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According to Community Foundation Executive Director Lauren DeIorio 37 nonprofits applied for the grants. Some received training and guidance from foundation personnel so they would put their best “best foot forward.”
From Top Left (clockwise): Cora Swanson, 6; Aubryn Barnes, 8, center, and her sister, Ashley, 10, left; Layne and Ryan Langley with their children, Mason, 6 and Merritt, 4; Isabella Franklin, 10, left and her brother, Armelo, 7; Savannah Hall, 6, left and Addi Green, 7; Macy Dove, 7 First day of school at Shady Hill Elementary in Ocala on Wednesday, August 10, 2022.
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Christian said. Delays aside, Christian reported that 95% of the buses showed up either on time or within the first ten minutes of class. The school district uses a mobile app called ‘Here Comes the Bus,” which allows parents and guardians to remotely track the locations of the bus their student is riding. “Transportation delays are a common and expected occurrence during the first days of school,” Christian said. “Once drivers become aware of students and students learn their bus route numbers, stop times and locations, these concerns dissipate.” As those involved attempt to work out the challenges described as ‘normal’ during the first week of school, Campbell said that she hopes to see the excitement for learning carry into the classroom throughout the entire school year. “It’s not just about the first day of school. It’s something that we have to carry with us throughout the entire year,” she said. “As long as that positivity stays at the forefront, and if everyone is doing everything they can to help every student succeed, then we’re going to be on the right trajectory for sure.”
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“The county got some great applications presented to them,” DeIorio added. The application asked prospective recipients to answer demographic questions and describe all programs, projects and services that their nonprofit provides to Marion County residents.Theapplication also asked them to specify whether those who benefited from their services reside in rural and/or unincorporated areas, the target group that their programs or projects will serve.
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Apart from the scorching heat, it almost felt like the morning of Dec. 25 when representatives of Marion County gathered with the Community Foundation of Ocala/ Marion to give out funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to area nonprofits. County commissioners joined members of the Ocala Marion Community Foundation at Wings of Faith Fellowship on Aug. 3 to award the first round of funding to His House for Her, Wings of Faith Fellowship ($400,000) and Empowered of Central Florida ($400,000).OnWednesday, Aug. 10, two more recipients received funds, the Marion County Veterans Council ($50.000) and Sozo Kids ($400,000), a program developed and run by Help Agency of the Forest Inc.
ome people suddenly found themselves out of a job in July when the School Board of Marion County adopted a policy that barred many young people from substitute teaching–at a time when the Marion school district, like every other one across Florida, is in dire need of teachers. After hearing from young people who have served as substitute teachers in Marion schools, the board on Aug. 9 passed a resolution ensuring anyone with the proper qualifications can teach in the new school year, as long as they are at least 18. Language in School Board Policy 3120.04 required elementary school substitute teachers to be at least 20 years old; for middle or high school, the minimum age was 22. The age restriction was passed and adopted into the policy on July 12 of this year when the board hosted a public hearing to update and revise a number of its policies. Board member Kelly King brought concerns over the policy to the board’s attention at the previous administrative work session, where she stressed the importance of allowing every qualified person to teach, at a time when the district and state are so heavily impacted by a lack of educators.Sheemphasized that the teacher shortage was not the only reason she wanted to change the policy. “I have full confidence in the former students who are substitute teachers who have worked so diligently and so hard to get their degrees and they have shown interest in these goals,” King said. “I would never vote on anyone being in front of our students just to have a body there, but only because they are
See Age, page A3 “I have full confidence in the former students who are substitute teachers who have worked so diligently and so hard to get their degrees and they have shown interest in these goals.”
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The school year beings with a steady start as more students than ever file into classrooms to begin learning after a summer away. The first day of school saw 39,753 students in attendance, which is 90% of the district’s projected enrollment. Once all kindergarten students were in their classrooms, the attendance rate on Tuesday rose to 41,435 out of the projected total of 43,778 students, according to Marion County Public Schools. Several schools saw a perfect attendance rate on Monday, including Dunnellon Middle School, Fordham Early Learning Academy, Howard Middle School, Liberty Middle School and McIntosh Area Charter School.“Our schools have higher numbers than I think we were even anticipating,” said Allison Campbell, vice-chair of the School Board of Marion County. “We’re going to have an increase in students this year over what we had last year.” Campbell said that besides the noticeable increase in students, one of said that she felt that the improvement in the pandemic has contributed to a boost in morale in schools as she saw students flooding into school throughout the week. “There’s just a level of positivity that’s tangible and you can feel. It feels different than last school year,” Campbell said. “I got to see smiles. Children were hugging and walking in to hug their former teachers. The elementary school kids were so excited and jovial with joy on their faces, and we can see that.” Campbell said that everything went very smoothly in her opinion, but that it is expected for schools to run into minor obstacles when educating such a large number of students. One obstacle was transportation, said district spokesperson Kevin Christian in a press release. “Some buses were delayed due to higher-than-expected student counts at bus stops, new drivers on new routes, families unfamiliar with bus stop locations, and drivers placing colored wristbands on younger students to designate them as bus riders during afternoon dismissal,”
Kristin Parsons of Marion County spoke at the conference.
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Kathy Towns of Sumter County spoke at the conference.
Gay Lynn Light of Oxford holds a sign as she gathers with other members of the “No Roads To Ruin” coalition.
Laura Parks Catlow of Levy County talks as people hold signs during a “No Roads To Ruin” coalition from Citrus, Levy, Marion and Sumter counties press conference to talk about their opposition and fight against a Florida Turnpike extension outside of the Marion County Commission in the McPherson Governmental Complex in Ocala
By Ocala Gazette Staff Even though the Florida Department of announcedTransportationonAug. 4 that it was pausing its proposed Northern Turnpike Extension project due to its failure to identify any viable corridor—including some that could have plowed through Marion County’s rural areas—some groups are still making their voices heard in opposition to the endeavor. On Tuesday, No Roads to Ruin Coalition members gathered outside the Marion County Board of County Commissioners Auditorium at the use2019100,resultingterminusFlorida’sproposedthreatsNortherncostly2021politically-drivenlegislatorsFlorida”newand“theirtheatRepresentative,aissuedFloridabearingbrandishedMarionresidentsTheGovernmentalMcPhersonComplex.group,whichincludedfromCitrus,Levy,andSumtercounties,brightpinksignthewords“Ruralsaysnotollroads.”ApressreleaseissuedbybyMichaelMcGrath,SierraClubOrganizingwhowastheevent,statedthatgroupwantedtoshareresolvetostopeacheveryattempttoramatollroadthroughruralandrespond“tothewhovotedforthe2019andbillsthatcreatedtheM-CORESandtheTurnpikeExtensiontotheircommunities.”TheprojectwasalengtheningofTurnpikefromitsinSumterCounty,fromSenateBillwhichrepealedtheM-CORES(Multi-CorridorsofRegional
Economic Significance) and initiated FDOT exploration of four different potential turnpike routes. Two of the proposed routes would have gone north from Sumter County through parts of southwestern Marion County, a third would have been just inside the county line south of Marion Oaks and the fourth would have impacted portions of Citrus and Sumter counties. The longest route would have been from Wildwood north to Chiefland in Levy County. In addition to grassroots and environmental groups, city and county boards and councils had voiced their opposition to the state by entering “no build” resolutions, including the Dunnellon City Council, Inglis Town Commission, Inverness City Council, Yankeetown Council, Bronson Town Council, Levy and Citrus county commission boards. The Marion County Commission did not adopt a “no build” position and instead requested “a seat at the table” as the state reviewed options. In announcing the decision to “pause” the turnpike extension project, the FDOT said it would instead focus on improvements to I-75. For information about the Florida Department of Transportation, go to fdot.gov To learn more about No Roads To Ruin, noroadstoruin.orgvisit
Michael McGrath of the Sierra Club spoke at the conference.
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By Marcia Dunn Associated Press NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Center workers, many of whom were not yet born when NASA sent astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. It took nearly 10 hours for the rocket to make the four-mile trip to the pad, pulling up at sunrise. NASA is aiming for an Aug. 29 liftoff for the lunar test flight. No one will be inside the crew capsule atop the rocket, just three mannequins swarming with sensors to measure radiation and vibration. The capsule will fly around the moon in a distant orbit for a couple weeks, before heading back for a splashdown in the Pacific. The entire flight should last six weeks. The flight is the first moonshot in NASA’s Artemis program. The space agency is aiming for a lunar-orbiting flight with astronauts in two years and a lunar landing by a human crew as early as 2025. That’s much later than NASA anticipated when it established the program more than a decade ago, as the space shuttle fleet retired. The years of delays have added billions of dollars to the cost. “Now for the first time since 1972, we’re going to be launching a rocket that’s designed for deep space,” NASA’s rocket program manager, John Honeycutt, said recently.NASA’s new SLS moon rocket, short for Space Launch System, is 41 feet (12 meters) shorter than the Saturn V rockets used during Apollo a half-century ago. But it’s more powerful, using a core stage and twin strap-on boosters, similar to the ones used for the space shuttles. “When you look at the rocket, it almost looks retro. It looks like we’re looking back toward the Saturn V,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters earlier this month. “But it’s a totally different, new, highly sophisticated, more sophisticated rocket and Twenty-fourspacecraft.”astronauts flew to the moon during Apollo, with 12 of them landing on it from 1969 through 1972. The space agency wants a more diverse team and more sustained effort under Artemis, named after Apollo’s mythological twin sister. “I want to underscore that this is a test flight,” Nelson said. “It’s just the beginning.” This was the rocket’s third trip to the pad. A countdown test in April was marred by fuel leaks and other equipment trouble, forcing NASA to return the rocket to the hangar for repairs. The dress rehearsal was repeated at the pad in June, with improved results.
Across the state, the FLDOE reports that English, ESE, sciencegeneral, reading, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), math and sciencephysical are “the certification areas where substantial proportions of teachers who are not certified in the appropriate field are being hired to teach such courses.”
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Continued from page A1 are doing but sometimes they have trouble telling their story,” DeIorio said. “So, we had labs where they could come in with their laptops, and as they were working to write the narratives or answer the questions, our grant services team was there to help.” The funds come from a federal grant from the Biden Administration, which established ARPA, according to its website, to “build a bridge to an equitable economic recovery and immediately reduce child poverty.”
Age restriction lifted for substitute teachers
“During my time as a substitute teacher, it has become clear to me that my age was not a barrier at all when it came to providing a safe and educational environment for my students,” Baker said. “Rather, my experiences have shown me all the strengths that a younger substitute can provide.” Board member Nancy Thrower said restoring the original age requirement for substitute teachers was a sign of good faith from the school board to younger teachers. “Oftentimes through a crisis situation or an urgent situation, better governance comes from that,” she said. “I shared earlier with the two young folks that were up here that I wasn’t always one of the oldest people in the room–there is value and energy to youth, and having the qualifications is a benefit to our students.”Partof the board’s discussion related to ways to address the ongoing teacher shortage in Marion County. While speakers noted that younger substitutes are qualified and not just “babysitters’’ for students, the district needs more teachers. Revising the age restrictions would help to fill gaps in teacher employment.TheFlorida Department of Education (FLDOE) reported that as of February 2022, there were 4,489 teacher vacancies across the state. The projected number of vacancies by now is expected to be over twice that amount, a staggering 9,079. Marion schools Public Relations Director Kevin Christian said that as of Aug. 17, there were 154 instructional vacancies across all grade levels in Marion County. The district has the highest need for educators in the certification areas of Exceptional Student Education (ESE) across all grade levels, all elementary level teachers, and math and language arts teachers for middle and high school. Lake Weir Middle School has the largest number of vacancies and needs the most teachers, said Christian.
