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A family enjoys a delicious dish of strawberries at the annual Strawberry Festival at Wickham Park to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Brevard.

Annual event at Wickham Park helps Habitat For Humanity of Brevard By mary Brotheron

Through the Strawberry Festival, Habitat for Humanity of Brevard has been raising funds to celebrate home ownership for 25 years.

Last year’s festival broke attendance records when approximately 40,000 visitors came to enjoy the signature events at Wickham Park pavilion.

These events include an open car and bike show, a large arts and crafts show and the annual Berry Patch 5K Run, in addition to a pancake breakfast, food court, kid’s corner and other activities.

As with most nonprofit organizations, Habitat for Humanity, especially the Strawberry Festival, relies on volunteers to accomplish its goals. Community-minded individuals and groups work hard, with many returning year after year to help. About 1,000 volunteers start the setup on Thursday and end the cleanup late Monday afternoon.

Attendance is free, but through the sale of vendor space and other products, the Strawberry Festival typically raises $100,000 each year. All festival proceeds support Habitat for Humanity’s programs, which are 100 percent in Brevard County.

This year, the Strawberry Festival will be a convenient drop-off site for Brevard Sharing Center.

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Receptacles for non-perishable food items will be in the Brevard Community College parking lot, on the way to the festival.

Another new feature will be the opportunity to meet Capt. Mike Badarack of the Back Country Fly Fishing Association. All day, Sunday, fisher folk can test their skills or learn new ones.

Manny the Manatee will be on the festival grounds from noon until 3 p.m., and the LEAD Brevard Class of 2013 will raise the walls on the first LEAD Brevard Build.

For the adrenaline junkies — a 360-foot zip line is being built — so this year’s event has something for everyone.

The 2013 Strawberry Festival starts on March 16 and ends on March 17. Both days, the festival begins at 8 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m.

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Team Adrian honors grandfather

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Jamie Brown, top row third from left, organizes some of the members of Team Adrian for the MS Walk, in support of her grandfather Adrian Brown.

By mary BrotHerton

Michelle Brown says her daughter, Jamie, hates the fact that people have diseases.

“She has always had a big heart,” Michelle Brown said. “I think it is awesome she has taken the initiative to take care of others first.”

Jamie Brown, a 15-year-old student at Merritt Island’s Disciple Christian Academy, intends to raise between $1,000 and $2,000 at the March 16 Walk MS at the Church at Viera. Her schoolmates are supporting her endeavor with candy sales, car washes and walk pledges.

Jamie also raises money for cystic fibrosis for another student, named Delaney, this year. Jamie herself has cystic fibrosis which attacks the lungs.

Her reason for participating in the multiple sclerosis walk is personal.

Jamie formed Team Adrian to honor her grandfather, who suffers with the chronic disease that attacks the central nervous system. Team Adrian is one of nearly 100 teams that will be walking to raise awareness and money to help provide services for Brevard residents affected by MS. Michelle Brown said, “My dad

started to cry when he knew Jamie was going to walk in his honor.”

Multiple Sclerosis disrupts connections and signals between the mind and body, and can cause disability.

Kevin Kelley, the chairperson for the Brevard Walk, thought he was having heart problems in 1999, but when his speech slurred, doctors suggested he had suffered a stroke. A year later, a neurologist diagnosed Kelley with MS. As his condition progressed, he retired with extreme reluctance.

He said, “A bad day for most people is having a hard time getting out of bed; a bad day for me is not being able to get out of bed, or losing sight in one eye, or losing my ability to speak. I will gladly give up my bad day for their bad day any day!”

Kelly said, “We hope to surpass this year’s fundraising goal of $70,000, which is the amount raised at last year’s walk.”

Anyone who would like to donate to Team Adrian may email michelle@countywide-title.com.

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Ireland more than a reason to party for Catholic priest

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Every March around St. Patrick’s Day the nonIrish among us claim kinship with the Emerald Isle and, at least for a day, pretend to actually be Irish.

Ascension Catholic Church pastor Father Eamon Tobin is the real deal and proudly so, one of several Irish Catholic clergy leaders in Brevard.

“My county is Kilkenny, located southeast of Dublin and it was the medieval capitol of Ireland. It’s a very historical city with a beautiful castle right in the center of it,’’ he said.

Tobin grew up on a farm and “walked to school across the fields” to a one room schoolhouse. He is proud to mention that he was on the state champion Hurling team and still has an unusually shaped bat to prove it.

“I had the interest in (farming) but from age 14 to 25 he went to a boarding high school, and the seminary was in the same complex.

Every year several students from the graduating class, as we said ‘went across to the other side.’ The seminarians mixed with us so you knew the guys. Today, hardly anybody will be going because it is a different decision,’’ he said.

A preference of location as priest—anywhere in the English-speaking world including Australia, America or the British Isles, or staying at home—was required in early high school, he said.

Choosing Florida was a function of warm weather, he admitted.

“We had a lot of bleak winter days in Ireland. When you see the pictures of the Florida sunshine there was quite a contrast.

