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PAM COOPER’S PATHWAYS: Indian River County hasn’t always been GOP stronghold Republican National Committee or the Republican Which political party was foremost in 1920 Indian presidential candidate and perhaps, given time, he may River County (which at the time was St. Lucie County)? arrange to implicate Mr. Khrushchev.” There were 1,473 registered Democratic voters, 152 In the 1960 election, 8,200 votes were cast: Richard Republicans, 20 Socialists, 10 Independents and 1 Nixon (R) received 4,656 and John Kennedy (D), 2,978. Prohibitionist. How is it in each election the number of registered Jump ahead 20 years: the 1940 election has 3,911 Democrats exceed the Republicans, but the Republicans qualified voters and oh, by the way, 35 of them were Pam Cooper received substantial votes or actually won? In this election, Republicans. In the final tally, Franklin Roosevelt (D) Indian River County was said to have earned the distinction to received 1,471 votes and Wendell Willkie (R) received 904 votes. be the first county ever not to be counted because its returns A comment printed in the local newspaper: “All regular were late. Fortunately, they arrived and airmail was blamed. Democratic nominees for state, county and district offices, In 1980, there were 29,715 registered voters: Democrats without opposition, naturally were given substantial totals.” 15,463, Republicans 12,492, Independent 1,730, other 30. In 1960, there was a total of 10,216 qualified voters. Ronald Reagan (R) won. This includes 7,973 Democrats, 2,126 Republicans, 188 By 1983, the number of registered Republicans and Independents. A statement made by a Republican opponent: Democrats flipped – and, ever since, the county has been a “It is indeed ironical to find the elected representative of this Republican stronghold. county who also is the county chairman of the Democratic political party accusing other individuals of operating a dictatorial government. In view of his previous conduct, I Pam Cooper is supervisor of the Archive Center & Genealogy Department at the am surprised that he has not blamed his troubles upon the Indian River County main library.
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LEMMON DROPS: Housing prices continue moving in right direction Seven bite-size Lemmon Drops to nibble on while waiting for the Christmas movies to begin on the Hallmark Channel:
• Every year, around this time, I ask Chris Lafakis how long it’ll be before housing prices return to 2006 levels. As longtime readers know, that’s the year the Lemmons bought their house. Prices immediately went south and stayed there. Like many others in the county and across America, we were “underwater” on our mortgage. Five years ago, Lafakis – the director of Moody’s Analytics – predicted it would be 2028 before prices returned to 2006 levels. That was rather disheartening. Well, there’s some sunshine in this year’s forecast for the return of 2006 prices. “In August of 2022,” he said. Hey, I’ll take it! Back in 2006, you’ll recall, a now-defunct magazine listed
Vero Beach as the second-best housing market in the country for 5-year appreciation. Prices were supposed to go up 40 percent. I admit, greed was a driving force in our decision to buy a house at that time. Looking back, we got our comeuppance. According to Lafakis, the Vero Beach Russ Lemmon housing market now ranks 62nd out of the 402 metropolitan statistical areas in 5-year appreciation. What’s his take on our market? “Our forecast calls for residential construction to continue to increase,” he said. “Total housing permits averaged 551 in 2013, 707 in 2014 and 873 in 2015, and they are expected to average 1,171 in 2016. While they aren’t expected to come anywhere close to their peak of over 4,000 in 2004, we might be able to make it all the way up to 2,000 units if retiree relocation turns out to be as strong as we’re forecasting.
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“This will be a big driver of the housing market. Population growth is expected to go from the current 175 percent above the national average to 260 percent of the national average by 2020.” Encouraging forecast, no? Early voting in Florida started at 8 a.m. on Oct. 24, and I was at the main library at 8 a.m. on Oct. 24. It’s always such a relief to do early voting, because you can tune out all of the negative ads. Vero Beach recently got a plug on a travel blog. Hoppa.com named Vero one of the five best resort towns in Florida. Florida Veggies & More is reopening its farm store on Nov. 2. Dan and Lisa Brenneman have ambitious plans for the store’s reboot. Among other things, they’ll be selling organic produce from other farmers. Located on 37th Street just west of 66th Avenue, Florida Veggies & More is one of the county’s hidden jewels. Any business owner can relate to Carol Johnston’s
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Meet me at Table 51 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.
After stepping down as president of Lockheed Shipbuilding in 1987, he because a consultant in the industry. He and his wife eventually retired to Florida. When Boca Raton became too crowded, a Marty Ingwersen didn’t have any hobbies to take friend suggested the Ingwersens check out Vero with him into retirement. Beach. “I didn’t do anything except work,” he said. They moved here in 2002. His wife of 62 years, Marty Ingwersen “Seriously, that was my hobby.” Blanche (better known as “Bink”), died in 2009. He spent more than 20 years as an executive (executive Marty, who turns 97 on Nov. 5, is a big Notre Dame vice president and president) with the Lockheed football fan – you might say that’s his hobby. He goes to Shipbuilding and Construction Company. He worked one home game each year. seven days a week, often 12 to 14 hours a day. He was on Notre Dame’s football team in 1939 and “Sundays, I worked to noon,” he said. 1940. His coach was Elmer Layden, one of the legendary So, what kind of boss was he? “Four Horsemen.” “I was pretty strict,” he said with a smile. “Some of my Marty played end on both offense and defense. guys liked that, and some of them didn’t.” His nephew, Bill Cooke, was defensive lineman in Because of the nature of his business (building ships the NFL. He played for four teams, including the Seattle and submarines), he sometimes started meetings at 5 a.m. Seahawks (Marty’s favorite team).
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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. 182. “Please Don’t Go” (1979) KC and the Sunshine Band Memory: A surprising release at the time because it wasn’t a disco song. 181. “Lonely Nights” (1982) Bryan Adams Memory: A song that helped launch the little-known Canadian rocker to stardom. 180. “Take It to the Limit” (1975) The Eagles Memory: This one would rank No. 2 on the list of my alltime favorite concert songs. All the songs thus far in the countdown can be found on LemmonLines.com
Fun facts There are 63,461 households in the Indian River County School District. Of those, 15,335 are households with children. There are 48,126 households without children. – Source: point2homes.com
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