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EDITOR’S LETTER appy new year! We want to wish each of our readers a healthy, happy and prosperous 2020. Take a moment just to focus on your plans for the new year. Set some new goals for yourself, or maybe just revisit some goals from 2019 that might have fallen by the wayside. Let’s all make today better than yesterday.

During Winterfest, we dropped by a Cocoa Beach business which had previously advertised with us only to find out by the time you are reading this letter they will be out of business. Without all of us supporting small local businesses, they just can’t compete with the online retail giants. These advertisers are your neighbors, friends or even relatives, so let’s get out there and support them— shop and dine locally. Please take a moment and look through our advertisers and continue to patronize their businesses. It is their support which makes this local magazine possible. Our challenge to you, and to ourselves, for 2020 is to find an advertiser in the magazine which you might not have visited in a while or maybe never visited or used their services and make a point to reach out to them. Go to a local restaurant for dinner, shop at a local retail establishment instead of online, or book a household service. We all get in a rut and continue going to the same locations or doing the same things because it is comfortable and easy, but for 2020 let’s get out of the rut and try something different! We are always looking for local content for our magazine. Do you have a story idea? Do you know someone (or yourself) with an amazing experience that needs to be shared? Maybe your organization has an upcoming event or fundraiser that your neighbors might be interested in hearing more about. Reach out to us; we’d love to hear from you. Email us at info@explorermultimedia.com or call 321-759-6064. Have a wonderful start to this new year. Get out there and make 2020 your best year yet!

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TIME FOR SOME NEW YEAR’S FINANCIAL RESOLUTIONS Have you thought about your New Year’s resolutions for 2020? When

many of us make these promises, we focus on ways we can improve some form of our health. We vow to get more physically healthy by going to the gym, or we promise to improve our mental health by learning a new language or instrument. But it’s also important to think about our financial health – so it’s a good idea to develop some appropriate resolutions for this area, too. What kinds of financial resolutions might you make? Here are a few suggestions: Increase your retirement plan contributions. One of the best financial moves you can make is to take full advantage of your 401(k) or similar employer-sponsored retirement plan. If you contribute pre-tax dollars to your plan, the more you put in, the lower your taxable income will be for the year, and your earnings can grow on a tax-deferred basis. So, if your salary goes up in 2020, increase the amount you put into to your plan. Most people don’t come close to reaching the annual contribution limit, which, in 2019, was $19,000, or $25,000 for those 50 or older. You might not reach these levels, either, but it’s certainly worthwhile to invest as much as you can possibly afford. Use “found” money wisely. During the course of the next year, you may well receive some money outside your normal paychecks, such as a bonus or a tax refund. It can be tempting to spend this money, but you may help yourself in the long run by investing it. You could use it to help fund your IRA for the year or to fill a gap in another investment account.

Be financially prepared for the unexpected. Even if you’re diligent about saving and investing for your long-term goals, you can encounter obstacles along the way. And one of these roadblocks could come in the form of large, unexpected expenses, such as the sudden need for a new car or some costly medical bills. If you aren’t prepared for these costs, you might have to dip in to your long-term investments to pay for them. To prevent this from happening, you may want to keep sufficient cash, or cash equivalents, in your investment accounts. Or you might want to maintain a completely separate account as an emergency fund, with the money kept in low-risk, liquid vehicles. If possible, try to maintain at least six months’ worth of living expenses in this account. It will take some effort but following these resolutions could help you move closer to your financial goals in 2020 – and beyond. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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John Rogers: Aura and You, Your Lights are On Tuesday, January 7, at 6pm, in the Community Room. Professional medium, author, and lecturer John Rogers has 30 years of experience communicating with spirit guides on the other side. He will talk about mediumship, how it works, and the difference between a medium and a psychic. He will also give brief readings as time allows. Meet and Greet the Author: Marshall Frank Saturday, January 11 at 3pm, in the Community Room. Novelist, memoirist, musician, columnist, and retired homicide investigator and commander, Marshall Frank will discuss his newest book A Boy Who Mattered. He’ll talk about his career as a detective and he’ll give advice to aspiring writers. Copies will be available for sale and signing. Meet and Greet the Author: Tim Dorsey Wednesday, January 15 at 3pm in the Community Room. Florida author Tim Dorsey will be at the Cocoa Beach Library promoting his newest book, Naked Came the Florida Man. Copies will be available for sale and signing. Compassion & Choices: Caregiver 101 Wednesday, January 15 at 6pm in the Community Room. Join us for new caregivers or those who envision the possibility that they could be called on to be a caregiver to an elderly or very ill loved one. Guess speaker for this event will be Charlene Demers a gerontological advance practice nurse. Chef Warren Caterson: Cooking with Wine Saturday, January 18 at 2pm, in the Community Room. Join Chef Warren as he shares dozens of kitchen tips, cooking hints and humorous anecdotes about the joys and benefits of cooking with wine. Chef Warren then ends each presentation with a cooking demonstration. Pre-register for this free program! AARP Volunteer Tax Assistance Thursdays, January 9, 16, & 23 from 10am-12 pm, in the Captain’s Room. AARP Foundation volunteers will again offer free tax assistance at the library starting February 4. You must make an appointment in-person while AARP reps are present – phone reservations will not be taken.

