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You’re invited to a wine tasting at Anacapri

BY GRANT MILLER

Publisher The Pinecrest Tribune has joined with the Anacapri Italian Restaurant, one of our Village’s finest bistros, to host a gala wine tasting on Wednesday, June 13, to benefit the Howard Palmetto Miracle League.

If you like wine, then don’t miss out on coming to this event! It will be a lot of fun and the donation is only $10. You’ll have the opportunity to taste a broad selection of fine wines and experience the beautiful new wine bar at Anacapri. I know you will enjoy yourself and you will be helping a wonderful organization.

There will be an amazing selection of wines to taste and you’ll do it in the comfort of one of the most enjoyable spots in town.

There will be wines from as many as eight vendors, and fine Italian treats to nibble on will be spread throughout the Anacapri wine bar and the market.

If you love good wine, good times and good company, then you won’t want to miss this event. Remember, it’s on Wednesday, June 13, and it starts at 6:30 p.m. If you decide to stay for dinner at Anacapri, you’ll get a 10 percent discount on your meal.

Anacapri Restaurant is located at 12669 South Dixie Hwy. For more information, call 305-232-8001 or go to <www.miracleleagueofmiamidade.org>.

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WCS students earn top awards in alternative energy research

BY LEE STEPHENS

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estminster Christian School (WCS) juniors Jack Erdozain, Jr. and Eric Riehl recently won top honors and high praise for their alternative energy research projects at the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Pittsburgh, the largest pre-college fair in the world.

The WCS students competed against 1,500 high school students from 70 countries and their INTEL ISEF showings followed on the heels of consecutive wins at this year’s regional, state and international science and engineering competitions.

Here are the Corradines — Neil, Westray, Julia and Daniela – enjoying themselves while on vacation in London. Of course they remembered to take along a copy of their favorite hometown newspaper and snapped this shot for us in front of Buckingham Palace. Thanks for taking us along, guys!

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Positive PEOPLE in Pinecrest

ANDREW MILLER Drama is Andrew Miller’s passion. The Palmer Trinity student is known for his acting ability and for playing the lead roles in school plays. In fact, he played the minstrel in the spring musicale, Once Upon a Mattress.

“They wrote it (the role) for the movie, but within the context of the play; it’s important,” Miller says. “I got to break the fourth wall in the play.”

The highlight of the year for high school actors is participating in the state Thespian Festival in Tampa. Miller has represented Palmer Trinity several times at the event, including this year.

“As a troupe, we did very well, we won a lot of superiors,” Miller says. “I came home with an excellent. I’ve received superior ratings and I’ve received excellences.

I’ve felt worse about superiors.”

Miller has been a drama student since he began the seventh grade and started attending Palmer Trinity.

“I think what really draws me to it is that I like to make people feel,” he says. “I like the idea that for two hours someone can come into your theater and not worry about what’s on their phone or what’s happening outside.”

Miller also loves being a part of something as close knit as the cast of a play or film.

“You start in January and by April you want to spend time with these people,” Miller says. “On stage and off stage, you

kind of win.”

While his big thing is drama, Miller doesn’t do that exclusively. He says he likes being a part of things so he is a member of the Gay Straight Alliance.

“I’ve seen bullying, especially being a part of drama; I hate seeing bullying,” he says. “For me, regardless of what people think about sexuality, if I can change the way someone acts toward someone else, that’s good enough for me.”

Miller believes that we can’t end intolerance, but we can try to mitigate the pain that results from intolerance.

“I’ve seen a lot of kids, especially in drama, who have had to deal with a lot more than they should have,” he says. “It’s hard enough to be a high schooler. I don’t understand why some higher schoolers make it hard for others.”

Miller is part of a new club comprised of students who help the Palmer Trinity Development office.

“We discuss the school from a student perspective with the development office, which is one of the most important departments in our school,” Miller says.

The club is helping plan Palmer’s upcoming 40th Anniversary.

Miller also is a Student Ambassador and leads campus tours when parents of prospective students visit the Palmer Trinity campus while deciding whether to send their child to the school.

“After they are told about the school, we take them around the campus in groups,” Miller says. “I don’t think we have to sell the school because the school sells itself.”

Miller will be the master of ceremonies for Palmer Trinity’s International Festival in February. He is not only a good speaker, but a good writer, too, and he tutors students at the Center for Writing.

“We work with a student having trouble either in a one-on-one or two-on-one situation,” Miller says. “For example, three of us will sit around a table and we’ll start revising the student’s essay. I’ll say something like, ‘This sentence is fine, but, you could tell me more here.’ Or, ‘Why are you saying this in 12 words when you can say it in six?’”

Miller also volunteers his time outside of school. He and his girlfriend recently helped wrap presents that were to be sent to foster children.

By Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

JUSTIN STONE Justin Stone, Gulliver Prep’s Silver Knight nominee for Drama, loves theater but he also likes to coach sports.

“In ninth grade, I helped coach a team at Howard Palmetto (Baseball Softball Association),” Stone says. “My brothers played on the team and the coaches needed a hand, so I asked if I could help.”

Stone says he likes teaching the kids how to improve their skills.

“I really enjoyed it, so I just kept doing it,” he says. “At the time I coached them, they were six or seven. They are twins.”

When he was in the 10th grade, Stone coached a flag football team for Dade County Sports at Pinecrest Elementary.

“Those were second and third graders; I enjoyed that,” he says. “That was probably my favorite coaching job. I did it with a friend. It was fun taking on that responsibility and creating a team.”

The team did well, winning many games and losing some. Stone says they were able to teach the kids how to play together well.

“If I didn’t have drama, I would have done this two or three times a year,” Stone says. “I talked to the director and we worked it out. A lot of times I’ll have to go

to practice and games. In 10th grade I also made an agreement; I was in a bunch of vignettes.”

He couldn’t coach in 11th grade because he was busy with a show for drama.

“We did The Good Doctor. The spring show also took up a lot of time,” he says.

“We had a new director, second semester junior year and with the show and the exams I wouldn’t be able to balance the three things so I decided I’d look for the coaching opportunity in the summer.”

Last summer, he worked at the Jane Forman Tennis Camp helping kids learn to play the game. He was also a counselor.

“I didn’t really have anything to do for the summer. I like to coach so I was looking for opportunities and I found this,” Stone says. “I was taking tennis lessons and the guy who taught me worked in the summer for Jane Forman, so I asked if I could work there.”

His coaching does not stop with athletics, he also coaches kids in academic subjects.

“My little brothers go to Palmetto Elementary. They sent home these Math Superstars worksheets, but the teachers don’t grade them. I grade them and tell them what they did wrong.”

During the school year he would go to Palmetto once a week to pick up the papers.

He would grade them at home and hand them out to the students from third to fifth grades when he went back.

“It has always been a thing they sent home with parents and parent volunteers,” Stone says. “My mom asked to do it so I volunteered. I started in 10th grade.”

He also tutored students in pre-calculus and calculus.

While he enjoys drama, he’s not looking to make it a profession. He says if he could do it on the side, he would find it fun. But his plan is to study at the University of Florida and major in economics or international business.