The state identifies 19 schools in Marion County as “highpriority’’ schools. These locations are defined as urban or rural, high- or low-density, and highor low-economic. Schools that received a grade of “F’’ or three consecutive grades of “D’’ are also classified as high-priority. In Marion, the McIntosh Area School received a grade of ‘F’ in the 2021-22 year. Efforts such as the Hometown Hiring Event seek to fill vacancies not only for teachers, but for the hundreds of open jobs across all positions employed by Marion County Public Schools. The event brought in 454 new employees, including 404 full-time hires, 24 part-time hires and 26 new substitute teachers, said Christian.Theresolution, which the board passed unanimously, will stand for a 90-day period during which the board will draft further measures to permanently codify it to amend the required age for substitute teachers to 18 across all grade levels, said Board Attorney Jeremy Powers.
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Continued from A1 fully competent and worked hard to be there and want to be there.” In addition to the amended age requirement of 18, all substitute teachers are required to have obtained a high school diploma or equivalent along with five years of verifiable work experience, or instead have an associate degree or 60 hours of college credit. They must also have experience in a classroom or have completed a training program to learn equivalent skills. Applicants for substitute teaching must also go through fingerprinting and background checking for Level II certification, as well as pass drug testing, according to board policy. Before voting to revise the policy, the board heard from several young educators who shared their experiences in local classrooms as well as their careerDanielaaspirations.Florian, 19, said the higher age limit would hold her back after she worked so hard to earn her associate degree through the dual-enrollment program offered in Marion County. “The students have gotten to know who I am, and they’ve expressed to me that they feel glad to see younger faces substituting in their classes,” Florian said. “They feel comfortable enough to speak to us about either school or college, if they’re going to be graduating soon.” Florian said her age also helped her better empathize with the students and teach them effectively, since she was in their shoes not that long ago. “I graduate with my bachelor’s (degree) next year, and although my major is far from education, in my time being a substitute teacher I’ve grown to love teaching and spending time with the students,” Florian said. “It’s changed my career path. I have hopes of becoming a teacher for this county at 20 years old, unless there’s an age restriction placed on that, Anothertoo.”substitute teacher, Daniel Baker, served as a teacher primarily at the high school level. Baker implored the board to “not mistake age for competency.”
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Marion County has $4 million remaining out of the original $71 million awarded. At its Oct. 5, 2021, regular meeting, the Marion County Board of County Commissioners (MCBOCC) requested both the county’s community services department and the Community Foundation for Ocala/Marion County present proposed plans for how the remaining funds should be spent. Of the Marion County ARPA allocation funds, $2 million is currently available for nonprofits through the Community Foundation, DeIorio said. Allocations include $500,000 for broadband, $5 million for a waterline extension program, $10 million for waterline extensions in the Marion Oaks Area and $46 million for the water and sewer line extensions in Silver Springs Shores. Additional disbursements include $2.4 million for water and sewer extensions in the State Road 200/Southwest 60th Avenue vicinity, a $2 million grant to College of Central Florida for new Nursing Facility, $1 million for CEP health-related business initiative, $2 million for affordable housing initiatives and $2 million for the Not for Profit Capacity in Rural Areas Grant Program. get help
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Free pet adoptions through August
Big Boy, 8, and Crystal, 4, are best canine friends. According to the Marion County Animal Services Facebook page, the adoptable dogs are often told how good they are. And then there is Diedra, a 2-year-old feline who enjoys listening to music, playing and cuddle time. Through August, you can adopt these animals and others at no cost. August is National Clear the Shelters Month. The annual nationwide pet adoption and shelter donation campaign is spearheaded by NBCUniversal Local, a division of NBCUniversal. Marion County Animal Services (MCAS) and shelters across the county have teamed up to find pets forever homes with their own monthlong Clear the Shelters pet adoption and donation campaign. MCAS has waived all adoption and holding fees for the month of August to remove possible barriers to pet adoptions and reunions. For the rest of the month, anyone interested in growing their family with a furry friend can do so for free. Pet owners who have identified their lost pets in the MCAS online gallery or by walking through the center will be reunited at no charge. “Clear the Shelters is an annual, nationwide pet adoption and shelter donation campaign that we love to participate in every year,” said Director of Animal Services Jim Sweet in a news release. “We want to provide the opportunity for the community to come to our facility and add a best friend to their family or be reunited with their old friend. We are excited to provide our community with a healthy and happy friend that will bring years of love and fun. Right now, is the time to come out and meet your new family member and we will take care of everything else.” Even when the fees have been waived, each pet’s adoption includes updated vaccinations, spay or neuter surgery and a microchip. Pet visitation hours are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. TuesdaySaturday. The MCAS center is located at 5701 SE 66th St., Ocala. Browse adoptable and lost pets online at marionfl.org/animal.
US will stretch monkeypox vaccine supply with smaller doses
The FDA approved the Jynneos vaccine in 2019 to prevent smallpox and monkeypox based, in part, on studies in monkeys. Animals that received the twodose vaccination were more than twice as likely to survive than those who didn’t after being infected with monkeypox, according to FDA labeling.
By Matthew Perrone Associated Press The Florida Department of Health in Marion County confirmed in an email to the Gazette that the first potential case of monkeypox was identified in Marion County. Last Tuesday, U.S. health officials authorized a plan to stretch the nation’s limited supply of monkeypox vaccine by giving people just one-fifth the usual dose, citing research suggesting that the reduced amount is about as effective. The so-called dose-sparing approach also calls for administering the Jynneos vaccine with an injection just under the skin rather than into deeper tissue — a practice that may rev up the immune system better. Recipients would still get two shots spaced four weeks apart. The highly unusual step is a stark acknowledgment that the U.S. currently lacks the supplies needed to vaccinate everyone seeking protection from the rapidly spreading virus. That includes 1.6 million to 1.7 million Americans considered by federal officials to be at highest risk from the disease, primarily men with HIV or men who have a higher risk of contracting it. Vaccinating that group would require more than 3.2 million shots. White House officials said the new policy would immediately multiply the 440,000 currently available as full doses into more than 2 million smaller doses. “It’s safe, it’s effective, and it will significantly scale the volume of vaccine doses available for communities across the country,” Robert Fenton, the White House’s monkeypox response coordinator, toldThereporters.Bidenadministration declared monkeypox a public health emergency last week in an effort to slow the outbreak that has infected more than 8,900 Americans. Officials announced a separate determination Tuesday that allows the Food and Drug Administration to expedite its review of medical products or new uses for them, such as the dose-sparing technique for Jynneos. The FDA authorized the approach for adults 18 and older who are at high risk of monkeypox infection. Younger people can also get the vaccine if they are deemed high risk, though they should receive the traditional injection, the agency said. FDA officials stressed that the second dose is critical to ensuring protection. “We feel pretty strongly that the two doses are necessary because, in part, we don’t have any evidence that three, six, eight months later people will be adequately protected by a single dose,” said Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s vaccine chief. Regulators pointed to a 2015 study showing that inoculation with one-fifth of the traditional two-dose vaccine generated a robust immune-system response comparable to that of the full dose. About 94% of people receiving the smaller dose had adequate levels of virusfighting antibodies, compared with 98% of those receiving the full dose, according to the study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The NIH is planning an additional trial of the technique. And Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said her agency is already starting to track real-world vaccine effectiveness in U.S. communities, though initial estimates will take time to generate. But some experts and advocates worried that with little data to support the policy, it could backfire if it reduces vaccine effectiveness. “We have grave concerns about the limited amount of research that has been done on this dose and administration method, and we fear it will give people a false sense of confidence that they are protected,” said David Harvey of the National Coalition of STD Directors, in a statement. The smaller doses also require a different type of injection that penetrates only the top layer of skin, rather than the lower layer between the skin and muscle. That’s a less common technique that may require extra training for some health practitioners. But infectious disease specialists said it shouldn’t be a major“Intradermalobstacle. administration is certainly something that has been used for other vaccines, including the smallpox vaccine, which was administered to hundreds of millions of people during the 20th century,” said Anne Rimoin, director of UCLA’s Center for Global and Immigrant Health. The shallower injection is thought to help stimulate the immune system because the skin contains numerous immunity cells that target outside invaders. The CDC said it will provide educational materials on the technique along with a broader awareness campaign for U.S. health departments. Rationing vaccine doses is common in Africa and other parts of the world with limited health resources. In recent years the World Health Organization has endorsed the strategy to address outbreaks of yellow fever, polio and other“Thisdiseases.isnotan uncommon situation” said Dr. William Moss of Johns Hopkins’ Vaccine Access Center. “It comes down to the public health decision-making: In the midst of an outbreak where you have insufficient supply, do you make this tradeoff?”
Additional human studies showed people who received Jynneos had an immune response similar to those who received an older smallpox vaccine. But Jynneos hasn’t been tested in humans with either monkeypox or its relative smallpox, which was eradicated decades ago.
Both the U.K. and Canada have adopted a single-dose vaccine strategy prioritizing people who face the highest risk from monkeypox. And health departments in several large U.S. cities adopted a similar strategy amid limited supplies, including New York, San Francisco and Washington. Officials said Tuesday that anyone who previously received a full first dose can get the smaller amount for their second dose. U.S. officials have shipped more than 625,000 full vaccine doses to state and local health departments. So far the shots have been recommended for people who have already been exposed to monkeypox or are likely to get it due to recent sexual contacts in areas where the virus is spreading. The Biden administration has come under fire for not quickly marshaling millions more doses from the strategic national stockpile. Officials have ordered 5 million shots since July, but most aren’t expected to be delivered until 2023. Under the new dosing strategy that would represent 25 million doses. The U.S. owns bulk vaccine ingredients equivalent to 16.1 million doses under contracts with Danish manufacturer Bavarian Nordic. But the material needs to be sealed in vials, a process that’s expected to take months.
The Ocala Gazette contributed to this report.
Jasper is one of the adoptable dogs at Marion County Animal Services. He is one-and-ahalf-years-old and is waiting for someone who is ready to teach a dog a few things. He hasn’t yet learned that bringing the ball back will make the game continue. If anyone is up for a lifetime of fun games and sweet smiles, Jasper would like to meet them!
