow seniors to apply for waiver of prescription co-pay. “Although their co-pays aren’t too much, they add up when they are eight or 10 prescriptions,” she said. “We do it for them and then we give it back to them, they read it over and they have to sign it. They get an

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Yvette Jimenez Romanach helps seniors at South Miami Pharmacy.

Romanach said they package the medications in a different way for the patients in the facilities so it’s easier for the staff to double check the medications. “We also deliver them two or three days before the beginning of the month,” she said, adding that gives the assisted living facility staff time to double check the meds before the beginning of the month. Romanach has been known to make emergency visits. One administrator called her on a Saturday because she had a new patient who had come from a long hospital stay. The patient’s family had brought not only the prescriptions the doctor in the hospital had written, but they also brought the drugs the patient had been taking at home. There were so many medications that the administrator needed help sorting them all out. “What was nice, I was able to go and the pharmacist was on the phone with us reviewing everything. That’s one of the things we pride ourselves in, service,” she said. South Miami Pharmacy is located at 6233 Sunset Dr. with a new building under construction at 6050 S. Dixie Hwy. For information call 305-668-6150.

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Breast health awareness event at Whole Foods Market A free, community outreach event to educate women about early prevention and awareness about breast health and cancer prevention will be held on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Whole Foods Market, 11701 S. Dixie Hwy. The event will begin with a lecture highlighting the link between nutrition and cancer prevention by integrative medicine pioneer Dr. J. E. Williams. Featured presenters include representatives from Baptist Health’s new Breast Cancer Center; Susan G. Komen’s Buddies for You program; Your Bosom Buddies breast cancer support group; the Wellness Community, providing psychosocial support for the cancer community, and Community Health of South Florida, a non-profit healthcare organization providing affordable, accessible and culturally sensitive healthcare to the South Florida community. RED CROSS ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR SPECTRUM AWARDS FOR WOMEN The nomination deadline is approaching for the 2010 Sara Hopkins Woodruff Spectrum Awards for Women. The prestigious awards, honoring women who make significant contributions to benefit the community, will be presented during

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ALLIANCE FOR AGING, SHINE OFFER MEDICARE 101 PRESENTATIONS The Alliance for Aging Inc., the area agency on aging for Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, and its SHINE program (Serving Health Insurance Needs of Elders), the health insurance assistance program for elder Floridians, are offering free Medicare 101 presentations at local libraries. These presentations are open to the public and no reservation is necessary. The dates are as follows: Wednesday, Oct. 14, from 7 to 8 p.m., in Spanish, at Kendale Lakes Library, 15201 SW 88 St. Contact Bruce Douglas at 305-388-0326 for more information. Thursday, Oct. 22, from 7 to 8 p.m., in English, and 8 to 9 p.m., in Spanish, at the West Kendall Regional Library auditorium, 10201 Hammocks Blvd. Contact Lourdes Martinez at 305-385-7135 for more information. Wednesday, Nov. 4, from 10 to 11 a.m., in English, and 11 a.m. to noon, in Spanish, at South Dade Regional Library, 10750 SW 211 St. in Cutler Bay. Contact Debbie Shepard at 305-233-8140 for more information. Saturday, Nov. 14, at 3:30 p.m., in Spanish, at Lakes of the Meadow Library, 4284 SW 152 Ave. Contact Cynthia Bermudez at 305-222-2149.

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PHS Theatre students to take audience on trip to Wonderland

Miami Palmetto Senior High’s Theatre Department has announced the first play of the 2009-10 season, Alice in Wonderland by Charlotte Chorpenning. The play is a retelling of the classic tale by Lewis Carroll. What happens when a young girl’s imagination and desire for an exciting life takes her away to a magical land where the world has gone topsy-turvy. In Palmetto High’s twist, Alice visits different cultures in her exploration of Wonderland and on her hunt for the White Rabbit and her ticket back home. Join these classic characters as they have never been seen before on Oct. 14 and 15, 7 p.m., in Palmetto High’s auditorium. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased at the door the night of performances. For information call 305-235-1360, ext. 2287.

