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Pinecrest Pioneers begin oral history project

BY CINDY LERNER

Mayor, Village of Pinecrest

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t was the fall of 2007 when I first met Joyce Diehl, as a group of concerned Pinecrest residents who rely on good old fashioned well water gathered and organized to oppose a proposed property assessment. It was the idea of the former mayor and council to suggest that property assessments of $20,000 on each resident well owner would finance the capital improvement waterline project. We held a town hall meeting at a local church and 150 Pinecrest resident showed up. Joyce was one of them. When she stood up to speak, she caught everyone’s attention with her comments. “I am 89 years old,” she said, “and I still mow my own yard, and my doctor says he wishes he could drink the same water I do!” I was mighty impressed, as was everyone. We eventually defeated the assessment proposal and the Village instead constructed a limited water main system with the state and county money the Village had received for this project, although it would only cover about 1/3 of the homes on wells. Joyce and I continued to speak on the phone over the next year or so. After my

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PHS grad Ralph Haro headed for Harvard

A visit to the Tribune

BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

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Every year, Westminster Christian English teacher Lisa Forbes takes her eighth grade class on a field trip to the Pinecrest Tribune office and printing plant in South Miami. She says it is one of the highlights of the year for the kids. This year’s class paid a visit a couple of weeks ago and we snapped this picture in front of the main entrance. They are (front row l-r) Gabriel del Cid, Erin Allison, Lizzy Turner, Daniela Alvarez; (middle row l-r) Hunter Alger, Gaton Legorburu, Vanessa Cereceda, Gaby Zelhof, Jessie Ramos, Kyle Kissane, Connor Radeloff; (back row l-r) C.J. Heck, Alana Arabitg, Jaclyn Feely, Isabella Hernandez, Gracie Chewning and Ms. Forbes. Thanks for stopping by, guys, and we’ll look forward to seeing the 2011 class.

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alph Haro just graduated from Palmetto Senior High and is on his way to Harvard where he plans to major in economics and government. And don’t be surprised if in 20 years you see him in politics. “Yeah, that’s kind of what I’m leaning towards,” Haro says. Haro had quite a presence at Palmetto, where he was the 2010 class president in his freshman, sophoRALPH HARO more and junior

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years, and student body president in his senior year. “What I enjoyed most was student government,� he says. There were some differences in being class president and being student body president. “I guess the biggest difference was that it’s a lot more dealing with everything in the school,� he says. Being student body president gave him a seat on ESAC, a committee that helps the principal decide where to allocate funds and decide school policies such as school uniforms. Haro says ESAC members decide where the FCAT money that is given to A schools is divided between teachers, custodians and administrators. He also sat on a committee of student body presidents that met with Dr. Larry Feldman, the District Five School Board member. The five students gave their views to Feldman about school board issues. What was surprising was not seeing Haro’s name on the list of Silver Knight nominees for 2010. He says that’s because he didn’t go through the application process since he was busy applying for colleges. “The application for that (Silver Knight) alone was hours and hours,� he says. Haro would have been a strong candidate since he has done a lot of community service, extracurricular activities and participated in baseball. He played baseball in his freshman year and part of his sophomore year, but decided that academics needed to take center stage in his school career.

“At our school, baseball is the biggest sport. Our team had just gotten into the state Final Four, he says. “It’s a real big time commitment.� His decision to concentrate on academics paid off. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in the top five percent of his class. That’s not easy to achieve with so many top achievers attending Palmetto. His decision to go to Harvard was not an easy one. He had always dreamed of going to the Wharton school of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, but in the end he realized he wanted a well rounded education. “I wanted to take a writing class and a government class,� he says. “It’s more of an opportunity to learn. Maybe I’m not into doing government. For college, let me do the full experience and try a lot of things and if I decide business is what I want to do, I can head towards that.� If he could change anything about high school, he says he wished he had broken out of his shell a bit more and tried things out of his comfort zone. “This year, I was in the spring musical,� he says. “I never even thought about doing it in high school. It was towards the end of my senior year — my sister is in drama, I would be doing it with her and a lot of my friends are in drama. I loved it. I loved being on stage.� Haro says he hopes he inspires Palmetto students to realize that anyone can go from an average kid to being a leader. “At our school, you can have that opportunity,� he says. “That’s the best any school can offer.�

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Pictured are Pinecrest Premier Soccer players Dylan Jenkins (left) and Mickey Salmon presenting a check to Pinecrest Parks Director Loren Matthews. The $4,000 check will be used to help maintain the soccer fields in the Village.

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DIANA DAVENPORT Palmetto High School senior Diana Davenport worked hard this past year to gain her Girl Scout Gold Award. “I opened up a library in the Holtz Children’s Hospital for the underprivileged kids who are in-patients there,” she says. “I collected more than 2,000 books.” Davenport started collecting books at the beginning of the year. She had help from friends in Girl Scouts, the Palmetto service club, Interact and a friend who attends Robert Morgan High School. She also received books from a collection at the Assurant Satellite Learning Center, where she attended elementary school. She still collects books for the library and she continues to volunteer at the hospital. “The whole reason I started it is because I loved to read as a child,” she says. “I used my school library. I wanted to teach kids that they could read and that they could have fun reading.” While working on the project, she learned that hospitalized children need people to come and entertain them. “They live there in the hospital,” she says. “They need things to do there, otherwise they are just going to watch TV or play video games.” This is why she continues to go to the hospital almost every month to read to the kids. While there, she has them do an activity that corresponds with the book. “The last one was The Three Bears,” she says. “We made porridge necklaces out of macaroni; we colored them and we gave

them books.” The children range from three to 18 years old. “They have all kinds of sicknesses,” Davenport says. “We usually ask them what their favorite book is and we try to find it in the library or we give it to them.” Davenport is in Troop 336. With her troop, she earned her Silver Award by refurbishing the kitchen at Camp Choee. “As little Girl Scouts, our troop always went there in the summers,” she says. “Now it’s all nice and clean.” For the Bronze Award, she helped plant native flowers around the flag pole and the girls took on flag pole duty for a year. Along with her volunteer duties as a Girl Scout, Davenport has also volunteered at Jackson South Community Hospital. “I’ve worked in radiology, the surgical unit, outpatient and administration,” she says. Davenport began volunteering there a couple of years ago because she hopes to become a doctor. “They’ve thrown me around quite a bit,” she says. “I’ve been able to see what it takes to make a hospital run.” In her freshman year, Davenport volunteered at the Miami Children’s Hospital’s urgent care center in Palmetto Bay. There she worked in the nurse’s station and would go with them when the nurses would do triage. Davenport is also involved at Palmetto High School, where she is co-captain of the tennis team and plans to join the lacrosse team next year. She’s also in the National Honor Society, Invisible Children, Interact, O Ambassadors, the Red Cross Club and Model UN. She has started her college search and has decided to focus on schools primarily in the south. “I don’t want to go too far from home,” she says. “I’m looking at colleges in Florida and colleges in North Carolina and Boston. I want to go to a really good graduate school. I want to be an oncologist. I’ve had a lot of cancer in my family. I’ve lost a lot of people.” By Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

DOMINIC BISCEGLIA It was a rough year for the Palmetto High yearbook staff, lead by Editor-in-chief Dominic Bisceglia. That’s because someone broke into the school and stole the yearbook computers. But there is a happy ending. Under Bisceglia’s leadership, the yearbooks turned out well and were only delayed by a month. “Our company sent one preview book. We as a staff got to go through it and I loved it,” Bisceglia says. “We were really amazed and impressed with all the work that went into it.” Because of the theft, they had to re-do the first 66 pages they sent in. They had gotten back the proofs, but because the pages had been sent as PDF files, they couldn’t retrieve the photographs used on those pages. Although he was devastated when he found out about the break-in, Bisceglia knew he didn’t have time to sit around feeling sorry for himself. Instead, he went to work. “I kind of had a plan for the pages we lost. I told our staff and just let them know we had to keep going,” he says. “The only setback was

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that we didn’t have our computers to work on. I had them write a lot of captions by hand.” Bisceglia and the staff took the opportunity to improve the yearbook’s design elements. He took them to a local bookstore so they could search through magazines for ideas. “That really helped our design,” he says. “It came out a lot nicer than it was the first time.” The theft happened Nov. 20 and they received replacement computers just before Winter Break. They didn’t have a chance to set up the computers until they came back from vacation. Once they came back, Bisceglia spent countless hours at school getting the yearbook back on track. Some nights he was at school until 8 or 9 p.m. Other days, if he had to work, he’d still be there until 4:30 p.m. It was a tough learning experience. “I know I grew as a leader. I was able to really pull it out and get students to pull it out,” Bisceglia says. He also learned about time management, how to deal with businesses and how to be professional. “Especially when we had to deal with the media,” he says. “This year wasn’t just dealing with the yearbook; it was dealing with the community. I’ve learned to communicate.” Until this year, Bisceglia was a top five tennis player on the Palmetto team, but his time commitment to the yearbook reduced his playing time. In spite of that, the team did well and went to states, although Bisceglia didn’t get to play. Although his volunteer time has been limited because of his yearbook work, in the past he volunteered at the Jane Foreman Tennis Academy, teaching children how to play the sport. He also worked in the concession stands. “My freshman year I was a team leader for USTA, the United States Tennis Association,” he says. “We had small tournaments.” He’s planning to attend the University of South Carolina for two years and then transfer to the University of Amsterdam. He’s going to South Carolina to get the general education classes out of the way and to start the course classes. “I’m double majoring in international business and public affairs/journalism,” he says. Why Amsterdam? “When I was little my mom, my sister, my dad and I traveled frequently to Amsterdam,” he says. “My mom’s side of the family lives there. Dutch was my first language. There are a lot of memories.” By Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

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JACOB MARCHUS Palmetto High School graduate Jacob Marchus soon will be in New York attending Manhattan College. While majoring in busi-

ness, he will play baseball at Manhattan, the sport he starred in while attending Palmetto. He has a scholarship in both academics and athletics. Marchus played on a 2010 Palmetto High team had a terrific year, finishing the regular season as district champs. Then it all ended abruptly in the first round of the playoffs. However, it was a good year for Marchus and his pitching efforts. “During the middle of the season I had the best ERA in all of Miami,” he says. “I wasn’t the best pitcher, Adam Sargent was; I was number two behind him.” Marchus has been playing baseball since he was five years old, starting in the Howard Palmetto Baseball Softball Association. In fact, he continued to play at Howard Palmetto for fun, even through his junior year in high school. “For Palmetto, I was only pitching,” he says. “But when I went there (Howard Palmetto), I actually got to hit. Most of the kids were not in high school baseball. It was a nice change.” Marchus also played on a several travel teams, including Team Florida last summer.