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THE TIME PERI ODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT'S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first pub lication of this notice is Attorney for Personal Representative: Brice Zoecklein Email Address: brice@zoeckleinlawpa. Floridacom Bar No. 0085615 Zoecklein Law, P.A. 329 Pauls Drive Brandon, Florida 33511 Personal Representative: April Moon 21620 Bloomfield Avenue - No. 1 Hawaiian Gardens, California 90716 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the un dersigned, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of ”Neighbors Helping Neighbors at Oak Run” located at 6350 SW 117th Loop, in the City of Ocala, FL 34476 intends to register the said name with the Florida Department of State, Tal lahassee, Florida and/or the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion County. Company Name The Oak Run Neighbors Helping Neigh bors Foundation Inc 6350 SW 117th Loop Ocala, FL 34476 Signed : Richard B. Cunningham, Execu tive Secretary Date : 15th August 2022 Public NoticeOFFICIAL SAMPLE BALLOT / PAPELETA OFICIAL DE MUESTRA August 23, 2022, Primary Election • Marion County, Florida 23 de agosto de 2022, Elecciones Primarias • Condado de Marion, Florida
CREDITORS The administration of the estate of Brent Paris Jones, deceased, whose date of death was May 13, 2021, is pending in the Circuit Court for Marion County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 110 NW 1st Avenue #1, Ocala, Florida 34471. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the person al representative's attorney are set forth Allbelow.creditors of the decedent and oth er persons having claims or demands against decedent's estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLI CATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent's estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. Case No. 22-CP-001357 ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORI STATUTESDA SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER NOTWITHSTANDINGBARRED.
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Sara Shepherd of Quest Marketing and Communication and a FDOT consultant, right, holds signs with, from left: Shakayla Irby, of the Ocala Marion Transportation Organization, Rob Balmes, of the TPO, Liz Michell, of the TPO and Cynthia Barnes of Marion County Public Schools in the intersection of Pine Avenue and Silver Springs Boulevard in Ocala on August 11, 2022.
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uring their August 8 meeting, the Ocala Planning & Zoning Commission gave Thompson Thrift Development, Inc. their green light for a zoning change from community business and office park to R-3, multi-family residential for a second apartment development northwest of the intersection of SW 48th Avenue and SW 48th Road, near the Florida CancerThompsonCenter.Thrift Development, Inc. is an Indiana-based commercial land developer “specializing in mixed-use focusing on multifamily, grocery anchored shopping centers, and industrial projects,” according to its Thewebsite.site approved by the commission is Phase 2 of a project that proposes 264 units on 18.24 acres. Phase 1, now named Canter on the company’s website, is already under construction to build 320 apartments on 23.19 acres for a parcel just north of phase 2. It’s listed on the Thompson Thrift website, as a “Class A” luxury apartment community, consisting of two-story garden style buildings of one-, twoand three-bedroom units along with community amenities including a “… clubhouse, swimming pool, 24-hour fitness center, community gardens, dog spas, and more.” Combined, both projects will equal 584 apartments. Next stop for phase 2 is consideration by Ocala City Council, on September 6. The zoning change requires a traffic study (and any required mitigation) from the developer and would connect SW 48th Road to SW 52nd St to the west. With both developments in the works, the projected impact on public schools will affect Saddlewood Elementary, Liberty Middle School and West Port High School.
National Stop on Red Week was created by the Federal AdministrationHighwayto educate drivers about the dangers of red-light running and to reduce the number and severity of traffic crashes. The week was observed from Aug. 7-13 this year. On Aug. 11, the Ocala Marion Transportation Planning Organization (OMTPO) and Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) partnered with the National Coalition for Safer Roads for an Always Stop On Red event at the intersection of Silver Springs Boulevard (State Road 40) and Pine Avenue (U.S. 441) in downtown Ocala. Red was definitely the color of the day during the rally, with participants holding up bright red signs and many of them dressed in red as well. In the last four years, there have been 910 red-light running crashes reported in Marion County and 63 of those resulted in a death or serious injury, according to theAnOMTPO.FDOT official said the agency encourages everyone to help save lives and protect those around you by following the rules of the road and “always stop on red.”
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The lawsuit came two days after the Senate gave Warren 15 days to request a Senate hearing to determine whether he should be reinstated or removed from office. A letter from the Senate, however, also said that if Warren launched a court challenge, the Senate process “will be held in abeyance by President (Wilton) Simpson until a final determination in the litigation has been DeSantisrendered.”suspended the twice-elected state attorney on Aug. 4, citing a pledge by Warren to not enforce a new law preventing abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Also, DeSantis pointed to Warren’s opposition to criminalizing types of gender-affirming treatment for transgender people. The lawsuit contends DeSantis violated Warren’s First Amendment rights. Also, it said the governor’s executive order “did not identify any actual conduct by Warren related to his official duties involving alleged criminal activity for seeking genderaffirming health care or abortion.”
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The pledge was attached to a letter published in June by the organization Fair and Just Prosecution, which bills itself as bringing together elected local prosecutors to promote “a justice system grounded in fairness, equity, compassion, and fiscal responsibility.”Insigningthe pledge Warren joined more than 90 prosecutors from various states, some of which have enacted abortion limits similar to the Florida measure. The Florida Legislature passed the 15-week abortion restriction this spring, and DeSantis signed it in April. Providers could face third-degree felony charges for breaking the law. DeSantis said Aug. 4, while on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, that Warren was suspended for having signed letters “saying he wouldn’t enforce law against transgender surgeries … laws protecting the right to life.” The lawsuit said Florida doesn’t have laws regarding transgender surgeries and that no cases have been referred to Warren’s office involving requests to prosecute abortion-related crimes. Warren was first elected in 2016. In the lawsuit, Warren is described as a critic and political rival of DeSantis, “specifically on the subjects of criminal justice administration, abortion, and the rights of transgender people.”
“The governor would like to do his job differently than Mr. Warren wants to do his job,” Cabou said. “Just because the governor calls something neglect of duty or calls something incompetence doesn’t make it true. It’s for the courts to define those words.”
The lawsuit also seeks to test if DeSantis properly exercised his powers in suspending Warren for alleged “incompetence” and “neglect of duty.”
“If the governor is allowed to do this, what’s left of democracy?” said Warren, who also used the news conference to push his legal defense fund. “If the governor is allowed to retaliate against me for speaking out, what’s left of the FirstJean-JacquesAmendment?”Cabou, an attorney for Warren, said DeSantis removed Warren over “policy differences.”
By Jim Turner Florida News Service Suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren took Gov. Ron DeSantis to federal court Wednesday in an attempt to get his job back. After filing a lawsuit in the federal Northern District of Florida, Warren, a Democrat, said he also wants to test the governor’s ability to remove elected officials from office over policy differences. “The governor’s authority is not unlimited. He can disagree with my political views,” Warren said during a news conference in Tallahassee. “He can disagree with my philosophy.criminal-justiceHecaneven disagree with my unwavering commitment to public safety, fairness, justice. And he can do all those things because he’s protected by the First Amendment. But the First Amendment doesn’t just protect him. It protects everyone, even those of us who disagree.” DeSantis’ office quickly called the lawsuit “baseless.” “It’s not surprising Warren, who was suspended for refusing to follow the law, would file a legally baseless lawsuit challenging his suspension,” DeSantis spokeswoman Taryn Fenske said in an email. “We look forward to responding in court.”
DeSantis SusanHillsboroughappointedCountyJudgeLopeztoreplaceWarren as state attorney. She quickly reversed actions by Warren, including a decision not to pursue the death penalty for Mathew Terry, who has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Ruskin teacher.
By Jim Turner Florida News Service T ourism in Florida during the first half of 2022 was up 20 percent from the same period last year and was higher than during the first six months of 2019, the last full year of travel before the coronavirus pandemic. Visit Florida, the state’s tourismmarketing agency, posted numbers online late Monday that estimated Florida had 33.717 million visitors from April 1 through June 30, bringing the total for the first six months of this year to 69.34 million. The second-quarter number was up 5.6 percent from the same period in 2021. Tourism in the first quarter was 38.3 percent above the first quarter of 2021. Travel from within the United States accounted for 93 percent of the people visiting Florida during the second quarter and nearly 94 percent of people visiting in the first six months. The 35.628 million visitors during this year’s first quarter was an all-time threemonth record. The dip in tourists during the second quarter was not a surprise. Covering most of the winter, the first quarter historically has been the state’s busiest tourism period. Also, with gas prices over $4 a gallon and inflation at a four-decade high, tourism officials in June expressed concern that hotel room rates, which had been pushed up by demand during the past year, were starting to hinder travel. “I think we’re starting to see, just over the last couple of weeks or so especially, inflation actually starting to catch up with us in most markets,” Jacob Pewitt Yancey, Visit Florida director of consumer insight and analytics, said during a Visit Florida board meeting June 9. “Now, overall room revenue is still up in every market statewide, because the growth in rates has been more than enough to overcome the decreased level of demand,” Pewitt Yancey said. However, STR, Inc., which provides data to the hotel industry, indicated in an Aug. 5 blog post that numbers nationally have been holding steady into the third quarter. “While not as high as initially expected, summer demand … has been strong, ranking as the fourth highest ever since 2000 behind 2019, 2018 and 2017 in that order,” STR said in the post. “Summer occupancy thus far is 69.5 percent, as compared with 74 percent in 2019. A year ago, occupancy for the period was 68 percent.” Last year, as the state was still emerging from the early economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic, 31.935 million tourists visited Florida in the second quarter and 57.703 million visited during the first half of the year. The pandemic slammed into Florida in March 2020, largely shutting down the tourism industry. That year, Florida drew just 9.7 million tourists from the start of April to the end of June and 39.764 million in the first half of the year. In 2019, when Florida hit a record 131.07 million tourists, it drew 32.265 million visitors in the second quarter and 67.76 million in the first half. Florida has outpaced other states in bringing back international travelers during the pandemic, but it still lags 2019 totals. The state had 3.071 million overseas travelers during the first half of 2022, with 1.748 million in the second quarter. In 2021, Florida totaled 1.5 million overseas travelers during the first half of the year. An estimated 1.207 million Canadians visited Florida during the first half of 2022, with 594,000 in the second quarter. Only 96,000 Canadians made their way to Florida in the first half of 2021. For the first half of 2019, 2.294 million Canadians came to Florida. Florida drew a total of 4.63 million international travelers in 2021, a roughly 45 percent market share of foreign travelers into the U.S. That easily topped the 22 percent for the next-highest state, New York. Florida in 2019 had just under 13.9 million international tourists. The Biden administration in June lifted a requirement that international travelers test negative for COVID-19 within a day of boarding flights to the United States. The ban was one of the last remaining government mandates designed to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
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In suspending Warren, DeSantis said the prosecutor had put himself “above the law” in signing the pledge about not enforcing the abortion law.
“The governor lives in a political arena where he can say things that are just disconnected from the truth,” Warren said. “As a prosecutor, I’ve spent my career in a court of law where facts matter, or evidence matters where the truth matters.”