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program,” he said. “For many of them, that’s their first job.” Kendall family dentist Dr. Robert Along with training the umpires, Schroer has been practicing since 1971. Schroer has been their mentor and has He came to Miami in 1973 and opened been a reference for many of them when an office on SW 104th Street just west of they seek employment. S. Dixie Highway (US1), in the same “This is one way of building up a shopping center as the Kmart. resume for young people,” he said. “It’s But in December 2008 he made a mostly boys but we have a few young major change, closing his office and mov- ladies umpire for us.” ing his practice to the The teen umpires can Kings Creek Shopping start out as young as 15. Center, where he shares More than half of the an office with two other umpires are high school dentists. boys. Before the season “I decided to get out of starts, he holds a clinic for the business of running potential umps where he an office and become an teaches them the rules and independent contractor,” how to manage a game and he said. “I wanted to focus how to manage the parents. on doing the dentistry After he has his list of and not so much on runumpires, Schroer puts ning a business.” together the schedule. He His move came at a often schedules himself to good time. It’s been a work games with some of the Dr. Robert Schroer tough time for dentists. younger umps. He said it can –––––––––––––––– Because of the economic be difficult on the umps if downturn, people are doing fewer elec- there are two 15 year olds working a tive procedures. Even so, he said the staff game. Overall, Schroer thinks umpiring is fairly busy at the office. is good for the kids. Now that he is sharing space and keep“I think it’s a good way to learn responing busy by seeing patients without the sibility,” he said. “My oldest son umpired hassle of having an office, he has the time for me. Now he’s a physician. My second to continue to volunteer for the Howard son umpired for me, now he’s a Marine.” Palmetto Baseball Softball Association His youngest son also umpired for him. coordinating the umpires for the “The young people who sign up for this younger division, boys age 12 and program are top students in their classes younger. and good athletes,” he said. Schroer’s sons played in the league and He does have some adult umpires as coordinating the umpire allows him to well. stay involved. Howard Palmetto has a fall When not umpiring kids’ games, he season and a spring season for which he keeps busy by umpiring adult games. coordinates the umpires. “I do enjoy the umpiring,” he said. “I “We train and assign mostly high do umpiring in an adult softball league school kids who have been through the over the summer.”

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Concerts begin at 7 p.m. in the historic Stone House Ballroom which provides an intimate setting with superb natural acoustics for chamber music. Stone House Ballroom which provides an intimate setting with superb natural acoustics for chamber music. A meet-theartist reception will take place prior to each concert at 6:30 p.m. Individual concert tickets are $25. A season subscription (six concerts) is $120. For more information or to purchase tickets, please call the Deering Estate Ticket Office at 305-235-1668, ext. 233. The 2009-10 season highlights include: Friday, Oct. 16, “Florida Triad” piano series; Friday, Nov. 13, “Tribute” chamber music series; Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, “Migration,” baroque music series; Friday, Feb. 19, “Emergination,” piano

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WWII veteran remembers liberation of concentration camp BY LYNN RUMPH Nazi concentration camp liberator Don Segal replies, “To put it nicely, President Ahmadinejad of Iran is a troublemaker,” when he is asked what he feels when the Iranian president denies the Holocaust. Segal, 84, a longtime Miami resident, had a twoyear stint in the U.S. Army dur-

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ing World War II, which included being shot three times during the Battle of the Bulge and culminated in helping to liberate a Nazi-run concentration camp in Germany. Don served in General Patton’s Third Army. His division was the 94th Infantry Division, 76th Regiment. He started out as a private, but in the final days, the Army was so depleted of troops they made him a sergeant. He had just come out of the hospital, and they told him to take the remaining 12 men and go up the hill. When they got up there they realized there were about 100 Germans. He was wounded with shrapnel and ended up back in the infirmary tent. The weather was very bad for about three weeks after that and the Allies could not drop reinforcements and supplies. Then it cleared and the reinforcements were dropped and the battle could resume. When asked to describe what he saw when he was in the concentration camp, Segal said he saw men lying on the ground like toothpicks because the prisoners hadn’t eaten in months and were too weak to stand. “General Dwight Eisenhower ordered photographs taken because he knew it was so horrible that in 50 years people would deny it,” Segal explained. Segal explained that the Battle of the Bulge was Hitler’s final effort to win the war. Old men and young teenagers were sent into battle. Segal was wounded one time in the shoulder, once in the rear end and once in t h e