“We played in five different tournaments and we played in Ohio at the CABA World Series,” he says. Despite practicing baseball almost every day, Marchus still found time to participate in community service events and earned about 300 service hours. “I helped out at my church,” he says. “During Christmas, people donate presents for needy families and I would help organize them so they would be ready for those families.” At St. Louis Catholic Church, members pick a family to “adopt” for the holidays and they buy gifts for every child. Along with helping organize the gifts, on occasion Marchus chauffeured the people who were delivering the presents. Throughout high school, Marchus helped his friends complete their Eagle Scout projects. He worked alongside Scouts on several projects, including a couple that refurbished local parks. “One park was in Perrine and another was Colonial Park,” he says. Marchus was also a regular at the annual President’s Day Baseball Clinics put on by Palmetto High’s baseball team boosters.

“It was a different experience working with little kids,” he says. Most of the kids knew about the Palmetto team and how well it has done over the years, but there were a few who attended the camp who knew the names of the Palmetto players. At the clinic the teens helped the younger kids with fundamentals and taught them about the game. Marchus also worked concessions at the University of Miami baseball games as a way to raise money for the Palmetto High baseball team. Aside from sports, Marchus was involved in extracurricular activities. In the ninth and 10th grades, he was a member of the Spanish Honor Society. He completed four years of foreign language instruction in the 10th grade, the maximum allowed. Marchus also was a member of Key Club for three years and when he was in the ninth grade he was a member of the Patriots Outreach organization that collected used sporting equipment to be sent to the Dominican Republic for needy kids.

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election as mayor and taking office, I contacted Joyce to ask her to join me when we went before the County’s Environmental Quality Control Board. It was an effort to ask that the county to waive the mandatory hook up for those residents with wells, who now had water lines but did not want to connect. Joyce went with me and spoke to the control board, and helped convince them to give us a 10-year waiver from mandatory hook up. Joyce’s 90th birthday was coming up in March 2009, so, I suggested we have a community birthday celebration at Pinecrest Gardens. Joyce had been widowed over 20 years ago and had no children, so her neighbors are her family. We had a wonderful party and Joyce told us stories of her life and how she and her hus- Pictured is Joyce Diehl (seated) with (l-r) Mayor Cindy Lerner, band settled in what is now Kathy Hersh and Leia Schwartz at the initial taping session for the Pinecrest in 1947. She showed us Village oral history project. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– their family ledger, showing the original deposit of $1,750 toward the pur- and many are wonderful storytellers. In chase price of $5,000 for eight acres of addition to the twice a year birthday celebrations, we are now planning a Senior property. Then she told us a story of how, many Series of monthly programs for enrichment years later, “Old Man Goode” wanted to and social activities. Most important of all, we are beginning sell his property and subdivide the acres. She and a friend were terribly concerned our Oral History Project in collaboration about what this would do to the neighbor- with the Youth Advisory Council. We hood and she rode her bicycle around began with Joyce, just a few weeks ago, Pinecrest collecting signatures on a petition when Pinecrest residents and documentary so she could convince the county commis- filmmakers Kathy and Karl Hersh intersion to oppose it. She asked a lawyer to viewed and filmed Joyce, along with a take the case and take the petitions to the member of our Youth Advisory Council, commission. But he told her they would lis- Leia Schwartz, who was trained in interten to her before they would to a lawyer. viewing to collect an oral history. Joyce also showed us incredible illustrations from Now those were the days! So Joyce went to the commission with World War II that she had saved from her the petitions she collected and the commis- job as a manager at The Miami News back sion agreed with her request and refused to in the 1940s. These pictures will be donatallow the subdivision of acre estates on the ed to the historical museum, so they can be east side of 67th Avenue. So Joyce Diehl’s shared. She also told of her job working for advocacy has helped to keep the character Dr. Bascom Palmer for many years and of Pinecrest what it remains today, with how he asked her to go on the TV show lush acre estates, which cannot be found This is your Life (which she did) on his behalf. She kept saying that she has had anywhere else in upscale Miami. As a result of the celebration for Joyce, I such a wonderful life, and now we know was inspired to determine whether we had why. This oral history project will be an ongoother pioneers living here and did some research. I discovered we had over 100 res- ing project, for which we will be seeking a idents who were 90 years old or older. We grant in order to allow us to capture and now have a database of these pioneers and record many more of our pioneers’ historihave since done two more pioneer celebra- cal recollections, and share the legacy they tions, last December and again in June. leave with a wider audience for years to Altogether we had 15 pioneers come to our come. Look for them on Pinecrest’s web celebrations. They all have great stories site at <www.pinecrest-fl.gov>.

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Miami Palmetto Senior High Celebrating 50Years of Success

(Top to bottom, left to right) State swimming champion, Michael Saco; Senior Class President, Harvard-bound Raphael Haro; culinary arts outreach program participants, Elsie Feliz, Darrell Ewing; Silver Knight Winner, national award-winning videographer, Noah Gray.

(Top to bottom, left to right) Winner of the David Essner Mathematics Competition, Sijie Fan; star athlete, Alexis Snow; Natlonal Science Bowl winners, Alex Barreiro, Jeffrey Feldman, Elizabeth Lunior, Jonathan Nunez, Forrest Voight; orchestra members, Vincenzo Gugliuzza and Melissa Smith.

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BETH AM TEMPLE TALK Membership at Beth Am will shape your life BY STUART DEBOWSKY

It has often been said that even the mightiest rivers must start as a narrow stream. That is how membership at Beth Am will shape your life once you take the important first step of “trying us out.” At first you’ll likely see what the synagogue can mean for spiritual worship, vibrant and joyous but respectful of the ancient Jewish traditions. But look a little closer, spend a few more minutes getting to know about the place, and you’ll soon see that Temple Beth Am is more than just a place to pray. In fact if you are a regular reader of this column you may already know how many social, athletic, educational and just plain fun events happen on our campus each and every day of the year. And so, as summer winds down, life gets back to normal and the High Holidays await you and your family just around the corner, please accept this as yet another invitation to see how you can find a lasting place at Beth Am. We genuinely want you to understand how you can fit in with us and are excitedly waiting to welcome you with open arms. And our leadership has heard from its membership with regard to the way we interact with the greater community at large. To that end and because we live in these difficult economic times, the membership department has created an incentive package for more of the unaffiliated in our area to take advantage of all that Temple Beth Am has to offer. For the upcoming year, we have reintroduced the “Get To Know Us” promotion, a first year incentive of $500 that includes all High Holy Day service tickets, annual security fee and full access to the hundreds of programming membership benefits during the year. This new policy is offered on top of the incentives we already have for seniors and young adults (who receive complimentary membership until the age of 29).

And finally, as a cornerstone to the fundamentals of the religion as well as of the institution, we’ll never turn anyone away from membership for financial reasons. Beth Am aims to be a vibrant community center made up of a vast collection of people without regard to the financial pressures of belonging. After all, if we are to draw strength from one another in prayer, we must certainly be able open our doors to all who wish to join us. Once you’re here you’ll realize how much you’ve been missing. I write this column to you as a volunteer member of the synagogue’s enthusiastic membership committee. I don’t work for the temple and I did not have the good fortune of growing up in Miami. In fact, I can still recall my first experiences at Beth Am, as it seemed like a campus that was larger than life and overwhelming with activities. Now, 15 years later, it is hard to remember my life without this profound Judaic connection. My young family has invaluable connections to so many there and my business success is directly related to the variety of people I interact with, week in and week out. There is an undeniable spirit at Temple Beth Am and it can only get stronger as new energy and innovative suggestions help to shape it for the coming years. Take a closer look at Beth Am by visiting our campus, reviewing the website or asking the people you know around town that are currently members. If Beth Am is to be the vibrant river of Jewish life in Miami, it will need to be nourished by all of the incoming rivers from all corners of our community. And together, with your active participation, we will make a huge “splash” for generations to come. Hope to see you there. To learn more about Temple Beth Am and membership incentives, call membership director Rita Diaz at 305-667-6667, ext. 107, or join us for a personal tour and breakfast on Sunday, Aug. 8, at 11 a.m. Please RSVP and check out our website <www.tbam.org>.

