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Volume 18 Number 10
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February 2015
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SENIOR SAFARI BOOMER GUIDE EXPO FRIDAY, FEB. 6 9 - 3 P.M. BREVARD ZOO
FOREVER YOUNG SENIOR EXPO
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The Boomer Guide is an award-winning glossy publication with interesting stories and listings of places to shop, eat, play, live and volunteer, as well as a comprehensive array of nonprofit services for the boomer and senior population in general, and veterans in particular. The 2015 edition of the Boomer Guide will be released at the Senior Safari Boomer Guide Expo & Caribbean Party from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6 at the Brevard Zoo. Presented by Senior Life, the expo offers free entry for attendees 55 and over, courtesy of venue sponsor Senior Life Darrell Woehler Brevard Zoo. Others pay regular Senior Safari Boomer Guide Expo attendees admission price. will be the first to see the newly expanded Attractions include live music, Expedition African exhibit. exhibits, an update on the new zebra exhibit that debuts Feb. 14, and prizes for the best vacation destination outfit or costume, this year’s Senior Safari theme. Attendees can watch couples renew their wedding vows in advance of Valentine’s Day, take part in a scavenger hunt and enjoy live steel drum music and a performance by Mark Dobson, the One-Man Band. Wellness experts will be on hand to offer healthy living tips. Models from the 2015 Boomer Guide will be dressed in their favorite vacation attire, many in a cruise theme from the main photo shoot at Port Canaveral, nearly the busiest vacation port in the world. In the new Boomer Guide, you’ll read about Linda Jones, modeling for the second year and now officially a model and acting talent signed with an agency. “All my life people have asked me if I’m a model because I’m tall and slender, and I’ve always wanted to be a model,” Jones said. “But I never had the courage to step out on my dreams until I became a Boomer model. It’s been really exciting.” Jones and all the other models will find out which of them made the cover at the 1 p.m. release in the Nyami Nyami River Lodge. Photographed by the renowned Keith Betterley of Betterley Photographic, the cover, as well as the publication overall, routinely wins top awards from the North American Mature Publishers Association. “There has been so much excitement over the model search for the Boomer Guide,” said Jill Blue-Gaines, CEO of expo producer Bluewater Creative Group, which publishes the Boomer Guide, Senior Life, Viera Voice, Viera MD and the Charlie Corbeil Birding Guide. “So many models have told me just what Linda said, that since they were picked to appear on the pages of the Boomer Guide they now have the courage to pursue their dreams. It’s a thrill to open magazines and newspapers and look at glossy ads and see them looking back at me.” After the Senior Safari release, the Boomer Guides will be distributed in high traffic areas all over Brevard County. If you don’t get yours, call 321-242-1235 for a distribution location nearest you.
Original Highwaymen artist R.L. Lewis is used to painting historical visages of Florida landscape, but this is the first time he’ll be painting pre-history. At the Friday, March 13 Senior Life Forever Young Senior Expo at the Brevard Museum of Science & Natural History, Lewis will paint a landscape reflecting life in a Windover village. The museum is Senior Life Linda Wiggins the world’s showcase for the dig Brevard Museum director Bruce Piatek discovered in the 1980s at a shares a smile with a Windover villager on construction site in Titusville. exhibit at the facility, which will offer free Workers sparked a find that totaled admission for attendees 55 and over of the 168 villagers perfectly preserved Senior Life Forever Young Senior Expo from in a peat bog for more than 7,000 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, March 13. years, brain tissue intact. It changed the world view of man’s early existence and DNA collected helped write a new page in recorded history of human migration in Florida. “My father has been asked to paint cracker horses and cows, but I have to say this will definitely be the most historic Florida setting,” said Robert Lewis III, R.L. Lewis’ manager and promoter of his father’s works. The created artwork will be sold at the end of the expo to benefit the museum. Other Highwaymen paintings, prints and mementos will be available for purchase throughout the day. The Forever Young expo takes place during Florida Archaeology Month, when sites like the Brevard Museum put on special museum exhibits, tours of archaeological sites, films, lectures and demonstrations, and even special archeological digs. “It’s an exciting time for the museum, the very best time to show it off,” said Bruce Piatek, director of the Brevard Museum and also an archeologist. The museum is managed by the Florida Historical Society, so Piatek wears two hats, the other as head of the society’s Archaeological Institute, housed at the museum. The museum is sponsoring the Forever Young expo with free museum entry for attendees 55 and over. Guests 54 and younger pay the regular admission price of $9 for adults and $5 for children ages 4 to 12. There will be live music and other entertainment, games, exhibits, health information, refreshments and lunch available for purchase. The selection of the site for the expo was generated by input from Senior Life readers. “Our readers tell us that history is very important to them and very interesting to them,” said Jill Blue-Gaines, CEO of expo producer Bluewater Creative Group, which publishes Senior Life and the annual Boomer Guide, Viera Voice, Viera MD and the Charlie Corbeil Birding Guide. “When we plan an expo, it’s always a destination location that people tell us they love going to or have been meaning to visit, and that way we can all have fun together doing what we love.” The Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science is at 2201 Michigan Ave. in Cocoa, west of the Florida Solar Energy Institute, at the northwestern edge of the Eastern Florida State College main campus. For more information, go to brevardmuseum.com or call 321-632-1830. For information on sponsorship or exhibit space for the Forever Young Senior Expo, call 321-242-1235.
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