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Our City

10 Things are Reopening, But We Still Must Remain Vigilant

CAN DO KIDS

PUBLISHERS Christy & Terry Jaillet publisher@ourcitymedia.com

12 BCPS Congratulates VEX and FIRST Robotics Teams for Outstanding Seasons

MANAGING EDITOR Beverly Perkins

FEATURE STORY 17 Provides Companionship and Care

COMMUNITY NEWS 20 Managing Mental Health During COVID-19 Telemedicine Can Help

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24 Arthroscopy of the Foot and Ankle 28 Moms, Give Yourself a Gift

LEGALLY SPEAKING 26 Family Law During A Pandemic 27 Estate Planning During Times of Uncertainty

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22 HEALTH & WELLNESS 22 Top 10 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Older Loved Ones During Quarantine 33 Broward County’s Phase 1 Reopening: What is the New Normal?

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n March 27th, Broward County issued its Shelter-in-Place order, effectively closing restaurants, sporting venues, parks, stores, gyms, and virtually every other public gathering place around. We were encouraged to stay at home. And, for the most part, that is exactly what we all did. Businesses temporarily closed, play-dates were canceled, dentist visits postponed, in-person visits with grandparents were suspended and birthday parties were moved online. As a community, we should be proud. South Florida went from being seen as the next “hot spot,” for the Coronavirus, to an area where the outbreak was largely contained. This was no small feat for a region that welcomes so many visitors from all around the world. Now things are reopening. To protect our lives and the economy, each of us must continue to do some common sense things to make sure the virus stays in check. If you don’t feel well, stay at home. Continue to wash your hands several times a day and whenever you go out. Limit close interpersonal contact when possible. Routinely clean things people frequently touch like doorknobs, steering wheels, and countertops. And, if you must interact with multiple people or cannot physically distance yourself, please continue to wear a mask. If we are smart and responsible, we will be able to get a large part of our daily routines back while a vaccine is being developed. We owe it to ourselves, our children, and our loved ones to do what we can to prevent another shut-down. The hard part is over, now it’s time for us all to follow-through and kick COVID’s butt!

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roward County Public Schools (BCPS) congratulates the District’s VEX and FIRST Robotics school teams and coaches for their outstanding results during the 2019/20 school year. The following schools qualified for prestigious world championship competitions this year, prior to being canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. To qualify for the world championships, the school teams had to excel and win top honors during state and/or regional competitions. BCPS teams qualifying for VEX Robotics World Championships: Lloyd Estates Elementary School, Manatee Bay Elementary School, Silver Palms Elementary School, Eagle Ridge Elementary School, and Coral Springs Middle School BCPS teams qualifying for FIRST Robotics World Championships: Dillard High School, West Broward High School, and Cypress Bay High School In addition, Dillard High School teacher Steve Szoke and Dillard High alumnus Arefin Bari are being honored by FIRST Robotics as Regional Volunteers of the Year. They were selected due to their coaching and mentoring of the Dillard High SigmaC@ts FIRST Robotics team and hosting their annual off-season regional Mission Mayhem competition every fall.

About VEX and FIRST Robotics ▸ VEX Robotics provides tools to inspire the problem solvers of tomorrow through the use of education robotic solutions. Its goal is to create engaging, affordable and powerful solutions that immerse students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) through the excitement of building and programming educational robotics kits. VEX Robotics competitions bring STEM skills to life by tasking teams of students with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. Classroom STEM concepts are put to the test as students learn lifelong skills in teamwork, leadership, communications, and more. Tournaments are held year-round at the regional, state, and national levels and culminate at the VEX Robotics World Championship each April. ▸ FIRST Robotics combines the excitement of sports with the rigor of science and technology

to create the ultimate sport for the mind. Teams compete head-to-head on a special playing field with robots they have designed, built, and programmed. FIRST Robotics addresses inequities in STEM. Supported by generous donors, grants are awarded each year to schools and other community organizations throughout the United States and Canada that serve young people whose access to STEM education and enrichment might otherwise be limited. To learn more about BCPS robotics opportunities for students, visit browardschools.com/stem.

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THE DONOWAY CENTER NEW HOPE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER PATIENTS Patients diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer have few treatment options. However, a new procedure called Irreversible Electroporation or IRE for short has changed that for many patients who are seeing a doubling and tripling of their life expectancies. Dr. Robert Donoway, who has one of the largest International experiences for performing this procedure on the pancreas and liver is a Hollywood based, Sloan Kettering trained Pancreatic Surgical Oncologist, and former medical director of two of the local cancer programs remains among a very small handful of Pancreatic surgeons who perform the procedure which is done in the operating room as an outpatient.

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During the procedure, Dr. Donoway places fine needle probes under direct ultrasound guidance into and around the pancreatic tumor while carefully avoiding critical structures. High voltage current up to 3000 volts is then delivered in 90-microsecond pulses synchronized with the patient’s heart rhythm to avoid any cardiac problems. The pulses destroy the cancer cell membranes which then causes the tumor to die and be absorbed by the body. The average procedure lasts approximately 1-2 hours and the patients may be discharged the following day. A brief recovery means the patient can start chemotherapy and radiation that much sooner. Dr. Donoway is participating in several clinical studies identifying the best chemotherapy and immunotherapies to be used along with IRE. Dr. Donoway states, “The results so far have been very encouraging and we have begun using it for other select cancers. The longest survivors are now out over 5 years and without evidence of cancer recurrence. In the past, without IRE they would have been likely to have only lived a year and so this technique opens the whole new avenue for treating those eligible patients in a more targeted fashion.”