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Domestic violence — anyone can be a victim BY KATHERINE FERNANDEZ RUNDLE Miami-Dade State Attorney

In the aftermath of the recent domestic violence related shootings in Hialeah that left four women dead and three seriously injured, it is important to be aware that this is a very serious and frequent problem. It is a type of abuse that involves injuring another person, usually a spouse or partner, but it can also be a parent, child, caregiver or other family member. There is no typical victim of domestic violence. It happens among people of all ages, ethnicities and religions, and even gender does not matter. Domestic violence does not discriminate. It affects those of all levels of income and education. It is the most common cause of injury to women age 15 to 44. Victims of domestic violence may suffer physical injuries such as bruises or broken bones, and they may also suffer emotionally from depression, anxiety or social isolation. It is hard to know exactly how common domestic violence is because people often don’t report it. Domestic violence can take many forms. Some of the most common are: • Physical abuse – the use of physical force. • Sexual abuse – any forced sexual activity. • Emotional abuse — including threats, constant criticism and put-downs. • Controlling access — to money and controlling activities are other abusive behaviors. Domestic violence against a partner or a child is a crime in all states. At least 4 million women are abused in this country each year. The most important thing that we need to realize is that people who are hurt by their

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FWC REPORT Bonefish — a great Florida game fish BY RODNEY BARRETO

Chairman, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Being a lifelong resident of the Sunshine State and the current chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, one of the things that make me the proudest is that Florida is acknowledged as the “Fishing Capital of the World.” A big reason for this recognition is that our coastal waters teem with so many popular game fishes, including snook, tarpon, marlin, redfish, and one of my special favorites — bonefish. South Florida is one of the few places in the country where anglers can enjoy fishing for bonefish. The shallow, saltwater flats of Biscayne Bay and the Florida Keys are famous for trophy-sized bonefish catches, and some people call bonefish the “gray ghosts of the flats,” because they are quick and crafty and a challenge to catch. The University of Miami recently studied the economic impact of bonefish and found that a single fish in the Florida Keys is valued at $3,500 each year. Since bonefish can live more than 20 years, that fish can be worth about $75,000 to Florida’s economy over its lifespan. Fortunately, most bonefish anglers understand the importance and value of this species as a game fish in Florida. That’s why they usually release the bonefish they catch so that others can enjoy catching it again and again, year after year. That’s also why bonefish have been protected in Florida since 1988, when its commercial harvest and sale was prohibited and a daily recreational bag limit per angler of one bonefish 18 inches or greater in fork length was established. And, it’s why my commission colleagues and I recently agreed to implement new rules that will provide more protection for bonefish to help preserve Florida’s valuable bonefish resource. The newly approved regulations go a step further to protect bonefish by including all species of bonefish in our management rules to help ensure they are all protected in Florida waters, extending our bonefish regulations into adjacent federal waters to aid enforcement and enhance bonefish protec-

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New wave of exotic Lionfish invades Biscayne National Park BY LEE STEPHENS

Almost a year after the first Indo-Pacific lionfish was discovered and removed from Biscayne National Park, over 40 additional fish have been reported and removed in the past two weeks. Lionfish are invasive, exotic fish with few natural predators in Atlantic waters (other than humans, who find them a tasty meal) that feed voraciously on native fish, especially members of the snapper and grouper families. Most of the fish discovered recently are fairly small in size, between two and five inches. Biologists Mane-like assemblage of spines that give the fish its lion-like believe this is an indication that the appearance are tipped in poison that can cause severe pain, invasion is in its early stages, with swelling, nausea, headaches and convulsions. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– young fish being swept in with currents from the south where populations are pythons and iguanas.” The park is calling on the park’s users to more established. After the initial lionfish sighting in June assist with the effort by capturing and 2009, new reports were rare and sporadic. reporting any lionfish they encounter while The recent National Geographic BioBlitz, a enjoying the park. The mane-like assem24-hour species count involving hundreds blage of spines that give the fish its lionof citizen scientists documenting plants and like appearance are tipped in poison that animals in the park, failed to turn up a sin- can cause severe pain, swelling, nausea, gle lionfish, despite expectations that many headaches and convulsions. If a visitor canmight be found. These recent sightings not safely remove the fish themselves, they have occurred in many parts of the park in are encouraged to note its location as preaddition to reef areas, including wrecks, cisely as possible (including GPS coordiseagrass beds, hardbottom communities nates) and report the sighting to the park as and around dock pilings. As many as 17 soon as possible. Lionfish are quite territofish have been removed from a single site. rial, and will remain in the same area for “It is unlikely that we will be able to extended periods. They are also generally completely eliminate lionfish from unafraid of divers, which makes them fairBiscayne National Park,” said Dr. Vanessa ly easy to capture. Sightings can be reportMcDonough, the park’s Fishery and ed by calling the park’s Visitor Center at Wildlife Biologist. “We do hope, though, 305-230-7275, ext. x000. For more information, go to that we can keep on top of this invasion and circumvent the issues associated with other <http://www.nps.gov/bisc/naturescience/ex South Florida exotic species invasions like otic-lionfish.htm>.

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Informed Families celebrates with celebrity maitre d’ event BY DUREE ROSS

The 25th anniversary of Informed Families/The Florida Family Partnership’s Annual Fundraising Dinner at Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant was celebrated with all the elements families love most about Miami — great music, amazing food and an exclusive prize. A Tent Party on May 17 at Joe’s kickedoff the event at 6 p.m., featuring appetizers from the famed South Beach landmark restaurant and H20 Bars manned by Miami corporate leaders. Event organizers provided guests a sneak peek at the exclusive new Mercedes Benz SLS model and a chance to win a C-Class model three-year lease, in the color of their choice, courtesy of sponsors Mercedes Benz of Coral Gables and Cutler Bay. A surprise group consisting of MiamiDade County Commissioner Sally Heyman (a real trooper in her wheelchair with a broken ankle); Sen. Gwen Margolis; Kathy Fernandez-Rundle; CBS4’s Jorge Estevez, and former Miami Dolphins from the 1972 team, Dick Anderson and Ed Newman, led party-goers into the dinner at 7:30 p.m.

Guests enjoyed Joe’s signature dishes and legendary service, said honorary chair Marian Krutulis, founder of Gulliver Schools. Peggy B. Sapp, president and CEO of Informed Families/The Florida Family Partnership, credits community support with enabling the organization to reach such an event milestone. “Every year, we benefit from an outpouring of generosity from families who care about educating and nurturing their children,” Sapp said. “It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since Informed Families/The Florida Family Partnership joined with Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant to hold this wonderful event, raising money to prevent drug use and underage drinking. Now, many of the children of our original supporters are parents themselves and our prevention programs are reaching this next generation.” New this year, supporters followed the activities and developments of the Annual Fundraising Dinner on a dedicated website at <www.informedfamiliesjoesdinner.com>. For more information on Informed Families, visit the website at <www.informedfamilies.org>, or call 305-856-4886.

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Evos — the evolution of fast food BY NANCY EAGLETON Go ahead, get fast food and feel great about what you’re eating. Evos is open in Pinecrest and offers all-American fast food favorites, but much healthier versions, without all of the guilt. You’ll feel great about where you’re eating, too. From construction, to paper products to food choices, Evos uses green practices to run a sustainable company. The motto at Evos is “feel great fast food� and the menu features burgers from naturally-raised beef, free of hormones and antibiotics, and air-baked chicken tenders and fries. Yes, airbaked, with 50 percent

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How interest rate changes may affect your investments BY WELLS FARGO ADVISORS

For many Americans living through the economic recession of the past several years, dealing with the affects of interest rates has become as inevitable as death and taxes. The rise and fall of interest rates is one of the biggest factors influencing the economy, financial markets and our daily lives. That’s why it is important to have a basic understanding of how interest rate changes could affect not only your wallet but also your investment portfolio. Simply put, interest rates help control the flow of money in the economy. Typically the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates to jump-start the economy. Lower interest rates mean consumers may be willing to spend more money and incur more debt. This stimulates the economy in a variety of ways, including increased revenues from products sold to the consumers and taxes generated from those sales. Investors, on the other hand, have a different perspective. Bond investors — As interest rates fall, the prices of previously issued bonds tend to rise. The new issues are offered at lower, less appealing rates. That makes bonds with higher interest rates much more desirable and that much more in demand. On the other hand, those who plan to hold their bonds to maturity aren’t really affected by falling rates, with the exception of reinvestment risk. One way issuers may take advantage of falling rates, is by calling their outstanding bonds and issuing new bonds at lower rates. This can hurt those whose bonds have been called because they can’t reinvest at the rate they were previously receiving. To offset that risk, it’s important to make sure you don’t have too many callable bonds in your portfolio. Your fixed-income investments should be diversified to withstand rising and falling rates. Stock investors — Falling interest rates tend to have a positive impact on the stock market, especially stocks of growth companies. The companies that tend to borrow money to finance expansions also tend to benefit from declining rates. Paying lower interest rates decreases the cost of their debt, which may positively affect their bottom line. The stock prices of those companies may rise as a result, driving the market in such a way that prices of other stocks may follow suit. When the Federal Reserve decides to

MONEY MATTER$ raise interest rates, its goal is usually to slow down an overheating economy. Interest rates tend to affect the economy slowly – it can take as long as 12 to 18 months for the effects of the change to permeate the entire economy. Slowly, the cost of borrowing increases, banks lend less money and businesses put growth and expansion on hold. Consumers may begin to cut back on spending because they realize don’t have as much disposable income as they once did. This reverses the effects that lower interest rates had on the economy and, again, investors are affected differently. Bond investors — When interest rates shoot up, the demand for bonds with lower interest rates typically falls, which decreases their value. That’s because new bond issues are offered at higher rates. Stock investors — Depending on the current market environment, rising interest rates can have a positive or negative impact on the stock market. In some cases, rising rates can send jitters through the market, resulting in falling stock prices. In other cases, the stock market will respond favorably. In addition, rising interest rates may affect certain industry groups more than others. For instance, because growth companies borrow money in order to expand, rising interest rates increase the cost of their debt, which in turn decreases profit (or increases loss). As a result, the prices of their stocks may fall. If you’re interested in learning more about what changing interest rates mean for you, a Financial Advisor can help you better understand the effects interest rates may have on your portfolio. Stocks offer long-term growth potential, but may fluctuate more and provide less current income than other investments. Bonds offer a fixed rate of return and investment principal if held to maturity. In addition to market and interest rate risk, bonds are also subject to default risk, the risk that companies or individuals will be unable to make the required payments on their debt obligations.

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be upon your hearts…Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Whether considering one’s daily errands or a biblical truth, the underlying message is the same: In order to act upon something or fulfill a responsibility, it must be remembered. Further, Moses stresses that perhaps the most effective method for recalling God’s law is to keep reminders around, so the words never stray far from our minds. Whether it’s through visible reminders in the manner of lists and symbols or an invisible tablet on the heart, each of us is called to remember the commandments of our Creator God. Remember them, that is, so that we can live them and accomplish all that God calls us to do and be. Each day, wake up and recall once again God’s love for you, and then show it through faith-filled living.

Rev. Kathryn Carroll is a Pinecrest resident and serves on the pastoral staff of Christ The King Lutheran Church, 11295 SW Ave. Worship services are every Sunday at 8:15 a.m. and 10 a.m., with Sunday school for all ages at 9 a.m. For more information, go to <www.ctkmiami.org>.