Back then I only knew one thing: I didn‘t want to stay at home. It wasn‘t that I didn‘t like my family or anything. I just had an adventurous spirit and wanted to go somewhere else,” he said.

Until recently, eight of the 12 Brevard County parishes were run by Irishman.

Tobin still has family in Ireland, many still farming, whom he visits annually.

The American reaction St. Patrick’s Day is a phenomenon that sort of surprises Tobin.

“I am intrigued by it and love it, but I don’t get lost in parades. I would like to go see a parade in Savannah or New York however.

“I think a part of it is that the Irish definitely like to enjoy themselves. It’s a fun day. If anybody has a little Irish in them—they say 40 million in the states—likes to party. Who knows? I know it’s a little break from Lent for the Catholics,’’ he said. SL

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Father Eamon Tobin, pastor at Ascension Catholic Church, demonstrates Hurling, which he played on a high school championship team in Ireland.

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Diets start with die

With spring in the air and summer around the corner, it’s time to start getting those beach bodies back with diet and exercise.

Now call me a cynic, and many do, but doesn’t the word diet start with the word “die?” Why would you name a program to help you live longer a Die-t?

There are a lot of diets out there.

Vegetarian diets are very popular now. If it had legs you don’t eat it. The result is often a very skinny body and yellowish skin. Is that what you want to take to Muscle Beach? The Atkins diet tells you to eat lots of meat until your next cholesterol test. The South Beach Diet is very stylish now, but the list of foods that you can’t eat is like something a prison would use to torture enemy combatants. No juicy cheeseburgers. If I was captured and they walked by me with a sizzling Whopper, I think I would

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Meetings are for active, retired and former officers. Meetings are coordinated by retired Army Lt. Col. Frank Dunagan, 321-784-8934. Luncheons are coordinated by retired USAF Maj. Joe Oblack, 321-453-2947. SL

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tell them where the landmines were buried.

The Scarsdale diet’s founder has died, probably of hunger, so who wants to follow that one. Besides, if you’re going to start your day with nothing more than a sour tasting grapefruit and black coffee, who’s going to want to deal with you until lunch?

One of the most popular diets currently is the Paleo diet. Paleo is a shortened version of Paleolithic, or in simpler terms, the Caveman Diet. If they didn’t eat it, neither should you.

The premise is to eat all natural earth developed, non-processed foods. But, correct me if I’m wrong, wasn’t the average life span of the caveman about 25 years?

Take it from Dr. Sammy. Your best look at the beach is not with bones and veins showing, but a little bit of padding and pink to bronze skin color. But if you really want to look good at the beach put your clothes back on and drive up in a shiny new Corvette.

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A great way to host your guests from the North is with an outstanding combination of a river boat sightseeing tour of the Indian River Lagoon followed by a tasty seafood meal at a historic restaurant.

Capt Hiram’s Restaurant, located directly on the Indian River Lagoon in nearby Sebastian, is now offering daily ecology tours leaving from the restaurant’s attractive marina. Their brand new 40foot sightseer pontoon boat the River King sails year round out of the handy marina at Capt Hiram’s.

You can select from three cruises a day: morning, noon and afternoon.

The morning two-hour cruise, departing at 10 a.m. and returning at noon, takes you to the Sebastian Inlet to visit with dolphins, manatee, schools of fish and beautiful marine birds.

The 12:30 to 3 p.m. cruise coasts along the scenic Sebastian River. Here you will enjoy all the natural beauty the river has to offer. On this sightseeing tour, you are likely to see alligators, dolphin, manatee, turtles and all the beautiful water fowl that live along the lovely Sebastian River.

The final cruise at 3:30 p.m., which returns at 5:30 p.m., will tour the outstanding Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. This small island was the first national wildlife refuge,

established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903.

Under his administration, he set John aside Pelican Island Trieste as a preserve and breeding ground for native birds. The refuge was created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction by plume hunters. Early in the 20th century, bird plumes for ladies hats were the height of fashion and bird plumes were in great demand.

Pelican Island is only accessible by boat or chartered boat tours. Nesting birds are very easily disturbed.

Therefore, you are not allowed to get too close to the island or to disembark.

You can expect to see brown pelicans, wood storks, white ibises, black crowned night herons, double– crested cormorants and a wide variety of herons. In the waters surrounding Pelican Island, you will see marine life in the Indian River Lagoon, including sea turtles, dolphins and manatees.

If you take a cruise, you will receive a discount on your meal at Capt Hiram’s, which is a very good deal.

For information on cruise prices for adults and children, call 772-589-4345.

Capt Hiram’s Restaurant is located at 1606 Indian River Drive directly on Sebastian’s riverfront.

The restaurant is open seven days a week. 772-589-4345. SL

Touring the Town

Not the way we did it up North “Not the way we did it up North” describes association living for most people, whether it is a single-family homeowner association or a condominium community.

Association living may seem quite different to some from our traditional concept of home ownership. Most new owners find the association lifestyle quite advantageous, particularly if they have carefully researched their new community before buying. Residents who find themselves dissatisfied with living in an association typically were not completely informed of the lifestyle before purchasing.