“As of right now, I want to go to law school, but I want to know how economics works,” he says. “I just really want to understand it so that if I do become a lawyer I’ll know how to handle finances.”

By Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

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LAUREN TELLER To earn her Girl Scout Gold Award, New World School of the Arts student Lauren Teller was challenged to create a communi-

ty service project that would benefit others for years to come. In the program she founded, Pigeons for Patients, the junior in the Musical Theatre program utilizes her singing, dancing and acting talents to deliver singing telegrams to the young patients at Miami Children’s Hospital.

Teller’s creative initiative is called Pigeons for Patients in honor of her school’s mascot, the Fighting Pigeon.

Dressed as the Disney princesses Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jasmine or Bell, Teller and classmate Rebecca Bogert spend three hours each week visiting with the young patients and singing beloved Disney songs. The duo then presents each child with a sticker that says, “I’m special. A princess sang to me today.”

During their weekly visits, the pair brings joy to as many as 30 children who may be receiving cancer treatment, undergoing dialysis or recovering from surgery.

“Our visits add a little magic in their day,” said Teller. “Our songs bring smiles to these children’s faces and for just a little while, they may forget where they are or

why they are there.”

Teller and Bogert were interviewed by Radio Disney personalities for a broadcast that showcased the hospital’s outstanding volunteer program. Teller chose to give back to the patients at Miami Children’s Hospital because she was also a patient when she was in the first grade. She said she also enjoys helping children.

Teller will continue Pigeons for Patients during her senior year, but doesn’t want it to end there. She and Bogert are working with the hospital’s volunteer department to train others who may be interested in contributing to the program. The pair is also partnering with New World to introduce Pigeons for Patients as a club, allowing the school’s talented students to continue to bring joy to the hospital’s patients long after they graduate.

Teller has been involved with scouting since first grade. She earned her Girl Scout Bronze Award by performing skits for children in after-school programs. She earned her Silver Award by visiting and mentoring

children at a homeless shelter and bringing them donated gifts during the holidays.

Her days at New World are long, beginning with a 6:45 a.m. Metrorail ride to school. Teller returns home each day between 4:30-5 p.m. after a day full of singing, dancing, acting, memorizing lines and doing character work. This year, she was in the ensemble cast of the school’s production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

“All of the work I’ve been doing has prepared me for my senior year and beyond,” said Teller. “This is what I want to do in college and as my career.”

Upon graduation, Teller plans to study Musical Theatre and obtain her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The schools she is considering include Florida State, University of Michigan, Syracuse, UCF, NYU and UCLA. “After college, my dream is to perform on Broadway,” she said. “But, I love to perform, so I’ll be happy to perform anywhere.”

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“It is unheard of to have the kind of success these students have achieved,” said WCS science teacher Lisa Garrido. “As I traveled with them to competitions, teachers from all over the world were congratulating them on their projects and Westminster for having two students achieve at this level.”

Erdozain’s project — Electrochemical Effects of Saccharides on the Voltage Output of a Microbial Fuel Cell Using Penicillium Chrysogenum — created a battery that generates energy from a fungus that consumes sugar. The project is unique because it has, in effect, discovered a new use for an organism that provides an alternative source of energy by using waste products.

“I first stumbled upon microbial fuel cell technology in ninth grade,” said Erdozain. “It seemed a little known wonder to me that harnessing of electrical energy through the metabolic cycles of organisms could be possible.

Without having taken my first chemistry class, little did I know I had started my first research into electrochemistry and bio-electrogenesis.”

At the INTEL ISEF, Erdozain’s research won first place in chemistry, earning him a $3,000 prize. He was also presented with $500 from the Lanxess Corp., a $60,000

Westminster Christian School Juniors Jack Erdozain, Jr. and Eric Riehl placed first and fourth in their categories at the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh.

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scholarship from the Florida Institute of Technology and a certificate from the

American Chemistry Society. This was his second trip to the international competition; as a sophomore he earned third place in the chemistry division and $1,000.

Classmate Riehl earned fourth place and $500 in the energy and transportation category for his project Street Smart, a physics/engineering product he designed to harness energy from moving vehicles to help alleviate the energy crisis. It was also his second time at the competition, having been the first Westminster student to ever be invited to attend when he was a freshman.

“There is an intense focus now on energy, where it can be obtained, its cost effectiveness and whether it is environmentally friendly,” said Riehl. “I decided to focus on an area where energy is typically ‘lost’ and then formed my project around that.”

Riehl’s Street Smart also earned a silver medial/second place award in engineering at the International Sustainable World Energy, Engineering and Environmental Project Olympiad in Houston, an international competition that showcases innovative ideas from high school students interested in global sustainability. The only representative from Miami-Dade County and only one of four in Florida, his project competed against 455 others from 68 countries and 44 states.

“Since I was in elementary school, I have had a natural inclination for building, innovations and inventions,” said Riehl. “My project combines all of these elements. It takes advantage of engineering principles and most importantly it solves a problem.”

Erdozain and Riehl first caught the attention of judges at the South Florida Regional

Science and Engineering Fair, where both students earned superior ratings and the opportunity to compete at the INTEL ISEF. Among other special awards, Erdozain received the award for most outstanding 11th grade exhibit in computer science, engineering, physics or chemistry by theYale Science and Engineering Association and the FIU Agroecology-BioenergyScience Excellence Project Award. Riehl received the Outstanding Sustainability Award from the National Society of Professional Engineers and certificates of achievement for an outstanding science or engineering fair project from the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Naval Academy.

From the Regional Fair, the projects then competed at the 57th annual State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida where both Erdozain and Riehl again stood out from the competition.

Erdozain was the Grand Award-Ying Scholar winner, as well as Best in Fair in the physical sciences category, the most prestigious award presented at the state level, which included a $1,000 cash prize. He was awarded a $20,000 Rollins College Cram Scholarship, and a New World College of Florida scholarship for $8,000.

In addition, his project earned a first place award in the chemistry category.

Riehl placed second in the engineering category, earning him the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Award, an award reserved for a student withoutstanding technical prowess on a mechanical engineering inclined project. He was also awarded a $40,000 scholarship to the Florida Institute ofTechnology.

Both students received a Distinguished Scholar Award from the U.S. Navy.

“The awards are just mile markers in the journey,” added Erdozain. “The true enjoyment as any scientist would agree is in the process of bringing new pieces to the natural puzzle to light.”

Both Erdozain and Riehl plan on pursuing careers in engineering that will allow them to make a positive difference in the lives of others.

“I love science and math,” said Riehl. “I want to invent something that will have a positive impact on human needs.”

“I have always been a multifaceted scientist, keeping my hand in everything from biology and physics, to chemistry and engineering,” said Erdozain. “I believe it helps me think outside the box to accomplish a more ideal solution to a problem.”

“I am so proud of what both of these young men have accomplished,” said Garrido.

“Their talents are many, their work ethic astounding and their passion for science remarkable. I believe this is just the beginning of all they will accomplish and believe they are blazing a trail for a very strong science research program at Westminster.”