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Summer jobs for teens BY COLLEEN WRIGHT

The annual countdown begins after spring break, winter break or even the first day of school; just one more day closer to summer vacation. Every day is just one day closer to three months free from homework, tests, quizzes, projects and horrible cafeteria food. Daydreams of daily beach treks and endless nights out with friends begin from the blistering cold we endure as Miamians in December to the week of dreaded final exams during the last week of May. Then June comes around and it seems like your teenager is sleeping the day away and then partying all night with friends. The summer should be taken advantage of, but after a while life might become a little too routine. Having absolutely no academic responsibilities in the summer is bliss, but after a while your teen could slowly start dying of boredom. The idea of applying for a summer job may just seem like another commitment, another responsibility. But there are several benefits to having a part-time job as a teenager. The first and probably most appealing advantage to a summer job is the pay. A job with a salary not only covers those Sir Pizza deliveries, but it also gives your child a sense of money management. Your teen will learn to appreciate and understand the value of a dollar, an important perspective to have in such a straining economy. Or, to promote smart spending habits, have your teen save a portion of his or her earnings for a college fund. Those small, seemingly insignificant savings will soon add up and maybe help with buying textbooks, pay for rent or serve as an emergency cash flow. If your teen is undecided about a future career or the direction of his or her future, a summer job can help discover talents and interests. Babysitting may show that your teen has a gift of interacting with small children, a quality a teacher would have. A job at a clothing store may inspire him or her to study merchandising and retail and someday manage a chain of department stores. Working can help your teen develop qualities that are useful for the work force in their career path. Qualities such as ambition and determination that are instilled as a teenager can help your teen with daily life, from developing people skills to becoming independent and making important decisions. The independence gained from working can make your child self-sufficient, a valuable quality to have if he or she is planning to live on campus for college. Many teens tend to simply work with their parents at their company, mostly doing tasks

TEEN TALK related to filing and running errands. This does keep your child busy, however, working at a separate company teaches your teen how to work without the safety net of being employed at your business. There are other alternatives to keeping busy this summer without having to scoop out ice cream from the bottom of a freezing carton. If your teen is looking for a boost to their resume, a job is a valuable asset to show colleges and universities how well your child can manage his or her self. Community service is a great way to stay active in the summer and venues such as hospitals and animal shelters enjoy employing teenagers as volunteers. If your child already has a certain major or university in mind, you may want to encourage your teen to apply for a summer program at their first-choice university. Your child will experience a genuine taste of college life while becoming familiar with the campus and the diversity of the students attending. Some programs may at first seem expensive, but many universities offer free programs or give financial aid. Your teen will enjoy living at their top choice college learning more about their intended major, and you won’t have to worry about tending to a couch potato all day. A summer job does not have to be so tedious and demanding. Most teens view summer jobs as a way to meet other teens, make a few dollars and expand on their talents. Whatever the summer job is, whether it’s being a camp counselor or working as a movie theater attendant, you can rest assured that your child is becoming a mature adult. It is crucial that you still reward them with down time with their friends and those weekend trips to the beach; after all, this is one of the last summers of their childhood, and it is important that they enjoy it. Mention the idea of a summer job or program to your teen. It may be received warmly or he or she may not be very enthusiastic; either reaction is fine. Just remind your teen that it’s important to stay active in the summer, and encourage them to research local jobs that they may be interested in. Whatever your child’s decision, whether filing at a lawyer’s office or enrolling at a summer program at Carnegie Mellon University, make sure your child is content. You don’t want your child to be counting down the days back to the beginning of school. Colleen Wright is a junior at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy where she is a copy editor and business manager of the school newspaper. She may be contacted via email at <colleen.a.wright@gmail.com> .

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Le Chef to Go for French cuisine par excellence BY NANCY EAGLETON

What are you going to eat today? Le Chef to Go, the new French bistro and Bakery in the Village, has the answer. The French are passionate about food, so the delicious salads, sandwiches, soups and pastries on the menu at Le Chef to Go, 12151 S. Dixie Hwy., are not your average take-out lunch fare. Need help in solving the everyday dinner déjà vu? Your family will savor one of the haute cuisine entrées that you pick up or have delivered to enjoy in the comfort of your home. The owner and chef extraordinaire of Le Chef to Go, Emmanuel Perin, has been a chef all of his life. He began his career in Paris, France and has spent the last 10 years whipping up his gourmet French cuisine at South Beach hot spots. Perin opened his own cozy French bistro with the help of his wife, Carole Hakoun, and daughter, Elea, a student who is studying marketing. “Because times are changing, we wanted to open a very different con-

gourmet side such as creamy potato gratin, rice pilaf, sautéed vegetables or Ratatouille. “We offer a special of the day entrée that includes two sides for $9.50 or $35 for a family size portion that feeds four,” said Carole. “With a meat or fish, a carb and a veggie, it’s a very well-balanced meal that is fresh and homemade.” The salads on the menu are named for international cities and two of the most popular choices are the Roma and Brussel. The sandwiches are served on a half baguette and are large enough for light eaters to split. The sandwiches are named for countries and the most popular are the Italian and the European. Le Chef to Go also has a soup of the day, quiche of the day and divine French croissants. Don’t forget to order dessert with your meal. The Tarte Poire et Chocolat, which translates to Pear Pie and Chocolate, is to die for. Chef Emmanuel Perin and daughter Elea offer a taste of France to take home for lunch or dinner at Le Chef To Go. Le Chef to Go delivers to ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Pinecrest, Palmetto Bay, Old Cutler, The Falls, South Miami and Kendall cept than your typical sit-down restaurant,” said Carole, who serves as marketing East, with a minimum order of $8. The director for the bistro and also is a hair bistro can also cater your next office or stylist and manager for Nikita in South family luncheon with platters of sandMiami. “People want to eat really good wiches, quiche, pastries and desserts, or food, but don’t always have time to cook or your next dinner or family gathering with gourmet French entrées that will impress spend hours at a restaurant.” Chef Perin says the most popular entree all of your guests. on the Le Chef to Go dinner menu is Life is too short to eat bland food, so Boeuf Bourguignon de ma grand-mere, take a trip to your neighborhood French which is “Red Wine Beef Stew just like bistro, Le Chef to Go, for a crème de la my Grandma’s recipe.” Other crème de la crème lunch or dinner. You might even crème dishes include Poulat aux Citrons learn a little French. C’est la vie! et Capres or Chicken Picatta with Lemon Le Chef to Go is open Monday through and Capers, and Ravioli de Langouste Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. To view the sauce safran, or lobster ravioli with saf- menu, go to <www.lecheftogo.com> or fron sauce. All dinner entrées are served call 305-255-5122 to place an order for with a French baguette and choice of a take-out or delivery.

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Former Gulliver baseball star drafted by Texas Rangers BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

Former Gulliver pitching standout Jimmy Reyes has been drafted by the Texas Rangers. Reyes, who has been attending Elon, will leave the school with a year of eligibility left to join the Spokane Indians, the rookie team for players drafted out of college. Reyes was drafted in the seventh round of the 50-round baseball draft. His representatives were working on the contract with the expectation that things will work out. So much so, that Reyes left Miami around Father’s Day to go back to North Carolina to clean out his apartment for the move to Washington State. While Reyes says he’s happy to be taking the next step in his baseball career, a part of him is sad to leave college. “I love Elon and I’m going to miss all those guys and the coaches,” he says. “And playing with them and the camaraderie that goes along with playing college baseball.” Reyes did well at Elon. The team finished third in their conference, but still received an at-large bid to play in the NCAA Regionals at Georgia Tech. “We had a couple of off days and went home,” he says. But he and his teammates felt it was an accomplishment to receive an at-large bid. “It means the NCAA looks upon the program as a really good one,” he says. That means he’s played for strong programs in both high school and college. At Gulliver he played for Lazaro “Laser” Collazo (now pitching coach at the University of South Florida) and Jorge Perez (head coach at St. Thomas University). “We made it to the state finals in my senior year and the regional finals in my junior year,” he says. “My sophomore year, it was heartbreaking; we had one of the best teams in the nation, but didn’t get out of districts. We improved every year, but never got that coveted state championship.” In ninth grade, Reyes played baseball at Westminster, but transferred to Gulliver in his sophomore year. “Westminster’s program wasn’t as strong as it is now. I felt Gulliver created a better opportunity and it also gave me the opportunity to succeed in the classroom as well,” he says. “Gulliver has got a great program. Every year they are a perennial powerhouse

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Fairchild International Mango Festival set for July 10-11 BY PAULA FERNANDEZ DE LOS MUROS The 2010 Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens’ 18th annual International Mango Festival will celebrate the Mangos of India. Just in time for the mango harvest, the Festival, once again sponsored by Whole Foods, will take place Saturday, July 10, and Sunday, July 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Festival will feature everything for the mango lover — mango tree sales, mango-inspired cooking demonstrations, mango tastings, a display of more than 200 mangos from Fairchild nurseries, a children’s program that includes a mango puppet show, mango theater, a spectacular mango brunch on Sunday. New to the Festival this year, don’t miss the mango-chutney cook-off and bike valet services provided by Green Mobility Network. Here is the schedule: MANGO CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS SATURDAY: GARDEN HOUSE 1 p.m. Mangos of India, Richard Campbell and Noris Ledesma, FTBG 2 p.m. Research update: National Mango Board, William Watson, National Mango Board 2:30 p.m. Grower’s Perspective of Mango Improvement Programs, Noris Ledesma, FTBG 3 p.m. Alphonso, Kesar and the Indian Grower, Bhaskar Savani and Ajit Shirodkar 3:30 p.m. Growing Locations and Varieties for Indian Mangos in the Americas: Recommendations, Richard Campbell 4 p.m. Summary and Discussion, Panel of speakers and experts. Moderator: Dr. Jonathan Crane, University of Florida SUNDAY, JULY 11 9:45 a.m. - Selecting and Growing the Perfect Mango (Lecture Tent), Jeff Wasielewski, FTBG 10:30 a.m. - Grafting mangos (Lecture Tent), Erik Teitig, Pine Island Nursery 1 p.m. - Indian Mangos (Mango display tent), Baskar Savani and Ajit Shirodkar 2 p.m. - Mango Pruning (Lecture Tent), Erik Teitig, Pine Island Nursery COOKING DEMOONSTRATIONSS SATURDAY, JULY 10 10 a.m. - Chef Billo Jolly, Green Mango Chutney 11 a.m. - Chef David Bracha, River Oyster Bar

MANGO MEDICS Our mango experts will be located next to the tree sales this year, and are at hand to help you with any questions you may have about your mango tree or help in the selection of a new tree. You can also bring a sample of your ailing mango tree in a sealed bag and our mango medics will come to the rescue Workshops will also be presented here.