Card Making Class Tuesday, January 7 from 11:30am - 1:30pm, in the Community Room. Donna Herring will lead the group in the creation of three beautiful and creative greeting cards. All materials are provided. Cost is $10. Pre-register at the registration table. Prism Suncatcher Workshop Tuesday, January 7 at 2pm and January 13, 20, and 27 at 11am, in the Captain’s Room. Students will produce one suncatcher to take home. Class is $15 per person and includes all supplies. Pre-register at the registration table. Acrylic Painting with Joan Kisner Thursdays, from 2:30pm to 5:30pm, in the Community Room. Anyone can paint, there are fun tricks, great tips and neat techniques for achieving acrylic paintings you are proud to show. For questions contact jkkisner@hotmail. com. Cost is $25 per session. Pre-register at the registration table. Mandala Stone Painting Class Wednesday, January 22 and 29, at 10am, in the Jane Von Thron Room. Come and learn how to paint Mandala stones for yourself with Sandy Thibault! Class is open to adults and children 9 and older. Class is $25 and includes all supplies. Please pre-register for the class at the registration table. Mobile Art with Ed Maestro Tuesday, January 17, from 2pm to 4pm in the Jane Von Thron Room. Create your own piece of kinetic art - a colorful, graceful, hanging mobile - in this two hour class. The fee is $15 and all materials, tools, and instruction are included! Sign up at the registration table or call 321-868-1104. Create with Light: Drawing & Painting Group Mondays, from 2:15pm to 6:00 pm, in the Community Room. Come join us for an ongoing drawing & painting art group. Foundational light & dark concepts will be explored before choosing & painting subject matter of your choice. Register with Tina at createwlight@yahoo.com or at the registration table. Handmade Cards with Ree Nathan Wednesday, January 15 at 9:30am, in the Captain’s Room. Cost is $10; all supplies provided. Register with Ree in advance by emailing reenathan6@ gmail.com or calling 321-961-2350. Enrollment is limited. Improv at the Library! Sunday, January 19 at 3:00pm, in the Jane Von Thron Room. Participate or just enjoy the show, and get ready to laugh! Introduction to Essential Oils Mondays, January 6, 13, & 27 at 2pm, in the Captain’s Room. Learn about the therapeutic properties of essential oils, how they support wellness, and how to use them. Please pre-register at the registration table.

BOOK CLUBS Tuesday Beach Readers Book Club Tuesday, January 14, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, in the Captain’s Room This month’s selection is Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult. What’s In a Name Book Club? Friday, January 17, at 1:30 am, in the Captain’s Room This month’s selection Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander. For more information, please contact Shirley Finke at (321) 613-2667.

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STUDIOS OF COCOA BEACH The Studios of Cocoa Beach, 165 Minuteman Causeway in downtown Cocoa Beach, announces its latest exhibit, “Therefore I Create…III”, their third annual members show. Twenty four resident artists are displaying the best of their current work. The show was judged by Therese Ferguson. Phyllis Shipley won Best of Show for her painting “Hera’s Gift”. Linda Geiger won 2nd place for her mermaid soft sculpture “Sisters Under the Sea”, and 3rd prize went to a photograph by Patty Corapi. The People Choice award was shared by Marsh Houck and Brean Duncan. The Exhibit will be on display until January 20, 2020 during regular Studios hours: Monday and Tuesday 10:30am-3:30 pm, Wednesday through Saturday 10:30 am to 8pm and Sunday 11 am to 4 pm. For more information on the exhibits, artists, and the workshop schedule, call 321-613-3480 or visit the website: www.studiosofcocoabeach.org JANUARY CLASSES AT STUDIOS OF COCOA BEACH Begin the New Year by challenging Mixed Media with Karol Bobb yourself to learn a new skill. Uncover Saturday January 18 10 am to 4 pm your creative abilities by taking a class In this class you will learn to combine at the Studios of Cocoa Beach, 165 materials like paper, cloth, found Minuteman Causeway in downtown objects, paint and more to create a Cocoa Beach. January classes include: piece of art. You’ll learn a variety of techniques plus the history of mixed Fabric Art Landscapes with Doris media and the artists who pioneered Hulse. Saturday January 11, 10 am to this approach. Fee is $65 plus a 4 pm. supply fee. Call Karol for details at If you like the look of art quilts, but 610-505-4023 you don’t sew, this is the class for you. Create a fabric collage with no sewing! Register for classes at the Studios’ You will fuse cut fabric and add details. website: Go home with a completed picture. www.studiosofcocoabeach.org Fee is $65 plus $15 supply fee. A materials list will be provided. Call Doris for details at 720-323-5127

