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Developer plans 110 homes

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Platting soon for Paradise Village off Old Dixie JONATHAN SIMMONS

Horse riding stable gets city’s permission to expand from 12 horses to 20 PAGE 3

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A developer hopes to place up to 110 homes on a 48.83-acre parcel of land off South Old Dixie Highway at Mayberry Road, about a mile east of Old Dixie’s intersection with U.S. 1 in southern Flagler County.

“We’re really hoping to move forward shortly,” said Jessica Gow, a Cobb Cole law firm attorney representing RJN Design and Development, at a Jan. 12 Flagler County Planning and Land Development Board meeting. “... Once we get the utilities settled there, we’re ready to move forward.”

The 110-home proposal itself isn’t new, but utility considerations have so far delayed its construction.

The proposed “planned unit development,” or PUD, was first approved by the Flagler County Commission in 2011 with a provision that an initial plat application for 30 homes be submitted within five years unless the developer sought an additional five-year extension. The developer sought the extension in 2016, in part because of a con-

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Volusia County has 90 days to determine the fate of a 36-acre piece of land along the Ormond Scenic Loop and Trail.

The land, originally slated for

76 residential lots in Plantation Oaks, was brought to the public’s attention by Ormond Beach resident Suzanne Scheiber and Spruce Creek High School student Natalie Pilipczak, who approached developer and engineer Parker Mynchenberg in the fall regarding placing the 175-foot buffer in a conservation easement, as well as asking whether the land could be sold for conservation. The asking price is $1.3 million.

It was a proposal that Mayor Bill Partington said, in an opinion piece to the Ormond Beach Observer, should be led by the county. At the council’s meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 19, the council did just that by

“We ask that you step back, take a deep breath and honor the voters’ overwhelming approval of the referendums by ensuring that transparency, process and fairness are in place before you consider any new acquisition.”

PAT NORTHEY, chair of the PAC

directing staff to explore options to purchase the land.

The motion, made by District 4 Councilwoman Heather Post, whose district includes the Loop, passed 6-0. Councilman Fred Lowry was absent.

“Once these lands are gone, they’re gone,” Post said. “We don’t have the opportunity to come back.”

The item was added to the County Council’s agenda late Friday, a factor which spurred some pushback from members of the ECHO Volusia Forever PAC, who advocated for the renewal of both SEE VOLUSIA PAGE 2

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the ECHO and Volusia Forever programs via referendums on the 2020 election. They passed with 72% and 75% of the vote, respectively. As chair of the PAC, Pat Northey, stated the group was not commenting on whether or not they favored the acquisition of the property, but rather the fact that the acquisition had not gone through a transparent process. Transparency was promised to voters;a past concern was the council’s use of direct allocation to speed some projects along.

“We ask that you step back, take a deep breath and honor the voters’ overwhelming approval of the referendums by ensuring that transparency, process and fairness are in place before you consider any new acquisition,” Northey said.

A direct allocation of ECHO funds (not permitted under Volusia Forever) was one of the methods presented by county staff as a way to purchase the land, as the land only met three of the 18 criteria for Volusia Forever, according to staff. However, the council was unanimous; a direct allocation of funds was not the course they wanted to take. It is unclear whether the county will explore ECHO or Volusia Forever further, as historical and archaeological significance (due to the ruins of a historic home) was highlighted

by Chair Jeff Brower.

Scheiber reiterated during her comments that the goal has always been land conservation.

She outlined various past deadlines from different grant pro-

cern about how water and sewer service would be provided to the potential community.

The nearest utility provider was the Plantation Bay utility, for years a source of regular complaints from its customers.

The Flagler County and Bunnell governments jointly bought it for $5.5 million in 2013 in order to improve the water quality. It was transferred to the county’s sole management in 2015. The county has since turned it over to the quasi-governmental Florida Governmental Utility Authority.

Now, RJN Design and Development expects to move forward with the preparation of 30 initial Map courtesy of Volusia County government

The land in question was originally slated for 76 residential lots in Plantation Oaks.

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The 48.83-acre parcel abuts a handful of residential properties.

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The current PUD agreement would allow for the proposed homes to be single-family residential, estate homes, attached zero lot line residences, patio residences or clustered residential units, according to a planning board meeting backup document.

Several area residents spoke at the meeting to say they were concerned about whether the development might harm area wildlife or cause drainage problems for the adjacent properties.

Mengel explained that environmental studies are conducted to prevent major wildlife impacts, and that the developer will not be allowed to build in a manner that floods neighboring properties. Gow said she’d relay the concerns about drainage to her client.