12 p.m. - Chef Gail Goetsch, Essensia 1 p.m. - Chef John Critchley, Area 31 2 p.m. - Aria Kagan, Food Network Star contestant SUNDAY, JULY 11 11 a.m. - Chef Jeff O’Neill, Gibraltar 12 p.m. - Chef Jay Mariadoss, Indian Palate 1 p.m. - Chef Madhur Jaffrey, Mango Chutney 2 p.m. - Chef Gonzalo Rivera, La Marea SATURDAY AND SUNDAY TASTINGS AND EVALUATIONS 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Corbin Building (Limited quantities) Taste a variety of mangos and discover your new favorite. CULINARY DEMONSTRATIONS 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Visitor Center Ballroom, Cooking demonstrations from top chefs will take place on the hour. Please see schedule above.

KID’S ACTIVITIES Your children will enjoy making art, learning to cook doing yoga and more! Art - Kids can create mango-inspired art all weekend, with Art Studio Miami. Cooking Demos for Kids - Chefs Christina Staalstrom and Alicia Toledo will teach kid-friendly cooking lessons! Yoga - Little Mango Yogis Class: Saturday and Sunday 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. All ages welcome. We’ll do yoga poses, play yoga games and enjoy the fun of yoga with Rina Yoga teachers! Also, join us for a Rina Yoga Mango Parade!

MANGOS OF THE WORLD DISPLAY View the greatest display of mangos ever assembled inside the Garden House and in the Mangos of India Tent on the Garden House Lawn.

INTERNATIONAL FRUIT MARKET Our fruit market is filled with mangos from the Fairchild world collection, as well as mangos from: Puerto Rico, Mexico Haiti, and more. Mango hostesses will help you taste and purchase one-of kind mango varieties from Fairchild’s collection.

MANGO CUISINE SAMPLINGS FROM REGIONAL CHEFS 9:30 a.m.-12 noon, Garden House (Limited quantities), Samplings from Creative Tastes, JoAnna’s Marketplace and Whole Foods.

MANGOVILLE 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Garden House Lawn; All things mango can be found in our marketplace! From mango honey and mango soaps to Chef Allen’s mango sauces, ketchup and salsas we have it all. Don’t miss Crackerman Crackers’ delicious mango lentil dip on homemade crackers, mango chutney, jams and jellies, mango teas, spices and more.

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It is essential to make the right choices BY ALANA ADLER

As they are growing up, kids learn what is right and wrong from their parents. They learn not to put their hands on a stove when it’s hot, not to steal, not to lie, and not to push people around. As they get older, parents slowly stop telling their children what to do, and let them learn on their own from their mistakes. As a high school student, I was never

into going to parties where there would be drugs and alcohol. My main goals were getting through high school so I could go to college and get an education that would get me places in life. I am not saying that I didn’t go to parties or have fun with friends, but I found things to do that did not include drinking. Before I started high school, my parents warned me that I would have friends who did want to go to parties and drink alcohol or smoke weed,

but I never believed them. They were right however, which didn’t surprise me because they are right most of the time. I graduated high school without getting into trouble and completely ready to start a new life and make new friends at Syracuse University in the fall. Entering college, my goals were the same as they were in high school. I wanted to do what I needed to get done in school without being distracted so that I could further my education even more and come closer to becoming a journalist. Soon after getting to school, I learned that unless I wanted to spend every weekend alone, I had to start going to parties when my friends asked me to join them. One weekend I gave in and decided to give it a chance. Entering the party, immediately talk about drinking started. At the door the first thing I heard was, “Three to get in, five to drink.” It was a choice, one that everyone has to make at their first college party. I gave the

guy at the door three dollars while every one else I was with handed him five. I got asked every five minutes if I was sure I didn’t want to drink. Everyone told me that the experience was so much more fun with the addition of an alcoholic substance. And at first I started to believe them. But for some reason I never took the drinks. It was a choice; one that everybody has to face, and if they make the wrong decision, it could end up ruining their lives. Not right away, but as time goes on, and as people continue to drink or take drugs or do whatever they do in order to “have more fun,” they can end up in a lot of trouble. It is a choice and it is essential to make the right one in order to achieve whatever it is you are headed out to achieve. Alana Adler is a Miami native and a graduate of Gulliver Prep. She now attends Syracuse University where she majors in journalism.

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A look at the five most important estate-planning documents BY WELLS FARGO ADVISORS

It may be the subject matter — death, incapacity and taxes — that causes us to avoid estate planning. However, the fact is that no matter what your age or how much wealth you’ve accumulated, you need an estate plan to protect yourself, your loved ones and your assets, both now while you’re still active and after your death. Having an effective estate plan is one of the most important things you can do for your family. To start the planning process, you should work with an experienced firm that will put your interests first, a firm such as Wells Fargo Advisors. The K a r l E rn s t first step in the planning process is to create a comprehensive net worth statement showing all of your assets, including taxable accounts, tax-deferred accounts (IRAs, annuities, retirement plans) and life insurance Rob Rosa investments. Your financial advisor can create a personal net worth statement containing this important information. Being organized will make your meeting with your attorney more productive and expedite the planning process. But before visiting with your legal counsel, you need a basic understanding of the documents he or she may recommend for your plan. Will — A will simply provides instructions for distributing your assets to your family and other beneficiaries upon your death. Your attorney can customize its pro-

visions to meet your needs. You appoint a personal representative (also known as an “executor”) to distribute your assets. If you have minor children, you can designate a guardian for them. To be effective, a will must be filed in probate court. Probate is a judicial process for managing your assets if you become incapacitated and for transferring your assets in an orderly fashion when you die. The court oversees payment of liabilities and the distribution of assets. Generally, your personal representative will need to employ an attorney. Because a will does not take effect until you die, it cannot provide for management of your assets if you become incapacitated. Other estate planning documents, discussed below, become effective if you should become incapacitated. Durable Power of Attorney — A power of attorney is a legal document in which you name another person to act on your behalf. This person is called your agent or attorney-in-fact. You can give your appointed agent broad or limited management powers. You should choose this person carefully because he or she will generally be able to sell, invest and spend your assets. A traditional power of attorney terminates upon your disability or death. However, a durable power of attorney will continue during incapacity to provide a financial management safety net. A durable power of attorney terminates upon your death. Health Care Power of Attorney — A durable power of attorney for health care authorizes someone to make medical decisions for you in the event you are unable to do so yourself. This document and a living will can be invaluable for avoiding family conflicts and possible court intervention if you should become unable to make your own health care decisions.

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manages the trust assets. You can change a revocable trust’s provisions at any time during your life. If you act as your own trustee, you continue to manage your investments and financial affairs. In this case, your account might be titled “(Your Name), Trustee of the (Your Name) Revocable Living Trust Dated (Date).” Because this legal entity exists beyond your death, property titled in the trust does not need to pass through probate. Once you have executed the appropriate documents for your planning needs, you should review them periodically to ensure they remain up-to-date given any significant changes (births, deaths, divorces, etc.) in your situation. While having these documents is important, there’s more to the estate planning process. For example, you may need to deal with possible estate-tax issues, as well as coordinate primary and contingent beneficiary designations on your IRA, employersponsored retirement plan (such as a 401(k) or 403(b) plan), annuity contracts and life insurance policies with your estate plan. This column was written by Wells Fargo Advisors and provided by Rob Rosa and Karl Ernst of the Ernst, Rosa Group. For more information, call 305-704-1059.

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‘Hot Diggity Dog’ recaps history of the hot dog BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

Cutler Bay resident Adrienne Sylver is on top of the world. Her first book Hot Diggity Dog: The History of the Hot Dog goes on sales in bookstores this month. “I wrote the book in the fall of 2005,” Sylver says. “I had heard a story on National Public Radio discussing how Americans eat two-billion hot dogs in July alone. That got me thinking, “Wow! That’s just a crazy number.” I thought about kids and who don’t like hot dogs. I started doing some research. It seemed that everything I looked at was more interesting than the last.” Sylver’s research even turned up the fact that hot dogs were eaten in space during the Apollo 11 trip, the first time man walked on the moon. While researching and writing the book was quick, the road to publication wasn’t easy. However, Sylver met an editor

Local author Adrienne Sylver holds a copy of her new book.

from Dutton Children’s Books at a Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators conference a few months later and he told her to send him the manuscript. She had already sent out queries to publishing companies to gauge interest in the project. “There was one very small publishing company that liked it and had it under consideration when I sent it to Mark McVeigh,” she says. “When I met him and told him about it, he said wouldn’t you rather publish with a big publishing company.” So she wrote the small company to withdraw it from consideration. There may have been times when she wasn’t sure if she had done the right thing because the publication process stalled. It took almost a year before the editor came back with a formal offer. The initial editing process was quick, but the search for just the right illustrator was lengthy. “I think I’m lucky to be paired with Elwood Smith; his illustrations are fun,” she says. “Every time I flip the page, there’s something new.” Sylver says that just when it seemed like all systems were go, her editor left the publishing house to go to work for anoth-

er one. She says the result was like starting all over again. “I had a new editor who wanted me to make the book much shorter, which I did,” she says. “Then they said they wanted the book to be longer with more fun facts. I did more research and found out more fun little things. I broadened the scope a little bit. There is a page where I talk about how a hot dog is a staple at a baseball game in America and what you would have to eat there. The book also talks about other countries, other cultures. It adds more appeal.” That appeal has resulted in good reviews across the board, which makes the book viable for schools and libraries. It can be found in local book stores and online. Sylver will have her first signing at the Coral Gables Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., on May 22 at 11 a.m. Naturally hot dogs are on the menu. She will also sign her book on June 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, 12405 N. Kendall Drive. Sylver is giving away autographed copies of Hot Diggity Dog on her website, <www.adriennesylver.com>.