The two clashed in 2020 when Warren supported the arrest of a church pastor over holding services during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Warren also has been a critic of a 2021 DeSantis-backed law known as the “anti-riot” law, which Warren said undermines rights to free speech and assembly. In describing DeSantis’ actions as politically motivated, the lawsuit said that the night before Warren’s suspension, a spokeswoman for the governor tweeted, “Major announcement tomorrow morning from Gov. Ron DeSantis. Prepare for the liberal meltdown of the year. Everyone get some rest tonight.”
The proposal also says that any proxy voting “may not subordinate the interests of the participants and beneficiaries to other objectives and may not sacrifice investment return or take on additional investment risk to promote non-pecuniary factors.” State investment managers oversee about $250 billion in assets, investing money from the Florida Retirement System and 25 other funds, while also overseeing the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, a major reinsurance program. DeSantis, Moody and Patronis serve as trustees of the State Board of Administration. They will meet Tuesday as part of a state Cabinet meeting.
An appeals court Wednesday overturned a decision ordering an insurance company to pay attorney fees in a dispute about it owing 14 cents in interest on an auto-insurance medical claim.
Matching funds are not available for contributions to political committees or outside of statewide races. Just under $7.29 million has gone to candidates in the program thisInyear.the Democratic gubernatorial primary, Congressman Charlie Crist received $34,567 in matching funds Friday, while Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried got $29,391. Over the past four weeks, Crist received nearly $1.42 million and Fried collected $808,974. Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis drew $8,620 in matching funds Friday to raise his total to $175,886. In the contest for attorney general, incumbent Republican Ashley Moody received $3,310 on Friday to bring her four-week total to $243,303.SantaRosa Beach lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder, the only one of three Democrats running for attorney to collect matching funds, received $9,201 on Friday. Uhlfelder has received $138,648 through the program. None of the candidates for agriculture commissioner have received matching funds.
Pan Am Diagnostic Services, Inc., which does business as Pan Am Diagnostic of Orlando, filed a lawsuit after Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. did not pay 14 cents in interest on an overdue payment for medical services provided by Pan Am Diagnostic under a personalinjury protection policy.
A Broward County circuit judge ruled that the insurer owed 14 cents in interest and subsequently awarded $24,028.27 in attorney fees and other costs.
lorida ranked 35th of the 50 states in child well-being, lagging on economic issues but doing better in education, in a report released Monday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The foundation’s annual Kids Count Data Book report said Florida ranked 42nd in children’s economic well-being, a measurement that takes into account factors such as children living in poverty and children whose parents lack secure employment. But it ranked 13th in education, which took into account factors such as fourth-grade reading proficiency and eighth-grade math proficiency. The report also ranked Florida 35th in health issues for children and 32nd for “family and community.” The rankings are based on data collected between Jan. 1, 2016, and Dec. 31, 2020. Massachusetts received the top ranking for child well-being, followed by New Hampshire and Minnesota. New Mexico received the lowest ranking, with Louisiana at 49th and Mississippi at 48th.
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The six candidates campaign-matchingreceivingfunds from the state drew a combined total of $233,305 on Friday, the fourth week of distributions. Gov. Ron DeSantis was the biggest recipient of money for the week ending Aug. 12, picking up $148,216 to raise his total matching funds to $4.5 million, according to figures posted on the state Division of Elections website. In the program, public funds are provided to match contributions of $250 or less from individuals to candidates’ campaign accounts.
PROPOSAL TARGETS STATE INVESTMENT POLICIES THANKSGIVING PROBATION VIOLATION RULING UPHELD STATE MATCHING FUNDS NEAR $7.29 MILLION
After a federal judge invalidated a gambling “compact” between the state and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, economists released a report last Wednesday that eliminated hundreds of millions of dollars a year in expected state revenue from the deal.Florida received $187.5 million from the deal between October 2021 and February 2022, but the tribe discontinued payments in March, according to the report by a panel of economists known as the Revenue Estimating Conference. “It is currently unknown when or if they (payments) will resume into state accounts,” the report said. “The conference updated the (revenue) forecast to assume that no payments will be received within the forecast horizon.”
FLORIDA RANKS 35TH IN CHILD WELL-BEING
An administrative law judge is scheduled Oct. 17 to start a hearing in a dispute about whether a Hialeah abortion clinic provided required information to women at least 24 hours before abortions. The clinic, A GYN Diagnostic Center, is challenging an attempt by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration to impose a $41,000 fine because of alleged violations of the notice requirement. Administrative Law Judge Robert Cohen last week scheduled a hearing on Oct. 17 and Oct. 18. The case is linked, at least in part, to a 2015 state law that requires women to receive information from doctors and then wait at least 24 hours before having abortions. The Agency for Health Care Administration, which regulates abortion clinics, alleged that it reviewed records at the Hialeah facility on May 17 and could not find documentation that 41 patients had received the required information. It said it would fine the clinic $1,000 for each of the patients. But the clinic has disputed the allegations. HEARING
An appeals court Wednesday upheld a ruling that a man committed a probation violation when he left home on Thanksgiving to visit his parents, who lived next door. The Holmes County case involved Dwayne Frazier White, who was initially placed on a type of probation known as community control for selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a nursing home and illegal use of a two-way communication device, according to Wednesday’s decision by a panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal. White, who was a lawenforcement officer at the time of his arrest, was sentenced to two years of community control, which included being able to leave his home only for limited activities, such as work and doctor appointments. But a house-arrest officer discovered that White was not home on Thanksgiving morning in violation of the terms of community control. White, who had gone to his parents’ home, had been on community control for 15 months. The violation led to a circuit judge sentencing White to two years of incarceration, a decision the appeals court upheld. “This could be seen as harsh punishment, particularly when White had a spotless record to that point, 15 months into his two years of community control,” said a three-page decision, written by appeals-court Judge Scott Makar and joined fully by Judge Clay Roberts. “The counterpoint is that White committed a serious drug offense while he was a law enforcement officer and in a patrol car (near a nursing home) and was given leniency with community control. Trial judges have broad discretion in these matters; no abuse of discretion has been shown.” Judge Adam Tanenbaum agreed with the result but did not sign on to the decision. The panel did not say when the events occurred, but the Department of Corrections website indicates that White committed the crime in October 2018 and was sentenced for the community-control violation in April 2021.
Liberty Mutual appealed to the 4th District Court of Appeal, where a three-judge panel ruled Wednesday that the attorney fees should not have been awarded. The main opinion, written by Judge Burton Conner and joined by Chief Judge Mark Klingensmith and Judge Martha Warner, said the “trial court erred in awarding the provider’s attorney’s fees because interest owed on a late PIP (personal-injury protection) benefit payment is not in and of itself a PIP benefit.” Klingensmith also wrote a concurring opinion that blasted the case. “If someone were to describe this case as a complete waste of judicial resources, would they be wrong?” Klingensmith wrote. “In this case, it is the elephant in the room. For an amount in controversy of 14 cents, the provider here filed a lawsuit, engaged in discovery, and hired experts, thus requiring the lower court to expend significant resources and time — in court and out — reviewing court filings and testimony. Judicial resources were also consumed here at the appellate level, causing the expenditure of untold hours while considering this claim. This, of course, does not include the time spent and expense incurred by the insurance company to respond in kind to those actions. All this over 14 cents.”
In January, the economists had projected that the state would bring in more than $463 million from the deal in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, with the amount steadily climbing to more than $500 million in the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The deal, negotiated by Gov. Ron DeSantis and approved last year by the Legislature, included allowing the tribe to operate sports betting in Florida. But Washington, D.C.-based U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich on Nov. 22 ruled that the compact violated a federal law known as the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act because betting would occur off tribal property. Friedrich’s ruling has been appealed.
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The proposed resolution comes after calls by DeSantis and Patronis for the State Board of Administration, which oversees investments, to direct pension-fund managers against using environmental, social and governance ratings when investing stateSo-calledmoney. ESG ratings can involve considering a wide range of issues in investments, such as companies’ theRepublicanspracticesandstandards;productvulnerabilities;climate-changecarbonemissions;safety;supply-chainlaborprivacyanddatasecurity;executivecompensation.Suchhavedrawncriticismfromacrossthecountry,andproposedresolutionsays“the Biden Administration has made clear its intention to encourage investment using ESG factors.”
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Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody and state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis next week will consider a proposal that would prevent state pension-investment decisions from considering “the furtherance of social, political or ideological interests.”
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The costs of protecting Gov. Ron DeSantis, his family, the governor’s mansion and visiting dignitaries were up more than 25 percent during the past year, according to a new state report. Florida taxpayers spent more than $6.097 million during the 2021-2022 fiscal year on protective services for the first family and visiting officials. The bulk of the costs, $5.94 million, went to guarding DeSantis and members of his family, along with securing the governor’s mansion, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s annual “Report of Transportation and Protective Services.” In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, costs approached $4.85 million, with nearly $4.82 million going to guarding DeSantis and other members of his family. During the 2019-2020 fiscal year, costs to protect DeSantis, the first family and the governor’s mansion were a similar $4.78 million. The 2021-2022 numbers were first reported Tuesday in First Read Florida, which is part of City & State Florida, a sister publication of The News Service of Florida. While offering cost totals, the new report doesn’t outline how security details were staffed or how they operated for the governor and visiting dignitaries. The report also said $399,098 spent in the past fiscal year on mansion security didn’t include Capitol Police hours.
The overall costs were topped by nearly $4.766 million spent on DeSantis, with more than $2.375 million going for the salaries of law-enforcement officers who provided security for the governor and $2.391 million for costs tied to transportation. In the 20202021 fiscal year, $3.82 million was spent protecting the governor, with $1.984 million for Coststransportation.forprotecting First Lady Casey DeSantis and other members of the family in 2021-2022 topped $777,000, with $455,665 going to law-enforcement salaries and $64,312 tied to the first lady’s transportation. The governor and first lady have three young children. In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, those costs totaled $463,000. The report also listed 74 expenses, totaling about $154,095, to provide protective details for visiting dignitaries.
The biggest expense, $40,781 for security and transportation, was for a three-day Republican Governors Association meeting in December in Miami. Protective services also were provided to the governors of 27 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, along with one-time security details involving the consul general of Israel and the U.S. labor secretary. Barricades surround the Florida governor’s mansion. [Jim Turner/Florida News Service]
“In order to recruit and retain teachers into the profession, the two most important elements are respect and pay,” Spar said. “Under Gov. DeSantis, teachers hear their profession demeaned on a regular basis and face an experience tax that has teachers with 10 or more years of experience earning the same pay as a first-year teacher.”