Conscientious scrutiny of your prospective association is a key to peaceful living and the absence of surprises.

Associations can often be compared to municipalities. Residents own the common areas and amenities of an association in much the same way taxpayers own the parks and streets in a city. Associations come in a wide variety of sizes and types with many different conveniences and amenities. The governing board of directors is usually elected by the members of the association, just as citizens elect their local, state and federal government. The board of the association has the responsibility to oversee the operation of the community in the same fashion as elected government officials.

Just as in municipalities, associations will often hire a manager to oversee the day-to-day operations. The smooth operation of your association will provide you with enhanced property values and the quiet enjoyment of your new home, as

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Excited new Association association owners Living often overlook one By of the most Frank Kneiser, important aspects of CMCA, the purchasing AMS, PCAM decision:, reading the association documents. The documents provide the details of all the benefits of your association and spell out your responsibilities as an owner and neighbor.

Be sure that you have read them before you decide to buy and you will have greater contentment after you move into your new home.

Your new association may not allow your beloved 65-pound dog. The homeowner association may not allow the 12-foot privacy fence you’ve always dreamed about or you may be surprised to find out that you cannot plant those prized Honeybell orange trees.

Learning the answers to questions like these beforehand may preserve the tranquility you are seeking. If you have questions or concerns after reading the documents, it is always a good idea to consult your attorney.

Once you’ve chosen that new association, become involved. Whether serving as a Board Member or on a committee, the success of any association depends on the commitment and cooperation of the residents.

It’s important to point out that Mr. Kneiser is not an attorney and legal questions should be referred to your attorney. However, a requirement of his Community Association Manager’s license is to stay abreast of the Florida Association laws. Contact him with any questions at frank@suntreeflorida.com.

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Regrets When you look at the factors that contribute to a person living a long life, very few people list regrets.

They do not spend time talking about “what if” I had married someone wealthy…..? What if I had gone to college? What if I had …? Centenarians have thought about the should-a, could-a, or would-a events of their lives. They ponder missed opportunities and adventures, but they do not dwell on missteps in the journey of life.

Regret involves missing something in life, the disappointment of not reaching goals, failing to accomplish career advancements or building lasting family relationships. Youth and the early years of adulthood are often shadowed by the good and the bad.

There is the first love, errors in judgment, lapses, indiscretions and triumphs. Some sorrow or sadness may dominate the emotional condition of the person suffering regret, but only for a brief moment.

In early retirement years, men and women ask themselves about what to do with their new-found time. Others ponder whether they have left their work life too soon. Rather than being sad about the new segment of their life, new opportunities and challenges provide energy for many more rewarding years of life. Instead of “retirement,” they see this new period of senior life as “re-firement.”

New hobbies,

Challenges learning of Living to adventures, travel, spiritual growth, Age 100

volunteer service and reading are a few new areas that Ed can fill the gaps of Baranowski regrets of a lifetime. If you must reflect on what you should have done, could have done or would have done, spend some time dreaming about what might be possible. Lay the regrets to rest.

Forgive, reconcile and move on. Do it!

You can’t do anything about the past, but you are in charge of your future.

What happened in the many years of your life is your history. Current time is the present. It is quickly becoming your history. Tomorrow is mystery.

Proceed with a fresh perspective. Ask “What did I learn?”

Regrets create negative energy.

Mark Twain provided inspiration when he wrote: “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.

Dream. Discover.” Leave no regrets!

Baranowski is president of Topics Unlimited, a Melbourne-based education, seminar and consulting company. He can be reached at topicsed@aol.com. SL

UOTS Very few people who look at this title have any idea who or what the letters stand for and what wonderful volunteer work is done by this organization.

For starters, do you need a free mammogram? Do you need a new cookbook? How do they tie together?

Back in 1846, a woman’s organization was started to help people in different ways, and it grew nationwide. It is the oldest charitable organization in our country. I don’t know for sure what their charitable work was aimed at back then.

But now, the United Order of True Sisters has been a nonprofit cancer service that pays for medically uninsured women to have mammograms, and for P.S.A. testing for men, at no cost.

Many people who are unemployed, or employed part-time, who cannot afford health insurance. The aim of UOTS cancer service is to make sure these people are offered the opportunity to get the free testing that saves so many lives.

The latest project for local chapter #66 to raise funds, and be able to continue this cancer fighting project, is the sale of their first new cookbook with more than 500 recipes. The cookbook sells for $19.95 and is now into its second printing. In the

cookbook, you will find everything from appetizers to sweets, plans for smaller dinners and larger Lucy entertainment events Kline to serve many people.

Brevard restaurants have shared some of their recipes for the book and a local chef has shared instructions for feeding 100 people at a large event.

The book is available at a number of different locations in Brevard County. Many businesses are helping by having this cookbook available in their stores.

To find the place most convenient to purchase the book, call Mitzi Kerness at 321-452-1044. When you use the cookbook, please remember you are helping pay for another cancer test for a person who could not afford it otherwise. Only the local UOTS provides free mammograms on a yearround basis, here in Brevard County.