“The concerns that you all have are very valid and need to be addressed in the site plan process,” board member Mark Langello told the residents. “... If we grant this tonight, that just gives them a little bit more time to try to get the utilities straightened out. ... There’s still basically a shortage of housing in Florida and in the country ... There’s actually a real need for it.”

The board voted 4-0 to recommend that the Flagler County Commission — which will have the final say — grant the fiveyear extension. Board members Michael Boyd and Timothy Connor were absent.

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“Please don’t ignore our voices,” Scheiber said. “The public is speaking.”

Brower spoke at length regarding why this piece of land, and others need to be preserved. He said the item was placed on the agenda because it was time-sensitive. The land has not yet been cleared.

“This is the Loop,” Brower said.

“This is what we’re trying to preserve — not just branches over the road.”

plots for platting — but not necessarily before the current fiveyear extension expires in October, so the developer came before the planning board to seek another extension that would continue through 2026.

“There’s no changes to the actual development plan,” Gow said. “There’s just past uncertainty with the utility provisions of the agreement, and then currently the uncertainty with the pandemic, so we’re asking for a little bit of flexibility.”

Answering questions from board members, Flagler County Planning Director Adam Mengel said he believed the developer would be able to start the required first phase of the project within the proposed new fiveyear extension.

“There’s some dialogue happening between the owner and FGUA,” Mengel said. “We’e all maybe cautiously optimistic coming out of COVID 19 ... this may be the time for this to happen. But it will only happen through the extension of those utilities, and that dialogue is now underway between FGUA and this owner.”

The five-year time limit, he added, “is a date for the submittal of an initial step — 30 lots within the development for platting — so its a pretty low bar to make.

I’m pretty confident that they’re going to make it.”

If the developer doesn’t meet the 30-plat requirement within five years and isn’t granted another extension, the land would lose its PUD zoning designation.

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Hope is the official greeter at the Kings View Farms stables.

Shelby Stewart rides Bo and Charlotte Carroll rides Aiden in the riding arena.

‘A HORSE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE’ Horse riding stable gets city’s permission to expand from 12 horses to 20 JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

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horse riding stable with a devoted following of local families may expand from 12 horses to 20, Ormond Beach city commissioners decided in a Jan. 19 commission meeting.

Commissioners voted 5-0 to allow a special exception for the expansion of the business, called Kings View Farms and run by Jordan Huntley on Durrance Lane, after a series of local residents told the commission how valuable riding lessons at Kings View have been for their children. The approval changes the property’s land use category from “agricultural” to “riding stable” and includes a requirement that stables be constructed for any new horses before the horses are brought onto the property.

“Since she’s been going there, the difference in my child has been — I can’t even explain it,” said resident Pam West. “And all she wants to do is be there, and Jordan has taken her under her wing and taught her everything. ... Whatever [Huntley] wants, just give it to her, because she is so talented, and the passion she has for what she does and including children in this and making a difference in their lives is absolutely unparalleled to anything. It’s truly amazing, and I can’t thank her enough for what she’s doing for my family and the community.”

Another resident said her daughter had always been passionate about horses, and Huntley had gone out of her way to connect with the child.

“She’s really changed my life; she’s really changed my daughter’s life,” the resident said.

Resident William McCarthy said his daughter, 12, has been taking riding lessons at Kings View since the summer.

“She’s learned so much,” he said. “Jordan’s taken the time to take her to her first horse show to compete, and she’s really been doing a lot better at home and in school because of having this outlet.”

McCarthy had also bought a horse that’s now stabled at Kings View.

“This place here, all the stables are clean, there’s a hay room, there’s feed and they’ve got a good schedule,” he said.

By the time the proposed expansion reached the City Commission, the city’s Planning Board had already voted unanimously in favor of it, and the city’s planning staff had evaluated the facility and recommended that the City Commission approve it.

The lone voice of opposition at the Jan. 19 meeting came from Wayne Griffin, a Durrance Lane farm owner who said he’s been involved with horses all his life and that Huntley’s property is too small for 20 of them.

“You can not keep 20 horses on 2 acres of land,” he said. “... It’s not good for the horses. ... The city needs to limit the number of horses you can have per usable acre.”

The property is 5 acres, not 2, according to city records.

There is an old rule of thumb: One horse per acre. But, as Huntley and one of her staff members explained, that’s for grazing horses that are feeding on the pasture and need a certain amount of grass to consume. It’s not for horses that are fed on hay.

“I can see someone who has a backyard horse, that they would say, ‘OK, that’s too many horses on that much land, on 5 acres,’” Huntley said. But she then detailed the horses’ supplemental feeding schedule and the regular rotations in which they’re brought into the pasture and exercised.