SINGLE, SEPARATED, WIDOWED AND DIVORCED GROUP Jan. 3 The Single, Separated, Widowed and Divorced (SSWD) group will meet for lunch at Long Dogger’s Eatery, 350 West Cocoa Beach Cswy., Cocoa Beach on Friday, Jan. 3rd at 12:00 p.m. All are welcome to join the group. For additional details, please call 502-299-8949 or 321-890-4310. Jan. 17 The Single, Separated, Widowed and Divorced (SSWD) group will hold a potluck dinner and musical entertainment night at the Angel Room, Church of Our Saviour, 5301 N. Atlantic Ave., Cocoa Beach on Friday, Jan. 17 starting at 5:00 p.m. Please bring a dish to share and canned goods for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. All are most welcome to attend. For additional details, please call 502-299-8949 or 321-890-4310. Jan. 28 The Single, Separated, Widowed and Divorced (SSWD) group will meet for lunch and January birthdays celebration at Coaster’s Tap House, 5675 N. Atlantic Ave., Suite 1222, Cocoa Beach on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 12:00 p.m. All are welcome to join the group. For additional details, please call 502-299-8949 or 321-890-4310.

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Did you know that the first organized collegiate sport in the U.S. was not football or even baseball? It wasn’t golf, tennis or soccer either. It was rowing! Yale and Harvard raced their boats competitively on the Charles River marking the beginning of organized collegiate sports in the United States in 1852. Now fast forward 150 years later, the Space Coast has its very own rowing club right here on the Banana River.

The Space Coast Crew is a Brevard County rowing team that started over 20 years ago when multiple high school rowing teams came together to share resources and equipment. A myriad of teams quickly grew to become one club team. Today the Space Coast Crew club serves both middle and high school scholastic athletes from all over Brevard. There is approximately 150 youth student athlete members between the high school and middle school programs. The Space Coast Crew

is committed to teaching rowing while simultaneously using the natural lessons that come with the sport to teach youth how to work hard, be patient and set goals. The Space Coast Crew is a nonprofit organization that was established in 1996 to promote the sport of rowing among Brevard County students in grades 6th through 12th. There is a professional coaching staff, but they also rely heavily on parents, community volunteers and community donors to operate, manage and maintain their wonderful programs. These students practice and workout every day except for Wednesdays and Sundays. It is a rigorous program for serious athletes. “Space Coast Crew is a growing family that is becoming even more competitive every day. We are looking for young athletes to join us and learn something new that they could use for their whole lifetime,” high school coach Bryan Little said.

The facility they use is Oars & Paddles Park in beautiful Indian Harbour Beach. They row on the Banana River where it meets the Intracoastal Waterway. Their nearly unlimited, well-protected waterway is some of the best in the state of Florida for rowing and paddling, according to their website. The alumni of Space Coast Crew have rowed for colleges such as UCF, Stetson University, and Embry Riddle. Alumni also coach around the state of Florida and the Southeast. The Space Coast Crew high school team rowed in their first Regatta (boat race) of the year in Jacksonville, Florida, where they earned medals in five of the races. Coach Little says they are always recruiting new athletes and welcomes anyone interested in finding out more about Space Coast Crew to go to their website at www.spacecoastcrew.org.

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JUST ONE BREATH WRITTEN BY: Tracee Baker Designer/Editor, Cocoa Beach Explorer

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just one breath Cocoa Beach native, Alli Penovich, calmly sinks into the tranquil blue abyss of the Bali Sea. Returning to the surface not as just a freediver, but a champion freediver. Alli started spearfishing at a young age alongside her father, Joe Penovich. As a teenager, she and her father along with a family friend, Bobby Kim, traveled to Mexico for a spearfishing vacation. It was on this trip Alli discovered her passion for freediving. Little did they know that just a few years later her passion for freediving would earn her the women’s championship title at the 2019 Singapore Depth Championships. In April 2019, Alli reconnected with Bobby at the Blue Wild Ocean Adventure Expo in south Florida. While there, he convinced here to take his freediving instructor course. So, in June Alli became a Level 1 Freediving Instructor for FII (Freediving Instructors International). During her instructor training, Bobby mentioned he was planning to spend five months freediving in Bali, and Alli decided to tag along with Bobby as her freediving coach. Booking a one-way ticket to Bali, she only planned to stay two months to work on increasing her depths, but fate had other plans in mind. Originally not planning to compete, Alli ended up registering for September’s 2019 Singapore Depth Championships but was waitlisted due to the fact she had never competed before. If she got into the competition, she only had one more month to train. “It was the coolest experience. I’ve competed my whole life, so I’m used to being under pressure and having that adrenaline, but I’ve always been raised running or doing triathlons and you use that adrenaline to fuel you. However, in freediving you must remain as calm and relaxed as possible, so I was interested to see how that would go, but I loved it.” The Competition Dives Let this sink in for a moment, 71 meters (approximately 233 feet). That is Alli’s personal best freediving depth which she hit during her second competition in November. 18 | C O C OABE ACHE X PLORER .C OM