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Palmetto High to offer prestigious Cambridge Capstone Program

Pictured are members of the AP Cambridge Capstone Program team at Palmetto High School (l-r) assistant principal Victorica Dobbs, teachers Patrick Huges, Peggy Kratz, Daniel Corradino and principal Dr. Allison Harley.

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Already considered a top notch school, Palmetto Senior High is adding the AP Cambridge Capstone Program for the 2012-13 school year.

Cambridge Capstone is a pilot program put together by the College Board that coordinates the Advanced Placement program and the University of Cambridge.

Palmetto is one of four high schools in Miami-Dade in the test group along with Southridge, Barbara Goleman and North Miami Beach High Schools. A total of 18 schools around the world will try out the program.

“We’re really excited about it,” says Palmetto principal Dr. Alison Harley. “It’s an opportunity for students to get in on the ground level. It’s a natural fit for Palmetto.

We just expect great things.”

Harley says the program is innovative and came about because university recruiters indicated that while it has been good to have students come to college with AP classes under their belt, they now want students who know how to do research.

Harley says the Cambridge Capstone program will teach students how to do research and show off those skills with a project.

“We are looking for current ninth grade students who are looking to challenge themselves,” Harley says. “In 10th grade, they’ll take their core courses, plus AP Human Geography.”

The second class is the seminar class, which will introduce the students to basic research skills. It also takes up key themes of global relevance. Students will evaluate topics through multiple themes. In the class, students will work in teams and make

oral presentations. In the 11th grade, they will take the Research Project and develop a mentored research project. They can work independently or in teams guided by a teacher-mentor. Students will build on an AP or Seminar subject based on a series of hypotheses developed by the student. They will look for a world problem and write a 4,000- to 5,000-word research paper.

“A lot of research universities are endorsing this program,” Harley says. “It can give students a leg up if they can finish it successfully.”

The program has the students taking two AP courses at a school where top students often take four to six AP courses annually.

Harley says that’s not a problem as they can still take other AP courses of their choosing.

“It’s not limiting them,” he says. “We encourage students to take as many AP courses as they can balance themselves with.”

Harley says three of Palmetto’s top teachers are attending a professional development seminar to prepare them for their role in the new program.

Palmetto will soon open an IPrep program. Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho personally headed the first IPreparatory Academy in the school board building in downtown Miami.

“It’s an innovative thing, that our superintendent has started,” Harley says. “Its technology based.”

Renovations are underway on four classrooms in two areas of the school for the IPrep program.

“We are looking to open that in the fall,” she says. “It’s really a neat environment.

There are a lot of great things on the horizon.”

For more information, go to <www.MPHS.dadeschools.net>.

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Gulliver students start dance program for underpriviledged kids

BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

\Meaghan Sylver and Meagan Adler met as children when they attended their first dance class and became fast friends. Today they are juniors at Gulliver Prep and continue to be dance buddies and best of friends, dancing at Artistic Soul Studios in Palmetto Bay and competing with the studio company.

“We’ve both started dancing when we were four years old and we’ve been dancing ever since,” Adler says.”We dance 1015 hours a week.”

When they entered the ninth grade, they decided they wanted to share their love of dance – particularly tap dancing — with underprivileged children.

“Meagan (Adler) and I started talking about how we wanted to teach a group, not necessarily at our studio,” Sylver says, adding that they wanted to teach at a location the kids didn’t have access to dance classes. “We’ve always wanted to share our passion for dance.”

So they started Tap Kidz and began teaching a free weekly tap class at the Boys and Girls Club in Kendall. In 2011, they expanded and began teaching at the Homestead YMCA as well. By the end of this school year, they had earned approximately 115 community service hours each through the program.

“We do it one day a week,” Adler says.

“We go to the Boys and Girls Club first and then we travel to the YMCA.” The girls say that they had been dancing a long time and they really wanted to give other children the opportunity to express themselves and see how much fun dancing can be. They are also aware that with rising childhood obesity rates, they are helping kids stay healthy by helping them exercise in a fun way.

“We start by teaching the most basic steps,” Sylver says.

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Now at Gulliver Prep, Meaghan Sylver (Cutler Bay) and Meagan Adler (Pinecrest) still dance together.

fills their community service requirements, Adler says the classes they teach mean much more than going to club meetings at school.

“Seeing the excitement on their faces, it’s so fulfilling,” Adler says.

The children they teach range from five to 11 at the YMCA and six to 13 at the Boys and Girls Club. The classes also draw some boys.

In order to dance, the children need tap shoes, so the girls collected tap shoes from friends and various dance studios for the children to use.

“The kids really like to dance with them,” Adler says.

The girls are also planning to do some fundraising for the Dizzy Feet Foundation, which gives out dance scholarships to underprivileged kids. The foundation was started by So You Think You Can Dance producer Nygel Lithgoe and others, including actress Katie Holmes.

“We plan to continue this program throughout high school,” Sylver says.

They have a few students who have been in the program from the start who are interested in continuing to dance. For those children who remained in the program before, they added more difficult moves and used them to help demonstrate the dance steps.

At the beginning of the school year, the girls expanded the scope of Tap Kidz and began tutoring kids in the homework program. Next year they hope to incorporate information about nutrition into the program.

“We teach about health and a healthy lifestyle,” Adler says, “and how tap is a lifestyle that is healthy and is good for expressing yourself.”

At the end of each school year, the children take part in a mini-recital so the parents can see what their children learned.

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‘This Book is Close to my Heart’ — Leonard Pitts

BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

Newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts, who won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004, has changed gears with his latest book, Freeman, which takes place a few weeks after the end of the Civil War, “Freeman has probably been in my head for years,” Pitts says, “ever since I read about former slaves and their history, and trying to reunite their family.”

The book’s protagonist is on a quest to find his wife, whom he hasn’t seen in 15 years.

“It’s a testimony to the power of love and family,” Pitts says.

This book is close to Pitts’ his heart. He is a fan of historical fiction and has always wanted to write a historical novel.

Freeman touches on an aspect of history that is little known.

“A lot of people don’t know what it was like after the civil war.” Pitts says. “It was a mess; it was not just a civil war and 600,000 men dead; right after that, you have the president assassinated, two great traumas right on top of each other. It’s remarkable that the country survived.”

In Freeman, protagonist Sam Freeman has been away for 15 years after escaping from his owner. There was an ill-advised escape attempt that left his son dead.

Freeman’s wife, Tilda, blames Sam for their son’s death.

“That was their only child and it is 15 years later when he returns to look for his Tilda,” Pitts says. “She has been sold, but he doesn’t know it. The original owner was relatively humane and enlightened; she allowed her slaves to learn to read and didn’t believe in separating families. That was why the wife didn’t want to run. But the humane slave owner had financial trouble and had to sell her property, including the slaves.”

Tilda is sold to a brutally cruel man who is slightly crazed from the loss of his son in the war. While Sam is traveling to the south from Philadelphia, the slave owner is forcing Tilda at gunpoint to walk westward from Mississippi in hopes of finding territory where his rights as a slaveholder will be upheld.

“Sam and his wife didn’t get a chance to see each other to grieve, Pitts says.