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oot and ankle injuries are very common in sports or in general activities of daily living. Many structures including bone, ligament, cartilage and joint lining may be injured. Injuries may occur from a single traumatic event or from overuse. Injuries may occur during the teenage years that may manifest themselves later on. These injuries may cause stiffness and pain in the foot or the ankle joints, especially after getting out of bed first thing in the morning to walk. This stiffness and pain will be present for a proportional period of time usually to the degree of joint injury. With weightbearing, the joint usually loosens and the person is able to ambulate. This stiffness and pain will redevelop if the person sits for a period of time and tries to get up and walk. As the day goes on, the foot or ankle may ache, especially with excessive activity. Swelling may be present over the area that is injured. Instability may develop if the ligaments have been injured causing the foot or ankle to constantly twist. When these injuries are unresponsive to conservative treatment which may include orthotics, medication or rehabilitation, arthroscopic surgery may be necessary to remove the damaged tissue in the foot and ankle. A miniature camera is placed into the injured joint allowing an image to be seen on a television screen. The joint is visualized, and small instruments are introduced into the joint to clean out and repair the damage. Fragments of bone and cartilage are often removed. Suctioning of debris and smoothing rough

surfaces will often allow a joint to resume its normal gliding motion. Arthroscopic surgery may be used to treat the following conditions: chronic join pain and swelling; arthritis and bone spurs; loose bone and cartilage fragments; stiff, scarred joints; and ankle fractures that have not completely recovered. The advantages of arthroscopic surgery include: faster recovery; less pain and swelling; avoids large incisions; low risk of infection; outpatient procedure; and quicker return to activities. Joints are designed to give our bodies freedom of movement. Wear and tear of a joint due to injury or due to aging may alter the lifestyle of an individual. When conservative treatments fail, arthroscopic surgery should be considered. The surgery is especially helpful for a fracture that has occurred to the ankle even after the ankle has been fixed surgically. The cartilage in the ankle joint may have been damaged during the injury causing chronic stiffness and pain that may be mild but never goes away completely. Patients often think that this is a very livable condition. However, once treated arthroscopically a full return to activity may be possible. Dr. Robert Sheinberg is a Board-Certified Foot, Ankle and Leg Specialist practicing in Weston and Pembroke Pines since 1988. He specializes in the treatment of infants, children, teens and adults with injuries, pain and deformities. His associates, Doctors Messina, Cohen, DeSimone, Moya, Bertot, Shenassa, Jones and Goodner, care for all musculoskeletal injuries from head to toe. The South Florida Institute of Sports Medicine in Pembroke Pines is located at 17842 NW 2nd Street, 954-430-9901, in Weston at 1600 Town Center Blvd., Suite C, 954-389-5900, and in Plantation at 220 S.W. 84th Avenue, Suite 102, 954-720-1530. The practice website is www.SouthFloridaSportsMedicine.com.

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Family Law During A Pandemic BY EVAN H. BARON, ESQ. e are all feeling the effects of the Pandemic. Whether it be from health issues for you or your family or friends or financial issues which seem to be impacting almost everyone. Those of us involved in family law understand that there are additional issues which many individuals may be dealing with. Everyone should be aware that although the Courts are closed for live, in-person hearings; the Family division is actually fully operational. Hearings are taking place daily, either by way of telephone conferencing, if it is a simple non-evidentiary matter, or by way of Zoom teleconferencing. Judges, attorneys, and participants will simply sign on with a previously e-mailed ID number and the hearing will proceed. It has actually been highly successful and has helped the Courts avoid a possible “log jam” of cases when the courthouse eventually re-opens. Mediations are also being conducted via teleconferencing. Although my office is closed and I am not meeting with people face to face, I am speaking with clients through phone calls or zoom meetings. My staff is also working remotely, and we have been able to help our clients with all of their issues. What are the issues that the family courts have been dealing with because of the closing of businesses and the “stay at home” orders? As you might expect, many individuals who have been either furloughed or terminated from their employment may have an existing alimony or child support obligation. It may be a short term loss of income or something more long term. Abatements (short term) or modifications (long term) may be able to be filed to seek relief. If the party is to receive either alimony or child support, but the payments have stopped; there may be pleadings that can be filed on that party’s behalf as well. Unfortunately, often times when individuals are regularly staying at home with their spouse or significant other, there is a rise in domestic violence cases. The Courts’ domestic violence courts are operating, and an individual who is a victim of domestic violence as defined by Florida Statutes can apply for an Injunction (restraining order). Although it would perhaps seem that during this exceedingly difficult time individuals would try and pull together, the reality is that relationships that have been somewhat ‘shaky” often fall apart under the stress of it all. Dissolutions of marriage can be filed if either or both parties feel it is best to end the relationship. Of course, it would be exceedingly difficult and emotionally challenging to engage in a highly contested case, while living under the same roof. To avoid possible confrontations and keep peace in the home, we have been recommending the Collaborative process which can be accomplished through teleconferencing. This process allows couples to work as a team, along with their attorneys; a mental health and a financial expert; with the goal to reach an agreement through negotiation and not litigation.

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