There are so many good volunteer organizations in our county that do things to help people. It would be wonderful if every person was involved in at least one doing-forothers group, but not everyone has the time or ability. Buying a cookbook is one chance for you to do something worthwhile.

Comments are always welcome, at asklucy3@juno.com. SL

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In that first team of seven officers and 22 enlisted men, an interesting bit of trivia is that twins Bill and Buck Pattillo flew the left and right wing of the formation of F-84G Thunderjets, aircraft chosen for its aerobatics capabilities. By 1956, the Thunderbirds had traded the Thunderjet for the supersonic F-100C Super Sabre. Alas, eventually the Federal Aviation Administration put an end to supersonic flights at air shows, so the Thunderbirdsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; performance in Titusville will be subsonic.

An appearance by the Thunderbirds at the TICO Air Show is a major coup for the Valiant Air Command. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are lots of logistical, operational, security, maintenance, transportation and many, many other

considerations to satisfy before an air show can accommodate them,â&#x20AC;? said Valiant Air Command public relations officer Terry Yon. TICO Warbird Air Show The Air Force Thunderbirds will fly high over the TICO Warbird Air Show at Space Coast Regional Airport, 6600 Tico Rd., Titusville.

The show includes aerobatic teams, military demonstration, aircraft displays, antique autos, vintage armor, games, music, vendors, a beer garden and plenty of food. Gates open at 8:30 a.m., with the air show starting at 1 p.m., Friday through Sunday, March 22 to 24. The Thunderbirds are scheduled to fly the grand finale on Saturday and Sunday, March 23 and 24.

Advance tickets, which are $15 for adults and $5 for children five to 12, can be purchased through TicketDerby.com or vacwarbirds.org. Tickets are $20 and $10, respectively, the day of the show.

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Some of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popular fundraisers are fashion shows, such as the Step Into Style show on Saturday, April 6 at the Holiday Inn Viera on Wickham Road. The show begins at 11:30 a.m. and will include a full lunch of a choice of chicken Florentine or manicotti, as well as music by J&R Entertainment.

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“We hope to make this a destination festival,” said Terry Mott, event coordinator for the festival weekend. Mott is a member and leader of the new nonprofit group Friends of the Viera Wetlands, whose mission is to encourage community appreciation of the Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, named for a noted local conservationist, and promote education about natural resources.

“With a three-day event, attendees can now plan to stay on the Space Coast for the weekend, bringing revenues to our hotels and restaurants, and showcasing our other natural attractions, as well as those manmade.”

Though the wetlands are somewhat manufactured — they started as an experimental series of retention ponds to let cleansed wastewater seep back into the ground — birds and other wildlife have thrived to the extent that at certain migrational times of the year, there are more species in more numbers than anywhere else on Earth.

“We have a real jewel in the crown here,” said Raleigh Berry, director of the Brevard County Department of Natural Resources.

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Boy Scouts motto served Merritt Island couple well By maria Sonnenberg

If Boy Scouts help build physical and emotional fitness. Tyree Harris received an added bonus from being in the scouts: a bride.

As patrol leader to the brother of Phyllis Van Slyke, Harris had a direct line to the young woman who was to be his wife. Harris, who always followed the Boy Scouts motto of “be prepared,” was ready to make the right moves to win Phyllis’ heart.

On Feb. 28, 1942, exactly 20 years after his birthday, Tyree and Phyllis eloped. The then 20-year-olds telegraphed their families about the marriage and expected the worst. To

their surprise, both sets of parents approved.

It must have been a match made in heaven, for the couple celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary—and Tyree’s 91st birthday—last month at La Casa Assisted Living on Merritt Island.

Sacrifices were many, but accepted as part of the price of love during the time.

With a wife, and soon a growing family, Ty had to abandon his plans to graduate from the University of Kentucky, where he was on the swim and football teams.

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In the mid-1950s, the couple left Ty’s native Kentucky for the warmer weather of Merritt Island, where he opened Ty Harris Buick and she launched the Harris School of Dance. Despite two businesses

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“We didn’t have enough money to get a divorce,” he joked.

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We tend to think of baby boomers as a U.S. Trainer opened StoneFire Art Gallery and phenomenon, but the same is true of the rest of Studios in the out-parcel building at Miracle City post-Word War II, namely the United Kingdom.

Mall vacated by Firestone Tires. The artist The only thing different about boomer Maxine workshop and gallery features only local artists, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maxâ&#x20AC;? Trainer is the way she says the word: operated by the artists, offers their art for sale, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;BEW-mah,â&#x20AC;? thanks to her Liverpool British an intimate concert venue for music by local accent. musicians and is itself a work of art that is decorated with many ornamental and functional art forms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a beautiful spot that is an outward radiating point for all that is possible for the future of Titusville,â&#x20AC;? said Brevard County Commissioner Robin Fisher, who was on site last month with wife Rhoda filming a documentary on the StoneFire experience. The Fishers are big StoneFire supporters and are leading the redevelopment of the now-shuttered mall into the Miracle City Towne Center.