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Holistic health services, education available at Rock Star Healing BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

A few years ago, Rev. Isis Martinez, owner of Rock Star Healing, was in a dark place. She says she had absolutely no self esteem and had problems with anxiety, depression and even drug addiction. Today she has her own business and she helps others who have issues with depression and self worth. “I was able to defeat that monster,” she says. “I have an incredible amount of faith in our own healing powers.” Martinez was a journalism major who was skeptical of holistic practices, but became convinced of their value as she learned more about them. With the encouragement of one of her college professors, she learned more about Reiki. She has studied Reiki since 1998 and began practicing holistic healing as a profession three years ago. She opened Rock Star Healing to help others achieve spiritual growth and healing of their inner selves. “We offer holistic healing services and education for healing the mind, the body and the spirit and earth,” she says. “I work with pain-related issues as well.” For her patients, Martinez offers Reiki combined with crystals and astrology. She often donates her Reiki services to

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chemotherapy patients. In fact, Baptist Hospital now refers oncology patients to her. “It offers relief from chemo,” she says. “It helps the numbing, the nausea and the depression.” About a year ago she opened her first office on Biscayne Boulevard, but quickly had to search for larger quarters because she had so many clients. In March, she opened another office at 8363 SW 124 St., Suite 104. Martinez helps people who are having emotional and spiritual issues. “Usually my first session lasts about 90 minutes,” she says. “Then they come in again about three weeks later. Every time I work with someone I feel incredibly blessed.” She says what we think of as alternative healing wasn’t an alternative method in the past. “It wasn’t the alternative until they created the antibiotic,” Martinez says. “They were used to doing the herbal remedies and healing with foods. What we use are the tools that God has given us.” She says we have basically forgotten where we come from. “My vision is to eventually unite these two worlds so people have the tools,” she

says. “I don’t want it to be the alternative. It should be the first choice.” What Martinez hopes is that everyone learns to balance the seven main energy centers in their bodies. “Reiki goes and it works where it needs to work. The body is incredibly genius in its own healing process,” she says. “By us clearing our own energy, it makes it possible for us to heal faster.” In July, there will be an acupuncturist on site. The acupuncturist uses cupping (featured in the new Karate Kid movie) along with the acupuncture. Rock Star Healing has started a summer kids program that offers teen classes on Tuesdays and classes for younger children on Wednesdays. It also offers pranic healing, hypnosis for those who want to stop smoking and lose weight. There are yoga classes for children and adults. There also are Alternative Healing Happy Hours and Meditation sessions, Belly Dancing, and classes on the Laws of Attraction – How to Attract and Create Your Deepest Desires. By the way, holistic healing is not just for humans; Martinez offers Reiki for pets. For more information, call 305-964-9696 or go online to <www.RockStarHealing.com>.

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• EDUCATIONAL AND TEEN ADVICE • Toby Rose ASK TOBY I’m going to be a freshman at college and I don’t understand about scheduling. can I put one class right after the other? The best answer I can give you is to put 30 minutes between classes so you can walk the distance or speak with the professor and not be late to your next class. I really don’t like cold weather and I want to go away to school. What do you suggest in Florida? Believe it or not, UCF is a lot colder than Miami. They do get cold weather. So does the University of Florida in Gainesville and Florida State University in Tallahassee. If you’re looking for a warm climate, you can go to Florida Gulf Coast University. What is the Student Enrichment Services Program and who is eligible? This program is housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and provides support and enrichment services for all minority students in the College of Arts and Sciences. They also provide academic support services to approximately 400 specially admitted freshmen each year who are carefully selected by the Office of Admissions. The services that are offered include academic workshops with such topics as study skills, time management, career planning, library skills, stress management and test anxiety. Also provided are student assemblies that are information sessions, academic progress lettering, and tutoring. All services are free. For more information, call 352-392-0788 or go to the website at <webmaster@oasis.ufl.edu>. Is it true that the military services recruit in U.S. high schools? Yes it is. Many schools have the ROTC program and students use this program to learn about the services they are interested in, and they can get college scholarships through ROTC. However, I believe that the main job that the military services do in the school is to recruit students to join the military right after they get out of high school. They promise them the world and, as we know, no one can promise that. My friends are all going away to college.

I’m scheduled to start UNC in the fall, but, honestly, I don’t want to leave home. I would rather go to UM or FIU. Would I be doing the wrong thing if I did this? Only you know if you’re doing the wrong thing. I do not encourage students to go away if they are uncomfortable with it. Why don’t you go a year at FIU or UM, and then transfer to UNC at Chapel hill. Many schools will hold your admission for one year. You just need to check if they will hold it while you spend a year down here. My son desperately wanted to go into ROTC and he did. He now is being pressured to go into the military and I want to know if this is required? As far as I know, you are not required to go into the military if you have participated in ROTC. If anyone knows different, please contact me. Is the IB program only offered in the United States? No. The program is offered to youngsters age 3-19 in more than 1,700 schools in 122 countries, including 677 schools in the United States. The number of IB students worldwide grew 73 percent between 2000 and 2005 to 62,885. These statistics come from the International Baccalaureate Organization. Students in high school pursuing an IB diploma study six different groups: language, individual in society, math and computer sciences, the arts, experimental sciences, and a second language. The core of the curriculum is a 4,000 word essay, a Theory of Knowledge class and a community service requirement. These statistics were put out by the Associated Press. How much do students pay at Miami Dade College? That’s a good question because student costs just took a jump. Tuition and fees will cost an additional $58.68 per term for fulltime associate degree students this fall. Under the new tuition and fee schedule, students will pay $68.94 per credit, which adds up to $827.28 for students who are full time. Toby Rose is president of Toby Rose’s College Prep. She is an independent college counselor, was a Dade County Outstanding Teacher and served as chairperson of the Dade County School Board Academic Advisory Committee. Rose may be contacted by calling 305-238-7737 or via the Internet at <www.tobyrose.com>.

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Pizza Kitchen — ‘Come back to the best’ BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

On those days that nothing will do for dinner but pizza, Pizza Kitchen can be your go-to pizza spot. Pizza Kitchen, 12715 S. Dixie Hwy., is a familiar Pinecrest landmark, having been in business for 18 years. In that time, many new pizza joints have sprang up that everyone wants to sample, but owner Diana Medrano says now that you’ve tried the rest, come back to the best. “People will come in here. I will say thank you for picking up, they will say Di, we’re always going to come back to you,” she says. The loyalty comes from having been in the same place for so long and for hiring people connected to the community. “I don’t hire unless someone brings someone in that I already know,” Medrano says. And once she hires someone, they stick around. If they go away to college, they come back to work at Pizza Kitchen during the summer. “You can come in here and the kids will greet you by your name,” she says. “I’ll get wonderful compliments on all my kids. People will stop me and say ‘Di, your driver is so amazing.’ You can call here and get the same kids all the time.” Medrano has cemented her place in the community by being a Dade Partner with the public school system. She also has discounts for schools and she works with private schools such as Bet Shira, St. Louis and St. Richards. “I’m really a neighborhood place,” she says. Pizza Kitchen counts on the freshness of the pizza and the quality of the ingredients to bring people in. “We make everything here, we even shred our own cheese,” she says. “I buy locally. I make our own ground beef topping here.”

G N I N DI OUT Medrano says the best advertisement is word of mouth and that comes from satisfied customers. Those customers either come to the store or taste the pizza at parties at places like My Gym. She also gives discounts to the kids who play baseball at the parks. “We discount and we deliver,” she says. The great thing about pizza is that it’s affordable. Two slices of pizza and a canned drink are only $5. One slice and a drink totals $3. “We are traditional New York style pizza,” she says. “You can do New York style and Sicilian. We have sliced specials, we make calzones and Strombolis and salads. We have a few specialty pizzas and white pizzas. Our garlic bread is really good.” There is also the “All You Need is Nine” promotional program for free pizza. Each time a customer buys a medium or large pie, they are given a card. When they get nine cards, they are eligible for a free medium pizza with one topping or a large cheese pie. “A week doesn’t go by that we don’t get quite a few,” she says. “They turn them in and we give them their pie.” Pizza Kitchen is primarily a take-out restaurant and they do deliver with a $10 minimum. The delivery area ranges from 168th Street to the south, Kendall Drive to the north, the bay on the east and 107th Avenue on the west. For more information, call 305-2569459.

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Perrine-Cutler Ridge/Palmetto Bay Rotary Club awards $69K in scholarships BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

Twenty students from South Miami-Dade have been awarded scholarships by the Rotary Club of Perrine-Cutler Ridge/Palmetto Bay. The club gave out a total of $69,000 in scholarships from funds raised by the fifth and sixth annual Casino Nights. The winners included Casey Anderson (Palmetto), Natalie King (Coral Reef), Andrew Maxwell (Coral Reef), Matthew DeFranks (Columbus), Alan Bedsworth (Robert Morgan), Alexander Copa (Palmetto), Michelle Kraslow (Palmetto), Adam Nathan (Westminster), Alexa Riccardi (Lourdes), Kevin Rodriguez (Varela), Francis Tam (Palmetto), Leigh Gordon-Patti (Coral Reef), Caroline Henley (Coral Reef), Emily Perritt (Robert Morgan), Hsiao Yao (Palmetto), Kammy Diaz (Southridge), Jacob George (Robert Morgan), Diamia Foster (Southridge), Leo Kaplowitz (Robert Morgan) and Jacqueline Rowe (DASH). The community room at the Southland Mall was packed with scholarship winners and their families. More than 100 people attended the ceremony. “That was to have the community get

involved to see what was the result of the casino night,” says Francine Tegzes, the Rotary Club treasurer. “And so they become more aware of rotary and what we do for the community.” The amounts awarded ranged from $1,000 to $10,000. They are one-year scholarships payable to the schools the students plan to attend. They are also to be used strictly for tuition and fees. Coral Reef High graduate Leigh GordonPatti received a $10,000 scholarship. She plans to study journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She might not be attending Northwestern without the scholarship. “It would have been much more difficult,” she says. “I would have had to get a lot more loans. My brother is in school too. This is what sealed the deal for me. I wasn’t sure I could go.” In order to qualify for the scholarship, each of the students had to write an essay about their life. “Each of the nine committee members read through them and scored them,” Tegzes says. “We had 53 applications altogether. That is a record.” The committee also looked at their grade

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point average, their community service hours and their references. Tegzes says the determination of awards didn’t rest strictly on academics or financial need. Six of the scholarship winners were also Silver Knight candidates: Anderson, DeFranks, King, Maxwell, Perritt and Rowe. In the past, this Rotary Club has given away as much as $100,000 in scholarships, but that was when the economy was roaring along and the scholarships were for multiple years. The students who were award these scholarships are welcome to apply again for the next round of awards. In order to be eligible, the students must live south of North Kendall Drive and north of Southwest 288th Street and be planning to attend an accredited college or university. They must also be a U.S. citizen with an un-weighted grade point average of 2.5 in high school or a 2.5 in college. Students also have to submit a copy of their transcripts and their ACT and SAT scores, as well as the one page essay. Tegzes says the Rotary’s seventh annual Casino Night is scheduled for Oct. 16. “It’s a community event and the theme is Mardi Gras,” she says. For details, go to <www.pcrpbrotary.org>.

