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CAUTION: Crow Under Construction
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T H E N E W S PA P E R O F V I E R A & S U N T R E E ••••••••••••••••• OCTOBER 2012
A B L U E W AT E R C R E AT I V E G R O U P P U B L I C AT I O N
VOLUME 5 ISSUE 9
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There’s no business like crow business By Linda Wiggins
Triplet threat Page 17
Insect-elicious! Page 5
Music is a blast Page 23
Ana Nesbitt watched other businesses take part in last year’s Scarecrow Stroll & Harvest Festival and made a solemn vow. Never again would she ignore such an opportunity to bring foot traffic and fun to her storefront. “We saw it last year and saw the overwhelming participation from the community,” said Nesbitt, manager of Visual Dynamics Apple and Mac store at The Avenue Viera. “We wanted to be sure to be a part of it this year.” The Scarecrow Stroll takes place Oct. 1 through 11 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. across the Viera and Suntree area and beyond, with businesses creating and hosting a scarecrow, and community members coming by to judge for popular vote. A map of sites is provided in this newspaper. Stores will then move the scarecrows to the Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Harvest Field, behind the Church at Viera, 9005. N. Wickham Rd. in Viera, just west of Viera Hospital. All scarecrows will be auctioned off to help the nonprofit Rolling Readers strengthen reading skills of at-risk students. The Mac store crew is creating Mac Crow, and having a bit of fun with the big boss in the process. Jay Wooten, owner of stores in both Viera and Indian Harbour Beach, is a caricature of himself, with a big bushy mustache, big eyes open to half-mast, and bushy eyebrows. It’s his face that will be further caricatured onto an old Mac flat screen, with a motion activated mustache when viewers come to visit. See Crow business, page 4
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Renee Rader of the One Senior Place team helps create Poker Pete Crow to fondly remember poker-playing client Pete DiMaria, Rader’s grandfather. Top right corner: Visual Dynamics team member Ryan Springer models Mac Crow during the design phase of Scarecrow Stroll.
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