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PAM COOPER’S PATHWAYS: Our historical connections to Iowa date back to 1800s Florida and Indian River County have been company that had a nationwide mail-order farm connected historically to Iowa for more than 100 seed distribution business. years. It was a tidbit in Issue 102 about the Beach In 1912, Herman Zeuch, president of the Indian River Farms Company, arrived from Davenport, Town Music Festival tied to Forest City, Iowa that Iowa to drain 55,000 acres of what we know today made me think about our Iowa connections. as Vero Beach and surrounding communities. Vero’s At one time, both states were under Spanish rule. Florida (1513-1762, 1783-1821) and Iowa (1762first newspaper was published in a building still Pam Cooper standing today called the Putnam Building. Most of 1804) also had Spanish Land Grants. In 1845, both the publicity, sales and decisions were made in that building. Iowa, a free state, and Florida, a slave state, were admitted Frederick H. Trimble, the resident architect for the to the Union. This was to keep a balance of power in the Fellsmere School, Florida Theater and many other buildings U.S. Senate. in Vero Beach, graduated from college in Sioux City, Iowa In 1883, Civil War soldier Lewis Bebee Dawson from Cedar Rapids settled on Gem Island (John’s Island) and and his wife was from Odebolt, Iowa. built multiple buildings. One building was our first store, Oh, and by the way, my relatives lived in Forest City! library, and post office called the Narrows. His property was Connections, we are all connected! Ask your neighbor where are they from. You never know, you may be connected. cut away to allow for the Intracoastal Waterway. About 1910, the A.A. Berry Company of Clarinda, Iowa Pam Cooper is supervisor of the Archive Center & Genealogy Department at the platted Roseland and laid out the streets. This is the same Indian River County main library.
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• If you’ve read Lemmon Lines on a regular basis, you know
Miller’s Neighborhood Market (southwest quadrant of U.S. 1 and 17th Street) is fighting for its life – because the new Cumberland Farms across the street is selling gas for the lowest price around. The owner of Miller’s, Marlen Hurter, says business is down 50 percent in the three months since Cumberland Farms opened. Last week, when I stopped by Miller’s to drop off copies of the new issue, manager Amy Davis told me about a recent visitor to the store. It was none other than Wiley Sifford Sr., the owner of the nearby Sifford’s Service Center, a U.S. 1 fixture for more than a quarter-century. “It was so nice of him to stop by,” Amy said. “He really gave us a boost. We really appreciate what he did.”
It’s a great story of neighbor helping neighbor, so I went to Sifford’s to talk with Wiley. (He wasn’t there, but I met him the next day at C.J. Cannon’s. He’s the subject of this week’s “Meet me at Table 51” feature on page 6.) So, why did he stop by Miller’s? “I keep passing it, and there’s nobody Russ Lemmon at the pumps,” he said. “I just feel bad for them. That store is beautiful.” If you’ve ever met Wiley Sifford, you know his concern for Miller’s is genuine. “I’m down a lot of gallons, too,” he said. As if Cumberland Farms isn’t formidable enough, a new Wawa is on the way a few blocks to the south. “It’s unfortunate for all these mom-and-pop stores,” he said. “We don’t have the population to support a Cumberland Farms and a Wawa – which means all of the small guys are
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going to lose.” During the past year, there has been an invasion of “corporate” stores – such as Dollar General Store, auto parts stores and mattress stores. Lest we forget about the original corporate behemoth, Walmart. “They have no feeling for the community,” he said. Got to admit, I was pretty impressed with the community’s efforts to prepare for Hurricane Matthew. As I said on Twitter, we had our “game face” on a few days beforehand. Having lived here for nearly 10 years, I’ve lost count of the number of eateries that have set up shop in the shack-shaped building just west of The Patio restaurant. The latest attempt is by Peter and Lydia Schaeperkoetter with Pizza Mia. They are experienced in the business, having once owned three restaurants on the same block in New York (Long Island). By the way, Pizza Mia is named for their 10-year-old daughter. The months-long construction at the intersection of
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Aviation Boulevard and Airport Drive has been annoying, but, in the end, something that’s sorely needed will remain – a traffic signal. So, I asked the aforementioned Lydia Schaeperkoetter of Pizza Mia to spell her last name. After she said the letters “S-c-h-a-e-p-e-r,” I put my pen down. “It’s not done,” she said, “… k-o-e-t-t-e-r.” “Geez,” I said. “Glad I didn’t have that name in elementary school!” Mark Santangelo, owner of the popular Kountry Kitchen restaurant, thought he was going to have a relaxing getaway to Niagara Falls – after all, it was only his second vacation during the past six years. However, the looming Hurricane Matthew ruined the plan. “I’ve been on the phone for three days,” he said from Niagara Falls as the hurricane churned toward Florida. “I’ve had a headache every morning by 10. I can’t believe it. “Story of my life.”
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Some trivia: Whether at Bob Evans or C.J. Cannon’s, Russ and his wife usually eat breakfast at Table 51. In what is a regular feature, Russ breaks bread with someone you may or may not know.
and walks with a cane. But he still stops by the station a few times each week. We met at C.J. Cannon’s to talk about his long history with gas stations. In 1939, his father opened an Esso gas station in Rutherford, New Jersey. Wiley started running it at The headline for the article in the Press Journal says, “A Dying American Tradition.” age 14. Wiley Sifford Sr. In 1973, Wiley moved to New Hampshire. He The emergence of convenience stores and selfoperated two gas stations there and had a busy service gas stations were on the verge of making towing business. Sifford’s Service Center obsolete. He moved to Indian River County in 1984. He moved “We’re a thing of the past,” Wiley Sifford was quoting as saying about his full-service gas station in the 1500 block of here at the urging of his brother, who was the service U.S. 1. manager for the local Cadillac dealer. The date of the article: Feb. 24, 1990. Wiley has been associated with the gas station since 1985. He originally managed it, and then he bought it in ’89. It Twenty-six years later, Sifford’s Service Center is still was first a Gulf station, then BP, and then Exxon. with us. “I run this just as my dad taught me,” Wiley said. “I never His son, Wiley Sifford III, now runs the business. worked for money. I worked for the love of work.” The father, now 80 years old, has had four heart attacks
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Top 500 countdown Russ Lemmon, who loves music (and lists), spent a lot of time putting together his Top 500 favorite songs of all-time. For the next few years, Lemmon Lines will be counting ‘em down. 188. “Night Moves” (1976) Bob Seger Memory: Little did I know at the time that he would become one of my all-time favorite singers. 187. “6th Avenue Heartache” (1996) The Wallflowers Memory: Lead singer Jakob Dylan (Bob’s son) wrote this song when he was 18 years old … I mistakenly thought he would have hits for the next few decades. 186. “Kentucky Rain” (1970) Elvis Presley Memory: A soulful, “storyteller” song. All the songs thus far in the countdown can be found on LemmonLines.com
Fun facts During the past 145 years, Vero Beach has been hit by 27 tropical storms and 31 hurricanes. On average, Vero Beach is brushed or hit by a tropical storm or hurricane every 2.53 years. (The last tropical storm was Fay in 2008, and, prior to Matthew, the last hurricane was Wilma in 2005.) – Source: HurricaneCity.com
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