“There is this pain and he needs her forgiveness or for her to slap his face. That added an extra level of emotional complexity. He’s going back not just because he loves her, but because of the emotional pain.”

Pitts says he is fascinated with the idea

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of what people will do for love and family.

This is Pitts’ third published novel and this time he is working a book tour that will take him to Virginia, North Carolina and four cities in Florida, including a signing date at Books and Books in Coral Gables on June 9 at 7 p.m.

“There’s nothing like being in a book store,” Pitts says. “When you write a book, you’re saying something like, ‘Boy, they’re going to love this!’ But you don’t get feedback until three years later after it is published. I’m looking forward to listening to what people have to say.”

Pitts says that when he writes a column, he gets feedback almost immediately; some good, some bad. Still, even though it takes years for a book to go from concept to publication, Pitts says he would rather write fiction full time.

“But I have been in the middle of things for so long,” says Pitts. “I am sure that if I gave up writing a column there would be times when I would miss being able to insert my opinions into the public discourse.”

For more information, call 305-4424408 or go to <www.booksandbooks.com>.

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HPBA Aces 9U are runners-up in PBSA tourney

Pictured are members of the Howard Palmetto Aces 9U team with their trophy for finishing second in the PBSA Memorial Weekend Tournament May 24-28 at Franjo Park in Cutler Bay. Pictured are (front row l-r) Gilberto Torres-Reyes, Daniel Stanham, Ryan Yap, Nicolas Georgiades, Bobby Hemingway, Lewis Weaver, Eduardo Leal, Michale Bendixen, Nicolas Alvarez, Richard King, Julien Joa, Tyler Downie; (back row l-r) coaches Walter Weaver, Sid Alvarez, Richard King (manager), Peter Stanham and Lim Joa. Congratulations, guys!

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Village of Pinecrest planning for future of US-1

BY LEE STEPHENS

The Pinecrest Village Council has initiated a process for the creation of a vision and community consensus for the future development, redevelopment, beautification and enhancement of the Pinecrest Parkway (US-1) commercial corridor. A steering committee of residents and business owners has been meeting since April as part of the process.

“The goal is to work together with the community to identify effective solutions for the beautification and enhancement of the US-1 commercial corridor,” said Mayor Cindy Lerner.

The visioning process will include an interactive one-day community planning session that will result in a series of recommendations for the corridor. The session will be

held on Saturday, June 9, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Evelyn Greer Park. The Village encourages all residents, business owners and interested parties to attend and participate.

“Public participation and input are vital to ensure that the public’s goals and vision for the US-1 commercial corridor are reflected in future planning and redevelopment efforts,” said Village Manager Yocelyn Galiano Gomez.

Discussion items at the session will include redevelopment opportunities, land development regulations, landscaping, visual preference and aesthetics, parking, public safety, improved pedestrian and vehicular circulation, and economic incentives.

The Village has provided additional information about the future planning of US-1 at <www.pinecrest-fl.gov>.

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Hundreds gather to protest drunk driving at ‘Walk for Kaely’

BY RAQUEL GARCIA

“When I say we love, you say, ‘Kaely!

We love Kaely! We love Kaely!’”

So sang one of the lead students of Kaely Camacho’s eighth grade class to an answering chorus from her fellow classmates. The throngs of kids gathered together in honor of Kaely Camacho cheered loudly on an otherwise quiet sunny Wednesday morning outside the Southwood Middle School campus in Palmetto Bay. Hundreds of sixth, seventh and eighth graders took turns swinging their hands together and marching around the school block in a sea of blue tee shirts (Kaely’s favorite color) at a memorial walk in honor of the 13-year-old Southwood Middle School student killed by a drunk driver on April 13.

The day began with threatening, dark clouds and heavy rain, but cleared into a promising bright sunny day just in time for each grade to take their sponsored one-mile walk around the school to raise awareness about the danger of drunk driving. All 21 members of the Camacho family were present according to Southwood Principal Deborah Leal at “The Walk for Kaely,” an event organized by the local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Southwood PTSA. Kaely’s 17-year-old sister Bree Ann Camacho led the students with supporting family members around her pushing strollers or carrying kids on shoulders.

Each family member wore the same tee shirt of a smiling Kaely with her hands positioned upside down over her eyes in a funny spectacle fashion, while cheerful blue eyes peeked through.

“This morning was a little bit overwhelming,” said Bree Ann during an interview. “I miss her a lot and I was crying, but also happy crying because just look at all of the people she has brought together; it’s amazing.”

Bree Ann spoke confidently to the numerous reporters from area television

Kaely Camacho’s sister Bree Ann (far left) leads “Walk for Kaely” at Southwood Middle School.

Kaely’s parents Kirk and Angela Camacho.

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stations vying for her attention as she walked and cheered for Kaely along with the crowds that filled the streets, some even with pet dogs in tow.

“Drunk driving really needs to stop and

we can stop it,” she said loudly over the roar of the crowd. “My entire family and I are here to get the word out. Next time you have a decision to make about getting into a car with someone who is intoxicated,

think of my sister and what it did to her.”

Principal Leal said most students at the school knew Kaely personally, were moved by the tragedy of her untimely passing and wanted to do something about it.

“This was a way to channel their energy and do something that was positive for Southwood and the community,” said Leal.

“We have been planning this walk for over a month and the students went out to ask for pledges and donations for MADD.” In addition to the walk, the dance magnet program dedicated a performance to Kaely that afternoon and planted a tree in her honor. Kaely’s mother, Angela, walked just behind Bree Ann alongside her husband Kirk, family and friends.

“This is great support we are receiving here,” said Angela. “We are so grateful to Southwood and the community and MADD. We want to make sure all of our children are aware of the terrible dangers of drunk driving.”

For more information, contact MADD victim advocate Helen Witty at 305-2737122 or visit <madd.org>

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Volunteers are the core of the Alper JCC’s success

BY RITA DIAZ

Membership Director Football has the Super Bowl, baseball the World Series and hockey the Stanley Cup. In film it’s the Oscars, television the Emmys and theater the Tonys. For the Dave and Mary Alper JCC, it is the 2012 national JCCA Benchmarking Survey rating the Alper JCC as one of the top agencies in the country.

Kudos to the dedicated staff whose work keeps existing programs running and constantly introduces new and exciting classes, workshops, challenging sports programs and unique special events to our community.

But it is the hardcore group of volunteers who need to be thanked. These big-hearted people — who already have their PDA’s full — devote countless hours to the Center. Here are just a few of those volunteers who work hand in hand with the program directors: Linda Landy, the JCC’s Pinecrest Tribune columnist whose gift of writing brings humorous, touching and informative bi-monthly columns to the community. Her intelligence, wit and personal anecdotes combined with her rich history at the Alper JCC, make Landy’s columns a much-anticipated read, and a priceless resource for spreading the word about the Center.

For countless years, Suzy and Paul Fisher have been instrumental in the growth and success of the JCC Grand Tournament. Pulling together a high-end multi-sports event involving sponsorships, food and prizes is a task that they do not take lightly. When recruiting players for golf, tennis and Mah Jongg or tournament sponsors, neither accepts no for an answer.