Fellow Titusville-based leader Mayor Jim Tulley also is a strong supporter, providing personal support for the StoneFireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Young Artists Program, as well as assistance to the Arts In The Garden program long before the establishment of Senior life Photo the StoneFire facility. The separate Maxine â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maxâ&#x20AC;? Trainer revels in creative accomplishment nonprofit mission is to integrate art into the in front of her original works at her StoneFire Art Gallery lives of children in Brevard, regardless of and Studios in Titusville. income. Art classes for these children are given outdoors in the expansive garden of The only other thing that makes Trainer stand her own home, as well as at StoneFire. out is everything. She is an artist, currently On meeting Trainer, it is impossible not to like traveling this month from her Titusville StoneFire her. After a few minutes basking studio to England for the Prince Charles Trust in her undivided attention despite exhibit that includes her works. The Liverpool all she has going on, that like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art In The Cityâ&#x20AC;? Exhibition is as much a â&#x20AC;&#x153;local turns to love. Eventually, the love girl does goodâ&#x20AC;? acclaim as it is an turns to adoration and intense acknowledgment of her artisanship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;fanship,â&#x20AC;? a desire to do â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ever so proud,â&#x20AC;? said the curly blonde whatever one possibly can to whirlwind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only is it an honor as an artist, but help make her unique passion we truly are on the same page in our passion to thrive. help at-risk children and youth through the â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always seem to have 10 expression of art.â&#x20AC;? things going on at once,â&#x20AC;? Trainer The Princeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Trust is a charity in the United said, taking a rare breath.

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Oaklawn Memorial Linda S. “The reentry program needs Gardens cemetery in Humphrey services to channel them into. Lots Titusville on Jan. 23. of them have no identification and I was there along need a job.” with seven others to remember Laura Moore is a member of R.A.V. (Riding Davis, a young pregnant mother, who, in Against Violence), a division of Cocoa 2006, was killed by her boyfriend. Every Motorcycle Riders Club. year on the anniversary of her death, her Moore and Davis work to organize mother, Donna Davis, and close friend multiple events that draw awareness to Kathy Moore visit the gravesite and violent crimes and also to offer solutions speak words of love. Moore also lost an to the problem such as stricter laws and adult son, Virgil Sanders, to murder in heavier sentencing. They also volunteer 2004.

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20, but to save one,” Davis said. “Laura “Unless something like this happens to was very feisty; everyone she met was a friend. She had a kind heart and stood up you, you have no idea what it’s like,” Moore said. for everyone.”

“No parent should have to bury a Also attending the vigil was Phil child,” said Davis, looking at her Archer, state attorney for the 18th grandson, “We lost a treasure, but we Judicial Circuit in Brevard. Archer has worked closely with Moore and Davis, as gained a jewel.”

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FBI agent makes sure 9/11 is not a repeat offender

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Military Officers Association of America, Cape Canaveral Chapter president retired Navy Cdr. Courtney Yelle with guest speaker Kenneth McCabe.

Senior FBI Agent Kenneth McCabe’s served 8 years in the Marines and 21 years with the FBI. He directed the FBI’s scientific and technical response to the bombing of the USS Cole, the 9/11 attack on the United States, the Anthrax Investigation and the 2002 Winter Olympics.

September 11, 2011 was a bit different than the first response and cleanup crews who performed the most traumatic service, locating and helping the injured, locating and identifying the perished, and battling hazardous materials to remove debris.

His job was to make sure Sept. 11 didn’t ever happen again. Members of the Cape Canaveral Chapter of Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) at their Feb.18 meeting expressed appreciation to McCabe at a task well done. SL

Women’s History Month luncheon The public is invited to attend the sixth annual Women’s History Month luncheon hosted by the Women’s Business Center (WBC), the Florida Tech Alumni Association (FTAA) and the Zonta Club of Melbourne.

Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

March 18 at the Crowne Plaza Melbourne Oceanfront.

The cost is $35 per person. An RSVP is required to attend.

The Space Coast Community Award, Florida Tech Award of Distinction and Joan Bixby Award recipients will be honored. Honoree for the Florida Tech Award of Distinction is Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody, retired Army four-star general. Dunwoody is the first woman to serve as a four-star general in U.S. military history. Dunwoody joined the Army in 1974, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Women’s Army Corps in 1975. Her first assignment was as supply platoon leader, 226th Maintenance Company (Forward, Direct Support), 100th Supply and Services Battalion (Direct Support), Fort Sill, Okla. Since then, she has served at every level of command. Most recently, Dunwoody served as commander of the Army Material Command, or AMC, one of the largest commands in the Army.

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Many veterans have interesting, light-hearted stories to tell about the places they were stationed in their storied military service career. Retired U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Gordon L. Petro, not so much.

He joined the Army in 1950, did his basic training in New Jersey and armored training in Kentucky, and that’s when the picture postcards stopped coming. He went to Korea and served alongside ground forces with a Rangers unit, infiltrating enemy lines, trying to pick off prisoners of war or cripple advancing units.