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By Ryan Dailey Florida News Service Gov. Ron DeSantis will propose a slate of bills for the 2023 legislative session designed to bolster school districts’ efforts to recruit teachers, after students returned to classes last week amid a scarcity of educators. During a stop at a New Port Richey high school, DeSantis on Tuesday teased legislation aimed at recruiting to teaching jobs retired law-enforcement officers, emergency-medical technicians, paramedics and firefighters who have bachelor’s degrees. The proposal, DeSantis said, would make people who have worked in those professions eligible for $4,000 bonuses and would waive fees for the state teacher-certification exam. “We believe that the folks that have served our communities have an awful lot to offer. And we’ve got people that have served 20 years in law enforcement, they retire, and some of them are looking for the next chapter in their life,” the governor said. The legislation would build on a similar new program geared toward getting military veterans into teaching roles. The Military Veterans Certification Pathway allows veterans who have not earned bachelor’s degrees but have at least 60 college credits to obtain five-year temporary teaching certificates. The veterans program launched July 1, and 208 people had applied as of Tuesday, DeSantis’ press secretary, Bryan Griffin, told The News Service of Florida.“Weanticipate even more in the coming weeks,” Griffin said. The most-recent data on Florida’s teacher shortage was published in February by the state Department of Education, showing nearly 4,500 teacher vacancies in schools across the state.When most school districts started the academic year last week, many were still scrambling to hire teachers. Pasco County Superintendent Kurt Browning, who joined DeSantis at the Tuesday news conference, said his district last week faced “upwards of 350” teacher vacancies. “As of yesterday, we’re down to 195 (vacancies), which is much better. Not as good as where we were this time last year. But it’s not just a Pasco issue, it’s a statewide issue. As a matter of fact, it’s a national issue,” BrowningDeSantissaid.also previewed two other proposed bills, including a teacher apprenticeship program that would allow Floridians who have associate’s degrees to spend two years learning under “experienced” teacher mentors with the goal of the apprentices going on to obtain their bachelor’sTeacherdegrees.mentors who participate would get $4,000 bonuses, according to DeSantis. “I think what makes a teacher great is actually being there, doing it, watching experienced teachers and seeing what they do that works. Working directly with students,” the governor said. Another proposal would launch a scholarship program to help high-school teachers earn master’s degrees. DeSantis said that would allow those teachers to teach dual-enrollment courses at high schools where they work. “Right now, dual-enrollment is one of the more popular ways for students to gain college credit during high school and save themselves money and time for getting their either two- or fouryear degree,” the governor said. State Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. touted the military veterans program and the bills proposed by DeSantis, calling them a “systematic way to increase the pool of teachers” in Florida. Diaz said people who have worked in the various jobs have traits such as “discipline” and “commitment” that would translate to the teaching profession. “You’re looking at these professionals who have given their life to public service. And oftentimes they retire at an early age where they still have the incentive and the time to work. And what better place to have them than in front of our young people in a classroom,” Diaz said. But CommissionerAgricultureNikki Fried, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, released a statement Tuesday accusing DeSantis of trying to lower standards for teaching certificates and positions. “Let me be clear: We should not be lowering the bar for teachers in Florida,” Fried said. “Instead of paying teachers what they’re worth and agreeing to stop politicizing their jobs, DeSantis is trying to let Floridians with no experience and minimal training teach our kids.”Similarly, Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association teachers union, issued a statement that said students deserve to “have professionally trained, experienced and supported teachers.”
“I’ll see an interesting area coming up and I’ll pick up my phone camera. I always have it on and, as I’m driving, I’ll just start snapping pictures. Oh, it drives my wife, crazy. I think it frightens her a little, but I’m pretty good at it.”
T here’s a haunting, mysterious quality to Robert Goodlett’s oil paintings. You could say it’s the unexpected or blurred brush strokes or the desolate rural scenes he depicts or the gentle, solitary, smatterings of light. Whatever comes through in his works, that ephemeral magic is no simple rabbit out of a hat. Goodlett’s stirring effects emerged after decades of practice and experimentation.Bornin1955, Goodlett had no formal art instruction. He grew up in Hialeah, near the Everglades, in a town that was significantly less populated in the mid-20th century. The area’s stirring rural landscapes and big skies made a big impression on him. He would play in the Evergladesadjacent neighborhood field for hours. At home, his mother painted miniatures and porcelain. She always left pastels and sketchpads around the house. The art bug bit Goodlett hard, however, when he was fighting off another bug, mono, at age 9. “She bought me a cheapo oil set to pass the time and I’ve been painting with oils ever since,” he said. As an adult Goodlett became a professional guitarist but continued to paint. He said he started out as more of a realist.“Iwould paint every blade of grass, every little leaf, every branch,” he explained. “It took me years to break myself from that.”An epiphany overtook him when he read about George Inness, a famous 19th-century American landscape painter and one of the most influential American artists associated with the Hudson River School. “He did things that just spoke to me,” Goodlett said, emphasizing his affinity for Inness’s later works when he veered more toward the abstract. Little by little, abstractions came into play and the illustrative details diminished. “I’m right-handed but would sometimes draw with my left hand,” Goodlett explained. “So, there would be drawings that were more stylized and childlike, but then I’d use my light sensibilities.” A striking example of his left-handed illustration can be found in paintings pictured on his studio’s Facebook page, facebook.com/pathlightstudiosllc.
Light, darkness and desolate beauty
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Robert Goodlett with guitar. By Julie Garisto julie@magnoliamediaco.com
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River Moon 12”x12” oil on canvas
Painter Robert Goodlett knows how to stir up a mood.
A series depicting a simple white farmhouse with small narrow windows imparts an eerie beauty. As with other themes, he painted a series of works featuring the Amish-like structure. Goodlett’s subjects are borne from his imagination and the countrysides he passes by during his travels. “I’ll see an interesting area coming up and I’ll pick up my phone camera,” he said with a sly laugh. “I always have it on and, as I’m driving, I’ll just start snapping pictures. Oh, it drives my wife, crazy. I think it frightens her a little, but I’m pretty good at it.” Goodlett has had plenty of opportunities to draw inspiration from a variety of panoramas because he travels across the state and through Georgia to show his work at art shows. That’s how he met Cheryl Ritter, co-owner of CC Fine Arts, in Chelsea Square at 3325 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, where his works are currently on display. The name of Goodlett’s workspace, Pathlight Studios, comes from a Psalm: Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path (Psalm 119:105). His wife, Debra Goodlett, he said, is the light of his life. She works as a purchasing agent for Triple Crown Homes and their son, Justin, is a paramedic. Bob and Debra recently moved to the Fellowship area of Marion County, where wide open spaces and big skies continue to awake Goodlett’s muse. “We have five acres out here, which was an old watermelon and pecan farm years ago,” he said. “Right across the street are creepy farms.”
The 2008 Ocala Premier Girls Team (born 2008-09) are following in the high schoolers’ footsteps and also are headed to the conference. “We have a lot of talented younger players,” Fratello said. “It is pretty unique to have such a high-level team with girls that are actually playing-up a year. I would say the big moment was last year when we made it to the semifinals of the Weston Cup, arguably the top tournament in Florida and one of the most prestigious in the Southeast. I think at that moment we knew we were capable of really big things.”
While watching the girls play that game, it “really sunk in” for McGregor how far his girls have come. “We lost to 1-0 to a team that ended up being a 2021 Florida State Cup semi-finalist,” he explained. “To think a group of girls from Ocala were able to accomplish that is not only exciting for this group but hopefully exciting as well as inspiring for the young ladies coming behind them.”
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Both Fratello and MacGregor expressed hope that news of the upcoming tournament will help attract more buzz and community support for Ocala Premier. “It would be great if the community would just come out to see the games,” MacGregor added. “It’s one thing to see Mom, Dad and Grandma, but it’s so much more exciting when there’s a crowd cheering them on.”
Catch the girls play Ideasport They are the first in their club to land a slot in a prestigious state conference.
The first time FC Prime Miami beat Ocala, the team “was hanging on by a thread,” MacGregor added. “They were defending like crazy and just trying to survive the 1-0 defeat. Fast forward five months and, yes, they beat us 1-0 again, but it was a completely different game. We controlled every aspect of the game besides the score.”
coached professionally and also at the college level.” In his youth, MacGregor trained with famed Tampa Bay Rowdies’ midfielder and former coach Perry Van der Beck, the current vice president of competition and operations for the United Soccer League. Coach Stephanie “Pezz” Pezzullo, the club’s performance and fitness director, leads the 2008 girls with the assistance of Fratello. “Coach Pezz was one of the best high school players in the country and then she went on to play at Penn State, where they won the Big 10 title four years in a row,” Fratello said. “Several of her teammates were on the U.S. women’s team and the OlympicPezzulloteam.”later decided to become a long-distance runner and ended up being one of the best in the country. Today, she helps people of all fitness levels achieve their running and exerciseEarliergoals.this year, Ocala Premier 2005 player Victoria Carter made the news for her accomplishments with West Port High’s team. According to published reports, Carter has led in goals with 36, ranking her 13th in Florida and 22nd in the nation. She supported her team with eight assists, scoring a total of 80 points. Longevity is another key to the teams’“Somesuccess.ofour players started when they were in kindergarten and stuck with us,” Fratello said. “We have a great group of coaches and volunteers who help run the club and have invested in those kids over the years.” After he expressed gratitude for the sponsorships they have received, Fratello said the club has been stretched thin, with about 150 kids on a waitlist, partly caused by not having sufficient fields for play. Making matters worse, they have been practicing at different sites while their Big Sun Youth Soccer League homefield undergoes repairs. “We have worked hard to keep fees low, and we currently charge half of what other area clubs our size charge,” Fratello said. “We also try not to ever turn anybody away for the inability to pay. This year, we are investing $10,000 in scholarships for the competitive program, but there’s a real need for more sponsorships.”
By Julie Garisto julie@magnoliamediaco.com The road to the U.S. Youth Soccer Sunshine Conference wasn’t smooth, but the Ocala Premier girls’ soccer teams put their cleats to the heat and made impressive tracks toward the state tournament this year. The upcoming games mark a first for the Ocala Premier teams. Both the 2005 (players born 2005-07) and 2008 (born 2008-09) girls’ teams are headed to the competition. “This is a first for the entire club,” said the Big Sun Soccer/Ocala Premier President Jay Fratello. “Most of the teams that we are playing against come from areas with much bigger populations such as Tampa, Miami, Boca (Raton) and Orlando.” Glimmers of greatness could be seen when the 2005 girls placed third in the Florida State Premier League as finalists in the Lakewood Ranch Labor Day Showcase. At the IMG College Cup showcase last December, they scored two wins and a draw. “There was one moment for me though that made me very proud and excited for the future,” recalled Coach Cam McGregor. “It was our first State Cup game on a Friday night (Aug. 5). The team we were playing against was not a new team for us. We had played them earlier in the season and both times they beat us 1-0.”
Ocala Premier soccer girls score a historic milestone
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Brooklyn Fratello (2005 team) Addison Fratello (blue) 2008 team
Harry Carlile poses with his FBI accreditation.
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get wrapped up in the sport. Sometimes you come home, and the game doesn’t go our way, or something happened at practice or school. You go home, and you’re upset. When you walk in the door, and you see them, and you just see the joy in their faces, and you just forget about it. It definitely helps reset my day and you have to be willing to separate everything and enjoy your family for that time.”
Harry Carlile poses for a photo at his home in the Weybourne Landing neighborhood at On Top of the World in Ocala on Monday, August 15, 2022. [Bruce Ackerman/Ocala Gazette] 2022.