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Sal’s Italian Ristorante has good food, great prices BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

When Sal’s Italian Ristorante opened in Southland Mall about three years ago, owner Nuno Beira took his turn in the kitchen. Business was strong and people loved the food. But he sold the restaurant and it apparently suffered without his personal attention. Today, Beira is back in charge and back in the kitchen, giving the Italian eatery his personal attention and returning the food back to its former glory. “Come on in and give us another chance,” Beira says. There’s every reason for the restaurant to become a hot place to eat again. The restaurant is located on the outer rim on the mall between Bally’s and the theaters, so the location is good. There are ongoing specials and the staff is ready to give good customer service that enhances the cuisine. Sal’s is a family owned and operated restaurant and pizzeria. Beira says they are running specials to make eating there affordable for families. “You can get everything from pizza and veal parmesan to Chicken Marcela,” he says.

G N I N I D OUT Lunch prices range from $4.99 to $10.99, while dinners begin at $9.99 and only go as high as $20.99. The most popular dish at Sal’s this summer is chicken parmesan, but pizza is always a staple for the movie crowd. They do have a moviegoer’s special for those who attend a showing and then bring in their ticket stubs. “Bring in a ticket and get a 20 percent discount,” Beira says. The restaurant has takeout and delivery and there is outdoor seating for those cooler evenings. “We seat about 100 in and out,” he says. “About 75 inside.” The interior is well designed and pleasing to the eye. It’s family and kid friendly, with good service and a staff that is eager to please. Everything on the menu is

Sal’s Italian Restaurant staff (l-r) James Chanying, Chef Damion Fumero, Nuno Beira, Christielee James, Edgar Plazaola, Stephanie Suarez and Yosmany Lopez. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

cooked fresh to order. “It’s homemade Italian food,” Beira says. Because of his interest in getting the Cutler Bay Sal’s back to being awesome, Beira has sold some of his other restaurants and plans to concentrate on the Southland Mall location. He’s the guy to do it as he has a solid restaurant background, learning his business on the job. He also has a culinary degree and a degree in restaurant management. “I got into the business when I was in my 20s,” he says. “I started as a busboy.” From that start, he learned enough to go on to own, operate and sell a dozen restaurants in the last 12 years. “My passion is cooking, so I’ll be doing

that in Cutler Bay,” he says. “I like to produce things like Chicken Florentine, Chicken Marcela and Shrimp Scampi. There’s some technique to those.” He also owns a Sal’s in Pembroke Pines and used to own another in Boynton Beach. He’s been involved in Sal’s Italian Ristorante for about 12 years. There are specials like the $5.99 Lunch Special, which includes a choice of a soup or house salad, one slice of pizza and a choice of half a sub. The sub choices are Chicken Parmesan, Italian Sub, Sub Classic, Meatball Parmesan or Ham and Cheese. For information, call 786-430-4251 or go to www.SalsItalianRistoranti.com. Coupons are available on the website.

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Bloated pensions are killing government’s ability to survive R. Kenneth Bluh KENNETH’S COMMENTARY The other day, an 80-year-old Liberty City client of mine was commenting on an article she read in The Miami Herald stating that City of Miami firemen were earning $100,000 or more a year and were retiring at $90,000 a year. The senior wanted to know how this was possible. Before I could answer she reminded me that she has been living on a $772-a-month Social Security benefit. I started to tell her the history of such high salaries and retirement benefits. But, before I could get started, she reminded me that she is paying $1,270 a year in real estate taxes on her little Liberty City home. “Aren’t my taxes paying that fireman’s salary and his retirement, and all I live on is $772 a month?” she asked. I told her it is true. The primary source of income to the city is real estate taxes and that is what is paying the fireman’s salary

and putting money away for his or her retirement. “That sounds crooked to me,” she said. It’s not crooked. There is a story to how the big paychecks and retirement benefits came into existence. Many years ago, governments were having difficulty hiring employees because private business was paying much higher salaries and no one wanted to go to work for the government. They didn’t have the money to pay higher salaries so they promised their new employees that if they came to work at a low starting salary they would, at retirement, receive a “great” pension. The government didn’t need to spend a lot of money each week when the paychecks were cut. They really didn’t worry about the future cost of high benefit pensions as that was many, many years into the future. Someday, when the cities had a lot of money, they could fund the pensions. Workers accepted the idea of lower wages at the beginning because they would have great retirement benefits. They could look forward to spending vacations with the family and living a great life. After all isn’t that what retirement was supposed to be? As time went on government workers

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–– VIEWPOINT –– realized that if they unionized they could push for higher wages. Management didn’t fight too hard. After all, what would the city do if the waste collection employees, the police or firemen quit? The city would be in turmoil. Voters would be upset and not return elected officials to office when they came up for reelection. How to resolve the problem? Pay higher wages. Today we have pension systems in place that will pay average government workers 80 percent of their last year’s salary. Fire/rescue and police could retire on 90 percent of their last year’s salary. To make financial matters even worse many workers are granted a great deal of overtime during the last few years of their employment, which swells the annual income and increases their retirement benefits. Do I blame the employees for taking the benefits? Not really, even though it doesn’t make financial sense.

But is it logical? No! No city or county government should place the cost of funding a swollen retirement program on the backs of taxpayers who in retirement are living on Social Security and the few dollars they might have been able to squirrel away. With 11.5 percent of South Florida unemployed very few can put anything away for the future. Remember, municipalities and county governments can file bankruptcy to cancel employment contracts and start negotiating more workable retirement programs. We appreciate your opinions on this column whether in agreement or disagreement. Please send your comments to (fax number) 305-662-6980 or email to <letters@communitynewspapers.com>. The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily those of this newspaper, its editors or publisher.

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AUTO THEFT None A S S A U LT None BA TTERY None BURGLARY (COMMERCIAL) Case # 1002379 Location: 8603 S Dixie Hwy (Pain Medicine Solutions) On June 9, sometime between 1015 hrs, and 1400 hrs, unknown offender(s) gained entry into the listed business and stole a laptop. The estimated value of the stolen property is $300. BURGLARY (RESIDENCE) Case # 1002346 Location: 7800 Block of SW 134 Terr On June 8, at approximately 2115 hrs, unknown offender(s) gained entry into the victim’s residence through a rear window. The unknown offender(s) fled the scene when they discovered the residence was occupied. Case # 1002395 Location: 7200 Block of SW 108 Terr On June 12, at approximately 0830 hrs, while at an estate sale, a known offender gained entry into certain areas of the victim’s residence which were clearly labeled “Do Not Enter” and stole various items. The offender was arrested and charged with burglary. It is unknown at this time the value of the stolen items. ROBBERY None SEX CRIME

THEFT Case # 1002355 Location: 9481 S Dixie Hwy (Cutler’s Jewelry) Sometime between Dec. 26, 2008, unknown time, and June 3, unknown time, unknown offender(s) stole jewelry from the listed business. The estimated value of the stolen property is $4,350. The case is presently under investigation. Case # 1002359 Location: 10943 S Dixie Hwy (Kendall Toyota) Sometime between June 2, 0800, hrs, and June 9, 1500 hrs, unknown offender(s) stole a decal from the victim’s office. The estimated value of the stolen property is $4. Case # 1002367 Location: 9100 Block of SW 67 Ave On June 9, sometime between 0830 hrs, and 2302 hrs, unknown offender(s) stole an IPAD from the victim’s residence. The estimated value of the stolen property is $829. The case is presently under investigation. Case # 1002415 Location: 7200 Block of SW 132 St On June 13, at approximately 1156 hrs, unknown offender(s) stole fruits from the victim’s property. The estimated value of the stolen property is $25. Case # 1002419 Location: 7100 Block of SW 116 Terr Sometime between June 12, 2200 hrs, and June 13, 1440 hrs, unknown offender(s) stole a tag from the victim’s vehicle. The estimated value of the stolen property is $4.

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Moving to ‘SOMI Town’ BY JOHN EDWARD SMITH

You’ve heard of “SOHO” (South of Houston Street) and for a decade or more “SOBE,” which has probably lost its cache, as now, most folks just say “South Beach.” And then there’s MiMo, which is the Miami Modern Design District, and get this: “BiBo” – you guessed it: the now hip Biscayne Boulevard district, and more to be sure – go Google. Welcome to “SoMi Town” a slimmed down and fitter version of “South Miami Town Center.” “SoMi” first came on the scene back in January 2005, when Cuquie Garcia opened a cosmetics boutique in the Blue Tin Roof Shops on Red Road. Cuquie’s shop was called “SoMi Fragrances.” In my recollection, this was the first time the term “SoMi” was used in a commercial venture here in South Miami. And while the retail store closed in mid-2006, perhaps it is here that a seed was planted…. In 2007, developer and builder Marcelo Fernandez, named his planned mixed-used office building on US1 the “5966 SOMI”

building. Next to New Chinatown, and with delays in construction, when completed, the building’s architecture and its name, will be a significant entrance feature to our town center. Over two years ago, Roman Compte changed the name of his ladies boutique from Trendy Jendy to “SoMi SoU Boutique.” And last August, “Somerset Academy SoMi,” a Miami-Dade County Charter School, opened near the South Miami Post Office. In October 2009, on occasion of the fifth anniversary of the South Miami Town Center Magazine, the name was changed to “SoMiMAG” – with a whole new logo, look and feel. With that came the announced re-branding of our town center as “SOMItown” or simply “SoMi.” Segrafredo “SoMi Café” has now come on the scene! SoMi Café’s President Willy Quintana, grew up in South Miami and has now returned with “the new sound” of SoMi for the area. Over five years we have seen the progression towards “SoMi.” And now we need your help in developing the “tagline”

for SOMItown. You know “Just Do It,” “Where Shopping Is A Pleasure,” “Have It Your Way,” etc., etc. We’ve been using “It’s Where You Belong” for the past several months, but now want you to weigh in with your creativity. And you can be richly rewarded. There is a $500 SoMi Shopping Spree for the winning entry in a contest to be judged by a team of marketing professionals and civic leaders. We have some great entries which have already been submitted. Send your suggestion(s) to SoMiMAG at jes_somi@att.net, subject: SOMI Tag Line-CN. Deadline: Wednesday, July 14. All entries become the property of TCMC, Inc. (Town Center Marketing Concepts).