All of a sudden, his team of four were outnumbered by 95 Chinese soldiers in the pitch black of 4 a.m.

Bullets zinged by either side of his head, making loud clapping noises as the bullets broke the sound barrier.

Miraculously, none of them found its mark. Not so with his three team members. To this day Gordon wonders, Why him? Why did he alone survive?

He spent out his ammunition and played dead in a foxhole. Wiley enemy soldiers figured out his game and grabbed him up for the long march that would end weeks later at a prisoner of war camp.

For the two longest years of his life, Petro endured “summers that were hot as hell, and in winters we froze.”

Literally. Captured U.S. Army medics gave what aid they could, which once required snapping off the frozen toes of Petro’s cellmate so gangrene would not set in. Body lice were a constant in winter or summer due to no bathing that whole time.

They lived in a hole and could see American planes flying over, which at first generated a patriotic thrill, until they realized that being imbedded in enemy lines made them as much a target as the enemy. They had to duck and cover frequently, each time the only time they realized the advantage to life in a hole.

Meals were made of a pink substance otherwise used to feed hogs.

Rice was a welcome addition, but it was always peppered with black dots.

Petro and his cellmates would joke about how many of the rat leavings they were able to pick out on a given day.

Never officially classified as a war, the Korean “Conflict” was declared over in 1953. Petro and surviving prisoners were traded for those of the enemy. They were offered the choice of flying or returning aboard ship, and Petro and five others chose the latter.

“We were so thin and dirty, all we could think of was getting a hot shower on the ship,” Petro said, adding that they hoped to use the time sailing from Korea to Japan to San

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U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, left, gives Gordon L. Petro a well-deserved medal at a Feb. 22 ceremony in Viera.

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Retired U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Gordon L. Petro holds two treasures, a photo of his late wife of 54 years, and his new POW medal.

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Petro flew into his town of Corinth, N.Y. to a hero’s welcome, complete with a parade on Sept. 27, 1953.

A handful of years later, Petro met and married his wife, Mary. He enjoyed every minute of their 54 years and nine months together, until she died suddenly in 2011.

“I’m very, very lonely, so I keep myself very, very busy,” Petro said.

“Oh, boy do I miss her. I loved every bit of her.”

Since that loss, he made some very supportive friends. After selling the Suntree home he and his wife shared, Petro moved to nearby Candlewood Suites. Staffers Nic Ramchandani, Fred Rahme and Sue Pagel looked after him, with Pagel setting about working to obtain something that would light up Petro’s face: the Congressional Prisoner of War Medal.

She contacted Rob Medina, veterans affairs director for U.S. District 8 Congressman Bill Posey.

“I didn’t even know they gave those out,” Petro said in answer to why it took 60 years to receive it.

Petro received his POW medal from Posey at a ceremony Feb. 22 at the Government Center in Viera.

“I didn’t think I was going to cry, but I was wrong,” Petro said. “A member of Rolling Thunder was there to support their military brother, and he handed me a brand new handkerchief to dry my eyes,” Petro said in his Suntree apartment, lightly tracing the corners of the white square on which his medal rested.

“I don’t know why, but somehow this is just about as important to me as the medal.” SL

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Nature Festival continued from page 15 The entire weekend capitalizes on the boom in amateur and professional digital photography of wildlife, according to Mott. Photography classes are planned throughout the weekend.

“The more you know about photography, the more you will enjoy it, and the more you will want to come and take photographs,” Mott said.

Highlights of the weekend include: Friday April 12, 5:30 to 6 p.m., event registration, nature exhibits at Holiday Inn Viera Conference Center.

6 p.m. Nature Festival welcome dinner. Advance purchase necessary. Purchase tickets for $25 at friendsofvierawetlands.blogspot.com 6:20 p.m. Nicolette Zahner, graduate student and teaching assistant at Florida Institute of Technology, presentation on FrogWatch USA. 7 to 8 p.m. Keynote speaker Tim Gallagher, award-winning author, wildlife photographer and magazine editor. He will release at the event his new book, “Imperial Dreams: Searching for the Long-lost Imperial Woodpecker in the Wild Sierra Madre.”

8 to 9 p.m. Book sales/signing.

9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Guided tour of the Viera Wetlands with Brevard Zoo conservation staff, Friends of Viera Wetlands and frog watch with Zahner.

Saturday: 6:30 to 8:15 a.m. Free sunrise guided tour of Viera Wetlands by Friends of Viera Wetlands.

7 to 10 a.m. Optional special wildlife photography class led by Charlie Corbeil and HarryBehret. Go to brevardexpedition.com for registration and fees for this event only.

8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Organized breakfast at local restaurants.

Sunday 10 a.m. Series of speaker presentations and nature exhibits at the Brevard Zoo’s Nyami Nyami River Lodge.

• Craig Faulhaber, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, presentation on Florida Scrub-Jay conservation.

• Gabe Cenker, founder of Young Birders of Brevard.

• Brevard Zoo conservation staff presentations on local conservation initiatives.