A Kings View staff member said that her job involves feeding and watering the horses daily. She

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An aerial view of Kings View Farms.

submitted a “feed sheet” to the commission, showing the horses’ feeding schedule.

“Every one of these horses gets plenty of exercise, plenty of food, plenty of loving,” she said.

“I don’t see any issue with more horses; that’s just more loving, more feeding, more caring. ... To save a horse, give it a good life, teach it something — I don’t see no issue with it. ... They all get fed; they all get taken care of.”

Some of the horses had been slated for slaughter before they were brought to Kings View.

Commissioner Rob Littleton asked if Florida has a legal standard for horses per acre. It does not, Planning Director Steven Spraker replied.

Littleton said he had looked up standards for horses per acre online, and had initially been prepared to vote against the special exception because he was concerned that Kings View is too small. But then he found an organization called the Equine Land Conservation Resource, which suggests a more nuanced approach to how many horses a parcel can support than a simple number-per-acre calculation.

“That was kind of my ace in the hole up here, because I was going to vote ‘no’ just a couple of hours ago,” Littleton said. “But the lady worker who turned in this feed sheet ... that’s what I was looking for and that’s what this group that advocates for a different method than horses-per-acre wants to see, and with there being no state law ... my mind has been changed.”

Mayor Bill Partington agreed.

“The thing that tips it for me is the fact that you do have a management plan,” he said. “... Horse ownership, from what I’m told, is like eating potato chips — you can’t have just one, so you’re always looking to have more. My fear is that based on what I’ve heard tonight, you are going to do so well ... that you’re going to quickly outgrow Ormond Beach — and I hate to see that happen. ... That was powerful testimony tonight.”

Commissioner Troy Kent had one hesitation: That by allowing

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“A horse can make a difference, and someone that cares about a child to teach them about a horse makes a huge difference in someone’s life. ... It’s a wonderful addition to the city of Ormond Beach.”

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for 20 horses, the city would be setting a precedent.

“Ormond Beach is saying, ‘This is what you can have,’” he said.

Huntley and her family, Kent noted, seemed very knowledgable and caring. But what about other potential stables in the future?

“The key thing ... is the management of the facility,” Spraker replied. “So, one-horse-per-acre is basically if you’re let them graze and that’s it. That’s not what this is. This is a commercial business where they’re boarding horses and they’re riding horses, so it’s different than the traditional one-horse-per-acre. ... We’ve been out there. We believe this is well run. And if it’s not, there are safeguards.”

Commissioners Dwight Selby and Susan Persis had also both visited the farm.

“I’m definitely supportive of this for two reasons,” Selby said.

“Number one, animals that otherwise probably would not be alive today are being saved, but more importantly, lives are being changed, and those testimonials were very powerful. ... To hear about kids who ... are struggling in their lives and they find meaning and purpose — and I guarantee you, I just know that these kids that didn’t want to do their homework, didn’t want to listen to their parents — they learn discipline.

They get encouragement. And heir lives are being changed because of what you’re doing.”

He had one reservation, wanting to ensure that stalls are available for additional horses before the horses are added.

Persis agreed.

“The passion from everyone that I talk to is amazing,” she said. “... a horse can make a difference, and someone that cares about a child to teach them about a horse makes a huge difference in someone’s life. It can be the difference in being a positive or negative life. ... It’s a wonderful addition to the city of Ormond Beach for young people, and even adults, to have a riding stable, and to come up and just be with nature. And I think that’s just a huge, huge thing.”

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The Florida Sheriffs Association announced that Public Safety Telecommunicator Specialist McKenzie Davis of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has been selected as the 2021 Dispatcher of the Year.

Each year, this award is presented at the FSA Winter Conference to an officer who has demonstrated exceptional service in the line

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Student School Board members Brianna Whitfield and Kyleigh Ruddy are planning more sessions.

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A total of 20 students attended the first Teen Town Hall, held on Jan. 21 and organized and moderated by student School Board members Brianna Whitfield and Kyleigh Ruddy in coordination with the Flagler Youth Coalition and the school district.

The one-hour virtual event was held over Zoom and divided into thirds by topic, with the first 20 minutes devoted to student concerns about the district’s student code of conduct, the next 20 to a discussion of vaping on campus, and the last 20 to an evaluation of the event and suggestions for future ones.

“All of the kids participated, which was just awesome,” said School Board member Cheryl Massaro, who’d suggested the creation of a town hall event to Whitfield and Ruddy and helped oversee it along with two district staff members. “I was really proud that they were Flagler County students.”