wrist. The third time he was wounded, he spent nine days in a tent recovering, whereupon he thought that the three times and you’re out rule would apply and he would be sent home. But the commanding officer ordered him back into the fighting, so he went AWOL. online at <miamiredBY CHRYSTIAN TEJEDOR “At this point in the war, it was chaos,” Segal said. “If cross.org>. you disappeared, you were thought dead. So some budThe Florida Marlins made a $5,000 donation to the dies and I took off, walked and got a ride on a truck to American Red Cross of Greater Miami and the Keys another outfit. We were treated royally and fed well, during a recent baseball game. The check presentation and after a short while we went back to our division, was done during the Marlins vs. New York Mets prewhich was when we were sent into the concentration camp. game event. “The camp was 90 percent Polish and 10 percent “We are very thankful to the Marlins Community German prisoners, consisting of Jews, Gypsies and Foundation for their donation,” said Sam Tidwell, From left, front row: Lynn Seto, M.D., Niberto L. Moreno, M.D., and Lynn H. Harrison Jr., M.D. Back row: Lisardo Garcia-Covarrubias, M.D., and Mark Dylewski, M.D. Catholics. We were there in January of 1944. May 8, American Red Cross regional CEO. “This contribution 1945 was when World War II ended [in Europe].” can ensure that the Red Cross will always be ready to Segal came to Miami in 1954, after his business respond when our neighbors are in need.” partner in New York died in a plane crash. He All of the services provided by the American met his future wife, Gail, here. They were marRed Cross Greater Miami and the Keys are ried for 60-plus years before her passing. made possible through the generosity of single fatality. She teaches other surgeons the technique using the da Vinci robot. There’s a new cardiac and thoracic surgery group grabbing the spotlight at Baptist and South Miami Hospitals. “Gail lived in Miami Beach in 1940, individuals and community partners Mark Dylewski, M.D., is considered one of the country’s cutting-edge surgeons in the area of robotic It’s an impressive new team of expert heart and chest surgeons, and we’re proud to introduce them to South Florida. and used to watch the troops do their from Miami-Dade and Monroe techniques, particularly minimally invasive lung surgery. He developed the Dylewski technique using the da Vinci Niberto L. Moreno, M.D., is Baptist Health’s Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Moreno has been affiliated with training down Collins Avenue,” counties. The American Red robot to remove the lung without cutting or spreading the ribs — a technique other robotic physicians are now Baptist Health since 1995. He was an early innovator in minimally invasive surgery, and performed the first beating Segal recalled. Cross is not a government adopting. heart surgery in 1994. Before retiring he was an agency and relies on the Lisardo Garcia-Covarrubias, M.D., joins the cardiac and thoracic surgical group after extensive postgraduate Lynn H. Harrison Jr., M.D., joins Baptist Health from the University of Massachusetts, where he was chief of accountant by profession. goodwill of the commuSegal currently lives in training. He completed two heart transplant fellowships, one at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the cardiac surgery. He is credited with leading the transformation of the university’s heart surgery program into one of nity to fulfill its downtown Miami. other at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital. the top 100 programs in the United States. humanitarian misHe has two daughThese five talented surgeons make one winning team. But the real winners are our patients. Lynn Seto, M.D., from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, is a specialist in the area of robotic and minimally invasive sion. ters, and three cardiac surgery, particularly mitral valve repair. At Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Seto performed 400 heart surgeries without a For more granddaughinformaters. tion, visit

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Annual Oktoberfest returning to Fritz & Franz Bierhaus, Oct. 2 - 11 BY ROBERT HAMILTON The legendary Coral Gables Oktoberfest will continue a 15-year tradition in which an elite cultural event has been hosted in the City Beautiful. The festival, which is scheduled Oct. 211, is celebrated on the beautiful plaza in front of Fritz & Franz Bierhaus at 60 Merrick Way in downtown Coral Gables.

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