Being a parent has made Roberts more aware of how much time the team and assistant coaches spend at practice or working in the weight room. Roberts said he does his best to respect their time with family. Sports tend to revolve around the result of games from the high school level and up, but the goals for the 2022 Lake Weir Hurricanes football team are not so cut-and-dry.“Obviously,we want to win, and we want to win more than we’ve done in the past. We want to be competitive, and we feel we will be competitive with our schedule. We feel we can go ahead and compete with the district this year and that’s what we’re pushing for,” Roberts said. At the end of the day, Roberts want to leave a lasting impact on the team by teaching them and developing them as outstanding young“Whenmen.you get to see them grow and actually utilize the lessons, when they can have a good time but also be serious enough to get the job done,’’ he said, “that’s awesome and amazing,”
Tman on the go would be an understatement. A career in law enforcement has taken him from Peoria, Illinois, where he was born, on a path through the United States and into far-flung places in the world, but he finally settled in Ocala. “I was always drawn to police work,” he said. “I was in the Police Explorer groups with the Sheriff’s Department while in high school. My father wanted me to study math all the way through high school and when I went to college.” He pursued his bachelor of science degree in criminal justice at Bradley University in Peoria and worked for that city’s police department for 20 years as Illinois, and had begun work on a Ph.D. when he was hired by the FBI as a training specialist in higher education administration. The position first took him to Clarksburg, West Virginia. The FBI then assigned Carlile to the southern part of the country and his region included Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. While in Florida, he traveled to Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Pensacola, Daytona Beach, St. Petersburg and Tampa. The assignment gave him a taste of southern weather. “I liked West Virginia,” Carlile reminisced. “It is a great place to live and have a family but I am done with snow and ice and winter.”
Meet Coach Jason Roberts
Roberts, now 39, was hired in February to coach Lake Weir, where the Hurricanes have gone 4-23 over the past three seasons. Despite the challenge of rebuilding the program, the new head coach is excited about the“I’veopportunity.seenLake Weir coming off buses and I’ve seen Lake Weir at 7-on-7 camps, and you just see (the talent) and think these guys might kick our butt today. Then we come to find out there’s something missing, there’s something that’s not clicking and so that intrigued me about the job,” Roberts said. From day one, Roberts has put emphasis on creating a positive culture for his team. “Changing our mindset, they got to have that selfbelief or self-confidence and then once we have that selfconfidence, then who can we push that on or who can we influence with that. We’ve done a really good job of getting into self-confidence, and now we’re kind of transitioning to the season coming into play, transitioning on lifting each other up so we can play together as one,” he said. A crucial component of a coach’s career is having the support of their family and Roberts is very thankful to have the full support of his wife, Lynsie, and his two daughters, Emilia and Eliana. The impact that his wife and daughters have on his career go beyond measure and allows him to put things in perspective. “They humble me,’’ he said. “Like any other coach or any other competitor, you
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Jason Roberts, the new head football coach for the Lake Weir Hurricanes, poses for a photo on the field at Lake Weir High School in Candler on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. [Bruce Ackerman/Ocala Gazette] 2022.
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Orlando native Jason Roberts started playing multiple sports from an early age. Whether it was baseball or football, he enjoyed the thrill of competition. Roberts became hooked at a young age and his family created the perfect atmosphere to instill the trait in his personality. “I’ve always loved the competitive side of it. My father was always into sports and my mom was into sports, so growing up it was kind of that way. My uncles played sports and so everything we did was always a competition between one another,” he said. Eventually, football won out over baseball, and Roberts said he relishes the vibes of the sport. “I love the contact of the game,’’ he said. “I love the physicality of the game and compared to baseball, it’s a much faster moving game.” Roberts played under Phil Ziglar at Boone High School in Orlando. Ziglar, a high school coaching legend in central Florida, instilled accountability in his players, a lesson Roberts remembers to this day. After high school, Roberts joined the Army and hoped to become a paratrooper. The idea of joining the military started in middle school, according to Roberts, and he joined in July 2001. Two months later, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks shook America to its core. Roberts’ unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, which is a quickreaction unit, was pulled from Kosovo and sent to Iraq. He would end up serving in three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan during his 10-year military career before coming back to Florida. His experience during his time of service molded him into the man he is today. “The military changed my life; I don’t know where I would have ended up without it,’’ Roberts said. “It definitely instills a work ethic that I don’t think can be found anywhere else. The biggest part is not only holding yourself accountable, but your teammates as well.” His time in the Army has influenced his coaching style because of the vast number of different leaders he encountered. “My first sergeant told me that a leader who is yelling all the time is a sergeant who is covering up what he does not know,” he said. Roberts said he wants to avoid constantly yelling because he feels as if it could eventually make the kids tune him out. He would rather be more uplifting and positive. Robert’s coaching journey has covered a large area in central Florida. After coaching youth football for a year, he met with high school coaches and landed a job on the JV staff at East Ridge High School. Two years later, he moved on to be an assistant at Tavares High School before heading back to East Ridge as the defensive coordinator for varsity. He then moved on to Umatilla High School for the same position for two years before being hired at Poinciana High School.
Ocala just kept popping up,” he said.He lives in the On Top of The World“Thecommunity.numberof things here to do for seniors is amazing,” he said. “There are so many groups you can join and so many opportunities for training in so many areas. There is the Master the Possibilities Education Center here. I will always be learning. I cannot imagine not doing anything.” And, he added, “The Sheriff’s Department has all these volunteer opportunities in the law enforcement area. I volunteered to work with the Cold Case Unit and have been doing that for two years so far.” Carlile said he has investigated two cold cases so far for the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, along with his team investigator Mike Thompson, who is a retired deputy from Alachua County. “Lately our schedules have both been busy,” Carlile said. Since retiring, Carlile has started his own business, The Carlile Consulting Group (CCG) in Ocala, doing professional witness duties in the area of law“Movingenforcement.toOcala has been a good experience. Even though I am not into Ocala’s big draw to horses and golf, it is a good physical location. There is so much to do,” he Carlilesaid.and his girlfriend Jean love to travel, including taking cruises. “There are five cruise ports close by,” he enthused. “This town is central to everything.” Harry Carlile
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Sudoku is played on a grid of 9 x 9 spaces. Within the rows and columns are 9 “squares” (made up of 3 x 3 spaces). Each row, column and square (9 spaces each) needs to be filled out with the numbers 1-9, without repeating any numbers within the same row, column or square.
1. Based on the 2020 census, Florida is one of seven states to gain electoral votes in 2024. Which of these states lost electoral votes: A. Ohio B. New York C. California D. All of the above 2. At just 56 square feet the post office in Ochopee is one of the smallest in the U.S. This local post office is a bit larger: A. East Lake Weir B. Romeo C. Juliette D. Zuber
Before we quiz, let’s rewind the clock exactly 18 years to 2004, when we were impacted by four major hurricanes in rapid succession. From mid-August to late September, much of Florida was continually under hurricane watch or warning and even though Ocala escaped a direct hit, we spent more than 24 nervous days in the dreaded “cone of uncertainty.” After the storm season, the weather folks graciously retired their names -- Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne -- from the hurricane lexicon forever. Now, let’s quiz with some other challenging Florida stu .
8. This billionaire recently donated $40 million to the University of Central Florida, the largest donation in the school’s history. The billionaire is: A. Elon Musk B. MacKenzie Scott C. Warren Buffet D. Bill Gates 9. Florida recently initiated a new statewide network alert system geared to locate missing persons. It is the __________ Alert. A. Silver B. Gold C. Blue D. Purple 10. Williston’s Two Tails Ranch has long been known as a place of care and refuge for the raising of __________. A. Llamas B. Pythons C. Elephants D. Chimpanzees
5. From 1916 to 1930, this “ghost highway” was the only paved route south out of Jacksonville to Flagler County and beyond. It is: A. Old Red Brick Road B. I-95 C. A1A D. El Camino Real 6. This historic community just south of Ocala was due to be bisected by the original route of the Cross Florida Canal. It is: A. Inglis B. Kerr City C. Santos D. Belleview 7. This popular Miami columnist is out with his 15th novel, entitled “Squeeze Me,” spoofing politics, presidents, pythons and Palm Beach. He is: A. Dave Barry B. Cal Thomas C. Paul Harvey D. Carl Hiassen
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3. Introduced in 1940 and named for a Disney character, this was the most popular brand of orange juice for decades. The juice is named for: A. Mickey Mouse B. Minnie Mouse C. Goofy D. Donald Duck 4. A tiny sliver of land in Tampa’s Ybor City is owned by this Caribbean country as a memorial to Jose Marti. It is: A. Honduras B. Mexico C. Cuba D. Columbia
RIP:FRANCES,CHARLEY,IVANANDJEANNE
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Last Chance Paso Fino Show World Equestrian Center Ocala, Arena 5, 1390 NW 80th Ave., Ocala 8am-11pm All kinds of classes will show off the high-stepping Paso Finos, a petite breed of horse with an unparalleled smooth gait. Western Pleasure, performance, halter, youth and adult classes will be presented. Vendors onsite. Free admission and parking for spectators. For more info, pasofinoocala.com or worldequestriancenter.com
AUGUST 19 & 20 Elvis ’56 to Vegas and The Elvis Story Orange Blossom Opry, 16439 SE 138th Terrace, Weirsdale World Champion Elvis tribute artist Cote Deonath performs songs from Elvis’ entire lifetime in these two unique shows. Elvis’ early years from 1956 through his Vegas residency are highlighted the first night, and the second evening covers the King’s entire musical life. Tickets are $30-$43; see obopry.com for more info.
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AUGUST 26 Friday Foodie Fest Lake Lillian Park, Belleview 10:30am-12pm Food trucks, live music, kids’ crafts and activities, face painting and local vendors are on tap for this summer evening. Lake Lillian Park hosts this community event the fourth Friday of each month. For more info, see ocalamarion.com or belleviewfl.org
A variety of vendors offer local fruits and vegetables, meats and seafood, fresh pasta, honey, jewelry, baked goodies, and arts and crafts. Check out some local food trucks and the occasional guest entertainer. Rain or shine; recurs every Saturday. Visit ocaladowntownmarket.com for more information.
AUGUST 26-28 Ocala Dressage Show World Equestrian Center Ocala, 1390 NW 80th Ave., Ocala All day Dressage has historical precedents and was initially used for training military and warhorses. Freestyle tests, set to music, is one of the most popular parts of the sport, akin to dancing on horseback. For more info, see worldequestriancenter.com
This free art exhibits showcases the work of artist Batson-Howard, who creates abstract works to bring beauty to the world. Her work is variable, often colorful and full of whimsy. For more info, Kbatsonart.com
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The Wildflowers- Tribute to Tom Petty Reilly Arts Center, 500 NE 9th St., Ocala 7:30pm In this Tom Petty tribute show, the Wildflowers play many of the Gainesville boy’s greatest hits. The Wildflowers have the look, sound and vibe that made Tom Petty an American rock n’ roll icon. Tickets are $15-$35 and available from reillyartscenter.com
AUGUST 22 Marion County Development Review Committee Office of the County Engineer, 412 SE 25th Ave., Building 1, Ocala 9am Meets weekly on Mondays. Reviews and votes on waiver requests to the Land Development Code, upcoming major site plans, and subdivision plans.