The student attendees had expressed concerns about consistency in the district’s dress code, and were interested in what could be done to assist students caught vaping, rather than simply penalizing them.

For the last 20 minutes, students were asked how they liked

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the Town Hall session.

“The overall consensus was yes: They loved it,” Massaro said.

The students said they’d like to see more involvement from other School Board members, and that they hoped Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt would attend in the future as well. Whitfield and Ruddy hope to make the town halls a monthly event.

“The two School Board liaisons did a fabulous job,” Massaro said.

“They really listened.”

The next Teen Town Hall will be held at 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 25. The event requires registration, and space is limited. To register, students can email Ruddy at kyleighrud7920@flaglercps.org or Whitfield at briannawhi7700@flaglercps.org.

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On Nov. 13, 2020, Samnang In lost his life to COVID-19. He was only 41 years old.

He had big plans for himself. Big plans for his family. He was getting his law degree and wanted to be an attorney so his wife would not have to work so hard. He had asked his wife to move back to Cambodia, but the mysterious virus that shutdown Wuhan, China, had finally made its way to the United States, and his wife summoned him back before the lockdown in March.

Samnang continued his education online as the pandemic raged throughout Florida. The state began its phases of reopening, and the family, including his mother-in-law and father-inlaw who had moved from Cambodia to the United States in 2016, began to return to work. Even though they were hyper vigilant about following the CDC rules concerning the virus, both Samnang and his father-in-law were diagnosed with COVID on Nov. 3.

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Java Junction is located in the Winn Dixie Plaza on Granada Boulevard, along with Fletcher’s Irish Pub. Owner Bill Fletcher was approached by one of his customers who told him about Sopheavy’s story.

The community had pulled together for two of his earlier fundraisers, Shave for the Brave and Taco Bell Joe, so he immediately decided to organize another one, this time a GoFundMe. “I know Ormond Beach and the surrounding areas will come together to help this family in need,” Fletcher said.

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groceries before he brought them in the house. We were so unlucky.”

Sopheavy, called Sophia by her customers, is now the sole owner of Java Junction in Ormond Beach.

She and her husband bought the doughnut and coffee shop in 2017 following the sale of their Holly Hill location. Due to the financial burden COVID has placed on small businesses, she is also the only one working in the store six days a week and closing two days a week at the Holly Hill store.

Following her husband’s death, she made a decision to cut back one day so she could spend time with her 4-year-old son, Lincoln. Money is even tighter now, and sometimes the bills do not get paid on time, but she knows it is important for her to be there for him. He misses his daddy.

The father and son duo bonded in 2018 when Samnang was forced to convalesce due to a heart attack. He spent his days teaching Lincoln a diverse curriculum of reading, writing, history and Cambodian. The toddler quickly absorbed his lessons and began to read with fluidity by the age of 2 1/2. Ask him who the 16th president of the United States was and he will clearly state his namesake.

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“He was so good. I lost my goodhearted guy,” Sopheavy said, as her eyes filled with tears.

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Dog-gone cute Ormond Memorial Art Museum’s virtual Dogapalooza photo contest raises $1,176 for local pet charities JONATHAN SIMMONS NEWS EDITOR

Local dogs and cats dressed up in their finest in recent weeks for the Ormond Memorial Art Museum’s annual Dogapalooza event, raising $1,176 for Great Dawg Rescue, the Halifax Humane Society and the Sophie’s Circle dog rescue and pet food bank.

Another portion of the fundraiser continues as Donnie’s Donuts contributes $2 from every $3 Dogapalooza Donut purchased in January.

The event started in 2012 with a dog-themed art exhibition at the museum, but has since become a pet costume festival that raises money for pet-related nonprofits.

The event was held virtually this year, with candidates submitting photos and the public voting online for their favorites.

Winners in the dog category will receive a custom wood and resin dog bone placard with their name on it, created by artist Hailey Nolin.

In first place in the People’s Choice dog category was Evie, 5, with 291 votes. “Evie likes to think she is a Volusia County lifeguard,” wrote her human, Ormond resi-

dent Melissa Mathews. “When her human siblings are swimming, she’s always on alert — barking and jumping as they splash and go underwater. Nothing will happen on Evie’s watch!”

The second place People’s Choice dog winner was Ibis, 16, who died after a battle with cancer before the contest ended. She received 247 votes. “Ibis is the absolute love of my life,” wrote her person, Deland resident Cassandra Andrews. “... Ibis loved to get out and visit other people and places. Ibis got to go to Mardi Gras this year before Covid hit to celebrate her sweet 16. We tried to give her all the joys we could to enrich her life. ... She would have loved to have gone to Dogapalooza this year if Covid allowed.”