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What’s Next? Next year Alli is going back to Bali for six months and is planning to work on increasing her depths. Hoping to reach depths of 80+ meters (240+ feet). Alli’s competitive drive overwritten by her sweet smile and punctuated with a slightly shy, contagious laugh makes one wonder just what heights, or in her case depths, she will reach. But one thing’s for sure… it will be somewhere deep, blue and utterly amazing.

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There are three different disciplines of competition: constant weight, the diver kicks down and kicks back up; free immersion, the diver pulls themselves down and back up a rope; no fins, the diver performs the breast stroke down and back up.

Alli’s deepest dive is a free immersion dive. She stated, “I find it really relaxing. I love that one.”

photos clockwise from left: Freediving in Bali (photo credit: Kohei Ueno), freedive preparation (photo credit: Kohei Ueno), Alli holding a Dog Snapper— her most recent spearfishing world record (photo credit: Kristi Kartrude), freedive preparation (photo credit: Kohei Ueno)

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“The pressure (water pressure) is definitely intense, but over the course of three months you are able to adapt to it. You do small jumps. It took me three months to get to 71 meters. I’ve been super blessed that I haven’t had too many equalization issues. Equalization issues stop a lot of people because they hit a block. You just have to work through it and see what works for you.”

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According to National Geographic, marine biologists are encouraging people to call starfish sea stars because the creatures are not fish. Sea stars are closely related to the sand dollar, sea urchin, brittle stars, and feather stars. They are found in every ocean of the world. There are nearly 2,000 species of sea star, and although the five-armed one is the most familiar and the most common, they can have up to 40 arms. Sea stars vary in size from ¼ of an inch from tip to tip, to more than 25” across. For protection, some sea stars have developed brilliant colors to warm off predators. All sea stars have a bony outer skin that is hard for other sea creatures to bite through. However, crabs, seas turtles, fish, birds, and larger sea stars can eat them whole. Sea stars are one of the few animals on earth that can regenerate their limbs. They have tiny suction cupped “feet” to help them pry open shellfish such as clams, mussels, and oysters. They have an interesting way of feeding. They push their stomachs out of their central body and digest their food outside of their body! Enjoy making some of these cute sea stars with your child to decorate your home.

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Salt Dough Recipe: 2 cups flour bowl 2 cups salt spoon 1 cup water measuring cups Mix the ingredients in the bowl until it begins to form a dough. Then begin to knead the dough until it is pliable and not sticky, adding extra flour, if needed. Form the sea stars using your hands or cut them out with cookie cutters. Roll small pieces of dough between your fingers and use them to outline the top of the starfish. Use a pencil to poke shallow holes in the top of the sea star to create a rough top.

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Antioxidants Fight Against Cancer CONTRIBUTING WRITER: Susie Bond, RDN, LDN Health First Pro-Health & Fitness Center

Antioxidants are often called “the bodyguards of health.” They earned this distinction because they protect our cells from destruction by free radicals. Free radicals are highly-charged, oxidized particles that enter our cells, causing damage. This results in a greater risk of developing cancer, cataracts, a suppressed immune system, premature aging, heart disease and stroke. Oxidation is what happens to metal when it rusts. The metal reacts with the oxygen in the air which causes the metal to decompose and deteriorate. When you slice an apple it turns brown. It reacts with the oxygen in the air causing it to oxidize and decompose. The same type of thing happens in our cells when they become oxidized due to free radicals. Our bodies have a built-in defense system against free radicals, but like anything else, there’s a limit to how much they can handle. Excess exposure to free radicals overloads our bodies’ natural defense system, and leads to damage and disease. So, where do free radicals come from? Typically they come from chronic inflammation, ozone, industrial chemicals, excessive ultraviolet light,

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radiation, cigarette smoke, and air pollution. Antioxidants neutralize or inactivate free radicals, rendering them harmless. We get antioxidants in our diet primarily from fruits and vegetables. There are thousands of different antioxidants that have been identified by scientists. Interestingly, it’s the specific antioxidants in fruits and vegetables that gives them their characteristic colors. For example, the antioxidant beta-carotene gives carrots, cantaloupe, and pumpkin their orange color. Lycopene provides the red that we see in cherries, watermelon, and tomatoes. Anthocyanins are blue-purple, and are found in eggplant, blueberries, and plums. All antioxidants are generally cancer-protective. However, each one has a specific function and

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