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Branding SOMI The name “South Miami Town Center” was recommended by the Mayor’s Marketing Task Force in the mid-1990s to designate the unique “hometown” environment in our downtown. The town center logo incorporated the imported Italian lamps which are on Dorn (SW 59) Avenue, donated by the Red/Sunset Merchants Association as their contribution to the South Miami “Hometown Plan.” Last year, the association incorporated the town center lamp in their new logo. A growing popular reference to “South Miami Town Center” is now “SOMItown” or simply “SoMi.”

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Best selling author Brad Meltzer wrote a book about heroes

Brad Meltzer, author of Heroes for My Son, signing a copy for a fan at the Palmer Trinity Book Fair –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

South Florida author Brad Meltzer, a New York Times #1 bestselling author, was the guest speaker at the 19th annual Palmer Trinity School Book Fair. Meltzer’s new book is titled Heroes for My Son, one he decided to write on the night his first son was born. “I’m going to write a book that will last his whole life,” he told himself. “I’m going to give it to him and it’s going to be a moment so perfect that it will be a Norman Rockwell moment. It took me a long time to write it.” In fact, he spent the better part of a decade researching and writing the book. “It’s not just about great people, these are the moments that make these people great,” Meltzer says. He took his time because he wanted to do something to inspire his son and make him think about doing the right thing. “How do I inspire my child to become a great adult?” he says. “Just because I say be good, doesn’t mean he will be good.” Meltzer says the first heroes in our lives are our mothers and fathers. And by following the examples in the book, his son will have an idea of what other good people do that makes them heroes. While many Americans think of sports stars as heroes, Meltzer says he has few sports stars in the book. One that is featured is Roberto Clemente, the baseball player who died when the plane he was aboard crashed while on a mission to transport food and medicine to Nicaragua after an earthquake. Clemente had filled two planes with food and medicine, but every-

thing was stolen from both planes before the neediest people got anything. “He decides, ‘I’m going on the plane myself so the people who need the help get it,’” Meltzer says, adding that Clemente is a hero not because of his prowess on the baseball field, but because of his humanity. Meltzer also featured the Wright Brothers in his book. “Every time the Wright Brothers went out to fly a plane, they would buy enough materials to rebuild several times,” he says. “Every time they went out to fly, they knew they would fail. I love that story.” Meltzer steered away from living heroes because he worried that at any time the living legends might do something to tarnish their legacy. Politics was another area that he stayed away from. He does feature some political figures, but not because of their politics. Barak Obama is in the book because Meltzer wants his son to see that anything is possible. George H. Bush is also featured for his heroic actions during World War II. The book also features Rosa Parks, Mr. Rogers, Lou Gehrig, Lucille Ball and Jim Henson, among others. “The book is not about fame,” he says. “It’s about how we are all capable every day of our lives. There is only one requirement for a hero, you have to help someone.” Since the night he decided to write a book for his firstborn, two more children have been born to the Meltzer household. His plans include a book for his four-year-old daughter and she’s not about to let him forget that promise. Every day she checks with him to see if he has finished her book yet.

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Jeep Grand Cherokee available in Laredo, Limited models

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Teachers recognized for devotion to environment and conservation BY SAMANTHA REGO

South Florida teachers were recognized for their contributions to environmental education and conservation during the recent 2009-10 Fairchild Challenge Educator of the Year Awards ceremony. Maria Francesca Violich of Hubert O. Sibley Elementary School, Marina Midence of Shenandoah Middle School, and Pamela Shlachtman of Miami Palmetto Senior High School, were presented with awards during the Teachers’ Luncheon celebration that took place at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden (FTBG) in Coral Gables. The teachers were selected from a pool of highly qualified applicants and represent faculty from more than 150 Fairchild Challenge (FC) schools in South Florida. The FC is an environmentally based, interdisciplinary education outreach program that is provided by FTBG at no cost to participating schools every academic year. The program is comprised of a series of individual projects, contests and performances in which students participate. Some of the options include: writing opinion and research papers; performing songs and skits; creating school gardens, artwork and newsletters; collecting school energy, water and treecanopy data; designing solar-powered devices, and formulating “green” cuisine menus. Students are awarded points for their schools that count toward

their overall FC ranking. This year’s winning educators consistently proved their commitment to the program by helping their schools achieve a top ranking for several consecutive years. “We work with such an inspirational group of teachers who motivate students and ignite a passion within them to become environmentally conscious,” said Amy Padolf, director of education with the FTBG. “Our winners this year are role models who have successfully launched ‘green’ initiatives at their schools. We are proud to work with such a dedicated group of teachers who have the ability to significantly impact the future of our environment.” Pamela Shlachtman, high school teacher of the year, began participating in the FC eight years ago and consistently has placed in the top 10 high schools in the FC. She organizes Miami Palmetto High School’s annual “Plant the Pride” event, in which students plant trees and shrubs, mulch trees, trim bushes and pick up trash to beautify the school. The Fairchild Challenge, established in 2002 by South Florida’s 70-year-old Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, seeks to reconnect America’s youth with nature through a multi-disciplinary program available free to elementary, middle and high schools. For more information, visit <www.fairchildchallenge.org> or call 305-667-1651.

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David Zisman begins quest to be Palmetto Bay mayor BY NANCY EAGLETON

David Zisman, a 20-year resident of Palmetto Bay and owner of Evenings Delight located on S. Dixie Highway (US1), is running for mayor of the Village of Palmetto Bay in the Nov. 2 general election. “I encourage the residents of Palmetto Bay to vote for someone new in this election,” Zisman said. “I’ve experienced things in this city that I think are wrong and need to be changed.” If elected mayor, Zisman plans to help solve the problems of the residents of Palmetto Bay by focusing on the “four P’s” — People, property, parks and police. “As a homeowner in Palmetto Bay, I believe that everyone should have easy access to the mayor and council members,” Zisman said. “I’d like to provide the residents my email address (eve9621@aol.com) and invite them to express their concerns to me as I forge forward in this campaign.” With his focus on people, Zisman continued, “People should be treated with respect. I’ve had experiences with this current administration where I’ve been treated badly. If a request doesn’t fit perfectly inside their little box, it falls upon deaf ears; there’s no discussion and the answer is ‘no.’” When it comes to property, Zisman turns his attention to the Building and Zoning Department in Palmetto Bay. “The processes in the Building and Zoning Department needs to be streamlined and improved,” Zisman said. “Most residents will one day be affected by this department. As a contractor with four different state licenses, I’ve pulled over 1,000 permits throughout South Florida, so I know how it should operate. There are a lot of fine people in that office, they just need more user friendly

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procedures to follow.” On the issue of Palmer Trinity, Zisman said, “The Palmer Trinity zoning issue is an example of botched zoning procedures. The courts proved that the council handled it poorly and they gave Palmer Trinity everything they wanted after more then $150,000 of our tax dollars were spent. It doesn’t matter what side you are on, if you are a homeowner in Palmetto Bay, you lost. The taxpayers should hold the council responsible for wasting taxpayer money.” When is comes to the parks in Palmetto Bay, Zisman believes the village is off to a very good start, but said there always is room for improvement. “The parks are an important part of the community,” he said. “One issue that

needs to be addressed is outside vendors and non-residents using Palmetto Bay facilities and limiting the park access to the residents.” Zisman wants to see more police patrolling the streets of the village. “From a business perspective, I would question the current system of paying the Miami-Dade Police Department to serve Palmetto Bay versus having our own police department like Pinecrest or South Miami,” Zisman said. If elected mayor, Zisman intends to apply the success he’s had in the business world to the management of the Palmetto Bay government. Zisman’s family business, Evenings Delight, was started by his father and grandfather in the 1960s. It currently has two locations, Pinecrest and

Davie, and more than 30 employees. Zisman also owns the second largest kitchen hood manufacturer in the U.S., Luxury Kitchen Hoods LLC, located in Reno, Nevada. “A good business person is never happy with the status quo,” Zisman said. “You must always work to improve the product, improve the service and improve your reputation. This same philosophy applies to someone in public office.” Zisman is proud to be chair of the Membership Committee for the South Florida Touchdown Club, a 40-year old non-profit, 501(c)(3), organization. One of the primary goals of the club is to obtain football scholarships for local high school seniors. The group of sports enthusiasts raises money for the project, Operation Scholarship, by hosting events that feature football players and coaches as keynote speakers. “We gather and compile the bios and photos of every senior football player in Dade County and send it out to colleges across America. Our mission is to get college scholarships for athletes who might otherwise go unnoticed,” Zisman said. “Ten to 12 Dade County athletes each year are awarded scholarships from this program.” Zisman was born and raised in Miami and graduated from Palmetto Senior High School in 1977. He is married to his wife of six years, Myriam. He has two grown children — an adopted son, Jason, who lives in Georgia, and a daughter, Susan, who is a senior at the University of South Florida and describes her dad as “the savviest business man I know.” If you would like to reach David Zisman you can send email to him at <eve9621@aol.com>. You also may call him on his cell at 786-236-9893 or stop by to see him at Evenings Delight Inc., 9621 S. Dixie Hwy.

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