AUGUST 27 Classic Cruisers Cruise-In Car Show Six Gun Plaza, 4901 E Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala 6-9pm For a different kind of horsepower, the Classic Cruisers car club hosts a monthly cruise-in at Six Gun Plaza. Spectators can see show cars from many eras and talk to the owners. The shopping center has lots of food options. Read more at classiccruisersocala.com/ arts
Invented PhotographsObservations:bySteven Benson Appleton Museum of Art, 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm Professor, educator and artist Benson has this exhibition of his photographs at the museum. His work represents humans’ search for meaning. For more info, appletonmuseum.org for details.
AUGUST 23 Growing Orchids Workshop Grumbles House Antiques & Garden Shop, 20799 Walnut St., Dunnellon 10:30am-12pm
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AUGUST 20 & 27 Yoga in the Park Sholom Park, 7110 SW 80th Ave., Ocala 9am Snake into your cobra pose and get your downward dog going. Stretch out by the Sholom Park stage; recurs every Saturday morning. Visit sholompark.org for details.
A true farmers swap meet where chickens, goats, turkeys, rabbits and sometimes even ponies are available along with horse tack, home-grown plants, produce and hand-crafted items. Booth types vary with occasional meat vendors, food trucks and other goods. Saturdays, weather permitting.
AUGUST 20 & 27 Farmers Swap Meet Rural King, 2999 NW 10th St., Ocala 9am-2pm
AUGUST 20-21 (AND 27-28) Horse Shows at the Florida Horse Park Florida Horse Park, 11008 South Highway 475, Ocala All day Two weekends in a row, the Florida Horse Park will host shows, including the Ocala Summer Horse Trials for eventing and the POP Schooling Show with a variety of classes including dressage and show jumping. Food vendors onsite. Spectators welcome. For more info, flhorsepark.com
AUGUST 20 & 27 Summer Sunset Polo Florida Horse Park, 11008 South Highway 475, Ocala 6pm Once the sun goes down, the breeze kicks in. Free to the public. Tailgate next to the polo field and enjoy a unique evening out. Saturday evenings through September. For more info, ocalapolo.com
AUGUST 24 College of Central Florida Careers and Colleges Expo College of Central Florida, Ewers Century Center, 3001 SW College Road, Ocala 5pm-7pm
AUGUST 20 & 27 Ocala Farmers Market Ocala Downtown Market, 310 SE Third St., Ocala 9am-2pm
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Farmers Market The Town Square at Circle Square Commons, 8405 SW 80th St., Ocala 9am-1pm Large selection of fresh seasonal produce from local growers as well as baked goods, plants, handmade soaps and more; recurs every Thursday. Visit circlesquarecommons.com for more info.
AUGUST 19 & 26 Marion County Friday Market McPherson Governmental Campus Field, 601 SE 25th Ave., Ocala 9am-2pm Shop locally fresh fruits and veggies, baked goods, jerky, freeze-dried treats, olive oils, seafood and more; recurs every Friday.
THROUGH DECEMBER 9 A Floral Retrospective by Gregory Dirr Ocala City Hall, Clerk’s Office, 110 SE Watula Ave., Ocala Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm Boca Raton artist Gregory Dirr emphasizes environmental conservation in his interdisciplinary artworks. Using paint, multimedia resources, fabric and glass, Dirr’s works is a response to the world around us. For more info, visit ocalafl.org/artincityspaces
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13 Journey to My Soul: Landscape of My Mind by Kelley Batson-Howard City of Ocala Recreation and Parks Administration Building, 828 NE Eighth Ave., Ocala Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
High school seniors, transfer students and others are invited to find out about attending college and career paths for different jobs. Visit and interact with dozens of colleges and universities, trade schools, military branches and local employers. Free to all. For more info, www.cf.edu
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AUGUST 23 Marion County Transportation Planning Organization Board McPherson Governmental Campus Auditorium, 601 SE 25th Ave., Ocala 4pm AUGUST 23 City of Ocala City Budget Workshop Meeting City Hall, 110 SE Watula Ave., Ocala 12pm For the proposed fiscal year 2022-23.
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THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30 Julijana Prest Art Exhibit Ocala City Hall, 110 SE Watula Ave., Ocala Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm This Florida-based visual artist’s “Transitional Moments in Nature’s Landscape” exhibit is hosted by the city of Ocala as part of its Art in City Spaces program. For more www.ocalafl.org/artincityspacesinfo, THROUGH NOVEMBER 6
These exotic and often stunning tropical plants can be surprisingly easy to grow and manage in Florida’s heat and humidity. This free event with Marion County Master Gardener Pat Burns will offer tips for growing these beauties—such as they typically need at least a 20-degree temperature difference between night and day in order to bloom. For more info, check dunnellonfloridaantiques.com/event
AUGUST 27 Rock and Rose´ Dance Party NOMA Black Box Theatre, Reilly Arts Center, 500 NE 9th St., Ocala 8pm-10pm DJ Jazmin will crank up the dance tunes and get this party started, focusing on summer hits from multiple decades. General admission tickets $15; VIP seating for four includes a bottle of rose´ for $100. See reillyartscenter.com for more info.
AUGUST 23 City of Dunnellon Transportation Planning Organization Meeting City Hall, 20750 River Drive, Dunnellon 4pm AUGUST 24 City of Belleview Site Plan Committee Meeting 5343 SE Abshier Blvd., Belleview 9am-10am
THROUGH JANUARY 2023 Colorful Pleasures by Christine Dozier Ocala International Airport, 5770 SW 60th Ave., Ocala Hours vary per airport operations Ocala resident Dozier exhibits a variety of work including landscapes, abstracts, still life and animal portraits. She works in oils and acrylics. For more info, visit ocalafl.org/artincityspaces
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A book release party for “Little Man Big Mouth” will be held 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 29 at the Ocala Civic Theatre, at 4337 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. Half of the proceeds from the event will benefit the theater, with which Schlenker has long been involved in various capacities. “My deep roots at OCT started in 1979 when I played Iowa chorus kid number six in ‘The Music Man.’ I nailed it,” he said. “Little Man Big Mouth” also is available through online sites and at the Gallery on Magnolia in downtown Ocala. To learn more, go to facebook.com/ dave.schlenker
Jack Knife Charlie Horse 2426 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala 7pm AUGUST 20
Book release party will benefit theater
JR Lewis The Yellow Pony World Equestrian Center Ocala, 1390 NW 80th Ave., Ocala 6-9pm
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Doug Adams Charlie Horse 2426 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala 2pm
Shawn Manley Charlie Horse 2426 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala 6pm
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One Flight Up Charlie Horse 2426 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala 7pm
No Compromise Band Charlie Horse 2426 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala 7pm Live music. Also, karaoke Wed.-Sat.
AUGUST 26 Humans in Disguise Charlie Horse 2426 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala 7pm
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Houston Keen The Yellow Pony World Equestrian Center Ocala, 1390 NW 80th Ave., Ocala 6-9pm
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2Peace Homestead Park Williston 1050 NE 6th Blvd., Williston 6-9pm Beer and wine garden, food options, shopping.
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The Yellow Pony World Equestrian Center Ocala, 1390 NW 80th Ave., Ocala 6-9pm
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AUGUST 26 Peaches & Karim
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Clay Brooker Homestead Park Williston 1050 NE 6th Blvd., Williston 6-9pm
Some of Dave Schlenker’s columns have been compiled in “Little Man Big Mouth.”
Reggie Stacy Homestead Park Williston 1050 NE 6th Blvd., Williston 6-9pm
Uptown Music The Yellow Pony World Equestrian Center Ocala, 1390 NW 80th Ave., Ocala 6-9pm
AUGUST 28 Doug Adams Charlie Horse 2426 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala 2pm &music nightlifenightlife
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By Susan Smiley-Height susan@magnoliamediaco.com
Sandra & Alex Lekid The Yellow Pony World Equestrian Center Ocala, 1390 NW 80th Ave., Ocala 6-9pm
Dave Schlenker knows a lot of people, has an interesting wardrobe and writes some really great stories. The longtime local journalist, who is known for his humorous take on life, wrote columns for the Ocala Star-Banner newspaper for more than 25 years and has penned pieces for Ocala Style magazine for nearly three years. His newly released book, “Little Man Big Mouth, 30 Years: Newspaper and magazine columns by an average dad in cargo shorts,” highlights some of the best of the best of those works. Notes on the book’s website read: “Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Chicken Has Two Butts. Haunted Honda Spews Pumpkin Goo. Pea Does Not Save Constipated Fish. ‘Little Man, Big Mouth, 30 Years’ is packed with true stories that, despite better news judgement, made it into print. Dave Schlenker explores epic husband fails, basket cults and Presbyterian squid. These are the stories of a doting dad navigating newsroom nonsense. They are as fun as they are familiar.” Marion County’s own acting superstar John Travolta, whom Schlenker has written about numerous times over many years, shared these words for the book’s liner notes: “Dave is the best kind of journalist -- willing to write prose with perspective, care and humor.” Many of Schlenker’s columns mention his wife Amy and daughters Katie and Caroline. And various oddlynamed dogs and cats. And cargo pants. Buried beneath the tongue-and-cheek delivery is always a poignant gem of wisdom.“Idecided to pursue this collection because, much to my surprise, people often asked me about it,” he said. “In fact, the biggest challenge was finding enough material from the pre-internet-archive days. Thirty years is a very long time and, at some point, Amy and I just stopped saving clips. Going through the columns we did find was as fun as it was painful. Many were not exactly the Pulitzers I remembered them to be. There were columns I spent weeks chasing down, thinking they would be brilliant additions to the book. Then, when I found them, I realized they should’ve never seen the light of day to begin with. But it also worked the other way. Pieces I thought were complete duds back in the day seem to have a lot of relevance and substance to them.”
