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April 17 & 18, our area plays host to the Cocoa Beach Air Show. After nine years, it is exciting to have the air show back on our beaches to kick off the Thunderbirds’ 2021 season. Yes, I am biased, but our beaches are the best beaches! We were lucky enough to touch base with Bryan Lilley, the organizer of the Cocoa Beach Air Show, to get some of the details on this year’s event to share with our readers.
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COCOA BEACH AIR SHOW: BACK TO THE BEACH The 2021 Cocoa Beach Air Show to be double headlined by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the F-22 Raptor Demo Team
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. This horror novel set in Mexico takes the reader on a journey from Mexico City to the countryside home of an Englishman who married the protagonist Noemi’s cousin. Noemi, whose only concerns are what to wear to the next party, is summoned to her cousin’s side in the country for what she thinks is just a brief cheering up. However, what she uncovers about the family, the house, and her fate grips the reader until the end.
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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. This non-fiction account from first-hand knowledge reminds us of where we started and how far we have come today in our space endeavors to continue our ride into space. Get the raw words from the people who experienced landing on the moon and those standing by on earth. Learn about or refresh your memory about the moon shot years of space. Stay tuned next month for another review of a local author’s book and check my blog for what I am reading, and a complete list of all the space books we have read so far! https://cod-caterpillar-mb4b.squarespace.com/work/studio-vega-hpj8c password: cocoabeach2021 Happy Reading, Christiana C. Succar, Ph.D. 6 | C ANAVER AL E X PLORER .C OM
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City projects are continuing with a force! West Central Boulevard Improvements Projects are proceeding on course with new pedways being installed. The Multi-Generational Facility (MGF) continues to rapidly progress on target, and the C.A.P.E. center is coming this fall! You can keep up with all ongoing City Projects on cityofcapecanaveral.org/ projects! And in other local news, our Spring Movie in the Park series has commenced in the new location of Manatee Sanctuary Park and it’s a huge hit for local families, young and old! Check out the upcoming showings on our website calendar! As we continue our fight against COVID-19, our Fire Department and City Staff are working hand-in-hand with the local Emergency Operations Center to soon procure additional vaccination opportunities for residents. As eligibility guidelines are constantly changing, our website is continually updated about the ongoing efforts to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine as developments occur. Log on to cityofcapecanaveral.org/ coronavirus for the most up-to-date information available. We encourage citizens to stay vigilant, engaged and continue to show your support for our local businesses, first responders, Sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and frontline medical personnel – we’re not out of the woods yet - stay safe!
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DANCE FOR THOSE WHO BY: O L IVIA RO MANO Although February 20, 2021, was a chilly day in Brevard County, students from Cocoa Beach High School warmed the hearts of many, hosting their Second Annual Dance Marathon benefiting Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. Dance Marathon is a movement for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and happens to be the only foundation that ensures 100% of funds are dispersed locally in support of local kids to provide them with crucial medical care. Additionally, the organization is entirely student run, proving meaningful leadership and teamwork experience to the student body.
CONTRIBUTING WRITER: MARK J. RENDELL PRINCIPAL COCOA BEACH JR./SR. HIGH SCHOOL
I want to share another example of the selflessness of the student body at Cocoa Beach Junior-Senior High School. Our school recently held a “Dance Marathon” event to raise funds for an area hospital. This is a description of the event as told by Olivia Romano, a Senior at Cocoa Beach.
Cocoa Beach began participating in Dance Marathon in 2019, hosting their first culmination event in February 2020, raising approximately $7,100 for Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. Inspired by the lifesaving treatment that the students were able to provide for those fighting pediatric illness, the Cocoa Beach National Junior Honor Society and several upperclassmen representatives immediately got to work at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year to plan their second Dance Marathon. This year we had a bold goal of raising $10,000 by the end of the event, and despite our small school size, we were determined to reach it. Our students went around the county looking for businesses to sponsor the event, discovering 18 generous businesses willing to donate. Each Dance Marathon participant also set up a donor drive account to raise funds. Aside from fundraising, the Dance Marathon team had to plan the event. A full executive board of students was created, with positions ranging from Dancer Relations all the way to Finance. These students met once a week to ensure the event would go seamlessly. The executive board worked together to design T-shirts, create business sponsor forms, choreograph a dance, and raise awareness around the school and community. The Dance Marathon team chose games and entertainment that met CDC guidelines. The activities were also approved by the Infectious Disease Unit at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. After months of planning, on February 20th, Dance Marathon took place. With a busy schedule timed down to the minute, the event began at 4:00 PM outdoors in the commons at CBHS with masks required at all times. Attendees were encouraged to remain standing for the entirety of the event as a sign of respect to the children fighting pediatric illness that are confined to their hospital beds. At the top of every hour, the designated Dance Team taught a line dance to get people hyped up for the hour ahead. Additionally, students watched several Mission Moments, stories from children and parents that received treatment from Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, creating a better understanding of purpose behind Dance Marathon. Jeannie and Jared, dance teachers from MyHipHopFit taught two energetic and powerful dance classes
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CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL MARKS 31 YEARS OF
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Recently the City of Cape Canaveral received a letter from the Arbor Day Foundation congratulating the City for continuing its designation as a Tree City. Currently, Cape Canaveral is one of only 3,600 communities nationwide to have this honor. The City has proudly held this designation since 1989. Founded in 1972, the Arbor Day Foundation is the largest 501(c)3 nonprofit membership organization dedicated to planting trees and other reforestation efforts. The foundation has more than 1 million partners and supporters that together have helped to plant more than 350 million trees in neighborhoods, communities, cities, and forests throughout not only the US but the world.