In third place was Wolfgang, 2, with 172 votes.

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It’s no secret that Palm Coast is slowly, but surely, becoming a more popular place to live.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the population in Flagler County grew by 20.3% (or 115,000 people) between 2010 and 2019, and even during a global pandemic, 240,256 people still moved to Florida in 2020. If these trends tell us anything, it’s that Palm Coast will need to provide more housing - and fast - to keep up with incoming residents.

In addition to bringing more medical jobs and larger educational institutions to the city, Douglas Property & Development President Jeff Douglas knows that ample housing is another necessary piece of the economic puzzle.

“There’s simply no place to live,” he said. “If you get hired

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321 apartments in two complexes located in Town Center: Central Landings and The Palms at Town Center. And more housing projects are in the works.

Paytas Homes will have 208 single-family homes under construction by the end of 2021 in a new neighborhood called The Gables at Town Center. According to their website, the specifics of these residences will be comparable to their other Palm Coast developments, ranging between 1,800 - 2,800 square feet with pricing starting in the high $200,000’s.

Toll Brothers is currently undergoing the permitting process for 160 single-family and paired villa homes. DPD is also working on adding another 184 single-family homes and 350 additional apartment condominiums to Town Center. According to Douglas, the overall goal is to provide more housing options for current and future residents.

“If you want the village lifestyle, it’s going to be a little denser. If you want more space, you’ve got the C section. If you want to walk everywhere, Town Center is your place. You have choices.”

Another key demographic that is in desperate need of choices is those who required affordable housing. Flagler County Administrator Jerry Cameron says that unless someone can get into a two- or three-bedroom residence for $800 a month, it doesn’t qualify as affordable housing.

“For the average entry-level person just going into the workforce, it will be a long time before they can afford $1,200 a month,” Cameron said. “And when you’re heavy in tourism, you have a workforce that tends to be in the low-end of the income spectrum. Those guys need a place to live.”

Douglas agrees.

“You want someone to be there when you need medical services, food preparation, or help at Publix,” he said. “Where are we going to put those people?”

Because of the lack of affordable housing in the area, Cameron said Flagler county is currently developing an affordable housing ordinance that will provide developers with incentives to meet that need.

“The affordable housing issue in the county doesn’t respect boundaries. It’s ubiquitous,” Cameron said. “Flagler County, in the last decade or so,

has been a very rapid growth community. In those cases, affordable housing tends to fall behind while middle and upper-income homes are selling as fast as you can build them.”

Douglas says that the families who want more property and space have plenty of options. It’s up to developers to create those same options for other lifestyles, income levels, and family sizes.

“You’ve got these big lot communities, which is great,” he said. “We’re trying to springboard off of those projects to fill the other [housing] gaps that need attention.”

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“What could go wrong?” Gaybis wrote on anniegaybis.com. “It turns out: everything!”

But the show went on. Following the plan all along, St. Augustine’s Eclipse Studio filmed the play, and it will be available to rent online Feb. 5-7 or Feb. 12-14 to support PCAF and CRT. Gaybis believes it’s the only streaming theater performance available from Volusia to Jacksonville.

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The play was filmed so that it could be broadcast for the watch party. How did that change the performance?

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I was inspired by it. When I read it, I felt some of the same nuances that I saw reflected in the way her character was presented (by MacLaine). When I saw the movie, I thought, “Wow, I’m going in the right direction, because it looks like she saw it the same way.”

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I’ve had some small parts in a television show where all I would get is the sides (pages from a script that actors are given to learn for an audition), and that’s the only thing you know. You don’t know the connection to the series, and you just have to figure out the best way to interpret that for a reading in front of a casting director.

In 1962’s “Two for the Seesaw,” the character Jerry tries to pick up Gittel using some sexist phrases like “the weaker sex.” Do you feel the play is dated, or does it feel contemporary?

Do you think anything has changed?

(Laughs) You tell me.

I think it feels very contemporary: Women are still very conscious of their figures and their faces, and men are very observant of women’s figures and their faces.

What is your process for becoming a character?

James Cagney said that to act, you stand in front of the person, point your feet forward, and you speak your lines like you mean them.

CELEBRITY CIPHER

By Luis Campos Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present.

Each letter in the cipher stands for another.

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Puzzle Two Clue: K equals C

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Did you watch MacLaine’s performances for inspiration, or do you consciously try to play the character differently?

Puzzle One Clue W equals K

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The character Gittel Mosca is a dancer, and you also have a background in dancing. Do you feel any affinity to her?

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ANNIE GAYBIS, STAR OF UPCOMING PLAY ‘TWO FOR THE SEESAW’

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