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Coping with grief during the holidays By B.C. Manion bcmanion@lakerlutznews.com
Picture this:Your mother has broken her arm and it’s time to make her traditional pecan pie for the holidays. It’s easy to see that it would be difficult for her to make the pie this year, so you let her know that she shouldn’t worry about bringing it. It’s easy for people to see a broken arm, said Dale Thien, a bereavement counselor for HPH Hospice. It’s not always so easy to see the effects of a heart that’s broken by the death of a loved one. The bereavement counselor said she often opens her workshops by talking about how expectations change when we can see a physical ailment that poses limitations, and the need to make similar adjustments when
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Bereavement counselor Dale Thien offers practical tips for grieving people who are expecting a difficult holiday season.
someone has suffered an emotional loss that’s equally, if not more, debilitating. HPH Hospice is offering free workshops
in November and December to help anyone who is grieving the death of a loved one during the holidays, regardless of the cause. “Your grief is like you have a broken heart,”Thien said.“The thing is, we can’t really see that.” During her workshops, she asks those who are grieving to give themselves permission to grieve.And, she asks them to let their loved ones know what they need. “Understanding can come from the rest of the family, as they adjust their expectations about the holidays and about the role that this grieving person will play,” she said. The death of a loved one often creates a sense of disorientation and a loss of equilibrium, as people adjust to life without the physical presence of their loved one. See GRIEF, page 7A
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When the Steinbrenner High School band isn’t performing, they’re practicing. And when they’re not practicing, they’re raising money for their trip to the Liberty Bowl later this year.
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The Steinbrenner High School Band is planning a trip to perform at a college bowl game later this year.To get there, they’ll need hard work and determination. They’ll also need more than $70,000.
That’s the cost to accommodate more than 90 people traveling to Memphis, Tennessee, for the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, on Dec. 29. “It is a lot of money,” admitted band director Nicole Conte. “We’ve done some smaller trips that have cost about half that, but this is a pretty big one.”
It’s so big that the band is getting creative about raising funds. They’ll host a casino night on Nov. 8 at Cheval Golf and Country Club, 4312 Cheval Blvd., in Lutz, from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. On Nov. 16, they’ll have a mattress sale at the school’s gymnasium from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Current fundraising and early payments have helped the band get close to half of their goal, leaving plenty more money that needs to be raised. But from personal experience, Conte feels it’s worth it. “We did several things like that when I See LIBERTY, page 7A
Before ‘Edward Scissorhands,’ there was ‘Satan’s Children’ By Michael Hinman mhinman@lakerlutznews.com
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Throughout the rich history of the Lutz area, one thing that’s never talked about is the Great Oatmeal Famine of 1974. Anyone looking to restock their Quaker Oats back then found the shelves mysteriously empty. Was it a strike? A product recall? A sudden desire to change breakfast food? Nope, it was a small independent horror movie filming in Lutz at the time called “Satan’s Children.” And the special effects wizard behind the film, John Mocsary, needed 50 cases of it so that he could create something Lutz has never had before — quicksand. “We bought up every case of oatmeal we could find in the North Tampa area,” Mocsary said.“And we used every bit of it. I had to make a three-foot pit, and it had to look real.” Except once the oatmeal was mixed and actors started falling into it, Mocsary realized there were two things he hadn’t anticipated. First, the nearby cattle on the ranch they were using were quite interested in eating the oatmeal up.And second:The Laws of Newton. “We had a buoyancy problem,” he said. “So what we had to do was put cinder blocks in, so that after people went into it, they would hold on to the blocks to keep them under.” The magic of movies, taking place right in Lutz, nearly two decades before Tim Burton would bring Johnny Depp and “Edward Scissorhands” to the area. And while the R-rated “Satan’s Children” was never a box office success, it’s being remembered Nov. 15 when many of the former cast and crew, like Mocsary, get together at Tampa Theatre for a special screening.
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The quicksand pit for ‘Satan’s Children’ was created on a farm in Lutz. It was only 3 feet deep, and was made entirely of oatmeal.
If you go WHAT: ‘Satan’s Children’ 40th Anniversary Screening and Reunion WHEN: Nov. 15, 10 p.m. WHERE: Tampa Theatre, 711 N. Franklin St. COST: $11 INFO: TampaTheatre.org
The event was Andy Lalino’s idea. He wasn’t part of the movie, but he’s a major horror fan, and discovered “Satan’s Children” when it was released as a home video. “I first got to see it back in 2006, and even then, I noticed that it was made in Tampa,” said Lalino, a producer at WUSF-TV in Tampa, and horror aficionado. “That
piqued my interest, since I’m from the Tampa Bay area, and I toyed around with some ideas on what to do about that.” The event next Saturday will celebrate the early days of film in the area, and feature actors like Stephen White, Rosemary Orlando and John Edwards, who all appeared in the film, while many of them were students at the University of South Florida. None are household names today, but their inclusion in what they hope could become a local cult classic will put them in the spotlight they never got in 1974. “The film was actually released in 1975, theoretically,” Lalino said.“I talked to a lot of people, and they can’t ever remember seeSee SATAN, page 7A