For more information, email Mott at vierastar02@yahoo.com. SL

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By Chiffone Sandberg “It’s Not the Money: How I Built a $2 Billion Real estate Business Based on the Golden Rule” Author: Jean Burgdorff Published by Nebbadoon Press ISBN: 978-1-891331-12-1 Copyright 2008 Paperback Pages: 158 Biography Purchase: $9.95 soft cover, Kindle $5.00 jeanburgdorff.com About the Author Jean Taylor Burgdorff was an exception as a child and built on her special qualities and abilities over a lifetime. She grew up in New Jersey in a Christian household where self-control and grace reigned. This would serve her well later in life. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in education from the Columbia Teachers College in Manhattan, N.Y., she studied piano at Julliard and taught music at Rutgers. In 1950, she married her neighbor, Doug Burgdorff, whom she had known since childhood. They have two sons, Charlie and Peter.

Living by the Golden Rule, this is a personal journey of a person that has lived by this code in her personal and business life chronicles a life of service to others through a business. You think of business as being goal oriented. Burgdorff Real estate has been based on trust in God, love, truth and principal. Profit is not the goal. It is the result.

There are so many facets to this book that it reads like a personal memoir, real estate primer, and spiritual guide rolled into one.

Burgdorff and her husband, Doug, started the business in 1958 in Murray Hill, N. J. in a building that would be their home and office. This was back when the only requirement to be a realtor was to study a booklet of approximately 10 pages and take an easy test. They built it into a business ranked 24th in the nation, with more than 30 offices and $2 billion in sales.

The book is filled with suggestions such as using qualities that are natural to all of us, such as making a transaction a joy for the buyer and the seller. Qualities such as unselfishness, compassion, patience, integrity, honesty, caring and listening come into play.

Her life was not always rosy. Her husband passed away in 1968, leaving Burgdorff to continue to build the business while having two sons to raise.

Where is Burgdorff now? She is right here in Melbourne, doing what she does best: selling real estate. This time, she copurchased and is vice president of eRA Showcase Properties.

Throughout the book, there are select thoughts on success and the Golden Rule that should be a code of life for all of us.

Personal opinion: This is an inspiring book to be shared with others. SL

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Dear Retired Rae: While a medical background can be helpful, it is definitely not a requirement for volunteering with the SHINE (Serving Health Insurance Needs of Elders) Program. The best skill a successful SHINE counselor can have is expertise at problem solving. This is really at the heart of what we do when we counsel someone who has contacted SHINE. Rae, let’s look at your experience with SHINE. Your problem was that you did not know how to sign up for Medicare and what options or benefits would be best for you. You also told us you are a veteran. The counselor you met with used his training and knowledge of several resources to explain all of your options, while listing the pros and cons of each.

When your meeting was complete, you were then educated with the knowledge to make the best decision to meet your health needs with your Medicare options.

Brevard County SHINE is presently recruiting for a training class that will be held on April 5 and then April 29 to May 1. The training consists of an orientation followed by three days of intense education on Medicare, Medicare Supplement plans, Medicare Advantage plans, Medicaid, and the Low-Income Subsidy for prescription drugs. There are also hands-on computer applications throughout the training. An open-book test follows the training to ensure an understanding of the material covered.

For the security of our clients, each volunteer must clear an FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement fingerprint screening. The cost of the screening is covered by the SHINE program. Once you have been cleared, you would begin mentoring with an experienced counselor. Your mentoring continues until you feel ready to fly solo.

We do ask that you commit to volunteering with SHINE for a two-year period, and during that time we ask that you make at least five client contacts each week. All SHINE counselors spend additional time assisting beneficiaries during the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period from Oct. 15 through Dec.7, and we expect it to be extra busy this year with federal health care changes beginning in 2014.

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SHINE is an award-winning, statewide volunteer program that provides free, unbiased counseling and information for people on Medicare, their families and caregivers. SHINE is a program of the Florida Department of Elder Affairs and is administered in partnership with the state’s 11 Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRCs). In Brevard, our ADRC is the Senior Resource Alliance located in Orlando.

To contact a SHINE counselor for unbiased assistance, call the Elder Helpline toll-free at 1-800-963-5337. Brevard County SHINE presently has eight offices located throughout the county and may be able to assist you over the phone.

If you have a question you would like the Ask Lynne column to answer, please write or email Lynne at Senior Life and look for a response in one of the next issues. Lynne can be reached by writing Senior Life at 7630 N. Wickham Road, Ste. 105, Viera, FL 32940, by emailing jill@mysenior life.com or by calling 321-242-1235.

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Educational workshops and seminars will fill the day. An engaging vendor hall will display today’s most innovative tools and cool gadgets.

Attendees may choose to learn about medical technologies, security issues, Internet applications, smart phones, iPads or listen to informative presenters.

One of the most requested presentations is Scams in Communications.

Laura Moody, assistant state attorney and division chief of the elder services unit, will present an interactive discussion regarding trending crimes that target our community’s seniors.

“The focus will be on criminals utilizing telephone solicitation, mailings and computers to make contact with potential targets and what the criminals hope to gain through each of the common frauds,” she said.