The Fishers are determined and feel that if people can’t participate, surely they can contribute to this worthy cause. Working with them are Paul Neumann and Sandy Teeter, who as tennis chairs keep the roster full. Together their unstinting efforts have resulted in successful tournaments whose profits benefit seniors, frail elderly and children’s programs at the Center.

ALPER JCC Lisa Leventhal and Judy Mezey have headed up the annual Special Needs event since its inception. Surrounded by their indefatigable committee of Susie Fisher, Joanne Gentile, Renee Gershen, Teri Hirschberg, Lynn Katzen, Tobe Marmorstein, Sharon Samole and Carol Stiefel, they produce an evening of nationally recognized entertainment, a lavish silent auction and a legendary gourmet dessert reception. Their prodigious fundraising over the past 16 years has benefited the Shirley and Chester Paul Special Needs Program for children and adults with cognitive and / or physical disabilities.

The JCC Jewish Book Festival, one of the Center’s premier events, brings internationally acclaimed authors to our community. For years the Book Festival steering committee of Nadine Barocas, Renee Greenstein, Elaine Katz, Anne Sheldon and Susan Spatzer have dedicated their energy and time attending the Book Conference, helping to select authors and serving as the hospitality committee when these authors are in Miami. Cheryl Rosen the consummate event chair heads up the JCC Women’s Day Luncheon, a highlight of the Book Festival, with more than 400 women attending each year. With grace and a great deal of patience, Rosen and her committee organize the seating arrangements, create the décor, find amazing auction items and plan the much-anticipated boutiques.

Jennifer Mullin, past president of the ECD preschool’s PTA, stayed active chairing the very successful Scholastic Book Fair. Her determination and leadership is a great example for our preschool parents.

The sincere efforts of all of these men and women are at the core of the success of the Dave and Mary Alper JCC. Their indispensible participation truly embodies the essence of our community center.

For information on the Alper JCC or how you can become a volunteer, call 305271-9000, ext. 239.

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Expanding world class care at the Baptist Cardiac Institute

BY RAQUEL GARCIA

When Dr. Barry Katzen’s mother had a stroke 20 years ago, the use of blot clot dissolving drugs for the brain was in its infancy. Already a practicing physician, Katzen and his colleagues attempted an aggressive treatment to save her life, but to no avail. It was then that he decided there must be a better way to treat cardiac and vascular patients.

A Miami native and medical director of the Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute (BCVI), Katzen recently addressed an attentive audience during an informational forum at the home of Monica and Hector Betancourt in Coral Gables. Hosted by Baptist Health Foundation Founders Society members Karel and George Foti, the event was an opportunity to educate the community about the $60 million expansion project BCVI launched last fall.

“There was early interest in using clot busters when my mother had a stroke, but very little familiarity,” said Katzen. “So I wound up treating her with my colleagues to try to do something which ultimately wasn’t successful. But I determined at that point that we are going to have a stroke program here that is innovative and will save lives.”

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Although even as a kid growing up in his Miami Beach neighborhood Katzen knew he wanted to become a doctor, his mother’s case — and that of his father who passed away in his 50s as a result of cardio vascular disease — helped drive his dedication to the improved treatment of cardio and vascular disease. Since founding the BCVI in 1987, Katzen has been a pioneer for improved treatment of heart disease, stroke and related circulatory issues.

“When the institute was founded in 1987, it was extremely unique to integrate care around the entire body,” said Katzen. “At the time, stroke, heart disease and kidney problems were treated separately. Everyone was treating the same problem, just in different parts of the body. Because heart

attack and limb loss and diabetes are very much related and dependent on the circulatory system, integrated treatment (such as ours) has now become standard practice.”

Katzen enjoys being on the cutting edge of new treatments and innovation in health care.

“BCVI has become internationally recognized as one of the top 10 cardiac and vascular programs in the United States,” he said. “We recently noted our 1,000th treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms.

The first patient we treated was probably the fifth case in the country. Back in the early ’90s, if a patient had an aneurysm that was about to burst, they would be in the hospital for about 10 days and it would take three to four months to get back to normal. Today a patient with the same disease leaves the hospital in 24 to 48 hours and is back to work in a week or 10 days.”

The expansion campaign for the BCVI was officially launched with a sold out Celine Dion concert at the Fillmore Miami Beach on Dec. 16 that raised $6 million towards the expansion. Dion credits Katzen and the BCVI Institute for performing a cardiac procedure that saved the life of her husband, Rene Angelil.

With the sophistication of arts and culture in South Florida over the last 20 years, Katzen says medicine has similarly advanced and grown in sophistication.

“It was our intention to become a world class facility back in 1987 and that is what we are trying to do; provide the best quality care as well as drive innovation through clinical research.

“As we look ahead to celebrate our 25th anniversary we are continuing to develop patient care around the hardening of the arteries. This affects the heart and the legs and the brain and creates a lot of death and disability in all of us. These kinds of dramatic changes and less invasive cardiac and vascular care extend the lives of patients in a simpler way.”

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County basketball champs

Palmetto Middle School won the Miami-Dade County Junior Varsity Basketball Championship.

Pictured are (front row l-r) Stephan Pique, Tavian Percy, Jeffrey Alter, Jayden Hardaway, Jarbas Faria; (back row l-r) Coach Luis Diaz, Danny Ajabshir, Jonathan Roth, Tremari Smith, Michael Martinez, Matthew Hellinger and James Keller. Congratulations, guys!

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My Lawn Man wants to top my Live Oak Tree for the STORM SEASON. Should I have him do this?

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BY RON VON PAULUS

No. Don’t top your live oak or any other hardwood tree such as a black olive or mahogany. A tree sometimes needs to be pruned to avoid interference with utility lines, buildings, or parts of the surrounding environment. Whenever pruning is required, it is important to avoid the practice of topping -- the removal of all parts of a tree above a certain height with no consideration for its structure or health. Long thought to reduce a hazard, topping is a temporary and ineffective solution that actually makes a tree more hazardous in the long run.

• Topping "starves" trees by robbing them of their food-creating leaves.

• Topped trees, in an act of defense, create shoots that grow quickly (up to 20 feet in one year) and are more prone to breaking.

• Topping also makes trees more susceptible to insects and disease.

• Topping creates "high maintenance

trees" that are expensive to treat, repair, and care for.

Hurricane tree-trimming basics for hardwood trees • Reduction pruning is an effective alternative to topping. It reduces the size of longer branches by cutting back to a lateral branch. Some branches are removed at their point of origin.

• Avoid excessive thinning of interior branches. It can lead to rapid growth of upright interior shoots and limb breakage.

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Gulliver student sponsors daycare facility in Nicaragua

Andrea Perez with children at the daycare center in Nicaragua.

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BY LINDA RODRIGUEZ BERNFELD

Imagine being stopped by a crying mom who tells you she has to tie up her toddler and tape his mouth so he can’t yell just so you can go to work. What would you do?