AUGUST 19 Mark Smythe The Yellow Pony World Equestrian Center Ocala, 1390 NW 80th Ave., Ocala 6-9pm Dinner, drinks and entertainment. For details, visit worldequestriancenter.com
Leonardo’s faded but still masterful Last Supper enthralls visitors. Steves/Rick Steves’ Europe]
ilan can’t compare with Rome and Florence artistically, but Italy’s second city hosts two noteworthy masterpieces: Michelangelo’s last pieta sculpture and Leonardo’s Last Supper. At Milan’s Sforza Castle I get a rare opportunity to enjoy a Michelangelo statue with no crowds. Michelangelo died while still working on the Pieta Rondanini, his last pieta -- a representation of a dead Christ with a sorrowful Virgin Mary. While unfinished, it’s a thought-provoking work by a nearly 90-year-old genius. The symbolism is of life and of death: Jesus returning to his mother, as two bodies seem to become one. Christ’s head is cut out of Mary’s right shoulder, and an earlier arm is still just hanging there. Above Mary’s right ear, you can see the remains of a previous face (eye, brow, and hairline). Michelangelo’s more famous pieta at the Vatican (carved when he was in his 20s) features a beautiful, young, and astonished Mary. Here, Mary is older and wiser. Perhaps Mary is now better able to accept death as part of life...as is Michelangelo. The pieta at the Vatican is simple and clear, showing the mother holding her dead son. Contemplating the Pieta Rondanini, I wonder who’s supporting whom. A highlight of my Milan visit is seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Decorating a former dining hall, this remarkable, exactingly crafted fresco is one of the ultimate works of the Renaissance.Deterioration began within six years of The Last Supper’s completion because Leonardo painted on the wall in layers, as he would on a canvas, instead of applying pigment to wet plaster in the usual fresco technique. The church was bombed in World War II, but -- miraculously, it seems -- the wall holding The Last Supper remained standing. A 21-year restoration project (completed in 1999) peeled away 500 years of touch-ups, leaving Leonardo’s masterpiece faint but vibrant. To preserve the artwork as much as possible, the humidity in the room is strictly regulated, and only 30 people are allowed in every 15 minutes. As my group’s appointed time nears, we’re herded between several rooms to dehumidify. The rooms’ doors close behind and open slowly in front of us. I’ve studied up, but I review my notes as I wait to enter, like cramming for a test. I want to get the most out of every second in the presence of Leonardo’s masterpiece.Thenthelast door opens and we enter. There it is -- filling the far wall in a big, vacant, whitewashed room: faded pastels, not a crisp edge, much of it looking like an old film negative. To give my 15 minutes an extra punch, I decide to enter the room as if I were one of the monks for whom The Last Supper was painted some 500 years ago. I imagine eating here, in my robe and sandals, pleased that the wall in my dining room, which for so long has been under some type of construction, is finally done. It’s a big day -- the unveiling. The painting is big and realistic. Jesus and the 12 apostles are sitting at a table just like the three big tables we monks share here in our dining room. It’s as if we were just blessed with more brothers. The table in the painting is even set like ours -- right down to the stiffly starched and ironed white tablecloth. The scene now gracing our refectory is a fitting one. The Last Supper was the first Eucharist -- a ritual we celebrate daily as monks. The disciples sit with Jesus in the center. Jesus seems to know he’ll die -- his face is sad, all-knowing, accepting. His feet are crossed one atop the other, as if ready for the Whilenail.we eat in silence, I meditate on the painting. It shows the moment when the Lord says, “One of you will betray me.” The apostles huddle in small groups, wondering, “Lord, is it I?” Some are concerned. Others are confused. Only Judas -- that’s him clutching his bag of silver -- is not shocked. Again and again, my eyes return to Christ. He’s calm despite the turmoil he must feel over the ultimate sacrifice he mustButmake.then, my modern-day sensibility intrudes. I can’t help it. I want to tell the monk that Leonardo cleverly used lines of perspective that converge on Christ, reinforcing the idea that everything does indeed center on him. But I suspect the monk wouldn’t care, since he already understands the artist’s intent. Suddenly, two doors burst open -abruptly ending my musings. My group and I are sternly ushered out and a new group enters. On a bench in front of the church, I sit down for a moment to settle back into the 21st century.
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(Rick Steves (www.ricksteves.com) writes European guidebooks, hosts travel shows on public TV and radio, and organizes European tours. This article was adapted from his new book, For the Love of Europe. You can email Rick at rick@ricksteves.com and follow his blog on Facebook.)
ANSWER: Vision tests are always important to maintain good eyesight. This particular scenario sounds like you had a noncontact tonometry test, also known as the puff test, as part of your comprehensive eye exam. It also can be done by gently touching a flat-tipped cone to your cornea, called applanation tonometry, or by other testing methods. These tests measure the fluid pressure in your eye. It’s important to do this test because the eye condition glaucoma often is caused by abnormally high pressure in the eye. It’s sometimes called the “silent thief of sight.” Glaucoma can damage your optic nerve and is one of the leading causes of blindness in the U.S. It can occur at any age but is more common in older adults. The most common form of glaucoma has no warning signs. You may notice patchy blind spots in your side or central vision. But the vision loss is often so gradual that you may not notice a change in vision until the condition is at an advanced stage. You have a higher risk of developing glaucoma if you are 40 or older, or have a family history of glaucoma. Many people with glaucoma do not realize they have the condition until they are seen for a routine exam. Unfortunately, the damage caused by glaucoma can’t be reversed. That’s why it’s important to have regular eye exams that include measurements of your eye pressure. Protect your vision by getting a comprehensive dilated eye exam at least once every two years. The dilated exam may show changes in the shape and color of the optic nerve fibers due to pressure. Early diagnosis and treatment can preserve remaining sight. Lowering eye pressure in the early stages slows progression of the disease and helps save vision. If left untreated, glaucoma will eventually cause blindness. Usually, glaucoma is first treated with daily eye drops or a laser procedure. The procedure is safe and performed in the health care professional’s office with no restrictions on activity by the day after the procedure. If eye drops or a laser procedure are not effective enough or cannot be tolerated, surgery may be needed. There is a new minimally invasive surgery, called ab interno canaloplasty, or ABiC, to treat patients with glaucoma. During the procedure, a small catheter is used to flush out the part of the eye that drains pressure, resulting in lower eye pressure and better control of glaucoma. No stent or device is left behind in the eye after the procedure, as they often are in traditional surgeries. The procedure has less risk of infection and quicker vision recovery than with traditional glaucoma procedures. Ab interno canaloplasty is an option for people with glaucoma that can’t be controlled with eye drops or laser treatment. It’s also a good option for people who also have reduced vision from cataracts because the procedure usually can be performed at the same time as cataract surgery with little added risk. So, plan on having a “puff test” or other test to check pressure at least once every two years during a comprehensive eye exam. At any time, share your eye or vision concerns with your primary care team or ophthalmologist, especially if you have a family history of glaucoma or other eye conditions. -- Matthew Cooke, M.D., Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic Health System, Eau Claire, Wisconsin (Mayo Clinic Q & A is an educational resource and doesn’t replace regular medical care. E-mail a question to MayoClinicQ&A@mayo.edu. For more information, visit www.mayoclinic.org.)
You should have regular eye exams that include measurements of your eye
1. Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Spray lightly with vegetable oil spray.
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This simple meal stars barbecue sauce-covered chicken breasts and yummy roasted broccoli. [Ashley Moore] By Matthew Cooke, M.D. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
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2. Use paper towels to pat chicken dry. Place chicken in center of baking sheet. Sprinkle chicken evenly with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Brush chicken evenly with barbecue sauce. 3. Place broccoli in a bowl. Break any large florets into small pieces. Add oil and remaining 1/8 teaspoon salt and toss with your hands until broccoli is coated with oil. Arrange broccoli around chicken on the baking sheet.
4. Bake until chicken registers 165 degrees, 12 to 14 minutes. Place baking sheet on cooling rack and serve. (For 25 years, home cooks have relied on America’s Test Kitchen for rigorously tested recipes developed by professional test cooks and vetted by 60,000 at-home recipe testers. The family of brands -- which includes Cook’s Illustrated, Cook’s Country, and America’s Test Kitchen Kids -- offers reliable recipes for cooks of all ages and skill levels. See more online at www.americastestkitchen.com/TCA.)
By America’s Test Kitchen When you don’t have a lot of time and don’t want to make a big mess, this sheet pan dish is for you. Who doesn’t love a quick meal and easy cleanup?
Sheet Pan Barbecue Chicken with Broccoli Serves 4 Vegetable oil spray 4 (6- to 8-ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breasts 1/4 teaspoon plus 1/8 teaspoon salt, measured separately 1/4 cup barbecue sauce 1 pound broccoli florets (6 cups) 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Minnie This cutie only has one thing on her mind... how she’s going to get more cuddle time. This sweet little lady seems to stalk the object of her affection, and then bombard it with face nuzzles. Who wouldn’t want a three-month-old kitten who loves them?
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This three-year-old boy loves to go for walks. His heart skips a beat when he sees a volunteer headed his way with a leash. He would be a great companion for someone who enjoys bonding time with an affectionate and loyal dog.
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: During my recent eye exam, the eye doctor used a machine to blow a puff of air into each of my eyes. It felt like I was in a video game, but I was the target. It didn’t hurt, but it did startle me. What does this test measure and how is it helpful in evaluating my vision? Is this something I need to have regularly repeated?
2022 Mobile Photography Winners Accidentally Awesome Category: First Place, Ann Rogers, Apple iPhone SE Second Place, Amy Plant, Apple iPhone X Third Place, Mary Lamb, Samsung Galaxy A20
In Motion Category: First Place, Paula Martinez, Motorola Moto E(4) Second Place, Cindy Foster, Google Pixel 3A Third Place, Heather Gilardi, Apple iPhone 11 Nature Category: First Place, Jerry Azhakathu, Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra Second Place, Theresa Hantosh, Apple iPhone 11 Pro Third Place, Ben Gumpert, Apple iPhone SE Portrait Category: First Place, Mithail Chowdhury, Apple iPhone 12 Pro max Second Place, Jason Row, Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max Third Place, Robyn Fortin, Apple iPhone 7S
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Right: Portrait Category First Place: Mithail Chowdhury Left: FirstAwesomeAccidentallyCategoryPlace:AnnRogers
“Art for all once again rings true,” said Appleton Museum Director Jason Steuber. “Participation in the arts and sharing unique photos of the extraordinary in the everyday are what make our community shine in this annual contest andRegularexhibition.”museum admission fees apply to see the exhibition, however, visitors can enjoy free admission on Sept. 3 for Free First Saturday. The winning photos are posted online at AppletonMuseum.org. The museum, at 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday.
CF’s Appleton Museum of Art announces mobile photography winners
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The photos, which were submitted by participants of all ages from the local community, across the country and beyond, were taken with a variety of mobile devices, such as phones and tablets. “We are thrilled to have surpassed last year’s number of entries with an astounding 1,073 photos – a record high. Over the past eight years it’s been rewarding to watch the contest grow and be able to continue showcasing every entry received,” said Victoria Billig, Appleton Museum assistant director. “We thank all the participants for sending us their photos and are proud to have their creativity on display in the museum in the Mobile Photography Exhibition.” All 1,073 photos are on view at the museum through Sept. 11. The three winning photos from each category were selected by Mark Anderson, a local photographer who enjoys shooting portraits, old houses and abandoned places. His full-time job is with the public relations team for Marion County, where you can also find many of his photos of local events and other happenings around the county. He was editor-in-chief of the College of Central Florida “Patriot Press” student newspaper and his photos have been featured in local publications including the “Ocala Gazette.”
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Right: Nature Category First Place: Jerry Azhakathu
Strong & Healthy is the New Sexy It’s fun to snap photos with your cell phone. And sometimes a random image, or one you diligently wait for, might even win a contest for you. The Appleton Museum of Art, College of Central Florida, on Wednesday announced the winners of its eighth annual Mobile Photography Contest & Exhibition.Throughout the month of July, the Appleton received 1,073 mobile photo submissions, which was the most entries ever received for the contest. The images were inspired by four categories: Accidentally Awesome, In Motion, Nature and Portrait.
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