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Music unlocks hidden talents

By Judith S. Siegel, nCtM

Aging creates new keys to unlocking doors we once thought closed forever. Such is the case with piano lessons for seniors.

If you have the desire to learn something new, as an active senior, you now have the patience, maturity and enthusiasm to begin. This activity is for your own pleasure. And you are entitled to it.

Active retirement living that includes learning something new thwarts many memory problems. Piano lessons may be the right fit for you.

You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the physical stamina you once had. You are not playing tennis. You are not dancing ballet or doing gymnastics. But piano lessons?

Why not? You can still play the piano when you are 95, even if you play slower and are sitting in a wheelchair.

You can learn more than just piano lessons. You can learn about composers, music history, where to hear exquisite live concerts, how to become part of a growing audience or when to become a much-needed donor to the arts. And such wonderful people you can meet who love music as much as you.

How wonderful to acknowledge your self-expression, and achieve self accomplishment.

You may move a bit slower, but in doing so, you will increase your coordination abilities.

Playing the piano, you learn to coordinate your hands, eyes, feet (on pedals) and exercise your arms and shoulders, all of which are directed by your brain.

You could increase your hearing ability as you focus on different kinds of sounds and touches. If you have a hearing aid or two, all the better.

You could increase your visual abilities. Your eyes focus and then interpret. You may need to use your computer glasses for that middle vision; they are a wonderful help.

All of this increases your brain power, which coordinates the eyes, ears, muscles, tendons and nerves. Soon, your

entire body is gaining new useful exercises.

Often, most important for many, is increased socialization. Seniors, even as beginners, notice much less isolation.

Therefore, there is less depression and less loneliness simply due to additional human contact.

Not everyone will become a concert pianist. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what most seniors want. Piano lessons for seniors, whether private or group lessons, whether lessons are at home, in a studio or even on line, clearly have benefits that could last many years. And, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun!

Judith Siegel has been teaching piano, music history, theory and pedagogy to students and teachers of all ages and levels for almost 50 years. To reach her, call 321-600-4855 or go to yourpianoteacher@me.com.

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Dear Gramma Dear Gramma: We’re revising our will due to a falling-out we had with our son-in-law, Carter. He hurt us deeply with remarks he said publicly about our daughter June (his wife) and we’re making changes to our will to insure he gets nothing from us.

Should we tell June what we’re doing or should we just make the changes and let them find out when the time comes?

We’re also taking our grandson Mark out of the will for supporting his Dad’s nasty comments.

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For Norm Cote, patience was a virtue. The sports nut had three daughters, but no boys to share his love of all things athletic. Until now. Enter two grandsons, Braden, 5, and Ryan, 3.

“I’m in heaven,” said Cote, who already has shuttled Braden though two years of soccer and is currently enjoying unlimited catching and pitching in the boy’s first year of baseball. Wee Ryan is already in soccer.

“We never miss a game,” said Cote, referring to his wife, Anna-Marie. “My wife and I are just so lucky.”

Their ties are not limited to sports. Norm is a volunteer at the boys’ schools and frequently pitches in to pinch hit for their parents.

The close-knit family hails from Boston, Mass., where the Irish Catholic faith is strong and the culture calls for heavy investment in family. Strong ties to the Creator and each other are the result.

Both factors came into play in a big way a year ago March 16, when the Cotes’ only granddaughter was born and lived a mere 15 hours. Their daughter, Aran Hissam, learned that the baby girl she dreamed of would pass away in the womb, many doctors urging her to terminate the pregnancy.

“We’re both sides of the family Christian,” Cote said, referring to Aran’s in-laws. “We could not be more proud of how they rejected that advice and did all they knew so that Brianna Marie could live and ultimately draw breath.”

The Cotes and the Hissams are helping to host the inaugural Brianna Marie 5K at 8 a.m. Saturday, March 16, at Wickham Park in Melbourne. The date would have been Brianna Marie’s first birthday.

She was diagnosed with fetal hydrops, a condition where excess fluid builds up around the baby’s lungs and other organs. Babies afflicted with the condition typically die in the womb.

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by Hissam called “My Journey with an Angel: A Story of Hope and Faith in Unimaginable Times,” will go to fund that research.

“We’re so proud of what they are trying to do so someone else might have a better outcome,” Cote said. To register for the 5K, to purchase the book, make a donation or learn more about the condition or surgery, go to briannamariefoundation.com. SL

Dear Angry: Your will is just that — it’s yours. You’re free to leave your possessions to whomever you wish and owe no one an explanation. Remember, if you decide to tell June what you’ve done, there are risks to doing so. Be sure to have a lawyer draw up the will changes to reflect exactly what you want done.

Gramma Holly Fox Vellekoop, MSN, is the author of “How to Help When Parents Grieve” and “Justice and Revenge.” A retired Penn State University clinical instructor with six grandchildren, Vellekoop has a Master of Science degree in nursing. Send your letters to Gramma to hollyfoxvellekoop@yahoo.com.

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