When it happened to Andrea Perez, she took action. Perez was visiting Nicaragua at the time, helping her brother Alejandro with his pet project, a school for poor teens in a rural area of the country. After being confronted by the woman, Perez decided to start a day care so women like that could have a safe place to their children while they worked “She would tie him to the chair and leave the door locked with tape over his mouth,” Perez says. “It wasn’t because she wanted to mistreat the child, but she needed to go to work. It was the only option that she had.”

The daycare was named after her grandmother, Anita Holmann, and is located in her grandmother’s house. When her grandmother passed away, Perez asked her grandfather if they could use the house and he said yes.

It’s hard enough to start a business as an adult, but Perez is still a teen – she’ll be a senior at Gulliver Prep next year. However, after helping her brother in his community work, she’s already learned how to marshal resources to accomplish things.

“I started noticing the women had trouble with their kids,” Perez says, “The ones that weren’t old enough to go to school and they didn’t have a place to leave them.

It took a little while to get her dream daycare up and running. First, she needed to raise money and she needed to find a place to house the daycare. She started an errand service to raise the money.

“I made up a business card with my

name on it. I handed it out the card around the street and the school,” Perez says. “It started to make a good amount of money and I thought maybe the day care can actually happen.”

Once she secured the house, she was able to open the center with the help of friends and family.

“I had the money and I had the house, so I got donors,” she says. “I have a lot of family and friends. They match every dollar I make and, with that, I have enough money.”

The daycare was established in July and has 60-65 children. They are allowed to care for up to 100. The school has two teachers and plans call for hiring a third.

Perez and her friends earn $600 a month with the errand service. Coupled with income from funds from donors who match her earnings, the free daycare became a reality. If there are shortfalls, her grandfather steps in to help.

Opening the day care is just the first project.

“Right now I’m too young to start it, but I’m planning to open an orphanage,” Perez says.

The orphanage concept came about when two children were dropped off at the daycare and then the parents disappeared, leaving no contact information. One of the teachers is taking care of the children, but can’t afford the additional costs without help. Perez says she needs more time to figure out what to do about the situation.

Because of her commitment to the children, Perez has been honored with a plaque by the Ministry of Family in Nicaragua.

For more information, go to the Anita Holmann Day Care Center in Nicaragua page on Facebook.

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Chapman Field scientists create new crops; avoid disease, infestation HAL FELDMAN Driving down Old Cutler Road at SW 136th Street, most people automatically ask themselves: “What’s going on behind those fences?” The answer is agricultural research for the U.S. Government.

The 208-acre facility was born out of Dr. David Fairchild’s efforts. In 1923, as a USDA employee, he moved the Plant Introduction Garden from Brickell Avenue to the newly decommissioned Chapman Air Field.

While many would equate the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station’s work to watching paint dry, the eight fulltime scientists and 25 support staffers beg to differ. I met 13-year Agricultural Research Service veteran Dr. Alan Meerow for an eye-opening tour. He explained how Chapman Field’s research has — and will continue to have — global impact.

“We are here for preservation, research, development and entomology,” says Meerow. “I am developing ornamentals plants, but we all cross over and help each other.”

The facility is home to thousands of seeds and plants. Unlike dozens of other USDA ARS centers around the country, Chapman

Collecting chocolate tree fruit for study.

Field has tropical and sub-tropical field plantings, which makes it one of the more unique facilities. In fact, only Hilo, Hawaii and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico do the same thing.

The bulk of the land is used for three main crops: sugar cane and subtropical grasses, avocado trees and an impressive 3,000 varietals of mangoes. The focus of each is crop improvement. While less than 20 percent of the facility hosts ornamental plant research, eight new varieties were designed and brought to market from here.

“The most important issue our facility constantly works on is creating crop variations that will help us avoid disease and infestation,” says Dr. Meerow. “The longer we farm a plant, the genetic differences get narrower and narrower. This can lead to weaknesses and vulnerability that can wipe out species. We work on re-introducing USDA ARS main research building off Chapman Field Drive. stronger, diverse variations of that plant to the farm fields.”

In avocado research, there is a huge panic and the Chapman Field facility is designated as a first responder. A few years ago, redbay trees (a relative of the avocado) in Georgia started dying off en mass. As it worked its way south, Chapman Field raced into action to find the source of the die off.

They discovered laurel wilt, a fungus disease that is spread by the Redbay Ambrosia Beetle.

“The beetle farms the fungus inside the Avocado tree and, in turn, the tree goes into five-alarm response and ends up killing itself after it turns off its own internal plumbing trying to stop the fungus growth.”

For a while, laurel wilt stopped around Ft. Pierce, FL, likely due to the patchy nature of our forest canopy. Unfortunately, our luck ran out in late 2011, as the disease Research geneticist Alan Meerow peers through a robothas reached Dade County. Emergency ic liquid handler.

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“With seeds at less than 50 percent of I’m always looking for interesting people what they were, production is way down because, for example, honeybee colony collapse is the result of a variant of pesti- and events for consideration in upcoming and costs are up,” says Meerow.

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At a standing-room-only awards assembly, Temple Beth Am Day School received a “Silver Award” in the Fairchild Challenge Highest Honors, given to the 16 schools with the highest total number of points overall earned through submissions in five challenges: • Fashion Design — Parade of Animals, • Art — Beautiful Blooms, • Writing — Flower Power, • Environmental Action • School Garden/Habitat Restoration This award comes with a $500 cash prize to be used for science and environmental

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Bob Reynolds cited for 25 years as Certified Insurance Counselor

BY JESSE SCHECKNER

Bob Reynolds recently received national recognition for being a Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) for more than 25 years and was given a plaque marking the accomplishment.

To earn the designation of CIC, an insurance agent must pass five tough essay exams that cover the specific insurance disciplines of life and health, commercial property, personal insurance, commercial casualty and agency management. Each exam is preceded by a three-day course, each focusing on the deepest elements of insurance coverage, policy contracts and their application in the field.

“Bob’s ongoing allegiance to and support of the CIC Program is a testament to the value he places on ‘real world’ insurance education and client satisfaction,” said Dr. William Hold, president of the society of CIC, during the award ceremony. “His clients, colleagues and the insurance profession as a whole benefit greatly from his dedication.”

In 2000, Reynolds was named Agent of the Year by the Society of Certified Professional Insurance Agents. He is the only Floridian to ever receive the designation.

“I guess you could say the insurance business is in my blood,” said Reynolds. “It’s what I always wanted to do.”

His grandfather, E.H. Reynolds, entered the insurance field in 1910 and authored Florida’s first worker’s compensation law while working for Florida Power and Light.

He founded E.H. Reynolds & Son in 1950.

Douglas Reynolds, Bob’s father, took over the business in 1957 and merged with fellow insurer Edwin Morris a year later, renaming the company Morris & Reynolds Insurance.

Morris retired and sold his interest to the Reynolds family in 1979, although they kept the name. During his successful career, Douglas Reynolds served as president of the Miami Insurance Board and was awarded the Society of Professional Insurance Agents’ lifetime achievement award.

After earning his initial degree at Florida State University, Bob entered the family business in 1983 while continuing his studies at the University of Miami.