CONTRIBUTING WRITER: Zachary Eichholz Sustainability Program Manager + Resilience Planner City of Cape Canaveral
To qualify for the Tree City status, communities must meet four core standards. First, someone must be responsible for the care of all trees, this usually includes a professional forester or arborist (the City currently has an on-staff arborist); second, a Tree City must be guided by a tree care ordinance (Article II. - Tree Protection); next, a community must designate a portion of its budget toward planting, care and removal of City trees (Sec. 102-54. - Tree replacement standards); and last, a
community must recite an official Arbor Day proclamation and demonstrate support for Arbor Day. The City takes green infrastructure and its urban canopy very seriously, for trees (and plants) can provide numerous environmental, economic, and social benefits. Such benefits include reducing stormwater runoff to the lagoon, improving air quality, lowering local temperatures, and sequestering carbon dioxide emissions. Recent examples of large-scale tree plantings in the City include the planting of over 350 new native trees at the Long Point Estuary property in 2019, 18 red mangroves along the City’s lagoon shoreline through its Adopt-A-Mangrove Program in 2020, and in 2021 at Canaveral City Park the City will be planting thousands of new native and Florida friendly trees and plants at the site for the MultiGenerational Facility; increasing the park’s species diversity and overall canopy and ground coverage. The City will apprise residents of new plantings, best management practices and make available educational resources via our partner organizations as often as possible.
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COCOA BEACH AIR SHOW BACK TO THE BEACH
APRIL 17-18 The Cocoa Beach Air Show will take place along roughly two miles of Cocoa Beach oceanfront, extending from Westgate Cocoa Beach Pier to Minutemen Causeway with Lori Wilson Park serving as show center.
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The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly the F-16 Fighting Falcon and perform a combination of formation and solo maneuvers in an inspiring, patriotic, high energy demonstration. The four-jet diamond performs precision formation flight with the aircraft wingtips as close as four feet apart while performing loops, inverted rolls and even high-performance turns! The two solo jets perform high energy maneuvers together and from opposite directions closing in on each other as fast as 1,000 mph. The six jets come together in the delta formation as the finale for the show, flying difficult formations and signature breaks that fill the sky with speed, sound and smoke trails! The F-22 Raptor is the fastest and most maneuverable fighter jet in the world today. The F-22’s twin engines produce more thrust than any other fighter. Combined with its sleek aerodynamic design, this allows the F-22 to “Supercruise” at 1.5 times the speed of sound without using fuel-
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We’re glad to be bringing the show back to the beach at a time where it can help the ailing tourism industry that has been so badly impacted in the past year. Having the double headliner of the Thunderbirds and F-22 Raptor Demo will kick the destination appeal of the Cocoa Beach Air Show into afterburner.
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The 2021 Cocoa Beach Air Show will feature the U.S. Air Force’s top two demonstration teams when it returns to Florida’s Space Coast on April 17-18, 2021. The Air Force just announced that the F-22 Raptor Demo Team will join the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds to double headline the show. Cocoa Beach will be the kickoff of the Thunderbirds 2021 season.
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consuming afterburner. The F-22’s unique thrust vectoring and advanced flight controls allow it to outmaneuver any other aircraft. The F-22 Raptor demo puts thrust vectoring on full display during its demonstration defying imagination as it climbs straight up, stops in mid-air, then reverses towards the ground before flipping the nose around in a somersault at near zero forward speed. The F-22 makes sharp, sudden turns displacing and compressing air into vapor, and you often see the Raptor creating its own weather system with massive clouds that engulf the jet. The Valiant Air Command will be adding to the air show with four different warbird aircraft. Featured warbirds include their flagship, the C-47 “Tico Bell” — one of the hundreds of C-47s that flew across the English Channel on D-Day, dropping members of the 82nd Airborne behind enemy lines — as well as a TBM Avenger torpedo bomber, North American SNJ-4 trainer, and an N2S Steerman biplane. In March, air show officials announced a B-52 Stratofortress long-range bomber has been added to the lineup. Bryan Lilley, organizer of the Cocoa Beach Air Show, shared his excitement of adding continued on page 18 C ANAVER AL E X PLO RER .C O M | 13
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the B-52 to the show’s lineup. “The B-52 is a big, hulking, eightengine rarity with a wingspan of 185 feet. The cool thing about the B-52 is its appeal to a broad audience. The first B-52s flew back in the ‘50s, so veterans as well as the guys who like warbirds enjoy seeing them. Young people like it too — it’s big, it’s cool, and it’s loud,” he said. For 2021, the air show is implementing a series of “Stay safe initiatives” to ensure the safety of guests and spectators at the event. These initiatives extend across all the event premium viewing venues which include the Drop Zone Beach, Flight Line Club, and Sand Boxes—a viewing area designed with the at-risk, elderly, and families with small children in mind, to be able to enjoy the air show in their own reserved area of the beach. For additional information on the Stay Safe initiative please visit the Cocoa Beach Air Show website.
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The Cocoa Beach Air Show will be broadcast by a Marylandbased professional livestream crew, offering new aerobatic viewing options during the COVID-19 pandemic. “You’ve got a camera covering the action; you’ve got one on the jets, so you can watch what’s going on at the airfield; and you’ve got one on the narrator. People from the hotel-room balconies and people spread out across the beach can get the narration. Even if you’re not in the Cocoa Beach area, people can attend from around the world,” he said.
VIP and Premium Viewing tickets are on sale now at cocoabeachairshow.com The Cocoa Beach Air Show will kick off this year’s AirDotShow Live Tour that will visit six destinations in 2021 including Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, Ocean City MD, New York and Orlando. For more information on the tour please visit https://air.show
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