“Going to Miami was a natural choice for me since I’d grown up a fan, as well as the fact that my father graduated from the U,” said Reynolds. “In fact, many of my insurance and finance professors were the same ones my father had enjoyed three decades earlier.”

He has since taken over the business,

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whose main office is located at 14821 S. Dixie Hwy. and is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. In addition to becoming a licensed CIC, has earned many titles including Certified Professional Insurance Agent. He is an associate in automation management, in insurance services and in underwriting.

Morris & Reynolds is very active in the community, supporting numerous local and national foundations that include the American Cancer Society, the ALS Foundation of Florida, Breakthrough Miami and the Humane Society of South Florida.

Of all his accomplishments, Reynolds cites his family as his greatest accomplishment.

“My life’s biggest passion is my wife and partner Julianne and our two children,” he said. “By far, they are my greatest award.”

For more information, go to <www.morrisandreynolds.com>, call 305-238-1000 or wmail <bob@morrisandreynolds.com>.

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A salute to ‘Friendship Circle’ volunteers

BY RABBI YOSSI HARLIG Director, Chabad ofKendall/Pinecrest

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At The Friendship Circle’s annual Evening of Tribute on May 21, we shined the spotlight on the many incredible volunteers who made the Friendship Circle go round this year. These dedicated volunteers are the center of our circle. They gave their time and more importantly, their friendship and companionship, to brighten the lives of children with special needs.

The Evening of Tribute, which featured an appetizer and dessert reception, allowed us to recognize and honor more than 100 teen volunteers from 20 different schools.

Throughout the year, these teens have juggled busy schedules that included school, homework, sports and clubs, and yet they still made time to give to others. Several of our members have been volunteering with The Friendship Circle for three to five years.

The inspiring Evening of Tribute program included speeches from our devoted volunteers, two special children, a very grateful mother and our director Nechama Harlig. All volunteers received a gift of appreciation. Special awards were presented to our 16 graduating seniors and to volunteers who earned special recognition. As we honored these excellent role models in our community, heartwarming images of them with their special friends graced the movie screen for all to watch and cherish.

No celebrities here, our volunteers were the stars of the show!

T h e E v e n i n g o f Tr i b u t e a l l o w e d u s t o re c o g n i z e a n d h o n o r m o re t h a n 1 0 0 t e e n v o l u n t e e r s f ro m 2 0 d i ff e re n t s c h o o l s . T h r o u g h o u t t h e y e a r, t h e s e teens have juggled busy schedules that included school, homework, s p o rt s a n d c l u b s , a n d y e t t h e y s t i l l made time to give to others.

Several of our members have been volunteering with T h e F r i e n d s h i p C i rc l e f o r t h re e t o f i v e y e a r s .

Through programs such as Children’s Circle, Teen Scene, Sports Circle, Cooking Circle and Friends at Home, Friendship Circle volunteers are able to reach children with special needs in ways that most forms of therapy cannot. Although many of these programs will wrap up for the summer, we are pleased to announce that The Friendship Circle will offer Sports Circle on Wednesdays, June 13 – Aug. 1, and summer camp, Aug. 13-17. Our volunteers will be on hand to provide special days full of sports, music, field trips and, of course, friendship.

To all of our Friendship Circle volunteers, we salute you and say thank you for your tireless efforts and generous spirit.

Thank you for an amazing year!

For more information, call 305-2345654, ext. 11, or go to <www.friendshipcirclemiami.org>.

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Grand Prize Winners from Taste of Pinecrest Samantha Myers (holding dolphin cow) and Joshua Myers (holding dolphin bull) enjoy their grand prize raffle winnings from Taste of Pinecrest. Prize was offered

by Dr. (Captain) Jason Levine for a fishing trip aboard his 33-foot ProLine. Acting as First Mate was Adam Hellman, President of the Pinecrest Business Association. Thank you Jason and Adam, the kids had a great time.

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And the ‘Veggie of the Year’ is Deering Bay’s Golden Beet

BY KAREN BUCHSBAUM

In a hard-fought battle among Beth Am fourth grade students, the golden beet edged the pineapple as the favorite offering from the Deering Bay Club Community Garden. Honorable mention went to the turnip, sorrel and marigold.

Nineteen students from Vicky Koller’s fourth grade science class recently returned to the Deering Bay Yacht & Country Club to celebrate the harvest of the community vegetable garden. The kids got hands-on experience learning about harvesting, plants going to seed, composting, the role of insects helping the garden and healthy eating.

As part of the mid-day festivities the students enjoyed a sumptuous salad bar.

Under the direction of Deering Bay Club member Ethan Shapiro and sous chef Tim Rowan (a Certified Organic Farmer), the kids tasted a wide variety of vegetables, including some still available in the community garden. In the second annual Battle of the Dips competition, Mexican Guacamole was the overwhelming winner over Greek Tzatziki.

It was the second consecutive year that

students from Beth Am have helped plant and harvest the Deering Bay garden. The popular program incorporates visits to the garden, with special science classes about plants, pollination, ecology and conservation. In the fall, the students planted about one-quarter of the garden, including three types of cabbage, garlic, chives, sorrel cosmos, radicchio, golden beets, lettuce, basil, bok choy and tatsio.

Koller returned to Beth Am with a Pineapple plant and a dozen Southern Milkweed plants to attract butterflies for the Beth Am garden. Students got to take home recipes, as well as caterpillars and other interesting garden-friendly insects.

“The beauty, colors and flavors of what we’ve seen come out of the garden have been so vivid and far beyond what we expected when we started in 2010,” said Shapiro. “Our Members take pride that some of the vegetables served at the Club are grown on premises free of pesticides and they thoroughly appreciate that the garden also has been used for educational purposes.”

To follow the garden’s progress visit the blog A Garden on the Bay at <http://blog.dbycc.com>.

Students Mila Bilchik and Rachel Kaplan enjoy a fresh vegetable salad.

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Proby & Associates PR adds hotel, travel clients

BY LEE STEPHENS

Proby & Associates, Inc., a 25-year-old Pinecrest-based full-service public relations agency has added several new hotel and travel accounts to its client list. The new accounts include Nikki Beach, Belleview Biltmore Resort in Tampa, Bay Point Marina & Resort in Cleveland and SOUTH BEACH: Stories of a Renaissance in Coral Gables.

Proby & Associates will provide public relations services primarily for the Nikki Beach hotel and resorts division with the opening of the $45 million boutique Nikki Beach Resort & Spa at the Pearl, Qatar. The agency also will represent Miami-based Belleview Biltmore Partners, which recently announced its plans to restore the 115year-old Belleview Biltmore Hotel. The landmark property is registered with the

National Register of Historic Places.

Bay Point Marina & Resort is located on the Marblehead Peninsula near Cleveland, extending into Lake Erie and Sandusky Bay. The private club community features a complete marina, single family homes and villas, a golf course, campgrounds and a member clubhouse. Proby & Associates will provide oversight for publicity and special events.

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Math Monkey makes learning math a fun experience for kids.

BY DIMPLE BHATTI

To say that math has always posed a problem to me would indeed be an understatement. For as far back as I can remember I have struggled with the subject.

Memories of numbers making absolutely no sense to me go as far back as early elementary school.

I had blanked out most of those math memories until my little one started school.

I began to wonder if she, too, would struggle with math. Then I got my answer. She began kindergarten and I heard the dreaded words from her: “I don’t get it.” I panicked.

All I could think is that if she develops a fear of math now there is no fixing it later.

That summer I enrolled her in Math Monkey. It was the summer before she was to start the first grade. The change I saw in her was amazing. From that day on (until today when she just finished the third grade), math was her favorite subject and one where she excels.

Math Monkey of Pinecrest is owned by Elena Suarez. I have had the pleasure of knowing Elena for quite some time now and can wholeheartedly say that she has dedicated Math Monkey to be a place where kids can learn to truly love math, to overcome prior fears of the subject and embrace numbers. Math Monkey is a place where learning is game based, so kids learn without even realizing it. What could be more effective?

Enrichment classes, tutoring and online tutoring are all held throughout the school year, as well as during the summer. Math Monkey is renowned for its summer camps and this summer is no different. The summer classes and camps are a great way for

new students to get a taste of what Math Monkey has to offer, and for all students to get ahead of the game for the following school year, all while having fun.

This summer is filled with all sorts of excitement at Math Monkey. Enrichment classes will be in session. These are condensed versions of the enrichment classes that run during the school year. Grades K-7 are welcome for these classes, which are offered in two five-week sessions. Session 1 runs from June 11-July 12 and Session 2 runs from July 16-Aug. 16. Students are evaluated and placed according to the level of ‘monkey’ that they are. Tutoring, either in person at the Math Monkey Knowledge Center (math only) or online (all subjects), is available to all students. Both provide one-on-one instruction.

New this summer is that the camps will focus not only on math, but also on science.

During these Math and Science Camps, kids will review past concepts and learn new ones for the academic year ahead.

According to my little one, “Math Monkey camp is the most fun out of all the camps!”

The camps provide an interactive experience using videos, games, computer games and simulations, hands-on experiments, reading, art and real life excursions, all related to the theme or topic being covered that week. The camps are full of positive energy and the kids are engaged in having fun while learning.

The Math and Science camps are open to kids entering grade 1-6, and can be either half-day, or full day. Camps will run from June 11 through Aug. 17 and are all oneweek long.

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That’s the same question people are asking here in Florida, across America, and really – around the world. Our collective answers to that question will define the future. And the good news is: there are lots of ways we can answer that question constructively.

I believe we should energize economic opportunity in three simple ways: 1. Investing in infrastructure 2. Expanding educational opportunity, and 3. By working together more effectively.

Over the three-year period from 2011 through 2013, FPL is investing approximately $9 billion here in Florida to strengthen and improve the state's electric generation and delivery system, and to maintain our strong reliability, all while helping to keep customer bills low over the long term, and all through the use of fuel-efficient generation and innovative technologies.

The combined fuel savings are tremendous. By 2016, our customers will save about $1.2 billion in fuel costs every single year. And every dollar we save our customers on fuel is a dollar that stays in their pocket.

Saving money for our customers is extremely important to us, but there are other benefits as well. FPL’s investments in new infrastructure also reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and not in a small way. In 2001, we burned more than 40 million barrels of fuel oil to generate electricity, almost all of it imported from overseas.

This year, we’re projecting that we will burn less than 600,000 barrels. That’s a reduction of more than 98 percent in just 10 years, which is a great benefit to our customers, when the price of oil once again is more than $100 a barrel.

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For grade school children, FPL sponsors science shows that visit about 100,000 students a year. For older students, we’ve created a solar education in schools program.

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Third, we can energize economic opportunity by recognizing that we are all in this together. To that end, and with the support of our regulators, FPL now offers a special “Economic Development Rate” for FPL business customers that commit to bringing jobs to the state (www.PoweringFlorida.com <http://www.PoweringFlorida.com> ). I am also personally encouraged by several of our business customers who have told me recently that they see Florida’s economy turning the corner, and gaining strength and momentum. None of us knows what the future will bring, but working together for the common good can bring out the best in all of us.

Despite the headwinds we can all see before us, FPL remains incredibly optimistic about the future of our state, our country and our global economy. That’s why we’re doing everything we can to keep our electric bill the lowest in the state, and among the lowest in the nation.

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he good--First you see this updated home on the Internet. Eighty-five percent of buyers preview their home on the Internet. The people bought it in 2005 or they took out an equity line on top of their mortgage and now they are upside down and need to sell. It has updated baths, granite kitchen and they moved the pool to build a wrap around porch that is amazing for parties. The price is great and even your husband is excited. You both leave work early so the back yard can be seen in the daylight.

You love it!!! (Short sales are better priced than regular homes but not as good as foreclosures. ) I put in a contract right away. What should you pay? Depends if you get in a competition. If that happens expect to pay full price or more. The seller usually has a lawyer they insist you use-so they now pay your title because they are the escrow and title agent.

Which does save you big money. You get the house and now are thoroughly confused what the time line is. Be assured

friends will tell you horror short sale stories—all factual of course. You only have to put $1000 down. There is no money spent on inspections or an appraisal right away. How bad can it get?

The Bad-So the money is sent to the sellers title and escrow lawyer. I recommend my customers to hand drop it by to see the law firm or title company. If it is a PO Box that is not a good sign. These are the people who are negotiating the short sale. A short sale is much more about the seller than the buyer. Now the seller must give extensive records showing they qualify for a short sale. Then the bank that holds the mortgage does an appraisal to see if the price is true market value. If they want more money the bank will counter. ( I just had a condo that was bought for $48K get a counter of $67K .)

If the bank changes the price you can cancel the contract. (So what is an Approved short sales?--homes that already have the appraisal and the bank has approved the sellers financial situation-RARITY) Did

Great for investment as a rental or to live. Has screened in porch going along property that looks directly at pool. On ground floors with no steps too.

Freashly painted 3/2 with huge rooms and huge closets. Located at Castle Condo's out Kendall and 109th.

the sellers mention there are two mortgages? A much harder short sale. That is a question to always ask!! Both mortgage companies can agree on the short sale but the first has to okay the payoffs for the second. Maybe they want the second mortgage to get $3000 and the second mortgage wants $5000. Yes, this is usually the pay off price even if the second mortgage is $75K. The first mortgage can nix it because they are in control.

This after 6 months of waiting.

The Evil-the bank approves the short sale. Usually the bank gives 30 days but the paralegal was on vacation and no one told you-- now you have 25. The contract is LIVE and all dates start quick. Time for that much bigger second deposit-ouch.

The banks give exact dates with specifics and the sellers have to sign this. Make sure you get a copy. So now your mortgage guy has to jump on the appraisal and you need to have the inspection lined up yesterday. Don't forget to do the insurance inspections at the same time! If a problem is found with the home the seller usually doesn't have money to fix it but maybe the bank does. One of my customers got a free roof--but that is a rarity.

Are you excited to close and move in?

Remember, the owners are living there

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She closed last week on her short sale.

She delivers in two weeks. Then we are going to have an amazing party under her wrap-around-porch by her moved pool.

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